"Absolutely not."
Riku blinked as Namine answered his question. He'd found her on the highest floor, trying to rid it of the vines Marluxia had once controlled. He asked her about Kairi, and his wish to forget what he felt.
"Why not?"
"Because my erasing her from someone's memories is what caused this situation!" Namine exclaimed. "You told me your reason for staying to help Sora is to compete for her on even ground!"
"And I'd still want to help my friends!"
"Then the links of your false memory would unravel!" Namine snapped. "Just being with her would weaken and break them! Your mind would be a mess."
"Well given the damage I caused while I was in my right mind, maybe that would be worth it!" Riku shouted.
"You don't get it! You don't understand how important it is!"
"What is?"
"Your feelings!"
Riku stood there as Namine ran past him.
"Sorry your Majesty!"
"Namine?" Mickey looked back after her as he approached Riku.
"You seem to be mentally stable." The king commented.
"I am."
"Yet Namine's upset."
"So it seems."
"What happened?"
"I asked her to help me forget how I felt about Kairi."
"Riku!"
"What?"
"You don't ask a girl that!"
It took Riku a moment to understand Mickey's accusation.
"What? No! I meant with her Memory Magic!"
"Ah." Mickey nodded. "That makes more sense."
"But why is she upset?" Riku asked.
"You don't understand what Namine is, do you?"
"A memory witch?"
Mickey shook his head as he cast a fire spell to finish off the vines.
"She's a Nobody-that which is born when a heart is separated from a body. Sometimes they have memories of their lives. Namine was born when Sora released Kairi's heart from himself."
"This meaning?" Riku recalled the incident all too clearly, watching and unable to act.
"Nobodies, according to Diz, cannot feel emotion. They depend on their memories to pretend. Namine has no such memories. All she has where she should is emptiness."
"Empty...?" Riku glanced in the direction Namine had vanished down.
For a girl without emotion, she gets upset a lot.