Kingdom Hearts Fan Fiction ❯ Dearly Beloved ❯ Kairi ( Chapter 1 )

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Dearly Beloved
Summary: Three friends held an unbreakable bond. After a catastrophe separates them, they begin to miss each other and it turns to love. Now, with some evil after them, they are left with an impossible choice: to love one and scorn the other. Takes place a year after Kingdom Hearts so Chain of Memories will not occur.
I decided to change the title from My Light, My Darkness, My Lover because the original title, to me, made no sense. And if you don’t know the song Dearly Beloved, then please don’t ever read another Kingdom Hearts fic ever again. (I kid) For those who say yeah but are really pretending, Dearly Beloved is the title song. So it’s fitting to make it my title. Also I will use all of the songs from both Kingdom Hearts Soundtracks as chapter titles as much as possible. Therefore, if you own the song, you’ll get the feel for my chapter.
EDIT: If you are reading this for the first time, then read on. For those who I've redirected from chapter 8, I mentioned that I was dividing the story into six arcs. This is Arc 1: The Heroes Arc. This arc will deal with what happened after the end of Kingdom Hearts. The arcs are...
Heroes Arc
Worlds Arc
Manifestation Arc
Generals Arc
Juusan Kikan Arc
Apocalypse Arc.
Please to note that there will be some minor changes to correspond to KHII. Also, I added a little bit of prose at the beginning of the chapters to sort of set the chapter. So enjoy
Pairings: Sora x Kairi x Riku (main pairing)
Chapter 1: Kairi
A very good song. Plus I like the variations that of the song.

The Princess waits for them, the need is great, the need to see them again.
She remembers them with the utmost clarity.
Kairi spent most of her days ever since that incident on the island that they use to play. Sora and Riku. Her treasured friends were no longer here.
When the darkness attacked, the three of them were taken away from the island and life as they knew it changed. Kairi ended up at a place called the Lost Boy's Island.
She didn't remember how she got there but somehow there she was. She lost consciousness after that. She remembered in her dreams seeing a flying elf boy and a light glowing beside him. Then there was the moment that, well she didn't see him, but Kairi felt Riku's presence. It was dark, but soothing, like the night sky. She felt him caressing her face and telling her that it would be all right. She felt him move her to some sort of moving vessel. It would rock back and forth.
Not soon after, she felt a warm light. She immediately knew that it was Sora. His light and Riku's darkness comforted her. Somehow she knew that she would be all right.
Then, for some reason, the darkness took her away from the light. It was strange to say the least. Why would he do that? Was it her fault? No, it couldn't be. She had been unable to act for some reason.
The light found her again. It was then that she felt sadness and anger. The light and the darkness warred with each other. There were tears in her eyes. Why are they doing this, she cried.
Finally, the light was victorious. Although they were far apart, she could still feel them both. As the light came closer, she felt a darkness different from Riku's. However, some of his darkness was there. She didn't understand.
The light and darkness warred again. Again the light was victorious. This time, Riku's darkness was free from the other's darkness. She could feel the light holding her. It was comforting in the same way that the darkness was.
She awoke a moment later. The light known as Sora was gone. Before her was a duck and some sort of lanky dog creature. She argued with them concerning Sora but it was too late. A man appeared. He was tan and his eyes were evil. It was as if he had no soul. He came forward to kill them.
If it were not for Riku, she would have been destroyed. She ran away with the strange creatures, who introduced themselves later as Donald, Disney Castle's Count Wizard, and Goofy, the Captain of the Royal Guard. There was a Shadow Heartless after them. However, there was something off with its movements, Kairi realized.
Lo and behold, it was Sora. He had somehow transformed into a Heartless. Suddenly, Heartlesses attacked the group. Kairi, wanting to give Sora the same protection that she was given, protected him from the attack. A miracle happened. Sora had returned to his original form.
After leaving her at Traverse Town, Sora had promised to find Riku.
Somehow, she found her way to a dark place with giant doors. Sora and Riku were working together to close it, one from the outside and the other from the inside. They closed that door and Sora raised some sort of giant key in the air. When he did, the door disappeared.
She knew that something has happened that will prevent Sora and Riku from ever coming back home. She knew and yet she tried so desperately to hold on to Sora. But there was an invisible force pulling them apart. Kairi couldn't hold on and she let go.
When she had returned home, she went to tell Sora and Riku's parents that their sons would not return home. The strange thing was that neither parent remembered their children. Kairi was incredulous. How could a parent not remember their child, she wondered. She stormed in and went to their bedrooms. However, in each instance, there was nothing to prove that Sora or Riku ever existed. She went to the island in a mad rush to find evidence that the boys were not figments of her imagination. She went inside the cave that Sora had carved the picture of them. There was nothing there. Finally, she went to her friends, Tidus, Wakka, and Selphie. All of them looked at her as if she was crazy.

That was her story.
It has been a year since she lost Sora and Riku.
After school, Kairi took a boat and went to the island where everyone use to play. She climbed up the ladder to the small peninsula-like rock where Sora and Riku used to have their matches. There was a strange tree that stood there. It was always nice to sit on the tree. She could see the whole ocean and it made her want to travel it. Somewhere, out on the ocean, they had to be out there. She could feel it.
She could hear the water being disrupted as oars hit the water. It was her best friend Selphie. Her brunette friend always did her best to try and help her.
Selphie waved to her best friend. "Hey, Kairi!" she shouts. However, she is lost in her own thoughts once again. Selphie didn't understand it. Why would she make up two people? That was not the Kairi that she knew. She had been undergoing therapy to get over a traumatic experience.
When Tidus, Wakka and herself found Kairi a week after the big typhoon, she had been drenched and there was water in her lungs. Tidus performed CPR on her and she coughed up the water. She began spouting nonsense about some guys named Sora and Riku before fainting. From what she heard, she went to two couples, telling them that their sons were gone.
Selphie climbed the ladder to the rock-island and waved her hand in front of Kairi's face. With extreme languidness, Kairi turned her eyes to face Selphie. "What is it?" she asked, uninterested in what she had to say. After the incident and her friends were taken away from her, she lost interest in all aspects of life. The only thing that kept her alive was coming to the island and staring at the sky until midnight, hoping against hope that her friends would be returned to her.
Selphie did not like Kairi's new attitude. However, she was willing to endure because of her friend's near fatal encounter with death. So she decided to play along with her friend's fantasy. "What were the names of your friends again?" she asks.
At once, Kairi's eyes lit up. Selphie hadn't seen that look in a long time. "Their names are Sora and Riku." The brunette did not miss the emphasis on the word are, as if they exist somewhere else. "What did they look like?" she continues.
Kairi smiled and that was not missed by Selphie. She had forgotten that Kairi smiled. Only in earlier photos would one ever see a smile on her face. "Well, Sora had brunet hair like yours except that it was spiked in every direction. It was impossible to comb and whenever seaweed or a crab got stuck in his hair, it would take hours to get it out." She smiled at the memory. "I remember that his eyes were blue as the clear sky." Selphie sat down on the ground. "Unlike Sora, Riku had smooth platinum hair. He would wear it down because, he said that girls love the way his hair looked when it was down. I remember Riku's eyes we like the sea, blue-green. And both of their hair was smooth as silk." Kairi mentioned as an afterthought.
Selphie felt entranced by Kairi's story-telling. Somehow, it felt as if she was remembering something instead of making something up. "Sora was kind-hearted. Whenever there was something to be done, he would be the first one to do it. He was kind of goofy and funny, which I always thought was cute. On the flip side, Riku was mature. He was the oldest of the three of us and he always made sure that we would stick to the task at hand. Not much affected him negatively and he could always make me smile. Both of them were strong and protected me from bullies and strangers. Whenever I went shopping, the two of them always insisted to come with me to protect me from those with bad intents. While Sora was skinny and thin, Riku was more muscular and buff. I still miss them. It was right here that I lost them so I wait patiently for them to come back. It is one of those things that I can't explain." She sighed as her pain returned two-fold.
Selphie looked at her friend. It sounded very much like she was in love with not one, but two guys. "Hey, Kairi, can I ask you a question?" Selphie asked. "Who do you like more, Sora or Riku?"
At that question, Kairi stopped everything, including her breathing. That was not a question that she was expecting.
"Umm…" Try as she might, she could not give an answer to her friend. The choice was like comparing cake and ice cream to a child. The child would ask her mother for both if possible. And she realized it; she loved both Sora and Riku. Each had their own personal traits that made them attractive. In fact, she realized why Selphie would think that. She was describing them as someone deeply and madly in love would. There was no easy answer to that. Whenever she was close to a decision of one of the boys, a trait or characteristic came to her mind that vouched for the other boy.
"I… don't… know…" she confessed. Kairi never realized that she was in love either one, and now, she found out that she was in love with both. "How could this have happened?" she whispered, not to Selphie but to herself.
She started to laugh; but it was so bitter. Selphie tried her hardest to comfort her. "Why are you crying, Kairi?" she asked. A romantic at heart, Selphie would have been the first one to congratulate Kairi on snagging not one but two guys. (Sometimes that romanticism would border on lustfulness. And maybe, if they were real, she would have asked to be set up with one of them.) But somehow, she realized that her friend was going through some terrible internal battle. The brunette did not like that and, because she caused it, she felt guilty.
"I'll leave you alone now." Selphie spoke and left the rock-island, down the ladder and went home.
Kairi stood there until the sun began to sink into the sea and the moon rose to take its place. She sighed. Part of her realized that it was irrational to wait for people that were probably not coming.
As she was about to leave the rock-island, a brilliant flash of light appeared. She turned around. The light was not Sora's but instantly, she felt at peace and that was something that she hand not felt in a long time.
In that light were six figures: Aurora, Snow White, Cinderella, Alice, Jasmine, and Belle. Each of them were in princess's garbs. When she looked down at her body, she realized that she was wearing a red flowing glow. This was the first time that she had seen them outside of Hollow Bastion.
"What are you guys doing here?" She asked
Princess Aurora, with her fair blonde hair and lilac dress stepped forward. "Princess Kairi, we bring you message of a threat to your life."
"My life?" she asked.
Princess Belle, with her brunette hair tied in a bun and wearing a golden flowing dress, moved forward to answer her. "Princess Kairi, there is a reason that no one remembers the Heroes of the Light and Dark."
"Heroes of the Light and Dark? Do you mean Sora and Riku?"
Princess Snow White, with her dark hair tied tightly and wearing a blue and white dress, answered her. "They will be returning soon and so will the evil that will try to unseal Kingdom Hearts."
"Kingdom Hearts?" Now Kairi is perplexed. What does this Kingdom Hearts have to do with Sora and Riku and the fact that no one remembers either of them?"
Princess Jasmine, with her dark hair tied in a ponytail and wearing Agrabah's princess garbs, held her hand to silence Kairi. "That is not important right now. What is important is that, when the Heroes of Light and Dark return, bring them back here at the light of the full moon."
"But you never answered my question. Why doesn't anyone remember Sora and Riku?"
Princess Cinderella, with her blonde hair also tied in a bun and wearing a pale blue dress, shook her head. "We don't know. But what we do know is that you, as are we, are a threat to this evil."
"What is it about me that is threatening to this evil?" She asked, now frightened at the prospect that someone is after her life.
Princess Alice, with her hair fanning out and her pink dress glimmering, put her hand on Kairi's shoulder. Kairi looked at her with utmost fear and saw a smile staring back at her. "Do not worry. The Heroes of Light and Dark will protect you."
The six princesses made a circle. "Our power is exhaust but please come to us individually. We will be able to help you then." Princess Aurora told her. The women began to chant. "Remember this well!"
With that, the Princesses left Kairi.
Once again, Kairi was left alone. But there were two feelings that went through her heart at that time. One was happiness. The happiness she felt when Sora and Riku were around her. The other one was fear. When they did arrive, something was going to happen that might irrevocably change them forever.
She stared at the moon. "What is going to happen?"