I love Kingdom Hearts, don't you?
This is my first attempt at fan fiction, so please review as you see fit. Just no flames please.
This chapter is dedicated to my first to reviewers: RikuLover211 and Kairi8013. Hey guys, think you could get more people to review for me?
And Eagle101, I have considered putting the knights in.
Enjoy!
Chapter 1: A Voice, a Keyhole, and a Girl
"Can't we ever get a break?"
"What would the worlds do without us?" Riku said.
As Sora reached this last line, his eyes buldged. "How did we forget the Keyhole?"
"You never did that?" Riku asked, half incredulous, half amused.
"You've only been there like ten hours per day since you got back!" Kairi added. Her tone was all amusement.
"C'mon." Sora said standing up. "Let's go take care of that Keyhole."
The three set off at a leasurly pace toward Sora and Kairi's secret place.
"So what do you think this new threat is?" Kairi asked her friends.
"No idea..." Sora said. "But Maleficent and Pete might have something to do with it."
"Yeah," Riku said "We never did find out what happened to them at the World That Never Was."
"We were just a bit busy fighting for our lives." Sora added.
They had arrived at the narrow fissure leading into the Secret Place, and the Destiny Islands Keyhole. "Ladies first." Sora said brightly, bowing to Kairi as she slipped in. She failed to hide her red face, causing Sora to blush in turn, and Riku to smirk. Sora slid in after her, followed closely by Riku.
Sora stretched his back muscles when he reached the point where someone could walk. Just ahead of him, he saw his auburn-headed friend do the same. "Remember when we could just walk right through?" She asked.
"Yeah." Sora said with a smile.
The cave was small, but had its own charm. This was due largely to Sora and Kairi's childhood scribbles in chalk all over the walls. Sora's eyes briefly flickered over to the most recent one. He and Kairi had started it when they were very young, soon after she had come to the islands. It had started as just self portraits, but Sora had made an addition to it the day before the Heartless came. He had never been much of an artist, but it was obvious what it was.
Sora had drawn himself giving a paopu friut to Kairi.
The day he arrived back at the islands, he had gone to the cave and discovered something interesting. It seemed that Kairi had added on to his drawing.
Now Kairi was offering another piece of that magic fruit to Sora.
"I love what you've done with the place." Riku said. He hadn't actually been in the secret place since Kairi had arrived on the islands. He began to idly scan the scribbles on the walls.
Everyone's eyes fell to the plain wooden door on the far side of the cave. No handle, no lock. This had always perplexed the three. Now they knew why. It was a Heartless highway to the world's heart.
Sora silently summoned the Keyblade to his hand. It appeared in a flash of light. He pointed it at the door.
Gradually, the shape of a large keyhole formed on the door. It started as a glowing gold outline. Once it was complete, the inside flashed brightly, the glow softened and stayed. The cave was filled with an eerie silver light.
The Keyblade started glowing, outshining the newly revealed Keyhole. A narrow blue beam of light speared from the end of the blade and streaked at the center of the Keyhole. There was a blinding flash of white light, a strange high-pitched wail.
When the light faded the three friends gazed upon the door.
No Keyhole.
No darkness.
"Good job." Said a voice.
Sora turned around to see the voice's owner. But their was nobody else in the cave except for Riku and Kairi.
"You guys here something?" Sora asked. The last time he had heard a voice out of nowhere the Heartless had destroyed the world. It had even been in this cave. Only this one seemed slightly familiar.
"You mean the wierd sound the Keyhole made?" Riku asked.
"No." Sora corrected "A voice."
"I didn't hear it." Kairi said.
Needless to say, this troubled Sora a bit. There was something else that he would have to figure out on the next journey.
"Well, don't worry about it Sora." Kairi said. "It's probably nothing."
"This, however" Riku said "is not."
Sora half expected to see a dozen Heartless charging through the cave entrance. But when he turned to the sound of his voice, all was calm. Riku was looking at one of the pictures on the wall, and his shoulders were shaking with silent laughter.
"Okay if it's about my drawing skills I..."
Sora stopped in his tracks when Riku stepped aside to reveal the picture.
Oh please... not that drawing...
It was the paopu fruit sketch. Riku was smirking again, and he practically burst out laughing when Sora's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. But he really did laugh when Kairi's face turned redder than her hair.
"I'll leave you two alone for a moment, shall I?"
And with that he strolled out of the cave with a smug smile.
Sora and Kairi were alone now, and the silence was so heavy you could hear a pin drop. No- a feather. For the first time since entering the cave, Sora was uncomfortably aware of how close Kairi was to him.
Neither one spoke for a few minutes, and Kairi finally decided to break the silence.
"So... the drawing." She said. And her voice was surprisingly calm. In fact it was almost...
Flirty?
Sora –who had been staring at the space between his feet- took a risk and glanced at Kairi. She was looking directly at him, and there was something in her sparkling blue eyes that he couldn't place.
She took a step closer to him.
"I found that drawing the day after the islands were restored." She said, in that same calm tone.
She took another step.
"Tell me Sora,"
Another step.
"Why exactly did you draw that?"
Another step.
Sora tried to say something, but found that all that could some out of his mouth was an odd wheezing sound. Kairi giggled.
"Is there any chance..." She continued.
Another step.
"That you might..."
Another step.
"Have feelings for me?"
Why is she so close!?
Without realizing it, Sora had been taking one step backwards for every step she had taken toward him. He was now pressed against the cave wall with Kairi less than six inches in front of him. She was grinning like mad, and her eyes were sparkling.
Sora finally found his ability to speak, and the words that came out surprised him. "You added onto it too..."
Kairi quirked an eyebrow. "That I did." She whispered.
And suddenly, she closed the distance between them. She kissed him full on the lips.
Sora was shocked. He had loved Kairi since the second he had met her on the beach nearly seven years ago. Though, admittedly he hadn't realized it for what it was. This kiss had been a fantasy of his since that very second.
And there he was, standing completely still, like an idiot.
"Move it genius!" The voice practically screamed at him.
His mind had only begun to recover when Kairi pulled away with a hurt expression on her flawless face.
"I'm sorry." She murmered, and she turned to leave.
As was mentioned, Sora's mind had frozen the moment Kairi kissed him. The only thing he could think of at that particular moment was that he missed the feeling of her soft lips on his.
So, he decided to persue the only (then) logical course of action.
He reached out to Kairi, grabbed her by the shoulders, spun her around to face him, and kissed her.
Kairi stiffened immediately, having been taken completely by surprise. But she snapped out of it when Sora's hands wrapped around her waist. She tangled her fingers in his hair and eagerly returned the kiss.
Both of them were in heaven.
After ten minutes of passionate kissing, they could no longer ignore the need for oxygen. They pulled apart slowly, and gazed into each other's eyes. They smiled warmly.
"I love you." They both said at once.
It was a few hours before they came out of the cave, and it was to an incredibly smug Riku mentioning something about Wakka owing him twenty munny.
Sora and Kairi were too lost in each other's eyes to really pay attention to him.
In fact, Sora didn't even notice the same voice in his head, saying "Score!"
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