Author's Note: At last! The conclusion of the Kairi and Kairi (plus Tifa and Roxas) crossover! I don't even know if I have anything to say about it... I don't think I do... Enjoy!

"So how much convincing did it take your parents to let you leave the Islands?" the older Kairi asked, obviously trying to make some sort of conversation.

"None."

"You didn't tell them?"

Kairi laughed. "Of course I told my dad. As soon as he got it through his head that I wasn't asking him for munny, he told me to go and have fun."

A bit of sadness tore through her at that thought.

She definitely couldn't call the events of yesterday "fun". "Interesting", maybe.

"What about your mom?" the older Kairi asked.

Kairi stared for a second, a bit confused. She hadn't been asked about her mom in ages. Of course, since they were on the subject of parents, and the fact her mom wasn't around anymore hadn't been specified—

Still, she had no clue what to say.

She just shook her head and hoped that it got her point across.

Thankfully, it did.

"Can… can I ask what happened to her?"

Kairi chuckled. "You can ask. I can't answer. I don't remember when she left; I- I wasn't old enough. And dad doesn't talk about her much." She slowly ate a fry, unsure of what else to do. "What about you?" she asked, then, looking up at the older Kairi. "What's your family like?"

"I was adopted," the older Kairi said. "I wasn't born on the Islands."

Kairi couldn't help but stare. She couldn't imagine not spending her entire life on the Islands. Granted, she couldn't really imagine growing up with Riku, either. And yet, both of those things had happened to her – a parallel version of her, but-

"Do you remember your real parents?" She found herself asking. She grimaced immediately after doing so. That probably wasn't something she should've asked about…

"Not really." The older Kairi didn't seem very bothered. "I remember my grandma, though."

Roxas slowly reached over and snagged one of the older Kairi's chicken fingers, looking very much like he was trying extra hard to be sneaky about it. The older Kairi didn't say anything, so he either succeeded or she just plain didn't care. Kairi had a feeling it was the latter, and couldn't help but laugh a little.

Sora used to do that to me all the time…

Thinking of what Tifa would say if she had heard that thought, Kairi quickly corrected:

And he'll probably do it again, once I have him back.

"Why do you remind me so much of Sora?" Kairi asked, looking at Roxas. The question had been nagging at her for a while, and now seemed like as good of a time as any to ask. "You aren't, like, his brother or something, are you?"

Roxas laughed, and since he had been in the middle of taking a drink, ended up coughing a couple of times. He quickly grabbed a napkin to wipe his mouth. "No," he said, and then coughed a few times more. "No, I'm his Nobody."

Kairi stared.

Tifa seemed a bit surprised.

"What's a Nobody?" Kairi asked.

It was Roxas's turn to stare.

"You don't know what a Nobody is?"

"Should I?"

"Give her a break, Roxas," the older Kairi said. "I didn't know what a Nobody was when I was her age."

Roxas made a face, but then nodded. "Well… to put it simply: when someone loses their heart and becomes a Heartless, the body that they leave behind becomes a Nobody."

Kairi made a face.

"Sora lost his heart?"

"He sacrificed it to save mine," the older Kairi explained.

Kairi couldn't help but smile.

How so like Sora.

"He would…" she whispered.

She wanted him back.

"Shouldn't you two not exist at the same time?" Tifa asked after a moment.

"Well, I brought Sora back," the older Kairi said.

"From being a Heartless?" Kairi asked.

The older Kairi nodded.

Kairi frowned. "That sounds like it should be impossible…"

"Not necessarily," Tifa said, quickly, waving the matter aside. "What isn't possible, is that you-" she stared pointedly at Roxas "-and Sora should not be even remotely complete without each other."
Roxas grinned. "That's where being a partial Replica comes in."

Kairi's reeling thoughts about Sora – him being a Heartless, this other Kairi bringing him back, and how that all could possibly similar to her own universe – were abruptly brought to a halt. She joined Tifa in regarding Roxas with a baffled expression.

Roxas raised his eyebrows slightly, seeming to enjoy this.

"Your universe is weird," Tifa said finally.

"I'm part Replica, too," the older Kairi added.

"Do you have a Nobody?" Kairi asked.

Tifa laughed. "Don't be silly, of course she doesn't. She can't, and, technically, neither can you. It goes against all laws of both our universes. Your status as a Princess of Heart completely rules out any possibility of becoming a Heartless."

"What's a-" Kairi began.

"I never said I was I Heartless," the older Kairi said before she had a chance to finish. "And I do have a Nobody. If I didn't, our universe would be lacking a Namine, and yours lacking a Riku. And, I suppose, a Namine, too."

"I am so confused…" Tifa muttered, rubbing her head. "Absolutely nothing of what you just said should be possible."

The older Kairi just shrugged.

"Let me get this straight," Kairi said. "You're Nobody is Namine?"

"Yes."

She blinked a few times. "Okay, I second Tifa's earlier statement: your universe is weird!"

"And your universe isn't weird to us?" Roxas replied.

"Hmm… point taken…" Kairi turned to Tifa. "Back to my earlier question; what's a Princess of Heart?"

Tifa groaned and rubbed her temples.

"Princess with a heart of pure light," the older Kairi explained.

"Hence why she can't have a Nobody…" Tifa muttered.

"And I'm one of them?"

"I would assume so," the older Kairi said. "I'd figure that that's something that would be the same between our universes."

"Now that you mention it…" Kairi said, thoughtfully. "I think I remember Maleficent mentioning something about me being a Princess of Heart."

"Maleficent!?" Roxas asked, seeming rather surprised.

"Yes…" Kairi replied slowly, glancing around. Everyone was regarding her with surprised or even horrified expressions. "Why are you all looking at me like that?"

"You spent time with Maleficent?" Tifa demanded, sounding appalled.

"It was… Sora's idea…"

"I suppose that would make sense," the older Kairi mused.

"What?" Kairi asked.

The older Kairi made a face. "Sora… Maleficent… Sora, you know, falling into darkness…"

Kairi frowned. "Are you saying it's her fault?"

"She's easily a factor," the older Kairi said.

"Back up," Tifa interrupted. "You spent time with Maleficent!?"

"Why is this such a bad thing?" Kairi asked.

"Because she's evil! Evil! She destroyed countless Worlds, my own included! And you lived with her!?" Tifa seemed very upset, very confused, and possibly slightly angry. Kairi remembered someone mentioning yesterday that she yelled a lot, and was starting to understand what they meant. Tifa was very expressive with her emotions when she was upset about something.

"We- we didn't have anywhere else to go," Kairi stuttered. "Our home was-"

"There was Traverse Town! Aerith and Leon and all them were there for a good five years! You could've gone there!"

Something very, very upset was rising up within Kairi. She could feel tears beginning to sting in her eyes, and when she spoke again she was almost screaming. "I trusted Sora, okay? I trusted him! I thought he knew what he was doing! I- I never liked Maleficent! I avoided her like the plague! Sora avoided her, too, honestly. He only put up with her because he had made some deal with her that if she helped him find me that he would help her with- I don't know what it was. I wasn't told details; Sora was freakishly overprotective of me. Like, Riku to Namine, freakishly overprotective of me." The anger was quickly fading and leaving her to the grasps of sorrow. The words were catching in her throat, but she got them out anyway: "I- I was his princess, and… he was my knight…"

The sudden realness of all their silly childhood games hit her hard.

She was a princess.

Did that actually make him a knight?

"He was my knight…" she repeated, slowly. "I trusted him. I never thought he'd betray me. I- I doubt he even meant to—things just happened, and-"

Sorrow was quickly becoming firm determination.

"I want him back. I want my knight back, I want my Sora back. I need him." Her voice did not falter now, as she spoke. "I do not care what it takes to find him, I do not care what it save him; I am not just going to sit back and let him destroy himself. It is not going to happen! As soon as I find him, things are going to change. The darkness is not going to have him."

They all just stared at her. Roxas looked just plain surprised. The older Kairi seemed flat out stunned. Kairi didn't know what Tifa's expression was, because she would have to move to see her, and didn't really want to do so. Neither did she want to think of what the poor employees of this restaurant thought of her right now…

Finally, Tifa spoke up: "Kairi… it's not that simple…"

She swallowed. "I don't care if it's not that simple," she replied, firmly. "It's what's going to happen." She turned to Tifa then, and found a smile creeping onto Tifa's face.

"I like that attitude," Tifa said. "Where was it last night?"

Kairi shrugged. "I don't know. Where was it five months ago? Why did it take me so long to figure out just how much I need him!?"

"Because you wanted to be strong on your own," the older Kairi replied.

Kairi blinked. Was that it? Was it really that simple?

"That, or something was trying to convince you that you didn't need him," Roxas said. "The darkness usually likes to make you think that you have to go on your own."

"Wouldn't that mean that she'd have to have a Shadow though?" the older Kairi asked.

"Not necessarily," Roxas said. "She'd just need to be influenced by the darkness in some way."

"Sora's Shadow could have easily done it," Tifa mused.

Kairi laughed bitterly. "So everything's his fault?"

Tifa shrugged. "I got used to blaming Sephiroth for everything that went wrong in Cloud's life, and I was usually placing the blame in the right place."

"But how could Sora's Shadow have gotten to me and convinced me that I didn't need Sora?"

"He convinced you that Sora was gone, did he not?" Tifa mused quietly.

Kairi bit her lip. "I'm sure some of it very well could have been his fault, but I'm going to say that some of it was my own stupidity for not realizing that Sora's my knight."

"Oh, denial," the older Kairi sighed wistfully.

"Hmm?" Kairi asked,

"Denying that you like Sora."

"I never said I liked him in the first place!"

Roxas snorted. It reminded Kairi very much of when Sora would do the same thing in regards to Riku and Namine. (The few, brief moments that Riku's affection for Namine came up. To Kairi's knowledge they still hadn't admitted their feelings for one another… things she didn't want to worry about at the moment…)

After a bit, Roxas pointed to the older Kairi's last remaining piece of chicken.

"Are you going to eat that?" he asked, looking like he was about to grab it.

The older Kairi snatched it up before he could fully grab onto it. She ate it in two bites.

"Yes, yes I am."

Kairi glanced down at her own food. She still had a piece of chicken left, and she wasn't feeling very hungry anymore…

"You can have mine, if you want," she told Roxas.

He shook his head. "Nah, that's okay."

"You should probably eat it," Tifa said. "There's no telling when we might have a chance to stop and eat again today."

Kairi nodded and tried to finish it. She only managed a few small bites, and she washed them down with what was left of her soda.

"Are we done here?" Roxas asked after moment. After everyone agreed, he got to his feet and started gathering the trash.

"We should probably get going," Tifa said, getting to her feet, too. Kairi followed her lead. "Here, I think I have enough munny to pay for-"

"That's alright," Roxas interrupted. "The Heartless we fought beforehand dropped a ton."

"You sure?" Tifa asked.

"They did drop a lot," the older Kairi admitted.

"Alright then." Tifa turned to Kairi. "Let's go."

Kairi nodded. Tifa started off. "It was nice talking to you," Kairi said, smiling, before following after Tifa.

"Good luck!" the older Kairi called.

Kairi paused and glanced back. "I'll find him," she said. "I will."