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[[File:The Outside World 01 KH.png|thumb|right|Riku, Sora, and Kairi often spend the evenings at a tree on an attached islet.]]

[[File:Shadow Sora 02 KH.png|thumb|right|Riku retreats with Kairi and summons AntiSora to battle Sora.]]

 

[[File:Closing the Door 04 KH.png|thumb|right|Riku tells Sora to take care of Kairi before the Door to Darkness is closed.]]

[[File:In a Flash of Darkness 01 KHRECOM.png|thumb|right|Ansem possesses Riku for an instance and eliminates Lexaeus.]]

[[File:Where the Road Leads 01 KHRECOM.png|thumb|right|Riku walking the road to dawn.]]

[[File:Disorder 01 KHD.png|thumb|right|Riku tells Xion she has to come up with a solution which works best for her and everybody else.]]

[[File:The Beginning of Everything 01 KHIIFM.png|thumb|right|Riku gives in to his darkness in a last-ditch effort to take out Roxas.]]

Riku continues to ally himself with DiZ, as they have a common goal: to help Sora awaken (though Riku finds his memories of Sora fading, being a side-effect of Naminé's toying with Sora's memories). Roxas's memory is erased by DiZ and he is placed into a [[Simulated Twilight Town]], to live out his days until the time comes for him to meet Sora. Meanwhile, Riku watches over Roxas, periodically entering the town in order to keep Roxas ignorant to the truth, including keeping Naminé from saying anything important to Roxas. He also takes some keepsakes of Roxas's during some of his visits. With all these deeds done, Riku finally demands to know what DiZ's true objective is. Upon hearing that it is merely revenge (DiZ does not disclose against whom it is), Riku clenches his fist, shocked and disgusted at how DiZ is merely using him and Sora for his own selfish reasons.

[[File:The Man Who Stands on the Snowy Mountain 01 KHII.png|thumb|right|200px|A hooded Riku confronts Sora in The Land of Dragons.]]

[[File:To End Everything 01 KHII.png|thumb|right|Riku and Sora prepare to battle Xemnas.]]

[[File:Beneath the Hood 04 KHREC.png|thumb|right|Jiminy's Journal taking Riku's form.]]

[[File:Power Over Time 02 KH3D.png|thumb|right|Riku faces off against Young Xehanort at the Sanctum of Time.]]

Riku brings Sora's comatose body back to the Mysterious Tower and dives into Sora's body with the [[power of waking]] to mend his fractured heart. In the process, he is forced to battle Sora, clad in Ventus's [[Keyblade Armor]], which has been corrupted by a [[Armored Ventus Nightmare|Nightmare]]. Riku defeats the Nightmare and uses Sora's Keyblade to enter a memory of the Destiny Islands, deep inside Sora's heart. Here he meets projections of Roxas, Ventus, and Xion, who each ask a question before disappearing. After answering the three questions, Riku finds a bottle in the surf, and a data projection of Ansem the Wise approaches him. Ansem tells Riku about [[Ansem's Code]], research data contained in the bottle that he had hid inside Sora while he was asleep. He muses about Sora's ability to connect with others' hearts, and how it may be able to bring back those that have been lost. He tells Riku that by defeating the Nightmare and answering the three questions, he has successfully awakened Sora. Riku returns to the real world, reuniting with Sora and the others, and Yen Sid names Riku as a [[Keyblade Master]]. Riku and the other are shocked when Lea vows to catch up with him, reveals his plan of becoming a Keyblade Master, and successfully — albeit accidentally —  summons his Keyblade [[Bond of the Blaze]].

[[File:2.9 - The First Volume 04 KH0.2.png|thumb|right|Riku and Mickey head off with their new duds.]]  

[[File:Braving the Darkness 01 KHIII.png|thumb|200px|right|Riku and Sora join their powers to take out the Demon Tower.]]

Riku's heart makes its way to [[Olympus]], where it is captured by a [[Lich]] before being freed and returned to the Keyblade Graveyard by a newly restored Sora. When Sora frees the rest of his friends' hearts, they reappear together, moments before Terra-Xehanort first appeared.

[[File:Ending 11 KHIII.png|thumb|right|200px|Riku watches Kairi and Sora sitting by the paopu tree.]]

Riku is shown to be fiercely dedicated to his best friend Sora throughout the series. In ''Birth by Sleep'', when first meeting Terra, Riku claims that he wants strength so he can protect his friends from harm. As Kairi had not yet arrived on the islands, it can be assumed he's talking about Sora.  Although Riku's actions in the first game were uncaring and cruel, it's shown his jealousy is spurned on in no small part by his feelings of being abandoned by Sora for Donald and Goofy.  In ''358/2 Days'', nearly everything Riku does is to ensure Sora eventually wakes up from his sleep to get his memories back. He even goes so far as to battle Roxas and then tap into his inner darkness to defeat the Nobody so he'll be forced to return to Sora, not caring if he's trapped in Ansem, Seeker of Darkness's form forever. In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', despite not wanting Sora to see what his appearance has become, he leaves clues for him as to Roxas's identity and works behind the scenes to support his best friend. Riku unconsciously dives into Sora's dreams in ''Dream Drop Distance'' after seeing Xehanort's Heartless on the Destiny Islands when they enter the realm of sleep, becoming a Dream Eater and remaining within Sora's own dreams throughout most of the game to protect him from Nightmares. Their [[Combined Keyblade]] also bears a paopu fruit as the charm once the two halves are merged together. After all of the other Guardians fall to the Demon Tide at the Keyblade Graveyard in ''Kingdom Hearts III'', Riku sacrifices his own life to give Sora the motivation to continue on and save their friends from their fate. Additionally, in a 2013 interview about Kingdom Hearts III, series producer Shinji Hashimoto stated that the main focus of the series is Sora and Riku's relationship, and how it evolves over time.<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/25/how-kingdom-hearts-iii-will-grow-up-with-its-players '''''How Kingdom Hearts III Will Grow Up With Its Players'''''], '''Shinji Hashimoto''': "The fact is that the main focus of the series is Sora and Riku; how their friendship develops, but also how they grow up."</ref>

Riku's Soul Eater changes into Way to the Dawn sometime between the second visit to Land of Dragons and [[The World That Never Was]]. When he turned into his "true form" in the end of ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', his powers of light increased dramatically while his powers of darkness decreased. As a party member, Riku possesses various abilities that combine his dark powers with Sora's light powers. Riku can use a new Dark Aura that fires Dark Firaga orbs that inflict a [[Stop]] effect whenever Sora completes a combo, Dark Shield to project a barrier of darkness, as well as to numerous other powers. In his Limit with Sora, Eternal Session, Riku is able to project waves of dark energy from his Keyblade in addition to unleashing fast combos and Dark Firaga barrages.

At the end, Sora and Riku toss their Keyblades together to act as a super-damaging magnet. It should be noted, though, that despite the fact that Riku is a wielder of the Keyblade, he can't use any of Sora's [[Keychains]] while he is in the party.

In ''Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories'', Riku can engage in card duels, and if he wins, he can perform a Duel Sleight. The Duel Sleight depends on the enemy and how many cards he needs to break to win the duel: [[Impulse]], [[Maelstrom]], or [[Barrage]]. The former deals damage to multiple enemies while the other two are concentrated on one enemy. Dark Mode upgrades the Duel Sleights into [[Dark Impulse]], [[Dark Maelstrom]], and [[Dark Barrage]]. He can also combine a Mickey friend card with two Soul Eater cards to perform [[Holy Burst]], with Dark Mode upgrading it into [[Inverse Burst]].

His limit, [[Eternal Session]], unleashes a joint attack between Sora and Riku that expels high amounts of damage.

Riku is briefly playable after completing [[Olympus]] and once more after completing [[The Caribbean]] and [[San Fransokyo]]. Both times, he faces against a Demon Tower. Riku has access to Thundaga and Curaga for magic and has 1 Hi-Potion and 1 Ether. Riku also does not have access to Shotlocks{{KHIII}} and Formchanges. He uses Dark Roll and Dark Barrier. Riku attacks swiftly and many of his attacks are wide and are performed with a 360° move. During the first fight, he wields his [[Way to the Dawn]] Keyblade. His guard is a joint barrier with Mickey, which can be followed with a joint Counter Blast. During this fight, Riku's finisher is called [[Double Duel]]. When performing this move, Riku and Mickey both perform a buzzsaw move twice, which deals incredible damage. In the second fight, Riku wields the [[Braveheart]] Keyblade, and his unique finisher is [[Dark Firaga]], which performs identically to its ''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]'' appearance.

In ''[[Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind]]'', while fighting Dark Riku and Xigbar, Riku can use the [[Dark Divide]] [[Shotlock]], which has a maximum lock of 28 and bears a similar appearance to his Dark Firaga finisher.

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