Just talking

When our discussion was over, Kaity and I excused ourselves to find something to eat. Sora pointed us to the kitchen and let us know that we could help ourselves to anything we could find. I knew that as soon as we left they would start talking about us and what we had said. I wonder if they knew that we were going to talk about them too. I laughed at the thought. Gossip just worked like that.

"What's so funny?" Kaity asked while going through a cabinet.

"Nothing," I grinned, waving it off. I opened the fridge and closed it, moving to a cabinet.

After much searching, we came up with a few packages of ramen, an apple, an orange, and some weirdly named drink that looked like grape soda. Tasted like grape soda too.

We set a pot of water on the stove to boil for the ramen. There was a counter island in the middle of the kitchen with four chairs, I grabbed a seat and waited for the water to boil. I took the orange and started to peel off the rind. Kaity rinsed the apple and took a bite out of it before she sat down in the chair across from me.

"So," Kaity said after she swallowed. Her tone was low. Here come the questions... "Why are we lying? Things would have been so much easier if we had told the truth," she questioned, taking another bite from her apple.

I sighed and leaned back in my chair as I finished peeling my orange. "I'm not exactly sure. I just... had this feeling that it wouldn't be in our favor to tell them where we're actually from," I shrugged. "Maybe they know something about earth and our realm? And it's something bad and they'd kill us? I don't know, but going to see the king is a good idea. Maybe he can help us figure this out. Or point us in the right direction."

"Okay...," she nodded. "You're the queen of weird feelings, so we'll just go with that for now." Not a title that I love. I always have these stupid natural instinct feelings. Freaky part is when I don't follow them and end up being right. I've learned my lesson, though, and I act on them. Kaity has always followed her instincts without a second thought, but now that I think about it, she probably doesn't realize that what they are for her. "So, are you going to tell me where you got that weird bow?"

I took a bite from my orange before remembering that I left the bow out in the other room. "I got it after whatever happened to us in the ocean. For some reason, I somehow ended up in a personal version of Dive into the Heart."

"What?" Kaity questioned. "Seriously?"

"Yup," I said taking another bite out of an orange slice. I lifted my eyes to meet Kaity's. "What happened to you after you disappeared?"

Kaity took another bite from her apple. "I went to Dive into the Heart too," she replied with her mouth full.

I nodded thoughtfully. What I don't get though is that when you go through the Dive into the Heart thing, you usually are able to summon the keyblade afterwards, but we can't. Or at least, I couldn't. I think Kaity would have told me if she could, though. So if I ended up getting a bow, then Kaity should have gotten something too, right?

"Really? Did you get anything?" I asked after my conclusion.

Kaity smiled and set down her apple before she laid both of her hands out on the table. "I got these."

On her hands were a pair of black fingerless gloves. I don't know how I didn't notice her wearing them earlier, but I didn't. Guess I was too distracted. Thick silver cross's were on the back of each glove like an 'X' with a deep purple lining the silver. Other than that, the gloves were pretty boring. There didn't seem to be anything special about them at all. Then again, my bow is pretty boring when it's not transformed as well. Once Kaity thought I had my fill of looking at her boring gloves, she clapped both her hands together. A clear shimmering substance covered her hands and the gloves started to change.

The gloves stayed black and fingerless, but the purple lining along the silver began to glow like a neon sign. Bronze colored thread wove itself across the smooth black material of the glove and left behind a shimmering pattern. The pattern looked like a very intricate design of waves rolling across black water. The silver 'X' on the back of each glove glowed a little and started to... I don't really know... It looked like it started to move. Yeah, that's exactly what it was doing. The silver started to swirl, cycle, and mix as different shades of silver flooded the strips.

"Whoa!" I choked, swallowing a bite of my orange.

"Yeah, I know, right?" Kaity grinned. "And that's not even the best part."

I barely saw what she did next. Kaity lifted her right hand above her head and brought it down in a fancy, show-off move. When she stopped her hand just above the counter, three kunai were sitting in between her fingers.

"I can summon metallic objects!" She exclaimed. "Isn't that awesome?"

"Heck yeah!" I grinned.

Kaity flicked her wrist and made the kunai disappear. She picked back up her apple and took another bite from it. "So, what about your bow?" Kaity asked, talking around a mouthful of apple.

I groaned at her manners. "Please don't talk with your mouth full, Kaity." She childishly stuck her tongue out at me.

"My bow transforms, as well," I explained, ignoring her retaliation. "I would show you, but it's in the other room." I took another bite.

Kaity looked over at the stove. "I think the water is boiling."

I looked over at the pot and sure enough, bubbles were covering the top of the water. Standing up from my chair, I opened the two ramen packets and dropped them into the steaming water. Instead of sitting back on the chair, I hopped up next to the stove to keep an eye on the noodles as they cooked. I leaned my head back against the cabinets and lazily stirred the noodles into the water.

"So," Kaity said getting up to throw away her apple core. "Why do you think we're here?" She sat back down and propped her feet up on a nearby chair.

The question of the day. But why do I think we're here? We have nothing to benefit the Kingdom Hearts realm. Not that I'm saying that we don't have talents, because we do. But they're just recreational talents. Kaity can sing and can play trombone. I can draw and play the keyboard. We have experiences in other things as well, but none that would really benefit us here. So tell me, what good are those talents here? In this place you have to fight, kill Heartless, and fight some more. We'd be pulverized in seconds. But… maybe it's the realm that needs us?

"I don't know, Kaity." I said thoughtfully. "But whatever it is, we're going to find out." Kaity nodded in agreement. We both sat in silence while our food cooked. Kaity seemed to disappear into her own world, and I into my own. What use are we really? Sure, we could fight combat if we had too, and I'm sure we could help a bit with whatever Sora's next mission is, but we wouldn't have been transported here if it wasn't something dire.

I stirred the noodles one last time before pouring the flavor packets into the hot water. After nearly destroying all the cabinets, I found two bowls and served the noodles into them. Pulling two forks out of a drawer, I set one bowl in front of Kaity and one in front of myself when I sat down. Then the silence continued as we ate.

Our thoughtful stillness was interrupted by Sora and Roxas cheering from the other room. That's' when I realized that they had turned back on the game they were watching. From the cheerful yells, I guess their team had scored.

Kaity tilted her head towards the room and placed a sad longing look on her face. In a matter of seconds, the sad longing look was replaced with a flirty look. Not even having to ask, I knew that she wanted to go and talk to Sora.

"No." I said firmly. "Don't do it, Kaity."

"Aw, why not, Sam?" She whined. "It won't hurt anything."

"Yes, it will." I said peering up at her. "We don't need any more complications right now, Kaity."

Kaity looked at me, confused. "Complications?"

"You. Sora. Kairi." I said while ticking off my fingers. "We are not even going there."

"Oh, come on, Sam." Kaity said staring at me in disbelief. "Do you actually think that I would cause a war over Sora? When I already know that he's Kairi's?"

Truthfully, I didn't know how to answer that one. Since Kaity and I live so far apart, I rarely get any news about her at all. And vice versa. We know one another, but hardly see each other. I think that's' why we get along so well. We don't see each other a lot and aren't really involved in the others drama and life, so it's just easier for us to be ourselves around each other. To tell each other all the crap that's going on with ourselves and our worries and stuff. I never really thought about it, but our friendship is a really easy, laid-back one. Friendships like that seem to last longer, I guess. And survive life. Huh. Guess that's why we've been friend for so long.

How long has it been? Five...almost six years. Wow. I never actually realized how long I've know Kaity. I don't know how we seemed to retain such a connection, but we have. It was almost like the day we met, we were destined to be friends... Maybe that's it. Destinies holding all the strings and somehow made us come to this realm. Let me tell you something: I hate destiny. It can go die. I control my choices and what happens to me.

Anyways, now that I've gone way off topic, I trust Kaity and I believe her. If she says she won't try to steal Sora from Kairi, then she won't try to steal Sora from Kairi.

"No, I believe you," I said while mixing my ramen. "I'm just really worried. We being here is already changing the chain of events." I looked at Kaity seriously. "Before we know it, we're going to mess something up so drastically that we're going to destroy this whole universe/space-time continuum forever!" I finished my proclamation by throwing my hands up in the air.

Kaity stared blankly, "You've been watching Back to the Future again, haven't you?"

I lowered my hands and narrowed my eyes at her warily. "...Maybe."

Kaity sighed. "Well, I have a counter."

"Oh, yeah?" I said. "Let's hear it."

"Maybe we're not screwing up anything at all by being here," She said while pointing her fork at me. "Because we were meant to be here from the very beginning."

I just sat there in silence. After a minute, I narrowed my eyes at her. "Damn you for screwing up my theory. Now I have to start all over."

Kaity laughed while I took my frustration out on rising out my empty bowl at the sink. She followed a moment later. After she was done, she leaned against a counter while I returned to my seat. When I looked at her face, I was surprised to see a bit of distress in her expression.

"Sam," She said hesitantly. "What if we're stuck here in Kingdom Hearts forever?" She looked into my eyes. "What if we can't ever get home?"

I stood up and gave her a hug. "Don't worry, Kai. We're going to get home. You can count on it." I don't know if it's the truth, but, by all the forces of Earth, Heaven, and Hell, I am going to make it true.

I pulled away and gave Kaity a reassuring smile. Kaity gave a small smile back and I believed it. We will get home. I don't know when, but we will.

That was when we heard the front door open and two soft female voices enter the threshold of the house.