The Ending Makes Me Heartless

By Kaede Nakamura

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts.

This is a little essay on how I felt after beating Ansem on Kingdom Hearts.

Well, I've done it. I've beaten Kingdom Hearts. I should feel glad. Right?

Why don't I?

I see Sora forcing himself to shut Riku in with the Heartless. I'm proud to say I'm a Riku/Sora fan, so my heart felt heavy when Sora had a face that, to me, was a pout because he had to leave Riku.

Now, I adknowledge the fact that Sora/Kairi is on the edge of canon, and although I don't like Sora/Kairi, the next scene hurt more.

Kairi was standing on a sandy patch of land when Sora ran to her. Then the chunks of land began to break apart. One part of me, I'll admit, was a little cynical, wondering why the hell he just doesn't jump over to Kairi.

The rest of me felt my heart being pulled apart at the same rate that the two pieces of land separate. Sora and Kairi held hands and tried to hang onto each other. Sora promised to come back for her.

Then they let go.

Crack.

My heart was in two.

The ending goes on, with Simple and Clean in the background, and I feel no better than the creatures that separated them in the first place.