(A/N: Ok, Chapter 8 is short and simple, but in return its very juicy. You finally get something special and I was finally waiting for the right moment to give this surprise to you! I really want to know what your reaction is so please don't hesitate to leave a review for this chapter. I want to grin. :D Thank you for the support and the views. (WOOOO! Over 1,000! Wait till we get over 9,000 *wink wink* xD) Anyways, enjoy the chapter! :D)

Roxas

Roxas woke up with a slow start.

He stretched his whole body out before he realized that he was back on Destiny Island again.

"Great, I guess I'm back here again. But what happened to me? Why did I just… fade to sleep?" Roxas questioned to himself out loud.

But then Sora answered his question with a sort of sickish tone, "Because Kairi and I both did you and Naminé a favor. You're welcome."

Roxas had noticed that that Sora was still laying down in front of the shore of the beach. He went towards Sora to go sit down next to him and continued the conversation.

"Wait, what do you mean favor? Was that light you?"

"Yes, but no. The light was both Kairi and me, like I had just told you."

"So then what favor kind of favor did you both do for us?"

"Well… You'll see once you wake up. Just call it 'the first step' to achieving my promise, ok?"

Roxas sighed, "Alright then, if you say so."

"Anyways," Sora changed the subject, "Let's talk about you."

"About what and why?" Roxas asked puzzled.

"About you losing your emotions, while you having your moment with Naminé."

Roxas blushed and went into a daydream hazily with a dumb smile on his face, "Oh yeah, that."

Roxas sighed as his body melted, but was snapped out of it when Sora had called out to him.

"HELLO? Earth to Roxas?"

"Huh? Oh, sorry about that. Why do you want to talk about this? It is my kiss after all," Roxas replied annoyed.

"Well, first off. You nearly went insane, and that will cause a good amount of darkness inside of you. With that in mind, you need to keep your emotions in mind because you nearly drowned me in that darkness. Why do you think I called out of you in the first place, huh?"

Roxas felt bad after he heard that.

With a sad voice he replied, "Oh….. Sorry about that. I didn't know about that. It just, sort of happened. I'll try to keep my emotions in check from now on. Unfortunately, unlike you, I am able to succumb to darkness unlike you and Riku. I mean I was at one point darkness…."

Sora cut him off a groan, "Enough, Roxas. Stop moping around about yourself, before you start another flood of darkness. Anyways, what's done is done and we need to focus on the future. You can't just focus on the past all the time you know? Or else you won't be able to make room for Naminé, now will ya."

Sora laughed as he teased Roxas but then coughed from his condition.

Roxas looked at Sora and then smiled, "You're right, thanks Sora."

"You're welcome. But anyways, we've got a bigger problem," Sora replied with a serious face, "Remember when you when you almost lost yourself?"

"Yeah."

"Well, didn't you feel a weird sensation inside of you when your emotions had taken over you?"

Roxas had taken a moment to think about what Sora had said; then he finally realized it.

"Yep," Sora had replied to Roxas' thoughts, "It seems we're not alone. Something that is involved with the darkness is inside of our hearts. Yes, not just yours but mine as well."

All of a sudden Sora began to yawn, and Roxas replied to his yawn with a yawn of his own. After yawning, Roxas noticed how dark it was getting. He looked around and noticed that the beach was getting darker as the sunset started to fade away.

"Oh darn, I was hoping to have more time with you, but I need to recover and get better or else I can't keep our promise, right?" Sora told him with a tired face and a smile.

"Yeah." Roxas replied with a yawn.

"Please don't get yourself into trouble. I mean I'll watch you after a while when I recover some more, but we can't have these meeting anymore for a while, ok? Or else I won't be able to fully recover in time." Sora chuckled.

They both grew wearingly tired as both Roxas' and Sora's eyes were starting to droop.

"One last thing… *yawns* …we need to be cautious about this…. mysterious thing…," Sora finally fell asleep.

Roxas had begun to fade away into sleep as he lay down on the sand.

And before he completely fell into the white, he heard a voice. The voice was a feminine voice and it made him remember Naminé, but it wasn't her. It wasn't Naminé nor Kairi, but he felt like he remembered the voice.

(Be careful…. Roxas)

And before he knew it, Roxas woke up.

Roxas was slumped over on a chair when he woke up. He looked up and he realized that he was sitting down inside of Master Yen Sid's office.

All of a sudden, Master Yen Sid had started talking.

"Ah, Roxas. I'm glad that you can join us from your comfortable nap you were enjoying. Now that you are awake, I can talk to you and Naminé about our predicament that we are currently facing right now."

"Huh?" Roxas replied sheepishly and half-awake.

Roxas noticed Naminé giggling as she sitting next to her in another chair. Roxas finally woke up completely and was embarrassed as Naminé started to laugh. Roxas was confused at why she was laughing at him, but then he felt moisture on the side of his lips. He realized that it was drool, and that made Roxas' face turn into a tomato. He quickly wiped off the drool in his face as he chuckled in return.

Then Roxas realized something. He realized that Naminé actually looked like Naminé herself and not Kairi. As Roxas stared at her in disbelief, Naminé blushed slightly.

Roxas blinked about five times and Naminé still looked the same. Then Roxas got closer to Naminé, and he touched Naminé's hand; her face began to turn bright red, but still she looked like herself.

Then Master Yen Sid interrupted him with a very loud cough, and Roxas returned to his seat blushing.

"As I was saying," the Master continued, "we need to talk about our current predicament."

"And what is this predicament you are talking about?" Roxas replied as he noticed that his left index finger had a black cover and his middle finger was wearing a white cover. He continued to examine himself to see that he was wearing a black and white checkered wristband on his left wrist. He was wearing the original clothing that he wore before he was absorbed by Sora.

Master Yen Sid answered his reply, "The fact that you and Naminé are in your own bodies and not in Sora's and Kairi's bodies instead."

Roxas' finally pulled on his hair to find out that it was blonde and not brown.

Roxas' eyes widened with excitement as he thought to Sora deep inside of himself.

(So this is what you mean by 'Step one' huh? Well, thank you.)

He then heard Sora.

(You're welcome. And don't forget to thank Kairi as well, or else she'll give you an ear-full.)

That made Roxas laughed out loud.

(Alright, I will.)