You Don't Know Me Anymore ♥
By: Lakija X
Author's Notes: As promised, Riku is the narrator for most of this chapter of the story. Yay! Happy happy joy joy!!!
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I do not own Kingdom Hearts, or the characters… though I wish I owned Riku, of course. I can do without the other guys… just Riku… He's gorgeously beautiful!!! -
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Riku: Tch… Whatever…
I stood in the street, watching the darkness murmur about. Little conniving shadows were running through buildings and underneath the ground. They had totally taken over a dark metropolis in the middle of Kingdom Hearts.
My hands twitched with the need to rid the city of those vermin. Stupid Heartless… I summoned forth my keyblade.
Anyway… I flipped my blade over in the air. That alone made the Heartless stop moving about. They all looked over at me, wide eyed and all that.
"Come on… I have all day…" I muttered to them. This… was my life.
The Heartless scrambled across one another, trying their best to get at me. Each one wanting to take a stab at me. No such luck! (lol)
The first one who managed to get a foot in front of me felt the toughest of my attacks up close. I unleashed a devastating amount of power on all of three hundred Heartless. I watched each one of them writhe in pain without an ounce of emotion. This was my day job. I wouldn't mind quitting it…
Getting into those boring details of the rest of my night, so just sit tight. I jumped up into the air, landing hard on a hundred-story skyscraper. A superhuman trait I had learned. Don't ask.
After the Heartless were gone for the time being, I looked at the street. That's why I was in the metropolis. To see someone. I didn't wait too long. My guest was right on cue…
"Where's Sora?" he asked. That was the question.
"You tell me," I replied coolly. "You know the answer to that question. So give me the answer now. You know, it's called sharing."
"Why don't you earn the answer. Because… I thought you already knew."
The tall person standing below me looked up at me expectantly. He was amused. I hate when I amuse people… without a joke I mean. (lol)
I wish people could just give a straight answer. And again, no such luck. The young man just smiled. I wasn't ready for anything like what happened next.
He jumped up to the building speeding through the air like a bat out of hell. I stepped back some to give him room. As he wanted, he made a big crater in the tower's roof. Show off…
"Okay. How much is the fine you're going to have to pay for vandalism?" I asked. Of course, I have a sense of humor!
He just smiled. "You really are arrogant … It's why I'm only here to tell you to stop."
"Tch… whatever…" I rolled my eyes. He didn't see of course.
"In a little while you're going to feel something that you thought you'd gotten rid of!" he yelled angrily.
Before I could reply, the guy swung his twin blades past my head. Thank goodness I ducked. The blades cut right through a satellite dish.
He kept swiping at me until I was nearly at the edge of the building. No way… I wasn't going down there.
I blocked his next attack using my keyblade. The clinking noise rung in my ears. It reminded me of how that duck's voice echoed those painful words… "You're not coming with us…"
If I'd been able to go with Sora and those two blockheads, then I probably wouldn't be in this situation.
Getting angry at those memories, I began to fight back.
I don't feel like getting into the details. Do you?
Anyway, we clashed blades atop the building for almost thirty minutes, until we both felt a rumble.
The ground beneath the building began to shake, and the world around us turned into a large calamity!
So fast… that's how it happened.
"Hey! What the heck is this?!" I asked, trying to keep my footing.
The guy laughed, looking around as if he'd been waiting for this for a long time. "Finally it's happening! Now I shall unlock your heart!!!"
I stepped away from him. He was beginning to look a bit… well… insane. He was laughing like he was on crack, so I tried to get away from him.
"What are you talking about?! I'm the only one who can control that keyblade!" I said, trying to prove my power.
He laughed. I looked at my hand, which still clutched the keyblade tightly. He couldn't get it, right? Right?
Wrong, of course.
The blade vanished as soon as I laid my eyes upon it. I looked at my empty hand in bewilderment. The other man now had my red and black cats-eye keyblade in his possession, and I had only my fists!
"What the f#k! How did you…?"
"I have more power than you do. That's all. And now it's over…" That man brought back my blade with so much power that it went slowly at first, his blow was too fast for me too see. I was hit in the chest. It penetrated my coat.
I was knocked to the ground, but I scrambled up, making sure I was on an equal level with him. I didn't feel anything. Didn't even flinch. Because it never touched my heart. It got as far as my shirt, because I had leaned back before impact. I know, I know. I'm quick right?
"What?!" he exclaimed. I looked at him, trying to figure out if he was really surprised or not. He was.
"Where's your heart? You don't have one…"
"I do… you missed," I smiled. Arrogance is what really killed the cat. I am not a cat though! Heh
He became enraged after that bit, and he rushed at me, blade aimed toward my chest again. I grabbed it, trying to aim it elsewhere. We struggled for a mere thirty seconds when the bad happened. Unfortunately, the "elsewhere" was my abdomen.
It dug into my flesh painfully. I clenched my teeth together tightly, as not to yell out. I could feel darkness entering my body through my stomach.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't know what really happened after that. I may have passed out, and fell off the side of the skyscraper right into the abyss-portal-thingy. Or died. But either way, I ended up in Destiny Islands.
(Riku: Romance. It's finally here. Yeah yeah…)
Kairi: You're…
I came into my room later that day. Riku had passed out from pain, I guess. It took me a while to get him in the room. Serenity had not awaken yet.
I removed his long black jacket first, then his t-shirt. Then I stifled a scream. No, there was not an alien growing out of his torso. It was just that… I'd never really seen abs like his… I resisted the urge to touch, and instead folded his clothes. Then, I removed the blindfold from Riku's face.
When did he get so… well…handsome? I touched his face involuntarily. Very smooth, that it was! His skin had become extremely pale over the years, but I knew that a few days back in the sun, and is skin would blaze it's peachy golden color again. His face had mature dramatically, his cheekbones developed.
I went to my washroom to get a towel after I recovered. While I wet the towel with hot water, I heard Riku stirring in the room. Yes… interrogation time.
He was moving an awful lot, so I wrung the towel a little, and made my way into my bedroom once again.
Riku was sitting up on the bed, rubbing the back of his head.
"Hey… where am I?" Riku muttered. He felt his arms, realizing that his shirt was off. He listened intently for a second as I walked through the doorway, then he looked straight at me.
"Kairi…? Where are you?" he asked.
My heart stopped for a second. Where was I? Did he say that?
"What… did you say?" I asked in a small voice.
I clutched the towel in my hand. Water dripped down to the floor.
"Come here Kairi," he instructed, ignoring my question.
My eyes widened.
"Please…" he pleaded. I couldn't refuse.
I slowly walked toward Riku, watching as his hand extended towards me. When I reached him, I touched his fingertips.
"Kairi… I haven't seen you in three years, you know that?" he said.
"You saw me earlier," I pointed out. I mean… he was seeing me right?
"No… I didn't," he replied. He took his cold hands away from mine. For once, Riku's eyes met mine. That's when I knew. When I knew why he was acting like this.
His beautiful, almost unreal sea colored eyes were vacant. He was blind. Blind.
"Oh Riku…" I whispered, my eyes becoming moist.
"Hey, hey! Don't get all sad on me," Riku said, grabbing my hands again. Riku's eyes wandered away from me. If he'd been able to see, his eyes would have been resting on my door.
"This is all because of the three years I spent in KH. My eyes have been readjusted for the dark only…"
"How!?" I exclaimed.
Riku smirked slightly, his beautiful eyes coming back to me. His smile seemed to make up for his free eyes.
"Don't you worry about that. They're suppose to come back to normal if I feel something. Something that I no longer have. Whatever that means…"
I smiled. That was the Riku I knew.
"You acted so cool on the bridge. I knew it was you, but you've changed some…" I said.
Riku looked past me. "Yeah… I guess my coolness has matured right along with me huh?" He then proceeded to force his body to stand upright. I helped him, of course.
"Ah man! I hate getting hurt. It hurts!" Riku yelled, laughing. I giggled at him. We both had a fit until he began to get tired.
At that point, Serenity had awakened. We all had a nice meeting. It was much less awkward than the meeting that would follow…
Riku: Let Bygones be Bygones
Serenity was trying to bring justice to my hair. Yeah… right… It's already beautiful to me.
Kairi complemented me on how much softer it had become over the years.
"It's so silky! How do you do it?" she asked, ecstatic.
"I just let it be. I think the Heartless may have brushed it every morning while I was sleeping…"
We had a good laugh at that one.
"So kid! You and Sora used to be BFFs yeah?" Serenity asked.
"Yeah… we were great friends… and that's all…"
"What do you mean, that's all?" Serenity asked.
"I mean that… I dunno… I have a feeling some people think that we are more than friends… that's disgusting to me!" I replied, shaking my head.
"Like, who?" the lady pressed.
"… I don't know… It's just like- ouch!" Stupid comb…
"Sorry sweetie… everyone know that Sora likes Kairi. Not you… like that I mean."
I snorted a little, but masked it with a laugh.
Serenity laughed too. Kairi however, did not. She looked kind of red though. I don't know If it was because she didn't want me to know that, or if she didn't like the fact that it was true.
"What's up Kairi?" I asked.
She just rubbed her arm. "Nothing… your hair is getting nice…"
I felt my hair. "What are you doing?" I asked.
Serenity told me that they were called "Cornrows…"
"Where did you learn them?" I asked.
"Back home on Earth kiddo. They're a big hit. The girls would murder you to get a hold of your head!" Serenity laughed.
"Oh? Were the girls sexy?" I asked, thinking of ways to get to Earth.
"I used to be one of 'em. Now I'm an adult… and I look twice as fine!"
Me and Serenity laughed for a long time, talking about miscellaneous topics. Mostly I wanted to get to Earth asap, but Serenity told me to stick around here.
Kairi had left already.
And she came back with him.
"Hey… Sora.," I greeted, careful not to look directly into his face. In fact, I pretended to be occupied with my black gloves.
"Riku! When did you get here!? Kairi had told me that she had a surprise for me."
"I'm the surprise! Glad to see me?" I laughed.
I couldn't see what was happening, but I'm sure Sora almost cried.
"Riku… I tried to find you…" Sora said, choking on various words. Sorry I'm seriously lacking too many visual details. I mean… how much of it can a blind person give? (lol)
"What's wrong Sora? You know that you're my best friend, no matter what happens between us…"
"But… I thought that you didn't like me or something like that," Sora pointed out. His voice had become much more mature over the years, and I felt like I could totally take him seriously. (lol)
"Come on Sora. You know that no matter what goes on, I'll need for you to keep me even-tempered. You see how I went berserk back then. If I'd come with you… well… maybe I would have been slightly less loud…" I explained, throwing a bit of humor into the situation.
Sora laughed, and he smacked my hand playfully, following that up with a hug. But I couldn't play off my blndness any longer.
"Listen… Sora. I have to tell you something… Please don't be upset…"
Author's Notes: Hey! Wasn't that interesting? I though so. Riku getting cornrows and what not. I threw that in because I like cornrows, and they are popular around here, where I live. And Riku has the style that goes with it. They'll probably come down before the story's over, but hey!
Riku doesn't seem that interested in Kairi does he? He seems as if he's playing everything off. Cool cat, that he is!
Next Chapter: Plans for Surprises
Sora and Kairi plan a surprise party for Riku, and Riku is getting a well-needed tan and is regaining his friendships with his old buddies. But there isn't fun in the sun when Kairi finds herself falling in and out of love with two young men… one more than the other… She must juggle a one-sided relationship with Sora while trying desperately to figure out her feelings for the platinum-haired boy with the chock'let smile, Riku.
-Lakija X)