[... Riku places a hand on Katsu's shoulder, trying his best to be comforting... or at the least sympathetic. He knows that feeling, knows it all too well. To be afraid not just of your power, but of yourself and the actions you've taken that have hurt someone you care about in any way.]

No one is ever okay when they go through something like we did.

[If Kairi or someone else had found him instead of Aqua... If Aqua hadn't left the journal he'd left behind in case he ever vanished... Hell, if he hadn't written it in the first place he would have done the very same thing. ...and probably would have been successful. Riku withdraws his hand, staring at both of his own in his lap. To be used like that again was-]

If my friend hadn't proven to be the stronger one, I would have done the same thing. [Sora... Kairi...! 'So, I shall release you now-' 'Forget it! There's no way you're taking Kairi's-!'

Don't you DARE lose, Sora!]

[To be used like that again... was unforgivable.]