A/N: Thanks to all my readers.
Thank you ashner I'm sorry I wasn't able to make it funny, but I couldn't fit it in there somehow, it didn't come out right. (I've been wanting to put her in there since chapter 11.)
I've decided to put 3 more FF characters, one which has a name, the other two don't if you guess right I'll give you a cookie or something!
The band Young Love inspired me a lot, and so tada!
On with the story…
Chapter Nineteen: Amber Eye and More Figures
"Your left eye…" I told him.
He looked at me as if I was crazy or something, but I'm not. His left eye is a shade of amber. I looked at his right eye, it was still the same shade of turquoise.
"Turn around Xehanort, please…" I said standing next to him. "I'm sure it's not that bad I mean… Come on, please?"
He turned around slightly, not really wanting to look at me. I noticed something was different. His eyes weren't blue anymore, they were amber. I felt my jaw open a bit, and I touched his cheek slightly.
"Amber…" I said, he looked away from me for a moment. "You did that once too, back at the infirmary room…"
"What did you do?" I asked him, my voice was shaking.
He said he didn't know, but there must have been a good reason as to why his eye changed to that color. 'The darkness, it smells like him… That's his…' I sighed and slumped against a wooden chair.
This really wasn't my day. Maybe I should've just stayed asleep a little while longer, that would've been a good idea.
I put my head down, just to think for a moment.
"Xehanort did the same thing once, but it was permanent for him." I said looking back at Riku, and his strange colored eye. "You carry his darkness don't you? It smells the same…" I wasn't rather all that pleased to say it, but I had to.
"My heart," he said softly. "It's stopped restraining the darkness about a couple of minutes ago."
"Why?"
"I don't know," he said looking at me for a moment. "Does it look weird?"
"Yeah…" I said still trying not to look at him. It reminded me a lot of Xehanort, and I didn't want that, not right now.
I stood up, and looked around for something that held a reflection. A wooden desk had this little metallic disk, a paperweight. I pulled him up and showed him his reflection on the metallic paperweight. He touched the side of his cheek, and blinked for a couple of more seconds.
"Stupid thing," he muttered under his breath.
I looked up, hearing something hit against the window. They were droplets, which meant that it was raining outside. 'It hasn't rained here in weeks…' I thought to myself. I looked back at Riku, he noticed it had started to rain.
"In a way…" I smiled at him for a moment. "You look good like that."
"Are you just saying that, because of…?"
"Hold it right there!" I said waving a finger at him. "No, I'm not, for goodness sake Riku… Yes, I may miss him to death, but he's in a happy place. You know what forget I said anything…" I said turning around, exhaling sharply in the process.
It still feels odd, talking to him. As much as I missed talking to him, I was still scared, but why? That's what I kept asking myself. Was it because I was afraid something like this might happen again? 'History repeats itself…' I thought back.
Tachigami use to tell me that a lot when we were all younger. She use to say that the human race didn't learn from its mistake, which if one really thought about it, it was true, beyond a doubt. Still, from the examples of the past, why don't we avoid it?
I'm thinking it all leads back to the heart and soul of that person, their conscience, no there's another word. What was that thing called? Free will, because we have a choice, and my guess would be that people always picked the easy way out.
I'm not really making this whole thing better either, if anything I'm still repeating the same mistakes from the past. If I want to fix this friendship back into shape, I have to stop looking back at the past, but how can I?
He's got an amber eye for God's sake, how am I supposed to act around him? History does repeat itself, and I'm stuck in the middle of it all.
I looked back at him for a moment, and I could hear the rain as it was starting to pour onto the ground. He shifted his eyes back to the window.
To be honest, I still feel like crying, but I've cried so much, I'm afraid. 'Crying tires you out too,' I thought to myself feeling my body ache with sleep.
I heard Riku sigh for a moment, and he sat back down on one of the chairs from the little room. I thought back to when he held me in his arms, that warmth. I did miss it, and he smelled like the islands. I felt this small blush crept up on my cheeks, but the good thing was that the room wasn't that well lit, so I was safe.
'You're acting like an idiot. Ammi you idiot pull it together. You obviously love the boy for goodness sake, do something about it!' that's something Tachigami would say. She would probably be laughing at the blush on my face.
'Out of all the guys to pick, you pick this guy… Cuz he smells familiar? Are you sure it isn't because he looks good in leather pants?' that's what the twins would declare. I felt a smile tug at my lips, and I covered it slightly, feeling water form around my eyes.
I looked down out the window, and a yellow pale umbrella caught my attention. 'Who the hell would walk out in this rain, not to mention with Heartless about?' I thought to myself. The umbrella was tilted up a bit, to look at something.
"Hey, it's a lady…" I said watching the black hair and brown highlights in her hair.
Riku stood up and stood next to me watching the figure walk straight ahead, disappearing from our sight.
There was a knock at the front door, and I waited for a moment, but no one picked up. I sighed and ended up going to answer the front door. I don't know where Riku was, I think he was lagging behind.
"Hi…" the lady said smiling slightly as I answered the door.
"Hello…" I said smiling slightly.
"Is Reeve Tuesti here?" she asked.
The lady was wearing a black trench coat, and underneath it was this blue and black outfit.
"Yes, is he is." I said taking her inside the building. "Strange though, he didn't tell me he was expecting visitors…"
"Ah, well, I'm not really here to see him. It's someone else," she said. "What's your name?"
"Amaterasu, Amaterasu Diaz," I said looking back at her. "What's your name?"
"Rinoa, Rinoa Heartilly." She said offering her hand. "It's nice to meet you, Amaterasu."
"Same here, Ms. Heartilly," I said shaking her hand. "I'll go and get Reeve…"
"Better yet, can you just call Squall, please…?"
"You know him?" I said tilting my head slightly. She nodded in response. "He's out… I guess you can talk to Reeve while you wait for him."
"How long before he comes back?" she asked looking at the clock for a moment that hung above the door way.
I told her about an hour or so, maybe shorter. I'm still pretty curious as to how she knows Squall.
An hour later
"We're back!" Yuffie said bursting through the doorway. They were all soaking wet.
Amaterasu and the new lady jumped up from their chairs, with a scared look plastered on their faces. Once they saw it was just the ninja dressed in black, they sighed in relief. Amaterasu though, chucked something at the ninja, and she growled rubbing the back of her head.
Reeve was down there, talking with Rinoa and Amaterasu about little things. He noticed that Squall had entered after everyone else. It turns out that Rinoa had sent a letter to Squall a week in advance, but Reeve never turned in the note to him.
Yuffie looked back, glancing again at the lady that was sitting down talking to Reeve. 'It's her,' Yuffie thought for a moment. 'I'll say hi'
"Hi, Rinoa!" Yuffie said cheerfully, looking back at the lady.
Rinoa responded back with her own trademark greeting, and at that point Squall looked in her direction. Squall felt as though his heart would stop. 'Why is she here?' he thought to himself, placing his hand over his forehead, thinking, as he always did. 'Usually, she tells me if she's coming…' he was a bit wet from the rain.
Sora and the others though took this time to offer their condolences to Amaterasu. Rinoa did the same as well, hugging Amaterasu tighter than possible. Yomigami was back at home, helping Gekigami with his wound that he got from a Heartless.
"How do you know her, Squall?" Amaterasu said once the whole thing was over.
"She's…" Squall looked embarrassed for a moment.
"Hey, come on, spill it…" she said tugging at his arm.
"My girlfriend." He said looking away from Amaterasu for a moment.
"That's sweet, she came out all this way to see you… In the rain…" she said pointing to the pale umbrella that was near the doorway. "She's really cute." Amaterasu said giving a big smile to him.
'You're just like your brother…' Squall thought, patting the girl's head. 'It's hard, putting a mask over your sadness.' He looked back at Rinoa, who called him over. He excused himself from the girl and walked over to Rinoa, who hugged him.
"I…" he couldn't really say anything, but held her. Rinoa didn't really care if she got wet, she was more than glad to have Squall hug her.
Sora and Amaterasu were grinning from ear to ear watching their comrade get hugged by this Rinoa person. 'At least he's not lonely,' the two of them thought trying to keep themselves from laughing.
"Hey, where's Riku?" Sora asked, and Amaterasu turned her head in the other direction. "Don't tell me you guys got into another fight?"
"No… It's just that, well… He's asleep, I think…" she said lying easily.
"Oh," Sora said placing his hands in back of his head. "So how have you guys been?"
"Ok, I guess…" Amaterasu said shrugging for a moment. "It's still kind of weird, I guess you can say… Hey where's Kairi?"
Kairi had disappeared from their sight right after they finished comforting Amaterasu. She hoped really hard that she wasn't roaming around upstairs, since Riku would most likely be there, hiding again from the others.
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"Hey, Riku?"
The voice was muffled, and for a moment I thought it was Amaterasu, but it was Kairi. 'I can't let her see me like this…' I thought to myself hiding inside the only thing I could find, a closet. 'Great, well at least she can't see me.'
The door opened, and I could see Kairi from the small crack of the closet. 'Jesus, talk about sick stalker status right now,' I thought to myself shaking my head. I just really wished it was Amaterasu, at least then I didn't have to hide like this.
'Just get out, please…' I hoped she would very soon.
'You brought it on yourself…'
"What hell did you do to me?!" I yelled at the Heartless.
'You asked me if I had anything else to do, and yes I did. It's about time your emotions broke the chain, it was taking to long, but you've gained some control back, not that I'm happy about it or anything.'
"I'll find a way to take control, just you wait…" and with that the Heartless grinned, disappearing back into my heart.
"This is the last room here…" Kairi said to herself looking around the area. "Maybe he's in the closet."
I jumped a bit, my back hitting the backside of the closet really hard. I gulped, and felt my heart race pretty fast. She called out my name again, it was no use to deny it, she found me out already.
"What are you doing in a closet?"
"Nothing… Just… Nothing," I said whispering.
"Then come on out if you're not doing anything."
"I like it here, thank you very much…" I said really wishing she didn't come up here.
"Fine, I won't force you," she said sighing heavily. "How are the two of you getting along?"
"I don't know, rocky…" I said feeling my heart sink down again. "I made her feel a bit better, I think…"
"So then, you're not coming out of the closet?"
"No… Can you just get Ammi in here please? I'd feel better if you did." I said rubbing the back of my head.
"You're not going to stuff her in the closet are you?"
I felt my face grow hot. "Of course not!"
Kairi started to laugh, my voice cracked a bit in embarrassment. 'Smooth, Riku… Real smooth.' She agreed and walked out. I sighed heavily, and slumped myself against the closet, placing my head down for a moment. My neck started to hurt a bit and it was getting on my nerves a bit.
Downstairs
"What do you think they're talking about?" Sora asked the brown skinned girl. She shrugged.
"She's probably asking him how he's been, that's the only thing I can come up with." Amaterasu said sighing for a moment. "Yuffie looks pretty jealous…"
"Yeah, I've been watching her for the last two minutes, she keeps looking over there…" Sora said looking back at Amaterasu.
The two teenagers were watching Squall and Rinoa talk. Reeve had gone back home, to go check up on Yomigami and Gekigami. Yuffie didn't seem all that happy with the idea of having Rinoa back into the picture, if anything she was starting to probably get feelings for Leon.
"Ammi…" Sora and she both looked up. Kairi came from downstairs, and Amaterasu gulped for a moment. She walked up to the two of them, and greeted the two of them with a small smile. "He's asking for you."
"Why?" Amaterasu asked feeling a bit confused.
"I don't know. But he's in the closet and he won't come out." Kairi said sounding a bit worried.
"…I still don't see why this has-"
"Just go…" Sora said cutting her off. "I'll do you guys some good, right?"
"I don't know…" but Amaterasu never got finish her sentence as she was being hauled away upstairs, by two teens bent on getting some good results. "I know what you guys are trying to do, but it doesn't work this way," she said trying to get her grip back.
"You never know until you try!" Sora said giving off this goofy smile.
Amaterasu just gave off and annoyed moan, rolling her eyes for a moment. "Fine, I'll go along with it, but…"
"Good!" Kairi said, opening the door to the last room. "We got her, Riku!"
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"Be good you two!" Sora said closing the door.
Amaterasu sighed heavily, and the next thing I know she's inches away from my face, she didn't look all that pleased to see me.
"Why?" she asked me.
I didn't really know what to say, but I just shrugged. I feel comfortable around her more than anything, even with what's happened to the two of us. She sat back down, at the edge of the closet's doorway, and I could hear her sigh again. I sat back down in the closet, looking up at the dark ebony ceiling of the object.
"Why a closet?" she asked out loud.
"Closest thing in my reach…" I said closing my eyes for a moment.
It was still raining outside, and would've wanted more than anything to be outside, watching the rain fall with her. But of course, you can't get everything you wish for. I didn't wish for this, no one did. Fate was just pushing us into some random direction, leaving us to fend for ourselves.
"Do you like being in there?"
"It'd be nice if I had some company."
"Keep dreaming then…"
I smiled slightly hearing her voice, I could tell she was joking. It was in her tone. I did miss our talks a lot, and she did too, I know that much. 'We'll find another way to dance,' I thought to myself, thinking back to a song by a group called 'Young Love'.
I peered my head out of the closet door, and I found my gaze come in contact with hers. She gave me a sad smile, and touched the side of my face. I could feel the emotion in me surge with her touch, her hand was but I felt warm inside. A sigh escaped my lips and she looked away from me now.
"I miss everything about you…" I whispered.
"Don't… Please…" she said looking down at her feet. "Not now Riku…"
"Listen… Do you want to go outside?" I said, in a rather apologizing tone.
"How, you don't want people looking at your eye…" she said almost starting to ramble, but she stopped herself.
I missed her rambling, and I'd give anything to have things go back to how they were in the summer. I looked at the window, it had no screen on it. She looked back at me and I pointed to the window.
She walked over to it, and opened the window, inhaling the scent of rainwater hit the ground. It was a scent even I missed, and she missed it as well. I walked over to her and she climbed out the window.
"Over here…" she said holding out her hand for me. "I've done this about three times now…"
I took her hand, and she led me to a small balcony type of platform, it was sheltered from the rain. I looked out into the distance, the place was covered in mist now. I sat down, and Amaterasu sat on the other side of the area.
"That lady, did she come in?" I asked.
From what she's told me, her name is Rinoa Heartilly, Squall's girlfriend. I smirked at the thought of him having a girlfriend. She told me that Yuffie looked a bit jealous, not that it surprised me.
'If you get the chance you must dance…' I had that song stuck in my head.
I have the chance, but I'm afraid, and right now she doesn't want this. 'But I want you so badly Ammi…' I thought to myself. 'Have you ever loved someone so much, it causes you pain?'
I have, what I mean to say is that I still do. It's all right though, I can get through this in the end. I know that one day we can be happy somehow, it's just the getting there part, that's making it hard.
We'll find another way to dance, somehow.
"Riku," I turned around and looked back at Amaterasu. "We've got to find something for your eye, or at lease make the other turn amber too…"
"So then, are we okay?"
"We're getting there…" she said.
Gabriel and Leana
"You're here then…?" Leana said looking back at the figure. The mist was starting to become thick, and the only thing she could see was a faint orange glow from the other figure's weapon.
Gabriel growled in disappointment for a moment. Looking around for another figure, he didn't find one, the mist was too thick. There was a faint hum from the orange glowing weapon, something Gabriel really wasn't too happy to hear.
Leana looked around again, "Is he here too?"
"What happened to your arm?" a rather deep voice said from the mist.
"That answer your question?" Gabriel asked pulling out his weapon.
Leana jumped back hearing the hum of the orange glowing weapon, it sliced quickly through some ruble. It was pointless, obviously the two figures could see well in the mist, but the other two couldn't.
"Your voice, it sounds familiar…" Leana said, hearing a gun shot ring out in the area.
Rinoa and Squall
"I'm going to stay here," she said looking past the rainwater.
The two of them were sitting outside, on the porch of the building. Squall looked at her for a moment, for once feeling a peace with everything.
Usually Cloud and Aerith would be with him, but they had other things to attend to.
"What made you decide to pick now?" Squall asked looking back at Rinoa, he had missed her.
She sighed for a moment and closed her eyes. Opening them again she whistled for a moment, hearing the shrilly vocal echo down the area, it was faint. Rinoa smiled for a moment, and gently poked him on the nose.
Squall didn't smile, but he felt all right. Other than that there was silence, he didn't mind, so long as he was with her. He heard some distant chatter start and stop once in a while, he knew their voices, and he sighed heavily.
"I feel bad for her," Rinoa said, referring to Amaterasu. "It must be tough for a girl like her."
"Her brothers, sister, and she have been alive for more than twenty years…" Squall said closing his eyes for a moment, leaning against the wall of the building. "I suppose it is… but you've seen her…"
"Yeah, she's kinda cute…" Rinoa said trying to lighten the mood a bit. "That Riku guy never came down though."
"He's up there…" Squall said pointing up.
"He's dead?"
Squall shook his. "He's up on the roof… You can't hear him?"
At that point they heard the two teens talk for about a second or so. The one called Riku, seemed a bit shaky around Amaterasu, which made Rinoa laugh a bit, but other than that, that was just it.
"He likes her…" Rinoa said softly. "Doesn't that remind you of…? Oh you know…"
Up on the roof
Amaterasu moved to the side a bit as she felt Riku brush up against her. Her heart was racing with confusion. Today had not been a good day, and she didn't want to cry anymore, she was getting emotionally and physically tired of it.
Riku looked back at her, and smiled for a moment, thinking back to what had happened hours ago. He missed holding her in his arms, just being there for her. But enough of that, he liked getting Amaterasu worked up once in a while, it was for the pure enjoyment of watching her jump.
"Where's that ring you were wearing the other day?" he asked her, looking down at the ground underneath their feet.
"At Reeve's…" she said catching a glimpse of his amber eye. Three of her favorite colors, blue, turquoise and amber, and Riku had two of them.
'I could really use some ice-cream about now… Badly…' she thought to herself staring out into the misty areas. She felt a cold hand on her cheek, and she moved away for a moment. The hand came back, taking a hold of her chin, and her insides froze for a nano-second.
Amaterasu took the hand away from her chin, with quick reflexes, and sighed heavily. 'Why… out of everyone in the whole universe… do I love him, and yet I push him away? Come on God, answer me that, if you do exist… Why, why do I push him away?'
Amaterasu knew her answer wouldn't come, since the deities worked in mysterious ways. It was out of reach, only something that would come in time, and she knew she had all the time in the world, but he didn't, because Riku never once was experimented on.
'Time… It means nothing to me… Because I have more than enough…' she thought to herself.
In the distance Riku and Amaterasu noticed a brown blob, and a red blob walk out together in the rain.
"I know how you're feeling, Amaterasu…" Riku said looking back at her. "The pain, of loving someone…" he said softly, looking into her sad dark brown eyes for a moment.
He froze as he felt her embrace, something that caught him off guard. Riku didn't know what to do at this point, and lost himself in the embrace she gave him.
The rain became a light drizzle, and the mist was clearing slowly.
'We're almost there…' Riku thought to himself holding Amaterasu's embrace a little while longer. 'Almost there…'
Gabriel and Leana
"This is pointless, I can't fight like this!" Leana yelled back at Gabriel evading the attacks from the orange glowing weapon.
Another gun shot was heard, and Gabriel hid behind some ruble, hearing something above him. He moved again, and the gun shots kept coming. The figure with the orange weapon stopped, and the guns were placed back into their places.
For a moment Gabriel noticed something red blaze the sky, and disappear into the city.
"It's them…" Leana said. She knew who it was now. "I thought they were dead…"
At that point they heard the Keyblade's 'Chosen One' speak with someone else. Leana sighed heavily, hearing another female voice come out.
"I love this day…" Gabriel said giving a big smile to Leana. "Don't you?"
"You are weird…" Leana said shaking her head for a moment. "But anyway…" she smiled watching the Keyblade wielder walk into their view.
A/N: You know what to one review please!