(Once when I tried a KH chap fic, it didn't turn out so well… However, I'm here to give it another shot! This is an AU fic that starts off with an alternate ending to KH 2 that takes place RIGHT after Sora and Riku give the killing blow to Xemnas. What is it you ask? Read on and find out. I don't own KH, Final Fantasy, or any of the Disney charas.)

CHAPTER 1

Reaching out for nothing, as if it would save him, Xemnas helplessly faded into darkness…with it, the legacy of Xehanort with him.

Sora and Riku both felt a huge sense of accomplishment and relief as the leader of Organization disappeared into nothing. But those feelings were soon replaced with ones of fear and dreading, as an army of Dusk Nobodies surrounded them. Taking up their Keyblades once again, the two prepared for another battle. However, something completely different happened. Sparkling light suddenly filled the entire dimension, and caused Sora and Riku to look up the ceiling. Suddenly, a small shower of hearts from Kingdom Hearts rained down upon the field. At first, Sora and Riku were worried in case they now had a swarm of heartless to contend with as well. But that swarm never came.

The Dusks opened up their mouths and started to swallow up the sparkling hearts, and as they did their forms began to glow brightly. The more hearts they swallowed, the brighter they glowed until the entire dimension was filled with bright light, causing Sora and Riku to avert their eyes. When the light finally died down, the Nobodies were gone. In their place there stood living, breathing, feeling human beings who were looking around and at each other in wonderment

"What!?" Sora gawked at the people before them. "H-How did they…?"

"Become human again?" Riku finished the question. "I have NO idea… It must've been to do with that rain of hearts. They found suitable vessels in the Nobodies, and thus didn't become Heartless."

"Oh I get it!" Sora snapped his fingers. "So it's like the Heartless and Nobodies fused back together with a heart, and thus they became human again!"

"Seems like it." Riku agreed.

THAT WOULD BE AN ACCURATE ASSUMPTION MY DEAR CHILDREN…

Sora jumped slightly. "Who…Who's there!?"

I…AM THE ESSENCE AND SPIRIT OF KINGDOM HEARTS. The voice echoed. SORA…RIKU… THANK YOU FOR YOUR KINDNESS, CHIVALRY AND YOUR DEDICATION. BECAUSE OF YOU, KINGDOM HEARTS HAS BEEN SAVED AND PROTECTED FROM BEING MISSUSED FOR ORGANIZATION XIII'S EVIL. As the voice spoke, the former Nobodies, turned human, vanished. FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSE, SORA AND RIKU, EACH OF YOU SHALL BE GRANTED A BOON. YOU MAY EACH ASK OF ME A SINGLE WISH.

Sora already new what he wanted to wish for, but Riku beat him to it, by declaring the exact same wish.

"I wish that Sora and I can return to Destiny Islands, and be reunited with our friends." Riku said.

IT SHALL BE DONE… The voice replied. SORA? WHAT DO YOU DESIRE?

Sora was at a loss. Riku had already requested the desire they both wanted. What else could they possibly want? But then Sora remembered something from Xemnas' speech, right before they battled him, and new the wish he should make. He took a deep breath. "I wish… I wish for the Nobodies to have hearts, and to live their lives as normal human beings, in their own world." Suddenly, Sora and Riku found themselves floating in mid air, glowing with golden light, as a doorway of light appeared, showing the faces of Kairi, Donald, Goofy and Mickey, smiling waving and awaiting them.

YOUR DESIRES SHALL BE FULLFILLED… The voice spoke as the room vanished into nothingness, and Sora and Riku were drawn right into the door of light, right into the arms of their loved ones.

When the light had died down, Sora and Riku found themselves standing in the shallow waters of the shores of destiny Islands.

"SORA!" Sora was suddenly tackle hugged by Donald and Goofy, and the trio fell about laughing and hugging each other.

"RIKU!" Riku was met with a tackle hug from Mickey, but managed to stay on his feet as he returned the hug.

After the brief bit of male bonding, Sora stood up from the shore, to see Kairi's smiling face looking at him with utter joy. "Kairi… I made it back to you, just like I promised I would." He took his hand in hers. "I'll never leave you behind again…"

"Oh Sora…" Kairi said, with tears of joy in her eyes, before firing out and grabbing Sora in a fierce, yet loving kiss.

Sora wasted no time and let his emotions take control, as he kissed Kairi back just as lovingly…

Meanwhile, in the outskirts of "The World that Never Was," which now had become a part of Twilight Town, the two former Nobodies of Sora and Kairi were opened their eyes, and saw each other standing in front of one another. They wasted no time in meeting each other in a tight warm embrace as they wrapped their arms around the other.

After what seemed like forever, Roxas pulled away, and looked into Namine's light blue eyes. "Naminé… Is this…Is this real?" He asked with a hopeful smile.

"It is…" Naminé said with a smile, as she wiped her eyes. "Sora… He gave us all a chance to live our own lives…to be our own people." She hugged Roxas tightly.

Roxas returned the hug and snuggled Naminé in his arms. "I was right…" He said with a smile. "He really does make a good 'other.' He's proven it to me…to us, once again."

All around the couple, Nobodies were swallowing up hearts, turning into real human beings, and looking at everything around them, as the people already in the original Twilight Town started to come in and explore this new part of their world, just in time to see the strange white creatures become just like them.

Roxas observed this all with a smile. "The World that Never Was…and Twilight Town… They've become one world now, haven't they?"

"And the Nobodies are becoming real people…including us…" Naminé said happily. "I can feel it inside…"

"Me too…" Roxas said, putting a hand to his chest. "We…We finally have hearts… And it feels so good." He looked up into the sky. 'Sora… Thank you for everything.'

"Hey Roxas! Naminé!" A deep voice called out.

Roxas turned around to the source of the voice with Naminé, and what he saw made his face break out into a grin. "Axel!"

Axel, another former Nobody and member of Organization XIII much like Roxas, stood before the couple smiling with his arms folded. He was no longer dressed in his usual attire of the Organization XIII hooded cloak. Instead, from the waist down he was dressed in black combat pants and brown hiking boots, and from the waist up he wore a long white coat without a shirt underneath, exposing his bare chest. "Don't tell me you guys forgot about me again?" He said with sarcasm.

Roxas just laughed. "Not this time, old friend." He and Naminé were soon both caught up in a massive bear hug from Axel.

"Didn't I tell ya, Roxas? We'd all meet again in the next life…and here we are!" Axel said happily as he hugged the two teens.

Roxas and Naminé both returned the hug as more and more Nobodies around them became human. "The World the Never Was" was no longer a non existent world, but now it and Twilight Town were one, whole, complete world as the darkness began to lift, giving way to brilliant sunlight.

"It's a miracle…" One former Nobody said as his white husk of a form gave way to the form of a middle aged, mustachioed man.

"We…have hearts again!" A Nobody turned young blond woman said as she put her hands to her chest and blissfully smiled.

"I never thought I'd see the day…" Another former Nobody, now healthy looking elderly man said as he raised his hands to the sky.

"ROXAS! ROXAS!"

Roxas, Naminé, and Axel turned around to see none other than Hayner, Pence and Olette running towards them, waving and hollering. Obviously their memories of Roxas had been returned as part of Sora's wish, and now they ran to greet their once long forgotten friend, and his new acquaintances.

"Roxas! So this is where you've been hiding from us this whole time?" Hayner joked.

"Roxas, we've missed you!" Olette ran up and hugged Roxas tightly, earning a blush from the blonde haired boy.

Naminé watched Roxas and Olette hug each other, and couldn't help but feel a slight twinge of jealousy at how close they seemed.

"Hey, Roxas? Who's this girl?" Pence said, addressing Naminé. "Did you get yourself a girlfriend and not tell us?"

Now it was Olette's turn to get jealous as she turned to the blushing Naminé and studied her warily.

Roxas just laughed. "These are some old friends of mine; Naminé and Axel." He introduced his two old friends to his 3 newer ones. The formalities seemed to go well as everyone introduced themselves, although Naminé and Olette seemd to cast each other some suspicious glances when the other wasn't looking, each thinking 'How does she know Roxas?'

Elsewhere, deep inside of Ansem's Mansion, a lone heart had somehow drifted into the basement laboratory, and had given life once again to a long forgotten Nobody. However, amazement, joy, and wonderment was the last thing on this person's mind. Draped in a black Organiazation cloak, the man walked up to Ansem's computer, and observed the many screens, which went on in Twilight Town, including the district that was formerly "The World that Never Was." He seemed to stare intently at the images of Roxas, Naminé, and Axel, and brought up one hand which tightened into a fist. "So…they too gained hearts and were allowed a second chance to live… Well…they should not celebrate their new lives just yet. For when I find them, they'll wish they had stayed banished in the darkness!"

TO BE CONTINUED