Author's Note: I'd like to first say that this is the craziest thing that I've ever done. I hope you enjoy the story, and I do hope you review! My writing skills has spiralled downwards since 2006, so I hope it's still readable to you guys.

Disclaimer: Me no own Kingdom Hearts.

001 - Heart

Kingdom Hearts has mercy on the innocent...

The immensely huge structure towered over them. Who knew that Kingdom Hearts was still there, at The World That Never Was? Surprisingly, it was still accessible via gummi ship.

Riku scratched his silver head. Why was he here again?

A quick look around at the spiky-haired boy that took control of the ship, the mouse with the round ears that shot away the flying meteors, the duck yelling at the pilot, the tall dog chuckling, and the red-haired girl in a pink dress stroking her amber-furred pet dog reminded him.

It all began that morning when King Mickey came over with Donald, Goofy and Pluto in his gummi ship. Sora was excited to ride it again, despite them ending the action just two months ago. Kairi was also delighted at the thought of travelling across worlds, since the form she was used to was warping though dark portals.

Sora, who was at the pilot's seat, suddenly changed his behaviour from his silly, nuisance-making one, to a more sombre tone, telling them that they were heading for The World That Never Was. He was swarmed with replies of 'It's not there anymore!' from most of them, including Riku, but they were interrupted by Kairi, who insisted that they go.

Fighting their way to the top was no big deal, since Sora, Riku and Mickey were Keybladers, while Donald and Goofy had their own experience in battle. Even Kairi knew how to use her flowery Keyblade 'decently', as Sora had put it.

"I'm sorry I dragged you guys here. It's just that…" began Sora, walking towards the glowing Kingdom Hearts before turning back to see his crew. "This is going to sound crazy, but…I heard Roxas' voice inside my head. He told me to come here, because Kingdom Hearts wanted to see him."

Kairi nodded as she joined Sora up front. "I heard Naminé's voice too, and she said the exact same thing. I don't know why we heard them, but we're here to find out."

Riku crossed his arms as the brunette and the redhead turned to look at Kingdom Hearts. The large heart glowed brighter, and Riku was astonished as the rest of the gang when two beams of light suddenly shot Sora and Kairi in the chest.

"Sora! Kairi!" they yelled.

The two lost their balance for a while, but stood straight once again. Then, the most incredible thing Riku, or anyone present there for that matter, had ever seen happened. A glowing, ghostly figure of Roxas and Naminé walked out of Sora and Kairi's bodies, holding a brilliant pink-coloured heart in their hands.

Sora and Kairi were even more astonished by this occurrence, and a bright light shone which blinded the spectators radiated when the two Nobodies fused the hearts into themselves.

When the light disappeared, Roxas and Naminé stood in front of them, solid and real as a human being – as a Somebody.

"Whoa!" exclaimed King Mickey. "What just happened?"

Roxas walked towards Sora and gave him a hug and a slap on the back, while Naminé was already in Kairi's embrace. "Kingdom Hearts called to us. She told us that she has mercy on the innocent."

Riku stepped forward to meet Roxas, the boy he had gone through so much just to capture. "So now…you both have your own hearts?"

The boy grinned as he let go of the flabbergasted Sora. "I guess so."

Naminé was in tears at the fact that she now was her own person, not somebody's shadow. "Don't cry, Naminé," said Kairi, who had developed a strong friendship with the blond-haired girl when she rescued her.

"I'm just…so happy…" said Naminé in her dreamy, gentle voice. She raised her head, and her tear-filled blue eyes met Riku's aquamarine ones for a second, before he looked away.

After the whole process of hugging, congratulating, and talking came about, the gang retreated to the gummi ship, where Sora, the pilot, had asked the two ex-Nobodies a question. "Where to?"

Roxas smiled at the thought of his friends in the virtual Twilight Town, and had always hoped that he could meet the real them for once. "I think I know where I belong – in Twilight Town."

Sora nodded, and off they went at the speed of light. Upon arriving at Twilight Town, Roxas departed with his friends with a hug from each one of them, except Riku, of course. "We'll visit you sometime," said Kairi, smiling at the blond-haired boy.

Once they were back in the gummi ship and into space, Mickey turned to Naminé. "What about you, Naminé?" he asked.

"If it's okay with you guys," said Naminé. "I'd like to follow you back to Destiny Islands. It's the place I feel most…at home."

Riku looked at the little artist that had ducked her head shyly as she avoided his, and everybody else's, eyes. Perhaps she felt guilty and ashamed to be treated this well, even when they knew of her crime of messing up their memories.

But they had forgiven her, and it was a power she did not want, but was created with. Other people misused that power of hers, and she was the one who bore the guilt and sins for their misdeed.

Once the ship landed in Destiny Islands, they parted ways with Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Pluto, who left for their home in Disney Castle. Naminé smiled in glee as she felt the sand in her feet, for real this time, and not in her dreams.

"C'mon, let's play!" said Sora. "I know you've been dying to play at the beach."

Kairi shook her head and grabbed Naminé's wrist before she could take off her blue sandals. "Nuh-uh! You're not going anywhere until you put on some sunblock! I don't want your fair skin to darken, like mine," she said, giving her a bottle of sunblock from her pocket.

Riku followed them to the beach and watched as they played in the water and made sandcastles like little children. His blue-green eyes watched Naminé, the salty wind in her hair, her feet drenched with sea water as she laughed, for the very first time, from her heart instead of her forced conscience. He felt his heart flutter at her smiling face.

And when she stopped laughing to look at him, to run to him and take his hands, pulling him to the waters, he knew, she knew, and the other two knew what Naminé's given and blessed existence meant.

Life on Destiny Islands will never be the same again.