Okay, good and bad news. Some funky stuff is happening to my computer right now, and basically I have to go through all my shit and erase almost everything I use. Thankfully, I don't think any of my documents have to be erased, so that means my stories will not be affected. Unfortunately, for the people who followed me to YouTube, almost everything I use for making my videos is gone. All my Final Fantasy clips, some Kingdom Hearts clips, ALL MY ANIME. It's just gone. Thank God I still have my Kingdom Hearts clips, though. But this means that's all I really have, so...

Damn.

Anyways, the song used is "All The Right Moves" by OneRepublic, I freaking love this song. The lyrics and the way it is sung, it's just amazing.

I hope I wrote this new chapter fast enough for you guys, and I thank everybody who reviewed in the last one, but I'm not replying to the reviews right now because I'm busy fixing my computer and writing up these freaking chapters, and there were no important questions... At least I don't think there were... If you do have an important question, then just say "IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR THE DUMBASS!" k? It'll get my attention. If you're an anonymous (grr, I hate not being able to reply those!) then I'll answer you in the author's note of the next chapter. Cool? Cool. :D

I hope you loves this chapter, I know I made a very bad pun with Roxas (LOVESICK! HAHA!) but I couldn't help it, and... everyone... I LOVE YOU. 3 (And your reviews, please send them.)

8 :: Dreams

It can be possible that rain can fall,
Only when it's over our heads

Kairi watched on in amusement from the couch as Sora and Xion bickered over the video game, Naminé sat next to her, sketching something in her pad again. There was something so strange about seeing Sora in her living room like this, talking and joking like they have all been best friends for so long.

At the same time, though, it seemed so right. Like this was how things were always meant to be, for them to really be friends like this, and they just hadn't seen it before. Either way, it didn't matter to her, because they were friends now.

It had been like an unspoken truce. Sora asked for help, and Kairi answered. Neither had ever gotten along, neither even liked the thought of the other, but Kairi agreed to help Sora, and that changed everything.

Sora honestly hadn't been expecting Kairi to take him in, he hadn't really thought of where he could go when he told his parents he was "gone," it's not like Demyx could take in anymore people. So she was seriously his last resort, and it had taken him every ounce of sense to call her and ask, especially sense she even broke off the engagement and everything.

He had thought she hated him just as much as he hated her, but the moment he stepped inside the Howards home three days ago, he was treated like he belonged there. Kairi seemed to have tried to put their past behind them and start over, Xion teased him like an older sister would tease her brother, Naminé was so gentle and kind and light-hearted, and their parents didn't even hesitate to begin to make up a room for him and make sure he was comfortable.

He felt more welcomed here than he ever did back with his own parents.

Naminé glanced up, looking across the room to the brunette boy who was currently deep into some battle with Xion in a video game, then turned to Kairi, worry suddenly over-coming her face, "Kai, it's been a week…"

Kairi nodded slowly, a frown also coming over her face. It had been a week since they have heard or seen anything from Roxas, since Larxene dragged him out of their home and told her his involvement with Sora. She had thought, at first, that maybe Roxas was avoiding them out of embarrassment. But they didn't see him any where, at the restaurant where they met, or on the street. Then Sora came to live with them for awhile, and she figured he would definitely show up some time, because of what Larxene said.

But he never did. And Sora didn't leave that much, usually he just hung out with the sisters while they went shopping or out to eat. She couldn't help but start to worry over their friend, as he had been so upset when they had last seen him, not to mention Larxene is a rather dangerous person.

But if it is true, about Roxas and Sora being… Then Sora must know what has happened to the blonde teenager.

"Sora," She had to make sure he was safe, that things were alright with him, she had even reasoned with her father for days to make him call off their engagement, just to make sure she wouldn't get in the way of them. Sora turned around, pausing the game as he made eye contact with the redhead, "About Roxas…"

His eyes seemed to widen for a second, then advert to the floor, a certain sadness filling the air around him, mixed in with what seemed to be shame, "You were friends with him, right? I'm sorry, it was my fault."

Kairi gasped, immediately thinking of the worst conclusion possible from that sentence, but Xion cut in before the dramatics could be taken too far, "What do you mean? What happened?"

Sora frowned, still staring at the carpet pitifully, "He went back home, probably because of me and my parents. I don't think he'll be coming to visit anytime soon, either."

Kairi felt the concern wash over her just from seeing the look on Sora's face, "What happened, I mean… Larxene had been here and took him away, and she told me about your two's relationship, so when-"

Surprise jumped to his features, and his head snapped up, "Excuse me?"

"Larxene, she had come here while Roxas was over about a week ago, and she had just grabbed Roxas and began-"

"No, no, what had she told you about mine and Roxas's relationship," Sora scrunched his eyebrows together, feeling suddenly very suspicious of one blonde haired bitch.

Kairi raised an eyebrow, then spoke again, more slowly, more carefully, "She had said that you two were dating."

Sora's jaw dropped, and a bright red highlighted his cheeks, "W-What? No way! We weren't-aren't dating! I'm not gay!"

"That's hard to believe," Xion snorted, making Sora turn to glare at her.

"I'm sorry, did you say something?"

"C'mon, Sora, you just scream gay, I mean, Roxas seems more straight than you."

Sora looked a bit like he had been slapped, "B-But he is gay!"

Naminé laughed at the two, "Well, that's ironic, isn't it?"

"Whoa, wait a minute," Kairi held up her hands and then pointed to Sora, "So you're telling me that you two haven't hooked up?"

Sora's face reddened again, but a stubborn scowl jumped to his features, "Nothing of the sort. I told you, I'm not-"

"Yeah, sure, whatever, but Roxas likes you, he definitely does."

Sora's eyes widened again, and he shook his head quickly, "No, he doesn't, he really doesn't, he probably hates me more than anything."

"No! He told me that he did! You have to talk to him, Sora, he was crying when he was over here because he thought you and I were going to get married! He really likes you!"

"Why? Why do I have to talk to him? He's gone, okay? He left! Just like you and Axel, he hates me now, so just leave it alone!"

Kairi's mouth snapped shut as everyone stared at Sora in slight shock, even he just stared at the floor like he was still trying to comprehend the situation. But Roxas couldn't like him, that would mess everything up. Nothing would make any sense anymore.

"If he liked me, why would he leave me?"

The sun is shining everyday, but it's far away
Over the world is death.

Roxas sneezed violently, grabbing a tissue from the box on the dresser next to his bed and blowing his nose, then he just groaned and fell back onto the mattress. His light-headedness was making the room start to spin, so he just closed his eyes and let it. Getting sick sucked… bad.

Like a bitch with a hotdog bad.

A soft knock was heard at his door, but, honestly, unless it was Sora, he really didn't give a damn who the hell it was, he just wanted to sleep. It's too bad that person didn't need him to let them in, because the door was open and a small body was attempting to crawl up onto the bed with him.

He groaned again, rolling over to face the child and gently pushing him back onto the floor, "Nah, Vida, I'm sick. Go play with Mum or Dad, k?"

The child pouted and furrowed his eyebrows together, looking quite comical, more so than serious, "But I wanna play with Rockus!"

"Rockus is gonna puke out his digestive track if you play with him, do you really want that?"

The child continue to stare at him for another couple seconds, eyebrows still furrowed together in thought, then, "Will it hurt Rockus?"

"Very much."

"… Rockus BIG BOY! PUSSY!" And then he ran out of the room, leaving the pussy to seethe and stare at the wall across from him. He has to remember, though, not to lose his temper. This is a toddler that insulted him, not someone who can be taken responsible for their actions…

He'll get his revenge when Vida goes through puberty…

"Oi," His eyes snapped up to see Wakka standing in the doorway, a sympathetic grin forced to his face, he walked over and handed the cordless telephone to him, whispering, "It's your parents, thought you'd want to talk to them."

Roxas quickly nodded, stopping when it made him even more dizzy, then he grabbed the phone from the father, lightly pressing it to his ear, still laying down in bed so as not to get light-headed, "'Ello?"

"Roxas? Are you alright, Honey, you sound like shit!"

"Such eloquence, Mum, Shakespeare would just die hearing you speak."

"I bet. It's nothing serious, is it?"

Actually, it was a really nasty bug that had been going around the city, making people puke anything they ate, gave them a high temperature, and took away every bit of energy from them, "Nah, just a cold."

"Oh, good, I hope you get better really soon, though, it just sounds horrible. Oh, this is long distance, I should just get to the point. Rufus, your uncle, he called me a little while ago, I'm so sorry he involved you in one of his schemes, he's always finding these-"

"Schemes?" Roxas attention suddenly snapped to the front of his mind, thinking of Rufus sending him to Hollow Bastion, to the Taylors. Was that all a scheme? What kind of goal did he have in mind with that?

"Oh, yes, he's always been a business man first, and I'm afraid with his line of work, he's practically married to cash. It seems he went for the Taylors this time, I heard of them before. We were at a party together back when you were just a baby. They spent the entire time talking about their two sons and how they would make sure they had all the opportunities in the world. They're the ones who inspired us to really stick around in Hollow Bastion to raise you, instead of continuing to travel. Thank God for that!"

A ringing in Roxas's ears made it hard for him to properly listen to his mother. Rufus targeted the Taylors, what was that suppose to mean? Did something bad happen to them? To Sora?

"What happened?"

"Oh, your father just tripped over his shoes, he has such big feet, I wouldn't worry about him though, he's so hard-headed after all-"

"No, to the Taylors, what happened? What did Rufus do to them?"

"The Taylors? Why are you so concerned with them? Anyways, he does the same thing with these families he manages to weasel into trusting him. He steals their corporation's secrets, sells them, and steals all their money, too. I can't exactly remember what line of work he does specifically, but I know he works in energy, more like something of a cover-up, if you ask me."

"He stole all their money?" Sora didn't have any money? Oh God, just imagine how his parents would react. What would they do, was Sora homeless? He couldn't be, there was just no way. Axel would take care of him, he definitely would.

"And I heard it was right after his oldest son walked out, can you believe that? How horrible, especially sense they wouldn't stop talking about their children back when we met, they must have been devastated. And not to mention that the Howards daughter broke off the engagement to his second son, they're definitely not looking on some bright times right now."

Axel walked out? Now of all times? What happened to Sora then? Kairi broke off the engagement! Before or after? Does that mean they really aren't in love, it was all about money? Kairi isn't that kind of girl, though, did they have a falling out? Was it because of what he had said to her?

"I-I gotta go, Mum, I love ya, call again soon!"

"Huh? Roxas? I love you, too-"

Wakka still stood in the doorway, raising an eyebrow as Roxas reached up for his wallet on the dresser, digging through it until he found the number of the Howards household. He had never bothered to write down the Taylors, since he was the one who was there, so this was the closest thing he could get.

The rings felt like they were dragged out forever, making him hold his breath in anticipation, waiting impatiently for the answer, his cold the last thing on his mind. Finally, a voice answered, "Howards household, maid spe-"

"Kairi, may I speak to her, or Naminé, or Xion?" Or a fucking talking swan, as long as it could tell him what happened to Sora!

"One moment," The maid huffed, obviously ticked that she had been cut off, but then he heard the phone placed down, and he was left to impatiently wait for an answer, again.

Across the room, Wakka raised an eyebrow at him, not speaking because he was a bit afraid to interrupt, but still deeply interested. He knew all of Roxas's friends, but not the ones mentioned, maybe he made them on Destiny Island? Roxas never talked about Destiny Island, he was being so secretive about the entire thing, and it has been a week so-Wait! He's making a long distance call, isn't he? That's gonna be one bitch of a bill to pay off!

"Hello?" Roxas jumped as the feminine voice answered the line, making him wonder which of the sisters it was.

"Hey, it's Roxas!"

"Roxas?" There was a pause after the surprised shout, then he heard a click but he ignored it as she began to speak again, "It's Kairi! It's been so long! What happened to you! It's like you just disappeared or something! What did Larxene-"

"I went home, to Hollow Bastion. But I just got a call from my parents, they said some… bad things happened to Sora-the Taylor family. Is Sora alight? And Axel and his parents?" Nice cover up, that wasn't awkward at all. Not like it matters anyways, Kairi and Sora didn't talk so it didn't matter if she knew about his crush.

"Oh… Yeah, I heard about it. Don't worry about them, Axel is living with Demyx and his parents went to a hotel for awhile, or that's what I heard. And Sora… Hey, Roxas? Do you like Sora?"

He gulped, fidgeting with the corner of his quilt, Wakka still watching him from the doorway was making him nervous, and he could feel the heat travel up to his face, "Uh… Yeah… I do."

"He's living with us right now-"

"What?" Was he listening? Did he hear?

"Roxas, I want you to talk to him, you-"

He hung up.

Do you think I'm special?
Do you think I'm nice?
Am I bright enough to shine in your spaces?

Sora leaned back against the couch, bringing his legs up to sit Indian style, he could feel Kairi's eyes on him as the dial tone continued to echo around the room, after what felt like hours, she finally reached over and hit the end button on the machine, taking it off of speaker phone.

She sighed as she looked back to her ex-fiancé, watching him stare at the corner of the room blankly. For a moment, she wondered if she should really say anything. With everything that was going on for him, with his family losing all their money, Axel walking out, him being forced to live with them, and not to mention the obvious fight he is having with his parents, she really wondered if she should even bring up Roxas anymore. Wouldn't it just cause more trouble?

Then again, she was a firm believer that love could conquer all. So she liked to think that when (not if) he and Roxas did finally get together, then all his problems would lessen, because he has Roxas.

Using this delusional logic, she got up and walked over to sit next to her friend, leaning against his shoulder as she figured he wouldn't exactly accept a hug from her right now. She was probably right.

Sora didn't want to even think about Roxas, at the moment, but she just would drop it, would she? It wouldn't make any sense, "If Roxas really liked me… then he wouldn't have left."

"He just said so himself. What's your reasoning for that?"

Sora could feel his mouth open, could feel his lips trying to form words, any words, any reasoning for anything, but he just came up dry.

"Why don't you ask him yourself?"

"He doesn't want to talk to me. He hung up."

"Make him talk to you."

Sora's eyebrows raised as he looked to the red haired girl in surprise, "And how would I do that? It's not like I can make someone do anything over a phone!"

Kairi's gentle expression fell, replacing it with irritation, then a bright smile flew up on to it, a little too bright. Suspiciously bright, "Go to him!"

She was reading on too many romance novels, "Go to him!" That sounds like something out of an 80's Harlequin novel, the kind you would get free at a Stop & Shop, "What? How would I get to Hollow Bastion?"

"Take a plane!"

"If you have happened to forget, my family is probably the least wealthy on the island at the moment! I can't afford a plane ticket!"

Kairi rolled her eyes, "If you've happened to forget, your family being poor makes my family the most wealthy on the island, and we can afford a plane-hell-we own a plane!"

Sora scrunched up his nose, "Well, doesn't that just make you special? But it can't possibly work, your parents would never let me take your plane to Hollow Bastion without talking to my parents. And that just isn't happening."

Kairi frowned, seeing the reasoning in that. Her parents would be the first to know if she ordered for the plane to be taken to Hollow Bastion, and they would stop them in seconds, and they definitely wouldn't let Sora go alone without his parent's permission…

"Naminé, Xion and I will go, and you can sneak on!"

Sora just stared at her, "Are you being serious?"

"I can tell them that we want to see Roxas, because he's our friend, and we're worried about him! They'll let us go, and then I can ask some of those new maids and butlers we hired to sneak you on, and it's perfect!"

Sora just stared as she continued on, making plans, calling up her sisters and father, then ordering around a couple servants to prepare things. Suddenly, he was being pushed out the door and into a car (which he noticed was being driven by Cloud, had he been hired by the Howards?). The drive went too quick, he was snuck out onto the runway too quick, and he was on the plane in what felt like seconds.

This couldn't be happening. It wouldn't make any sense. Roxas was one of the people who left, he couldn't seriously be getting him back. And besides that…

"I'm not even gay!"

Xion and Naminé's head snapped up as they clicked their seatbelts in, just giving him a weird look, but Kairi didn't even glance up from her paperback novel, "Yeah, sure, bisexual, whatever you wanna call it."

"I'm not!"

Kairi sighed, and put her book down, looking across from her to Sora's seat, she gave him a dangerous gaze, "You wanted him to stay, didn't you?"

"… Yeah," Sora nodded slowly, feeling unsure about answering her question.

"You've been mopping about him being gone, haven't you?"

"I wouldn't say-"

"That was mopping."

"Fine," Sora huffed, crossing his arms and falling back into his seat.

"And you went to great lengths to make sure that he would be happy, thus the reason he went home, am I correct?"

Sora just nodded, feeling a queasy feeling rise into the pit of his stomach as a sly grin crossed Kairi's face, "You want to bang him so hard that you yourself can't believe it."

"Kairi!" Sora face flushed red and Xion and Naminé started to laugh at them, "I-I just-You're not-"

"Sora? What's wrong with liking Roxas?" She leaned back, that sly grin still spread across her face smugly.

He shook his head for a moment, furrowing his eyebrows together in frustration, "Nothing…"

"What's wrong with you liking Roxas?"

He just shook his head again, turning away to look out the window.

"Then why do you make it sound like there is something wrong?"

Because none of it made any sense to him anymore.

Why his family is poor now, why Axel refused to make contact with their parents, why his parents haven't tried to contact him, why Kairi was his friend now, why Roxas said he liked Sora but still had left, why Sora was on a plane to Hollow Bastion to see Roxas again when he supposedly didn't like him in the same way.

It just didn't make any sense.

It's almost like it isn't supposed to.

Between the noise you hear
And the sound you like
Are we just sinking in an ocean of faces?

Roxas just stared at the wall across from him in a daze, Olette, Hayner and Seifer all bickering in his room like he wasn't there, and really, he might as well have not been there, because his mind certainly wasn't.

"I'm just saying that we should at least consider Paine, I mean, she did give me the medicine that cured me," Olette crossed her arms and gave the two boys stubborn looks, but they were hardly backing down now.

Seifer threw his arms up in the air, gesturing widely, "Yeah, give him some of those Asian spices, make him burn out his nasal cavity, that makes complete sense! And, hey, we won't have to worry about future colds either! Because his nose will have been burned off!"

"I'm telling you two!" Hayner quickly butted in, throwing his arm in front of Seifer to stop him from continuing onto a rant, "Exercise is the quickest way to make a cold go away! Just sweat the virus out! It works for me every time!"

"Like that makes any sense at all! He should be getting rest and medicine! Paine's medicine! She knows what she's doing, and she uses these natural herbs that her cousin, Rikku, sends straight from Destiny Island!"

Oh, God, they mentioned that place!

Roxas groaned and rolled over, turning his back to them, but it didn't seem to make a difference to them, as they just continued to argue about his fate. Leaving him to just stare at the wall his bed was pushed up against, and stare at the pictures he has taken of his friends over the years. He would always take the best ones and tape them to the wall next to his bed, so he could always look at them easily.

The first one that caught his eye was, of course, of Kairi and Naminé in the restaurant where they met, and the sight of it made him smile sadly. He probably wouldn't get to talk to them very much, or at all. That long distance call he made has Wakka freaking out over what their phone bill is going to look like. Plus, he hung up on Kairi this morning.

The moment she had mentioned that Sora was living there, all he could think about was what if he had heard Roxas say he likes him? Sora would reject him completely, he wouldn't even want to be friends with him. After all, he is obviously trying to be the perfect son for his parents, and being gay is definitely not on their list.

Besides that, he probably just thinks that Roxas is a creeper, after all, they had only known each other for a few days, really, not nearly enough time to properly develop a crush on someone.

Then why did he feel like this? Why couldn't he just go through one freaking day without thinking about this guy! It wasn't like they were ever going to see each other again, he should just give it up and move on.

Why was it so hard, though?

"Roxas?" The teen snapped his attention back to Olette, rolling onto his back to properly look at her. She was leaning over the side of his bed, giving him a concerned look as she tried to smile reassuringly, "We've decided to use Paine's medicine, alright? So we're gonna go get some right now, you just try and rest up the best you can, k?"

He just sighed and nodded slowly, turning back over and closing his eyes, he listened to them walking out of his room, still arguing in softer whispers. He could feel unconsciousness catching up with him, and with Sora still on his mind, he knew he was going to have dreams.

Whether those dreams would be good or bad, depended really on if they lightened his mood or depressed him when he woke up.

They said, everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going
Yeah, we're going down.