Okay, so. I know this is a little out of season right now, but I wrote it during Christmas time and around that time I couldn't remember my fanfiction password.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Kingdom Hearts/Final Fantasy characters
I own: Tai
Kyra owns: Kylie and the baby
Chapter 1
Tai happily sang the same song over and over again while bounding through the snow. It was almost Christmas and she was excited, even if she wasn't singing a Christmas song.
Six presents. She got 6 presents for her friends and family. A doggie plushie for her goddaughter, reading glasses for Cloud, a new katana for Kylie, keychains for Sora, a new dress for Kairi, and a black camera for Riku.
"Hola! Merry Christmas!" Tai cried out, bursting through the door.
"Shh..." came a voice from the darkness.
"Wha? Who's--"
"Shh..."
One after another, two orange eyes appeared, seemingly to be lighted by firelight, but there was none. Tai screamed her semi-boyish scream, stumbling back through the door. The being who belonged to the eyes stepped into the light, revealing his evil smiling face.
"What'd you get me, Tai?" Xemnas asked in his deep man voice, pulling her up by her arm. Her face was close to his, and his breath was rank, making her nose wrinkle.
"Your breath smells. Have you been eating hearts again?"
Xemnas, being the angry man he was, threw her to the ground, at the same time, slipping the katana out of her green messenger bag.
She fell, fell, fell into the whiteness of the moonlit snow. Her head dropped to the side. Seeing the ivory slowly turn a crimson red, the reality of the circumstance brought pain to her freshly bleeding wound.
The evil man walked away, smiling his cruel smile of success.
Sora was the first to open the door again. He stared down, shocked and horrified, devastated that his best friend, his little sister, was almost gone.
"Merry Christmas, Sora. I'm sorry I'm--" Before she finished, her eyelids slowly closed as she slipped into the icy grip of Death's home. Sora stumbled back, hitting the door, then suddenly fell on his butt onto the tiled entrance floor.
Dead. She was dead...
"Ahh!!" Riku shot up in bed, screaming, panting, heartbroken. Not Tai. She can't be, is she?
"Riku? You okay?" Tai asked, slipping into his room. She was holding a cup of hot cocoa in her hand for him. He was the last one up and still in bed, so she thought she would surprise him a little bit. "I brought you some hot cocoa," she whispered, setting it on his bedside table.
Riku gripped her arm and pulled her into a hug, his arms wrapped protectively around her neck. Tai sat with her back against his chest, staring blankly at the wall, not understanding why he was so protective all of a sudden. "Don't leave...Don't ever leave without me..." he whispered, pulling her closer.
"It was a bad dream, wasn't it?" Tai asked. "That's why you screamed?" Riku didn't answer. Instead he buried his face in her hair. "Riku?"
"Mm?"
"You're choking me."
Riku loosened his hold and Tai got off from the bed. She looked away from him, blushing slightly, then ran off into the hall. Riku sat there, staring after her, then decided to drink the cocoa. One sip, and he felt like he was about to die.
"Not very good, is she?" he chuckled to himself.
"I! Have and announcement to make!" Tai announce to the audience in the living room.
"If you have an announcement, announce it quieter, thank you," Kylie said, rocking her baby.
"Fine, if you wanna be that way."
"You don't want to hear a screaming baby, do you?" asked Cloud.
"Okay! I get it! Lemme make my announcement! I! Am going to the store to buy you all Christmas presents!" she said, smiling. Riku's ears twitched, and he made his way lazily out of bed.
"More like you're gonna steal us Christmas presents," Sora noted, sipping his cocoa. He almost spit it out at first, then forced it down.
"What? None of the good stuff's in stores anymore."
"If you're going, take someone with you," Riku said, leaning on the wall. Tai and Kairi both turned their head to look at him, then blushed and turned away.
"First you're gonna need a shirt on," said Sora, "And maybe a coat, pants, a scarf, and a hat."
"I already know that, Sora. I was just making a point."
"Make a point after you get some clothes on," Cloud said, bashing him on the head. Riku slunk back into his room, gripping his head against the pain.
"Well, I'm going now. And before you say anything, I'll be fine. I always am, see ya!" And with that, she ran out the door before anyone had a chance to say anything. Riku stressed while trying to put on some clothes. Tai was already gone and he wasn't even half way ready yet.
Tai happily sang the same song over and over again while bounding through the snow. It was almost Christmas and she was exited, though she wasn't singing a Christmas song.
Six presents. She bought 6 presents for her friends and family. A doggie plushie for her goddaughter, reading glasses for Cloud, a new katana for Kylie, keychains for Sora, a new dress for Kairi, and a black camera for Riku.
She wasn't seeing where she was going and ran right smack into Xemnas and fell back into the snow. Xemnas looked down at her and smirked.
"What'd you buy me, Tai?" Xemnas asked in his deep man voice, pulling her close by her arm. Her face was close to his, and his breath was rank, making her nose wrinkle.
Riku ran out of the house, forcing his coat on. He had to find Tai, quickly.
"Where'd she go!?" he yelled to nothing, looking left and right. He stopped, seeing Xemnas holding Tai by the arm. His face turned red hot with anger and he tore his coat off so he could move freely while kicking that man's butt.
"Your breath smells. Have you been eating hearts again?"
Xemnas, being the angry man he was, threw her to the ground, at the same time, slipping the katana out of her green messenger bag.
She fell, fell, fell into the whiteness of the moonlit snow. Her head dropped to the side. Seeing the ivory slowly turn a crimson red, the reality of the circumstance brought pain to her freshly bleeding wound.
The evil man turned to walk away, smiling his cruel smile of success.
Riku stood where he was, frozen in the snow. It happened. She was gone.
Almost gone.
He plucked whatever strength he had left in him and walked over to the girl, dropping to his knees in the snow next to her. She looked up at him and smiled, knowing, thinking everything was all right. Then she shut her eyes.
"I always wondered what it'd be like to die. I guess I got my chance..." she said, breathing deeply. "Now...I just wish...I didn't have to..." With her last breath, she slipped into the unconscious state of death.
"I only wish...you didn't have to go..." Riku said, voice quivering. A single tear rolled off his cheek onto Tai's, soon rolling off like her own tear into the snow. Soon, more tears came after and he picked her off the ground carefully, as if he would awaken her from her sound slumber. But it wouldn't have mattered anyway. She'll never wake again. Riku sat there, with the girl pulled to his chest, crying, hoping, wishing...
"Riku...It was only paint."
