'Sora's memories...' Roxas suddenly felt detached to reality. All those memories of a beach, of his possible past, even Leon. All of then were Sora's memories. Not his, but Sora's. He could feel something negative inside him growing at the mention of Sora. 'Sora, Sora, Sora. Why is everything about SORA?!'

"Make them stop..." he growled.

"Huh"

Roxas pushed Axel away from him. "HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP!?" Axel was dumbstruck, but he couldn't blame Roxas for lashing out. Instead he let Roxas continue his outburst.

"I DONT WANT HIS MEMORIES, I DONT WANT HIS POWER! I AM ME! NOBODY ELSE!" Roxas was breathing heavily.

'So angry, so emotional... Roxas, are you don't have a heart?' Axel looked around, lucky there were no people in the square at the moment. But the boy had a point. Axel had meet Sora, fought him firsthand. There was a world of difference between the two kids. Axel rubbed the back of his as he looked up the night sky. The stars looked back at him as if mocking his lack of ability to keep his friends safe.

'Sora's memories are flowing into Roxas, not only is Roxas losing himself. But without his memories Sora can't wake up.'

"I'm not Sora."

Axel turned his attention to Roxas. "No, you're not. But you're also not thinking straight, come on. We're heading back to the hotel."

•••

Roxas waited impatiently on the bed. As soon as they got to the hotel room Axel went straight to the bathroom with a bag. It had been a while since the man went in, Roxas didn't even want to know what Axel was doing. So instead he began to look through some stuff Axel brought from The World That Never was.

'Some extra cloaks, potions, ethers.' He examined each object carefully. 'Axel really did leave the Organization.' He thought to himself as he spotted some of his and Axel's personal items. Roxas frowned at the idea of going through Axel's stuff without the man's permission, he opted instead for looking through his own stuff instead. He was surprised to see Axel packed his journal along with a box full of sea shell. Even his piggy bank in the shape of a face was there.

'We can never go home now...' he thought rather sadly.

"Hey Roxas notice anything different."

Roxas lifted his head towards the bathroom entrance. His jaw immediately dropped. "Axel?!"

Axel smirked. "So tell me what you think."

Roxas stuttered over his words. His mind could not understand what was in front of him. He knew it was Axel, but he looked so different. Axel's hair was tied up in a long ponytail with several stands falling on his face. His face marks were gone, just flat out gone. And his outfit Roxas could clearly see a white dress shirt underneath the partially opened cloak.

"Pretty sweet right?" Axel's words brought Roxas out of his thoughts.

"Uh Axel, what's going on?"

Axel chuckled, "What? You really think going out in matching cloaks isn't suspicious? We're criminals now, we need to blend in. Speaking of which, I let your old clothes in the bathroom, put those on underneath your cloak. You never know when we'll a DC to make a quick escape."

Roxas nodded and rushed towards the bathroom. Axel's grin faded as the boy vanished from sight. He sighed. He bought sometime but he stilled a man. Axel threw himself onto the bed. He took a quick glance at the memory before letting his hair down, or rather letting it go back up. There was a time, no matter how short, where Sora and Roxas coexisted without any issues. Of course then the Organization got involved. But it all started in Castle Oblivion.

'To lose is to find huh, maybe by going back to C.O. we'll remember about... about... about them just long enough to find Namine.' Axel stared up at the ceiling. 'Then we can separate their memories, both Roxas's and Sora's.' Axel stole a glance to the bathroom door. 'It's a long shot, going to C.O. brings the possibility of alerting the Organization and having them find him. Namine... we're going have to fight Riku again in order to get to you, right.'

Axel closed his eyes. "Why do I always get stuck with the icky jobs."

Roxas examined himself in the mirror. It had been a long since he's worn regular clothes. He had to admit, it felt nice, almost human. The black and white pattern suited him. He fiddled with the "X" charm on his zipper. It gave a sense of belonging. He had no problem slipping his cloak over his clothes.

He sighed, 'Still just a Nobody.' His blue eyes looked back at him. 'Roxas. This is him, this is Sora.'
He blinked. His eyes were still blue, but instead of blonde he saw brown. The spiked went from upward to sideways. A round baby faced boy stared back at him with a sad smile.
"͓̩̭ͅT͖͚h͉͙i̷͉s̺̺̣ͅ i̟͝s͏ ͇̳̯͈̰̥ͅS̜͚̠̦̼o̼̣͚ͅr͔̣á̜̮͖̥̬͎..̀.̺͓͉̤̘̗"̝͙

Roxas jumped back. The mirror was cracked but his reflection was back to being his. He reached and carefully touched the mirror's surface.
"Sora..."

•••

Axel watched as Roxas exited the bathroom.

"Have you ever met him? Sora?" Roxas made his way to bed and sat next to Axel.

Axel didn't look away from the ceiling. "I met him, Xemnas sent me on a mission to Castle Oblivion." Roxas perked up as Axel continued. "My job was to eliminate any traitors within the Organization, ran into Sora there. Marluxia and Larxene bit off more than could chew with the Keyblade wielder. It's a shame the other's got caught in it. Meh, at least those two deserved it." He purposely let the part where he was directly responsible for the death of the others.

"What... what's he like?" Roxas was asking all the questions Axel was expecting him too. It made weaving in and out the truth easier.

Axel faked cringed. "Cheery, the guy is the literal definition of sunshine. He's strong but personality is the complete opposite of yours. Other than that he's a decent guy."

Roxas shifted towards Axel. "Well where is he?"

Axel finally peeled his eyes away from the ceiling. "Sleeping, just like you do sometimes. There was this memory witch, Marluxia forced her to mess with Sora's memories. Now he's sleeping while she puts them together."

Roxa jumped off the bed. "Well. Let's go find her! Maybe she can do something about our memories! And maybe... maybe she has the answer to bring you know who back."

Axel sighed. There it was. "It's not that simple Roxas. When Sora was put to sleep, Riku came and took both Sora and Naminé away. I double checked the whole castle, no one's there. They're not in that world. We would have to find them."

Roxas shook his head. "Then let's find them Axel! I can't tell what's real or not anymore. I don't know which pieces are his or mine. We have to find them"

Axel couldn't help but to smile. "You know Rox, I'm starting to think Demyx was right about you having a heart."

"Does that mean?"

Axel nodded, "Tomorrow we start tracking down Sora and Naminé. But for tonight let's get some shut eye."

AN: I am so sorry its progressing slowly, but I have two other fics and college so I'm going to try to push at the very least once a week. As always feel free to like and review, any comments are always helpful. Until next time.