[KH] Don't Tell

Summary:  Riku notices something in a BBS cutscene that he hadn't picked up on before.

A/N:  Meta fic. The "Somebodies" that were seen in BBS are all adults here.  I assume this takes place during "filming" for KH3.

The cast of Kingdom Hearts were hanging out in the lounge after work, before having to disperse for the night.  Sora, Kairi, Ven, and Luxord were playing Spoons with an increasingly frustrated-looking Vanitas; Demyx was beating Roxas at Guitar Hero; Ienzo and Aqua were arguing over an open book in his arm as he repeatedly stabbed a finger at the open page, trying to underscore his point; and Xion was happily nestled between Lea and Riku on a couch, watching the Birth by Sleep cutscenes that were playing on the huge flat-screen TV that took up most of one wall.  Lea kept nodding off, waking with a start every time his head sank too low for comfort, and Riku was lethargically working on homework from the entire year's worth of school he'd missed between Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts II.

Isa came over at one point.  "Lea."

"*snore*"

"Axel," Xion said quickly, shaking her friend before Isa could throw a Lightning Stone at him or something, "Axel, Saïx wants to talk to you."

"'S your dog, feed it yourself," Lea mumbled.

"Wake up," Isa snapped, smacking him upside the head.

"Ow!"

"Go home if you're so tired."

"No!  They don't let me bring any kids...."

"Lea," said Terra, who was standing beside Isa, "we need you to settle something for us."

Lea craned his head to look up at them inquiringly.

Terra gestured at the berserker.  "Isa here says that he put up with Xehanort's darkness for almost six years before--"

"Oooh, look, it's me and Riku!" Sora yelled, diving over the back of the couch and half-landing on Riku.

"Ow, Sora, what the heck?!"

"You guys are so cuuuuute," Kairi cooed, draping herself over Sora's shoulders as both of them gazed eagerly at the TV, where five-year-old Riku and four-year-old Sora were racing past Terra on the pier.

"Oh, hey, it's me," Terra realized in mild surprise.

"I suppose I win the argument by default," Isa grumbled, seeing that both his opponent and their consultant were now hopelessly distracted.

"Hey," the little Riku onscreen asked onscreen-Terra, "Did you come from the outside world?"

"Ha ha, even as a kid you hated being stuck on the Islands," Sora laughed.  "Thanks for starting all our crazy adventures, Riku!"

"...You know, the sad thing is that I can't even tell if you're being sarcastic or not," Riku remarked.

"If you had no adventures, I wouldn't have existed; of course he's not being sarcastic," Roxas said decisively, shoving between Riku and Xion so that he could sit next to his best friends. Riku was now completely squashed between Sora and Roxas, and looked ticked off.

"If either of you could just move your fat butts, like, three centimeters so I can get up...."

"Must be hard, huh, stuck in one place," onscreen-Terra said.

"Oooh, so it's really Terra's fault," Kairi teased.

"Let's just say it's Xehanort's fault, because everything is," Lea said, "and call it even."  This earned an outburst of "Oooooh!"s from some of the teenagers as Xehanort, as if on cue, briefly appeared onscreen in Riku's place.

"What the heck?  When did that happen?" the real Riku complained.

"Just this weird vision I had for a second," Terra murmured thoughtfully, "I didn't even have a clue what it meant 'til seeing it again just now."

"Outside this tiny world is a much bigger one."

"SEE!!!" Sora yelled, prompting Kairi to wince and cover her ears, "I'm NOT the only one who blabbed about other worlds and stuff!  Terra should get in trouble, too!"

Many of the other characters had come to join them by now.  "Breaking the Non-Interference Rule has become rather unavoidable by now," Ienzo mused, "since trying to mend Xehanort's meddling has become all but impossible otherwise...."

"Just Xehanort?" Naminé teased gently, nudging him.  "I wouldn't call the rest of Organization XIII blameless, either...."

Onscreen, Terra had summoned his weapon.

"Your Keyblade kind of looks like a chainsaw," Hayner laughed.  "Cool."

Everyone watched as onscreen-Terra made little onscreen-Riku a Keyblade Master.  "It's soooooooo your fault!" several people laughed, as Terra facepalmed and Riku closed his eyes in exasperation.

"So that's what you were doing while I was waiting all by myself!" Sora yelled, grinning.  "Aaaaallll alone!  For sooooo long!  Because my best friend cared more about leaving the Islands than playing with me--"

"Shut up, Sora."

"You've gotta keep this a secret, okay?"

"Wait, what?" Braig laughed.

"Oooohhh," Demyx said mischievously, "some random stranger just told a little kid to keep something a secret from their parents~"

"Wow, Terra," Riku murmured, "in hindsight, that was kind of...."

"Hah!  HAH!" Lea yelled.  "I'm not the only one!"

"Only one what?" Roxas said warily.

"I didn't mean it like that!" Terra yelped.  "I just meant--"

"Didn't your mom ever teach you Don't Talk To Strangers?" Olette teased, elbowing Riku.

"She didn't, actually...."  'If I'd ever gotten kidnapped, she would have expected me to take him apart with my bare hands and bring home his decapitated head as proof of my being worthy to be called a Child of Jenova.  Sooooo, good thing nothing ever happened to me as a kid....'

"Non-Interference Rule!  It was the Non-Interference Rule!" Terra insisted desperately.  "It was still important back then, it wasn't like it is today...."

"I know," Aqua said soothingly, patting his back.  "Just accept the fact that they're never going to stop teasing you about it."  She raised her voice, tone shifting to address the rest of them, "This cutscene is supposed to end on a Moment of Heartwarming, BE QUIET."

"Yes, Master Aqua..." was the general good-natured murmuring/grumbling.

Along with a cheekier, "Yes, Master Aqua~"

"Do I detect sarcasm?" Aqua said in a deadly voice, summoning her Keyblade as her eyes zeroed in on Demyx.

"Eeep, no, I'll be good, I hate fighting...!"

Author's Notes:  I know I'm not the only one who thought this when I saw that scene, because I've seen a comic about it on devART. XD  Oh, Terra....

Lol, Infamousplot's the one who's always mentioned how Terra's default Keyblade looks like a chainsaw.

Anyway, I've been brainstorming for the contest prizes I promised to write, and Medli45's had a scene in it that I decided I wouldn't be able to use, but I didn't want to entirely discard it, so I re-worked it into a completely unrelated one-shot instead.  Ftr, her prize story is going to be NOTHING like this one; this is sort of like a glorified outtake.

Btw, in case you guys didn't see my journals and stuff, I'm on AO3 now~ (Username: Raberba_girl)