A/N: Chapter four coming your way! I hope you all enjoy! As usual please R&R! Thank you!

WARNING: This is a YAOI fanfic! If you don't like it, now is your chance to turn back. You have been warned. For those of you who do not mind please do continue reading.

(Parings will include: [Extremely short-lived] Replica Riku {Reiku}xSora, RikuxSora, AxelxRoxas and future pairings stand by for decision.)

DISCLAIMER: How many times must I say that I do NOT own KH or any of the characters associated with it before I break down sulking because of it?

Could it really be him?

Their aqua-green eyes almost completely match… Except this boy's has more of that laid-back glint while his was shining and mischievous most of the time.

This boy's height is much taller, at the very least three or four inches taller, while Reiku's was only an inch or so taller than him.

His hair was also a bit shorter than this guy's past the shoulder hair; then again it has been two years…

Reiku was lankier and this kid (why didn't he pay attention to the introduction?) is much leaner, athletic looking… The list can probably go on yet why is it that his heart still beats so rapidly when he looks at him. He's obviously not him but part of Sora still refuses to believe the fact that has made itself clear in his mind for the last two years…

Sora's eyes stayed widened as he stared into Riku's eyes. They looked too much alike, so much so it was painful to even look at him. Yet, he couldn't help but stare into those enchanting aqua-green eyes. Had fate decided to be cruel to him once more and play with his already broken heart?

Cause at this moment it seemed so.

"Sora…?" Kairi whispered cautiously, sensing the rapid atmosphere shifts around him. She placed a timid hand on his shoulder, one which the brunette seemed to not place any attention to. Roxas tensed, his body turned so that he could easily shift himself out of the chair when he saw Sora shaking visibly.

Lexaeus's eyes narrowed both in confusion and annoyance when he saw the brunette stand, shaking. "Mr. Hikari, sit back down in your seat!" He demanded but Sora didn't hear him, instead turning to look shocked and somewhat hopeful at his best friend.

Roxas was taken aback by the look his best friend gave to him, not fully prepared for whatever it was the brunette was going to do. That look would definitely haunt him for weeks, maybe even months to come. He shivered, afraid and worried. "Sora…" Roxas had also reached out a hand to the brown-haired boy as he too slowly stood up from his seat. However his hand never made it to the other boy's shoulder as Sora made a dash towards new kid Riku. "Sora!" He shouted somewhat.

The class watched, surprised as Sora made his way to the front of the room in order to hug the silver-haired boy.

Riku was visibly shocked as his eyes traveled down to look at the boy who had latched himself onto him before the brunette looked at him with eyes that held pain, adoration and affection, fear, hope and some other emotions he was unable to read. What had made this kid, Sora Hikari react to him like this? Curiosity shined within his teal eyes as he gazed into those teary expressive sapphire eyes…

Until all too quickly he was snatched away by the blonde who had called out to him before. Roxas all but tore Sora from his hold on Riku, but the brunette was persistent as he grabbed onto Riku's wrist.

Sora shook his head as tears began to freely fall from his eyes now, without shame. His head turned to his best friend who was trying to pry him apart from this look alike of his deceased boyfriend. "Roxas… It's him! He's not… He's here! He didn't leave me!" He said, hardly able to string together coherent sentences or phrases due to his shock and slipping state of mind. "Roxas please!" Sora cried as he looked between the boy who was yanking on him and the boy who he held onto so tightly. He sniffed, eyesight soon blurred by the rapidly falling tears. He heard two small sniffs behind him.

One came from a now teary Roxas and a softly crying Kairi, who was walking as calmly as she could to the three.

"No Sora! Riku isn't him! This isn't him!" Roxas's shaky voice tried to convince his stubborn brunette friend. Sora shook his head in disagreement.

"It is!" Sora shouted, now unable to think clearly, even the differences between the two that he had come up with was now obsolete. The struggle between the two continued until Kairi finally made it to the front of the room.

Her red-rimmed crystal blue eyes looked at the shocked Riku who was basically at a loss of what to do. A comforting hand reached out to touch Sora's shoulder before she whispered painfully, "Sora, you have to look at Riku. He isn't him. Look, you're scaring both him and everyone else in the class… I'm sure you know it too…"

Kairi held her breath for a moment as she waited for a reaction. To her and Roxas's relief the brunette did as he was told; looking at his fellow classmates before he took one hard look at the silver-haired boy, desperately trying to look past his tears and collect any coherent reasoning he could grasp within his head.

Even though the tears continued to silently fall, Sora was finally able to look at Riku once more, once again assessing the differences that he had made earlier. It was then that the truth had hit him harder than it had, almost as hard as the news from two years before: this wasn't Reiku. Reiku was gone.

Instantly, feeling all hope and power drain from his body, Sora's hand let go of Riku's hand as his arm as well as the rest of his body went limp against his best friend. Roxas held him steady as he felt the wave of sadness overcome the chestnut-haired boy, he felt it too. Sora's body shook with his silent but powerful sobs, too weak to even retreat out of the room. His sorrow-filled eyes looked up at Roxas, increasing the sadness that the blonde felt. Pleading mixed in with the sorrow, voicelessly asking the blonde to just take them somewhere else so he could cry fully.

Roxas nodded, looking at his broken friend and he gave Kairi a look before dragging Sora out of the door and down the hallway. Kairi stared after them before rubbing her eyes and looking at the speechless, shocked teacher in front of her.

"Sora… needs time to… recompose himself and he needs Roxas to be with him as he is still… bothered by the incident that happened two years ago… So, if you would be so kind as to excuse them from class it would mean a lot to the three of us as well as the rest of the group." Kairi said quietly, her voice still a bit shaky from worry. She waited patiently for her math teacher to regain his own composure.

A moment of wonder passed before Mr. Lexaeus straightened himself out and cleared his voice to gain the attention of his also astonished students. "Ahem… Students I advise you disregard the previous… outburst and try to keep it to yourselves." He said sternly enough to make a majority of the class agree to a vow of silence. He nodded before turning to Riku. "I uh… Apologize for the outburst Riku, Sora is normally a hyper, happy-go-lucky, energetic kid. I really wasn't expecting this from him. I guess he really isn't quite over what happened two years ago…" Lexaeus mumbled the last part under his breath as he uncharacteristically ran a hand through his short hair.

Both Mr. Lexaeus and Kairi's statements struck at Riku's curiosity. What could have happened to such a cute looking boy two years ago that made him go so… deranged and in such pain? He had to find out, and even if it took the rest of his life he would make it his own personal mission in order to find out. That he would make sure of. His eyes glanced over to the red-haired friend of Sora; she would make a good first person to question…

-Meanwhile with Sora and Roxas-

Roxas was able to successfully drag Sora away to a secluded place in the school. The brunette was now wailing his heart out, both from a small bit of embarrassment but mainly from the pain within his heart. How long had it been since he cried so hard?

Sora's tears made their way down his face as he held onto the blonde like there was no tomorrow, burying half his face into Roxas's shoulder, making the others' uniform shoulder wet, though the owner did not seem to mind. Roxas held Sora; his back leaned against the wall, supporting the brunette's weight with ease. His hands made soothing circles on Sora's back in an attempt to calm him.

The minutes that passed seemed like hours, the only sound in the empty hallway was the sound of Sora's wailing, which seemed to slowly quiet down with each passing minute. Soon he calmed down altogether with the exception of the occasional hiccup from the lack of air he had been able to breathe during his crying. A moment of silence passed in which he still held tightly onto his best friend, though not nearly as much as it had been before. He allowed his breathing to calm, though his heart still ached in pain, but he had learned to ignore it.

"Feel any better?" Roxas asked quietly so as not to startle his companion or break too much of the comforting silence. Sora's head nodded a bit mechanically as the drowsiness-effect of crying began to slowly take over him. Roxas could sense it, but he didn't have the heart to make the boy stay awake and go back to class. He felt a bit tired himself from the crying he had done with Sora when they settled down, though his tears were shed mostly because of both the pain he had felt Sora letting out as well as the sight that he had witnessed back in the classroom. He body softly shivered, knowing that he'll be haunted by that look.

Tired azure eyes looked down to see that Sora had fallen into a semi-deep slumber on his shoulder. He shifted his body so that both of them were in a more comfortable position as his back still leaned against the wall, but his head rested on the head of gravity-defying brown spikes.

Best friends they were, for how long he could barely remember since it seemed like they were in each others' lives since the other was born. It was only natural for them to be this close and cry with the other even though they tried to be the others' strength. Truthfully the blonde had always wondered how long this would be, especially since Sora's previous relationship seemed to get in the way of their friendship, though if the blonde could honestly admit, he had felt a bit jealous of having to share the friend he knew for so long. But, after it all came crashing down for the brunette, he had felt guilty for feeling such a petty emotion, especially when his friend had mainly came only him to turn to when things were the roughest. It strengthened their friendship greatly, made them basically inseparable in some way, but sometimes Roxas still couldn't help but feel that he was unsuitable to be such a pure boy's closest, best friend…

Roxas's body shifted again unconsciously so that now both males heads were leaning against one another for support. Without knowing, Roxas fell into a deeper sleep, finding himself unable to care that they were in the school hallways and could very well be reprimanded, not that they weren't used to it, the drowsiness was just too powerful to fight against…

What is it that fate has in store, when he's already so broken down…?

A/N: Okay this has been chapter four! I hope you all enjoyed! Was it good? Bad? Or in between? R&R please!

I rather enjoyed this chapter I think it might be my favorite then again I have no idea how long this story will be so there could be one that is better. Again my hands and mind couldn't resist putting in that sweet little Roxas x Sora friendship bit. It might have been a waste however I found the need to explain a little deeper into what kind of bond they have as I have the feeling Sora will be relying quite a lot on Roxas throughout the story and also to give a bit of an outside insight on what another person may have felt during the time of Sora's relationship to Reiku. Friendship can be really complex if I do say so myself. And before anyone jumps to this conclusion I will state this now: Roxas does not feel anything more than a protective brotherly love towards Sora though it seem may a bit more. Then again I could be evil enough to drive the two together only to come to a horrible realization that they weren't meant to be… But we shall see. *Laughs semi-evilly while looking at a suspicious Roxas*