Death Seekers Ch 1

When I was a child, my father would always be teaching me something about swordsmanship. My mother taught me some things like; healing and sewing.

But where my story actually starts is when my parents are still teenagers.

Friendship…love…lust…helplessness, guilt…marriage…secrets…Organization XIII.

Organization XIII…now that's an interesting subject. It's kind of a funny thing because my parents used to be in it but still are. When I joined the Organization, I was still in grade school, having to be called the Light Princess of Darkness. With that name, also came a price…

the mark of a Death Seeker

At first I didn't understand exactly what 'it' was, but I eventually figured out what it was. When my parents got their marks, my mother almost died from it but my father was able to take the pain that came with it. Because you have to be awake to get it…not asleep!

Even to this day, I still only know 4 other members of the Organization; my parents, their best friend, and their leader. The leader also treats me like her daughter because she never got married or had any children of her own.

My parents' story starts when they were teenagers and lived on Destiny Islands together.

It was a week before her birthday. She was so excited, didn't really know why…she just couldn't wait to see him when he came back. Just to pass the time she would think about when he would come and visit her in her subconscious when she was asleep. But usually when she did that, she would end up sleeping no matter where she was. The most recent dream of him frightened her so much, she tried to commit suicide. But it never worked. Selphie always stopped her.

Most of the time her dreams would be of just them two, but others would be of him fighting the heartless…with her alongside him. He always had her hand in his, when he would do that she felt the power within him grow so much. It didn't frighten her…he was protecting her. When they would fight together he would have his keyblade, Dusk, and she would have her keyblade, Dawn. But other than the dreams, she has been totally fine.

When he left two years ago, shortly after she got a band together with Selphie, Tidus and Wakka. The songs that she sang were about him, 'only him.' And now, two years later, they had one cd out 'My Thoughts, Saving Me.' But now that they would be coming back soon, she could reform the band to be the two boys and her.

The sand that was on the beach was cold under his feat as it crunched while he was staggering to her house. Even though he had beaten Xemnas with his friend and ended up using too much of his power at once, he was weakened and there was blood trickling down his face from the cuts. He didn't know where his friend was that helped him beat Xemnas, but the only thing that he had hoped would be awake right now was the girl that he visited every night in her dreams and had grown up with him since he was little was…..Kairi. He didn't want his friend…..Sora…, to take her away from him. Not this time…just not this time. He kept on walking, actually staggering towards her house, looking for any sign that she was awake or at least at home. And that was when he saw it, the light was on. 'Good, she's...at least home'… He thought silently. But just as he was about to knock on her door, the pain slowly started to come back to him. He hated pain, just this pain he couldn't take at all. So the only thing that he knew would get her to come to the door was to beat on the door….no! He could just yell for her, she knew his voice…. "Kairi…..Kairi!" And that's when he heard some footsteps coming towards the door, then stopped….and that's when he saw her. She didn't look that different from when he saw her but after just about a minute or so he collapsed, unable to take the pain anymore.

About 5-10 minutes earlier, Kairi sat on her bed just thinking about some things, mainly Riku and when he was coming back. Last night he told her that he would be back in a day or two, and she knew he loved her…and he told her that and had even proposed to her. He didn't give her a ring, but he wanted to and was going to when he got back to her, but…instead…he sealed it with a kiss (a very passionate one). When he kissed her, she could have sworn that he had sent some of his power into her, so in some way shape or form she could feel him. She loved that feeling, but Kairi loved the man that the feeling came from even more. "When do you think he's coming back Teddie?" She thought out loud to herself and that was when she heard him, not really heard him (only a little) but felt him. For some reason I knew something was wrong, but I didn't know. So I walked a little faster to the door to see if he was alright. "He better be alright,…otherwise I'll…." Kairi thought outloud. She got to the door but stopped when she had her hand on the doorknob. 'Why am I hesitating?' She thought. 'Just open the door and he will be there, just open the goddamned door.' And that's when she finally did it, but when she finally saw who was on the other side…her eyes just started to water up. "Riku, what happened to you?..." Kairi just stared back at him…waiting for an answer from him…

…but never got one. The only thing that he did at that moment was he took her hand and grabbed the upper part of her arm and stared back into her eyes, tears falling one after the other from the two, …and that's when it happened.

With the last of his strength that he could muster, he put his hand on the back of her waist and gave her a kiss just like the one when he proposed to her. But that was in a dream, this one was real, the only difference was that it didn't last as long. He was finally able to say something, so he whispered into her ear, "I'm so sorry I took so long." And that was it for him as he collapsed into her arms. Kairi stood there and held him very protectively against her heart.

"Why is he so heavy?!" She thought aloud, her body fighting to stand gave in and collapsed. Kairi knew he was heavy but didn't think he was that heavy. When she found herself lying underneath him she gave the brightest blush that was almost burning the skin on her face and on her chest where she found her friend, now lover that was lying on her haphazardly. "Hey…baby.., we need to get out of the doorway and get our wounds cleaned." Kairi looked up and chuckled to herself and the thought of leaving the door open. As she pushed the door closed, she could feel something ripping that was on her body. And that was when she noticed that the wound she had gotten burst open, and she had fallen back on her knees.

When she fell she noticed that Riku's body started to stir, after he had gotten his strength back, or at least some of it, he sat up and looked at the women he loved and why she had her arms placed tightly against her chest. As he looked closer and where her arms were placed, he remembered the wound she had gotten from protecting him.

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As Sora saw Kairi standing there in front of him, he didn't know if she was going to turn around and look at him until he looked past her. When he looked past her, Sora noticed somebody dressed in black just like the other Unknowns he had meet before but something was different about him. The main thing he noticed was the hair….silver. Could it be him...Riku!? The last time he saw him was two years ago when he was in Kingdom Hearts, but he wasn't sure it was him…it can't be him…or could it!? Out of the corner of his eye he saw Kairi walking towards him. "Kairi,…"

"Riku come back with me…" she stretched her arm out to him, but Sora still wasn't sure it was the friend he had grown up with. So he reached his hand out to stop her but Kairi just brushed his hand away, "I know it's him Sora!, you can't stop me." She stood there staring at him now with some tears falling from her eyes. As she looked back over her shoulder at Riku even more tears feel so she looked back at Sora quickly and ran over to where Riku was standing. Since her tears were still falling she just wrapped her arms around him and she pressed her face into his chest. "Are you coming back with me?" All of a sudden everything went silent. Kairi felt him tense up under her. "What's wro…" As her arms that were around him became stiff, Riku did the same, but with only one arm and he put his other finger against her lips.

"Shhh, love…something's wrong…" For the first time since they found him, he glanced over his shoulder at Sora. He couldn't remove the blindfold to him yet, not yet, not until their home safe and she is in his arms. Only then could he tell Sora what's happened in the past two years…and that's when he figured out who was watching them, mainly him.

"Riku, do you honestly think that Zexion can save you from me for a second time, then you're sadly mistaken." He looked down at the ground, but still had his arms around her. "Do you know what happens to traitors? You don't want her to get hurt now do you?" He looked back up…

"Xemnas, what did you do to Zexion?" Riku looked at Kairi only to find that she was looking at Xemnas. "Tell me what you did to him!?" Riku grabbed Kairi and led her to where Sora was standing. "Watch her." He asked Sora. Sora nodded his head with his eyes wide open and mouth hanging open.

He walked back over to where Xemnas was and asked him where his friend was again. "Where. Is. He. Xemnas!" Riku stood in front of him, maybe about nine to ten feet away from him. But now with a single tear leaving a streak on his face. "Tell me whe…" He yelled at him until Xemnas ended up right in front of him with his hand around Riku's neck slowly squeezing the life out of him.

Xemnas started yelling at him, "Do you really want to know where your dear little friend is?!" And then all of a sudden a vision entered their minds of a man that looked like he could be around his early twenties lying up against what looked like a wall in a prison with a bullet through his skull. And the young man looked like he had his wrists and ankles bound to the wall and floor, so he couldn't escape to save his friends or…himself.

When the vision was over, Xemnas had his smirk on his face but when he saw Kairi and Riku's faces it made him laugh. They cried even more than they already were but Riku started the yelling first. "Why did you do that to him!?" He choked out, "Why did you do that to him!?" He screamed his heart out.

Sora really didn't understand 'exactly' what was going on, but he figured out that the man he just saw in that vision was Riku's friend. Why was Kairi crying also? How did she know him? She never met him because she was safe back on Destiny Islands? Right? He wasn't so sure what was going on anymore…

Riku couldn't stand Xemnas's laugh anymore, because he could feel that he wasn't just laughing at him. "Riku…Kairi, listen to me…the only way to destroy him is if both of you attack him at the same time…that's the only way. Kairi…I wish that I could have found someone that's just like you that I could've fallen in love with. You've got a good man Kairi…Riku….protect her like I protected you when Diz gave me the job to protect you. I hope I served you well your highness…I'll miss you two…" Riku felt calmer after hearing from his friend, Zexion. So without hesitation, he kicked Xemnas so hard in the stomach he was sent flying at the wall head first.

"Maybe that will keep him down for at least a few minutes." Riku got up from where he was kneeling and started to walk to where Sora and Kairi were sitting. As he was walking towards them, Kairi looked up at him still with some tears falling down her face. But he never stopped walking, even though the blindfold was still over his eyes, he kept his eyes on hers and as she kept looking at him with a smile on their faces. "Hey guys, let's go home…" Riku turned back around only to hear something that was moving, Xemnas.

"he he, my dear Prince, you said you would kill me. But you can't if I kill you first!" He yelled.

As Xemnas got up from where he was sitting he started to run towards Riku until… "Rikkkuuuu!" Kairi screamed as she ran towards him and stopped right in front of him.

But Xemnas never stopped, he didn't care who he hurt even if she was the one. Riku was his target, and if the girl got in his way…..she had to be….eliminated.

"Kairi, go back to Sora…."

"No, I don't want to see you get hurt anymore and I don't care if I get hurt. As long as I'm protecting you, you won't be harmed. I love you too much to see you get hurt." Kairi continued to stand, never moving from her spot….she outstretched her arms going only half way….

And that's when everything stopped, like it was frozen in time. And Xemnas couldn't move, nor could Kairi or Sora. But I could, why!?

'Help her Riku. I stopped time so you could stop him from attacking her again like he was going to. I know how much you love her, but what would you do if she dies…'

"I would rather die." Riku could hear his voice again, Zexion's voice.

'So help her. But once the sword leaves her body,...' he was cut off again.

"Yeah I'll help her, but not because you told me to. I love her to much to see her doing this for me." Riku slowly laid her hands down at her sides and wrapped his arms around her, one above the sword and the other below it and he breathed in and out slowly and said his final goodbye to his friend.

"Hey Zexion, see you later pal." Zexion just smiled as he breathed out slowly, and pulled her body with him as fast as he could to not hurt her anymore than she already was. When he heard her whimper, he knew time was back to normal…

It all came flooding back to him,...her screams, the fight, the blood, and ...his screams and tears. Riku didn't want to remember any of it; he kept his eyes on her as she watched him. She would gasp for air every time she would try to breath. He would gladly want to remember everything from that incident except for the way she would squirm from the amount of pain she was in. Riku knew Kairi can't stand any form of pain. He hated to see her look like that, it felt like he could feel the pain coming off of her into him and it would kill him a little bit each time it happened. Kairi tightly griped his shirt, sobbed a little and with her other hand she grabbed his right hand with hers very tightly. He didn't care. "Hey Kairi,..." He started to ask her. "...I need to get you cleaned up."

He picked her up or at least he helped her stand up and walked to her room and laid her down on the bed. "Do you keep all your towels in the cabinet under the sink in the bathroom?" He asked Kairi as she let go of his hand.

"Yeah." She said softly. He walked to the bathroom and grabbed what he needed (towels, needles, thread) brought them back to the bedroom and went to the kitchen to get a big bowl full of water and came back to her.

When he got back to her, she had the biggest smile on her face and she was watching him. He sat down on the bed and asked her, "Kairi can you pull your shirt up so I can clean your wound." She looked at him for a moment, then decided that she might as well do what he asked. 'I can't do it myself.' She thought to herself.

She tried to pull her shirt up as he had just asked of her. But when she did, it felt like a thousand needles were being stuck in her. "Riku," she started.

"Yeah." He turned his head as he was squeezing most of the water out of the small towel he had in his hands.

"Can you help me take my shirt off." Kairi asked him but then had a blush creep up her cheeks. "I just thought...that...it would be easier with it off so it won't be in the way." She looked at him quickly but then looked away just as fast.

"Okay, I'll help you up." He laid the towel over his shoulder and grabbed her hands and pulled her up into a sitting position. Kairi's face was inches away from his and that made her blush even more than she already was.

He grabbed the ends of her shirt and slowly pulled it up. And as he got to her arms he straightened his hands out against her skin as he was pulling the rest of her shirt up and over her head. All the while he kept his eyes on Kairi's never looking anywhere else even when he was laying her back down on the bed. As Riku sat up straight, his eyes slowly started to wonder further south then he had intended. 'I'm gonna be looking at her. But why is it so hard to look away?' Riku thought to himself. 'Why should it matter, we'll be getting married soon anyway. And then I'll get to touch her skin anytime I want.'

Kairi noticed that he was staring at her, but she really didn't care at all. "Riku, after we get married you can stare at me all you want. But right now really isn't the time. Isn't it?" She said smiling the best she could even though she was in a lot of pain.

It took him a few seconds to get what she just said straight in his head. Then he nodded and got back to what he was going to do before the little distraction came about. He took the towel off his shoulder and started to wipe the blood that was flowing out of her wound. Riku still couldn't believe she stood in front of him to take the attack... A single tear fell from his eyes and landed on her wound and that's when she noticed that he was crying. "Riku, what's wrong?" She lifted her hand and placed it against his cheek which made a few more tears come from his eyes. "If you're going to cry about this...then please stop. I should be the one that should be crying." She tilted her head so she could see his eyes, but he just looked away.

After about a minute and a half, Kairi let her arm fall back to her side where it was before she saw that Riku had started to cry. He looked into her eyes again, "Kairi..., I just hate seeing you look like this. And what would have happened if you died right then and there, what would I have done if that happened?" she lifted her hands to his face once again and made him look into her eyes.

"Nothing would have happened to me love. If you weren't there, I probably would have died. But I didn't, cause I'm laying here right in front of you." She said as she wiped the tears away from his face with her thumbs. "And if I weren't here, you couldn't have your hands on my skin." She grabbed his hands and placed them on her face.

"Kairi, I'm sorry. I guess I just thought that you would never get hurt like this." He moved his right hand back to where her wound is that was slowly bleeding now. "I didn't want you to get hurt because of me." Riku grabbed the towel and placed it back into the water so the blood could run out. "I'm going to need you to lay still, I need to burn the skin so it will stop bleeding." He pulled his hand away to where it was right in front of his face. When there was smoke coming off of his hands, he placed his hand on her wound. His eyes moved from where they were to rest on hers. Her eyes were shut so tight her tears could only escape from the corners of her eyes. As the wound started to heal he started to move his hand slowly away. When his hand was totally off of her wound her tears started to subside and her eyes were slowly opening. "Does it feel better?" A small smile came to his face as he looked back up at her eyes.

She laid there and just looked at him for about a minute, "Much better than before, but it still hurts." Kairi wanted to leap at him but knew that if she did it might open up again. "Why did you grab those earlier?" She looked at the needles and thread and dreaded what he might do.

"...Grab what?" He looked at where she was looking and noticed what it was. "Oh those, I'm just going to sew it up in a few places just in case it does reopen. Okay?" He looked at her face again and noticed that she was about to cry again and remembered that she was afraid of needles, it didn't matter what kind they were. "Do you want me to numb it so you can't really feel it?" He said with a smile and she nodded her head. Then he placed his hand once again to her wound and started to make the area really cold to the point where it was numb and started to sew up the wound with only two stitches. "Did that hurt?"

"Just stung a little but it doesn't hurt anymore." Kairi nodded with a big smile and held out her arms so that he could pull her up so that she could sit. Her eyes drifted to the wound that she saw when she saw him earlier. "Weren't you hurt..." She placed her hand on his right shoulder and he winced. Somehow the wound was gone and she didn't understand how it just disappeared. Her eyes drifted to his once more, "How?"

"When I was away I learned different forms of magic and one of them was to be able to heal my wounds. Since I was fighting Heartless almost nonstop for days I had to be able to heal the wounds I had even when I was fighting. But I still haven't perfected it so wherever I have a wound it still hurts really bad cause I can only regrow the skin a hundred times faster and the muscles underneath heal like they normally would. But for some reason the scar on my back won't heal at all." Riku took his shirt off and turned around so that Kairi could see it. It was a horrible looking one, it ran all the way from his left shoulder to right below his pants on his right side. Kairi laid her hand and ran it along the scar, and noticed that the skin was softer. A single tear fell from her eyes and a sniffle escaped as she was trying to hold back the rest of the tears. He noticed the sound and turned around. "Don't worry, it doesn't hurt anymore. Unfortunately that was the one that I had to use my magic on when I was first learning how to use it. It looked a lot worse after I healed it the first time and this was the best I could get it." Kairi stood up and smiled at him and grabbed the bowl with the bloody rag and walked to the kitchen. He watched her go and finally noticed that the radio had been on the whole time he was there. 'I didn't hear that earlier...it might be because the volume is down really low?...'

"...and now this song is by The Portals called Faster..." "...The Portals, isn't that the band from the local high school with that very cute girl as the lead singer, what was her name..." "...I think that her name was Kairi but I'm not very sure about everybody else, and now u get to listen to it Faster by The Portals..."

'Is this the band that she told me about, I didn't think that she actually got any of her songs on the radio?' Riku thought to himself. He stood up from the bed and watched her, whatever she was doing. As he was listening to her music he walked up to her, "Hey Kai, when did the radio station start playing your songs?" He wrapped his arms around her waist and laid his head on her right shoulder. 'I just want you to be mine tonight. That's all I want right now...'

Kairi felt a blush creeping up her cheeks, 'When did he sneak up behind me?' She laid the rag back into the water now that almost all of the blood was gone; she slowly started moving her eyes so that she could see exactly where he laid his hands. "It was about two months ago I think. But they won't play some of my favorites..." She suddenly felt him nibble at the nape of her neck. Without her knowing a moan had left her lips and felt that his lips were making a smile. She moved her hand to the top of his and placed them at the hem of her shorts. "I want you to get me off, please, it's no fun doing it myself anymore..." A smile formed on her lips. "I can tell that you want me." She said with a smile. He turned her around to have a better look at her.

"How...did you..know? ha ha" He lifted his head and looked in her eyes, "Are you sure?" She nodded her head and she had a grin on her face that made her look like a cat. A very horny cat. He lowered his head towards her where their lips were just about an inch away. "I love you Kai."

"I love you Riku." As their lips locked together he forced her against the wall grabbing her hands and putting them above her head. Her eyes went wide not expecting this from him. She kissed him back tracing her tongue along his lips yearning for entry. Instead he moved his lips from hers and left a trail of kisses from her lips to her shoulder. Kairi moaned, "Riku, are you playing with me?"

"Maybe, but I can't help it at the moment." Riku couldn't help but give her a smile and the look in his eyes was filled with so much lust for her. He planted a kiss on her forehead. "Kairi, I want you to be mine. But I can't help but tease you for a bit." Her lips formed a slight frown. Upon seeing this he locked lips with her once more with more hunger than before. Kairi raised one of her legs to pull him closer to her hoping to be able to restrict him from teasing her but he pushed it back down and undid her shorts pulling them down and letting them fall down to her feet. Feeling the brush of his fingers against her legs made the warmth between her legs grow even warmer. She arched her back towards him and moaned against his lips making them feel like they were vibrating. He tossed her underwear aside and started to caress her gentle folds that were yearning for his touch. She squirmed against his chest trying to release her hands from his grasp but his hold on her got even tighter. He traced his finger in circles feeling her get even wetter. He placed one finger inside her causing Kairi to moan.

She moaned his name as he thrusted into her again and again. Starting to feel weak in the knees he releases his hold on her hands and lifts her up as she wraps her legs around him. Her breathing was getting faster as he was walking to the bedroom with her kissing his neck and Kairi was holding onto him almost as if her life depended on it. Laying her down on the bed he continued teasing her. Now with two fingers thrusting into her making her throw her head back. "Riku please…" Then he thrusted again multiple times then releases his fingers from her and he began undoing his pants. Kairi sat up placing her hands on his undoing the button and slowly pulls the zipper down taking her time. "Now I get to play." Slowly pulling his pants and boxers down she admires his body tossing them aside onto the floor. She kissed her way down his chest making his breath quicken. She pushed him down on the bed hovering her body above him staring into his eyes. "You have no idea how long I've missed you. I don't want you to ever leave me again. Even in my dreams with you it didn't feel as real as this." She said as she planted butterfly kisses all over his face and neck. It was almost as if she was a vampire, she couldn't get enough of him. Kairi slowly brushed her nose from his jaw, down his neck and to his collarbone. Leaving hickies as she went down causing him to moan out her name. She traced her fingers down towards his member and back up to his face undoing her ponytail and lacing her hand with his. Kairi could tell that he was reaching his limit, he couldn't stop crying out her name. She couldn't help but let out a small laugh. "I need you so badly. I need you inside me." Whispering into his ear with her hot breath.

Riku gave her a crooked smile as he flipped her over on to her back back to the headboard of her bed surprising her and gave her a kiss deep and hard as he thrust into her causing her to cry out in pain. She wrapped her arms around him digging her nails into his back. She had a few tears escape the corners of her eyes. Wiping her tears away she gave him a nod signaling that she was ok then he started thrusting slowly getting her used to him.

She bucked her hips against him matching thrust for thrust. Riku slowed causing her to moan for him even more. She moved her hips with his until he paused and held her hips down to the bed with him still inside her. He sat up looking at her body like she was a goddess. Noticing that her bra was still on he undid it and tossed them aside. He continued his kisses from her neck to her breast taking her nipple in his mouth gently sucking on it. His hand found its way to her other breast and started to squeeze it. Her hands grabbed handfuls of the sheets, her nails digging into her hands. "Riku." She whispered his name sounding like a purring kitten. He looked up at her giving her a seductive look then switching to her other breast teasing it. Sucking on it, licking her nipple with his tongue leaving moisture behind and he blew on it forming it to become erect. He looked up at her once more taking her lips again.

"Kairi, I love you so much." He said as he was gasping for breath.

"I love you Riku." Quickly giving him a kiss. "I'm about to come." Arching her back he thrusted into her even faster and faster.

"Me too." With one last thrust she came clawing at his back drawing blood. She threw her head back screaming his name. He came shortly after wrapping his arms around her not letting her go. Kairi laid her head back down on the pillow and he rested his forehead on hers. "Kairi, you're amazing." Riku said in between breaths. "You have no idea how long I have been waiting for you Kai." Laying down on his side their breathing starting to slow. He asked her once more, "Will you marry me?"

She placed her hand in his hair, "Yes I will marry you!" Kairi pulled him closer to her kissing him passionately. Pulling her lips away from him placing her head on his chest snuggling up closer to him wrapping the sheets to her bed around their waists she went to sleep for the first time in a long time with a smile on her face.

"Oh Kairi, I love you so much. I will always protect you no matter what. I promise you." He embraced her once more before falling asleep knowing that she was his and he was hers.