Hello, hello, welcome to drabble #2... which is actually more drabble sized this time. XD;

No spoilers for anything, but hnng, reasons why I love-hate exploring KHI!Riku's thoughts, because it makes my heart hurt and yet I just want to face palm so hard at him.

Idek.

Enjoy?

Category: Kingdom Hearts

Characters: Riku, Kairi, mentions of Sora

Genre: Gen, Angst, Friendship(?)

Rating: PG to be safe?

Warnings: None.

Prompt: 29 - I will never hurt you.

Summary: Drabble - She will wake up, he's going to make sure of that, no matter what.

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts.

- Upon Betrayal -

She's so still, lying there as if just asleep, as if she wasn't missing a part of herself that had never be meant to be separated, as if she'd wake up any minute and laugh at him for standing there just watching and tease tease tease him like she always does. She won't though, he knows, because right now she's just a shell, empty and soulless - almost like a doll.

The thought alone makes him angry - she shouldn't be like this in first place, should be moving vibrant and alive, and maybe she would again, if he'd been able to bring that puppet here, If Sora had decided to come and actually work with him here, then maybe maybe she'd have her heart back already.

But Sora has stopped caring now that he's got all his new friends to replace them with, has been playing around like a fool while thinking himself some kind of hero, swinging around that Keyblade that has never been promised to him.

'At least he still has a conscience', he had said, like Riku doesn't, like he's the one in the wrong here, like he isn't doing this to help their- no his friend.

Sora has abandoned them, so much is clear now, he's made it clear when he'd refused to listen, to even ever consider working together to help Kairi.

It hurts like a slap to the face and now the bitterness he feels as consequence of that betrayal is curling tightly in his stomach and he doesn't look forward to having to explain it to Kairi when she wakes up - when, not if, because she will wake up, he's going to make sure of that, no matter what.

He'll never hurt her like that, never never ever, and even though he has to leave her side again soon, has to leave her on the ship, under Hook's watchful(?) eyes (even though everything in him twists at that thought, he doesn't like the idea of leaving her here with only strangers for company), because Maleficent will soon call on him, and he can't risk displeasing her right now, not when she's the only one who knows how to get Kairi's Heart back.

So he'll do as he's told for now, just until he's figured out a way to return her Heart and then they'll leave, and Maleficent and Hook and the rest of them can do whatever with that Heart of all Worlds for all he cares.

"Soon." he whispers, promises, as he strokes back her bangs as goodbye and returns to where that vessel back to Hollow Bastion is waiting.

He has work to do.

- Fin -