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Am I…losing sight of myself?

When I first catch a glimpse of Sora I feel hatred. He's dressed up like a vampire with a pumpkin over his eye. Cute Sora, cute.

I never felt hatred for him. I mean, he was Sora, after all. It brings tears to my eyes, which also draws Riku's attention back to me.

"Are you okay?" he asks. When I don't respond, he tries again. "Airie?"

I only shake my head, but my hands are shaking so badly I can tell Riku must be able to see them. He frowns and grabs my wrist and pulls me out to where Sora can see me. When he does, he beams, but then he sees the tears filling my eyes and walks over.

"Airie…it's good to see you're okay," he says, smiling. "I'm glad you're okay."

Then I glare at him, hatred over-taking me again. "Really now? Or are you just telling me that? Because I think you just miss Kairi more than me."

Sora's eyes widen and he takes my hands, rubbing them with his thumb. "What happened? Has someone hurt you? Airie, please look at me, talk to me," he begs.

I'm switching in and out of hatred and sadness, my hands shaking still but I'm able to force my tears back and out of my mind. Sora then goes as far as to put his hands on my waist and press his forehead against mine, trying to sooth me. It's not working. Hatred, sadness, hatred, sadness.

Then two different emotions enter my mind. Love, and rage. It makes my hands shake even worse and let's the tears slowly drip down my face. Sora pulled my into a full hug for support but then, the rage took over, and I fought hard against it, but it over powered me. My mind shut off, and instinct took over. An explosion sounded and Sora jumped away from it, but pulled me with him. I hung limp in his arms, unable to move, silent as the pyrokinesis took over instead of me. I was doing damage to him, in fact part of his arm set of fire, but he didn't drop me. He ignored it, but he struggled against it. I tried again to fight against it, only to get a massive nosebleed and to have my eyes flutter shut. I still fought, and my fingers twitched, a sign I was making progress. Sora was calling my name, though I was still in the black. He wasn't getting me back. If it kept up…I knew my heart would shatter, like Riku said it would if I hurt myself much more.

"Sora…let…me…go…" I whispered weakly. I moved my arm and elbowed him in the ribs, which got him to drop me. He put the fire out on his arm. Explosions sounded all around us, it was my fault, I was doing this, and by struggling I was making it worse.

Finally, I start to relax and let my breath grow shorter and shorter, until I fell into darkness yet again.

Sora's Pov

My arm was blistering hot. Holding tight to Airie made it hurt even worse, and I was about to drop her but I knew not to. She was hurt…and badly. Maybe not physically, but she was mentally off somewhere else. A sharp pain broke out in my ribs and out of the shear pain I had to drop Airie. Just for one minute. As I did, the explosions stopped. As did her breathing, it seemed. She only laid there, eyes hazy, body still.

I ran over to her, concerned. I wrapped one arm around her shoulders and one under her chest, only to find that her breathing was regular.

"Airie!" I called, shaking her a bit. Her only response was a low moan. Her eyes just grew hazier.

"Sora, let her go,"

I looked up and found Riku standing a few yards away from us. His expression was serious. I gently laid Airie back down and stood up.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

He shrugged. "Airie wanted to see you terribly."

"You've had her this whole time?" I screamed over at him. "Riku, what's gotten into you?"

"I was protecting her from you!" Riku called back. "She was hurt and you weren't there for her, no matter how badly she wanted you!"

My eyes stung with tears as I realized that as the truth. I had been off with Donald and Goofy, trying to help them. I was trying to find Riku and Kairi…Airie was the least of my worries. The last time I had seen her she was sleeping in her house. I guess I had just given up hope for her and figured she had died or was turned into a heartless…

…but it wasn't like she never crossed my mind.

I shook away the tears from my eyes and glared over at Riku. There was a satisfied smirk on his face at the fact that I was nearly crying.

I summoned my keyblade. "Really now? Because I think she needs protection from you more than me!"

After we had fought, Riku was on his knees. He stood up and wiped blood away from his mouth.

"Fine, take her," he said. "She's not worth my time." Riku turned, and walked away.

"Sora!"

I turned and found Donald and Goofy running toward me. They stopped when they saw Airie, half dead on the ground.

"Geez Sora, what'd you do to her?" Goofy asked.

"N-nothing!" I held my hands up in defense. "I'm not the one who did this!"

"Who did?" Donald cocked his head.

"I…" I stopped, looking down at her lifeless form. "I'm not sure if she did it herself or if it was Riku…"

"Well, she's defiantly not in good shape…" Goofy said. "We'd better get her back to the Gummi Ship."

I nodded and walked over to Airie, putting two fingers against her wrist to make sure her pulse was regular. When I found something so faint I thought I had been imagining it, and lifted her up and carried her back to the ship.

I could never understand Donald Duck when I was little, pathetic right? Hmm...