Sora stared at the pale blue sky and watched as the cumulus clouds floated ever so gracefully and lazily above his head. All he cared about was going to see Kairi that morning, but for some reason she had been completely gone; wiped clean from her house. All Sora wanted was to see her.
In the middle of his thinking, Riku, who came from nowhere, interrupted Sora. "Sora! Sora!" Riku ran towards Sora, who was sitting on a bench in the park. "S-sora." Riku gasped as he keeled over gasping for breath and holding his side. "Ccome….to the..hos-hospi-hospital. Kairi is there."
Sora just looked at Riku with large, dull blue eyes. "Hmm?"
"Kairi! She's at the hospital!" Riku was standing at his normal height now, staring down at Sora, who appeared to be unfazed by this info. "Don't you care anymore?"
"Riku, she took my heart away from me? Why should I?" Sora was lying; he knew very well he wanted to see her if it was the last thing he could do. He didn't want everyone to know how hurt he was inside.
Out of nowhere, Riku swung his foot back and nailed Sora right in his shin.
"OUCH!" Sora leapt away from the bench and keeled over; quickly he lifted his leg up and started to rub the red mark on his leg. "What was that for?!" Sora yelled, but Riku ignored him and grabbed him by the shirt and threw him over his shoulder. Sora tried as he might to break free, but Riku had a strong hold on him.
Within a few moments, Riku had dragged Sora to the hospital, asked for Kairi's room, and then ignored the nurses' looks as he walked down the hall and into the room.
Finally, Riku set Sora down on the ground and forced him to turn around. "Look."
Sora was so close to being brought to tears as he saw Kairi lying on the white hospital bed. She had cuts upon cuts on her face, legs, and arms. There were also multiple bruises along her fragile body. A deep gash, already stitched, was along her forehead.
"Wha-? What happened?" Sora looked up at Riku with his large blue orbs.
"Seifer."
Just as Sora was about to say something, Kairi let out a painful noise and opened her eyes. "Sora?"
Sora instinctively stiffened; "Yes?"
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you." Kairi's face changed from have asleep and not aware to a painful grimace as she tried to look up at him.
"No, I am, Kairi." Sora leaned down next to the bed, staring at all the marks on her, and the gash upon her small forehead. "I shouldn't have left you.
I was so wrong to do that. Who did this?"
Kairi turned away, or more like turned her gaze away. She didn't answer as an eerie silence fell upon the hospital room.
Riku grunted then tapped Sora's shoulder then went outside the hospital room. When the two were finally out in the hallway, Riku turned to Sora. "It was Seifer, you idiot. How could you not know?"
"I just wanted to see if she would admit to it!" Sora wailed as he leaned against the wall.
"She won't. You know she won't. She might hate him, but if word gets out that she told..well." Riku looked away, turning his gaze to a nurse that was backing into a room with a foot tray.
Sora huffed then went back inside. Before Riku had a chance to follow him, Sora was already leaving, a ticked off face. Riku went to follow him, but Sora snapped, "No! Riku, stay here!" and with that he was gone, pelting to the elevator and out of sight.
Riku had called Rikku on his cell, who came up to watch over Kairi while Riku went out to find Sora. The two girls were extrmemly quiet; Kairi had passed out due to the medicine the nurse gave her. Rikku was too busy staring out the window to notice Sora and Riku walk in.
Sora pulled a chair next to Kairi's bed and whispered in her ear, "I took care of it. He won't hurt you anymore." Sora began patting Kairi's forehead softly.
Like Sora said, no one knew where Seifer went, but no one really cared enough to look or say anything. Fuu and Rai were completely befuddled, but soon they adapted to not having to deal with a bossy jackass like him anymore. Instead, they hooked up with Sora's gang. No matter how hard Kairi tried to question Sora, he wouldn't give, and neither would Riku. They were the only two who knew; the rest of the gang cared less about it so they didn't bug him much.
Finally they could live happily ever after, no matter what was brought to them.
