EM: So it's been…holy shit it's been like decades since my last update!!!! Well that's just horrible. Hope I haven't lost any readers because of that, but here is the next installment of Riku's Light. If ya'll don't like it, THEN GET OUT!

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Disclaimer: I own nothing that deals with Kingdom Hearts, or Disney for that matter. Just Lehna.


It was a rather troublesome predicament. He wasn't sure what to do. He was surrounded by more heartless than he could possibly count and had a strange naked girl in his arms.

He shook his head, hair falling into his eyes. Riku didn't really know how to get them out of the trouble they were now in. But the girl seemed rather afraid or that's what he thought. He felt the need to assure her that they would be okay. So he did. Of course after he said that she pulled in closer to his body and laid her head on his chest, and then he really felt he had to make sure she was okay. He wasn't sure what to think about the girl but it bothered him to no end.

"So Riku how about them plans. Cuz ya know you were always good at that."

Sora was looking around frantically with his keyblade drawn.

Riku was thinking as fast as he could but of course at this time he had nothing. Absolutely nothing.

There was a long pause.

"I'll take that as nothing. But that's alright. I guess. We'll get out of this. No problem."

Sora flashed one of those grins and Riku's eyebrow went up.

Sora where are you?!

Sora halted where he was.

"Kairi?"

Riku looked over at Sora's now still form. He had his keyblade but spoke Kairi's name.

Sora?! Riku?! Where are you guys?!

He had heard it too this time.

"Her voice, it's coming from over there."

Riku looked down at the girl in his arms. She was looking over his shoulder with her arm outstretched and pointing behind him. He turned himself around and his eyes caught a sparkle in midair and narrowed.

"Kairi?"

He started to move for the sparkle and heard Sora groan.

He looked up and immediately regretted taking that step. The heartless were moving.

"Run for the light. Just go, it should take us to where the voice is, wherever that is."

Riku didn't hesitate at the girl's command. He would do anything at this point if it got them moving away from the heartless.

"Sora, let's go!"

Sora turned at Riku's voice and followed them.

He seemed confused at first but just shrugged his shoulders with a "whatever you say look" and continued to run behind Riku.

"Aye Aye Captain!"

They continued to run for the light and it slowly formed into a door. Riku's thoughts jumped to a time on the beach and he vaguely remembered walking through a door of brilliant light and being brought back to his home island in a flash of light.

But that of course was a different time and a different place and under completely different circumstances. So they didn't end up on the island, but rather back in the waterway in Traverse Town.

"Sora! Riku!"

They didn't make pleasant landings. Sora landed head first in the water and Riku butt first. The girl was still in his arms, still naked.

"RIKU! Wha-what are you doing?"

Sora looked up with the goofy grin.

"Hey Kairi. Umm…we found her…I think."

Kairi looked from Sora to Riku to the naked girl and back to Riku.

"She's NAKED!"

Well duh, thought Riku.

"I know."

Her mouth was hanging open, and a slight blush was creeping up her cheeks. She turned to Sora, now with a scowl on her face. She found that he was also looking at Riku and the girl. The very pretty, very naked girl.

"SORA! STOP LOOKING!"

He nearly jumped out of his skin and a blush crept across his cheeks.

"Uhhhh…heh heh. Sorry Kairi. Can't really help that she's naked and all," He gestured toward her. "Kinda came that way."

He swept his hand across the back of his head, a habit when he was in some kind of trouble or nervous.

"And you Riku! Put her down! You can't hold a girl like that!"

He immediately, without thinking, dropped the girl from his arms.

"AHH!"

She landed with a splash in the shallow water. She had tried to control the landing with her hands but that only left her even more naked, if you can really get more naked, for everyone to see. So she ended up with a searing tailbone. It hurt. She cringed.

"Ah, I'm sorry. I wasn't…"

He averted his gaze when he realized he was staring at her. Boy was this getting really, really awkward.

"Riku. Sora. Leave. Now."

She went to the girl's side and stood over her, arms crossed. They both looked at each other, Sora wanting to get away (you didn't want to be around Kairi when she got angry), Riku contemplating leaving an angry Kairi with the girl. He still had this lingering need to stay near her. Sora shrugged his shoulders and started to walk away. Riku got the stern eye from Kairi and decided feelings or no, he would not face the anger. He took off his white vest, thinking he should have done before he had picked her up, and held it out for her to take without looking.

Lehna hesitated, shivered and then took it, placing her arms through the holes. It wasn't much, but she felt better with something solid and whole covering her.

"Thank you."

It was quiet, and hard to hear, but Riku caught the lilt to her voice and decided he shouldn't stick around any longer. Kairi watched as they made their way to the stairs. She watched Sora's retreating back and almost cried again.

"Sora!"

She ran up to him, kicking up water, and threw her arms around him. He was shocked at first, but then smiled, chuckled and held her back. Their embrace, through Lehna's eyes, was difficult to understand. They were practically clinging to each other but she didn't understand why. Why did they do that? There was an urge to look away, because it looked like something that shouldn't be watched so closely, but she couldn't help it. She had never witnessed anything like it before. What were they doing? And then to top it off, Kairi kissed Sora on the cheek. His face flamed up. What was that called?

"Aw come on Kairi. It's not like I'm walking off to another world again without you."

"I know but…"

Sora looked at her with a tilt to his head and clenched her hand in his. God did he love her.

"Riku and I will be up in Merlin's. We'll tell him to send a message to King Mickey about the girl."

She nodded, turned back, and walked up to the naked girl.

"Oh, I forgot. Sora?"

He, surprisingly, didn't look back. The wrath of Kairi must not be worth any kind of forgetfulness.

"Yeah?"

"Will you send Aerith down here with some clothes, preferably something that would fit me?"

"Yep, right away. I'll tell her to hurry up. She'll be cold no doubt."

"THEN GET TO IT!"

Sora and Riku both jumped at her words and flew up the stairs.

Kairi turned towards the naked girl shivering in the water.

"Ah, I'm sorry I don't have anything else you can wear. My friend will be down with some clothes for you."

Kairi looked at the girl, fully this time. She was very pretty. Her hair was longer than Riku's, clinging to her wet form. It was straight, with no bangs or split ends. Like she had never cut it before. And it was the color of orchids. And her eyes were the deepest purple she had ever seen. Her face was pale, almost as if no sun had kissed if before, and she was so slender. Perhaps she should have told Sora something that would be small on herself.

"Um…excuse me?"

Lehna didn't really know how she was talking, since she suspected she had never really spoken before. Or maybe she had? She didn't know.

"Oh I'm so sorry. I'm being terribly rude. My name is Kairi."

She held out her hand. Lehna looked at it with a confused look.

"My name is…Lehna."

She wasn't absolutely positively certain that it really was her name, but she didn't have any idea what it would have been otherwise. Nera was lying or telling the truth. Either way, she had a name and she would take it.

Kairi looked down at her own hand and shrugged her shoulders.

"Would you please tell me…what were you doing with the brown-haired boy?"

Kairi's eyes widened in shock. What did she do?

"Well…I uh…I…"

Lehna waited, as if truly intrigued.

"Do you really not know what I was doing?"

Lehna shook her head no. How could she? She had never been really alive.

"Well I was…hugging Sora. That's his name by the way. The other one is Riku."

Lehna looked away confused.

Hugging? Is that what it is called?

"What was the other thing you did? To his face?"

Kairi turned fiery red. Why was she asking these ridiculous questions? She had to know what that was.

"I kissed him on the cheek of course."

Kairi didn't understand why she was explaining to this girl what hugging and kissing were. It was starting to annoy her.

"Why?"

Kairi looked at her confused. But she looked just as confused as Kairi felt.

"Why what?"

"Why were you…hugging and kissing Sora?"

Now she was upset. That was a personal question. She felt her whole body flush with color and thought of all the reasons why she would kiss and hug Sora. And that was none of her business.

"That's personal."

"Now, now Kairi, I'm sure she didn't mean to pry."

Kairi jumped at the sound of Aerith's voice. She turned around to find her smiling sweetly, with a bundle of clothing in her arms.

"Aerith. Don't scare me like that."

Aerith walked over to Lehna and kneeled down.

"Hello. My name is Aerith. And you are?"

Lehna hesitated at first.

"My name is…Lehna."

Aerith smiled sadly.

"You sound as if you aren't sure that that is your name."

Lehna's face dropped.

"That is because…I am not sure."

Kairi looked over to Aerith.

"Hmm. Well…there's no use pondering over things you can't control. Here. I've brought clothes for you to try on and a towel to dry yourself off with. I wasn't exactly sure what size you were," handing the towel to Lehna, "so I brought clothes that would fit Kairi, my friend Yuffie and myself."

Lehna stood up on shaky legs, and took off the vest that Riku had given her. She felt its warmth leave her and she shivered again. And the smell. She hadn't realized that it smelled, but it did. It was intoxicating, like salty mist, and sand. She didn't really want to let go of the vest.

Kairi gasped. She was utterly perfect. There wasn't a blemish, a scar, a birthmark, or anything to mark the girl. Her skin was smooth and flawless. Her entire body was slim, yet there was a hidden strength behind it all. Like the girl worked out, but used some kind of…something to make her skin look so smooth. Her fingers were long and graceful, if fingers could be graceful, and Kairi suddenly wished she had fingers like that. Lehna first pulled on a blue skirt, that was just slightly too big for her waist. She then pulled on black shorts that did fit. Next she tried the black vest that went with the shorts, but she was too small for that. Aerith handed her another one of Yuffie's vests. This time it came with a tight fitting white shirt, which Lehna wasn't too sure she was comfortable with, and then a black vest that went from waist to chest and stopped. Aerith did up the ties. It fit well and looked good. Next Aerith handed her a pair of Yuffie's black high boots and she helped Lehna lace them up as well. She then handed Lehna a white ribbon. Lehna looked at it questioningly, and after a moment, Aerith took it and gathered up the ends of her long hair. She only placed the ribbon halfway up her back, there was so much hair.

"There. That's better. At least you have some clothes on."

Lehna looked down at her clad body speculatively. She certainly was not one to complain. With a shrug she picked up Riku's vest and draped it over her arm.

"Let's head up to Merlin's house. The boys are waiting."

Kairi nodded and started walking ahead of the other two. Lehna was hesitant to move forward.

"It's all right. Kairi is a tough girl, but she's gentle once you know her."

That wasn't what Lehna was worried about. She didn't know anything about anything. Suddenly, tears streaked down her face. Aerith turned full around and gathered the girl up in her arms.

So this is what a hug is. How warm. And tears. I'm crying.

"You'll be all right. Trust me. You can't be any safer than with those three."

Lehna wasn't sure what exactly came with trust, but she was sure that she couldn't just trust any one right away. And safe? How did she know what safe actually was? Everything was just so alien to her.

"I don't know anything."

Her tears were stopping and she was starting to get uncomfortable in the arms of the woman named Aerith. She gently pushed her away and looked down at her feet.

"Come on. Things will be better explained when we're with everyone else. "

Lehna nodded and followed Aerith up the stairs. They came to a dead end, when suddenly a chunk of the ceiling floated down. Lehna stepped back shocked and felt the need to bolt. Aerith giggled and took her hand gently.

"Here. Like this."

Aerith reached up with her arms and hauled her arms onto the platform. She struggled a little and looked down at Lehna.

"Do you think you could push me up by my feet?"

Lehna walked over and put her palms on Aerith's feet. She wasn't sure if that was right, but instinct told her to push. She did and Aerith was boosted up onto the platform.

"Oh thank you," her head peeked over the edge, "now your turn."

Lehna threw Riku's vest over her shoulder. She grapped the edge of the platform, and pulled her body upwards. It was surprisingly easier than she thought and she needed no help. Her hands pulled her up, and her arms then kept her up as she swung her legs back and forth up to the platform and she gracefully flew through the air and landed on her toes, knees bent, doubled over at the waist, with her arms out for balance.

"Well aren't you the graceful one."

Aerith was smiling at her and then the platform began to rise. She froze and waited as she rose to a room. She straightened up from her crouch and looked around. She was in a tiny room, with a table at the center. Sora and Riku were both standing by a little table, and a man covered from head to toe in blue was in the center of the room, conversing with a man in black and scar running down the side of his face and another man with big yellow hair and something sticking out of his mouth.

"Well if isn't the newcomer come to finally join us."

The man with the yellow hair had a different voice tone than the others she had talked to. She quirked her head at him.

"What's wrong?"

"Don't worry about it Cid."

"Yeah old man. Anyone who didn't know ya, would look at you like that. Haha."

Lehna looked over to find a young looking girl, with similar clothing to hers standing in the corner. She had a large metal four-pointed thing on her back. She walked quickly over to Lehna.

"Hi. The name's Yuffie. Who're you?"

Lehna was taken aback by her straight forwardness.

"My name is…Lehna."

She looked over to find Riku and Sora's eyes on her. Sora smiled at her. His teeth looked really white to her.

"Hey Lehna!"

Kairi punched him in the arm. Riku continued to stare at her in a way that made her want to put up a wall between them so he would stop looking.

"Well, now isn't that a nice name. I'm Cid. Pleasure ta make yer acquaintance."

Her eyes looked back at the yellow haired man who had just called himself Cid.

"My name is Leon."

The man with the scar spoke next. He seemed to have a hidden strength about him.

"And I am Merlin. It is wonderful to meet you."

The guy in the funny blue clothes with stars on them spoke after. He was the weirdest one yet.

She looked around at them all, one at a time, and was lost.

"H-hello."

Where she went from here, she wasn't exactly sure. But the way that Sora, Kairi and Riku were all looking at her, she was hoping it would be with them.

EM: Woohoo! Chapter 5 done! Sorry that it took so long guys. Kind of lost track of the story while I was doing Understanding the Heart of an Uchiha.

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-Endoh Misaki