In which Namine is face to face with Kyrie

Everything is back to normal now. After I poured out the story to Sora, he immediately feels so angry at himself that I swear that he has knocked down half of the town by the look on his face. I tried to calm him down, saying that at least it is under control.

"I saw Kairi I did! I swear…" He then stops himself. "Nothing." He said sullenly and stomped off. I look at his retreating back and I knew, he will never be the same.

"What does she look like?"

"I can't really describe it sorry." Roxas stood up. "I better calm him down instead."

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I am going to school now, the pendant glinting around my neck and a skip in my step. I just hope that I did alright. As I look around me, I know. Everyone is talking and doing their own business like always. But then, I feel really different, like… being tailed by the weirdo girl whom I met? The dark hair is really distinct to me but everyone just walk pass her like she doesn't even exist. Then she disappears. Just like that. Must be from eating too much bananas and cheese last night.

Anyway, I see Roxas alone, surprise, surprise! I jogged over to him and beckoned to him.

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"How's Sora?" We are on top of the roof. It is the most isolated place though it is accessible to everyone. The morning sun is burning down hard on us but we go under the shade. Sora haven't come to school today.

"And I don't think he will tomorrow." He leaned back, hands behind his head, and gaze over the horizon.

"Still into Kairi eh?" But the joke fell flat on the face. The edgy feeling began to come again. "Listen, I feel really weirded out just now. I think there's something to do with the incident at the hall."

Roxas perks up. "What?"

"You know, when I'm doing the memory cleansing thing, I can see the auras but…this girl is invisible to me…And I don't know what it means."

"She might be your shadow…" Roxas whispered.

"Well, why doesn't' she wants to attack me when I'm weak?"

"'cause if she does, she will be an empty existence. She needs your body." That explains that non existence acts.

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The days all rush up in a blur, making everything seems unreal. I was in a dream like trance all the way. Everything is trivial, everyday matters and everyday problems. Hiromi is as nasty as ever, Avaron, commanding and Yuna, quiet. But they change in slight ways. Hiromi is now less nasty, Avaron, more caring and Yuna, a great friend.

But one day, I felt like going somewhere, somewhere different. I chose the river Solo. It has been named Solo 'cause it has always been running solo and it is the only river you will get if you live in my town. But nobody bothers about it and it makes a great place to hide. Especially if you are hated by practically everyone. Yes, that is the place where I always went when I was a kid.

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As I made my way down the familiar path, I feel soothed. Roxas don't even know that I'm here. I feel terrible of not informing about my whereabouts but the guilt is washed away as the sound of rushing water reached my ears. The trees parted to reveal the river Solo. The trees got swept by a sudden wind making whispers between the trees more mysterious. Droplets of water splashed on my leg now and then cooling it. I have a life at river Solo.

As I remove my shoes and dip my legs into the rushing water, I felt a presence behind me or…somewhere else… I look around me cautiously. The trees rustled and a figure came out.

It is Sora.

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"Sora?" I climbed onto the earthy ground and go nearer to the figure looking up the sky. "Are you okay?"

He is still lost in his own world. I touch his shoulders lightly. Instantly, a hand shot out and clamp my hand down. "Who are you?" he demanded as he looks at me. He immediately releases my hand.

"Sorry Namine." He made an apologic look with a touch of sadness.

"Why are you here?"

"Kairi… Me and Kairi used to go to the beach all the time. This is the closest I can get to her now." He spoke is such a soft sorrowful voice, it makes my heart aches. Without words, he led to the river and sit down at the edge.

"I should have told you about Kairi. I'm sorry." I punched him in the arm. He drew back, his face a mask of shock.

"Ouch, hey that hurts! What was that for?"

"For being a sadist in my place." The question mark is very clear on his face. "I used to go here as a kid all the time."

"In this place," I continued, "Is where life starts and where happiness exists forever. This is the place to remind mankind of our origin."

"We were so happy in the olden days, doing our share and getting what we deserve." As I spoke, I can almost see myself when I was three, among the trees as my Mama's voice is heard explaining about the knicks and knacks with the example of the forest.

"We help each other in return, we are helped. Mother Nature never hurries but everything is done in time." My three-year old self leaped down from a tree and inspected a flower as it bloom within the very eyes.

"Does she have a remedy for loss?" Sora's face is deep in thought. I remember asking the very same question to Mama.

"Everything have a cure same as everything as a destruction force within. Time is the most precious of all cures. That is why time is valuable. And if it still isn't so, love will."

He gazes at me, his expression softening. "Is it so?"

"Yes, but.." But before I can get the words out, I was pulled in an embrace as he puts is hands behind my back and my face is buried in his chest. Although I'm very close, so close I know that I'm lost. He still loves Kairi I know. He shouldn't embrace me, pull me close, hug me with all his might. I feel…

At that instance, I can feel his cool fingers tilting my chin upwards to meet his gaze, the familiar blue eyes that I see the first time we meet, at the hall and at the time we are always together. The're very close, so close…His lips touched mine.

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"Sora..how can you…" Another figure emerges from the trees and this time, I recognize her. It is the girl in black! I smell trouble. And trouble is exactly what she is going to give.

"K..K..Kairi?" He pulled away from me and I knew, he's still stuck to the past. His face is a perfect example of shock mix with disbelief. Wait; did he just say Kairi?

"No wonder… Sora, how can you do this to me?!" She began to look hurt but I knew something Sora does not. She's not Kairi. She's my shadow.

I stepped forwards. "You are not Kairi." I whispered.

"You are not Sora's love." She whispers back. And it smack right in the place where it really hurts. My heart. I clutched my chest hard.

"Don't worry,"she continued. "I won't tell anyone. And I'm gonna get rid of him. He's just in the way. Of you…of us. I'm Kyrie by the way." She looks at the crouched figure of Sora. "And he's toast."

I see the all too familiar scene. The tendrils of darkness are snaking up him. No, NO!

"SORA!" I sprint off to him but Kyrie blocked me.

"Fight me, Namine. Let's fight to determine who will be in whose shadow." She draws out a keyblade similar to mine except... it's black. She leans forward and broke into a charge.

I summoned out my keyblade and met hers with a clash. She kept swinging blows on me. Man, she sure is fast and strong! I kept dodging her blade.

"Why are you not fighting? Namine, FIGHT WITH ME!" She screams and swings a great blow on me, black liquid spilling on my keyblade. She rears back a bit and proudly banishes her keyblade in front of me. I look at Sora. The darkness is still consuming him. Roxas, please come quick!

"Disaster Blood. Meet Namine. Namine, meet your doom." She points the keyblade to the sky and a purple light crackled and electrify the keyblade, making the surroundings black. I can't see anyone else except Kyrie. And myself.

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Roxas saw the black clouds and got a vision of blood splattered everywhere. And in the midst of it is a black haired girl and…

He got up and leaped off towards the black clouds.

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"Why-are-you-not-fighting? DO YOU WANT TO DIE?" As each word spits out of her mouth, she swing her keyblade harder and faster. As the last word spits out of her mouth, she swing the keyblade on top of me and I defend myself by clashing it with mine.

And the force is so forceful. There are cracks on my keyblade. And…it disintegrates into tiny pieces. Birds squawk. Flies buzz. Miracle tears is gone. That is the slowest moment in my life. What was a pendant with the princess' hearts are now nothing more than rubble.

I look up and see the end of Disaster Blood on my face. "Destiny has decided. You're mine."

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As Roxas gently floated down near river Solo, he spotted many critters scampering past him in frenzy. The trees are not yet uprooted but he knows better. A flash of black happened so suddenly. And so is the cut on his arm.

"Sora!"He gasps. Sure enough, Anti-Sora is looming behind him, red anger energy radiating out of him. Why is he like that?

As Anti-Sora prepares for another attack, Roxas straightens up and summoned his keyblade. Anti-Sora and Roxas charged at each other and met with a clash.

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"Who decides fate? Not you!" I'm not gonna be overpowered by some old figment of my existence! But the tip is so dangerously close. And so is Sora to becoming a force of destruction. At that thought, a small flame of hope began to fire in the depths of my heart. I'm not going to let Miracle tears destroyed in vain nor letting Sora be uncontrolled.

I'm not going to be in her shadow.

As I inched behind, my hands are frantically searching for the diamond piece in the pendant. It is the core and I'm sure it has not been destroyed. And maybe it can help me somehow. My hands close around a hard, heart-shaped piece. Bingo!

"Well, I will and I intent to." Kyrie purred with pleasure. The blade whooshed upwards. "Bye, Namine…" It came down hard.

It is the second slowest moment in my life. The blade is only inches away from my face when I held out my hands in front of myself. There is a flash of blinding white light and the Disaster Blood clashes with another keyblade. No, it's not Miracle tears, but another keyblade.

" Destiny Thread?"

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"So-" A black blur whack him in the arm.

"-Ra" A tendril of shadow wrap itself tightly around his leg. He batted it rather carefully but it is still wrapped tightly around his calf. "Uh-oh" The tendril lifts him up and brought him down hard. Roxas bounced off, cuts and bruises forming rapidly.

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"Oh that. It never helps when I was with the others. They just got reincarnated. Again." My mind whirls and my brain ticks. So actually, I'm reincarnated from various people... What?! I look at Kyrie's expression. She doesn't lie. She just looks irritated. To her, it is just like getting rid of frogs that just kept reproducing themselves. To me, I wonder who I reincarnated from.

I stand up slowly, the blade still held firmly in the clash. "Help me,c'mon." I prayed. With a sudden jerk, I manage to twirl a complete circle and cut her arm. Black vapor gushes out.

"Uggh, that hurts!" Kyrie clutches her arm as the black vapor oozes out to a stop. Her arm healed. "Do you know," she said smugly. "That you can't kill me?" With that thought, she rushes at me and we met again with a clash.

After a while lying on the ground, Roxas sit up painfully and surveyed the Anti-Sora as he rages through the forest uprooting trees and making the critters leaped about. He knows that now, only one person can stop him and she is inside the black cloud.

"Hurry up, Namine." He finally stands up. He knew it cannot wait any longer. And Roxas know what must be done.

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"Who says anything about killing?" I said through gritted teeth. The impact of the clash blew both of us away but we continued doing it just the same.

"I won't kill." I continued as Kyrie tried a sneak attack. She failed. I know her ways. She's my shadow after all. Although we didn't even meet properly. I felt as if we have fought a million years before. All her little quirks are still the same. And that is what going to trap her.

"Let us end this!" Kyrie said in a bored but tired voice. Her dark eyes met mine. "Namine."

"Kyrie." I replied. "This will never end you know." I smiled secretly. "Because it never will until you are under me just like anyone else." A change took over. I know that look of hers. The truth has just dawned clear on her. But she's persistent.

"No, it can if you are mine to command on." She whispered to herself uncertainly. The last clash is brewing on. She lifts her face to the heavens. "Jeder Mann stirbt aber die Leben nicht jedes Mannes!"(Every man dies but not every man lives.A/N: I dunno how to turn it into jap kanji)

"Allerdings was über die, das lebt?"(Even so, what about those who live?) I quietly ask her.

"I will be the one who survive." She snarled and pointed her blade upwards. "Storm blast!" A crackle or purple electricity shot down to her blade, making it glow with the energy. Lowering it, she pointed it straight at me. I whip my blade in defense mode.

"Hikari are." (Let there be light)I whispered. Strands of blinding light wrap itself around my blade. I fall into charging position.

The purple and blue-white light envelope everything as our blades met.

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Roxas drew out his keyblade, no hesitation in his eyes and confidence filling up his blade. He aims the tip of the blade at his heart and stab. The instant that happens, he vanishes instantly into a cloud of white vapor with strands of colors. And in the core, his very core of existence.

The thing zoomed past the panic critters and the destruction that lay around straight into Anti-Sora. It moaned and screeches as his core embed itself inside of him, disappearing into the dark. But at the exact spot, a blinding blue light shone out piercing through the dark body.

Anti-Sora screech again, then crumples to the ground. As he did so, the strands of darkness pulled away from his body into the ground. Roxas never appears again.

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"Let there be light." My keyblade instantly crackle with white electricity. It light up my face, fill it with hope and the other half with courage. I swing it to my side and ran as fast as I could towards Kyrie. She did the same.

We met with an enormous burst of energy that envelope everything…

"Are you there?"

I opened my eyes and look around. Everywhere is dark except for the glowing figure in front of me. Who is she?

"Who are you?"

"Namine."

"Namine?"

"Yes, Namine."

I tried to put one foot in front of me. It feels like I'm on air. I floated towards her. The Blue white hair is very familiar as it waves in the non-existent wind. Just… who are you?

"I'm you." she answered my unasked question. Namine then pointed somewhere. "Listen."

"And I just want to tell you guys, or whoever hearing this that… we mustn't lose hope. These things are in us but don't worry. We will find a cure soon. I'm Namine Kazuki and …" The crackled voice bleep to an end.

"…that concludes the fight." I finished.

She smiled a sad smile. "Yes…Listen and remember those before us all. When they fought before us, they fought with their lives."

"Fought who or…what?"

"The enemy. You will meet it in the end. And hopefully, the cycle ends." She sighed. "And the enemy is not the organization, remember Namine."

"What!?"

"It is not your shadow either. It is those who made them."

"What is my purpose then?" It's getting confusing.

She smiled again secretly. "I was the one who died before you live. And if you meet the Herms, say I said hi."

"Who is Herms?"

"The one who sent you the pendant of the seven princesses. You will meet him soon too."

She is starting to look pale…

"Namine!"

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"Namine!" Urggghh, I feel so…alive. Alive…that's right. I opened my eyes to see Sora's face looming above me. I'm alive…somehow. And Kyrie is no longer a thing that exist. She's gone too.

Teardrops are streaming down his face, dropping on mine. "Namine, I'm so sorry…"

"Where is Roxas?" I manage to croak out. He continued crying.

"He's…he's gone. Namine, he's GONE!" He crumpled and face down, still crying. The tears are like the River Solo, moving down rapidly.

I crouch to his side painfully and drape my arms over his shoulders. "It's okay." Although tears are starting to roll down my cheeks too, I still held on. Because if I don't…I can't reach out to him anymore. He has already lost Kairi and now, Roxas too. Two of the closest people are gone. And as Mama has done years before, I hug his crouched figure and sing the familiar tune.

The mornings that are too bright tempt me to quit

I uncover everything, and entrust myself to it

I squeezed your cold fingers and you sadly smile

And I can't find any words to say, and the scenery starts to blur

If it starts, it will someday end. There is no need for excuses

I, at least, want to keep you warm

God, please just give me a little more time

"I have to go," there is no way that time will stop

My wish is blown away by the wind and my throat is dry

What lays beyond this? We are parallel lines

You are strong so you don't look back, so we will never cross paths again

The town that stood motionless starts to fall, and just the memory of you

Overflows in my heart,

And creates a deep sea, and there I drown

A sad awakening, despair that you cannot hide

But still the world is beautiful

It made me sad

I want to see you, remember again...

I squeezed your cold fingers and you sadly smile

And I can't find any words to say, and the scenery starts to blur

If it starts, it will someday end. There is no need for excuses

I at least want to keep you warm

God, please just give me a little more time

The mornings that are too bright tempt me to quit

I uncover everything, and entrust myself to it …

"And sooner or later, we will meet again…" I sang softly. He stood up slowly, the tears stain on his face.

"Lets go home."

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It has been weeks after the incident. My pendant has been remade just like it is. I'm still taunted by Hiromi and picked on by a suddenly nicer Avaron. In all, I still feel empty, no fire blaze within me. And Sora is too by the look in his eyes. But we felt alive once in a while.

"Hey, Namine. Ready to fight?" Sora whispered me in the ear. It tickles. My face brightens instantly. We then ran out of the dreary school to the warm sunlight. My pendant glows as I faced an alley in town.

As I raced to the alley, thoughts ran through my mind. We might be badly at lost and scarred by the past and lost so much. Roxas briefly flashed in my mind. But as the song implied, I might see them all someday. I may be dead or alive but I know, I will see them again…someday.

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Hey, the song is by angela-separation the translation. It is a jap song. I write this after I watch dead aggressor(Watch it it's nice!) anime. A sequel might come…of course it will! And about Kyrie…she's still there.