Disclaimer: The song Passion is copyrighted to Utada Hikaru and is from Kingdom Hearts 2.
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Unsung Hearts
III. Passion
Kairi's POV
The three of us… way back when… we were always together. On the islands before everything that happened… we did everything together. We had everything planned, always looking to the future. We would sail off, the three of us, on our little raft. Adventures would be ours… new places and new destinations… new everything. It was frightening. But we would be together… always… and we would do it together. Together. Just the three of us.
Then that night… that storm… it all happened so fast and that window opened… it opened in the sky… swallowed all three of us… It felt right and wrong at the same time. Familiar and yet… alien. And then I was left alone. All alone. That promise the three of us made… together forever… gone. Broken… lost… I thought then… that this was it… the end. I'd never see you guys again… never hear your laughter… never hang out again…
But it wasn't really the end. And it took forever… but we all were finally back together again. The three of us on the islands again. All together, like it's supposed to be. Never again, right? We'll never be separated again. I don't think I could stand it. That lostness… it ate away at me… at my heart and soul. Even when the heartless stole my heart… I could still feel it… still feel that lostness. I don't want to again. Never again. Please don't leave me!
Change! I wish so much that we could change the way things went. How the events played out. That we could go back. What would have happened to us if we hadn't have gone through that window? What if we had taken the raft out the day before? Or… if we really had to cross the window… could we have held hands and gone together? Instead of being lost to each other for so long… it could have all gone so differently if we had remained together… I think that… I would have liked that better.
But I guess… I really don't want that. The change. If everything hadn't happened the way it did… we wouldn't be the same people we are today… not really. We wouldn't have seen all we did… nor meet everyone we did. All those adventures… whether or not we were together… they still happened and meant a lot. They changed and shaped us… made us grow up. No… I wouldn't want to take that away from us. I guess I don't have any regrets… and I hope you two don't. I hope you can forgive me for being separated from you… I hope we can all forgive each other…
We had everything planned as kids… on the islands. Everything was planned… But now… what about now? Now that we are older and back on the islands… Our futures aren't planned. No raft… no adventures… But that's okay, isn't it? It's okay to live day by day. No reason to plan when we've seen what we've seen. You can't plan for that, can you?
I had almost forgotten about that love that I felt. Sure, it was always the three of us, hanging out together. But one of you… I had deeper feelings for. Nothing ever came of my feelings, of course… but I always had the feeling that… maybe… he… that you… Sora… I thought you felt the same way. But I guess that's another thing of the past as well. Those eyes don't light up for me anymore. Sometimes… I don't think they ever did… You never really liked me, did you? Not like that…not the way I needed you to… I thought that… when you finally found me… I thought that… it was because…
But I was wrong, wasn't I? I think… I think that you like someone else… I don't know who yet… but… you stopped paying so much attention to me… once we got back… not in like a bad way… just in a… I don't know… I just… don't know…
We never did get to go on that raft trip. It was destroyed, wasn't it? The raft… on the first night that that window opened. Maybe we could build another one. And maybe we could go on another adventure. Only this time… we'll go together… the three of us…
Sora and Riku… I miss that closeness we had…
If we advance forth, can we ever meet again?
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Notes: Kairi seems kind of… schizophrenic in this story.