Her Journey
At the beginning of Kingdom Hearts II, Kairi is still affected by Naminé’s messing with Sora’s memories. She cannot remember Sora’s name and barely anything about him at all. She is seen walking down a road at dusk, when Selphie calls out to her in order to make her wait up. Selphie asks if Kairi will come to the island with her since Tidus and Wakka will not, but Kairi politely refuses. She can no longer hear Sora’s voice down there, and since she feels very guilty for not remembering him, she promises not to go back to the island until she remembers everything about him. Selphie questions her to think if she made him up, but she knows that she did not. The feelings were too strong.Kairi then hears Roxas call Naminé’s voice and puts her hand to her head, wondering what is going on. She tries to press information out of Roxas about Sora, when she suddenly hears Sora’s voice. He pretends to be hurt that she forgot who he was, and tells her that his name begins with an “S”. She wakes up on the ground, and sits up with Selphie’s help. Kairi runs the information she just got through her head and darts off towards the beach. When Selphie catches up with her, she has taken a bottle out of her bag and sets it in the ocean. They watch it float away and Kairi explains that she wrote the boy a letter, and how she knows he will get it eventually. Kairi then says “Begins with an “S”. Right, Sora?” Displaying that she finally remembered his name.
Much later, Kairi is standing at the beach again around the same time of day, wondering if simply waiting for Sora and Riku to come back is good enough. Axel then appears telling her that he is a friend of Sora’s and that he can take her to see him. Kairi does not trust him, however, as a few Nobodies appear. A portal of darkness opens behind her and Pluto runs in, barking for her to follow. Kairi chooses to follow him in order to start her own journey to find her two friends because they were taking too long to come back home. She ends up in Twilight Town, where she becomes friends with Hayner, Pence and Olette, but Axel tracks her down and brings her back with him. At some point off screen, she and Pluto are taken from Axel by Saïx and locked away in The World That Never Was.
Naminé comes to her rescue before Sora can reach her, and the two of them run to try and escape. Saïx stops them, letting Kairi know that he would not simply allow her to walk out. A cloaked figure appears and the berserker Nobodies behind Saïx are defeated. He pins Saïx to the wall, who disappears into a portal that he opens up. Naminé lets Kairi know the cloaked figure is Riku, and she makes him wait before he can leave. Kairi lowers his hood, revealing that he looks like Ansem.
Kairi then finds Sora fighting some Heartless a few levels below and calls out to him. They then consume him, and she jumps to a ledge below in order to try and help him. She herself is attacked, but Riku destroys them and gives her a keyblade to fight with. Kairi takes it and begins to charge at the Heartless without hesitation while Riku fights at her side. Finally, she makes it down to Sora’s level and the three are reunited once more. Kairi runs and embraces him, and Riku tries to take the opportunity to leave, but Kairi calls out to him. Sora does not believe his ears, and it takes Kairi to make the three of them hold hands for him to realize it really is Riku standing in front of him. The three friends, Donald and Goofy make their way to Ansem and King Mickey after being attacked by Luxord and Saïx.
Once Sora and Riku believe they have defeated Xemnas, Naminé opens a portal for everyone to escape and return home. The king, Donald and Goofy all leave, but Kairi stops to thank her. She and Roxas speak briefly before they both return to be a part Kairi and Sora again respectively. Kairi walks into the portal and turns to tell her two friends to hurry, but then the portal begins to close. She tries to get out before it does, but it is no use. Sora and Riku are once again left behind.
After they defeat Xemnas once and for all, they go through the Door to the Light once Kairi’s letter is read. Finally, after waiting for so long, Kairi sees both Sora and Riku fall from the sky into the ocean around Destiny Islands. She calls out to both of them, and they swim as fast as they can towards her. Donald, Goofy, and Mickey are all there to great their return as well, and the friends stop and enjoy finally being together at home. Kairi smiles and welcomes them home, happy for things to be back to the way they should be – with the three of them together.
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