Chapter 13

The next couple of days went as best as things could for Riku, Namine, and DiZ. Roxas was within the Digital Twilight Town while Namine tried her best to restore Sora's memories. There wasn't too much to worry about at first, but slowly the Organization was trying to slip into the system to get Roxas back.

Riku himself tried his best to keep doing what he wanted, or whenever DiZ needed his help with something. Most of the time it was something within the system that he would have to go and check. Either way, no matter what he did, he had begun to talk far less than he normally would.

Namine would try to check on him when in between restoring Sora's memories, but other than that she was left with barely any time to do much of anything else. She wished that she could do more for him, but most of the time he seemed distant and lost in his own thoughts. It was as if his mind was elsewhere half of the time and it didn't make any sense to her.

Namine sighed as she went back to pieces back the memories. She closed her eyes trying to draw on the memories that still resided within Roxas. That was another thing that she kept on wondering about, but also kept quiet about. Roxas was within the simulation, and to him everything was real due to the fact Namine had to place fake memories into him.

But within doing that, there were a couple of times she could notice something was different. There things would be something else there with Roxas besides himself. It only happened a few short times, never long enough for her to see. But from time to time she could notice that there was a brief flash of someone else's memories. No matter how she tired, she could never get a grasp right away who they were from, but she knew they were there. Even when she had briefly met with Roxas the other day, she didn't get enough time to look into it. It still left her to wonder what it meant and if Roxas even knew.


Roxas groaned while he woke up. There were more strange dreams like before. The past several days it was always about these weird dreams that felt too real. He sat up in his bed before rubbing his face.

"Right… 'promise'..." he muttered quietly, still only half awake. He then groaned against before running his hands over his face once more. "What a mess… I don't understand…"

'It is confusing, I don't understand it myself.'

Roxas's eyes widened. "Huh?"

He jumped up to his feet and looked around. There was no one there but himself, but he could have sworn he heard a voice. It wasn't the first time too. When the strange dreams started, sometimes he would hear someone's voice. It wasn't who ever he saw in his dreams… the voice sounded almost like himself but lighter.

But since he only randomly heard this faint voice from time to time, there wasn't enough for him to really try and investigate. Plus as much as he wanted to tell his friends about it, he was sure they wouldn't understand and think of it as just some weird thing.

Roxas sighed. "They'd probably think I'm just not getting enough sleep and that's why I am hearing things."

'To be honest you haven't been getting the best of sleep lately.'

Roxas jumped again at the sudden voice. "What?... No. I'm just hearing things. It's just my thoughts being weird."

Roxas breathed in, almost expected a response, but there was nothing after that. With no more random voices floating around in his head, Roxas head out. It was the day of the Struggle Tournament anyways, he needed as much focus as he could get.

It all seemed to be going all right during the tournament, but things went strange and everything froze up on him. A strange man had shown up and he was the only other one who could move besides himself.

"You really don't remember? It's me. You know, Axel," the man said before pulling off his hood, revealing his bright red hair.

"Axel?" Roxas questioned.

'Lea!?'

Roxas shook his head at the sudden interjection. It made no sense at all why it would show up now, and of all times for him to be hearing things now was the worse time. He tried not to think about all while trying to understand why this Axel guy was even here. It didn't make things easier than Axel had summoned two charkrams and basically was threatening to kidnap him.

"What gives!? What's going on!?" Things only seemed to get weirder from there with the strange key weapon appearing back in his hands after he tried to throw it away.

"Number 13. Roxas. The Keyblade's chosen one," Axel answers.

Roxas sighed. "Like that actually gives me any answers."

'Well it makes sense to me at least, since it seems I can still remember before.'

"I didn't ask you!" Roxas shouted in his thoughts before groaning to himself. He couldn't believe what he was trying to do. If this wasn't proof enough maybe he really was going crazy.

He tried his best to not focus on that anymore and instead at Axel, who was infuriating him more than his possible insane thoughts. "Okay, fine! You asked for it!"

He engaged in a fight with Axel, but it didn't last too long as someone else entered the area seemingly out of nowhere. Axel narrowed his eyes at the man dressed in strange robed. "So it was you."

After that, everything felt like a blur with both men calling his name, making his head hurt and throb. But once he shouted the names of his friends, everything seemed to go back to normal and everything was moving and making sound once more.

There wasn't too much time process it as Roxas had to get right back to the Struggle match. He went against Setzer and ended up winning against him, that at least did boost his mood from everything else.

Faintly he could hear a light cheerful chuckle. 'Congrats.'

Roxas scoffed, doing his best to ignore the voice just like before. If it persisted, he would find a way to deal with it. Now all that was left to end the day with his friends at the clock tower now with the new trophy he had earned. It all seemed to be getting back to normal… that was until Roxas stood up on the ledge and lost his balance.


Riku here with the next chapter. Not only is it this chapter, but we also uploaded on our other story that also is on Hikari's page (for those who wanna check it out).

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