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My lips are sealed.
Yanno why the last chapter's called Collapse? 'cause Sora, Kairi, and Riku's trinity collapsed. Organization XIII got all broken up.
So...you pretty much have an idea of what Nobody Break means, right? Right?
Go read!
Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts belongs to Square Enix. This laptop belongs to me! NYAA!
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watashi wa anata o aishite imasu.
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Kairi watched, frozen, as the two Keyblade Masters clashed in sparks of electricity and flashes of light and trails of darkness, each not letting the other get the upper hand.
Sora charged with the Dark Keyblade held up high, and Riku dodged it easily, swiping the Way to the Dawn down in an attempt to knock his adversary off his feet. The brunet, however, grinned eerily and actually jumped off the Dawn's blade, making Riku stagger. He then flipped over and landed a good twenty feet away from the silver-haired Wielder.
"Come on, Riku! Is that all you've got?" he called, laughing, white fangs and perfect rows of teeth glimmering in the half-ebony of his face.
"That's not even half of what I can do, Sora!" Riku yelled back, creating Dark Firaga fireballs and hurling them it at his ex-best friend with precise abandon. Kairi caught the fractional widening of Sora's eyes as he was caught unawares by the fireballs, and he dodged them awkwardly, with the last two ones grazing his Keyblade shoulder.
"Damn," he muttered as he twirled around the Keyblade and sent it flying at Riku in a Strike Raid. Riku dodged it by leaping and he landed back on his feet, panting.
"Sora, please!" Kairi called, ducking to dodge a stray Neoshadow's rearing claw and smashing the end of her rather flowery Keyblade into its head, "Don't listen to Antiform!"
Miraculously, the brunet paused for a split second, enabling Riku to take another swipe at him. He barely dodged it and he shook his head, looking dazed. The silver-haired Wielder exchanged glances with Kairi, and nodded, knowing what he must do to get his best friend back from the brink.
But Naminé said that he was already over the brink...I pushed him, Kairi thought, cringing at herself.
"Sora, come on," Riku said once more as they crossed Keyblades. "We can work this out!"
The brunet remained silent, teeth gritted with the effort of dueling with a Keyblade Master. Sickly yellow and sky-blue eye narrowed as he pushed Riku back, and he hacked tirelessly at the Dawn with the Dark Keyblade. The sound of metal crashing against metal, combined with the metallic scent of crimson blood, filled the air as Sora managed to slash Riku's shoulder open.
"Riku!" Kairi cried out, and sprinted towards the Wielder, but Sora threw her one look and Neoshadows suddenly besieged her, leaving her no choice but to defend herself and steal furtive glances out of the corner of her eye as Riku staggered to his feet.
However, the silver-haired Wielder pressed on, fighting Sora and driving him back into the Nobody symbol mounted on the far end of the Hall. "Listen to us, not to him, Sora!" he repeated over and over with every resounding crash their Keyblades made. They danced the dance of death in a circle, and Kairi kept trying to go to them, kept trying to stop them from fighting and drawing each other's blood. The Neoshadows, however, had seen to that she was too distracted with defending herself.
Sora and Riku crossed Keyblades once again and pushed off each other. They circled each other like hawks ready for the kill. The brunet's vest was torn and blood blossomed from the foot-long gash on his back. Crimson liquid dribbled down from his shoulder to the Dark Keyblade, but Kairi noticed, however, that he wasn't even breathing hard. In fact, he wasn't breathing at all.
She blinked, and stared for a few more seconds. He wasn't breathing. Just standing there.
Uh. Maybe he inherited the characteristic of Heartless that they don't breathe?
Riku's shoulder was torn open and crimson stained his own white vest. His clothes suffered various gashes and tears, and even his normally platinum hair was decorated by splotches of scarlet. He was panting heavily, and he crouched over, one hadn over his bleeding shoulder. His expression mirrored excruciating pain. Apparently, he had underestimated Sora's strength, and now, one more attack will do him in.
Kairi swiped at two more Neoshadows desperately.
The fallen Keyblade Master sprinted towards him.
"Sora, please," Riku pleaded one last time, spreading his palms open. "Come back to us."
The brunet suddenly stopped short, Dark Keyblade poised to attack. Both eyes widened and his mouth dropped open, as if he'd just realized what he was about to do. "R-Riku?" he stammered, voice shaking.
Riku grinned. "Yeah?" he yelled happily, nodding. Kairi couldn't help but smile too. Riku had gotten to him! She knew he could do it!
Sora paused.
And his lips curved into a smirk. "Bite me."
He reared back to gain momentum and lunged forward, Dark Keyblade aimed right at Riku's open chest. He had left himself defenceless when he spread his palms open earlier.
Kairi broke free of the Neoshadow onslaught and sprinted in front of Riku, reaching him just in time to block the Dark Keyblade with her own. She had to use both hands to successfully prevent Sora from bringing it down in a vertical slash.
"Leave him alone!" she yelled, tears blinding her vision. Sora was gone. The Keyblade Master she loved was gone. In his place stood a monster.
But then, for the millionth time that evening, Kairi regretted those thoughts.
For as she locked eye contact with the fallen Wielder, both of his eyes flashed sky-blue, and a solitary crimson tear traced its lonely path down his ebony cheek.
"Fine," he breathed hoarsely as he pushed back her Keyblade and sent her and Riku crashing to the marble floor, "Fine, Kairi. Go and be happy with Riku. Go and have fun until I take both of your hearts. As long as you're happy. I thought you loved me, but as long as you're happy."
And with that, he called his Heartless back and ran up the wall to the balcony overlooking the Hall of Empty Melodies.
Kairi, at that moment, felt her own heart break.
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He ran up the wall, not letting anyone see the trail of salt and metallic scarlet he left behind. He cursed his ability to weep blood; it made it so much more harder to look like he wasn't crying.
So. After all the revelations and the whole shebang, she still loves Riku, buddyboy.
"Don't say that," he croaked as he vaulted over the balcony railing and landed nimbly on the marble floor. He lifted a pale hand to scrub his tears away, breath hitching in his throat. "Damn, I thought Nobodies weren't supposed to feel."
Ah. You've got me, remember? Hello? Heartless side here?
As much as it was against his will to do so, Sora chuckled. Somehow, Antiform always managed to cheer him up. Either that, or he was getting closer and closer to crossing the thin line of insanity.
Uh! Uh! You're already insane!
"Shut up." Sora straightened up, and brought the Dark Keyblade to rest on his shoulder, ignoring the pain that shot through his arm. Riku sure knew how to duel.
Sora paused, and took a deep breath as he surveyed the area below him.
Thirteen black-coated figures stared up at him, silver and grey Nobodies ranged behind them in lines. Each figure held a weapon, and Sora, in truth, didn't really like the prospect of going through each and every one. Sure, he'd have no problem finishing them off, but for crying out loud! He'd be wasting a lot of time!
And another thing...the blood might never come off.
Sora liked blood in him, not on him. Gross.
No choice, buddyboy. Mr. Rebonded has one of the last shards. Get him, then the blonde chick, then my control.
"I know, like you haven't been repeating yourself the last few minutes," he muttered, smirking to himself as he ran a claw-free hand through his hair. He brought his hand down in an unspoken order to the Heartless behind him.
"Attack them all, and keep Riku and Kairi out of my way."
The Neoshadows crawled down rapidly and Sora leapt off the balcony, landing right in the middle of the Heartess onslaught. He grinned as he charged at a bewildered Xemnas, sabers poised at the ready. The sabers crashed down, but Sora had dodge-rolled at the last minute in time to avoid the damage. However, he found himself at the sharp end of a matte-blue claymore.
Saïx grinned down on him, an eerie white glow surrounding his figure. "Hello, Wielder."
Sora grinned back, even giving him a small wave of his own. "Hi, Saïx."
They stared at each other for a moment, before Sora brought his legs up and kicked the berserker clean across the hall, leaving a rather large crack in the wall. No matter. When he's finished, this Castle won't be anything more than a pile of nonexistent rubble, anyway.
He charged at Xemnas once more, this time managing to deflect a blizzard of katar bullets and no less than twenty lances (although he took one right in the back --- and he was very thankful that he didn't feel physical pain any longer) before a furious Marluxia blocked his way.
"Sheesh!" Sora yelled frustratedly. "Out of my way!"
"As if," number Eleven growled, and brought down his scythe on Sora. He dodged it easily and threw a Stirke Raid at him, making the Graceful Assassin crouch low to dodge it. Sora took the advantage and used Marluxia as leverage to leap over Lexaeus and Vexen, landing on the floor and resuming his sprint to Xemnas.
Pssh. Stupid Nobodies.
"You got that right," he murmured as he knocked aside another blizzard, this time of kunais, a shower of razor-sharp cards (of which fifteen got lodged in random parts of his back --- that would've hurt like hell) and sakura petals, ran through a pillar of ice-cold water (and almost got knocked out by the dozens of water forms waiting for him to go through), and dodged two spinning chakrams alight with fire.
Finally, his way was clear.
Unfortunately, his Other seemed to think otherwise.
"Roxas," he growled. "Out of the way."
"Sorry, no dice," the blonde replied mischievously.
"This is getting stupid," Sora huffed, straightening up with the Dark Keyblade held loosely in his right hand.
Roxas nodded in agreement. He actually seemed to be enjoying this as he crossed Oathkeeper and Oblivion above his head. Electricity crackled between the intricate metalworked blades and he yelled one word.
"Light!"
A circle of light traced itself on the marble floor and pillars of blinding white shot up. Roxas tossed his Keyblades into the air as tongues of white flame emblazoned themselves on the hem of his black hood and coat. He waved his gloved hands and drew the Keyblades towards his palms, but he didn't hold the handles themselves. They just sort of...floated over his palms. The light faded into two small orbs trailing behind the blonde as he hovered a good foot above the slightly-rubbled floor.
"Ahhuh," Sora said boredly. "Final Form, Roxas-style."
"That's a nice name," Roxas shot back just as boredly, golden spikes of hair swaying slightly as he bobbed up and down.
"Antiform, Sora-style, sounds so much better, though," he muttered, raising his own Dark Keyblade above his head. "Watch, Roxas."
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Roxas blinked and raised an eyebrow as he leant slightly forward, eyeing his Nobody through narrowed eyes. They were in the rather calm middle of the chaos the Heartless had created --- the Neoshadows were now holding the rest of the Organization back, and also keeping them from reaching Xemnas, who was in the middle of a large circle of Heartless himself.
They had to protect the Superior, whatever the cost. For Roxas knew that once Sora got Xemnas' shard, he and Naminé were next on his hitlist. And frankly, he'd rather not have a ruthless killer after him and the memory witch's blood. Or shard of heart, in this case.
Sora pointed the Dark Keyblade upwards, and closed his eyes.
"Kingdom Hearts!" he bellowed. A six-foot Heartless symbol traced itself in blue light around his feet, and Roxas suddenly had the feeling of giddiness he had felt when he first faced Riku in the World that Never Was. Sora was doing the same his best friend had done: he was summoning the power of darkness.
Roxas felt even more giddy with adrenalin. He controlled the element of light. Clashing with darkness was what he was existing for.
"Hear your Key's call!"
He gasped in astonishment as the Hall was plunged into darkness momentarily, until the white illuminating Materia did its work. Kairi yelled for Roxas to be careful, and he heard Riku curse. Vehemently.
Roxas stole a glance at the windows, and what he saw took his breath away.
Kingdom Hearts glowed, not with warm white light, but with an eerie blue one. The heart-moon itself was ebony-black, matching the night around it. In fact, the only indication Kingdom Hearts was there was its outline traced in blue.
"Oh, hell," he managed to stammer, before he tore his eyes away from the sight and looked at Sora once again. A slight gale seemed to whirl around him, making the spikes of his hair gently float upwards and his clothes ripple in an invisible wind. The Dark Keyblade glowed with the same dark illumination of Kingdom Hearts.
"Unlock your door!"
Sora's eyes snapped open as blue light engulfed him, blinding Roxas for a split second. He had no warning as the fallen Keyblade Master suddenly rushed out and slashed down his Keyblade. Roxas flipped backwards to avoid the next slash, teeth gritted with pain at the large gash running across his chest. It actually cut off his hood's cords and the silver necklace. The tubular beads bounced on the floor, stained with crimson.
"Damn," he cursed, getting down on one knee and muttering a Curaga. Sora stared at him from across the Hall, glee reflected in both his eyes. Roxas forced a laugh. "Gee, Sora. That was a good lightshow. Too bad it didn't do anything except make your Keyblade sparkle."
Sora feigned hurt as he pressed his clawed hand to his forehead. "Aww, Rox. Don't be so impatient; I wasn't even done yet."
He couldn't resist the urge to widen his eyes as the darkness suddenly exploded away from Kingdom Hearts, leaving it in its normal glowing yellow. The windows of the Hall shattered as Sora raised his Keyblade once more. Ribbons of darkness shot to the 'Blade, disappearing into it. The brunet's Heartless eye glowed with an even brighter yellow, and, Roxas realized with a shiver running down his spine, that the eyes of the Heartless around them pulsed with the same yellow light.
He staggered to his feet, and his blood ran cold when he realized what Sora had done.
He had bound the Heartless to himself, and opened his soul to darkness in turn. It gave him control over the massive power that was the darkness of Kingdom Hearts, but it drastically cut off the chances of turning back to the light.
Sora was gone.
Sky-blue eye was still there, but the light in it had disappeared completely. Like it was even there, but the cheerfulness, the happiness, the innocence was gone.
He smirked as he tapped the Keyblade on his shoulder. "Like it?"
"Love it," Roxas said sarcastically before charging forwards, orbs of light trailing behind him. Sora dodged easily and leapt over him, but Roxas quickly whipped around and waved a hand towards the brunet. Pillars of light burst out from the floor, annihilating Neoshadows where they erupted. None caught Sora, however, as the fallen Keyblade Master quick-ran, weaving between the Heartless and Organization XIII rapidly.
He rose upwards and narrowed his eyes; Sora had disappeared into the Heartless mob. "Oh, come on, stop hiding like the coward that you are!" he yelled frustratedly.
"Coward I might be, but I'm an intelligent coward."
Roxas froze as he heard Sora whisper in his ear, and he felt the cold steel of the blunt end of the Dark Keyblade crash against the back of his head. Spots blinked before his eyes as he spun around to face the brunet, but he had already pushed off the wall and was now standing at the railing of the balcony. Roxas felt warm liquid trickle down the back of his neck and into the hood of his coat.
"Why you --- " he dropped down to the ground and threw a Blizzaga at him, but Sora jumped on the railing, barely missing the razor-sharp ice shards. "So low! Why didn't you kill me then!"
" 'cause I need your shard last!" Sora yelled back, leaping and bringing down his Keyblade. Roxas was ready for this and he crossed his Keyblades at the last second, catching the Keyblade in between.
He grinned at the bewildered look on his Nobody's face. "Sora, you stupid idiot."
The brunet furrowed his eyebrows as he struggled to wrench his Keyblade free. "Let it go, Roxas!"
"I'm not as stupid as you!"
Sora yelled once more as he swung his legs up and kicked Roxas square in the chest, effectively sending him clear across the Hall as he did with number Eight earlier and releasing the hold on the Dark Keyblade.
He shook his head to clear the spots now seeming to take permanent residence in his corneas. He was now lying awkwardly across a pile of marble rubble, and he quickly got to his feet. Sora looked royally pissed off right now, and Roxas couldn't help but grin. Widely.
"This is getting stupid!" Sora repeated, charging once again.
"You finally noti--" Roxas didn't get the chance to finish his sentence as hordes of Neoshadows suddenly jumped him. Sora had stopped a meter short of Roxas and brought down his hand instead in a signal for the Heartless to attack him.
"Sheesh!" he heard Sora groan once again in frustration. "You're so freakin' persistent, Roxas!"
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Sora took one last look at where Roxas was supposedly was, under a five-something platoon of Neoshadows. That'll keep him busy for a while, until he took Xemnas' shard back.
He was about to turn to face the silver-haired Nobody when he looked back over his shoulder. "Uh, guys."
All the Heartless looked up to face him, yellow eyes wide and glowing curiously. "Sir Sora?" the topmost one asked.
"Don't kill him, okay? I'll do that myself," he said, tilting his head thoughtfully.
"Sure, whatever you say," the Neoshadow replied, and they resumed keeping the Key of Destiny from getting out from under them.
This is stupid, buddyboy. Why didn't you get your heart from my control? It's bound to come back to you, anyway!
Sora shook his head and scanned the hall for the Superior. "Yeah, it'll come back, but it's still incomplete! The remaining shards will refuse to come near me, and I'll end up stuck with only twelve shards."
Oh. Oh yeah.
He rolled his eyes, and spotted Organization XIII's leader in the process. Sora sprinted through the battle and ended up yelling for the Neoshadow who was attacking Xemnas to get out of the way. Finally, he stood before the Nobody. They started circling each other.
"Wielder." Xemnas acknowledged once more, hovering above the floor together with his Sorcerers.
"Xemnas," he greeted back, and with a snap of his fingers, called a Darkside.
The platinum-haired Superior made the mistake of gawking.
Sora sprinted forward and plunged the Dark Keyblade in the general region of Xemnas' heart. He grinned when he saw the shard of heart float out, and when the lump that was Roxas under a heap of Heartless collapsed. He portalled back out of the chaos and into the path right before the entrance to the Proof of Existence, meaning to say, the front of the Hall. He called his Heartless who were attacking Organization XIII back once again and told them to regroup and strategize among themselves.
It was highly amusing, to say the very least.
"Two more to go!" he cheered, tapping the Dark Keyblade on his shoulder.
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"Hell no you don't!" Axel roared, and Organization XIII sprinted to position, making a makeshift wall of defence between her and Roxas (who was lying sprawled on the marble floor) and Sora. "You're not taking Roxas and Naminé!"
Naminé gratefully smiled inwardly, but she gritted her teeth and flexed her Keyblades into a fighting stance, left foot forward together with left hand clutching memory-wrought Oathkeeper, and right foot behind aligned with Oblivion.
She peered out of the corner of her eye. Roxas slowly got to his feet, but not without a few miserable failures to get up. He was bleeding out of the back of his head, and he was clutching his chest with a pained expression on his face. He hovered to her back with the same expression pasted on his features, and his Keyblades twirled impatiently. He looked pathetically injured.
She whipped her head forwards to face the Heartless which were now slowly forming a circle around them. Riku and Kairi ran to their side.
"You guys ready?" Kairi said stoically, brandishing her flowery Keyblade.
Naminé could actually feel the emotional pain overflow and radiate off the Princess of Heart. Naturally. She was going to kill off her Keyblade Master. Riku threw a Megalixir upwards, and it burst into a fountain of potion, revitalizing them. She took deep, calming breaths as the Heartless increased in number, and, if she wasn't mistaken, the Neoshadows were watching them curiously. "I was born ready," he muttered.
"Heck, if I was even born...anyway," Roxas' voice was light and eerily calm. Slayers suddenly rose up from the floor and joined the other Nobody ranks. "...I'm ready."
She felt the back of her neck prickle, and they caught each other stealing glances at the other. Naminé quickly tore her gaze away, feeling anger bubble up in her once more. This is getting insanely frustrating! "Ready as I ever will be," she ground out, feeling stupid.
Sora suddenly chuckled, and his laughter echoed around the Hall. It made shivers run up her spine. "Only time I've seen you guys so organized and united. Heh, finally, an organized Organization. Maybe something good came out of this after all. Of course, it's good for me."
"Heartless," he paused, and cast one last look around, before pointing his Keyblade in a targeting gesture.
"...Attack."
And the world exploded into chaos.
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Roxas gritted his teeth and brought his Oathkeeper downwards, making a Neoshadow dissipate into particles of darkness. Another Neoshadow crawled forward and tried to knock him off his feet, nearly making him fall over to Naminé, who was working her Keyblades in the same way. He slashed at the Neoshadow and sighed, casting a Curaga on the both of them.
Naminé still ignored him, slashing against the Neoshadows on her side. They had been fighting for what seemed an eternity now, back-to-back with the blonde girl as they fended off Heartless simultaneously. And what frustrated him that they did it wordlessly.
He paused for a second and gazed over his shoulder, staring at how she moved. He had never known before last afternoon that the girl had it in her to move so stealthily and gracefully at the same time. Her memory-wrought Oblivion crackled with darkness as it sliced through yet another Heartless.
As he stared a Neoshadow rose unexpectedly near her right sandal and took a swipe at her calf, making her cry out in pain. Blood bloomed out of the thin slashes and trailed down her ankles as she knelt on one knee, panting, with her Oathkeeper to support her as she did.
Another Neoshadow tensed and lashed out with a claw aimed at her neck.
Roxas yelled and dismissed his Keyblades in a split second, arms moving up to push Naminé away. "Naminé, look out!"
She stiffened and looked over her shoulder at him, and her eyes widened in horror as she her gaze strayed to somewhere to his left. "No, you look out!" she screamed. She dismissed her own Keyblades and spun around to face him, placing her hands on his shoulders and pushing him away with brute strength.
What stunned Roxas was that she was crying; clear ribbons of tears traced down from her cerulean blue eyes and down her porcelain-white skin. "Wha --- "He stole a glance at the direction Naminé had looked at, and his words were cut short.
The Dark Keyblade was spinning towards him in a Strike Raid seconds ago, and Naminé had pushed him out of the way.
She silently took the Keyblade in the chest as its momentum threw her up into the pillar behind them, and the Keyblade lodged itself in the marble, impaling Naminé there, a good thirty feet off the floor.
Roxas screamed.
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"What on earth?" Kairi exclaimed, stopping for a moment.
Shivers ran up Riku's spine as he spun around to face in the direction of Roxas' scream. He had never heard a scream so anguished before, and, coming from somebody who wasn't supposed to feel, it was downright heartbreaking.
All the breath went out of him as he recognized the pale figure the Dark Keyblade had just pinned to a pillar.
Naminé.
Kairi fell to her knees and burst into tears.
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Roxas could only stare in stunned horror as her shard of heart floated out and joined with his, making his fragmented heart a whole one. It should've hurt the most, but, somehow, the pain of remerging shards didn't affect him. Seeing Naminé stuck to a pillar --- with her blood slowly dripping down the marble --- like some kind of rag doll numbed his senses.
"Pssh," he heard Sora mutter. "I hate it when that happens."
The Dark Keyblade vanished into strands of darkness, probably Recalled by Sora. Naminé crumpled face-down to the floor at the base of the pillar in a shower of blood and ripped white cloth, and Roxas sprinted to her side with a speed he had never known to posess.
He gingerly turned her around and found her gasping softly, blood trickling down her ruined chest. Not only her chest, but...everywhere...Oh, Creator, Nobody or not, the injury was almost impossible to look at directly. It would take her some time, maybe a month or so, to recover from losing her shard and getting stabbed by a three-foot long piece of metal, but then she'll be good as ---
"What the...!" Roxas gasped as trails of darkness rose up from Naminé, first a thin thread, now ribbons of satin black.
She was fading.
"No! Naminé!" he whispered, cradling her head in his arm and wrapping an arm around her waist, not caring if he was stained with her blood. "No! You can't be fading!"
It suddenly hit him. Naminé...Naminé was barely a Nobody herself, having been born of a Somebody without a corresponding Heartless. That made her more powerful that an ordinary Nobody, but much more fragile. And with an injury like this...
No no no Roxas don't think about that! No! NO!
Strands of darkness continued to rise from her, and everything was tuned out for Roxas except for the sound of her ragged breathing and her pale white figure, and the blood pounding in his temples as tears he never knew could fall overflowed. He traced a shaky finger down her jawbone as his tears started to drip down his face and onto her white sundress, mixing with her own blood.
Were Nobodies supposed to be able to cry?
But then again, he had Sora's heart now. He finally understood what he had meant by the burden of having a heart.
"Hold on, Nam," he breathed brokenly, knowing that his words would do nothing to save her. Magic won't work on her; curative magic doesn't work on somebody who's just existing. "Just hold on!"
She coughed up blood, and turned her cerulean blue orbs, still streaming with tears, to him. "You...Roxas...are the biggest idiot..." Naminé choked.
Roxas couldn't help but smile a pained smile. "Naminé..."
She smiled back weakly. "...I have ever...fallen...in love with."
Her cerulean blue eyes glazed over, and Roxas felt her go limp in his arms. More ribbons of darkness rose up from her body, more and more until it concealed her from his view ---
He watched, stunned beyond words, as she faded completely, leaving strands of darkness in their wake.
And then too, the strands faded away.
"Naminé..." he whispered, not really comprehending what just happened, staring at his empty bloodstained arms and empty tear-stained gloves. "Naminé..."
Tears streamed down freely his face now. his eyelids burning with the hot saltiness.
"Naminé..." he repeated, chest heaving with a pain he had never known before. It was more excruciating than the pain of remerging, and Roxas knew now that it was the pain of losing a loved one.
A dearly beloved one.
"NAMINÉ!" he screamed as he had never screamed before, throwing his head back and beseeching to the high heavens her name, her name that sounded so right on his tongue and her lips that molded so perfectly with his and her pale white hand that saved him from falling--
"You..." Roxas stood up, fists clenching painfully, making his fists clench painfully to forget the pain of Naminé fading away...he turned around slowly to face Sora, who was eyeing him now with great interest.
The brunet shrugged, tapping the Dark Keyblade over his shoulder. "Hey, don't look at me. I was aiming at you."
"You bastard," he could barely breathe with anger. "You goddamned bastard."
"I can stand you trying to hurt me." Roxas swallowed painfully, slowly raising his eyes to meet with Sora's, every word gathering strength and anger. "I can stand you trying to hurt my family. But killing Naminé..."
Sora boredly leapt up in the air and started attacking a Sorcerer.
Roxas bit his lip and forced himself to stop crying. Crying never did anything. Not crying numbed the pain. Anguish and anger and pain swirled in a haze of thoughts as his eyes followed Sora's movements.
In a split second he summoned his Keyblades and wielded them furiously at his sides. "I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!" he bellowed, and he threw Oblivion out with all his strength and accuracy and fervent prayers for the only Nobody he had ever loved so deeply in a desperate Strike Raid.
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Kairi saw it coming.
She knew it would happen.
And she knew what she was going to do.
She sprinted to Sora's front and jumped.
Guilt filled her, guilt flooded her, but she closed her eyes, and waited for the inevitable, repeating over and over to herself that it would all be over soon.
Riku screamed.
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watashi wa anata o aishite imasu. - I love you.
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Ahuhh. That's why it's entitled Nobody Break.
Don't kill me.
Such a cute cliffie, although I know you must all have an idea what happens next.
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