Sorry for not updating last night.. My parent's are probably going to get divorced, and I might move. So, updates will be slower.
Thanks for the reviews! This chapter is way better than the last one (In my opinion), and I thought it was kind of funny. I hope Riku doesn't sound too OC.
Disclaimer: Don't own.. Wahhh…
Sorry this chapter is so short, but.. eh.
(Reviews? I'll buy you some food at Bennigan's! XDD)
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Riku stared at Sora, trying to see if he was real or not.
"This is… impossible. There's no such things as ghosts," He said, shoving his hand through Sora's stomach.
"Yugh! Don't do that! It feels all weird.." Sora said, stepping back.
Riku shrugged, and muttered a small apology.
Namine then tugged on Riku's shirt, and pointed to the sky. "It's getting dark."
Riku nodded, "Yeah, let's go home."
Sora watched as they started walking away, a sudden feeling of loneliness overcoming him. Was this how Riku felt when he was a ghost, too?
"Are you coming, ghost boy?" Riku called back at Sora, who was quick to follow.
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"Don't you want to eat anything?" Namine asked Sora, trying to feed him ice cream.
"Namine, quit it." Riku said, skimming through some papers.
"But he's so skinny!"
"Um…"
"He's dead, don't you get it? He can't eat."
"Hey! I'm not dead!" Sora said, crossing his arms.
"Dead, and in denial. What a pity," Riku said, grinning.
"I'm not dead!"
"Nuh-uh! Come on Sorry, eat!"
"I'm not hungry. And it's SORA."
"Aw…" Namine said, putting the ice cream back in the fridge, frowning.
"I'm going to bed then. You too, Riku! Don't stay up too late talking to Sari!"
"Um… It's Sora."
"Good night Riku, Good night Sake!"
"It's Sora." Sora said, as the young girl ran upstairs to her room.
"So, Sora, if your not dead, why are you a ghost?" Riku asked casually, looking at Sora.
"Fine. Then if I'm a ghost, how are you seeing me?"
"Good point." Riku said, looking back through his papers.
"Another thing, how are you and your sister living in this house, anyway? Aren't you orphans or something?" Sora asked, trying to look at Riku's papers.
"It's my aunt's house. She's on a business trip right now. Does that answer you question?" Riku said dryly.
"Uh… yeah. Wait, another question. The school-- Where is it? The one where I go to looks like a hospital right now," Sora asked.
"Ah, yeah. They're doing some remodeling at this point. There's a school in the back, where all the student's go."
"Could I ask one more question?" Sora tested, looking at Riku.
"It depends."
"How… How did your parents die?"
Riku slammed the papers on the table, glaring venomously. "Why don't you mind your own business. I don't ask you questions, do I? So don't bother me!"
He stood up, slamming his chair into the table, then grabbed the papers, and headed upstairs.
Sora gulped. "Okay.. Mental note to self. Don't bug Riku anymore." He sighed, then laid his head on the table.
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"Hey, Sora!" Namine smiled, sitting in a chair next to him.
"Morning!"
"It's… Morning?" Sora asked, looking out a window. Everything looked the same, tinted with a small fog. Did he fall asleep? Was that even possible?
"Yeah, silly. It's Saturday!" Namine laughed. "Oh, wait, I want to show you something!" She then ran to the living room of the large house, coming back with a piece of paper.
"Look, it's my mom!" She smiled, setting a piece of paper on the table in front of Sora.
"Wow…" Sora said in awe. "You.. Drew this?"
"Yeah! She was pretty, huh?"
Sora nodded.
The woman in the picture had long dark hair, but the drawing was in pencil so he couldn't tell what color it was.
"What was your mom's name?"
"Tifa." Namine said, adding a few lines to the drawing with a pencil she found on the cabinet.
"Sora, you know what?" Namine said, looking up from her drawing.
"What?" Sora asked, putting his head on his hands.
"I don't think you're a ghost anymore, I know what you are!" She exclaimed.
"What do you think I am?" Sora asked, his voice melancholy.
"Our guardian angel!" Namine said, her eyes brighter.
"Uh… maybe?" Sora said, not sure what to say. Why crush a kid's dreams by saying something else, right?
"So, you promise to protect me forever and ever, right?" She said, smiling.
Sora blinked, then shrugged. "Right. I won't let anything happen to you, I promise." He said, grinning one of his occasional grins.
She then stood up, saying she had to go somewhere, and left.
Sora then remembered something--
"You said you would protect me.. And you lied. You didn't stop him, you didn't try!"
Namine-- Or Namine's ghost? Had yelled this in the graveyard.
"Well, it… doesn't matter what happened. I'll fix it so everything will be perfect, Riku and Namine won't die, and… He'll never haunt me."
Sora nodded, the pictures and memories of his normal life flooding back to him.
He would fix it. He would make it perfect. Nothing would go wrong.
Too bad Sora didn't know you can't change the way things happen.
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