Okay! So we now got chapter 4 for you all!

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Now let's get to the chapter!

Ch.4

'Hey... are you okay?' Ventus asked Sora worried.

"It hurts Ven… my heart hurts so much… why does it hurt?" Sora asked as he buried his face into his hands. The tears were still streaming down his face. "It won't stop hurting…"

Ventus was quite for a moment before he said softly, 'That is what anger does… it may burn away the pain briefly.. But it leads to an even greater pain in the end. You have to try and ignore them.'

'You're not going to actually fall for that emotional drivel are you?' Another voice asked with a sneering tone filled with maliciousness in it.

Ventus gasped as Sora looked up surprised at hearing another voice, but looking around he saw no one.

'Vanitas!?' Ventus shouted, with a mixture of surprise, shock, fear and a hint of anger to his voice. But after he said that he wondered why he felt the way he did. Hearing his voice again was never something Ventus ever expected.

'Idiot, who else could it be?' Was the sneered response.

Sora bit his lip confusion pushing away his earlier thoughts, "Who are you?"

'That pathetic other half of mine has already said my name… or do you not have enough of a memory to recall what was said less than a minute ago'

Sora hunched into himself as he pouted at being insulted "So… your name is Vanitas then?"

'So you can rub two brain cells together. Congratulations'

Sora smiled at the "compliment", completely oblivious to the obvious sarcasm in Vanitas's voice.

'How are you even here Vanitas?' Ventus demanded.

'The same way your here, obviously,' came the quick reply from Vanitas.

'So you don't know either,' Ventus deadpanned

'Tch, course I know!'

'Oh? Then please tell me,' Ventus asked.

'Well it's… it's.. Ah why should I bother telling someone like you,' Vanitas grumbled.

'So you actually don't know then.' Ventus spoke.

"Are you two brothers?" Sora asked, finally speaking up.

'No!'

'Yes.'

'Why would you ever say we are brothers?! We are not brothers!' Vanitas growled.

"Why are you so grumpy Vani?"

Ventus started laughed as he heard the sound of Vanitas spluttering.

'What? What did you just call me?' Vanitas growled.

"I called you Vani! Just like I call Ventus, Ven!" Sora cheered excitedly. If Ventus had a body he would be doubled over in laughter.

"Sora… are you okay? I saw you running away from the school when I got out from class. Why didn't you wait for me?" Riku's voice came through as he opened the door to Sora's room. He found Sora sitting on edge of his bed.

'Who is this boy? He looks pathetic.' Vanitas questioned with a sneer.

"Huh? Oh this is Riku my best friend! Riku, Ven has a brother named Vanitas, but I'm calling him Vani!" Sora said with a smile.

Riku blinked in confusion for a moment, "You mean there are two voices now talking to you?"

'Why did you tell this child about me?'

"Riku's my best friend of course I would tell him! And yes! Though Vani is grumpy…"

"But how did uh... Vani even get there?" Riku asked as he crossed his arms.

Sora gave a shrug, "I dunno."

'Don't call me Vani!' Vanitas growled out.

'Keep calling him Vani, he likes it, he's just being his grouchy self about it' Ventus said with a giggle. Ventus knew that having Vanitas here was not good at all and that his other half would cause a lot of problems… but on the other hand this was just way too funny. There was just something… amusing about seeing Vanitas getting all riled up over little children and nicknames.

"When did Vani show up?"

"Just now!" Sora said with wide blue eyes, ignoring the growl that came from Vanitas.

"Huh… I am still surprised how you can be so calm through all of this," Riku stated.

"Why wouldn't I be calm?"

'You shouldn't even be bothering with this brat' Vanitas muttered.

'I think that it's wonderful Sora has friends he can count on. Maybe you can learn from Sora on how to make some.'

Sora blinked tilting his head, "Does that mean Vani doesn't have any friends?"

'I don't need any friends, friends make you weak and hold you back' Vanitas snarled.

'No, Vani doesn't have any friends.' Ventus replied in a sad tone.

"Then I'll be your friend Vani!" Sora said smiling.

'I don't need your friendship, brat' Vanitas scowled.

Sora's face fell.

'Well that's okay… you want to know why Sora?'

"Why?" Sora asked sniffling a bit.

Ventus knew what he was about to do could probably end up for the worse in the long run, but at this moment it was simply to good of an opportunity to pass up. 'Because since were in your heart that means were practically family, me and Vani can be your brother's Sora. And even if Vani won't admit it and be grumpy all the time, he will see you as family too.'

"Really?" Sora said with a bright grin.

'No absolutely not. What do you think you are trying to accomplish here, idiot?' Vanitas demanded.

"Sora… what's going on?" Riku asked his head tilted to the side and his eyebrows were furrowed together.

"Ven, Vani and me are now brothers!" Sora told him cheerfully.

'You are too cheerful.' Vanitas hissed in annoyance.

"That's...great." Riku said lacklusterly.

"You still believe me right?" Sora asked Riku.

"Of course," Riku replied.

"And you promise you still won't tell my mom, dad, or anyone else?" Sora asked with a puppy dog look.

Riku closed his eyes, nodded and genuinely smiled, "Yeah, I promise."

'Good, Sora's asleep…' Ventus spoke up, once he could tell Sora was fast sleep With him being asleep, Ventus and Vanitas were now able to talk freely without having Sora hear them. Though their heart was within Sora's, they didn't necessarily need to sleep when Sora's heart rested. Eventually though they would end up going into what they could call a sleep, for being just a heart within Sora, but for now they had their chance to talk without Sora questioning everything. Ventus had figured this all out from all the days spent with Sora since he awoke. 'Now can you tell me exactly how you got here, what you remember and anything else you might know.

'And why should I tell you anything?'

'We are both stuck here together...and I can hardly remember anything before waking here. If you know something by chance maybe we can figure out a way to return to our body...or something like that.'

'Hmpf.' Vanitas scoffed and was silent, for a moment Ventus though the other wasn't going to answer. 'I was floating in the darkness at rest, when I could feel these negative emotions coming… and the word freak, it was being called out over and over again. And then there was this anger and I awoke in this brat's heart,' Vanitas replied with a growl.

'Well my...um… our heart is resting within Sora's, so maybe there is a connection between his emotions and ours," Ventus said thoughtfully. Reluctantly he added, 'There is this group of kids… they bully him, and today Sora lashed out at them. That could have been what awakened you...'

'So maybe this boy isn't as worthless as you are,' Vanitas said, a smirk in his voice as Ventus's dark other chuckled maliciously. 'Perhaps your right and I should… be a 'good' older brother to the brat.'

'No!' Ventus said, raising his voice. 'Don't you do anything to bother or hurt Sora! If it weren't for him...well...I don't think we would have made it…"

'Of course,' Vanitas agreed, 'I won't hurt him… I believe I heard that older brothers are suppose to give advice are they not?' The dark haired boy asked in a silky voice.

'Just because you are stuck here with me like this...doesn't mean I trust you. I may not remember much from before, but I remember everything about you.'

'Are you sure you remember everything about me?' Vanitas asked his voice portraying an innocence he didn't have.

If Ventus was in his own body, he knew he would be narrowing his eyes with frustration, but alas he was still just a voice as of now. 'Yes...So don't try anything funny Vanitas."

'I have never once been accused of being funny,' Vanitas said blandly.

Ventus let out a long sigh, 'This is going to feel much longer than it is…'

So yeah we now got Vanitas thrown into the mix here, oh boy oh boy!

Well that is all we got for this time, hope to see you guys in the next chapter!