Chapter 11: In your arms.
My eyes shot open but my vision didn't come back right away. I felt my head was on something soft…and squishy. I looked around and saw the roof I had fallen off of…Well it wasn't that far…Maybe like a 2 meter drop. I looked down to what I have fallen on. It turned out to be who I fell on…I yelped as I saw the black cloak. Those bastards cannot leave me alone.
I jumped up and looked around. On the ground along with me were a couple of people. There was that boy from earlier…and that girl from earlier. There was a duck and…I don't even know what the hell that is…Maybe a cow? I stared at the black cloak guy…but once he moved I screamed. Everyone woke up and looked at me. I began to run the other way but someone very familiar stopped me.
"M-Mickey…" I said as he outstretched his arms.
"I'm glad you are alive Katsuna…However, I wish we did not meet again in such a horrible place. I see you have run into the Organization 13 I've warned you about." Mickey said as I looked back to the black cloaked guy.
"Mickey are you blind! There is one standing right there! Move! They are trying to kill me!" I yelled as he didn't move an inch.
"Katsuna, calm down."
"Calm down! Calm down! Oh don't even say calm down! I got dragged away from seeing Riku again to this place! Then I was dragged- by my hair I might add- to that roof up there! They were…you know about to kill me but the guy left. And then an explosion happened and I fell on top of the very guy who is trying to kill me!"
"Katsuna…it's not the same guy-"
"Mickey I don't want to hear it! Move before that guy kills me!"
"…Katsuna! Trust me and turn around."
"…I told you that I need to run."
"Trust me."
I lightly turned around and my eyes widened. I saw that boy helping up the guy in the black cloak. The girl looked at me, with surprise in her eyes. But my eyes locked on to the guy…He had long silver hair and wore a black cloth over his eyes.
"R-R…Riku." My voice whispered as Mickey smiled.
"See…You're safe Katsuna…No one will hurt you anymore…" Mickey replied as I continued to watch Riku.
"Riku, you going to take that off?" The boy asked as Riku turned to him.
"Oh…" Riku sighed as he pulled the cloth off of his eyes and opened them.
"What was that?"
"His eyes, couldn't lie." Mickey joined in moving in front of me and towards Riku.
Riku blinked his eyes and looked at Mickey. He smiled at his little best friend but he didn't find me…I was sad…But I continued to watch. Even though I wanted to say something. I couldn't. All I could do was stare at him and have a couple of tears come down my face.
"Lie? And just who were you trying to fool? Huh? Huhhh?" the boy asked as I figured that he must be this Sora.
"Myself." Riku sadly replied.
"Riku…Come on man. Why did you try to do so much on your own?" He began as he ran over to the group of people. "You've got friends…Like us."
Riku went up to this Sora and smiled. He was home…with his light. I wiped away my tears and watched him. It slowly began to sink into me…I wasn't needed anymore. He had friends. Friends that he cared about and loved. Here I am…just screwing it all up. All I ever did was try to chase him…when he obliviously didn't want to be found. Even though I came to this sad revelation…I was happy. For Riku. His light was back. You can finally be happy, Riku.
"Have you forgotten?" Riku began as I turned away from the group. "I'll tell you why. Because I'm not a total sap like you."
"Say that again." Sora joked as I began to walk up the ramp, heading anywhere.
"…Riku." Mickey began as I tried to ignore their voices.
"What is it, Mickey?" Riku asked as I heard Mickey's footsteps come closer to me. "K-Katsuna."
"What! Katsuna!"
I heard Riku's footsteps come closer to the ramp. I heard him gasp at my sight. I wanted to turn around…I wanted to smile at him and hug him. I wanted to yell at him for leaving me alone…But I wasn't needed. I had the silly impression that I was his light…But I was wrong. His friends are his light. They kept him going for so long. Not me…I was just there to help…I gotten into all of this mess…and now I think it's time I stopped messing it up.
"K-Katsuna." Riku gasped as I tried to take another step.
My foot wouldn't move. My body wouldn't move. My brain told my limbs to move but they refused. They didn't want to move. No, they followed my heart. My heart was telling them to turn to Riku. But I just didn't know what to do anymore. My body froze.
"Katsuna…it's you isn't it?" Riku began. "Are you alright?"
"I'm just fine." I yelled as tears streamed down my face now.
"Where are you going, Katsuna? Isn't he the reason you left your kingdom?" Mickey asked as I turned around.
"M-Mickey…I…don't have a reason anymore…" I began as his smiled faded. "I…Just don't know anymore…I think I…I left…but my reason was wrong."
"How can it be wrong? You were following your heart…"
"My heart tells me a lot of things…B…But I don't know what to do anymore."
I tried to wipe away my tears but they wouldn't stop coming. No matter what I tried, they wouldn't leave me alone. My body moved a step closer to them without my consent. I wanted him to hold me…I wanted him to love me but was I asking for too much. His heart is already filled with love…for others…
"Don't be silly, Katsuna." Mickey smiled. "Do what your heart wants. If you follow your heart nothing will go wrong."
"I-Is…that…what I'm supposed to do?" I asked
"Yes."
My body lost it and I just did what Mickey said. I went up to Riku and lightly slapped him on the face. Everyone gasped at my reaction…but this is what my heart was telling me to do. Let it all out. Let everything I have ever felt out.
"Do you know what you did to me!" I yelled as his eyes found mine. "Well, I'll tell you! I cried when you left me. Both of you! I thought that for once I had a chance at a light…but you guys just packed up your things and left. I was destroyed. The only things I had to call friends and they were gone just like that. So I found a spell that allows me to open portals. And I began to jump from world to world. Sure I made friends along the way but I never found you! The only person I found was Mickey! And-no offense Mickey- But I wanted to find you not him! Then I got kidnapped when you were 10 steps away from me. I wounded up here where they pulled me by my hair and tried to kill me. Then I finally found you and you know what! It looks like you didn't need me at all.
At first I thought that I was a friend you could depend on. Someone you could think of as a light. That was then and this is now. Because I don't feel that now! I feel like without me, you already had a light! In fact, you didn't need me because your light is right there. But it was all selfishness on my part. I left because I needed you both. But now that I'm here…standing two feet in front of you…all I want to do is scream and yell! I don't feel…like either of you…n-need…me as a friend anymore…I don't think you…want…me…" I finished sobbing like a baby.
"K-Katsuna…" Riku tried to say something but it looked like it was too hard for him to say, especially in front of his friends.
"Who is this girl, Riku?" Sora's voice asked as the girl shut his mouth.
"Not now, Sora! Can't you see they need time alone?" The girl told Sora off as Riku just lightly smiled at his friends.
I continued to cry, not really sure of what else I would be able to do. Suddenly, to surprise us all, Riku took another step closer to me and pulled me in for a hug. My heart began to pound, making my throat feel like it was closing up. He lightly put a hand onto my hair, which was still hurting, and pushed my face into his chest.
"I'm sorry Katsuna." He muttered, "I wouldn't have left you if it wasn't for a good reason. It was Sora, he needed my help. I know I should have told you and I am sorry that I didn't. I'm sorry I made you search for me and that you ended getting caught because of it." He paused as I felt sad, realizing he wasn't saying anything about needing me, "Don't be silly…Of course you are a part of my light. Of course I need you; you were able to make me feel like it was okay to be their friend again. You gave me hope like no other. So don't say that I don't need you because I do. I need you more than you'll ever know."
"R-Riku…" I muttered back as I looked up at him. His cheeks were flushed pure red and his eyes looked away. It was obvious he never done this before. He never told anyone his feelings before. He held out his bracelet, the one I made for him to show me.
"See?" He whispered, "I even wore this…to try to show me the light you gave me."
I lightly smiled as I saw the bracelet. I absorbed every single second that he held me. I had always wanted him to hold me like this and to finally get it, means everything to me. Riku, I loved him and now I was finally able to show him how I felt. Just for this moment, I wanted time to stop, to freeze.
"Oh, Katsuna…" Riku lightly put something cold around my neck, "This is yours."
"My mother's necklace?" I smiled as I held the pendant in my hand, "Thank you, Riku."
"Aw, gwarsh guys." Mickey chuckled as Riku let me go and I wiped away any remaining tears, "It's so good to have you both back together."
"Yea…" I smiled as Riku lightly nodded.
"Riku!" Sora yelled as he ran up beside Riku, continuously looking between the both of us, "Who is this girl?"
"And why does the organization want her dead?" The other girl chimed in.
"This is Katsuna; Katsuna this is Sora, Kairi, Donald and Goofy." Riku introduced us as I smiled and bowed my head to them.
"It's a pleasure to meet you all." I began as I looked down, "As to your other question, Kairi, I am the key to opening Kingdom Hearts. That is why, they want my heart. And before you ask, no its not only the 7 princess's hearts that are needed to open Kingdom Hearts."
"Is this true?" Sora asked Riku as he nodded.
"Sure is." Mickey spoke out as everyone turned to him, "I tried to find more about her and eventually came across some of Ansem's notes…He mentioned that there was another key but he had no idea what it was."
"Well, here I am." I smiled even though I hated being the key.
"We should get going, we have to defeat Xmenas before he tries to do anything else to destroy this world!" Riku said as everyone began to run past us and up the ramps to where Xmenas would be. Instead of going Riku turned to me and held my arms, "You should go, before Xmenas has a chance to get you. If you leave now that will-"
"I don't want to go…I don't want to leave you. And besides if I do go, once they find me, because you know they will, I will be unprotected. At least here I have you." I told Riku as he looked down.
"Okay, just don't die on me." Riku finished as we followed everyone else, to have our final battle.
