Kingdom Hearts
Keyblades and Boomsticks: The Kairi Chronicles
-Kairi x Reno centric-
PG-13--T--that is if you want me to rate it upwards… (Grins mischievously.)
Reno: (screams from fangirls)
Kairi: (hiding in the corner from fanboys)
Reno and Kairi: (stares at each other in awkward silence) o.O …?
Reno and Kairi: (pales from maniacal laughter from the author)
Disclaimer: Now, children, I do not own Kingdom Hearts nor Final Fantasy 7 and the other Final Fantasy stories that show up here…. They are all pwned by Square Enix. However, KH is pwned by both Disney and Square Enix.
Summary: Couplings throughout story so far: Kairi x Reno and Sora x Riku. Sorry, I'm a crazy yaoi fangirl… Anyways…. The summary is basically about Kairi fighting a war on her very own and wondering even more about her past thanks to her realization that Sora likes Riku more than he likes her. Kairi understands this but is extremely sad that she suddenly wishes she was somewhere else dealing with her heart ache. She's now in Traverse Town found by a ninja and a particular redhead with a boomstick… yep it's that wise guy…. Reno…
"Ever felt away with me
Just once that all I need
Entwined in finding you one day
Ever felt away without me
My love, it lies so deep
Ever dream of me
Would you do it with me?
Heal the scars and change the stars
Would you do it with me?
Turn loose the heaven within
I'd take you away
Castaway on a lonely day
Bosom for a teary cheek
My song can but borrow your grace…"
"Ever Dream"
Nightwish
Door Number 2—
Memories and Familiar Faces
Destiny Islands—the Day Kairi Disappeared
Sora wandered throughout the streets as he walked with Riku into the mainland. He looked at the lack of a basket that was just a moment ago was in his arms. They gave the basket to Kairi's mother and left when Sora told Kairi's mother that Kairi was probably in her secret place again. He also told Kairi's mother that he and Kairi and Riku got into a fight with one another and Kairi was the most hurt out of all of them. He bowed towards Kairi's mother as he apologized for his behavior towards Kairi and had told Kairi's mother, Akiko, that he would make sure he apologized to Kairi in person when she has cooled down and come home.
He sighed as he looked over at Riku. Riku put a hand on Sora's shoulder.
"I have a bad feeling about this," Sora said as he looked up at the pale blue eyes of Riku. "What if she never went to her secret place? What if… she was lost…? You know how she is when she was bullied by Lulu…" Sora continued as he looked down.
Riku put an arm around Sora. "She'll be fine… she's gotten stronger, Sora… don't doubt her strength…" he said as he hugged Sora a quick hug before he went off towards his home's direction. "Sora, I'll see you tomorrow… alright?"
Sora smiled.
"Yeah, alright," Sora said as he left for his home. He walked into the household only to see his mother pale and holding the phone.
"Mom?" Sora asked as he looked at her, worriedly.
"It was Kairi's mother on the other end," said Sora's mother. "Kairi never made it home…."
Sora's eyes widened. 'Kairi…' he thought as he looked down. He looked back his mother. "Tomorrow, I will start looking for her," he said.
Sora's mother nodded. "Kairi's lucky to have two young men like you and Riku at her side," she said as she smiled, broadly at Sora.
His mother turned about to finish making dinner as Sora looked down at his hands. 'I made a terrible mess….' Sora thought. (Normally in this case, the person who wields the keyblade is forgotten in his or her own world, when he or she leaves their home world. However, this is Kairi we're talking about. I don't really think anyone forgets her since she comes from another world already…. This might be a short chapter…)
Hallow Bastion—that Night
Yuffie watched the younger girl as she groaned in her nightmare. She sighed as she looked over at Reno whom practically reigned over Cloud's refrigerator.
"Shouldn't you get back to Rufus?" she asked as she looked over at the redhead who snatched a random apple and leaned against the counter.
"Hmph…. Not really, I was off today anyways…." Reno answered. "Anyway, do you exactly know the girl?"
Yuffie nodded. "She's Sora's best female friend. Sora, you know, the Keyblade Master?" she asked. Reno shook his head.
"No. Someone said I got knocked out by a heartless and was asleep for a year. Sure I was with the others with Rufus… but they said I wouldn't wake up… for a year… so they had to put me in something so they can fix me, ya know?" Reno answered.
"Ah…" Yuffie answered as she heard the phone calling. She stood up and walked out the room. "Reno, watch her…"
Reno sighed. "Fine…." Reno answered. A grin broadened as he smirked. 'Well, at least I can look forward to a week filled with ramen lunches….!' Reno thought as he looked over at Kairi. He shrugged as he sat down next to Kairi looking down at her. 'Not bad looking…' He turned to find what Yuffie had been doing while Kairi slept, taking another bite out of his apple as he looked over at Kairi.
He decided to put another cloth on Kairi's head. Yuffie had discovered that Kairi had a fever when she landed in Hallow Bastion. He could hear Yuffie in another room talking on the phone. He sighed as he turned his attention back to the auburn haired female lying in the bed. He was glad Mr. Chocobo Hair was out of the household or he would have not gotten to—eat the apples Tifa had harvested with Yuffie. Those apples that Tifa and Yuffie picked out were extremely good apples. (Yes, I know, extremely random…. But… how am I supposed to write the eventual ness of the crack pairing? It needs to start somewhere….)
"Hmmm…. Maybe I should re-check her temperature… right?" Reno asked himself as he replaced the cloth with his hand. "She still has a temperature…. But at least it's going down a bit…."
He stopped when he checked Kairi's wrists for any indication or anymore tell-tale signs that she has a temperature and it was trying to go down. He sighed as he put the cloth back.
That's when it suddenly hit him.
"I need to know why I am the Key Blade's Chosen," said a blonde boy as he turned his back on a familiar redhead. His gaze was cold and distant towards his friend which surprised him.
"But they'll only hunt you down!" said the familiar redhead.
"I have to find out… and this…. This is the only way I can…" the blonde boy said as he sighed. He walked away. "And plus, no one will miss me…"
"No, that isn't true!" the redhead said. "I would…"
Reno watched as the redhead watched the blonde walked away. What is this?
---
Reno watched as a light blinded him taking him to a lab where the computer was destroyed. He walked into another room to see the redhead and blonde standing staring at one another as the redhead turned to walk across him.
"You remember me now, Roxas?" asked the redhead.
"You're Axel, my best friend, of course I remember you!"
"You do? I'm so flattered. But… you're too late!"
His name is Axel?
He looks just like me.
---
So this is the end…?
When Reno heard these words in his own head he watched as Axel looked up at the great nothingness. He saw a brown haired boy kneeling next to him and watched as they spoke.
"C'mon, Axel… stand up… when we get to Kairi you can apologize to her…" said the brunette.
Kairi? That was Sora?! Reno thought as he looked at the brunette holding a keyblade in his hand and looking with sympathy at Axel.
"I can't…" Axel spoke as he looked over at Sora. "Sora… when you put your whole being into an attack…" he trailed on. Sora simply nodded. Axel smiled as he looked up at Sora with green eyes instead of Reno's blue ones. "All I wanted to see is Roxas… he made me feel as if I had a heart… haha…but, Sora…I don't have one… it's funny… you make me feel the same way…"
Silly, me, it's because Sora is Roxas' Somebody… Reno heard the thought of the familiar voice from Axel and turned to see Axel standing there. He was wearing something similar to the Organization's trench coat he wore when he was talking to Sora. He stood next to Reno not looking at him as he watched the memory go by.
"This is … my death and your rebirth," Axel spoke up suddenly. "Kairi is a girl name Namine's Somebody… and Kairi is one special girl… to Sora and Riku of Destiny Islands… you're taking care of her well, I presume?"
Reno nodded.
"Good…" Axel spoke as he watched himself fade and Sora standing up. The scene changed.
Reno's eyes widened as he watched himself inside a container floating.
"They used some guy named DiZ's ideas to reincarnate you…" Axel said as he watched himself appear in front of the container. The container opened suddenly as all the others turned to see Reno floating there within the machine. They did not seem to see Axel standing there, wondering if the man in front of him was his Somebody or not.
"Same hair color, eye tattoos… heh… are you my Somebody?" Axel and Reno heard Axel in the memory asked.
Reno watched as Axel dissolved into him.
"Kairi I guess… is able to awaken her powers as a Keyblade Master…" Axel said. "I think they call her the Kingdom Hearts' princess… she comes from Ansem's report… I believe… you might want to look that up if you're interested in the history of that girl…"
Reno blinked. "I guess if Rufus asks Cloud about her…" he said.
"Heh… you would… you're the same as I am…" Axel said. "Well, same as I wasn't…You'll see me again… you have to wake now and take care of Namine… erm… Kairi…"
With that Reno opened his eyes.
Reno opened his eyes as he looked around.
"Hello?" came a girl voice as Reno turned to see himself looking up at a pair of dark blue orbs looking down at him.
"Hmmm?" Reno looked about and noticed he was on the girl's lap. "Um, uh, sorry! Fell asleep!" he said as he sat up and placed a clean cloth on Kairi's head. The cloth dropped on the bed as he finally realized Kairi was sitting up. He looked about and put a hand on Kairi's forehead. 'I fail miserably, don't I?'
Her temperature dropped.
"Are you alright? Not sick or anything? Right now you're in another world called Traverse Town. Another friend of Sora is taking care of you and is getting some things from the store. She asked me to take care of you. However, I kinda slept and a—My name is Reno," Reno said as he put his hand out.
The girl blinked, but smiled as she put her hand out. "The name is Kairi, nice to meet you, Reno."
"The friend out getting somethings from the store is Yuffie… she'll come back in a little while," Reno answered. "Nice to meet you too. Hey, want an apple?"
"Uh, sure."
Reno gave Kairi an apple. "You seem kinda down," he said.
Kairi held the apple in her hands as she thanked Reno for it and took a nibble on it and looked down at it. "Truthfully, yes, but it is not something I can do about it when I'm sent to another world," she said as she smiled. Dark eyes looked down as she remembered what happened to her when she was being sent to another world. "By the way, what is this world?"
"Hallow Bastion…." Reno answered as he looked at her. "Are you sure you're going to be alright? I can find something in Chocobo Hair's fridge and whip some snack up…"
"No, it's alright… and Chocobo Hair?" Kairi asked as she giggled at the last part of the question looking up into the light blue eyes of the redhead. Reno grinned.
"You're lucky you haven't met Emo Kid… yet…. Chocobo Hair and I go way back… his real name is Cloud Strife… I fight him a lot so I guess you can say, he and I are rivals, but I guess one-sided ever since he started his little campaign of finding Sephiroth…"
"Sephiroth?"
"Yeah, some mean guy… trust me, you don't want to meet him."
"And you did?"
"I saw him a couple o'times…"
"Say, you kinda remind me of someone…"
Reno blinked. "I do?"
"Yeah, and he was holding these weird wheel things in battle…"
"Wrong weapon, I carry a boomstick…"
Kairi blinked. "Boomstick? Mine is a keyblade…"
"Kairi! Are you another Keyblade master?!" said a voice as Reno looked over at the side of him to see Axel.
"Axel?" Reno asked.
Kairi's eyes widened. "Axel!" she said.
"Did you get my apology, Kairi?" Axel asked. "Did Namine also get my apology too?"
Kairi nodded. "From Sora, yes… but tell me why, Nobodies aren't supposed to be remembered once they join a person's body…" she said.
"Forgotten yes, but never lost… Kairi… there's something bad going to happen, that's why we won back your memories of us. It's also the reason why Axel is able to appear to Reno. Roxas is already to tell Sora about everything. Roxas is now Sora's guide," Namine's voice said as she appeared as a translucent figure sitting on the bed next to Kairi's legs. Kairi looked at Namine with a determined look.
"Then tell me what I must do so I can return to Destiny Islands…" Kairi said as she looked over at Namine. "I will fight the darkness willingly…I will prove myself…to my friends at home that I can take care of myself… I will be true to them from now on…"
Namine smiled at Kairi.
Reno just sat there confused, but still amused with the girl's ability to look sad then suddenly look determined.
"There is another group of Heartless and another group of Nobodies that want to know and control Kingdom Hearts. These Nobodies aren't like Organization XIII in their regard to only wanting their hearts back and becoming whole…" Axel said, looking over at Kairi. "I'm sure Sora is about to find out about your absence on Destiny Islands, which is completely different from when he was away from the world… did anyone tell you what you are, Kairi?"
"The princess of Kingdom Hearts…" Namine spoke up sadly as she looked over at Kairi.
Kairi looked at them. "I think so… in order to destroy the worlds…"
"Yes" Axel and Namine answered.
"I can't let that happen again…" Kairi said. "I will not be captured again."
Axel smirked as he looked over at Namine. "And Namine doesn't want to be captured either…so she'll strengthen you as well by fighting along side you…" he said as he winked at Namine.
Namine turned a faint pink as she glared at Axel.
"I think our Nobodies have some chemistry going between them?" Reno asked as he stretched, one eye was closed and the other eye was open looking over at Axel and Namine. He watched as Namine smiled a small smile as she quickly brushed her blonde locks in front of her face.
"I personally think it's a bit too soon for that," Kairi said as she smiled. "I think it's their first time seeing each other… it's been at least awhile since they last saw one another…"
"Just what is a Nobody anyway?" Reno asked Kairi.
'His eyes are so pale they pierce through me like icicles…' Kairi noted about Reno, silently, as her eyes widened at the sudden seriousness in Reno's face as she stared at her. Axel and Namine just stared at Reno. She backed away a few inches. If she were standing up she would have at least jumped a few yards away from Reno's place at her bed. "Nobodies are the other halves of us that make us whole. The ones in front of you are the strongest ones. Unlike the heartless, from what Sora tells me that these Nobodies can think and act on their own thoughts and they can make fools of us Somebodies when they want to."
Reno nodded.
"You should go with Kairi if you want to know more about Nobodies…" Axel said. He smirked. "And no I didn't mean it as a comeback for that whole chemistry thing you just said…"
Kairi blinked.
Namine was still pink. But she turned a red when Axel put a hand on her head. "Me and Namine are close friends, we met at not good times… if you must—"
"We shouldn't talk about that…" Kairi said as she sweat dropped. She noticed her Nobody was the same shade as Axel's hair. She smiled as she put a hand on the Nobody's shoulder even if her hand can only go through. Under her very touch, Namine calmed.
"And we haven't met on good times either, Kairi," Axel pointed out.
"Eheh… no we didn't…" Kairi said.
Reno looked even more confused.
"There's some girl whom is coming to the door with groceries…" Namine whispered as she took the chance to look away from everyone else. (Poor Namine.) "So, um… we should go back, Axel…"
Axel nodded.
Namine and Axel turned into small particles of light and flew inside of Reno and Kairi. Kairi put her legs over the edge of the bed as she sat on the end of the bed diagonal of Reno who was really confused about the whole conversation.
"So you're the Somebody of Axel? That's interesting… I could see that but you don't have an "L", "A" or "E" in your name…" Kairi said as a dark haired ninja girl came inside. She was frustrated with talking to a blonde haired male as another dark haired female walked inside and over to the paper bags. She began to unload the bags.
Yuffie noticed Kairi awake and Cloud noticed both Reno and Kairi, but mostly Reno.
"Why are you here, Reno?" was Cloud's way of greeting Reno.
The redhead smirked as he looked over at Cloud. "Well, I was the only male around Yuffie when Kairi appeared near the Bailey…" he said as he grinned. "By the way, this is Kairi… she's from Destiny Islands and a good friend of Sora."
Cloud stopped suddenly as he stared at her. "Wait, that Sora?"
Reno nodded.
Cloud's facial features softened as he heard Yuffie's footsteps go over to the door to help Leon inside. "I am Cloud," he said as he lent out a hand towards Kairi. Kairi looked up at him before taking his hand in hers and shook it.
Reno grinned. "And what about your two other friends…" he said, gesturing with his head to Tifa and Yuffie. Leon had stepped into the room.
"So that's the punk's girlfriend?" the brunette said.
Kairi blinked. She shook her face. "No, he has a boyfriend…" she said, she looked down at her knees sadly. 'I used to be, though…' she thought, sadly as tears built into her eyes again. 'I need to return to them… they must be worried sick about me…'
"We're gonna have some stir fry today is that okay?" Yuffie asked everyone. They nodded. She smiled. "Don't look so down, girl. My name is Yuffie… you must be Kairi, yes? My friend here in the kitchen is Tifa. Hey, do you want to help out with the dinner? It'll take your mind off some stress… you must be hungry, hmm?"
Kairi nodded as she stood up and walked slowly towards Yuffie, unsteadily, because she stayed in bed for hours. She felt a bit dizzy but followed the hyperactive ninja into the kitchen.
Yuffie popped her head from the kitchen. "Reno?"
Reno blinked.
"This will be part of our deal being paid off… my share…" she said, as she grinned. "I hope you like stir fry…"
"I wanted ramen…." Reno complained. His eyes widened. "Wait. Original Wutainese stir fry?!"
Yuffie nodded.
Reno grinned. He tried to conceal his happiness. Cloud averted an eyebrow.
"Of all people, Yuff, you're inviting him?" asked the brunette male not introduced yet. Yuffie spoke softly in Kairi's ear. "That's Leon… I work with him now ever since we couldn't find Vinny anywhere…"
Kairi nodded. "Nice to meet you, Leon…" she said.
Yuffie smirked. "I call him Squall to annoy him…. It's his real name but he prefers 'Leon'…"
Kairi nodded. "Ah…" was all she answered with. She looked over at Reno as he looked over at her and winked.
Odd, she felt happy. Maybe it has to do with Namine and Axel?
All she could do was smile back.
Destiny Islands
Sora sighed as he and Riku yawned. They were on the island waiting for Kairi.
Kairi never made it home…
His mother's words made him remember. "That light…" he said as he sat up.
Riku looked at him with an eye open and the other closed. He was resting on Sora's leg. "What is it, Sora?"
"Riku, Kairi never made it home…." Sora said as he looked over at Riku.
Riku's eyes widened. "She didn't?"
Sora shook his head. "We need to find her…. I saw a strange light a little after she left early yesterday… we need to find her."
"We'll get Tidus, Wakka and Selphie to look around in the mainland… and we'll look here…. Then if we could…." Riku started as he sat up to find Goofy and Donald standing there.
"I think we'll get leads if we—" Sora started before Riku interjected with;
"I think we already found our leads…" he said.
Sora turned to see Donald and Goofy standing there.
"I think so too…."
Author's Note:
You'll have to wait for Reno, Axel, and Sora's new outfits for next chapter… my parents are pissed at me as it is… I have computer curfew now, now that I'm starting school in either a week or a week in a half… Drat…. (Pops another ice pop in mouth…)
With love,
Blood-coloured angel
PS. Confusing Reno is fun…. xD
Reno: (Glares and threatens me with boomstick.)
Kairi: xD; ….
