Greetings everyone! It's almost summer, but that doesn't mean classes are out yet. Just a few more classes, tests, and finals and it's hello Summer Vacation! Well, as much as I am supposed to be studying, I just wanted to try posting another story. Originally it was going to be an Exiled update, but I just can't seem to write Marluxia/Lariaum's side the way I have in mind. I have all the ideas in my notes and laid it out in the plan. But when I sit down to actually write, it isn't coming out the way I hoped. Meanwhile, Ven's side of the story is more filled, so at least that's done.

Anyway... I decided to try sharing a random story combining a couple of my ideas mentioned in earlier chapters here into one Random Story fanfic. I haven't proofread this yet since I'm typing this out in one go. Well, I'll stop rambling on and let you have a look at this piece of silliness. Enjoy!

Oh and I keep forgetting to do this, but I want to say Thank You to IanAlphaAxel, Metarex, & MysteryGirl7Freak who followed and/or favorited this ideas fic! Also a big thank you to those who left a review, Guest 0.2, LittleRedFoxHood, & theCesar09. Thank you so much for your little reviews! I'm glad you all took the time to read these ideas and I am glad you liked some of them. :D

Now on with the randomness!

Title: Missing The Obvious

Type: Story - Random

Summary: Kairi and Riku deadpanned. Did she miss what seemed to be staring her in the face? Kairi pulled out his gummiphone and brought up a picture with Sora in it, courtesy of Donald and Goofy, and placed it side by side her 12-year-old drawing. she looked at the photo and back to her drawing making an 'Oh' expression, as if she wasn't sure how to react next.

Idea: Several of my fic ideas into one giant mess.

Sub-Ideas: I'll leave this one blank for now.

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She was at the play island watching the sunrise from the paopu tree. It had been a long time since she came to this peaceful place, the last time was to say goodbye to Sora, Kairi, and Riku before they went off to fight what they called, "The Second Keyblade War." If she still had her keyblade, maybe, just maybe things would have been different. She could have joined in on the fight, helping out to save the day and being there for him. But she didn't and she never taught Sora about the worlds beyond, so why go regretting those mistakes now?

As she stood in front of the tree, a couple of footsteps could be heard slowly making their way across the old wooden bridge. Turning around, two people she didn't expect to see came toward her.

"Kairi, Riku! You're back already?"

The two were surprised to see Sora's mom by the Paopu tree. She noticed their facial expressions showed a bit of disappointed but at the same time surprised. From the back, Sora's mom could be mistaken for Sora, mostly for the same type of brunette spikey hair they both had. But Sora's mom's hair was much longer and tamer as the length reached past the shoulders. Still, both were caught off guard since they see her normally at her house and not this early in the morning.

"Mrs. Elephteria, what are you doing here?"

"I've told you before Riku, just call me El, it's easier to say. But to answer your question, I just came out here to watch the sunrise. I do this once in a while, but this is the first time I've been out here since the last time you were all together."

Riku looked down when she mentioned that day and Kairi looked away for a bit gathering her thoughts. She noted they were down and decided to change the topic.

"So what are you two doing here this early in the morning?"

"Well, Kairi and I got back from Twilight Town after being at Master Yen Sid's tower."

"Oh I see, and I assume it has something to do with the heartless? Or are those nobodies causing more trouble again? "

Leave it to Sora's mom to know about the heartless and nobodies. The day Sora and he got back, he went straight home and talked with his mom about all the adventures he went on, being so honest and open as if it were natural. Sora never did keep any secrets from his mom and his mom was accepting about Sora's tales. That was one thing Riku and Kairi admired about her. To the trio, she was like a diary, a safe place where they could tell all their secrets and she would return with responses in love and care. That day Sora shared his tales, she didn't even bat an eye to them and took it word for word as truth. She believed them all. All three of them showed their Keyblades and she only smiled before embracing them in a warm hug.

Riku smiled, "Not this time, it was a training session and I had to test Kairi and another Keyblade wielder on their skills."

"And I was able to win one spar against Riku, something I can tell Sora about..."

Oh, the atmosphere was getting gloomy now, and she didn't like it one bit. Seeing the two of them down just broke her too, but she needed a way to keep their spirits high, especially her own. That's when a memory surfaced from a time long ago, diaries and photo albums of memories. This was it, this was a way for them all to cheer up a little.

"Riku. Kairi. Would you like to come back to the house with me? It's still early morning and I bet you two must be a little hungry from your journey?"

"Oh no, that's alright Mrs. Eleph..."

"El, Riku."

"Mrs. El. It's okay, really." Kairi stared at Riku wondering if being around Aqua or being a Keyblade Master has made him more polite lately, especially in his declines.

"It will be my treat, and I'm craving some sweet pancakes this morning."

Riku was about to protest, but Kairi stepped in and spoke on his behalf, "We'd love to join you for breakfast."

Mrs. El smiled and walked straight off the bridge toward the rowboats. Riku only looked at Kairi and sighed, maybe giving Mrs. Elephteria company would be best since Sora has been missing for so long. They all needed a little break.

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[At Sora's House]

"That was so delicious, thank you so much for inviting us over for breakfast." Kairi thanked Mrs. El sweetly and Riku bowed his head as a gesture of his thanks as well.

"It was my pleasure you two. But I have a little confession to make."

The two looked at each other and then back to Mrs. El with a quizzical look as to what it was she wanted to confess.

"Kairi. Riku. I was so glad you both didn't turn down my invitation. There is a reason I wanted you two over." They looked at each other and back at her, unsure of what she was planning. So she continued, "I want to show you both something."

She went upstairs and came back down with an old wooden box. There was not much to look at since there were no designs or carvings, it was simple and one color of beige. They observed as she took off the lid of the box, then invited them over to peer into what lay inside. To their surprise, they saw many old red leather-bound journals and a few blue photo albums evenly arranged with their spines facing up. The journals that could be seen on top had roman numerals from one to fourteen while the albums had readable labels that had one word as a title.

"All these journals are from my younger days and when I was raising Sora. The albums are mixed with my baby pictures as well as Sora's childhood pictures. I thought seeing them would cheer you two up a little."

Both Riku and Kairi smiled. This was so kind of Sora's mom to be showing these things to cheer them up and remember.

"Also, seeing you two together, it just brought many memories from my days as a wielder."

"Wait? What?!" the two young wielders exclaimed in shock.

As if she didn't hear their shock, she continued, "Yes, but it's been a long time. Now when I think about it, maybe Sora had the potential to wield one because of me? But yes, I was once a wielder, but I lost it sometime after the war."

"War?"

"Yes, The Keyblade War." She said all nonchalant, as if it were the most obvious answer in the worlds.

It was shocking news and both were greatly puzzled as to how she survived. How could she have been there, when it was supposedly centuries ago?

"You're probably wondering how right?" They both nodded.

"When the worlds were split, Keyblade wielders were starting anew. The group called the Dandelions were left to start a new life and with their help, the worlds known today were born. Several years later and like the growth of a dandelion, we scattered as far as the winds could take us. Many traveled to the new worlds and stayed there while others remained in our homeland. But beyond our home, the worlds were not synced in time. So some grew old, others remained on the sacred land, and others like myself landed in words where time truly stood still. Our keyblade abilities were lost, only could be regained in our main home. But some were able to forge their light or dark into new keyblades we'd never seen since the days of the Masters. Me though, I landed in this tiny world where time nearly stands still. For the majority of wielders out there, it's probably been centuries, but for me only decades.

"But time seems to be moving well now right? It was about a year since that time Kairi stayed on the islands and both Sora and I grew a year older in other worlds."

"Well Riku, I still don't understand what happened, but I can only guess when the world fell and came back again, their times synced with one another. Or when a Keyblade wielder came to lock or unlock the world, it synced with the worlds they had done the same to prior. I still don't know how this works, Brain or was his name Blain(?) would have been more helpful explaining this theory."

This was all too much to take in for Riku, Sora's mom was a keyblader at one point and she is as ancient as the Lost War Xehanort wanted to know so much about. This was turning out to be a day full of unexpected surprises.

Meanwhile, Kairi was looking a little pale and her face filled with more than shocks, but this was different. While listening to Mrs. El's story, Kairi was drawn to a particular journal and glanced at its contents. This journal turned out to be from her pre-teen years of about 12-years-old. There were little drawings of flowers and butterflies, some drawings with who she assumed was her, a cat, and a few heartless she was fighting. But as she skipped a few pages, her eyes fell on a page with a childish drawing of 3 people and an entry to the right of it. But what got her most were the names of the two people next to her.

"Kairi? Are you alright?" Riku asked in concern, she shook her head and turned to Mrs. El.

"Mrs. El, have you ever read through your passages in awhile?"

"Why no, the last time I ever opened a journal to read was probably around Sora's tenth year, and I left them in the attic ever since. The newer journals are in another box that got lost somewhere else. But why do you ask Kairi?"

Kairi turned the page around for both Riku and Mrs. El to see, and Riku wasn't sure what he was seeing. On the page were three people, two boys, and a girl. The girl in the middle of the two had long straight hair with a few spikes at the top that went all the way down to her waist, brown crayon eyes, and a small smile. The boy on her right had blond short spikey hair, blue crayon eyes, and a smile that looked shy with some blushing cheeks. On the right, was a much taller boy with brown spikey hair, blue crayon eyes, and big goofy teeth-filled smile.

"Kairi, those two looks like..."

"Yeah Riku, the bottom of the drawing says 'Ventus, Ellie, and Sora' even the entry talks about them."

"Oh! Yes, that's me in the middle, I use to go by Ellie since my name was too long to pronounce, but I prefer El these days. Oh and I remember them! Those two wielders were my best friends back during my wielding days. Sora had such spiky hair and really beautiful blue eyes. He was always so friendly with other Keyblade wielders, even if not all of them liked him that much, he still managed to find his way into their hearts. The boy on the right, that's Ventus. He was such a shy boy, but not when it came to his love for the sky and stars. I developed feelings for him and Sora even helped me try to have outings with just the two of us. But, I lost him to his job as a Union Leader and I hardly saw much of him after That happened. You know, I named Sora after that boy, cause I wanted my son to be just as loving and friendly as he was."

Kairi and Riku deadpanned. Did she miss what seemed to be staring her in the face? Kairi pulled out his gummiphone and brought up a picture with Sora in it, courtesy of Donald and Goofy, and placed it side by side her 12-year-old drawing. Mrs. El looked at the photo and back to her drawing making an 'Oh' expression, as if she wasn't sure how to react next.

"So... you named Sora after himself? Also... you had a crush on Ven?! How old is he?"

"That's what's bothering you Riku?"

"Well, if this drawing is right, the Ven is centuries old like Mrs. El and he only looks 16! How!?"

"Don't you get it Riku, we know where Sora is! He's somehow stuck in the past! We now know where to look for him, so we can go back to Master Yen Sid and get help from everyone!"

"Oh... Right!"

In their excitement, they ran out the door forgetting all about Mrs. El. She sat down on the kitchen chair and all she could say was, "Huh... I guess I did name Sora after himself."

She sat there thinking about all the secrets she had shared with her son, things she probably would never tell him now. She now wondered if Sora figured out if that was her from the start or if he was clueless as she was. Then she realized what else they had said.

"Wait... Ven?! He's alive?! Riku! Kairi! Wait a moment!" She exclaimed while running out the door after them!

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[Past: Daybreak Town]

"Come on Sora! Help me, Ven slept next to his telescope looking for those stars again!"

"Yeah, I'm coming!" Sora sighed, ever since he got here and met her, he has been almost like a guardian. She would always get some wild ideas of how the three of them would take on Raid Bosses on their own or do special union mission that were way above their level to get some munny and jewel currency. They were good friends, but the way this 12-year-old acted forced Sora to grow up a little and be almost like a parent to her, and even to Ven. That was something he still couldn't get quite used to, this different Ven who looked like the Ven he knew in the future but acted almost nothing like him. It was the two Petes and Timeless River all over again. But knowing he was in the past, Sora still wondered if this Ven was related to the Ven he knew, like a many times great grandparent or some other family relations.

"SO-RA! Help me wake him up! Use a Keyblade magic card combo or something!"

"I'm coming, Ellie!" He sighed once more and then smiled. When he thought about it, saying Ellie was weird for him too. Ellie was his mom's nickname that only close friends were allowed to call her. Oh well, at least it wasn't his mom otherwise he'd be in so much trouble.

Well, there you go, my totally random story with many combined ideas from my ideas page and notes. I wrote this a while back in my notebook mostly to try being a little more silly, fun, a bit playful. As mentioned above, I haven't proofread this yet since I'm typed and re-edited this out in one go, so I'm sure quite a few things don't even make sense. I'll probably go back and fix everything after summer vacation officially begins. Anyway, hope you enjoyed this story and also that next time I update it will be on Exiled.

Some Other Info: Sora's mom being a Keyblade wielder comes from "A Mother's Secret" fanfic here on Ch. 6, Sora being in the past comes from "Sora's Daybreak" here on Ch. 7 & 8, telling some journals story somewhat came from "Journals Of The Apprentices" here on Ch. 2, and so on. Other ideas are just from my notes. Sora's really hasn't figured out at this point they are the same people, Ellie is understandable but Ven, he just doesn't get that's really younger Ven. Why Elephteria for the name? Well, it says the name is Greek and means something like freedom also sounds like something a resident of Daybreak Town would be called. Ellie is used as a nickname since it means bright, shining one. Does it work or not really?

That's all for now! If you have any ideas, suggestions, questions, or any comments, feel free to let me know. Thank you so much for reading! See you next chapter! :D