It's been a long time since I continued this story... thanks to the KH3D trailer, I decided to end the story for old time sake xD

Kingdom Hearts belongs to Square Enix!

Darkness Over Truth, Truth Over Darkness -5-

In Twilight Town, as the sun has set, a figure stood on top of the tall clock tower. It seemed Riku had decided to stand there after the dispute he had with DIZ about Arianna. Riku didn't want to admit that perhaps DIZ was right, about him almost losing hope of finding Arianna, since he doesn't even have a lead to her whereabouts. But if what DIZ said was true, about Arianna wanting him to find her, he just have to trust his heart and hope that it could lead him to her eventually.

"Anna… are you really waiting for me?" Riku said to the wind as he held out Arianna's necklace, which was giving out a small glow in front of him.

"Where are you… can you show me where she is?" It was silly, he knew, especially since the answer was the one he expected, nothing. What drives him to suddenly talk to a necklace anyway? Perhaps he is desperate to find her.

"What had exactly happened to her…?" After he said those words, the necklace then glowed brightly, blinding Riku with its light. When Riku opened his eyes, he found himself inside a bright castle, when Riku observed his surrounding, he knew that this is the King's Castle.

"Your Majesty, you have my deepest gratitude for everything you've done for me…" Riku's head quickly turned when he heard a familiar voice, the voice he had wanted to hear for a long time. He quickly ran towards the main hall of the castle to see Arianna kneeling in front of the Queen.

"Anna!" To his confusion, none of the three in front of him seemed to heard him. As Riku stood in the hall, unseen and unheard, he continued to hear what the two are conversing about.

"Arianna, you are still not well… how are going to go around like this? I know you are worried about your brother Sora and your friend Riku, but…" The Queen said as Arianna shook her head.

'Is this the memories of the pendant I have with me…?' Riku thought as he watches Arianna walking with the Queen towards the garden. A door similar to his door of darkness then appeared from the grounds when Arianna lifted her hand and thought that perhaps this is how Arianna had been getting around the worlds.

"Be careful, Arianna…" The Queen said as she held onto Yumi's hand as the girl nodded, squeezing the Queen's hand reassuringly.

"I will, Queen Minnie. If there is anything I found about the King's whereabouts, I shall return here and tell you. Goodbye, Queen Minnie." Arianna said as she stepped into the door and disappeared from the Royal Grounds. Riku then watches as the scene changed into one where Arianna is standing surrounded by Heartless with no weapons in her hand.

"Anna!" Riku unconsciously yelled when the Heartless jumped on her. Riku watches in fascination as Arianna lifted her hand up and then started attacking the Heartless using the water that suddenly came up from the ground.

"It seemed I have to quicken my pace. If I take my time here, Sora is going to find me." Arianna said as Riku stood next to Arianna when the girl clutched unto her pendant.

"Riku…" the silver-haired boy was certainly surprise when his name came out from Yumi's mouth and ached to place a hand on the girl's shoulder when Yumi gritted her teeth, tears threatening to spill out from her eyes.

"You broke your promise with me…" Arianna whispered as she shook her head and wiped the invisible tears in her eyes.

"… This is no time for me to think about this. I need to recuperate before I got sick again." Arianna said as she started to run.

'Anna… what is exactly wrong with you?'

"Your sickness is not something very trivial, Miss Arianna." Riku blinked his eyes to see Arianna now standing in front of the King's master, Yen Sid, with the King himself next to her.

"I know, Master Yen Sid."

"It is a very rare occurrence, being born with half a heart…" Riku was shocked beyond anything when the King murmured this. Arianna was born with half a heart? What does that really mean?

"Born with half a heart, you have to search for your other half… if not, the heartless with get to you easier than they do everyone."

"Master Yen Sid, is it possible, that half of my heart might reside in someone…?"

"So you knew, child."

"I have my suspicions, but if it is so, I will gladly leave the half of my heart with him." Him, Riku heard. Does this mean Arianna already had a special someone aside from Sora in her heart? Someone that could make Arianna easily say that she will gladly leave her heart with that someone.

"… You care for him, don't you Arianna?"

"Yes, Your Majesty. Riku fell into the darkness, if half of my heart does indeed reside within him, I shall gladly left it with him. Hoping that it would help him find his way back…" Riku was more than surprised to hear his name being spoken out from Arianna's mouth, yet he couldn't help to feel his heart fluttered at the knowledge that Arianna cared for him as much as he cared for her. And then the flutter in his heart died, realizing that she had to go through all this because of his decision to follow Maleficent.

"I'm sure Riku cares for you as well, Arianna…" No matter how much Riku wanted to yell now that he cared for her so much, he couldn't suppress the feeling of guilt he had inside of him.

"Thank you for agreeing to talk with me, Master Yen Sid. Your Majesty, do you want me to take a message to the Queen? I… promised her I would go back and report to her if I get a lead about your whereabouts."

"… Tell Minnie, that I promise to go home as soon as this is finished. I can't stay at one place for too long, Sora might need my help."

"… Your Majesty, if you don't mind… can you give him a message from me? That is… if he still remembers me…"

"Of course, Arianna."

"Tell him I'm proud of him, and to work hard. I will be waiting for him, somewhere." Riku watches as the King nodded and both of them bowed to the elder in blue in front of them before the excused themselves, as Arianna stepped inside the door of the light and disappeared.

"She is a strong child… and perhaps too kind for her own good." Riku heard Master Yen Sid said before he snapped back into reality, finding himself back on top of the clock tower inside Twilight Town, his hand still holding onto the pendant that had just showed him parts of Arianna's memories.

"… Arianna…"

'Remember to look at the bright side, Riku' a voice suddenly said in his head as his eyes widened and he turned towards the pendant in his hand.

"… I will. I will found you, and we'll go back home together with Sora."

I wonder if I can get a Nintendo 3DS so I can play the game when it comes out...

A friend of mine is an avid fangirl of Square Enix (Riku, especially), I was surprise when she gives me a messages about this game...

And alas, I came back to my fangirl side thanks to her...

Review would be appreciated, thanks~