Explanation
Riku immediately jumped from his window where the wind came through. He finally knew his room was on the second floor. How? His face went plummeting down to the hard ground. "Aw, dammit," Riku muttered angrily. But he didn't care about the pain (OUCH!). 'Kairi,' he thought. He remembered her warm, comforting face. He rushed to his boat and paddled to Destiny Islands.
Aftera rough struggle of currents and waves, Riku arose at the foot of the bridge. It was dark, due to the dark ball. But, his eyes were suited for these kind of situations. "Kairi! Where are you!" he yelled at the top of the lungs. That's when he saw her red hair, going towards the depths of the secret place. "HEY!" he shouted. Riku ran across the bridge, and that's when he saw it. Two, slightly pink doors were right in front of him, covering the hole of the secret place. 'What is this? Is it...,' he thought. Just as he was about to touch the door to the right, it opened. He ran.
"Kairi! What the hell are you doing here! Something's goin' on, and I don't plan on staying here! Let's go, NOW!" he yelled at Kairi. She turned and looked at him, blankly. "It's...been connected, Riku," she said. "Other worlds...is where we can...go to. The...paopu fruit." Kairi pointed to the ground. Riku couldn't believe what he saw. 'Sora used it after all,' he thought. But he stood there, wide-eyed at the half-eaten star-shaped fruit. "K-Kairi, did you...?" Riku stammered. But as his blue eyes lay upon Kairi's face, her expression of everything happening stayed blank. "We...go to...outside world. Darkness will...consume," she said. Riku really couldn't believe it. What was she talking about darkness and other w--...Wait a minute, other worlds. That time on the island...So, he had to get Kairi, no matter what she says. He tried to grab Kairi, but something weird happened. Riku went right through her. Kairi shook her head disapprovingly. "Only...Sora," she said. Riku looked liked his heart was about to break. Then, somehow, by instinct, he ran outside, where he came from. 'I'm gonna break that damn ball,' he thought. 'I'm gonna break that ball, if it's the last thing I do. Somehow it's making Kairi act weird. Man, Kairi.' He kept running, picking up speed. Then he stopped to examine the ball, thinking about his own feelings. "Damn you, Sora," he muttered under his breath. He ran so fast, he was at the island in no less than a minute. But as he stared again at the dark, slowly growing, ball, he turned to the paopu fruit tree. Then he remembered his talking to Sora and Kairi about, as Kairi said earlier, other worlds:
"So, Kairi's home is out there somewhere, right?" Sora asked Riku. "Could be," Riku shrugs. "We'll never know by staying here." Sora asked yet another question,"But how far could a raft take us?" Riku stared at the sunset."Who knows? If we have to, we'll think of something else." Then he heard Kairi's warm, comforting voice. "So, supposed you get to another world," Kairi giggled. "What would you do there?" Riku thought for a minute."Well, I haven't really thought about it. It's just...I've always wondered why we're here on this island. If there are any other worlds out there why did we end up on this one?"He continued without an answer."And suppose there are other wolrds...Then ours is just a little piece of something much greater. So, we could have just as easily ended up somewhere else, right?" Riku looked at them with blue eyes. "Idon't know," Sora responded. He layed back at the trunk of the paopu fruit tree. Riku stood away from the tree with a response back,"Exactly. That's why we need to go out there and find out. Just sitting here won't change a thing. It's the same old stuff." He looked at the vibrant colors of the sun. "So let's go." Kairi looked back at him with comforting eyes. "You've been thinking a lot lately, haven't you?" she asked. Riku loved it when she talked. "Thanks to you," he turned around at her. He thought of how he felt about her. "If you hadn't come here, I probably would've never thought of any of this." He started to feel blushing madly. "Kairi, thanks," he said. She smiled at him. "You're welcome," she said. But Sora couldn't take the romance. "HEY! Did you forget I'm even here? And Riku, are you...blushing!" Sora laughed at him. Riku feeled blazing red in the face. "Shut up, SORA!" he yelled. Then he remembered Sora and Kairi laughing with Riku along with them...
He came back to reality...
But, after that happening in the Secret Place, Riku hated Sora with a passion. Riku thought though, Sora and Riku always fight over Kairi. So this was just a friendship thing with two guys and one girl. But, Riku remembered what crazy things Kairi was talking about. Other worlds...darkness will consume...the world? What if she was serious? Then he remembered about Sora. 'Man, Sora. What's happening to us? Do we have to go through this? We're only teenagers,' he thought. Sora...Sora...Sora...
And that's when he saw him at the boat bridge.