Kingdom Hearts

"Sora." a voice called softly. The boy in question hummed sleepily before drifting back to sleep. He stirred slightly when a hand caressed his hair. "Sooora, time to get up."

"Hrmm..."

"He's not going to wake up this way you know." another voice stated with amusement.

"He could, you never know Riku." the first muttered.

"I will eat some of Kairi's horrible cooking if he does wake up this way." Riku deadpanned.

"Sora, if you don't get up then I won't be accountable for what I will do to you." the voice warned, only to be ignored by the boy. A sigh,"Well, alright then."

Next he knew, Sora was flying through the air, and landed in cold water. The shock of it startled him awake, making him flail slightly before swimming to the surface. "WHAT THE HELL!?" Sora yelled as he took a deep breath. He wiped the water from his face and turned to look at the island with a frown, where two older boy's were laughing.

The boy on the right had chin-length silver hair, turquoise eyes, light skin, and a fit frame. He wore a yellow sleeveless shirt, dark blue pants with fisher pants over them, black gloves, and blue shoes. He was currently laughing up a storm, holding onto his knees to keep up right, a tear trailing down his cheek. The other was a few inches taller then the silverett, he had short wild dark dirty blonde hair, blue eye's a shade lighter then his own, tanned skin, fit, light freckles, and a scar across the bridge of his nose. He wore a black wife-beater tank, grey shorts with white highlights, thick fingerless gloves that reached his bicep, sandals, and goggles perched on his head. He was smiling mischievously at Sora while patting the others back.

Sora whined as he swam back to shore, "Umi, Riku, thats not funny!" he pouted.

"I beg to differ!" Riku chortled.

"You should have woken up when I told you to, little brother." Umi quipped as Sora trudged out of the water. He was met with Sora flinging water onto him in retaliation, making Umi chuckle. "Come now Sora, that raft isn't going to build itself." he stated, amusement clear in his eyes. Sora had seen it in his elder brothers eye's every time the raft was mentioned, like he knew something that he, Riku, and Kairi did not.

Sora had always thought his elder brother was strange, he would see him get wistful at night, seeing Umi stare at the stars in longing. He would do things that he didn't understand, like when they were little and Sora swore he saw a shadow moving with big yellow eyes, and when he told Umi the other had gotten a strange smile. His brother had reassured him it was nothing, that he would go over there and come back fine, proving that it was Sora's imagination. He remembered a flash of light, hearing something exploding, black smoke, before his brother came back with not a scratch on his person.

"Alright, well, what do we have to do today?" Sora questioned as they made their way further into the island. They met up with Kairi, who was organizing their supply's, and split up to gather the things needed for today's quota.

It was while Sora was gathering coconut's that he happened to look down at the beach, what he saw was his shirtless elder brother trudging out of the water with some fish in hand. Sora had felt his face heat up, and he just could not look away. He was only brought out of it when Riku walked up to

Umi and gave the other a quick kiss. Sora quickly turned back to gathering the coconut's, shaking his head from those thoughts. It was a recent development, these thoughts he had of his brother. He found himself wanting to keep other people away from him, not liking that Umi was giving his attention to others. There was a time he had to hold himself back from the sudden urge to punch Riku for kissing the other, even though he knew they were dating and it was perfectly ok to kiss.

What a headache.

Maybe this was what Kairi meant when she said I had a brother complex? He mused as he made his way through the shack. Then again, he really didn't know what to think about Kairi, she was cool and all, one of his best friends, but he wasn't really sure he could take advice from a girl that got this creepy look when his brother and Riku kissed around her.

Along with the giggle...

And the blush...

And the pictures...

What was it Umi called her? He remembered his brother had taken one look at that face and shuddered, Muttering 'Fangirl' under his breath and tried not to be too affectionate with Riku when around her.

Kairi seemed to have taken that as a challenge, somehow, and started popping up just as things got heated between the two.

Sora thought it was hilarious.

"Oh, did you get the coconuts Sora?" Kairi questioned as Sora arrived. She looked them over when he set them in the supply box, nodding in approval when she shook them. "You got some good ones!" she then looked over his shoulder and smile, "Umi, Riku, are you guy's done?" she called out.

Sora looked behind him, his eye's landing on Umi's arm around Riku's waist, before looking at the amount of fish his brother got. Riku was carrying a fair amount of water along with some cloth. "Yeah, we're done." Umi stated as he put the fish in the cooler, moving some ice on top of them.

"I found this in one of the upper tree-house's we don't really use anymore." Riku said as he handed the water to Umi, and spread out the sheet. He held it up to the other two, poking his head out from the side, "So? Think It'll work?"

"Good find, right?" Umi agreed.

Sora looked over it, tapping his chin in thought as Kairi tilted her head to the side. Then both grinned. "Perfect!" They said.

"You know, honestly speaking," Umi piped up as Kairi took the sheet. "We probably should have gotten the sail first."

"Yeah, it's a pretty vital part, and we would have been screwed if we couldn't find any when we were almost done." Riku agreed as he and Umi sat down and watched Sora and Kairi attach the sail.

"Imagine if you forgot the rudder." Umi chuckled.

"Right? I'd be pretty stupid to forget that!" Riku agreed.

"Hahaha!"

"Hahahahaha..."

"Hahaha...?"

"Haha...haaaa..."

"...aaaah...?"

"...ah."

It went silent, making the dirty blonde look over at his boyfriend and deadpan at the wide eye's Riku was currently making, facing forward and refusing to look at Umi's face.

He was also sweating...

"...Goddammit Riku. Are you fucking serious right now?"

"I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING!" Riku shouted as he rushed over to the building materials.

"HOW DID YOU EXPECT US TO STEER THIS THING WITHOUT A RUDDER?!"

"SHUT THE HELL UP! MAYBE IF YOU DIDN'T DISTRACT ME, THEN I WOULDN'T HAVE!"

"YOU WERE TOTALLY INTO IT!"

"AAAAH~! WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Kairi exclaimed, catching on about what happened. She excitedly got her notepad out, eagerly waiting for details.

"GODDAMMIT KAIRI, WOULD YOU STOP USING US FOR FANFICTION MATERIAL?!" Umi yelled, disturbed by the redheads flushed cheek's and gleam in her eye's.

Kairi looked appalled by the idea. "NEVER! YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY MY RIGHTS LIKE THAT! FREEDOM OF PRESS!"

"LOUD NOISES!" Sora yelled.

"I CAN AND WILL IF YOU'RE INVADING OUR PRIVA- wait, what the fuck do you mean freedom of press?" Umi started, only to notice what she had said had nothing to do with this.

….unless...

Riku paused, face flaming red as he whipped around and stared at Kairi in shocked dread. "You didn't." he whispered in horror.

Umi stared blankly at his friend, praying she didn't. "Kairi..."

Said girl blinked innocently at him. "Yeeees~?"

"...You...didn't publish any of your writings...right?"

The catty smirk she sent the two lover's told them everything.

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"You sold smut about my brother and Riku." Sora stated dryly. He honestly didn't know why they were so shocked about this. He then turned to the two frozen teen's, a brow quirked. "Huh, so that's why all those girls have been looking at you two."

"What?" The two questioned. What girls?

Kairi looked far too smug in their opinion.

"Umi."

Said teen turned, catching what was thrown at him by Riku. He looked down and saw a paopu fruit. A smile worked it's way onto his face, knowing the story of it and seeing that Riku had already bitten into it. He looked at him, "Oya? Are you sure about this? Because this means we'll be stuck with one another." he teased.

Riku blushed, scratching his cheek as he shrugged. "Well, it looks like I'll just have to suffer huh?" he grinned.

Umi snorted, "I might as well propose while I'm at it." he then took a bite out of the fruit, humming at the sweet taste.

Riku strolled up to Umi, twining their hands together as they started to walk towards their boats. Sora could be seen talking with Kairi, both readying to leave as the sun set, and made the teens pause in thought. "...Remember when we first met?"

Umi chuckled, eating the rest of the fruit. "Yeah. I fucking hated you."

"Hated you too." Riku snorted.

"How could you hate me? I'm fucking adorable!"

"You glared at me any time I went near you!"

"That's because you were a smug little shit and wouldn't stop correcting Sora. You also called me a liar and tried to correct me. It was only when Kairi and my mom confirmed we weren't from this world that you believed us."

"I was eight!" Riku laughed, "And besides, you were new. I didn't know you, and yet you were my best friend's new overprotective brother."

"You kept trying to show off when I was around. It was soooo fucking annoying."

"I was trying to impress you!"

"By being a little shit?"

"NO! I-...I had read a book on how girls found...people like that attractive. And when I asked about how to get someone to notice you, my mom commented on how tugging someones hair is usually how kids show their affection!" He explained, face flushing in embarrassment.

"...I thought you had a crush on Sora." Umi said dryly.

Riku huffed, cheeks reddening. "...Ok...so I may have gone the wrong way if you got that impression." He admitted, "But I was trying to get you to look at me, not Sora. I was already friends with him, and he's like a brother...sooo..."

Umi's brows lifted in surprise. Then his eye's gleamed as he smiled, "Are you telling me that you've liked me since we've first met?"

Riku had nodded, "It was love at first sight."

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Umi roared with laughter.

"SHUT UP!" Riku squeaked. "I-IT'S NOT FUNNY UMI!"

"Sorry, sorry, sorry~!" Umi huffed, suppressing his laughter. He cooed as Riku grumbled and crossed his arms. Chuckling, Umi went over and wrapped Riku in a hug, "Awwww Riku, I'm sorry. But it's just soooo cute of you~!"

"I'm not cute." Riku mumbled.

Umi was laying in his bed, flipping through a manga about a monster child becoming god, when he heard thunder. He turned his head towards the floor room window his bed was up against and saw the storm brewing over the island.

We're going to have to rebuild the raft. He mentally noted with a sigh. "Sora's gonna be crushed." he muttered, turning back to his comic when he saw something move out of the corner of his eye. Turning back, he saw Sora jumping out his room and running towards the beach. "WHAT THE FUCK!" Umi yelled, quickly tossing his book aside and slipping on some metal-toed boot's, a jacket, googles, and his gloves before jumping out his other window that opened. "SORA!" he yelled over the raging wind, chasing after his brother. "SORA STOP!"

When he reached the beach, Sora had already took off in his boat. Umi cursed before quickly pushing his boat into the water and rowing as fast as he could. "God-motherfuckin'-dammit! Why did you decide to try and save a raft?! WE COULD HAVE BUILT ANOTHER ONE!" he howled over the wind. As he neared the island, he noticed Riku's and Kairi's boat already there, making him grit his teeth in annoyance. "Are you fucking serious?!" He hissed as he hoped out onto the dock's, he quickly made his way inwards, catching a glance of Riku's silver hair on the mini-island. "...The fuck." He muttered, noticing something in the sky. He blinked at the ball of darkness, the echo of Master Eraqus' voice explaining what happened to worlds that fell to darkness in his mind. His eye's widened, before glancing down at the shadows moving towards him. "No..." he whispered, "No, no, no, no, NO!" he yelled, running past the new being's of darkness he didn't recognize. His eye's focused on Sora and Riku.

He would not lose another family.

Where the fuck is Kairi? He wondered, glancing around him as he neared the two. Sora first. He decided as he reached them.

"SORA!"

Said boy jolted, looking behind him at Umi. "UMI!" he yelled in shock, before yelling out in pain as he was smacked In the head. "WHY?!"

"THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?!" Umi roared, "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW WORRIED I WAS?!" he then turned to a worryingly calm Riku. "Why the fuck are you here?!"

Riku calmly looked towards his boyfriend, tilting his head to the side, before smiling at him. "Umi, we can leave." he said stated serenely.

Umi furrowed his brows, "...'leave'? Riku, our world is being consumed by darkness! We can't leave!" he said in disbelief. "At the very least, not the way you seemed to have been lead to believe."

"Umi?" Sora questioned in worried confusion.

"Later, Sora." he snapped, "Riku, come on, we need to find Kairi and then we can leave! Together."

Riku regarded him for a moment, before humming and looking back towards the ball of darkness. "...We can go now." his eye's narrowing as he glanced back at the brothers. Sora looked freaked out as he clutched Umi's arm. His boyfriend, on the other hand, had started to look horrified with what he was saying, hand's clenching into knuckles.

"What did you do?" Umi demanded through grit teeth.

"This could be our only chance."

"Riku-" Umi started off in warning, pushing Sora behind him. His heart clenched when he looked past Riku for a moment, only to see the darkness had swallowed up the mainland.

"I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE DARKNESS!" Riku declared. And as that was said, darkness pooled under his feet, slowly rising up to submerge him.

Umi quickly shoved Sora farther away from Riku, before running towards the Silverette who was holding his hand out to them. "RIKU!" just as he grabbed Riku's arm, the darkness surged around him, locking his leg's into place. "SHIT!"

"UMI! RIKU!" Sora yelled, starting to make his way towards the two.

"RUN SORA!"

Sora stopped, "W-What?"

"I said RUN! Go find Kairi, and use this when you do." He said, struggling to get free, before throwing a glass wayfinder at him.

Sora caught it, but took a step forward. "But Umi-!" he stopped at the look being sent. He bit his lip before nodding and quickly went to find Kairi. He promised himself that he would come back to help them both.

Once Umi lost sight of his brother, he turned to a frowning Riku. "Why?" he whispered in heartbreak.

"You know as well as I do that we weren't going to get anywhere on a raft." he responded softly.

"You killed our island, the islander's, our world...our parent's!" Umi said, his eye's watering and blood thumping in his ears.

Riku frowned at that, briefly feeling some guilt before dismissing it. "Since when did you care about any of that?"

"That's not the point Riku!" Umi snarled, going to jerk his hand out of Riku's, but the other quickly held onto it with both hands. "you put SORA IN DANGER!"

"HE'LL BE FINE!" Riku roared back, before calming down and let go of the others hand to cup his face. "We'll all be fine! And we'll find them again. Together."

Umi stared into his eye's, before hardening his features and pushing Riku's affection away. "No, I'll find them Riku."

Riku's face fell, heart hammering in his chest, "Umi-" he reached out again only to be avoided.

"I love you Riku. I've loved you since we were little." Umi started as the darkness reached their chest's, "I still love you...But I don't trust you. Not anymore. Not after what you've done."

And the last the two lover's saw of each other was cold blue eye's gazing into pained teal, before darkness consumed them.

Umi awoke slowly, bleary blue eye's blinking to focus and look around.

He didn't recognize his surroundings.

What world have I been thrown to? He wondered, noticing he was under a lamppost, and slowly getting up. He grimaced at the lingering feeling of darkness that clung to him, That's annoying. He huffed. Looking left and right, he found that he was in a courtyard, with a strange mail box next to a set of stairs. Sighing, he headed towards the store right in front of the stairs, opening it, and stepped inside. He found that it was an item shop, it was small with a small display case in the middle, an unlit fireplace besides the door, a ladder going towards the building above and a simple counter.

"Welcome to my shop!" a scratchy voice said.

Umi turned, and gasped at the face that greeted him. "CID?!"

The blonde man narrowed his eye's at him, brows scrunching up in thought. "Do I know you?" he questioned as he scratched the side of his chin.

Umi quickly walked towards the counter, his smile widening. "Cid! It is you! It's me, Umi! My mother and I use to buy from your shop all the time!" he explained, only to get a confused expression. He sighed and held out his hand, a bright light flashed and in his hand appeared a Keyblade. The Guardian Soul.

Cid's eyebrows flew up, recognition appearing in his eyes as he laughed. "UMI YOU LITTLE RASCAL!" he bellowed, coming out from behind his counter and engulfing the teen in a hug. "We thought you and your mother were-" he cut off, frowning at the memory before letting go and stepping back. "Well, when your mother and you never showed up here, we assumed you were gone for good."

"And where is here?" Umi questioned.

"This is Traverse Town, the place for those who lost their world and survived arrive at." he stated, before realizing why Umi was here. "Aw shit, so you've-" Umi nodded his head sadly, "Dammit. And what about...?" he hesitated, only for his face to fall when he saw Umi's expression. "Fuck." He whispered sadly, before he clenched his fists and punched his counter. "GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!"

"Cid..."

"No, I'm sorry. Shouldn't have lost my temper like that..." He grumbled calming down and looked back at the teen. "She was a good woman, your mom, prodigy at magic." He sighed as he rubbed his face.

"Is...Is everyone else here?" He questioned, making Cid smile at the change in topic.

"Yeah. I'll show you." he said as he lead Umi out the door.

"UMI~!" Yuffie squealed in delight, launching herself at the blonde.

"YUFFIE!" Umi said happily, opening his arms and receiving the hug. "It's been so long! You've really grown!"

"It's wonderful to see you!" Aerith softly chuckled, delighted to see another one of her friend's.

"I'm not even sure why I'm surprised you were still alive and kicking." Squall- 'It's Leon'- sighed, his mouth quirking. He was relieved to see another familiar face, even if it had aged.

Umi shoved Yuffie off, standing up and patting himself down. "As if you could get rid of me Squall."

"Leon." The man corrected.

"S-Q-U-A-L-L." He said pointedly, his eye's roaming around the room and frowned. "Is this it? Is this everyone who escaped Radiant Garden?"

"Huey, Dewey, and Louie are here along with uncle Scrooge." Aerith said.

"Of course that old man is still here." Umi mumbled, much to Yuffie's amusement.

"Merlin's still around too. He lives in a different district then us." The ninja explained.

"There's a dozen more, but thats about it." Leon sighed.

Umi frowned, "What? Thats it? What about Lea and Isa?" he received shakes of their heads. "Sephiroth? Cloud? Zack?"

"Zack didn't land here, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was just on another world." Leon offered uncomfortable.

"And the others?"

"...Umi, you have to understand that Cloud thought you and your mother were dead, and Sephiroth-" Aerith started gently.

"What?" Umi whispered, eyes widening. "What are you-? What happened to my brother?!"

"He went after Sephiroth." Leon stated, making Umi look at him in horrified confusion. "When the darkness was consuming our world, it did something to Sephiroth and he went...insane. He... he killed a lot of people Umi, including the people in your neighborhood. He hurt Tifa real bad, and almost took her heart. Cloud tried to talk to him, but it was no use, the darkness had invaded Seph's mind, Angeal and Genesis told Cloud you and Stella weren't here when he arrived. He thought you were both dead. So he figured he had nothing to lose despite what we told him and went after Sephiroth for revenge."

Umi's heart sunk. "...How long...?"

"It's been years since we've seen him." Yuffie muttered.

"What about...?"

"We have no idea if Vincent is still alive or not, we're hoping he is though."

When Sora had woken up he was confused about why he was outside. Then it came back, making him jerk up and frantically look around. Seeing nothing familiar, his heart started to sink as dread set in, he couldn't believe it. Was his home really gone?

Kairi had disappeared- literally. He was about to catch her when she became transparent and faded. He had tried to go back to where Umi and Riku were, but he was blown away and ended up facing this giant creature. The same creature from his dream.

And as the last of his Island disappeared- Ohgodeveryonewsgonegonegonegonegoneumiwasgonerikugone!- he remembered the charm Umi had given him, he pulled it out and willed it to work for him. The last thing he remembered was being covered from head to toe in armor.

Where...did Umi get this? He wondered as he looked at the gauntlets covering his hand's. How do I get it off? Not that he had to worry as it came off once he thought about it. "Oh" he mumbled as he stared at the charm in his hand. Scratching his head, Sora made his way out of the ally and into a shop to see where he had ended up.

HOLYSHITTHATGUYISSHOOTINGFIREBALLSATME!

"HOLD STILL!" Leon yelled in frustration.

"ARE YOU INSANE?! WHO WOLD HOLD STILL FOR THAT!?" Sora yelled as he dodged another fire ball, "AND WHO THE HELL USES A GIANT SWORD AGAINST A 14 YEAR OLD?"

"SHUT UP AND STAND STILL FOR ME! IT'LL ONLY HURT FOR A SECOND!"

"I DON'T WANT TO GET HURT YOU MANIAC!"

And then the man had gotten a good hit on him, which resulted in Sora blacking out again.

"Kairi, I swear to god, if you're waking me up to read another of your RiMi Fanfiction's I will throw you out of my goddamn window." Sora threatened with a groan as he rubbed his head. "No one- and I mean NO ONE- will be able to find you this time and help you out of The Raccoon Pit." Blinking his bleary eye's open, he was met with the bewildered eye's of a teenage girl that was definitely not his insane friend. "Oh..."

The girl just stared at him, "...'The Raccoon Pit'?" She questioned.

"Why is no one I ever meet normal?" The man who had knocked him out sighed.

And then they had started to explain what had happened, why Leon- the one who attacked him- was trying to knock him out, summoning the Keyblade, what happened to his home and everyone he knew, and finally if they had seen his brother.

"Well, what does he look like?" Yuffie, the ninja, questioned.

Sora had just started to speak when the room door opened, and in came Umi himself with a bag full of grocery's. "UMI!"

Said teen quickly looked towards him, dropping his bags, and enveloped a leaping Sora in his arms. "SORA!"

Umi stared down at the...Duck...

A pause.

He glanced at the wand.

….A magical...duck...

I don't think I've ever seen that before. He mused, eye's drifting to the humanoid dog besides the...Wizard duck. He listened as they talked to his brother, as Squall and the rest came to encourage Sora to go with them to find Riku (A pang) and Kairi. His brother had just done a somewhat creepy smile, when the duck turned towards him. He raised a brow, "Hn?"

"You're coming with us, right?" Donald questioned. He wasn't sure if the one they were suppose to be following was Sora, or Umi, as they both had Keyblades.

Umi stared, "Of course I will, I don't trust you or your..." he glanced at Goofy, "Companion with my little brother." he blinked, eye's narrowing at them. "Why aren't you wearing any pants?"

"QUACK?!" Donald yelled in affront.

"Umi..." Squall warned.

"What? I am legitimately curious!" He defended himself, "Goofy is wearing pants!"

"UMI!"