A/N: Here's chapter number 2. I plan to get up chapters once a week. :)

Italics are thoughts.. in case you didn't know.

Axel sobbed into Demyx's arms for hours before Roxas' parents and brother finally came home. Axel felt horrible as he told the family what happened and had them hear the tape. His mother, an outgoing, upbeat, and athletic person, burst into tears and fell onto the floor as soon as she heard Roxas' voice. His father, a hefty, strong guy, went to his wife's side and had soft but many tears stream down his face. Sora started to cry hysterically, just like his mom. He couldn't contain his tears like a 16 year old boy should. Axel started to cry all over again as he saw Roxas' family grieve. Why would Roxas leave all these wonderful people alone while they miss him terribly? Axel thought as he looked over the faces of the forlorn people.

"He wouldn't do this." Sora suddenly sat up and looked at all the shocked faces.

"What? Sora, Roxy and I got in a fight a couple of hours ago. It was pretty bad…." Axel admitted before getting slapped.

"You!! Our baby is gone because of you?!" Mrs. Hikari said angrily. Axel held onto where he got slapped but knew he deserved the pain.

"Hun, don't hurt Axel. He's like a son to us. Roxas could have had other problems and didn't tell us. Don't blame Axel for what Roxas did." Mr. Hikari put a hand on his wife's shoulder before hugging her as she sobbed.

"I'm sorry Axel. I just can't believe he would do something like that" Mrs. Hikari mumbled into her husband's shirt.

"Again I say, he wouldn't do this and this isn't a normal suicide tape. We didn't hear a gun shot before the tape clicked off." Everyone was all attentive and staring at the petite brunette, begging for anything else. "In every suicide tape, you hear a gun shot or a knife going in or something but we didn't hear anything like that. He also didn't say good bye. You always hear a good bye at the end."

"He could have implied it. He told everyone he loved what he thought of them so must have just forgot." Axel said, trying not to get false hope into anyone.

"He may have but I still have one more obvious detail that tells us Roxas isn't dead." The key bearer walked into the bathroom and pointed into the bath tub. "What is missing in this picture?"

"I don't know. Water?" Axel shrugged.

"A body. Suicides have a body in the tub and you see blood to show that they're definitely dead. Roxas' body isn't here. Why would Roxas do that?… I don't know. But one thing is for sure, he either ran away and plans to be away from us or he wasn't killing himself… he was forced to make that tape by someone who didn't want him for some reason." Everything made sense, especially the last reason. Why wouldn't Roxas leave his body here?

"Let's listen to the tape again to hear any voices." The Mrs. put in as she headed to get the tape.

"I'll call the police so we can get their help as well." Mr. Hikari went into the kitchen to the phone.

"Sora. How did you figure all that out?" Axel turned.

"I'm not a stupid person and I'm still attentive when I'm incredibly saddened my brother would do this. I know him too much for him to do this. He also called me after the fight you had with him." Axel's eyes widened. "He was crying and sniffling but he told me he still loved you. So, I know he wouldn't kill himself over this because he wanted to talk to you."

"But he told me his heart was shattered." Axel stared at the ground.

"Of course he put real feelings into the tape and I bet he did feel like his "heart" shattered." Sora stated as he went to see his mother about the tape. Axel felt like the guilt truck he already had turned into a monster truck and trampled on him once more.

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After many weeks and months of searching and thinking, the police and the Hikari's found no leads to what happened to Roxas. They heard another voice in the tape saying "Hurry it up!" but the voice was too quiet and choppy to decipher. The only fingerprints they found on the tape belonged to Roxas. Sora was a huge help to the police force in where to look and talk to. They questioned Axel and Demyx the most since they were the last ones to see him. Axel was on the suspect list for quite a while before he was knocked off after numerous hours of questioning. Demyx was also thought as a suspect but Axel had backed up his alibi. Everyone was puzzled about how they had such great leads and nowhere else to go. Sora was puzzled the most.

"How could we not get anywhere?" He walked back and forth in his room. "Did we check footprints on the floor?" He turned to Axel, who had a checklist.

"Yup. The suspect went through the window."

"Did we check the window?"

"The suspect wore white gloves so they left no fingerprints."

"Did we check garbage cans to find any white gloves?"

"We found one pair but they belonged to the cranky old lady downstairs who said they were too small." Sora sighed and fell onto his bed.

"We've checked everything yet we still have nothing! Ahh!!" He yelled in his frustration.

"It is very weird. I wish Roxas would just give us a sign he was okay." Axel sighed and fell back on the bed too. "Hey. Where's Demy?" Axel sat up. "I haven't seen him in a long time" Sora sat up and began thinking. There may be a love triangle going on here that only I realize. He got up and paced again, putting evidence together about the mullet-wearing man. Where has he disappeared to all of the sudden?

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And here I leave you with another cliffy. :3 It's vacation week so I might get the next chapter out by the end of this week.