For What Life Has Given Unto Me
A Kingdom Hearts AU fic by: NaruNaru.O.k.
Summary: AU fic (alternate universe). One melancholy life. Riku was adopted into Sora's family after his mom died. All seemed well until the day Sora had a seizure…why is life so unfair?
Reviews:
thekeybladegirl- sorry that I put these two through pain. I like them too!
Annjirika- sorry it wasn't to your liking maybe I'll get my friend to rewrite it for me with "mucho" detail.
airbenderSora- if you want to learn more about epilepsy, tell me in a review and I'll e-mail you the page alright? (sorry to keep my email secret) And just because your friend had one seizure doesn't mean that they are epileptic, just in case you were worried.
Thank you for all the reviews (many thanks to those who reviewed at my Xanga also! Enjoy the second part to this tragic tale)
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Part Two: GravityBeen a long road to follow
Been there and gone tomorrow
Without saying goodbye to yesterday
Are the memories I hold still valid?
Or have the tears deluded them?
Maybe this time tomorrow
The rain will cease to follow
And the mist will fade into one more today
Something somewhere out there keeps calling
Am I going home?
Will I hear someone singing solace to the silent moon?
Zero gravity, what's it like?
Am I alone?
Is somebody there beyond these heavy aching feet?
Still the road keeps on telling me to go on…
Something is pulling me
I feel the gravity…of it all
GRAVITY—Maaya Sakamoto
Due to speech impairment and not being able to pay attention for more than ten minutes, Sora was pulled out of school. Mom's friend, a home school teacher, was willing to teach Sora whatever she could. It was really hard to explain to teachers and classmates about what was happening to Sora. The hardest part to accept was….he was only sixteen.
I don't even think Sora even knew I walked into his room at that moment. He didn't even react to the sound of the door opening; he just continued to stare outside his window with hazed eyes.
It was the saddest…no…most painful scene.
You just couldn't imagine Sora without that stupid grin plastered over his face. It would be a sin in you didn't. It was in his nature to do so.
The painful truth to engulf was…that I had lost him.
Sora had the longest seizure in his history that fateful month. He shook so badly and began to bleed from his nose…I was so sure that I was going to shake him in an attempt to snap him out of it…
I waited and waited for it to pass…God it must've been 4 minutes already.
And when he had stopped seizing, I took him to his room so that he could sleep it off…
He wouldn't wake up the next day…or the next…
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At the hospital, mom was talking with the doctors again while I sat next to his bed.
Last time we were here, the nurses said he probably wouldn't make it after the next seizure.
"Sora…do you hear me?"
"Don't give up, I'm right here with you." I said while taking his hand.
"Just please, come back to us."
No response.
I really had lost him. He wasn't even conscious anymore!
Then, not ever since my real mother died, within the room filled with live saving contraptions, along the beeping monitors, alongside my brother……..I cried.
Everything I loved was being ripped away from me. Why?
"Don't…cry…."
My God…At the sound of his hoarse voice, I jerked my head up to find him looking at me.
"Sora…just rest!"
But he didn't stop. "Riku…don't be sad…"
Why! You're dying! How can you be so calm?"I'll still be in your heart…and in mom's too."
"No Sora, you'll make it though this. Don't go!"
And with all the strength he could muster, he smiled at me and took one last deep breath.
"You will always be…the brother….i love…and…a…dore………"
And with that, the hand I was holding became cold and relaxed. I just sat there stupefied and dumbfounded.
In fact, I sat in that same position for the next hour, thinking that this was all a dream.
Sora wasn't dead….he just COULDN'T be.
He was full of so much life! I couldn't bear looking at his lifeless face anymore!
I didn't notice that mom was standing across from me on the other side of the bed.
"Honey…"
"Why did he have to die…? He could've had a full life, and smile like he always does! So why was he taken away from us!"
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"Riku," she said and she came to embrace me, "it's alright. We have to learn to let go…Even if it's not fair. So please don't feel so sad, Sora wouldn't like it for you to feel so depressed over him."
I need to hear these words…the same comforting ones she said to me when my real mother died. I wanted….i wanted to be loved. But now, Sora was gone. The one who made me part of this family had left us so early. He even had the strength to put his soul back into his body and smile at me one last time. I feel that I don't deserve all this love just for me…
Although it wasn't fair…we shouldn't be somber over it.
"Mom…I'm gonna miss him so much…"
"Yeah, babe." She said between soft sobs. "Me, too…"
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As my tears keep overflowing, one after another,
I can't see your last smile through the blur
Don't go! Don't go! Stay with me
Light breaks through the sky
I'm so insignificant, but
I loved you with all my soul more than anyone
Thank you for all of the precious feelings
That you gave to me
"At that time, I just watched for ages as the vapor trail vanished…"
Don't forget
You're not alone
Even if we part, our hands will still be linked
Even if something fades away, something will live again
The smile you gave me as we parted, was
Your message for me to live on and triumph
Someday, surely, we'll meet again
And be together
No matter how far apart we are, we'll still be able to gaze at each other's eyes
Let's bet everything on all our hopes and dreams
Let's promise each other
That we'll hold on to the intensity
Of that day…
And live in the future that blooms in tomorrow…
YUBIWA- Maaya Sakamoto
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a/n: again short, sorry…I told you this wouldn't be long. Just a short story cut into two parts. This would look so much better in manga (currently in the process of processing…if that makes any sense). Please tell me how you think about it.
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