Note: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any of the characters within this story. Unless of course I decide to make up one (which I don't foresee happening at the moment, but with how long I want this to be, who knows?) Just in case you don't catch on, each chapter will switch between the present (the time period of the story I am telling), and the past (memories of Sora and Kairi When they were both younger, this is not a flashback, merely an interlocking part of the story, if you want, read only the odd number chapters for the actual story). Okay, on with the show.
You know, I've never really thought about life outside my village, I thought to myself one day. I've been fine living in town, rowing out to the children's island every day to hang out with Tidus, Wakka, Selphie, and Riku. It had always been just the five of us, until that fateful night when Kairi was brought into our world.
Tidus was staying the night at Wakka's, and Selphie was home sick with the flu. Riku and I were bored, so we planned to sneak out that night. We met up at the dock where we left our boats, and headed over to the children's island. When we arrived, I noticed that the sky was unusually bright. Looking up, I saw that a meteor shower was starting.
"Hey Riku, was there supposed to be a meteor shower tonight?" I said as we hopped out of our boats.
"I didn't hear anything about it in town, maybe the astrologers just didn't know this one was coming," usually if something was going to happen, Riku knew about it. Since he had hit ten, he felt he had to know everything that was going to happen in or around town. He had been hanging around adults more, and he seemed to think this made him more mature.
As we tied up our boats, a loud crash came from the other side of the island. The resulting shockwave knocked me back into my boat.
"What was that!?!" I screamed in a daze.
"I don't know!" Riku exclaimed, doing all he could to keep his balance.
After the ground stopped shaking, I stood back up, grabbing a hold of Riku as I did. The whole world was still spinning. I shook my head to try to get rid of it, but it only got me more disoriented.
"What should we do, Riku?" I said, finally coming back to my senses.
"Let's go find out what just crashed," He said, an inquisitive look on his face.
"Are you sure? It could be dangerous..."
"That's what makes it all the more fun though. This could be the first exciting thing to happen here in a long time. This island is so boring, this might be fun," Riku then set off in the direction of the explosion. Still apprehensive, I set off after him once he'd gotten a few steps away. I may have been scared of what had happened, but I was more scarred of the thought of being alone right now.
We ran across the beach, under the bridge, and stopped in front of the small shack that separated the part of the island we were on from the side that the crash had come from. Riku motioned me to pull out my weapon. I pulled out a frail piece of wood that somehow made me feel stronger.
Slowly but surely, Riku opened the door to the other side of the island. He was looking through the crack, but since he was taller than me, I couldn't see anything.
"Come on, Riku. I can't see a thing," I was growing more afraid by the second, and knew that if we didn't go now, I would have run away.
"Alright, alright, let's go," swinging the door open, we walked through the doorway. Scanning the area in front of us, I saw her for the first time.
She was lying on the ground, holding her legs in her arms. She had short brown hair, and wore clothes the like I'd never seen before. They looked very thick for being at an island during the summer. She was the most beautiful person I'd ever seen.
"Wow...she's gorgeous..." I stared, mouth agape, at the strange looking girl."
"Oh, come on, Sora. Two seconds and you're already ogling her." Riku said in a sarcastic tone.
"Hey!" I said, confused and angry, "Just because you're a grade ahead of me, doesn't mean you can go using your fancy vocab on me..."
"Calm down, I was only kidding. You are right though, she is much cuter than Selphie."
"Don't let her hear you say that. Selphie would go ballistic," Selphie was usually nice, but when it came to certain subjects, she had a very short temper.
"Oh well, let's go see if she is all right," Riku motioned for me to follow him as he made his way to where she lay. As we drew closer I was able to see her face. She had a strange hew of purple eyes, and a slightly rounded face.
"Where do you suppose she came from?" I asked Riku as I crouched over her.
"I don't know, maybe she's from another world," Riku teased.
"Hey, I was being ser..." as I finished my statement, the girl started to move. "Hey she's getting up!"
"No duh, genius, you figure that one out all by yourself?" As he said this he smacked me across the back of the head. Not expecting it, I fell over on top of the girl.
"Oww..." rubbing the back of my head, I opened my eyes at the same time as the girl.
"AHH!!!" as the girl opened her eyes; she saw me and freaked out. Rising to her feet quickly, she scooted back until she ran into a coconut tree. Hitting it rather hard, a coconut fell down and hit her on the shoulder. "Oww!"
"Calm down," Riku said, walking over to her. I rose to my feet, but remained where I was, not wishing to frighten her any further.
"Wh...who are you?" she said, still shaking and grasping her arm.
"I'm Riku, and this is Sora," Riku stayed a few feet back, probably trying not to scare her. "You're on Destiny Islands, do you know where that is?"
"Destiny what? Where is that? Where's my grandma? I was just at Holl...AHH!!!" the girl screamed in pain and grabbed her head. "Why does this hurt so much? I...I can't remember anything!"
"Do you still know your name?! Tell us before you forget that to," I hoped that we'd be able to have that at least, so we could find out who her parents were.
"My name is...Kairi..." as she said this, she shut her eyes and started to fall. I ran over to her and caught her. She opened her eyes and looked straight into mine. "I'm scared..." she said, trembling all over.
"Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you," I said, reassuring myself as much as her.
"Thank you," she said, and then passed out.
"Riku, help me out!" I yelled, even though he was right there.
"Ok, let's get her to the doctor back on the mainland," he grabbed her with me, and between the two of us, we managed to get her back to the boats. We decide that Riku would go back first, because he was the fastest rower. I was to take Kairi back, and make sure she stayed safe.
As I was rowing across the small gap back to the mainland, the mysterious girl, Kairi, woke up again. She seemed calmer than the first time, almost as of she didn't recall it at all.
"What's your name?" I jumped; surprised that she had spoken to me.
"Umm...my name's Sora," still startled, I stumbled through my own name. Well, that wasn't the only reason I was nervous. I always had trouble talking to cute girls I didn't know. It never happened with Selphie, because I'd known her since I childhood, but this was different. I had just recently started to notice girls, and Kairi was exceptionally beautiful.
"Sora is it? Thank you," as she was speaking, she stared into my eyes. Her eyes showed a girl that was both trusting and frightened, hopeful that I was the one that was going to help her.
"Thank you for what?" I didn't know what I had done that deserved thanks.
"For catching me," she was talking really calmly for someone who had only minutes ago been freaking out.
"Oh, that, it was nothing," I said blushing. As I said this, she attempted to sit up. She grimaced in pain though, and grabbed her shoulder.
"You shouldn't try to move. Riku went on ahead for the doctor. They should be waiting there when we arrive," she lay back down, and closed her eyes.
"Sora...a cute name for a cute boy..." I blushed wildly when she said this, hiding my face behind my arm. After a few seconds, I heard her breathing become more regulated. She had gone back to sleep.
I have a feeling this girl is going to lead me on a crazy adventure some day, I thought to myself as I gently rowed for land