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Key:
- Dream State - , Flashback , ' thoughts ', " Dialogue "
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Author's Note: This takes place after Chain of Memories. Hope you guys like it. Comments and criticism's loved, be kind it's my first fic!
Rating: M - for language and graphic images in later chapters
Warning: This is a Yaoi fic! It pairs Sora and Riku and lemony stuff, so if you don't like kingdom hearts... or Sora+Riku, or yaoi, don't read it! Possible spoilers as well.
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(Chapter 11, part 2: Epilogue?)
(Riku's final pov…)
Arms wide, I stared him down never for a moment losing my resolve. If this were to end now, then I would die a happy man, knowing that my love would live on to protect what was worth saving in this dark world.
I felt a strange sensation as the darkness of his weapon touched me. It was different entirely from the pain of being stabbed… rather like my soul was being ripped from my body instead of dying. I could feel my consciousness leaving me and in one final breath I whispered three little words.
"I… love… you."
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"Riku!" I cried, cradling his body in my arms. "Riku! No... No... What have I done? Riku? Riku...!" I shook him violently for a while, clutching him as close to me as possible. "Riku... please... you have to be alright. You can't be dead... you just can't be." I cried, hot tears streamed down my cheeks and stained his soft silver hair.
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Sora stood numbly before the small limestone grave. Neither he nor Kairi had been prepared for this moment. The redhead in question was weeping heavily on his shoulder at the moment, while Sora… just stood there. He imagined that he had already expended every tear in his body the moment that Riku had died.
'Oh Riku…' He thought idly shifting his line of vision to the old man dressed in black that was giving the eulogy. 'He doesn't even know what he's talking about…' Sora grimaced as some of the kind, but useless words floated around the small group of grieving people.
Sora shifted his attention back to the grave… it was already covered over in dirt, but somehow he felt that it was … unfinished in some way. Riku's body wasn't in it… maybe that was why.
Sora sighed; it had taken a long time to explain how it was possible that Riku was dead when he didn't have a body to prove it. But what could Sora have done? The body in question had merely faded in his arms. Faded… into nothingness, just like the bad guys he'd defeated so many times before. He didn't understand it fully himself after all, Riku had been human… so why did he die like a heartless? Sora supposed he would never know.
Still, those nearest to his silver-haired love had finally stopped denying the truth, after getting yelled at by Kairi that they were hurting Sora with their denial, and decided on a day to hold the funeral.
Sora took one last look at the grave, and then turned to Kairi who was trying in vain to dry her tears. "I'm going now… you know where to find me." He said simply before walking off in the middle of the old man's speech. Kairi said nothing, and watched him leave with a soft sigh.
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(Dark Realm)
Naminé tapped on her computer, keeping her usual watch on the flow of darkness in the realm. The heartless had begun reshaping their world with what little imagination they had. She sighed in annoyance, wondering why they were even bothering as they enjoyed the darkness immensely.
Her blue eyes caught on a very small movement near her. She picked up her custom blade that Mickey had sent to her and armed herself. No matter how small the enemy, she needed to protect herself nonetheless. As she watched the movement she noticed something… odd… about it. It was quite unlike any other heartless she'd ever seen. It seemed that it was not in fact a heartless, but not really human either. She loosened her hold on her weapon, but kept it at her side just in case.
Sure enough a few moments later a small cloud of shadows slipped through the cracks in the door and billowed into the room. She watched its movements, keeping an eye out for anything sudden that would signal an attack. The cloud floated across the room, not seeming to even notice Naminé at all. She studied the shadows… then she saw it, the smallest flicker of light within the darkness.
"Oh my god…" She muttered, dropping her weapon and carefully tiptoeing closer to the cloud. "You… you're not a heartless are you…" She asked the cloud, reaching her fingers out to touch its dark strands. It seemed to shiver at her touch but continued floating around the room as before. She watched it now with a growing curiosity and finally smiled at it. "Well… whatever you are… you're obviously not bad, so I guess I'll help you."
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