A Journey To Find Myself

Chapter 14

Throwing Away the Past: Kairi & Sora

Kairi held her head, as Sora and herself walked in the direction of the iron smell. Sora was awfully quiet, which had Kairi a little worried yet relieved because even hearing herself think caused her a headache.

Without warning, a breeze picked up. It caused Kairi's hair to fly everywhere, and her hair to fall out of its pony tail; and Sora's chain from around his neck flew off.

Kairi's hair band fell in Sora's hands, while Sora's chain fell into Kairi's hands. Kairi examined the chain carefully.

"You kept it…" Kairi whispered. Sora looked to her quizzically.

"What?" Sora asked. Kairi looked Sora in the eye.

"This chain; I gave it to you on your twelfth birthday…"

Sora nodded.

"Of course I kept it, why wouldn't I? It was a wonderful gift."

A single tear fell down Kairi's face, and she smiled, which he returned gratefully. Kairi walked up close to Sora and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Thank you." She whispered.

Sora smiled harder and wrapped his arms around Kairi's waist.

After a few minutes, Sora decided to ask:

"What's with the hair band?"

Kairi smiled and backed away politely from Sora, and grasped his hand which held her hair band. She picked it up from the palm of his hands and threw it to the ground, remembering all the reasons why she wore it.

"He's gone; there's no point."

"I don't CARE how good I look! This is how I looked then and how I will look forever more!"

"Nothing… Nothing at all…"

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"Sora… Can I ask you a question?" Kairi asked. They had been walking for hours and the smell on the air began to get a little bit stronger.

"Yeah, sure Kairi." Sora said and smiled goofily at her.

"I'm still not sure…" she hesitated, "why you're here. I mean, aren't you supposed to be… Dead?"

Kairi was preparing herself for Sora to begin to get angry, but instead he looked calm.

"I should be yes. After my parent's accident, I woke up in the car, my parents dead. I ran away, not knowing what else to really do." Sora started, and took a deep breath. "What I didn't realize was, I was being followed. Men and creatures alike were after me. That was when I met Cloud, Aeirth and Yuffie."

"You mean Mr. Strife, Ms. Gainsborough and Ms. Kisagari?"

"Yes. Them. They hid me, and on the day of the invasion, I was forced out of hiding and came to the school, knowing they were there. That was when I walked in on your little fainting scene."

"Oh." Kairi said, everything coming together. "Why didn't you ever come sooner? Why not hide at the school?"

"Because I didn't want to put the whole school in danger." Sora said.

"Oh… Sor-" Kairi started but Sora silenced her.

"What is it?" Kairi asked. Sora simply pointed forward.

There, in front of them, were huge, black double gates, leading to an enormous castle.