"Why… Why did it have to be you!? Why am I always so far behind you!?" Hayato Hayama yells at me on the cobble courtyard of this dilapidated castle. "It was you who brought our world back, it was you who became the one to wield a Keyblade, it was you who took away my Destiny!" He shouts out letting the darkness flow out of him.
"Hayam-" I try to reach out to him but his darkness pushes me further away. I try standing my ground yet I'm getting pushed away little by little.
"I don't need your saving Hikigaya, or your pity." He angrily spits out. "It should've been me! I should've been the one to protect the light! I should've been the one to create the bonds you could care less about!" Hayato starts to say as he starts to spasm letting untamed magic shoot out of his false Keyblade.
"I do care!" I yell out, stepping out of the way of the uncoordinated magic attack. "These bonds I've made… they're special to me. Even back home I hadn't realized how many people I'd connected to. My heart was once covered in darkness-" I start walking forward to him, Keyblade in hand ready to attack if he does something rash. "-yet it was because of the light in my heart that wouldn't go out I pushed through. The links my heart has made are special to me now." I speak as I feel the heat of the light from the hearts I've been connected to that think of me as their friend.
"You're still weak. You're still as weak as the day you let our world fall to darkness!"
"No, I've become stronger! Because"
My friends are my power!
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A/N - AHHHH I haven't updated all this year and it's all my fault. Sorry for the drought people. Anyways. I have the whole next chapter planned out. Like legit wrote down 2 pages of notes for it and I'm 25% done? So I'll have it out soon! Anyways I thank you for being so patient. Hopefully you guys don't find this terrible. I'm having a bit of a hard time finding places for certain characters. And while this 8Man is going to be different I don't want him to be a Riku replacement or too happy like Sora. I'm pretty sure I'll find a perfect balance soon but this little thing is leaning more towards Sora if you couldn't tell.
New Chapters! - Ok after this is the spam messages, then Saki, and the actual workplace observation. Yui's birthday will probably be a short chapter or lumped into the observation chapter due to KH-8man not being as insensitive? Don't know the right word but let's go with that. Of course it's the summer camp then the summer festival. And of course the Cultural Festival! That will actually be a bit longer (3 Chapters! Maybe.) After that we will finally get into the actual crossover with Kingdom Hearts. So that's how many chapters? 7ish chapters? So start your countdown timers!
Interludes - I know that some of you might not like the interludes and to be honest I don't like them either. They take up a chapter spot and while I do like having them as a way to put in more KH media, having a whole chapter for a few hundred words isn't great. So I'll compromise with myself. From now on interludes will be shorter but in a short story way where multiple stories are on the same page. So while this will be interlude III the next one will be interlude IV - whatever. Also these stories are subject to change. I already have ideas on how to improve the previous ones when they get put into the actual story but until then interludes will be 2-3 chapters apart so that it isn't one real chapter then one interlude.
So until next time (less than two weeks I swear!) I hope you can wait. I promise I'll have something worth your wild for waiting!