Bound By Darkness

Warnings: Angst, Riku-Abuse, Violence, Sora + Riku, slight fluff, Dark, Ansem X Riku, Yaoi, Bondage, and Torture.

Summary: After Riku let the darkness take him from Destiny Island, what happened to him? While Sora went on his quest, what was happening to Riku, Why did he end up with Malificent, what shattered his heart, what was the deal he made with Ansem and why doesn't he remember it? This is Riku's side of Kingdom Hearts and it isn't pretty. It's an attempt to explain what could have happened to him that made him give into the darkness of his heart.

Categories: Action, Adventure, Angst, Drama,

Author: Nyxe

Author's Note*: Riku may belong to Ansem now but he's not gonna make it easy, however, Ansem does enjoy a good challenge.

Disclaimer: I own nothing from Kingdom Hearts except my own copy of the game, which I play all the time ^_^

Important Notes***

'Ansem' refers to Riku while Ansem possessed his body until stated otherwise.

Italics are Riku's thoughts from within the darkness.

Chapter 10: Unwilling Slave

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Riku hung limply in the iron chains; he had exhausted himself with previous struggles and was now concentrating on the window like vortex that hung before him. Through it, Riku could see all that Ansem could see but he was powerless to do anything about it. Ansem had imprisoned Riku in the dark depths of chaos but not without stealing his likeness. As long as Riku remained bound to Ansem's seal, Ansem was free to use the boy's powers and physical body in whatever way he chose. Ansem stepped in front of a mirror, allowing Riku to see what the madman had done. Riku's jaw dropped at the smirking image before him that had stolen his face. It was like looking in a mirror and seeing your evil twin. It was Riku's face but not his expressions, those smirks, leers, and frightening eyes were Ansem's contribution, along with the new attire.

"Impressive, isn't it?" remarked Ansem as he starred back at Riku through the window, "In my studies, I learned many things about the heartless as well as how to utilize dark energy. Not only have I sealed you in my darkness, I have also claimed your physical flesh as it appears in this dimension in order to give me a way back into this world. For now, your body will have to do but I will eventually be able to regain my own form and be, in a sense, reborn thanks to you."

Riku didn't quite understand but he managed to glare at Ansem with anger and wrath.

"Don't even think of laying so much as a finger on Sora or Kairi!" yelled Riku.

"Hmph, you think that you can order me around do you?" remarked Ansem, an eyebrow arching in mild amusement. Riku suddenly felt the chains around his body tighten and coil against his skin. Black cords of darkness wove around his body and slithered along various crevices the boy would rather not have touched.

"Ansem! Stop it! What are you doing?" yelled Riku.

"Just a warning my dearest, you really should be more respectful least you be taught better manners," warned Ansem as the bindings on Riku withdrew their assault.

Riku watched as Ansem summoned up some dark energy that manifested into what appeared to be a rather deadly looking keyblade.

"Is that?" asked Riku.

"Close, it is of my own construction. I developed it long ago when I was studying the heartless. It is a keyblade that unlocks people's hearts and unleashes the darkness within. However, I needed a lot of energy to summon it and thanks to you, I've attained it at last," explained Ansem.

Riku cried out in anger at Ansem's mocking but Ansem ignored him and went back to what he had originally set out to do. Ansem stepped through a portal and confronted a wounded Malificent. Riku couldn't help but think to himself how much Sora had improved.

"Do you need some help?" asked Ansem. Riku cringed upon hearing Ansem's voice. It was Ansem's voice however it was using Riku's vocal cords and therefore it came out as a haunting mixture of the two.

"Riku!" came a cry from Sora as he suddenly arrived from nowhere.

"No Sora! Go back! It isn't me in there!" cried Riku, his heart beating fast at the sight of his friend who he now longed to be with more than anything.

"Is that?" asked Donald pointing to the weapon wielded by Ansem.

"Yes, a keyblade," answered Ansem, "But unlike yours, this keyblade holds the power to unlock people's hearts. Allow me to demonstrate. Behold!" Ansem turned and thrust the dark keyblade into Malificent's heart.

"Wha?" gasped the woman as dark energy emerged from her heart to consume her.

"Ansem! What are you doing?" cried Riku, more out of odd intrigue than anger since he wasn't exactly upset to see the evil bitch gutted.

"Now, open your heart, surrender it to the darkness! Become darkness itself!" declared Ansem as he added a final thrust to the keyblade before retracting it and leaving the scene through a dark portal.

"That foolish woman has served her purpose, I have no use of such narrow-minded idiots," said Ansem to Riku.

"Then why not kill me too?" yelled Riku.

"Oh but I still have use of you my love. Many, many uses." teased Ansem.

"Like what?" asked Riku angrily.

"My dear fallen angel, I have not yet begun to plunder the depths of your delicious body and soul; I could make love to you all day and still not grow tired of your taste, your cries, your scent," said Ansem suggestively.

"Make love my ass! You would call what you did to me an act of love! You bastard!" cried Riku.

"Depends on your definition of love doesn't it?" said Ansem, "My love is eternal and full of pain with no hope of escape. I would follow you to the very pits of Hell to violate your body and hear your pleas."

Riku shuddered at Ansem's words, he knew Ansem was serious and he also knew that it wouldn't be long before Ansem would want to 'play' with him again. In the meantime, it appeared that Ansem was spying on Sora and the others as they fought against the vicious dragon that was Malificent's new form. Riku watched helplessly, his heart leaping with each blow and narrow escape that Sora experienced. Sora had greatly improved and finally finished the beast off with a series of violent combos. Riku winced at the shrieking cry that came from the dying Malificent as she was reduced to no more than a puddle of black ooze.

As if on cue, Ansem revealed his presence and rubbed his foot into what was left of the black witch.

"How ironic, she was just another puppet after all," spoke Ansem. Riku couldn't help but feel that this entire display was meant to emphasize to him the kind of power Ansem had.

"What?" came Donald's alarmed voice.

"The heartless were using Malificent from the beginning. She failed to notice the darkness in her heart eating away at her." Ansem finished his statement by further grinding his foot into Malificent's remains. "A fitting end for such a fool."

"How dare you! Trying to rub it in? Ansem you bastard!"

Ansem made a graceful retreat into a dark portal, silently beckoning Sora to come after him.

"Ansem please stop! I don't care what happens to me! But leave Sora and Kairi out of it!"

"Silence!"

"Aren't I a good enough sacrifice? Ansem! Don't ignore me!"

"……."

Ansem entered the heart chamber, he looked around at all the various princesses who were magically sealed inside crystal cocoons. His eyes finally came to rest on the young girl laid out before the unopened door, Kairi. Riku twisted in his chains, hoping that they would break and he could somehow gain control over Ansem, but it was all in vein. The more he struggled, the more the dark tentacles crawled upon him, finally forcing him to give up rather than suffer any further violation and pain. Ansem narrowed his eyes as he examined the girl, strange; he couldn't sense her heart. Ansem perched himself up on a high ledge, studying the girl, trying to figure out where her heart may have been hidden.

Just then, Sora came running in along with his companions.

"Kairi!" Sora rushed to Kairi's side fearing the worst, he cradled her in his arms calling out her name. "Kairi, Kairi! Open your eyes!"

"I wish Sora would hold me like that."

"It's no use," mocked Ansem, "That girl has lost her heart. She cannot wake up."

Sora gently set Kairi back down and then gave who he thought was Riku a rather deep stare. A shudder ran down his spine as he suddenly realized that the person before him was not Riku, his eyes were lit with an insane light and his presence filled the chamber with an air of malevolence. "You…You're not Riku!"

Ansem's eyes flashed and his grin lit up with maniacal glee. "So that's where the little bitch hid her heart." thought Ansem.

"Sora run! Don't try to save me! Take Kairi and go!"

"The keyhole cannot be completed…so long as the last princess of heart still sleeps." Ansem then hovered gracefully to the floor so as to get a better look at this keybearer.

"The princess? Kairi's a princess?"

"Yes, and without her power the keyhole will remain incomplete. It is time she awakened."

"Sora please hear me! Take Kairi and go! Ansem, he has my heart! I lost my heart! My heart…ack!!!" Riku screamed as something, perhaps Ansem's will, sent a blast of pain into him to silence him. Sora twitched slightly, his eyes filled with hope and anger as if perhaps part of Riku's message had in fact reached him on some subconscious level.

"Whoever you are, let Riku go! Give him back his heart!" demanded Sora.

Ansem gave an amused grin that mocked the heroic boy's threat.

"But first, you must give the princess back her heart."

"No Sora! He's trying to trick you! Just get out of here!"

Sora's body jolted and then collapsed as Donald cried out to him.

"What's?" Sora gripped his chest and winced in pain, it felt as though his heart beat had broken into two separate patterns and one had sped up as if in fear.

"Don't you see yet?" declared Ansem, "The princess's heart is responding, it has been there all along."

"Oh no Kari you didn't!"

"Kairi's heart rests within you!"

"Kairi…Kairi's inside me?" Sora was overwhelmed, so Kairi was hiding within him, and Riku was being held captive within Ansem, what sort of sick joke was this?

"ANSEM!"

"I know all that there is to know."

"Tell me. Who are you?"

"It is I, Ansem, the seeker of darkness." declared Ansem enthusiastically as he approached Sora. Donald charged the imposter and met with the back of Ansem's fist.

"Ansem please stop this! I'll do anything! Just don't harm them! Ansem! Sora run! Take Kairi and run! Damn you all for ignoring me!" Riku thrashed wildly in his chains, he ignored the darkness that crawled on him. He didn't care what happened to him. He would not let Ansem kill his best friends.

"So, I shall release you now, princess, complete the keyhole with your power. Open the door. Lead me into everlasting darkness!" Ansem swung his keyblade down upon Sora but was suddenly met with powerful resistance. From somewhere deep within Sora's heart, Kairi cried out to him and he met Ansem head on, determined to save both of his friends.

"Forget it! There's no way you're taking Kairi's heart!" Ansem already had Riku, but he wasn't going to have Kairi too. Sora was going to save them both He just had to.

While Sora fought, he couldn't help but be afraid that by hurting this Ansem, he might also be hurting his Riku.

"Come on Sora! Fight! Kill me if you have to, but don't lose to this! You're all I have left! Fight!"

Sora couldn't understand what was motivating him to strike and he soon let his mind narrow on the simple task of winning.

Ansem fought viciously, he had hoped using Riku's appearance would have made the fight relatively easy but was instead facing a worthy adversary. In addition, his limbs were moving rather sluggishly as if they were weighted and it seemed that Riku's body wasn't able to handle his more powerful spells.

"You think I'll simply curl up and die while you try to kill my friends! You're dumber than I thought! I won't make things easy for you! Never!" Riku's struggles were getting stronger with the determination of saving Sora. He would rather die than kill Sora, and if it meant taking Ansem down with him, then all the more reason.

"Stay out of this!" warned Ansem's voice, which seemed to echo all around the darkness that Riku was held captive in.

"No you stay out of this!" screamed Riku as the bindings and darkness that held him began to weaken.

At last Ansem fell back and disappeared, dropping his keyblade as he went. Riku's heart leapt with joy at the sound of Sora calling out to him.

Riku's eyes met angry amber ones as Ansem (in his true form) approached him from the darkness.

Without warning came a vicious slap to the face, Riku smaller frame rocked from the blow and his cheek burned and reddened from the assault.

"Learn your place slave! You do not want to provoke me any further. I'm warning you."

Riku grinned at Ansem defiantly, "Eat shit and die!"

Ansem smirked and snapped his fingers to open a window that showed Sora holding the dark keyblade as if to impale himself on it.

"Sora!" cried Riku.

Riku watched in horror as Sora stabbed himself in the heart with the keyblade. Kairi had been revived but she too watched helplessly as Sora vanished.

"It would seem that I win after all." mocked Ansem, he gave Riku a teasing pat on the sore cheek before returning back into the physical world to meet Kairi. He decided to use his own form now that his power had increased enough to do so and he approached the confused girl.

"So, you have awakened at last princess." Ansem's deep smooth voice was hypnotic and full of temptation. "The keyhole is now complete. You have served your purpose, but now it's over."

"Don't make another move!" threatened Donald.

"Do you think we can stop him all by ourselves?" asked Goofy.

"I don't know," answered Donald.

"Stop Ansem! Don't! I won't let you!" Riku fought until at last his bindings released him, granted his body was racked with bruises, but he didn't care. He willed himself to be where Ansem was and some inner part of him was able to separate itself from the physical body that Ansem now had dominion over.

Ansem's arm twitched violently and a surge of power flowed out from him.

"Impossible," Ansem remarked as he stared in bewilderment.

A ghostly image of Riku appeared before all who were in the chamber. He was desperately struggling to hold Ansem back.

"No! You won't use me for this!" Riku's voice faltered, he could feel his newfound strength fleeing him to be reabsorbed by Ansem.

"Riku!" Kairi cried out desperately to him. She couldn't stand to see Riku in such torment. How did this happen!

"You've got to run! The heartless are coming!" Riku shouted out to Kairi desperately. He felt his hold on everything begin to weaken. Suddenly he felt as if iron claws had dug into his very soul and then they wrenched him back into the darkness, back upon the heartless emblem, to be bound and crucified alone in the dark. The chains coiled around his arms, legs, and waist like giant pythons. Somewhere deep in the darkness, Riku knew Ansem was hurting also but in a different way. Riku's defiance had caused some damage to Ansem and he dared not think of the punishment that he would suffer upon Ansem's recovery.

Suddenly, warm red light washed over Riku and he looked up to see a ghostly image of Sora.

"What the? Is this another of Ansem's tricks?"

"No Riku, it's me Sora. I released Kairi's heart but damaged my own in the process. I'm not sure but I think I'm dead."

"What?"

"It's strange, but a part of my consciousness seemed to be still wandering around in Hollow Bastion. It's lost. Oh well, at least I got to see you." Sora smiled and came closer to Riku.

"Sora, I'm so sorry, sorry for everything! It's all my fault that all these bad things happened to you, me, and even Kairi."

"Riku…" Sora reached out to gently stroke Riku's cheek. It was the one previously struck by Ansem and Riku winced slightly at the touch.

"Oh Riku, what happened to you?" Sora's eyes seemed to water out of grief for his abused friend.

"Sora, I'm frightened. Ansem won't let me go, ever. " Riku tried to control himself but he suddenly erupted into violent sobs. Sora floated even closer to him and embraced the silver haired boy.

"Riku, I'm so sorry. I want to save you, but I'm not sure how to." Sora pulled away from Riku and stared into the emerald pools. He hated seeing his once proud, over-confident friend and rival scared and hurt.

"I don't care what it takes, or how long it takes, but mark my words Riku, I will save you and I won't give up no matter what."

Riku's eyes lit up slightly, "But Sora, aren't you dead?"

"Think that'll stop me?" Sora gave his classic happy-go-lucky grin and suddenly held Riku intimately close.

"Riku…" he whispered.

"Sora?"

"I love you." Before Riku could respond, Sora placed a chaste kiss upon Riku's lips and waited for a response. Riku opened his mouth, encouraging Sora to let his tongue slide in. The two held the kiss for as long as they could until Sora's ghostly form began to flicker.

"Sora!" Riku began to panic.

"Relax Riku, I'm ok, I think I'm being reborn, I feel the part that was lost calling out to me. I'll come back for you I promise. Ansem will not get away with this."

"Sora! I have to tell you something before you go!"

"What is it?"

"I…I love you too!"

Sora grinned sweetly. "Silly, I knew that all along. I've gotta go now, please don't lose faith, I will return for you, I swear."

With that said, Sora flickered and vanished into the darkness and Riku gazed at where his friend had been for several moments before a menacing presence came up behind him.

Riku stiffened as Ansem stood before him holding what appeared to be a whip.

"So Riku, still haven't learned your place, have you? Looks like some re-education is in order."

Riku stared at Ansem defiantly before being dropped to the floor by the bindings that released him. Riku was on all fours and starring up at Ansem who towered menacingly over him. Ansem snapped his fingers and Riku was naked. Feeling unbelievably vulnerable, Riku tried to crawl away from Ansem but a sudden thread of darkness came out of nowhere to wrap around his ankle and prevent him from doing so.

"You'll soon learn your place you little wretch!" snapped Ansem as he swung the whip down across Riku's exposed flesh. Riku gasped and twitched under the whip's abuse. He refused to cry out no matter what. He had to be strong for Sora. After a while, Ansem seemed to grow tired of whipping Riku and settled down on top of him. Riku was too exhausted to fight him off and cried out when the searing pain of penetration slammed into his rear. Riku was viciously slammed into over and over again during the course of Ansem's rough sex. Ansem grinned triumphantly over his silver toy and began chanting a spell as he neared his climax. Riku heard Ansem chanting raggedly but was unable to understand it fully; his attention was primarily on the pain that assaulted him. At last, Ansem yelled out the final word of the spell as he released his seed into Riku's body. Riku felt fire burn a path across his chest and it wasn't until Ansem pulled himself out of Riku, that Riku was able to see what Ansem had done to him (aside from screwing him). There, upon Riku's chest was the emblem of the heartless, it showed green like his eyes as if to mock him and marred his pale skin like some demonic tattoo.

"There now, is that proof enough to you that I own you!" snapped Ansem.

"You can go to Hell! How dare you vandalize me on top of everything else!" screamed Riku. Ansem smiled at Riku and forced a hungry kiss upon him.

"Next time behave and I'll see to it that you receive pleasure. However, if you dare to disobey me further, you can expect much worse to be done to you!"

"Why are you doing this?"

"Because, I love you too much. I love you so much that a part of me wants to rip you apart with my bare hands, to slowly dissect you and love you from the inside out. I want to pull out those emerald eyes and preserve them in formaldehyde. I want to taste those warm wet regions within you that my tongue cannot normally reach. I want to slowly slice off your alabaster skin and cuddle the pink texture underneath. I want to mark your bones with my teeth marks and to pluck at your brain so as to find out what makes you tick. You are beautiful to me Riku, too beautiful. No one else will ever appreciate you like I do; no one else will ever be able to love you from the inside out. You don't understand how much I have to restrain myself from loving you to the point of killing you because I know that I will only have one chance to ever love you like that and I want it to be special."

Riku's stomach ached with cold fear; Ansem was a freaking madman and a homicidal rapist with a silver fetish to boot. Suddenly the idea of death wasn't a preferred fate after all, if anything Riku hoped that he would be able to survive long enough to see Sora again, even if it would only be for a moment, he wanted to see Sora again.

As for Ansem, he snapped his fingers and he and Riku were both clothed and clean as if nothing had ever happened, even Riku's whip lash marks were gone. Only the dull ache between Riku's legs and the mark on his chest served as cruel reminders. Ansem motioned and Riku was once again bound by the heartless emblem and left alone as Ansem went off to plan for his next attack. Riku thought he heard Ansem mutter something about 'doom ship' before he disappeared.

To Be Continued…

Author's Note: Yeah I know my updates are slow, but I have a lot of other stuff I need to do. I don't like to just rush my story along, I have to wait for a good idea to come and then let it come out naturally. Anyway, I appreciate all who review me, it does motivate me and it makes me more willing to write more. On a side note, I want to encourage anyone who likes yaoi, supernatural violence, rock & roll, and overall dark themes to read books by Poppy Z. Brite. My favorites are Lost Souls and Drawing Blood; these are totally awesome but definitely for an older mature audience. I currently have fanfiction plans for these stories ^_^