Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. However, I do own $10, which I won from my uncle after taking a dare to eat an awfully spicy pepper thing...
A/N: Hey, guys. Sorry for not updating any sooner. I just didn't feel... well, I don't know. Like it wasn't the right time? Okay, whatever. Sorry! Anyway, I hope you liked Kairi and Toshi introducing the previous chapter to you. It was originally supposed to be me, but let's just say they... took care of that matter... -cough- Maybe they'll be back some time, if you guys want. What do you think?
Okay, in this chapter... of course, more KairiToshi fighting. Kairi gets Toshi to shut up, really shut up, in a way that maybe you guys think that he deserved a looong time ago. But something sudden and strange happens to Toshi... I don't know if you will feel sorry for him or not, heh. As for Sora... well... it looks like he has a "can of worms." Ermm...
Anyway, I have a question for you guys if you could kindly answer this in your reviews: I'm thinking about starting a Harvest Moon fanfic. I don't know how many people are fans of Harvest Moon, but if I started one would you consider reading it? I promise that creating another fanfic will not affect my updating on this one. Okay, that was a long author's note... well, I'm done. 0o;
xoxo Bianca.
Intertwined Destinies
Chapter Eight.
"You go in first."
"No, you go in first."
"Why don't you?"
"Excuse me, why don't you? You're the one who found the door, hidden at the end of a winding, almost non-existent path behind a thick layer of tangled vines." Kairi implied, a suspicious sparkle in her eye. She was still wondering how Toshi was able to do that.
Toshi blinked to himself. "I... uh..."
Kairi raised an eyebrow. "Exactly."
"Whatever." Toshi rolled his eyes and rubbed his hands together. "I'm not afraid of anything."
"Yeah. Except for heights and darkness."
"You know, you should just shut up."
Kairi raised an eyebrow, her hands clenching into fists. "You're right. I really shouldn't talk because all I am doing is wasting my breath trying to reason with some IDIOT who can't even open a stupid door! I don't even know why I even BOTHER letting you tag along with me! Don't look at me like that, because I know for a FACT that YOU'RE the one following ME. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. So you saved me from a fiery glass floor and led us to this door. Sure, whatever! But you've humiliated me SO MUCH that I probably wouldn't mind if I burned myself! And it's not like you're up to opening that door! I'd rather be stuck in that garden! You know why? Because I wouldn't have some obnoxious, immature, pretentious, dumb, LITTLE BOY following me around who is annoying the life and happiness out of me and making me regret coming out of my room and going into the Secret Place! All I felt like doing was to see the picture. The precious picture that reminds me of Sora, and that we'll be together again... But instead I get whisked off into some unknown place with some guy who doesn't have his head screwed on correctly! With some guy who... who... WHO CAN'T EVEN OPEN A STINKIN' DOOR!"
Toshi blinked. "Gee, that really stuck a nerve," he coughed sarcastically. "So, have you finished being such a lunatic yet?"
Kairi's eyes narrowed. "Almost."
Within a second, she raised her right arm and slammed her hand against Toshi's face, making his head jerk to the side and causing him to wince. She had slapped him, good and hard.
"Now I'm done."
Kairi turned and opened the door herself, obviously sick and tired of waiting. "Jerk," she muttered under her breath, stepping through the threshold of the now opened door...
Sora settled down in the warm, bubbly water. He sighed with contentment, resting one of his arms on the rim of the bathtub. The bath Trinity convinced him to take was soothing, though he was unable to completely relax because there were things he just couldn't help thinking about.
Sinking deeper into the water, Sora closed his eyes.
Boy, did he have a can of worms.
He had to find Donald and Goofy...
He felt obligated to help Trinity with her problem...
He couldn't just leave. That'd be no good.
Then now there's this Riku matter...
And what enigmatical source brought him back to Traverse Town, anyway?
He hadn't even figured out what the stained glass place really was, except for that it had something to do with his and Kairi's relationship.
Sora dunked himself underwater. Kairi, Kairi, Kairi...
Kairi... What I'd give to see you again...
After a few seconds, Sora resurfaced and blinked the droplets of water out of his eyesight.
Her beaming, light blue eyes... her innocent yet unyielding smile... her heartwarming laugh...
What he'd give to see her again...
How many miles he'd walk...
How many Heartless he'd fight...
Sora's heart stopped for a nanosecond, and he instantly straightened his posture.
How many Heartless I'd fight...
Sora looked around frantically.
I'd need the Keyblade to do that.
Sora got up and out of the tub and wrapped himself in a towel, smacking his forehead with the palm of his hand.
I LOST MY KEYBLADE!
Toshi followed Kairi silently, placing his hand on his throbbing cheek. No doubt it was red or something like that. Maybe it was swollen! Oh, dear. Thank God his other three cheeks were safe...
Say what?
Kairi was ticked. Her blood pounded through her veins with extreme anger. But she wanted to kiss her hands or something, job well done. She'd never been so angry with anyone else in her life. Not at Tidus when he accidentally whacked her off the tree house with his stick or at Wakka when he'd always beat her at swimming contests.
No, she'd never been so mad.
BUT IT FELT GOOD.
Kairi bit her lower lip as she walked forwards, seeing nothing but darkness. She willed herself not to turn around, back into the light. Almost tripping on something on the ground, Kairi grimaced and caught herself, quickly resuming her steps. One step, two steps, three steps, four...
Suddenly, Kairi stopped. Toshi bumped into her, though he made no sound.
"Do you hear that?" whispered Kairi.
After a brief moment, Toshi replied, "No."
Kairi knitted her eyebrows together in concentration. "It sounds like... water. Being drained. Maybe someone just finished taking a bath."
Kairi half expected to hear Toshi say something like, 'How observant of you,' though he didn't. But then Kairi made a surprised gasp after hearing a shout from above, one that sounded very upset. Then there was yelling, though she could hardly make out what the muffled shouts of distress were saying.
"AHH! THIS ISN'T GOOD! NO, NO, NO!"
Sora, still dripping with his towel draped tightly and securely around his waist, paced madly and worriedly around the room Trinity had given him.
"I'm dead. Dead, dead, dead. How could I have been so STUPID!" Sora pounded his head against the wall. "I'm a baaaad boy!"
Sora walked backwards and collapsed on to the bed. He couldn't believe how he could just lose the Keyblade like that! He felt utterly and totally terrible. He had responsibility of the Keyblade and he let it out of his sight.
Now it was gone.
Sora groaned and sat up. When was the last time he had it? He closed his eyes and thought back. The slippery stained glass floor... the inhaling shadows... then... complete darkness.
Opening his eyes, Sora ran his fingers through his damp hair. Why did he have to just notice now that he didn't have the Keyblade? Why did he have to be so distracted with... with...
Sora hung his head.
"It was the brownies' fault," then he sighed at that lame excuse and gulped. "No, it was just..."
He stared up at the ceiling, biting his lower lip and feeling a colossal amount of guilt wash over him. Sora could barely control his voice.
"... my fault."
"There has to be a way out of here," murmured Kairi, outstretching her arms and feeling around. She took care not to crash or trip over anything. This is going to take forever, she thought.
Toshi, meanwhile, was following Kairi by her faint silhouette, her citrus paopu fruit fragranced hair, and her light footsteps. He did not say anything. Not a word. The stinging from his cheek was almost completely gone, though. Toshi wondered if he should apologize or something. It sounded so hard to say sorry!
Kairi suddenly felt her hands pressing flat up against some sort of surface vertically in front of her, like a wall. Running her fingers along it, she felt the contour of a tiny keyhole. Feeling so very blind, yet hopeful, Kairi brought her hand upwards a bit and felt the smooth, round figure of a cold doorknob.
Finally!
Kairi took a firm grip of the knob, twisting it to the right. It made a little click sound and she pushed forwards as the door opened with a vague moan. Kairi noticed a small set of cobblestone stairs, and she stepped up.
Sora dressed into the clothes Trinity had provided for him. The clothes had belonged to her deceased brother, or deceased-brother-who-possibly-came-back-to-life, and Sora felt rather uncomfortable wearing the clothes of a dead person but at least he didn't have to walk around butt-naked while Trinity laundered his own clothes. He hastily ruffled at his hair with a towel until it was fairly dry. He then bounded down the stairs, finding Trinity sitting at the edge of a table sipping at a quaint cup of herbal tea. She quickly noticed his presence and gave him a smile, though it soon vanished as she saw the expression on Sora's face.
"My Keyblade! My Keyblade, it's GONE! GONE, GONE, GONE...!"
Trinity's face held the emotions of a confused yet worried person. "Your... Keyblade?"
Sora immediately remembered that Trinity had not known about the Keyblade and how he was the Keyblade Master and whatnot. He slowed his roll and took a deep breath, trying to calm himself. "My... um... weapon."
Trinity's eyes grew as large as saucers. "Your weapon? Sora, you have weapon?"
Sora turned a light shade of pink. "It's a long story. But I'm supposed to have it with me at all times. I'm fully responsible for it. I need it to fight Heartless and... and... it's gone, and I need it, and I got to get it back, and who knows what'll happen if I don't have it with me!"
Trinity stared down at her cup of tea for quite a while before clearing her throat and looking up to see a very distressed Sora.
"Please," Sora said, his voice tired and breathless from all his shouting. "If you see a large object shaped as a key with a pretty charm dangling at the end of its handle... that'd be my Keyblade. I'm going to go out and see if its anywhere around town. Maybe I'll find Goofy and Donald, too."
Trinity nodded, and with that, Sora sighed to himself and left the Inn.
Orange-yellow sunlight spilled over Kairi and Toshi's faces as they stepped outside, on to a cobblestone ground. The sky told them that the sun was beginning to set and the moon would soon take residence up in the sky. Looking back to where they had come from, Kairi could see that it seemed to be a sort of basement since it was lowered, and the stairs were for to get to the leveled ground.
Kairi turned and walked around, staring at her surroundings. After a few minutes of exploring, her heart suddenly felt a strange feeling as she felt some sort of familiarity deep inside.
"This is..." Kairi blinked to herself in disbelief, "Traverse Town?"
Toshi had been half following Kairi and half exploring the place to himself. But he had heard what Kairi had said: Traverse Town.
Traverse Town, Traverse Town, Traverse...
Toshi closed his eyes and gulped, a sick feeling developing in his gut.
Kairi was still overcome with surprise, but she raised her eyebrows when she heard a fumbling thump behind her. Whirling around, Kairi saw that Toshi had collapsed to the ground... with no sign of consciousness.
"Toshi!"
REVIEW REPLIES! Okay, so Kairi and Toshi have been poking and prodding and pestering me so I decided to relent and let them do the review replies...
Dragongirl920
Kairi & Toshi: Us? Review reply more?
Kairi: That'd be fun!
Toshi: Yeah, and if we did it all the time, maybe we could get paid...!
Kairi: Forget that, Toshi. Binki almost didn't let us do the review replies today, much less would she let us do it every time... for money. :P
Toshi: ... party pooper.
Kairi: Anyway, I totally agree with you, Dragongirl. He should be more nice to me. :(
Toshi: -chokes on a cookie-
BattleAngelKurumi
Toshi: Hah. Didja hear that? We have good fighting skillssss. -brushes shoulders off-
Kairi: >>;
Toshi: OMGWTF. BAK, you'd push me off a cliff?
Kairi: Yayayay.
Toshi: Where's the love people?
Kairi: >>;
Toshi: WHERE IS IT?
Princess Kairi
Binki: Aww, that's too bad. It's alright, though, haha.
Toshi: AWWWWW...
Kairi: -rolls eyes at Toshi-
Mysterious Prophetess
Kairi: WOOTWOOT! -highfives you-
Toshi: I... I feel so... unloved. -sobs-
Sorasgirl333
Toshi: It's awesome 'cause I'M awesome!
Kairi: ... x.x...
Kairi: Okay, that was the review replies.
Toshi: We hope you liked it!
Kairi: ... no matter how arrogant Toshi is...
Toshi: O.O