Mamoite Ageru: I'll Protect You

Chapter Three

By BlueRaven

Rating PG-13

Pairing: Riku X Sora

WARNING: may have violence in later chapters. SHOUNEN-AI/YAOI story, (SLASH, for all ye dummies out there) don't like, don't read.

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, lucky Squaresoft (soon to be Enix Square) and Disney does. Wish I worked there...

A/N: You just have to agree that 'Simple and Clean' by Utada Hikaru, just screams "Riku loves Sora, but Sora loves Kairi!" I know I'm stupid, but hey I /am/ a Yaoi-Hentai-Freak ^.^. Kairi should die!! *gets a shoe in her head* OW... what was that for?? *Gets another shoe in the head* Okay, now I know... Kairi-fans... hmm.

Riku will be fine... I hope... you never know where the EPB might run. I'll just tag along... ^.^;;

Oh and I've been reading alot of the KH stories here (mostly those with yaoi/Shounen-ai) and an awful lot of people tends to shift from KH's Universe to the world of FF7 ^.^. it's cool ^__^V. Wouldn't it be cool with a remake of FF7?? So that you could see that game with the same gorgeous looking CG as in KH? ^.^

Thank you all who've reviewed... Dyslexia you need to update and Uzumaki I love your story!!

Anyway...

Enjoy Chapter 3!!

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"Hey! Boy, wake up!" is there someone calling me? Is it me he's calling?

"Uhh..." I hear myself moan in pain. Damn it hurts, and my head's swimming. Ow... what really did happen, and who's the man calling me?"

"Open your eyes, kid. Are you Okay?" he asks me that!? I don't know, am I? Okay so I'll open my eyes... Ghe... I winch as the light flood into my eyes, damn bright light (a/n: wee 'The Gremlings' ^.^)! The fussy shapes soon come into focus as I blink, and they turn into a... A man!? Only centimetres away!?

"WAAH!!!" He squints back and rub his ears disapprovingly.

"...oh, shut up..." he murmurs with an irritated voice. Sorry...

"I'm sorry..." I say and sit up slowly not to make my dizziness worse, "I just got scared that's all..." I look at him, he has really weird looking blue eyes, blond spiky hair and his right hand is... a claw..? I recognise this man... I've seen, or perhaps, heard of him before. He's regarding me rather coldly. His face stoic, emotionless.

"Who are you?" I ask him, he blinks and nod, he's sitting beside me, his left hand on his knee and his right clawed one on the floor, which is supporting him, Gosh he /do/ look good...

"My name's Cloud Strife." He answer with as stoic a voice as his face. Hmm... Cloud, where have I heard that before? Cloud... Cloud... Hades... Coliseum... Yes that's it, Cloud fought Sora at the Coliseum! But... how come I'm here with him? In this... um... room or whatever?

"You have been out cold for a week, since we found you that is. We don't know how long before that..." now who's this? A girl?

"That is right. Riku do you know what happened to Sora?" Okay now who's /this/? There is now standing three more behind Cloud, all looking at me as if they knew me, but I've never seen them before! One is a girl, about my age, she's got short black/brown hair, dark brown eyes and very skimpy clothes, the other two are male, one's an old cigarette smoking man... Maybe not /that/ old but still older then the others... he got blond hair, blue eyes and weird looking clothes... Didn't I see him in Traverse Town? The last one is a young man... around his twenties, I guess, he's got ice blue eyes and brown hair, with dark clothes on. I've seen him too, I think...

"Um... How do you know my name?" I have to know, did I do something to them when Ansem had control over my body? Oh please, let me not have!

"We know Sora, and we come from Hollow Bastion. We've all seen you before, but you will never remember, because you weren't /you/." The brown haired man answer and I stare at him, dumbfounded. He's the first one to say it's not /my/ fault, but Ansem's. I can't help but to feel really happy for it.

"Um, okay... Thank you..." I say, I want him to know that he made me feel... well, Happy.

"You're welcome... My name is Leon... I met Sora in Traverse Town. He spoke of you..." Oh I see... so /you're/ Leon that Sora spoke of so fondly, then I know...(a/n: hint, hint, Sora had a thing with Squall ^.^ *sniggers evilly*) But that doesn't explain why I'm... wherever I am.

"Who are you others and what happened? Why am I not home with Sora..? Oh! Sora!! What happened to him?" I cry, god where am I and why did they ask me about Sora!?

"I am Yuffie Kisarigi and this old man's Cid Highwind, that's Cloud beside you, as he said. And this," she turns to Leon and points at him with a grin on her face, it doesn't really reach her eyes. "is Squall Leonheart, he's just being an idiot!" she say cheerily and I see Squall, or whatever, shoot her a death stare.

"Shout yer trap Brat, let me." The man named Cid shoots at that Yuffie girl. He turn to me. Looking really gruff... what's up with him, I glance over at Could, who's still sitting beside me, he's as calm as before. I hear a loud clearing of someone's throat and I guess Cid wants my attention back.

"Anyway..." he begins as I look up at him, "Two weeks ago our world was destroyed by someone you know very well, and we are the only ones that escaped with our lives..." he glance over at Cloud and I do too... His left hand is clenched over his knee and his eyes are shut tightly. He must have lost someone close...

"We tried to go to some of the other worlds but they're simply not there... We figured that we go to your world as we heard you and Sora just returned home. We figured the Key Master could help us. But we only found a ruined world and... you. We were about to leave when your Sora appeared. He looked awful, so different from the cheery kid I knew, he told us to take you far away so he couldn't find you because of the darkness in his heart. 'I'm ill,' he said, 'And I can't control it... I'm sorry for your worlds... I'm so sorry...' And he disappeared. We did as he bid and took you with us and fled... and here we are... This is my Gummi Ship, the Highwind II. She's the fastest ship around..." I stop listening to him as all I can hear in my head is, "Sora's evil... He can't control it!" over and over.

I feel tears in my eyes and on my cheeks, this can't be happening! Sora, why!? I rise my hands to my face and bury it n them, crying loudly. I let out all I feel, miserable, abandoned, sad and worried. Damn it! Why!? WHY!?

"Sora!!" I cry out and begin to tremble, I feel a hand on my shoulder... who? I look up and through my tears I can see it's Cloud... before I can stop myself, I'm crying into his chest, sobbing loudly.

"Hush kid, I know he's fine, we just have to help him, like he helped you..." Like he helped me..? this is all my fault! If it wasn't for me this would never have happened! Almost as if he knew, Cloud whisper to me, "I know how you feel, but it was not your choice but his own, don't blame yourself." I gently push myself away from Cloud and dries my tears. He's right, I can't blame myself if I want to help Sora... But can I do this alone? Will they help?

"Will you help me?" I ask and look at Cloud then up at Squall and the others. Will they? Squall nods without saying anything and Yuffie smiles at me, nodding hard. They will!

"We owe Sora much... he gave us our home back and sealed the Hearts of many other worlds as well. I will come with you. " Cloud say in his calm, quiet voice. He is so kind to me even though I nearly destroyed all their worlds... or rather, Ansem in my body, did.

So it's decided then... We will help Sora!

To Be Continued...

Hm... o.O EPB changed colour into red and started running in all directions O_o;; I guess it has a Limit Break ^.^;; Anyway, next chapter will move over to third person okidoki ^.^. Oh and tell me if you want a chapter more between two and three to explain what has happened because that story will not surface for a while.

Until next chapter then...

~/BlueRaven\~