A Nobody's Heart

Ch. 8: Between Reality and Imagination

By: CRAZY-demented-WRITER-girl

Rain pattered down on the blond's head as he made his way through the outskirts of the city. That last battle had left him with several cuts and bruises; his robe was soaking wet and tattered. Thoughts ran throught Roxas's mind as he wondered aimlessly. Now that he had escaped the Organization, where would he go? Would they eventually catch him?

If he was a Nobody, why did he have the Keyblades? He didn't even have a heart, but the fact that he was just a part of a plan to use Sora hurt him. He was too busy thinking to notice where he was going. Pain streaked through his body as something hard came down on his neck. The pain was soon overtaken by darkness as he slipped into unconciousness.

- - -

"What are you going to do with him?"

"He'll be fine here. At least until I can use him."

"And Namine?"

"As we speak, she is tying Sora's memories back together."

"Sora..."

- - -

The sun filtered in and hit Roxas's face. His eyeslids fluttered open revealing deep cerulean eyes. He squinted as the light became brighter.

"Roxas!"

Roxas opened the window right above his bed and looked down. A smiled tugged at his lips when he saw his friends standing outside. He waved then jumped out of bed. Quickly, he got dressed in his usual attire and headed out the door.

"Hey guys. What's up?" He asked grinning.

"We were just heading to the skate park. Wanna come?' Pence invited.

"Uh, sure. Let me just grab my skateboard."

Roxas ran back into his house and found his black and white skateboard lying up agianst wall. He grabbed it and headed back out to join his friends. When he arrived back outside, he examined them for a minute.

Hayner was leaning agianst the wall, holding his skateboard under his arm. The skull on the bottom seemed to glare at Roxas agianst the greeb camo background. Pence held a chili dog in one hand and his blue and red skateboard in the other one. The sign on the bottom of the skateboard matched the one on the front of his shirt. When Roxas looked at Olette, she smiled and he smiled back. Her skateboard was orange with yellow flowers.

"Are we ready to go yet?" Hayner asked hurriedly, throwing his hands up in the air for emphasis.

"Sure. Let's go."

When they arrived, Roxas wasn't surprised to see the whole place swarming with kids, either eating Sea Salt Ice Cream or skateboarding. Hayner headed over to the halfpipe.

"Hey Roxas, are you just gonna stand there all day or are ya gonna skate?"

"I'm skating."

Roxas ran over to halfpipe and stood beside Hayner. They looked at each other and smiled but instead of seeing Hayner, he saw a red head staring back at him. He quickly shook his head and looked back at Hayner smiling at him. He smiled back and rode down the halfpipe.

Roxas leaned forward as he plummeted down the halfpipe. Suddenly, he could feel something in his hands. He looked down and noticed that he was no longer on his skateboard but a motorcycle. He was no longer on the halfpipe but riding down a skyscraper.

He looked back at where Hayner was supposed to be but it was the same red head he had just seen. The red head was riding beside and he looked over and smiled at Roxas.

Roxas closed his eyes, but when he opened them agian he was met by the cement of the of halfpipe. Hayner rode over to him and helped Roxas up.

"Are you okay, dude?" Hayner asked worriedly. "I've never seen you wipe out like that."

"Roxas!" They turned to see Pence and Olette skating down to meet them.

"Are you okay Roxas?" Pence asked.

"Hayner already asked me that and, yeah, I'm fine."

"Maybe you guys should rest."

"Yeah, come on, Rox. Let's go get something to eat," Hayner said, placing a hand on his stomach.

They climbed out of the halfpipe and headed over to the food counter. After ordering Sea Salt Ice Cream and pizza, they headed over to a table and sat down.

"So Roxas, what happened to you back there? Or was your face magnetized to the ground?"

"Shut up, Hayner. I just fell. That's all."

"Sure. You just decided to fall face first on the halfpipe."

"Hayner, leave him alone."

"Sorry, Olette," he muttered. He knew better than to mess with her, escpecially when it came to Roxas.

"Guys, I gotta go. My head's really starting to hurt," Roxas said, holding his head.

"Are sure that you're going to be okay? Do you need us to take you home?" Pence asked.

Roxas gave a weak smile. "No, I'm fine. I'm just gonna go home and lay down."

They watched as he grabbed his skateboard and made his way down the hill. They could only hope that he would be okay.

- - -

What's going on with me? Who was that guy back there? Was he even there? I dunno. It must be my imagination. Weird.

Roxas made his way down the hill. He raised his hand to his head and pain streaked through his body as he fell to the ground. He looked up and was met by emerald green ones. He closed his eyes and slipped into unconciousness just as the red head whispered, "Don't worry kid. I'll make it all stop."

- - -

"Sora..."

"He's fine." Riku whirled around just in time to see Namine step into the room.

She walked past Riku and placed a hand on the glass flower bud that held Sora. Her blue eyes stared at his shut ones. She looked at him as if he would awaken then, but she knew that he wouldn't.

"What did you do to him?" Riku asked, his aqua eyes shining angerily.

"Nothing. He's just taking a long nap and soon he'll wake up. Then he can go home."

"When?" Riku shouted.

"Soon. But the time between reality and imagination is different. I would say about a year."

"A year?"

"Yes. I know that you miss him, but you're not the only one that lost his best friend." Her gaze shifted over to where Axel leaned up agianst the wall.

AN: Sorry it took so long to update, I am trying to update some more of my stories and it takes awhile to type all of this but surprisingly this is one of my easiest fanfictions to write. If you like it review, if you hate it still review. Also, if you like this story and are as much of Kingdom Hearts obsessed weirdo as me, then check out my story The Chosen Ones. If you like that story, review it, if you hate it, review it. I'll update next week.