I do not own Kingdom Hearts, Square Enix does

If I do own Kingdom Hearts... I don't want to think about it

Darkness Over Truth, Truth Over Darkness -7-

With Xemnas had finally been defeated; everything seemed to have return to normal. And as Kairi, Mickey, Goofy and Donald waited for both Sora and Riku to return, the red-haired girl turned around to look at the shadow lurking behind the tree not too far from the beach. When Arianna had regained conscious on the beach under a palm tree with Kairi hovering over her, she was surprised and felt something she had never felt in her life, was it embarrassment? The King had mentioned that since Arianna just had her heart restored, she might be feeling a little bit funny for quite a while. After all, the emotions half a heart could have is nothing to the emotions of a full heart, and now Arianna would have to get used to feel all the feelings she didn't know from her previous state.

"Anna, come on, I'm sure Sora and Riku would be here soon!"

"Y-Yeah… give me a minute…" Kairi then became worried and approached Arianna who had not even move an inch from the tree.

"Are you alright, Anna…?"

"I think I might need some time to get used to all this… His Majesty did say that I'd feel funny for quite a while, I just hope it'll all go away when Sora and Riku get back…" Kairi do admit that Arianna looked a bit funny, her face all flushed like that, it's new to see the usually composed Arianna like that, but Arianna just had her heart restored, so she must be struggling to get everything together.

"It's okay, Anna. I'm sure Riku and Sora would be glad to see you alright, no matter how flustered you might look."

"… Thank you, Kairi. I didn't know that… restoring my heart would resulted in this…" Arianna said, placing a hand on her chest, where her now complete heart resides.

"Everything needs some time to get used to, Arianna. I'm just glad you're alright." King Mickey said, approaching the two girls when he noticed that Kairi had not returned to the beach after trying to approach the still flustered Arianna.

"I am too, Your Majesty." Arianna then nodded towards Donald and Goofy who had also approached her in worry that something might happen to her again. It was for Sora, I'm so glad he had such good friends; Arianna thought as Donald and Goofy suddenly erupted into squabbles yet again that was caused by Donald's slight impatience.

"Maybe… after this, I'd want to hear Sora tell me about the adventures he had with you guys. Looking at you three, adventuring together seemed so much fun. I'm sure Sora had much to say." Arianna suddenly said out of the blue as the two creatures then turned to her, making her flustered all over again.

"Well, Sora did say once that he'd tell you everything he'd done when we were travelling. I'm sure Sora would tell you lots of things!" Goofy said while Donald shook his head.

"Sora would probably boast to her, making her believe that he's the hero of everything." Donald harshly said before Kairi cut him off when the girl pointed upwards towards the sky, as they all noticed two lines in the sky, falling closer and closer to the sea. Arianna suddenly felt so happy, so light, when she noticed that it was indeed Sora and Riku that were falling. She then joined Kairi near the water, waving towards the boys who resurfaced from the sea and started to swim towards them. Arianna then watch as Donald and Goody catapulted themselves unto her poor little brother with a giggle before she smiled when Kairi and Sora both grinned at each other, happy to be back together. When two arms suddenly wrapped themselves around her waist, lifting her feet up from the sand, she couldn't help but let out a little yelp, and when she heard a familiar voice laughing behind her, the owner of the muscular arms that are currently wrapped around her, she couldn't help but laugh along. Riku then lifted Arianna up from behind and turned her around to let her fall into his arms, still laughing but with a brush of red across her face, and Riku couldn't think of anything to say about how Arianna looked right now other than so bright and so beautiful.

"Not fair! I want to have the first hug!" Sora suddenly said, snapping both Riku and Arianna out from their moment as Kairi silently jabbed Sora with her elbow.

"Sora, can't you see you just destroy a moment? Riku and Anna were so happy!"

"Still! I want the first hug!" Riku then gently placed Arianna's feet back on the sand as the girl then eagerly gave her brother a big hug, it has been too long since she had had the chance to hug him like this. Arianna then pulled back and leaned in so she could nuzzle both of their noses together as the siblings giggled with one another.

"I missed you so much, Sora."

"I missed you too, sis!" Sora replied, giving his somehow now a little shorter sister a tight hug before releasing her all of a sudden.

"S-Sis! Are you still sick? Are you alright? Did it hurt?" Arianna was surprised for a moment when Sora suddenly bombarded her with questions, and after a moment, she smiled so brightly before she started to laugh, making Sora blushed bright red on the face.

After some explanations about Arianna's conditions from the King, it was time to say goodbye. But of course this time, the goodbye is followed with a promise to meet again. After they had escorted Mickey, Donald and Goofy off from the island, the four children sat on the sand, looking as the sun started to set. Riku sometimes taking glances to Arianna, afraid that the wind might cause some unnecessary problem.

"Everything's alright now… as alright as it can be." Arianna said, breaking the previous comfortable silence they were in.

"We can be normal again…" Kairi said as Sora groaned.

"But normal seemed so boring! Can we just do something fun instead?"

"Well, you two can go back competing like you used to." Kairi said, indicating to Sora and Riku as Arianna giggled when both boys groaned.

"That's when we were kids! We're older now!"

"What do you want to do, Anna?"

"I don't know… the word normal now seemed so much fun, I hadn't been able to do much before…" Riku seemed to have an idea as he then stood up and held his hand out for Arianna to take.

"Well then, I guess there's only one thing to do, if you wanted to be a little normal." The three others were confused as to what Riku is actually saying, but Arianna took his hand nonetheless. But she did not expect to suddenly be swept off of her feet by Riku who quickly dashed away from the flabbergasted Kairi and Sora before the latter let out a shout and quickly got up to his feet to give chase.

"Riku!" Arianna, who was in quite a panic, wrapped her arms around the boy's neck to prevent her from falling out of the boy's arms. Arianna's face then blushed bright red when the boy who is holding her in his arms decided to give a small kiss on her forehead before continuing to run, now accompanied with a laugh as they heard Sora and Kairi yelling at them to slow down.

"I love you."

Well, that was short... this is the last chapter for the story folks!

Hope you all enjoyed it!

I don't know if I would make another story about Kingdom hearts, but oh well...

Review would be appreciated, thanks!