A/N- This story takes place sometime after Ansem has invaded Riku's body and Riku's trapped basically within his own mind. Riku/Ansem have just brought Kairi back to Hollow Bastion and have a conversation within Riku's mind.

'You're just jealous cause the voices talk to me.'

Riku did not agree with this sentence one bit. If anything he agreed with the exact opposite! He would've been more than happy to have the voices stop talking to him. Well it wasn't exactly the voices; it was more of two voices. One of which was his own, the other belonged to a slightly more demented person that went by the name of Ansem. And since the voice belonged to Ansem you can only imagine the sanity damaging material that their conversations held. Ever since Ansem had invaded his head/body Riku had been more than desperate for a desk for his forehead to be acquainted with.

It wasn't that Ansem was annoying; so to speak, more of that he was repetitive. He kept saying the same things over and over and over again and… well, yeah, Ansem was annoying.

"Darkness is the hearts true essence!"

"There is no escaping the darkness!"

"Darkness conquers all hearts! All worlds!"

After the 20th time of hearing these, Riku had stopped listening and caring. Soon all he heard was:

"Blah, blah, blah, darkness. Darkness blah, blah darkness blah, blah, blah."

But the most annoying part was that Ansem took himself seriously! He believed every word he was saying. When Ansem had first taken him over, Riku had taken him seriously too, I mean who wouldn't? He was convincing for the first hour and a half, but after that he began to get slightly redundant. 'Slightly' being a major understatement. After the first two hours Riku found himself bored with arguing with Ansem about light and dark, the conversation never changed.

"Why don't you just accept the darkness? Why don't you just accept the fact that your body and heart belong to me now?" After a while Riku found that line to be extremely sickening and the most sanity damaging.

"You're wrong! My heart belongs to me and me only!" Ah yes, pathetic heroism. It's a one-way ticket to humiliation nation. How Sora managed to say things like this on a regular basis and keep a straight face Riku would never know.

After this Ansem would only laugh and say, "Resist it while you will. Your body will belong to me completely. I already control your movements."

Riku wondered if Ansem knew that what he was saying could be interpreted in a very sick and wrong way. Riku sighed mentally since his body would not allow him too. After a while of silence Riku realized there actually had been a moment of silence.

"Whoa! You haven't ranted about darkness and what not in nearly an hour! It must be Armageddon!" Riku's voice echoed through out his mind and he felt his head snap up almost startled.

"Har, har you're hilarious." Ansem's voice said through Riku's mouth. Riku sent him a mental frown.

"Don't talk out loud! You'll make me look crazy! Like you!"

"Since when did you develop a sense of humor?"

"Same time you did, apparently."

Riku heard himself scoff. "Oh please, I have no time for humor in my life."

"Yeah I can see that."

Riku's face twisted into a snarl. "And what is that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing…"

"You're implying something aren't you?"

"Me? Now why would I do that?" Fake innocence layered Riku's mental voice. His body's eyes narrowed.

"Because you're you." Ansem replied. It took Riku awhile to think up a comeback and when he did, he didn't even get a chance to say it. "Who are you talking to?" Maleficent stood behind Riku who turned around to look at her, he scowled.

"That's none of your business." Ansem snapped through Riku's voice.

"Told you! You made me look crazy!" Riku said.

"Shut up!" Ansem snapped.

"Excuse me?" Maleficent said, a bit surprised at Riku's sudden outburst.

"There see? You did it again."

"I wasn't talking to you." Ansem replied to Maleficent turning away to stare down at Kairi who was laying on the ground in front of him.

"Then to whom were you speaking?" Maleficent inquired, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"I thought I told you that was none of your business!" He said, shrugging her off.

"Great! She touched my shirt so now we have to burn it!" Riku said, groaning. Ansem was confused. "Why?"

"Why what?" Maleficent asked. Ansem looked over Riku's shoulder. "Will you go away, woman?!"

Maleficent gave a little "Tsk, tsk" and walked away. Ansem turned his attention back to Riku's previous statement.

"Why would I burn it?"

"Hello? She touched it. Burn it before my body is contaminated! Oh wait, you're here, so that means it already has been. I AM UNCLEAN!"

Ansem was not amused. "Oh, you are a riot."

"I am, aren't I?"

"Why don't you go back to being a quiet host and stay out of my way?"

"Because this is way more fun!" Riku said, flashing a grin across his mind. Ansem groaned and looked down at Kairi again. A long moment of silence followed before Riku spoke up again. "You do realize that she's way to young for you… right?"

"Excuse me? Are you implying that I have feelings of affection for this young girl? That's… that's…. that's disgusting!"

Riku mentally sweat dropped. "Do you even listen to yourself when you lecture me on darkness? That's disgusting in stereo."

Ansem blinked, well actually Riku blinked but Ansem made him do it. "I have no idea what that's means, but... I would just like to clarify that I have no feelings of attachment towards any one. Besides! You're the one who likes her." Ansem said using Riku's arms to gesture to Kairi.

"What? I do not!"

"Oh, you do to."

"I do not! Sora's the one totally in love with her."

"Excuses, excuses."

"Oh shut up…. Uh… YOU LIKE MALEFICENT!" Riku said, having thought up no better retort. Ansem nearly threw up. "I what?"

"Oh yeah. Don't even try to deny it."

"I do not like that disgusting old witch!" Ansem said throwing Riku's arms in the air. "Who's a disgusting old witch?" Ansem turned around to face Maleficent. He sweat dropped. "What's that? Are you… blushing?"

"What? NO! Of course not! That's disgusting!" Ansem blurted out shaking Riku's head back and forth. Riku sniggered as Maleficent narrowed her eyes.

"I will ask you again, to whom, are you speaking?" She asked, anger dripping from her voice like venom. "Uh… myself?" Ansem answered.

"Hey! We, contrary to popular belief, are not the same person!"

"Shut up for a minute!" Ansem snarled under his breath.

"Why? She can't hear me. I can say what ever I want to!"

"If you are going to talk to your self, do it elsewhere! I do not wish to be distracted."

Riku scoffed within his mind. "Yeah, ten dollars says that as soon as we leave the room she's gonna start talking to herself." Ansem shook Riku's head. "Most likely."

"LEAVE!" Maleficent shrieked. Ansem waved Riku's hand in the air carelessly and walked out of the room. Riku mentally reclined As he said before, he would be much happier if he could expel Ansem from his body, but that wasn't to say that having the voices in your head couldn't be fun.