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Silver locks clung to a pale face as water trickled down a lean body. Aqua eyes watched the blue tiles of the shower in an unfocused haze. 'What the hell is happening to me? What the hell am I doing? What the hell are you doing to me? Sora...'
A soft knock interrupted the stupor of the pale man as a voice drifted through the heavy wooden door. "Riku? Riku are you alright in there?" The soft voice of his younger sister called out anxiously.
Riku winced at the sound of the worry that tainted her voice and called over the din of the running water, "I'm fine Kai, I'll be right out." There was silence on the other end for a few seconds before the redhead replied, "okay."
Riku let out a sigh as he let the lukewarm water coat him completely. His hand reached out and in a swift turn, turned off the water and reached for the towel that was close at hand.
Once out of the shower, Riku stood before the mirror and only stared at his reflection as though expecting it to give him the answer to a pressing question.
Sora had left almost as soon as he had climbed out of the pool, only giving Kairi a hasty farewell and not once looking at Riku. Kairi had been hurt by the abrupt goodbye but had tried not to let it show as taking care of her indisposed brother took precedence.
Almost as soon as Riku had managed to stumble more than be assisted by Kairi into their home, he had hastened to the bathroom of his bedroom and proceeded to take a shower. Kairi had rushed into his room and pleaded him to simply go to bed, lest he hurt himself in his intoxicated state.
She had been promptly been ignored, leaving her more confused and hurt than ever.
The redhead had then retrieved the phone and had incessantly called her brunet boyfriend, while she had stood outside the door of her brother's bathroom, with no success on either venture.
Sora had not answered any of her calls and her brother seemed to be ignoring her existence, up until a few minutes ago at least. 'What is going on here?'
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Kairi listened dejectedely as the phone rang one.twice. Over and over, and yet Sora did not answer, she turned hopelessly to his cell phone only to experience the same result.
Just as Sora's voice mail picked up her call she heard a crash from her brother's bathroom. The redhead jumped and began to pound on the door while screaming, "RIKU!Riku are you alright! Riku, open the door! RIKU!"
Kairi jumped back as the door flew open to reveal her brother, still clad in only a towel, looking at her from behind a curtain of dripping silver bangs, his hand coated in blood.
The redhead gasped and cried out, "Riku! What happened!" Riku looked back, Kairi's gaze followed, until both sets of eyes landed on the mess of glass on the floor. The opulent mirror reduced to nothing but a splendid skeleton with only shards of glass clinging deperately.
"What were you thinking Riku! Come here!" With that the redhead gently took her brother's uninjured hand and led him back into the restroom, carefully sidestepping the mess on the floor and guiding him to take a seat on the edge of the tub.
With a last worried glance, Kairi scurried over to the cabinet under the now shattered mirror and retieved the first-aid kit. She quickly made her way back to the despondent boy and began to efficiently clean the sluggishly bleeding wound.
Riku made no noise or move as Kairi removed the glass shards imbedded in the pale hand, disinfected the gash, and bandaged the damage carefully. Throughout the whole ordeal, dark blue eyes continued to regard the aqua-eyed man with worry and a little fear.
"Riku? Riku are you okay?" Kairi asked meekly, as though afraid to break the thick silence that enveloped the pair. Riku gave an imperciptible nod but said nothing.
"Riku, why did you this?" Kairi asked, her voice breaking as she gingerly touched the bandaged limb before her eyes flickered over the mass of glinting shards, some coated in blood like the boy's hand.
Riku's aqua eyes finally met dark blue ones and the light eyes flashed with something before they returned to their despondent state. "Riku?" Riku looked at the girl who spoke his name in worry before gifting her with a look that suggested that he had never seen her before.
Just as Kairi was about to inquire on the strange look, Riku's lips upturned into a soft smile as he planted a soft kiss on his younger sister's forehead. "Everything's fine Kai," the silver-haired boy answered as though nothing out of the ordinary had happened, as though he was not sitting there with a wound to his hand after breaking a mirror.
The simple answer made something in the normally-gentle Kairi snap. "Stop saying that! I want you to just STOP saying that!" The haze that had clouded Riku's aqua orbs suddenly receded as he stared at the angry redhead in shock. "Kai?"
"What are you hiding from me Riku! What is your problem with Sora! What is his problem with you, huh! I may be naive but I am not stupid Riku! Don't you think that I notice that everytime you two encounter each other there is more tension! Do you think me too stupid to notice that there's something going on! I'm not a child Riku, and I'm tired of both of you treating me as such!"
With that Kairi, turned and fled the bathroom, torrents of tears sliding down her pale cheeks. Riku could stayed frozen as Kairi's footsteps quickly receded down the hall, and were followed by the slam of a door.
Riku stared at his injured limb, boring holes into the pristine white bandages, as though they were at fault for his sister's outburst. He ignored the sting in his own eyes as they drifted up and connected with the glass shards, the sharp pieces caught the color of the blue tiles and seemed to mock him with their likeness to orbs that had been haunting his dreams mercilessly.
'What have I done?' there was no anwer to his question as thick silence once again blanketed the mansion.
TBC...
Crappy and depressing but I needed a break from studying for finals.