Authors Notes: Hello dear readers. It's been quite long since I updated cuz i've been pretty busy with all my end of term exams and final projects, but now it's the summer! YAY! so I'll probably be able to write a lot more, hopefully. ^.^ This is a long one.. the longest chapter in this story so far.. but it was a lot more difficult for some reason. I ended up scraping the chapter and restarted a few times but I'm pretty happy with it now. This time I have a bunch of POV's.

And btw they are all about 15 now, Axel and Riku are about 16 (they are 1 year older)

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts.

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Chapter 4

Myde

Kairi once told me that people who we really care about, never really leave us; they just get swept away, but they will always find their way back again... somehow, someday. I guess those words helped me remember to keep on living, just incase she was right. Ienzo wouldn't want me to become like this just because he left. I mean if he ever came back.. he would need something to come back to...

It was finally summer. My first year of High school was coming to a close and people were joyous and excited. Sora told us that his brother would be coming to stay with him for the summer. This was a surprise for me, because I had no idea that Sora had a brother.

"Yup, and their twins. Not fraternal though," said Kairi. She had already met him because Sora and Kairi had known each other since they were very small. Riku and Axel had also never met him, so everyone was energetic and asking lot's of questions.

"Why doesn't he live with you, Sora?" Riku asked.

"He decided to live with our mother. Twilight Town was just a perfect world for him, I guess. But it makes it really hard for him to visit because of the whole trans-world thing."

"What's he like?" stammered Axel.

"Ahh... well people say that we are a lot alike, but people who really know both of us think that we are complete opposites. So I guess you'll see when he comes."

"When was the last time that you saw him?" I blurted. Everyone went silent.

"Well it's been about six years now... I think," an uncomfortable silence clung to the air.

"He's your twin brother.. it's been so long..." I heard myself say quietly. Everyone was lost in their thoughts. I thought about what Sora said about different worlds; how Ienzo was in some other world too. I didn't even know which one. How would I ever find him? It seemed impossible. Even someone who knew where they were going had a hard time getting from one world to another.

Riku broke the silence. "So when's your bro getting here?"

Sora considered this for a few seconds before stating, "It should be soon; maybe a few days. It's hard to tell when people move across worlds. Time can get a bit messed up."

Ienzo

School didn't last long before it was summer. I started school in this world quite late into the year, and most of the time I would avoid even showing up to classes. But still, it didn't seem like summer; it was too cold. Hayner, Pence and Olette always tried to talk to me after that day, but I found it best when I stayed away form any human contact. There was this other guy with them, Roxy or Roxius or something stupid like that. I vaguely remember Olette introducing me to him. I guess they were all really tight friends, so I wondered where this Rox guy was that other day; the day with the Town Wonders celebration. Maybe he had enough sense to dump school that day and not get mixed up in all that nonsense. But I didn't really care enough to find out.

It was the last day of school and I skipped my last physics class in order to miss the crowd of excited and feverish students. Walking home alone was relaxing, but this particular time I felt an uncomfortable prickle on my neck, like I was being watched. I tired to ignore it at first but it only got worse. I looked around me but there was on one in sight. Arghh. My stupid extra sensitivity to things. It was probably not even anything.

That's when I saw movement from on top of one of the houses. It was gone as soon as I saw it, but I knew that it was something. I quickly ducked into an alleyway, looking up at the roofs as I walked. Since that strange meeting with Even and that big guy, I hadn't had anything else especially strange happen. But it would just be my luck that it was all just boiling up, waiting to hit me with the worst strangeness yet.

That's when I saw movement at the top of the building to my left. I may not have been a good fighter, but I was great at stealth, so I grabbed ahold of a rusty drainpipe attached to the brick wall and quietly climbed up.

When I got to the top I found a small ledge to balance on a few feet below the top of the roof. I slowly peeked over the side. It was Even and the big guy. "Where did he go! You lost him!" That was the big guy. Even immediately snapped back at him, obviously in a really bad mood. I'm not sure what it was about them that made me want to keep them away from me. It was like a black void, an abyss, would consume me if they found me.

I hadn't seen them for at least two months now, since that day in the alley. 'Oh, we know a lot of things about you Ienzo.' I shuddered at the memory. Those guys are just creeps. After Even said that, I tired to run away but he leapt at me touching my forehead for a brief second and then stepping back. I don't know what that was about but I dashed away as fast as I could. I didn't look back to see if they were following me, scared that I would lose too much time if they really were. After all, I am not a very fast runner. If had they caught me I would have been powerless; I'm way to small. I cursed that fact. Why wasn't I growing? I mean, I don't really go out in the sun that much, but I do eat quite a bit.

Even started turning this way, evidently looking for me. I quickly hid myself behind the ledge pressing my back against the cool brick. Why did I have to come and investigate. I can't let them find me. I could have snuck away down some other alleyway and lost them. While I was mentally beating myself up, I noticed that their bickering had drawn closer. Please don't find me. Please stop, don't come any closer.

"HEY! Ienzo, what the hell are you doing up there!" I nearly fell of the ledge. Looking down I saw Hayner with that other blond guy, called Roxun? God damn. Now those two guys knew where I was. Stupid Hayner. I was obviously up here for a reason. He would pay for this... I noticed the talking behind me had stopped. I waited, but nothing grabbed me or anything. The suspense rose in my body until I finally slowly moved, to peek over my shoulder. Nothing was there. The two guys were gone.

What a strange town. "Hey, how is this a strange town? You're the one perched on a ledge, on the fifth floor, of some building, for absolutely no apparent reason," said Hayner. So, I guess I said that out loud. Maybe I am the crazy one, and this town is actually perfectly normal.

"Hmph, whatever. I did have a reason..." I trailed off looking down at them. It would be useless to try and make them understand. I started climbing down and said,"So.. I guess school's out now."

"Yeah man! It's summer! No more freakin' school!" shouted Hayner. "...But it kinda sucks; Roxas is leaving for the summer, eh Roxas?" He nudged the blond kid in the side.

"Yeah, going to see my brother." This Roxas guy is pretty quiet, he might be just shy, but still.

"Hm. Whatever. I'm going now. You guys are bothering me," I snapped at them. People are just annoying. I saw hurt cross Hayner's eyes. Roxas looked like he wanted to crawl into a hole and get away from me. What's wrong with me? I never used to be this hateful of people. I'm different. Hm whatever, their bugging me; they almost got me caught, that must be why... Or is it?

As I walked home I tried to remember anything important about that first meeting with those two creeps. What did it mean? I thought about how he touched my forehead but I had no idea what the significance of that would be. I'm different lately. Could he have done something to me when he touched my forehead?

Argh. I'm just being paranoid and ridiculous. This town is just getting to my head or something. I have the whole summer in front of me, I'll just stay away from those two guys and everything will be fine.

Roxas

I was pretty excited. After like six years, I finally get to see my older twin brother again. My mom says she's too busy with work this time around but I think she just doesn't want to see my dad again. So now it is just me traveling to my brother's world, Radiant Garden. I used to live there when our family was still together, me and Sora were about 7 when it all happened. Just at the age where we were too old to not understand and too young not to care. Our parents would always fight and everyone was just all around depressed. The worst part was that me and Sora got into a lot of fights, right at that time as well. It's probably because of all the tension in the air from our parents constant fighting. That's why we now live in totally different worlds. We got in one huge fight. I can't even remember what about.

Many times I wish that I never left with my mom; I always miss Sora so much. We were so similar but also had many differences. I made up for Sora's flaws just as he made up for mine. Together we could accomplish anything. If I really wanted to I could probably move back to Radiant Garden but it would break my mom's heart that neither of her children wanted to stay with her. But also, Twilight Town was my home now. I have three great friends that I could never leave behind. Hayner, Pence and Olette.

I looked up at the little blue house that I remembered all too well. I missed the apple tree in the front and the little cave in the back that me and Sora would play in so often when we were still small. It was strange being back here after so many years. The apple tree had even noticeably grown since I was last here.

I took a deep breath, I was pretty nervous to see him. It would be like we were strangers after being apart for so much time. I had only seen him one other time; two years after my mom and I had moved to Twilight Town. I knocked on the door. Footsteps could be heard from the other side and the door opened.

"Whoa! Sora what the hell are you doing out- WHAAH~!" some kid with flaming red hair was standing at the door. He was quite tall, like a head taller than me. And he was gawking at me.

"Umm. Hi?" I didn't know what to say.

"Hey, your his brother, right?"

"If you mean Sora's, then yeah."

"Yo, I'm Axel. Got it memorized?" I blinked.

"Uh... I'm Roxas? But you probably already know that."

"Yeah. We'll come in. Haha I actually thought you were Sora there for a second, but I was like 'wait a second.. why did you dye your hair blond Sora?' Ahah. But looking at you better," Axel leaned in close to my face. Inspecting it. "You look nothing like Sora, really. Just a few similar features, like your noses. Hahaha. It's still pretty weird though."

"uh.."

"Hey, but don't worry. You're a lot cuter than your brother," he said, winking. I felt my face grow hot.

"Hey, Axel. Stop hitting on Sora's brother." My face went even redder. The voice was sweet and feminine. I looked over and saw a girl with hair almost as red as Axel's. She was familiar. I think I remember knowing her when I was young.

Axel's mouth fell open in horror. "Are you kidding!"

"Oh common Axel. No need to try and hide it," said a silver haired boy who was standing behind the redhead girl.

"I'm straight, god damn it!"

"Sure you are, honey.." the girl said adding a with flip of her hair for dramatic effect. Axel looked like he wanted to bury himself in a hole. And frankly I did too. It was all incredibly awkward and I had no idea what was going on.. Like where was Sora?

"Hey, who is it?" A blond boy walked into the room. "Oh you must be Roxas! Nice you meet you. I'm Myde!" Myde stuck out his had for me to shake. ugh, where is Sora. I've met like, the entire neighbourhood now. Maybe it was a bad idea to come and visit Sora, as much as I missed him. This is not worth it.

"Guy's! Back off of my brother. He's shy you know! You have probably scarred him for life. Give him some space!" I let my breath out. This was definitely Sora. The cheery, optimistic upbeat and outgoing Sora. The first thing I saw was his smile. It was the same old smile that I could never forget; the one that looked like sunshine. I smiled. It was definitely worth it to come just to see my brother smile like that.

The next thing I realized when I looked up at him was. Wait... Look up? Me and Sora had always been the same height growing up, but now he was definitely a few inches taller than me. This was really socking. For some reason I'm sure that if we had stayed together we would still be the same height.

I smiled up at him. "Hey big brother. It look's like you really are my big brother now."

"Really? I'm taller?"

"It's kinda..."

"..Depressing, huh?"

"Yeah. We really aren't the same anymore."

"Hey, don't worry about it. You're cuter than me anyway," Sora laughed, staring right at Axel.

"Shut it, Sora," Axel exclaimed, throwing a shoe at him. Sora laughed jumping out of the way.

"Well if I had known that you would instantly fall for my little brother-"

"I said shut it!"

"Hey, watch it. Don't set my house on fire." Everyone was laughing. I smiled, even though it was kinda awkward, they were pretty fun. I was proud of my brother, he had made some pretty good friends.

Axel

Okay. So... I kind of, sort of pissed Kairi off. She has always been such a nice girl but when you accidentally(I swear) set all of her plushies and favourite copies of manga on fire, you are not a man who wished to have ever been born. And well... Poor Myde... he thought he was helping by dumping water all over the fire, and therefore all over Kairi's "precious babies" and "invaluable discontinued prints of manga." But i think he'll survive it in several pieces, I mean... I'm her main target after all.

"Axeeeel. We need to talk." -Translation: I want to rip you to shreds and humiliate you for absolutely ruining my life. "Meet me at the fountains." I hung up the phone.

When an angry and extremely pissed girl tells you to meet her because "we need to talk" then you better go.. unless you want to be brought within an inch of your life and made to live the rest of your long and miserable life bordering on death... or at least that's been my experience. Even though I would probably be killed, death was better than that fate.

So here I was, standing at the fountains of Radiant Garden. The water pouring down into a glistening pool at the bottom with bright blues and pinks shining off of it from the light. If it wasn't disgusting water, I probably would have found it incredibly pretty, but water is water... and I've just never liked anything about it. The way it moves, it's unpredictable the way it's just everywhere, and how its just so wet.

"Hey, axel!" I jumped in surprise, leaping form my thoughts, as I felt something slam into my back.

"Whoa!" I lost my balance and felt myself topple over to the side. Looking over I saw I was just inches from falling into the fountain. Looking over, I came face to face with Kairi leaning over me. "HEY! I could have fallen into that!"

"That was the idea," she said with a malicious grin. Without even giving me a chance to see it coming her foot was shoving against my chest and I was flying over the water.

"Oh, crap." closing my eyes, I felt my body hit the water. I shuddered. This is where I wake up. Common this is all just a horrible dream and it's time to wake up in my nice, dry bed. Of course, no such thing happened.

I looked up to see Kairi walking away calling over her shoulder to me "This isn't over!" ugh. I didn't know Kairi had it in her to be so cruel to someone she called her friend. But to give her credit, she probably couldn't fathom how very much I hated water. I heard the shrill laughing of children. I felt the anger boiling inside me. Stupid children, probably all laughing at me. If I wasn't drenched in water this whole place would probably be in flames by now, from all this anger inside me. But I'm not too sure the towns people would particularly thank me for that, so it's probably a good thing, this time around.

I pulled myself out of the water, trying to shake the water off. I sloshed off towards home, the cool wind freezing me to the bone. I was walking up to my door when I saw Sora and Riku talking in front of my house.

"Oh, axel. How's it goi-" Riku stared at me first in shock and then in mock amusement. "Did Kairi get to you? I always knew she would be an awful person to cross," he said laughing. Riku was the one who pretty much set me up. Chasing me around and teasing me little "incident" with Roxas. But this all made me pretty mad and right at that point, when I felt the heat rising within me, he threw me into Kairi's room. And well, that's when my life decidedly ended. It was just a small fire but Kairi would never let it go.

Then there was smart ol' Sora had decided to support Kairi and scold me and Myde when the whole scene took place. I kinda think there is something more there though. They seem taken with each other, Sora and Kairi. Sora acts different around her and Kairi's voice changes when they talk.

I had told Riku of my speculations and he looked shocked, depressed and disgusted all at the same time. I wonder why? Maybe he likes Kairi? I wouldn't doubt it, I've been trying to check and see the way he looks at her, but whenever I try he NEVER looks at her. He's always gazing somewhere else... like I dono, for instance right now he's looking at Sora... aaaaaaaaand he's still starting at Sora... aaand now he looks really hungry.

"Hey, Riku. You hungry? Why don't we all get something to eat after dry off. I'm starved. We can go get Myde and Roxas, too. Though, I don't think Kairi will wanna come along if I'm there."

"Nawh, sorry Axel. I just ate." Hm? Then why the hell does he look so hung- OH MY GOD! SORA! It's not Kairi, it's Sora. Muahahahaha. I suppressed my evil laugh within me. I now have black mail! I'm betting he'd die if someone found out that he likes Sora. But I'll have to test that theory to make sure I'm right. But if I am, Riku can never bug me about Roxas again. And I can even force him to help me survive Kairi's wrath.

"Hey, what are you laughing about?"

"Oooh nothing, Riku..."

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