Old Title: New Life, New Home, New Friends, and a New Love

New Title: Breaking Light

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha OR Kingdom Hearts, but I do own Miyu.

A/N: Next chapter. Not the one I wanted out, but at least it's something.

Enjoy!

Couples:

Sora and Kairi

Hayner and Olette

Roxas and Namine

Kagome and Riku

Charter A:

Kagome: 16

Inuyasha: 17

Miyu: 8 and 18

Sango: 18

Miroku: 19

Shippo: 9

Riku: 17

Sora: 16

Kairi: 16

Roxas: 16

Namine: 16

Olette: 16

Hayner: 16

Axel: 19

More To Come

Chapter 11:

Things Left Unsaid

Riku Isn't a morning person. And that was the absolute truth.

Dead tired. It was a fitting term that explained how he was feeling right this second. The silver-haired Key Bearer stared blankly at the bowl of cereal before him. He released a silent yawn.

Riku was exhausted, no doubt about that. His sleep schedule has been all screwed up since the morning before. First, he sleeps too late. Then, last night, he barley got a wink of sleep.

Maybe it was because he slept in the recliner instead of the comfort of his own bed? Maybe? It seem most likely.

Regardless of his pride, which is always hard for him to put aside, he had to admit to himself that staying in the Study Room all night was not one of his best ideas.

Riku glanced around the table. Everyone was in their usual seats talking to one another. That is, everyone except for Kagome, Sora, and himself.

Riku wasn't in the mood to talk. As for Kagome and Sora, they weren't even there. Kairi had said that Kagome was still knocked out, and Sora was in the bathroom -

- The boy's dorm door burst open. Riku cringed once the door hit the wall. "Morning!" Came Sora's loud, obnoxious voice.

Various 'Supps' and 'Mornings' greeted him from around the table.

Riku said nothing.

Kairi and Sora noticed Riku's reaction to Sora's grand entrance. Sure, Riku doesn't really talk in the mornings, but he would've usually grunted or something just to greet his best friend.

Sora physically deflated with an audible sigh. He slowly treaded to his usual seat between his girlfriend and best friend. How awkward that was.

Sora risked a side glance at brooding Keyblade Bearer. Riku sat as far away from him as the table would allow. His body language was sluggish, showing just how tired he was. His visage was blank. His dull, droopy steel-turquoise eyes stared intently at his mushy cereal as if it were a great abyss.

Sora opened his mouth. Closed it. Then opened it again. "Hey, Riku, bud-" - Deadly seel eyes slowly glanced at him. Riku narrowed his eyes into a glare that said: Stop-breathing. Sora tensed. He was finding it hard to actually breath. "Uh, yeah," He gulped, "glad we had this talk!" He mumbled quickly.

Riku went back to admiring his breakfast.

That answered Sora's lost question. Of course, Riku was still mad at him! Why shouldn't he be? He pretty much ripped Riku's head off when he was only trying to help him with his 'Kairi problem.' Sora was indeed depressed about this ordeal between him and his best bud.

He wished he never opened his big mouth in the first place. Sora sighed.

Kairi had been watching the whole odd exchange between Soar and Riku. It was painfully obvious Riku was mad at Sora. But why was he? It puzzled her.

Kairi touched Sora's arm. "What's wrong with Riku?" She whispered as she jerked her chin toward said boy.

Sora took a quick glance at Riku. "I'll tell you later, Kairi. I promise." He nervously rubbed the back of his neck. "Now ... just isn' the right time." He gave pointed another look towards Riku.

Kairi didn't want to be left out of the loop any longer then needed to be, but Sora was right, now wasn't the time. After all, Riku was just a few feet away. With a sigh Kairi turned back to her meal and shunned the matter into the back of her mind.

This was going to bother the Princess for the rest of the day.

A few moments later the girls' dorm door saliently clicked opened.

Riku's eyes darted toward that direction.

Kagome silently stepped in. No one has even noticed her entrance. Except for Riku. She scrutinized the scene openly.

At the head of the table closest to her was Olette. To Olette's right -on the right side of the table- was Hayner, Roxas, and Namine. To the left side was Kairi, Sora, and Riku. At the other end -far across from Olette and between Riku and Namine- was an empty seat. Most likely for Kagome.

Hayner and Olette seemed to be arguing about something or other. Roxas was chewing Hayner's ear off about getting himself a new skateboard.

Namine somehow - through all the noise- was able to talk to Kairi from across the table. How her small, soft voice was getting to Kairi in the first place was beyond Kagome.

Sora was slouched in his chair; his arms crossed over his chest, a frown plagued his lips, azure eyes distant. This bothered Kagome. She knew this was defiantly not this normal everyday behavior.

Riku was brooding, that much was for sure. His hair was in a messy pony tail, shoulders hunched over his body, head bowed. Long silver bangs prevented her from telling what exactly his eyes were locked on.

She felt the Dark vibes radiating of him. It was so much more intense than yesterday. It was enough to make her skin crawl and prickle with anxiety and awareness. It was enough to make the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end. And, to an extent, it almost frightened Kagome.

Kagome resisted to scratch her arms and rub her neck. Instead she rubbed her eyes with the heels of her palms. "Morning." She yawned.

Kairi sprang up from her seat. She strode over to her new friend. "Kagome," She smiled sweetly, "I was just about to wake you so you wouldn't be late." She grasped Kagome's hand. "Come on. You've got to eat something before we head out." Kairi lead her to the empty seat at the head of the table.

Kagome glanced at the two. Riku greeted her with a curt nod. Namine smiled pleasantly at her. She forced herself to smile back.

"I'll get your food for you." Kairi picked up the empty plate in front of Kagome.

Kagome was getting out of her seat. "You don't have to. I can-" Her protest died in her throat once Kairi held up her hand.

"Nonsense." Kairi waged her finger. "I want to do it. Now sit back down and wait for your breakfast." She joked.

Kairi made her way to the stove, scooped food on the plate, then walked over to the microwave. She punched in some numbers and pressed the start button. She hummed a small tune as she waited for the food to heat up.

With a defeated sigh, Kagome sat back down. "Is she always this chirpy in the morning? I can practically see it glowing off her."

Namine giggled. "Yup. Everyone here is a morning person. Except Riku, Roxas, and Hayner." She pinched her fork into the last bit of scrambled eggs on her plate. She popped it into her mouth, chewed, and swallowed. "Kairi is just more into the morning swing than the rest of us. Not to mention she likes to help others."

They way Namine said those last words made Kagome believe that they held a double meaning to it.

Kairi liked to help others. Translation: Kairi like to be needed. For something, for anything. She wasn't the type to just sit back and watch the world go by. No, Kairi is the one who likes to jump in there completely unprepared and take on anything like it is.

Talk about being Headstrong.

The feeling of be useful to someone in someway. Kagome had felt that once before, Not anymore. She let that die away like everything else 2 months ago. She didn't need anybody. And nobody needed her.

"How about you? Are you the morning type, Kagome?" The Memory Witch asked.

Kagome blinked. "Me? No, not really. I was when I was younger."

Namine's eyebrows furrowed. "Really? And here I thought you would like the mornings." She mumbled.

"Night is what I like now." In her mind Kagome grimaced. 'My most favorite and heated time of day.'

Namine placed her cup and utensils on her clean plate. "Excuse me." She went to the sink to put the dishes into the dishwasher.

Kairi scampered back over to the table, warm food in hand. "Here you go." She placed dish before Kagome. "Enjoy."

Scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast with butter. A casual breakfast.

Kagome nodded. "Thank you, Kairi."

She winked. "No problem." She turned to her Nobody. "Namine, I'll help you with those." She disappeared to help the small blonde.

With no one else to talk to, Kagome turned to Riku. "You're awfully quiet."

Riku remained unmoving. "Hnnn."

Kagome cocked an eyebrow. "Nice answer." She murmured.

Sora laughed. "Don't even bother to try to get a decent answer out of Riku at this time." He reclined back in his chair, lacing his hands behind his head. He pushed his feet on the ground to the point that the two front legs of the chair were off the floor.

Kagome's eyes widened. If it was even possible, Riku's darkness amplified ten fold. And it was all aimed at Sora. She shook her head.

Poor kid.

A deep, low growl erupted from Riku's chest. Steel eyes swivelled to pierced Sora with a don't-talk death glare.

Riku hated the fact that Sora spoke for him. He heated the fact that Sora thinks he got him all figured out, when in fact, the idiotic Keyblade Master didn't get Riku at all!

"Gah!" Sora quickly leaned away from Riku, leaving him only one leg of the chair to support him.

Kagome let the tension between the two die down a bit before she said: "You don't say." She smirked. "Not awake yet?" She asked Riku.

Riku shook his head.

He ran his fingers through his hair. His fingers met up with the band that was keeping his hair up. He pulled it out and waves of silver cascaded down to his shoulders. Riku scratched his head.

"Sleep?" Kagome poked at her food here and there, not really in the mood to eat it. Then again, when is she ever?

Riku released a heavy sigh. "Sucked." He grunted.

Kagome grimaced. "Mine did too. I barley got any shuteye." For a charade -and for the sake that Riku was paying attention to her- she picked up a piece of bacon and took a small bite, chewed, and swallowed.

It tasted delicious on Kagome's tongue. Magnificent even. But it was the only food she had ingested since the bit she had last night. Even then she didn't eat much at all. That piece of bacon in her empty stomach made her want to puke.

Kagome popped an egg into her mouth ... and almost gagged. Bile rose up her throat. She forced herself to gulp both down.

'A few more bites, just a few more bites'

She still had a charade to play.

Sora bulked. Here was Riku, who hated mornings with a passion, talking to Kagome like nothing! He barley even utters one word to everyone else here!

Sora was appalled. He was shock. He was -

- Riku kicked Sora's chair. The chair toppled backwards, falling to the floor. The table rattled.

Riku didn't spare Sora a second glance.

Kagome panicked. "Holy - !"

"- Pawned!" Hayner laughed.

"Nice." Roxas grinned greatly amused.

Namine shook her head. "Boys."

A smug grin played Riku's lips.

Sora complained there, on his back, until Kairi stood over him with worried eyes.

"Are you okay?"

Sora moaned loud and long.

Kairi offered him a hand.

Sora grasped her hand and Kairi heaved him up into an upright position. "Thanks, Kai. I think I can take it from here now." He stood up on his own two feet and dusted himself off. Even when he was up and about, Sora refused to release Kairi's hand.

Sora pierced Riku with accusing eyes.

Sora released a heavy breath of air.

He just had to open his big mouth last night. Now regrets it now more than ever.

"I'm going get ready." He grumbled as he beeline his way into the dorm.

A bit later, after every thing was cleaned, Hayner, Roxas, Namine, and Kairi followed Sora's lead to get ready for school.

"I almost forgot! Kagome," Olette ducked under the table and pulled out a rather large brown cardboard box. "Aerith stopped by earlier and dropped this off." Struggling slightly, she brought the box to Kagome. She dropped it on the table in front of her friend with a loud 'thud'.

Kagome stared blankly at the box. Just what exactly was in there? Bricks? She didn't recall Aerith saying anything about giving her a package. Or ... had she said something? No. "What ... What's in it?" Kagome poked the box cautiously as if it there were a bomb inside ready to explode.

Olette shrugged. "She said something about you liking the outfit she gave you yesterday. " She patted the top of the box. "My guess, I think it's more cloths." Olette began to walk to the girls dorm. But before she opened the door, she gave one last glance over her shoulder to Kagome, and grinned. "Leave it to Aerith to give somebody something they take a liking to." With a shake of her head, Olette went into the room.

Kagome eyes widened. Had she showed so much admiration for the cute outfit yesterday that Aerith had to drop off extra cloths for her? She quickly stood up and pulled open the flaps of the box. She stared at the contents inside, unblinking, for a few good seconds. Kagome's head hung low in embarrassment, her bangs hiding her eyes.

Perfect.

Just perfect.

Kagome just had to show how much she liked that dress yesterday, didn't she.

Just as Olette predicted, cloths.

Kagome slowly shuffled through the clothing, admiring it. "Beautiful." She murmured softly. Her eyes glazed.

Skirts, pants, baggy pants, dresses, T-shirts, sweaters, tank tops, tube tops, and long sleeved shirts; all in a variety of colors. How Aerith managed to fit all that in there, Kagome had not one clue.

Zippers. They were pretty much on everything piece of clothing she could find in there. They went in all these different crazy directions. And the hoods. Lots of hoods on the shirts, sweaters, and even the dresses.

Kagome picked up a tube top with a zipper running right down the front and rubbed it between her fingers, loving the feel of it. She wasn't sure what material it was made of - silk? Leather? A mix of both? - but what she did know was that it all looked so comfortable and that it had to be same material as yesterdays dress -

- Kagome shook her head. She discarded the shirt in the box and dug deeper into the cloths. When she finally hit the bottom, she found a slip of paper poking out in between a top and a skirt.

Kagome pulled it out. The paper was folded in half. On one side, in Aerith's neat cursive, was written: To Kagome.

Kagome placed it on top of the corner of the table, between her and Riku. She sat back down, placed her elbow on the table, and rested her chin in the palm of her hand.

Riku stared at the paper. He was only slightly curious of what could be written in there. His eyes flashed to Kagome. Turquoise clashed with brown for a few seconds, asking a silent question.

'Well?'

Kagome closed her eyes and looked down at the paper between them. She felt herself being lost again in Riku's steeling, mysterious eyes. She didn't want to lose herself again like she had yesterday. It felt so weird ... like she was being drowned by sorrow and that she didn't know herself anymore. Weird.

Kagome sighed. "Go ahead."

Riku already had the note open before she Kagome finished. She leaned closer to him to read the letter:

Kagome, When I saw the look in you eyes at how much you liked that dress, I had to find you some more. And I did. These were just hanging in my closet. I never use them and they never been used, so please accept them. Considerate as a gift of friendship. P.S. I hope your back is well enough to let you participate in school today. Aerith.

"What are you two doing?"

Kagome and Riku simultaneously looked up at Sora. He was leaning against the doorframe to the boy's dorm. He was decked out in a dark blue sleeveless shirt that had a zipper going down the front and his usual puffy black pants. A goofy grin was plastered on his lips.

'Great,' Riku thought, 'He's back to his old aloof self again.'

Sora raise an eyebrow. "Sitting a little to close, don't you think?"

"Huh?" Kagome blinked. Once. Twice. Three times. Until it clicked. She turned to see that she was a lot closer to Riku than she wanted to be - there arms were paretically brushing one another's. She must of leaned in closer without really noticing her proximity with him.

Riku hadn't noticed either. He just casually leaned away from her.

Kagome immediately jumped up from her seat and took a few steps back. "Uh," She gave an embarrassed laugh, "Sorry Riku."

Riku grunted. He turned his head away from Kagome.

Childish.

The both of them.

Sora rolled his eyes. "Anyway, you guys only have 15 minutes to get ready. So hop to it." He turned back into the room.

"Yeah, yeah. We're on it." Closing her eyes, Kagome stretched her arms above her head. "Let's get moving." She yawned. Kagome didn't hear any signs of Riku moving, so she opened one eye.

Riku's body was taught, his breathing was deep. He stared at Kagome with blazing narrowed eyes. They quickly flickered between two emotions: Alert and Anger. Then his eyes went blank as he continued to stare at her - no, not her. But her arms?

Kagome gasped. She remembered. Now she knew why Riku was looking at her like that, why he was looking at her arms with such anger. She quickly pulled her arms down to her sides and tugged her sleeves down.

Kagome closed her eyes. Her body went rigged, her bangs shielded her eyes. Kagome clenched her hands into tight fist, her nails biting into her palms.

He saw.

Kagome bit her lip.

Riku saw them!

Riku slowly stood up. "Kagome -" He cautiously took a step toward the her.

- Kagome was already running.

Kagome ran right past Riku into her dorm, slamming the door behind her.

Riku didn't stop her. He didn't even try. He was just too ... shell shocked to do anything. So he'd let her run away for now. He collapsed in his chair, closed his eyes, and pinched the bridge of his nose with a heavy breath.

His other hand was shaking with rage. He just wanted to punch something. Break something. Anything! Just so he can ease his rage.

Riku felt the all too familiar pounding in his head. He pressed the palm of his hands to his temples. He bearded his teeth, a growl emitting from deep within his chest. He shook his head to and fro restlessly.

The pounding amplified.

He can't move. It hurts too much.

Breathing was beginning to be a hard thing to do.

Riku's eyes flashed to orange color. He needs to calm down ... He needs to gain back control from him ... heneeds to find something to cover his eyes.

Riku bit the sleeve of his shirt and tore a good strip of material off. He quickly covered his eyes with it and tied it behind his head with shaking fingers.

It took awhile for his body to go back to normal.

For everything to just stop.

For Riku to gain control over his own mind again.

His body fell limply in the chair, his head hanging over the back of it as he stared at the darkness over his eyes.

Riku sure as hell didn't need this right now.

Kagome sat on the bathroom floor against the door. Her knees were drawn to her chest and her arms were crossed on top of them, her chin resting in her arms. She stared at the cold tile floor with dead brown eyes.

Riku seen them

He knew.

He saw.

The Bruises on her arms

The Bruises she inficted on herself.

She buried her head into her arms.

Kagome sure as hell didn't need this right now.

Wow, ruff crap, huh?

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Summary: AU. It was a relationship that was hated by all. 'It was you and me against the world.' When your boyfriend leaves you suddenly, you wonder what went wrong. How did you fall apart? 'Was it something that I did? was it something that I said?' Your self esteam is low. How could you possibly care for someone again? How could you love when you're in this much pain. How can you possibly let go? 'Cause I got to know what made me unbeautiful.'

Excert:

It was like one of those stupid highschool movies where everyone was divided into their clicks, following the status quo, and breaking out into random song. For Roxas and Kairi, it was mysterious popular skater boy meets the school outcast who still has a brain of her own and eventually like one another.

Thank God they didn't break out into song.

Surprisingly, it was Roxas who wanted Kairi. He was the one to ask her out as well ... during school in a crowded hallway. He was so nervous that he turned beet red. He also kept rubbing the back of his neck and stuttering like a babbling idiot.

Everyone at the school was surprised by this. The ever oh-so-cool Roxas? Nervous? Unheard of!

But he was. And that was because he was facing Kairi. The girl was so headstrong he actually feared that she would slug him for even thinking about asking her on a date.

But when he finally did manage to sputter out a sentence, it came out like: "You, me, date?"

Stupid.

Why yes it was.

Kairi's response: Looking at him as if he suddenly sprouted three heads. When the shock that a popular just asked her out rolled by, she looked him straight in the eye.

"Why?"

"W-why? Uh, B-because y-you seem nice. A-and you look like you're d-down to earth." Gulp. "N-nothing like these other girls ... you're also ... very b-beau-"

"-Yes."

"Wha - R-really?!"

Smile. "Uh-huh."

Kairi had know what Roxas was going to say when she cut him off. He was frazzled as is asking an unpopular out that she didn't want to put him through anymore unnecessary torture.

Besides, what reason did she really have to say no to him? He never bothered her. Never bullied her like most other boys do. Not to mention, Kairi had been admiring Roxas from a far.

Sure, he pretty much did ignore her entire existence for the past three years since she got to Twilight High, but that doesn't matter now.

Because now he was asking her out.

They did go on that date.

Soon enough they became boyfriend and girlfriend.

But where there is happiness, there are haters.

Of course no one wanted the two the be together.

Popular Golden Girls wanted to claw Kairi's eyes out for taking their next potential boyfriend ... or sex buddy - It doesn't matter. It's the same to them anyway. As for the hopeful boys that wanted her, well, actually, there were no hopeful boys that wanted Kairi in the first place. What she did have though were her three best friends.

The ever so popular heart-throbs of the school, Riku and Sora. And the spunky, sadistic psychotic outcast, Larxene. But alas, even they were just as against her being with Roxas as mach as everyone else was.

"Roxas!? You're dating Roxas!? What about Me — I-I mean, uh," Sigh, "Just be carful, okay Kairi?"

"Hn. I've know him since I was a kid and I still don't like him. Watch yourself."

"The shrimp? You're with the shrimp? That's it, My God, I have seen. It. All."

No one, absolutely no one wanted them to be together.

Kairi knew that.

Roxas new that.

But they didn't care.

There were unbreakable.

... or so it seemed.

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