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"Kairi…. Kairi? Are you awake?" Riku had only just realized that she had fallen asleep in his arms. " Come on Kai. Wake up."

"Hmmm? What is it?" She rubbed her eyes sleepily as she finally came to. She looked up at him and gave him a half smile because it was all she could really manage in her current predicament . "What time is (yawn) it?"

"I'm not sure. But you were out for quite a while you know?" he chuckled softly. " Have you been getting enough sleep?"

She smiled to herself as she continued to rub the sleep from her eyes.

"I don't really sleep any more you know? I've been waiting for you and Sora to-" She stopped. "Sora…you… don't know were he is do you?"

she asked with a tiny bit of hope lingering in her voice. He hated to extinguish it.

He sighed and stared up at the star streaked sky. He almost couldn't bring himself to tell her the news, for he had barley gotten over it himself.

"Kairi the… the door… didn't seal completely. He had to close it but when he got there… Sephiroth was waiting. He told him that you were dead Kairi, that he had killed you. Sora went mad. After he killed Sephiroth he disappeared. He thought he lost you… I don't know if he'll come back but, of all the places he could run to…. I think he'd come here."

"So… so there's still hope then?" he hated to hear that voice. It was cracked and broken, not at all like the beautiful melodic sound he had fallen in love with. And what hurt him even more was the fact that he had caused this change…. This hurt.

"There's always hope Kairi. Do you remember when I always beat Sora at that tree climbing contest?" A smile graced Kairi's lips as she nodded. " He was so mad that he mad the right mind to give up, but he didn't. He kept going, and he won. And if this Sora is anything like the one I know, he'll find his way back… to you." he had extreme difficulty saying those last two words, but he knew they would help her, so he said them anyway.

"you know Riku? You always know exactly what to say." Kairi said leaning on his shoulder. "And I thank you for…that." The last word turned into a sigh as she returned to dreamland, a tiny smile tugging at the edges of her lips.

Riku smiled and picked her up, carrying her "bridal" style across the beach.

She has got to stop falling asleep like that, he thought to himself, or I swear she's going to make me fall for her.

And as he slowly walked across the beach carrying the sleeping beauty he slowly began to realize that…. he already had…

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