And so, part five of Kurayami begins with Neko-kun and Silk-san. At the end, Riku and Neko will be analyzed, so stick around! ^_^ And I think there will be a Zeff-like person appearing...
Warning: Nutty Riku from being totally alone in Kingdom Hearts for the last six years with nothing to do, and Selphie and Tidus are married with a kid. ^^;; I'm all for Tidus/Yuna, but, well, I just can't imagine Selphie with, say, Wakka, or one of the transplanted Turks, or Rufus, or... anyone else I pick up from FFVII/FFX. Also, lots of flashback-like stuff with //double slashes// around it in Takeo's dream.
Disclaimer: I own Anzu, Neko, Takeo, Oni, Lani, Tina, Scarlet's three kids, Zeff, and Anima. I do NOT own The Belgariad, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, characters from each of these, or the song "Open Your Heart" from .hack//SIGN...
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Kurayami: Part Five
Haryuu no Hanekata
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~~~~~ Belgariad
Neko and Silk chat amiably about nothing much as they head towards the Hall of the Rivan King, although Neko herself doesn't know this. She devours the view around her with as they walk, even though only the gray facades of the buildings, the gray sky, and the gray cloaks of the Rivans greet her eyes. Neko thinks wryly that at least she doesn't stand out.
"So," Neko begins, turning a bright smile on Silk, "Where are we heading? You haven't said."
"Oh, just over there." Silk waves a hand at what is by far the biggest building in sight. "I want you to meet a friend of mine, Garion."
*Kitten. Be wary, but don't be afraid.*
Neko blinks at the sudden intrusion into her mind, and unconsciously speeds up, frowning, as she starts to pay close attention to everything around her. Silk raises an eyebrow, but follows her.
"What is it?"
She shakes her head, her frown deepening. "I'm not sure. But... It's something." She glances around nervously, muttering under her breath, "He wouldn't say something like that otherwise..."
Silk added "Who is 'he' and what did he say, and how come I didn't hear it?" to his mental list of questions to ask later, which also included why after on mention of her sister, a unquenchable sadness rose in her eyes, only half covered by a cheerfully off-balance grin. He sped up to match Neko's pace.
"Are we almost there?" Neko asks nervously, as a scent she doesn't want to recognize floats past her.
Silk picks up on her uneasy edginess and nods. "Yes, but we could go faster, if you like..."
"I would like very much," Neko states, and starts to jog quickly- much quicker than Silk expected, considering her short, slim stature. Once again, he speeds up to match her pace.
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~~~~~ Dreamscape
*Takeo, you can stop eaves-dropping now.*
^?!^
The lab fades away around Takeo, and...
// "...That prohibitation was getting annoying." The nine-year-old swings his hand at his younger sister, her head snaps around, staggers, crumples to the ground. Takeo hears a faint whisper, but doesn't pay attention, staring at Neko, then at Oni, as Anzu lets out a small squeak from where she pressed herself against the wall, arms and wings wrapped around herself.
"'Niisan! Where are you? Who are you?" she cries out desperately, as Oni turns his back on them, a coldness flowing almost palpably off of him. //
:: Prohibitation?... What did Anzu mean, 'brother, where are you?'::
// Neko stirs, Takeo still to shocked to move. She shifts her head, and her eyes open, pupils slit, she hisses, Anzu steps forward, steps back, flame-blue eyes wide and afraid.
"Oneesama? What's wrong?... Why are you so frightened?"
Takeo hears the whisper again, and Neko looks up, eyes widening, returning to normal in her pale, angular face. A faint red mark is visible on her cheek where Oni hit her. She smiles her empty smile, that Takeo would get to know all too well, and says that nothing's wrong...//
:: Everything was wrong...::
//"What're you afraid of?"
"The people in the castle."
"Why?"
"Because I'm different."
"So you're afraid of being different."
"I guess I am."
"But is being different so bad?"//
::No. How much I didn't understand... They were so different themselves... Three of them are technically dead!...::
@That they are.@
::-!- Who are you?::
@... One of the people you know/don't.@
Surprise and confusion chase each other through Takeo's mind, and he opens his eyes~
// He will open the door-- very near...
Why are you-- Heartless?
Nothing to fear.
Connected-- to the darkness.
Completely eclipsed
Meaningless effort
Understand nothing
A prison
Darkness is the heart's true essence!//
~ with the voice of Ansem ringing in his ears...
:: Something bad has happened...::
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~~~~~ Destiny Island
"Hey, Selphie!" Anzu calls out, skip-fluttering over the sand, wearing a butterscotch-golden halter top, Kairi's flowy coconut-brown skirt, and matching necklaces, bracelets, and anklets.
Selphie grins, waves, and continues to play pat-a-cake with her three-year-old daughter, the proud birthday girl. Tidus waves as well, then goes back to gazing adoringly at his wife and kid.
:: Like he gazes at them any other way,:: Anzu thinks as she sends her mind out in an automatic search. :: Rufus is here, but he's a little let down- I guess Kairi turned down his date. Wakka's over there- he seems happy, and he's near... Someone I don't know so well. Elena, maybe? And there's someone else I don't know... and there are Scarlet's kids.:: She glances in the direction of the unfamiliar person, and recognizes a tall man with long black hair whom she can't remember the name of.
Suddenly- out of nowhere- unexpectedly-
She gets glomped by three hyper, blond, and little girls.
"ANZUUU~!" the five-year-old twins cry out in unison as their little three-year-old sister simply makes the largest eyes you ever saw. Anzu laughs and hugs them back.
"Sweethearts, could you get off of me?"
The twins laugh and bounce off, only to grab onto Anzu's hands. "Fortunes! Anzu, tell us what our fortunes are!"
Anzu laughs again. "Will you let go of me if I do?" They nod, grinning. "All righty then! Sit down, and let me see your right hands."
The twins do so as their sister continues to cling to Anzu's waist. Anzu takes their hands, solemnly studying the palms as she tentatively sent her mind to theirs. She looks up and smiles.
"YOU, my little sweetheart," she says, tapping the one to the left on the end of her nose, "will someday marry a handsome young man with red hair and blue eyes. I think he's over by Wakka right now." The twins glance at the six-year-old in question and giggles happily. Anzu then turns to the one on the right. "And you'll marry a brown-haired boy as cute as cute can be, if not as cute as you."
The three giggle, glancing at a particular seven-year-old over in the corner, then head over to Scarlet.
Anzu spends her time at the birthday party quite happily, chatting with both the older people and the younger, although the younger usually asked for short flights from a ledge, or for their fortunes told, although a few of the older asked for fortunes as well. And when everyone asks her to sing a song, she does so happily.
But as always, a little worry nibbles at the edge of Anzu's mind for Kairi.
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~~~~~ Kingdom Hearts
"Riku?"
~ Open your heart
To eternal dimension~
He slowly turns his gaze from the pool of darkness at his feet, looking blankly into narrow, slanted eyes, with deep purple cat-like pupils blending out to pale violet.
"Who... are you?"
His vocal chords protest the rare usage, a hoarse voice grinding out of his throat.
~ Open your heart
For love and affection~
The tall, pale, elfish girl gestures vaguely with one hand, then lowers it back to her side to rest against her loose, dark blue pants. "I can't answer that right now. But you can call me Anima." Her dim, whispery voice floats dimly through the air.
~ Open your heart
Your every emotion~
Riku nods blankly, turning back to the pool of ooze. "You're another voice, aren't you? Just this time I can see you. I'm going more insane, aren't I?"
Anima's strange eyes blink, and she mutters under her breath, the faint sound not reaching Riku's ears.
"Riku, I'm real. Nearly COMPLETELY real." She runs a hand absently through her white hair, shot with pale blue, deftly avoiding disturbing her two round buns. "More real than those voices in your head, at least."
Riku turns his head back to her, aqua gaze sharp and unreadable. Then he smiles ever so slightly, nodding. "Why, I do believe you are," he whispers happily, then bursts out into insane giggling, tears streaming down his face.
"I'm not alone! I'm not alone!" Riku continues to giggle, cry, and chant out those three words as Anima blinks in startlement.
~ Open your heart
For tears and rejection~
"Come on, Riku," she says, moving forward to grasp his arm, "Pull yourself out of it."
Riku stops giggleing for a moment as he stares at where her slim, delicate hand rests on his arm, them laughs and throws both arms around her neck in a joyous hug. "You're really real!"
As tears stream even harder down his face, Anima hovers on the verge of just pushing him away, but something in the way he buries his face into neck like a hurt child makes her wrap her arms around him as well.
"Shh, Riku, it's all right, I am real, and I can't leave you yet..."
~ Come to the grace
Of heaven's eternal fantasy
Come to the grace
Of earthly devoted harmony~
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::It's to late for my sister to escape... Please, survive! Please- HN. STUPID LITTLE BRAT. SHE SHOULD HAVE STAYED WITH TAKEO. THEN SHE WOULDN'T BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE THIRD WAVE.::
TBC
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TRANSALATIONS:
Niisan: Semi-respectful way of saying 'Brother'. I didn't put the 'o' in front because... Well... Calling Oni Oniisan? ^_^;;
Oneesama: Most respectful way of saying 'sister' that I know of. Sama, people, not san or chan! And an o in front! How much more respectful can you get?
Poor Riku-chan... And can anyone tell me who the thoughts belong to? ~_^ Well, I promised an evaluation on Riku at the end of this chapter, ne? Also on Neko, our favorite half-crazy keyblade-wielding kitten.
Riku, v. c24zY
Once upon a time, Riku was a confident, straightforward, rather "ends-justifies-the-means" teen. Towards the end, he was a over-confident, cruel, completely "Ends/means" teen. Ant at the very end, he was a teen who had seen too much, done too much, had too much happen to him, and leaned on the only things he could- His friendship with Sora and Kairi, and a need to fix as much as he could.
Riku... is now just a little odder.
Readers: *Snort* Well, duh.
Basically, to protect his mind from truly bad memories, and to keep himself from going completely crazy over the last nine years, he created a few alternate personalities. Aside from being able to retreat into the back of his mind and let another take over for himself when the solitude gets too much, he can talk and argue with them in his mind so solitude DOESN'T get to be too much. I mean, there is nothing for him to do, he doesn't need to eat, drink, use the restroom, never gets tired from being awake- only if he moves around a lot- he doesn't even grow older, wear down his clothes, can't hurt himself... And he's perfectly alone, except for the rare Heartless. That's why he was so overjoyed to see Anima.
He's a nutter, but that's the only reason he's not totally insane. ^_^
Now, for Neko v. 0ffb414nc3
Neko's also not right in the head, but she's not so bad, and she hides it better. It's... Almost like Soujiro from Rurouni Kenshin, if you know what I'm talking about. She smiles to hide her depression, her sadness, and her pain. Or talks about the weather to herself, or practices with her keyblades, or... You get the idea. Sometimes she's so cheerful, it's scarier than if she was depressed.
And do you want to know why she's off balance?
She lost her little sister at seven, and blames herself, and "killed" her oldest brother later that day. Also, she was created, and she was created imperfectly at that... She doesn't know who her parents are... She hears voices...Ye Gads, do you know how much in her life has been screwed up?
Neko: ;_; My life has been horrible. I was created in a lab. Half my known family died because of me. I have teenage depression. I have depression from my family dying. I'm suicidal, and the only reason I don't kill myself is because I know it would shatter Takeo.
Yeah, we know. ;_;
Warning: Nutty Riku from being totally alone in Kingdom Hearts for the last six years with nothing to do, and Selphie and Tidus are married with a kid. ^^;; I'm all for Tidus/Yuna, but, well, I just can't imagine Selphie with, say, Wakka, or one of the transplanted Turks, or Rufus, or... anyone else I pick up from FFVII/FFX. Also, lots of flashback-like stuff with //double slashes// around it in Takeo's dream.
Disclaimer: I own Anzu, Neko, Takeo, Oni, Lani, Tina, Scarlet's three kids, Zeff, and Anima. I do NOT own The Belgariad, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, characters from each of these, or the song "Open Your Heart" from .hack//SIGN...
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Kurayami: Part Five
Haryuu no Hanekata
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~~~~~ Belgariad
Neko and Silk chat amiably about nothing much as they head towards the Hall of the Rivan King, although Neko herself doesn't know this. She devours the view around her with as they walk, even though only the gray facades of the buildings, the gray sky, and the gray cloaks of the Rivans greet her eyes. Neko thinks wryly that at least she doesn't stand out.
"So," Neko begins, turning a bright smile on Silk, "Where are we heading? You haven't said."
"Oh, just over there." Silk waves a hand at what is by far the biggest building in sight. "I want you to meet a friend of mine, Garion."
*Kitten. Be wary, but don't be afraid.*
Neko blinks at the sudden intrusion into her mind, and unconsciously speeds up, frowning, as she starts to pay close attention to everything around her. Silk raises an eyebrow, but follows her.
"What is it?"
She shakes her head, her frown deepening. "I'm not sure. But... It's something." She glances around nervously, muttering under her breath, "He wouldn't say something like that otherwise..."
Silk added "Who is 'he' and what did he say, and how come I didn't hear it?" to his mental list of questions to ask later, which also included why after on mention of her sister, a unquenchable sadness rose in her eyes, only half covered by a cheerfully off-balance grin. He sped up to match Neko's pace.
"Are we almost there?" Neko asks nervously, as a scent she doesn't want to recognize floats past her.
Silk picks up on her uneasy edginess and nods. "Yes, but we could go faster, if you like..."
"I would like very much," Neko states, and starts to jog quickly- much quicker than Silk expected, considering her short, slim stature. Once again, he speeds up to match her pace.
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~~~~~ Dreamscape
*Takeo, you can stop eaves-dropping now.*
^?!^
The lab fades away around Takeo, and...
// "...That prohibitation was getting annoying." The nine-year-old swings his hand at his younger sister, her head snaps around, staggers, crumples to the ground. Takeo hears a faint whisper, but doesn't pay attention, staring at Neko, then at Oni, as Anzu lets out a small squeak from where she pressed herself against the wall, arms and wings wrapped around herself.
"'Niisan! Where are you? Who are you?" she cries out desperately, as Oni turns his back on them, a coldness flowing almost palpably off of him. //
:: Prohibitation?... What did Anzu mean, 'brother, where are you?'::
// Neko stirs, Takeo still to shocked to move. She shifts her head, and her eyes open, pupils slit, she hisses, Anzu steps forward, steps back, flame-blue eyes wide and afraid.
"Oneesama? What's wrong?... Why are you so frightened?"
Takeo hears the whisper again, and Neko looks up, eyes widening, returning to normal in her pale, angular face. A faint red mark is visible on her cheek where Oni hit her. She smiles her empty smile, that Takeo would get to know all too well, and says that nothing's wrong...//
:: Everything was wrong...::
//"What're you afraid of?"
"The people in the castle."
"Why?"
"Because I'm different."
"So you're afraid of being different."
"I guess I am."
"But is being different so bad?"//
::No. How much I didn't understand... They were so different themselves... Three of them are technically dead!...::
@That they are.@
::-!- Who are you?::
@... One of the people you know/don't.@
Surprise and confusion chase each other through Takeo's mind, and he opens his eyes~
// He will open the door-- very near...
Why are you-- Heartless?
Nothing to fear.
Connected-- to the darkness.
Completely eclipsed
Meaningless effort
Understand nothing
A prison
Darkness is the heart's true essence!//
~ with the voice of Ansem ringing in his ears...
:: Something bad has happened...::
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~~~~~ Destiny Island
"Hey, Selphie!" Anzu calls out, skip-fluttering over the sand, wearing a butterscotch-golden halter top, Kairi's flowy coconut-brown skirt, and matching necklaces, bracelets, and anklets.
Selphie grins, waves, and continues to play pat-a-cake with her three-year-old daughter, the proud birthday girl. Tidus waves as well, then goes back to gazing adoringly at his wife and kid.
:: Like he gazes at them any other way,:: Anzu thinks as she sends her mind out in an automatic search. :: Rufus is here, but he's a little let down- I guess Kairi turned down his date. Wakka's over there- he seems happy, and he's near... Someone I don't know so well. Elena, maybe? And there's someone else I don't know... and there are Scarlet's kids.:: She glances in the direction of the unfamiliar person, and recognizes a tall man with long black hair whom she can't remember the name of.
Suddenly- out of nowhere- unexpectedly-
She gets glomped by three hyper, blond, and little girls.
"ANZUUU~!" the five-year-old twins cry out in unison as their little three-year-old sister simply makes the largest eyes you ever saw. Anzu laughs and hugs them back.
"Sweethearts, could you get off of me?"
The twins laugh and bounce off, only to grab onto Anzu's hands. "Fortunes! Anzu, tell us what our fortunes are!"
Anzu laughs again. "Will you let go of me if I do?" They nod, grinning. "All righty then! Sit down, and let me see your right hands."
The twins do so as their sister continues to cling to Anzu's waist. Anzu takes their hands, solemnly studying the palms as she tentatively sent her mind to theirs. She looks up and smiles.
"YOU, my little sweetheart," she says, tapping the one to the left on the end of her nose, "will someday marry a handsome young man with red hair and blue eyes. I think he's over by Wakka right now." The twins glance at the six-year-old in question and giggles happily. Anzu then turns to the one on the right. "And you'll marry a brown-haired boy as cute as cute can be, if not as cute as you."
The three giggle, glancing at a particular seven-year-old over in the corner, then head over to Scarlet.
Anzu spends her time at the birthday party quite happily, chatting with both the older people and the younger, although the younger usually asked for short flights from a ledge, or for their fortunes told, although a few of the older asked for fortunes as well. And when everyone asks her to sing a song, she does so happily.
But as always, a little worry nibbles at the edge of Anzu's mind for Kairi.
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~~~~~ Kingdom Hearts
"Riku?"
~ Open your heart
To eternal dimension~
He slowly turns his gaze from the pool of darkness at his feet, looking blankly into narrow, slanted eyes, with deep purple cat-like pupils blending out to pale violet.
"Who... are you?"
His vocal chords protest the rare usage, a hoarse voice grinding out of his throat.
~ Open your heart
For love and affection~
The tall, pale, elfish girl gestures vaguely with one hand, then lowers it back to her side to rest against her loose, dark blue pants. "I can't answer that right now. But you can call me Anima." Her dim, whispery voice floats dimly through the air.
~ Open your heart
Your every emotion~
Riku nods blankly, turning back to the pool of ooze. "You're another voice, aren't you? Just this time I can see you. I'm going more insane, aren't I?"
Anima's strange eyes blink, and she mutters under her breath, the faint sound not reaching Riku's ears.
"Riku, I'm real. Nearly COMPLETELY real." She runs a hand absently through her white hair, shot with pale blue, deftly avoiding disturbing her two round buns. "More real than those voices in your head, at least."
Riku turns his head back to her, aqua gaze sharp and unreadable. Then he smiles ever so slightly, nodding. "Why, I do believe you are," he whispers happily, then bursts out into insane giggling, tears streaming down his face.
"I'm not alone! I'm not alone!" Riku continues to giggle, cry, and chant out those three words as Anima blinks in startlement.
~ Open your heart
For tears and rejection~
"Come on, Riku," she says, moving forward to grasp his arm, "Pull yourself out of it."
Riku stops giggleing for a moment as he stares at where her slim, delicate hand rests on his arm, them laughs and throws both arms around her neck in a joyous hug. "You're really real!"
As tears stream even harder down his face, Anima hovers on the verge of just pushing him away, but something in the way he buries his face into neck like a hurt child makes her wrap her arms around him as well.
"Shh, Riku, it's all right, I am real, and I can't leave you yet..."
~ Come to the grace
Of heaven's eternal fantasy
Come to the grace
Of earthly devoted harmony~
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::It's to late for my sister to escape... Please, survive! Please- HN. STUPID LITTLE BRAT. SHE SHOULD HAVE STAYED WITH TAKEO. THEN SHE WOULDN'T BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE THIRD WAVE.::
TBC
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TRANSALATIONS:
Niisan: Semi-respectful way of saying 'Brother'. I didn't put the 'o' in front because... Well... Calling Oni Oniisan? ^_^;;
Oneesama: Most respectful way of saying 'sister' that I know of. Sama, people, not san or chan! And an o in front! How much more respectful can you get?
Poor Riku-chan... And can anyone tell me who the thoughts belong to? ~_^ Well, I promised an evaluation on Riku at the end of this chapter, ne? Also on Neko, our favorite half-crazy keyblade-wielding kitten.
Riku, v. c24zY
Once upon a time, Riku was a confident, straightforward, rather "ends-justifies-the-means" teen. Towards the end, he was a over-confident, cruel, completely "Ends/means" teen. Ant at the very end, he was a teen who had seen too much, done too much, had too much happen to him, and leaned on the only things he could- His friendship with Sora and Kairi, and a need to fix as much as he could.
Riku... is now just a little odder.
Readers: *Snort* Well, duh.
Basically, to protect his mind from truly bad memories, and to keep himself from going completely crazy over the last nine years, he created a few alternate personalities. Aside from being able to retreat into the back of his mind and let another take over for himself when the solitude gets too much, he can talk and argue with them in his mind so solitude DOESN'T get to be too much. I mean, there is nothing for him to do, he doesn't need to eat, drink, use the restroom, never gets tired from being awake- only if he moves around a lot- he doesn't even grow older, wear down his clothes, can't hurt himself... And he's perfectly alone, except for the rare Heartless. That's why he was so overjoyed to see Anima.
He's a nutter, but that's the only reason he's not totally insane. ^_^
Now, for Neko v. 0ffb414nc3
Neko's also not right in the head, but she's not so bad, and she hides it better. It's... Almost like Soujiro from Rurouni Kenshin, if you know what I'm talking about. She smiles to hide her depression, her sadness, and her pain. Or talks about the weather to herself, or practices with her keyblades, or... You get the idea. Sometimes she's so cheerful, it's scarier than if she was depressed.
And do you want to know why she's off balance?
She lost her little sister at seven, and blames herself, and "killed" her oldest brother later that day. Also, she was created, and she was created imperfectly at that... She doesn't know who her parents are... She hears voices...Ye Gads, do you know how much in her life has been screwed up?
Neko: ;_; My life has been horrible. I was created in a lab. Half my known family died because of me. I have teenage depression. I have depression from my family dying. I'm suicidal, and the only reason I don't kill myself is because I know it would shatter Takeo.
Yeah, we know. ;_;
