Step Outside My Mind.

"Do you miss him?" Sora asks, suddenly. Roxas blinks at him.

"Who?"

Sora looks at him as if he's dumb. "Axel, silly!"

"I..." Roxas looks away, a little uncomfortable.

"'cause, I mean, he said you were best friends, and you were - uh... I mean, we were so sad when we said goodbye to Pence and the guys..."

Roxas sighs. It's a little hard, he thinks, to explain things like this, when half of what he thinks and feels, he doesn't understand it. He always thought that having a heart and having his memories would fix that, not make it worse, but there are a lot of memories that aren't real and yet they exist deep inside him, there are things that no one but he knows. Now the ache inside him isn't because of a missing heart, but it aches just the same.

Perhaps, the aching was just because of missing something. Or someone. Or both.

"Roxas?"

"Yeah," he says finally. "I guess."