Okay. From the reviews I think some people are getting confused so please let me clear some things up.

Yes Sora and Riku kissed in the first chapter.

Now for the relationships and love stuff.
Vanitas and Terra love Roxas.
Vanitas now loves Ventus.
Axel loves Roxas.
Ventus loves Vanitas.
Ventus has mixed feelings about Terra but mostly hates him.
Roxas doesn't love anyone but doesn't hate Axel as much as he thinks he does.
AND Terra loves Roxas but is actually trying to win Ventus' heart.

If that's not clear enough then I'm sorry but when I started to write this I was just going for simple Ventus love triangle and AkuRoku but then all of it went a bit crazy when I started putting my problems in to their lives. Like the condition Roxas has and that sort of stuff. I really hope this cleared it all up!

I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any of the characters used in this story.

AND THIS CHAPTER STARTS OFF WITH ROXAS' DREAM AS HE'S FAINTED! It's in italics for this reason.

Please review! And the person who tells me how many times Ventus has sighed in this story so far will get a 2-3 chapter story involving them and any people from any anime/game as long as it's some thing I have some kind of knowledge about so Vocaloid, The disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Yu-Gi-Oh, Uta No Prince Sama, Pokemon, Dead or Alive, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts something like that.

Also I wrote this chapter in less than a week so I'm uber proud of myself!


Ch. 3

'Axel!' Roxas ran to the red head and tried to hug him but he disappeared and there stood Marluxia and Larxene.

'You sure caused some trouble but Axel's been taken care of and now we can have our revenge.' Larxene grabbed Roxas by his shirt collar and Marluxia kicked him in the stomach making him cough up some blood.

'Why are you doing this? I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOU!' Roxas screamed and squirmed until he was out of the girls grip. He tried to run but the earth around him seemed to break leaving him on an isolated island with two people he hated. Close to him was another island and this one had Ventus, Riku and Sora on.

'Roxas! Jump! You have to! You can't be stuck with them!' Ventus reached his hand out and Roxas tried to grab it but a gust of wind blew him away.

'We're not finished with you!' Roxas got up again and ran to the edge.

'Rox don't! You can't die here!' Ventus called to him but it was too late. Roxas whispered some words to them and as he was just as he let himself fall he heard a familiar voice shouting to him. 'ROXAS!' Then everything went black…

Roxas mumbled some words and the nurse walked over to him.

"Ventus? Have you woken up?" The nurse asked as Roxas let his eye open slowly.

"What happened…?" Roxas said with a slurred voice. He looked around before focusing on the woman who was sat beside him.

"You're in the Infirmary. Now Ventus I'll need you to answer a few questions."

"Okay…" He answered as he was still in a daze.

"Do you remember what happened?" Roxas shook his head as a no.

"Do you know who brought you here?" Roxas shook his head again as a no.

"Who are you?"

"R… Ventus." Roxas said as he regained consciousness. He had a bad headache and was really hungry.

"Can I leave now? I'm fine."

"You may want to change your shirt though. You were bleeding quite a lot. Here use this one." She handed Roxas a shirt and left. He took of his own top and put the new on one. It smelt so familiar but Roxas shrugged the thought off. He slid his shoes on his feet, folded up his shirt and walked over to the nurse,

"Thank you for taking care of me. I have to go." Roxas opened the door and there stood Riku.

"You're awake! Sora would have killed me if anything had happened to you! Come on its lunch time. Axel has your bag." Roxas looked down and remembered his dream. Was Axel really going to be there? Were Marluxia and Larxene going to beat him up?

"Okay!" Roxas smiled "Lead the way!" They walked to the cafeteria and as they walked in Marluxia and Larxene were leaving. Roxas could hear them whispering about him. "Bitch shouldn't have woken up…" Roxas bit his lip and hung his head low as he continued to follow Riku. When Roxas looked up they had stopped walking and Axel was smiling at him.

"Give Ven back his bag." Riku ordered.

"Of course Ven can have his bag back." Axel smiled as he held out Ventus' bag to Roxas. "Are you feeling better? You were out cold for 2 hours and 17 minutes."

"Yes thank you." Roxas took his bag back and was rather bewildered by how kind Axel was being.

"Come on Ventus lets go." Riku tugged on Roxas' shirt but Roxas resisted.

"Wait 'Ku. I mean Riku." Roxas smiled.

"Only Sora can call me that or do you want me to kill you?" Riku threatened.

"If you kill me Sora won't go out with you any more 'Ku-Chan~" Roxas smiled again. Riku growled.

"Anyway Axel do you want to go to my birthday party? It's in 3 days time." Roxas tilted his head slightly and smiled at Axel. 'What the hell am I doing?! Why am I inviting him?!' Roxas mentally killed himself but continued to smile on the outside.

"Sure Ven." Axel answered but then pulled Roxas in so he could whisper in him ear. "Or should I call you Roxas?" Roxas went bright red and and let out a high pitched squeak. He turned and ran as fast as he could.

"What did you do Axel? …Don't answer that. Ven, wait up!" Riku called as he tried to catch up with his friend.

Eventually Riku found Roxas on the field picking daisies and making a chain out of them. The silverette sighed and slowly walked up to the rather depressed looking boy.

"So Roxas… Nice day isn't it?" Riku tried to make friendly conversation but Roxas replied to a completely different question.

"Axel knows who I am."

"What?! How did he find out?" Riku was shocked and didn't know what to say other than that.

"I don't know!" Roxas sniffled then fell into Riku's arms crying. 'What do I do…?' Riku thought to himself as he patted Roxas' head. Roxas slowly stopped crying and repositioned himself so he lay on the ground looking up at the clouds. Riku also did this and hoped he could see what Roxas was smiling at.

"I'd love to be a cloud… I'd have no problems to worry about."

"So what are you talking about now?" Riku asked, confused on the weird subject.

"I wish I never created all these problems for myself. In my dream I was running to Axel but when he disappeared I decided to not go to you, Ven and the others… I decided to jump off the edge and die. I can't believe I asked Axel to go to my party. What's Ven gonna say?!" Roxas' smile faded away.

"You chose Axel over me and your family?" The silverette asked and his blonde companion nodded. Riku understood the situation but did Roxas? Riku stood up and extended his hand, to Roxas who grabbed it, and pulled him up. They walked under a tree where they got their lunch out.

"Come on we can at least eat lunch without anyone bothering us." Riku smiled and opened his lunchbox. Roxas opened his lunchbox and Riku stared at it in awe.

"Ven made that?! I never eat lunch with him but I didn't think he could make stuff like this!" It was a cute box filled with two rice balls shaped into little hello kitty faces with seaweed for the eyes and whiskers and a piece of corn for the nose. It also had chopped tomatoes, cucumber and 3 pieces of tempura (deep fried shrimp).

"This is just typical Ven. He makes them for me too speaking of him, I wonder what he made for me..." Roxas laughed then started to eat. Riku started eating too but two figures stood before them.

"Hello lil Ventus. You know that food is for us so stop eating and hand it over." Guess who it was? It was Marluxia and Larxene. Roxas took another bite ignoring the two bullies so Riku did the same.

"Did you not hear us? Hurry up and hand it over." Larxene said sweetly but it was obvious she was hiding masses of anger. Roxas closed the lunch box and put it back in his bag before standing up. He patted himself down and smiled.

"I'm sorry were you talking to me?" This made Larxene scowl.

"Yes we were, now give it to us." Larxene tried to punch Roxas but he caught her fist and pushed her to the ground.

"How about you leave me and Riku alone and I'll let you go unharmed."

"I swear something is different about you and I'm gonna find out!" The pink haired boy spat as he grabbed his partners arm and stormed off dragging her along, once she was on her feet.

"They really will find out you know." Riku warned his friend.

"I have a plan already don't worry!" Roxas sat down again and went back to eating.

~Meanwhile~

"Come on Rox!" Sora grabbed his brother's hand and pulled him along down the corridor. They walked all the way to the canteen as Sora looked around.

"Seriously Sora, do I have to sit with them?" Ventus whined and his brother nodded. The brunette squealed and once again pulled his brother. They went to the table near the back where both Terra and Vanitas were sitting already.

"Hey guys!" Sora grinned. Terra smiled and so did Vanitas. Ventus slowly sat down next to Vanitas and opposite Terra.

"Hi…" Ventus mumbled as he got his lunchbox out. He opened it and there were 2 rice balls shaped to look like Pikachu with seaweed for the eyes, nose and mouth. There were also egg and tomato pokeballs and a Squirtle, Charmander and Bulbasaur cookies.

"Roxas I didn't think of you as the type to make such cute little lunch boxes." Ventus blushed at Vanitas' comment.

"It was Ven who made it actually…" Sora reached over the table and took one of the cookies.

"Sora, give it back!" Ventus tried to grab it back but his brother had already devoured it.

"Charmander was my favourite one too!" The other 3 laughed at Ventus' comment. They started to eat lunch and Terra decided to talk to Ventus.

"So… Roxas, do you want to go to town with me on Sunday?" Ventus looked up and actually smiled.

"Really?! No one's ever asked me to go with them somewhere!" Terra smiled, now he could get closer to the one he loved.

"Oh oh! I have an idea! You party could be a sleepover! It was going to be a karaoke night but I can work everything out!" Sora winked at Ventus who was panicking. Vanitas and Terra's eye sparkled and Ventus couldn't say no after Sora had said everything.

"Fine. So then we can all go to town together then." Vanitas smirked at Terra since he knew his oh so well thought out plan was broken. Suddenly the guitar solo from 'You Are So Beautiful' by Escape The Fate played and Ventus knew reached into his brother bag fishing out the his phone.

"Sorry!" Ventus stood up and ran outside and he pressed the accept button.

"Hello?" Ventus spoke into the phone.

"Venny!" A voice screamed in joy from the other side of the phone and Ventus shushed it until it was quiet.

"Who is it?" Ventus had no clue on who was calling him at this time of day but had some idea, even if it was highly unlikely.

"It's me. You know. Zack!" Ventus sighed. (A.N This is the Zack from Birth By Sleep not the grown up one!)

"Hey Zack… I can't talk right now I'm trying to sort some stuff out."

"Boo! You're so boring, I found the perfect girl for you! Her name's…" Ventus cut his friend off right there and sighed again.

"No Zack. I'm not going to go out with any girl you've found. Anyway I'm in any position to fall in love so please stop. How'd you get my number anyway? Ventus turned his offer down as politely as he could but this made his friend rather suspicious.

"Oh? Not in a position to love a beautiful girl? Or have you finally turned your attention towards to the males of our society?" Zack made it sound so evil and weird and Ventus could tell he was blushing.

"Shut up Zack. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go. Bye!" Ventus rushed his words and ended the call as soon as he could. He went back to the table with his 'friends', well he wasn't sure what they were I mean Sora was Sora his brother, Vanitas and Terra… He was supposed to hate them so they were more of acquaintances than friends.

"Who was it?" Sora was the first one to question the rather flustered blonde.

"Zack. He was trying to set me up with a girl." Ventus sighed for about the 7th time that day.

"Speaking of girls looks who's coming over Roxas!" Sora squealed as he spotted the girl from earlier coming over. What was her name? Namine?

"Oh great."

"So what you gonna say, Romeo? You have plenty of people after you and you're gonna have to break most of their hearts." Vanitas smirked at the still flustered boy. By the time Namine had reached their table Ventus had no time to answer Vanitas' question.

"Um… Roxas." The girl's voice was cute and she was quite shy but then again what do you expect from a girl asking a boy out for the first time?

"Yes Namine?" Ventus answered as awkwardly as she was shy.

"Well you see… I've liked you for some time now and… Well you're really amazing and um… Will you go out with me?" Oh God it was the question Ventus didn't want to answer for Roxas...

"Uh… How do I put this Namine…?"

"Please, call me Nami!" Her attitude changed, she probably knew what the answer was going to be.

"You see… I'm sorry but… well. To be frank I'm sorry but I can't go out with you!" Namine smiled.

"I knew you were going to say no but we can be friends right? I mean there's reason for us not to be allowed to be friends, right?" The girl was smiling still. Terra and Vanitas were smiling too but that was because he did turn her down, meaning they still had a good chance.

"Of course Nami. You're welcome to come to my birthday party on Saturday if you want." The girl nodded and waved them goodbye and walked away.

"Ooo~ you turned her down Rox! She was cute too…" Sora seemed disappointed but he knew Ventus had done the right thing for his brother's sake. Ventus shrugged and went back to eating his lunch and didn't think further on the subject.

"So what lesson do we have next?" Sora got his timetable out and scanned it.

"Acting. If I remember we're practicing for the play we're supposed to be putting on. Terra knows what it is."

"Uh… I think we're doing Sleeping Beauty this year. It's auditions today." Ventus nervously laughed.

"It's a musical too." Ventus bit his lip at Terra's last statement.

"We're all taking part and singing?"

"Well we have to sing one of the songs for the auditions so yes to the singing but I think the people with the less experienced voices will be doing props and lighting, that sort of stuff. All in all yep we're all taking part." Vanitas seemed well informed too and Ventus was having a major panic. 'Holy crap! I have to sing?! But… but me and Rox sound completely different and from past experience… Oh crap! No, no, no, no, no! I can't do this! Roxas is gonna kill me if I get one of the main roles! Or does he want a main role? I don't know what to do! The biggest problem is if I get the role of the princess… What do I do what do I do?' Whilst Ventus had his inner panic the others were just merrily chatting away. The bell rang and Vanitas gently shook Ventus' shoulder breaking him out of his state. He just had to go through with everything no matter what. He packed his stuff up and walked in the middle of Vanitas and Terra to their class where everything would either go tremendously well or everything would break down and crumble.