Chapter 5. Don't go to sleep. It's a pitiful form of refuge.

Kairi-

I stare at what once was Sora. What happened? I can't belive this! He turned into some blonde boy, and Namine had called him Roxas. i shake my head. I'm so confused.

"Roxas, you're back." Namine says to him.

Roxas looked up at her, then to me. There was a glint in his eyes that gave me some tiny comfort. But no matter what it was. Where was Sora?

"Namine." He said as he pulled her into a hug. In a flash he turned back into Sora. Then back to Roxas.

"STOP IT, SORA! STOP IT! NO MORE. PLEASE!!! I-I- NEED YOU!" I yell at him as his figure continued to look into Namine's eyes. After my last sentence, a flash came and he was Sora again. "NO! STOP IT! I'M THE ONE YOU SHOULD PROTECT!" I yell, he looks at me and starts to run over to me, but then he stopped with a confused look on his face. He just stared at me in disbelief.

"You. You're-" He smiled, but a weird shimmer cought his eyes and his expression was similar to Roxas's. "You're leaving. NOW!"

I wanted to scream and kick in protest like a 5 year old who didn't get something that they wanted in the store. I wanted to hit him on the head with my fist lighlty. Like I always do, knowing how his jokes are. But I don't.

I turn away. My eyes fill up with tears. Sora said for me to leave, he'd rather stay with her? Something's wrong. He knows my name...so, what was that about?

Sora continued to look at me. "Go, just-leave us alone, OK?" He was about to push me, I knew it. I didn't want to be pushed by the one I loved. So I backed away.

" I can't believe you!" I yell at him, tears running down my face as I run out of the mansion.

I could've sworn I saw Namine smile evily at me.

"Hey, Kairi, are you feeling any better?" Sora's mom said to me in sympathy as she brewed some tea and set it on the glass table before me.

She listened to my protest about what happened. She wasn't all to hesitant to run over to her son. She said that he has a brain, like everyone else. She had sat down next to me and tell me a story about her love life. I wasn't really interested in it first but the deeper she got into it, the more it sounded like she wanted to break down in tears. She was a a 3rd year at her college and an excellent student, until she fell in love and he died before Sora was born. All the details about her mourning made me feel almost the same. But even worse, Sora wasn't dead. He was just in some kind of odd position I guess..

"Come on, let's talk." She said to me quite softly, then she patted me on the head like some kind of animal.

"I'm not a dog." I sigh at her.

"Well, I can't find my pet anywhere near so I find the next best." She shrugged and took a sip of her connamon apple flavored tea.

My hands fell to my knees and I closed my eyes, feeling the atmosphere that felt so warm and full of Sora's scent. It made me want him even more. "I found him, but then some weird stuff happened and he was acting not like himself. This girl he was with called him Roxas. He told me to leave and I ran until I found a town and got home. Since then, I've been thinking a lot about everything. My grades are higher than ever, although I still feel so empty. Maybe I should go look one more time. Do you think I should?" I look down at my scratches that were healing from yesterday's little "adventure".

"Sure, go ahead. You mother is still on her business trip, right?

I nodded and tried to push myself up with my hands, when something small patted me on the hand. I stare at Sora's mother as her messy ponytail started to fal apart. "You found and kept the hedgehog, didn't you?"

"It was so lonely." She pouted. Her eyes lit up, and I didn't like it. "You should take him with you on your little search! I'll root for you both. Just don't loose Sora Junior there, ok?"

IWow, she already named it Sora JR.I sigh. She must be going very lonely if she decides to have a hedgehog as a pet now. Is it illegal? Not that it mattered to her anyways.

I picked the little fella up and set him in my little purse that was attached to my belt.

"Come on. We'll figure everything out." I say to it and wave good bye to his keeper once more and walk out of the house.

I wasn't going to go look for Sora, today. I was going to sit on the island and watch the sun set.

Namine-

"Wake up, Sora." I whispered in his ear and he sat up immeadiatly. "Hey, are you feeling better?"

He just looked me in the eyes still sleepy. He placed each of his hands on my shoulders nd he gave me this goofy smile. "I have your lucky charm. Let's go on the island." He said to me.

"Snap out of it Sora!" I cry at him. He can't start remembering her already. He just saw her yesterday is all. They didn't touch and I tried to make sure he forgot about his encounter with her yesterday. "You need some fresh air. How about we walk around in the town today?" I suggest. He hasn't been out of the mansion since he got here.

"Sure." He nodded weakly and made his way to dress. I walk out of the room and skip down the stairs where I find two Organization members in.

"Here, one of my favorite people. What a coincidence we meet each other here!" Axel laughed and walked towards me with Xion.

"What do you wan't, Axel?" I spat at him annoyed.

"Why, can't we just drop by? How about we go see the cute little red head and talk to her?" He smiled evily at me and I bit my lip so hard it started to bleed and I could taste the blood.

"Axel. Xion. Why can't you just let me have one thing? I wan't Roxas."

"Well, Sora is classified. Unless you get Roxas to get out of Sora's body, he'll keep remembering Kairi and eventually will leave you." Xion glanced at me with heavy eyes that made me believe that Axel had dragged her off everywhere last night. She yawned.

"Let's just look at it this way. I'm in love with Roxas. So there for I need Sora to even make little contact with him. How else am I supposed to see him?"I turn around and start walking the opposite direction that they came from.

"Take myword as it is now, Namine. Sora's in love with someone else, why do you keep him away from the one he loves?" Axel started.

"Maybe I don't wan't Sora to be in love with her!" I turn back around to yell at them.

"I thought you said you wanted Roxas, so what does it matter who Sora loves?" Axel smiled. He got me in a corner there. I shouldn't have started talking to them.

"Hey, Namine how about we go eat some ice cream?" Sora walked down the stairs. He gave me a sweet look and it made me feel ashamed of myself.

"I know just what to do, to solve your little problem." Axel smiled at me and hed out his hand to me. "At a smll price of course, but I can solve it all!"

I stepped towards him and took his offer.

What a mistake I've just gotten myself into.

Kairi-

"Do you think that Sora will ever come back to see me?" I ask my little Sora JR. he just blinks at me. I laugh, "Look at me! I'm talking to a hedgehog named Sora Junior!"

"Hey, Kairi!" A familiar deep voice awoke me from my small talk that I had with the hedgehog. I look up, and there stood Riku. Tall and graceful. "Have you heard from Sora at all lately?"

"No I haven't." I lie. I wasn't going to tell Riku, eventhough he was my best friend.

"Oh, I see. Well, I'll talk to you later!" He shouted and kept on jogging. He was joined by some other kid who were smaller, and younger than him. That must be his little sister, she's so adorable.

"Well, you see little Hedgehog. Life is a bif fat loser if you're me. If there was any justice in the world then I wouldn't be sitting here alone. I guess not everything is fair, huh?" I stand up. "Let's go, I'll show you my seret place." I smile down at it and start walking towards wher Sora and I would always pretend we were super heroes and save each other, when we were smaller.

My picture of Sora that I had made was fading, so I re-traced it with a rock that I found near by.

At least this is the Sora I remembered.