Spiel: See Blackened Wings

Inspiration: Glass Wings by Misuzu Asaoka. There's a scene in this manga that inspired my quasi-drabble. I hope this scene can do that manga justice.

Dedications: Dedicated to all of my Riku lovers. RedCrow1120, Zanisha, Astaldotholwen. If I've forgotten a name, I apologize and message me about it.

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Looking at your gorgeous light-streaked eyes has always been so hard. Expressing how I feel about you has always been so hard. The bond between our battling hearts…has always been so hard… So strong…like Shattered Glass

Shattered Glass

It shouldn't be like this. Things like this shouldn't happen. I've never loved anyone the way I love her now. We should be talking, laughing; reflecting on the past and living the present. Her face should be lit with life and enjoyment as we accustom to life away from scripted fate…

…She shouldn't be sitting here with her heart ripped away. There shouldn't be a dark fog staining her viridian eyes, stealing her existence to the darkness. Her beautiful smile shouldn't be property of the shadows, leaving her so broken and lost…

…Like Shattered Glass…

"We have three days to save her."

"Three days!"

"Be lucky you have that. Being the carrier of the Dark Heart has built up a small resistance within the soul. But after that, she will become like any other Heartless victim."

"Three days to reach Kingdom Hearts, find Ansem, kill him and make it back?"

"I'm sorry, Riku… That's all I can guarantee."

"No…" Bitter salt burns breaking aquamarine as they gaze achingly at his shattered love. A soulless puppet bound to the darkness. Her entire life and now, her "Death"…bound to the darkness

…It hurts…

His gloved fingers wander through her obsidian and crimson strands, aimlessly searching her fractured gaze for any reaction. Though he expects none, it cuts him to realize that none will come.

…It's not fair…

His heart jerks to keep his emotions within, though his bottom lips betrays him to shudder with hopelessness.

"Riku… We're wasting time."

His lips gingerly brush the pale flesh of her forehead, his heart desperately reaching. Crystalline emotion spatters off her collarbone as he forces his entity into a run towards fate's outstretched hand.

Her lifeless eyes see nothing but one image within her blackening mind. An image of light, the only light her life has ever known. But every second, a small fraction falls away to the darkness. Shards slowly breaking away and scattering across an abyss unsearchable.

Shattered Glass