Everything is over, Sora thought. No more heartless, no more Organization XIII, Xemnas, no more trouble. He could feel the breeze as he descended the steps from the small houses on the island he, Riku, Kairi, Tidus, Selphie, and Wakka stayed on. They were much older now. Tidus grew much taller and stronger as well. Selphie seemed to grow a few inches, nothing more, which left her disappointed; Wakka and Tidus played Blitzball almost everyday with Selphie watching, and whenever he was bored, he'd tag along and take bets with Selphie, or even Riku if he wasn't always occupying himself with training or anything. Kairi would join happily anytime, but also worked on her training as an order from Riku. Sora preferred to relax. Everything was over, wasn't it?

"Yeah, but it's no excuse to stop, right? Besides, let's spar a little bit, see how rusty you've become." Riku said one time. Sora barely won in that spar. Riku laughed it off and they went home after that. Everyday they'd come back to the island to play.

"Hey Sora!" Kairi called one evening as Sora was jogging around the island.

"What's up, Kairi?" he said, shaking wiping his face, and keeping his distance, afraid he smelled.

"Did you ever wonder what Roxas was doing?" she asked, almost seriously. She looked sort of troubled.

"Sometimes, why?"

Kairi paused, thinking. "I'm just wondering.. Naminé is a part of me, but why can't I figure out what she's thinking?"

Sora paused as well. "You're right! I should be able to communicate with Roxas most probably in some way! Like.. Like… Telekinesis!"

Kairi laughed and Sora laughed with her.

"What kind of a face was that?" Naminé teased and laughed out loud as she and Roxas were trying to make funny faces as they ate Sea Salt Ice Cream. They were in Twilight Town. Their home. Sora and Kairi's home was Destiny Islands. They were both seated on the Clock Tower, the same place where Roxas supposedly fell when meeting Kairi for the first time. Anywhere else in Twilight Town, everyone was frozen. Hayner, Pence and Olette were in 'The Usual Spot' and were eating Sea Salt Ice Cream as well. Naminé used her power freezing time her call for Roxas, but most of the time, they run into each other. She used the freezing of time whenever he was in the Usual Spot. She always felt shy and felt like barging in whenever she thought of picking him up there.

The time unfroze and Roxas new soon that he would have to leave Naminé again. He hated having to leave her most of the time. He always had so much fun.

Naminé thought the same about how Roxas felt. Ever since she met Sora, she's always wanted to have someone who cared about her the way he cared about Kairi and she wondered if Roxas would ever feel that protective feeling over her. She wished she could ask him but it was an awkward thing to say, and what if he just considered her as one of his friend which he can be carefree with and leave her when he wanted, other than wanting to be with her forever? She had faith in him, but it didn't hurt to have doubts. Everyone always did.

There was a time for everything and now it was time for sleep. The sun was down and the moon shone brightly. Their ice cream was gone, and all that was left were the popsicle sticks. They held it until they found nearby trash cans and so they went down, silently descending the steps, with nothing but the sound of their own footsteps, and their breaths. Roxas lead the way and assisted Naminé every time she nearly slipped. As they exited the Clock Tower, they disposed of their trash and under the light of the lamp post, they looked at each other, reluctant to leave. Roxas felt slightly uncomfortable, so he smiled awkwardly and waved goodbye. Naminé did the same, and returned to her home sadly.

Sora got home after rowing from Destiny Islands. He had a blast with Kairi, even if they were just on the paopu tree, watching the sunset. Before they parted ways after rowing, they rested for a short while on the bench, and Sora had been reluctant to leave until finally he smiled and waved away. Kairi only smiled back, unmoving until Sora was out of sight. Sora couldn't really sleep. He tossed and turned on his bed, and sometimes he would peek outside to just look at the island where he and his friends played. Although he was older, no longer a 15 year old, you could say they were just 'chilling out' and 'training'.

Sora tried something different, although he knew that having lingering thoughts and problems in your head before sleeping usually kept you up, he exercised his mind by trying to contact the other half of his mind; someone who had his own being, someone who was never supposed to ever exist, someone supposedly in another world, but it somehow also in his world..

He just confused himself.

Hey Roxas, he said in his mind. He waited for a few seconds but there was no response. He figured he needed concentration so he did it again, exercising his brain even more, until he seriously gave himself a headache.

It was another ordinary day. Supposedly, if time hadn't been stopping and it was only he who could see it. His friends woke him up by yelling up at his window as he usually did. He was the one who slept the most, and they understood it thanks to meeting Kairi and Sora. But they haven't met Naminé.

They were back at the usual spot and besides school and anything but serious things being talked about, they talked about Roxas.

"Roxas, you've been disappearing quite a lot. Are there still some bad guys? 'Cause I want to help out, too!" Hayner said, showing off his muscles. "Or did you mean Seifer? He's weak! Come on, let's take him!"

"Calm down, Hayner." Olette said, quite annoyed. "Sora—I mean, Roxas!" she laughed briefly as the rest stared at her awkwardly, Pence was the only one who smiled and found it funny. Roxas didn't like to be mistaken for someone else. Naminé told him to always forget that they were nobodies. It always depressed him and doubt came saying that there would come a time when he would disappear. "Is there something you're not telling us? Is there still a war?" Pence was silent, eating his second breakfast.

"What are you guys talking about? We hang out everyday, and sometimes we even go out to that other place. Where we found the weird stuff happening in the city.. Now what was the name?" he said, putting a hand to his chin and thinking. It seemed to the others that he was trying to avoid the subject.

"In Sunset Station?" Pence asked. But Hayner interjected.

"I know where he's been going. Geez." He said, facing the wall and acting like he was mad at Roxas.

"Don't make any assumptions." Roxas said, raising his hands and sitting back. He made a gesture that seemed like he was putting his arm around someone. He was the only one that knew Naminé was present. She called herself a witch, and she could play the part as the ghost they thought she was in the Haunted Mansion. It was fun, being invisible, he remembered her saying. He had a very bad feeling about what that meant and told himself to be careful every time he showered or simply changed.

"What did you think, Hayner?" Olette asked him, eyeing Roxas' arm and the space beside him. He drank his soda and Pence still gobbled quite noisily.

"Roxas," he said, and paused. His eyes were closed, and he looked at Roxas with one eye, looking at his expression and closed it again. "has a girlfriend."

Roxas coughed and nearly choked on his soda. Olette's eyes popped out, and Pence, attempting to eat a big amount of noodles, the noodles simply slid back down into his food, and Hayner made a slightly grossed-out face.

"What—what brought that on? The girlfriend stuff, I mean." Roxas said, wiping his mouth and staring at Pence in disbelief.

"Why else would you ditch us? Or have you been spending time with Seifer again?" he asked him, one foot up on whatever he sat on, and the other foot dangling.

"Seriously guys, I'm not doing anything." Roxas said innocently, glancing at the air beside him every now and then. Hayner misunderstood that.

"Go leave if you want." He said, and looked for something.

"Hayner…" Olette urged quietly. Roxas looked at him sadly. He was his best friend. But sometimes, he hated having to use the word 'best friend'. It reminded him of.. of..

Axel.

What could he do? He wasn't there for him when he died, and Sora was. Axel protected him. Just thinking of him wanted to bring him to tears. You could say Hayner gets jealous a lot, but he usually forgot about it the next day. Roxas left the place without any thoughts. He tried to block everything out and tried keeping his mind blank. He didn't even notice Naminé disappear.

"Why the long face, Sora?" Kairi asked. She had been watching him since awhile ago, sitting alone on a roof and sometimes, twiddling his thumbs, which was totally out of his character and sometimes looking at the horizon, feeling the breeze tickle his spiky hair.

"It's nothing!" he said suddenly, with a big grin. Kairi stifled a giggle, but smiled. She sat beside him and watched the clouds moving slowly.

"Where's Tidus?" he asked.

"Playing with Wakka as always. Riku's learning blitzball." She replied.

They stopped talking after that. Small talk worked sometimes, they didn't always have to talk. They just enjoyed the breezy day together. Selphie seemed to be walking aimlessly around the island. Either she was looking for Kairi or just was bored. She seemed to sigh quite a lot. After watching Selphie walk around again for the second time, Kairi wanted to follow her and ask what was wrong. Although she already knew the answer. She seemed to be doing the same things every day. There was no change.

"Hey Sora, I dare you to spar with Selphie." She said, seeing Selphie in the distance, about to pass them for the third time.

"Why?" he asked, but instead of answering, Kairi pushed him of the roof, keyblade appearing. Selphie registered that a bit, her expression slowly getting darker, and suddenly, a smirk. She got her weapon and attacked. She got a lot better and Sora was running away.

"Come back, coward!" she yelled.

"I'm not a coward! What got you so hyped up?" he yelled back, running as fast as he could. She got her nunchaku lengthened and could reach Sora's bottom.

"Ow! That hurts, you know?" he yelled. Riku watched the two of them.

"Quit being a coward, Sora!" he yelled teasingly. Sora stuck his tongue out, which got Riku to chase him off. Sora couldn't take Selphie and Riku put together unless he had some sort of help. Tidus volunteered and laughed and laughed. Chasing Selphie, and poking Riku whenever he got close enough. Wakka and Kairi watched in delight. A few minutes after watching, Wakka looked at her, expression unreadable, Kairi did the same, smiled and joined them.