Torn Between Two

By: Kietah-chan

A/N: YAY! I was in a major writer's block, until my friend juzlovnsora helped me out! So . . .all my thankyou's go to her for this chappie! She practically wrote the whole plot out for me! Lol. So, if you wanna thank somebody for the plot idea, thank her, not me. Just thank me for updating! Sorry I haven't in a while.

Disclaimer: I do not own KH

Ch.8: Screams

Is what happened last night just a dream? Then why do I feel this way? Why is my life suddenly a living hell?

I shot up from my bed, panting with fear. It was just a dream. All of it was just one of my crazy, stupid dreams I usually get. But no . . .what are these red marks on my wrists and ankles?

I rubbed the faint pink marks on my wrist gingerly, making sure not to cause more of a rope burn. Rope burn? It wasn't a dream!

I swung my legs over the side of my bed and stood to my feet. My head gave a queasy lurch and for a second, I thought I was going to throw up on the spot. I maintained my dinner and stumbled over to the dresser against the wall. I looked at myself in the mirror and scowled. I looked like a complete mess. Three white marks ran down my cheeks. I guess they were from the knife.

As I gazed into the mirror, I saw a figure standing in the hallway in the reflection. I spun around and saw Sora looking so innocent, but . . .like something was troubling him. I ran towards him.

"Oh, thank Kami you're here! I have to tell you something . . ." I didn't get to finish my sentence. When I flung my arms open to embrace the boy, he vanished all together. I stood stunned, with my arms still around an invisible and nonexistent figure. Something is wrong . . .

Out of nowhere and from a place I could not detect, a loud laugh echoed through the house. I turned around frantically, trying to find the culprit, but before I could see anything, everything blacked out. I felt something grab hold of my arm, but that was the last thing I remembered . . .



. . .Until I woke up to find a gun to my head. My eyes snapped wide open as the tip of the handgun was pressed against my left temple. I dared not to move at all. Fear gripped my stomach and head. I wanted to scream. What is going on?!

My crystal eyes darted about, trying to find some way of escaping. I noticed a heap of something on the floor a few feet away from me. It wasn't moving, whatever it was. After a while, I figured out that I was in the basement of my house and I was laying down on the cold concrete. I slowly got into a sitting position.

"I wouldn't move if I were you . . ." A low and quiet voice whispered menacingly into my right ear. I craned my neck around; trying to see whom it was who had said that. The voice didn't sound familiar at all.

"Something wrong? Are you confused, little girl?" the voice asked me in a teasing kind of way. I turned my head sharply to the left and saw Riku. His face was almost pressed against mine and he had a twisted smile on his pale face.

Then it hit me like a truckload of cats. (A/N: lol, my friend Kuroyuri told me to say that! ) Riku is not in the right sort of mind. He is of the Darkness. What is making him do these things?!

I can do nothing now . . .I can't stop the Darkness . . .

"What's troubling you? Why are you not speaking? Go ahead, scream. No one will hear you . . ." he whispered softly. It felt like Death was speaking in my ear. Inside, I wanted to scream my lungs out, but my mind told me to stay quiet. He was right; no one was going to hear me scream. No one . . .

I did the only thing I could do; I cried. I let the warm tears roll down my sweaty and dirty face. Riku gave me a malicious look. His eyes were dancing in the soft light from the window above. There was almost an insane glint in them.

"What is the point for you to cry? Your tortured soul is forever mine, we're far away, and we're all alone. There's no one around to hear your screams . . .so . . .scream! I want to hear your screams!" he shouted. I wanted to scream . . .but something was holding me back. The tears continued to roll down my face.

"Aww . . .what's wrong? Are you sad that you just realized that nobody will come to save you? Are you sad that you know that your precious Sora isn't here to save the day like he always does?" Riku asked me in a mock-baby voice. He stuck out his lower lip in a pout. "He never really did love you, you know . . ."

At this, I stopped sobbing quietly. I looked him square in the eye. There was no mirth or teasing in his eyes. I knew he wasn't kidding around when he had said that.

"It was all a joke . . .just a little trick to make you believe you actually mean something in this world. He doesn't love you at all . . ."

"Shut up! You're wrong! He does love me!" I shouted angrily at him and covered my ears. I have to wake up soon . . .this is just a nightmare! Oh, please let me wake up!

Riku smirked at me coldly. "Has he ever said that he loved you?" I opened my eyes and lowered my hands from my ears. Suddenly, it struck me that I believed that Sora loved me, when he never actually said it before . . .I knew he was right.

"He . . .never said that to me . . ." I whispered quietly in defeat, my eyes now on the concrete floor. Riku's smirk grew into an evil grin.

"See what I mean, Kairi? Sora never loved you; he was just trying to fool you into something you never knew before! You see, all Sora wants is to break your puny little heart . . ."

"Never knew before? What about what we used to have? Huh? What about that night on the beach? I knew love, and I STILL do know it when I see it! Sora loves me and you're just lying t—"

I was cut off by a stirring sound coming from the corner. At that moment, the little heap of something in the far corner started to stir. We both looked over at it as it stood to its feet. The hood of the jacket fell off of its head.

"Woah . . .where am I?" Brown hair stuck out everywhere and I recognized who it was.

"Sor--!" I tried to shout, but Riku put a hand over my mouth and muffled my shout quickly. It got Sora's attention though.

"Riku . . .what are you doing here? Where are we?" he asked Riku curiously. He did not answer. Sora noticed me being suffocated under Riku's hand. And then his eyes traveled over to the silver gun pointed to my head.

"Kairi!" he yelled and ran over to where I was sitting. Riku took his hand away from my mouth and grabbed Sora's shirt before he could reach me.

"Don't get any closer," he told Sora sternly. Sora shot Riku a determined and furious look and then turned back to me.

"Let her go! What is with you?!" he shouted at Riku. Riku smirked in an insane way again and pressed the tip of the gun to my head harder. I gave a short intake of breath, thinking that he was going to shoot me right then and there, but he didn't.

I have never felt this afraid of anything in my entire life. It felt as if a cold and clammy hand had clamped tight around my throat, cutting off my ability to breathe or speak. I squeezed my eyes shut in supplication and opened them to still see the scene I was in.

Sora gave me a desperate look from over Riku's shoulder. All I could do was to stare back at him, trying to tell him everything with only my gaze. It didn't work. He pulled himself out of Riku's grasp and backed away as Riku had told him. I didn't want him to give up. I wanted him to help me out, but instead, all he is doing is backing away from the problem.

"There you go . . ." Riku said quietly, watching Sora back away slowly. But at that second, Sora sprinted towards us and leapt on top of Riku, knocking him to the ground. I was released and I moved away from the fight. I stared in awe as Sora punched Riku hard in the gut. Riku, however, didn't seem to phase it, and just threw Sora off of him. Sora fell in another heap a few feet away.

"Idiot kid," Riku muttered under his breath, wiping some blood that was trickling down the corner of his mouth away. I spotted the abandoned gun a few inches away from my hand. This is my chance if I want to make it out of here alive!

I was just about to pick up the gun when it was snatched away by none other than Riku. He glared down at me. Sora, shifted in his position, but did not stand up or anything. Riku walked slowly over to the crumpled heap and glared down at him.

"You have gotten in my way too many times," he said coldly. I saw his right hand tense up while holding the gun. Sora stared up blearily at him, blood running down the side of his face from a large gash on his forehead.

"That won't happen anymore," Riku said. The next second or so seemed to go in slow motion again. Riku slowly lifted the gun and pointed it at Sora's forehead. I jumped up and pushed Riku just as he pulled the trigger and we both fell down. Sora cried out in pain and clutched his left arm. Then everything shifted back to its normal speed again.

"SORA!" I screamed and ran to his side as soon as I clambered to my feet. He was squeezing his wounded arm tightly; his eyes closed in excruciating pain. I immediately tried to pry his hand away from the wound to wrap something around it, but Sora yelled louder when I touched his arm.

"I need to look at this! MOVE YOUR HAND!" I shouted at him frantically. Sora did as he was told and I saw the wound. Blood was running down his arm from a hole in the upper part of his arm. I saw a glint of silver in the cut and I pulled out the bullet. Sora screamed when I did and I apologized a thousand times.

"Stay still!" I ordered him sternly, for he was squirming around, trying to stop the pain. I ripped off a strip of cloth from my skirt bottom and pulled it tight around the wound. Sora yelled in protest, but I ignored it.

"IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO FEEL GOOD, YOU KNOW!!!" I shouted, losing my patience. All the while I was tying the cloth, tears were rolling down my face and onto the "bandage". Why does this have to happen?!?!

Sora looked up at me and noticed my tears. He caressed my chin gently with his bloody hand and stared into my eyes. The hurt and pain in those sapphire orbs made me want to look away, but I did not.

"I'll be O.K . . .I . . .promise . . .I'll . . ." but his soft and quiet voice was trailing off and his eyes were closing. I frantically shook him, the tears splashing on his face.

"NO! Don't close your eyes!! Wake up! Please, hang in there! WAKE UP!!" I screamed in my fear. He did not wake up; he did not open his eyes. I held him close to me and kissed his blood-covered forehead. I then whispered softly in his ear:

"Don't die on me . . ."



A/N: I am SO proud of this chappie, and I hope you guys liked it too!! If you didn't, then, you have some serious issues, man! Ok, once again, I'm SOOOOO sorry for taking FOREVER to update!! But now, IT'S SUMMER AND SCHOOL IS OUT!! YAY!! So that means I will update more frequently! Yay! If I don't . . .well . . .you can shoot me!

Riku: BANG!

Kietah-chan: SHUT UP ALREADY!!!!

Riku: I like my villain role! grins

Everyone: sweatdrop

Ok . . .so . . .YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!

Everyone: R&R, PLEASE!!!!

(I would like to thank again juzlovnsora for helping me out sooo much! LUV YA!! )

Kietah-chan