A/N: This chapter is sorta crappy imo :I .... There is an important note at the end of this. Also, this chapter was beta-ed! The others will eventually be beta-ed too, but I don't they will change too much. Thank you so much AngelOfLostLight!!! ;D

Oh yes, GRAPHICISH WARNING?! (New word) It's not too graphic in my opinion... but when I was 4, my favorite movie to watch was Child's Play. SO... yeah.

Thanks for the help AngelOfLostLight(beta!) and CrimsonDarkness 0013(plot assistant!)!

Disclaimer: I only own the story people. And if there are any OC's, I guess I'll own them too....

Clean Up Day

Sora was woken up by the sound of clashing metal and cries of pain that one would only associate with death. He slowly cracked his eyes open to see a pretty blue moon in the sky above him. It felt so close to him that he was almost sure he could touch it, but his eyes told him differently since it was hundreds upon thousands of miles above him. The odd thing about this moon was that it was in the shape of a perfect heart. He had never seen anything so perfect.

Done with his observation of the heart shaped moon, Sora sat up to observe his surroundings. There were people all around him dressed in armor. They were also wielding strange blades of various shapes, but all of them somehow resembled a key. Sora tried to stand up to further observe and figure out what was going on, but his legs were numb and he couldn't stand.

The last thing he remembered was lying on his bed, preparing to go to sleep. How did he end up in this place? As Sora watched the people battle the scenery kept shifting between a beautiful grassy landscape and the horrible barren desert with the armored figures battling. 'What's happening?' Sora thought. He tucked his legs into his chest and wrapped his arms tightly around them. Soon, the landscape stopped shifting and stayed set on the battle.

The people were fighting continuously. Every once in a while, someone would try to approach him, but they were quickly knocked back by someone else. There was blood splattered all across the once grassy landscape and many key shaped blades had been lodged into the ground. Left. Forgotten. Abandoned.

Sora watched in terror. He was unable to do anything but watch the armored figures fight and die. He didn't even know what they were fighting for. He couldn't tell who the good guys were and who the bad guys were, like he could in video games. They all looked the same. Two of the armored figures would help one another for one instance and suddenly be fighting against each other. Sora didn't understand. He wanted to tell them to stop fighting and killing each other, but no voice came out when he tried to speak.

Suddenly, an armored figure broke through the barrier of fighting figures and was headed directly for Sora at a fast pace. Sora watched with widening eyes as he came closer. The figure was about six feet from Sora before he suddenly jerked to a stop and fell to the floor lifeless. On the figures back was a deep gash that had a key-shaped blade protruding from it. Sora could see the blood beginning to seep from under him. Sora opened his mouth to scream, but nothing came out. Tears began to stain his face. 'Make it stop.' He whispered mentally as he jammed his eyes shut, only to open them again when he heard someone else approach.

This person was able to get closer to Sora than the one from before. More tears began to fall on his face. He watched with utter terror as the figure reached out to touch him. 'Don't hurt me!' he cried mentally and he shut his eyes once again. He kept them closed and waited for the figure to grab him, but was confused when a warm liquid suddenly splashed on him.

He opened his eyes and slowly lifted them to meet where he assumed the armored figures eyes would be, only to see they no longer had a head. Shaking violently, Sora looked down to his own body and saw he was covered in blood. He jammed his head into his knees. He attempt to scream at the top of his lungs, but his voice was muted. His dry mouth hung open as he screamed silently. 'MAKE IT STOP!'

Roxas woke up a bit dazed and sat up in bed. He took in his surroundings and realized that he was in Sora's bed. He was confused before he turned his head to look at his brother. Sora's eyes were still puffy and a few tears leaked from them, streaming down his cheeks. His face was flushed and his hair was still limp with sweat.

The previous night, Sora had had a nightmare, Roxas recalled. He lied back down next to his brother and gently patted his cheek hoping he would wake up easy this morning. His hopes were answered when Sora slowly cracked open red eyes. He brought his hands up to wipe away the tears that tickled his face and yawned quietly.

Roxas just watched his brother for a while until Sora finally met his eyes.

"... Are you okay Sora?" Roxas asked quietly with a worried tone. Sora just looked at him dazed for a moment before he slowly nodded his head. "Did you have a nightmare?" He asked. Sora nodded again and brought his hand up to wipe away the fresh tears that began to fall.

Roxas paused in his questioning and patted Sora on the shoulder until he calmed down again. He really didn't know what he was doing, but when they had nightmares before their mother would talk them through it. When they finished talking about the dream, they always felt better afterwards. It was like magic.

But for some reason, he felt that their mom couldn't make Sora feel better this time. Only he could. And it wouldn't feel like magic in the end.

"What was it about?" He asked. Sora slowly released a shaky sigh and began to recall his nightmare.

"I woke up a-and I wasn't in my bed," Sora began quietly. "There was a pretty heart moon in the sky when I opened my eyes. It was so c-close that I thought I could touch it. T-then I sat up and people in armor were fighting each other with swords that looked like k-keys." He paused to wipe more tears from his face. "I tried to stand up, but my legs were asleep. And I tried to talk and tell them to stop, but my voice wouldn't come out." Sora stroked his throat with his hand.

"A-and every time someone tried to touch me, someone else would come and knock them back." At this point, Sora's eyes began to widen, the fear during the dream radiated from his body with renewed strength. "O-one guy got close and then he fell on the g-ground a-and started bleeding a lot. H-he had one of those swords in h-his back." He whimpered.

'I was so scared.' A voice cried softly in Roxas mind. He knew it was Sora, but he still didn't know how he was doing it.

"Then another one c-came and he almost touched me, so I c-closed my e-eyes." Sora shut his eyes tightly and his voice dropped to a desperate whisper. "B-but when I opened them back up, his h-head was gone." Sora's voice cracked at the end, but he was able to hold back his tears. He opened his eyes and met Roxas's.

Sora and Roxas were silent for a while; just looking into each others identical eyes. They were a beautiful blue that resembled the blue only found near the deep parts of a tropical ocean. Their older brother Ven also had them. They had all gotten them from their mother.

They were broken out of their trance when they heard their mother leave her room and walk down the hall, probably going to get breakfast ready. Sora released another sigh. Roxas could see that Sora was calm to some degree and wouldn't be breaking out in tears anytime soon. So he asked the question that plagued him since last night.

"Sora... Were you using telepathy?" Sora looked confused for a moment before a look of understanding replaced it.

"I might have been doing it on accident, like you did." He said. Roxas was startled by his answer.

"'On accident like I did'? I've never used telepathy."

"Yes you have. When we were going into Kairi's house to finger paint and you touched me, you were thinking 'He is weird' or something like that. I don't remember. But I jumped back because it was really loud in my head and it scared me." Sora replied. Roxas thought for a moment, but he couldn't remember what he was thinking either.

"So we can talk to each other in our minds now?" Roxas asked.

"I guess so... I don't know how. We've been doing it on accident." Sora repeated. Roxas thought back to the incident Sora referred to. When Sora stopped, Roxas was a little worried and was wondering what was going on in his head. Maybe that's how he did it.

"Sora, I'm going to try to do it on purpose okay? Tell me if you hear anything." Sora nodded seriously. 'Do you hear me?' Roxas asked in his mind. Sora didn't respond to anything so he guessed it didn't work. He tried a little harder this time, trying to put himself in Sora's head. 'Do you hear me Sora?' He asked again.

This time, Sora flinched and nodded his head. A small smile spread across his lips. "Yes, I hear you, but you think too loud." He replied. Roxas chuckled.

"Now you try." He said. Sora nodded his head again and adopted a look of concentration on his face. A couple of minutes passed and Roxas didn't hear so much as a whisper.

"... uh, Sora are you even trying?" He asked.

"Of course I'm trying. But it's not working!" He pouted. "How did you do it?"

"I just thought about being in your head." He answered. Sora's face turned to concentration again. This time, Roxas heard the faintest whisper in his head.

"I can hear you, but I don't know what you're saying. It sounds like mumbling and it's really quiet."

"But I'm yelling at you!" He answered. Roxas narrowed his eyes and Sora suddenly found the ceiling interesting.

"Why would you yell? I was talking normally and it was already loud enough!" Roxas said angrily. Sora laughed. Roxas kept his annoyed expression, but he was happy that Sora's nightmare didn't put him down too much. He let Sora laugh a little more and all was quiet again.

"Maybe you just need more practice." Roxas suggested. He was confused as to why Sora could do it perfectly fine unconsciously, yet unable to do it if he tried.

"Maybe." Sora huffed. Roxas sighed and realized they should probably get up soon for the day ahead.

"What do you want to do today Sora? We could go draw in our secret club house some more." Roxas suggested. Sora didn't answer and Roxas's worry crept onto his face. Seeing this, Sora just shook his head.

"I... don't really want to go outside today." He finally answered. Sora was tired, more so than usual. He didn't want to do much of anything today but lie around in bed, but his mother would never let him do that.

"Well... what do you want to do?" Roxas asked. Sora simply shrugged. Roxas sighed again and climbed off of Sora's bed, but he didn't walk off. He had a strange feeling that he should stay close to Sora and not be separate for too long.

Following his example, Sora carefully climbed off of his bed. He never got to experience a morning where his feet didn't hurt from stepping on sharp objects. It was refreshing. Sora smiled and walked with Roxas to the bathroom.

"I've got you now Roxas!" Sora shouted excitedly as he finally passed Roxas in the race. Sora had finally decided he wanted to play video games all day. He and Roxas were in the living room playing Mario Kart on their Wii.

"You wish!" He responded and easily regained the lead. By the end of the race they were about neck to neck heading toward the finish line. Right when Sora was about to win a race against Roxas for the first time ever, their mother suddenly stepped in front of the TV and turned it off.

"Mommy! I was just about to win against Roxas! Why did you turn it off?" He whined. He instantly straightened up when his mother turned back around with a serious expression on her face.

"Sora. Your side of your room is an absolute mess! I've told you many, many times to keep it clean so no one would get hurt trying to walk across the room!" She scolded with her hands on her hips. Sora cringed under her gaze.

Roxas just chuckled. He suddenly thought up a great way to rub how right he was in Sora's face, or rather his head.

'I told you so.' he said in his mind. Sora shifted slightly and then turned to glare at Roxas. He knew he got the message so he laughed quietly. If his mother heard him laughing, he would have gotten in trouble too.

"You aren't allowed to play any video games until your room is spotless and everything is put where it's supposed to be. Understand young man?" She questioned.

"Okay." Sora mumbled under his breath.

"I can't hear you."

"Yes, mommy."

"Good. I'll be there to check in thirty minutes." She finished. Sora sulked back to their bedroom and Roxas followed him with a big grin.

"Sora, if you do that again, you're going to get into even more trouble." Roxas said as he watched his brother from his bed. Sora, lazy as usual, decided to try and trick their mother by shoving everything into the closet. Roxas warned him it would never work and she would know.

"Be quiet Roxas. I know what I'm doing. Okay?" Sora muttered.

"Well, when you get in trouble again, I'll just tell you 'told you so' again." He replied. Sora paused in his actions for a moment to stick his tongue at Roxas before continuing with his chore.

"She won't find out! It's perfect. She wouldn't look to see if the closet is clean if the floor is clean. She'll think the closet is clean too." He reasoned. Roxas just shook his head and fell backwards onto his bed and gazed at the ceiling. He turned his attention back to the room when Sora shut the closet door, but continued to lie on the bed.

"I'm finished mommy!" Sora called. He waited a couple of minutes before their mother entered the room. She looked at Sora's side with a critical eye. She already knew he had stuffed everything into their closet. She walked straight to the closet doors and flung them open. Everything Sora stuffed in there tumbled out around her feet. She paused and then turned around to Sora who had his hands grasped behind his back and looking down at his feet.

"Sora!" She said. He snapped his head up to see his mother approaching him. Sora knew he was probably going to be spanked now. He was surprised that Roxas hadn't already told him 'told you so'.

He watched her approach and he noticed that his vision was wavering on the edges. As she approached, she slowly changed into the figure without a head. Sora sucked in some breath and jammed his eyes shut. He brought up his hands to cover his eyes. He was shaking from head to toe in fear. It was from the dream he had last night.

'It's not real!' He repeated to himself.

Sora's mother watched in confusion. She had intended to spank him, but the closer she came to him, the more he started to shake. She was about three feet away from him and he suddenly closed his eyes and used his hands to further shield them.

She stopped in her tracks. Sora had never reacted this way to a spanking. She barely tapped her sons on the bottom when they did some wrong, but it got her point across. But now, Sora was acting as if she were threatening him with a knife. She reached out to touch him but jerked to a stop when Roxas suddenly shouted.

"Wait mommy!" Roxas called. He jumped off of his bed and ran up to where she was standing. Although he had been lying down on his bed till now, he was breathing hard and sweat trickled down his face.

After Sora had stuffed all his mess into the closet and closed it, Roxas had dozed off a bit. He was vaguely aware that his mother had entered the room, no doubt already knowing what Sora did. He was close to falling asleep when a scene suddenly interrupted his peace. Although everything was blurry and dim, Roxas could see that he was looking into his knees. His eyes slowly opened and met with two poles he assumed was someone's legs.

Unable to control where his vision went, his view slowly traveled up what he assumed to be a person, but its body was bulky and ridged like they were in a metal armor. His vision continued to rise until it stopped where the person's head was, or where it was supposed to be.

'It's not real!' a voice cried. Roxas gasped and sat up in his bed. He saw his mother approaching Sora with confusion written on her face. He looked down at Sora who was visibly shaking with his hands covering his eyes.

Roxas was standing in between Sora and his mother trying to control his breathing. He guessed what he just saw was a part of Sora's nightmare he had before and he was watching from Sora's point of view. Why he was able to see it, he didn't know and was a little scared to find out.

"What's wrong Roxas?" His mother asked. Her voice was a mix of confusion and fear. She didn't know what was going on with them. Roxas stood there and looked at her for another moment before turning around to look at Sora, who was still shaking with his eyes covered. Roxas reached out and grabbed Sora by his shoulders, causing him to flinch violently.

"Sora?" He called, but he didn't respond and continued to cover his eyes. He was almost in the same state as he was the night before, but he wasn't crying. "Sora?" He called again, but still got no response. Roxas paused in thought for a moment before he tried something new.

'Sora? Can you hear me?' He echoed through his mind. There was a pregnant pause before Sora rigidly nodded his head. Once Roxas got confirmation, he continued. 'You know it's not real. It was just a dream. You don't have to be scared.' As he talked, Sora's shaking lessened. After a couple of minutes, Sora brought his hands down and Roxas also dropped his. Only one tear had stained his face.

"Roxas? What's going on?" His mother asked. Her voice was a little shaky. Roxas turned to face his mother. He didn't see the harm in telling her about Sora's nightmare, but he hesitated.

"Nothing's wrong." Sora said quietly. She was about to object but Roxas cut her off.

"Mommy, Sora isn't really feeling good today. That's all." There was a long pause before she stood up and walked to the bedroom door.

"Sora, I can see you're not feeling well, but please clean up your room. Okay?" She asked quietly. He nodded and she walked out of the room, closing the door behind her.

She continued to walk all the way to the living room and plopped down on the arm chair. She was utterly lost. Both of them were acting strange. She knew something was off while they were eating breakfast. Sora wasn't whispering quietly to Roxas about his sore feet and Roxas wasn't threatening to tell on him about the room under his breath. They never knew she could hear them the whole time.

They ate quietly all through their meal. Sora never looked up from his cereal and Roxas occasionally glanced at him as if he were worried. When Sora suddenly jumped up in his chair and loudly told Roxas he wanted to play video games, she thought that she was probably thinking too much. But now, she knew she wasn't. They had never acted this way before, even when they were sick or something related. From the look Roxas gave her, they were definitely hiding something.

She sighed heavily. She felt so helpless. Her two youngest sons were keeping something from her, and by the way Sora was acting, it was probably something very frightening. She vaguely wondered if Sora and Roxas were drifting away from her, wondered if they even wanted her help. She had always been the first one the twins ran to when they were scared, and she would always comfort them, and fight away whatever fearful entity her children claimed to be plaguing them. But now she felt like she couldn't help them; that this was something Sora and Roxas had to overcome on their own.

Sighing once more, she scooted forward a bit and reached her hand out to grab a letter she had gotten earlier that day. She opened the already broken envelope and pulled out the letter to read it again.

Hey Mom. This is Ven. I wanted to let you know that I'm coming home for the twins birthday and I'm bringing two of my friends. Sorry I haven't written much, but I'm fine and my training is going well.

See You Soon,

Ven

She chuckled a bit. He was never one for writing letters. When he did, they were always simple and short with no detail.

'I wish you were here now to help me.' She thought. Her oldest son always knew how to find out what they were hiding. She was shaken from her musings when someone knocked on the door.

"Sora, do you want me to help you?" Roxas asked again. When their mother left, Sora sat down on the floor and tucked his legs in his chest. Roxas sat down next to him and watched Sora as he watched himself wriggle his toes. He wouldn't talk or anything. Roxas sighed heavily. There was a long silence before he spoke again.

"You know, Sora, I saw some of your dream when I was half asleep a minute ago." Roxas said. He knew this grabbed Sora's attention because he stiffened and stopped wriggling his toes. "I only saw a blurry version, but it was still scary." Now Sora turned his head to look at his brother. "It was scary, Sora, but it was only a dream. We can't stay scared or else we'll worry mommy." He explained. Sora contemplated and looked back down at his feet.

Roxas was about to continue before their bedroom door opened and Riku, Kairi, and Naminé walked in. Sora lifted up his head and the room was filled with awkward silence.

"...What are you guys doing here?" Roxas asked. Riku crossed his arms across his chest and tapped his foot impatiently. He had come over to scold them for not showing up to the sparring match. He met Kairi and Naminé on the way over and they insisted they come along.

"Did you guys forget? You promised me a spar today." He said. When neither of them responded, he lifted an eyebrow. Usually, Sora would already be stuttering some excuse about it being Roxas's fault, but he was silent.

"Sora wasn't feeling good today and didn't want to go outside." Roxas explained. "And right now, Sora has to clean his side of the room."

"That's what your mommy said." Kairi added. "Well, since Sora isn't feeling good, how about we help clean your room?" Naminé nodded in agreement, but Riku snorted.

"Kairi, you should never ask to clean Sora's room. It's a pigsty." He said as he pointed to the closet where miscellaneous stuff currently flowed from. He knew Sora had tried to trick his mom again by putting everything into the closet.

Kairi huffed. "It's not that messy! It just needs to be organized!" Roxas wondered what she considered to be messy.

"Do you want our help?" Naminé asked again, unaware she had repeated something similar to what Roxas asked earlier. Sora glanced at each of them before he quickly looked back down at his feet. Roxas was worried he wasn't going to answer, but smiled when he realized Sora was hiding a blush.

"Please?" He answered quietly.

Everyone had gone home after helping Sora clean up his room. He had eventually opened up and enjoyed himself, while cleaning none the less. But as night came closer, Roxas noticed he became quieter. He was also very slowly getting ready for bed, like he didn't want to go to sleep. When they had nightmares before, they would sleep with their mom for a couple of days, but since they decided not to tell her, he couldn't really just ask to sleep with her without telling her why. So Roxas did the next best thing.

"Hey Sora?"

"Yeah?" Sora responded. They were walking at snails pace back to the bedroom.

"Do you want to sleep with me tonight? I know you're scared." Roxas teased. To his surprise, Sora ran past him into their room. He was shocked. He ran into the room after Sora and found him sprawled over his bed so he had no where to lie down.

"Hey!" Roxas shouted. He jumped on his bed and shoved Sora over to one side and lay down next to him. Sora laughed heartily. "Are you feeling better now?" He asked. Sora turned on his side to face Roxas and nodded with a smile.

"I'm not scared anymore. It was just a dream, right?" He replied. In all honesty, he was still afraid, but only if he was by himself.

When they had fallen asleep, their mother crept into the room. She was a bit surprised that they had slept in the same bed. She smiled as she approached Roxas's bed. They both looked relaxed, not tense like before. She just looked at them for a while and gently brushed their hair from their faces. She kissed them both lightly on their foreheads and tucked them in a little more comfortably before she quietly left the room.

That night, both of them had peaceful dreams.

After this segment, Please Rewind the tape for Review

-Well... this chapter not only is longer that the rest, but it took longer to write too. And only because expressing some of the emotional parts was SO cheesy to me :I . I rewrote them 3 times and they're still cheesy enough to eat in a grilled cheese sandwich. Examples of what I had trouble with:

--With their mom, I was trying to portray that yeah, she was in charge, she was worried about her kids, but she couldn't do anything about the situation. I hope you were able to get that. I wanted her little sitting on the couch thing to be more saddening and hopeless feeling, but breaking down in tears was so cliché.

--And with the boys, Sora was very, very scared. I know I didn't display that much in this chapter, but that's because something... more unpleasant will coming soon. I was going to have him a little more... twitchy and paranoid, but then he might have been mistaken as a psychopath. We have Vanny for that.

--But, AngelOfLostLight helped me out with some of those emotional parts :D So they aren't really cheesy anymore! *Takes down the cheese warning*

IMPORTANT YEAH?

-So, before you get confused, I'll tell you about the part where Sora suddenly saw that beheaded figure as his mom.

1. No, their mom isn't the beheaded figure from the dream. She has nothing to do with anything they are going through. She won't be involved in it either.

2. Sora was hallucinating. His mom was approaching him the same was that the figure was in his dream and some residual fear present itself as a hallucination causing... (#3)

3. Roxas in turn saw what Sora was envisioning, or what he had seen in his dream due to their new telepathic abilities. This will play a big part later on.

-Another point, although it technically is telepathy, they can only communicate with each others 'minds' (cough). They can't walk up to Riku and know what he's thinking or speak to him in his mind. I can't tell you the reason for that yet though. There's a reason for that cough btw. *whistles innocently*

Hmm... what else... oh yeah. Ven doesn't like writing letters. lol

I hope you enjoyed this one... I spent 2 more days writing this than other chapters T_T. Laters~