Here's the latest chapter everyone :)

There's not much to say about this chapter...

except for all the friendship feels :D

So enjoy :)


Chapter 4: Distance

Roxas looked at Naminé completely confused. He had never seen this girl before and yet she was telling him to follow her to the Twilight Town mansion. The boy looked at his friends, they still seemed to be as if they were frozen in time.

'What am I supposed to do?' Roxas thought. 'This day as been getting weirder by the second,' He looked at Naminé who smiled gently at him. 'But she said she can give me the answers that I need.'

Naminé began walking off and Roxas did the only logical choice he could think of. He followed her towards the mansion. He trailed after her like a lost sheep. As he began leaving his two frozen friends behind, Pence and Olette began moving again. They both saw their friend leaving them.

"Roxas!" Pence yelled. "Over here!" He called out to his friend.

But Roxas ignored them and continued to follow Naminé

"Where's Roxas going?" Olette wondered.

'I have no idea who that girl is,' Roxas thought following Naminé through Twilight Town towards the small woods that separated the elaborate town from the mansion. 'But she knows something! She can tell me what's going on!'


Roxas suddenly stopped as Dusks appeared surrounding the boy. "What the heck?!" He exclaimed. "Are you trying to bother me?!" He jumped out of the way as one of the Dusks latched tried latching onto his arm. He squirmed as a Dusk grabbed his arm from behind. "LET ME GO!" He screamed shaking the Dusk off him. The boy ran to the Sandlot catching his breath. 'I need a weapon,' He thought desperately. 'If I had a keyblade…' His thoughts were interrupted as he heard familiar voices.

"Going for a jog, Roxas?" Seifer taunted. The older teen was lifting dumb bells twice his size while Fuu and Rai were admiring their leader's training. "Don't you dare run away from tomorrow's tournament!"

"Seifer's gonna be the winner!" Rai said.

"Victory before your very eyes." Fuu added.

Roxas didn't have time for this. He had to find Naminé. Ignoring the teens taunting he continued racing towards the woods.

"Hey! Don't ignore us!" Seifer yelled.

The Dusks that were following Roxas appeared at the Sandlot. They latched onto the only living people they could find. Fuu screamed in terror while Rai was trying to push the strange creatures off him.

"What are these things?!" Seifer cried out in disbelief trying to punch the Dusk that was clinging to him.

"Hang on Seifer!" Rai reassured his friend and tried attaching the Dusk with his fists, but the non-human Nobody was too quick for him and the boy accidentally hit his faithful leader.

"Ow!" Seifer growled rubbing his head. "Watch what you're doing!"

Roxas turned around as the Dusks continued to assault the three bullies. They didn't deserved to be saved, but Roxas knew that wasn't the right thing to do. "Regular attacks don't work on them!" He told the three older teens. Roxas dived for a struggle bat that was nearby and held it in his hands ready to fight the Dusks when suddenly everything around him stopped moving.

'They stopped.' Roxas thought.

The Dusks suddenly began regaining their movement and charged at Roxas.

Roxas held onto the struggle bat as tightly as he could between his fingers. 'If I had a keyblade…,' He thought desperately. 'Just one more time..!''

"ROXAS, BEHIND YOU!" Naminé shouted from a top one of the buildings.

Roxas turned around pointing the struggle bat at the Dusk that was behind him. The struggle bat flashed and a brilliant bright light surrounded the blue bat transforming it into a keyblade.

Roxas tightly held the keyblade in his hand and swung it at the Dusk. The boy was suddenly engulfed in a void of darkness.

"Ah!" Roxas screamed. "What's going on?!" He yelled as the darkness began pulling him in further and further until there was nothing left.

Naminé watched Roxas sink into the darkness and smiled. "Just a little further to push him in the direction he needs to go…" She said.


Lira and Levina were walking along Market Street when they noticed the people in town frozen in place.

"What's going on?" Levina asked.

"I'm not sure." Lira replied having no idea how to answer her.

"This has happened before, though," Levina said to Lira. "When we were hanging posters up this morning, everything around us froze."

'What kind of game is Organization 13 playing?'' Lira thought.

The two then saw Axel walking passed them.

"Axel?!" Levina smiled at the familiar red head.

Axel turned seeing the two. "Here I thought I wouldn't get to see any familiar faces." He smiled.

Lira's blue eyes glared at the red head. "Ok, what's your Organization up to now!?"

Axel looked around at the people who weren't moving except for him, Lira, and Levina. "Wasn't us," He said truthfully. "I don't suppose the two of you know where Roxas is?"

"Roxas…" Levina began.

"Forget it!" Lira yelled. "We're not telling you a thing!"

Levina looked at Lira. 'Why is she being so mean to him?' She wondered.

Even though Axel was their friend, he was still a part of the Organization.

"So you two have seen him, I take it?" Axel asked making his chakrams appear in his hands.

Lira held took out her sword while Levina made a motion to summon her keyblade.

"No, Levina!" Lira told her.

"Huh?" Levina frowned. "But…you'll need my help!"

Lira cheekily smirked. "This is my fight." She declared.

Axel watched as Lira kept Levina back. 'She's way too overprotective of the former prisoner,' Axel thought. 'I'm positive they know where Roxas is.' For the past couple of weeks since Roxas abandoned them, the orders were directly to find him and bring him back to the Organization 'But then again it would make Saix's day if I caught her and brought her back.' He mentally laughed at this. 'Like I'd want him to have a good day.' He held his chakrams out in the air. "Then again friendly fire sounds like fun."

"I'll show you friendly fire!" Lira sprinted forward towards the Fury of Dancing Flames.


Roxas continued falling when and landed on a stained glass image of Sora in the middle. The image was surrounded by yellow stained glass papou fruits. Beside the sleeping image of Sora were his friends, Riku, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy. These were the people his heart was closest to.

Roxas touched to the ground landing safely and unharmed. "What is this place…?" He gasped looking down at the image of Sora. "It's Sora…" He suddenly yelled getting knocked to his feet by a giant Nobody.

The Twilight Thorn is a gargantuan Nobody that seems to be clad in a white bodysuit, as evidenced by the large, silver zipper lining its front. It's simple, round head's only feature is a white Nobody logo on its front where the creature's face would be. It has rather thick, short legs with spikes on its hips and long, pointed feet. Its waist is quite thin and has dark grey sides. Its shoulders each sport a gigantic, diamond-shaped spike and its arms are very long, and reach the floor when fully extended down. The Nobody only seemed to have one distinct digit on each of its hands, the thumb. It also seemed to have high-heels on their ankles. It also had four long, blue tentacles with tips resembling the spikes on the Nobody sigil that wrap around its neck. Its overall body shape seems to be meant to resemble the Nobody symbol.

"I'll tell you what you want to know!" The Twilight Thorn spoke.

Roxas stepped back as the Twilight Thorn was engulfed in darkness. He screamed in terror as the darkness began consuming him. 'I'm going to drown!' The boy thought grimly. He suddenly felt a hand pull him back up and he found himself safe and sound in the White Room in the Twilight Town mansion.

"H-Huh?" Roxas stammered trying to understand what had just happened while Naminé smiled at him.

"My name is Naminé." The girl in the white dress greeted him. She looked at him with her soft blue eyes. The light in her eyes was swimming with sadness and sorrow. "Roxas, do you remember your real name?" She asked him.

"My real name…" Roxas said slowly.

Naminé was about to tell the confused boy everything when she felt someone yank her by her arm protruding her to stop saying anything further. It was Riku.

"What are you doing, Naminé?" Riku asked.

"Roxas needs to know the truth…!" Naminé told him.

"Don't do anything unnecessary." Riku ordered her.

Roxas glared at the cloaked man dressed in the iconic Organization 13 coat. "You…!" He growled. "You're the guy from yesterday!" He yelled. "You stole the munny pouch!"

To this accusation Riku simply held out his hand manifesting a dark corridor behind Roxas.

Roxas jumped back seeing the dark void. He glared at the taller man as he released Naminé and effortlessly lifted the boy up with one hand shoving him into the dark corridor.

Naminé casted her eyes to the white floor while this was all happening.

Riku turned to her. "It's better that he doesn't know the truth." He said. 'All that matters is Sora,' He thought. 'Sora has to wake up. If Roxas knew who he really is…it could endanger Sora's safety from the Organization.'


Lira swung her sword at Axel blocking his chakrams from hitting her.

"You're lucky I'm holding ba-" Axel suddenly crashed to the ground as Lira casted a minor earthquake spell.

"Lira, stop it!" Levina yelled falling over.

Lira pointed her sword at the red head victorious of her battle with one of the Organization members.

"Is that all you've got?" Axel asked.

"You're the one on the ground." Lira taunted. She then fell over as Axel kicked Lira's feet from under her.

Axel lightly grinned pinning the woman to the ground, his green eyes catching the full view of Lira's face.

"Lira!" Levina ran over making her keyblade appear running to help her friend in need but stopped as Axel pointed his chakram at the girl's face.

"Get off me!" Lira growled venomously. She wasn't used to being touched like this.

"Relax I'm not going to hurt you." Axel reassured her. "I just want to know where Roxas is."

"How should I know?!" Lira scowled as she struggled to get free.

"He normally hangs around in town with his friends." Levina said.

Hearing this Axel got off of Lira running his fingers through his hair as he sighed sadly. 'So I've been replaced by you too, Roxas?' Axel thought. 'Thanks a lot buddy.' He held out his hand to assist Lira up.

Lira lightly glared at the red head shoving his hand away and got up herself.

"Guess I'll catch you two later," Axel said making a dark corridor appear. He looked at Lira cheekily saying, "Next time I won't go easy on you, got it memorized?"

Already furious by what had just happened she threw her sword at Axel's back, but Axel had already disappeared through the corridor and the sword was stuck to the wall.

"I've never met such an infuriating person in my life!" Lira seethed pulling her sword off the wall.

"Do you think he's really going to help Roxas remember who he really is?" Levina asked.

"I don't care," Lira scoffed. "We have more important things to worry about." She looked at the Struggle Poster on the wall that was ripped by her sword. 'Looks like the Organization isn't messing up this world, if you can call this strange place a world?' She thought. 'But then who is…,' She wondered.


Roxas fell forward in the middle of the Sandlot as the dark corridor spit him out. He fell to the ground hard.

"Pose Seifer!" Roxas heard Rai's and Fuu's voice.

"Like this?" Seifer asked his posse.

Roxas looked up seeing Seifer and his gang taking pictures. "What are you doing?" He asked as he got up off the ground.

"Commemorative photograph." Seifer replied snarkly. He tossed Roxas the photo as it came out of the camera. "Of your pathetic face."

Roxas glared crumpling the photo of him on the ground.

"So what the heck were those monsters from earlier?" Seifer asked. "Before I could beat them, they ran off, serves them right."

Roxas wasn't paying attention to what Seifer was saying. He was too busy working out what had happened with Naminé earlier. 'What was she talking about?' He thought. 'My real name? I have to know.'

Seifer and his gang saw Hayner, Pence, and Olette arrive.

"What are you doing here?!" Seifer sneered. "Wanna play?" He taunted the three children.

Hayner looked over Seifer's shoulder seeing Roxas. "Let's go, Roxas."

The three walked off ignoring Seifer's teasing.

"Wait!" Roxas called to his friends trailing after them.


The four friends were hanging out by the Usual Spot.

"Why were you with Seifer and his gang?" Olette asked Roxas.

"So you've finally decided to replace us?!" Hayner accused the boy.

"N-No!" Roxas yelled. "I ran into them by accident!" He then remembered that his friends had plans to go to the beach. "How was the beach? Did you guys go?"

"Yeah." Olette smiled.

"But we knew it wouldn't be the same without you." Pence said. "So we decided to skip the beach."

Roxas frowned lowering his head. "It's my fault," He told them. "I'm sorry."

"We'll go to the beach tomorrow!" Hayner said reassuringly.

"Tomorrow?" Olette and Pence asked.

"Yeah!" Roxas brightened hearing this.

"We made a promise to go to the beach," Hayner said to his friends. "I'm sticking by that promise." He told them holding a 'winner' ice cream stick in his hand.

Roxas suddenly felt a throbbing pain in his head. "What the…?" He held his head in pain.

"Roxas?" Hayner asked.

"Are you ok?" Olette asked concerned for her friend.

"My head hurts…" Roxas groaned. Images of encounters with Riku and Naminé flashed in his head. "But…I…" He tried ignoring the pain, but it just got worse and worse. He stood up from his seat and his friends looked on worried. "I'm going home…" He told his friends and ran off leaving his confused friends behind.

Roxas panted as he ran down the street towards his house. He caught his breath reaching his home and looked at the Struggle poster on the wall. 'The match is tomorrow…,' He thought grimly. 'We would fight in the finals and split the money four ways.' He lowered his head. 'We made a promise…' The boy seemed completely lost in what he should do.

"What kind of a fool am I?" Roxas thought out loud. "I can't promise anything to them..."


"Naminé almost blew our cover!" Riku angrily kicked a bucket and mop that was leaning against the wall. "If Roxas finds out who he really is, Sora will never wake up!" He was getting anxious and the darkness was feeding off of it.

DiZ saw the concern Riku had for his best friend even when the darkness had completely taken over his heart.

"CALM DOWN!" DiZ roared getting up from his seat seeing how angry Riku was getting. "You threw him out before he could hear anything."

Riku caught his breath trying his hardest to control the darkness that had made refuge inside his heart. 'Why do I get stuck doing these things?' He thought.

"Even if she did say something, Naminé did nothing more than fulfill her duty." DiZ informed Riku. "Roxas's fate will not change," He said. "Even if he heard what she had to say. No matter where he goes, he cannot escape."


Axel returned to his room at the Castle That Never Was. Things in Organization 13 had quieted down ever since Roxas left. Without a keyblade wielder Kingdom Hearts – the moon shaped heart in the sky wasn't getting any stronger.

'I'll find you Roxas,' Axel thought. 'Then we'll take down the Organization together.' He thought as he lay down on his bed.

The red head stared up at the white ceiling. He was sick of the Organization's scheming to purge all the worlds with darkness and without a friend around, things got really lonely for him.

A small smile touched his lips as images of Lira flashed through his head. 'Too bad she's so stubborn,' he thought. 'I'd like to get to know her better,' He paused at this thought remember how curious Roxas was of Levina when they first met. 'Now I sound like Roxas.'

He was getting comfortable on his bed when heard his door open. It was Saix.

"You know if you don't knock," Axel said lazily getting up. "People are going to get the wrong idea."

"Have you found Roxas yet?" Saix asked bluntly getting his point across.

"I'm working on it." Axel replied idly not really caring what Saix had to say.

"We can't afford another failure," Saix told him. "The puppet is out of commission and we don't have the prisoner anymore," He said referring to Xion and Levina. "Roxas is the only one who can retrieve hearts with the power of the keyblade. You know what will happen if you don't complete your mission."

"Yeah, yeah…," Axel replied carelessly as if he has heard all this before. He was sick of hearing the same threats over and over by Saix or Xemnas. It didn't faze him anymore and he just wanted a way to get to his friend before they did.

"You have one more day," The Lunar Diviner said. "Don't screw up." He ordered leaving the room.

Axel sighed letting out a breath of relief. He had to come through and complete his objective. 'I always get stuck with the icky jobs…'


There's your 358/2 Days reference in the chapter xD

In all seriousness though, you can't have the Axel/Roxas friendship dynamic without Saix freaking showing up and cockblocking the two of them. Ugh especially in the manga.

Whenever the two of them are together in the manga, Saix is always there in the corner and its like you want to punch in the face for being a total douche, but then you learn stuff about him in Dream Drop Distance and it hits you with all these feels and you're like XEHANORT STOP MESSING WITH PEOPLE!

Smh... that's my mini rant for the now.

Review :)