Passion After the Battle

Yeah well, This my first fanfic here! I hope everyone likes it! It's good old fashioned Riku x Sora. The chapters I have already typed up are pretty clean, but it may get a little steamy near the end. Also rated "M" for language. Enjoy!
OH! And by the way, none of these characters belong to me, but in fact to Square Enix/Disney. If they did belong to me, these kind of stories wouldn't be fiction! Also the song belongs to the lovely Utada Hikaru.
- Kirux 3


Chapter One: My Fears; My Lies

It's been nearly a year since Sora and I have returned to Destiny Islands. At first I was very hesitant around everyone, but after a few months of them reassuring me that they weren't secretly habouring any grudges towards me, I finally relaxed a little. One thing is for certain though, I could never escape my guilty concionce. If I hadn't been so blind to what the consiquences for my actions might have been, all of this would never have happened.

I was kind of glad though, for my adventures. It was true most of the time I was either trying to become darkness or rid myself of it, but I still managed to have fun during the last length of it. When I was finally back to my true self, with Sora at my side, that was the best moment of all. And as I stand here, leaning against the papou tree where it all began, I knew that that memory would be my most precious until I died.

To tell the truth, I had been rather uneasy the past few months. I had started to have all these odd thoughts lately. And it was those thoughts that made me uneasy, and they all seemed to pertain to a certain spikey haired hero.

I didn't expect him to ever forgive me for what I put him through. I know that in the beginning it was Xehanort that was controlling me, but I had let him. It wasn't until too late that I had seen the error of my ways. Than, after I was shut into Kingdom Hearts, and managed to escape with King Mickey, all I did was run ahead of the poor boy. I knew that he was looking for me, and that had surprised me actually. I thought he would have just returned here with Kairi, and left me for dead. I thought I was protecting him by staying away from him than, but now I think it may have been for other reasons. Reasons I don't know if I should use or not.

"RIKU! RIIIKKKUUUU!" Sora's voice broke my train of thought and I suddenly realized that it had gotten late, because the sun was almost done setting. I turned to see him running across the bridge that led from the sea side shack to the papou tree. He finally reached where I was standing and bent over, his hands on his knees as he panted heavily trying to catch his breath.

"Hey Sora," I walked over to him and ruffled his hair, "what's up?"

"I've been looking for you everywhere!" Sora managaed to say inbetween pants.

"You mean you've been running across this entire island for god knows how long to find me?" Sometimes his stupidity baffled me, but it was cute all the same, "Well, what was so crazy important that you had to do that?"

He stood up, finally in control of his breathing, "It's Kairi! She's decided to go home to Radiant Garden!"

Sweet Jesus, my prayers have been answered! It was like a wet dream to hear Sora tell me Kairi would be leaving the island, and possibly forever. I just couldn't stand her. I blamed her actually, for everythign that happened. I would never have opened myself to the darkness if she had ever been here. She showed up here and took over everything. I hated how she got everything she wanted with a bat of her eyelashes. How everyone felt so sorry for her that she had lost her home and couldn't remember anything. I especially hated how she had gotten in my way. How she hogged all of his time and energy. The past year had been hell for me. I rarely saw Sora anymore. He was always off with that bitch doing things that all of us had once done together. And when I was with him, all I ever heard was 'Kairi and I did this today. It was really fun, like from before, when we all use to hang out together.'

"Your point being?" I knew I sounded like a asshole, but I truly didn't care. If he hadn't been here, I would have been jumping up and down with joy.

"Riku, don't be like that please. I know you don't like her, I'm still not sure why though. At least come say goodbye, it was Kairi who wanted me to come find you!" He looked at me with those big blue eyes filled with sadness, and I nearly broke.

"I'm sorry, Sora," I turned back around to see the last of the sun sink below the horizon, "I really don't want to go. Give her my reguards, though."

I heard him sigh and turn around, running back across the bridge. The door to the shack opened and closed, opened again, than slamed shut, and I knew he was now rushing across the beach to the secret cave beneath the big tree. I stood there for a few moments before also heading across the bridge, but instead of going through the shack I jumped down, landing on the white sandy beach. I didn't have any shoes on, so I could feel the heat still resonating off the sand. I walked through it at a moderate pace, heading towards the waterfall. I stopped by the fall, a few feet from the secret place's entrance.

"I'm glad she's leaving! It was all her fault anyways! If she hadn't came here, Sora wouldn't have fallen in love with her! I wouldn't have been so hurt. I wouldn't have opened myself to the darkness," Tears welled up behind my eyes. I had been doing my best to not cry a lot recently. Sometimes because I felt so miserable because of what I had done, other times because I just wanted someone to love. Sometimes it was both.

"Now that's an easy excuse, ya man?" Wakka seemed to appear besides me, holding his ball above his head, also gazing out to the secret place.

"Holy hell! How long have you been there?" Great, he had heard me, and he knew about my feelings for Sora.

"Don't worry, man! I won't tell nobody. You're secret is safe with me, ya?" He smiled at me and I settled down a bit. Wakka was usually pretty good about secrets, "But ya, blamin' Kairi is a little cheap, ain't it man?"

"No, because it's her fault! She stole Sora from me!" I clenched my fists at my side. Sure I felt like a four year old girl, but it was all the same to me.

"Now Riku, man, how can Kairi steal somethingfrom you that was never yours?" He smiled at me, probably thinking that he was helping me out a whole lot, but that question only made it worse.

"SHUT UP!" I ran into the secret base and stopped as I reached where the cave openned up. My eyes widened and the tears I was trying so hard to push away began to flow freely from my eyes. I fell to my knees and my mind went completely black.


OH MAN! That took less time to type up than I thought! Please, please, please review so I know if I should continue it! I'm sorry that it was rather boring, but I needed to get the back story in somewhere! Thank you SOOO much for reading!
- Kirux 3