Author's Note: Oh my gosh! Hi! So guess what! Sequel time! For those of you who have been reading for a while, welcome to the sequel to "All the Pieces Lie Where They Fell" (from here on out, AtP). This pretty much picks up mere days after the other one lets off. Though, after that, time gets a little timey-whimey because there are a lot of different story lines to cover. I'm dealing with a lot of charries here.

For those of you who are new, I suggest you go read AtP, because there are things that happen here that will make SO MUCH more sense if you read that one first. However, I suppose you probably can just pick this one up and figure it out as you go along if you truly wish.

Either way, check out my profile. It has links to both my deviantArt account and my blog on Posterous. Both of which contain lots of information regarding this epic Kingdom Hearts fanfic.

For those of you who are familiar with my characters, you will enjoy knowing that Riku and Namine wrote this chapter by themselves. Originally, my first chapter involved Riku and Terra talking to each other about their dabbles in darkness. Then Namine and Riku were like "nope, write this." So I did. And I'm in love with it. You'll still get to read the dabbles in darkness chapter-just, next chapter.

For those of you following 'Some Things You Just Can't Escape', this actually takes place BEFORE Kairi, Namine and Xion go to the parallel universe. Yeah, I know. Sorry. It just happened like that.

And now, without further ado, enjoy the chapter!

"What? What did I say?"

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Namine was only mostly asleep. It was so early it wasn't even light yet. However, she wasn't particularly tired anymore. Perhaps she didn't particularly need sleep… She wasn't too sure. She wanted to be able to draw, but they never got a chance to get her another sketchbook last night after everything that had gone on.

Something tapped at her window. It didn't take her long to throw back the covers and leap to the window. She opened the window and looked at the odd chunk of Blizzard that had been the culprit of the tapping.

Namine looked down to see Riku casually guiding the Blizzard chunk with his Keyblade.

"Morning!" he said.

She grinned. "Good morning! What are you doing down there?"

"Waking you up, what's it look like?"

She laughed. "Is there any particular reason why you're waking me up before the sun's even up yet?"

"I want to show you something on the other island," he said, grinning. "You should get dressed and come down."

Not even questioning, Namine nodded and started to head back into the room.

"Oh, and bring pencils."

"To draw on what?" she asked, poking her head back out the window again.

Riku pulled a sketchbook out from behind his back. He smiled.

"When did you have time to get that? No place is open at this hour!"

"It's not nighttime everywhere," he said with a shrug. "Twilight Town was just opening up shop when I got there. This big enough?"

"Yes, it's perfect, thank you!"

"Told you I'd get you one."

"Okay, I'll be right down!"

He nodded and started to head around to the front of the house. Meanwhile, Namine opened the dresser that Kairi's parents had been so nice to buy her, (along with the bed and the desk and the bedside table.) She pulled out a lightweight, white sundress that Kairi had lent her. They hadn't had time to go out and buy either her or Xion new clothes yet. Roxas somehow seemed to be getting by with things of Sora's. Go figure.

She slid out of her nightgown (that she had also borrowed from Kairi) and into the sundress. She pulled on her sandals and smoothed down her hair. The last thing she did was grab a handful of pencils off the desk before making her way down the stairs and letting herself out the front door.

Riku was nonchalantly leaning against the picket-fence. He handed her the sketchbook as she approached him.

"Thank you!" she said again, hugging him.

He hugged her back. "No problem. Shall we go?"

"What is it that you want to show me?"

"You'll see, just come along."

He grabbed her hand and led her down to the dock. He motioned for her to get into a boat and he untied it from its post. Then the two of them rowed over to the other island. Namine was itching to start sketching, but she wasn't sure if some other image would present itself to her. She didn't like getting interrupted in the middle of a drawing.

The anticipation of what Riku was going to show her was killing her. When he saw her anxiousness he laughed.

It didn't take them very long to get to the other island. Riku tethered the boat down and helped Namine out. He then led her to the Paopu tree. It was just beginning to get light. He sat down on the tree and motioned for her to sit down next to him. Namine cocked her head to one side, slightly confused.

"Don't we usually sit facing the other direction?" she asked.

"Not this morning we're not," he replied.

She sat down.

"Remember how you asked me yesterday why I was over here so early for no apparent reason?"

She nodded.

He pointed at the horizon.

"That is why."

As if he had perfect timing (which, he probably did), the sun began to rise over the waves. The greyish morning was instantly bathed in pinks and purples. Namine gasped. Riku put his arms around her.

"It's so beautiful," she murmured.

"I like to come here and watch it for that very reason."

"I've never seen a sunrise before!"

He smiled. "Well, now you have."

She opened up her sketchbook and selected a few pencils. Without even looking down at the paper, she began to draw the image of the sunrise presented to her. Her hands flew across the page, capturing the colorful beauty.

"It amazes me that you don't even look down," Riku mused.

"I don't want to miss a moment of this."

He laughed a little.

"I'm glad you enjoy it," he said.

"Do you want to know what the best part is?" she asked, turning away from the rising sun for the first time to look at him.

"What?"

"Spending it with you."

He smiled.

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Namine drew a couple of pictures as the sun rose. Then she closed the book and watched the remainder of the sunrise in silence with Riku. The only sounds were the lapping of waves against the rock-face and their steady breathing.

When the pinks and purples faded into the crystal blues that Destiny Islands was normally covered with, Riku slid off the tree and stretched.

"There's one more thing I want to show you before anyone else comes over here," he said.

"Yes?" she asked, sliding off the tree as well.

"Follow me."

Once again, Namine found herself being led by Riku. They walked side-by-side across the island, climbing through the bushes and whatnot that littered the island. They appeared to be walking toward a dead-end. Namine was about to mention this when Riku moved some branches aside, revealing a cave of sorts.

"I had wondered how much this would have grown over the years," he mused, mostly to himself, though Namine could still hear him.

The two of them walked in. Namine noticed drawings along nearly all of the rocks. There was a door, or something that used to be a door, in one of the corners. She recognized this place. Riku began walking around, looking at all the old drawings. Namine stood in the middle of the Secret Place, admiring the sights.

"Well, that's new," Riku said, surprised.

"What is?" she asked, going over to where he was.

He pointed at one of the childish drawings. The two people in the drawing were obviously Sora and Kairi, though Sora looked to be better drawn than Kairi. If Namine had still been sharing a heart with Kairi, she probably would have been presented with a memory of this being etched. However, she still knew that Sora had drawn an image of Kairi, and that Kairi had drawn the image of Sora.

The most intriguing part of the image, however, was the Paopu fruits. They looked like they had been added in later.

"Sora added the one given to Kairi before we planned to set sail on the raft," Riku said, pointing to the fruit. "I don't know when the other one was drawn."

"Kairi added that one," Namine said. "It was after the Islands were restored."

"How do you know?"

"Vague memory of Kairi thinking about it," Namine replied, shrugging.

"How does that even work?" Riku asked.

"I'm not entirely sure," Namine said, laughing. "However, she was the one to add it."

"I wonder if Sora knows," Riku mused.

"He doesn't, not unless he's been in here since. She hasn't told him about it."

"He might have been," Riku said with a shrug. "He walked all over this place when we got back last time."

"Kairi hasn't been here since she forgot about Sora," Namine said, slowly.

Riku winced. "Can we not think about that, please?"

Namine looked up at him. "Yeah, sure."

She ran her hand over the two Paopu fruits and slowly made her way to a rock that had yet to be drawn on.

"May I?" she asked, picking up a rock to draw with.

"Go for it," Riku said.

She smiled and sat down. Riku held her sketchbook and pencils so they wouldn't get dirty from the ground. As she drew, he reminisced on the pictures that he, Sora and Kairi had drawn over the years.

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"It doesn't look too out of place, does it?" Namine asked after a while.

Riku looked over at her newly drawn picture. It was a simple image, though easily distinguishable. It was her and him, holding hands. She held her sketchbook, he held his Keyblade.

"Am I protecting you from something?" he asked.

She shrugged. "It just seemed right to add that in."

"Well, regardless, the image is wonderful."

"It doesn't look out of place?"

"Nothing can look out of place in here," he responded.

She grinned and dusted herself off.

"Anything else you'd like to show me?"

"No, I think that was all," he said.

"Darn, I was hoping for more surprises!"

"I can't give you all of them in one day!"

"Oh, so you do have more surprises?"

"I wasn't saying that… though, I'm sure I could come up with more places and things to show you, considering all the worlds I've seen."

She grinned.

He set her sketchbook and pencils down on a flat rock so he could take her hands in his.

"It's odd to think about," he said.

"What is?"

"All the things that you haven't seen."

"Oh, well, I know about a lot of things, because I see them when I draw them."

"But this is different," he said. "There are things that you've never really experienced. I first noticed it when you took off your shoes and stepped barefoot in the sand; when I coaxed you into the ocean for the first time for the other day. I noticed it again when you said you'd never seen a sunset in real life. And just this morning, you said you'd never seen a sunrise. Namine, there is so much you haven't seen! And I want to show it all to you."

She blushed and looked down at her feet.

"If you show me one new thing every day," she said quietly. "I think I will live a very happy life."

"Then I will show you one new thing every day. Whether it be here on the Islands, or some other world you have yet to truly experience."

"Is that… a promise?" she asked, her voice catching in her throat.

"Yes."

She began to cry.

"What?" he asked, instantly alarmed. "What did I say?"

"You are the first person to promise me something to my face, without me having to screw with your memories first."

"Oh, Namine…" he said, holding her to him. "Remember what I said about making a thousand more happy memories with you to make up for all the horrible ones you have from Castle Oblivion?"

She nodded, her cheeks rubbing up against his chest.

"That was a promise, too."

She smiled.

"Thank you."

He kissed her forehead.

"Of course."

"Do you think we could go flying?" she asked, pulling away enough to look up at him.

"Out of all the things to ask for," he said, incredulous.

"It seemed like so much fun!" she said, her smile growing hopefully.

"Sure, we can go to Neverland and fly."

She hugged him excitedly.