"I certainly am Not an Idiot" Sora growled
"Sora… Kairi…Kairi knew it was me and I was in a different body"
"What difference does that make?!"
"She won't care that you're all scratched up, and neither will anybody else who really cares for you."
Sora averted his eyes away from Rikku's and rolled the large wooden staff in his hands
"Sora, I know you Know they wouldn't care. Why in the hell do you insist on staying away from her? From your family?"
"I don't know Rikku." He growled "maybe she doesn't need me"
"but she…"
"No, no, Rikku… She doesn't." Sora said making eye contact again "she has all she needs with you"
Rikku watched Sora, trying to understand his reasoning
"What's this all about? Is this about that silly Papua fruit?"
"No, Not the Papua Fruit" Sora said getting up "I just… nothings the same any more… we should all… just be apart I think"
"Sora…" Rikku said watching Sora "you know I think you're completely insane"
"huh?"
Rikku smiled "You searched for us, you searched every day you could from the moment we disappeared. We were apart. It was different. All we need now is for things to be normal again"
Sora listened in silence, trying to hear out what Rikku was trying to say.
"Sora you have so many friends, from world to world, that stretches all across the galaxy" he was making sure to keep his eyes locked with Sora's "they all count on you to go back, to visit. And be apart of their lives. Think of Donald and goofy… do you even know what they are doing right now?"
Sora shook his head no
"Exactly, Sora, this is what I mean, We are all friends and friends stick together. They need to be together or else they'll fall apart."
"I know" he said
"than why did you leave"
"I need time"
"for what?!"
"my own thoughts… I was so busy thinking every body else's thoughts and wondering how everybody else was faring, I had no time for me."
"You had your time Sora" Rikku said "It's time you come home"
Sora brushed Rikku off by simply stating "you can sleep in here tonight"