Reflections: Kairi

by Ari Powwel

[COMPLETE] In a world of Keyblades and Heartless, Princesses and pure hearts, betrayal and hatred, one girl remains unseen. This girl, this -Kairi,- has never had a chance to tell her side of the story. Until now.

6. a friend 'kidnapped'

Title: Reflections: Kairi ( 6 / ? )
Author name: Ari Powwel
Author email: eight_muses@hotmail.com
Spoilers: . . . a lot . . . and spoilers for Reflections: Riku if you haven't read that.
Summary: Hollow Bastion, and . . . a certain difference.
DISCLAIMER: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by various publishers including but not limited to Disney Interactive and Square Co., Ltd. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Thoughts Notes: Since Kairi can now hear both Sora and Riku's thoughts, here's how they'll be shown (as it will be extremely confusing otherwise):
Italics: Kairi's thoughts
// slashes \\: Sora's thoughts
|| lines ||: Riku's thoughts
~ tildes ~: Someone's thoughts (This someone has already probably been guessed by all of you -_-")
Author's Notes: **leans over backwards over the arm of her chair to pick up her writing notebook** . . . why do I get the idea that this chapter is going to be incredibly different than any other?
(Because you finished downloading Deep Dive today and it actually worked.)
Oh, yeah . . . =^_^=
Statistics:
Day began: 18 October, 2003
Day completed: 26 October, 2003
Words: 4,349
Pages (script/total): 7/9
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Gawrsh, look at that!' Goofy cried, looking up at a huge castle.

Something so familiar . . .

The castle was so . . . I knew it from somewhere. But where?

'I know this place . . .' Sora murmured.

'Hmm, that's strange,' Goofy commented.

'I wonder why . . . I feel this warmth inside, right here.' Sora placed a hand over his heart.

'Aww, you're just hungry,' Donald dismissed it.

I giggled, as Sora protested, 'Hey, I'm serious! I—' Any other comment he may have made was cut off from a loud roar. I jumped, as did the others, and in unison, we turned to the sound. 'Let's go!' Sora leapt up over floating platforms, trying to find the source.

As we hurdled the last platform, we saw Riku and a strange . . . beast, of sorts. He wore a purple cape, and a brown tail protruded from underneath. The 'hair' was pulled back from his face by a purple bow, and his clothes couldn't be described as clothes, but finery. A regal air was about him, though his somewhat frightening appearance would lower the amount of respect most beings would give him. 'No vessel, no help from the Heartless . . . so tell me, how'd you get here?' || I wish I'd known there was another way . . . ||

'I simply believed,' the Beast replied. 'Nothing more to it. When our world fell into darkness, Belle was taken from me. I vowed I would find her again, no matter what the cost. I believed I would find her. So, here I am. She must be here. I will have her back!'

'Take her, if you can,' Riku replied coolly, drawing his blade. It was red and black, shaped like a wing. I'd heard him referring to it as a Wingblade. The beast leapt at him, and for a moment, I'd thought that he'd struck Riku. But to my relief, Riku catapulted backwards, executing a one-handed back handspring. He sliced the beast across the chest, though, and Beast sprang back, a hand held to his chest. Riku raised his Keyblade, to do something, but—

'Stop!' Sora cried, blocking the blow.

'So, you finally made it,' Riku said, backing up to speak, and lowering the Wingblade. 'About time. I've been waiting for you. We've always been rivals, haven't we? You've always pushed me, as I've always pushed you.'  || We've always pushed each other to our limits. We've hoped that our victories would speak of our prowess, and that perhaps . . . she would see us. But that's gone from our past. ||  'But it all ends here. There can't be two Keyblade masters.'

'What are you talking about?' Sora asked, confused.  // What does he mean, two Keyblade masters? \\

'Let the Keyblade choose . . .' Riku said, holding out his hand, 'its true master.' The blade in Sora's hand jittered in his grasp, forcing the boy to hold it with two hands, but after a moment, the sword disappeared, rematerialising in Riku's hands, in its original form.

There were various exclamations of surprise from Donald and Goofy, and my thoughts were whirling. Why—what—how could Riku have taken the Keyblade from Sora? I thought . . .

'So Maleficent was right,' Riku said, examining the rapier. 'You don't have what it takes to save Kairi. It's up to me. Only the Keyblade master can open the secret door . . . and change the world.'

'But . . . that's impossible!' Sora protested. 'How did this happen? I'm the one who fought my way here with the Keyblade!'

'You were just the delivery boy,' Riku sneered, words harsh. It was clear to me that that voice, which had once whispered lies to him, had him completely under his 'spell', believing every word he fed him. But why? Why would Riku concede to this man? He had never bent to someone else's will before. 'Sorry, your part's over now. Here, go play hero with this.' He threw one of their old wooden swords to Sora's feet before turning to walk away. Sora dropped to his knees, staring at the crudely made weapon.

'Goofy. Let's go,' Donald said, looking away from the boy. 'We have to remember our mission.'

'Oh . . . well, I know the king told us to follow the key and all . . . but . . .'

'Sora . . . sorry,' Donald said, as he and Goofy followed the silver-haired boy.

// They've left me, too? Is it that everyone only wants to follow me, befriend me, when I have the Keyblade? Is it the power of the Keyblade that draws them? \\

Sora . . . I'm sorry. I wish I could do something . . .

But there was nothing I could do as Sora was left with only a wooden blade to his name.

'Quit while you can,' Riku scorned, revealling himself to us.  || Can't you see, you have nothing! Why do you still try to prove yourself stronger? ||

'No. Not without Kairi,' Sora said stubbornly.

A cloud of darkness surrounded Riku, picking him up from the ground.  || Yes . . . the true darkness . . . ||  When it dissipated, Riku was wearing a black bodysuit-like outfit, a large blue inverted triangle over the front of it. There was a blue belt circling his waist, holding up a tattered crème skirt-like thing, open at the front. Two more belts formed an 'X' over the open front, a metal buckle where they intersected. The 'skirt', though tattered, was lined in that same blue-ish colour, reaching to about his knees, which were covered by what looked like blue plates. His boots were of a dark royal colour, v-shaped at the top, the tops lined in a black stripe, with a white stripe in the black. His gloves were blue, but were covered by gauntlets, which were red and slowly faded to the black that dominated his clothes. Finally, a large heartless insignia was splashed across his chest, signifying that he was now a part of the darkness, lost to us forever.

Oh, gods, Riku, don't do this to us!

'The darkness will destroy you,' Riku said, a strange undertone to his voice. What was it? I pondered the sound of his voice for a moment, before recognising it as regret.

'You're wrong, Riku. The darkness may destroy my body, but it can't touch my heart. My heart will stay with my friends. It'll never die!'

'Really,' smirked Riku. 'Well, we'll just see about that!' He raised his hand, and an orb of shining darkness materialised, shooting towards Sora at a speed he couldn't avoid. As it came closer, Sora squeezed his eyes shut, as did I, and I heard Riku shout, || No! || I jumped; it was as if Riku had just realised what he'd done.

A bright light pierced through my shut eyelids, and when I opened them, I saw that the sphere had disappeared. In its place stood Goofy, shield before him and a foot placed back to brace himself.  'Sora ain't gonna go anywhere!' he shouted at Riku.

'You'd betray your king?'

'Not on your life! But I'm not gonna betray Sora, either, cos he's become one of my best buddies after all we've been through together!' To Donald, Goofy shouted, 'See ya later, Donald. Could ya tell the king I'm really sorry?'

'Hold on, Goofy!' Donald called back. 'We'll tell him together!' He raced across to join us. 'Well, you know . . . all for one and one for all,' he said sheepishly.

'I guess you're stuck with us, Sora,' Goofy said.

'Thanks a lot, Donald, Goofy . . .' Sora looked down at his feet; I could tell that he believed that it had been Goofy who stopped the darkness. I wasn't sure, but I believed it had been both of them, Riku and Goofy.

'How will you fight without a weapon?' Riku asked.

'I know now I don't need the Keyblade. I've got a better weapon: my heart.' I cocked my head in wonderance. The heart wasn't a weapon, was it?

'Your heart?' Riku repeated. 'What good will that weak little thing do for you?'

'Although my heart may be weak, it's not alone,' Sora explained. 'It's grown with each new experience, and it's found a home with all the friends I've made. I've become a part of their heart just as they've become a part of mine. And if they think of me now and then . . . if the don't forget me . . . then our hearts will be one.' He readied his wooden sword, as if he was going to battle Riku. 'I don't need a weapon. My friends are my power!'

As we walked further into the castle, Sora and I both stopped short. 'Sora, what's wrong?' Goofy asked.

It's Riku . . . something's wrong . . .

'I don't know,' Sora answered. 'I've just got this feeling . . . something's going on . . . something bad.'

'You sure?' Donald questioned.

'Yeah . . .' Sora replied, sounding a bit distracted. 'It's probably just nothing.'

'It's not good to just dismiss your feelings,' Donald advised him. 'If you've got a bad feeling, then something probably is going on.'

Riku . . . oh, gods, Riku, what's going on?!

'You stay here and guard the princesses.'

~ Fool. Don't you understand, yet? I am your superiour. ~

'Do you need some help?' Riku asked. I shuddered. His voice was strange, distorted. It was almost layered, with his own being overshadowed by a deeper, darker one.

'Riku!' Sora yelped.  // His voice . . . it's so strange. \\

~ Ah, the king's fools are here. Perfect. Now they shall see how the darkness conquers all! ~

Donald began to ask, 'Is that—'

'Yes,' answered Riku. 'A Keyblade. But unlike yours, this Keyblade holds the power to unlock people's hearts. Allow me to demonstrate . . .' he turned, thrusting the Keyblade into Maleficent's heart. 'Behold!' As Maleficent let out a shriek of surprise, he continued, 'Now, open your heart, surrender it to darkness! Become darkness itself!' He pulled it out of her heart and strode away, disappearing as he went.

'This is it! This power! Darkness . . . the true darkness!' Maleficent crowed, watching tendrils of darkness wrapping around nothing. A green light began to materialize, filling the room with its luminescence. As it faded, I could see what had become of Maleficent. A giant black dragon stood in her place, pawing the floor. Smoke was emitting from her nostrils, and she leered at us menacingly. As I watched her begin to strike at Sora, who had readied his Keyblade, I heard two voices, coming from the back.

|| GO! He's going to be killed! ||

~ Oh, yes he is, Riku, yes he is. And then . . .

You will, too. ~

I let out a shriek of surprise; I couldn't help it. Someone was threatening Riku, and I could tell that he meant every word of it. What surprised me was that Riku didn't respond . . . on the islands, no-one could even mock-threaten him without Riku making an arrogant remark in return. Oh, gods! What's happened to you, Riku?

Maleficent struck at Sora, but the auburn-haired boy dived under her, attacking her head with a three-combo as he leapt up. He rebounded back from the attack, shoes sliding over the floor, before running at her again and bounding onto her head. 'Thundaga!' he cried, throwing the Keyblade in an arc as he flew over her. The blade struck her in the head, reflecting off, and returned to Sora's hand as he kneeled to the floor. As he landed, strikes of lightning surrounded Maleficent, and her cry of anguish told me that the spell had affected her. Donald bashed Maleficent's skull with his magician's rod, and Goofy spiralled into her with a spinning attack as Sora dashed around to the front. As he got there, he paused, closing his eyes, and seeming to concentrate. At once, he snapped them open, launching into a quick flurry of attacks; he almost glowed with a golden aura.

Maleficent pulled her head up above them, smoke coming from her mouth. I knew instantly what was about to happen, but Sora was so intent on reaching her, he jumped in surprise when the dragon roared, green fire spilling from her mouth. Sora let out a yelp as it touched him; Donald cried, 'Aeroga!' and a spiralling white shield protected him from any further damage. Another two shouts and he and Goofy were protected, as well. A yell of 'Curaga!' and three bell-like flowers appeared over Sora's head, a green aura surrounding and healing him.

As Sora fought on, I found my thoughts wandering back to Riku. I wondered why that other voice could hear his thoughts, as I could, and could even communicate back to him. And, I wondered, if he could communicate back to Riku, would I not have seen him? Or could I not see others in spirit-form? And in the event that I could, in fact, see others in spirit-form, and I couldn't see him, where would he be? Was the person in actuality not here, but there? And in the case of that, where was there? Could that person see what was going on through Riku?

But, if he could see what was going on through Riku, could he also perform through Riku? Was Riku only a medium for some freak?

I shook my head at myself. There were so many questions that that scenario arose. If Riku were a medium for someone, then how could that person threaten to kill him? (And here, I shuddered; I did not like thinking about someone threatening to kill my best friends.) Riku would know that the person in question was not present, and could not kill him. So, the man would not be able to threaten him, as he had. Meaning, either Riku was actually working and cooperating with the darkness, and the voice had been nothing but a minion of Maleficent's, nearby, or Riku was slowly succumbing to the darkness. I frowned at myself; something wasn't right. What I had reasoned to myself as true was becoming entangled with all other ideas, and I was confusing myself further. It was probably best to just forget it, though I doubted I could.

I blinked as blindingly bright green fire turned on its master, consuming Maleficent. As it died down, all that was left of the woman was a dark shadow. There was a slight noise, and Riku was there, striding over the shadow. 'How ironic,' he said in his emotionless voice. 'She was just another puppet after all.' I shuddered; he spoke about Maleficent like it was no surprise that she'd been killed, though she had been the one who first took him in, who entranced him into the darkness.

. . . actually, now that I thought about it, I wouldn't have minded that she was gone, either.

'What?' Donald asked.

'The Heartless were using Maleficent from the beginning. She failed to notice the darkness in her heart eating away at her.' Riku ground his heel into the shadow, which disappeared beneath his feet. 'A fitting end for such a fool.' He walked away, stepping through the portal that had brought us here in the first place.

Somehow, Sora had found out where Riku had gone, and as he dashed up the stairs, I could hear him 'talking' with the other man.

'It's time,' the man said out loud.

|| . . . no! I won't let it end this way! ||

Hurry! I silently urged Sora. Riku needs help!

As Goofy was running onto the platform at the top of the stairs, I saw a slight light surround the platform, and stopped short as Goofy ran into it and rebounded backwards, falling down the stairs. I didn't chance the barrier, as I had a feeling it wouldn't let anything through. Donald turned, looking at Goofy with a muted exclamation, but Sora didn't notice, instead dashing to the centre of the platform, where my body lay. 'Kairi!' he crouched beside me. 'Kairi, Kairi! Open your eyes!'

'It's no use,' came Riku's voice, an almost mocking tone to it. 'That girl has lost her heart. She cannot wake up.'

'What? You . . . you're not Riku!' Sora accused.

|| Brilliant . . . figure it out now . . . ||

So I was right? Riku is only acting as a medium for someone? But who? And how can this person threaten Riku like that, if they're not here? And most importantly, how can we get our Riku back?

'The Keyhole cannot be completed so long as the last Princess of Heart still sleeps,' Riku said, apparently 'not hearing' Sora's accusations.

'The princess . . .?' Sora looked at me. 'You mean, Kairi's a princess?'

Riku floated down from a giant heart, the Keyhole. 'Yes, and without her power, the Keyhole will remain incomplete. It is time she awakened.'

Wait. I'm a princess? Me? Shy little Kairi? . . . but how? And what does he mean, 'it is time she awakened'? I'd like to be myself again. That's somewhat impossible, what you're asking.

'Whoever you are, let Riku go! Give him back his heart!'

His heart? Suddenly it became clear to me. Riku wasn't acting as a medium; someone had kidnapped his soul, using his body for his own purposes!

'But first, you must give the princess back her heart!'

Sora kneeled over, clutching his chest, right above his heart. Donald let out a worried squawk of surprise, and as Sora began to question its origin, 'Riku' interrupted, 'Don't you see yet? The princess's heart is responding. It has been there all along. Kairi's heart rests within you!'

'Kairi . . . Kairi's inside me?'

My heart's a part of Sora's? But how? When? I thought back to that fateful night, all the way back on Destiny Islands. I had been propelled towards Sora, but we had never collided. Instead, I had woken up at Hollow Bastion. Perhaps it had been then . . .

'I know all that there is to know.'

'Tell me, who are you?'

'It is I, Ansem, Seeker of Darkness!' What? Aerith, Leon, and Yuffie had said, repeatedly, that Ansem had been performing studies on the Heartless, not creating them. I had viewed Ansem as a good person, but this—this fiend had in a way kidnapped my friend, and was now looking to kill Sora as he raised Riku's blade over his head. 'So, I shall release you now, Princess. Complete the Keyhole with your power. Open the door, lead me into everlasting darkness!'

As he began to swing it down, I let out a yell, 'Sora!' Sora's head snapped up, and he swung up his Keyblade, stopping Ansem's blow.

'Forget it! You're not getting Kairi's heart!' he said, face flushed in his anger. With a yell, he shoved Ansem's blade off, slicing across his midsection.

I couldn't help wincing, just thinking that it was Riku's body that he was harming. Ansem swung his blade around, and Sora parried it. Once, twice, but Sora struck Ansem across the shoulder before it became a third. As the Keyblade was swung around to strike again, Ansem blocked, and struck Sora with a flood of blows, leaving the boy shaking. 'Heal!' Sora cried as Ansem came at him with another string of attacks. He stumbled, but managed to dive out of the way before the second one hit. He attacked Ansem from behind, using several combos and cornering him. As Sora used Ars Arcanum again, Ansem's face contorted in annoyance, before a contented smirk crossed his face. I felt a wave of hatred, mixed with torment, come from a force behind Ansem, and wondered what had just happened.

'Surrender,' Ansem said, eyes turning white. He rose from the surface of the platform a couple inches, before dashing around quickly, attacking Sora as he ran by. Sora stumbled each time he was hit, but Sora raised the Keyblade to the ceiling.

'Wind!' he shouted, a shield surrounding him. As Ansem ran by again, he was stopped, and Sora could use an attack. He threw the Keyblade in an arc at Ansem, using the opportunity to also use a bottle. As he caught the Keyblade and dashed into battle, he and Ansem neared me, and I could hear the conversation between Riku and Ansem:

|| You're not going to be able to beat him, either. You're almost gone already. You're a weakling, hiding behind others or taking advantage of them. You've never had a decent fight in your life. I've seen your reports. You killed innocent people with those stupid experiments. ||  Riku seemed to be distracting Ansem, and I could tell it was working as Sora's Keyblade connected with him again.

~ You don't have room to talk. Just think of what you did without my help. Entire worlds have collapsed within themselves because of you. Worlds fell at your feet, the strongest fighters were nothing compared to you. And I did none of that. ~

|| I—I never meant to do any of that! ||

~ You just keep telling yourself that, and maybe one day you'll believe it. ~

|| It is the truth. I didn't want to kill people. I just—I just wanted to help Kairi. || I heard the sad note in Riku's voice, and knew he was telling the truth. He'd never wanted to do anything he'd been told to, anything that I'd seen him doing.

~ You just think that. The rest of us will know the truth . . . ~

It was obvious he'd crossed a line, as Riku roared,  || Stop! ||

Ansem stopped a moment, allowing Sora to chain another barrage of attacks to him. He sprang back, cocking his head to the side as Ansem bent over. As he straightened up, there was a genuine smile on his face until he saw Sora. He let his blade drop to his side as he said, 'Hello, Sora.'

'Riku,' Sora acknowledged. 'Is it . . . is it really you?'

Riku nodded, and silence reigned between the two for a minute, before Riku broke the silence, 'I'm sorry, Sora.'

'Why?' he asked, nodding anyways.

'You know why,' Riku looked away in shame. 'I didn't want to . . . I never wanted to . . .' he trailed off.

Sora let out a sigh, shoulders slumping. 'It shouldn't be like this. It should be you and me, fighting together against the evil. Not you fighting for evil and me against you.'

'I wish it was . . .'

I do, too.

'But I suppose destiny had something else in mind.'

Sora shook his head in disbelief. 'You believe all of this was supposed to happen? You think Kairi was supposed to lose her heart? You think you were supposed to be taken by the darkness? What reason could there possibly be for this?!'

'I don't know. But . . . somehow, I know it'll all turn out fine. Look,' Riku said, cutting Sora off, 'if this hadn't happened, we wouldn't have seen all these different worlds, we wouldn't know that Kairi was really a princess, and you'd still be losing something awful in our practise matches.' He smiled slightly.

Sora stared, disbelief written on his features. 'You never were able to conceal your emotions very well,' Riku laughed.

Almost suddenly, his knees buckled, and he dropped a bit, a fleeting look of pain crossing his face. 'What's wrong?' asked Sora.

'Ansem,' Riku responded; it seemed to me he couldn't say anything more as he gritted his teeth. He took a deep breath and stated calmly, 'Sora, you've got to defeat me.'

'I can't—I can't hurt my best friend like that.' Sora protested.

'Sora, I've felt every blow you've landed on Ansem,' Riku smiled sardonically. 'One more isn't going to hurt. No,' he held up a hand as Sora rummaged in a bag (for a potion, most likely), 'you don't want to heal Ansem, right?'

'But—'

'Just do it, Sora!' Riku shouted. 'I don't care what happens to me, but you can't afford to lose!'

Sora slowly nodded.

'Seal the Keyhole, Sora. Beat the darkness. And use Ragnarok.'

'But—that's yours! I can't just start using your moves! All right, okay, I know I've used yours,' he admitted at Riku's sceptical glance. 'But I meant the ones that only you've used, your special ones.'

'Use Ragnarok,' Riku repeated. 'Now, do it!' his voice became a scream as he said the last words, I could only guess that Ansem had just done something again.

As Sora moved closer, Riku bent his head, and shut his eyes. I felt myself begin to cry, I couldn't believe that it had come to this . . .

A sword was swung up to block his blow.

It took all I had not to cry out when Ansem parried Sora's half-hearted attack. 'You think I'd let you win that easily?' he hissed, striking at Sora, who blocked relatively effortlessly. 'I've waited this long—' he began, but the rest of his sentence was cut off as the surroundings around me changed. I now stood in a rather dull, dark grey room. Having learned I couldn't much control my exit from a place if I hadn't controlled my arrival, I leaned back against the wall, waiting.

I didn't have long to wait.  On the other side of the room, a burst of multicoloured particles swirled, eventually dissipating and revealing the figure behind them—'Riku!'

Riku looked up at me and smirked a bit. 'I don't like repeating myself—or being cliché, for that matter, but—hello, Kairi.'

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. . . want to know how long this chapter is?
Too long.

This is, by far, the longest chapter, and I hope it was worth the two weeks you had to wait. I hate that I left it off with the same line I began with in chapter six of Reflections: Riku. But, **shrugs** it's funny (to me, at least) and I'm willing to bet you weren't expecting it, eh? ;)

I have slept over 18 hours in the past day. AND~ I need more sleep.
x.x
Explanation: Football game. We left at 2:00 Friday, got back around midnight. We had to be at the bazaar to work the next morning before 7:00.
And I am an insomniac.
I didn't go to sleep until 5:15, then woke up at 6:40. I worked the entire day (until 5) then went home. So that's one and a half hours of sleep for one day. I nearly fell asleep in the computer chair, typing part of this, so after that I gave up and went to bed around 5:45. My mom woke me up at midnight when she went to bed (because I went in my parents' room ^_^ cos it's got a better bed than mine) and I reset my clock for Daylight Savings Time, so it was around 11 again. I woke up at 10:45 this morning, ergo, 18 hours.
And it was heaven.

Thanks to the following reviewers!

~ DClick ~
Canon = bad. **hisseses** Canon means that Ginny and Draco can't get together .
And R/K is the most adorable . . . **squee!** See, Kairi didn't really mean the drawing as a sign of love, she means that their destinies are intertwined already, and she wants to share the paopu with both of her best friends so that they'll always remain friends only it doesn't work and Sora—**breaks off** PLOT BUNNY! **chases it** Come back here, you little . . .
No, Riku, don't kiss DC, kiss Kairi! ^_^
Riku: Okay.
Ari: O.O . . . **tries not to break out laughing and fails miserably**
And school = t3h 3v1l.

~ _ | AeRiS | _ ~
Ehh, not too good on the updating soon thing . . . but, glad to hear you think it's great! Comments like that make me pleased! ^_^

~ YamiMarita ~
Yay, it was worth the wait! **cheers** And yes, Tinkerbell was jealous of Wendy in the game, too, lol!
And it figures that as soon as we all get the hand of the Riku/Kairi/Sora/Ansem thing, and we won't be using it! **breaks out laughing**
Fwee, hopefully this one was worth the wait as well, but neift. **makes your hands stop clapping** No clapping for Ari! Ish not worth it!

~ Zoshi the Confused ~
Yesyes, stupid college! **kicks college, then kicks highschool.** And stupidstupid highschool. Ish evil.
And on the topic of 'my friend likes Kairi more than I do', I give you this:
Ari: Me no like Kairi. Es evil.
Lib: I like her more than you.
The way she said it made it sound like she liked Kairi more than she likes me XDXD and I flat out hated Kairi after she said, 'Isn't Riku with you? Oh, well, he'll be okay. He can take care of himself.' And she says this after Hollow Bastion, and she knew that he was being controlled by Ansem!
Meesa like when Kairi ish with Riku **nods** Supporting R/K! ^_^

~ Mizutaka ~
ff.n ish evil sometimes. Simple as that ^_^
Sophomore party, sophomore party! **dancing still** We get interims for the second grading period next week O.O Aww, you ish sick? **hands you a potion and curses her lousy typing today** No see scary nurse lady!
Longlonglonghardtowrite chapter means good, yesyes? **ish hopeful**
You allowed to update slow, cos you say that you do and that there is no set time for your chapters to come out. I be stupid and say that chapters be out in one week and cannot hold to that. But, ish alright!
Ansem ish mean. **kicks Ansem** He shouldn't be saying such mean things to Riku. Of course everyone worries about him! **glomps the Riku-kun**
I forgot about having Kairi try to communicate to the evil. V.V wish I hadn't, though . . . **sigh** But next chapter ish up now! Happyhappy! **squee!**
I want unedited DVDs!! **goes straight to discountanimedvds.com** **SQUEE!!** I want to see Yuugiou, Shaman King, YuYu Hakusho, Boogiepop Phantom, Fruits Basket, **continues listing animes**
I have not seen Independence Day. Must watch sometime!
However, I will have seen Jesus Christ Superstar and Phantom of the Opera soon, of my own free will **beams** I have the strangest interests of anyone I know ^_^
Fwee!!

Sorry that you didn't find out why Kairi can person-jump and hear people's thoughts, and you didn't see the awakening, but hey, it gives me a bit more to put into the next chapter (which was going to be horribly short for awhile XD)

Don't be surprised if the next chapter doesn't come out for another two weeks, as I'm taking forever writing these chapters . . . and plotbunnies come at the most terrible times!!

Til' then!