It's always Kairi's fault.

You know, once upon a time, I thought she was the most blameless person in our group. She was always so sweet and innocent, cheerful even when I, Sora, the Supreme Commander Of All That Is Happy was not.

It came to me one day, while sitting on our favorite tree watching the sunset like we did every evening. There was a lull in our conversation, and I looked over at her, almost as if by chance. The light from the setting sun decided it would be at the perfect angle at that very moment, and the colors and softness of it just... made her glow so beautifully, and I remember thinking I would do absolutely anything for her.

Then I realized... I had, I had done everything I could for her... and the more I thought about it, the more I realized... everything that had happened, all of our adventures, our journeys over the past couple years, they were all her fault.

The reason we wanted to leave the islands in the first place? The reason we built that raft?

It was because Kairi had come from a place that wasn't our world, and it had piqued Riku's curiosity.

It was her fault that Riku had not only thrown himself into Darkness for the sake of satisfying that curiosity, but it was also her fault he threw himself even deeper into that Darkness in order to save her missing heart.

And it was because of those two preceding things that I became the Keyblade Master rather than Riku. Not to mention those two reasons were also why Riku ended up behind the Door To Darkness, and later the reason why I left Kairi on the islands to go look for him and ended up tangling with Organization XIII.

It was her fault that Roxas and Namine were created, and became such strange Nobodies as well. After all, I had to stab myself in the chest (that hurt a lot, by the way. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise) to release her heart, and at the same time mine escaped. And our Nobodies were created.

Oh, and Namine, who I found out later from Riku (and I don't know where he got the information from, either), was the reason I didn't remember half of Organization XIII, nor two years of my life. May I point out that Namine is Kairi?

It was Kairi who the Organization captured and used to bait me into their world, to bait me into killing all those Heartless so they could achieve their mad schemes. Not Riku. Not anyone else. Kairi. Wouldn't ya know it, it worked?

Everything, and I mean everything that has happened in the last two years of my life were Kairi's fault. But you know... if not for her, I would never have met so many of my friends or even gone on to have all of those amazing adventures, fighting Heartless and saving the Universe one world at a time.

It may all be Kairi's fault... but I wouldn't change her for the world.

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A/N: I'm not kidding when I say it's always Kairi's fault. It's my one and only theory about Kingdom Hearts and its fandom that has always been proven a hundred percent correct. xp For the record, I do like Kairi. I like her quite a bit. I just think everything is her fault.