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Shattering Hearts

Riku slid his book bag off his shoulder and onto the sand. It was early, school wasn't going to start for another hour but he couldn't sleep any longer. It's been almost a month since he had the fight with his mother. His anger was getting worse and he still could not find any cause for it. The chest pains he's been suddenly having are becoming more frequent. Those too he had yet to identify a cause for.

Unzipping his backpack he pulled out a bottle containing a small note inside which read.

Dear Mickey,

I know it's been sometime since we've last talked. School is the same as are the people on this island. I find myself having less and less patience for them. I've also been having arguments with my parents more often. My anger is slowly getting out of control. I fear that since we have last met my balance has tipped towards the darkness once more. I don't think that it is my own darkness that is causing this. For sometime now I have felt something very dark luring in the darkness. I've also had incidences where I can not come in contact with Sora without it hurting me somehow. So I have kept my distance from him and also Kairi. I thought everything would be fine since I was near my light- Sora.

Please get back with me soon Mickey, I have a sinking feeling that something is coming and I'm at the heart of it.

-Riku

Riku put the sealed bottle into the waves and watched it bob in the ocean until he could no longer see it. With a heavy sigh Riku hoped that the King could shine some light, figuratively and literally, on what was happening with him. Sora and Kairi have become much more persistent on being around him, asking why he was ignoring them. He was running out of excuses to give them and the ones he was giving them they were believing them less and less.

He turned away from the crashing waves and headed in the direction of school walking at a slow pace. It wouldn't take him long to get there and with getting up so early he had plenty of time to get there.

His parents had agreed to get him some exercising equipment to help him burning off the extra energy he had. And the silvernet was quite happy with how his body had improved. He had filled out nicely, gaining back the muscle he had lost when school had started. And it seemed that working out helped clear his mind.

When he was almost to school he heard fast approaching footsteps behind him. Slowing his pace to a crawl, he waited for the person to get closer to him before he summoned his keyblade and spun around.

Riku locked eyes with the person, his keyblade at their neck. Fear filled blue eyes locked with his.

"S-sora! I-I didn't know...I'm sorry!" He stammered out before banishing away his keyblade.

"I just heard someone running behind me and my body just moved on instinct! If I would have known it was you I wouldn't have…"

Sora released a breath he had held before shaking his head. He flashed Riku a smiled that melted his insides.

"Don't worry about it Riku, I bet if I heard someone running up behind me I would have done the same thing." He put his hands behind his head. "Besides I should have known that was a bad idea with how you've been lately."

"Yeah sorry about that...I guess it's just taken more time than I thought it would to re-adjust to being back home. I promise that everything is okay." Riku said trying to appease Sora's worrying mind. They starting walking once more towards school.

"How are you and Kairi doing? Seems like the whole school thinks that you two are finally dating." He gave Sora a small nudge. "If you two were dating you could have told me."

Sora's face was red. "We-we aren't dating! We're just friends Riku, you know that." His voice trailed off at the end.

It made Riku happy to hear from Sora that the rumors he had been hearing weren't true.

"Well I believe you Sora but you're going to have be more convincing if you want the rest of the school to believe you."

Being honest hearing those rumors made Riku's inside twist with jealousy. Sora was his light, he didn't like the idea of sharing it. Sora's face was still red by the time they reached the school. There weren't many people at school yet. Seeing that there was still forty-five minutes before school started. Riku opened the doors and let Sora walk in first before the pair headed to their lockers.

"You know I don't think you've ever been to school this early Sora. Forget something and thought you could make it here before your teacher could find out?" Riku teased as he opened his locker.

"I could say the same about you Riku. Normally your only here a few minutes before me." Sora said before also opening his locker. He enjoyed being locker neighbors with Riku.

"Couldn't sleep." Came Riku's simple reply.

Sora gave him a look over, he was worried about his friend. After all that the two went through he was just as protective of Riku as Riku is for Sora. In the first month of the two returning home they were practically inseparable. They would spend the night at eachothers houses to help with the nightmares the two had. Sora's went away quicker than Riku's since Sora never walked in the darkness for the length of time Riku did.

"Hey what are you two doing here so early?" A familiar voice said.

"Kairi!" Sora said smiling. "We should be asking you the same thing, you're never here this early either."

Kairi stood in the middle of them, Riku's chest started hurting the moment she got close to him.

"I have to make up a test I missed. My teacher should be here any minute." She look at them with a suspicious glance.

"You guys know why I am here now why are you two doing here?"

Riku shrugged. "Couldn't sleep."

Sora shared a quick concerned glance with Kairi. One way or another they were going to make Riku talk to them about what was going on.

"They don't trust you Riku."

Riku stiffened and glanced around the hall, no one was there besides the three of them.

'Not again.' Riku thought. He had thought that hearing the voices were over.

"It's time to leave. Come."

Riku squeezed his eyes shut, maybe if he just ignored it the voice would leave him alone. He could feel himself breaking out into a cold sweat. And where would he even go if he did leave. That voice wasn't making any sense.

"Riku?" Came Kairi's quiet voice. "Are you okay?" She reached out and touched his arm which sparked in light. Riku pulled his arm away with a small yelp of pain. His chest was hurting even more and he was having a hard time breathing.

"Riku? You need to tell us what's wrong." Sora said.

Riku shook his head.

"I'm fine, please, just trust me." He whispered. "I'm going to head to class." He quickly turned and headed to his classroom, unaware of the glances Sora and Kairi were sharing.

Riku hoped that the King would get back with him soon. After that he didn't think that Kairi and Sora would let anything go now.


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