The Other Side
Prologue
The World That Never Was
A man in a black coat stood in front of a sky scraper, and another young man approached him. The man took off his hood to reveal a shock of blonde hair, and he faced the boy.
"You're Roxas…" The boy mumbled. "How can you be here? Am I dreaming?"
Roxas shook his head at his original self.
"C'mon, say something!" The boy demanded.
Roxas sighed, "This could've been the other way around."
"Huh?"
"But it really has to be you,"
"What do you mean?" The boy asked.
"There are so many hearts connected to yours," Roxas explained. "You're me, so you can feel what I felt."
The boy looked down and sighed, but then shook his head, "No. Roxas, you're you."
"We're not the same. I wanted to tell you that you deserve as much as I do to be your own person." He continued.
Roxas looked taken aback for a moment, but his face softened. "Sora, see? That's why it has to be you."
Then Roxas walked up to Sora and grabbed both his hands, and Sora looked up to feel the pain of Roxas' memories while he grinned. The memories were coming to Sora so quickly that he almost couldn't bear it anymore. Once they were all done, he let out a sigh of relief. However, his new memories were still inside him causing him great anger.
"Not again," Sora murmured. "Did they cause all this pain? What do you want me to see!?"
Destiny Islands
Riku turned around on the bridge of his home world to see someone very familiar.
"Roxas?" Riku asked.
"What is it you're so afraid of?" Roxas wondered.
Riku thought for a second, "Losing something that's important."
Then Roxas disappeared.