Forgotten Chapter One
Washed up upon the shores of Destiny Island, she is helped by the three friends Sora, Kairi, and Riku to remember parts of her lost past. Six months later Miku has become accustomed to the carefree life of Destiny Island, how will she react when Riku begins to talk about leaving it behind and finding a new life somewhere else?
How does one start a story when its ending has yet to come? I guess you just start and go from there. Hello, my name is Miku (Me-Coo) Yiver (Kyiv-eh) I am 16 years old, and have no origin or family that I remember. Then how do I even know my name or age? Well it was in this old journal that I carried on my person, I'm not even for certain if that is truly me. For all I know my name could be Janice, and actually be 35. There was more evidence though, a picture of me when I was six years old, with the words "MIKU AGE SIX" written on the back; simple enough. I wonder from place to place in search of some memory of any sort. So far I have remembered why I despise the color pink because my mom made me wear that only color when clearly my favorite colour was yellow, I am afraid of heights because I fell off my roof when I was younger, and that my front yard had a huge tree with a tire swing on one of the thick, lower branches.
I lost my memories about six months ago, that was when I washed up upon the shores of Destiny Island by three unsuspecting teenagers Sora, Kairi, and Riku. They helped me remember the small things, and some of the big things like being allergic to strawberries. They, along with their three other friends, accepted me what seemed to be immediately. Although Riku was skeptical at first, he soon learned that I was no harm. They showed me the "Secret Spot", the best places to fish, and how to get coconuts down from trees with out having to climb, and without getting hit on the head. Life was perfect on our carefree island; the worst we had to worry about were sharks in the water, and crabs on the sand. It was so obvious that Sora liked Kairi, but she never paid attention, she was too wrapped up in her own secrets desires of Sora; they were both too blind to see that they liked each other. As for me, I was too busy trying to figure out where I came from, and how I got here on this tiny island, but sometimes, I wish I had never gotten a taste of the bitter truth.
One day there was nothing much to do, so we lazed around like usual. It was too hot to build a fort out of palm leaves, and we had spotted sharks earlier in the day, so we were too afraid to swim. Then Riku had a crazy idea that would change our lives, our friendship, and the people we were internally forever. I'll never forget that day, I was hiding from the sun under the shady palms, and Riku was tanning on the Paupou Tree, sitting next to Sora who was messing with Kairi's short chestnut hair. He jolted up from his slumped posture to a perfect line that would have made any nanny proud. I sat up slowly examining him with little interest. His quick movement startled Sora which, in result, knocked Kairi off the Paupou Tree. Sora helped Kairi back up to her usual spot beside him, made sure she was okay, and then turned to Riku who had slumped back down into a distasteful position that would have only been comfortable to him.
"Hey Riku," I swayed my weight so that my back was now on the palm tree's trunk facing him "What are you thinking about? You just made Kairi fall, and you didn't even notice; it was really funny."
I smiled at Kairi when she replied with an offensive 'hey'. Riku barely noticed that I was talking to him, he spaced in and out of reality. I stood to get his attention. He was staring my way, but was seeing straight through me. I walked closer, and he only saw me when my hand grazed his knee. From shock, he too fell from his spot on the Paupou Tree. He just lay where he fell staring into the sky. I jumped onto the tree and replaced Riku, I glanced down at him, and he was in total focus on me. I hopped down off the tree landing next to him, faltering and, embracing the motion, fell beside him, my head falling gently on his out stretched arm. He rolled his head to face my direction, yet his eyes never fell upon me. He was still staring at air.
"You okay, Miku?" he pulled me into an embrace and I immediately pushed him away. I stood up, and he merely propped his torso up with an arm as a kickstand. I climbed back up onto the tree and stuck my thumb in my mouth, the signal that I was worried and thinking. I laid across the tree so that my arms were falling off the sides, but my legs and head were perfectly balanced on it. My head rested on Sora's lap, and Kairi played with my hair. Riku stood up with a sigh and pushed Sora off with one single shove. The sudden disturbance woke me from my short time of thinking, and so I began to sit up just as Riku sat down where Sora had been and pulled me down so that my head now rested on his lap. Sora sat by my feet and Kairi followed in toe.
"You know, I've been thinking" Riku began; I thought about throwing in a sarcastic remark but decided against it "I'm so sick of this tiny island, I want to get out, see other places, you know this isn't the only place to be. I want to see what's out there; I want to see other people."
I swung myself into a sitting position in one single swift movement, I rushed my thumb out of my mouth and said "Why the hell would you want to do that?" through gritted teeth forgetting that I too wanted to find where I came from, but I had gotten so accustomed and comfortable here at Destiny Island; I never wanted to leave. Riku slid of the tree like a snake ready to strike,
"Oh! So inow/i she wants to stay! What's wrong Miss Yiver; do you no longer care that you may have a family out there somewhere? Do you no longer bwant/b to find them?" he slammed his back into the tree, exhausted from the sudden burst of negative energy. I jammed my thumb into my mouth biting down hard, trying to not to cry. I knew I had screwed up and had deserved the lashing, but it hurt most when it came from him, he rarely does it, but of recent he had been doing it more and more.
"Miku, I'm sor-" Riku had begun, but I had already started to run which made him scream "-RY!"
RIKU'S POV
"-RY!...Miku I'm so sorry..." The latter part was barely audible, more of for me than her. I have repetitively done this to her, I just keep getting mad, not even at her even, I'm just sick and tired of this stupid Destiny Island, (des)TINY is right. I stared after her as she ran to her usual 'alone' spot which was the under all the palm trees in the more jungle-ish area; I had really upset her this time. After she was invisible to sight, I slumped back down to the tree, only to have my back slide me down to the white sand with my knees in front of me, I hugged them for comfort. I closed my eyes, and listened to everything around me, and then I heard Kairi giggle. I jolted up and acted like nothing had happened, trying not to show my soft side to Sora and Kairi.
I turned toward them, and with a masculine voice asked "So what do you guys say? Let's make a raft and sail out and see what's out there!" Kairi jumped for joy with an esthetic 'yeah' and Sora hopped down of the tree and challenged me "Let's call it 'The Dream'." I took a step forward towards Sora "No, it's going to be called 'Wind Breaker'!" Sora and I got into each other's faces and growled at each other. Kairi just laughed it of and simply stated "Just race for it guys!" I took the chance, something that neither he or would never want to loose on, something that would finally make him challenging for me. "Fine, if I win I get to share a Paupou fruit with Kairi, and if you win you get to share a Paupou fruit with her." He looked horrified as he showed his true feelings on his sleeve; he took the chance with great seriousness.
Kairi was okay with the bargain, and told us where to go, and we were off with the shout of "GO!" I lagged behind at first, on purpose to see what he had in him. I let him get about twenty feet in front of me before I jolted ahead of him. He caught up quickly, as assumed; he was racing with his heart, and not his legs. I bet if he had broken one of his legs he'd still run on it just to share one of those stupid Paupou fruit with Kairi. Towards the end of the course we were neck and neck, but Sora could never match my swift footing, and in the end I beat him with one slick sprint.
Defeated, and breathless, Sora looked like he had lost both of his parents, and just to make it worst I grabbed a Paupou fruit from the tree and began to walk up to Kairi. Sora tried to look away, but he couldn't, and just as I reached Kairi, Sora looked like he was going to cry. So to be the jerk that I am, I looked at Kairi with all the serious my body could hinder, got right up in her face making it seem like I was going to kiss her, and I was about to pull away from Kairi without kissing her, and throw the dumb fruit at Sora, but that was before it happened, before I heard her inhale with great shock, and disbelief.
MIKU'S P.O.V.
I couldn't help but gasp. Here I am, walking back to everyone after I had calmed down and as soon as I get within distance to see everyone Riku is standing with Kairi with a Paupou fruit in his hands and leaning in to kiss her. It was just a shock, and I couldn't believe that he was doing this in front of Sora, no I couldn't believe that he was doing this at all. I kind of just stood there in dumbfounded state of confusion as I tried to put two and two together. I tried not to get over worked about it, but how could one inot/i? So I asked the one thing that anyone would when they are unsure of a situation: "What are you doing, Riku?" My thumb automatically went into my mouth, giving away my upset thoughts. Riku's eyes stared at me in horror, he had been caught, and he had hurt himself.
He tossed the fruit to the side, and ran up to me placing his hands on either side of my arms; my head sunk in distrust. Riku removed one hand from my arms and cupped my chin to raise my face to his worried and sorry green eyes. I stared solemnly, and he stared back concerned like a father with a sick child. I smiled, and nodded; his look told me everything. I jumped forward a little, just enough to knock into him. I caught him off guard, and he fell backwards with me on top of him. The pure white sand softened the blow, but not by much. Riku smiled as tightly embraced me, he tried to roll over on top of me to pin me to the ground, but we just ended up just tumbling through the sand and grass. After a short while I gave up and allowed him to pin me to the ground, we were on the shore and the tide was rising and it lapped up onto my side.
The sun was setting and the ocean spray stung our sweet taste buds. We looked at each other in lust, he leaned down to kiss me, and I leaned up. Just as our lips were about to touch, I kicked him off of me, and skipped off toward Sora and Kairi. No matter how much I wanted to kiss him, no matter how much of a perfect moment that would have been, I refused to let my hopes up. Another memory hit me then, knocking me to my knees, tears rolled down my cheeks. His name was Linu and he was my first love, but he left me for another girl with a prettier face, I gave my hopes up then, and I promised myself that I'd never love nor give my hopes up again. I stood up and walked over to Sora and Kairi, and glanced over at a hurt and confused Riku who sat on the shores of Destiny Island allowing his clothes to become soaked with the sea water, as if he were trying to wipe away that he had ever tried, or even wanted, to kiss Miku Yiver.