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It was late. The sun had long since set over the ocean, only leaving behind the feeble light offered by the pale moon and stars. Kairi stood on the short stretch of sand, moonlight illuminating her face and playing across her girlish features. She watched the lights in the houses dotting the mainland flicker out one by one. Just standing alone, silently waiting.
There was some compelling feeling that almost forced her to return to the each that night. She shivered, although there was no chill in the air. The thought that crossed her mind chilled her to the bone. The too-sudden realization that she had experienced this feeling before.
"Sora…" She bit her lip, trying to repress her thoughts.
Without warning her attention was drawn away. As she turned back to the ocean, she felt her skin go cold and the blood drain from her face. She didn't have any idea what was going on but all she knew was now, for certain, everything had started… What lay before her couldn't be good, and a feeling grew deep inside her heart that nothing would ever be the same again.
Occasionally, however, there are good things found in unexpected places. Then Kairi saw him. She could recognise him anywhere. It was Sora… HER Sora.
She stood, glued to one spot, her eyes inexplicably drawn not to Sora but to the fading darkness behind him. Sora himself lay stretched out on his back in the sand. He was still disorientated, unaware of his surroundings.
"Sora! Sora, is that you?" Kairi found her feet again, and found herself running to his side.
"Kai…Kairi?" Sora stuttered, looking up, disorientated, at his surroundings. Even in the dark of night he could recognize his home. It hadn't changed one bit, and he knew that even if he changed his home would be the one constant he could cling to in times of uncertainty. In a way it reassured him – allowing him to think just for a few seconds that just maybe, one day, things would go back to the way they were before everything. Back to the way it was all supposed to be. It seemed like decades ago, and in the same second it was hard to forget that it really had been only a year.
Before another word could be exchanged between them, or another thought could cross through Sora's head, Sora became aware of an unexpected pressure on his chest. A warm weight pressed against him, pushing him back into the sand and rendering him unable to move.
Kairi had flung herself at him, clinging to him like she would never let go… Like she could never let go. A dampness began to spread over Sora's shirt, as tears flowed unhindered from her eyes.
"I… I just c-cant believe… you're back. You're r-really back." She choked out between sobs.
Gently Sora shifted her weight aside and sat upright, a smile spreading across his face as bright as a sunrise over the ocean.
"Yeah… I really am."
And although Sora knew that nothing was the same, somehow just for now, he felt like it might all just work out. It might be good enough.
"Its dark." Sora aloud, as if noticing for the first time.
Kairi had detached herself from Sora, content for the moment just to wrap her arms around his shoulders and murmur the answers to Sora's many questions in his ear.
"Mm," She murmured in agreement, "but something just made me come back."
"Made you?"
Another noise of agreement. "… like that first time over a year ago. Something like that. Like you don't really have a choice at all…"
"… Destiny." Sora responded thoughtfully, more to himself than anyone else, before falling silent.
"Kairi… Where's Riku? Have you seen him?" the question had passed his lips before he even realised that he had asked it.
"Riku? I haven't seen him at all." Kairi murmured again.
Sora stared disappointedly into the distance, watching the waves crash predictably on the shore. One after another, almost like clockwork. If only life were so predicable. Despite himself, Sora began to think that retuning to the island wouldn't make everything alright.
Kairi just hugged him tighter, as if that would be enough to distract his thoughts from Riku.
"Lets go back to the mainland, okay Sora?" Kairi asked, her usual enthusiasm returning as she jumped to her feet and began to drag Sora along behind her.
"My mother…" Sora began cautiously, almost afraid of the answer he would receive.
"I'm sorry, Sora." She replied quietly, "She… she left town when everyone gave up hope of you ever returning. It was probably too much of a burden for her to handle."
Sora just nodded, not sure whether it was in acceptance of his mother's reason or on acknowledgement. However, he kept the question he had just formed to himself, although he couldn't restrain his mind from wondering why she seemed to be doing everything to avoid the topic of Riku. Was it to guard Sora, to protect his emotions or for some other reason? Sora couldn't tell.
"Come on. Lets go!" Kairi grabbed at Sora's waist, leading him forcefully to the small wooden boat tied to the dock.
"You can stay with me!" she said with an enthusiastic smile. She decided al that time ago to be with him no matter what. He had protected her, now she vowed to do the same for him, even if it meant protecting him from himself.
Nobody knew why it existed, the World that Never Was. Lights uselessly fought back the darkness , in a world that was never inhabited. It was a world without meaning, without purpose; almost as if it never had a heart to loose to the darkness. It was only fitting that only those without hearts inhabited that world.
Skyscrapers strained upwards against the darkness, the lights from their windows showing the presence of countless empty rooms. The streets below were lifeless and barren, leaving the silence to become almost deafening.
Though this silence, a set of footsteps drummed out a steady rhythm, and a black cloaked figure strode through the empty streets. The garments hem just hovering gracefully above the concrete of the road. Almost as if it were a game, the hem would dip towards the concrete, only to be drawn away again at the last second. Until, without warning, the footsteps stopped, leaving only the edges of the coat to sway; almost as if it were attempting to keep up the façade of motion.
Tendrils of darkness rose into the blackened sky, merging together and calling forth enough darkness to temporarily break through the natural barriers separating off the realm of darkness. Creating a portal, of sorts, for those who had already given over their very existence to the service of the darkness.
Not one thing in the black figures demeanor eluded to any degree of surprise, not in the slightest, when a second figure dressed in the same manner appeared through the temporary portal. Instead it seemed that the first person was more amused than anything else. You could almost hear the faint smirk in his voice.
"You have been expecting me." The figure stated as he stepped through the portal. Not a question, but merely a dry fact.
"Well… You're pretty easy to predict, you know?" Was the only reply offered.
"Why did you do it? Why did you free his heart… Set him free and return him to the Islands like you did."
"Why. I thought you'd be proud of me." Sarcasm this time.
"I see. So you wish to try and hide your true motives." he laughed, "You have no heart. Never forget that. DiZ plans have been delayed, for now, but do not expect me to be gracious to you when the time comes. Then you will finally be able to realise how little you were actually able to change destiny."
The figure brought a hand to his hooded face like he was yawning. By the time the hand was returned to its original place, the visitor was gone, back into the darkness whence he came.
"Yeah... Whatever." The remaining figure said aloud to the deserted city.
Authors Note: Yep. It's me again. GUESS WHAT! I finished Kingdom Hearts 2, WOOT! Omg Sora and Riku are so cute when they fight together against Xemnas...
And yeah. Please, please, please review. It would be really, nice? You know, just to tell whether people care about this story or not. Even if you have nothing to contribute.
I promise chapter 3 will be better. I wrote most of chapter 3 before this so... yeah. And if you didn't pick it up... All the chapter names are song lyrics. Look up the songs sometime. They're good.