3rd person POV
The sun light from the window warmed the room and woke the silver haired teen who was half under the covers. He, in turn, turned over onto his side and pulled the covers over his head to block out the light. On the pillow next to his was a small white bundle that was being warmed by the sun light as it poured through the glass of the window.
It started moving until a small pink nose attached to a silvery white muzzle nuzzled its way out of the white towel that helped make up the small white bundle. Kit wiggled until she was completely out of the still damp towel and sat up drowsily on the pillow. Her eyes were half lidded as she swayed lightly before flopping down not only on her pillow, but partially on Riku's pillow as well.
Her head landed on his ear rather limply and she, along with the covers flew to the foot of the bed. Riku shot up as if he'd been shot and Kit found herself trapped within the covers. Riku rubbed his ear before looking around the room; his mind still foggy from sleep.
His eyes landed on the pillow next to his and he picked the towel up only to find the fox that was suppose to be in it missing. He looked over the room again before running his hand down his face and tossing the towel off the bed.
"Kit?" Riku's voice cracked as he yawned and from not clearing his throat before speaking.
A low whine and the covers moving was the response he got. He blinked before pulling the covers back up towards him and uncovering his small silvery white companion. Her yellow eyes shown with sleepiness as she looked up at him with half lidded eyes, but never moved from her spot.
She watched as he reached over and took a hold of the scuff of her neck gently before picking her up off the bed. Her eyes narrow slightly and then closed completely as he cradled her in his arms and laid back down with her while pulling the covers up over them. Kit snuggled back up to Riku and fell back to sleep almost instantly to the sound of Riku's heartbeat.
"Riku! You're needed in the pod room!" DiZ's voice boomed what seemed like only seconds after Kit fell back to sleep.
Riku threw the covers off the both of them before setting Kit back onto her pillow and running to see if something wrong with Sora. Kit laid there for a few minutes before stretching out and scratching her ear with her back paw. She yawned as she rolled over onto her feet and lazily jumped down off the bed.
Riku had left the door open in his haste to see what was wrong down stairs and Kit left it open as she walked through the hall. She couldn't seem to shake off the fight from the day before and was pretty much sleep walking through the hall. She stopped at the top of the stairs and flopped down while debating on whether to walk down them or stay where she was.
Namine's scent lingered and she could tell the kind hearted nobody wasn't upstairs from the way her scent lingered. Kit pushed herself back up onto her feet and slowly, carefully she descended the stair case. She let her feet carry her to the library and she used the same slow, careful pace to descend the stairs. She walked into the computer room and flopped back down on the floor where she waited for DiZ, Namine and/or Riku to come into the room.
Her front leg was still a bit sore from her scythe mishap and she chose to occupy her time by licking it. The door to the hallway where Donald and Goofy slept opened a few minutes later and DiZ walked through it alone.
"You look worse for wear. Riku had told me you got yourself hurt yesterday, but I did not think it was too serious." DiZ spoke with distaste and Kit switched forms to glare up at him.
"I am too tired to deal with you being all moody and crap. What's wrong with Sora?" Kit snapped with her lips tugged into a small smile as she glared at DiZ.
"His progress is slowing more and more by the day, to the point that it has almost stopped completely." DiZ informed her as he pulled a small blue bottle from his pocket and advanced towards Kit.
"What do we do then?" Kit inquired holding her ankles as she looked from the bottle to DiZ.
"Riku must come to terms with himself. Only he can choose when it is time to go get Sora's nobody." DiZ told her in a monotone as he popped the cork on the bottle and poured it over Kit's head.
"He's not strong enough to fight him right now?" Kit inquired as the liquid from the bottle seeped into her skin, restoring part of her strength as it did.
"He lost to Sora once, who's to say if he'll lose to his nobody." DiZ stated dismissingly as the door to the pod room hall opened and Kit shifted back to her fox form.
Riku walked through the door and through the room without so much as a word when he passed DiZ and Kit. Kit gave DiZ a tired glance before following Riku out of the room and back into the foyer. Riku stopped in the middle of the foyer his hood over his head which looked to be down cast as if he were thinking hard about something. Kit rubbed her head against his leg and leaned against him, but he didn't move.
"You up for a little recon?" Riku inquired to which Kit yipped and looked up at him.
"We're going to find his nobody." Riku informed her as he opened a corridor and walked into with Kit right beside him.
They walked out into a world Kit had never been to before. It was dark and had an aura of death settled about it like a living graveyard. They were standing in the middle of a circular hallway in which fog had settled to the floor. Kit and Riku stood against the wall as a few rabid dog heartless passed in front of them and bounded off down the hallway, tripping over one another and even attacking each other as they did.
Kit could feel nobodies nearby and tugged on Riku's pants leg before walking a few steps in the direction the rapid dog heartless had gone. Riku followed after her while summoning Soul Eater, his sword, to his hand as Kit's pace picked up. They turned a corner only to watch as the last of the rabid dog heartless were cut down by a silver key like keyblade.
The keyblade was in the hands of a short, spiky blonde haired nobody in an Organization coat. Standing behind him was another Organization member of a taller leaner build holding a weird purple looking weapon. Kit gave Riku one look before darting between the blonde's legs and catching a hold of the taller nobodies coat and yanking it between his legs throwing him to the ground.
"The hell was that?" the nobody grunted as Kit stood not even a foot away taunting him as she yipped and hissed at him.
Riku was dumbfounded as she jumped up and caught something the taller nobody had in his hand and with one look at Riku she took off like a white streak down the hallway. The taller nobody shook his head and looked at his empty hand before cursing and taking off after Kit. The blonde nobody made a move to follow and Riku realized then that she was trying to separate the two nobodies.
Riku used a corridor to get in front of the nobody who he was certain was Sora's nobody. He had Soul Eater raised ready to strike and the blond nobody took the bait, jumped back and fell into a fighting position. Riku knew then by the stance that he was indeed Sora's nobody and within seconds Riku felt as if he was repeating a dance as they fought each other.
"Get back here you little shit!?" the leaner nobody shouted after Kit who bounced off the wall of the hallway and back onto the ground as she turned a sharp corner.
She shifter to her human form and dangled the small medallion from her fingers as she waited for the rather rude nobody to catch up to her. This was a test for Riku and she hoped he'd find the answer to his inner turmoil while she kept this Organization member occupied. He turned the corner and staggered to a stop at the girl standing stark naked in the middle of the hallway with the medallion hanging from her fingers.
"Took you long enough to catch up. Now which Organization member are you?" Kit inquired with a fanged smile as her eyes narrowed and her pupils turned to slits.
"Xigbar, the free shooter and by the looks of ya, you ain't from around here, so be a good little girl and give me the medallion back." Xigbar stated offhandedly as he flipped his hood back revealing long dark hair that was tied back and an eye covered by a black eye patch.
"I'm afraid I can't, you see I'm on a mission for someone who dislikes you all very much, and it would be a shame to waste this opportunity." Kit replied dully with the same look on her face as her keyblade flashed into her hand and she took on her odd fighting stance.
"It's your funeral." Xigbar taunts summoning two very odd looking purple guns to his hands and aiming them at her.
Kit took in a deep breath and threw the medallion up into the air before catching it and spinning on her toes out of Xigbar's arrows path. The arrow passed through her hair and she spun her keyblade around before it flashed and changed into her handgun which she shot at the nobody. Xigbar barely avoided the bullet of light that she shot at him as it passed barely an inch from his shoulder.
They exchanged rapid fire shots and Kit actually landed quite a few while taking a few in order to land the few shots she landed. Xigbar lost one of his guns as one of Kit's shots hit his hand and he dropped the gun and in turn she shot it away from him. This continued until Kit dodged a shot and began to feel as if something was completely off.
She fired another shot at Xigbar and another directly after it knowing he would dodge the first, but couldn't avoid the second. The second shot hit Xigbar and she took off like a bullet back in the direction she had left Riku. Her feet hit the rocky ground in light, rapid steps as she practically flew down the hallway.
She rounded the corner just in time to watch in horror as Xigbar came out of a corridor behind Riku and hit him hard in the back of the neck. Riku's body jerked and then fell limply to the ground between the two Organization members. Kit's feet propelled her forward as Xigbar took aim at the back of Riku's head intending to kill him right then and there.
"Get away from him!" Kit's voice boomed and echoed off the walls catching both nobodies by surprise as she hit Xigbar square of his jaw and sent him tumbling to the ground.
"What are you!?" Sora's nobody inquired in shock unable to move as Kit scrambled to lift Riku from the ground.
"How could you? How could you hurt him like this, Sora!?" Kit snapped at him as she heaved Riku up by his arm and opened a corridor at the same time.
She hissed as she locked an arm around Riku's waist and held his arm around her shoulders. She glared harshly at the confused nobody in front of her before dragging Riku into the corridor and making sure it shut behind her before continuing to walk through it. The corridor led her into Namine's room and the small blonde gasped as soon as she saw the two of them.
"Kit, what happened!?" Namine asked in alarm as she rushed over to help Kit lower Riku onto her bed.
"He fought with Sora's nobody and I fought with one that called himself Xigbar. Xigbar hit him in the back of the neck, do you have any of that stuff he washed me in last night?" Kit informed and inquired as the two worked to pull the Organization coat off of Riku.
"What did he wash you in?" Namine inquired as she worked on pulling the yellow and white vest Riku wore under his coat off as well.
"It was green and it smelled really weird." Kit informed her not knowing what it was Riku had put in the water.
"Go ask DiZ for a potion, and tell him you'll explain later." Namine instructed to which Kit hesitated for a moment before bolting to the computer room.
Kit jumped the banister outside Namine's room door and landed skillfully on her feet in the foyer below. As soon as her feet hit the floor she was running to the other side of the room, through the library door and jumping down the staircase hidden underneath the floor. She stood bouncing on the balls of her feet as the computer room door seemed to open in slow motion and she didn't wait for it to even get half open before she slipped through the door.
"DiZ do you have a potion!? I'll explain later why I need one!" Kit shouted at the man who jumped at her sudden appearance and the echo that her shout had created in the room.
DiZ gave her a quizzical one eyed stare before reaching down into a bag on the side of the computer chair and pulling two green vials of liquid from the bag. He offered them to her and she snatched them from him before darting back out of the room and up the staircase in a flash. Namine could hear her running up the staircase and before she could turn Kit was in the room holding both vials out to her.
"What do I do with these?" Kit inquired while nodding to the vials in her hand.
"I need some water and a rag, can you get…" Namine started to ask, but no sooner had she told Kit what else she needed had the shifter disappeared leaving the room door wide open.
Kit ran next door to Riku and hers shared room and grabbed a rag from the bathroom. She used a corridor to get to the kitchen where she filled a pitch half way up and walked through the corridor into Namine's room. She gave the pitcher to Namine who poured one green vial into and extended her hand for the rag. Kit gave it to her without question and watched as Namine dipped it into the water before dabbing it onto Riku's wounds.
"Is there anything I can do Namine?" Kit inquired feeling rather useless as she just stood by Namine.
"Open the other vial and pour some of it into his mouth." Namine instructed and Kit did as told without question.
"I hope this stuff doesn't taste as bad as it smells." Kit stated her thoughts aloud, her nose crinkled as she poured half to contents into Riku's slightly parted lips.
"You should drink the rest Kit, and then go tell DiZ what's going on. I can take care of Riku." Namine instructed Kit only to have the girl stick her tongue out in disgust as she eyed the half empty vial in her hand.
Kit gave the vial a weary look as she scrunched her nose and in one swift motion downed the rest of the vial. She gagged as a shiver ran up her spine at the unpleasant taste and gave Namine a rather commercial look before she opened a corridor and walked into it. She walked out into the computer room and for the first time since they had arrived at the mansion DiZ turned to her before she spoke.
"What's happened?" DiZ inquired seriously and Kit met his gaze seeing the worry in his one visible eye.
"Riku lost to Sora's nobody. Namine's tending to his wounds; he's out cold by the way." Kit informed the older man while fidgeting with her fingers.
"And where were you when this happened? You did not get the wounds you have by just standing idly by." DiZ inquired his attention directed at a small hole in Kit's shoulder.
"Sora's nobody wasn't alone, so I distracted his companion in the best way I knew how." Kit informed him as she continued to fidget.
"You are dismissed. Go get some rest and we'll figure this out tomorrow." DiZ sighed, surprising Kit who nodded and headed back upstairs.
Kit made a pit stop in the kitchen and grabbed what looked to be DiZ's lunch left overs and hung out until she finished them off. She cleaned up the small mess she made and then made her way back to Namine's room. Namine was sitting on the side of the bed when Kit came back into the room and she gave the shifter a wavering smile.
"Do you want to move him to our room or would you prefer to go sleep there instead?" Kit inquired softly as she leaned against the door frame.
"Someone needs to keep an eye on him…" Namine replied only to have Kit interrupt her.
"I'll watch him and I'll let you know when he wakes up, but you have a job to do that's way more important than mine, so you need the rest." Kit informed the blonde who sighed before standing up from the edge of the bed.
"Good night Kit." Namine stated softly as she left the shifter to watch over their silver haired companion.
"Night Namine." Kit chided softly as the door clicked shut and she moved to sit on the bed where Namine had been sitting moments before.
"Night Riku." Kit whispered softly before kissing his cheek and shifting into her fox form before curling up in a ball beside him; hoping that he would awaken soon.