Here's a nifty little fanfiction I began writing after beating Kingdom Hearts. I've never, ever, ever played Chain of Memories, so many of the things I say in this FF are probably wrong. Bare with me, please.

For those of you who haven't finished the game, I'm sorry, but you probably won't catch on right away. The ending is too complicated to explain here. Just Google something like "kingdom hearts ending summary" or something.

I can tell you now, this FF isn't going to have any RikuxSora. Mind you, I have nothing against RikuSora shippers, it just isn't plausible that a RikuxSora pairing would actually happen in the next game or any games to follow.

Okay, so the "four points of the compass" are Sora, Kairi, Riku & Mickey, and Donald & Goofy. I haven't gotten to that point in the story yet; I'm just explaining the title to you. 'Salright? 'Sokay.

Chapter One-
Where We Left Off---The Eastern Point

"You've given me too many things, Sora. But you're all I need."

Kairi's stone fell from her hand, seeming heavier than it should have been. She'd been speaking to the wall seemingly, but she was actually adressing Sora. She looked at the wall, smiling at the completion of her work. The image now showed she and Sora sharing paopou fruits with one another. She wiped her tears away gently, careful to not get dust in her eyes.

She lifted herself up from the ground, neglecting the mud on her knees and hands and switching her position from kneeling to sitting. While staring at the murals on the wall, specifically the one she'd just added to, she replayed the events that had just taken place in the past weeks, especially the last few hours. In two hours' time, she'd lost both of her best friends and been sent back to Destiny Islands alone, with no explanations or companions.

"When you went away, I wish I could have said, 'Please don't go.'"

According to what she did understand of the heartless and Kingdom Hearts and other worlds, she should have been sent to Hollow Bastion, the world she was born in. Of course, that's where her understanding ended. Nothing made sense anymore, ever since those dark creatures had arrived a few weeks ago on the island.

Kairi turned as somebody whispered her name. The voice had come from the entrance of the secret place and was soon answered by another voice, the second masculine in contrast to the first's girliness.

"Kairi?" one voice asked.

"You see Kairi?" another replied.

"No, I think I hear her. Kairi, is that you?"

"Selphie?" Kairi asked back. "Yes, It's me."

"Kairi!" said Tidus and Selphie in unison. They both ran to her and bawled tears of happiness, Tidus trying to hide the fact that he had the ability to cry.

"Where have you been?" Kairi asked them in between her own sobs.

"We've been here! Where have you been?" Selphie replied.

"I can't even really answer that," Kairi explained. "I've been so many places, entirely new worlds and everything."

"And you did all this in a night?" Tidus asked.

"A night? What are you talking about? I've been away for at least a month."

"Last night, there was a storm," Selphie said. "This morning none of you were in your beds and the raft was gone. We thought you'd run away. But then about an hour ago at noon, the raft washed in and now you're here. Are you okay?"

"No. No, I've been gone for weeks. You're right about the storm. There was a storm. I was worried about the raft blowing away, so I ran to Sora's house to get his help anchoring it better, but he wasn't there. Then I looked around Riku's island and Riku was like, swallowed by this puddle of darkness. He just disappeared. Then some weird key sword showed up in Sora's hand and he fought this big, black monster and was swallowed by another puddle of darkness. I was grabbed by a man and brought to this place where they kept me in a glass case and where I slept almost all the time.

"Then, one day Riku showed up where I was and I was excited. I thought he was going to save me, but then I saw he was making a deal with the man who brought me there. He turned all dark and evil. Sora came. He and Riku had to fight each other, and I sort of felt like it was my fault they were fighting. Sora won and I don't really understand what happened next. I was released from that glass case and I went to this other world, Traverse Town, where I stayed with some of Sora's friends. Sora stood up to the man that had captured me. When I went to talk to him, the ground cracked and he went one way while I went the other. Now, I'm here, and I'm confused."

Tidus and Selphie stared at Kairi, a questionable look on each of their faces.

"Um...Kairi, are you sure you didn't just hit your head really hard or something?" Tidus asked.

Selphie smacked Tidus in the back of his head and whispered, "Tidus, shut up!"

"No, it's okay," Kairi said. "I probably did just hit my head or something. Like, none of that could happen. There's no way I'm a princess."

"Princess?" Selphie asked.

"Oh, um, I mean...nevermind."

"You're so weird," Tidus said, to be answered by a nother smack in the back of the head. "I mean...you're so creative."

End of Chapter One. Please read and reply!