He stood before a large gate leading in to the village, his long light brown hair flowing in the wind as he stare through the gates at the market in the centre of the village. A rustling noise to his right caught his attention, he looked up to see a man wearing an orange uniform sitting on a chair in a large, towering guard post. The man was obviously a guard.
The guard looked down at the man. "Who are you?"
The man spoke in a oddly familiar voice, "Spike will tell you who I am."
"How do you know that name?"
"He is an old friend, a good friend. Can you tell him I am here?"
The guard nodded hesitantly and proceeded to climb down the ladder before running to a large, white house to the left of the gate.
The man noticed the sun and looked it at with his blue eyes, it had been a long time since he had seen that bright sun above him in the sky. He couldn't remember the last time he looked at it. He let out a sigh as he looked back down at the house that the guard had gone in, he saw the guard come back out of the door followed by Spike. The man grinned.
"So you made it back?" Spike said happily, "It's good to see you again, Hikari."
"This… is Hikari? But he's human?" The guard said shocked.
Hikari smirked, "I bet he didn't know I had this either." He held out his hand at his side and his Keyblade materialised in his palm.
"Let the man in." Spike said to the guard impatiently.
"Yes- Yes sir."
The guard walked over to the bottom of the guard post he had been standing on and put his hand on a small, wooden wheel. As he turned it the gates opened in front of Hikari, granting him entrance in to the village.
"It's changed." Hikari said, noticing how much the village had changed since the day he left to go to the castle.
Spike looked at the busy market place "Well now that the Heartless are gone, the people have nothing left to fear."
"Of course. I know that, I just never expected it to change this much in… how long has it been?"
"Well it's been five years since we locked Kingdom Hearts."
"How long have you been back?"
"Well it must have been about two years after that day so… three years."
"Find any trouble along the way?"
"Not really, it was just a lot of walking."
The two men finished their meal. Spike had a pizza slice, Hikari had a piece of steak pie.
Spike looked across the table at Hikari, "What about you? You get in to any trouble getting back?"
"Not too much, I nearly got mugged in one town in a small world before getting back to this one but my guns proved more than useful. I didn't kill them though I jus-" Hikari paused.
Spike looked at Hikari in worry, "What's wrong?"
"Your hair."
"My hair?"
"Your hair."
"What about my hair?"
"It's… different."
"Well yeah, I got it shaved a few months back. It's grown back quite well though." Spike said, running his fingers through his short hair.
"I've only just noticed it." Hikari chuckled.
The two men began to laugh hysterically, thankful for being reunited.
Spike got his laughter under control in time to say "Hey, there's someone want you to meet. Wait here." before running back to his house.
Hikari thought for a moment, could Spike be going to get Lori? No, he's already met her. He couldn't imagine who he was going to bring to meet him.
"Hikari." Spike's voice came from behind, Hikari turned around to see Spike holding a small boys hand. The boy had long blond hair and deep blue eyes. "This is Hiroshima, my son."
Hikari nearly fell out of his seat, "You have a son?"
"Yeah, me and Lori finally got married."
Hikari smiled and knelt down and looked in little Hiroshima's eyes.
"Hello Hiroshima, how old are you?"
"Two." The little boy said, as if he had said it so many times before.
"Oh, hey I guess it's kind lucky I picked these up on the way here." Hikari said as he pulled out four little sweets from his back pocket, he held them out to Hiroshima. "You like sweets?"
"Yeb" Hiroshima said as an alternative for the word 'Yes' before taking the sweets from Hikari's hand.
"What do you say to Uncle Hikari?" Spike said to his son.
"Thanki you." Hiroshima said, more to his father than to Hikari.
Hikari chuckled, "No problemo. I'll pick some more up for you next time I go that way."
"As long as they don't make you fat, eh little buddy?" Spike said, patting his son's head.
"It's the fifth anniversary of freedom from the Heartless in a week. We hold a festival every year for it, I think you should say some words this year." Spike said, one hand gripping the door frame.
Spike, Hikari and Lori were in Spike's living room, they had been talking for the past half an hour about what had been happening since Hikari was last in the village.
"Me? But why?" Hikari said, surprised by Spike's proposal.
"You're one of the heroes of that day, along with everybody else who fought in that castle on that day."
"Yeah but… people aren't going to like me around here. I was a Heartless."
"Relax. Most of them know that you're a good guy, you were the one who got us to Kingdom Hearts and locked that big door anyway."
"I'm not sure."
"Oh come on Hikari, do it for me, Spike and Hiroshima if not for yourself." Lori butted in.
Hikari paused for a moment, staring at the ground.
"Alright, I'll do it."
Spike and Lori stood up and hugged Hikari.
"Yo, is anybody home?" A voice came from the door.
"Hey Pedro, through here." Spike shouted.
"So when did you get back?" Pedro asked Hikari, sitting on the garden chair.
"A few hours ago. Spike let me in to the village."
"I see, ese. What you been up to for the past five years then?"
"Trying to get back here."
"For five years? Man, that would kill me."
"Nearly did kill me, but I found a quiet little village where they took care of me for a few months then I got back on the trail to here."
"I see. I see."
Spike came back outside, holding two glasses in his hands. He put the glasses on the table and took a seat.
Hikari looked up, "You know, Spike. I've been thinking about something that Belmin said to us."
"What's that?" Spike asked.
"He said that he got Belmin to open some door in this world for the darkness to get in, right?"
"Yeah, but that was the door to Kingdom Hearts. Wasn't it?"
"I don't think so. That big white path we were on seemed like it was in another world."
"Oh. So we didn't close the door to our world?"
"No."
"I guess that means…"
Meanwhile…
"I have been getting increasingly interested in the darkness in people's hearts as of late." A voice said, belonging to a tall man with long white hair.
"I see. And what do you plan to do about this then…" Another voice could be heard, softer than the first.
"…King Ansem?"
The End