Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, if I did then life would be beautiful
Key:
- Dream State -, Flashback, ' thoughts ', " Dialogue "
---- A change in writing style/time/place/whatever (may notate in () which one)
Author's Note: This is the sequel to An Alternate Ending
Rating: M - for language and graphic images in later chapters
Warning: This is still a Sora/Riku fic… yeah. XD. Deal with it.
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(Chapter 13: Somebody's Nobody)
Naminé paced back and forth across the carpeted floor, her forehead creased as she tried to work out something that made sense in her head.
Riku stood outside on the dark porch. A gentle island breeze causing his long hair to blow around his face. His mind was as busy as Naminé's, although the two of them were not thinking about the same thing.
The blonde had taken into account the situation that had just occured and found herself confused as to how a man like Xukir... who was in effect Riku's nobody, had managed to fuse himself with someone other than... his other. Specifically Sora.
"Maybe... it was because Riku's heart is inside of Sora? So... it became possible?" Naminé said out loud to herself while Kairi watched.
"Well wait... does that mean that you could have fused with him back when my heart was inside of him?" Kairi asked curiously.
Naminé glanced at the redhead thoughtfully and shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe. But... even if that was the case... then my next question would be... how to fix this problem."
"Well, why don't you have his real nobody try and fuse with him?" Kairi suggested.
"What?" Naminé asked in surprize, pausing for a moment in her walk.
"Well, you explained before... that Sora has a nobody too. You said his name was Roxas. So... why don't you go find him... and tell him what's going on. And have him fuse with Sora. Maybe he can beat Xukir out of Sora." Kairi explained.
Naminé looked stunned. "Kairi... that's brilliant!" She said approvingly.
Kairi beamed proudly.
The blonde grabbed a coat and headed out the door.
"Hey... wait! Where are you going?" Kairi asked in confusion.
"To go find Roxas." Naminé replied with a wink, disappearing out the front door.
As she walked she passed by Riku on the porch who glanced at her as she made her way down the steps.
"Where are you going?" He asked.
"To go and find Sora's nobody." She replied with a smile.
He vaulted over the railing of the porch and landed beside her. "I'm going with you... who knows when that maniac will come back." He said calmly.
Naminé raised an eyebrow. "Sora's a maniac now?" She asked casually.
"That ... thing... isn't Sora." Riku responded as he fell into step beside her.
The blonde gave a heavy sigh. "Riku... whether you like it or not. That thing is Sora. Or at least... it is partly. Your nobody somehow... fused with him. Clearly, his spirit was far more powerful and overcame Sora's with no trouble at all, forcing him into a small corner of his own body. But regardless of that, he's still in there somewhere... lacking the strength to fight because a part of him believes that Xukir is you."
Riku frowned, self-loathing clear upon his features. "I should have never agreed to leave Sora alone. If I had known who I was, I would have known Xukir was lying... and I wouldn't have let him..." Riku broke off, pausing in mid-step as tears started to cloud his vision.
"Riku you are not helping anyone by thinking about the "what ifs". You have to realize that even if you had known who you were you would have still been in no shape to help Sora right now. Riku... don't you see... even though you might know your name, you still don't have most of your memories. You don't recall Sora at all in your mind... and the parts of your memories that have nothing to do with him are few and far between. Worse still, Xukir now has most of your memories, and all of Sora's, in his grasp." Naminé said as she tried desperately to explain the situation at hand to Riku.
"You're wrong Naminé. Riku may not recall the time he spent with Sora in his thoughts... but his heart never forgot." Said a male voice from nearby.
Naminé and Riku both looked up in surprize to see a familiar blonde young man standing on the balcony just above them.
"Roxas?" Riku asked curiously, wondering why the young man had followed him all the way here.
The blonde leapt nimbly from the balcony and landed on the porch beside them, staring at them both seriously with his bright blue eyes.
Those eyes that were so similar... yet so different from Sora's.
"Roxas... what do you mean?" Naminé asked him, wondering how the two men knew each other.
The young man looked at her. "I went to him a few days a go to knock some sense into his memory-less head. I may look nothing like Sora... but I was enough like him for the purposes of my experiment. Trust me... there's no question that his feelings have not changed." He finished, flushing softly.
"I see..." Naminé trailed glancing over at Riku who seemed to understand exactly what Roxas had just said and was surprizingly blushing softly as well. Then she understood and nodded sagely. "So... then... can I assume you have a plan Roxas?" She asked hopefully.
Roxas sighed, "Based on what has happened, and what I've overheard you all talking about... yes... I have a plan. But unfortunately it only favors Sora's and Riku's future together."
Naminé looked puzzled, "What do you mean?"
"Well... I think I'll answer your question with another question. Are you certain that you can live on peacefully without me? And Kairi without Sora?" Roxas asked looking serious, yet incredibly saddened.
Naminé, despite being blonde, was a very sharp young woman and understood the look on Roxas' face all too well. She blushed and looked down to her feet, suddenly finding she didn't have the strength to give him an answer.
"Yes." Came a seperate female voice.
Roxas, Naminé, and Riku all glanced to the door where Kairi was standing looking at them all with a tired smile.
"Yes Roxas, I am certain. Sure... it would have been a dream come true to have Sora by my side a few years ago... but now, I know better. You can't really wish for something that was never yours to begin with." She said philosophically, joining the group out on the porch and sending Naminé a meaningful glance.
Roxas turned his attention back to Naminé to see what her response would be and found that he was only slightly disheartened by her answer.
"Yeah... that goes for me too Roxas. Sora's happiness is tied to Riku now... I can't ask for anything more than that. After all, he forgave me once... and rescued me from my own darkness." Naminé gave her trademark smile, looking for just a moment like the girl who had once been trapped in Castle Oblivion all those years ago.
Roxas nodded, "Alright then... here's the plan..."
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rozu: I am so mean.
Roxas: Hey! You can't just cut it off like that!
rozu: Sure I can. I'm the author, I can do whatever I want.
-rozu makes Axel appear out of nowhere. He promtly chases Roxas down and drags him into a nearby closet. –
Naminé & Kairi: O.o
