A/N

Sorry I didn't update this for a couple of years, what really knocked the wind out of me sails was the fact that I had to sit there and watch the cutscenes over and over again from the KH2 tutorial, then go back and find rokushi moments from Days to put in alongside splicing original story content organically into both games. So yeah. But KH3 didn't give me all the rokushi content I wanted, so I'm coming back to this. I added some small stuff to the last two chapters and then fixed some mistakes I saw when I re-read them.

Onwards!

~The Third Day~

"Got it!"

Roxas turned to face ****. "Got what?" He asked, still a little concerned about **** considering she'd almost fallen off the clock tower a moment ago.

"On our next day off, let's all go to the beach, huh?" **** said, turning to them with a smile.

"The beach? Where did that idea come from?" **** asked.

"We should go someplace different for a change." Was all **** said.

There was nothing wrong with the clock tower in Roxas's opinion, but he did realize, "You're talking about a vacation with friends."

"Exactly." **** nodded in agreement.

"I'll join you… if I can."

Roxas turned to look back at ****. She was looking down at the ground. "What are you talking about, ****?" She looked up at him, and Roxas smiled.

"It'll be a blast, trust me!" **** promised.

**** pursed her lips together, letting out a small, "Hmph." as she considered the offer. "Yes all right, lets go!"

Everything went dark, but for some reason he thought he could see a figure in a black cloak just ahead of him. "Who are you?" He called out to the person. They didn't turn around.

When he woke up a moment later, he got the strangest feeling he wasn't alone in his room. Shaking the feeling off, Roxas sighed as he got up and walked to the shower. "We were all supposed to the go beach together…" He muttered to himself as the hot water poured over him. "I wonder if I made it with them, or if I lost the munny just like yesterday…" He shut the water off after a little while, then grabbed a fresh pair of clothes and headed to the Usual Spot to meet his friends. But the hangout was empty, and Roxas found a note from Hayner telling him to meet at the station.

Sighing and leaving the Usual Spot, Roxas was about to make his way to the station when he noticed some familiar figures to his right. He turned and saw Olette and Pence, and then called out to them. "Morning." Olette called back, taking a step forward and then… stopping. Roxas blinked, unsure what he was looking at. He ran forward to do… well he didn't know what he would do, but it didn't matter because a blonde girl suddenly blinked into existence in front of him.

"Hello Roxas." She greeted.

"Uh, hi…" He said in confusion. The girl idly looked around, so he asked, "And you are?"

She raised a hand to silence him. "I wanted to meet you, at least once."

Roxas raised a brow. "Me?"

"Yes, you." She nodded, turning around and leaving to go down Market Street. Apparently meeting him was all she wanted to do.

Before his brain could catch up with him, Pence and Olette turned back on (or unfroze, because Roxas wasn't sure what had happened in the first place) and walked up to him, seemingly unaware of what had just happened. "Olette dragged me along to go shopping." Pence said, not sound too pleased about the ordeal.

"Hey, you wanna come with us?" She invited him.

But Roxas's mind was on other things. "Um, uhh, wait… did you just see that…" He mumbled, his brain still trying to catch up with the situation. He walked past them, hoping to see where that girl had gone.

"He's stalling." Pence pointed out.

"Very well then. We'll see you later, okay Roxas?" Olette asked.

"Y-yeah…" Roxas said as he turned around, watching them leave as they gave a farewell wave. He turned back around, but the girl in white was still gone. "Did she go to that haunted mansion?" He asked no one, deciding to head there because out of everywhere in Twilight Town, where would time freezing teleporting girls choose to hang out? Certainly not the sandlot. Roxas made his way through the streets, and every now and then he got a glimpse of the girl in the distance. But everytime he caught up to her, she would vanish again. But it definitely felt like she was leading him to the mansion, because he saw her disappear through the hole in the wall in the Tram Common.

She had disappeared again, and Roxas started making his way through the forest when the shadows from the trees suddenly started shifting, and from them several figures in white jumpsuits appeared. Roxas watched as one zig-zagged through the air, and when it grabbed his wrist and started tugging on him, he fought back shouting, "Lemme go!" and turning to run back into town when he was free. He would realize later that the thing hadn't been rough when it had grabbed him, it had actually been rather gentle. But as he ran into the only thing on his mind was that it wasn't his brightest idea to chase after a mysterious girl leading him into the woods.

He ran into the sandlot, the figures hot on his tail. "Hey, chicken wuss!" Roxas stopped and saw that Seifer and his goons were all looking at him, and it was the first time he'd ever been thankful to see the jerks.

"Who's that?" Fuu called out, and he turned to see that the figures hadn't given up their pursuit of him yet. But now he had the numbers advantage; it was five on three and they all had experience in street brawls.

"I dunno, but they've already crossed the line!" Seifer said, and his goons readied themselves. "Find a weapon."

Roxas grabbed a nearby struggle baton and stared down one of his pursuers. It was identical in appearance and movement to the thief that he'd fought two days ago and so he had no problem avoiding its attacks or outmaneuvering it. The problem was that like two days ago, his baton was phasing right through it. Grunting in frustration when his weapon went right the things head, he jumped back and saw that Seifer and his crew had been surrounded. His momentary lack of focus gave his enemy an opening and his baton was knocked from his hand.

"Roxas! Use the Keyblade!"

He then made sure that it definitely wasn't in his hand, because he was not keen on losing what little munny he had left to replace another one. He looked around for whoever had called out to him, making the same mistake as before and taking his eye off his opponent. It flew at him, and he raised his hands to protect himself when everything went white.

~Peaceful Sleep~

"Roxas, if you jump at the right time you can avoid the Dusk's leg swipes!"

He looked up to see **** in the stands, observing him as he practiced against a few of the Dusks. "I know that!" He shouted back at her, only for something to smack him in the back. He stumbled forward, and turned around to see that the Dusk had swiped at his back when he'd let his guard down, and now appeared to be laughing at him.

"Eyes on your opponent!" **** shouted with a laugh.

"Shut up!"

~Peaceful Sleep~

Roxas lowered his hands as the vision ended, adrenaline pumping through him when he saw that he'd disappeared from Twilight Town. Darkness extended in all directions, and he was on a circular platform of some kind. Three objects appeared in front of him, a sword, a shield, and a staff. He blinked, unsure what was happening. He looked around and saw the things from the Sandlot were standing (floating?) off the platform. Dusks, they were called. At least that's what the girl had called them. They appeared to be watching him. He took a moment to catch his breath, placing his hands on his knees as he tried to calm himself down.

As he looked at the ground, he saw that he was on some kind of stained glass, but that wasn't the weird part. The weird part was that HE was on the stained glass. There was a Keyblade in his hand, and his eyes were closed. On the stained glass were the portraits of two people; the girl from his dreams and visions, and a man with spiky red hair and marks under his eyes. He'd also been in his dreams and visions, but to a much lesser extent. Roxas felt like their names were just on the tip of his tongue, but no matter what he could say them.

He straightened up, looking around at the Dusks to see they hadn't moved. He walked forward and grabbed the sword out of the air, watching as it vanished and then the Keyblade appeared in its place. The Dusks stepped onto the platform, and Roxas readied himself for a fight. It didn't take very long, now that he was able to actually hit them. The Keyblade vanished again, and opposite him on the platform he saw that a door had appeared.

"Be careful. Beyond that door lies a completely different world. But don't be afraid. Don't stop walking…"

A voice called out to him as he looked at it, and he couldn't determine if it was male or female, young or old, if it was quiet or loud. So he walked forward, stepping through the door and appearing in a new area, with two platforms connect by a bridge. Dusks got in his way as he walked ahead, and he took care of them swiftly. Another stood at the end of the path, and he walked through it again. This time he reappeared on a singular platform, with no bridges leading anywhere and no other platforms in sight. He looked around, when suddenly he felt a presence behind him. He turned around, and for only a split second he saw her… The girl with black hair, at the other end of the platform.

But she vanished the moment she would've been out of his peripheral vision and in his direct line of sight, and something else, something big came over the side of the platform. He summoned the Keyblade and readied himself, battling the creature for what felt like an hour as it attacked him. But he finally managed to overcome it, only for the thing to explode into shadows. Roxas struggled against them, but it felt like swimming in syrup while wearing a suit filled with bricks.

A hand gently grabbed his wrist, and a bright light shined through the shadows. He closed his eyes as it overwhelmed him. His feet hit solid ground and the hand let go of him, and he slowly opened his eyes. A pure white room had replaced the constant shadows of wherever he had been previously. But most noticeable of all was the girl in white from earlier. He opened his mouth to speak, to ask what had just happened, but she raised a finger to her lips.

"My name is Namine." She told him. "Roxas, do you remember your true name?" She asked.

Roxas's brow knitted together, unsure of what she meant. His name was and always had been Roxas, so…. But before he could give any kind of answer, a man in a black cloak appeared and pulled Namine to her feet. "Say no more, Namine." He commanded.

"But if no one tells him, Roxas will-"

"It's best he doesn't know the truth." The man said, cutting her off. His grip on her arm loosened, and Namine lowered it back to her side.

In a moment of pure mundanity, Roxas called out in anger, "Hey, you're that pickpocket!" Completely forgetting what was going on and what he'd just been through. He'd worked hard carrying all that stuff so Pence could get all the credit, and he wasn't just about to stand by and let the thief get away with his reward munny.

The man raised his hand, and Roxas felt the air shift behind him. He turned to see that a dark pool of shadow had appeared, and he took a few apprehensive steps back. Not having learned his lesson about keeping his eyes on his opponents, Roxas let out a surprised gasp when the man came up behind him and roughly shoved him through the portal.

~Peaceful Sleep~

"That wasn't half bad." **** compliment him as he dismissed the Dusks from the training room. "Although you could work on not being distracted so easily."

"Easy for you to say." Roxas huffed. "Maybe you shouldn't be so distracting."

**** quickened her pace to get in front of Roxas. "Do you really think I'm distracting?" She asked, a teasing smile on her face and a twinkle in her eye.

Roxas felt the heat rise to her face, not for the first time wondering why she could be so cute at the most random of times. "Not really." He tried to play it off, hoping she didn't notice.

"Well, that's good. Saix is going to give us a mission together tomorrow. He told me to tell you that we're hunting some giant heartless that's appeared in Halloween Town." She told him. "So you'd better be prepared."

"Is that why you were here?" Roxas asked, and **** nodded.

"Yep. Now go hit the showers, you stink."

"I do not!"

~Peaceful Sleep~

Roxas groaned as he woke up. He could hear Rai talking about poses and Seifer saying something back, then looked up to see that Seifer was posing over him. "What's that for!?" Roxas raised his voice.

"Keepsake." Fuu said.

"Those freaks in the white jumpsuits are gone, y'know?" Rai told him.

"Cakewalk." Fuu said, giving Vivi a high five.

"Outsiders, pfft. If they don't wise up to the rules around here, I might to take disciplinary measures." Seifer shook his head.

"Oh yeah! Seifer's always looking after the town, y'know?"

Fuu looked to her left, as did the rest of the group and Roxas followed suit. Hayner, Pence, and Olette were all standing at one of the far entrances to the sandlot. Even from this distance, he could see Hayner scoff at him before he turned and left. Pence and Olette followed after him, and Roxas called out to them, "Wait up!"

"Hey, no chickening out of the tournament tomorrow!" Seifer shouted to him as he left, and Roxas could hear his friends snickering as he started down the back alleys, assuming his friends had probably gone to the Usual Spot.

He was right; all three of his friends were there, sea-salt ice cream in hand.

"So… you hung out with Seifer's gang today?" Pence asked as Roxas walked in.

"N-no, it's not like that…" Roxas suddenly realized why Hayner and the others had run off. Another realization struck him as an awkward silence settled over them. "Oh yeah! How was the beach? Wasn't that today?"

"We didn't go." Olette told him. "It wouldn't be the same without you, right?"

"...Sorry." He mumbled. "I probably didn't make it with them, either…" He looked up, and saw that Hayner still wasn't looking at him. "Hey… how 'bout we go tomorrow? We could get those pretzels and-"

"I promised I'd be somewhere." Hayner said, cutting him off.

"Ohh…" Roxas looked down, then his head snapped back up as he remembered that the promise was to Roxas about the Struggle tournament. "Oh!"

"I'm outta here." Hayner said as he walked off, leaving Roxas, Pence, and Olette in silence.

Restoration at 48%

"Was that Namine made of data?" Riku asked.

"No! Namine hijacked the data herself! Look what she's done now…" DiZ shook his head. "She's totally beyond my control!" He punched one of the keyboards to his side, angry at the jeopardization of his work due to the girls actions.

"Calm down." Riku told him.

"It doesn't matter. As long as Namine accomplishes her goal, we needn't worry about what befalls Roxas." Diz said.