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Riku and Mai

Twenty five

Light was her real friend. Although darkness continued to come back light always came in the end.

Mai blinked her eyes a couple of times, her eyes adjusted slowly.

Looking around she saw a man in green next to her.

She jumped up but the green man was gone. "Doki," she said.

"Yes?"

His voice came from behind. Mai turned around and he was next to the window. She looked and he was there. Mai was still in her bed at the time. She couldn't summon her blade though. She wondered what was wrong as fear ran through her head. "Is this a dream?"

Doki continued to stare out the window. "Why do you refuse to come back to Heart Haven?"

"I don't know what you're talking about," Mai said. She pushed the covers away.

"Princess, why? Why do you lie? I know you know what I'm talking about."

Mai frowned. "Listen, Doki, if you want me so badly why not just drag me off?" Mai's voice was filled with anger.

"I can't do that!" he yelled, he turned and faced her with rage filled in his green eyes. "I can't take anyone to Heart Haven unless they go willingly or if I am controlling your body, you know that! You know all the rules! All the laws! So why are you acting so stupid?!" Mai backed down; fear filled her, no longer anger. He sighed. "Why do you want to play this game? Just come home, the King would be happy to see you, you know," his smile was a lie.

"I don't want to go anywhere with you!" Mai yelled back still in fear.

"And if you don't come with me you're going to be tormented until you die," Doki said.

"Then kill me! I'm not going anywhere with you!"

Doki's eyes shined a brighter green. He started to glow and then he attacked her.

Screams.

"Mai, Mai, it's alright!" a soft hand touched her shoulder. She was awake now. It was… all a dream.

"Tifa?" Mai held her side, it was still in pain. She looked around. Where was she?

"Mai, it's good to see you," Tifa handed her a cup of water.

Mai slowly took the cup and drunk from it. "Where's Riku?" she looked to the bed next to hers. No one was in it. Not even Axel. Mai didn't think she had to explain what happened. Cloud most likely told her.

"He's in the back room down stairs but I don't think you want to see him right now." Tifa's words didn't reach Mai by the time she was running down the stairs. Mai saw them through the cracked door. They were chained and gagged. Riku was on one side of the room while Axel was on the other.

'Axel?' Mai said. Axel looked up, he had been sleeping. 'Axel can you hear me?'

'Yeah, although it's hard to think with this headache,' he replied in his thoughts.

'Axel what happened? Why did Riku attack you?'

'He thought I hurt you when he saw the blood on my hands, he didn't give me a chance to explain.' Axel tried his best to explain but he stopped every few seconds to try and ignore the pain.

'But why are you tied up?'

'Riku keeps trying to insult me and he continued to argue with everyone, so Mickey had him silenced with tape.'

'But why are you tied up?' Mai asked again.

Axel laughed in his mind. 'Because of my cockiness, I teased him and they taped my mouth too,' Axel answered. Mai rolled her eyes, of course, Axel would gloat about a battle he won, but because of his cockiness he lost the war. Mai rolled her eyes. But looking at Riku his hands were tied behind his back, behind the chair. Including his legs, the chair was also tied back. Mai could tell that Riku didn't give up easily after Cloud came in to try and stopped him. Riku had his head down, he must have been sleeping, and he was breathing slowly. Either that or he was still upset.

"We couldn't use rope, Riku kept breaking through it," Cloud said, he was behind Mai, he was leaning on the wall. "Are you feeling better?" he walked up to her side.

"Yes, much better, how long have they been like this?"

"We tied them to these chairs last night, when you guys first got here, but he had the tied ever since we knocked Riku out. And that wasn't as easy as it sounded." Cloud joked but he was quite serious. Mai knew that Riku would have to attacked from behind to knocked unconscious; he was too stubborn to just go down and accept defeat. Cloud opened the door and walked in. Axel looked at Cloud, and Riku was still hunched over in his chair. Cloud bent down and pulled the tape off. Riku barely winced in pain. He remained hunched over and head hanging. "Now play nice you have a visitor," Cloud joked but once again his joke was dry and serious.

"Riku…" Mai walked in the room and went to Riku. "Riku?" He didn't look up. He had his eyes closed. Maybe he was sleeping. Mai called him once more and he still didn't answer. Mai lowered her eyes. Then she sunk to the floor and looked up into his eyes. "Riku?" she said softly. She tried to get his attention by tapping his knee lightly. He still didn't answer. "Riku?" she called and he just moved his head a little.

"Mai?" he said, his voice was low. She went to kiss him but he turned his head away.

"Riku? Are you okay?" she ignored it, he must have been upset.

"No," he answered. "I want to know what happened." He said loudly in his whisper. "I can't forgive that bast…."

"Riku, I was shot by that long silver haired guy, I wasn't hurt by Axel." Mai could see what Axel was talking about. She had never seen him so upset, he was calling Axel names. Mai lowered her eyes without moving her head and sighed. "Riku's there's nothing to worry about. I'm fine, so please…" she touched the side of his face but he didn't look into her eyes. Riku stared pass her and looked at Axel with anger engraved in his eyes. "Riku, stop!" Mai said still in a whisper. She pulled his face toward hers. "Listen, don't let this break me, just let it go, he didn't hurt me, I promise you that. He didn't hurt me," Mai tried to reassure him. "He didn't… okay?"

Riku's eyes were less tense now, they were more relaxed. They were calm and shamed. "I'm sorry," he said. Finally there was no anger in his voice. He looked down, "You're probably wondering why I'm tied down, aren't you? It's a long and almost embarrassing story," he chuckled.

"I already know, Riku, if you promise to let it go Cloud will take you and Axel out of the chairs."

Riku chuckled. "I don't want Axel near you, that's the second reason why I'm still in these chains."

"Why is that funny, from what I remember you were trying to kill him."

Riku looked up, he smiled in shame. "You remember, huh?"

Mai stood, "Riku, I'll see if I can get Cloud to take your chains off, I hate seeing you like this."

Riku sat back in his chair and tried to get comfortable, but the chains made it hard for him to be so. "Alright." He said. "Hey, Axel! I'll forget about you did, and I'll get back to you later, alright?"

Axel nodded. Mai went over and pulled off the tape. He winced in pain. "Ouch, that hurt!" he said.

"Sorry," Mai said. She threw the tape away.

"So, what do you say, Axel? Call it even?"

Axel nodded, "Sure," Axel said.

"Okay, good work Mai you got them to make up," Tifa appeared through the door. "I can't tell you how hard it was to keep them quiet." She giggled.

"I can't imagine," Mai lied. She knew Riku couldn't, wouldn't be easy to stop. "Can you take their chains off now?" she hated to see Riku like this, Axel, she could say, the chains looked nice on him.

"Sure, I'll get those chains off in a jiffy."

"Good," Mai said.

Taking their chains off, Riku wrapped his hands around his wrist and rubbed them. He hadn't seen his hands in over twelve hours. He could feel the blood going through them again. Riku looked at Axel and stepped forward. Mai held him back, "You said you'd behave," she said.

"I'm not going to do anything," Riku said. He looked down and glared Axel in the eye. "Don't come near her again." He whispered in Axel's hear. He smiled and walked away. Mai followed.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing, I just…"

"You threatened him didn't you?"

"Just a little," he answered with a grin.

"Riku!"

"What?" he asked jokily

"I didn't want you to…" Riku kissed her. "To…" she couldn't finish her words.

"Calm down, I promised I'd do nothing to him, didn't I?" he held her face in his hands. He grinned and looked around. No one was watching. He didn't want the others to know yet, if they found out in a way he wasn't comfortable with he'd be teased for sure. He looked at her again. She was still a little dazed. "Are you okay?" he chuckled.

She nodded.

"Good," he kissed once more and headed upstairs. Mai followed. She wanted to know what he was going to do. Watching him he went to the window, he opened the window and stared outside. Mai narrowed her eyes in confusion. What was he doing? 'Please don't jump out of the window!' she begged. She didn't want him t o get hurt, even though she knew he jump from a five story window and walk away like it was nothing, she still didn't want him to do it.

Riku instead closed the windows after a minute.

"Doesn't it feel odd?" he asked.

"What?" Mai walked closer to him.

"That we love each other?"

"No, why?"

"Because… when I first kissed you it felt so familiar, the second time it felt like the first and that one time on New Years, was like it happened before."

Mai looked out the window. It did feel like it happened before… it felt like they met before, kissed before, and made love before. It did feel familiar. Mai smiled and lied. "It doesn't feel odd to me."

"That's because you're extremely odd!" he teased poking her forehead. He grinned, he was happy to be out of that room. Mickey came up stairs. He smiled at Riku nervously. He was uneasy still, about Riku losing it like that. Mickey had never seen him so out of character before, Mai would have been uneasy but she loved him too much to worry about it. Riku turned and greeted him. Sitting on the bed Riku and the King talked. Mai joined it, it concerned her as well since she had a Keyblade.

They talked for a while. But not long did the talking end. This was done by Riku. Riku grew tired of talking about Heartless; he stood and looked out the window again. Mickey then asked Mai to leave. Mai didn't want to leave, but she did. Mickey closed the door behind her and she was alone in the hall.

"Mai, I… I need to talk to you," Axel appeared, he was half way up the steps. Mai nodded and followed him. Axel held her to the back room. He closed the door and turned to her. He had sad look on his face; he lowered his head and shook it side to side, as if saying no to something in his head. He sniffed. He paced the floor and didn't speak for a long while. "Mai, I didn't want to tell you this now but… over the pass few months… I've been helping you… and I…" he seemed scare. Sweat started to rain from his brow. "I… can't… help you any more."

Mai was in shock. She closed her eyes in disbelief and put her hand to her heart. She had a feeling he was going to tell her something about Doki going to kill him, or something like that. She lifted her head and looked at his green eyes, he was on the other side of the room now he had his for arm pressed against the wall, and he was slamming the other hand into the wall softly. At this point she didn't want to read his mind to learn the rest. "Why not?" she asked softly, she was crying as well. Axel turned to her, he walked up to her, "Why not," she asked again, "Why not?" she cried, she needed him, if he was gone who would help her understand who she was? She looked up into his eyes. "Tell me why!"

Axel wasn't sweating any more, seeing her in pain made him almost at ease about what he was going to say. He pushed Mai up the wall and had his hand pressed against the wall beside her. He leaned in close, "I… I love you," he pulled her in and kissed her. When he finished he then added. "I shouldn't feel this way. But I do, I can't help you any more because I'll be putting you in harms way, I won't let Doki have you." He dropped his arms and stepped back.

Mai cupped her hand around her mouth. She was still in awe. Axel was in love with her? But… he was a Nobody, he couldn't love, or hate, or feel any emotion. More tears ran down her face. "What… are you going to do?" she asked. Her words rambled from the kiss.

He looked at her, "I'm going to risk my life for yours, I'm going to kill Doki," he answered.

"Axel… no," she whispered.

"Mai, I love you too much to let you tell me no, I'm going to protect you with my life, there's nothing you can do to stop me," he grinned.

Mai couldn't believe him. 'No!' she cried in her thoughts. 'Don't leave me! You're the only person who's help understand who I am, don't leave me now!' she couldn't speak any more.

"Mai, I love you, and Doki wants nothing more than to harm you, I'm going to stop him even if it means my life," he said softly. He waved and opened this black hole. "See ya doll!"

Mai went to pulled him away from the black hole but he was gone. She sunk to the floor, Axel was going to kill himself, and she couldn't stop him.

"How lovely." Doki said, "Axel's going to try and stop me, I could use that, Riku already has hate for Axel, all have to do is put anger and jealousy in him. That should be enough…" Doki looked around. "He saw the kiss! But heard nothing I see, thank goodness, if he heard any thing this plan would be useless. But that's all I need, that kiss, I can bend it to my control, he'll attack Axel, Mai will see what kind of monster he was… is. My plan, my perfect plan will make her want to come back." Doki laughed. In his hiding spot he watched as Riku broke what he could. Riku stopped suddenly and slid the floor. He tilted his head up and closed his eyes.

Doki smiled, his plan would work, and it would send the girl crying to him. Then he'd take her back home. To Heart Haven or by human tongue Kingdom Hearts.

But then something hit Doki. He saw Riku's frown of rejection and sadness turn into a grin. What was he thinking about?! Doki couldn't tell, this Keyblade wielder could block him now so Doki couldn't read his thoughts. But Riku stood, he didn't seem upset any more. What was going on? Doki would have to wait and see.

A/N: what does Doki plan to do? He uses his head only when he's calm, but when he's upset... "What's thinking?" Doki has many plans up his sleeves, we can only wait to see what he's going to do.

Next update will be soon!