"Gimme a break, Kairi!"
Was taking your heart Fate's way of granting my wish? It was a spur of the moment thing, I wanted to sleep. Now you sleep, for such a long time, and I miss you. I miss everything. How is it that I make sure everyone has a happy ending, but I end up in tears at the sight of you, ghosting your fingers across my tearstained cheeks? You disappear and I cry even harder. 'Man up!' Riku would say. I would ask why you left me here to suffer without my home or my friends, and he would tell me, 'Bros before hoes.' I would scream for him to leave me alone and that it wasn't like that. He would leave. The sky is blue, and there is no sea below, no land below. I am the lonely sky.
"Have you seen my friends D—Riku and Kairi?"
A slip-up, and they'll never forgive me for forgetting who my friends are. I've been pulling my punches with the Heartless just for them, only to be betrayed by Riku and slowly killed by the absence of Kairi. I scream again, not at them, at the people who are trying to help me. I say nothing's wrong. A lie. I say Riku's coming back. Another lie.
"Riku…"
How could he? I choke back a sob, and blink away tears. It hurts so badly, I want to die already. I see Kairi, and it feels like I already have. Riku tried so many times to kill me, yet I am still here shaking her and biting my lip as my eyes glaze over. A dark spot appears on her shirt and I touch it. It's wet. I feel my face, and my lashes have tiny drops clinging to them. I blink them back once again and fight for me and for her once I hear her voice say my name and tell me not to die too.
"Kairi… thank you…"
You brought me to life, though my heart still bleeds as Riku's betrayal goes through me like a knife through flesh—stab, stab, stab, twist. I blur the truth so you don't know what's real and what's not. Go home. It's up to me now. So far, so lonely without you and Riku. But I will keep going because I know that you're alive and you're safe. Are my eyes revealing the pain and hurt as the door closes on him? Is he hurt too? What's going on? The door clicks and I scream again, inside. Time and time again, you two cross my mind.
"I'll come back to you, I promise!"
With Riku, without the hurt, and everything will go back to normal.
"I want to line the pieces up. Yours… and mine…"
The sky will touch the sea. The sky will watch the shore. We will be together again. It's a promise.
Shorter than the others, but a second chapter is planned to start at KH2. REVIEW