Riku: Cruel person with your cruel accusations!

Me: Wait a sec Riku! I made this fan fic, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you because it can't be you because you're standing right in front of me which makes you here not there so that it can't possibly be you because you'd be there and not here so that Riku is just a figment of my imagination.

Riku: stares dumbly What?

Me: Never mind…

Riku: Okay-Eeeeuuuwwwww I sound angry! Oh damn I AM angry, ha ha ha I mean…um…hey! I said a lot of bad words! O.O Wow. I said a REALLY bad word! Oh well, the heck with it all!

Everyone including Readers: Riku? Are you alright?

Riku: turns around with a freaked out look on his face Heh-heh oh yeah I'm juuusssttt fine! Heh-heh! Just sorting through fanfics! suddenly falls over and goes to sleep

Me: Oh yeah, he must be tired, he hasn't slept in a LONG while, oh well! ON WITH THE STORY!

Chapter Seven

Riku awoke to find himself laying on a stone floor. He tried to move his hands so he could loosen himself up, but found out that they were bound behind his back. He found that his feet were bound too. Riku blinked and looked around, his eyes dull with misery. Why had they even bothered tying him up? He couldn't walk and he couldn't fight. He was useless. Riku sighed and noticed that Leon had his eyes pinned on him. There was a fiery rage shining in them. Riku looked away and down at the floor. Ansem had known what he was doing. Ansem had been right…Riku had been wrong.

Maybe Riku had had too much faith in his friends at the time, but he didn't really have any faith in them now. Riku felt terrible and he just wanted to go some place else and stay away from them. He was wound deeply, he had been scarred from the inside out. He know had murder on his list of bad deeds. First he had let the darkness in, now he had killed.

"But you didn't do it, Riku. Ansem did it." Riku heard a terribly sad voice whisper in his ear. Riku's head shot up like lightning and pain raced through him, but he didn't care. He didn't care that Leon was looking at him now, more intently than before.

"Aurithia? Where are you?" Riku asked, looking from one side to the other but she wasn't there.

"I'm speaking to you telepathically, Riku. I'm not sure where I am, but you can't just give up like that. I know how you feel, you feel like dying, so do I, but I have faith in you Riku. I have faith that you can fight off Ansem when he comes again." Aurithia told him.

Leon stood up and walked over to where Sora and speaking quietly with Kairi.

Riku blinked and said, whispering, "Yeah, but how am I supposed to know when Ansem is going to come back? And how are you still alive?"

"I'm not sure about both of those questions, Riku. I would give you more information but I am afraid Riku. Ansem has me in this meeting room of his. They are discussing you right now, but I have been knocked out by Saix. I must awaken soon though to hear what they have to say. I would come for you but I am bound up and leaning against a wall, I can not do anything."

"Sounds like me, bound up and helpless. Are you alright though? You got stabbed."

"Don't worry about me Riku, you're hurt worse than me and you need to recover, you have already lost a lot of blood and that gash won't heal by magic, you have to let your body heal it. Until then, you can not fight and try to stay out of fights."

"Well I can't promise anything because I think I'm about to be in another one."

"Then I'm going to be there to back you up."

"But how will you-" Riku instantly cut himself off as Sora came up to him, a rageful look on his face.

"Riku, I want to know why you killed Mickey and I don't want any lies or tales, I want the truth!" Sora's voice held an anger that Riku had never heard, it held a murderous tone to it.

Riku blinked, looking away from Sora and muttered, "If you were really my friend Sora, you would have realized just like Mickey had what had happened. I have nothing to say because I did nothing. I tried to warn you but hey, I learned something. Maybe if you try to fight something that beat you as much as they did…you never try to fight them over and over. Your body just can't take it and eventually you'll end up like me. Stuck. Stuck in a damn trap with death threatening you on both sides and no comfort, only pain and darkness. I don't care what you think of me, I don't care about you anymore. I only care for Mickey's memory and Aurithia." Riku finished, not looking at anyone.

Sora bent down to glare at Riku, "We all saw you kill Mickey Riku, you looked like you meant to do it, and you did. You care for no one but yourself, I know that. We don't want you around anymore and you still did not answer my question Riku. We want to know why, we don't care that you aren't our friend, we don't care about the lies you speak. Now answer the question."

"I told you have nothing to say for myself, Sora. You can go ask the one who did this where ever the jackass went. I know my fate. My fate is to be thrown out as a cast away and then he'll just come back and who knows what the hell will happen. I was too weak anyway, I fought I lost I died. The end, good-bye." Riku said, shutting his eyes tight. He did not ever want to see any of the people he had once called friends again. He just wanted to give up everything, as long as Aurithia was alive, he would be fine. She was alright from the way she talked to him, he was fine.

"Riku, tell us, why the hell did you kill Mickey?" Sora demanded, grabbing Riku by his collar and yanking the boy roughly forward. Riku's eyes opened and they flashed.

"I don't want to speak to you Sora! Just leave me in peace! You can't just go around accusing me of things you thought you saw. I bed to differ but I saved you from death. Damn in hell! He could have killed you but I fought him, he wanted to kill you, but I submitted, I saved your ass so go the hell away!" Riku refused to say Ansem's name as he yelled at Sora, kicking him in the stomach with his bound feet. Sora was thrown back which seemed to make him even madder. Riku didn't care and he continued on, "He wanted to kill every single one of you in this room just before Mickey died. I fought him then, but he fought back and pushed me away. He told me everything about how this was going to happen. Then he killed Mickey and left, if you want to know more, anything else, go find him and get yourselves killed! I'm destined to be his damn puppet forever so why the hell does anything matter to me? I can't stop him now can I Sora? Sure I held him back and warned you to run when the Heartless were coming that day you sacrificed yourself, but that was then. He's stronger, much stronger. And that damn jerk is working with that other damn jerk who just needs to die and go to hell because of what he made me suffer. And what's more he hurt her and I can do nothing about!"

Everyone was now looking at Riku as he yelled his anger to the world, his eyes shut as he threw himself back against the wall and rested there. "What are talking about?" Sora asked, blinking. Clearly he really hadn't been listening to well.

Riku groaned and shut his eyes, "I'm surrounded by the damned idiots of hell!" he groaned.

"I didn't expect you to drop into such misery so fast, Riku. This is a good thing!" A haunting voice filled Riku's mind. Riku's eyes open as slits and he found that he was speaking aloud and not in his mind as he spoke to his greatest enemy, "Go the hell away you damn jackass. Can you see that I'm still furious with you for what you did? I'm not going to let you use me for something like that again. I may still be as weak as hell from what that damn, lowly jerk that you call Xemnas did to me and then all your other little pals, but I will fight you until I die. I don't really care about life at the moment but I, lucky for everyone, have some feeling left. Otherwise they'd all be dead and I'd be trapped like a little mouse as you use me as a damn puppet. I promised you'd pay if you hurt them, and so you shall."

"That was a really long and boring speech you know, but lucky for you, I can cut your speeches short by a lot." Ansem replied.

"Oh just shut up!" Riku groaned aloud, glaring at the ceiling.

Everyone continued to listen to Riku as he talked to himself, or so they thought. "Is he going crazy?" Leon asked Sora and Kairi.

All at once they heard a loud, "Shut the fuck up you damn jackassy b-"

Riku was cut off as the door opened to reveal someone standing there. The person who a hood and was dressed in black. Everyone stared at the figure, including Riku. The person came over to Riku without a glance around the room and wrapped their arms around him. "Riku…" It was a female's voice. "He's coming!"

"Aurithia?" Riku gasped, "How did you-"

"I told you I would come. It wasn't easy sneaking around like that, but I did and now they're coming. I had to tell you. When Ansem killed Mickey, he went back to where everyone else was in the Dark Realm. He let me watch Riku, he let me watch you. I'm so sorry that I wasn't there, Riku! It was impossible for me to reach you when Ansem was possessing you." Aurithia cried.

Riku suddenly felt a sense of realization spread over him. He had known Aurithia for a long time, but didn't know it, how? He was unsure, but he was sure that he liked her a lot, but that she was just like a distant memory that had been forgotten.

"What? You mean Riku didn't-Oh shit!" Sora gaped at Aurithia and Riku.

"Tired to tell ya…" Riku sighed, "But fighting and warning aren't enough these days."

"How hurt are you?" Aurithia asked him.

"Pretty badly considering I can no longer walk due to someone making me fall down some steps due to the stress put on me from where I've been beat half to death." Riku's voice held cold unforgiving mockery as he looked at Cloud and then at Sora.

"I can heal most of your wounds, but like I said, your shoulder will have to heal on it's own." Aurithia told him. Riku closed his eyes as he felt a sudden shock rush through him. He knew it wasn't Aurithia's magic, it was from where he had ever so stupidly tried to move his right arm. Then, just as the shock was beginning to fade, a warmth engulfed him. He smiled at the comfort and opened his eyes to find that almost every pain on his body was gone with the exception of his arm. Aurithia helped him up and Riku found he could stand.

"Thanks," he told her and turned to face everyone. With the pain gone, Riku didn't feel so miserable and he could tell Sora was still shocked.

"Depression gets to you and now you just broke your friendship because of it, what a fool you are!" Ansem's laugh flooded through his mind.

Riku blinked, "Shut up!" he said lightly. He could already tell that Sora was already forgiving him. Riku didn't feel mad at Sora or anything, instead he felt okay. 'Maybe the reason why I'm so happy is because I'm standing right next to a really hot girl.' he thought to himself.

Every fangirl: Stares at Riku angrily

Me individual: Slaps Riku, HOW DARE YOU!

Riku: rubs his face where I slapped him Yeah but you're the one who wrote it and aren't you the very same person who-

Me: GRRR! Takes out Destructor and beat Aurithia half to death

Arkath: stares at his sister YOU JUST HAD TO GO AND DO THAT DIDN'T YOU!

Me: Yep.

Arkath: GRR!