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It was night, Riku hadn't gone to school the whole day. He spent his day on the beach. No one bothered him, no one came close to him. Riku waited all day to see if he would finally receive something an answer from the King yet nothing had came. He was starting to feel truly alone.
Stepping closer to the water he looked down at his reflection. The sickening gold had finally left his eye's. They were one of the many reasons he hadn't gone to school today. There was no way he could get away with going to school with his eyes like that.
Riku sat in front of the water. His mind traveling back to the Dark Beach. Where he thought that Sora and him would spend the rest of their days together. He was happy then. Then Kairi's letter just had to find them.
His chest suddenly felt tight. It felt like someone had grabbed his heart from the inside and was squeezing it as hard as they could. He curled in on himself, pulling his knees to his chest. All of the muscles in his body were spasming. Looking down at his chest he saw small sparks of light flying out from him.
He couldn't breath. The sounds of the waves were drowned out by the pounding in his ears.
Dark tendrils crawled over his body, covering his body in darkness. Riku could have sworn that the tendrils looked like hands. They gripped onto him hard. He couldn't move.
This was how he was going to die. Being consumed by the darkness he had yet again failed to control. All alone without anyone to help him was how it would end for him. He would die without telling Sora how he felt.
Tears fell as he scratched at his chest. He didn't want to die.
He didn't, not without telling Sora…
"You mean nothing to him."
If he could talk he would have told off that voice. Sora cared about him. Sora spent all that time looking for him. He had to mean something to him.
"Give in to me. All will be better in the end."
He couldn't do that, not to Sora again.
The light faded and the darkness receded from his body. He was able to breath again. He gulped down as much air as he could and fell back against the sand. His body felt so heavy and he was drenched in sweat.
Something black was moving in the distance. Yellow eye's started to appear from the ground.
Heartless.
The Heartless didn't move, they only stared at him, silent and foreboding. Riku stared back, once more short of breath. How could Heartless be back on the island?
They darted away from him, but even though Riku was exhausted, the keyblade wielder sprang to his feet with his keyblade in hand.
Riku saw them running into the trees and was on them in seconds. One hid behind a tree and he swung his keyblade at it only to embed it into the tree. Riku, breathing hard, rubbed his eye's. The Heartless was gone but not because he hit it.
It was like it was never there.
Another moved deeper in the forest and Riku ran after it. Leaves and branches whipped at his face as he followed the Heartless. He leaped driving the blade into the Heartless but once again, nothing was there.
One moved behind him and took off towards the beach with Riku hot on it's tail. He saw someone standing on the beach and the Heartless was making a beeline for them.
"Hey! Get out of the way! Run!" He shouted.
The person didn't seem to hear him or the Heartless running towards them. Riku clenched his teeth and put on the extra speed. Catching up to the Heartless in no time.
Keyblade raised he brought the blade down on the Heartless as it jumped for the person. Instead of hitting the Heartless his Keyblade hit something hard and bright. For a moment Riku shut his eyes. When he opened them he saw Sora standing there blocking his attack, his own keyblade drawn.
"What was that about Riku?!" Sora shouted, his pupils blown wide in fear from Riku's attack.
Riku was speechless, mouth gaping. Sora was upset with him for saving his life!
"Why did you attack me!"
"H-Heartless! One was about to jump on you! How did you not hear it?!"
Riku said, their blades were still crossed. Both putting pressure on the other.
Sora shook his head.
"There were no Heartless Riku! I'd think I know if there were Heartless on Destiny Island."
Riku bore down on Sora with his keyblade.
"There was! I just fought some not even two minutes ago! Why can't you just believe me!"
Sora was starting to falter behind Riku's strength. He really wished that Riku would stop working out.
"Because there are no Heartless Riku! They are gone!"
Riku's eyes flicked behind Sora and there again were those yellow eyes staring at him.
"Behind you!" Riku shouted, running past Sora who almost fell forwards. Sora turned to see Riku running down the beach, chasing nothing.
Sora barely caught up to Riku and grabbed him by his bicep and forced Riku to face him. Riku fought weakly against Sora.
"Their getting away!"
Sora grabbed both of Riku's arms, his keyblade falling to the ground, twinkling away.
"Riku look at me!" Sora shouted before dropping his voice. "There are no Heartless Riku. You were running after nothing!"
Riku looked at Sora with a pleading look on his face. Sora really didn't see them.
"Sora please tell me you saw them." Riku said brokenly. "Please…tell me you saw them too...please."
Sora was gripped with sadness. Riku looked so…un-Riku. Riku was suppose to be this strong person that Sora looked up to. He was suppose to be so confident in himself. So ready to protect, that Sora couldn't help but feel safe when he was with him. He wanted to feel safe with Riku again, but the Riku that stood in front of him looked so lost. So desperate. So hurt.
Sora's throat tightened up.
"Riku I'm sorry…I didn't see them."
Riku broke then, he didn't cry, but he looked so broken. Riku's shoulders sunk, his eyes had lost all the light they had in him. It almost brought Sora to tears.
Sora hugged Riku tight.
"Let me help you." He whispered against Riku's chest.
Slowly arms were wrapped around Sora. Riku felt so heavy against him, like he could collapse at any moment.
"Okay…" Came Riku's quiet response.
"Hey I have an idea," Sora said, moving slightly away so he could look at Riku.
"Why don't you stay the night at my house! It'll be just like when we were kids!"
Riku looked at Sora's smiling face. Sora was always so happy, so full of light. Everything Riku wanted him to be. He never wanted Sora to be unhappy. Yet he had been the cause of some of Sora's unhappiness as of late.
Now his chest was hurting in a different way. This pain he didn't mind.
"Yeah...I'd like that, Sora." Riku said, a fraction of a smile was able to grace Riku's face.
Sora's smile grew wide. Progress!
Sora grabbed Riku's hand and together they walked back to Sora's house.
Riku tried to convince Sora to let him sleep on the couch but Sora wasn't having it. He told him that if they shared that same bed as kids they could still do it now. Riku had no fight left in him at that point and went along with it.
There he laid with Sora at his side.
And for once in a long time Riku was able to sleep peacefully.
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