I'm Always With You

Disclaimer: I don't have any association with Kingdom Hearts, or any of the characters, and this is probably going to be a bad fic, as it's my first KH fic.


Lying in my bed, I twist and turn. I keep telling myself it's just a dream, but it feels so real. I'm standing in water, but the sky is thundering, and the water is black. In the distance, I spot Sora, and reach out to him.

"Come on Kairi, you can make it!" He calls, coaxing me on. I reach out, and our fingers barely touch, before a whirlwind of heartless catch him, breaking our grasp, and he's carried away. I feel myself being pulled away by an invisible force, and I wrap my arms around myself to protect my heart. Just as it's being pulled away from me, I hear distant voices….

"I was lost in darkness….you brought me back."
"We made it this far by sticking together…"
"Even if we're apart, we're not alone anymore."
"Wherever you go, I'm always with you…"

I shoot up in my bed, covered in sweat, clutching my heart, as if to make sure it's still there – it's all I have left of Sora. Looking across at my window, I see the sky turning a warm shade of pink, indicating dawn is breaking, and rub the sleep out of my eyes. 'It was just a dream…' I tell myself over and over again. Climbing out of bed, I sigh.

Darkness.

It still engulfs me, y'know…But not in the way that it did. No. This is more painful.

I pulled out my journal to record the dream – a habit I'd picked up from my grandmother – but before I could reach a blank page, a photograph of Riku and Sora fell out from under the cover. It was taken the day we finished the raft, before our friendship was torn apart, before Riku turned evil, before I lost Sora…
As usual, I pushed it back into the book, hid the journal under my pillow, and headed out of my house, and towards the beach, and just sat there. Putting a hand to my heart, I whispered into the wind.
"Sora, please come home…" – but he never does.

"I'll come back to you. I promise!"

"Kairi!" I hear someone shout, and looking over my shoulder, I spot Selphie running over to me, waving.
"Hey." I answer softly, and barely take notice of her.
"….He's gone, Kai." She said softly.
"No he hasn't – I'd know."
"You can't be so sure….there's so many worlds out there, a-and—"
"And I would know! – I-if he's died, part of me would die – part of my heart."
"Can't you move on? You're gonna make yourself ill."
"No." Was my simple, and sharp answer. Selphie sighed, and sat in front of me.
"I thought you two were just friends."
"Things have changed…We've grown up a lot in the past few months…"
"There's growing up, and there's falling in love."
"…Then I've fallen in love." I answered simply.
"But if he's going to be away all this time, is there any poi—"
"Leave me alone, Selphie." I snapped a little, before jumping up, and running to the secret place – mine and Sora's place. Selphie started to run after me, but seeing where I was heading, stopped and returned to what she was doing.

Once in the silence and solitude of the cave, I edge myself over to the picture me and Sora drew, and trace my fingers over the paopu fruit going in my direction, then in his, and silently, I cry.