Hikari by Gaki

Spoiler laden for those who haven't passed the game yet. Will have elements of slight shounen ai but that can be easily looked over as friendshipness. Riku angst because I adore the boy. Comments and suchness is welcomed with open arms. Flames? I'll bring out the mashimarou. The song is Hikari by Utada Hikaru or in English Simple and Clean.

Unruly brown pointing out in all directions, his hair never did listen to the brushings they would put it through. Large blue eyes taking up most of the space on a round innocent trusting face, he really did look comical if one looked at him long enough. But at that point in time, the face he was so familiar with looked anything but innocent. The look on his face was more defined as determined. Yes, that was it.

He was determined. Ready to defeat the Heartless and to finally close the one door that would end it all. The one door that would bring peace to countless worlds.

The door that would seal him forever.

As he continued to look at that face, even while pulling against the door itself, he pondered if he ever was as determined as he was. So set in his ways that he would not be sidetracked by more compelling things. That he would not lose heart of what he wanted.

He had failed them, he knew. He had failed the two people he'd promised to protect. He'd surrendered himself over to something he thought would help him, only to realize too late that he was being used.

They were talking, he finally noticed. Not only that, they were looking behind him. Turning around, he found himself looking at a silhouette of a mouse holding up what seemed to be a key blade.

"Don't worry, Sora! We'll close it." The mouse looked over its shoulder and smiled at them.

Realizing what the mouse intended to do, he found himself smiling as well as he turned back to face his childhood friend.

Friend. Someone who he had played with, laughed with, told jokes with and battled around with.

Friend. Someone he cared about.

Someone he would never be able to see again because he had given up his heart.

Taking a long look into those big blue eyes, he smiled again as Sora looked at him expectedly. As if he was waiting for him to walk through the door and join him on the other side.

If only.

With the same smile on his face, he said the one thing he knew Sora could do that he had failed.

"Take good care of her."

The look that crossed Sora's face was one of surprised. Then that quickly changed and he nodded at him.

As the door slowly closed, he found himself unable to look away. He didn't want to look away. He wanted to remember that face. The face that would pout whenever he was teased or beated in a game. The face that would so easily smile and joke around with him.

Wild brown hair and wide blue eyes. He will always remember this face. Will always remember the times they had together in Destiny Island. The innocent times before the Heartless changed everything. Changed them.

Those wild brown locks and wide blue eyes will help him remember his heart. He will never forget him, that he vowed.

Because if he did, then he really would lose his entire heart to the Heartless. And that wasn't something he was willing to give up without a fight.

A shadow loomed over him and he turned around slowly. A sudden realization crossed his mind as he stared up at the Heartless before him.

He hadn't said he was sorry.

No matter how well we`re doing,
I don`t believe in us completely.
But at those sorts of times,
Because you're by my side,
The light known as "you" finds me,
In the middle of the night