Warning: This story contains male on male pairings as well as male pregnancy.

Disclaimer: Loresta and I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy.

Prologue

For as long as humans have existed the world has been divided into the four Great Kingdoms; Cornelia the Kingdom of Spirits, Radiant Garden the Kingdom of Technology, Kingdom Hearts the Kingdom of Light, and World's End the Kingdom of Darkness. Each Kingdom held a tremendous power over the world and though they differed greatly the monarchs used these powers together keeping peace among all the people of the world.

In times of need the Kingdoms took care of one another as though they were brother and sister. When a particularly nasty virus overcame Radiant Garden to the point that the Kingdom ran dry of medicine, the King of Cornelia sent an army of his finest Mages. The Mages used their skills, and spiritual magic to aid the recovery of Radiant Garden's people, and stayed even when the doctors of Radiant Garden replenished their medicinal supply. When the shores of Atlantica became barren of sea creatures and the animals of the deep jungle became scarce, the Queen of World's End sent a fleet of ships each filled to the brim with food. She opened their seas and ocean to the good fishermen of Kingdom Hearts.

Though times were not always good for the Great Kingdoms there was never any true fear. War was just a fairy tale and death only happened after one had a long, fulfilling life. The world lived peacefully for over three hundred years, and then, as though the world began spinning backwards on its axis, everything changed.

It started small. The birth rate in World's End began to drop slowly, not causing much worry at first. A few women experienced searing pain, and the doctor's would discover that their uterus had shriveled and dried within their bodies. The occurrences at first were few and far between, and the doctor's were left baffled. Over the period of nearly two years the occurrences became more common, until nearly half of the population in the Capitol City, Neverland, and its surrounding area were affected, and doctor's had become hard pressed to find an answer. Mages from Cornelia, Doctors from Kingdom Hearts, Scientists from Radiant Gardens and Healers from World's End gathered together, combining their unique abilities and knowledge to solve the problem. A man known as Ansem the Wise discovered the cause to be a virus. It was a virus that attacked the reproductive system, and often went unnoticed until the pain began, signaling that the reproductive system was dying.

Near the time of the discovery of the virus, it had already begun to spread to the other three Kingdoms. Researchers watched the reproductive rates decline sharply, and noticed with it a terrifying trend. The successful birth of female children had dropped to 1 in 30. A call was put forth to discover the affects of the virus on the male reproductive system. The results brought grim news. The extra X chromosome produced by men was being destroyed by the virus.

Life as the people had known it was over; the population was beginning a downward spiral. The most devastating news: Female humans were becoming extinct.

Fear and panic ran rampant like wild fires through a forest. The finest Scientists of Radiant Garden researched the virus and conducted experiment after experiment with powerful chemicals. The most acclaimed Doctors of Kingdom Hearts produced medicines and researched the human body. The Magi of Cornelia cast the strongest healing spells, delving deep into the libraries of Kingdom in search of an answer, and the healers of World's End tried to separate the virus, often taking its victims to be fed to shadows, looking for help from more powerful aspects of the world.

The spread of the Virus and the inability to stop or contain it caused turmoil to take hold of the Kingdoms. Where peace once reigned, fear and accusation quickly replaced it. Each Kingdom blamed the last for the spread of the virus. World's End suffered the most, being the virus's place of origin.

For the first time in over three centuries the Four Kingdoms took up arms against each other. Conflicts rose on the borders, and within each Kingdom foreigners faced great segregation. Fighting became a way of life, and death was all too common.

The death toll rose and quickly reached the point of surpassing the dwindling birth rate. In all Kingdom's fertile women were kept under heavy guard, far from the borders where they may be captured by neighboring countries. Those that had been ravaged by the virus were put to work, maintaining cities and the day to day business of the cities while the men were at war.

In World's End the numbers were far worse. The first country to be overcome by the plague, their population was the lowest. Their birth rate was scant, and with the men at war they were hard pressed to keep the remaining fertile women pregnant. So it was that the ruler's of World's End put forth a decree. All women, made barren by the plague, would be put forth on the front lines that the men could return home and fulfill other duties to the country.

Cornelia, Radiant Gardens, and Kingdom Hearts separately, focused their attacks on the source of the virus. World's End, unable to hold against the assault of three Kingdoms, withdrew into itself. As an autonomous country, it only remained that the other three Kingdoms would have to pull back their assault. There was no point to conflict, when it could do nothing to solve the greatest problem. Under stress of dwindling population and economic crisis from war the four Great Kingdoms, the once Four Great Allies, followed separate roads.

Time passed, and through all the research and experiments from each kingdom, no progress was made. The virus could not be stopped, could not be controlled. The female population continued to dwindle. Those women remaining fertile were arranged with men who gave them the best chance of producing children. The populous was at an imbalance and the majority of men found themselves without the benefit of a lifetime partner. Nearly all the barren women had withdrawn from men, to live out lives of solitude and emptiness that came from loosing that which had given them their womanhood. In turn, men began looking to other avenues for the lost relationships and the kindred spirits they had once shared with women. It became commonplace to see to men in tight embrace, hands entwined, or kissing on the cobblestones. The ruling class of all Kingdoms, in time, granted that unions between men were legal and approved of in the eyes of the nation.

There still remained the challenge of keeping population together; male children born far outnumbered females. Without war, death came from natural causes mostly and the death rates dropped. Still there were becoming fewer, and fewer fertile women; there were fewer women altogether in the world. As the years passed into decades, and all hope look lost, life found its own way to solve the greatest problem.

The concept of family became rare, seen mostly in cities where fertile women had been gathered and protected. The general rule was to see couples walking on the cobblestones, or lounging in the park. Mostly these couples were male, but a few were between a male and barren woman or even two barren woman. With so few women able to bear, children were scarce. They were raised in crèches, and all female children were very closely guarded.

It was in this time that a curious pair was given a great gift. Cecil Harvey, a trusted Knight of Cornelia, and his childhood friend Kain Highwind, lived together in the Capital City Midgar. It was after a long day serving the King that Cecil returned home to his partner and lover. He entered the house, to find Kain still abed, curled in the fetal position with tears of pain streaking down his face. His brow glistened with sweat, and his face was twisted with the sharp, searing pain that wracked his body. In a deft move Cecil gathered his friend into his arms. Quickly, they arrived at the residence of Rosa Ferral. Rosa was a barren woman, but was known as one of the strongest mages in the entire Kingdom.

Long into the night Cecil waited in the anteroom. When Rosa came to him her eyes were filled with wonder and disbelief. She seated herself, and motioned that the pacing man should do the same. Rosa Ferral took a steadying breath, to prepare herself for sharing the news of a miracle. "Mr. Harvey, Cecil. Kain is not ill, rather...he is pregnant."

As the plague had been slow to take from women, so was nature slow to give to men. Over the first year, after Kain's pregnancy was discovered, a hundred men found themselves with child. Individually the four Kingdoms researched this strange phenomenon and all found the same results: the male body had adapted to overcome the inadequacies caused by the virus. The male body had formed its own type of uterus that seemed to be immune to the virus. It was discovered that a man infected with the virus was still unable to produce the X chromosome; however he was able to carry a child he could produce with another male.

Not all men found themselves blessed with this miracle. The ones who did found their body taking on a more feminine touch after puberty, their hips were more pronounced, their skin was softer, and their muscle tone, while still that of a man's, was more lithe than others. These men became known as bearers.

As the number of bearers grew, and the population began to grow with it, people began to dismiss the Virus. They forgot that it existed, and was still destroying females. There were others who believed that the miracle of bearers, and the Virus was a sign that woman's time on the world was over, and began to shun them. Still many other persisted working for a cure, though is fewer numbers and with less fervor than before. Many women themselves began to except that things were changing in the world and that in time they might no longer be a part of it.

Nearly four hundred years after the virus spread the world began to settle and the Kingdoms began to try and unite once more. Kingdom Hearts was the first to open its boundaries to the other Kingdoms; Cornelia and Radiant Garden followed shortly after. However World's End did not. King Xehanort, descendant of Ansem the Wise, allowed the darkness of their Kingdom to take control. From history he saw enemies in the other countries and made sure World's End became closed off to the rest of the world. Because of his antics World's End became known as the End of the World, where no man would venture for fear of death.

Xehanort instilled his fears and darkness into his three children; Ansem, Sephiroth, and Xemnas. The three were raised with only with thoughts of revenge on the world, a way to make the World suffer as their Kingdom suffered; to show that their Kingdom was not loathsome and fearful, but powerful and dangerous; a way to dominate.

After becoming adults each brother would find their own way to do exactly that, and this is where the story begins.


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