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Hey what's up guys. I know that maybe you guys don't want to care about this little fanfic I made here, BUT HERE ME OUT! I've had a few things on my mind that wouldn't go away, so I decided to form a story based on my thoughts on Kingdom Hearts. Now I know that this may be too long or uninteresting, and I can definitely see that, but I just wanted to get this out of my mind. And I did.

Unfortunately, that's pretty all I can think of to say. Oh! Right! If you can, give me some constructive criticism, regarding my grammar and other important writing features. That could be really helpful in the future of improving my skills if possible. Thank you and enjoy.

Chapter 1: The Sky is Smiling

Darkness. That's the first thing I remember.

It was dark. It was cold. And I felt alone. I felt weak. But then I saw a big blue moon, shaped like a heart. I felt its light. It was so warm and so bright. It was as if it…chased the Darkness away.

My heart felt stronger. I felt stronger, like someone or something had raised me back up. Then the next thing I knew, I was falling… Falling. From the sky. Weird, right?

As of tonight, the dark blue sky was clear and the stars twinkled so bright. The very moon had shone its lunar light across the sky, land, and sea.

Down below, there was a simple island with a simple town, surrounded by a large body of water. Plenty of residents live here and some of them go to school on a daily basis. At the end of this island were both a large beach and a wooden dock with boats tied nearby. Aside from the main island, there was a smaller, separate island that floated across it. From a distance, one could see the beaches, exotic trees and shrubbery, and wooden constructions over there.

Everyone was asleep. The lights were turned off and the doors were locked shut. The whole place was utterly silent, yet so peaceful. The waves gently washed onto the beach's sandy shores before being pulled silently back into the ocean. The light, airy breeze brushed past the trees and shrubs as they blew across town.

Suddenly, high up in the dark sky, a bright shooting star fell downward. It, alone, plummeted while the rest of its starry brethren still hung in the air. However, this shooting star seemed to be no ordinary shooting star. This star was heading straight for the ocean below it, rather than flying past the world it just now visited. Strangely enough, if one could get a closer look at it, this star almost looked like a person instead. A person that was unawake and unaware of his current situation.

This…person was falling toward the sea at increasing speed, while being covered in a bright, white aura.

SPLASSSHH!

The person crashed into the oceanic body, before he eventually remerged from the water surface. His body slowly bobbed up and down in the water, revealing his physical form as a fifteen-year-old boy.

The boy had light-brown side-swept hair, along with large spikes of it protruding from the sides and back. He was wearing a black overjacket with gray pockets and a gray stripe on each sleeve. The hood, short-sleeves, and jacket had a red lining. Six golden buttons were on the front of his jacket. Underneath the jacket was a black shirt with a low V-neck style collar. Around his neck was a small, silver crown necklace. He wore gray gauntlets with a gray circle on the back of each hand; the palms of his hands were exposed. He wore a pair of black jogger shorts with armored sidings attached by red straps that wrap around his legs. He had a pair of black and yellow shoes covering his feet.

As the gentle waves carried the boy to shore, he slowly flickered his eyes open, revealing his blue irises. The bangs of his hair gently brushed against his face as he moved his eyes around. He wanted to move his head, and maybe even his body, but the sudden fatigue had gotten the best of him.

It was a short trip, as the waves arrived to the shores with the boy in them. When he slid across the wet sand, the boy closed his eyes and eventually coughed out the seawater from his lungs.

The fatigue had slowly disappeared, and the boy was eventually able to sit up straight. He leaned over and coughed again, as his hair hung downward with the water droplets dripping down from his bangs and face.

The boy placed his hands over his legs and started properly breath in and out. After he took more slow breaths, the boy opened his eyes again and saw his two hands. Unable to tear his eyes off of them, he raised his hands up in front of him, turning them back and forth. He then looked at the rest of his body in both confusion and curiosity.

…I guess so. Who I was and what happened to me before, that I couldn't remember, and a part of me wonders, why I couldn't remember.

The boy furrowed his eyebrows. He couldn't understand nor remember what had happened. He did not even remember who or what he was either.

The boy's eyes eventually trailed off from himself and to what was in front of him: a large ocean and a small island floating across where he was. He raised his head up and slowly turned it to see a large, quiet town behind him.

Taking a deep breath, the boy slowly turned over while placing his hands and knees into the still-wet sand. As he pushed his hands further into the ground, he silently grunted as he fought what was left of his fatigue in order for him to stand back up.

After about ten seconds, the boy finally got his feet into the sand and stood up high. His face, clothes, and hair quickly dried as the warm wind blew against him. He let out a relaxed sigh as he looked at all of the houses.

The boy furrowed his eyebrows. He honestly had no clue of his current location and pondered to himself about where he was in.

Then suddenly, he felt a small bursting feeling in his chest. The boy closed his eyes and grunted painfully, as he leaned forward and placed his hand over it. After a brief moment, he took a few slow breaths while his hand remained on top of his…

"Huh…?" the boy opened eyes.

He focused on the feeling in his hand, a feeling that was beating against his palm. It was…thumping. It was thumping inside his chest. That feeling seemed familiar to the boy, it was on the tip of his tongue.

The boy believed that the source of this feeling started with an…"H".

Heart.

The boy widened his eyes. "Heart." He thought.

Blinking his eyes, the boy looked at his chest after removing his hand from it. Then, he felt something else. Something that also felt familiar to him. It suddenly echoed in his conscious.

Follow your Heart. It will always lead the way.

Before thinking about the mental message, several mental images flashed painfully in the boy's head. He closed his eyes and held his head, as he saw the images within.

In them, he saw a boy with spiky orange hair and purple headphones. This boy was pulling off flashy moves as he spun around poles, grinded across rails, jumped from wall to wall, and leapt up to great heights. It looked like he was using the environment to help him traverse across places.

The boy opened his eyes again and thought to himself. "What was that?"

At the same time, he couldn't help but get a familiar feeling from those mental images as well. It was almost as if he had done those tricks before. He could not get the name of this ability immediately, but it was slowly coming to him.

The boy concentrated as he tried to remember the word associated with those skills.

"F…Flo…" The boy thought. "Flowmo…tion… Flowmotion."

The boy raised his eyes, as he believed to have found the lost word.

Flowmotion.

That was what it was called. This was the ability used by the orange-spiky-haired boy to travel around using his surrounding environments. Question was, was this other spiky-haired child able to utilize this skill?

The boy quickly pointed his eyes at the town still in front of him. The area looked as if it were possible to utilize the Flowmotion ability. There were plenty of light poles, along with houses and triangular rooftops.

As he looked around, he felt as if from muscle memory, this familiar ability was returning. He slowly felt his body tingling increasingly. He felt his heart beating more rapidly. He felt his breathing increasing in speed. He was feeling excited. He was suddenly feeling ready.

When the boy tried to listen to his Heart again, it repeated the same line over and over to him.

Do it.

Smiling largely, the boy quickly dashed toward the nearest light pole, which was near the beach. He leaped forward and spun around the wooden construct with his hand. By doing so, he released and launched himself to one of the walls of a house. He quickly positioned himself with his feet pointing forward when reaching the hard surface. Pushing himself off, he launched again into another wall.

The boy landed on his feet again and repeated the same process as he leapt from wall to wall several more times. Afterwards, he jumped high up in the air, feeling the wind pushing against his face, hair, and clothes.

The boy soon fell down. He quickly aimed his eyes at one of the branches of the highest tree in front of him. Once doing so, the boy moved himself forward and his feet tried to reach for the branch. His feet had hit the surface, allowing him to grind across the end of the tree branch.

Suddenly, however, the branch gave in and snapped itself off, causing the boy to fall down while hitting a few other branches on his way down. Soon after, he landed onto the last tree branch, which was right above the ground.

The boy caught his breath as his arms were around the branch. Soon, he chuckled at his own expense of crashing down through the tree. Taking a deep breath, the boy stood up on the tree branch before jumping down to the ground.

He looked around and found himself in the middle of the slumbering town. The boy sighed as he assumed that everyone was unavailable for answering any of his questions.

Even so, the boy kept a smile on his face, hoping for the best as he waited for anyone to be awake and give him the answers that he needed. All he could do as of now was to practice his new Flowmotion skills and improve, along with having fun while doing so.

The boy jumped from wall to wall again before fully utilizing his Flowmotion ability once more as he traversed across this unfamiliar world.

By the next day, it was already afternoon. School was almost over at the main island. Inside one of the classrooms, there was a certain red-haired girl sitting at her desk.

She had violet eyes and long red hair. She currently wore a school uniform that consisted of a white shirt of which she rolled up the short sleeves, a sky blue striped tie, a matching skirt with navy knee-high stockings and black shoes.

To her, life was ordinary. Nothing special had ever happened, not like she expected anything of the sort anyway. Even so, she felt that something was missing. It was almost as if there something empty about her life.

Like the rest of the students, the girl was writing down her notes on her notebook while the teacher was talking and writing on the chalkboard. While most students were already tired and bothered by how much they had to write down, the girl didn't have much to complain about since school had been a part of her life as of now.

However, in every class on each day, there would be a sudden moment when she would pause as she received a hazy, mental image of a mysterious boy. A boy that the girl felt she had met before. There would also be a voice that spoke this certain line…

"Don't say goodbye. I hate goodbyes."

These words would always confuse the girl, as she was unable to decrypt the meaning behind them. She would ponder why this particular boy would say something like that, and for what purpose? At the same time, she had met no one familiar who had said these words before.

This was quite bothersome for this girl, to say the least.

Suddenly, the girl quickly snapped out of her thoughts as the school bell rang across the halls and echoed into the classrooms. Every student in the room ceased their hand movements and finished their notes.

"Alright, that's about it for today." The teacher said. "Class dismissed."

With that, the students packed up their stuff, got up from their seats and walked out of the classroom. The girl did the same as she placed her belongings inside her bag. Then she, too, walked out of the room and went across the hall. Unbeknownst to her, several boys looked at the girl as they were awed by her cuteness.

Once the girl made her way to the school entrance, she walked out of the building and followed the long clay path, which would lead her back home.

"Kairi! Wait up!"

Kairi turned around to see another girl catching up to her.

This girl, Selphie, had green eyes and brown hair that was styled into one large curl on the back of her head and two more on both sides. She was wearing the same school uniform Kairi was wearing, but her sleeves weren't rolled up like Kairi's. She was also wearing a small brown strap around her left wrist.

Kairi smiled as Selphie arrived right before catching her breath after running up to her. After greeting one another, they continued to make their way back home. As the two girls neared to the beach, Selphie looked at Kairi as she started to speak to her.

"Hey, do you feel like going out to the island?" Selphie asked hopefully. "Tidus and Wakka are wrapped up in their ballgame and they won't go with me."

Kairi looked at her apologetically. "Not today. Sorry." She walked several inches ahead of Selphie before they stopped. Selphie looked at her confusedly. "But, why?"

Kairi paused for a moment, as she was unable to come up with an answer that could help her friend understand. She stills wasn't able to figure out who the hazy-looking boy in her thoughts was. To her, there were already a lot of unanswered questions and Selphie's was only adding to the pile. She was confused.

"Kairi?"

The redhead blinked, as Selphie's voice called her back to the real world. She stared into the ground while Selphie tried to look over to her friend's face.

Quickly, Kairi shook her head and smiled at Selphie. "It's nothing. I just need to prepare for that test we have tomorrow." Kairi and Selphie started walking again.

"Oh." Selphie sighed. "It's too bad that we have a test. I don't even think Tidus and Wakka are ready yet, are they?"

Kairi chuckled. "Probably not." Selphie chuckled as well.

"WOOHOO!"

Kairi and Selphie's eyes widened, as they heard a cheerful voice echo across the area. They confusedly looked around in search for the source of the voice.

"Did you hear that?" Selphie asked.

Kairi continued to search the area, her violet eyes carefully moving around. Selphie turned her head side to side as she, too, searched for the source.

"YEA-HAH!"

Hearing the voice again, Kairi and Selphie whipped their heads around to where it came from. There, they saw a boy. To their surprise, he was literally jumping all over the place.

The boy was zipping from surface to surface of each building. After bouncing off the walls several times, he quickly launched into the air. Soon descending, the boy aimed towards the nearest tree branch at an increasing horizontal speed, the wind pushed against his clothing.

Kairi looked at the boy in shock and amazement, seeing him pulling off this amazing feat. She didn't think it was possible that anyone was capable enough to move this freely. She watched as the boy fell downward fearlessly and joyfully.

The boy's feet slammed against the sturdy tree branch before he slid across to its end. Unfortunately, because the momentum was so great, the boy was unable to stop himself and he slipped off the branch. He zipped into the air and made his way to the beach in front of Kairi and Selphie.

The boy spun around in midair before crashing into the sandy ground at the beach. Shocked by the accident, Kairi's first instinct was to run toward the beach while leaving a surprised Selphie behind.

Selphie reached her hand out to Kairi. "Kairi! Wait!"

Not listening, Kairi still ran towards the beach. She followed down the clay path until she reached the sandy edge of the beach. She entered the sandy shore as she turned her head side to side frantically. In a few seconds, she finally spotted the boy, who was laying face forward on the ground.

Kairi hurriedly ran over to the boy, hoping that she wasn't too late. She reached to his side and got a closer look at him. She noticed how this boy had brown somewhat spiky hair. His clothing was a little odd, almost styled to be athletic.

As she searched from top to bottom for any bruises or marks, she heard a cough being let out.

Kairi froze. She could have sworn that she saw the boy's body move a bit.

Another cough was let out again. Suddenly, Kairi realized that the cough came from the boy as he jumped up a bit.

The boy slowly turned around with closed eyes and a small grin on his face.

Kairi widened her eyes and her cheeks blushed in response to his appearance. To her, the boy seemed attractive. Perhaps…cute. She even noticed a certain v-neck collar on him, revealing a portion of his bare chest.

The boy chuckled in pain. "…I guess I should've been more careful…" The boy took a deep breath.

The boy's grin lessened while maintaining his smile. He still didn't notice Kairi standing next to him. She crouched down near to his level of resting.

"Hey, you okay?"

"Hmm?" The boy curiously opened his eyes and spotted a redheaded girl crouching over him.

The redhead tucked back a lock of hair behind her ear, with red hues still present on her cheeks. The boy looked at the girl in slight astonishment as he, too, had red hues forming on his cheeks, though not as much as the girl had.

The boy quickly shook his head and smiled at her. "Uh, y-yeah! I'm fine. Just a few bruises and all. They'll heal." The boy sat up.

Kairi pulled back a bit. "Oh, o-okay then." she stammered a bit. "U-um…" she tried her best to keep her eyes off of the boy's v-neck as it still showed some of his bare chest.

The boy scratched his head and chuckled in slight nervousness. "Um, I-I appreciate your help. So, thanks." Kairi quickly nodded her head at him. "But, do you mind telling me where we are?" The boy smiled at her again.

Kairi then confusedly looked at the boy's innocent face. Noticing that he was being serious, she widened her eyes in slight surprise.

"W-wait," Kairi spoke, "you don't know where you are?"

The boy curiously looked up and shook his head. "...Nope. I mean…wait," he then gave her a quizzical look, "do you not know where we are either?"

Kairi looked back at the boy questionably.

"Um, n-no," Kairi cleared her throat. "O-of course not. It's just…are you sure you're not from around here?"

The boy eyed at the ground beneath him. He let the question beat against his head as he just realized that things just became a little more confusing. All he remembered was falling from the sky and into the sea. Anything before it was a blur, which felt unknowingly, somewhat scary for him to experience emotionally.

Shaking off the feeling, the boy shrugged innocently. "I don't know." He smiled at the redheaded girl. "Though I was kinda hoping someone could tell me what this place is."

Kairi was somewhat amused by the optimistic aura that this boy gave off. He didn't seem to panic or show much confusion about his whereabouts. Despite his claims of unfamiliarity of this place, he seemed to act causal about his current situation as he still had that peaceful smile on his face.

Feeling slightly influenced by the boy's happy behavior, Kairi made a small smile.

"Destiny Islands." Kairi said.

The boy looked at her curiously. "Hmm?"

"Destiny Islands." She repeated. "You're on Destiny Islands."

The boy soon made a face as he thought about the name. He grinned at the girl. "I don't think I've ever heard of that one!" he chuckled.

Kairi made a small chuckle as well as she smiled back at the boy.

"Kairi!"

Hearing her name from behind, she and the boy turned around to see Selphie running up to them. Once she reached them, she quickly halted and leaned over as she panted for a brief moment.

Selphie stood up straight as she looked back up. "Kairi, what are you doing? We need to…" she then spotted the boy sitting near to her friend, "Oh."

Noticing that her eyes were on him, the boy smiled and waved at her. "Hiya!"

Selphie, too, had noticed the boy's cute appearance. His smile seemed captivating enough for her to make a faint blush on her cheeks.

"U-um, hi." Selphie waved at him, albeit somewhat nervously. She quickly looked back at her redheaded friend. "Kairi, we should probably head home soon. You said we had a test tomorrow, didn't you?"

Kairi widened her eyes, while the boy raised an eyebrow. "Test?" The boy questioned.

"Oh right! I almost forgot!" Kairi stood up and looked back at the boy apologetically. "Sorry, but we have to go soon."

The boy still smiled at her. "No worries. Do you what gotta do." The boy leaned back, placing his hands on the ground for support.

Kairi nodded. "Thanks."

The redhead stood up and followed Selphie, who was already making her way back home. Suddenly, Kairi stopped just between the sandy shore and the clay path.

"Hey."

The boy turned his head around to see Kairi facing him.

"You know my name, right?" Kairi asked.

The boy nodded at her. "Kairi." He smiled.

Kairi nodded back before smiling at him. "What's yours?"

The boy smiled at Kairi.

My name is Sora. How do I know that? My Heart told me so.

Hey, did any of you spot a little reference in this chapter? Because that one's my favorite, it's just so... meaningful, ya know? By the way, Sora has his Kingdom Hearts 3 look in this chapter. Why? I don't know, just why not? I personally like it. He looks more attractive than before. And I'm a dude so...

Anyways, I hoped you enjoy this piece of story. If not, well... okay then. Good enough I guess. Welp, see you... next time?