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 Kingdom219 you were my ONLY reviewer for chapter 9! I feel so …. How should I put it…. I don't know but I feel like my story sucks ass now! Come back my reviewers you guys were awesome! Anyways thanks again Kingdom219 it means a lot when you review. And other people too. I love reviews so don't think I don't recognize you when you review.

Oh and KK Anon. I made that like that because this is my first story having to deal with a game….. so I am still unsure how I should do this story. If I should make it like the game or should I make it more realistic you know? Thank you for your review too.

Leon stood inside of the small house that he, Yuffie, and Aeries were occupying. He stood by the window gazing outside at the stars. She was so beautiful. He thought about her almost all the time. Hoping one day she would walk into him again. They would see each other's eyes and instantly fall in love. He believed he would be her lover when she was old enough. How silly. How childish he had been. He hadn't seen her in over seven years. He still thought about her…. Especially since he met her again when she was fourteen. Her curious eyes were always beaming. His heart beat faster when he was near her. He stayed silent for most of the time. But of course…. She didn't even remember him. Well how could she? She didn't remember a god damn thing, let alone he changed his name to Leon!

She stared at him, as if he was a new guy she had just met. He was just a boy then, and she well…. She was just a little girl. But he knew that when they were older maybe something between them could happen. He went back to Balamb Garden again. And by the time he was seventeen she was still never off of his mind, from time to time he would think about her. Even dream about her. But he met a girl named Rinoa. She changed him. Made him more open, and more excepting. She loved him. Adored him, it was all he could do but except her into his life. He liked the girl but he still had his silly little fantasy of love at first sight with Kairi.

When he saw her again in Traverse Town with Sora he nearly died. His heart was reopened to new possibilities. She was gorgeous! But still…. Too young. He didn't want to start any trouble expecially with a young girl only if she excepted him. But she looked straight through him. Causing his heart to break. He promised himself that he would stop loving her. That this little fairy tale he is living in will never happen. She has forgotten him completely.

He was doing fine, until the red headed beauty was found on the ground in the third district. Laying next to the fountain…. It was an odd feeling. He saw a red headed girl laying on the ground. He approached her slowly thinking about Kairi once again. He rolled the girl over and gasped having realized that this girl WAS Kairi. He quickly picked her up and brought her to his bed in the small little house. He watched her until Sora and Yuffie showed up. She was shockingly beautiful. Her hair was no longer the short bob, but long dark red hair that fell down just below her shoulders. Her body was amazing. If he though she looked curvy when she was fourteen then try right now, she is only sixteen and looks amazing! She seemed to have charmed Sora into loving her. He cares an awful lot about her. The jealousy bit at his heart. But he could do nothing if she didn't even remember him.

His love for her has once again returned. She is on his mind constantly now. He crossed his eyes over to two people walking towards the front door. Sora and Kairi. As usual she was stunningly beautiful. He stepped away from the window so they would not see him. Quietly he waited for their knock.

He opened it a few seconds after they knocked.

"Come back for more?" Leon asked.

"Well I need to find a way out of here. We need to figure out how to get to different worlds again. Preferably Hollow Bastion." Sora answered.

"Well… the only thing I can tell you right now is to go see Cid."

"That's right…" He turned around to leave, "Alright, we'll be back as soon as I talk to Cid. Kairi you ready?"

"Actually Sora, I'm really thirsty so I'm going to stay around here until you get back. I'll be here."

"Okay… See you both when I get back then." He said leaving the house shutting the door behind him.

Kairi had her back to Leon. He was alone with her, should he tell her? Should he make a move? He didn't have time to do anything because she swung around facing him.

"Why didn't you tell me you are really Squall?"

His voice caught in his throat.

"Well?"

"I …. I didn't think you remembered me."

"I didn't …. Not until yesterday. I don't know why or how…. .but I lost my memory completely. It's strange I haven't been able to remember anything from the past until now."

"Oh Kairi, I missed you so much." He cried throwing his arms around her.

"Well… it took me a few times to realize it but I finally remember you. Heh I remember blushing around you. It's strange really… we barely knew each other and yet… I felt as if we were meant for each other."

"That's exactly what I felt." He was so close to her face, leaning over her. His breath was tickling her cheek.

"Yesterday when I realized you are Squall…. All these feelings came swimming back to me."

"You've been on my mind all these years." Finally he caught her lips. Kissing her tenderly. Running his hands down her arms, sending shivers down her spine.

Kairi broke the kiss.

"I'm sorry." Leon said.

"No, it's not you. It's…. Sora."

Leon bit his lip knowing exactly what she meant.

"There was a time when I thought we were meant to be, but I love Sora. He may not know it yet, but I can feel it. Our hearts were connected at one time that must mean something. Right?"

"Of course." He smiled warmly at her, "Kairi, I want you to be happy. And Sora makes you happy, more then that. I would rather you be with him. Let him know. Don't wait too long." Leon leant down and kissed her cheek.

"Thank you Squall."

"Why do you want to get back to Hollow bastion so bad?"

Kairi sighed and sat down on his bed. Leon quickly followed her sitting next to her.

"I keep having visions…. Of my … parents. My real parents." She said fixing her small mistake, "My parents were the rulers of Hollow Bastion. I was the Princess of this Kingdom. My dream starts out when I'm about nine…. I'm watching from my bedroom window, my kingdom is under attack. I run and I run but I keep running into to these evil creatures that are attacking my home. I hide in the floor boards in the basement. My handmaid gets killed in front of me by these creatures."

She took a short break seeing Leon's face. After he regained his composure she continued on, "After seeing this…. I waited until everyone was gone, then I bolted from the room, I ran into the main chambers and saw my parents. They were saying something. Something about a keyhole. Next thing you know…. They were gone……

"I still continue to have strange dreams about my past, like how we met was one of them last night." She continued on.

"Maybe you needed stuff to help you remember…"

"No, well maybe that's part of it. But I think I am meant to remember everything right now. Something is going on at Hollow Bastion, and I want to find out."

"I understand. I told you to find the truth when we were younger."

"I just couldn't remember when I got to Destiny Islands to do anything. It was like my memory was wiped away."

Leon was about to say something but he was interrupted by the door bursting open. Sora paused for a second examining the scene.

He raised his eyebrow for a second before he began to speak, "Kairi, Cid said he has an old Gummi Ship we could use, he's adding on all of these awesome tools to use while we're jumping from world to world!"

"When are you guys leaving?" Leon asked standing up getting into his stand in the corner mode.

"Well Cid said to come get Kairi and bring her back, and then he should be done. So we can leave as soon as we make it back there."

"We're actually going back to Hollow Bastion this soon!" Kairi exclaimed feeling strange again. As if something was pulling her along.

Sora walked over to Leon, "Thank you Leon, for everything. But we must be going now. I don't know when or if we'll be back. Tell Yuffie and Aries we said hi. Good bye."

"Goodbye Sora. Take care of her."

Sora paused at the doorway at those words. He turned around looking at Leon with a strange look. Those were Riku's exact words.

"Sora let's go!" Kairi yelled from outside.

Sora nodded at Leon and left, shutting the door behind him. As soon as he met up with Kairi they immediately began to walk towards Cid's shop.

"I wonder what we'll find." Kairi spoke. The light rain was tapping lightly on her small hood that she had on.

"I have no clue, I just hope I can keep you safe from harm." He said trying desperately to keep his wet hair out of his face.

Kairi stopped walking and stood in front of Sora. They had just stopped in front of the double doors to the first District.

Kairi smiled at Sora watching him trying desperately to place his hair out of his face. The rain started to pour a lot harder then before. It was now pounding on their faces. But they didn't move from their spot. Sora stopped trying to mess with his hair and looked at Kairi who was staring at him. They both caught each other's eyes and looked away blushing lightly.

"Whatever we find, it will help you find out why you remember all of these things all of a sudden."

"Yeah… Or why the Heartless are back."

"I'll protect you." He was now blinking profusely from the rain constantly dripping in his eyes.

Kairi lifted her hand up to wipe some of the water out of his face.

"What…. What if I loose you again."

"You won't" Sora promised.

"What if you have to leave again…"

"I'll bring you with me. And that is a promise." He wiped the water from her face also. It did no good the rain just kept falling. But Sora knew underneath the rain was tears falling from her eyes.

"I missed you so much when you were gone. I believed…. I believed you were… dead." She placed her head on his wet shoulder leaning closer to him, "I wanted to believe you were alive. But Sora two years is a long time. Everyone kept telling me you were dead. And soon I started believing it." She gripped hard on his jacket and looked at him, "I don't want to go through that again!"

He hugged her tighter, holding her closer to him. He kept silent, not saying anything. Anyone who walked by would have thought they were crazy standing out in the rain.

"Kairi."

"Sora."

"Kairi, remember when we were kids, and we always talked about flying away from our Island. But we would always get sad at the end of the day because no matter how many times we tried to fly it always failed."

"Of course I remember, hehe, I still want to fly."

"Kairi I flew in the sky. It was amazing." He broke from her grasp and started spinning around, "I went soaring above buildings! Dashed over Heartless who couldn't fly! Spun in the air! Made a mad dash towards the freezing ocean and right when it almost consumed me I would lift up and fly away!" He came back to her, and hugged her tightly, "And every single moment that I would fly, I was thinking of you. You were always on my mind. You never left it."

"You flew…."

"It was breath taking."

"Sora! That's amazing!"

"I want to take you there. I will show you how to fly also."

"You mean it?" Her eyes were wide with excitement.

"I mean it." Sora said laughing at her excitement.

Kairi laughed and jumped into Sora's arms.

"Thank you so much Sora!"

A loud crack of thunder broke them up. They both jumped slightly.

"Come Kairi, we had better get to Cid's before we both freeze and die out here."

They took each other's hands and went through the doors into the first district. Nobody was outside; everybody was inside buildings keeping warm. They continued on to Cid's Shop hand in hand.

"Good god! Look at you two! What were you playing in the rain!" Cid yelled running over to them with towels for the both of them.

Kairi and Sora looked at each other and sniggered quietly.

"Well this is for sure, you two aren't leaving tonight. I have some spare shirts and shorts you two can wear. I'll go bring them and then have some blankets for you guys to sleep on by the fire."

"But…" Sora started.

"No But's, look at you! You're soaking wet, your clothes are going to dry tonight and in the morning you can leave when the storm isn't so bad." As Cid said this he turned around to get their stuff that they need.

He came back and handed everything to them, "Now I'm going to bed myself. So in the morning you can leave. I'll be here. Good night you two."

After Kairi and Sora peeled off their wet clothes and laid them on top of the fire place to dry they hid behind panels to get changed into the shirts and shorts Cid left them.

Kairi and Sora lay on the sheets in front of the fire feeling suddenly very worn out.

"Good night Sora."

"Good night Kairi."

"Sweet dreams."

"Have better dreams."

"Hehe. Good night Sora."

"Good night Kairi." He smiled and closed his eyes feeling sleep drift over him….

Hope you guys like this Chapter! Tomorrow their real adventure begins. Woooo! But what real adventure is this? Their feelings? Their quest for Kairi's past? Sora's quest on locking more keyholes? Both of their quest to find Riku? Find out in the next chapter!