A Serendipitous Key of Hope
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- Omakey -
"Xehanort has made his purpose clear… and I am left with no other options. Forgive me Yahiko, but the χ-blade does not belong in existence. And for that to happen, you mustn't exist either!"
He fires chains of light to obliterate Yahiko, who becomes so stunned by what's happening he couldn't move. At that moment, Nagato arrives in time and blocks, saving his life. "Master! Have you lost your mind?!"
"Nagato, move! This is for the best!" Nagato removes his armor, but remains protecting his friend. "You will not heed your Master?"
"I won't! Not this time!"
Eraqus feels his heart snap. It's evident as his tears as he speaks. "Why do all my attempts to reach you fail? If you cannot obey, then you will shall Yahiko's fate!" The two battle it out, though with Eraqus' experience and skill Nagato is no match at first. The Master fires spheres of light and blasts them both, causing Nagato to jump back and Yahiko to roll over.
As the Master charges up again, Yahiko grabs Nagato to make him stop. "Nagato, stop! He's right. Just forget about me."
"Quiet!" Nagato stands before Yahiko. The Rinnegan wielder breathes deeply before the exhale, and darkness illuminates off of him as aura. "You may be my Master, but no one tries to kill my friends!"
"Has the darkness taken you Nagato?!" Eraqus continues his veil of light, though as he does both Nagato and Yahiko notice something strange. An apparition they've never seen before amidst his aura, shaped like an angel.
Nagato aims his Keyblade backwards and opens a portal, before pushing Yahiko through as it closes. His Rinnegan turns dark as he transforms the darkness around him. "HYAAH!" He roars as he wildly attacks Eraqus, who was caught offguard by his amazing speed – or if anything, he's held back when he shouldn't have. A large gash appears on his chest from his darkened Keyblade, further exacerbated by the dark claw Nagato sends.
Eventually the Rinnegan user finally calms down when he realizes what he's doing, and stops both his aura and his attacks. What he's done finally hits Nagato as he stumbles towards his bleeding master. "Master… What have I done?! I… just wanted to keep Yahiko safe…"
Eraqus looks to him with understanding eyes. He clutches his bleeding chest. "Nagato, you were right. I failed you. Perhaps I've no one to blame but myself for the darkness inside of you. And now I have done worse, raising my Keyblade against you and Yahiko… what is wrong with my own heart?"
The angelic aura around him disperses as a blade of darkness impales him from behind. Eraqus falls forward into Nagato's arms, dispersing into light. Overcome with grief, the sullen Earthbender cries, "Master Eraqus!"
The sound of Nagato's tears hitting the pavement is soon overshadowed by the footsteps approaching him. "What a sight. Why trouble yourself with remorse, Master Nagato? Was he not bent on doing harm to your friend? His own pupil?"
Nagato knows that it's Xehanort, but something tells him that there's more. That he was wrong all along. "Master Xehanort, why?!"
The elderly master turns around. "You know, at times I find your progress quite striking. That's why I gave you those eyes while you were training with Jiraiya."
"What?!" Nagato thinks back to when he first gained the power of the Rinnegan; he was training in Ninjutsu with Konan and Yahiko, both of whom didn't excel as well as he did. But it was the day he gained the Rinnegan that the shinobi way came easier to him, and he could mold chakra as well as mana. He just doesn't know how he gained them.
"But, you still fall short," Xehanort continues with his monologue. "You need to let all that anger out; let yourself go into darkness."
No longer caring for him, Nagato takes a stand summoning his Keyblade. "What do you mean?"
"Still blind I see… But, I will change that." Xehanort turns around and summons his Keyblade. "Come to the place where all Keyblade wielders leave their mark on fate – the Keyblade Graveyard!" He then raises the blade sky high, summoning darkness to cover the clouds and then the entire world. "There you will watch your precious friends Yahiko and Konan die, along with the last light in your heart."
The darkness begins to cripple the world. "Don't worry; you won't need a home where you're going anymore." He then walks into a corridor of darkness.
Nagato watches in horror as his home is destroyed by the darkness, a newfound resolve to set things right returning to him. He looks at the Wayfinder in his hands. "Yahiko, Konan, I won't let him hurt you."
Though as he leaves, his back is watched by a man. A man in a black coat.
…
Konan travels through space until she comes before a peculiar sight. Floating all alone in the vectors of space, Mickey can be found unconscious. "Mickey!"
She catches him and says, "Mickey! Mickey, please answer me!"
"Master… Yen Sid…"
"Don't worry." She quickly heads for a nearby world. Luckily for her, she could see a familiar tower in the distance. She enters the world, carrying Mickey up to the top floor.
At the top of the tower, she finds Donald and Goofy with Yen Sid. Mickey's friends shout, "King Mickey," before taking him to be treated.
Konan looks with worry at the mouse, before her attention turns towards the retired Keyblade Master. "Konan," he says, "the stars bring me grave news. Master Eraqus' star has blinked out. I am afraid it means he has been struck down."
Her eyes widen in horror at the news. "What?! No, that can't be! He can't be dead!" Her broken heart extends out through her tone. "Who?!"
"Master Xehanort… and Nagato." This news surprises her even more than the one before.
She slams her fists on the desk shouting, "NO! Nagato would never kill the master! He loves him too much, like a father!"
Yen Sid grimly opens his eyes, and says, "I hope with all my heart that you are right about your friend. The stars do not tell me everything I need to know."
"Where is he?!" she asks, getting herself ready to go.
"You will find Nagato's heart leading him to the same direction Yahiko is, the Keyblade Graveyard, where wielders of those weapons once waged war."
"Thank you." Konan heads out, one hand touching her Wayfinder. She flies through space on her way to the Keyblade Graveyard, still clutching the connection between them. "Nagato, Yahiko, please just be safe. I will find a way to get you out of whatever this is."
- End Omakey -
The XXXV Keyhole: Kingdom Hearts
An Invisible hits the ground, stabbed through the throat by a battered Tensa Zangetsu. Ichigo breathes loudly as he recovers, looking back at the others. "Is everyone okay?"
"More or less," replies Donald on his back.
The Endless Heartless Brigade has left them beaten up and tired, yet victorious. Elsa has scratches on her body, some of which are bleeding, Donald's feathers are a mess, Goofy has a chip in his tooth and a bruised eye, and Ichigo has a broken and bloody left arm as well as a broken mask. Naruto however has just as much blood coming from his wounds as the others, but with twice the fatigue.
The last piece of the door peels away, showing that they've made it through. A hole opens up, and there they pass through slowly to the other side. On the other side they find bubbling blue water in small fountains giving light. And out by the darker part is a door. An actual, magenta two way set of doors.
Naruto walks to the door. "Huh?"
"What's wrong?" Donald asks.
"Does anyone else hear that?" This confuses them.
"Hear what?" asks Elsa.
Careful. This is the last haven you'll find here. Once you pass through, there will be no light to protect you. But don't be afraid. Your heart is the mightiest weapon of all. Remember, you are the one who will open the door to light. This is what Naruto hears, but no one else.
"I don't hear anything," says Ichigo.
"Strange… That voice was so familiar; maybe it's just my imagination…" Naruto clearly remembers that voice, as the one who guided him when he first gained the Keyblade. "We better rest up before going through."
"Heal!" Naruto and Donald use Curaga on everyone, restoring their wounds. Despite that, their fatigue doesn't disappear completely.
After a brief two minute rest the five heroes pick themselves up ready to move. Naruto opens the door, and a bright light shines through. This blinding bright takes them away, and they come to a new world.
Naruto steps out from the light first, and they all see that this world is different to the others. Neither of them can recognize it. Until…
"Wait, I know this place..." Naruto looks back seeing a waterfall behind him. The two statues standing side by side with one another, he can never mistake it. "This is my world! The Elemental Nations!"
"The what?" This is Ichigo.
"This is your world?" asks Elsa seeing the lush greenery and calming waters.
Naruto looks up and sees the waterfalls parting away. This reveals a cave in the waterfall cliff. "There!" The Keyblade wielder climbs up the statue with the others to try and enter, only to stop when he hears another voice.
"This world has been connected." Everyone looks around hearing the voice. Pieces of the world begin to disappear. The statues turn into deformed monstrosities. "Tied to the darkness. Soon to be completely eclipsed."
"Who's saying that?" asks Naruto.
"There is so very much to learn. You understand so little."
"I know that voice. It's Ansem!" Elsa says.
"One who knows nothing can understand nothing." The water turns a solid, sickly amethyst.
Naruto sees the world has been ruined, and notes someone down by the bottom with his back turned. It's a familiar back however. "Sasuke!"
Using Elsa's ice they slide down onto the jagged surface, where Sasuke speaks. "Take a look at this place. It may appear large, but to the heart seeking freedom from his past, it's a prison." Naruto goes on edge. "And so this boy sought to free himself from his pain, from his prison, from the darkness of his clan, by crossing into other worlds. From there, he opened himself to darkness."
Sasuke fades away, revealing Ansem. "Sasuke!"
"Why do you call for him? He's long gone," says Ansem before grinning. "And it's his fault you've suffered so much. His fault you've had to fight to bring him back, and that your friends Anna, Jasmine and Hinata have been kidnapped. You should condemn such a foolish boy."
"Ansem, what's all this about?" The five heroes stand their ground facing the Seeker of Darkness.
"Kingdom Hearts can only be reached by seven hearts of pure light. Thanks to the dark fairy, I was able to reach the Final Keyhole where it can be found." Ansem then laughs. "All worlds begin in darkness, and all so ends; the heart is no different. Darkness sprouts from it. It grows, consumes it! Such is its nature. In the end, every heart returns to the darkness whence it came!"
He disappears and reforms behind them, causing them to jump back. "Darkness will always be the heart's true essence!"
"YOU'RE WRONG!" shouts Naruto in anger. He summons the Oathkeeper and looks at it, remembering his vow to both Hinata and Sakura. "The heart may be weak, and it may even give in. I won't lie about that. But, I've learned that deep down there will always be a light that never goes out!"
Ansem floats while crossing his arms together. "So, this is your progress Naruto Uzumaki? You've come all this way, only to understand nothing! Every heart will return to darkness!"
A black ghost rises from behind him, a monster similar to a Heartless with a white x over its body. The blue shadow raises an arm and unleashes a tremor of energy at them.
Everyone jumps away avoiding the attack, with Elsa holding out a hand to summon ice. Ansem flies in and roundhouses her square in the stomach, shattering the ice and sending her crashing into the ground. "Elsa!" Naruto shouts out with worry for the ice queen, who remains unconscious.
"Let's get em!" Donald shoots Firaga while Goofy charges in. The guardian grabs the fire and throws it at Goofy, who falls to the ground painfully, before turning over and grabbing Donald. The guardian then throws him towards Ichigo rushing at Ansem, who manages to catch him. Ansem then unleashes a wave of dark energy to blast both of them.
Naruto jumps at Ansem while he was distracted, but the guardian blocks and throws him to the waist side. Dark lightning from Ansem's fingers shocks Naruto, who cries out in pain as the damage intensifies. "Insolent fools. Did you really think you stood a chance? Against one of the Seekers of Darkness?"
The guardian flies in to attack Ichigo with brawny fists, who blocks using Tensa Zangetsu. The sword cracks even more, but allows Ichigo to send it flying with a Cero. With a shout of, "Getsuga Tenshou," he slashes and blows away the blue ghost, forcing Ansem to turn his attention from Naruto briefly.
With this distraction, Naruto uses Ragnarok to take a swipe at Ansem from behind. While he does manage to pummel the Seeker of Darkness, he ends up being kicked in the ribs and sent flying before he could unleash the beams of light. Said beams end up firing later as a sort of lag, and fly out towards the guardian.
It enters the ground as a blue shadow and flies up to Ansem, dodging the beams. The both of them then fly backwards into an opening created from the rotting world within the waterfall. The tired Ichigo and Naruto follow after to finish the job, but only the latter passes through. The Soul Reaper is blocked by an invisible barrier like with Sasuke when he was possessed.
"Ichigo!" As he calls out to his friend, the arena he's trapped in begins to tremble. From the dark shadow he stands on rises the Heartless Darkside. Naruto looks up at it, gasping. "You! You're the monster I fought in my heart! Guess there's more of you!"
Not wasting any time, Naruto forms Fire and Thunder magic on his sword. He then jumps forward to slice through the pure blooded demon. His attack unleashes a blade of fire and lightning that eradicates it, turning the giant monster into black sludge.
Naruto drops to his knees feeling the fatigue of countless battles pushing him to his limit. "This is too much..."
"I'm impressed. You've clearly evolved past your former self, being able to destroy a Keyblade wielder's darkness." Ansem descends from above as he speaks, looking down on the tired Naruto as he prepares to push one last time.
"The what?"
"Haven't you noticed?" His guardian send streams of yellow light at Naruto, which ride along the ground like blades. He jumps away to avoid getting hit. "When you awoken the power of the Keyblade, you fought against that Heartless. They stand as the darkness in all their hearts."
Naruto stands, feeling something is off. 'How does he know that?' The guardian sneaks up on him as he contemplates that, and gets scratched. The blue ghost then disappears, and the blond swordsman feels darkness entering his body. 'What… My body!'
"Come, open your heart. To darkness." Ansem floats closer to Naruto, who backs away. But as he moves the guardian materializes and paralyzes him. The Seeker of Darkness then shoots him with a blue beam from his fingertips, blasting him rapidly. Naruto shouts out in pain as the damage piles on.
"Naruto!" everyone watching shouts out for him, encouraging him not to give up.
Naruto raises his Keyblade and blocks the next beam to hit him, and deflects it back. Ansem backs away in shock. "What?!"
"I'm not giving up just yet!" With desperate passion, he uses Strike Raid.
"Such a base, weak technique." Ansem prepares to deflect it and counter, but to his surprise Naruto makes it overtop of the sword. "What?!" He grabs the Keyblade mid swing and, turning with it, throws a powerful stab at Ansem in his chest.
Naruto stands tall yelling, a bright light within him expelling the Guardian. Ansem asks in shock, "What's going on? Where's this power coming from!?"
He doesn't answer. Instead he aims his Keyblade and fires the Ragnarok salvo. The guardian blocks most of them, but they pierce through and blast Ansem. As it does, the Seeker of Darkness sees a dark aura amidst the light. He smirks as if satisfied, fading into darkness.
Naruto falls backwards feeling a large weight lift off of him. He breathes harshly, feeling all of his fatigue and damage compile together. "It's over."
As he says this, the light around him disappears. All light around him and his friends fade away, leaving nothing but complete darkness.
Their forms visible, the four friends help the Keyblade wielder up. He asks, "What happened?"
"I don't know," says Elsa with worry.
"Behold!" Ansem's voice reverberates through the dark void. "The endless abyss! Within it lies the heart of all worlds!" Before their eyes they see a tall order of two white doors on a platform. "Kingdom Hearts!"
Everyone looks in shock. Ichigo then says, "That's Kingdom Hearts?"
"So this is what he was after!" says Naruto with fists clenched.
"Look as hard as you are able. You'll not find even the smallest glimmer of light. From those dark depths are all hearts born. Even yours."
Naruto looks around feeling a strange presence. His eyes gaze down, where he and everyone sees a large red battleship. One of if not THE largest Heartless any of them has ever seen, it's a titanic monstrosity of flesh and horrifying faces, with a visible inside of blue and purple globs. The face of the ship is an actual face, and it looks like the whole ship is the crotch of an even larger, menacing, three headed version of the guardian with Ansem floating off tentacles attached to it.
"DARKNESS CONQUERS ALL WORLDS!" These are his last words before gravity takes over Naruto and the others. Ichigo stands on Reishi panels, but the others aren't so lucky. Naruto reaches out to grab Elsa, but Donald and Goofy get dragged into the ship and disappear.
"NO!" Naruto shouts in despair before throwing Elsa back up to Ichigo.
"NARUTO!" Elsa calls out to the blond as Ichigo catches her.
Naruto continues to fall, having virtually no strength left within. "Gum Gum Pistol!" He looks up seeing a fist stretching all the way up to him. The fist opens into a hand and grabs him, pulling Naruto into the arms of Luffy.
"Yo!" says the stretchy pirate.
"What the?! What are you doing here?"
"I dunno! You look like you needed help!" says Luffy with a grin. His face turns serious overshadowed by his straw hat looking at Ansem. "Star head, go up!"
"My name is Yugi!" says Yugi. And it's here that Naruto realizes that he's on his pirate ship. Yugi is piloting with Anzu.
"Naruto, you okay?" asks Anzu with worry. She hands him an elixir.
"Yeah, thanks for showing up," he tells her before drinking some. The potion restores him to full strength. Looking up he sees Ichigo coming down with Elsa. He then asks the important question: "How did you find us?"
"We saw your ship outside of Hollow Bastion and followed you," Yugi tells him. Anzu hands another elixir to Elsa and Ichigo. "We got lost for a while before we ended up here."
"Alright, let's kick this guy's ass!" shouts Luffy in a commanding tone. "And star head, don't wreck the Sunny Go! Franky's not here to fix it and Nami's not here to navigate!"
"Right, right," he tells him.
Darkness spills out from the World of Chaos' mouth, attacking the pirate vessel. Naruto jumps up to block with the Keyblade, but gets captured and dragged in. "Geh!" He charges light magic and uses Faith, before throwing Strike Raid empowered by Faith at Ansem. The Seeker of Darkness draws a naginata composed of Sasuke's Soul Eater, and deflects it.
Minions of darkness rise from the void to attack. "Luffy, here's some Pixie Dust! Just think happy thoughts." Naruto shares his dust with Luffy and then flies back up to fight off the horde.
After some attempts, Luffy manages to fly. He stretches his arm back, which turns black, as he flies up to Ansem. "Gum Gum Red Hawk!" Drawing it back, he punches Ansem in the abs while avoiding his blades, his fist catching on fire as it reels back in for a fire fist. Saliva spits out from the powerful hit.
Angered, he skillfully slashes at Luffy, releasing shockwaves. He focuses and dodges them with ease, before realizing that they were heading towards Naruto. "Oi, Naruto!"
"Eh?" Naruto looks at the slash waves coming at him, and unfortunately can't dodge in time.
Elsa is about to help, but then three lights shoot out from his jacket. These lights block the attacks, before destroying them. They're revealed to be Son Goku, Himura Kenshin, and Allen Walker.
"Goku, Kenshin and Allen!" Naruto says happily.
"You're gonna get into a big brawl like this and not let us help?" says the Saiyan as he cracks his knuckles. Flying Heartless come after them, but he moves in quick to destroy them with ki blasts.
"This is the final fight! Don't let your guard down!" says Allen before activating his power. "Cross Grave!" His attack purifies the Heartless and creates an opening.
Kenshin slashes at Invisibles. "Go! Put an end to this!"
"Not without Donald and Goofy! You guys stall him out!" he tells them before flying into the ship's maw. More Heartless appear as the final war begins.
Within the dark depths, the only thing Naruto can see is the blue light coming from the Heartless emblem on the ground. Shadows come up and attack him. He summons the Kingdom Key and goes to battle, slicing through the enemies without mercy. Though he can only see blue and their eyes, he manages to keep focus aiming at those areas.
With the last one gone, a core shaped like an eye appears within the darkness. He cuts through it without a second thought, causing it to explode. "Donald! Goofy!"
He moves further into the darkness calling out for his friends. "Naruto!" He hears Goofy's voice. Calling out for him as loud as possible, he reaches another Heartless emblem glowing blue. Darkballs appear and block him off.
But that's just when Goofy arrives using Tornado to knock them aside. "Naruto!"
"Goofy!" The two team up back to back and face the Heartless. The blond hands some of the elixir Anzu gave him to Goofy, restoring him to full strength. "Have you seen Donald?"
"Not yet!" Glad with Goofy just for now, the two go to war on the floating heads. With Goofy and Naruto both at 100 percent, neither of them have any problems anymore against them. It takes no time at all cleaning the soccer balls, and having that core from before appear.
Naruto jumps up and slashes it. "Let's go!" The two continue their shadow trek. Though it's just another aimless journey, they continue to call for Donald.
"Guys!" They finally hear their buddy. They continue to move towards the voice, leading to another emblem.
This time, Invisible Heartless appear to fight back. Naruto blocks a strike, forgetting the second coming at him from behind.
"Fire!" A Firaga blasts the Heartless away, Donald flying in with a burning scepter. "Naruto! Goofy!"
Naruto feeds the rest of the elixir to Donald. The trio back together, Goofy tosses his shield up in the air. Donald fires Thundaga to charge it, and Naruto smacks the shield at the Heartless horde. The shield slices through the monsters, bouncing off invisible walls, and destroying them.
With them gone, the last core appears, and Naruto rushes for it. He cuts through destroying it. Upon its death, the area ends up exploding. This knocks them out of the dimension they're trapped in, escaping out into the dark void with the others.
Outside Naruto, Donald and Goofy appear over the head of the ship, which has exploded. The casing around the innards colored blue and purple are exposed. Looking around, Goku has already become Super Saiyan, Allen is missing an arm wielding a sword, and Kenshin has this dark look in his eye. Sunny Go has some damage, and the World of Chaos looks completely intact.
Naruto looks inside the innards, and spots a blobby face shining within. Goofy then says, "Everyone's in trouble!"
"We'll give them hand!" says Naruto with confidence before he heads towards the blob. He performs Ars Arcanum destroying it. With it gone, Ansem himself halts. His body feels heavier without his added power source.
"He's weak now!" Allen says noticing his sluggish motion. He wields his sword and flies in, swinging to cut a path through the Heartless.
"Ka! Me! Ha! Me! HA!" Super Goku fires his strongest attack at the Seeker of Darkness.
Ansem summons an enlarged sphere of dark energy and fires, countering the blue beam. "Now, witness real power!" he says as he begins drawing out the rest of his strength. The sphere pushes Goku's attack back, who even goes straight to full power with no avail.
A giant sword of ice appears overtop of the World of Chaos courtesy of Elsa. "Gum Gum Battle Ax!" Luffy flies up and drops his foot down, forcing the ice blade to pierce into the titanic ship. This weakens Ansem enough that the sphere explodes along with the Kamehameha.
"Goofy!" Naruto jumps on Goofy's shield. He uses all his strength to push Naruto up at Ansem. "Donald!" Donald uses Thundaga to charge his sword. He then slashes, cutting through Ansem's heart.
Or he would. The naginata is blocking him. "You think you can defeat me?! I have the power of darkness on my side! You're nothing more than a child who needs something like the power of friendship!"
"So what? My friends are my power, and I'm theirs!" Naruto pushes using all his strength, cutting through the sword. Finally, his Keyblade cuts into the heart. "And that's okay!"
A blinding light shoots out from where he cut. The ship begins to shake and crumble, light shining from the cracks forged. Explosions riddle every part of the monster's body. Naruto flies away to escape the explosions.
After all is said and done, the light coming from Ansem blinds everyone. Naruto meets up with Donald and Goofy, but everyone else disappears into the light. The white shade fades, and gives us the darkness the realm so thrives on.
The colors of the trio's vision returns. Ansem floats in the middle of the void clutching his chest, standing in front of Kingdom Hearts' door. "You think this is over? Even if I have failed, I have still won the war. The Door to Darkness will never close again, not with one Keyblade. It alone cannot seal it."
"This guy just doesn't give up does he?" says Naruto with annoyance.
"With one more spurt of power, I'll be enough to destroy you two," he says. Though the trio can only look with perplexity at his declaration, because there's three of them, Ansem reaches out to Kingdom Hearts. Desperately he shouts, "Kingdom Hearts! Fill me, with the power of darkness!"
One of the doors slowly opens up, dark fumes expelling from its tips. This satisfies the Seeker of Darkness. "Only supreme darkness, something so powerful, so mighty, can belong to the realm of darkness!"
"Ansem, if that's true, then why do you need seven hearts of light to draw it out?" Naruto asks him solemnly. His eyes widen when he comes to a realization. "If it's darkness, you could just go after it. But it all makes sense now; Kingdom Hearts, is Light!"
The door fully opens, and out from its chambers pours pure light. The light shines upon Ansem, burning away at his flesh. Stunned, and blinded, his enlightenment only gives him more questions. "But why?!" Questions that will never be answered, for the light purifies and erases him.
Everyone looks in surprise at where Ansem used to be, questioning what happened. Naruto shrugs at it and moves forward with Donald and Goofy, landing on where the door stands.
The three heroes move to the door to push it close, but the doors are barely budging. Looking through the other side, Goofy sees something horrifying. "Whoa!"
"Don't look! Just keep pushin-huh?!" Donald sees it too, a large mass of Heartless rising up. "HURRY!"
"I can't close it!" Naruto says, defeated believing Ansem was right. A hand shoots out and grabs hold of the door from the other side, pulling it. "What?"
"Giving up already? Come on, I thought you were stronger than that dobe!" says Sasuke, his taunting giving renewed zeal.
"Sasuke! What are you doing?! Come on this side!" says Naruto in a hurried tone.
"I can't pass through. I'll find another way out!" He and him then work together to close the door. On the darker side, Darkside Heartless rise up.
Before they could make their move, light slashes through the Heartless. Donald and Goofy look through the other side with Naruto, and see something the former two thought they'd never see. With happiness as if they never had it, they shout, "THE KING!"
Yes, King Mickey Mouse stands on the other side with a Keyblade. His however is an inverse coloring of Naruto's Kingdom Key. "Naruto, let's close this door for good!"
"He has a Keyblade?!" Naruto says in shock.
"That's a story for another time," says the mouse man. "The Door to Darkness can only be closed by a Kingdom Key of Light and Darkness from their respective sides."
"But, your Majesty-" says Donald and Goofy in unison.
"Don't worry." Mickey knows exactly what they're thinking. But this is for the best. He has to do this. 'I have to pay her back for what she did too.' "There will always be a Door to the Light."
"But… Sasuke..."
"What are you complaining about?" asks Sasuke rudely. "I still haven't forgiven what happened. But, you were right." His words become more solemn. "If I'm going to make my own happiness, I'll do it without relying on others." Naruto looks at his rival, seeing he's serious about his decision. "The score isn't settled between us either. I'll be back before you know it."
With a nod, Naruto pushes on the door with all his might alongside Donald and Goofy.
Mickey's words as it closes are, "Thank you for protecting Naruto, Donald and Goofy."
"I'll find you again Sasuke. I promised Sakura, and I never go back on my word!"
Sasuke's words are, "Then get stronger before we meet again."
The door closes up tight. Naruto summons the Kingdom Key before spinning in vertically. He stops once it's sideways and draws it back, before thrusting it towards the door and using his other hand to turn the key. Light forms at the end signifying its special power. He then twirls it down before raising it high in the air.
Mickey's is less impressive as he holds it horizontally pushing his free hand to the end, and swipes right and left. Light forms at its end before he thrusts it up and turns it. The two keys release their light and lock over the door. The door itself disappears, fading away like a stranger in the dark.
The area around them begins to alter. Naruto looks up and sees the Sunny Go with everyone on board. The heroes who helped them begins to fade off, disappearing. Luffy waves with Yugi and Anzu. Elsa smiles and nods, knowing what this is to mean. As if resigned to fate, she disappears with the others.
Naruto sighs seeing everything being set back to normal. He looks back and spots Hinata and Sakura in the distance. "Oh, Hinata!" He runs over to his friends.
"Naruto!" Hinata reaches out for him, but the platforms they stand on separate.
Knowing that he'll never really reach them, he says, "Hinata, Sakura, you guys… Wait for me back at our world! I'll come back with Sasuke, I promise!"
With hope, Hinata says, "I know you will!"
"Just make sure you come back!" Sakura tells him, despite her heart wanting him to fulfill that selfish wish.
The platform separates, and disappears into the fading light behind them. Their actions save the Realm of Light, all the worlds destroyed by the Heartless returning to normal. Jasmine and Aladdin reunite in Agrabah with Genie, Luffy regroups with his fellow nakama, Goku goes back home, the Shinobi from the Elemental Nations return, and Elsa reawakens in Arendelle with Anna. Ichigo and Orihime are back home as well, along with Yugi and Anzu. Everything ends well.
…
"Well, this is new," says Naruto with a shrug. He, Donald and Goofy walk down a road underneath a deep blue cloudy morning of a sky. Surrounding them is a lush field of greenery and trees.
Donald then asks, "Where are we?"
"Well, since the End of the World was destroyed," begins Goofy as he starts putting two and two together, "we ended up appearing in another world. But I don't recognize this place at all."
"Least we're not back there… And the Gummi Ship Kaiba lent us was there too," says Donald with a groan. "Well, now what do we do?"
Naruto becomes tired thinking about what's left. "You guys still gotta find King Mickey, and I gotta find Sasuke. So they must be together." 'Whatever happened to Akatsuki?'
"But um, where do we start looking for that there door to the light?" asks Goofy. And in unison, they drop their heads in defeat.
The trio hear something up ahead. It is a yellow dog with a letter in its mouth. Of course, Donald and Goofy recognize it. "It's Pluto!" says Donald. "Where have you been?!"
"Hey, look!" This time, Naruto says this line. "That letter!"
"Gawrsh! That's the king's seal!" Goofy says with joyful anticipation. "Have you seen the King?!"
The dog runs off up the hill where the road leads. Naruto shrugs before chasing after Pluto. "Come on! This adventure isn't over yet!" Without even questioning it, they chase after Pluto with Naruto. The sun blazes overhead as they venture after Pluto.
One Year Later….
It's night. Clouds form overhead pouring rain upon the city below. A lone man, maybe, walks through the darkness, dressed in the dark leather of the black coat. His face invisible to the world, he continues stomping through puddles.
The dark puddles turn black, almost sludge like. Up from them rise Shadow Heartless. Unlike the usual variety, these are the size and shape of people with blue marks on their bodies. These Neo Shadows encircle him, smothering him with their numbers. He looks up wordlessly, seeing a man standing up at the highest point of the tallest building.
Light and darkness gather at his two hands, before he throws them back. In each hand rests a Keyblade, in the left hand Oathkeeper and the right Oblivion. He twirls them in the air and clashes them together, glaring at the dark entity before them. This being is the remains of what has happened to Kakuzu.
"Get out of my way," he declares, his silvery blue eyes visible in the darkness of his hood.
Kei: And with this, it's over.
Yusei: Over?! You must be outta your mind!
Kei: What?!
Julia: Kingdom Hearts didn't end with one game, and neither will this. We have atleast two more stories until Kingdom Hearts III, and this one's not even over yet.
Kei: IT'S NOT?!
Claire: We gotta conclude the Birth By Sleep Omakey, at the Keyblade Graveyard. Also, Happy Valentine's Day. *hands him a box*
Kei: Oh... Thanks. Uh oh, that means-
Claire: White Day.