A/N: All right, this chapter is shorter than the last three, but this is just to get the main idea of this new journey across. Those of you that took guesses on the worlds they'd go to, i will give you a reward anyways. I will put up my best Lemon when the time is right and i will dedicate it to all the people that have made a guess. =P hows that for a reward! Ok now, enjoy this chapter and comment, also tell me what you think of my theory that appears in this story about "Nobodies and their existence." - Much love. D. A. Ashiuchi

Not The Same
Chapter Five: Our Heart

King Mickey Mouse paced the length of his room. His ranting had taken a quiet note, turning into grumbles for a while. It was beginning to worry the Queen. Never the less, Mickey just didn't want to tell her what had him so wound up, but she knew of one person that could help her husband in his mind puzzle; and that person was Sora.

Yes, it had been her that sent the letter in her husband's name. She just didn't know what to do anymore, sometimes the King would just lock himself in his study and not come out for four days straight. It had been her hopes that Sora and his friend Riku would be able to help the King away from this mood he's been in. Not that Mickey would ask for the help himself, not if it wasn't serious. She had to sound like her husband and she did a really good job if she did say so herself.

"Oh dear, I just hope those boys found them ok." Minnie Mouse sighed as she looked out her room window. Like she had stated on the letter, she had sent Goofy and Donald, telling the two that the King was in great need to see both Sora and Riku as soon as possible.

She had hoped it would make things better; after all, King Mickey would never call upon them again. He already felt responsible for the loss their childhood and not being the King he was supposed to be. Calling on them again would be unfair. And no matter how regretful Minnie felt, she knew this was needed. The only problem is: The boys have yet to return.

"There has to be a clue! It is possible that Kingdom Hearts was never meant to exist, meaning that the gathering of those lost hearts is an unbalance to the world. Oh I just don't know anymore." Mickey huffed as he stopped his pacing, turning to his wife with a slightly sad smile. "We won't be able to do this on our own…will we?"

The female mouse shook her head, frowning at her King.

"Then I will start where I know we will find something. If we start there, I know that I will figure this out in the end. No one should suffer the fate like those of Nobodies. Not even Nobodies themselves." With that baffling statement, the King headed for the Gummi ship garage. "Chip, Dale. I need you two to find The World That Never Was."

~~~RXS~~~

"Sora, what are we doing here! The King needs to see you!"

Donald Duck could not sound any less scared than Sora felt. Why had they ended up here of all places. When Sora had entered the Highwind his gut led him to their destination just like it always did. Now they stood before thirteen graves, each watching their surrounding warily. Out of all the worlds he heart would lead him to, why had they appeared in The World That Never Was?

"I'm not sure Donald, but I think there's something we need to do here. I feel it in me, we need to get something from here." Answered a slightly confused Sora; while beside him, Riku kept his silence, taking in the surrounding metal with quick aqua eyes. He had a feeling that he knew why Sora, or more like, Roxas had led them here.

"So it's true. They're not dead." Even though the words were quiet, they echoed in the room of graves.

"What's true? Who's not dead, Riku?" Soar was really lost now, but he refrained from using the voice in his head that was screaming at him to get out of this castle, and listened to the voice of his other, telling him he needed to do something.

"The Nobodies Sora." Riku answered. "Look at the graves."

Four pairs of eyes turned to the thirteen graves made for the thirteen Organization members. Last time, those graves had glowed red, giving memory of the ones who no longer existed. All except one; which had glowed blue. Now however, all thirteen of those graves were shinning and fading from dark blue, to pale green. Gasps rounded the room from three members of the party.

"But how can they still be exist'en? You don't think they went and turn back into them 'Dusk' thingys do you?" Goofy shifted and raised a gloved hand to scratch his head. "I always thought they just disappeared."

"They can't just disappear Goofy." Riku spoke again. "Diz always wondered why Nobodies were created anyways, if they can't be either light or dark, then why did they take forms like Roxas and Xemnas?" he walked forward carefully, going slowly toward the grave belonging to Axel.

"Then if they can't disappear, where did they go?" Donald asked with a huff. Being confused didn't sit well with the talking duck, but what was bothering him more was that feeling that he was being watched. It wasn't something that he felt often, like the thing that was watching him isn't really alive. It just sent shivers up his spine and made him grumpy.

"Goofy asked if they turned into 'Dusk's. Riku do you think that's what happened to them?" Sora glanced at his lover who stood before a grave he felt he had no right to see: Axel's grave.

"Yes. From the times were Diz ranted in frustration, I ended up picking up some information I thought would come of use someday. Maybe that day is today."

Sora closed his eyes, feeling phantom eyes on him.

"Then what is this information you remember?" Donald grumbled, grasping any chance he had to clear the haze of confusion from his mind. That strange feeling was just making his shaky and snappy and the added questions were not really helping him keep his head on straight.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy both turned to the silver haired man who's eyes went glassy for seconds. His pale hand moved to touch the grave softly, as if scared that if he touched it with any force at all it'd go back to the state it was in when they had left this world. He had met Axel before. Had spoken to this fiery Nobody when he was in search of Roxas. Axel had been just like him, in all but appearance.

If he had not met the Nobody, he'd have never thought anything of the information Diz had given him in frustration.

"Nobodies…were meant to exist."

Shocked gasps once again rounded, Donald and Goofy both raising to turn the idea down.

"That's not possible! They wanted to use us and hurt us to get hearts, they didn't even have hearts." Donald yelled his outrage, paying no attention to how it seemed to echoing dangerously loud in the rather large room.

"Donald's right! They were bad guys, how can they be meant to exist." Goofy protested too.

They were silenced when Sora stepped forward.

The brunette's stance had changed from its usual relaxed nature to a posture that the two talking animals didn't recognize. Riku however seemed to know what was going on and refused to panic over the fact that Sora wasn't present in the body of his lover anymore.

"You say it like you believe it. Does that mean you have given this more thought than you let on?" The voice that flowed from the lips he'd kissed before seemed almost foreign after its absence for so long but all it did was confirm that this was no longer the love of his life, but rather his nobody: Roxas.

Riku nodded as a feeling close to anger filled him. He refrained from reacting to Roxas' sudden takeover of Sora's body, keeping in mind that Sora would come back soon. "I did, Roxas."

For the third time, Goofy and Donald gasped.

Before either animal got the chance to speak, Riku continued. "From what I picked up during my time with Diz. Nobodies were meant to come into existence after a person with a strong heart was overtaken by the darkness in that heart. Diz had it in his mind that if heartless destroyed by the keyblade released that trapped heart, the heart was not supposed to go to Kingdom Hearts, but to the Nobody that was made during the separation of light and dark." Riku paused and silence ringed. No one wanted to interrupt, even Donald stayed silent as a look of shock plastered itself on the duck's white face. "Nobody's are where the hearts were originally supposed to be restored, but it was a theory that was never proven. No being can live too long without a heart, so when the Keyblade master had no keyblade to recover those hearts, the smaller nobodies died away.-"

"Because of this, the heats that were later released gathered together to create what we know now as 'Kingdom Hearts'. So it is my theory that Xemnas wasn't so far off when he had searched for a heart from Kingdom Hearts. The irony is that the thing he wanted was not Kingdom Hearts to be completed, but just one single heart among many."

A smile rose to Sora's face, but it was not Sora that gave it. For a second the face of Roxas rose above that of his brunette counterpart.

"It was Axel wasn't it? You spoke to him before, and he was the one that got you thinking about wanting to save the Nobodies."

When Riku nodded in response, the blond illusion laughed.

"He had told Sora that we made him feel like he had a heart. Maybe the reason for that was because we were the ones that could release it from the darkness that are heartless." There was bitterness in those words that was undeniable and it made Riku flinch. Roxas misunderstood him and now he had to fix it, great. Maybe he would have been better off keeping his silence.

Then again, he knew that if there was a way to save these Nobodies, Sora would go through hell and back. After all, Sora owed Axel.

"No, Roxas. The reason he told you that was because when you were with him, he felt like he could feel emotions that had been lost to him before. He had forgotten all the emotions of his other self and became a real Nobody. You, Roxas, were the one that made those emotions rise in his chest once again.; even if he had no heart to feel them."

Sky blue eyes that seemed familiar but he knew were not, glanced at him with surprise. Roxas had never expected Riku to try and cheer him up; the stoic teen barely even liked him. Man, he must make a real pretty picture right now. Getting comfort from Riku's words anyways, Roxas smiled over teary eyes. Without a word, he relinquished control back to his other.

When Roxas faded, Sora kept up the smile he had left behind. In a few strides he wrapped his arms around Riku's neck, hugging the teen tightly.

As if on reflex now, Riku's own arms when around Sora's waist and he leaned down a little to receive the hug. He listened to the whispered words that were being placed at his ear by Sora's soft petal lips.

"Thank you, Riku. I've always been aware of Roxas' presence, and now it's bubbling with happiness that fills me too."

No one spoke even as Sora finally pulled back and went to stand besides a still shocked Goofy and Donald. With eyes glowing in determination, Sora called forth his keyblade. The Bond of Flames came at his call, resting its warm weight on his hand.

"We have hope and a people we need to save. Now, are you guys with me?" he bared a toothy grin at his friends and boyfriend. "What do you say to one more advanture?"