Requiem-I changed the name, hope none of you mind. Anyways, let's continue with my short story.

Kairi, now back in her parents' castle, finished sneaking up to her bedroom. Namine was still sleeping, so the redhead gave out a sigh of relief. With the energy left in her rather frail body, Kairi changed into her royal nightgown. It was a simple white dress, but the design of flowers all over made it stand out.

Resting her head onto the pillow of her bed, Kairi began to think about Riku. The two of them just had sex, and she was at the happiest point of her life. It felt so good, his movements gentle and smooth. So, finally closing her round blue eyes, Kairi allowed herself to be taken away to the world of dreams and nightmares alike.

"Riku, we can do this!" All the sudden, Kairi saw herself, but she was so different. Instead of her usual attire, the young woman was wearing a simple pink dress. She could not see or remember that well considering it was a dream. Her hair was also a little bit shorter. Plus, this other her had a strange weapon in her hand, something like a key and a blade.

"Yeah, Kairi!" She was shocked that this other self was freely hanging out with Riku, who was wearing some crazy things as well. It was still just a dream, yet, to Kairi, it seemed weird, out of place. Then, shortly afterwards, beings made out of darkness appeared out of the ground.

"Heartless!" Then, without any hint of it, the dream suddenly stopped. All that was left was the darkness surrounding everything. But, it was not over yet, moments later blood sprayed all over the dark background from before. She, now back in the picture, was bleeding. Riku was in her arms, and he was not moving. Too much blood was spilled all over his body.

"Roxas...how could you?" When her other self showed her face, Kairi clearly had disturbing yellow eyes, reminding her of amber. "I'll make you pay for this, you bastard!"

"What just happened?" wondered the redhead while rubbing the back of her head.

"It seems like you just had a dream. You were moving all over your bed, calling out for your knight in shining armor to save the day!" Namine smiled at her, not wearing anything of the sort. Noticing this, Kairi jumped and covered her eyes, but Namine just laughed.

"Where's your clothes, sis?"

"Being washed," she responded. "You know, if you were anybody else, I wouldn't even consider doing this, yet we're sisters. We've seen ourselves naked all the time."

"That was back when we were little!" Kairi still had her hands over her eyes. Sighing, Namine went over to a drawer and picked out something, putting it on. After Kairi put down her pale arm, she noticed that her sister was wearing a normal, white nightgown. It was almost the color of Namine's skin, but it looked really good on her.

"Admit it, taking baths together used to be fun," said Namine. "But, then father is like 'thou shall not have the pleasure to be amongst ith while bathing.'" The blonde pouted.

"At our age, it would be awkward to say the least. We're full grown women, so we should be bathing with ourselves." It was a little strange to hear those words come out of her mouth. Kairi was becoming more like her mother everyday, and, because of her mother's standing, she did not know to be jovial or frightened.

"Oh, somebody is thinking about something? Is it about the groom session that our father is holding for you? It is your first one, but, I assure you, it's not as bad as people say it is. Just look at me, I'm already engaged to a prince named Sora!"

"...How was it like?" Kairi's arms were shaking, so she tried the best to hide them from her sister. She was already in love! Even if it was the so-called prince of darkness, Kairi loved Riku with all of her heart.

"It was boring for the first couple of days. Nothing but stuck up snobs from kingdoms all over the place. But, when I saw Sora for the first time, I just knew he was the one! He also has a great personality!" Namine was acting not like herself lately, being a lot perkier than usual, so Kairi guessed that was the reason why. To be frank, Kairi almost forgot that her sister was even engaged to somebody else.

"Then I've something to look towards to," Kairi sighed. "Still, I can't get this feeling out of my chest."

"Don't worry, I was scared about getting married too, but, we're princesses, and you're a princess of heart, one of the special seven, we've no choice in the matter." Then there was a knock on the day. Both of the girls jumped.

"Kairi, there's something for you." Seconds later, a maid opened the door and left a present, and then she quickly left the room. Curious, the sisters looked at the object given to them.

"Who could have..." No, he wouldn't. There was no way Riku was that stupid. When the redhead looked at the box, it had no clearance on who it was from. Only thing on it besides the usual was words spelling out to Kairi. She realized the handwriting was not Riku's, for it had been way too neat.

"Just be careful, we've no idea what's inside there."

Kairi, her hands shaking more heavily, removed the top of the box. Inside, there was a letter meet with a fragile doll. She, not noticing the meaning of only of it, picked up the letter, and the princess of heart began to read it.

Dear Kairi,

I'm a prince from another kingdom. I'm seeking somebody to have a hand in marriage, so I want to see if your parents will accept this humble request of mine. My parents are already great friends with yours. It would not be that hard.

Love, Roxas

"Wow, looks like somebody has an eye on you already. Look at this doll, isn't it lovely?"

"Hey, Namine, can you tell our parents for me? I want to know how they react, and I'm too...emotional to ask them anything," Kairi asked. Listening to her sister, Namine left the room, and Kairi was left all alone.

Then, out of the corner of her mind, Kairi got an idea. It was horrible, she knew that, but Kairi would do anything to avoid marrying anybody else than Riku.

"Time to start this," Kairi told herself. She was dressed back in her civilian clothes, yet, this time, she had a hood to cover her face. The girl messed up everything in her room, making it look like somebody else was there. Everything was turned over, and Kairi carefully broke some items she did not care for, like a random vase near her bed.

Then, with a little bit of the red paint from Namine's belongings, Kairi splashed a bucket full of paint onto the floor near her window. It was not the most realistic looking blood, yet it had to do. Some of the paint even got onto her very own clothing, just in case Kairi got caught. She would have just said she was saved from the prince of darkness from somebody in a black coat.

For the last touch, Kairi left the doll Roxas gave her on the window. It, like many other objects in the room, was broken, and Kairi smeared some of the red paint of it as well. Now she just needed to do the easy part, get out of their. She did it everyday without getting noticed for the last ten months, so Kairi doubted it would be much of a problem.

"I'm sorry, Namine. I just had to do this, and, hopefully, one day you'll understand. One day we'll see each other again." Kairi, letting out a single tear, made her way through the front of the castle. The guards were too busy protecting her parents anyways.

"Kairi, why the hell do you've red paint all over you?" Riku questioned, concern in his blue eyes. "You know that looks...weird, right?"

"I've a lot to explain." With that said, Riku let her inside, and he shut the door behind her. Luckily, nobody was staring, probably because they were too busy shopping at the main street.

"Tell me everything, okay? I don't want to let anything bad happen to you." He placed his hands on Kairi's shoulders and gave his lover a kiss on the forehead.