Authors Note: I finally got chapter 13 up. Yay me! And haha, I just beat Kingdom Hearts 2, after like what, having it for almost two years. Oh wait, this is coming from the girl who took 3 years to beat Kingdom Hearts. Haha. I hope you like this.

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Sora had left... but that didn't mean Roxas was alive. Kairi stood up and stretched her arms out, then hung her head in sadness, and she felt her eyes begin to water again. Wiping the tears away, she sniffled and looked over at Riku who smiled up at her.

'You're too beautiful to cry Kai,'

She whipped around to see where the voice had come from, but no one was there, nothing was there except the darkness. Kairi sighed once more until a thought hit her... something Sora had said.

"The Sora who's happy to see you be happy, even if it's with someone else"

Someone else.

Roxas.

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"How could I not have realized it sooner?" Without another word, Kairi charged out of the cavern, leaving a still very confused Riku behind.

When she had reached the light at the end of the tunnel, she squinted at the bright sunlight filling her now delicate eyes. In a moment, she realized someone was standing on the shoreline, staring at the open sea, but she couldn't make out who it was. As she stepped out of the "secret place" completely, she felt her foot catch on a something, and she began to fall face first into the sand, but before she did, someone caught her and pulled her away from the sandy ground.

"You always were quite the clumsy one Kairi." She went to look up at the person who caught her, but they were gone, and she had fallen onto her knees when they had let her go.

"Was anyone even there?" Kairi held her head, then remembered why she had come outside in the first place. "Roxas!"

Kairi ran down the beach, no one hearing the frantic steps she took as she searched for her missing love.

--Nightfall--

Night had fallen over the sanded beaches of Destiny Island's, as Kairi continued to frantically search for Roxas... but she found no one. Even RIku had left the island... Kairi shook her head sadly. She wasn't giving up, even if it took forever to find Roxas.

"I love him too much to stop searching-" Kairi rubbed her eyes as tears formed in them again.

She couldn't stop them anymore, the tears would be permanent if she couldn't find Roxas again. It was decided in her mind that she couldn't live without him, and that wasn't ever going to change. As she sobbed on the shoreline, a voice called out from behind her, softly, as it had the first time.

"You're too beautiful to cry Kai,"

She turned her head, and this time, someone was actually there, perched against a tree, his hand brushing through his spiked blonde hair. She studied the way his body perfectly arched into the tree as he yawned and stretched his arms over his head. When he noticed her staring at him, he winked a single one of his oceanic blue eyes and grinned towards her, and Kairi felt her heart flip in her chest instantly.

It was Roxas.

Kairi rubbed her eyes and looked again, and he was still there, he hadn't left yet, does that mean he was truly there this time?

"R-Roxas?" Kairi managed to squeak out of her mouth.

"Don't cry anymore Kairi, I can't see you in pain any longer," Roxas smiled and opened his arms up in the air, waiting for Kairi.

"Roxas!" Kairi ran over to him and leapt into his arms, and she just let every tear, every bit of sadness out of her, as he held her crying in his arms. "You came back!"

"Yes, I did. When Sora came back into the spirit world, I talked to him, and he explained to me why he left... but I wasn't sure if I was able to come back. My life force that had been sustaining me had been drained away by Sora."

"But you're back now!" Kairi hugged him tightly, but Roxas shook his head.

"No Kairi," He stepped away from her and sighed. "I'm not. I'm a Nobody again. I don't exist anymore."

"You don't have a heart anymore... you're an empty shell," Kairi whispered under her breath.

"I could come back you see, but only if I agreed to become my former self, a Nobody once more. Except this time, I don't have my other half to join into as one. It's just me, and Naminé now..."

Kairi tightened her hands into fists and glared at Roxas.

"She is still a part of you Kairi. You can't stop that-"

"She caused all of this, she caused me to kiss Riku, she pushed you away from me, and now I don't have you anymore-"

"Naminé doesn't control you Kairi, just remember that." Roxas smiled and turned away from her.

"I love you Roxas, please don't leave me!" Kairi yelled as he began to step away from her.

"I wish I could tell you I love you and actually mean it." With that, he dissapeared into the darkness before them, and all Kairi sat back on the sands, staring at the ocean before her.

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'Kairi, why is it that fate tries to keep us apart? Are we truly destined to have to always fight to be together?' Sora frowned and looked over at Kairi face, a large grin plastered across it.

'You ask to many questions Sora.' Kairi turned away from him and sighed deeply. 'You have to leave again soon. You and Riku both, and I'm going to be stuck here all over again,'

'I'm not leaving you behind this time Kairi. You're perfectley capable of fighting,' Sora set his head on her shoulder and whispered, 'But I promise I'll always protect you.'

"You really did love him, didn't you?"

"Naminé, why would you care?" Kairi muttered, her head hung down, her arms clung to her knees.

"There was a time, when I thought Roxas and I would be together forever, when you and Sora were... but then he died, and I wasn't able to connect with Roxas any longer. He forgot me. He forgot what he was, and he became human in Sora's place. He is still half of Sora. Half of who you really loved in the first place." Naminé crouched in front of Kairi and sighed. "All I wanted was to be with him, because, I loved him too... or did I? Was it possible for me to ever love to begin with? He wanted you, and I tried manipulation to get him... I caused him to lose you. You to lose him."

"What are you saying?" Kairi brought her head up and met Naminé's eyes.

"I'm going to fix what I've done."

Authors Note: Chapter 14 is going to be my longest chapter yet, so it will take awhile to type it up, so have patience with me! And please review with that oh so wonderful purpley button!