Hello again! Thank You For the reviews! This is written a little differently from the other chapter's; it's Sora's POV kinda but it's not really what he's thinking as such...it's what he's saying as he explains some stuff to Kairi... I guess that's not POV; Is it? Anyways... PLEASE DON'T HATE ME FOR THE ANTI-RIKU CONTENT OF THIS CHAPTER!!! It's just the way the story goes; okay? And come on! You know you love to hate him; it's part of what makes him so smexy! So... I hope you enjoy and also I'm going for another 6 reviews before i post the 10th chapter! Come on! It's not that hard! Thank you to all who did last time though! Without you i wouldn't be posting this now:D R&R

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Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts 1/2 but i own my storyline!

Okay so without further ado; here is C9 and remember: 6 reviews for chapter 10:P

Chapter Nine

Sora

Kai; a lot happened… I don't think I can tell you all of it… why not? Because I don't think I'd be able. Plus some of the things that happened… well they're lost; basically lost anyway. Well Riku still remembers; but I doubt he'd share and care with anyone. Then again I don't know some other stuff either… but I know most of what happened (I think)… though why it happened… it's a mystery to me...all of it… I seriously don't understand why Riku would…. How he could…

What? Yeah I'm fine Kai; don't worry 'bout me… Anyways; I guess it all started with you leaving. When you were gone… well at first I wouldn't talk to anyone. I was a mute basically. I only… I only wanted to talk to you…

I am NOT blushing!

NO I'M NOT! SHUT UP! Do you want to hear what happened or not? That's what I thought…

Okay; so I wasn't speaking. Not a word. Not to anybody. I didn't see the point…My parents? I guess my parents were waiting it out or something… they were letting me take my time…

But Riku….well; Riku flipped out at me after a while. Said stuff like that you were gone; you weren't coming back. You were alone now, and there was nothing I could do about it: But he was still here, and me going quiet was forcing him to be alone and it was selfish and stupid. So I started talking again afterwards… it was like if I wasn't talking to him he'd die or something… it was weird… I was worried about him…

Anyways; when middle school came 'round: we were still inseparable. We made sure we had all the same classes… Riku didn't even bother talking to anyone new. I, however, made some friends… mainly with this group of kids you've probably met; Tidus, Wakka, Selphie, Pence, Hayner…and… and Olette.

I mainly hung around with Riku; but I'd talk to the others during classes and stuff… Riku completely blanked them. Said he thought they were annoying. I disagreed; but he wouldn't give them a chance so I stopped trying to get him to. He, however, eventually made some friends of his own… a group of kids who had this ring leader Xemnas. I had this bad feeling about them; they were kinda dodgy… I didn't trust them…So; I tried to stop Riku from hanging around them, but he got really angry. Said I wasn't the only person capable of making friends…said he could do whatever he wanted; I wasn't his mother. I didn't know what to say… I was just trying to look out for him. I didn't get why he got so mad at me… I never said he wasn't able to make friends… where he was getting this from; I hadn't got a clue…

So I dropped it.

I didn't want to loose him over this so I didn't bring it up after that. Every now and again he'd disappear and I knew exactly who he was with… so whenever this happened I'd just hang out with Hayner and all. To distract myself from worrying about Riku… but they were really nice… I got real tight with them…but I think this just pissed off Riku again…

Around about when Roxas moved into our class halfway through the year, Riku started to stick with me when I went over to my group of friends. I thought he was finally going to accept them, but he wasn't: he still ignored them… I guess he was just making sure I didn't forget him or something…

Anyways; Olette…Olette for some unknown reason got a crush on him… she started trying to talk to him and stuff…she tried to get him to join in with us when we were talking about something or messing amongst ourselves or whatever; but Riku didn't respond to her. And I think that just made her fall a little deeper for him because…no one ever ignored Olette. Ever. She was such a nice person… never did anything to hurt anyone; was always looking on the Brightside. She had this weird infectious happy hyper-active energy. She made everyone smile… cheered everyone up… broke up any little argument; no matter how small… well anyway Riku didn't really care about that. He thought she was naïve and pathetic; so I told him he should get to know her before he said that kind of thing… I said it wasn't right to judge her like that without talking to her first; it was completely prejudice. He just laughed at me, saying I took everything too seriously. So I dropped it.

I had begun to ignore anything he said that pissed me off; I didn't want him to go… I wanted to hold on to him I guess… he was… he was the best friend I had. The oldest friend I had. So I avoided any and all conflict with him… but it felt like the more time that passed, the less I knew him. He was acting different… treating people different…

Anyway; after a while he started responding to Olette every now and again. And that was when he realised how much she cared about him. He said it could be fun to experiment with this discovery…okay I admit that this sounded a little weird to me but I thought he liked her; I honestly did… then when I asked him he just laughed at me; I never got a proper answer out of him about it.

When he asked her out I thought it was because he felt…well not the same; Olette was in love with him: that much was obvious… but I thought he felt something.

He had her running after him everywhere he went. She did basically everything he said; but he didn't really do anything for her at all… it was a little painful to watch… but I thought it was just their way of being a couple. But then you'd hear Riku dropping these little carefully disguised insults… he'd say this stuff to her and see what kind of effect it had on her; she started to get self-conscious… she wasn't the same hyper-happy girl that she had been at the start of middle school. Then when summer came she was spending more time around Riku then before and how he made her act became a little more clear to me … it was bad… really bad.

After hanging out with the two of them one day it started to really get to me. When she left I asked him what the hell he thought he was doing; he asked me what I meant. And I just…I dropped it again… I didn't know what to do… So it kept happening… I don't think many people really noticed though; I did hang out with them more then anyone else in the group so I guess it was understandable. And when Riku made his stupid little comments it wasn't that obvious what he meant or implied… but I could see Olette knew exactly what Riku was saying each and every time.

But she didn't tell him to shut up. She didn't tell him to fuck off. She didn't make him stop being such a prick. I don't think she could. She really loved him; even though he treated her like shit half the time she still hung on every word he said. And it was clear she was out of her depth. But I didn't know how to fish her out… and I didn't want to offend her or Riku. It would just make the situation worse…

Anyway… after a while some people picked up on it and some people started to talk about it… by then we were back in school. No one knew how to resolve it. Whatever we tried didn't work because we were trying to do things without them knowing it was us and this was pretty damn hard… and it ended up that the little things we did do were hardly noticeable to them anyway. It was frustrating. Selphie in particular got pissed off about it. She was Olette's closest friend who was a girl…I think she tried to get her to dump him; well whatever she did, Olette wouldn't talk to her for two weeks.

Then Riku started to ignore Olette every now and again, sometimes he'd just disappear. He'd go off with his group I guess…and Olette would try and find him… she'd call his cell but it would go straight to voice-mail. And then she'd freak-out at him when she eventually found him but he'd laugh at her and get her to calm down; and she'd be stuck to his side for the following few days. Riku thought her behaviour was hilarious… it really pissed me off.

Olette started to kinda remind me of how Riku had been when I wouldn't talk… she was… she seemed a little unstable or something without him… It was like an addiction.

Anyway… I was still trying to stay friends with Riku. I would never argue with him or anything. But when I really started to realise what the effect he was having on Olette could result in; I decided to go 'round to his place and talk him out of it. It was seriously destroying her. She was a different person around him. And when he wasn't there it seemed like she was counting down how long it would take for him to reappear.

When I got to Riku's and his mom let me in she said he already had some one with him… I nearly left. I thought it would probably be Olette. I asked if his girlfriend was with him and she said if it was that would explain a lot. I didn't really think anything of her comment at the time…

So I went up the stairs… I went down the hallway… Riku's door was kinda open… but I decided to knock anyway… and then, just as I raised my hand, I saw Riku and some girl I didn't recognise…they were…they were getting up close and personal shall we say…

I didn't know what to do. I froze. I don't know how long I stood there but I felt paralysed and I couldn't think straight.

And then I ran.

I ran down the hall; trying to get as far away from him as I could. I heard a door open and Riku called my name but I kept running. I felt sick. I didn't understand why Riku had turned so heartless. I still don't… but now I'm used to it… at the time it was a shock…

That night I couldn't get to sleep because I kept trying to decide what to do about it. Should I tell Olette? But she'd break down… or she'd do something stupid… Should I confront Riku? I didn't know what to say though… and I didn't want to have to look at him; at the moment the thought of him left me kind of nauseous. Should I tell the rest of the group? No they'd get pissed off; none of them liked Riku… they'd do something bad… something that they'd regret.

So I did what I seemed to be best at back then; nothing.

The next day I barely said a word to anyone. I didn't know how to act. I tried to pretend nothing had happened… but I was barely talking and people realised something was up pretty easy. At lunch they asked what was wrong; I just shook my head and said nothing. They persisted so I left before I said something idiotic…

But then Riku cornered me. I tried to get away; I didn't want to see him. But he just grabbed my back and spun me around to face him… I asked him what he was playing at; how could he do what he was doing…how could he destroy Olette like that after all this time. It had been about two years since they started going out at this point. He just stared at me for a while and then he smiled at me like I was an idiot. It was totally patronising. Then he told me it didn't mean anything; sometimes he needed a break from Olette… she was suffocating him. I asked why he didn't break-up with her then. He said she was amusing; in a pathetic kind of way. Said it was funny. Asked why I was being such a little bitch about it; it was none of my business anyway.

So I decked him; broke his nose right there in the hallway:

Needless to say I was suspended.

And this is where everything gets a little foggy. I wasn't around so everything happening in school was a mystery. But something happened anyway; something big, and something bad… And whatever it was it resulted in Olette finding out about…Riku's extra curricular activities. Even the people who were around at the time don't know what happened. But after school Olette had something like a break-down.

That much's for sure 'cause she phoned Selphie; she was in hysterics, Selphie couldn't make half of what she was saying out… but Olette had clearly shrieked something about Riku and some other girl down the line. Selphie tried to get her to calm down; she said she'd come 'round to Olette's place… but when she got there Olette was gone.

No one knew where she went… no one could find her… Selphie got us all out looking for her… We went 'round to Riku's… well I went 'round to Riku's… but Riku wouldn't say anything about what had happened but that Olette had gone and he'd been in his house ever since; I could ask his mom.

Which I did; because at this point I didn't know what to believe.

But his mom said that some girl had showed up drunk and had started yelling abuse at Riku; so she'd shown her out.

It was getting worse by the minute. Olette was missing and she was drunk and we all knew something bad would happen if we didn't find her. She was still missing that night. And the next morning… and then….

And then by noon someone found her… She was at our spot; down this alleyway in town… whoever found her called the paramedics…but it was too late. She'd over-dosed on painkillers…

She was dead.

At the funeral; Riku acted the part. He looked completely devastated. I felt … sorry for him… I thought he'd realised what he'd done… but it was just an act. A week later he had a girlfriend. The girl I'd seen him cheating on Olette with; Fuu. I was disgusted by him… and ever since it's been like a war between us. Every single person in our group has a personal stake against him… it's not some stupid gangland turf war. It's like a feud.

A blood feud against him for what he… for what he… did to Olette.

OH MY GOD!!!! so where WAS Olette the night before she died? What was going on behiend the scences? WHAT would make Riku do such a thing? Is all really what it seems? R&R

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