3 months after the end of Kingdom Hearts II, Riku, Sora, and Kairi are back to school and their normal lives before the events of Kingdom Hearts. Until the darkness taints one islander again.
Sky = Sora's POV
Water = Kairi's POV
Earth = Riku's POV
' ' = Sarcasm
Italics = Thoughts
" " = Speaking (duh xD)
*NOTE* I don't own KH, or Final Fantasy… yet… :3
My first ever fanfiction, please comment!
Earth
"Ohmygawd, Riku! You're back!" Selphie ran towards me, followed by a few more loud, obnoxious girls.
I took a deep breath and hitched a phony smile on my face, the expression feeling unfamiliar. "Yeah, I've been sick for a while." As Selphie and her friends continued to babble about their typical problems, I glanced my English teacher striding towards us.
"Riku, can I have a word with you?" Mr. Leonhart was a young man, in his early twenties, and when he ever said something, it usually had a lot of meaning behind it.
"Sure Mr. Leonhart, what's wrong?" So used to putting up my 'perfect' façade, I slipped into my old habit of lying easily. "Did Sora do something again?" The girls behind me giggled, and I gave a short, and painful, bark of laughter.
"No. It's not. Now follow me." Mr. Leonhart strode over to a secluded corner of school, an alley behind the gymnasium. He turned quickly towards me. "I know."
A shard of ice went through me, but I laughed to cover it up. "Know? What are you talking about?"
"You know what I'm talking about. Your parents… Why didn't you tell anyone?" He had a serious look in his eyes.
It's over. How many times can my act be seen through in one day? "I… I didn't want to worry anyone." Well, it was half true.
He grabbed my left hand, firmly, but carefully. He unraveled the bandages and stared at the still open cut. "What's this from?"
"My brother." I looked down.
"What did he do? This cut looks really deep."
"Threw a pocketknife at me. It's nothing, I'm used to it. My reflexes were a little slow so I caught the blade instead of the handle." I shrugged, not looking into his eyes.
"He… what?" Looking back at him, I saw shock and horror in his normally expressionless face. I hadn't known that my nonchalant attitude at having weapons thrown at me shocked people so much.
"It's not bad. It'll close up soon." He just stared, dumbfounded, at me. He ran his fingers through his hair, trying to not stress out. He was just letting go of my hand when he knocked over a metal pipe that was hanging loosely from the side of the alley. The pipe struck my side and I doubled over, swearing loudly.
"Riku? Riku!" He kneeled down, staring at my side. I was clutching at it again, and the internal injuries seemed to have ruptured again. I coughed up blood, splattering the alley wall with crimson. Mr. Leonhart started to call for help, and I threw out my arm and caught his shirt sleeve.
"I'm… fine…" I imagine that I wasn't too convincing, I was still spitting up blood. After a few moments of agony, I pushed myself into a sitting position. Panting, I tried to get my eyes to focus on Mr. Leonhart.
"Riku? What happened?" His voice emanated panic, something Riku had never heard him do before. He moved my arm that was covering my side and I felt him gasp. I looked down at my side and winced. The wound had opened and blood was flowing freely.
I looked up at him, and my voice was still weak from pain, "Promise me you won't tell anyone." He shook his head in shock and attempted to say something.
"Wh… What happened?" He seemed to be unable to move.
"Nothing you need to know about…" I got up, slowly and painfully. As Mr. Leonhart stared, open-mouthed, I managed to run from the alley and into our school's garden. Ripping up my shirt to make crude bandages, I rebandaged my side. I lay there for a few minutes, until I heard the school bell ring. "Shit…" I murmured. I still was so confused about how Mr. Leonhart had learned about my parents. Dragging myself up, I limped to my small locker and hurriedly put a clean shirt on. Finding Selphie and her group of buddies again, I began to put up my act again. Making it into our cafeteria, I spotted Sora waving at me. Making a lame excuse to Selphie, I headed towards Sora and Kairi.
"What's wrong?" Kairi started to say, but I cut her off. Mr. Leonhart's student teacher and some of the other teachers were eating at a nearby table. I brought Sora and Kairi back to the garden I had been in. After another coughing fit, I showed them the most horrifying thing that had happened that day. In the morning, I had woken up to blood and pain, and after stumbling into my bathroom, I had been shocked to find that my eyes had switched colors. As I pulled out the aqua colored contact, I felt ashamed as I saw their horrified expressions.
"No…" Sora's shock and denial was the worst. I had to draw up a diagram with my theory on my eye color change. These coughing fits seemed to be a part of changing into a heartless, or something like one. Figure, Sora and Kairi get Nobodies, I get blood, pain and probable death. Yeah, that's fair. As I walked away from them, it was almost impossible to lift one foot in front of another. It broke my heart to leave them.
"Riku!" Sora's wail was almost unbearable. Running as fast as I humanly could I raced towards the beach. Getting on a small rowboat, I paddled towards our island. Stumbling into our secret cave, a grin tugged at my lips. Sora and Kairi had written prayers for me to get better on the wall. Tears started to fall from my eyes. I picked up a discarded piece of chalk and began writing. After I finished, I murmured a simple "I'm sorry," and crawled to the locked wooden door at the back of the cave. Summoning my keyblade, I unlocked it and saw the looming darkness. A small, bitter smirk fell upon my lips. I got up, and limped into the darkness, destroying the door on the way in. Sora and Kairi could never find me if there is no way to get to me. Calling their names one last time, I closed my eyes and fell, thinking about our promise from those blissful days, long ago...
"Sorry guys, we never did get to share a paopu fruit."
Teehee, another cliffhanger x3
