The Tale of the Lost

DnCnChIcK369

The Mirror of WHAT?

(I still don't like you)

A/N: Awwww! People still ARE reading this! I'm so touched! THANK YOU SO MUCH GUYS! Don't worry, this chapter is funnier, longer, and… pretty much better in any way than chapter 6.

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Naomi-Haraku: Tehe, I'm glad that you're glad I updated! Thanks so much for the review! Here's a brownie, one of my mom's homeade special kind, they're really good, so savor that thing! xD

Kairi irl: Hello my friend! I thank you for your multiple super fun reviews. And the part with Riku glaring? It was fun… I think, lol, I don't really remember WHAT I was thinking while writing most of this, but that part… yeah, you get my point, right? Yes, bunches of OCs, but all of them are important to the plot, and yes, they shall be explained. I figured that this is gonna be a story where either smart people figure things out early on(like one reviewer… or two that noticed something involving Riku xD), and everyone else will find out when the characters do. Not saying anyone who doesn't know isn't smart. This is the most complex plot I've ever used, really. And this is ALSO the longest review reply I've ever typed, so ya know what? I will hand you this yummy, homemade brownie ::hands brownie:: and now I leave you. Thanks for reviewing!

Thanks so much guys!

ONWARD!

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The rest of that day passed normally. The group wondered where King Mickey REALLY was, and how long he had been that impostor.

No one really spoke much, and the group was wondering just one more thing…

Why did they go to Twilight Town, anyway?

Meera and Kairi sat down in Olette's house (Riku and Sora were staying in Hayner's) and pulled out the mirror. They inspected it, wondering how it worked, and why that woman had asked them to do what she asked.

"Hey… I think it says something there!" Kairi pointed at some sort of small inscription on the side of the mirror. Meera looked closer. It read:

"Wtom om wti Cohhoh uk Epuvuxpgmi"

"It says 'This is the Mirror of Apocalypse'." Meera muttered. Kairi's eyes widened.

"Uh… how do you know that?" Kairi asked, taking the mirror and looking closely at it where the strange words were described. "It obviously says 'Witom om witty coe hoe uck epoovoockspigmi'!"

"I know that's what it says, Kairi."

"Then how do you know what it MEANS?" Kairi asked, getting frustrated.

"What makes you think I know?" Meera asked, annoyed. She didn't really know WHY she was annoyed since she LIKED Kairi. She sighed, put the mirror down on the bed, and left the house…

Only to be pulled into a small alley by her left arm. She fell on whoever it was who pulled her… and noticed silver hair and turquoise eyes. She squeaked and jumped off of him like he was on fire.

"Jeez, you jerk, what'd you do THAT for?" Meera asked, glaring at Riku who was dusting himself off, scowling.

"I need your help with something."

"Look, I think we both already know that I don't-"

"You don't like me, I know, and I don't like you either," Riku finished. "But I can't very well get Sora or Kairi to help me since the thing I'm asking for help for involves both of them. And I'm not a girl, so I need help."

"Are you SURE about that, Riku? I mean, your hair IS pretty long, and as far as I'VE heard, you haven't ever had a girlfriend… or maybe you're just gay?" Meera asked, clearly not thankful for being pulled into an alley and falling on one of the two guys she would never want to fall on.

"Gay, hmm? Maybe I'll try it, just to help me stay away from YOU. Or maybe I won't have a problem. Maybe YOU'RE just a lesbian," Riku told her calmly back, leaning against the wall.

(A/N: HOLY CHOCOLATE PIE, they're really goin' AT each other, aren't they? Hmm… I didn't plan THIS out, lol…)

"Wait… are you saying what I THINK you're saying?" Meera asked, walking straight up to Riku and poking him in the chest, hard, when she said 'think'.

"Depends. What is it you think I'm saying?" Riku asked, a smirk on his face as he pushed away her arm. Her mouth dropped open and she turned around, walking out of the alley quickly, and going all the way to where she had recently learned was a very good place to watch the sunset.

She heard footsteps running behind her.

"Hey!"

"I'm not talking to you, you're just a… just a…" Meera stuttered, thinking, as she kept walking, not turning around.

"Just a WHAT?"

"You're just a fruit cup!" Meera exclaimed, quickening her pace until she felt two arms wrap around her from behind. "Let go of me, Riku."

"I wonder how you knew it was me? Anyway, I'm not letting go until you agree to help me," Riku explained. Meera sighed and elbowed him in the gut, causing him to let go. "Damn… you have one pointy elbow…" He muttered, rubbing his stomach. When he looked up, Meera was pretty far ahead of him again.

"Would you just give up? I see absolutely NO REASON for me to help you with anthing," Meera yelled over her shoulder.

"You know what? I just wanted to help make my two best friends happier. And what do you do? When I ask for help, something I almost never do, you REFUSE to help me! See? THIS is why I don't like you! And why don't you like me? Because I STARTLED you?!?!?" Riku yelled, causing Meera to stop walking. She suddenly fell to the ground, hugging her knees, her back shaking as though she were… crying?

Riku groaned and looked up at the sky. 'Dear god, WHAT did I DO now?' He ran forward and knelt down beside her.

"Go away!" She exclaimed, her voice muffled by her legs.

"Not until you either stop crying, or tell me why you hate me. Or both. That would work too."

"I'm not telling you anything!"

"So you'll stop crying then?" Riku questioned.

"I'm NOT CRYING!" Meera screamed, lifting her head. She looked away from Riku and stared into the shrubbery beside the dirt path she was on. Her cheeks felt sticky, and she refused to give Riku any reason to make fun of her because she was easily depressed. Heck, he'd PROBABLY start calling her 'Emo girl' or something.

"Look… I don't know what I did, but I'm sorry. And I'm not apologizing because I'm taking back what I said… well, I don't REALLY think you're a lesbian, but that's probably not what's making you cry, but the thing I said right BEFORE you started crying, that's what I meant as to what I'm not taking back, because I mean it, I'm just apologizing because-"

"Shut UP, Riku!" Meera exclaimed, turning her face back to glare at him. "I liked you better when you didn't talk!"

'Because I don't know how to handle crying girls. But does she let me finish my apology? NO! What the HELL did I do!?!?' Riku thought. She began to stand up, but Riku pulled her back down.

"I want you to help me get Sora and Kairi together."

"You WHAT?" Meera yelled, rubbing her butt from being pulled down right on it. Riku sighed and pulled Meera by her wrist to her feet, and then all the way up on top of the hill, the place he assumed she had been heading.

"Okay, what was the purpose of pulling me down and injuring my butt and THEN dragging me up here right after? You don't make any sense," Meera asked, glaring.

"I didn't want anyone to hear because-"

"Because you're planning on killing me, aren't you? And so you don't want witnesses, actually, it makes sense, I always knew that this whole time you really WERE-"

"WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP AND LET ME TALK!" Riku yelled. She winced and her hand flew to her right shoulder. She sank to the gound again, but didn't cry this time. "God, what did I do now? Didn't your parents ever yell at you? It's completely normal!"

"My parents are dead. As far as I know anyway. I never knew my father, and I know my mom died when I was pretty little," Meera explained in a weak voice. Riku slapped his forehead.

'Maybe some sort of higher force-being really doesn't want Sora and Kairi to get together. Maybe that's why everything I say makes the person I need help from hate me even more than she already does for some weird reason I don't know. Maybe life just HATES me, in general…'

"Sorry for bringing it up… sorry for yelling at you. I'm sorry for anything I did to upset you, okay?" Riku asked, rolling his eyes so that she couldn't see. 'She tells anyone about this, and I swear, I'll impale her with Way to the Dawn…'

Meera looked up at him for a moment, then winced and looked back to the ground. "I wasn't kidding either, you know…"

"You really think I'm gay? I'm hurt!" Riku exclaimed, mocking hurt. "Alright, how about we make a truce. You help me with Sora and Kairi, and I'll… uh…"

"Never scream at me and never use magic around me," Meera finished. "Agree to that and it's a deal."

Riku nodded and stuck out his hand. Meera turned around and shook it.

"I still don't like you."

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A/N: Okay, I have way too much fun whenever Riku and Meera fight. And Riku isn't OOC, I think that he seems like the kind of guy who doesn't really know how to handle crying girls.

I'm probably gonna start updating really fast again… meh…

Well, this chapter has bloopers… I was bored, what can I say?

BLOOPERS

…Only to be pulled into a small alley by her left arm. She fell on whoever it was who pulled her… and noticed shiny, silver hair and turquoise eyes, which were staring back at her. She froze for a bit, as if embarrassed, and then squeaked and jumped off of him like he was on fire.

"Jeez, you jerk, what'd you do THAT for?" Meera asked, glaring at Riku who was dusting himself off, scowling. She noticed, for the first time, that his shirt… wasn't fully zipped.

"I need your help with something."

"Look… uh… I think we both already know that I don't-" Meera was a TEENSY bit distracted.

"You don't like me, I know, and I don't like you either," Riku finished. "But I can't very well get Sora or Kairi to help me since the thing I'm asking for help for involves both of them. And I'm not a girl, so I need help. What are you staring at, anyway?"

"Nothing! And, uh… are you SURE about that, Riku? I mean, your hair IS pretty long, and as far as I'VE heard, you haven't ever had a girlfriend… or maybe you're just gay?" Meera asked, apparently not thankful for being pulled into an alley and falling on one of the two guys she would never want to fall on. Though she had to admit, he has a cute belly button. She giggled a little and then stopped, remembering that said object of giggling was 1) Riku, and 2) right in front of her.

"Gay, hmm? Maybe I'll try it, just to help me stay away from YOU. Or maybe I won't have a problem. Maybe YOU'RE just a lesbian," Riku told her calmly back, leaning against the wall…

Meera's eyes widened.

"Holy… whoooaaaa, are you SERIOUSLY saying what I think you're trying to say?" Meera asked, a light blush coming on her cheeks. 'Did he notice me staring at his belly button?!?!?!?!?!?'

"Depends. What do YOU think I'm trying to say? Now you've got me curious," Riku said with a smirk. Meera glared at him, turned around, and marched out of the alley.

BLOOPERS

See? I couldn't have put that in there. As cute as Riku's belly button is, that comment is going to be stored int omy brain for later use. She doesn't like him enough yet to like his belly button. I do, she doesn't… and I like Edward even more! Ignore that, but he's here right now, and I didn't wanna hurt his feelings. Besides, it's true!

Anyway, tell me what you think! TTFN!

Alyssa R.T.