KH: 100 Fragments of Heart [1/4]

1. Introduction

She was soaking wet from being washed up onto the beach and her face was smudged with dirt and tears, but he still thought she was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen in his young four years of life.

2. Love

Roxas and Naminé saw it interlaced in each of Sora's memories, seen how it incited their very creation.

3. Light

He struggles to keep his eyes open as the blade leaves his chest, but he manages just long enough to see her Heart return to her and the light return to her eyes.

4. Dark

She knows it's him, can feel her heart pull herself to him, even if he's nothing more but a shadow of Darkness.

5. Seeking Solace

On a gummi ship out in the farthest corner of the worlds, amongst shadow and strangers, a boy caresses a charm made of Thalassa shells.

6. Break Away

On the rare occasion when Sora feels lonely after leaving Kairi for the third time, he wishes he could send Roxas back to Destiny Islands, if only to have a piece of him there with her.

7. Heaven

They lie on their backs on the warm sun set shore with hands linked and eyes watching worlds twinkle into existence against the blanketing dark of night.

8. Innocence

They stand on the dock they watched the sunset from a lifetime ago and wonder if they can ever go back to the days where sailing on a raft was their greatest anticipated adventure.

9. Drive

He's not quite sure, but Sora swears that the entire battlefield stopped along with him to watch Kairi change into her luminescent Final Form.

10. Breathe Again

He's breaking to the surface and filling his lungs with air, but it isn't until he hears her call his name and sees her waiting for him on the shore that he's breathing again.

11. Memory

She wakes up crying, not because her heart aches, but because the reason for it is a nameless blur in her memories.

12. Insanity

Sora honestly doesn't understand why everyone keeps saying he's crazy for thinking he isn't worthy of Kairi.

13. Misfortune

No matter how many battles he fights, how many enemies he defeats, or how many times he saves her, she will always be in danger.

14. Smile

She thinks that a ship running on smiles is ridiculous, but she doesn't mind if it means she gets to see his smile more often during their journey than she's expecting.

15. Silence

In each other's arms, the world quiets to a reverend hush.

16. Questioning

She was getting tired of girls on the island asking her if Sora was single.

17. Blood

She came along expecting many things, all except seeing his life flow free from his body and stain their world of Light in red.

18. Rainbow

Sora and Kairi go through Naminé's old sketchbook and marvel at how the drawings of the two of them together are the most colorful.

19. Gray

They stand before each other after a year apart and everything fades into the background in the vibrancy of each other.

20. Fortitude

Goodbyes come too often to them, so they smile and forge promises to meet again instead, hoping this is not the last time the Wayfinder exchanges hands.

21. Vacation

"I promise, when all this fighting is over and Xehanort is defeated, we'll visit all the worlds on a real vacation."

22. Mother Nature

On summer nights when the most fearsome storms rage Sora often sneaks into Kairi's room, wanting nothing more to safeguard her after his failure that one night when they were fourteen.

23. Cat

Even after they left the Pride Lands, Kairi easily curled on Sora's lap and purred as she snuggled her face into his neck.

24. No Time

With all this business of saving the worlds, rescuing/helping people, and defeating Xehanort, Sora and Kairi can't seem find the time to sit down and share a single paopu fruit.

25. Trouble Lurking

Kairi swears when she leans in to kiss Sora that she sometimes sees a thin band of yellow at the edges of Sora's irises.