Disclaimer: I do NOT own Riku, Sora, Kairi, and other Kingdom Hearts characters. They belong to Square Enix. I do own Riku's mother, my other OC, and the plot! If you want to use my idea please ask me first.

My aquamarine eyes scanned the sunset for something, anything that could prove that this person -- this girl -- really existed. I sighed and laid back on the sand, knees up, hands behind my head, one over the other. Closing my eyes, I replayed the day I truly returned to the islands.

Flashback

I watched as Sora read the letter Kairi wrote to him. I felt the ocean calling to me and looked out. My eyes widened. The door to light! Sora and I jumped to our feet and ran towards it. There was a bright, blinding light, then we fell from the sky. The next thing I knew, my body was completely submerged in warm water. As an islander, I instinctively began to swim up for air. Sora and I seemed to have came up at the same time, gasping lightly for air.

"Sora! Riku!" I heard a familiar voice. I turned my head and saw Kairi waving to us at the shoreline. Sora must have saw her before I did, for he had already started swimming. With me right behind him, we quickly made it to shore. I watched as Donald and Goofy jumped on top of Sora, bringing him to the ground, hugging him affectionately. I turned my head just in time to see the King running towards me. He leaped into my arms as we exchanged smiles. I put him down and looked over at Sora. I saw that he and Kairi were in their own little world. Smiling gently to myself, I refrained from ruining the moment.

"Riku..." I heard the wind say breathlessly.

I turned my head and looked toward the direction of the sound. My eyes widened with recognition. A rather tall girl was walking towards me. She was wearing black baggy shorts that stopped just above her knee and a turquoise tank top that contrasted beautifully with her chocolate colored skin. Her long straight black hair fell a several inches past her shoulders blew into her face. She used her left hand to brush her hair back revealing her magnificent, innocent smile. My breathing stopped, time stopped, everything stopped, except for her. There was no sound.

"Riku..." I read her lips. "I've missed you." I took my eyes off her lips to see her face. I blinked. She was gone.

"ARGH!" I sat up, running my right hand through my bang and grabbing it forcibly at the roots. I clenched my jaw and squeezed my eyes shut. "Why can't I remember?!" I released my hair and falling back onto the sand. "Why can't I remember?" I said, hopelessly closing my eyes.

"Remember what, Riku?" I heard. I opened my eyes seeing Kairi leaning over me with her hands on her bare knees. Her head tilted to the side questionably. "Well?"

I sighed. "It's nothing important."

"It didn't sound like nothing important." She walked around my head and sat next to me.

"I don't want to talk about it." I sat up and looked into the mesmerizing sunset.

"Are you sure? You can trust me." I felt her eyes on me.

"It's just...I mean...I think I forgot someone," I paused, "very important to me."

"Someone from the darkness?"

"No, she lived here... on the islands." I looked down at the clean, white sand.

"She?"

I turned my head and met Kairi's curious gaze. "Yeah, she."

"Do you remember your relationship with her at all?" Kairi asked, failing to keep her bubbling curiosity hidden.

"I...." I paused, really taking the time to think. "No...I don't." I took a breath. "I'm not even sure if she really exists." I looked into my palms. Examining each line, crevice, design. Hoping, wanting, to find the answers to all my problems hidden somewhere in their encrypted twirls and swirls.

"Hmm." Kairi brought me out of my trance. "Maybe I can help! What's her name?"

I gave her a funny look. If I'm having such a hard time deciding whether or not she's real, why would I know her name?

"Oh! Sorry, stupid question." She caught herself and laughed. "Do you remember what she looks like at all?"

"Not really..." I closed my eyes and tried to picture her. "She has long black hair, chocolate brown skin, and a beautiful smile. That's all I can remember." I smiled to myself opening my eyes. Kairi was quiet. I looked at her. "Anything come to mind?"

"Nope, I don't think I've seen anyone here that meets that description."

"Kind of figured." I sighed.

"Are you sure she's not from a dream or something?"

I thought about her words. "No, it didn't feel like a dream." I paused and in a low voice said, "she was there. I saw her..."

"You saw her? Where?"

"Here. When Sora and I came back from the twilight realm... she was over there, at the edge of the beach." I turned my body and used my left hand to point to the spot where she stood, from what I could remember of that day.

"Are you sure?" Kairi gave me a weird look.

"Almost positive..."

"That's strange...I don't remember anyone else being there besides you, me, Sora, Donald, Goofy, and the King." I listened to her words. "Riku, you know, you could of have easily dreamt this up."

I stood up, anger building inside me. I clenched my hands into tight fists. The access my blood had to my knuckles and fingers ceased to exist, turning them milky white. Why was I so angry?

"Riku...?" Kairi looked up at me, eyes slightly widened from my sudden movement. She opened her mouth to speak.

"Save it..." I cut her off. "I don't want to hear it." I walked away. I didn't look back at Kairi, but I could tell she was looking at me, I felt it.

The walk home was short; although, I took the long route. It gave me the chance to cool off. I'm still not sure why I was so angry. She was just giving me her opinion. I shouldn't have snapped like that. I brought my palm to my forehead and sighed as I walked up my front steps. I knew my mom wouldn't have locked the front door while I was out, so I grabbed the door knob and opened the door. I walked into the foyer, took off my shoes, and placed them onto their respected spot on the shelf. "I'm home!" I waited for a reply that didn't come. My mom must have been working in her office. After Sora and I came back, my mom created a new magazine, Disney Kingdom: Gossip of the Worlds, that was filled with news from all over the worlds, like Mulan's engagement to Chang and Ariel's pregnancy. I walked through the small foyer, turned right, and made my way to the kitchen through the dining room. I stepped on the dirty beige tile floor and instantly felt the coldness seeping into my sock...what the hell? I lifted my leg and turned my foot to see the bottom of it. My mom had mopped the floor while I was out. I sighed, for the umpteenth time today. I must have broken the world record by now. I groaned and removed my wet sock. Today just wasn't my day.

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