I think this chapter took way to long. I'm sorry. This chapter was suppose to be for my cousin Kate for her birthday. Which was on the 13th and it's late. So… Happy Birthday Kate! :D I love you.
I hope you all enjoy.
Naminé waited for the sound of foot steps turning the corner. She would look for then she would strike her victim. She heard someone running. She carefully looked round the corner. The person was getting closer his hood was up.
"Sora" she whispered quietly to herself.
Sora sprinted round the corner only to meet the bat Naminé held. It hit him right in the face. The force of Naminé's hit caused him to fall to the ground. Naminé ran away.
Blood ran down Sora's face. His nose was broken. As he hit the ground his hood fell off him causing the blood to run down his silver hair. In the darkness it was hard to tell but under that hood was Riku. It was Riku who toppled over in pain.
"Sora…" he said before loosing consciousness.
Once Riku's eyes open. He looked down his clothes were still covered in blood, his nose and head were killing him. He tried to sit up but he was far to tired.
"HE'S ALIVE!" came the voice of Kairi. And a crowd of people sighed with relief.
Next was a voice he didn't know, it was soft. "I told you he wasn't going to die"
There around him was everyone he loved. His parents, Sora and Kairi. Then he thought to himself, 'I don't love to many people do I?'
He suddenly noticed he was at a Hospital. He tried to study his surroundings but it was painful to move his head his head. But then at the bottom of the bed he noticed someone… Roxas. 'What is he doing here?' he wondered. 'Probably here with Sora.'
"Are you alright Riku?" everyone was asking. "Are you comfy?" "What happened last night?" "Do you remember?"
He didn't know what to answer, he had plenty of questions he himself wanted to know. Truthfully he didn't know why he was here. He attempted to think of last night but was drawing a blank.
"Leave him alone, please" ordered the Nurse with long blonde hair and brown eyes. "There is no way he will remember what happened last night! The doctor has told me that and that from the hit to the nose he has lost his sense of smell."
Sora gasped. Everyone looked at him. "Sorry" he whispered.
"I am so sorry Riku" said his mother.
"What is going on?" said Riku confused.
She was going to answer but was interrupted by the Nurse. "You all being here is just making it more confusing for him if you wouldn't mind leaving so that I can explain it for him, that would be great"
So in other words the Nurse was saying "GET THE HECK OUT OF HERE" only more politely.
The all shoved their way out, allowing Riku and the nurse to be alone. Of course there were other patients in the room but each bed was covered by a white curtain.
She sat down on the chair nest to the bed it was wooden with a pillow on it for comfort. Riku was trying to sit up but the Nurse was telling him to lie down again.
"Listen Riku, last night you were found just at the corner of Destiny Drive with blood pouring from your nose and head. You were taken directly to the Hospital and examined. You were hit with a solid object, we found out that you will not remember what happened after you were hit but we were unsure if you would be able to remember what happened before" she explained. "Do you remember who hit you or even why you went out that night?"
Riku thought hard but it only hurt him more. "No"
"That's alright, but it's clear you remember everything else. Your not suffering anything too serious. Now you just rest for little while I go talk to your parents" She smiled and walked off.
Riku was deeply wondering what happened last night, what was he doing out so late anyway?
After a while of lying down, bored his parents came in to talk to him. "Riku, the nurse told us that you have to stay until tomorrow but after then you are able to leave. And if you feel up to it we could go Christmas shopping!"
"Maybe" said Riku, unsure if he was in the mood.
"Ok, well your Father and I have to leave soon but we can come back later until visiting hours are over, ok?"
Riku nodded slowly.
"Oh and here are some clean clothes!" she handed him some fresh clothes. "You should get a shower, get all the blood out of your hair"
"Ok" Riku tried to smile.
"Well bye, darling!" she kissed him on the cheek, which kind of hurt.
"Bye, son!"
"Bye" he lifted his hand a little as in to wave. And they left.
The Nurse allowed Riku to get a shower once he was ready he looked in the mirror to find that his nose and forehead were stitched. And across his face was a big bruise.
He walked back in to the room he was sleeping in. All the curtains were open but all the beds were empty except one. A girl with short black hair sat there she looked up at Riku when the door shut behind him. She stared at him with the most prettiest misty blue eyes. She warmly smiled at him.
He returned a smile and walked up to the nice girl who looked about his age. She was drawing an interesting picture. It was a small boat in the water, near the boat were a few rocks and in the boat was a man and a little girl, it was her. This girl was an amazing artist. Beside her was another drawing, it was similar to the first one except it was sinking and only the man was in the boat.
"That's a nice picture you are drawing" complimented Riku.
"Thank you" she said. "The ideas just come to me, so I draw them"
"Well you very good it" Riku told her. "Um… what was your name?"
"Oh I'm Kate" she replied. "And you are?"
"Riku"
"Riku that's and interesting name" smiled Kate. "Riku means land and shore. Like a beach!"
Riku nodded.
"Do you draw often?" asked Riku.
"I painted and drew a lot as a child, and today I started drawing again. It's great to know I can still do it!" she grinned. "Can you draw?"
"No, not at all" laughed Riku.
"I bet you can draw!" giggled Kate.
"Nope"
"Just try"
"Sorry, but no"
"Please," pouted Kate. "For me"
"Fine I will try but I can't promise a masterpiece."
Kate gave Riku a piece of paper that had lay beside her on the bed and a the pencil she held in her hand.
After 15 minutes of Riku refusing to show his 2 minute drawing Kate had finally wrestled it off him.
"It's bad!" huffed Riku.
"It's good!" Kate tried to cheer him up. "Just make the head a little bigger. Like this."
Kate walked behind Riku and grabbed his hand, helping him draw another head on the other side of the page. Kate's hand was soft and warm, thought Riku.
Together they drew a picture of a girl with long, wavy hair smiling happily.
"I'm very proud of this picture" grinned Riku.
"You can keep it" Kate offered.
"Really?" he questioned.
Kate got up and grabbed Riku's hand. "Yup, now come on. Do you want to go to the garden?"
"Sure"
As they walked Riku noticed a more pictures drawn by Kate that he had not recently noticed. Drawings of a beautiful Sakura tree, a boy and girl hugging, a picture of rocks with the waves crashing against them and a few more.
They exited the through the gate into the back garden of the Hospital, which from the outside didn't look that big. Kate lay down on the grass, Riku sat beside her.
"This is nice!" Riku said. "Do you come out here a lot?"
"No my mum works here," explained Kate. "So she told me to stay overnight with her"
"Oh so your not a patient" Riku said.
"Nope" said Kate, popping the P. "What about you?"
"I don't remember but they said I was hit on the head and that I won't be able to remember what happened" sighed Riku, moving his bangs out of his face to revealed a big bruise and the stitches.
"That's terrible I would hate if I couldn't remember that whole day!" yelled Kate, hugging Riku. "You deserve something"
"I don't really!"
"Sea Salt Ice Cream!" gasped Kate, pointing to a young nurse giving the lolly to an elderly patient.
The two ran quickly towards hair.
"Excuse me" smiled Kate cutely. "Where could we get some Sea Salt Ice Cream?"
The nurse looked at Riku and Kates wrists, she saw a rubber bracelet which show that they were patients.
"Follow me" she replied, leading them back inside through the halls and into the kitchen. She gave them both some Ice Cream.
"Thank you!" they said together.
Soon enough the two where sitting on the grass again licking there Ice Cream talking about everything and anything that came up.
"Last night" began Kate. "I had a strange dream"
"Most dreams I have are weird too! I had this one dream were I was in this bakery and there was a giant bear and … Never mind"
"No a strange dream, not a creepy one!" laughed Kate, then she stopped. "My dream felt so real"
"Do you want to tell me about it?" asked Riku.
"Ok, so I was on a small wooden boat with my dad. We were sitting talking to each other, my dad was rowing the boat" Kate told. "The boat scraped against a rock, there was a hole in the boat and water was getting in fast. My dad jumped out, he was shouting something but I don't know what. I toppled backwards. And I woke up with a splitting headache"
"Well that is odd" thought Riku, aloud. "Didn't you draw a picture like that!"
"A picture? Oh yeah, my picture!" grinned Kate. "That might be where my dream came from I thought about the picture"
"It's possible" said Riku, but he wasn't quite sure.
Once they both finished they walked together back to their room. Riku closed over the curtains and told Kate that he was going to sleep. Kate nodded saying she soon was too.
"Riku?" said Kate.
"Yeah?"
"Tomorrow you'll be leaving the Hospital, and we most likely won't see each other anymore," she told him, yawning slightly. "Will you ever forget me?"
"Never" replied Riku, who was clearly tired.
"Good, me neither"
Riku smiled but Kate didn't see this, then he feel asleep.
Kate sat on her bed and her mum walked in.
"You are going to have to stay over night with me I can't get home" she said Kate.
"Ok" smiled Kate warmly.
Kate sat awake drawing until eventually her eyes fluttered closed.
Riku was awoken by a bright light as the nurse called to him. He sat up, pulled the blankets away, got up and got dressed. When he opened the curtains a doctor was waiting for him. He checked to make sure Riku's memory was ok. Everything was good. Riku look around the room and noticed Kate had gone, she probably left with her mum. He went out to the hallway to walk around, when he saw Kate with a sketch pad in her hand . Riku waved. She looked behind her, then to Riku, then she turned away.
Riku was confused so he began strolling to Kate.
"Hey you probably didn't see but I waved to you" Riku nodded. Kate spoke not a word. "So um…hi"
No reply. "Hello?"
"I'm sorry to say this but why are you talking to me?" asked Kate.
"But Kate-" Riku started then he was cut off.
"How do you know my name!" Kate yelled. Which caused her mum to hear and turn round.
"You told me it yesterday! We spent the whole day together! I thought we were friends, you said you would never forget me!" Riku cried out.
"What!" The two were now shouting things to each other.
"Get him!" Kates mum ordered, as a nurse grabbed Riku from behind.
He stopped struggling as the nurse brought him back to his room. While they walked down the hall he heard.
"Don't worry Kate that was one of our imaginative patients, he must have thought he new you" her mum lied.
"How did he know my name?" questioned Kate.
"He must have read it from your sketch pad!"
Kate agreed.
"I must go check on him now" she told Kate.
She entered the room and Riku was sat on the bed.
"I'm not crazy!" Riku said.
"I know" Kate's mum said.
"I'm not!"
"Just listen" she demanded. "Last year Kate and her father took our boat out for fun. And somehow they rowed into a rock. Kate's father jumped in and told her to jump in, he was saying that he'd catch her. Kate lost her balance and-"
"-Fell into the water" finished Riku.
"Yes, obviously."
"Kate told me that story!"
"Yes she dreams of it every night, it caused us to believe her memory was returning but it was taking a very long time."
"Her memory returning?" Riku exclaimed. "Is this the reason she couldn't remember me?"
"Yes we believe that once she fell she hit her head of a rock, hard. Her father saved her from dying but of course she has no memory of any day after the incident or anyone. I'm sorry. It's a terrible case of amnesia"
"Will her memory ever return?"
"We don't think so" sighed Kate's mum. "There have been no signs of improvement. All she can remember are her dreams"
"But she drew a picture! A picture of the day she went out on the boat! Doesn't that mean she is getting better?"
She stood up and walked to a curtain she pushed it out of the way to reveal another door. Once unlocked Riku saw that it was a cupboard. He looked inside. It was filled with the same drawing of that same day, some better than others but all the same. Each one drawn in a beautiful Anime style.
"Oh no…" whispered Riku. "She has been drawing that same picture ever since the accident? And she thinks it's new"
Kate's mum nodded. "There is one she's never drawn twice though"
"What on is that?" wondered Riku.
"This one" She held the picture out to Riku and he took it from her and hugged it.
"You can keep that, it would only confuse Kate if she saw it"
Riku looked at it and smiled. "I love it"
Later that day Riku was let out from the Hospital. He lay on his bed looking up at the sealing. A knock came to the door.
"You can come in" Riku called out.
Sora came in. "Hi, how are you feeling?"
"I'm alright"
"That's good" Sora said, looking around the room Sora noticed something. "Where did you get that?"
On the wall a drawing hung, there was a pale blue sky, and on the leaning palm tree on Destiny Island sat Riku and Kate eating Sea Salt Ice Cream.
"An old friend gave it to me" Riku smiled.
"It's nice" nodded Sora.
Hope you all liked it! ^.^
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