:AN: HAHAHA. Chapter two. I edited it :) If you read the unedited one… then I highly advise you re-read it, because now it is much more enjoyable.
Sin's Remorse
Chapter three
She moaned lightly as consciousness began to overwhelm her mind. She was still in a slight state of unawareness, and was not able to open her eyes, not against the beaming rays of the blinding sun. The light seemed to burn through her shaded eyelids.
"Kairi," came a gentle whisper from close by. Kairi furrowed her brow and slowly opened her eyes in deep confusion. She sat up slightly, leaning back on her elbows. She looked around, still adjusting to the sudden profusion of sunlight that washed over her warm body. In fact, she found herself to be quite hot beneath the nearly noontime sky, wiping a few beads of sweat from her forehead. She studied the area before her, seeing nothing that could have possibly called her name. She fell back drearily, deciding that she must have been hearing it in her still subconscious sleep. She moaned lightly, re-closing her eyes against the bright light, feeling more refreshed than she had in a very long time. She buried her hands into the burning sand, enjoying the feeling of the soft, smooth surface against her skin.
"Kairi…" the same light voice sounded as Kairi drew her eyebrows down in confused frustration. She opened her eyes wearily again and, this time, turned her body around and stared blankly behind her. An overwhelming feeling of déjà vu came over her. She knew this place, she knew it well. This was where she used to spend the endless days of her youth, right here. She hadn't been on this side of island in many long years. Kairi figured that she hadn't noticed how far she had gone this morning. She hadn't been sleeping right and due to that she would fall in and out of states of known reality. She must have missed the fact she had brought herself to the exact place she never wanted to come back to.
It was, in a way, the best and the worst part of the whole island. Worst in the sense that it was so full of faded memories that Kairi could not even begin to sort all the emotions that ran through her mind at this particular instance. It was the best because it was truly a piece of heaven. The sunsets were extraordinary from this beach. It was perfect for spending mindless hours doing aimless things here. Swimming is a good example, the current was always calm. The sand seemed softer here, like silk. There was a large hill set at sands end that seemed to expand up into the clouds from a ground perspective. There was also a large waterfall that spilt down into a small pond. Kairi wasn't surprised that she hadn't heard it; it was small enough where the sound seemed to be drowned out by the ocean's current. Anyway. It somehow seemed to be completely cut off from the rest of the island, like a little peninsula that would, in a few thousand years, become completely detached from the large land mass altogether (sorry about the plate tectonics there).
Kairi smiled lightly as she decided her déjà vu was, in fact, a refreshingly pleasant feeling. Of course the pleasantness was only the silver lining lacing a large rain cloud carrying nothing but anguish and sorrow. Now, the rain did not fall, not just yet. Kairi rose slowly to her feet as she strained her eyes to try and make out anyone who could have been calling her. Her heart raced slightly and she could feel something growing within the pit of her stomach. She knew the voice, though there was a light unfamiliarity to it, but of course she knew it. She denied it, however, telling herself over and over in her mind that it was nothing. It was never anything. Never.
"Come on, Kairi," spoke the voice gently as a light breeze blew through her long, crimson hair, pulling it in silky strands across her back. She was drowning with confusion to such an extent that she was beginning to find it difficult to breath.
"Where are you," she whispered so lightly that she barely heard herself. She looked around. You know where I am, ran through Kairi's thoughts. She spun herself around, looking out over the wide sea. It was bizarre, but the sky had turned strangely dark. The sun wasn't burning as brightly, not as it had been moments ago. She turned back around, her eyes instantly being drawn to an overrun area next to the waterfall. Large shrubs and vines grew there, more than she had remembered. Kairi fell completely silent and began to move forward, towards it.
She had not been here in many years, many, but she could never forget its secrets that were hidden deep beneath the surface. She walked up to the especially thick patch of weeds and slowly cleared them aside, revealing a dark passage way. It was very dark and much smaller than she had remembered. She had hadn't grown to be just as high as the entrance, but her head was yet a mere few inches away from the top of the tunnel. Kairi looked down inside, but it was too dark to make anything out. She suddenly let her grasp go on the plants, allowing them to whip back before the entrance. She turned around quickly, gazing out over the sea. It was oddly darker still; the once white, puffy clouds were shaded in dusty gray. A disturbed and almost anxious expression laced her face. Her eyes filled with a kind of unexplainable displeasure.
"Are you coming, Kairi?" questioned the voice. Kairi jumped up as the cool wind whipped across her bare skin. She crossed her arms over her chest and turned around, trying to face where she thought the voice was coming from, but could not make out any particular direction. Shadows washed over her as a large cloud shifted before the sun.
"What do you want? Who are you?" Kairi shouted in agony. She stared at the secret place as she took a few lingering steps backward. There came no sudden response, but she felt something inside of her tell her that her guess was right, that she knew that voice and that she was nothing but correct. Something else inside, however, her overriding force could do nothing but deny. The wind blew sharply against her, pushing her forward. Regardless, the wind felt nice against her hot skin, yet, an eerie coldness washed through the air, a bitterness that Kairi could not explain. She slowly removed the shrubs and vines away from the cavernous tunnel once again. She tried to turn back, but her feet didn't get the message to discontinue motion and she felt herself advance through the dark, cold, stone passageway. She ducked down a little, though the very top of her head was not at all close to brushing up against the tunnel's upper limit. The passage was long and twisted around various corners. Memories of when Kairi was much younger came flooding back into her mind. She remembered coming down her with her friends, usually Sora or Riku. They'd come and they'd play in the security of the inner cave. She would spend hours carving things on the stonewalls and playing games with her companions. The place had always seemed to bring her this unexplainable sense of comfort, yet now, Kairi felt nothing but distressed anxiety and slight, foreboding discomfort as she traveled through the tunnel less traveled. As she reached the end she came upon a large, open, dark, and uncomfortably familiar area. It was hard to see in the dim light. The sunlight from above the hole in the cave's roof was covered by years of overgrowth. Only a single ray dispersed through the treetops, silently lighting it enough for Kairi to make out her way. She gazed at the walls; silly carvings that were, now, incomprehensible filled them up. They were all faded away, forgotten by time, but still there. A small smile laced Kairi's lips as she walked slowly past the front area to the back. She stopped slowly as she noticed one carving in particular. She remembered it well, almost too well. She studied it silently, a thousand memories running through her mind. She reached out a hand and ran her fingers across the scratched surface as she slowly slid down so that her eyes fell straight on the drawing before her. I was clear to see, two people. She had drawn it years ago with Sora, her best friend. They each drew each other's heads staring at one another. That was when Kairi was about ten years old; she remembered it so clearly that it almost frightened her. She could write the most descriptive story recalling every single aspect of that very day from memory. She traced her fingers over Sora's face, the carving she had made. It was just as she had left it, except for one small thing.
"Oh, Sor-" Kairi had begun, but cut her own self off by the ball that was forming in her throat. Sora had added a poupu fruit to the drawing coming from his own hand and offering it out to the image of Kairi. Kairi smiled at it, he must have added it in before… well, four years ago at least. A tear came to her eye as she recalled her dear friend. She could just see him sitting alone in this place, adding it in, the fruit. He had always found the strangest and most secretive ways of expressing his feelings, his feelings towards Kairi, anyway. She traced the fruit with her finger slowly, casting an invisible outline around the star-shaped object.
"Ah, the legend of the poupu fruit…" came that voice, only closer. It echoed off of the cave walls, dancing around Kairi's mind. She knew that voice and found it particularly hard at this point to deny it any longer. Kairi whipped herself around and felt her heart come to a stop. She stared up with a powerfully shocked look upon her face, frightened anguish drowning her expression. The figure smiled down at her, his form hard to make out beneath the darkness in which he stood. "…Said to forever bond the destinies of the two who share one, hmmm," Kairi watched as the figure came out of the shadows, closer to her. She was frozen. "We never did share one… did we?" he questioned softly as he knelt down before Kairi's stunned form. He ran a hand across her trembling jaw line.
"How…? I, R-" Kairi could not finish as she stumbled desperately over words and searched frantically for air at the same time. She choked as her heart rate increased at a dangerous speed and tears filled her deep violet eyes. They threatened to fall, but she tried with all of her being to force them back. The figure sighed as he pulled his hand away, a sly grin lacing his lips.
"Weren't expecting this, huh?" he questioned lightly as the grin staying plastered across his face. Kairi slowly shook her head as a single tear ran down her cheek. He stared down at her with his intense aqua eyes, the eyes that had haunted her endlessly over the past four years.
:AN: Sorry. It's still kind of short. The next one's going to be very long, however, so be excited. Here are just some thanks for the people who have reviewed so far...
Zanisha: Thanks for your reviews. I like to make my description as unique as possible. I tend to use a lot of the same adjectives over and over though, so sometimes it gets kind of messy. But thanks for liking it! I'm glad that you didn't find that last chapter really boring. That's a good thing. Thanks again.
Lvkishugs: Hey, I'm glad you like it. If it weren't for you then I never would have posted it. Because of that whole reviewing thing, I think it's gotten me back in the world of fan fic writing. I've been craving it lately. :). I'm excited about this story, though. I might actually finish it. Yay. Thanks for all of your reviews on everything. It really makes me happy.
TheLadyKnightOfCamelot: Thanks for your review, it was... sweet. It's cool that you actually read my stories even though you've never played Kingdom Hearts in your life. Maybe I'll write a fan fic about Klaus so that you can read it and understand it. Actually, I think I'll do that. hehehe. I'll randomly put Klaus in this story somewhere. XD. Sorry. Have fun!
Well... that's it. Lots of people, huh:laughs: I like how I can laugh even though it secretly hurts inside. I hope all the corrections I made are nice and dandy. I should probably re-re-re-edit. I need someone else to edit these things. I'm horrible. Anyway. Have a splendid weekend. I'll post as much as possible. I don't have a lot of homework, so yay.