Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or anything else in here…
Darkness covered the night sky as small dots of light filled it. The gentle slow movements of the air breezed through the green trees and the sharp blades of grass. There was a house somewhere in the middle of town which was extravagantly decorated with lots of beige curtains and tall plants which gave an exotic feel to the home. Sitting on a long couch were two young boys. The younger one was fifteen in age and he had long spiky hair which extended in every direction and was held up by some kind of supernatural power, as some people say. His eyes were like beautiful oceans whose waves crashed with the radiant sun's rays and his tanned skin was patiently sitting on the soft couch as his jacket and baggy black pants were swaying to his movements. A shining silver crown necklace was wrapped around his neck touching his chest and the chains feeling the touch of his nape.
Beside him was his brother. He looked absolutely nothing like the brunette that it doesn't even look like they're brothers at first glance. He had long, spiky, silver hair which looked like it forced girls to run their fingers through it. His piercing aquamarine eyes glistened in the florescent light and the silver-haired boy's hands dug deep into his pants pockets. A scowl was on his face as the two boys looked at an older woman in front of them. She had black hair and had eyes the color of a flowing river. Her pearl necklace which was as big as chicken's eggs was dangling about her neck and felt the warmth of her chest bone. A soft sigh was released from her lips as she gave the news.
"Sora, Riku, We're going to Destiny Islands"
Fire raged into the albino-haired guy's eyes as he stood up from the couch his brother and he was sitting on. "What? We can't! We must stay here!"
"But we have to leave. Sure, Hollow Bastion is nice and all but we should leave"
"NO!" He shouted, the fire turned into a burning hell
"Riku, we are going and that's final" The older woman said in a firm tone
Riku stormed off, the scowl still on his face as he went into his room "Riku? Riku?! I'm not done talking to you!"
"Mom, I don't want things to be bad with you and my brother" Sora said in his sweet voice "You know, I have a friend in Destiny Islands. Maybe she'll help us find a place to stay in"
"That's great! Who is she?"
"She's my best friend ever since we were kids. 'Kitty'".
Midnight went around the misty place as a young six-year old Sora was walking aimlessly in the hard rocky pavements of Twilight Town. A small backpack was placed behind his shoulder blades and his tattered clothes were getting torn and worn out. But, there was one thing that Sora held very dear. A little paupu-shaped fruit cut at the very center, splitting the star into two. The little fruit always sparkled when he saw it that he remembered that it was a gift from his grandmother and she made it especially for him since that when you give the other piece to someone who he wouldn't see in a long time, the paupu will use its magic powers to find the other half. The little brunette smiled at this and patted his backpack to make sure it was still there. 'Arr, the Black Pearl! Leaving for Destiny Islands in a few minutes!!!'
Destiny Islands? That was where Sora's long lost father was! But, he couldn't go. Even if he wanted to, he was still too young and it was a pirate ship. No one but pirates were allowed on board. Unless…
When no one was looking, Sora made a run for it. He quickly ran as fast as his stubby legs could take him. He got aboard the Black Pearl where a few pirates were and saw a door which was slightly ajar and he sneaked inside and slowly went down the ladder, making sure not to make a single sound. The smell of fish filled the misty air and huge boxes piled above each other. The little brunette found a perfect spot to stay in, just until he got to Destiny Islands. He leaned his back on the wall and slowly sat down and checking again if someone was there. It was deafening in there but at least it was safe from the people outside. His hand accidentally touched a white sheet and it suddenly came to life! Little Sora's heart was beating faster than a drum and louder than a plane taking off.
The white sheet fell down to reveal a small girl about his age and because he was so scared, he screamed as loudly as possible but the girl placed her hands on top of his mouth.
"Shh! They'll hear you!" The little red-head said "Ok, I'm going to remove my hands but you should keep quiet. Ok?"
Sora nodded his head repeatedly and his eyes rattled in his head "Okway" He managed to say through her hands.
She let go and little Sora could see her face better. She had big beautiful cerulean eyes which were half-closed since she just woke up from her deep slumber. Her short red auburn hair was hidden behind her back with a messy ponytail and she was wearing a small dirty dress. She looked pretty even though she was really messy.
Sora let out a kind and friendly smile at her. "Hi!" He said in his bouncy tone "What's your name?"
The little 6-year old girl didn't reply and another deafening silence came between them.
"Well, my name is… Uh…" Sora said. He couldn't say his real name. What if she was a stalker?!
"You don't know your name?!"
"No! I mean that, my name is JJ!" The little brunette said. The name 'JJ' was the only thing that popped into his mind at that moment. "How 'bout you? Do you have a name?"
"Hmph!" The little redhead just looked away snootily and Sora just gave a cheesy grin
"Heh, maybe I'll call you… 'Kitty'! Yup! That's your name! Because your eyes are HUGE! Like a cat!" he said, emphasizing the word 'huge'.
She rolled her blue eyes "Whatever"
"So… Can we be friends?"
"If I say 'yes', will you stop bugging me?!"
"Maybe"
"Fine"
Sora just smiled at his new friend Kitty. As she started to lie down and sleep again, he eyed something behind her. It was an acoustic guitar with little scratches on it and had a heart stuck to the side. "Hey, you play the guitar?"
"What's it to ya?"
"Nothing. Can you play it?"
She didn't respond again and Sora was annoyed with this "Fine, if you won't play, I will!"
He grabbed her guitar and he forcefully placed his fingers on the strings and made an awful sound
"LALALA!! I'M CRAZY!"
She covered her ears and closed her eyes, hoping that he'd stop but he just kept on playing random notes into her guitar "OK! OK! I can't take it anymore!"
She placed her guitar on her lap, carefully strumming it with her fingernails and singing a song. Her right hand kept on changing the tone and her left one was strumming along with her voice. She had a nice voice and she could play really well. Sora smiled at her and watched her as she closed her eyes and felt the music around her body. She stopped and looked at the brunette again.
"Wow, Kitty! You sounded great!"
"You really think so?"
"Yeah! I mean, your voice sounds like an angel and you play like a pro!"
Kitty smiled at the 'Your voice sounds like an angel' comment. "Thanks, JJ"
"So, Friends?" Sora asked as he took out his hand and was waiting for her to shake it
"Ok. Best friends till the end!" she beamed and took his hand and shook it up and down "So, why are you here?"
"Well, my mummy and my daddy—"
"Not like that! I mean, I know why I'm here. To go to Destiny Islands and get a good job so my mum and I won't have to be poor"
"I'm here because my dad said that he lives there. I dunno. I never saw him before"
Suddenly, the sound of the white doorknob twisting was heard "Kitty! We should hide!". "Right"
Kitty grabbed her guitar and her blanket and went inside a blue barrel. Sora tried to sit beside her but they couldn't fit since they placed the guitar inside too
"JJ, C'mon!"
"No, I can't fit. I'll hide somewhere else. You stay here, ok?" Sora asked and she nodded softly
The little brunette jumped out of the blue barrel and hid behind a box filled with fish. Their hearts raced as a pirate came in to check the stuff. Silence. As soon as he was about to leave, little Kitty accidentally placed her hands on the strings and strummed her guitar. The pirate pulled down his beard in confusion and walked towards it. Kitty's eyes were even bigger than before and her breathing became shallow as she saw the shadow of the pirate's hand grabbing the lid. He was about to open it and expose her when Sora came out of his hiding place
"Mister Pirate sir—"
"Wha-What are you doing here?!" Anger burned in him like fever
"Sir, please? I just want to go to Destiny Islands!"
"You're coming with me" He said as the thin pirate grabbed his arm and all Sora could do was shout 'Please!' repeatedly and tears kept falling off his face and wetting his cheeks. As soon as both of them left the freezer room, Kitty peeked out the door, the sight of morning crashed into her blue eyes which looked at her best friend who was being tortured by the pirates.
"Cpt'ain. What do we do with this fellow?" He said as he pointed to Sora
"Please!? Can I go to Destiny Islands with you?"
The captain turned around and Sora's eyes widened as he knew who that guy was. Captain Barbossa. The meanest pirate ever to sail the seven seas and there was even more badness in his pinky than in Satan's whole body.
"What are you doing here, huh?" Barbossa said as he pulled Sora off his feet by gripping his collar and pulling it upwards. Sora placed his stubby hands on his neck, hoping that he wouldn't choke him to death "Are you a stowaway?! Do you know what we do to stowaways on our ship?"
Sora shook his head, tears still rolling off his eyes and onto his skin
"We throw them into the sea!"
"No!"
Barbossa, still gripping Sora's collar, placed him near the edge of the boat.
"JJ!!!" Kitty screamed as she pushed the door away
"NO! They'll get you too!"
"I don't care! Best friends till the end, remember?"
Kitty ran after him, her guitar in her guitar case as she swung it to the pirates blocking her way. When the little red-haired girl finally got to Barbossa and Sora, she stepped on the captain's foot and released the brunette who was falling into the salty sea.
"JJ!!!" She said and jumped in after him. She swam deep into the dark depths of the ocean, not caring how wet she was getting and how she would lose air. She only cared about saving her best friend. Sora had bubbles escaping his mouth and his cobalt blue eyes closed and Kitty wrapped her arms around his waist as she kicked the water away and pulled them up. They each grabbed a part of Kitty's guitar, hanging on for dear life and Sora coughed out water but he couldn't care less. He was alive. The two kicked and paddled along with the ocean's waves and they got tired and tired even more with every kick they did.
Both were unconscious by the time of nightfall. Their bodies were lying on the sands of Destiny Islands as two people looked at them.
"Whoa, are they alive?" One male asked
The other one leaned in to Sora's chest then, to Kitty's. He felt the heartbeat in both of them "They're alive! C'mon, let's bring them to the hospital!"
"Ok"
One of them placed Sora behind his back and the other one placed Kitty on his shoulders too. Sora placed his sleepy head on the guy's hear and when he woke up, he noticed that Kitty and he was in the hospital. Little Kitty was alive and awake. She was talking to the mayor of Destiny Islands.
"Oh, Hi, JJ! What took you so long?"
"Are we alive?"
"Uh-huh" Kitty said while placing her hair back into a ponytail "Oh yeah! This is the mayor!"
"Hi" Sora said timidly
"Hi, JJ. Where are your parents?"
"I dunno. I think they live here"
"Hmm… How's about we go to the Destiny Islands Embassy? Maybe we'll find your father there"
"Thanks, Mister"
"Ok, JJ. Let's go"
Sora pulled out his hand and the mayor grabbed it and they walked to a plane which was right outside. The stairs were already in place and the mayor went inside and Sora was getting ready to get inside when he turned his back and saw Kitty who was tearing up
"K…Kitty? Are you ok?"
Kitty hung her head low as tears fell off her eyes and on her feet. "Don't leave, JJ"
"I have to. I need to find my family"
"But I'll miss you"
"I'll miss you too. Oh!" Sora said as he dug deep into his backpack which somehow survived and took out his paupu fruit and handed a half of it to the red-haired girl
"What's this?"
"A Paupu fruit. You know, if I keep one and you keep the other half, the magical powers of the Paupu will find each other again!"
She crashed into him and her salty tears rolled of her eyes and on his shirt and he hugged her back and had a very tearful good-bye. She let go of him and gave him a piece of paper "Here's my address. Write to me, ok?"
"Everyday"
"Bye, JJ"
"Bye, Kitty"
"Remember! Best friends till the end!"
"Best friends till the end"
15-year old Sora placed his stuff in his black luggage bag. First his clothes, his belongings and on top of everything else was his paupu fruit. A smile was on his face and as he continued to pack his stuff, his older brother went into his room.
"Sora, hurry up"
"Ok, just give me a minute"
"Whatever. Just hurry up"
The brunette rolled his eyes as his silver-haired teen for a brother left and pulled his stroller bag which was trailing behind him.
In Destiny Islands, practically at the other end of the world from Hollow Bastion, a red haired 15 year old teen was just entering her room. The red-head's name was Kairi Sonoda. Her clothes were just a simple t-shirt and a denim skirt. Nothing fancy. She had cerulean eyes and soft pale skin and her lips were pinkish-red. Her long red hair was tied behind her head in a messy ponytail and the rest of her hair was placed in front of her shoulder. She walked to her drawer and grabbed some keys and inserted one of them into the closet door. She twisted the key and opened the door, her clothes falling out and even some of her valuables like her guitar, her letters and…Her paupu fruit. Tears came out of her eyes as she thought of what happened to her after she met JJ.
"Kairi!" a little girl said
"Coming, Naminè!" Little Kairi answered back, her little legs running over to her friend/master. Kairi was working for Naminè and her family as a maid since she and her mom went there to work and found a job as a maid.
Naminè was a 6 year old like Kairi was. She had blonde and blue eyes which looked a lot like Kairi's. Some even said that they were twins since they look very much alike but her hair was blonde and she liked her hair to move freely unlike Kairi who just wanted her hair in a ponytail as usual.
Little Kairi giggled "Sure!"
The two friends went over to their secret tree house which they made all by their selves. Ok, maybe a little help from Naminè's dad but besides that, they did it by their selves. Naminè climbed up the wooden stairs followed by Kairi and they were both welcomed by a lot of little stuffed animals and a long table in the middle of the room. The blonde and the redhead sat down on the floor and Naminè started the tea party.
"So, Mr. Fluffles, do you want another cup of tea?" She asked and was followed by a complete silence "Ok!" She slowly poured the tea from the teapot to the teacup.
Kairi kept silent and Naminè pursed her lips and pretended to blow cooling breath to the blistering hot tea and she noticed Kairi's silence. "Hello?! Kai?! Are you awake?"
Kairi went out of her trance "Uh? Yeah. I was just thinking of something"
"Really? What is it?"
"My best friend"
"We're best friends, right?"
"Yeah, but my guy best friend"
"Oh"
"You know, we stowed away on a pirate ship and we became friends there. He told me that his name was JJ and I didn't want to tell him my real name and he said my name was 'Kitty'"
"Why?"
"He said that my eyes look as big as a cat's eye" Kairi said and Naminè giggled "Uh huh, and a guy saw us and pushed JJ of the building and I came to help him"
Naminè carefully listened to her story and after the tea party, Kairi ran over to the mailman.
"Hi, Mister Mailman, do you have anything for me?"
"Yup! Are you 'Kitty'?"
Little Kairi nodded her head up and down "Uh huh"
"Ok. Here you go!"
The mailman gave her a purple envelope and Kairi's heart raced for she wanted to see what JJ wrote to her. She ripped the top off and took out the white piece of parchment and read what it said. JJ's handwriting was a little messy but it was ok and it was legible anyway.
Dear Kitty,
Hi! I missed you! You know, I'm at Hollow Bastion and I met my dad there. He has a wife and a son who happens to be my brother! His name's Riku. Although he may be cranky at times and he can be a crazy head but he's still my brother. How bout you? Do you have anything new going on there? Write back soon!
Yours,
JJ
Kairi smiled at this and quickly ran over to her room to grab a piece of paper and a pencil and started writing slowly but surely.
Dear JJ,
I miss you too! Oh, and this is my new address. I hope you won't get confused with that! Anyway, my mom and I are working and I'm going to school. I hope I would be able to get first honor so I could have a good job when I grow up. But for now, there isn't anything new going on. I hope you write back!
Kitty
She ran to the front gate where she placed her letter in and walked back. Letters came back and forth and back and forth. Little Kairi and JJ kept every single letter they received and still kept their share of the paupu. Kairi sat on her bed as she got a marker and wrote the words 'JJ and Kitty. Best Friends Till the End' on her guitar beside the little heart and decided to play some notes again. While she played, she reminisced the things that happened to her in the past.
DING DONG! The front doorbell rang. Kairi's heart raced as she ran out of her room and looked at the letters left by the mailman. Bills, Bills, Bills, Letter for Naminè's mom, Bills and… A letter for Naminè from JJ? She checked the mailbox again to see if something was still inside but all she saw was a piece of lint and a little spider making its home inside.
Days passed by and Kitty didn't receive any letters from JJ. All of them were for Naminè or would have been bills or something. Kitty looked at her guitar again, saw the words 'Friends Till the End' and cried and threw her acoustic instrument into the garbage bin. She ran to her small house where she and her mother lived while Naminè, her mom and her dad lived in a huge mansion beside them.
The little redhead, heart-broken, plopped herself on the couch and started to cry. She wished she'd never met that brunette from long ago…
Sora, Riku and their mom were already at Destiny Islands. Their mother was wearing a red sun-hat with red clothes and her white pearl necklace around her neck, a pair of sunglasses and two long dangling earrings. Sora and Riku were pushing their own cart filled with luggage. The silver haired guy pushed the belongings from Sora's cart to the floor and went on his way
"Hey! Riku!" Sora said but Riku couldn't care less "Forget it…."
He got on his knees and grabbed his stuff and put them into the bag. Then, he saw his paupu and the letters from Naminè. As he grabbed them, another person helped him and placed them into his bag. He looked a little older than he was. He had long blonde, straight hair with a pair of yellowish colored eyes and a beard to match his hair.
As both of them stood up again, the mysterious old person looked closely at his features. First, Sora's skin, hair, body and finally, his eyes. The eyes which showed innocence. He smirked, knowing he was 'The One'.
"Okay... Uh…. Thanks, sir"
Sora walked off and had a freaked out look on his face. Then, he saw a figure in the distance. Her hair was blonde and was in a bun and her white dress was a little longer than her usual. The brunette looked deep into his pockets and found a little photograph of "Kitty" and looked at the girl again. They looked exactly alike, like looking in a mirror.
The blonde approached Sora and she had a smile on her face as her blue eyes intertwined with his.
"JJ?"
"Kitty?"
She nodded and gave him a friendly hug. "Wow, after all this time, you changed a lot" she said
"You too. Did you color your hair blonde?"
All she could do is nod.
"Ok, C'mon Kitty. Let's go"
"Sora, I don't want to be called 'Kitty'. It sounds like a cat's name. Call me by my real name. Naminè!"
"Ok… But to me, you'll always be Kitty"
The brunette and the blonde went over to her house and had lunch there. As usual, Riku kept complaining, Sora's and Naminè's mom kept chatting and so did Sora and Naminè. Suddenly, the food stained Sora's favorite black shirt.
"Sora, go wash that off, ok?"
"Ok, mom"
Just as Sora went to the restroom, Kairi came in, pouring the juice on their glasses, each one slowly and carefully.
"Kairi, I thought you were only allowed in the kitchen when the visitors arrive!" Naminè softly said
"I needed to come here; my mom's having a hard time by herself"
"Whatever. Just stay in the kitchen"
"Ok, Naminè"
And, when Kairi left, Sora came back, with his shirt all clean. "Uh, Naminè, do you have water?"
"Umm, yeah. It's over there" she said as she pointed to a water dispenser
"Ok"
"No, I'll get it for you" Naminè's dad said
"It's ok" Sora said "I can handle it"
As soon as he was going to walk, Kairi came by with a bowl full of fruit salad. It toppled over Sora's favorite shirt and Naminè's mom was furious."KAIRI!"
"Sorry, sir" she repeated over again as she wiped his shirt with her apron
"No, it's ok"
The redhead bent down, wiping the salad off his feet and the floor. He bent down to help too and when they both looked at each other's eyes… They felt that they remembered that person. Cerulean to Cobalt as they just continued to look deeply into each other's eyes and a small twinge came in them, as if telling them a sign that they've already met.
"Ha—Have I seen you before?"
A/n: YAY! My first chappie was actually long!!! The reason why I wrote this is because I have no idea how FBNL (And my other fics)got deleted but it just did, so I'll be making a new ficcy which is this one!
Reviews, Comments, Constructive Criticism are welcome!!!
