Bad Memory:
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Prologue
Inhale…Exhale…Inhale…Keep running…Exhale…
Scream.
No!
Sora skidded to a halt, running back to where he came from, alerted by the sudden scream.
Inhale…Exhale…Kairi…Inhale…
"Don't you dare take her!" Sora yelled at the black shadows crawling on the floor. He summoned his keyblade, pointing it at them threateningly but there was too many.
He slowly backed away as they closed in on him but he never lost grip on the handle.
Inhale…Exhale…Inhale…Exhale…Don't panic…
He swung his blade once, killing one shadow but the rest leapt on him and started tearing his clothes.
He waved his keyblade frantically in the air, taking out a few more Heartless but too many kept appearing.
He was choking, eyes closed.
"Kairi!" he managed to let out.
Inhale…
Then every shadow disappeared and he was back in the hospital.
Sora blinked once, looking at his surroundings. What the…?
"Sora, you're awake!" someone cried with joy beside him. Sora's face split into two as he grinned his widest grin.
The redhead flung her arms around his torso, sobbing quietly. The machine that monitored his heart rate increased speed slightly but he was glad she didn't notice. That would be embarrassing…
"Kairi, what happened?" he asked, scratching the back of his head, clueless, and trying to hide the pink tint on his cheeks.
"Sora, you were—"
Exhale…
He managed to get every shadow off of him, his blue eyes now flaming as he charged towards the sound of the screaming, keyblade ready to hit anything that comes in his way.
Inhale…Exhale…Inhale…Exhale…
Silence.
Inhale…Exhale…Inhale…Wha?
Sora skidded to a halt again, listening to the eerie silence that covered the island. The wind wasn't blowing and the sea wasn't moving. Everything was completely still.
He walked over to the paopu tree, the place where he and his friends sat and talked about random things for hours on end, an placed his hand on the surprisingly smooth bark.
"Kairi…?" he whispered, barely audible. There was no air to carry it across.
Inhale…Exhale…Inhale…Exhale…Inhale…
Exhale…
Then he saw an object moving in the distance.
The outline was humanly enough so the first thing that came into mind was:
"Kairi!" Sora yelled and sprinted over to where the figure stood still.
Sora banished his keyblade, not seeing any more monsters lurking and focused his vision onto what he thought was Kairi.
"Kairi…I'm so glad you're safe!" Sora panted as he reached her.
'Kairi' said nothing. She just stood still.
Inhale, Exhale, Inhale, Exhale, Inhale Exhale, Inhale
"Kairi! You OK?"
"W-Who's K-Kairi?" she said, and Sora could see that her whole body was shaking. She nervously stepped into the lighter darkness (as it was very dark in the islands) and Sora stepped away from her.
Not Kairi.
Inhale…Exhale…Inhale…
"Who are you and what have you done to Kairi?" Sora demanded, summoning his keyblade once more.
The person gasped and burst into tears. "I-I-I'm Naminé, Roxas!" she stammered. "WHO THE HELL IS KAIRI?"
Exhale…
"WHO THE HELL IS NAMINÉ, SORA?" Kairi screamed at his face, tears running down her slightly flushed cheeks. The monitor was still beeping. "You were screaming her name in you sleep and I didn't know what to do e-except be jealous!"
Soar blinked once and chuckled childishly. "You? Jealous?" he laughed. "And who's Naminé? Your friend or something?" He stopped laughing when he saw Kairi was dead serious. "You're serious…"
"Of course I'm serious, sleepy head!" Kairi snapped, pouting a little. "I just want to know who Naminé is, that's all."
"I don't know her myself," Sora admitted, placing a hand on her shoulder. She didn't flinch. "Uh…so would you mind telling me why I'm in a hospital?"
Kairi sighed. "Well, Riku brought you here, actually, so I don't know the full story. It's best to fetch the doctor first. Stay here." She got up and went to get the doctor.
Inhale…
"You don't remember me, do you?" the girl asked, irritated. She was blond, pale-skinned and blue-eyed like the ocean and the sky.
Sora shook his head, dumbfounded.
"And here I was thinking that you and I could finally be together," she sighed, shaking her head, sending her blond locks flying. "You can go back to whoever this Kairi girl is. I hope you have a great life with her." She turned to walk away, her white dress the only thing he could make out in her silhouette.
"Wait, Naminé!"
Exhale…
"You see? You said her name again! Tell me who she is already!" Kairi tapped her foot impatiently on the white marble floor. The doctor was next to her, grim looking as ever.
"Let me handle it from here, Miss Kairi," he said and went to tamper with the monitor.
"Kairi, I have no idea who Naminé is! In my dreams she calls me Roxas and stuff and then she turns and leaves and then I talk but it's not me talking!" Sora explained, using his hands to add in drama. "She's just someone from my imagination, I guess. I mean, someone as freaky as her shouldn't be able to exist in the real world."
"Miss Kairi, I'm afraid visiting hours are over. You can visit him again tomorrow," the doctor informed the redhead and she stormed off almost immediately.
Sora sighed and covered his face with his hands as he leaned against the bed. "Doctor, why am I here?"
"It seems you are well acquainted with Naminé," he said, ignoring his question. He took the seat Kairi had taken hours before. "Tell me. How have you come to know each other?"
Inhale, Inhale, Inhale, Inhale
"You remember me now, Roxas?" Naminé's eyes lit up and Sora could feel his insides turning.
"Who's Roxas?"
Her face fell.
Exhale, Exhale, Exhale, Exhale
"She's just someone from my dreams. Why, do you know her or something?" Sora nonchalantly shrugged and yawned, his heart rate slowing down at a comfortable pace. Soon enough, he was in deep slumber.
Dr. Vexen removed the sedative from the boy's arm and hid it in his lab coat.
"You will not see Roxas ever again, Naminé. You stay where you are forever."
And he walked out.
Something in Sora's mind stirred and a tear rolled down his cheek.
That tear was most definitely not his.
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:) Who thinks the prologue is confusing?