Lily: Okay bishies @o@; here's Chapter Four of Tenshi No Riku. Just so you know. This is a very emotional and gooshable chapter o_o;; So don't hurt me. Much ;o Neeways. I dun't own neither Kingdom Hearts NOR the Disney Characters o_O; as a wise person said. "Owning them is bad for your health x)" XD;; Well on to the chapter! x) Ah yes. If you see (____) between some dialogue, that indicates it's a dream. I dunno how to work the html here yet ~.~;;

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Love's Closer Than Death

Tenshi No Riku

Chapter Four

Riku's seemingly lifeless body floated as LinLin pressed the buttons as Selphie and Tidus rushed in.

"LinLin! We heard you scream!" Selphie's yell echoed.

"Riku's--"

No, she can't bring herself to say it.

She felt hot tears going her cold icy cheeks.

She felt so helpless.

What could she do?

She hit the machine that controlled Riku's life quite hard; she fell to her knees crying.

Tidus and Selphie finally appeared, both with worried looks on their faces.

They saw Riku floating, not moving willingly, their mouths felt like they could drop to the floor in horror.

LinLin has been crying on the machine and started pounding it, thinking it would undo what happened to Riku.

"Riku, Riku!! Please don't die on me!!" she cried as Tidus and Selphie planned on saving Riku.

Finally Tidus started to use his ox-like strength to break the glass.

Now LinLin had a terrible, headache as she was crying, almost throwing up, her headache so bad.

Selphie knew how much they meant to one another and how they just couldn't bear it if they were to depart.

Tidus was still ramming the glass.

He was starting to scar up where he was ramming it and had made barely a crack.

Selphie rushed to the girl, trying to assure LinLin everything will be all right.

Tidus finally got frustrated and quite sore.

He started to look for something else to bust down the tak with.

Selphie was busy trying to comfort the crying LinLin.

"Selphie, take her some place else!!" ordered Tidus as saw Selphie trying to calm her down, thus noticing a char LinLin must've pushed out of the way.

Selphie nodded.

"Come on LinLin. You need to get ready for the celebration!" she told the young girl.

"N-no! I care about Riku more!!" she cried.

Tidus grabbed the chair and rammed it to the glass, thus breaking it and shattering it into a million or more pieces.

Riku's body feel on the ground as the oxygen mask came out, thus blood coming out of it that he had coughed up earlier.

Selphie tried to block LinLin's already teary eyes from the sight, but it was too late.

"Riku!!" she yelled as she ran to hug him.

Tidus blocked her.

"No LinLin! You have to go get ready for the celebration!"

"I don't care, Tidus! I want to see if Riku's okay!" LinLin shouted.

"LinLin, please. We'll take care of him."

LinLin was concentrating on the boy who was unconscious.

"I'll make sure he's fine, thanks for the offer though, Tidus." LinLin said as she tried to push him aside.

Selphie grabbed her arm.

"LinLin, you don't understand his illness, we do."

"Then let me help!" LinLin as more tears went down her cheeks.

"No, you'll be in the way." Tidus said bluntly.

LinLin was about to punch him until she heard "LinLin!!" from her father's mouth.

"Go LinLin." Selphie said. "Tidus's right. You'll just be in the way."

LinLin felt even more crushed, so she froze where she was standing.

"Not from you, Selphie-sempai..." LinLin said, choked on her words.

"I'm afraid so, it'll be for the best LinLin." Selphie said.

"Can I at least hug him for the first time?" more tears going down her cheeks.

Selphie and Tidus looked at each other, reading each other's mind.

Then Selphie nodded.

LinLin rushed to the boy to pick him up and touch him for the very first time.

No he wasn't as cold as Ansem, but very warm and loving.

She felt a pulse and a heart beating from the body she held in her arms.

She smiled to herself as she held him closer, never wanting to forget this touch.

His touch.

Riku's touch.

She kissed his silver head tenderly although it was very swift.

She really felt like she belonged where she was, either him holding her or her holding him, either way, it was still his touch.

That was all that could make this girl smile.

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("The touch of an angel is rare. To be loved by one is a wonderful blessing. But seeing her smile is a blessing enough."

"Whoa, Tidus! And to think you're a pervert!" laughed LinLin.

"Awww...how sweet!" swooned Selphie as she also burst out laughing.

"Hey!!" Tidus blushed as Riku laughed under his breath.)

He sat straight up, awake from that weird dream.

He felt different however, better even.

He was surprised to see where he was.

It seemed to be in a bed with red and dark red satin sheets.

"Finally up, eh Riku?" said a familiar voice, another one who knew about Riku's whereabouts.

He blinked, he tried to speak back but nothing came out, much less a squeak.

"Ah, I forgot! You can't speak just yet." his Jamaican accent throughout the halls.

"Yeah, it was quite a drama! But you pulled it off, as usual! LinLin was the one who was most worried about you! She was about to beg Tidus and Selphie, but oh! They wouldn't let her!" he laughed.

Riku rolled his tiger eyes.

"How fortunate, I'm stuck with Wakka and I can't say a word!" he thought as he lay back down.

****

In time when it was darker, the celebration of Sora's victory over the treacherous Ansem had begun.

First, everybody rose for King Mickey's arrival, along of course, with Queen Minnie.

They had a grand throne built for this occasion, carved by the finest craftsman.

It has red satin cushions and golden tinted armrests.

All seven princesses sat around the room, with a symbol of their world.

If they had a son, a daughter, or maybe even both, they would get to sit next to their mothers.

Each of the princesses were beautiful, each of them with their own theme.

LinLin was the only one who wasn't smiling, fake or not.

"What's wrong, LinLin?" asked Ariel's daughter, Melody.

She had Ariel's eyes and spirit, Prince Eric's black ebony hair.

She was about LinLin's age if not younger.

"Nothing Melody." she muttered.

"Is it because your engagement to Ansem? A bit too creepy for your taste eh?" Melody laughed nervously.

"I guess you can say. He came onto me too quickly."

"That's bad boy wannabes for you!" as she put her hands on her hips and tried to pose.

It was then LinLin laughed.

"Hey are you going to lead the dance this year?"

"Huh? Oh yeah! Like the dress? My mom made it for me!" as LinLin twirled around in it.

"Ooo! It's going to be so grand!" clapped Melody.

"Yes it took a couple of months to work on it! But I've finally got it!"

"Heh and of course the other daughters and sons are going to dance along with you, of course!"

As the crowd gradually got bigger, everybody got together with their group and acquaintances to talk about how their year has been and how much a certain daughter or son grown.

LinLin sighed.

"Yeah, and make sure you out of all people concentrate, Melody!" LinLin teased the other girl.

Melody blushed all shades of red as LinLin supposedly cackled.

"Girls! Site down and watch the first performance!" ordered Kairi as the two girls sat down and giggled.