A/N: Okay. Was watching a really random video, and it had Riku putting on the bandana thingy, and Sora was faded slightly in the background and it really inspired me to write this. Hope you like it! Thanks to SImpression for being my beta reader. Loves you!
I wear it because I wish to. All I want is my friend back, the one who I am most close to. I don't want him to be replaced by a fake, a Nobody. I don't want to be fooled by a face that did not match up to the right mind. If it did, then I would NEVER get him back. Not now, not ever. Because I would grow attached to it. I would protect it against all of my previous wishes. I would keep this across my eyes so I wouldn't have to bear the pain of seeing the result of something I had done. There was no way I would fall into a false sense of security and mess with the feelings of my friends. There was no way. He wouldn't do that. He would find a way to bring me back, even if it meant death. And that's what had happened. If it weren't for Kairi, there would be no more Sora. He died to save her and the rest of the worlds.
He cared about people who'd he met along his journey, while I was too busy trying to pick a fight. I had no idea why he was trying to protect strangers when there was Kairi, lying lifelessly next to me. I guess that was one of my many blind spots that I clung to during that time. Why I clung to them, I don't know. I guess because I didn't want to let them go. I guess I just wanted things to stay the same. I didn't want any new friends. I wanted to keep my old friends. The only ones that had mattered over my life.
That is why I wear this. To take it off would be returning the sad fate that I had brought upon our island. That was too much to bear, and I won't let him get the better of me again.