Summary; The usual cliché. Based a year after Kingdom Hearts, Kairi waits anxiously on Destiny Islands for Sora's return. Innocent bits of fluff. SxK

Pairings; Mainly S/K, possibly some Selphie/Tidus hinting in later chapters…

Disclaimer; Sadly, I do not own Kingdom Hearts. (sniff) Oh, hang on, yes I do, it's downstairs in my PS2…Well you know what I mean. It belongs to Disney and Square Enix and all those other people.

Author's Note; Hello peoples! I actually wrote this fic waaaay back in like March, but now that I've finally registered, I can post it! Yay! I personally don't think it's very good. I haven't finished CoM yet so um pretend it didn't happen. XD This fic is a YAOI FREE ZONE! I'm not completely against shounen-ai, but I think that no one in kh was even remotely gay (sora and riku are just FRIENDS!), so no yaoi or yuri in this fic thankyou! Oh yeah, and everyone go read Simple and Clean by candy-mog, because it ROCKS ALL and it's much better than this! XD So yea…this is my first fic so no flames please cos I lost my fire extinguisher...long story. Enjoy! (hopefully)

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Chapter 1; "Unspoken Tears"

Kairi stood on the beach, staring out at the small island in the distance. Waiting. Just like every other day when she would come here, to sit in the sand, and watch the ocean and the skies, until the sun disappeared beneath the horizon. Every day, ever since she had returned to the Destiny Islands, ever since the day he had disappeared. That day, more than a year ago now, when she'd watched hopelessly as she and Sora drifted further and further apart. After being transported back to the island, she'd wandered around and eventually found herself in the secret place. She'd found the drawing on the wall, the one that Sora had added to; himself giving her the legendary star-shaped fruit.

How she wished he was here. How she wished that he would laze around on the beach and protest when she called him a lazy bum. Her nickname for him.

"Sora, you lazy bum…I knew that I'd find you snoozing down here…"

Just thinking of him made a small tear run down her cheek.

"What'cha doin'?"

Kairi almost jumped ten feet in the air. Selphie smiled at up at her with that innocent smile of hers.

"Oh, Selphie…it's just you…you scared me…" Kairi said vaguely, trying without success to hide her tears. She never liked Selphie interfering with her private thoughts.

"Kai, what were you crying for?" asked Selphie, concerned, her happy smile vanishing.

Selphie, Tidus and Wakka had all felt sorry for her when she returned to the island, all trying to help her take her mind off it in their own special way; Wakka offering to teach her blitzball, Tidus challenging her to a round. But she always refused, simply because all of their sympathy only made her feel sadder about everything. They just weren't the same as him. He always knew how to cheer her up.

"I wasn't crying…" Kairi responded to Selphie's question.

"…It's about him again…isn't it?" Selphie said sadly.

"Huh?" Kairi asked in fake curiosity, pretending to be distracted by the beautiful sunset.

"You know who I mean…Sora."

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Kairi sat in the Secret Place hugging her knees, tears flowing silently down her cheeks as she gazed at the picture they had drawn together, so long ago.

"I'll come back to you! I promise!"

Those words echoed in her head constantly, along with the memory of him in her mind. The image of him slowly moving away, and her last glimpse of him as he tried to call to her through the spreading blue light. Sometimes she wondered if she was going insane with waiting…

Suddenly she was jerked out of her memories by quiet footsteps creeping down the passage. She wiped her eyes and stood up, brushing down her skirt. The footsteps grew louder and suddenly Selphie bounded out into view. She was wearing her usual yellow colour, a short-sleeved girly dress that went down to her knees. She wore brown sandals that were no doubt uncomfortably filled with sand. As she spotted Kairi, a smile spread across her face.

"I was wondering where you'd gotten to, you really worried me for a-" Her smile faded as she saw Kairi's red eyes.

"Oh no, you haven't been crying again have you?" she asked worriedly.

Kairi didn't answer.

"Come on! He'll come back soon! He promised!" Selphie said cheerfully with that special smile that proved she was a romanticist. Kairi had been lucky in that Selphie hadn't yet discovered the drawing in the rock, as she rarely ever came in here.

Kairi just sighed sadly. Would such a lazy bum really travel that far just to keep a simple promise?

Selphie tried to cheer her friend up. "You two were so close! He'll come back, I know he will! He'd never forget abou-"

She was interrupted by a large crash that came from the shore outside.

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A/N: Well whad'ya think? It was ok…I think. XD Ummm, to anyone who's seen the trailer for KH2 that was shown at Jump Festa, I think the start of this chapter works really well with that scene of Kairi and Selphie, yea? Which is strange because I wrote this BEFORE I saw the trailer…O.O I know this chappie's really really short and I'm sorry! BTW, this story will most likely not have much of a plot, only fluff, innocent little fluff! I like fluff. And if anyone's thinking that the title is really cliched, it actually has a good relevance to the story, but only in like the last chapter…XD I've written the next chapter but I'm not going to post it unless I get at least a few reviews (what's the point of posting a story if no one's going to read it?) so REVIEW people REVIEW! I'll give you a WHOLE cheesecake if ya do. Seriously. But remember no flames!