Next chap will be a bit of a detour. Just a heads up.

"And once again, Roxas rolls out of bed for another boring day." Sora sighed. "This better be over soon."

"You're half way there but it starts getting better now." Riku assured him as Roxas was taken to the sandlot.

"Well, here we are at the Struggle Tournament." Sora frowned. "You mean I have to fight Seifer again?"

"No, Vivi takes him out but you have to fight Hayner."

"What? Why? Who set that up? I don't wanna fight my best friend. I already did that in real life and it totally sucked!"

Riku felt himself frown. He hated being reminded of that. Before Sora could see it however it was gone. "Don't know but that's how it is."

"Great. Fine. OOOH, skateboard." And again Roxas was grinding along the stage and flipping over heads.

"You know, I'm just gonna get you a copy of Tony Hawk's ProSkater. That'll keep your attention for hours."

"What's that?"

"A game. Now are you going to get this over with?"

"Yeah." Roxas left the board and went over for instructions. "Ok, sounds easy enough. Let's go."

He jumped the side and ran over to the guy in charge. The fight got set up and Roxas looked really unhappy. Hayner dismissed his apology and the friends went at it. "Ya' know." Sora commented at he batted at Hayner and collected blue orbs. "Hayner reminds me of you."

"Does he?"

"Yeah. Well, that was easy." Sora listened a moment. "But he's a much better loser than you."

Riku shoved him. "I'm not a poor loser."

"Oh yes you are." Sora didn't continue. He was back on the Struggle tournament. "Whoa, Vivi's kickin' butt."

"Yep and Seifer's pissed."

Seifer lost and Sora grinned. "He totally just got pwned."

"Now he's a sore loser." Riku pointed out after Seifer told Roxas to thrash him.

"True." Sora shook his head quickly. "Okay, what's the deal with Vivi? That laugh is like totally creepy. I don't think I wanna fight him."

"Well you have to." Riku reached over and okayed the fight.

"Hey!"

"Better move." Riku laughed as Sora struggled (literally) against the little blue coated guy.

"Hey that was easy." Sora then paused. "Uh why did everything freeze? Wait, what? He's a freakin' Nobody? How'd that happen?"

He battled the Nobodies quickly still looking confused. When he finished he looked at Riku. "What was that?"

"Just watch."

"But I wanna know- wait there's you again."

"That's not me."

"Huh?" Now Sora was paying attention. "Then who- wait, Axel?"

"Yep."

"But-"

"Watch!"

After a minute, Sora was totally engrossed by the conversation. He stared at chakrams appeared and Roxas threw away the Keyblade only to have it immediately return. Then the blue eyes widened as Roxas readied himself to fight Axel. "No! He's not supposed to fight him! They're friends."

Sora frantically hitting buttons and looking extremely unhappy about it.

"But Roxas doesn't remember that." Riku explained, watching as Sora died. "You have been saving, right?"

"Yeah." Sora set the controller down as the retry screen came up. "This is really upsetting me. They had to go through all this because of me. It isn't fair."

"No one said life was fair, Sora."

"I know but," he sighed. "Yeah, I know. Doesn't mean I have to like it though."

"Very true."

Sora picked up the controller and restarted the Axel fight, this time actually paying attention to it. He defeated Axel but was still cleared not happy about it. "I really wish that hadn't been necessary."

"I always liked Axel's style." Riku commented. "I kinda wish I could manipulate fire."

"You would." Sora muttered. "Pyro."

"Hey, you and your thunder magic aren't much better."

"Why's Diz there? Whoa! He just totally blocked that!" Sora's jaw dropped. "Cool!"

Riku rolled his eyes.

"They're like both trying to get Roxas's attention." Sora nodded quietly as Roxas shout out his friends' names. It was like he completely understood what Roxas was doing. Then the scene changed and Roxas was still in the middle of the ring but everyone was again moving.

Vivi looked confused and wandered off. Roxas's friends came running up congratulating him. Then there was a girly cry of 'Setzer'. "So uh now I get to fight him, right?"

"Yep."

"Oh, joy." Sora said sarcastically. "Once this day is done, can we go out for food cause I'm starving."

"Yeah. That sounds good."

"Cool. Alright, who's this idiot and what's with purple coat? At least Auron had a reason for not wearing his sleeve." Sora complained. "Hold on, this guy's asking Roxas to throw the fight? Oh, I am sooo kicking his ass! What a total jerk! And he's supposed to be the champion? How in the worlds did that happen? He had to have bribed the judges or something."

Sora managed a steady stream of commentary as he did in fact quickly and decisively kick Setzer's ass.

"And what the heck is he going on about? 'Whatever you think, you're wrong'? What does that have to do with anything? Does this guy have security issues or what?"

He tossed down the controller to chants of 'Roxas'. "Why is he pointing? Man, this guy sucks. Oooh, I get a cool wrestlemania belt!"

Riku rolled his eyes. "I thought that's what it looked like too."

Roxas was tossing crystals to his friends on the clock tower and Sora watched closely. Then Roxas began falling. "Whoa, whoa. What's… hey it's Kairi and Selphie!"

"You know, that school uniform does look pretty good on her." Riku commented.

Sora shot him a dirty look. Riku ignored it.

Sora finally looked back at the screen. "So, seriously, everyone forgot me?"

"In their minds, yeah. I only remembered cause Diz told me about you." And the fact that he went everyday to the pod to see him but Riku didn't dare mention that little bit of information. He wasn't a sap after all.

"Oh." Sora frowned. Now Roxas was falling again and asking Namine questions, only it wasn't her. "So wait, how is he talking to Kairi?"

"Because he's you and she's Namine."

"Oh." Sora clearly didn't get it. "Hey, that's me talking! Whoa she passed out?"

"Well it is kind of an out of body experience."

"Huh. What's she doing now? Oh! It's the letter! The one that made to door to light!" He tilted his head. "She sent it that much earlier?"

"I guess." Riku shrugged. "She just remembered your name."

"Finally." Sora sighed. "And we're back to Diz. Hey you have the crystal!"

"Duh."

Sora watched another minute. "Diz didn't know who you were?"

"Oh he knew." The Riku on screen threw back his hood to reveal Ansem, well Xehanort, and Diz was laughing. "He just wanted to know how I'd answer."

"But if he's really Ansem, why didn't he call you on it?"

"I don't really know. Maybe he figured I needed to sort things out for myself." Riku stared at the screen for a long moment. "I was pretty messed up then."

Sora studied him but then Roxas returned and regained his attention. The blonde had suddenly awoken and was looking confused. As he mused on his dreams, Sora got an oddly sympathetic look. He whispered. "They're not dreams."

Riku watched the other with concern. Somehow, he doubted Sora was referring to the game.

"Alright, Day 5." Sora paused the game. "Time for food."