Kingdom Hearts

The Kairi Chronicles

Keyblades and Boomsticks

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"The beginning of road to get to the end of a journey

will always end in blood soaked hands."

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Door Number 9

Meeting the New Number 8

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The Land of Dragons

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It has been a couple of days since they arrived in the Land of Dragons and still no signs of Nobodies or Heartless were spotted throughout the village where the Fa family lived. Around the kingdom no attacks of either fiend was spotted. It was calm, peaceful and quiet. The birds chirped happily away to one another as the trees filled up with pink tiny blossoms and allowed some petals to rain on the lucky couples that sit under them. The climate was in the sixties in Fahrenheit. Tea was served nearly five times during the normal day, but it was refreshing cool tea that gave relief to the dry throats.

Mushu hung around the ancestral monuments in the Fa family's graveyard and waited each day with some extra tea to take for him and the ancestral gods of the family.

Reno had stayed with Kairi in her guest room because of her recurring nightmares. The problem was they kept on becoming even more vivid each night that Kairi woke the both of them up. Unfortunately, the two of them got no sleep and so they both usually slumped in their seats whenever they got the chance. In addition to slumping in their seats, Kairi and Reno took naps whenever they can to catch up on sleep. It, also, got them to know more about each other whenever they could not sleep. They would both talk about random things. They both basked in the strengthening friendship they shared, strengthening even more as they cuddled up together under the blankets talking about random stuff till they reached a point of difficulty keeping their eyes open.

Rufus always sneaked up on the two as he walked from his bedroom and the family room whenever he could. He thought the two were beginning to be intimate, which to his disappointment—they were not.

"I thought those two would get it on already…" Rufus commented as he looked over at Rude.

Rude sighed. "You don't really know Reno… do you?"

Rufus looked over at Rude. "Does he at least have what it takes to bed a woman?" he asked. Rude sighed in frustration.

"Yes, he does, however his private life is of no importance to you," Rude said.

"Well, why can't I know? I'm his boss!" Rufus said.

Rude sighed. He was not going to go anywhere with a stubborn, deprived of Western food Rufus was he? He merely let his head drop on the table.

"So?" Rufus said. "Tell me."

"I'm not telling you if he is a virgin or not. It's not your business," Rude said.

"Fine…. So tell me… at least about his love life…." Rufus said.

(Yes, I am getting ready for Reno torture caused by Rufus. I know, I know… it's sexual talk, but their guys for goodness sakes! Rufus is a bit OOC… :P MUAHAHAHA…. Hmmm how am I going to torture Rufus…? Back… Hmmm)

"He wasn't into love very much when he was back at home, but I guess Kairi's changing that. Sure, he did date some women, but only to calm himself down after missions… not getting into details," Rude said, sharply as Rufus groaned.

"How come?" Rufus asked.

"It's not your place to…. You're in a higher class than he is so why should you even care?" Rude asked. "He did have a crush on Elena though, but he managed to get over the fact that Elena was into Tseng… but of course, you know this…"

"Yes, I do, sadly," Rufus said.

"And that's about it…." Rude said.

"WHAT?" Rufus blinked. "No more?"

Rude rolled his eyes. "No more."

"What about Tifa?" Rufus questioned.

"Not his type, that's all I can say," Rude said, turning a bit red.

"He likes smaller breasts?"

Rude sighed. "Let's get to another topic…."

"He likes smaller breasts doesn't he…?"

Rude sighed, still blushing from the dirty talk Rufus was trying to force him into.

"Kairi's not a bad girl. She has some decent curves if you know what I mean," Rufus trailed on.

Rude sighed as he hit his forehead with the palm of his hand. He stood up.

"Where are you going?" Rufus asked.

"Away from a future pornographer…" Rude said. He slid open the door and stepped out.

Rufus smirked. "So, I'm guessing he likes smaller breasts?" he asked.

The only answer was the door slid shut a bit harshly.

(Idiot, Rufus….)

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Reno yawned an obnoxious yawn as he sat next to Kairi at breakfast. He wore a dark blue kimono. He looked extremely fatigued as so did Kairi at the table and both of them yawned at the same time. He picked up his tea wondering why he had not dropped it yet as he brought it to his lips. He took a gulp.

"Lovely night you both?" asked the grandmother as Reno's eyes widened and spat out the tea, coughing as Kairi blinked. She did not seem to know what the whole meaning what the grandmother said. Reno was bright red and Kairi was looking around with a clueless air as she patted Reno's back, firmly. Poor Reno knew, of course.

"I guess," Kairi said.

'That didn't help in the least bit….' Reno thought as he looked the other way blushing. "It was, but not like that, Grandma Fa."

"Reno shares the same bed with me because I have nightmares…. Really horrible nightmares," Kairi explained.

'Like that's going to convince to the grandmother full of dirty thoughts we just slept in the same futon,' Reno thought.

"Grandma, Kairi is another keyblade master, and is attacked by Heartless and Nobody a lot…. Of course she is going to have nightmares. Reno's being a good friend and helping her through it," Mulan said.

"Of course, of course," the grandmother said as Reno and Kairi were served clear soup, rice and sliced fish. Reno scowled at it while Kairi just shrugged and started eating.

"Thank you for the meal," Kairi and Reno said as the grandmother left for the kitchen. Mulan stood up to visit her father in his study. Reno scooted nearer to Kairi as he stared at his food.

"Why must we eat fish? I miss my steak…. And Yuffie's Wutainese cooking is really good…. Better than Tseng's cooking," Reno moped as he looked down at the food. "And was that really necessary to ask about our night?"

Kairi blinked. "I thought it was necessary," she said as she looked over at Reno. She watched him blush a red as he shook his head. He put a hand in Kairi's hair and ruffled it.

"Eat your breakfast. It's still time to preserve your virgin ears as best as we can," Reno said.

"Huh?" Kairi asked as she blinked.

"So, what foods here is safe to eat, Kairi?" Reno asked.

"Eat the food, Reno," Kairi said. "I have a feeling you might relate to it."

"What do you mean?"

"Just eat it, you'll see," Kairi said as she smiled at him.

"Eheh," Reno said as he picked up his chopsticks with his left hand and started eating. He blinked as he looked at Kairi. It seemed she saw the light bulb go off. He swallowed the food and snapped his fingers. "It reminds me of Wutainese cuisine, kind of, sort of, zo to!"

Kairi nodded. "Exactly, but this is the real cuisine," she said.

"Oh yeah, you were helping Yuffie along with Lockhart, right?" Reno asked.

Kairi nodded again.

"No wonder, Yuffie must have spoken to you about the meals she used to eat in Wutai," Reno said as he took a sip of his green tea. "Well, now I can finally eat breakfast… after two days of giving Rude most of it…."

"That wasn't funny," said a voice as Rude slid open the door and walked in, slipping off his sandals. Reno smiled, apologetically as Rude sat down at the table.

"I had breakfast already, you two were still asleep, weren't you?" he asked.

"So, what did Rufus do to you this time, Rude?" Reno asked as he looked at his best friend.

"Eh… talked about what type of woman you'd like…. Let's just say I nearly punched the guy in the face," Rude said, fixing his sunglasses. "The leader is extremely stubborn to even know when or when not to say anything."

Reno smirked. "When not you mean?" he countered as Kairi sipped on her tea.

"Hey, I heard that," Rufus said. He came in wearing a kimono in grays. He sighed as he held a book in his hands. Mickey appeared next to him. He was the most somber of the people there.

Mickey stopped into the middle of the room and looked around.

"We need to find out if any plans for this World has been arranged. We need to get a move on and travel to another world," he said as he looked at the others in the group. "We need to go ahead and discover what we really need to achieve peace between the borders.

"And figure what's up with the new Organization," Kairi said as she looked at Mickey. "What world do you think we'll be traveling to next?" she asked as she looked at the others.

"Beats me," Reno answered as he looked over at Kairi.

"We wouldn't know," Rude agreed.

Kairi looked down.

"Hey, I think we'll have fun in the other worlds if they just came up randomly," Reno said as he tried lightening up the mood. "I mean it won't be fun if the worlds were in order with their paths and stuff. "Right?"

"I guess," Kairi answered. 'I just want to go home,' she thought.

Reno noticed Kairi's self-doubt as she looked down at the table. He put a hand to her back and rubbed it, gently. "There, there, we'll have fun. I mean all of us want to go home, but if we think of this as a way to finally see the worlds… we'll have fun," he said. "C'mon… traveling through the worlds at these times isn't always sad and depressing. So, cheer up, Kairi, before we know it we'll be in our home worlds in our original lifestyles trying to keep in touch with one another as much as possible."

'That's not convincing,' Kairi thought as she looked Reno. "I guess so," she said as she sipped on her tea. 'Maybe it's because I'm starting to like him even more. Maybe more than Sora… and if we were to part… I surely will miss him,' she thought. She smiled a bit to reassure Reno she was okay.

"Well, that settles it, today we'll find out what is going on with this world and move to the next," Mickey said as he smiled up at the others.

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The Darkness

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Maleficent sighed as she looked over at the potions that ranged through the walls. She sighed as she noticed wads of dust hanging off each shelf threatening to go into her potions and ruin them to no repair. She sighed as she looked around the room of her hide-out.as she started cleaning with her sorcery. She was up to the dusting when Pete slammed into the room and made some dust fall into her potions. She watched as yellow smoke emitted from the potions she wanted to hold dear to her were ruined under Pete's ideal way of entering and meeting with Maleficient.

A glare was sent in his direction.

"What do you possibly want, scoundrel? Another chance? You're not going away from my eyes. You've already soaked up every bit of trust I had of you when we were dealing with Sora," she said as she looked at Pete. "I want you to clean the rest of my room and put the potions you ruined over at my desk to calculate whether I should kill you or not."

Pete's small dog ears twitched as his eyes widened. "But, m'Lady," he started when Maleficent shoved her staff into his face and glared at him.

"Be a good little boy and follow my orders and maybe, just maybe, you'll regain my trust and learn the lessons I tried teaching you. You're pathetic, unlike Makoto," Maleficent continued. "She is a wonderful strategist unlike you and easily able to calculate our enemy's every movement. Unlike you, of course," Maleficent put even more emphasis on "unlike you" as she bared her pearly white teeth at him. "Another little favor for me—"

"Th-That isn't the case, m'Lady," Pete said as he looked at Maleficent.

"Then what do you possibly want, imbecile," the dark woman said.

"Are you sure Makoto is exactly loyal to you? I mean, she was another of Xehanort's Nobody's conquered souls…. Surely she could make Xehanort's Nobody make a comeback and destroy ou—your group of the Commanders of the Heartless, Pete suggested as the woman dropped a beaker and turned on her heel, harshly.

"As long as she follows my orders on destroying Kairi and her little band of gumdrops and rainbows, I could care less what she's thinking of doing."

"But, ma'am, that's not the point! The point is—"

"Silence!"

"Maleficie—"

Maleficent used her magic to silence Pete as she turned. "You'll do what I say?" she said.

Pete nodded.

"Fine then, I'll allow you to speak," she said as she cancelled the spell.

Pete instantly started speaking again, "Makoto is Kairi's childhood—"he started. That's when Maleficent used her magic on him again and sent him hurdling to the wall. Blood dripped from his mouth as he looked at the dark lady.

"Have I made myself clear, mutt?" Maleficent asked as she stood over Pete. She smirked, sadistically as Pete's eyes rolled backwards and he fell unconscious on the floor.

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"Hmmm…. What are you going to do when you reunite with your childhood friend, Makoto?" asked a sadistic, male voice as a pink haired girl looked over at a silver haired male with two katana attached to his leather trench coat. Her eyes narrowed at him as she turned the other way.

"It's none of your business, Kadaj," Makoto said as she looked over at the silver haired male again and turned. She had her hand held on the place where Kairi had pushed her from her side. She cursed as she tried putting her hand away from the bruising internal wound. 'Shit, she's strong enough to break someone's ribs,' she thought. She glared as Kadaj moved towards Makoto smirking at her.

"You look very adorable, amusing when you're injured like that, Mako-chan," he hissed in her ear. "If Maleficent were to know what you're exactly doing behind her back, things would not go well, now will they?"

Makoto's eyes widened as she looked at Kadaj. "What are you trying to say?" she hissed at him.

Kadaj smirked as he lifted Makoto's chin so that her eyes matched his Mako green-blue eyes. She could see his slit pupils piercing through her rounded pupils of her green eyes. Fingers traced over Makoto's soft lips as Kadaj smirked at Makoto. "I'm blackmailing you, my dear, haven't you figured that out? If Maleficent knew why you were plotting against her using those dreams as simple warnings, who knows what will happen. You're unlucky I caught you in the act. And you are lucky Kairi woke up before I could even pierce through your delicate skin," Kadaj said as he placed a hand at Makoto's stomach. Green eyes continued to glare up at Mako teal. "But I guess I could do something worst… or perhaps anyways stab you…"

"Let me go," she screamed as she realized Kadaj had leaned her against a wall. His gloved hands were placed at either side of her head as she looked up, frightened and unable to move. A simple smirk answered her demand.

He was not going to listen to her. He was going to frighten her into what he wanted from her and leave her there on her knees shivering—

She felt a stab of pain in her stomach.

Kadaj smiled at Makoto as he watched the pink-head crumple to the ground.

"You won't get away with this easily, Makoto…" he said as he chuckled, crouching down to take the red liquid to his fingertips and lick his fingertips off of the pink haired girl's blood.

A figure that looked like Kadaj was standing outside as he looked in. His longer silver hair spilt down the back of his shoulders. A look of the tiniest bit of emotion was seen as he watched the pink haired girl topple to the ground in a puddle of red liquid. Yazoo watched his brother disappear into another room to go upstairs. He looked around making sure Loz was not around before he walked over to the girl.

The poor girl was shaking.

"It was unnecessary what he did to you, but Loz would have done something worst to you," Yazoo said as he lifted the girl into his arms, carefully. He placed a hand to the girl's wound.

"I hate this place, the people here… I want to be with Kairi," Makoto said as she started crying. "I hate it here!"

'That's right, they always have to hypnotize her to make her do and say what they want,' Yazoo thought as he looked at her. He started cleaning the wound before he used Cure on it.

Makoto gripped at him. "Yazoo… I'm so scared, what am I going to do?!" she asked.

"I don't know, I honestly don't know. Right now, you should rest…" Yazoo said as he concentrated on healing her wound. 'Kadaj and Loz definitely aren't themselves ever since they came here to find Sephiroth,' he thought. He picked Makoto up to take her back to her bedroom. She gripped at him as she sobbed into him from fear and sadness.

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Traverse Town

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"It's been at least two days since we came here," Sora complained as he looked around District One of Traverse Town with Donald, Goofy and Riku. He sighed as he looked depressed. "No sight of Kairi…" he continued.

Riku patted Sora on the back, comfortably. "Will it comfort you that we got a summons from Merlin?" he asked. "It seems he saw Kairi off to another world when she came first to Hallow Bastion."

Sora's eyes lightened up as Riku smiled at him. Sora practically jumped Riku at that moment, but kept the urge to himself for Donald and Goofy's sakes. A translucent Roxas sighed as he smiled at Sora's endless enthusiasm.

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The World That Never Was

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"Hmmmm, I don't know what we should do with the others. They seem un fit for what we want to do with them," said a girl in a lavender cloak glancing over at her brother whom was dressed in an original cloak, but had purple hair.

"I dunno, Twelve," he said. "But once we taken care of the Organization we can be sure we'll make our own ideal one and turn the Princesses into Nobodies for our organization. Maybe then… will we have the power to control the worlds' paths so it's easy for us to take them over?"

"Hmmmm…. I don't know…"

"Maybe we should start with Seven, Eight and Ten. I'm not sure about Nine…. He's relative not in tune with reality if you know what I mean," Number Eleven said as he crossed his arms over his chest. He looked at the lilac colored, haired girl.

"Perhaps… we should plan it further," the girl said as she fixed tea for her stuffed animals sitting around the circular table. "You may go to your work, dear older brother."

"Why thank you, Number Twelve," said Eleven as he teleported out of the room.

A small smile fixated on the young girl's face.

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"I suggest you three go on this mission if you are to be serious about my plans," said Number One to Seven, Eight and Ten as they looked at him. Kalxin glared at Eight as Eight glared over at Seven. He sighed as he watched the three's evidence of a future quarrel. "And no quarreling, is that clear, you simpletons?"

"Yes, sir," they called as they teleported out.

He sighed as he looked into the bottomless pit in the throne room.

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The Land of the Dragons

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"Nothing of the sort here," Kairi said as she stretched towards the sky, happily reunited with her original clothes. The others seemed happy as well that they had their original clothes as well. The outfits they wore earlier were getting rather held the last few days and they were sort of excited for the next adventure in another world.

"She's right," Reno said as he pressed on a button on his walkie talkie. Mulan blinked as she looked curious at her own.

"It chokes me," she said as she looked at Kairi.

"It's supposed to keep the ear piece in place, further," Kairi said. "Good thing Rufus had this or we would've been able to split up and narrow our places down.

"That's for certain," Reno said as he looked over at Kairi. "Though I feel bad for Rude and Mickey, they have to deal with Rufus."

"I wouldn't know very much about Rufus but well, he's different," Kairi agreed.

"Can I join the search as well?" asked a voice as Kairi, Reno and Mulan turned to see a cloaked figure standing there. A gloved hand went to the hood to reveal the identity of the cloaked figure.

"Another one of the new Organization XIII," Kairi said.

"Who are you?" Reno shouted towards the male figure as the hood came off.

It revealed a man with dark blue hair and golden eyes smirking at the three as he snapped his hands to summon Nobodies around him. He smirked as he looked at the three.

"The new Number Eight," was all he said. He smirked.

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To Be Continued

Disclaimer: I do not own FF/KH. I do own Makoto though.

Note: I rushed yes. Bad little me. Sorry I took so long. xD Kill me if you have to or kidnap me and place me in a room where the only job I have in there is to type up stories. xD;;;

I love you all.

The hits reached above 300 and I'm so happy! I'm still giggling over what the community this fanfiction has been submitted for is called. I am overall happy that this fanfiction is getting "wows" and "oooo"'s from people who have never got the idea of Reno and Kairi together. Truthfully, I thought about it a tiny bit when I thought about Axel's Somebody being Reno most likely and having that I like Namine and Axel as a couple so much. But, what really got me thinking about the couplings are those wise-guys on DA. You know who you are and I blame you for getting me into KaiReno.

Reno: But you know you love it! xD

Me: Yes, that I do…. n-n

Reno: Hehe.

I love you all. See you next chapter. And I am so happy that Sephiroth has not killed me yet from making him sing "Coconuts" from the Monty Python… Oh well, I wouldn't mind getting pen--stabbed in the stomach by his sword… it is such love…. xD;;; sorry, TOTALLY didn't mean for it to come out the way it did… but I'm a weird Sephiroth closet fangirl. Yay, Masamune!!!