Knotted Strands [Kingdom Hearts 2, Namine/Riku G]

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Title: Knotted Strands
Author/Artist: Lazchan lazzchan
Rating: G
Warnings: None :)
Word count: 339

A/N: Argh, why this ended up so short, I don't know. ;__; I'm sorry! I hope you all like it anyways. XD for the promopt Riku/Namine: chivalry; knight in shining armor - "you're everything I think I need"



She had lost her chance to have Sora, but—it was okay. She would be okay and it would all work out. She didn't have anyone looking after her now, there was no one to order her around, except DiZ, but he was not as scary as Marluxia or Larxene had been to her. And now with DiZ, she had Riku.

Riku was….Riku would make it better. He was the real one out of the replica that Vexen had created. It was his memories that she had held and caressed, painted into fine lines on crisp white paper. She could still feel the weight of those emotions, heady and strong—emotions that she had never actually felt before, didn't know how to feel.

She could string his memories through her hands, shifting and twisting them if she wanted. She could tug the strings this way and that, moving him to what she needed him to be.

Riku didn't realize, of course—no one did, no one could really tell. She had time to improve her talents, to sketch out carefully what she wanted. It was easily to manipulate what was there, what she knew so very well. A sense of duty, of shame—of needing to belong and to make amends. She could use all of that, that loyalty that sparked around him and in those memories that were so precious.

It helped that he would forget Sora, had already partially forgotten the boy that she watched over. Even as she pulled apart Sora's memories to restore him to what he was before, she was able to rewrite Riku's memories so that he stayed by her.

She didn't want to be alone anymore, didn't want to be ordered about and treated as if she was nothing—even if she was a Nobody. Every girl locked away in a tower needed a knight in shining armor, she reasoned. They all wanted someone to rescue them eventually…and Riku was perfect for that role. He was all that she would ever need.

Comments

[reversedhymnal.livejournal.com]

Hee! Length is no matter to greatness! ♥ And d'aw, D: Poor Namine! I liked how you wrote her skills, very pretty, and I like how she's not perfect, and she's needy, ♥ And, poor Riku. That really is him perfectly at the end of KH, and, unf. Namine machinations, tasty, *chews on them!*

I- I'm pretty sure this was one of mine, lol! So thank you very much, you're awesome! :D :D

[lazzchan.livejournal.com]

:D I was debating with Namine's ... uh... sneaky ways, lol. It just kinda fit. But thank you! XDD

&hearts