Its been so long since I've updated! Im sooooo sorry! I've been re-going the first chapter because as most of you know... it sucked. So, I re-did it and its longer and in my opinion a lot better! Please read it and tell me how it is! Oh, ans as some of you have also noticed, I have changed my name from rockbeast212, to MoskiOko! If you want to read why I changed it, just look at my profile! I'm going to write it after I write this chapter!

Discalimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any of its characters! although I wish I could at least own Sora... his incredible hottness overwelms me :p

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Were Gonna Get Through This

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Chapter fourteen: More Memories and Dreams

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A delicious smell made an un-countious red-head stir. The smell was so good, who could blame her? Kairi became slightly aware of her suroundings, even though her eyes were still closed. One thing she knew, she was something incredibly comfortable, like a bed or something. Her body was face down, but her face was supported by a pillow so she could breath easier. Another were hushed voices surrounding thatlet her know she wasnt alone. She groaned slightly out of tiredness as the whispers around her stopped.

Kairi streched her hands out infront of her lazily, and she turned to her back and sleepily opened her eyes. She could make out four people surrounding her. Her eyes slowly focused on the people around her as she slowly recodnized them: Donald, Goofy, Roxas, and... some blue haired girl she didn't think she remembered.

Suddenly, like a toppling wave, the memories of what happened flooded her mind.

Flash

An 'Ansem' was running towards her with a smirking face.

Flash

The man sliced her shoulder open, leaving a terribly stinging pain.

Flash

The man was ready to attack with a sword above his head, ready to strike at a pale Kairi at any second.

Flash

Roxas and the man were crossing blades wen he leaned into Roxas's ear and whispered, " Remember who your working for..."

Her spinning head came back to its sences as she put her hand to her forhead. She looked back at the four people who had curious expressions on their faces, and then remembered who the blue haired girl was. Oh yeah, Shai... She wearily thought.

"Ugh...where am I?" Kairi mumbled, still clutching her aching head. She then looked around and became completely aware of her surroundings. She was in a rather small and shabby room, with dark and chipped burgandy walls, and pink, carpeted floors. She was lying on a blood red, over fluffed couch that was against one of the walls. Maroon bookcases cluttered the tiny room. The books were not in order, and were packed in the shelves sloppily, and even some where spilled all over the ground! A dark red desk, almost a brown, was tucked away in the corner aswell. Over all, it was an overly-packed room. It kind of made her chlosterophobic. Not to mention it was incredibly dirty, considering the dust balls, and spider webs in random corners or floor of the room.

" Your in Minis palace. We brought you here after the battle with that man." Shai said in her cool voice.

" You mean Ansem? Yeah, he's really-" Kairi started, sitting up dizzily, but she was cut off.

" He isnt Ansem." Roxas said withought emotion, crossing his arms with his back to her. Kairi stared at him incredulously. But he was Ansem! I saw his face!

" What? Of course it was Ansem! Didn't you see his face! Its kind of hard to forget his complection..." Kairi said. Roxas just shook his head and turned back to her. Roxas seems...different...he's usualy loud and abnoxious. Hmmmm...

" His name is Xemnas, he is the leader of the Orginization." said simply, not making eye-contact.

" What kind of name is Xemnas?" Kairi said, almost to herself. Shai, Donald, and Goofy all raised eye-brows at her sudden randomness.

" It's Ansem mixed up, added with an X. All Orginization members have X's in their names." Roxas replied as a matter of factly. Kairi was now getting annoyed with his sudden attitude change. Is he like bi-polar or something?

" Why?" Kairi said annoyingly, trying to bug him. But her antics didn't really have an effect on him, this just drove her more.

" Because," he started, " Xemnas is Ansem's Nobody." Kairi looked at him strange. The others now were becoming incredibly curious and edged closer so they could hear.

" What a Nobody?" she asked. She felt kind of stupid asking such a question. It was kind of obvious, especially if you pay attention to the name. Roxas sighed.

" What's a Nobody you ask? A Nobody is a shell of a person who has lost their heart. Everytime someones heart is lost, a Nobody is created. They dont necessarily have the same features, so there for, no one really knows if their a Nobody or not." he said calmly. A Nobody...? Kairi thought.

" So I could be a Nobody, and I wouldnt know?" Goofy asked worridly.

"Few people know if someones a Nobody or not. One person I know of is Namine. She is one of those few people." he explained. Kairi could have sworn she heard that name before. But where? She never met the girl. Oh well.

"One last quesition...why did Xemnas whisper 'Remember who your working for' in your ear?" she asked smugly. This is going to be good... But if Roxas was taken aback, then he wasn't showing it. He just stared at her blankly, even his eyes were empty. That definately surprised her. Kairi expected him stuttering and trying to cover himself up, instead he said this:

" I don't know what your talking about Kairi. You know, during near death, you start to helusinate." he said simply. Maybe a little too simply. By now, Kairi's mouth was hung open in disbelief. Ooh, he's good.

"Are you kidding me? I heard it!" Kairi exclaimed. She felt a hand touch her shoulder, so she turned her head to see Shai.

"He could be right, Kairi. Your still not fully rested, maybe you should-" she suggested, but she was cut off short by an annoyed red-head.

" Listen, I know I wasn't helusinating! (sp?) I heard it with my own two ears!" I cried, pointing to her ears. But I knew they wouldn't listen to me. Maybe Goofy will believe me, he's like that, Kairi thought hopefully. So she turned to Goofy who had a hesitant and un-sure look on his comical face.

" Do you believe me Goofy?" Kairi asked hopefully.

" Gwarsh, Kairi...I don't know. I hate takin' sides..." he said. Kairi sighed in defeat. No one wa going to believe her...and she knew it. But she knew she wasn't helusinating, she decided to keep a close eye on Roxas for a little while, to see if she could catch him off guard. So she decided to 'agree'.

" Maybe your right... actually, I'm feeling dizzy now, so I think I'll take a quick nap." Kairi said as she stretched out on the over stuffed couch. The other raised their eye-brows comically, and shrugged. They walked out of the clampered room, and shut the door. I bolted up right in sitting position, and smirked slightly.

Now I can think to myself...she said as she looked around the room in boredom. Its kind of weird how you say to yourself that your going to think, but then for some reason you cant. It kind of just happens. So she just sat there, trying the think.

" Aww...screw this." she said as she laid down. She slowly closed her violet eyes, and let her mind flow.

Hmmm...this is comfy... Wait, gotta stay focused.

Damn it, I cant think!

Kairi continued mulling about random things as her mind slowly began to shut down uncountiously.

I wonder what Sora's doing...I wonder if he's thinking of me. I'll find him, I know I will. I can feel it.

She felt her mind start to slip from her grasp.

S-O-R-A, what a nice name...she thought stupidly, its kinda like Roxas. but with an... X

... wait!

Just then, before she could think anymore, her mind rested to a nice sleep.

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"Well..." Namine started, but she was cut off by certain handsom, silver headed teen.

" Hey guys, whats up?" he asked casualy. It took Sora a few seconds to realize someone was there.

" Oh, hey Riku! I thought you werent going to come back for a while." he said with his usual cheerful voice.

" Oh, they became suspicious of me again so they began to question me. If the Superior didn't have to leave so early, I would have been fried. So I found myself walking down here and decided to say-" but he was cut short from a sudden gasp coming from Namine. " Namine! Whats wrong?"

Namine's eyes were tightly shut, and her mouth was open from fear. It was obvious it was another one of her visions. Another gasp echoed in the dark cell, as she then seemed to calm down slightly. She opened her eyes and looked at the two worried boys.

" What happened? What did you see?" Sora asked, even though he knew she wasn't going to answer him. She just shook her head, and looked down at the dirty floor.

" I cannot tell you. Remember...?" she asked.

" Yes, the balance. I remember clearly." he said sadly. She let out a quiet giggle. Awkward silence pressed at their ears as Riku opened his mouth to talk.

" Well, I better go..." he said, putting his hood up. Sora bonked his head against his forhead, for he almost forgot the question he had to ask him.

" Riku! Wait! Is it possible if you can get us some paper and a pencil?" he asked. Riku considered this for a moment and nodded his head, making his hood fall back.

" Maybe I can even get your sketch book Namine." he said. Namine looked up at him hopefully. For some reason, Riku thought she looked really pretty right there. The faint light reflected off of her pale face as her eyes were looking to new hopes. Riku shook the meaningless thought out of his head.

" Really, you can?" she asked, gazing into his green-blue eyes. He nodded his head, but they continued to look into eachothers eyes. Sora raised an eye-brow amusingly. But he decided not to disturb their mutual moment because they have delt with his Kairi issues. Now, to that topic...

Kairi...hehe...she's so preeeeettyyy...

And yes just as you thought, he dazed out with his own thoughts of Kairi. If someone was here looking at all of them, they might have laughed. Two people were gazing into eachother's eyes dreamily, while a clueless Sora was grinning stupidly at his own boyish thoughts. Yes, amusing indeed.

Finally, after a few minutes, Riku shook his head and turned back down the hallway and said, " I'll try my best." With that, he was out of sight. Namine sighed dreamily. I'm letting my emotions get in the way...she thought as she turned to dazed Sora. She cleared her throat as Sora snapped out of it...although unwillingly.

" Anyways... to the next piece of memory. What you-" but she was cut off by Sora.

" Hehe...you liiiiiike hiiiiiiiim!" Sora asked childishly. Namine raised an eye-brow at the brunnete. At the moment, he was in a ball and rocking back and forth grinning with his tongue stivking out slightly.

" Come on! We have to focus!"

" Fine." Sora said pouting (sp?) Namine let out a small giggle and then continued.

" Okay, Sora, take off your crown necklace." she instructed, pointing to his silver chain.

" Why?"

"Because I said so."

"Oh, okay."

Sora reached behind his neck and un-clipped the clip. A/N: Hehe...clip and clip...

" Now what?" Sora asked stupidly.

" Look at it."

"Oh."

Sora held up his sparkling necklace that slightly swung from side to side. The movementconitinued and it put him in a type of memory trance. Soon, the dark, stone cell faded from view and a more happieratmosphere came up. Suddenly, a terrible pain stung in his head as the picure became more clear...

It was a gorgeous day on Destiny Islands, the sun was calmly warming the duey grass high above the ski. The clouds floated lazily, scattered in different directions. There was a happy and festive atmosphere as red and yellow paper chains hung from anything in reach.And colored graffiti seemed to be falling from the sky magically.

It was Sora's fourteenth birthday, the day all thirteen year old long for. All the guests were all gathered around a party table with a red table cloth set, near the shore. On top of this table, was a two layered, pink cake that slightly leaned to the side. There was blue frosting lining the sides for decoration, and fourteen candles neatly alined on it aswell. All the people were looking at the delicious cake with temptation because everyone knew of Kairi's baking skills.

Maybe that was what made the cake so special. It was made by one of Sora's best friends. He turned to Kairi who was at his right and smiled at her. She giggled lightly back at him as Riku nudged Sora in the ribs from his right, urging him to blow out the dancing candles. As mature as Riku was, no one could resist the delicacy of a delicious cake.

Sora looked back up at everyone and smiled his goofy grin as he leaned forward and blew out the candles feebily. They went out, and Sora smiled tryumphantly. Then, like in the cartoons, they suddenly light up again making Sora pout.

"Riku! You put fake candles on my cake!" Sora whined. Riku smirked.

" Come on little boy, blow out the candles or you wont turn fourteen!" he teased.

" But then I'll never turn fourteen because of you!" Sora said.

" Well...why don't all three of us blow them out...together?" Kairi suggested happily. Sora turned to her and smiled.

" Yeah! Come on Riku, on 3!" he cried. The croud started to count down: 1...2...3! All three of them blew the candles out with their arms around eachother succesfuly. The croud clapped, and Sora smiled happily at Riku and Kairi.

" PRESENTS!" Sora cried happily as he dove into the large pile of presents. He started shaking most of them by his ear, with his tongue between his teeth.

" Sora! Open them one by one!" Kairi said laughing at Sora, along with everyone else. He grinned sheepishly and jumped out of the pile.

" Okay, who's first?"

For the next half our, everyone was sitting in a circle and laughing at Sora's expression from each great present. The massive croud started to disperse until it was onyl Sora, Riku, and Kairi. Sora was now down to his last present. It was from Riku. He opened the rather large, wrapped box and pulled out new, yellow shoes.

" Oooh! Yay! New shoes!" he said happily as he hugged then playfully. Kairi laughed as Riku smirked. Suddenly, Sora pulled the shoes away from him and looked at them.

" Wait! They don't match with my beautiful outfit!" he said pointing at his red jumper and black and white jacket. Riku smirked.

" Make it match." he said simply. " Look, there is a small stripe of yellow on your gloves. See? It matches."

" Okay!" Sora exclaimed as he pulled the shiny yellow shoes on. He did a heroic pose and exclaimed: "I'm hot!" Kairi was now on the floor, eye's watering at Sora's goofy antics. She loved being around him, he was so much fun and hilarous. Not to mention he was soadorable...

" Well, I gotta go. See ya guys." Riku said as he got to his feet and walked away.

"Bye!" Sora and Kairi called at the same time. Once he was out of sight, Sora turned to Kairi, smiling. Just then, he noticed he hadn't gotton a present from Kairi yet. His smile faltered slightly and Kairi playfully smirked.

" Don't worry you lazy bum, I have your present right here." she said as he held out a rectangular, maroon box that had a golden bow tied around it. This seemed to cheer Sora up, because his eyes danced as he took the box into his hands. He pulled the ribbon off nicely as he opened the box.

Inside, was a sparkling crowned necklace that glimmered magically in the light. Sora was speechless it was so beautiful. Kairi was getting a little worried that he didn't like it because he hadn't moved an inch. Then, he gently lifted the chain to his eye level, and immediately put it aroud his neck. Once it was on, he looked at the shining crown and he smiled.

He turned to a questionable Kairi, and tackled her with a hug so they were on the floor...hugging. Kairi was a little shocked by his actions but hugged him back anyway. Her sweet scent from her shampoo filled his lungs, as he picked both of them up from the ground so they were standing up.

Kairi let out a little shriek from how easily Sora could carry her. He squeezed tighter and then pulled back.

" Thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, KAIRI!" he said excitedly, putting his hands on her shoulders so their faces were only a few inches apart. They stayed like that for a few moments, looking into eachother's eyes.

" I'm glad you like it. I didn't think you would love it that much!" Kairi said, breaking the silence. Sora grinned goofily.

" Are you kidding me? Its perfect!"

Kairi's younger face began to fade away as the gloomy cell came into view. He blinked a few times until his eye's adjusted to the darkness. Then, the stinging pain struck his head, making him almost drop the necklace that was in his hand. He bent forward and shut his eyes as the pain continued. The pain eventualy subsided, and he looked up at Namine, and smiled.

"It felt like so long ago, when It was only about a year." he said, still looking at the crown necklace. A picture of the memory when he was looking at Kairi's face popped in his mind as he smiled warmly. He locked the chain back around his neck again and looked at Namine.

" Thats because you've been through so much more than most people, it feels like its been years." she said softly.

" Yeah, I cant believe I was that immature when I was fourteen. It was so long ago..." he said as he leaned against the wall and put his hands behind his head carelessly.

" Sora, your still immature." she said giggling.

" No I'm not!" he pouted. Namine raised an eyebrow.

" Okay, so I'm not that mature, but I'm not as bad as I was!" he cried. Namine nodded her head, putting her hand to her mouth to stop her from laughing farther. A few moments passed in silence as Sora realized something.

" Say Namine, how old are you?" he questioned. Namine stopped smiling and tried to remember. Her eyes went wide as she realized.

" I don't remember..."

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Meanwhile, Kairi was tossing and turning in her sleep as she experienced an odd dream.

Kairi was falling...falling straight down in the sky. She opened her eyes from the bright light the sun was shining through her eye-lids. Her eyes were unfocused in thought, as her head rolled back, making her body shift positions from head first, to her back first. Her clothes and long hair were rippling in the wind as she shot through a puffy white cloud.A/N: Remember, she is still wearing her new outfit with the black belly shirt and khaki shorts with two blue belts and gloves...

The never ending drop never seemed to end, but Kairi was hardly aware of her surroundings. She couldn't move her weak body, almost like she was numb. All her emotions were drained, she kind of liked the interminable drop. Then, she fell through another white cloud, but instead of continuing falling, she found herself in the Secret Place.

There was Riku, standing infront of the knobless door with his back to her. But it wasn't really Riku, he was like a ghost, so she could partialy see through him. A/N: Peaple, think after Sora sacrificed himself in KH, and Riku stepped out of Ansem's body in that odd ghost thing state. Well, this is what I'm talking about. The light inside the cave was dim, and Kairilightly scannedall the paintings on the walls. Her eyes set on one with a spikey haired boy, and a short haired girl giving eachother Paupu fruits. Magical dust surrounded it, making Kairi smile softly.

She turned back to Riku was slowly turned around towards her. His expression was blank, as he mouthed the word, "Go." But no sound came out of his mouth. Suddenly, the door behind him creaked open and a black vapor spilled out of the cracks. The gas continued to flow out until it completely engulfed Riku, and was soon becoming terrifyingly close to Kairi. She looked at the certain drawing again and closed her eyes. For some reason, the drawing had a lot of meaning to her, but she couldn't remember at the moment.

Kairi opened her eyes to find herself outside on the Paupu Island. It was night time, and the stars twinkled happily. She looked forward, and saw Sora, flying above the ground magically. Behind him was a large, softly glowingmoon, in the shape of a heart...

In his left hand, he wasgrasping a paupu fruit. He mouthed her name as he held out his hand. At the same time, he started drifting backwards, off the small island and towards the horizon. Kairi nearly tripped as she started sprinting towards him. His facial expression was serene from his soft smile, as he continued reaching out his hand.

Kairinearly made it to the end of the small island, but Sora was now somewhat far from the edge. Still running, she jumped as far as she could. Her expression was eager as their hands were only inches apart. It went in slow motion as shefinally grabbed his hand. She was literally dangling with only Sora keeping her from falling, and she trusted him. He smiled again and started rising upwards, bringing Kairi with him.

Their eyes were locked, violet to cerulean as they continued ascending upwards. Suddenly, her grasp went numb, just like how she felt falling from the sky. Their hands slipped from eachothers graspand Kairi began to fall downwards. As she fell, Kairi looked up to see Sora reaching his hand towards her and mouthed something she couldn't grasp.

Her body felt weak as she was once again falling downwards, hands trying to grasp something in a fruitless attempt. She eventually gave up as Sora's figure disapeared and she fell head first. The same sensation filled her, numbness and that feeling in your body when you are sad and crying, and your body can't move as your knees feel weak. Kairi hardly noticed the mass of almost black water coming towards her as she fell.

Her body made contact with the dark, salty water as she began sinking with her eyes half open. She continued sinking until she saw a large, round stainglass platform with a large picture on it. It had a large paupu fruit in the middle. Around it were white stars that had everyone of her friends in them. Riku, Yuffie, Leon, Cloud, Aerith, Roxas, Goofy, Donald, Shai, and the largest star had Sora laying lazily inside of it, grinning. Everyone was in a special pose, depending on their personality. Like Yuffie, she had a piece sign and was winking. The back round was glittery and a light red, giving it a magestic feel.

Kairi finally reached it, and stood up on it. It was an odd feeling, even odder than falling into seemingly nothingness. She didn't have to breath, and the silence of water pressed at her ears. Although gravity was pulling her down, she felt weightless. When her feet made contact with the floor, doves flew from the ground, leaving feathers circling around her magically. Thats when she noticed three smaller stone platforms rose from differnent ends of the platform. One had a sword, another had a red shield, and the last one had a blue staff. She hardly noticed that it had the king's seal because for some reason, the only thing important then was choosing one of the weopons.

She slowly walked up to the blue staff, and grasped it. Words soon echoed through her head that said: The path of the mystic, is this what you choose? She nodded her head and It disapeared from her hand, leaving some kind of sparkling dust. She turned around as the voice said in her head: Which one will you give up?

Kairi walked towards the sword withought hesitation. For some reason, something inside her told her to grab that one. And so she did. The voice spoke again: The power of a warrior, is this what you give up?

Kairi nodded her head as it too disapeared from her hand. The stone platforms began to shak, making Kairi tumble to the ground. She picked her self up as four shadow heartless surrounded her. She summoned the staff to her hand and struck at one of them. As if frightened, the rest sank into the ground, and leaving a pool of liquid darkness.

The pool spread, engulfing Kairi until she couldn't see. She found herself on the ground struggling. She realized the darkness was gone so she stood up and stepped back to look at the stainglass platform she was standing on now. This time, the backround was blue and Sora was casually leaning on something invisible, staring at Kairi's lucky charm in his hand. The border held four pictures, one of herself, one of Riku, and two more of Donald and Goofy.

A light from who-knows-where shined in the middle of the platform. Kairi cautiously walked towards it, staff at hand. Once she reached it, a door appeared infront of her. The door was not able to open because it seemed like some parts were missing. She pondered on how to open it as ten more Heartless formed around her.

She killed two with a swing of her staff, as the rim of the door apeared. She smirked to herself as she devourered four more. Now, only the doorknob was missing, so she swung her staff one last time and killed the last four. The parts apeared and Kairi walked up to it.

She reached her hand out to it, but before she touched the knob, it opened leaving a blinding light. She stepped into it, and found herself on a whole new platform. This one was gray and had the chalk drawing of the boy and the girl giving eachother paupu friuts. Smaller, blue paupu fruits bordered the edges to give it more design.

Already knowing what to do, she stepped forward. The voice rang through her head again:

The closer you get to the light, the larger your shadow becomes...

Kairi looked behind her and saw that her shadow became larger, and larger until it was the size of a monster. Her shadow lept to life as it pulled its self out of the ground. It continued to grow taller, and stronger until it created a unique creature she has never seen before. It was an incredibly tall midnight blue figure, that had long, silver hair that waved in the air unnaturaly and went down to its ankles. The hair partially covered her face only to reveal orange eyes. It had a black bandana on top ofits head, and a large hole where its stomach was supposed to be.

Strangely, The hole was in the shape of Sora's crown on his necklace. It had long fingers, and long, bare feet. It wasn't wearing any clothes, but it didn't reveal anything because it was just a solid mass of a blue, feminine figure.

Kairi was glued to the ground until she quickly turned around and ran to the edge of the platform. Almost falling off, she turned back around to see it now at its full hight and looked down at her with emotionless eyes. Kairi suddenly felt an electric shock of adrenelin spread through her, she called it courage.

She summoned her staff and ran towards the creature, ready to strike. She hit its feet with a round of blows. The creature didn't show any sign of weakness as it started to pelt blue orbs towards her. But this didn't stop Kairi, she took the hits she was getting, and continued to thrash at her shadow.

The creature seemed to finally get fed up and swapped her with its long hands. Kairi skitted across the floor and had a hard time getting back up. Her face was slightly bruised, and a trickle of blood came from her mouth. Her eyes showed fear as her weopon disapeared from her hand...she was doomed.

But dont be afraid...

The creature slammed its fists against the ground, creating pools of darkness. It slammed its fists again and Kairi stumbled backwards and hitting the hard ground. The pools of darkness began to surround her as she frantically looked back up at the creature that was now nearly crouching over her.

You hold the mightiest weopon of all...

The darkness was now blurring her vision, as the world around her began to dissapear. She reached her gloved hand out, hoping for someone...anyone to grab her.

And someone did.

Kairi shot her eyes open to see Sora, grabbing her hand. He smiled at her as mouthed the words: I'm always with you... He finally pulled her out, and they were locking eyes. Hands still together, they began to come closer, and closer until it felt right to close her eyes. She could hear her heart beating rapidly, and her stomach was in knotts.

But instead of feeling soft lips on hers, a blinding light shone through her eyelids and she shot them open. Her hand was still locked with Sora's as he began to pull her into the light, until they both disapeared from view...together.

You are the one who will open the door...

To.The.Light

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Phew! That took a long time! Sorry again that it took so long, i had partial writers block. But I think it ended up okay.

Anyway, I have come to the conclusion that I will not be finished with this story by the time Kingdom Hearts 2 comes out. So when it does, I'm not going to change my plot so it is like the game. There will be some simularities, becausse I basically already know whats going to happen.

Random Question of the Chapter...( In other words some question I couldn't figure out)

What color arm pit hair does Riku have? It certainly cant be silver...

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