As the shadow got closer and closer she saw that it was Sora.

"What are you doing here?"

"I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about," he said while pointing to Kairi's dad, "Is that you dad?"

"Yea," Kairi answered and started sobbing and put her hands to her face and her face got all bloody.

"Did he mention something about Heartless??"

"You know about them??"

"So now it begins…"

"What did you say?"

"Oh nothing…"

"What are shadows?" Kairi asked.

"We'll talk about this later, right now we need to get your father to the hospital and see how bad it was. Then we'll set up a funeral for him okay? I'll pay for it."

"Why?"

"I'm sorry what did you say??"

"Why…why…why now? Why did he have to leave now??"

"It was his time. Let's go before it rains." Sora answered, and saw that clouds were starting to form."

A WEEK LATER (STILL IN FLASHBACK MODE)

A week later the funeral was finished and Sora pulled Kairi to the side of the church and told her that Heartless were beings without hearts.

"Really they are??"

"Yep. And I'm after them and to find my friends Donald, Goofy, and Riku."

"Oh okay…and why do you need me?"

"I need you to come with me to help me find my friends and you're the only one who could open the door to light."

"OOkkkaaayyy…I guess I could help you…"

"Okay then it's a deal. You avenge your father's death and I'll find my friends. Okay??"

"Okay… I guess…"

"Okay then first can we go to my home town I need to pack for our trips and stuff."

"Sure but what's your hometown?"

"Destiny Islands…" Sora answered with sadness in his voice.

"You sound sad. What's wrong?"

"My hometown was trashed by the heartless…"

"Oh…" Kairi answered, "I'm sorry to hear that. So where do you live now that your home is gone…"

"I live in Traverse Town," Sora answered holding back the tears.

"It's okay you can cry…" Kairi said with sympathy, and had started crying herself.

Sora burst into tears and leaned on Kairi's shoulder, while Kairi but her hand on his head.

END FLASHBACK

TWO WEEKS LATER (NOT IN FLASHBACK MODE)

"So we all set?"

"Yea I think we are…" Sora said while he packed some food and drinks.

"Okay so in the Accessory Shop there's a place where we can buy and airplane ticket to…"

Kairi was looking at a brochure of the tickets and said, "How 'bout Destiny Islands?"

"But wait… my island didn't it??"

"Well no but here it is." Kari said pointing to the picture of Destiny Islands, "Come on let's go!!"

Kairi grabbed Sora's hand and led him to the ticket booth.

Kairi ran up and said, "Two tickets please to Destiny Islands."

"Sure," The ticket attendant said while handing Kairi two tickets, "That will be $20 ma'am."

"Really!!" Kairi said with surprise, "I thought it would be more expensive."

"No, actually, Destiny Islands is an old place and now a tourist site. So it's a lot cheaper if it's old," The ticket attendant said.

"Oh cool!!" Kairi said.

Kairi and Sora headed for the plane tunnel, and boarded the plane. The plane wasn't very tight. So it was easy for Sora and Kairi to get through.

When they reached Destiny Islands' airport Sora and Kairi got off the airplane.

Sora headed for the airport tunnel and then headed for one of the brochures, and saw that on the old photo of the Islands it was all messed up. Houses and trees were everywhere and torn up. Then on the "Now" photo it was just the same as it was…Sora had started to wonder who or what could've renovated the Islands so quickly?

Kairi yelled to Sora, "C'mon I don't wanna miss the first tour!"

"Coming!!" Sora tucked the brochure into his backpack and ran to Kairi.

"So after this tour I…" Kairi said.

'That's impossible!! The last time I saw my home it was all trashed up and stuff. There's something wrong.' Sora thought.

"Hey Sora. Sooorraaa??" Kairi asked Sora.

"Oh yea sorry I just spaced off."

"As I was saying after the tour we could go to this spot here." Kairi said while pointing to a cave on the brochure.

Sora looked at the brochure and whispered, "The Secret Spot."

"I'm sorry what did you say?"

"Oh nothing never mind," Sora said, "Hey Kairi let's go to this spot first then we can go to the tours. Okay?"

"Awww, I wanted to see the tours first." Kairi said while making a sad face.

"Well I'm sorry but we have to go here first."

Sora grabbed Kairi by the arm and led her to the cave.

They entered the cave. They saw a door without a handle or doorknob at the end of the little cave. Kairi went to one part of the cave and saw a picture of two faces facing each other and smiling. The face on the left side was a young boy and on the right was a young girl. The young boy was holding a star-shaped figure to the girl.

"Hey Sora?"

"Yea Kairi?"

"Who drew these?" Kairi asked while pointing to the picture, "'Cause the young girl on the right side looks like me…"

Sora went over to where Kairi was and said, "I remember this. I did this when I was very young. For some reason I always had dreams of a young girl the same age as me sitting on the ocean shore both holding some kind of keys and laughing and talking. But then the heartless came out and started attacking us."

"Oh…"

"The dreams didn't stop until I met you. In the dream I always heard me saying stuff like 'Kairi watch out!' or 'Kairi on you left!' So I found this cave and started drawing this picture. I don't know but in the dream I always thought that the young girl was cute."

'Awww, he said I was cute!!' Kairi thought.

"You know Sora the weird thing is I had the same dream except we were running away from Heartless on the beach. We were both holding keys or some sort of keys, and then it ended. That's all that I saw. The dreams stopped right when my dad got sick and then died."

"Wow. Hey you know what the star-shaped thing is?" Sora asked Kairi.

"No."

"Well the legend says that if you share a poupu fruit, that's the star-shaped thing, you and that person are forever connected. But they're very hard to find."

'I hope he asks me to share a fruit with me,' Kairi thought.

"Hey Kairi…"

"Yes?"

"If we find a poupu fruit, will…will you share it with me?"

'OH MY GOSH!! He asked!!' Kairi thought with excitement.

Kairi's eyes started to fill up with tears.

Sora asked, "Are you okay Kairi?"

"Yes," Kairi said with happiness and wiped her tears away, "Of course I'll share one with you."

"Great!! So let's see if we can open this door."

The two of them felt around the door and on the door when suddenly they felt a strong gust of wind come from the door, and they were pushed back.

Sora's back hit one of the wide vines that were growing in the cave, while Kairi was thrown to the other side of the cave on another wide vine.

"Kairi!!!"

"Sora!! Help me!!"

Then the gust of wind ended and Kairi fell on the ground and went unconscious, while Sora fell and ran to Kairi.

"Kairi!!"

"Kairi are you okay?"

Sora put his head to Kairi's chest and heard a faint heartbeat.

"Oh Kairi," Sora said with tears in his eyes and picked up Kairi and started heading for the hospital near the airport.