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[011//Audio & Commentlog] More 4th wall fun :D

K--Kairi!

[Riku sounds surprised, but also excited. What has he found?]

You've got to come see this. Deck 12--around the left side of the luggage.

[Riku's on the luggage deck, off to one side sitting on the floor. Scattered around him is an entire collection of interesting things, including a bunch of Disney movies--but what -Riku's- looking at is a game. Yeah, he's holding Kingdom Hearts I and II, and is staring at them both. There's a PlayStation 2 nearby, and you can bet he's planning on figuring out how to play these things.

What in the -worlds- has he found here?]

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Wait, when are you from? Has Malificent stolen your soul yet?

[Too late! She's laughing at both of them. This was definitely a good idea.]

Yeah sure.

[And still giggling at the pair of them, she runs game!Sora around to the other side of the island - she's not blocking the way anymore! - and there's game!Riku, naming the raft. And-...

A race to decide who'd share a paopu with her? Really? Kairi's face feels like it's glowing.]

Heh... That wasn't what that was really about... Right?

[Most awkward. Silence. Ever.]

Malificent stealing my--what?

You've got to be making this stuff up.

[A-Awkward is right. Sora's face is still as red as his jumper used to be, and while he's not scowling at Riku anymore, he's certainly trying to avoid looking at the game.]

Uh. Yeah. So.. Y'know. Win the race, so I can name the raft!

[Even though when he'd tried, he'd lost out to Riku anyway. No need to mention that, right?]

[He winces a little, because... it did sort of seem that way, didn't it? He was a hero ("Junior Hero", he can hear Goofy saying), he wasn't in your shadow, he was doing good things, helping people and keeping people from losing their worlds like they lost theirs--

But then... you were working with Maleficent, weren't you? Taking Alice, Jasmine and Belle away from their homes. Did you even know then that Kairi was one of those seven Princesses that Maleficent was looking for?

His hand goes over his Heart, remembering what happens after Monstro. His next words are said softly, but it's more than audible.] You might have found Kairi first... but she didn't get her Heart back until I lost mine.

[Make what you want of that.]

[Thirding that awkward cry. Riku's not looking at the screen, and he is -definitely- not looking anywhere near Kairi or Sora. Those stakes had been perfectly fine on the islands (not that it had ever happened anyways!), but having Kairi actually -know- about it was something else entirely.]

Yeah, c'mon, Kairi, it was a joke. Right, Sora?

[His tone doesn't sound convincing at all, but look--he's even asking Sora to back him up! He's being civil! That's gotta count for something, right?]

Oh!

[That's right! She's supposed to be playing the game. What a convenient excuse not to make eye contact with either of them!

Racing Riku is much easier this way than in reality. She's not doing too badly until she gets stuck behind the break-water near the water-tower. The score: 2 to 0.

She sticks her tongue out at Riku then hands the controller over to Sora.]

Your turn.

Uhh, yeah! [Sure. Whatever, Riku. You jerk.]

Oh, hey thanks, Kairi. You made me lose again!

[He whines, no real heart in it. He couldn't be mad at her if he tried, anyway. But alas! His final turn to play! And now... There's a storm. He remembers that. The storm that stopped them from sailing away. He'd left already, and there's a slight pang as he hears his mother's voice. S'been a while since he checked in with her. Oops.

But he's back on the island again!]

Yeah.. Did you guys go out to the Island too? Cause of the storm...?

Please. I am the most accurate ever! What's the last thing you remember?

[Riku smirks at Kairi when tiny!him wins the race, glad that that bit of awkwardness cleared up quickly enough. But by the time they reach the storm and Sora's question, there's no way he's gonna get an answer from Riku.

Riku's not even thinking about the storm right now. He's a little bit surprised--he remembers that day on the islands. He remembers finishing up the raft, making sure all the provisions were properly stored, ensuring that everything would be ready for their departure the next morning... he'd been doing that while the sun was setting.

While Sora and Kairi had their talk, apparently.

And it's -strange-, really, strange to hear Kairi exclaim that the two of them should take the raft and go, that they should leave him behind. But she has to be joking... right? There's no way that she would have left him behind.

Right?

So Riku doesn't answer Sora's question--but not because he won't speak to him. This time, it's because he's reeling from surprise and confusion.]

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[Riku folds his arms. All right, he'll bite. But you're only getting one sentence. If you -really- know anything, you'll be able to pick it up from there.]

Finding out that Kairi'd lost her heart.

[... It sounds so much worse, just played out on a screen like that. She hadn't meant it that way. She hadn't been kidding, but neither had she ever seriously considered leaving Riku behind.

All she had known - or was it felt? - at the time was that everything was changing, and that it had left her afraid and confused.

A glimpse of Riku's expression tells her all she needs to know, but the game's moving on and so is Sora.]

Hmm? Oh.

[She nods, and then shakes her head. Her smile's gone.]

No, not because of the storm. Well, you'll see.

[She hadn't given the raft a second thought. She had gone straight for their secret place.

She nudges Riku and tries to catch his eye.]

[Sora hadn't, to be honest, thought twice about that scene. He hadn't really thought of leaving Riku behind. That was just... Preposterous. He continues on, face screwing up in a serious sort of expression. The secret place.

He didn't even bother searching the islands. He'd gone straight there. He knew what was waiting. And it made his brow knit in the middle of his forehead.

He didn't say anything.]

[And... just as Sora says that, lo and behold does Kairi find her way making it around the corner. She's been trying to figure out her bearings. At least until she had caught the familiar voices and followed them.

But, uh. Well... Looking between the two of them.]

Did I come at a bad time?

[She isn't lost to the fact that you look younger, Riku. But she has a feeling that this is more a more pressing question to ask at the moment. What are you having a spat over now?]

[At first, Riku doesn't look at Kairi. He -can't-. Not while he's so uncertain, not while he's still trying to figure this out. He watches Sora silently, but as Sora starts for the Secret Place, he shakes his head. That was when he had gotten the Keyblade? Riku had thought for -sure- that he'd gotten it after leaving the islands. He still has no idea what to think, but they're into the Secret Place and Kairi is acting strange--

And even in spite of his uncertainty, he -does- glance her way at that one.]

What... happened?

I-...

[Gave? No. That wasn't right. She certainly hadn't meant to do it. It had been far from a pleasant experience.]

I lost my heart. And Sora caught it. He didn't know.

[And despite herself, she manages a weak smile. As unpleasant as it was, even to watch, it had all turned out alright. Well, almost.]

[Yeah. That had been when... When Kairi flew through him. He'd been so confused. What had happened to her? And he'd just caught it; just like that. He peeks a tiny glance at Riku; maybe playing this one wasn't such a good idea...

But he trudges on. ~~Because I'm a derp, pretend he already did the keyblade bit fffuuu.~~]

[Riku shakes his head again--based on what Kairi had told him when he'd first gotten here, he'd been able to make that leap. But whatever, he watches Sora as he's shoved back out of the Secret Place, onto some remnant of the islands and--]

It's the same Heartless we fought in the dream.

[Huh. Now -that's- odd.

They beat this one with about as much difficulty as they had in the first battle, and it's off to a new world, which Riku can identify as Traverse Town even before the words pop up on the screen.

Oh, look, it's Sora's ~new friends~.]

Hey!

[Distracted for a moment from Riku's mood, Kairi reaches over and starts messing the game controller.]

It's that dog! I know that dog. I followed him here.

[She succeeds only in running game!Sora around, getting him attacked by heartless, and triggering a few sequences where Donald and Goofy are looking for Leon.

Kairi pouts. Stupid game.]

[He would have done whatever it took to get Kairi back her heart, regardless of if he had to work for the light or the dark. Maybe he would have cared; heck, he might have even helped Sora to try and help seal some of the worlds.

But Kairi had come first, not somewhere along the way.

Riku opens his mouth to respond to Sora, what would have hopefully been a properly cutting comment--but then there's a Kairi. And while there's some part of him that knows, -senses- that it's not the Kairi on board with him (what? How are there multiple Kairis now?), it's still -Kairi- and so for that, he swallows the snipe.]

I would have figured something out.

[That doesn't mean he planned to let Sora have the last word, though.

He turns to Kairi. He won't brush it all under the rug (especially when she obviously knows that something's up), but he won't address it, either. He gives her a wry smile.]

No, you're fine, Kairi. What's up?

[Sora's face doesn't light up like it did earlier. When he saw his friends sitting here, playing around. It softens, sure, and his grin spreads, but it's not the same. Donald and Goofy are his best friends, sure. But they're a different sort of best friend. Riku and Kairi could never be replaced.

If only Riku could have understood that. Right now, anyway. But he doesn't comment, instead continuing on with the game.]

Pluto? You followed him... here? [That was weird.]

[Speaking of weird. Sora groans. Leon just kicked his sorry ass.]

[Unfortunately, Riku doesn't notice it--he's no longer actively giving Sora the could shoulder, though! Although that might be due in part to the game.

Oh, hey, look! It's him! The scene is quick, but it's already enough to illustrate the differences between what had happened to him and what had happened to Sora. Sora had woken up in Traverse Town--a refugee town. He'd woken up in Hollow Bastion, where the only company were the Heartless. And Maleficent.

Sorry, guys, Riku doesn't have much to put in.]

Does that count as the score being 3-0 now?

[Or not.]

[Kairi nods. It makes no more sense to her. But she's recognized the place Riku woke up too. That's--]

You woke up there?

[That's... Not good.

And then Donald and Goofy land on game!Sora's head.

Kairi can't help it; she laughs.]

[Sora makes a face at Riku; no, that did not count. And oh lawd he winces. Two full grown Disney boobs falling on his head? Yep, that'd hurt.]

Where is that? [Derp derp, Sora you know exactly where that is.]

[And Riku can't help it either; he snorts when Donald and Goofy land right on top of Sora. Nice going. But he doesn't stay like that for long--as Sora's fighting Guard Armor, he shifts his eyes away from the screen, avoiding their gazes as he answers Sora's question.]

It's called Hollow Bastion.

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:3 You know you love him

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/threadjacks! 8| Her sixth sense is tingling. What kind of stupid is being had here, boys?

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The stupid where Riku goes "WHYYYY" over everyone being older than him, of course! :D

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