"I choose...this one!" the brown haired, blue eyed boy said as he picked a starfruit off of the long tree extending out and over the ocean. "It looks ripe and juicy!" he said. He stood back up and ran down to the base of the tree. "Wanna share it?" he asked the brown haired girl waiting for him. She was Kairi, Sora's girlfriend. Sora and Kairi had been going out ever since Sora had returned to the Destiny Islands a year ago.
"Ok!" She replied with her usual happy disposition. She started juggling it with the two rocks she had carried here to give Sora a boost. She dropped it mid-air and it clonked her on the head. She fell backwards and landed on her butt. "Hey! Are you ok?" Sora asked. Sora looked into Kairi's eyes and they both started giggling. "Haha! You were always kind of a goof!" Sora said as he laughed. Eventually they calmed down. The sun was coming up over the horizon and it cast an orange and red hue over all the clouds. Kairi leaned on Sora's shoulder and sighed peacefully. "Ya know...I wish Riku was here to see this..." she whispered. "Yeah..." Sora said slowly and with remorse. They stared into the sunset and waited until the stars shone brightly. Sora noticed Kairi had fallen asleep on his shoulder and cradled her head gently. He sighed peacefully and then picked her up and laid her on his back, carrying her to her house. He laid her in her bed and kissed her on the forehead. "Good night, Kairi...Sweet dreams..." he whispered sweetly as he left the room. On the way back to his house, Sora noticed a letter in a bottle resting on the beach. He picked it up and took it out of the bottle. He inspected it closely. It read Do you remember me? In shiny gold letters and a neat handwriting. Sora sucked on his cheek as he thought. Then he wrote on the paper Who are you? and returned it in the bottle to the sea. Then he continued to his house, where he got into his sleeping clothes and nodded off to sleep.
He awoke in the morning to find Kairi knocking on his window. "Come on or else we'll be late for school!" she yelled as she rasped gruffly on the window. Sora groaned and told her that he'd be out in a minute, and he was in his school clothes. They walked to school together and talked along the way about various things. "So...did you do your homework?" Kairi asked casually. "What?!?! We had homework? CRAP!!!" Sora panicked. His face turned red as he went through his backpack to find his planner. Once in hand, he flipped to last night's date. In clear black letters it read: Write a 5 Paragraph Paper on what your favorite place to be is. Sora smacked himself on the forehead for forgetting to do it. "Look...it's just one assignment, I'm sure you'll be ok!" Kairi comforted. Sora sighed. "Yeah...I guess so..." He diverted his eyes and instead looked down to the beach. There lay a blonde girl in a white dress. Sora stared at her and recognized her but couldn't remember her name. He rubbed his eyes and looked back at that spot, but she had disappeared. "Hey...is everything ok?" Kairi asked with concern. "Y...yeah...just seeing things..." Sora replied distantly as if his mind were somewhere else. Kairi frowned but questioned no further. Then they arrived at school.
Sora stared out the window and at the beach the whole day. He wondered who that strange girl was. He wanted to remember. Yet, he wanted to forget, too.
At lunch, Sora was still spaced out. Kairi came up behind him and wrapped her arms loosely around his neck, resting her head on his shoulder. She smiled at him and kissed him on the cheek. "Feeling better yet?" she asked happily. Sora nodded his head and looked up at the clouds. "Yeah...just thinking..." he said slowly. Kairi hummed a song and looked up at the clouds. "Hey...have you ever wondered what would happen if...if the darkness came again?" she asked quietly. "Yeah...I have...often..." Sora whispered. He looked at his hands, expecting the keyblade to appear. When it didn't, he sighed. Then he looked back at the clouds. "Donald...Goofy...Riku..." he said sadly. Then he sighed and put his backpack on. "I gotta go..." he explained, "Bye..." Kairi looked into his eyes and sighed. "Ok..." she said, "But visit me after school, ok?" Sora nodded his head and went to class. It was a long day, but Sora made it through.
After school, Sora walked home. He threw his backpack in a corner, and laid in his bed as he sighed. He reclined and put his arms behind his head as a makeshit pillow. He stared at the ceiling and let out a long-drawn sigh. Then he turned over and looked out his window at the beach. The image of the girl in white laying on the beach flashed into his mind. Then he turned back over and stared at the wall. Then he got up and stared at the door. He noticed a white light coming from the hall. He slowly walked towards the door. He reached out and put his hand on the doorknob. He gulped and yanked it open. The white light engulfed him and he was knocked unconcious.
When Sora awoke, he was in a white hallway with 3 pictures hanging on the wall: One of Donald, Goofy, and Mickey, one of Kairi, and one of Riku. "Sora...you must choose...what is your destiny..." a voice said. Sora gasped and turned around sharply. "Who...who are you?" he asked. "So...you really don't remember me..." The girl looked down at the floor. She was the girl Sora had seen laying on the beach. "N...no...I don't" Sora replied sadly. After a while, the girl spoke again.
"Choose...Choose your destiny..." she said omniously, "Choose the girl, and you will stay on the Destiny Islands forever, and you will never see your other friends again...Choose Riku and you will find him...and what you find you will have to live with forever...whether you want to or not..."
"Tch..."
"Choose Donald and Goofy and you will get the keyblade back, and see all the rest of your friends...but you will never be able to return...to your other friends..."
"Why would I do that!" Sora exclaimed.
"Because...a new darkness is rising, and it will destroy all the worlds if you don't do something about it..."
Sora remained silent. Then he grimaced in a painful memory. "Fine..." he finally said. He caressed all the pictures before he chose one. "Riku...Kairi...I'm..." he shed a few tears and then looked back at the girl and then back at the pictures, "I'm sorry..." he said quietly. "I choose...Donald and Goofy..."
"Very well..." she replied. The pictures of Kairi and Riku were engulfed in a yellow light and disintegrated into the air. Sora reached out his hand as if to save the pictures, but stopped half way, realizing it was useless. "You will save the worlds once more...at the price of the ones you love most..."
Sora looked solemn as he turned fully around and sadly trudged towards the girl. "Please...tell me who you are..." he begged.
"I am...Namine..." she said as she smiled sweetly.
"Namine!!!" Sora yelled. He remembered. All the pictures of Castle Oblivion flashed through his mind. He fell unconcious and hit the floor with a thud.
"Yes...your destiny is...chosen..." Namine said. Sora was engulfed in a white light and returned to his bed, and there he remained until the morning.