(A/N: I was watching Animashes for inspiration and watched a couple really good vids with the song Echo by Jason Walker. Got me all depressed, but inspired me. So here's a very depressing RokuShi. XD Enjoy!)
Echo
I walked the streets of the World that Never Was. Alone. Cold. Dark. That's all I was, all the world was, ever since she left. Rain ran down my cheeks, mingling with my tears. I wore Organization XIII's cloak, but I was done with them. My black boots splashed in puddles on the brick sidewalk. Life wasn't worth anything anymore. Thunder clashed, lightning flashed. What did it matter? Nothing mattered anymore.
I paused in my walk and closed my eyes. Taking a deep breath, I imagined life with her. I remembered her. Her smile, her eyes, her hair... More tears fell. I ignored them. In my memories she was still smiling at me. She was still... here. She hadn't left.
"I miss you," I whispered. Silence. Only the sound of the rain could be heard. I hated it, I hated her not being there, I hated not seeing her, I just... gone. She was gone. "Where'd you go?" I asked. Only an echo could be heard. I looked next to me. She wasn't there. Just my shadow. Of course.
I would take a whisper if she could just talk to me again. She could be mad at me, hate me, be yelling at me for all I care. I just want her back. I want to see her again. I strain my ears in case she's talking and I can't hear her, but there's nothing. My thoughts are whirling, my mind a tornado. I can't think straight now that she's gone. I can't go on.
I could see us on top of the Clock Tower again, laughing and joking like usual. We would play around, cause that's what best friends do. I watched as she... disappeared. Like she'd never been there. She'd never come back.
"Where are you?" I yelled at the top of my lungs. Why was I shouting? I knew where she was. But I didn't want to believe it. I looked like an idiot, but I didn't care. "Answer me!" I pleaded the emptiness. Just an echo. That's all that answered me. That's all that I could hear. Not her voice. My shadow was all that I could see. Not her, or her smile. Only the darkness.
I felt so lonely without her. I wanted to feel alive again. But that couldn't happen without her. I wanted to see her, to hear her so badly. But I can't. The only thing I can hear is my echo. The only voice coming back. My shadow is my only friend now.
"Come back!" I shouted. "Please..." My memories replayed. Us eating ice cream, on the beach, having missions together... Like old times. Like everything was okay. Like I wasn't talking to my echo.
"Hello? Hello? Anybody out there?" I asked.
To my surprise, I heard someone come closer. My eyes widened. It couldn't be...? "Xion?"
The figure revealed itself. A man with a blindfold on. No, not Xion. Her captor. Her traitor.
Her Killer.
