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(Ugh...Dam those spelling mistakes! Oh well...)
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Now for the disclaimer...
DISCLAIMIER: Xiao Tanaka/XT ala Me does not own Kingdom Hearts or Chain of Memories or Kingdom Hearts II. Or any of the characters, they belong to Disney and SquareEnix. Miko Gemstone belongs to my good friend Meeko. I do own Xianya (Xiao) Tanaka Fan Character version There done :D
Anyway hope you enjoy this chapter; Peace out
Inverted Hearts
Written by Xiao Tanaka
In pried by the ideas Myself and Miko had
Dedicated to my good friend Miko
Summary: Fear and darkness will never stop you from doing what's right...It's an
instinct of the heart...and of the light that shines within it...
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Key:
"Speaking"
Thinking
Chapter II – Sunset
The sun shone brightly, lighting up the sky as it always did. The sky was a pale blue and there were hardly any clouds in the sky, the waves moved slowly. It was truly a marvellous day...well Sora thought so as he climbed out of his boat and jumped on to the pier. He walked down the beach and entered the Cove. He saw Riku and Xiao talking, but Miko wasn't there.
"Hey? Where's Miko?" Sora asked, looking about for her
Xiao turned to Sora "She slept in and I wasn't bothered to go to her house and get her up"
"Oh" mumbled Sora, sounding a tad disappointed
"Me and Xiao were discussing a name for the raft" Riku said
Xiao grinned "I thought the name 'Trinity' would be cool"
Riku shook his head "Nah, it needs something better, how about... the Highwind?"
"I think the...Well...Hmm...How about the Excalibur!" Sora said, sounding proud of his idea
Riku disagreed "No, how' about"
"The Usal?" Sora suggested, shrugging at little
"I got a great Idea!" shouted Xiao looking excited "Let's call it the SS. No Sora!"
Sora glared "Gee great name Xiao..."
"Yeah I know" grinned Xiao, Riku laughed
"How's about the Usal?" Sora continued
Riku smiled "Let's do it!"
Just then, Kairi came over walking along the bridge that connected the part of the island Xiao, Sora and Riku were standing on, to the island where they had spent most of the time building and planning the raft. She sighed as she saw the two boys and the girl bickering
"Are you guys at it again?" she asked, then she put a hand over her mouth tying to hide her amused smile "All right I'll be the judge"
At this point it became apparent to the three who were arguing that they were going to do what they sometimes did if they couldn't agree on something; They'd have a race!
"The usual rules apply: Take any route you want" Kairi was saying "First one to tag that tree and make it back here wins"
The three gazed at the rest of the cove. Planning in their heads the routes they were going to take in order to win
"If I win...I'm captain!" said Sora, eagerly
"And if I win, I'm naming the raft the SS. No Sora" Xiao grinned, and she received a glare from Sora
"What if you win Riku?" Sora asked his friend
Riku, then slowly smiled, and said softly "I get to share the Paopu with Kairi"
"Huh?!" exclaimed Sora, looking a bit surprised
Riku turned slightly to face Sora "Deal?" he said "The winner gets to share a paopu with Kairi"
"Hey! Wait a minute!" protested Sora
Xiao rolled her eyes "I still stick by if I win then I get to name the raft the SS. No Sora..." she muttered
Kairi, who hadn't heard what Riku had said about the papou fruit, suddenly shouted "Okay! On my count!"
"1"
Xiao got ready to run
"2"
Riku grinned at Sora, and positioned himself to run
"3"
Sora was still surprised from Riku's comment about sharing the Paopu Fruit with Kairi
"GO!"
Sora suddenly saw that Xiao and Riku had ran off. He automaticly ran after Riku who was running along the bridge. He had lost track of Xiao, who has strangely ran off the edge when the race began.
Sora ran as fast he he could but his huge yellow shoes kept nearly tripping up. Him and Riku were so close together he might of bumped into Riku if he wasn't careful. Then suddenly, the plank of wood Sora was standing on gave way and fell down and into the water. Riku laughed and jumped over the hole as Sora got up as quick as possible to follow him.
When Sora had got out of the water he saw that Riku was running down to the part of the beach where the Raft was. He had been told that Riku, Xiao and Kairi had already built the raft up. Sora then saw the look out, he then climbed up the ladder and got up onto the Lookout, he then grabbed the handle. This handle was connected to a rope which lend all the way down to the end of the beach where the raft was. Sora pushed himself off the lookout and went all the way down to the beach. He stuck his tounge out at Riku as he saw him running along the beach.
When Sora was at the end of the line. He let go and ran up the hill and jumped on to another ledge and jumped onto the ledge where the tree was. He tagged it and jumped off the ledge. Riku had just tagged the tree at that time too and now he was catching up with Sora. Sora and Riku had a desperate race to where Kairi was and when they got there they both collapsed in front of Kairi both at the same time.
"Did I win?" asked Riku and Sora together
Kairi giggled "Nope"
"What?!" exclaimed Sora
"Your joking" Riku staring in disbelieve
Kairi smiled and pointed behind here and there standing there with a triumphant look on her grinning face stood Xiao. Sora and Riku just stared in amazement...
"So" said Xiao, smirking wickedly "The raft is called the SS. No Sora"
Miko was running down the beach with incredible speed. I'm late again! She thought. Yet again she had slept in and left the others to do all the work again. She ran into the cove, she ran all the way across the bridge and down to the Raft. She was amazed at how well the raft had turned out. She gave a slight glare as she saw Sora and Kairi standing next to each other laughing together
Kairi turned and saw Miko, she waved to her "Morning sleepy head"
"Hahaha" Miko said, dryly. Walking over to Sora and standing by him
Sora grinned "Hi Miko"
"Hey" smiled Miko
Kairi lent over closer to Sora and grinned "Today we collect the provisions for our trip!"
"Wow...I can't believe we're nearly finished and we'll we sailing by tomorrow" Miko said, smiling to herself
Sora nodded as did Kairi. Kairi then said "Let's see Sora, your looking for..." she reached into her pocket and pulled out another crumbled piece of paper on which was written on it;
One Seagull Egg
Three Mushrooms
Two Coconuts
Three Fish
And a bottle of Drinking Water
"Hey" Sora said "I could use that bottle you gave me yesterday to get the water"
Kairi smiled "Good idea Sora"
"Just don't get water from the Ocean" Miko reminded Sora. Sora frowned, he'd stupidly drunk some of the Ocean water. Bleh! It was terrible
Kairi continued "Don't forget to bring everything back here, Miko you go with Sora"
Miko groaned "Ugh..."
"Come on Miko, sooner we do this, sooner we can relax" Sora said, running off down the beach. Miko slowly followed him.
"I can't find the last Mushroom!"
Miko looked at Sora, they had already found most of the stuff and had put them in a neat little bag; they had found the Seagull egg, coconuts, fish, and got the water, they had just found the two mushrooms but couldn't find the last
"Hm...Xiao told me she saw a mushroom growing once in the secret place" Miko said
Sora then ran off towards the secret place and Miko followed him. They crawled through the bushed and into the cave that was so hidden.
The Cave was quite big. Roots of the trees that grew on the island and could be seen all over the roof of the cave. There was a slight hole in the roof which lit up the room. There was also a wooden object, which resembled a door but since there was no handle no-one knew what lied behind it. The Cave was covered in all sorts of pictures, showing strange things that Sora, Riku, Kairi, Xiao and Miko had all drew when they were younger.
Miko had drawn a beautiful castle when she was younger, but then again Miko was a gifted artist, Riku had drawn all sorts of bizarre Monsters and creatures and Xiao had drawn a funny looking duck, then after all Xiao couldn't drawn very well.
Miko gazed at all the drawings remembering all the memories. She then heard Sora shout "Found it!"
Sora picked up the mushroom and then he caught sight of a picture. A picture he and Kairi had drawn when they were younger, it was the faces of Sora and Kairi. Kairi had drawn Sora and Sora had drawn Kairi. Sora softly touched the picture of Kairi and sat there in deep though. Remembering...
Then Sora slowly grabbed a piece of chalk and drew him giving a paopu fruit to Kairi. Miko gave a silent sigh, she felt a tad jealous of Kairi, Sora really seemed to like her and this was just proving it...
Suddenly there was a noise. Sora and Miko spun around "W-Who's there?" Sora exclaimed turning around. Miko gulped as she saw as well as Sora saw a Dark figure wrapped up in a brown cloak
"I've come to see the door to this world"
Sora titled his head, in puzzlement. Miko, in fear, hid behind Sora, shaking slightly "Huh? Wh-what are you talking about ?" said Sora, staring at this stranger
"Tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed"
Miko looked up at Sora "What is he talking about Sora?"
Sora was silent he didn't know what he meant, he paused then he said "Whoever you are stop freaking us out like this!" Then he paused "Huh? Where did you come from?"
"You do not yet know what lies beyond the door"
Sora and Miko looked at each other then they exclaimed "So...You're from another world!"
"There is so very much to learn. You understand so little"
Sora frowned and put a protective arm (Or that's what Miko thought) in front of Miko and shouted, trying to show he wasn't scared "Oh yeah! Well you'll see we're gonna get out and learn what's out there"
"A meaningless effort. One who knows nothing can understand nothing"
Sora glared at the Man then his gaze traveled to the brown door. Miko watched the Hooded Man slowly creep into the darkness and fade away. When Sora turned around he saw that the man was gone
"Who was that?" Miko asked, still a little frighted
Sora shook his head "I don't know Miko, I don't know..."
It was late afternoon before Miko and Sora went back to Kairi with the provisions, due to the fact they had dozed on on the Paopu fruit Island after that strange encounter with the Man in the brown hood.
"Hey Kairi" said Miko, cheerfully as she walked over to Kairi, who was leaning on the mast of the Raft
Kairi didn't seem to notice her
"Kairi?" Sora asked, looking at Kairi closely. When he and Miko had gotten more closer they saw that Kairi was making something in her hands. Kairi looked up when Miko and Sora we're right there in front of her
"Oh, hi guys" smiled Kairi
Sora titled his head "What are you doing" he asked
"Oh? This?" Kairi said, looking down at the necklace she had been making "I'm making a necklace of thalassa shells. In the old days, sailors always wore thalassa shells. They were supposed to ensure a safe voyage" she smiled at her work and put it away in her pocket
Miko looked quickly at the necklace Kairi had made as she put it in her pocket. It was very well made.
"Oh here you go" Sora said, handing Kairi the bag of Provisions
Kairi smiled "Thanks Sora, you too Miko. Oh Miko! I found this for you" And with that she gave Miko a beautiful shell, it seemed to be green, blue and red all mixed together
"Oh Kairi...it's beautiful, thank you" Miko said, smiling at Kairi
"Your welcome" Kairi smiled
Sora looked a tad upset "What about me?"
"I gave you something yesterday silly" giggled Kairi
"Oh yeah, heh"
Kairi looked up at the sky then back at her friends "Wanna call it a day?" he asked
"Yes" said Miko and Sora together
Kairi laughed. And Sora said "Snap" this made Miko laugh as well.
"Okay, tomorrows the big day! We'd better rest up" Kairi said, smiling
Sora and Miko both nodded in agreement.
It was later that day, at sunset, another one of the glorious sunsets that always seemed to appear every night before the dark came upon the world. This one was a little different the water was more sparkley as the sun shone on it, it was truly beautiful.
Kairi and Sora were sitting together on the pier, gazing at the Sun. In a bush Miko was watching them, she was curious about the conversation Kairi and Sora might have. Xiao had insisted to come along and though Miko was scared Kairi and Sora would get to close. Miko was very jealous of Kairi.
"You know...Riku has changed" Kairi was saying
Xiao snorted "She don't live with him, how would she know?"
"Shh!" Miko snapped. Xiao shrugged and Miko listened carefully
"What do you mean?" Sora was asking
Kairi paused "Well..."
"You ok?" Sora asked
"Sora! Let's take the raft and go! Just the two of us" Kairi suddenly exclaimed
Miko's face turned scarlet red and looked like she was about to explode. Xiao mumbled "Oh here we go again" This is what happened when Miko got really jealous
"What?!" exclaimed Sora, sounding startled
Kairi laughed "Just kidding!"
Miko sighed with relieve and Xiao rolled her green eyes more than ever
"What's gotten into you? You're the one that's changed, Kairi" Sora somewhat laughed
Kairi sighed and looked down "Maybe..." she then looked up again "You know, I was a little afraid at first, but now I'm ready, No matter where I go or what I see, I know I can always come back here, Right?"
"Yeah, of course!" Sora smiled
Kairi sighed with relieve "That's good" she then stood up "Sora, don't ever change.."
"Huh?"
"I just can't wait, Once we set sail, it'll be great..."
Sora stood up and stood next to Kairi. From Miko's point of view it looked like they were holding hands. She was about to explode. Xiao, who didn't want another Krakatoa to take place, grabbed a stone and taking careful aim threw it. It hit Sora in the back of the head
"Ow!" he cried and he fell off the pier with a Splash! Kairi couldn't help but laugh. Miko glared at Xiao, who grinned sheepishly back.
Well? How was that? Good, bad, medium? I think it was good...well of course I would I'm biast :D Anyways, hope you liked this chapter, Read and Review but it's only if you want to. And until another chapter is hopefully added, Catch you later!
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