Author's Note: This chapter will pretty much be based on Riku. Thanks for all the people who reviewed!
Disclaimer: I don't own Disney or Square. And I don't own KH.
Chapter 3:
"You worthless piece of shit!" Sora's mother yelled. Riku stood there perfectly still, getting blown by words.
"It's been a year – no, more than a year and you still haven't found him?" she continued to yell.
"Mrs. Hikari, I tried as best as I –"
"Your best is not good enough!" Mrs. Hikari interrupted. "For ten years, we gave you food and shelter, and I expected you to take care of Sora. Instead, you let him escape! And now you've lost your job because your best just wasn't good enough! I don't even know why we bothered to adopt you, but now out of the house!" Riku glared at her.
"You can't just do that, you baka!" Riku yelled back. Mrs. Hikari walked up to him and grabbed a fistful of his silver hair.
"Do as I say or I'll order policemen to get you out," she hissed and threw Riku to the door. She grabbed the knob and turned it, opening the door and kicked Riku out. "And don't come back!" She slammed the door shut.
"Bastard," Riku said under his breath.
"I still don't fancy shopping," Tidus whined. "My back's aching." He set Selphie's yellow shopping bag and stretched his back. The rest were already waiting at the water fountain.
"Did any of you see Sora or Roxas?" Cloud asked wearily. "They said they were waiting here." He was sitting on the black marble floor, leaning against the fountain wall.
"No," Tidus and Selphie replied. Selphie was currently licking on her rainbow lollipop. She checked her watch.
"It's time already. Why aren't they here?" Selphie said. She threw her lollipop into the same trashcan that had all of Sora's napkins.
They waited for another hour, but the two friends didn't come, and the team gave up.
"Maybe they left us," Yuffie said and shrugged. "It's getting dark. I need to go. Thanks Leon." Leon only deepened his frown. "Well, maybe we should come by at Roxas's house."
So they did, but no one was there. And the door was locked.
"Where the hell's Roxas and Sora? " Leon asked. "I highly doubt they're in the mall judging by their attitude this morning."
"They aren't home either, and if I know those two, they would have not been kidnapped," Aerith commented. "Where ever they are, I'm sure they're not in trouble."
Riku sighed. He spent most of his money on the cruise ship. He was really eager to get off of Destiny Island. And everywhere he walked was the picture of Sora, the same fourteen-year-old Sora that used to be his friend.
And now he was alone, and he had no idea what to do. He was independent on everything, but he's never been alone. He hasn't seen the world since he was six. And a lot of things changed.
Riku handed his money into the machine and reached out for the blue ticket that was getting transferred. But the machine stopped halfway through, and the ticket wads stuck.
"Aw, shoot," Riku murmured and tried to pull it out, only to rip it to half. "Dang it!" He kicked the machine and punched, but it didn't respond. He kicked it one more time before giving up.
"Damn, damn it all." He gave the ticket machine one last kick before giving up and moving himself to the bench by it.
Now what to do… Riku looked at the rest of his money. He didn't have enough money to buy one from the other ticket machine.
"I'm cursed," Riku said to himself. He stared at the stone floor and sat there for two hours, three hours…
What's this, some kind of paper? Riku said as he spotted a rectangular like object on the bottom. He took it and flipped it over. Unbelievable… Sora threw this away?
It was envelope that only Riku knew better than anyone else. He gave it Sora on his last birthday, and since Sora was always locked in his room, Riku decided to slip it under his door.
I wanted to say happy birthday to you, but I see that your mom locked you into your bedroom, again. So I'll say it in this envelope, Happy Birthday.
-Riku
P.S. I gave you something else.
The thing that Riku gave to Sora was still in the envelope, all rusty from the rain. It was a necklace with white seashells on it, and a really little mermaid at the middle. Riku had found it in the attic when he was cleaning. He decided to give it to Sora, since he was an ocean lover.
He lost it; he only dropped it by accident. He's still my friend, Riku thought to himself, thinking that Sora didn't abandon him. But the weather didn't agree. It rumbled, as if telling him that the friendship was over.
Riku stored it in his pocket and continued sitting there, ignoring his own stomach, the clouds and the people gossiping, but one topic caught his attention.
"Seriously, what if something bad happened to them?" a chirpy girl asked worriedly. "I mean, shouldn't we do something?"
A woman's voice started talking. "Look Selphie, I'm sure they're fine."
"And what if Sora's parents somehow did find Sora and Roxas and took them away?" a boy said.
Riku looked up and found a group talking. They were buying tickets at the other ticket machine. The chirpy brunette started talking again. "Yeah, Aerith, you can't act like there's nothing wrong."
"But even if there was something wrong, we can't do anything about it," the woman in a pink dress replied. She took the tickets out and gave them to the group. "Come on, we'll just have to wait. I mean, something would have happened if Sora's parents took them away. Maybe there would have been people taking down the posters by now if they did." She picked up her shopping bag again and started walking away.
"Wait!" Riku yelled. They all turned around and looked at him.
"Hello dude with the silver hair," the blondish boy said rudely.
"Don't be so mean," Selphie said.
"Uhh… well…" Riku stopped. Selphie crossed her hands.
"You look familiar…" Selphie whispered suspiciously. She looked for something in her purse and took out a leather book. She opened it and scanned through it.
"No, no, no, nah… I know who you are!" Selphie exclaimed. "You're Riku Honda, you are currently sixteen years of age, you have been missing for ten years total, your mom and dad died a long time ago, you were an orphan, you had silver hair when you were little and aqua blue eyes." She peered at Riku. "Yep, that's him. One of the most wanted in the Orphanage Department."
A ninja-looking girl snatched it out of the brunette's hands. "How the heck did you get all these information about every single orphanage?" she asked.
Selphie discourteously took it back. "For your information, my father works with the Orphanage Department. And he's given me the book so I can help him find the missing people." She slammed the book onto the girl's head. "Be dead, Yuffie." The girl fell flat onto the floor.
The boy with spiky hair sighed with the brown haired man. "Disastrous, we have to control Selphie sometime," they both said in unison.
"Wait!" Selphie said so piercingly that everyone at the sidewalk had to put their hands on over their ears. "How did you escape from the Orphanage Department anyway? My dad's the best looking over people."
"I – well, I – I mean," Riku hesitated over his words. "Well, I kinda got kidnapped. Sor- I mean a family came over at night and took me away."
"Someone kidnapped you," Selphie said, dumbfounded. "You mean someone kidnapped you." Riku nodded slowly.
"And, well, I eavesdropped a little on your conversation, and I'm trying to find Sora right now."
"Ooh, ooh! Do you know where Sora is?" Selphie asked excitedly.
"Uhh, no," Riku said. Selphie's face fell.
"Come on, Selphie! For the last time, Aerith told you that nobody knows!" the spiky hair kid said.
"Shut up, Cloud! I don't need your opinion! Sora was already lost once, and now he's lost again, and this time he's with Roxas!" Selphie said angrily. "Next, I'll see all of you disappearing."
"Calm down," Cloud sighed exasperatedly.
"Sorry, I'm just concerned. I'm a big worrier, ain't I?" said Selphie.
"Actually," the brown haired man started, "he's telling you to shut up."
"No he isn't, Leon! You and your big, stupid mouth," Selphie murmured vehemently.
"Are you guys telling me that you don't know where Sora is?" Riku asked. Selphie nodded.
"They said they were going to wait inside the mall, but when we got back from shopping, he wasn't there. I'm worried."
Aerith put one of her hands behind Selphie's back. "Why don't we check back here tomorrow? If they're not back at their houses, we'll keep checking." She turned to Riku. "And I guess Riku will have to stay with us for now. He's legal enough to live on his own. He doesn't need to be in the Orphanage Department anymore."
"Ariel, Ariel," Ansem chuckled. He was holding the trident, and it was about to slash Ariel. "What a wonder. Do you know what I'm about to do?"
"No, but I bet it's something not good," Ariel said tensely. She looked over her shoulders and tried to unchain herself from the wall, but it was not use.
"Ha, ha! I love seeing you struggle. Why not just let you free? You're right, I am doing something not good," Ansem said.
"Then why are you doing it? What? So you can be pleased seeing humans dieing? I that what you want?" Ariel asked angrily.
"No, but enough talk about that," Ansem continued. "I need you as a part of my plan. And I need a human. But not just any ordinary human. I need someone, someone like your little human brat."
"You mean Sora?" Ariel said. "No, he's not going to get involved in this!"
"Sorry, but last time I checked, it's me holding the trident, not Triton, and so you have no control over me," Ansem said darkly. He aimed the point of the trident at Ariel, and a few seconds later Ariel fell asleep.