As soon as I saw the masked boy, I stood up and backed away like a frightened kid. It was as if the entirety of the island was a beautiful landscape painting, and this one masked person was ruining the picture, he wasn't similar to that of a red herring. Red herring's in both literature and art definitely are distracting, but they still have some sort of relationship to the original work that they are found in. In this scenario, however, the masked boy was staining the very colorful and beautiful beach view that I had from the sunrise.
"Who the... who are you?" I asked as I backed away from him.
"Hehe... idiot. I'm here for you..." The masked boy said, as he walked closer to me.
I suddenly realized as he approached me, he bared a close resemblance to Vanitas. Vanitas, from the Kingdom Hearts games. Hehe, yeah my mind was going all over the place at this point. It was hard to keep track of what was going on, without nearly freaking out.
What was obvious to me was that I had entered into some strange... nightmare. All of these Kingdom Hearts references, from Destiny Islands to Vanitas showing up, all had to have come from some kind of twisted dream. By now I should have woken up though, so how come I'm not-
Before I could even ask myself how insane I was, the masked boy raised his keyblade at me.
"Sayonara fool, can't wait to take your heart," he said.
"Wait wait, just wait a second," I quickly replied. "Can someone tell me why I'm here, what's going on?"
The masked boy paused, and then chuckled. It was then I could see that he did indeed look like Vanitas, but was black all over his abs, instead of the traditional red color. If I were dreaming this, why would he have been colored black, and not red like he was in the games?
"Hmm, maybe I took some LSD without knowing," I thought to myself.
The masked boy finally stopped chuckling and then pointed his keyblade at me.
"You think this is just some game do you?" he asked me.
I just stared at him for a few seconds, and replied without thinking too much about what I was actually going to say. I have a habit of doing that, it's something that gets people to either like me or hate my guts for all eternity.
"Well, yes. This is perhaps some drug induced nightmare that is running its course, but soon I'll come to my senses," I answered.
The masked boy then began to chuckle again.
"You really are an idiot," He said. "All of this... is real. I made sure of it, made sure this would all work."
Now I was confused. "Made sure...? Made sure of what?" I asked.
"Calm down idiot, let me explain this in simple terms to you," he said.
As this would to most humans, this angered me. And here I thought I was going to sit back and have a great time on this make believe island. If I was hallucinating anything, why the hell would I imagine some masked jerk talking down to me? I already got enough of that back at home, I REALLY did not need this now.
"This is all real, you were pulled out of your dimension and summoned here," The masked boy stated.
"Ok mister asshat, tell me why it is that you summoned me here. I'll play along with your little game," I snapped.
The masked boy merely gazed at me, and then shrugged.
"Well, I was going to tell you that, but I don't feel like I have a need for you anymore," he said. "I guess I'll just kill you now.."
As soon as I registered what he told me, it was too late to even argue. Dark blobs started to form all around the beach, and the sky had suddenly turned a harsh purple.
"Wha-what's going on?!" I yelled. "What're you doing... huh?"
The masked boy raised his hand and then snapped his fingers.
"You don't deserve to die by my hand," he said. "I need you dead, but the heartless can take your heart for me."
The dark blobs changed into tiny yellow-eyed black creatures as soon as the masked boy snapped his fingers.
"Oh no.. did you say heartless.." I gasped. "No, no those guys are bad news!"
The dark creatures soon started to circulate around me, and I had definitely understood that they were all going to attack me.
"Oh man, oh god why does this have to happen to me!" I shrieked. "Look man, I'm sorry. We got off on the wrong footing, you don't have to kill me-
The masked boy started to laugh loudly.
"And so here lies the little kid who messed with Vayne, that's what you get for messing with me idiot!" He said pridefully.
"Wait, Vayne.. that's your name?" I asked in a confused way. Okay, so he's different from Vanitas, that's for sure. But he has the same keyblade as him, and he even talks and nearly looks like him, so what the-
The heartless started to jump on me all at the same time. Looking back, I gotta say they were coordinated really well on that one jump attack they did.
"Oh no, this is the end," I closed my eyes and yelled. "Man and I didn't get to even have a true love, or any similar crap that you see in a Disney film. Oh wait, I had that one girl back in English class. But, gah she thought I was a creep. So much for that, well goodbye world-
As the heartless assembled themselves right on top of me, I could barely breathe, and kept my eyes closed so I wouldn't have to see the brutal murder that was about to ensue. Vayne finally stopped laughing, and said one word.
"Die." It was just one simple word, but for some reason it made me open my eyes.
This instance immediately reminded me of this one time in high school when I was getting pushed around by 3 other huge guys.
"Hehe, what a wimpy chump," one of them mocked me as they shoved me down the hallway of the school.
As I was on the ground, the leader of the pack said one word to me that devastated me. I could tell he was the leader of those guys because he was the biggest out of the 3 of them. All he said was one simple word.
"Loser." To this day I don't know how I felt this exactly, but I felt.. weak. All of my ignoring could only get me so far I suppose, but still that one word made my eyes widen in agony. Inside, I felt weak and.. lonely. And stupid too, why did all of this even have to happen to me. Screw everyone, it's not fair.
This feeling reemerged within me as Vayne stated that one word. Suddenly, I felt a fire light up within me. I was sickened with being pushed around, as I had been for so long, and wanted to stop it. All of this, all of... this. I'm tired of this happening to me, I don't want to be picked on anymore...
Suddenly, just as my eyes were opening up, a huge light flashed onto my body. All of the heartless that were on top of me disintegrated instantly.
Vayne was silent.
"So it is true, you really are one. Hm, I didn't realize this would happen so soon," he said. "Now this makes things more annoying.."
"What are you talking about?" I retorted back at him. But, as soon as I met his gaze, I froze up.
"Maybe I had something besides LSD," I thought to myself. "Not that I do drugs, but man what DID I do last night? To make myself have.. this."
The "this" I was referring to was what I was holding with my right hand. It was none other than a keyblade. A keyblade...?
I stared madly at the odd blade in my hand, and realized that this keyblade in particular was the Oathkeeper.
"What is... why do I have this?" I asked myself. "This is.. actually a dangerous weapon. Haha, I could seriously hurt someone with this.."
Vayne started to get annoyed, as judged from his constant staring at the blade I was holding.
"Yeah, this makes things more complicated," Vayne quietly said to himself. "No matter, Siv, I WILL take your heart even if I have to carve it out of you!"
I immediately glanced at him once he said my name.
"How-how do you know my name?" I nervously asked. "What is going on, why do I have this. I.. I don't wanna fight anyone, man why can't this dream end this is scary-"
Just as a heartless leapt at me, the keyblade suddenly moved on its own, almost as if it was magnetically attracted to the heartless. It tore right through the heartless's frail dark body and destroyed it.
"Holy... whoa I just killed it.." At this point I was done. I just wanted to go home, or get out of whatever nightmare I was in.
Vayne suddenly ran towards me. I had no time to react, as he was extremely fast.
"Your heart is mine, I NEED it, give it to me now!" Vayne exclaimed as he stuck his hand into my chest...
Truthfully, I understand that sometimes my explanations can be a bit... inconsistent. There are times when I over explain simple concepts, or give little to no details about current predicaments that unfold in this story. However, I can assure you what I tell you is the truth, and only the truth. So, when I say that a random black colored masked boy took his hand and put it into my chest, I mean that with all the honesty I can muster. There is no connotation in it, no clear sexual innuendo I'm trying to reinforce. I am just explaining things as they happened...
"What the hell are you tryna-" Immediately I had felt immense pain inside what I could feel was my own heart. As soon as Vayne made his action, another burst of light arrived from my entire body, and shook the masked boy off. He fell down and was on the beachy ground, and wasn't moving. The light engulfing me kept on growing stronger, and suddenly I had started to... float.
"What's going on...?" I shrieked.
At that point, the entirety of the ugly dark purple colored island, which was once a beautiful place of tranquility that was in good taste, was gone. To this day I don't know what happened. I was shrouded in bountiful light, and then I just passed out as I was floating in air, as ridiculous as it sounds.
Floating in air, haha. You know, now that I mention it, that does remind me of this one guy who smoked too much weed. It was at a college seminar. He claimed that he was flying across Mexico. Don't necessarily know why he mentioned Mexico, but either way the police had to take him in. Never saw him again after that. I think he's at a drug rehab center, but knowing him he probably broke out already.
What was certain was that I did pass out. I can only assume then that the light I was covered in transported me somewhere else. Why you may ask? At the time, I didn't even realize what had occurred. All I knew was that my parents would be pissed about the eggs and milk. Man, I couldn't even do one simple job...
I eventually woke up. As I got up, a bright glare from the sun stunned my eyes once again.
"Damn it, I hate bright lights," I struggled as I was getting on my feet.
When I started to question whether or not I had a nightmare, I suddenly felt a heavy weight on my back. As I looked behind me, I saw the same Oathkeeper that I had just gotten back when I was on Destiny Islands.
"Ah great," I looked miserably. "I'm still in this freaking dream, c'mon why can't this just end.. HUH?!"
The sneakers I was wearing was no longer there. Instead, I had black boots, similar to that of Sora's from Kingdom Hearts 2.
"Oh no, what happened to my shoes..." That's when I started inspecting all my other garments, and sure enough they looked just like Sora's, again from Kingdom Hearts 2. Only, they were a shade of dark blue. "What the hell... what happened to my clothes!?" I shrieked.
Just when I was ready to die out of pure confusion, I looked up to the horizon and saw big 4 heads. The amount of confusion and fear that I had felt instantly multiplied by tenfold.
"Those... those are the faces of the 4 Hokage guys," I said in disbelief. "Which means, which means I'm..."
Across from my view I could see 3 kids and a man wearing a face mask walk away from an... Ichiraku Ramen noodle shop...
Yep, at this point any sensible person could admit that this was indeed some kind of fanfic that could only come out of the dreams of an insane person. That, or after an excess usage of drugs. But, believe me. This was real, and did happen to me.
"Dattebayo, that was some nice ramen!" The blond spiky haired boy exclaimed.
"Naruto, we need to go to the Chunin exams or else we're gonna be late!" The pink haired girl complained.
The man in the face mask then let out a sigh.
"Look guys, I gotta report to the Hokage about something, just don't be late to the exams," he stated.
Naruto, as the girl called him, let out a wide grin and closed his eye lids.
"Of course Kakashi sensei! Don't worry about us!"
As this all unfolded in front of me, I gazed in awe and fear.
"I-I... I'm in... Konoha," I finally said, and as the kids kept walking, I knew then that life as I had known before would definitely take a change. Dream or not, I was scared out of my mind. So scared, I almost shit my pants.
Thanks for reading everyone, hope you enjoyed that. There is quite a bit of confusion that you may experience as you read this chapter, but rest assured all will be explained in one way or another.