Forgotten Memories
By: Wishes of an Angel
Disclaimer: I do not own anything from Kingdom Hearts.
Greetings everyone! Again, I'd like to give my thanks to angelofsweetness, TgIiDgUiS, jenn, mOOnlite-dUSk, Sorafanluver, FaLlEn-AnGeL627, Dragoon6181, enriya, and kairi-i-love-sora for your comments and reviews. I really appreciate everyone for your kind words and for taking the time to read and write reviews! Thank you! Now, here's chapter 8!
Chapter 8 – The Cave
"Kairi. Kairi!" Sora was knocking on her front door. "Kairi! Are you in there!"
It was the morning after the dance. Sora had thought about what Kairi had said last night.
'I could never love you as much as the other Kairi did.'
Sora knew that was obvious. How could Kairi love him in one month? It takes time and Sora was not going to rush her to like him. He does not want her to feel pressured to feel any sort of way towards him. What he really wants is for her to live her life again and not to dwell on the past. That was the cause of her depression and he could not stand seeing her like that. That was why he was here knocking on her door. He wanted her to understand that all he needed was for her to live a normal life, not to worry about what she had forgotten, and most importantly, to be happy again.
"Kairi! Are you home!" There was no response from inside the house. After knocking for what seemed like forever, Sora figured that Kairi did not want him coming in.
But this was important. He had to tell Kairi.
Sora walked over to the patch of dirt with the spare key and when he knew for sure that nobody was looking, he dug the key out and went back to the house.
"Kairi, if you're not opening the door, I'm just going to do that myself," he called. There was still no response.
'Gosh, that girl is stubborn.' With that, he unlocked the door and entered the house. Sora looked in the living room, the kitchen, and even the garage, but couldn't find her anywhere. He walked up the stairs and into the only bedroom on the second floor. No Kairi.
'Where could she be?' he wondered, scratching his head. 'Hmmm. I guess she went out.' Sora walked back down the stairs. He exited the house and turned around to close and lock the door.
"She's not home?" Riku asked from behind him. Sora jumped in surprise and turned around, holding his chest.
"Riku! Geez, man! You didn't have to sneak up on me like that!"
"She's not home?" Riku asked again.
Sora put his hand back down by his side. "No, she's not home."
Riku looked in a different direction. "She probably went off somewhere to think."
"To think about what?"
"To think about this situation, what else?"
"Oh." Suddenly Sora looked worried. "Then we have to find her. What if she decides to kill herself or something over her lost memories?"
"She could be anywhere on the island."
"We'll find her," Sora said confidently.
"Yeah." Riku turned back to face Sora. "Then let's split up to find her. I get this side of the island," Riku said, as he pointed to his left with his thumb, "and you get the other side." He looked at his watch. "Right now it's 9:00 a.m. We'll meet back here at noon, whether we found her or not, okay?"
"Okay." Sora ran off to Riku's right. "I'll see you at noon then," he called.
"All right," Riku exclaimed, dashing off in the other direction.
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"What is this place?" Kairi wondered into an unknown cave. She touched the grayish blue walls and her hands traveled along the rocky layer as she walked through the hollow area. She came to a stop in front of a picture on the wall and knelt down to take a closer look.
It was a drawing scratched messily by rocks of two faces looking at each other. The faces were each drawn with a different style so it seemed as if two kids had drawn the picture. One person had spiky hair and looked somewhat familiar to Kairi.
'Sora?' she thought. She turned to the right of the drawing where the other face was. 'This person almost looks like…me. What? Me and Sora? And what's this?' In between the two faces were arms, each stretching toward the opposite person and a star-shaped item in both of their hands. 'Paopu fruits? Sora and I are exchanging paopu fruits?'
She touched the drawing and a tear fell down her face. 'Huh?' She moved her hand on her cheek to stop the tear from falling further and looked at her wet fingertips.
'Why…why am I crying?' she wondered. Kairi looked back at the picture and another tear fell.
"Oh, Sora," she said aloud. "I wish I could remember our moments and…and…how much I loved you." She sat down, bent her legs up, and wrapped her arms around them. She rested her forehead on her knees, but something poked at her midsection. She released her arms and straightened her legs to make it easier to reach down the pocket of her dress. In her hand she held out a star-shaped leaf.
"What's this?" she asked herself as she examined the object.
"Kairi, is that you?" a voice called from the entrance of the cave.
'Oh, no! Somebody found me!' Kairi placed the star-shaped figure back in her pocket and hid behind a large boulder in the cave. Kairi rested her back against the rock, closed her eyes tightly, and braced herself as the footsteps got closer and closer.
End of Chapter 8
Well, that's chapter 8 for you. I hope everyone like it and that you'll all come back to read chapter 9! Bye for now!