A/N: I still don't own any of the characters, nor do I own kingdom hearts...blah de blah. Sorry it took so long (aka a whole year :P) but here's chapter two, YAY!!! It's still for the demon. .

The boys stared at each other after Yuffie had been pulled off of Roxas, and after a moment, they hugged, tripping over their questions in their excitement in seeing one another again.

"Are the Heartless back?"

"What happened to you after we took Xehanort down?"

"How did you get me out?"

And finally, at the same time:

"How's Kairi?"

"How's Namine?"

Both boys stopped and frowned, again speaking simultaneously:

"She left me."

They looked at each other in shock, Sora looking almost brokenhearted, Roxas just looking plain pissed off. Yuffie's brow furrowed as she frowned confused.

"Wait" she whined, "I don't get it. Roxas is Sora except sexier, Sora was with Kairi, Roxas was with Namine, but where were they?" She looked to Merlin, who shrugged, and then to everyone else, who looked equally confused. Finally, when she looked at him, Roxas said

"We were in the dark for a while, but that was all right because we were there together, but then Namine found a way back into the Twilight Town she has created from Sora's memories, the place where we met. I think the only reason we were even able to together at all was because Sora and Kairi were together, and your hearts were resonating. Everything was all right for a while, but then we started growing apart, and finally; one day, she was gone. A few days after that, I was back in the dark again, this time alone. The only thing I could do, besides sleep, to keep from going crazy, was to think of her and the good times we had had, thinking "What did I do?" But I couldn't think of anything…and now I hate her. She left me for no reason. She left me in the dark to go insane. I hate her"

By the end of his speech, Roxas had his hands clenched into fists and was shaking slightly. He squeezed his eyes shut, realizing what he had just said, and he muttered an apology, looking up at Sora.

Cid muttered to Cloud "See, told you. It's feral. It can't let go of an infatuation with this girl. I don't blame her, the thing is obviously crazy."

"Cid!" said Tifa sharply, turning to them as Sora and Yuffie tried to comfort Roxas, "How can you say that? Haven't you ever loved someone who left you? Were you able to forget about her so quickly?" Tifa looked sadly at Roxas, not pityingly but sympathetically, she had been there. The one person she had ever wanted, Cloud, had always been fixated on Aeris, as he was now, gazing longingly. It was all she could do not to smack him and say " I'm right here, you dumbass! I always have been!"

"I still think it's unsafe to have the damned thing here." Grumbled Cid, cowed but still belligerent. "I'm leaving, if y'all lose control of it, don't come crying to me." Cid left quietly, after whispering that last remark to Merlin on his way out. Cloud's gaze followed Cid as he left, and his brow furrowed. Aeris took his hand and pulled him out of the building as well. Tifa bit her lip, resigned to the fact that Cloud would always love Aeris, and not her. She sighed and went to see if she could help a little with comforting Roxas.

As Tifa walked over, Roxas managed to overhear Cid's whisper to Merlin, and looked up just in time to see Aeris pull Cloud out. At this point, he clenched his fists again, stared at the ground and grated. "I don't need your pity, you all think I'm a freak anyway. I don't need you, I hate you, GET AWAY FROM ME!" He ended up yelling, turned and started out the nearest door, directly opposite the one through which Cloud, Aeris and Cid had exited, which lead to a flight of stairs to the roof. He burst through the door at the top of the stairs, into the pouring rain. He was quickly soaked to the skin as he crunched his way across the gravel roof, his hands still bound into fists, rain and his own tears streaming down his face. When he got to the edge, he stopped, staring over, berating himself for exploding like that, maybe Cid was right and he was only a nobody, soulless and destructive, possessive and greedy.

He sat on the edge of the roof, his feet dangling, thinking about Namine and wondering if it really was his fault that she left, because he's a Nobody like Xehanort. He rested his head in his hands, despair claiming him.

A few minutes later, he heard the door behind him open and then shut quietly, and a young woman's voice called, "Roxas? Can I talk to you?"

Roxas lifted his head, harshly brushing away the water from his face before turning to see Tifa, holding a huge fluffy plaid blanket in her arms. He glared at her saying mockingly "Why don't you just leave me alone? I'm dangerous, remember? Hide your women and children, the monster's on the loose!"

"I don't think you're dangerous…" Said Tifa, "and even if you were, I don't think I'd much care. I mean, look at Cloud. That boy is related to Sephiroth, for Diz's sake! If I were scared of anyone, it would be him." She told him with a bit of a twinge.

"It's not you, those other three left, and they're scared of me…"

"No, they left because Cid's an asshole and Aeris wants into Cloud's pants."

a/n: I always hated Aeris.