My eyes opened as the sun light poured into my room, my head feeling a little funny from last night. I slowly sat up and looked out the window, thinking about what had happened last night…. I wanted to know what was going on. For now there was nothing I could do about it so I figured I'd go meet up with Kairi and Riku to see what they thought. I quickly got dressed and headed down stairs. After grabbing something to eat I headed outside and then…. It happened again… I was on my knees having a battle of mind power…

I stood, trying to keep in control, thinking only of getting to Kairi and Riku. I took a step and was suddenly blown off my feet by some unknown force, I could feel something separate from my very being and then I hit the ground hard. The struggle in my mind was gone at least….

"What… what happened?"

"Ugh… I don't know…" answered some mysterious voice… yet one that was familiar to me.

My eyes shot open and I looked up to see… how? It couldn't be possible, yet there he was, staring at me with the exact same awe-struck look I gave him.

"R…Roxas!" "Sora!" We shouted each others name in unison and disbelief. We both stood and circled each other to see if the other was real. His movements mirroring my own… We reached out to each other slowly and our hands met. "Roxas… what's going on?" I was in total confusion now.

"I don't know, After I became part of you again I thought I would cease to exists, and simply make you whole again, but what feels like only hours ago, I could feel again, I couldn't talk or move or see but I could feel something ripping me in half, something of darkness… and it got worse and worse and then suddenly, here I am… I could feel something… invading you…. invading us." Roxas spoke with as much confusion as I had.

"Well whatever it is, it can't be good." I said, still looking at Roxas in disbelief.

"Hey Sora, lets go see Kairi, if this happened to us it may have happened to Kairi and Namine."

My eyes widened as I thought Kairi might be going through the same thing and before Roxas could say another word I was running as fast I could to her house. I got there and quickly banged on her door, Roxas coming up behind me a moment later. I banged again, waiting for Kairi when she finely answered the door, she seemed ok enough.

"Sora why are you banging on my door?" she asked as she opened the door and saw me, then she noticed the expression on my face "What's wrooOOAHHH!" and she didn't finish her sentence as she noticed Roxas and fell over "HE…YOU…. BUT! WHAT……." before she could continue her rambling words I helped her up and asked "Has anything strange happened to you lately? have you felt weird at all, or maybe seen or talked to Namine!" I asked rather bluntly but all she could do was give me another strange look. "N…no. Sora, what's going on?"

"Let's go find Riku and I'll explain everything that I can."

We went and quickly found him and I explained everything that had happened since yesterday. From hating Riku for a moment on the beach to now, with Roxas' help. When I finished I had a dumb founded look from Kairi and a quizzical one from Riku. After a moment of silence Riku finely spoke up "Why didn't you tell us any of this earlier, when it began happening?"

All I could do was shrug "It didn't seem like a big deal when it first began, so I just kinda shrugged it off and didn't think about it"

"Well what can we do about it?" Roxas asked to quickly change the subject.

No one could answer… none of us had any ideas, especially since we didn't know what it was or how it attacks. In the end we agreed we'd have to deal with it. the next time my mind was attacked.

I spent the rest of the day by myself on the beach, looking out at the island. I didn't feel like taking my boat out there. I laid back and closed my eyes staring up at the sky, thinking of what was going to happen to me. I began to drift off to a light sleep. I thought of Kairi and Riku and was glad that, despite whatever was going to happen, we were going to be together. I held on to my thoughts as long as I could until I was completely asleep on the beach.

I awoke with a start, seeing the sun set in front of me. I picked my self up and began to walk to my house. I passed Kairi's house but chose to leave her be tonight. after what seemed like forever, I reached my house only to find Kairi sitting on my door step, so much for leaving her be tonight. I walked up to her and smiled, standing up. She may have been smiling but it was obvious concern was plastered across her face. I opened the door silently and we walked in, not saying much.

"You know Sora, school's going to be starting again soon, I dare say you've fallen behind, saving the universe and all" She giggled a little but for some reason this only irritated me. "And how soon would that be Kairi?".

"Oh I don't know…like, tomorrow" I rolled my eyes and slumped into a chair, my annoyance only growing worse.

"Don't worry, I'll help you out with everything" She said cheerfully.

"I don't think I'm going to school Kairi" I said rather matter of factly.

"But Sora, you have to go! I'll bet everyone wants to see you again!" she walked over to me and I stood up, looking away from her. "So? What's your point? I don't want to go to school, plain and simple" An edge grew in my voice as my annoyance turned to anger.

"Sora!" She grabbed my arm and tugged a little "Please!"

At that point I don't know what happened… I just snapped. I violently pulled my arm from her grip, whirled on her and raised my hand to slap her…. She flinched and closed her eyes, protecting her face with her hands…. and I froze… When she realized I hadn't hit her, she opened her eyes to see me slowly lowering my hand, a look of horror on my own face. I didn't know what was coming over me…. "Kairi… go home… now…"

"Sora…"

"NOW!" She backed away as I yelled. She knew I didn't yell in anger but in fear. Fear of what I might do next.

"Will I… will I see you in school tomorrow at least?" I couldn't help it and I gave in just to make her leave quicker " yeah… sure… I guess"

and with that she headed to the door… She opened it and looked back at me….a tear running down her cheek, I could feel my heart cringe with pain. Then she left. I sighed and sat down again "GRAAAAGHHH! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME!"

A moment later there was a knock on my door. I couldn't believe, she was back after all that. I opened the door but it wasn't her.

"Errr I kind of need a place to stay… at least until things are…. normal again." I shook my head and gestured for Roxas to come in.

"You know Sora, we never got a REAL chance to talk…"

" I guess your right." I admitted, and for a few hours we simply sat there and talked, telling each other everything that had happened, what we each went through, how exactly it was that Roxas was created in hollow bastion. It reminded Sora of his adventure. Finely the two decided to hit the sack late into the night.

Sora had trouble sleeping, not because of the mind attacks this time, but because of his thoughts of Kairi. How could I even THINK of hurting her… was it more anger caused by what ever this……THING in my head is? Kairi…I can only hope that you can forgive me… after some hours of restlessness I finally drifted asleep. It was by no means peaceful, but it was sleep none the less.

Allrighty I had writers block or something, I dunno but this chapter just didn't seem very good at all to me. I'll try to make the next one a lot better.

I'd like to thank my only 3 reviewers so far, Kairi, Moogle girl X2, and AngellusTheAngellicDeamon

please R&R reviews are what inspire me to write more