Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.
The Old Life, Alive Again
by XionRoxas1314
- Recommended by Very Melon
- Status: Complete
- Pairing: Roxas/Xion with Axel/Larxene
- Synopsis: Roxas wishes everything in Organization XIII would go back to the way it was...but he never expected that would actually happen! Now he has to keep himself sane as he goes through all the trials that his wish brings.
Add Review- Recommended by Trollbez
- Status: Complete
- Pairing: Sora/Yuffie
- Synopsis: After losing to Sora twice in a row, Yuffie decides to train with him out in the woods as she struggles with her feelings and a not so little secret.
Those Without Hearts by The Lionheartless (AU)
- Recommended by Pata Hikari
- Status: Dead
- Pairing: Sora/Kairi
- Synopsis: An AU story taking place all on one world, a world being ravaged by the Heartless. King Mickey adopts Sora, the young wielder of the Keyblade. However, there's a problem, his heart is missing.
You Don't Miss It Till It's Gone and You Don't Miss It Till It's Gone: Nobody's Perfect by numina
- Recommended by Zagreus. Seconded by Pepper-Jak, Suspicious Cookie
- Status:
- You Don't Miss It Till It's Gone: Complete
- Nothing's Perfect: Dead
- Pairing: yes
- Synopsis: Sister fics set post KH2. Sora leaves Kairi behind on his newest adventure, setting off a chain of events that pit Sora, Kairi, and Riku against each other and ressurrect Organization XIII. Events unfold from the perspectives of the Nobodies in Nobody's Perfect and the perspective of their Somebodies in the original, creating a unique reading experience.
Heaven Help Us Now by rissydoll
- Recommended by Corben Cypher
- Status: Dormant
- Pairings: Namine/Zexion
- Synopsis: An AU fic with an alternate drastically different setting where certain original members of the order, Ansem, Xaldin, Saix, and others, are called "Lords" and rule a kingdom, follows the story of Namine through this world and her search for her brother Roxas.
- Recommended by Mysterynovelist2010, NotJMKeynes
- Status: Complete
- Pairing(s): Implied Riku/Kairi, Kairi/Sora (but he's dead in this fanfic until the last chapter)
- Synopsis: After the events of Kingdom Hearts 2, Sora and the gang return to normal high school life, until one night Sora is viciously murdered by a Nobody named Ruxik; Kairi becomes the new Keyblader and with Riku and a few of their friends from the games, they battle Ruxik, who is determined to plunge the universe into darkness and make himself king of the darkness.
Incandescence by Arcticwaters
- Recommended by KingSonnDeeDoo
- Status: Dormant
- Pairings: Axel/Larxene
- Synopsis: A series of one-shots (with occasional dashes of AU) featuring the frienship/relationship of Axel and Larxene, during their time in Organization XIII.
Boys Will Be By Lizzie Rebel
- Recommended by Outsider, whitesouldragon
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Sora/Kairi and some Roxas/Namine
- Synopsis: oneshot, dark, Sora/Kairi — it's like little boys in the summer, young and covered in blood
Reaching the Understanding By Varanus
- Recommended by Exceptional_Chocolate, Comartemis, CCIB, moooomoooo
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Ven/Aqua/Terra
- Synopsis: Before the journey, through their days laughing together, they finally found an... understanding. Oh, but let's be clear, the Master must never know. Seriously. Has a half-related follow-up called As I Remember It.
The Lion In The Meadow By Guardian 1
- Recommended by Unlucky Normalcy CLO, moooomoooo
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Leon/Yuffie, mentions of Aerith/Cloud, Leon/Rinoa, and Vincent/Yuffie
- Synopsis: Yuffie, Leon, and the fine art of how to disturb the dead. A one-shot.
- Recommended by Animenutcase
- Status: Complete
- Pairing: Goofy/Aerith
- Synopsis:: Goofy buys a flower from Aerith and the story flows from there.
The Renegades by abby_sarajane, chigrima and silvestris. (slash, explicit sex in some versions.)
- Recommended by L Guardinal, Pepper-Jak, Nenja, and Quanyails
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Lexaeus/Zexion, Vexen/Marluxia, Axel/Larxene - also cases of Marluxia/Larxene, Vexen/Larxene, Lexaeus/Larxene, Lexaeus/Marluxia, Marluxia/Zexion
- Synopsis: The Plot-Bunny of Doom/The Renegades, by three different authors, is the story of the Castle Oblivion Nobodies. I can't summarize to save my life, but essentially, they messed up. They messed up bad, and so the six Nobodies fled the castle and Organization
XIIVII, hopping from world to world in a paranoid dash to save their hides.
Deceitful Above All Things by Quillslinger (slash, M-rated [though the explicit material is about two paragraphs out of a 18,000-word fic], AU due to being written prior to 358/2 Days)
- Recommended by Rocha, whitesouldragon, moooomoooo
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Axel and Roxas.
- Synopsis: Contrary to popular beliefs, most of which were disseminated by Axel, he did not meet Roxas in a life-or-death situation involving a million Heartless and gravity-defying acrobatics. That part really did happen, just not on the day they met. Way before that, there was this summer day in Twilight Town.
Hourglass by Kuko-chan
- Recommended by Anderling
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Sora/Riku
- Synopsis: "Sora's life was going fine until an older version of himself literally falls from the sky bringing news of a horrific future and a mission to turn back the hourglass. Now Sora must fight fate to protect the one he loves. Post KH 2 Riku/Sora."
Marigold by Falaphesian
- Recommended by thebutterflyeffect, Ellamew
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Axel/Roxas
- Synopsis: "He never knew what not to do. But he always got it right. Up until The Lightning, The House, and The Kid all came crashing down. Now he just can't stop doing it wrong."
The Violet Room by Sarehptar
- Recommended by Meteor, Kris Mahai, Landscape
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Demyx and Zexion, except it's not there yet in the story.
- Synopsis: While working a psychology internship, Myde is given the challenge of analyzing Ienzo, a mysterious patient who spends his days writing on the walls of his hospital room. But when the story of 'Zexion' and 'Demyx' starts to sound familiar...
Come Home by Lady Karai
- Recommended by Mademoiselle Anime Amour. Seconded by BlackPearlPrincess
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Cloud/Leon, Axel/Roxas, Zexion/Demyx, Riku/Sora, Vincent/Yuffie, Mild Kadaj/Kairi
- Synopsis: A single night's mistake separated them for six years. When chance throws them back together, it will take more than love to heal the wounds and bring them home.
Butterfly Kisses By Pikachumaniac
- Recommended by bickazer
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Riku/Zexion
- Synopsis: As DiZ and Riku prepare for Sora's awakening and the defeat of Organization XIII, Riku finds himself being haunted by a familiar figure. For even with no powers left, Zexion still knows his every weakness. Riku x Zexion.
Valiant Hearts II By Kuugen the Fox
- Recommended by WeirdRaptor
- Status: Dormant
- Pairings: Aerith/Tifa, Kaira/Namine/Olette, Olette/Yuffie
- Synopsis: An AU, Shipping fic about Kairi as the Keyblade Master instead of Sora. It's her struggles against the Organization XIII together with the Radiant Garden Restoration Commity and her fellow Keybladers, Olette and Namine. A far darker take on the story than the original. Takes place during the story of Kingdom Hearts II.
The Unfamiliar By the.israel.project107 (slash, rated M)
- Recommended by Ellamew, fanfictor, and generalwinter.
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Axel/Roxas, Riku/Sora, Zemyx, Leon/Cloud
- Synopsis: Roxas leads a semiperfect life. He's a good person, with reasonable grades, friends he's growing out of, and a regular home environment. Until Axel comes along. Roxas doesn't realize just how much of a sham his whole existence is...
- Recommended by: Lililedger
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Akuroku and Zemyx
- Synopsis: Four teenage boys. Four different types of cancer. One journey.
- Comments: Wonderful story, if a bit rough around the edges. The author manages to write yet another 'It's AU and they are high school students' fic without falling into the cliches that litter most other 'normal' A Us. The author is the son of a PA, and it shows with the amount of research that has clearly been done. He manages to handle a sensitive subject without being unbelievable or over the top.
- Warnings: It would be hard to write a story with four cancer patients without including at least a little character death.
Darkness Rising by Chibi Nataku
- Recommended by: ittybittybot
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Cloud/Sephiroth (although it's implied, it actually takes awhile to get there)
- Synopsis: Cloud made a deal with Hades to search for someone, but he may have taken off a bit more than he expected. There are some in the world that wish to control him for more than his fighting ability!
- Recommended by: suadela, moooomoooo, Golden Dragon 326
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Sora/Riku, Roxas/Axel, and Sora+Roxas friendship
- Synopsis: It's about growing up, mostly. Sometimes it's about the guy you totally didn't kiss in the locker room and sometimes it's about the guy who climbed in your window. Sometimes it's about hockey. But sometimes it's about the difference between what's real and what's fake, between what you own and what you fight, between being a boy and being a man.
- Comments: I'm not usually a big fan of AU high school stories, but this one is honestly one of the best pieces of fiction I have ever read. I would pay money to buy this in book form if it were available.
- I second the motion. Anyone who likes Sora/Riku and Roxas/Axel should definitively give this story a shot. It's extremely enjoyable, and is very deserving of both its humor and romance tags. It will definitely have you coming back for re-reads. It's plain to see it was well-planned out, and is just as well-written as any published book out there.
- Warnings: Rated Mature for language, drug use and sex.
- The author's 'warnings:' Rose-tinted 90's nostalgia, boy/boy situations, the use and abuse of several cliches, excessive presence of flannel, Riku driving, Sora expressing badass-ocity, grunge rock, recreational drug use and references to stoner culture, language, conveniently placed trees, cheerleaders in glitter makeup, people who know the alma mater, teenagers, smoking in the boys' room, fistfighting in the boys' room, and more to be added, probably.
Yellow Zinnias by A Crimson Evil
- Recommended by: Axisfiraga
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: AkuRoku
- Synopsis: A story of loss, and coping, and remembering. It's not easy to die, but it's also not easy to be left behind. It's hard to smile when you want to cry, and it's hard to move on like nothing happened. This is a story about acceptance, and how hard that one word can weigh on the soul, but at the same time allow it to fly.
- Comments: A Tear Jerker if I've ever seen one. It's one of the best AU stories I've read, and it's bittersweet until the very end. It's stories like this that shows you how your world can come crashing down, but you'll still be able to pick up the pieces.
The Life Left Behind by Neriede
- Recommended by istolethecheese
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: "What if…" he pauses, trying to find the right words, "What if there is a life after this one? What if we've already lived a hundred lives before this one?" Isa shrugs easily, "I wouldn't know the difference."
- Recommended by ladyofthelibrary
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Sora has always been an unidentified mystery. But when when the spring track season starts and Sora’s friends begin to delve into his secrets, Sora finds that no matter how fast you run, you can never leave your problems behind. (taken from fanfiction.net)
- Pairings: Sora/Riku, Roxas/Axel, Cloud/Leon, past Cloud/Sepheroth, Kairi/Selphie and Zexion/Demyx
Hollow Bastion Museum of Science by Metal Chocobo
- Recommended by PKMN 37
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: There are a lot of benefits to working at a prestigious museum. Kairi hadn't realized meeting Yuffie was one of them. It's a Sliceof Life story.
- Pairings: Kairi/Yuffie
Princess Protection by Orange Ratchett
- Recommended by Cornholio 4
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Sora is separated from Donald and Goofy in the world of Agrabah as he tries to find them, along with the world's Keyhole. He did not imagine he would end up being the faithful hero to a princess on the run, along with falling in love with said princess! What fates will await the boy and girl?
- Pairings: Sora/Jasmine, Aladdin/Sadira
- Comments: I am biased as I was the one who made the request for the story in the first place but it’s a nice fic for fans of the idea of Sora and Jasmine or Sora X Disney Girls.
Change by PhoenixDowner
- Recommended by Clato Lawa
- Status: Complete
- Pairing: Sora/Kairi
- Synopsis: Kairi vents her frustrations to the cave drawing after Sora's return home, only to find she isn't quite as alone as she thought.
Kiss me twice by Alja
- Recommended by Clato Lawa
- Status: Complete
- Pairing: Aqua/Terra
- Synopsis: Terra thought she trusted him. They shared their fears, shared their nightmares and even shared quarters. But apparently, none of this was enough for Aqua to trust him completely. But he was ready to earn that trust back.
Kiss me three times by Alja
- Recommended by Clato Lawa
- Status: Complete
- Pairing: Sora/Kairi
- Synopsis: The final fight was looming over their heads and it was impossible for Sora to stay in bed and get all the sleep he needed. Going for a walk instead, he found out he wasn't the only sleepless person that morning.
The Perfect Time by Alja
- Recommended by Clato Lawa
- Status: Complete
- Pairing: Sora/Kairi
- Synopsis: The final clash on the Keyblade Graveyard started and the severity of the situation hit Sora for the first time. They might fail. They might die. So he has to make a choice now.
- Comments: Inspired by a certain scene from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, this has Sora and Kairi finally sharing a Paopu fruit - in the middle of the final battle. If you love the idea of the two as a Battle Couple, look no further.
After Ever After by PhoenixDowner
- Recommended by Clato Lawa
- Status: Complete
- Pairing: Sora/Kairi
- Synopsis: Sora and Kairi have their family and their happily ever after, but tensions arise when their children are older and want to know about their parents' pasts.
Days Worth Remembering by FanficWriter827
- Recommended by Clato Lawa
- Status: Complete
- Pairing: Ventus/Namine
- Synopsis: After the fighting has calmed down, Ventus has gotten the chance to meet a shy, but nice girl named Naminé. He isn't sure what makes him so interested in her but he wants to get to know her better. Naminé has a new heart, and with that comes new feelings. She meets Ventus and finds herself experiencing something brand new to her.
- Has one sequel, Naminé and the Wayfinders, reportedly with more to come.
