A/N: This chapter has MAJOR SPOILERS for KH: Dream Drop Distance, so if you haven't spoilered yourself yet, do know that it will happen now. Don't say I didn't warn you. From now on, if there will be any spoilers, I'll let you know in the A/N first, so no worries. ;)

Thanks: The Masked Wanderer, and Singer of Water.


~ Some things were inevitable in life, such as gaining and losing. Sometimes, it was the ending result that was the most important, however. In this case, it was Sora returning home safely and spending the rest of his life with her, just like she had wanted. ~


I. - Important

Some things were just inevitable in life, such as gaining and losing, destiny, having to face thirteen versions of Xehanort (and he wasn't exactly looking forward to the last one). You could fight against it as much as you wanted, but it was useless, because it was bound to happen, anyway...

Sometimes, however, it was the ending result that was the most important. It justified all the horror he'd been through, making it all worth it. In this case, it was Sora returning home safely and spending the rest of his life with her, just like she had wanted.

Unfortunately for him, all good things came to an end at some point. After his second journey to save the worlds from Darkness, the brunet had been so sure that this could be possible. He'd barely spent a month in his home world when he had to leave with Riku. Kairi had said she'd wait for him, but sometimes he was afraid that she'd grow tired of all that waiting. If only she could come with them as well...

The Keybearer had barely finished that thought, when the door to the room he was currently sharing with Riku opened, revealing the last person he'd expected to see.

He gaped at her as though he saw her for the first time. "Kairi?"

Sora pinched himself just to be sure that he wasn't dreaming (although after everything that had happened to him during the "test", he knew this trick wasn't exactly a proof).

"Surprise." The redhead smiled at him, before rushing over to give him a big hug and tell Sora that this time, they would face the dangers together.


A/N: Not exactly my best work, but maybe still worth mentioning.

Next chapter: He really hoped that this would be his last journey, so he could go home again and finally share a damn paopu fruit with her, just like he had wanted, waaay before all this mess.