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Roxas's Secret

Chapter One

On a distant island that rested in the middle of the ocean, a boy sat alone, looking at the ocean. His spiky blonde hair was brushed back by the gentle ocean tides and even though the ocean seemed so comforting, the boy wore a sad expression. His blue eyes were downcast as he looked at the tan-colored sand. He was tanned from the sun. He wore a white jacket that had short sleeves and was streaked with red on the ends. He had a black shirt underneath the jacket and had one a pair of dark red, almost brown pants. His hands rested at his side as he thought about everything that had happened in the past week.

Roxas wasn't sure how he had gotten to where he was and he felt so lost. He didn't know anybody on the island and he had only met two people, Riku and Kairi. He wasn't sure but those names sounded so familiar to him, but at the same time they were strangers. He had been on the island for only two days. He didn't want to think about the other five days. He had left Organization XIII because he needed to know what the Keyblade was.

Axel hadn't wanted him to go but Roxas had shrugged him off and left believing no one would miss him. Now he had enemies he had to avoid. Because once he left the Organization, he became an enemy to Xemnas, to Axel, to Demyx, and everybody. Sure he had had rivals in there such as Saix and Luxord, but they weren't really enemies as they were now. Roxas had traveled around asking other about the Keyblade and how it had come about, but no one could really give him an answer. Then he found himself in a place called Traverse Town. There he had met up with some Nobodies, but they were no longer with him, and so he fought them off. After that he had stepped through a dark portal because he had heard Axel's voice and wound up here.

Roxas stood up, brushing the sand off of him. He hadn't told anyone about his Keyblade because he figured the islanders would know nothing about it. "Hey Roxas!" came a loud voice calling his name. Roxas knew that it was Riku calling him.

Roxas turned around and saw Riku motioning for him to follow. Roxas blinked and nodded, running up to his friend. "We want you to meet someone," Riku explained as he headed off towards the other side of the beach. They reached it in no time at all and Roxas found himself looking at a new person standing beside Kairi. The new kid had spiky brown hair and deep, friendly blue eyes. He had on a jacket that was blue and silver with some white. His shirt was red and blue and he wore shorts that went past his knees. There were straps and buckles on his pants and they were a black-navy like color. He had a red pouch on his side that was obviously carrying thing.

"Roxas, this is Sora, he's our best friend." Kairi told him. "Sora, this is Roxas, he just came up here two days ago."

Sora nodded and held out his hand, "Nice to meet you Roxas."

"Same to you," Roxas said, shaking Sora's hand. This felt way to proper. Roxas felt as if he were greeting Xemnas and not Sora. He shuddered at the thought. Roxas had never really liked Xemnas and neither had Axel. "So," Roxas said, dropping his hand, "if you're their best friend, where have you been all this time?"

"Well…I…uh…I've been visiting cousin's on distant worlds." Sora said quickly.

He knew that this Sora kid was hiding something by the way he was talking, but Roxas didn't say anything about it. Roxas then asked, "Oh, okay. By the way did you happen to see a guy with spiky red hair, wears a black cloak, has green eyes, and needs an attitude adjustment?"

Sora blinked and looked as if he had been thinking, "Um…well…no, why?"

Roxas looked away, "Oh no reason, he was just an old friend of mine."

There was a silence for a moment before Kairi said, "Hey Roxas, do you like sword-fighting? Riku and Sora like to practice a lot, you guys can do that while I go find Selphie and talk with her about something."

Roxas looked up at Kairi and nodded, finally something to do! "Yeah, I love sword-fighting. I've practiced for years now."

Kairi smiled, "That's good, okay well I guess if you guys want to do that, have fun, but Roxas, you'll need a wooden sword too, Riku you can get him one."

Riku sighed and nodded, "Alright," Riku then turned around and went off towards his house to get the wooden swords while Kairi went in the opposite direction towards a girl Roxas didn't know. He was alone with Sora and he knew now was the time to ask him why he had lied.

"Why did you lie to me Sora? About visiting your cousins?" Roxas asked after a moment's pause. He didn't know Sora and maybe it wasn't any of his business to why Sora had lied, but he was just curious. Maybe it because he was so used to being told everything; every plan; every idea and it all came from Axel. Axel had always had the information and what Axel didn't know, Roxas did.

Sora blinked and finally replied, "I guess I'm not a very good lair, oh well, should have got Riku to do it. Well I guess it won't do any harm to tell you I was visiting the king and some friends in Hollow Bastion."

Roxas nodded and acted as if it were nothing at first, but his mind was reeling. 'The king? King Mickey? Isn't that the one that Xemnas was always talking about. The one Xemnas hated? Must be, that's the only king there is.' "But Hollow Bastion? Isn't that the place where his look-a-" Roxas suddenly realized he was muttering to himself again and shut up instantly when he saw Sora listening in.

"What do you mean look-a-like?" Sora asked questioningly, "Who's look-a-like?"

Roxas blinked, 'Oh boy, I'm in trouble!' he thought silently but replied, "No one."

"Hey! That's not fair! I told you what I was doing!" Sora replied angrily.

Roxas sighed in defeat, "Oh alright," Why oh why was he so easy to pry info from? "My boss has- had-a twin brother there, just talking to myself is all." It wasn't an entire lie and Ansem could be considered Xemnas's brother.

"Boss? You work for someone?" Sora asked.

'Why won't these questions end?' Roxas screamed in his mind but replied, "Yeah, well I did work for them."

"Who? And why did you leave? Or did you get fired?"

There was no way he was going to tell Sora that. When he was in the Organization, it was supposed to be kept secret and if he told Sora they'd want to find him even more than they did now. "No one you'd know. And I left because I wanted too."

"Okay," That finally seemed to satisfy Sora and just in time too because Riku had returned with three wooden swords. He tossed one to Roxas who caught it and then one to Sora and to their amusement, his hit Sora in the head and then he caught it. Riku and Sora led Roxas off to the island that Riku was always on, sitting in the little hang-off paopu tree.

When they reached it, Riku turned to face Roxas, "You want to go first?" Roxas nodded, eager to fight again. "Okay, who do you want to fight? Me or Sora?"

Roxas blinked and thought for a moment before saying, "You,"

"You sure? Not even Sora can beat me." Riku said, grinning as Sora was about to protest but Riku cut him off, "Alright then, Sora you can go watch in the tree. Okay here's how it works, whoever is pushed off the island first wins, there aren't any rules besides knocking the other opponent out."

Roxas readied his sword and Riku did the same. Sora counted to three and just as he uttered 'three' Roxas rushed towards Riku. He had just recently fought fifteen Nobodies, Riku should be a push over! Roxas swung at Riku, but Riku leapt nimbly away and struck out at Roxas, delivering a blow to his shoulder. Roxas flinched at the pain but rushed Riku again and struck out with all of his strength. He wooden sword smashed into Riku's just in time, if it had been any later, Riku would certainly have been injured.

Roxas continued his assault by slamming his weapon onto Riku's who happened to be blocking himself at the time. Roxas was slowly but steadily getting Riku closer and closer to the edge and Riku noticed it. Just as he was about to slip off, he twisted his weapon and smashed it into Roxas's side. This caused Roxas's grip to loosen and he stopped swinging, allowing Riku to try and slip away.

Roxas wasn't letting him get away though because he whacked Riku in the stomach which caused Riku to stumble backwards from the loss of breath and fall off the island and into the water below. Roxas looked down at Riku with a smirk, "Guess I'm the winner."

He turned around to get off the island without jumping into the water when he bumped into someone much taller than him. They were wearing a black cloak and when Roxas looked up, they were glaring at him. The person had long bluish colored hair that went past his shoulder and had an 'x' shape going between his eyes. Roxas blinked and backed away, now just on the verge of falling off the island. "S-Saix! Um…uh…nice to see you." Roxas didn't know what to say as Saix stepped towards him.

"Nice to see you too Roxas." Saix growled.