Hello, all! I had a nasty bout with writer's block, but I'm back with a vengeance!

Quick note: Just for clarification, I don't 'ship' S x K. I 'ship' R x N. S x K just happens to be necessary in this particular fic. Poor nobodies.

Enjoy!

Sora quickly retrieved the rope ladder from his bottom dresser drawer, and tossed it over the windowsill. Kairi scaled it quickly, and climbed into his room. He couldn't believe that he had randomly jolted awake when Kairi had been standing outside of his window. Then again, there was no way he was complaining—in fact, his luck seemed absolutely unreal. His thoughts began racing—was Kairi here to confess to being madly in love with Riku? Or, as he hoped, was she here to confess something else…?

"How have you been?" Kairi asked. "Since… you know… yesterday?"

"Fine," Sora replied. "Mom didn't catch me."

"That's good news," Kairi said, smiling slightly.

"The way you woke me up really sucked, you know," Roxas told Naminé, laughing.

Naminé grinned. "There was no other way! I'm sorry."

"No, it's okay… you just must have been really desperate to talk to me."

Naminé hesitated. "Yeah… I'd much rather see you, though."

"And unfortunately, that's not possible," Roxas said, disappointed.

"How's Sora?"

"He thinks Kairi likes Riku," Roxas answered. "He's not too bright, I'm finding out."

"Oh, well," Naminé shrugged. "They'll figure out they like each other eventually."

"So she does like him?" Roxas brightened up. "Perfect! Let's just get them together, and—"

"How, Roxas?" Naminé asked. "I mean, I've already thought this through, and I didn't have any good ideas."

Roxas thought for a moment. "Hmm… you're right. There isn't anything we can really do."

"So," Naminé said casually. "Has Sora talked to Riku since yesterday?"

"Nope," Roxas replied. "Why?"

"No reason," Naminé said. "Wanna know why Kairi is here?"

"Uh, yeah," Roxas said immediately. "I tried to think of why you—I mean, she would be here, but…"

"She's been having dreams about Sora, and wants to find out if they're more than just dreams," Naminé told him.

"Good dreams?" Roxas asked.

"Yeah," Naminé answered slowly. "Why?"

"Sora has been having very bad dreams about Kairi and Riku pushing him out of tree houses," Roxas told her.

"Uh oh," Naminé groaned.

"Why are you here?" Sora finally asked her, sounding a little bitter.

"Sora, I'm your friend. Am I not allowed here or something?" Kairi asked, taken aback.

Sora sighed. "It's complicated."

Kairi's eyes narrowed. "Friendship isn't complicated, Sora."

Sora remained silent.

"Do you want to come to the secret place with me?" Kairi asked him, mind fluttering to the place where she knew a certain drawing was, which would make things a whole lot easier for Sora to understand.

"I can't leave. I'm grounded, remember?"

"Didn't stop you yesterday," Kairi pointed out.

"I can't, Kairi, I'm sorry."

"Fine. Then, let's talk about dreams. What have you been dreaming about lately?" she asked.

"Nothing," Sora lied. "Nothing important, anyway."

Kairi watched him carefully. "Liar."

"Fine. You and Riku keep pushing me out of the tree house, in every dream that I have," Sora confessed, eyes focused on the ground.

Kairi gasped. "Sora, we'd never do that!"

He looked up at her, and stared her down. "You sure?"

"Yes!" Kairi insisted, still shocked. "I can't believe you'd ever even think that!"

"It's not that hard for me to think, when, you know, I see you chasing after Riku," Sora said, surprised that the thing that had been ripping at his insides had popped out of his mouth that easily.

"What?"

"Don't think I didn't see your little fishing expedition."

"Yeah, you didn't. You were here… weren't you?"

"No. I followed you," Sora confessed, suddenly feeling ashamed of himself.

"Sora… you're crazy," Kairi said flatly. "There is no way that Riku and me—"

"Whatever," Sora muttered.

"You know what? I thought you were nicer… no, smarter… than this," Kairi said, voice quivering. "If you had half a brain, you could figure out what's really going on here!" She halfway leaped out the window, scaled down the ladder, and took off back towards her house.

"No way… they're fighting!" Roxas exclaimed.

"Roxas, Kairi is going to leave… Roxas!" Naminé shouted as Kairi climbed out the window. "Roxas, I need to say something!"

"Naminé, I don't know when I'll talk to you again, but I wanted to tell you—!"

His voice cut off, and Naminé knew that she was too far away to talk to him anymore. As Kairi cried, Naminé felt no relief, and was suddenly jealous—why couldn't she, Naminé, cry? She was just as upset as Kairi. What had she done to deserve this? Sora and Kairi may fight, but they're not the ones who really get hurt, Naminé thought bitterly. If only I could be a somebody.

I can't believe she's gone, Roxas thought. I wonder if I'll ever see—I mean, talk to her again. I can only hope that Sora comes around, or I'll never get to tell her. She saved me, back in Twilight Town… and at the same time, she destroyed me. In the end, though, we both lost. So… what now? We're trapped inside other people's bodies… our original home… and can never speak again. I suppose if she hadn't been so great… it wouldn't be this bad.

Sora sat, thoroughly miserable, on the edge of his bed. Somehow, getting his feelings out hadn't helped as much as he thought it would. In fact, it made him feel much worse than he had before.

Kairi had called him stupid, basically. She had said something was going on… and now Sora's brain was wracked with curiosity. What in the world is going on here? If only he was still friends with Kairi. Maybe, just maybe, talking to Riku would be a good idea. As long as, you know, he didn't mention anything about him and Kairi, Sora figured he'd slide by without losing another friend.

As Riku walked to Sora's house, he heard sobbing coming from behind a tree. He peered cautiously around the trunk of the tree, and found Kairi leaning up against the other side of the tree, tears steadily flowing down her cheeks.

"Kairi, are you okay?" Riku asked immediately, worried.

"No," Kairi replied, sniffling. "Sora and I—w-we had a fight."

"You and Sora had a fight?"

"Uh-huh," she said, wiping the tears from her face hastily. "It was about… he thinks you and me are—"

"Damn," Riku swore. "I knew he'd frickin' follow us. Listen, Kairi… you're my baby sister. No offense. I guess I'd better go talk to him."

Kairi nodded, and Riku pulled her into a hug.

I wish I could be a somebody.

"Why would you wish that?" Riku asked. "You already are one."

"Riku… I didn't say anything."

"What!" Was he insane?

I want to be able to cry… I'll never see Roxas again.

"Kairi?"

"Hmm?"

"You're crying."

"I know."

Thoroughly confused, Riku wondered why in the world Kairi would be saying things like this. He looked at her, still confused, until he heard the voice again.

He can hear me, I think. Kairi's lips hadn't moved.

I can, Riku thought. Who are you?

But there was no reply.

"Riku? Could you go talk to Sora?" Kairi asked, hastily wiping away tears.

He nodded. "I'll get this fixed, don't worry."

As Riku trudged to Sora's house, he was deep in thought. Who in the world had spoken to him? There was no way it could have been Kairi, she didn't have any desire to see Roxas. Thanks to Kairi, however, Riku knew someone who wanted to see Roxas very badly.

Naminé.

But there was no way he could possibly have communicated with Naminé… could he? He wasn't a nobody, she didn't exist anymore, and he was relatively certain that he wasn't insane. There was just no way. Then again… if Kairi could feel what Naminé felt at certain times… Riku knew he'd have to take this up with the King eventually, but at the moment, he had to attend to more pressing matters.

How in the world was he going to fix what he had broken between Sora and Kairi?

He figured he probably wouldn't be a welcome visitor to Sora's house, but knew that he had to do something to fix this—it was partially his fault. When he reached Sora's window, he was relieved to see that he wouldn't have to go hunting around for pebbles to get Sora's attention—Sora was looking out the window, staring off into space.

"Sora!" he called up to him.

Sora stared down at him. "Wow, you picked a good time to come here."

Riku rolled his eyes. "I ran into Kairi, and she told me what happened."

Sora stared at him.

"Everything," Riku said. "And you're wrong, Sora."

Sora looked up at the sky. "I figured."

Riku laughed. "You did not! Liar, liar."

"Okay, fine, I really thought you wanted her for like a second there," Sora admitted. "So, whatever, I guess."

"Not, 'whatever'," Riku said. "Go find her and apologize or something. She's really sad."

Sora stared off into space again. "I just don't know."

"Wow. What's got you all freaking out?" Riku asked, surprised that Sora wasn't jumping at his chance to make up with Kairi.

"It's like… I don't know. I feel like maybe it would… you know… wreck our friendship if something were to happen between her and me," Sora explained.

"Wait… you mean… our friendship?" Riku questioned, confused.

"Yeah. Cause we'd be leaving you out sometimes and stuff."

Riku chuckled a little. "Sora, Sora, Sora… If you don't think I can deal with that, you've got another thing coming. Just don't ever break up… cause then, things would be a little awkward."

"Just go find yourself a girl, and maybe, just maybe I'll say something to Kairi… or something."

"Stop whining, Sora," Riku said. "Stop it and go apologize."

Yeah. You should totally go apologize, jerk.

Riku froze. Sora's mouth had not moved. Oh, not again, Riku thought.

Not again what?

Damn, Riku swore to himself. It's happening…

What, have you talked to me before? I don't recognize you…

I… Do you want to talk to Naminé? Riku thought desperately.

Yeah, yeah! How'd you know?

Wild guess, Riku thought sheepishly.

"I think I'll let her cool off for awhile," Sora was saying. "Riku? You okay?"

"Yeah, yeah," Riku murmured. I'd better go find out what's going on with me.

Dadadummm... Riku's going insane! Who will he talk to to find out what's going on? What IS going on? Read chapter 4, coming soon, to find out!

Thanks for reading!

Lulala