A true love

Disclaimer: I do not own kingdom hearts blah blah blah…

Chapter twelve: The Finale

Marina's POV

I woke up, and looked at the clock. It was ten a.m. I tried to get up but couldn't, It was like something was weighing me down. I looked around and…

"EEP!" I said, trying not to be loud.

I figured out what was weighing me down, an arm. But not just any arm.

'What's Riku doing here? Let's see… Fight scene, fight scene, tired, fight scene, home, falling down, carried up the stairs, passed out… Nothing out of the ordinary… Then why the heck is Riku laying there! Hmm… What happened AFTER I passed out? RIKU!' I thought.

"Riku… WAKE UP!" I said.

"AHH!" Riku said wakening up immediately.

"What where you doing there…" I asked him.

"I fell asleep…" He said.

"Why was I sleeping in your bed with you sleeping in your bed?" I asked.

"Um… I carried you to my room because you almost passed out coming through the door, and I guess I passed out after I put you in my bed…" He said.

I eyed him suspiciously.

"Are you sure that's ALL that happened." I said.

He began to blush.

"You don't think I'd do something like that?" He said.

"Hehe… I guess you're right." I said. "What was I thinking?"

Just then…

"Riku, do you know where Marina i- OH HOLY CRAP!" Came Sora's voice as he walked into Riku's room.

"Wait! It's not what it looks like!" Riku and I said together.

By that time Sora was halfway out the door. I summoned a wall of fire blocking Sora's exit.

"OK, Sora, I know what your thinking. I thought the same thing when I woke up." I said.

"Hey! Ok, what she's trying to say is we are both still virgins." Riku said.

"Well I didn't know. You do like her a lot, Riku," Sora said.

"How about we just forget everything, Ok?" Riku said.

"I like that." I said.

"Ok." Sora added.

So we decided to go outside.

"Hey, where have you guys been?" Kairi said. "We where gonna play a game without ya!"

"Yay! I love games!" I said.

"C'mon! To the secret place!" Kairi said.

In the secret place…

"What game are we gonna play?" Riku asked.

"And where's Wakka?" Sora added.

"I dunno." Tidus said. "Selephie?"

"Me nether." Selephie said. "Oh, Marina, I forgot to give you this yesterday."

She handed me a pin. It was a red pin with a black shape on it. I didn't know what the shape was exactly, but it's the thought that counts.

"Thank you." I said smiling.

"Put it on!" She urged.

I put it on; she was nice to think of me.

"What game are we gonna play?" Riku asked again.

Kairi and Selephie smiled at each other then answered in unison, "Spin the bottle."

"WHAT?" Everyone except for the two girls said.

Kairi smirked as she got out an empty bottle.

"I'M GETTING OUTTA HERE!" Riku said running for the exit.

"For that YOU have to go first Riku." Selephie said.

"WHAT?" Riku screamed.

"C'mon!" Kairi and Selephie said grabbing his arms.

"Be glad we're not playing 7 minutes in heaven." Selephie said.

"Or 21 minutes in heaven." Kairi added giggling at a game no one has ever heard of.

"Better just do what they say…" Sora said sitting down." You know how persistent they are."

With a resistant "Hump" he sat down. When everyone else sat down he had to spin.

"Do I really have to do this?" Riku asked.

"YES!" Kairi and Selephie said.

He moaned and spun. Spinning, spinning, spinning. It began to slow down. It stopped on…

"Marina?" Riku asked.

"Me?" I asked too.

"KISS, KISS, KISS!" Kairi and Selephie began to chant. Soon everyone was chanting, except for me and Riku that is.

I moved closer to him, and so did he. He slowly leaned in and…

"Get on with it already!" Selephie said.

Riku and I both glared at her and then went back to what we where doing. He ever so sloooooooowly leaned in. As he got closer, he started to blush, besides the fact that he had already kissed me twice before.

As he continued to move slowly towards me I said, "What are you waiting for, an invitation?" Then grabbed the back of his head, pulled him closer and kissed him.

After. I moved back to my spot and noticed something, the bottle moved with me. I looked at it and then realized something: The pin! I took off the pin and moved it around. The bottle followed.

I glared at Selephie and Kairi who just put on innocent smiles.

"You did that on purpose…" I said to them.

"Um, well… kinda…" They said.

I chucked the pin out of the secret place and we continued our game.

After we where done, we went back outside.

I walked with Riku out to the Island. (The one with the bent poapu fruit tree on it.)

Riku's POV

When we got to the island, I took my usual space on the poapu tree, Marina sat next to me.

"What is this?" She asked.

"This is the poapu tree." I said.

"I never heard of a poapu tree, what is it?" She asked.

"It's a tree that grows poapu fruit." I said climbing u and getting a poapu fruit. "See?"

"It looks like an apple-lemon star." She said giggling.

"Yeah," I said. "Is said that I two people share it, there destinies become intertwined."

"Really?" She asked.

"I don't know, I've never tried it." I said.

I looked at her for a second, she put her hair up in a ponytail today. I thought that she looked better with her hair down but I still like her this way. She was also wearing the necklace I gave her.

"Riku, want to try it?" She said. "Besides its just superstition, I don't think it will actually do anything."

"Yeah, let's try it, just for the heck of it." I said.

We both stared at it for a minute. Then Marina said, "So, do you wanna go first?"

"Um… okay…" I said.

I took a bite of it, it tasted how it looked, apple-lemony. I passed it to Marina and she took a bite. I felt weird for a second, then I kissed her. I don't know why but I did. It was weird.

"I don't know why I just did that…" I said.

I looked at the half eaten poapu fruit.

'Maybe… NAH! It's just a superstition… isn't it?' I thought.

"Marina?" I asked. "There's something that's been bothering me for a while."

"What is it?" She asked.

"Well, how did you get here." I said.

"Let's see." She began. "I was angry at my father. So one day I decided to run away. I stole a gummi ship and took off. I had a technical difficulty after a while and got throne from my ship. The next thing I knew I was in your room."

"I see." I said. "So Marin-" I was cut off by a strange drawing type thing appearing above our heads.

"I'm not here." She whispered urgently then ran to the seaside shack and hid.

A beam came down form the strange formation and someone stepped out. This man had long Silver hair and a sword. He was wearing mostly black. He had one black wing, much like Marina's.

"I'm looking for my daughter. Her name is Marina." He said pulling out a picture. "Have you seen her?"

"Never heard of her." I lied.

He eyed me suspiciously.

"Very well then…" And with that he left.

I ran to the seaside shack, went inside to find Marina.

"He's gone." I said to her.

"Good." She replied.

"Was that your father?" I asked.

"Yes, his name is Sephiroth." She said.

She smiled. "I don't want to leave. It's great here."

"I wouldn't want you to leave either." I said.

I raped my arms around her, leaned in and kissed her. We stayed that way for about two minutes when…

"Riku, Marina, where are…" Sora said before he saw us.

I broke away and hit Sora on the head.

"Sora, you idiot!" I yelled.

"What did I do?" He asked.

Marina ran up and hit him on the head too.

"You ruined a romantic moment!" She yelled.

"We where just looking for you…" He said.

"OUT!" Marina and I yelled in unison.

He ran out the door. When he got out I could faintly make out voices…

"Did you find them?"

"Yeah, they didn't want to be disturbed."

"Aw… Cute!"

"Not for me, I got hit on the head twice! Maybe the whole search thing was a bad idea"

"They know where here." I whispered to her.

"Where should we go?" She whispered back.

I thought for a second. "Follow me." I whispered then went up the stairs.

I went outside and turned left. I jumped off the bridge, Marina flew, I led her to a door and went threw. We where on a platform and I walked over to a wooden bridge. I jumped from where I was standing to another place on the bridge. I continued walking, Marina followed but the place I had jumped to collapsed under her. Lucky she flew before she could fall.

"Maybe I should have warned you about that… Sorry." I said.

"It's okay. I'm fine." She said.

We walked off the bridge and we where on a piece of land. I walked up a short flight of stairs, came to a ladder and climbed up it. Marina flew.

"Now you're just showing off." I said.

She giggled a little. "So what if I am?"

She sat down at the top, next to me. We kissed for a few minutes. Then, after we broke away, I grabbed her waist with one arm, grabbed the handle with the other, (The thing you use to slide down. I don't know what it's called so I'll call it that.) And we slid down the rope. It wasn't easy for me, thought.

When we got to the bottom, Marina laughed.

"Do it again!" She said.

Then the clouds darkened, a ball of darkness appeared and Ansem stepped out.

"You again?" Marina asked.

"Yes, and I think you'll be glad to know that I have token over your kingdom. It was easy with my brother out looking for you." Ansem said.

"What?" She asked surprised. "Stop fooling around, don't make me hurt you."

"Go ahead, try." Ansem said, a smug grin playing on his face.

"I-I can't move." She said.

I tried to move too.

"What?" I asked.

Ansem walked up to Marina. A heartless following him. He motioned the heartless to get Marina. The heartless carried her to the dark ball that he just came from.

"RIKU!" She screamed as she was carried off. "Help me!"

Tears started forming in her eyes. Ansem grinned at her, a hopeless girl, crying. They stepped through the ball of darkness and vanished.

I could move again and ran to were the ball of darkness was. I clenched the ground.

"Marina…" I whispered.

"What happened?" Sora said running up to me. "Where's Marina?"

I stood up, my vision blurred by tears.

"He took her…" I said softly then yelled. "Ansem took her!"

"What?" Sora asked.

"You heard me! He paralyzed us somehow then had a friggin heartless carry her off!" I yelled, tears streaming freely down my cheeks. "She's gone!"

"Riku…" Sora said coming up to me.

I pushed him aside and ran past, tears falling.

I could have saved you…

I could have helped you…

I let you down…

I promise I'll find you…

THE END

Authors mindless ramblings…

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