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Who: Kairi, Open
What: Starting anew
Where: Destiny Islands
When: Mid-day
Rating: PG

Her head was swimming from everything that happened before, in her dreams...It felt like her mind hadn't been hers, showing her all these memories that seemed to run together and gradually fall into place. With a small groan from finally finding a way to awaken, blue-violet eyes belonging to the auburn-haired girl named Kairi opened slowly and tiredly as her mind kicked itself into gear. She sat up, taking a minute to look around her and better figure out where her location was. To her half-asleep mind it was the Secret Place on Destiny Islands, but how...? "Did I fall asleep?" The girl quietly asked herself, getting onto her feet to stretch her arms towards the rock ceiling of the cave.

Seemed to be forever since she was here...and yet it didn't. The girl blinked the sleep out of her eyes, stretched once more and then headed towards the exit out of her, Sora and Riku's hiding spot.

Once in the bright sunshine of a beautiful noon day on her...not-native-but-still-close-to-it Islands the Princess of Heart lifted a hand to shield her eyes as she adjusted from the darkness and sleep to the light of the outside world. "Well...at least its a beautiful day." Kairi, again, spoke to no one, dusting off her pink dress before heading down the path towards the bridge where the paopu fruit tree was always waiting. Maybe there she could relax a bit and get her thoughts together.

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Riku had been spending more and more time at the beach these days. He was beginning to get restless again, the urge and desire for adventure was stirring within him. He seemed to spend most of his days staring out over the ocean. He knew there were other lands out there now. Lands that needed exploring.

He had been tempted to open a portal and simply see where he ended up. Yet he had so far avoided temptation.

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Shaky steps turned steady as she approached the line between the brown earth and the off-white sand that made up the Islands' beach. She would have crossed the bridge had she not seen the silver-haired boy who seemed to be lost within his own thoughts. Or was waiting for something; she couldn't tell because his back was to her.

"Hey, Riku!" She called out with a smile spreading across her face, breaking into a slight jog to cross the path and head in his direction. She was happy, but her head kept swirling strange thoughts around that she pushed away before approaching the taller--and somewhat older--boy.

"Something up?" she then asked him, before looking out towards the ocean as well. Something...pulled at her heart then, like a calling to span across the waters and maybe even off the world they currently had their feet on. It was like it had been when she was younger and all three of them (Sora, Riku and her) had wanted to build a raft to sail to other, new and exciting places.

But she wouldn't listen to it unless she had Sora and Riku at her side. Both of them. Because they weren't leaving her again--she would make sure of that.

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Riku gave her a rather weak smile, patting the sand at his side to get Kairi to sit down with him. "Hey, Kairi."

He gave a sigh, once more turning his attention back to the sea, looking out to the horizon. "Nah, it's nothing. I'm just thinking." Thinking about other worlds and travelling and adventure.

"I wonder how all the other worlds are. And all the people... Do you think they've just gone back to their normal lives?"

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The girl turned to look at him, smiled back and sat down on the white sand, legs pulled close to her body as she rested her arms on her knees, and her head on top of that.

"Thinking?" She questioned after a moment, but quieted to hear him speak. The question he asked...it had to require some thought. After all, she didn't exactly see that many worlds. The first time she remembered leaving the Islands was when she woke up in that one location, with the glowing heart...and Sora...

She shook her head, lifting it to look towards the ocean as she thought about that one world she had been on, before Axel found her, and then Saix kidnapped her from him. That one world...Twilight Town, was it? She couldn't quite remember, as the warm sun and the sound of the water hitting the shore was making her thoughts blur and try to trail off.

Shifting her posture so that she was sitting up and her legs were stretched out in front of her, Kairi glanced towards Riku and gave him a small shrug.

"I'm sure that the people on the other worlds are a bit shaken, but they're taking note of the past and preparing themselves in case it happens again in the future. At least, thats what I would think." She replied before glancing out to the water again. Another minute or so passed before she turned to face her friend, a thought running through her head as to why he asked that...

"Riku...if you're actually thinking of going to check up on those other worlds with Sora...You can't leave me behind. I'm coming with you this time." She added, sitting up a little straighter and crossing her arms.

Sure it was sudden, but the Princess of Heart didn't want to be left waiting for them again...

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Riku kept his gaze on the ocean, as if it would give him all the answers he seeked. Back then, when they had built the raft, he craved adventure so much, he wanted to see other worlds. And he had. But he had also been responsible for the Heartless destroying the Island, and for all the other bad things that had happened.

He'd lost himself and come out the other side as a better person. But it didn't change the memories of what had happened. And it didn't kill his desire for adventure. A proper adventure with no Heartless, no fighting, just fun.

"... I'm not going anywhere." At least not yet. He wasn't even sure that Sora would want to leave the Island again...

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She watched him for a minute as if trying to read the emotions on the side of his face but she then turned to also look out towards the ocean. A quiet settled down on her shoulders, and she closed her eyes with a small smile when he said he wasn't going to leave yet.

"It's kinda funny." she mentioned after a few minutes of silence, opening her eyes to look down at the sand near her feet. "I mean, with all thats happened I thought that rest would be good for you guys and that we'd all hang out together and go back to the way things were. But...I can tell that you still want to travel, to go visit other worlds. I guess I feel the same way--just a pulling at my heart that wants me to travel across the ocean and back to the other worlds..." Stopping her rambling, she let out a giggle.

"I must sound confusing, but at the moment that's how I feel..."

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"Before the thought of seeking new worlds was so exciting, but it was just a dream, there was no guarantee we would find anything out there. But now... now I know there are other worlds. Probably hundreds more than I've already seen... I want to see them all."

Riku was still a dreamer at heart, yet he was no longer naive to the hurts and dangers that lingered beyond the horizon.

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She turned towards him again, her hand only hesitating in the slightest before it turned back to confidence and placed itself on his shoulder. The look she gave him was a warm smile, and she had an optimistic tone in her voice as she said, "Well, Riku...maybe you and Sora and I can all go visit other worlds together. So that it doesn't have to be a dream, and that maybe by visiting the worlds we'll find that everything is doing really well. And besides that, I know how you didn't like coming back to school...so think of it as an 'educational vacation'."

She didn't even know why she added that last bit, pulling her hand away to look towards the ocean although she still was facing him. It was really his decision, and either way, she'd probably be okay with it.

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Riku gave Kairi a light smile in return, though it didn't quite reach his eyes. He laid his hand on top of Kairi's, giving her hand a gentle squeeze. At the mention of school, he cringed slightly. He hated that place. He's never really fitted in before, and now it was even worse. Some days he even skipped classes to just sit on the beach instead.

"The three of us, huh? I'd like that."

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She smiled then, not biting her lip like she thought she would when his hand squeezed her own.

The next thing she did was on a sudden impulse; she moved so that her arms then wrapped around him in a hug like she would do to Sora sometimes. (Said boy would then flail a bit before hugging her back. "I'm glad we'll all be traveling together...like we planned in the first place..." she whispered before pulling away and standing up to dust off the bottom of her outfit. Getting the sand off her hands, she held out one towards him with a smile on her face.

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The hug was... reassuring. Riku gave a light smile to Kairi.

Riku took hold of Kairi's offered hand, pushing himself up onto his feet. Once he let go of her, he dusted the sand off of himself, shaking it out of his jeans.