The Mysterious Boy

Chapter 11

The two were close to Riku's home now.

"How are things with Hayner and Kairi?" Sora asked.

"Oh." Riku wished he hadn't been reminded. "Terrible. Kairi told Hayner I came onto her. This was all before I had the chance to get to tell Hayner anything. Just my luck, eh?"

"Well," said Sora. "I'm sure things will get better."

"Sure hope so."

A few minutes later, they had arrived at Riku's house.

"Do you want to come in?" Riku asked.

"Oh, no thank you." Sora replied. "I need to be heading back to my home."

"Oh. Well I guess I'll see you later then."

"Yeah." Sora said with a huge grin on his face.

After kissing his once more and saying goodbye, Riku walked into his house and went to his room. One could only imagine how much joy he had felt now. Knowing Sora loved him back was the best feeling in the world.

It was six o' clock. The sky had begun to grow dark. The orange and yellow colors in the sky were slowly fading as a dark grey and blue decided to take over. Riku stared out his window and began to day dream.

Sora had begun walking back home down a road where nobody was. He stopped and thought for a moment.

As much as I'd like to, I can't help everybody. Sora thought. But maybe I can make things better for Riku.

He closed his eyes, tilted his head back a bit, and held out his hands. Out of his hands came a few small lights and they floated away from him.

Kairi was at home, in her room, brushing her hair. She suddenly saw one of the small lights appear.

"What the hell is that?" she asked herself aloud. The light headed for her, and went into her heart.

What's going on? she thought. I'm feeling...rather...

"...guilty." she finished her though aloud.

The same thing happened to Hayner. One came by him and went into his heart and he felt his emotions change.

Jack, Rick, and Gary were outside in an alley. They then saw three small lights and try to shoo it away like it was some type of bug.

"What the--!" Jack was alarmed to see it go inside him.

Gary laughed like a maniac when the light went into his heart. "That tickles!"

And one went into Rick as well. They suddenly felt a small feeling of regret.

The next day, Riku went out for a walk when he suddenly saw Kairi and Hayner.

"Hey guys." said Riku, wondering why they hadn't walked away.

"Riku..." Kairi said softly. "I'm...sorry. I explained to Hayner that I lied about the story of you coming onto me. I begged him for forgiveness and he actually did forgive me."

"Yeah..." said Hayner. "I couldn't find it in me to say 'no', somehow. However, we're just gonna stick to being good friends again."

"And Riku," said Kairi. "We were hoping you would forgive us. I'm sorry for kissing you and telling Hayner those lies, making him angry at you."

"And I'm sorry," Hayner added. "for not believing you. Instead of being a sensible person, I just completely took Kairi's side without actually taking the time to learn who was really telling the truth."

"Forgive us. We are truly sorry. Please find it in your heart to forgive us!"

Riku wanted to, at that very moment, turn away from them. However, he remembered something that Sora said.

"It's only right to forgive and move on..."

With those words in his head, he couldn't help but say, "I forgive you both."

"Oh good!" exclaimed Kairi. "I'm so glad. And I promise I won't ever be that way again! I'm going to be honest and NOT cheat on anyone." She turned to Hayner. "I'm just sorry I did that to you."

"Hey, I already forgive ya." said Hayner.

"It's strange..." said Kairi. "Last night, well a little before night time, something odd happened to me."

"Same here!" said Hayner. "Believe it or not, I saw a very strange little light...and--"

"ME TOO!"

"Seriously? Then I'm not the only one imagining it!"

"You lost me." said Riku.

"Well," Kairi began. "yesterday a small light came into my room and suddenly it went inside me. I could feel it in my heart...and I suddenly realized what I had done to you and Hayner was wrong and I needed to apologize."

"And something similar to that happened to me." said Hayner.

"That's odd." said Riku.

Could it...he thought. ...could it have been...hm...maybe...

"I gotta go. Maybe we can all hang out soon." Riku then continued walking.

"Well, if we do," Hayner called to him. "don't forget to invite Sora! Remember? You said you wanted him to hang out with us."

"Trust me." Riku called back. "I haven't forgotten."

Riku continued walking, and saw Jack and the other up ahead. What had him even more worried is that they were looking right at him. Riku tried to run away, but they ran fast enough to get in front of him and block his path.

"Wait!" said Jack.

"We're sorry!" said Rick. "Is there anyway we can show how deep of regret we have? We are truly sorry. You can only imagine the sorrow we feel at the moment."

"Yeah!" said Gary. "What he said...about sorrow...and regret...and such."

Riku rolled his eyes and tried to walk away.

"We mean it!" said Jack. "We swear to you that we are sorry! We don't wanna hurt you or anybody else anymore."

"Something happened to us last night." said Rick. "Some odd little lights went inside us."

"Yeah! It came out of nowhere!" said Gary.

"Shut up and let me finish!" Rick snapped at him. "Anyways, once it was inside us, we felt it do something to our hearts. We could tell then that we've been doing wrong for waaay too long. And we're really sorry."

"So, will you forgive us?" Jack asked.

Riku wanted to laugh. He never imagined he would see the day that Jack, Rick, and Gary were sorry for anything.

"You're forgiven." he said.

Jack and the others thanked him, and left.

"So the lights really worked." Riku heard Sora. "I've never tried that before."

He turned around and saw Sora.

"So you really were the one who did that." said Riku.

"Well, I wanted to make things better for you."

Riku smiled. "Once more, I owe you."

Sora laughed, then walked up to Riku and wrapped his arms around him.

"Stay by me always." Sora said, softly. "That's all you have to do to pay me back."

Riku smiled and embraced Sora back.

"You got it." he said.

"So, what now?" Sora asked. "Do you want to go to any new worlds?"

"Nah." he replied. "I was thinking we'd hang out here."

"Sounds good to me."

The two grabbed each other's hands and began walking, knowing that no matter what, they would always be together.

The End

The author would like to say:

OOOHHHH those words (the end) kill me! I know I know I know these last few chapters weren't long at all. Towards the end, it got harder for me to think of things. But I'm so glad that you all haven't let that bother you too much. I appreciate everyone's reviews and give you all a big "THANK YOU VERY MUCH!" Thank you for taking the time out of your days to read these chapters. This has been my favorite story to write and I'm so glad you all loved it. Once more, thank you. And have a nice day.

Yours truly,

Leela14