Title – Home at last
Author – Brittany McLean
Summary – It's been two years since Sora has been gone. But now he's back. How do Kairi and everyone cope? Will it be the same? Or will there be more darkness to fight.
Rating – PG – 13 right now
Disclaimer – I own nothing, Kingdom Hearts belongs to Disney and Sqauresoft.
Author's Note – Thank you once again to my reviewers! Work is a hassle and so is school but I find time to write. And because my reviews are coming it makes it easier to write. Thanks again!
"Mmph…." Sora muttered sitting up. His hair was tousled and his eyes were still puffy from sleep.
Kairi giggled from her spot on the couch looking outside. Sora was a funny sight to see in the morning.
"Morning sleepy head." She smiled.
"How are you?"
"Sora?"
"Yes?"
Kairi got up from her spot and leaned down next to Sora, "Let's get out of here. Let's find a way out of here and back into the other worlds. A new adventure for us. Just you and me."
"Huh? Kairi…. What's… gotten into you? Are you still thinking about your past? What about Riku?"
"I don't know Sora. I just feel…. I feel like I have to get out of here and find what is out there. Something in my heart is telling me to go out there. Something happened to me when I was nine. Somebody either saved me, or…. Or something brought me to Traverse Town. I have to know Sora. I have to find a way back to Hollow Bastion."
"Kairi…." His eyes were full of worry.
"Please Sora…" She cupped his chin in her small hand, "Will you help me?"
"………" he looked into her eyes one more time, "Of course I'll help you."
"Oh thank you Sora!" She threw her arms around his neck tightly.
"What about Riku?"
"Oh…. Well he can come to of course! I was just kidding about that… just you and me thing. Hehe"
"Alright well he'll be over sometime today so we can talk to him about it when he gets here."
"Sora I'm hungry let's go get something to eat."
"It's still raining outside. I don't want to get all wet!"
"Oh Sora you're such a baby. We'll dress up warm, get something to eat and head over to Riku's."
"I am not! Fine let me go get dressed."
"And brush your teeth! Your breath stinks! Hehe."
"It does not!" He pouted while walking away with his pillow and blankets in his arms.
Once Sora left the room and up the stairs to his bed room Kairi strolled over to the laundry room and grabbed her now dry clothes.
She swiftly made her way to the bathroom shutting and locking the door behind her. Kairi peeled off Sora's clothes and pulled on her own clothes. Her mind kept wandering to her dreams. So that is what happened to her. Once she was done changing into fresh clothes she stepped out of the bathroom and made her way over to the couch once more to wait for Sora.
"That's strange…" she whispered. The sky suddenly got dark, clouding over. True it was raining outside but this wasn't a normal dark. It had a purple tinge to it.
"No!" She cried. Kairi threw open the door to Sora's house and ran outside examining the sky. It was just as she expected. A dark purple orb was floating in the sky. But it wasn't like that last time. This one was tiny. And it had a small stream of purple and black colors sprawling towards the ground over by the seaside dock where Sora, she and Riku would play all day long on the Island.
Kairi ran towards the sea dock ignoring the cold rain pounding on her body. She ran past some shrubbery again ignoring the stinging pain of the brush hitting her across the face. Her foot slipped in a small puddle of mud and fell into it.
Kairi cried out as the pain shot up through her whole leg. Tears started to form at the corner of her eyes. But it didn't make a difference her whole body was wet from the rain. She stood up and limped her way over to the streaming winds of black and purple.
Her hair whipped around her face, stinging her eyes. She pushed her way to the sea shore shack and ran down the wooden slope to the small island with the tilting tree.
Riku stood there in the middle of a black pool.
"Riku!" Kairi screamed.
Riku whipped around to face her. She drew back in fear. His face was so evil looking. The look of peer darkness.
"Riku…."
"No!" two voices shouted, "Leave her alone!"
"Riku?" Kairi started to step back.
"Kairi…. Run! Tell Sora the door reopened!" He was fighting something back. Moving agitated. As if holding back.
"Riku what's wrong? Let me help." Kairi walked up to him and placed her hand on his arm.
"Kairi RUN! He'll hurt you!" The voices shouted. Riku pushed Kairi back causing her to fall down. "RUN!"
Kairi stood up quickly, "Riku, I won't leave you! Sora and I can help."
"Then….. run! Kairi….. go……..hahahahahaha!" Riku was no longer Riku. His body was the same but Riku was gone. Lost in the darkness. Kairi turned around and ran back down the wooden slope.
A wooden piece broke as Kairi ran down it causing her to fall into the water. The water was freezing cold and stung her skin fiercely.
She started to flap her arms widely trying to make her way to shore desperately with the strong current from the storm. Finally her body met the sand.
Strong hands gripped her arms. She flailed around aimlessly trying to unwrap herself from the strong grip.
"Shhhhh Kairi! It's me!" a familiar voice softly said soothing her.
"Sora?" She looked up and flung her arms around him.
"Why did you leave without me?"
"I don't know… it was as if something was calling me…"
"Riku…. He's…."
Kairi didn't say anything she hung her head low and hugged Sora tighter.
"We have to get out of here. It's too dangerous to be out here." Sora pointed out helping Kairi up. He held her arm around his neck while she limped with him to the secret place where they could get coverage from the raging storm.
"Come on Kairi, almost there!" Sora grunted.
Once they made it into the secret place Sora set Kairi down on the ground. He sat down next to her hugging her.
"Sora…" She whispered.
"Hm?" Sora asked looking at her.
Sora didn't think it was possible but Kairi's face was paler then before. She was staring over at the door that was always there. Sora turned around slowly shivering slightly.
"Oh my god…"
The door was shining a dim red and had the heartless symbol across it. Sora stood up leaving Kairi. He stepped over a few rocks slowly walking towards the door. He hesitated a few seconds feeling a weird sensation in his heart. He pouted his lips readying himself to touch the door. Slowly his fingers inched forward to touch the glowing door.
Sora gasped. Fingers wrapped around his other hand firmly. He looked over his shoulder and saw Kairi smiling at him.
"I'm not letting you go this time. I'm going with you if that's the case."
"Kairi…. If there is more for me to do you must understand. I can't loose you again." He said turning to look at her.
Kairi smiled and tiled her head slightly she placed her finger on his lips, "Sora, I'm going with you. We're in this together now."
Sora smiled and nodded. His eyes opened wider slightly, "I almost forgot!" He reached in his pocket and brought something out, "Here." He took her hand and placed the item inside of her palm.
"My keychain?"
"I promised I'd bring it back. Now…. You use it for good luck. Hold my hand, I don't know where this is going to take us. Are you ready?"
Kairi nodded and took Sora's hand, holding it firmly.
Sora held on tighter and used his other hand to reach over to the glowing heartless door. He took a deep breath and pushed it open. They both shielded their eyes from the strong wind that pulled them through.
"SORA!" Kairi screamed. She was separated from Sora in and instant.
"KAIRI!" Sora screamed back trying to take hold of her outstretched hand.
They both tumbled broadly into the space of darkness. Both of them fearing the worse.
"BELIEVE WE'LL BE BACK TOGETHER KAIRI!"
"I BEALIVE SORA!" darkness flooded their minds, consuming them, everything went black.
Okay so I know some of the parts with them talking is kind of weird….. but I'm trying to imagine them saying these words in the game. You know trying to get them into character. So let me know how I'm doing. Please review! Thanks everybody. Hope you enjoyed this chapter.