Chapter 36 – Kingdom Hearts
Xehanort stood before the door to Kingdom Hearts, his Seekers by his side once more and their weapons drawn. They blocked the realm inside, unable to access it themselves and refusing anyone else entry.
And that included Sora, even though it was his rightful domain. He sighed. Even in defeat Xehanort was stubborn to the end. Maybe Xehanort expected him to attack first, but he had other plans.
Roxas, Xion, Kairi, Riku, Ven. Get ready.
They understood. This wasn't a fight, this was a rescue. Ven couldn't stop the smile from tugging at his mouth, and Roxas and Xion were both poised to run.
Terra, Aqua, Master Eraqus, protect them. Mickey, Donald, Goofy, distract Xehanort however you can.
Sora reached out and touched Naminé's shoulder. A burst of power came from his hand and sent a shockwave across the World. Her eyes went wide as light coursed through her body.
"Sora—"
"Set them free, Naminé!"
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. A blinding light erupted from deep within her, sending Xehanort and his Seekers into a confusion. The light crashed into them in wave after wave, and then there was a loud sound, as if hundreds of chains were being broken all at once. Xehanort screamed as all the hearts he held captive were set free.
Sora looked at her and grinned. What she'd just done had made him more powerful, if that was even possible. Sure seemed like the more he shared his power, the more powerful he became.
When the light had faded, Xehanort was looking at his Seekers in horror. Probably because they were no longer his. Ven had taken Vanitas by the hand and was half leading, half dragging him over to Terra and Aqua and Master Eraqus. Vanitas's eyes were no longer yellow, either. They were red, like the eyes of the Unversed. The eyes Vanitas would have had all along if he hadn't been corrupted by Xehanort since his creation.
Riku and Naminé brought the Riku Replica over to Sora, and he couldn't quite look Sora in the eye.
"Sora, I—"
Sora just shook his head. "I don't blame you for what happened. Your whole life you've been toyed with and manipulated. But not anymore. You're free to live for you now."
He smiled, and the Riku Replica smiled back. Then he left him to talk to Riku and Naminé and Sora searched for Roxas and Xion. They were nearby with their arms around Lea, and Kairi was crouched in front of him.
"Lea, we're here," she said, reaching up and touching his face. Light emanated off her hand, and his eyes opened. They were no longer yellow. They were their rightful green again.
"Kairi," he said softly, smiling as himself for the first time in ages. Then he noticed the two hanging onto his back. "Looks like you guys came for me this time," he said, his voice breaking. He swooped them up into his arms and there was a lot of laughing and crying as the hurt in their hearts was finally healed.
Isa was nearby, too. He stirred, and when his eyes opened, they were green, too. Lea excused himself and went over to him, offering his hand.
"Together," he simply said, and Isa took it. He led him back to Sora with Kairi and Xion and Roxas close behind.
He coughed and cleared his throat. "Sora, I know Isa hasn't exactly—"
"I haven't forgotten what you did," Sora said, addressing Isa directly. To his credit, Isa looked him in the eye, the guilt and shame over his behavior reflected in his face. It was a far cry from how he'd been as a Nobody and then possessed by Xehanort. "But I'm not really the one you should be apologizing to."
Yeah, Isa had humiliated him before, but what really needed to be made right was his kidnapping of Kairi and his treatment of Roxas and Xion.
"Those apologies can come later though," Sora said, glancing at Xehanort and the murderous look in his eyes.
The only reason he wasn't attacking was because of the barriers Terra, Aqua, and Master Eraqus had made to protect everyone. Either that or he was coming up with another scheme.
Enough of that. "Right now, we have a fight to win," Sora said to Isa. "Are you with us?"
"Yes."
"Then that's good enough for now."
"What have you done?" Xehanort cried, seething anger and rage. Sora could read his thoughts now. No, it can't be! How dare they take my Seekers away from me? It's not fair!
"If any of the rest of you leave, I will kill you," he spat, and Even stopped moving.
"No," Sora commanded. Another blast of power came out of him. It hit Xehanort and froze him. He struggled against the magic Sora had used, but it was pointless. "You've messed with their lives long enough. Let them choose."
Xehanort could only watch, helpless, as Even abandoned him, too, and Sora sent him back to Radiant Garden. The people there could best decide what to do about him and his experiments. But Dilan, Lourd, Braig, Xemnas, Ansem, and No Heart remained steadfast and stayed by their master's side.
If they refused help, then there was nothing to be done. Sora lifted his Keyblade, and—
Young Xehanort took a step towards him. Too bad Xehanort wasn't about to have that.
"It's not over yet!" he cried. He wrenched himself free of Sora's magic and grabbed first Young Xehanort and then No Heart. Sora watched in disgust as they melded together and created a monster, its face shifting between Xehanort's different ages, its body swelling up to three times its normal size. It had too many arms and in each one it wielded a Keyblade.
"Get ready to fight, everyone!" Sora called, readying his Keyblade.
But the monster wasn't done yet. It swallowed up Xemnas and Ansem next. Ansem's Guardian appeared behind it, and even it looked more hideous than normal, its body oozing darkness and a putrid smell radiating off it. Sora gagged and covered his mouth. The monster wielded Xemnas's Ethereal Blades now in its extra arms, pink lightning flickering off of the weapons.
Not even Braig and Lourd and Dilan were safe. Xehanort swallowed them up and added their powers and weapons to his arsenal. He scuttled towards the door, his body oozing darkness and staining the ground beneath him black. The places the darkness touched the ground smoked, and Sora knew better than to step on those areas.
What Xehanort had become was many times his normal size and a lot more powerful, but that didn't matter. Sora would stop him.
"Together, everyone!"
He cast them all into a new realm, a realm where Xehanort couldn't threaten the safety of Kingdom Hearts or corrupt any of the hearts inside. The ground here was perfectly flat and the place was filled with a bright light, just the kind Xehanort hated. There could be no hiding, and Sora boosted his friends' movement abilities so they could fly and run faster than they ever had before. And if Xehanort even thought about trying to escape, it was impossible. The area was surrounded by golden chains that kept them all inside.
They began the attack. They wailed on the Xehanort monster, their weapons striking him over and over again. Even if he ran away from one of them, someone else was there waiting for him.
He shot some of that poisonous-looking black goop at Mickey and Xion, but they dodged it easily. The goop landed on the ground and started smoking, but the light banished it in a puff of smoke.
When he tried to shoot Lea and Isa with Braig's arrow guns, they flew out of the way, readied their weapons, and crashed back to the ground with a powerful joint strike. Riku and his Replica went after the monster and its many limbs in bounding leaps, their darkness counteracting it, and Kairi and Naminé joined together to blast one of its faces with light.
"Donald, Goofy!" Sora cried, and together they joined hands and prepared a Trinity Limit that blasted light at the monster. It shrieked and screeched, its voice inhuman, and Sora resisted the urge to cover his ears because Ansem's Guardian was trying to grab him.
So this is what you've reduced yourself to, he thought, rolling out of the way, and he couldn't help but feel a twinge of pity. Even after all this Xehanort still didn't understand.
Terra, Aqua, Ven, Eraqus, and Vanitas all worked together and trapped the Xehanort monster with Eraqus's trademark golden chains. The others continued striking it as it tried to retaliate with Lourd's cards. Roxas summoned his Nobodies, and they lunged in front of them all, disappearing inside the cards as they were sent to the shadowy realms contained within them.
Sora called to Riku and Kairi. "Together!" he shouted, and they prepared their special Yin Yang attack, Kairi the light, Riku the darkness, and Sora the balance of the two. Light shot out of Kairi's Keyblade and darkness from Riku's. Sora absorbed the energy and channeled it into himself, combining the light and darkness together and amplifying it, then pointed his Keyblade at the monster. It screamed and roared and tried to guard itself with Xemnas's translucent barriers, but it couldn't do anything to stop the onslaught.
One last attack should do it. Sora joined hands with Kairi and Riku, and they in turn joined hands with Mickey and Aqua, and one by one everyone linked up till they were all connected in a great circle around Xehanort. First their eyes all glowed as he boosted their power to the limit, then their hands where they were joined together, and finally their whole bodies and faces lit up.
"Now!" Sora called. Together they unleashed an attack the likes of which the World had never seen before and would probably never see again. Light exploded forth from deep within them, joining together and blasting Xehanort so completely that it shattered the chains surrounding this realm.
The Xehanort monster was finished, through. It fell to pieces, the people trapped inside released in a pile of sticky black goo. This realm was done, too, its purpose complete, and Sora returned them all to the area in front of the door once more.
Kairi didn't waste any time. Her Keyblade soon found Xehanort's face, and she stared down at him, her lip curling at the pathetic state he'd been reduced to.
"You," she said, glaring.
But instead of showing any kind of fear or remorse, he smiled. "I killed your precious Sora," he taunted, wiping darkness from his mouth as he struggled to his feet. "I have his blood on my hands."
As if to prove it to her, he showed his white gloves stained dark red to her. Her eyes narrowed and her nostrils flared. Her grip on her Keyblade tightened, and her hand shook as her heart was torn between—
"Enough!" Sora shouted, jumping between them. He wouldn't let Xehanort throw his death in her face. He wouldn't let Xehanort goad her into giving into her darker impulses. He'd only put up with Xehanort for this long out of the hope that the people he'd taken captive might be saved. But the sad truth was, they didn't want to be saved. They'd proven that by staying by Xehanort's side, even after Sora had given them the chance to be free.
All except for one of them. Young Xehanort groaned and raised himself to a sitting position nearby. "End me," he said. "If you kill me before I return to my time, you'll stop all of this from ever happening. I'll never become the monster before you now. You'll never have to die. I'll never ruin the lives of your friends."
Sora stared down at him, the Kingdom Key slowly lowering to his side. "I – I could. I could do it."
He could see it now, a reality without Xehanort, a place where his friends were happy, a World without their tears. The power within him stirred, waiting to be commanded into action.
"I could stop all of this from ever happening." All the pain, all the hurt, all the heartbreak. He turned to his friends, his precious, beloved friends. He lived for them. He'd died for them. And now he could rewrite reality for them.
"I could destroy them all – everyone who's ever hurt you, everyone who ever will hurt you. I could take all of your pain away like it never even happened."
His gaze found Kairi, and he heard echoes from that awful lab. "I could – I could make it so that no one could ever hurt you ever again. I could hurt everyone who's ever hurt you."
He could make them scream instead. That was what they deserved, for hurting his precious Kairi. She'd suffered long enough. Now it was their turn to suffer instead. Every scream, every tear, every drop of blood – it had all been carved into his heart and engraved in his memory. He'd seen it all and he would inflict it all on Xehanort and everyone else who had ever hurt her. It was the least he could do after all the times he'd let her down and broken his promises.
But the way she was looking at him right now was the same way she had right before he'd choked her. And the darkness inside him was roiling, his dark form screaming to come out and make them all pay.
No. Not like this. Never like this.
He sighed, his shoulders slouching and the darkness returning to normal levels within him. The black smoke oozing off him dissipated, and out of the corner of his eye he saw Kairi relax.
"But I can't. I can't do that. If I did, I would be no different from Xehanort." He looked at his friends again. "I am who I am because of you. Xehanort may be the reason we met. He might even be the reason some of us exist at all. But I wouldn't change any of it. All the suffering, all the pain – it was worth it, if it means you're a part of my life."
He took a deep breath. "I hope you understand, why I can't take your hurt away. If I do, I'll erase the memories. It'll make light of what you've been through. We are who we are because of it. Take that away, and what's left? Are we really even the same people anymore?"
"It's okay, Sora," Riku said, putting a hand on his shoulder. "We understand."
"I can't erase the hurt," Sora said softly, "but I can be with you. And I can make things right."
And right now, that meant he had to deal with Xehanort. He turned to Young Xehanort now. "I can't punish you for crimes you haven't committed yet, but… I can send you back to your time with the knowledge you have now. If you want to, you can—"
"You have no idea how cruel you are," Young Xehanort said, his eyes flashing. "I am doomed to this future no matter what, and you would have me go back to the past, knowing what I will become?"
"The choice is yours," Sora said.
He glanced at Master Eraqus, who just looked at him sadly.
"Make me forget," he said. "Let me have at least a few years of happiness."
Sora did as he requested, and he disappeared. No Heart and Xemnas and Ansem were likewise returned to their own times, and Sora sent Lourd and Braig and Dilan to a place where they would be secure until he could decide on what to do with them.
Xehanort was the only one that remained. He turned and addressed Master Eraqus. "Eraqus, you know the prophecy. I was set on this path because of fate. I had no other choice."
Master Eraqus shook his head. "You're wrong. You did have a choice. You chose to steal Terra's body. You chose to sunder Ventus's heart in two. You chose to send your minions after Aqua again and again and again."
"I had to make the prophecy come true. I had to—"
Master Eraqus regarded him with a furious glare. "Terra and Ventus are my sons, and Aqua is my daughter, Xehanort. How dare you meddle with their lives as if they were pieces in a game."
Xehanort paused. When he looked at Master Eraqus again, it was with something like regret. "Do all of our years of friendship mean nothing to you?"
"They meant the world to me," Master Eraqus replied, and there was real pain in his voice. "You were the one they meant nothing to."
Enough of this. Sora stepped in before Xehanort could try to manipulate anyone else.
"Xehanort, you refuse to leave my friends alone," he said. "You've chosen the path of destruction and continue to leave nothing but pain and suffering in your wake. We have no choice but to cast you out. Return to Kingdom Hearts!"
A steady stream of light came from their weapons and hit him from all sides. The door opened wider. It pulled him to it. And it was in that moment that Xehanort realized the one thing he thought he wanted more than anything was, in fact, what he didn't want at all.
His screams were drowned out by the closing of the door. It was over. It was finally over.
But not for Sora. He lifted his Keyblade. The time of destruction and hurt was over, and the time of restoration and healing had come.
He knew what he had to do. Kairi's words echoed through his mind, about how he was with her somehow through her experimentation. At the time he'd thought it was mysterious, strange, but not anymore.
Because now he could make it a reality. His heart was strong enough to bear her suffering without it breaking him. And not just hers. He would do it for all of them. He wouldn't abandon them in their hour of need. If there was one thing he'd learned after all this time, it was that the best comfort in the midst of suffering and despair was the presence of a friend.
Time and space weren't really an issue anymore. He could travel freely throughout them like he was taking the Gummi Ship for a spin to a new world. He could spend an eternity in the past and return like only a moment had passed in the present. And that meant he could find his friends and be with them like he'd promised.
He found Riku's guilt and self-loathing and let himself succumb to it. He found Master Eraqus and took on his regret and suffered the wound of Xehanort's betrayal. He felt himself split in two along with Vanitas and let his heart leak out through the Unversed. He went through Isa and Lea's experimentation and bore their loss. He was taken hostage along with the Riku Replica and forced into a new body.
He found Aqua in the darkness and gave his heart over to her despair. He found Ven's heart and let his be shattered along with it. He found Terra's rage and let it consume him, let Terra's violation at Xehanort's hands violate him.
He found Naminé and let the Organization abuse him along with her, let her loneliness make him feel alone, abandoned. He found Xion's anguish and let it drown him. He found Roxas and let his heart be broken by his loss. He remained as all the lying voices assaulted him, telling him and Roxas and Xion and Naminé they didn't deserve to exist.
On his own he never could have done it. But he wasn't alone. And even though his heart was breaking, it wasn't completely broken. The strength from his friends sustained him, and the courage welling up deep inside him kept him going. His friends might not know he was there with them, but they would understand someday, and that thought drove him forward through all their tears and all their pain till at last he found Kairi.
He offered his heart to suffer along with her, starting with the most recent hurt and working all the way backwards till at last he reached the tank. But unlike the others, she knew. She knew he was there. The moment she looked at him, it was like time had frozen and they were in another place entirely. His heart was scattered all over the floor in a million pieces, but she was picking them back up and handing them to him, one by one.
He took them from her tiny fingers. Just who's comforting who here? he wondered.
"Why are you sad?" she asked, sniffing and wiping her nose. She found another piece of his heart and made a small fist around it. Light shone off of it for a moment before she handed it back to him.
"Because you're sad," he said as he took it from her and returned it to his chest. "When you hurt, I hurt."
"Why?" she asked, her eyes filled with concern. "I don't want to hurt you."
He shook his head. "You're not hurting me. When that man put you in the tank, he hurt you. That's what's hurting me."
Kairi frowned, her face scrunching up. "I don't want you to hurt because of me."
Sora's heart broke a little more at her words. Even at this age she was completely focused on other people and not on her own pain.
"I can't help it," he said, his voice breaking. How was he supposed to explain in a way she would understand?
Kairi looked up at him. "Don't cry." She tottered to her feet and threw her arms around him. Or at least tried to. She was so small they barely reached around his sides. That just made him cry harder.
"Kairi," he sobbed, gathering her in his arms and bringing her close. "I'm here," he said over and over again, hoping she would understand. That was all he could offer, and he hoped it would be enough. Only the thought of her present self was stopping him from erasing Xehanort from ever existing right then and there.
She looked up at him again, taking a moment to wipe the tears away from his face. Then he watched as she called the light forth from deep within her, and they were back in that tank and she was blasting all the Heartless away with the same light she was using to heal his heart.
Sora understood why Aqua's enchantment had brought her to his younger self on Destiny Islands after Radiant Garden fell. Because her heart remembered. Her heart knew. As the years passed, her mind might have forgotten, but her heart never had.
The light deep within her, the light of a Princess of Heart, couldn't help but be drawn to his light, the light of the true ruler of Kingdom Hearts. Maybe it was fate, maybe it was destiny, but to Sora it felt like something else entirely. And that something was what drove him to return to her and the rest of his friends.
Only a few moments had passed since he'd left. His heart was even stronger than before and his bonds to his friends tighter and closer. He knew their pain and he'd experienced their suffering, and that meant they could be a part of his joy now.
They knew, too. They knew what it was he'd just done for them, and they stared at him in a mixture of awe and wonder.
"See? You weren't alone," he said, wiping his eyes and smiling. "You were never alone."
They drowned him in a flood of gratitude and affection after that. It poured inside him and healed all the places their hurt had broken him. They knew how to mend it, and he knew how to heal them. The memories would remain, and so would the scars, but they were like badges of honor now, the signs of their victory.
He wanted to celebrate that victory, but he still had other things he had to do first. He'd comforted his friends, but now it was time to heal the worlds. He called on all the hearts connected to his, on every heart in existence. This was what he wanted, and this was what they wanted. He drew from their power and took a deep breath.
"Provide my friends with safety and happiness. Heal their hurt and dry their tears. Give back the years that were lost."
The whole World shook, as if it were about to break apart, and his friends gave him nervous looks. But they were in his care, and he wouldn't let anyone lay so much as a finger on a single one of them. He sent them to another realm where they would be safe for now.
"Bring an end to the suffering and chaos Xehanort has brought."
The earth split open, and there were loud rumblings in the sky. Not too much of a surprise, considering all the stuff he was fixing right now.
"Balance the light and darkness. Let peace come. Turn the Heartless and Nobodies human again."
This was going to take extra effort. He braced himself and plunged into the darkness far beneath him. He landed and found the Heartless and Nobodies in the shadows, but they cowered from him and refused to come close.
It was the light inside him. They were afraid of it, afraid of him. Afraid he was going to use his Keyblade on them like he always had.
But there was no need. He could restore them without fighting them now. He turned into his own Heartless form and crouched low to the ground instead.
See? If I can become human again, so can you.
He wasn't just ruling over humanity, after all. He was ruler of everyone, people and Heartless and Nobodies alike. He hadn't forgotten them. He hadn't forgotten what it was like to be a Heartless. He hadn't forgotten Roxas's suffering, either. And he wasn't going to let people be torn apart like that anymore. The Keyblade could be used for other purposes again.
Slowly, carefully, a small Shadow dared to come near. He reached out and touched it, and it jumped back a bit before scooting closer again. He caressed its face, and it closed its big yellow eyes and leaned into his touch.
No one's touched you since you became a Heartless, have they?
Kairi's magic always worked when she hugged his Heartless form. And sure enough, touch was the way to make these Heartless and Nobodies human again, too. That Shadow and a nearby Dusk combined and transformed into a young girl wearing tattered clothes, and she stared up at him in wonder.
The other Heartless and Nobodies didn't waste any time. They practically dogpiled him for the chance to become human again, tugging at his clothes as he restored them all, one by one. There were so many of them, people from all different worlds and ages and backgrounds. When the last one was finally human again, he turned himself human again, too.
They said his name. They knew his name. And he knew them, too. He knew their names and homes and families. He knew what worlds they were from and how they'd become Heartless and Nobodies.
And now they needed a way home.
"Restore the world order, and create pathways between the worlds," he commanded and sent them all on their way.
It would be absolute chaos to keep all the worlds as one World. He knew splitting them up again was better. But that didn't mean they couldn't be connected. They'd be like separate kingdoms, still independent and self-governing but able to communicate with the other worlds if they'd like.
Yeah, that was going to take a lot of coordination, and his head hurt thinking about all the boring government stuff he was going to have to do to set it up, but it would be worth it. He could see his friends again anytime, and they could come visit him, too.
Well, might as well get things started. "To my friends from all the worlds I've been to and to the leaders of those I haven't visited, come meet me at my castle. We have a new world order to create."
Their lights flickered brilliantly and shot on up ahead of him. The door to Kingdom Hearts had opened once more, and light was bathing everything in its warm glow. It was time. Sora smiled and went through it. He flew through the brilliant sky and landed in the throne room of his giant floating castle.
Not that he was bragging or anything, but it looked pretty awesome. And his friends from the worlds were here – Aladdin and Jasmine, Jack and Sally and the Mayor, Rapunzel and Eugene, Anna and Elsa, Hiro and Baymax and the rest of the team, Buzz and Woody, Alice, Belle and Adam, Meg and Hercules, Merlin and the rest of the Restoration Committee, Tron, Tarzan and Jane, Mickey and Minnie, Master Yen Sid, Ariel and Eric, Peter Pan and Wendy, Cinderella and Prince Charming, Aurora and Phillip, Jack and Will and Elizabeth, Mulan and Shang, Simba and Nala, Ansem the Wise, Master Eraqus, Kairi's adopted parents – and the leaders from other worlds he hadn't been to yet. He recognized Kida and Milo as well as King Richard and Robin Hood and Maid Marian from what Riku and Kairi had told him. And the big guy with the little girl must be Ralph and Vanellope.
After spending time greeting everyone (which mainly involved getting attacked with so many hugs his heart felt like bursting), he looked towards his throne. His friends fell silent and stepped aside. He climbed the steps leading up to it, thinking about the last throne he'd sat on. Well, more like been forced to sit on. This one was completely different. The red velvet cushion looked really comfortable, and the seat back was twisted into a nice heart shape with a crown on top that matched the one on his necklace.
It was literally made for him.
He sat down and took a moment to take it all in. Looking at the faces of his friends, looking out at his kingdom – it finally sunk in.
I really am king.
He took a deep breath. He wanted to live up to the title. He wanted to prove himself worthy of the power Kingdom Hearts had entrusted him with.
"We've got a lot of work to get done," he said. "I've got power over time, so we can spend months here if we need to. Only moments will pass by for other parts of the universe, and we won't age at all. You'll be back home before you know it."
He paused and took in their reactions. Everyone seemed okay with that, so he continued. "Help me make a reality where we can live together in peace and harmony. Help me set up a system that will allow us to travel to each other's worlds freely. And help me connect our worlds together in a way that honors each one's independence."
His requests were met with thunderous applause and cheering. As he smiled back at his friends, he couldn't help but think of his secret request, the last criterion he had in mind but didn't say out loud. It was what drove him forward, the one thing he wanted for himself. He had a lot of work to do to make it happen, but he wouldn't rest until he was finished.
He'd made a promise, after all, and he fully intended on keeping it.
A/N: I like the idea that although Kairi's heart is made of pure light, she still has to face the same fears and deals with the same weaknesses and temptations that everyone else does, so I wanted to include that in this story.
And on that note, if Sora were ever tempted to become evil, it would absolutely be because he wants to help his friends. He loves them and really would do anything for them, and that struggle between wanting to help them and wanting to do the right (or wise) thing would really get to him, I think. It's part of the reason why I'm so excited to see how he handles the temptation to bring Roxas back by giving into the darkness, and it's also why I had him grapple with a similar temptation in this chapter.
As for his decision to keep the worlds separate but connected as opposed to all one World - the practical side of my brain kicked in and was like "yeah no keeping it all one World would be absolute chaos, the power struggles and fighting over resources and differing levels of technology would be a recipe for disaster so, uh, let's not do that." The other side of my brain though was like "it would be cool to shake things up though and have the worlds return to how they were in the Age of Fairytales" so this was my compromise, the worlds are back to being independent but travel between them will be easier. And everyone knows other worlds exist now thanks to Xehanort, because otherwise Sora would have to perform massive memory wipes on everyone basically and that does not strike me as the type of thing he would do or be comfortable with (knowing how he felt about forgetting Kairi during COM and all...)
Anyway, thank you for the lovely reviews as always, and thank you for reading! Have a good week!