Chapter 30: Heaven--FINALE (www . youtube . com/watch?v=vfR-mkJ3LF8)

Memo: UWAAAAA!!! Hahaha, success para mi! XD Though I must admit, this makes me sad... I will be sad to leave this part behind. But the third part will be fun. :) Thank you so much for reading~!

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Axel awoke the next morning to a soft, cool breeze blowing in his face. It probably would've chilled him had Nexus not been acting as a blanket to him, stretched across his body, sound asleep. He smiled. Not just at her, but at life.

Turning his head, he looked out toward the forest. A couple of birds were chirping at each other, and Axel could hear the sound of the surf from below. But other than that, the morning was calm and silent. He liked it here. If possible, he thought they should stay here.

But then again, they still had no idea where they were and whether or not it was okay for them to be there. He wondered if today they would come across the answers to their questions.

Sighing through his nose, Axel looked down at the beach, then froze. There, in fact, was someone. Someone, in fact, he knew.

"Nex," he whispered, squeezing her hand. She let out a little irritated noise, like as if to say, "Still sleeping, thanks."

"Nex, wake up!" Axel pushed Nexus over into the grass. She jolted awake.

"What?!" she squeaked. "What's going on?"

"Look, and tell me if I'm crazy for thinking someone is down there."

Axel pointed to the shore below, and Nexus gasped.

"Kairi!?" she whispered, looking at Axel, bewildered.

"Is it?" he asked.

"I think so..."

Crawing closer, Nexus peered down at Kairi, feeling kind of like a stalker.

"Yeah, that has to be her," Nexus said quietly. "She's the only other red-head I know besides you."

Suddenly three more people appeared, people neither Nexus nor Axel had ever seen before. Two guys and a girl in a bright yellow dress. They started talking to Kairi animatedly, hugging her and twirling her around. Nexus and Axel could hear their voices, but their words were jumbled together.

After a few minutes, the threesome left, calling out and waving to Kairi, then running on their merry way.

"We should go down there," Nexus said quietly. "I mean, if Kairi is back, then..."

"But I don't see Sora...or Riku," Axel told her.

"That doesn't mean they're not there. Trust me, where there's Kairi, there's bound to be Sora."

Nexus' PoV

Finally Axel's face softened, and I grinned. At last, we'd get to see everyone again.

Grabbing my pants, I stood up on one leg, hopping around.

"You know what this means?" Axel asked me. I shook my head, trying to put my other leg into my other pantleg. "Sit down before you hurt yourself."

But it was too late; I had already fallen on my butt. We giggled like school children.

"Anyway, if Kairi is here, that means we're on one of the islands in Destiny Islands," Axel said. I jumped to my feet again, pants on.

"We are, aren't we?!" I cried, overjoyed. "So this place is okay to stay!"

Axel smirked, pulling on his Organization robe.

"But..." I frowned in deep thought, not bothering to put on my shoes. "...But where can we stay? We have no munny."

"..." I could tell by the look on Axel's face that he didn't know the answer to that quesiton either. "...Let's see what Sora and the others say. Maybe they know someplace." He scratched the back of his neck in thought. "I could always get a job. I have skills."

"Unlike me," I sighed.

"Housewife."

"Work-a-holic."

We both grinned.

"Well, whatever," I said, looking down at Kairi as I pulled on my overshirt. "We'll figure something out."

"Yeah, I figure we've been through worse."

I had to laugh at that one. Just as I did, though, Kairi whipped around and looked up at us.

"Oh damn!" Axel hissed, and both of us dropped down behind the shrubs, hiding in the shadows.

Kairi stared up at where we were for a minute or so, then shook her head and turned back around.

"That was close," I sighed, standing up again.

"Loudmouth," Axel muttered, smirking.

"Shut up, you--hey, look! There's the King!"

I could see the King walking from where the threesome had run off to, and following him was Donald and Goofy.

"They made it, too," I said happily, nearly getting choked up. "So Sora has got to be here!"

"Then why isn't he coming outside, too?" Axel asked, obviously suspicious. I shrugged.

"I don't understand it, either."

I looked around us, making sure we weren't going to be leaving anything behind.

"We should head down there now," Axel said, pulling me along.

"Yeah, okay."

But just as we started down the rocky path, a gleaming light in the distant sky caught my attention.

"Look," I said, pointing. "What is that?"

"I have no idea," Axel replied, frowning in confusion.

The light I saw actually ended up being two separate lights, close together, and just before they hit the horizon, they materialized and fell into the water.

"Whoa!" we gasped, hurrying down the path a little further to get a better view.

Then suddenly I understood. I saw two heads break the surface of the water, one shaking out his spiky brown hair, and the other pushing away silver hair.

"Sora! Riku!" Kairi cried from the shore. The two boys looked at each other and grinned, swimming to shore as quickly as they could.

"C'mon!" I exclaimed, pulling Axel along.

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Sora pushed against the waves as he swam through the water, feeling like he couldn't move fast enough. Was this real life? Or only another good dream?

But he knew it was for real when he finally reached the shore, and two of his very best friends tackled him right back into the water.

Sora couldn't stop laughing, tears streaming down his face as he hugged both Donald and Goofy. Glancing at Riku, he saw that the King and Riku were reunited as well.

Wiping his eyes, Sora looked up at Kairi. Something deep inside him felt unusually complete. He held out Kairi's charm, then looked up at his one true love.

"W-We're back," he said, still grinning.

"You're home," Kairi said, holding out her hand.

Sora slapped his hand into hers, so that both of them were holding the charm.

"About time!" someone shouted.

Sora turned to see Tidus, Selphie, and Wakka running toward them. He laughed again. This was almost perfect.

"Whoa!" Kairi squealed as a big wasp flew in front of her face. She let Sora go to swat at it, sending the keyblade hero falling back into the water.

Suddenly they all heard a loud crack, and in a split second, the bug was in the sand.

"What--what just happened?" Kairi cried, looking down at the wasp. Its body was trapped under a bullet.

"He-ey!"

Sora whipped his head around, not believing his ears.

It couldn't be you, he thought, slowly getting to his feet.

"Well, I'll be damned," Riku said, smirking.

"N-Nexus!?" Sora cried, running toward her.

"Hey!" she shouted, running toward him. He laughed once again. She was kind of supposed to be dead, and so was Axel. And yet here they were, right in front of him.

"NEXUS!" Sora shouted, picking her up and spinning her around once when they reached each other.

"Hi!" she cheered, laughing.

"What?! How?" he laughed, putting her down. He looked at both Nexus and Axel in utter shock. "How are you alive?"

"Why does it matter?" both Axel and Nexus said in unison. Sora bent over at the waist, crying.

"Aww, I'm sorry," Nexus said, hugging him.

"Shut up!" he said, pushing her away and wiping his eyes. "I'm mad at you now! You scared me, Nexus!"

But he said all of this with a huge grin on his face, one that no one could take seriously.

"Hey, c'mon, Sora," Riku said, walking past the brunette and giving Nexus a hug.

"Hey, Riku," she said. "Long time no see, right?"

"You bet."

"Nexus?"

Nexus' PoV

"Nexus?"

I knew that voice. I had only heard it once before, but the strange nasal twinge to it made it so distinctive I couldn't even forget that voice in death.

A tiny, tiny girl poked her head out from behind Riku. She had super long black hair--the longest point at her knees--in a braid, which was completely messy but at the same time really pretty. Her face was round and doll-like, white skin and all. And her eyes...were super tiny, just little slits on her face. She is probably the most beautiful person I have ever seen.

"E?" I gasped, stepping toward her. She stepped toward me, and her whole face burst into life with a huge grin.

"Nexus!" she cried, bounding into my arms. She was tiny. And adorable. "I'm so happy to see you again!...desu."

She had the same strange accent as before, but now I had a face to put with it.

"You're adorable!" I exclaimed, pushing her away to look at her.

E was maybe five foot tall, at the most, and not super skinny, but not fat either--just in between. Completely adorable.

"So are you!" E cried, then back away. She fell into a low bow, looking at the sand. Her upper body was literally parallel to the sand below us. "I have never properly introduced myself. Tsuzuki Eibin desu."

"Ehhh?" I looked at Riku, then at ...E. "Where are you from?"

"Nippon!" she cried, jumping back up, springing to life. "...Desu."

"She's from a place called Japan," Riku explained. "Her name is Eibin, but everyone just calls her E, since it's easier to remember."

"And to pronounce," I murmured, wide-eyed. This was not how I pictured E at all. She was like...an even more adorable version of Yuffie!

"Are both of you going to stay here with us?" E asked, hugging Kairi's arm as the ginger finally joined us.

"..." Axel and I looked at each other.

"We don't have any munny," I said. "So I don't see how we can."

"Well, I owe you for what you've done for me," Sora replied. "But I still don't know if that will be enough."

"We should just build them a house!" E cried, bouncing over to Riku. I nearly laughed. The height difference was incredible. "Shouldn't we? We could all help!"

"We don't want to make you do anything you don't need to do," Axel said quickly.

"But what if we want to?" Sora replied, smirking and raising an eyebrow.

"Where?" Kairi asked, that being the first thing she had said at all. "I mean, on which island?"

"Why not this one?" Riku suggested, shrugging.

"YES YES!" E cheered, dancing over to me and hugging me. "We'll build you a house, Onee-chan ("big sister")!"

"Really?" I murmured, looking at the young people in front of me.

"We owe you," Riku and Sora said in unison. E continued to cheer, now dancing around Kairi. So adorable.

"Onee-chan needs an ie ("house")!"

"Then...we'll stay," Axel said slowly, a smile appearing on his face.

Suddenly they all broke loose in chatter, Sora telling us this and that about this certain place, Riku correcting him like a big brother, E dancing around with Kairi.

Smiling, I held Axel's hand, and together we walked on.

END

OF PART TWO!

E: AH! But this is not the end, tomodachi-san! Look for Paa-to San (Part 3) coming soon! Jaa bai bai!!