Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy, nor do I know any one who does. Okay let's be brutally honest! I'm 13 and all I truly own is a few of my CDs.
Dedicated to all of the readers of my first fanfic that's still in progress, Break Away, most notably Luvkishugs and Lyphe!! Love ya both.
Warning: If you don't like death and being drunk, don't read this story!
Key:Lyrics
"Talking"
PoV: 3rd Person
Whiskey Lullaby
By: Shaka Surfer
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La la la la lullaby. La la la la lullaby.
He walked thorough the warm ocean; that felt like the blood he shed to get here. All to see her. He couldn't believe after ten years he was back to his homeland. First thing on his mind was to find her, that girl he fell in love with so many years ago. He began a slow jog up to the island, but as his eyes began to focus on a figure standing there; a famine one with rouge hair. His pace quickened. "Kairi!" He shouted. "Kairi, is it really you?"
The figure appeared startled and turned around to face the grown man running up the beach, his wet milk chocolate hair almost covering his face. She watched him with a questioning look. Her memory was a little foggy, but she began to remember. "Sora?" She whispered. "Sora!"
She started running toward him. Their paces began faster and faster, until
they embraced, but not as tight as Sora had imagined in his longing dreams.
It was more of a friendly hug, a "welcome back" hug. She broke out
of the hug and giggled, "My, myyou've grown."
He smiled a big grin, "So have you!"
A glint of light hit his eyes coming from Kairi's hand, he took it and was
taken back by what it was. "Kairi"
She cut him off with her hand, and shook her head, "Sora, I'm sorry,
but I've fallen in love with someone, and they asked me to marry them and
I I said 'yes'"
"You knew I was coming back so why did you?" He said a cold tone,
Kairi was afraid to hear.
"I I thought you were dead, so I gradually got over it and lived
my life on. It was the way we thought you'd want it." She answered.
"Who?" Sora brokenly said, "Who are you marrying?"
"You wouldn't know him. He moved here many years ago." She sighed.
"But you can always say 'no' right?" Sora questioned with
a little hope in his voice.
Kairi put Sora's hands into hers. "I'm sorry Sora, but it doesn't work
like that. I'm sorry, but I I don't love you."
His heart shattered, but he hid all of his pain under his saggy light brown
hair.
"Kairi!" Another male's voiced sounded.
Kairi pulled her hands away from Sora's, and rushed to greet the tall blonde
who called her over. Their lips met and Sora knew that was him. The one, who
replaced him, the one Kairi loved. Sora started to trod toward where he remember
his house was, but before he walked off he gazed mournfully at what he lost,
and turned his tail and fled.
She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart he spent his whole life tryin' to forget
We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind
Until the night
5 months later
Sora sat around his usual "spot" as the others were calling it.
The bartender looked at him and shook his head. He would've denied Sora his
usual tonight, but he could never deign money. The door to the bar slowly
opened to reveal another usual "customer", but he was only here
to be a voice of reason to the brunette hair man as he drank until he felt
no pain, except that one in his heart.
"Sora, everyone's worried about you." The silver-haired man told
him, as he just shrugged it off.
"Kairishe's worried too." He added
"Kairi? Hmph if she's so worried why is she sending you as some
messager boy, huh, Riku? Huh?" He spat at him.
"I don't know, maybe she's scared of you because you've become a drunken
ass!" Riku yelled at him in anger, the people at the bar turn toward
them, suddenly interested in the conversation, like a bunch of junior high
kids watching a quarrel eager to start chanting "fight, fight, fight."
Sora looked down at the table in shame. Riku was right Kairi was right.
He was a drunker and he didn't know what to do about it. All of the drinks
he's had never took this pain in his heart away. What other choice was there?
It then hit him it seemed like a perfect plan.
"You're right, Riku, and I'm going to fix that tonight, so Kairi won't
have to ever see me like this or anyway else." Sora grinned a little
and got out of his seat. He touched Riku's shoulder and briskly said, "Goodbye,
I don't think I could ever made a better friend, and tell everyone else goodbye
for me and tell Kairi I'm sorry for me, will you buddy?"
Riku sat there stunned. What did Sora just say? Then he put two and two together.
Sora was going to kill himself! Riku ran to Sora's house as fast as he could,
BANG!but he was too late. All he could do know was call the police and
report a suicide.
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees
We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that said I'll love her till I die
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby
Everyone gathered beneath the willow for the ceremony. Kairi was crying in
tears confronted by her husband of 3 months, Taru, and to surprise to few,
so was Riku, who usually kept his feelings to himself. Kairi under stood though,
he blamed himself for Sora's death. He could've stop it, but Kairi knew that
was his guilt talking, because Sora had become the fastest runner on the island
and he'd become very stubborn with age. She went off to hug her childhood
friend.
"It's okay. I don't blame you, no one does." She confronted him,
but she was hiding something at the time. A habit that was more like
a cruse. Something she wouldn't tell anyone.
La la la la lullaby. La la la la lullaby.
A year later
"Kairi, I'm going to work!" Taru cried out to her.
"Okay see you tonight." Kairi replied.
She waited for Taru to be out long enough for her to take out one of her well
hidden whiskey bottles. It was all she could do since Sora's death, no one
knew, not even Riku knew that she blamed it all on herself. The over obsessive
drinking, the anger management, the death, everything.
She took a shot of it and forgot most of it, but every shot she took couldn't
make him disappear from her mind. That's all she could think about day and
night, 24/7 was Sora, but it didn't start after he died but before. When he
appeared again, she wanted to tell him the truth. It was that she could never
forget him, she could never give up on him and think he was dead, and she
loved him. She loved him so much that it hurt when she agreed to marry Taru
and when they exchanged vows and Sora wasn't there. Why couldn't she have
waited? They could've been together, but no and she regretted every part of
it. She could've told Riku on his recent visit that Taru had been cheating
on her, and abused her whenever she came home. Everyone said she was so lucky
to have him at this time, when he was never home. She started to cry as she
started at an old picture of Sora and her when they were younger. Those were
the days. Everything was so carefree and fun, now her life was like an endless
hellhole, and then a crazy idea came to her head. She chuckled nervously and
run up in to her room.
The rumors flew but nobody knew how much she blamed herself
For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath
She finally drank her pain away a little at a time
But she never could get drunk enough to get him off her mind
Until the night
She opened all of the drawers in her room to find the pistol that ended Sora's
life. Her crazy idea was the only way out of this life of hell, and the only
way she could possibly see Sora again. She found it and looked at the picture
of their childhood.
"If this is the only wayI will." She took a deep breath.
BANG!
She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away his memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength she had to get up off her knees
We found her with her face down in the pillow
Clinging to his picture for dear life
We laid her next to him beneath the willow
While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby
2 years later
Riku tilted his head down as he walked down the cold winding road towards
the willow tree. It was the anniversary of both of their deaths. He brought
flowers for their gravesites. Occasionally the other islanders left candles
and incenses. He would thank them, because they were being so kind to them,
and sometimes people would ask what happened and Riku would tell them, and
they'd send their apologies. Riku got used to it. This was when he'd update
Sora and Kairi what was going on in the island.
"Taru was sent to jail, we found out all about that woman hitter, and
this woman named Koto appeared in February..." He smiled, embarrassedly.
"Riku?" A rather pregnant blonde woman appeared in front of him
looked at him a little worriedly. "Shall we go home now?"
"Yeah just let me say goodbye." He sighed.
She nodded and walked off.
"Well looks like I've got to go. The wife is calling, Bye Kairi, Sora."
He rushed off toward his wife, unaware of the two angels sitting up in the
willow tree listening to everything he had said. They chuckled and smiled
at each other, and flew off.
La la la la lullaby. La la la la lullaby.
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Author's Note: This is my first one-shot so I hope I get this right. This burst of creativity (right) came when I was going to school the other day and this country song, cause my dad loves country, came on and I felt like "OMG! I gotta write something!" Anyway I think this plot has been used before, but what the hell, I love it! I kinda felt the ending was corny but oh wellREVIEW PLEASE! Tell me whatever I don't care!
