Beautiful Things
Author's Note: First theme. I think this will be a lot better than the last chapter, cause I still look back on it and frown. I don't know why...Once again, if you want to suggest themes, please feel free to do so! I would love it if you did, actually.
Disclaimer: I do not own KH. ...Can I have Riku? For a minute only, I swear, I won't do anything bad to him.
Warning: Refer to earlier warning, please. In the last chapter.
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Sweep
And he remembers...
He woke up at 3:46 on a Friday night, heart pounding and fingers curled around fist fulls of hair. He could practically feel the darkness curling around his body (welcome back, we've missed you Ri-ku). What is this feeling; he understands yet he doesn't, because he's never felt the darkness. At least, not in this new body. This new body is pure and innocent, but his heart no longer is. He shudders and sobs and he doesn't stop crying until his mother comes rushing into his room.
She rocks her ten year old back to sleep, running fingers through soft silver tresses, massaging where he's pulled to hard at hair, and coos.
As Riku grows older, he begins to understand. He doesn't want this. He looks down at his body; now fully developed. Slim. Muscular. A strong seventeen year old's body, but within it trapped an ancient heart. He wants to go back to being dead, cause at least then he knew that his friends rested beside him. Because there are no others, it's just Axel, Roxas, his twin Sora, and him. Riku. The once innocent one.
He looks out his window at Axel and Roxas and wonders why the hell Sora and him had to be dragged into his, 'cause it was bad enough that Riku had to live one life but now he has to live two, with the guilt of what he did in his past driving him insane. He had been happy, honestly, he had. He'd grown up happy on his quiet little Island. No news from King Mickey. No news about the Heartless coming back. But that was okay, because he'd lived with Sora and Kairi and the others. Happy.
He had been happy (if happy meant watching your best friend, the love of your life, walk down the aisle with his new birde with a sad smile on your face) and perfectly content with staying dead.
Riku sighs and looks out his window at Sora, standing next to his laughing brother, and smiles softly.
But he figures...hey, while he's here...he might as well sweep Sora off his feet.
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Author's Note: cough. I'm going to go read HP now.
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