A new world.

Does that mean new hope?

Hopes of finding you revived?

I can't give up.

There are many memories I've placed with you.

I must find…

"…Ugh…I don't feel good…" My head was churning. My heart was beating. Being alive and safe was no relief to me, considering pain was erupting in my body. I opened my mouth, gasping. Fresh air flooded through me, soothing my lungs.

I looked around. All was unfamiliar. The room was airy and the décor was mainly white. Pink flowers with a light fragrance stood in a vase near me. There was some weird encryption on a piece of paper near the vase. I looked ahead, sighing.

Then I noticed.

My leg was in a cast. Have I injured it? Immediately, I tried to get up. Pain hit me hard, forcing my body to slam down on the soft bed. I touched my head. I felt a soft and rough cloth on my forehead. It felt like bandage. I must have hurt myself unknowingly, even if I don't remember.

"Kai! You're awake!" A familiar voice in such strange surroundings brought a huge relief to me. Selphie ran into the room, dressed in a huge black coat which was engulfing her tiny size and grey gloves. I found myself getting up automatically but failing again.

"Careful, Kai! The doctor said not to strain yourself…do you know me?" Selphie's eyebrows were arched, her emerald eyes showed a hint of questioning and hesitation.

"Sure I do Selph." I answered, letting her help me prop myself up on pillows she put behind my back. She froze.

"I'm not Selph. Kairi? Don't you remember? The doctor said you might have amnesia...looks like his prediction came true."

I was stunned. Selphie not Selphie? I couldn't believe it. The bouncy girl called Selphie now not Selphie? I wanted to break down. I felt like this Selphie lookalike stole the real Selphie from me, inserting another clone.

Silence.

Then immense laughter.

"Oh Kairi, you're so gullible! Of course I'm Selphie! Selphie Tilmitt! The exchange student from Australia! I'm glad you remembered…Here's some sushi for you!"

"What's that…?"

"…Forget I said that."

I learnt a lot that day. I was in a hospital, because of a car accident apparently. The pink blossoms beside me were Sakura flowers. The weird writing was Japanese. Selphie was an exchange student staying with me. I was in Tokyo, Japan and went to a high school. I lived in an apartment with my brother. I slowly thought over everything and realised I sort of knew them after Selphie's explaination. Except the brother part.

Wait.

I could remember vaguely a boy carrying me…

When I was what? Seven years old?

Then I remembered Sora and Riku. They were playing together and I was watching them, laughing.

The good old days broken into halves, one bittersweet, one completely distant.

And there was Selphie. What exchange student? She was my childhood friend, my partner, my companion when Sora and Riku weren't there. She was not any silly exchange student who gawked at all the cute boys in town. Though she does gawk at boys. I looked at her. She was smiling hugely, seemingly proud she had mastered the feat of letting me remember what was untrue to me but not to her. She seemed to have forgotten everything. I could not stand it. The urge in me to ask her about Destiny Islands was huge. Finally I opened my mouth.

"Selphie, do you remember Destiny Islands?"

Silence.

"Remember the ocean? Paopu fruit? The places we hung out together? Wakka? Tidus…?"

Oops. I just remembered. Tidus ditched her for some girl named Yuna. I looked at her, praying and peeing in my pants she would not get offended. Even if she remembered, I would be happy.

Silence.

Her mouth dropped open, mumbling a string of words.

"Kai, what are you talking about…? Destiny Islands? Isn't that an island from a game called Kingdom Hearts? How could we belong to a game world…?"

I could see Destiny Islands shatter, breaking into fragments which I could not catch, no matter how hard I tried, drifting away from me in a dream-like manner.

"No…I swear Selphie, this is true! We don't belong here! We belong in that world!!!" I was frantic. Selphie seemed to be on the verge on calling the doctor in.

"…what are you talking about? Are you feverish?"

She couldn't remember. I decided to play along with this world.

"…Never mind. Ignore that. It was all in my dreams." I sighed, plopping back down on the soft pillows.

"…If you say so I guess…" Her worried look on her face mirrored her doubts of my sanity.

Wait a minute. Game? My hometown a game? Impossible. My memories…a game?

I thought silently. Selphie's chatter was muffled to my ears.

Suddenly it hit me.

Sora's going was a game?

Everything became blurred. The room seemed to waver here and there, colours distorted. Selphie seemed to be nothing but part of the background.

Something distinct was calling for my name. I felt warmth on my arms, I was floating, drifting in nothingness. Void. The feeling was peaceful. Serene. I closed my eyes. Let the darkness fill my vision.

"Kairi…"I flicked open my eyes.

Sora.

He was reaching out a hand to me, smiling, in his usual way.

In this nothingness, I found him.

I wanted to stay here forever, embracing this silence, this void, with Sora.

"Kairi…no…"

Not Sora's voice. Some other voice. A familiar voice.

My fingers barely touched his.

"Don't stray to the darkness…"

"Just yet."

"Kairi! Stop it! You're scaring me!" Selphie's voice broke me out from my void.

The hospital again.

My hand was outreached, fingers reaching.

Where Sora's hand was supposed to be was nothing.

Only air.

Author's note: what crap? The ending sounds stupid…anyways, I might not be using this account anymore, but probably another one. And I'm going to Japan soon! Tralaladeeda! WHEE!! SUGAR ALL AROUND!!! Ehehe.