Well, Roxas' Interlude was supposed to be number two (haha) but through an unfortunate accident, I lost the manuscript and will have to completely start over with my blond friend's thoughts. Gah!! So, you get Riku instead. Hope that's okay. (And even if its not, its still what you're getting, so deal.) At least one interlude is all the writing progress that I lost.

Riku's Interlude

Written 12.5.2006

Published 12.29.2006

Disclaimer: I do not own any part of the Kingdom Hearts franchise, nor do I plan to sell this story for profit.

I wonder what it would have been like if we could have been friends. How much like Sora would he have been? Or would he have been completely different, Sora's opposite, lacking all the warmer parts of his heart?

Would he have been able to love me the way Sora does or would he have been unable to stand the darkness I wield?

It was shocking to see him with a Keyblade—Sora's Keyblade—when we fought. I didn't understand him then; DiZ hadn't told me everything about him or his relationship with Sora.

I made sure to clear that up before we fought again.

He seemed broken, though, the next time we fought. Something inside him had shattered and he was so different. Part of me wanted to comfort him, not fight him.

Part of me recognized him as part of Sora and anted to help him.

Looking back, I wonder if Roxas really was necessary to wake Sora up or if DiZ coerced me into committing a kind of murder.

After all, he was just as alive as the rest of us.