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Chapter 2: Message Received

Sora sat up quickly and began choking as ocean water had washed up into his mouth and nose, making him breath it in. Sora spit out the remaining water he hadn't coughed up and looked around, he was almost completely submerged in water as the tide had risen past him. The blue eyed boy hit the water, annoyed it had risen up around him on purpose. He grumpily stood up an began walking to dry land, wet sand sliding off of him as he walked. Something shiny caught the corner of Sora's eye before he reached the beach, even in the slightly dark morning - Sora guessed it was about four in the morning. He turned to see what it was and discovered a glass bottle floating towards him. He waded over to it, grasping it in his hand before heading back to shore.

Sora shook himself off a moment and sat down on the familiar bent over palm tree just off the highest point the tide could rise. He looked at the bottle quizzically, wondering where it came from. He popped the cork off the top and dumped the note out of it, a small amount of water coming out with it. Luckily, the writing on the note had no been affected by the small amount of water contained in the bottle. The curious blue eyed boy unrolled the tightly wrapped note and was extremely startled to find his name written at the top of it. He scanned it over, wondering whether this was intended for another Sora. He considered this for a moment and then quickly threw the thought aside when he figured there were no other Soras and began to read:

Sora,

I don't know if you remember me, but this is Kairi. You know, the girl you used to play with on Destiny Island as a child? I'm sure you probably don't care about such things anymore after saving the worlds, but I always take the time to remind you of where you came from. Everyday for the longest time now I have written you a letter asking you how you are and telling you some things about myself and what's going on. I've sent these notes just as I've sent this one in hopes of it reaching you... I assume none of them have since I haven't received a thing back yet and you haven't returned to come and get me at Destiny Island.

I'm not disappointed anymore though, I should have known your promise was nothing but a lie to make sure I didn't cry when you abandoned me... I did cry, I always cry... I still cry. I will until I see you again or until the day I die, I'll cry for you. I miss you Sora, more than you will ever know. I've decided I can't anticipate your arrival here a moment longer, having faith that you actually will return. Riku hasn't returned either, but I knew he wouldn't... You just surprised me.

I know this won't reach you because none of the others have probably... But... if you do happen to get this... please Sora... I'm begging you... Come back to me. The closer you get to the light, the greater your shadow becomes... But even when you have been consumed in darkness, there will always be light... the light in your heart for yours is connected to mine... I promise you, I won't let the darkness take you... I won't.

Sora, this is my last message to you. Please, come and find me... I need you here with me.

- Kairi

Sora had an unbearably difficult time from keeping himself from sobbing aloud at this. His heart seemed to be smashed and smashed until it was nothing more than dust, even less than that. He couldn't believe the chances of him coming across a message Kairi sent him in a bottle. Sora let out a small laugh, she was still such a kid... sending people messages in bottles like they'd do on cartoons and in movies and such. Kairi hadn't changed, she was still the same; he was sure of it.

"I'm coming for you Kairi... I promise. I'm here, but where are you?" Sora said with a small voice.

He set the bottle down into the sand and pulled out the pencil that was also in the bottle that he hadn't noticed before. He wrote on it as neatly as he could but it was still extremely sloppy, I'm here Kairi. He set the pencil back into the bottle and stuffed the note in there as well. He popped the cork back on it and set the bottle in the sand, he knew Kairi would come here. This was the spot where the three of them always sat when they were together.

The blue eyed teen wiped the remaining tears from his eyes and decided to go on an even more thorough search of the island to find her. Now more determined than ever, Sora ran back to his abandoned house to change and wash up before setting out on an all day search and rescue mission to find Kairi.

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A cute blue eyed girl rubbed her eyes and yawned as she woke up from another restless night sleep. Kairi let out a tiny moan when she stretched and stepped out of bed onto the cold hardwood floor. Kairi glanced at the clock, only 6:30 in the morning. She grit her teeth when she stepped hard onto a nail her mother obviously left in her room when she was remodeling... or attempting it anyways. It hadn't punctured her foot, but it left a deep indent in the arch. The messy haired girl cursed under her breath as she continued downstairs to find no one was home, again. She ate a quick breakfast and dressed herself in a tiny pink dress with a white spaghetti strap. She wrapped a black belt with dangling straps on it around her waist, as she always did when she wore this dress. She slipped a few bands on her wrist and clasped her usual necklace around her neck, running a brush quickly through her matted hair. Kairi also threw on some light makeup so she seemed more awake.

The brunette quickly headed out to the spot she always sat in the morning to watch the sunrise, the old spot where her and Riku and Sora had all sat around all the time. She knew the sun wouldn't rise for a couple minutes so she walked to the spot, instead of ran like she usually did. It was still slightly dark out, so Kairi couldn't see too well. She managed to find her way over to the bent palm tree and jumped up onto it, wrapping the bottom of her dress under her arse so she wouldn't get pricked.

She sat there until the sun had completely risen and was shining brightly in the sky, lighting the whole sky. It wasn't high up in the sky yet, but it was completely visible above the horizon. She smiled happily at the sun shining gleefully back at her. The small brunette girl hopped off of the palm tree, feeling a glass bottle shatter beneath her foot. Fortunately, she was in shoes but it still managed to hurt her foot a little bit. She leaned back against the palm tree, lifting her foot up and looking down. She leaned over and picked up a piece of paper that had gotten slightly torn from the broken glass. She let the glass fall off of the paper to the sand with the rest of the shards. Kairi blew off some sand and unrolled it, it was the last letter that Kairi had written to Sora. She pouted, it hadn't gone anywhere but out to sea and back. She looked it over a moment and saw a foreign handwriting to her own.

I'm here Kairi.

Kairi's spirits lifted when she realized this was definitely Sora's poor handwriting. She almost screamed out in joy when she became aware that Sora obviously had gotten her message and was here on Destiny Island. A few stray tears fell down her cheeks, she had so many mixed emotions she didn't know what she was feeling. A breeze blew off the ocean, sending a spiral of choppy, brown hair in her face; some hair sticking to her cheeks because of her tears.

The tearing blue eyed teen threw her hands up in the air, releasing the note and sending it soaring away in the breeze off into the island. "SSSSSSOOOOOOOORRRRRRAAAAAA!!!" she bellowed.

On the opposite side of the island, Sora could have sworn that he heard his name. He shook his head, thinking he was delusional. When he heard it two more times, he knew someone was actually calling his name and that person was Kairi. "KKKKKAAAAAAIIIIIIIRRRRRRIIIIIIII!!!!!" he bellowed back, standing up in one swift motion. "WWHHEERREE AARREE YYOOUU?"

He waited a moment... nothing. He stood up from where he was standing and began running in the direction of where he heard Kairi's voice. Sora sped through forests and villages before, almost instantly, he reached the other side of the island. He looked around and saw he was alone. Sora quickly snickered when he realized how quickly he had gotten to the other side, his speed had increased greatly since he was last here.

He cupped he hands around his mouth and screamed out in nowhere, "KKKAAAIIIRRRIII!!!!"

A voice screamed back, closer now than it was before but still far away. "SSOORRAA!! SORA, WHERE ARE YOUUU?"

Sora couldn't stop himself from smiling, he'd finally be reunited with Kairi after all this time! Sora began running again in the direction of the voice. Over and over the girl called out 'Sora.' The voice was suddenly getting closer and closer until it stopped all at once.