CNR: Welcome to WWHH chapter 4.5!!

Raro: ...what?

Teen: (walks up)...what are you talking about?

CNR: Technically, this chapter takes place during chapters 3 and 4, but I decided to call it 4.5 anyway! Oh yes, before I forget, here's our disclaimer guest for this chapter- she's one of my personal friends from school, and if you Google her name, you'll get about 1,440 hits: presenting, Enishiyukishirolover!

Enishiyukishirolover: Hi, Betty-chan!

CNR: (turns a bright red color) You did not just call me that. (sigh) Well, I guess I should explain to the readers the whole story about that, shouldn't I? Thank you soooo much for bringing that up.

Enishiyukishirolover: (smiles) That's what I'm here for!

CNR: (turns toward readers) You know what? I don't feel like explaining it! You all have to use your magical imagination powers to figure it out, 'cause the actual story's kinda lame! Muhahahahahahahahah- (cough, cough) (gag) (-insert cholera sounds-) Hey, I haven't done that in a while...

Raro: (walks up) Hi Enishi!

Enishiyukishirolover: Uhm... hi? (leans over to CNR and whispers) Why are we talking to a fictional character?

CNR: (gasps, then whispers) He's fictional?!?

Enishiyukishirolover: Uhm... anyway... Disclaimer: CNR owns Raro. Square-Enix owns all Kingdom Hearts/Final Fantasy characters. So... if you don't know about that, then... you must, at least, know about Santa Claus, right?

CNR: What about him?

Enishiyukishirolover: (leans over to CNR's ear and whispers inaudibly)

CNR: (gasps) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Raro: Wow... you guys are weird. Anyway, here's chapter 4.5: "How Sora Met Roxas"!

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After the bell sound rang throughout the mansion, time resumed in the Pod Room. As Sora's pod finished opening, a strange staircase that seemed to be made of light formed underneath Sora's feet. Sora began to wake up, and as he did so, he slowly floated down onto the stairs. Nervously, he looked around, wondering where he was. He walked down the shiny staircase, never noticing that he could see straight through them for looking about the bright white room. It was not till he reached the bottom did he realize that Roxas, who had been watching Sora the whole time, was there.

"Hi," Sora quietly said.

"H-hey, Sora," replied Roxas.

"Uhm... who're you?" Sora asked his blonde Nobody.

"I'm Roxas," Roxas answered.

"Ok, Roxas." Sora smiled, but his smile turned to a question mark. "How do you know my name?"

Roxas quickly blushed, embarressed of his response. "Uhm... I've had... dreams... about you, Donald, and Goofy..."

Sora quickly changed his expression to that of disgust.

Roxas, still blushing, yelled, "NOT LIKE THAT!"

"Ohhh, ok. Much better. Roxas... why does your name sound familiar?" Immediately, Sora's Kingdom Key appeared, accompanied by a gasp from Roxas.

"Sora! I almost forgot to tell you, I've got one too!" Roxas summoned his Keyblade. "Do you know what's going on?"

" 'What's going on?' What do you mean?"

Roxas explained the past week's events to his Other.

"Hmmm... that is wierd, but-"

Before Sora could finish his sentence, a black-cloaked man stepped out of a dark portal and into the room. A deep voice from inside the cloak asked the two: "Do you wish to know what you really are?"

"What do you mean, 'What you really are'?" Sora called to the black cloak.

The voice from within the cloak did nothing but respond, "Do you wish to know what you really are?"

Roxas looked to the cloak. "After this week, I really need some answers. Yes, we would like to know."

The cloak nodded. "Very well." Looking first to Sora, he asked him, "Do you remember going to Hollow Bastion?"

Sora nodded. "Of course. That's where I got turned into a Heartless."

The cloak continued to face Sora. "When one person is turned into a Heartless, if he or she has a strong will, the shell that is left afterward begins to move as if it were a person itself. The shell is then called a Nobody."

"Ok, I think I understand that, but what does that have to do with Roxas?" Sora asked the voice from the cloak.

The cloak said nothing.

"Oh. I see..." Roxas said with a somewhat confused look on his face. "So... I'm Sora's Nobody?"

"That is correct," the voice affirmed.

"...and Sora's my... what do I call him?" Roxas asked.

"He is your Other," replied the cloak.

At this point, Sora and Roxas looked at each other. Sora murmured, "So that's why you seem familiar... you're the other side of my heart..."

"...and because Sora's my Other, that's why I had dreams about him?" Roxas asked.

The voice gently laughed. "Sure, let's say that's why."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Roxas questioned.

Instead of responding, a black portal formed behind the cloak, which simply backstepped into it and disappeared.

Sora and Roxas glanced at each other, but suddenly footsteps came from the entrance to the room. A voice familiar to Sora called out, "Well, a'huck, there he is!"

A duck in a 40's sailor's suit, accompanied by a doglike creature in a vest, ran up to Sora and hugged him. Between the speed of the two's running and their combined weight, the three toppled over and hit the ground, laughing the whole time.

"Hey guys, where'ya been?" Sora asked.

"I guess we've been in that other room... but how'd we get here?" Goofy asked Sora.

"I'm not sure... Oh wait, I almost forgot!" Standing up and dusting himself off, he walked over to Roxas. "Guys, this is Roxas. He's... one of my friends."

"Well hi, Roxas! I'm Goofy," Goofy told him as Donald and he stood up.

"I'm Donald Duck, but you can call me Donald. Hi, Roxas," Donald said to the Nobody.

Roxas smiled as he replied, "Hey guys." Hearing more footsteps, he quickly turned around with a stunned look on his face as Raro, Namine, and DiZ entered the pod room. "Namine! You're here! ...but who are you two?"

Raro, slightly panting from the sudden run, waved and, trying not to sound like a fanboy, quickly replied, "Hey, I'm Raro."

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The black-cloaked man who had spoken to Roxas and Sora stepped out of his portal into the Castle That Never Was, in the Hall of Empty Melodies. In the room sat Demyx waxing his sitar. Looking to the black-cloaked man, he said, "Hey, Xemnas, where'ya been?"

Xemnas smiled as he pulled down his hood. As he walked away, he indifferently replied, "Just taking care of something."

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CNR: (speaking in British accent) That concludes our History lesson for this chapter. Please remain in you seats until the plane has come to a complete stop at the gate. Thank you for flying South African Airways!

Enishiyukishirolover: Randomness...

CNR: (faces Enishi) (still speaking in British accent) Gimme candy! (Note: inside joke)

Enishiyukishirolover: No! I have no Jolly Ranchers! (hits CNR his a random Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within DVD case)

CNR: (back in regular American accent) Ow...

Raro: (sigh) You guys are really wierd...

CNR: Anyhoo... That's all the fanfic that's fit to print! (hits Enishiyukishirolover with a random copy of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee)

Enishiyukishirolover: Now it's WAR!

Raro: (sigh) You guys...

CNR: P.S.: Seriously, if any of you want to try to guess the beginnings of why she and countless of other people at school call me Betty, try to guess. Make it crizzazy! Make me laugh! Like this: "Hahaha!" Not like "Hehe." or "Hah. Funny." Remember: "Hahaha!"