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[Video] The Wheel Keeps on Turning.

[ This time the announcement about Riku's departure is intentional. Sora's up on the island sitting on the beach. The sun is setting. He's had plenty of time since this morning to think about it, and he's actually able to smile a little at the camera. ]

Hey everyone, I just wanted you guys to know Riku went home again.

[ He forces the smile to stay on his face, acting as if everything's okay. He's sort of getting used to this by now, but that doesn't mean it doesn't still hurt. ]

Kairi, if you didn't know yet, I'm sorry.

[ He actually seems a little sadder at that. He ends the transmission there without another word. Really there's nothing else to say. ]

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How cruel.

[Saix, clearly, doesn't seem to care for what Sora thinks. Still, that offers something he's been hoping to twist into the keyblade wielder.]

You know, we could have had hearts if you hadn't deemed us as lesser creatures. How easily you slayed us, as if we were nothing more than those mindless animals you were far more used to beating... In fact, I might say you did it too easily.

It's as I told you, do you remember? Nobodies can think and remember, so very hard to distinguish from a normal person like yourself. All we would need would be our hearts again, and that's hardly much to ask for at all. We had dreams and desires. We were people as well, something I suppose Demyx is a good example for. Of course, you couldn't have that. You just charged right in and slaughtered nearly all of us without thinking about the lives you were vanishing to nothing.

Have you ever pondered if you are a murderer, Sora?

[ Sora stares at the video as Saix speaks.

[ Have you ever pondered if you are a murderer, Sora?

[ Sora feels his heart constrict in his chest for a moment. His hands clenched into fist but it wasn't out of anger, it was to stop the coldness that had suddenly seeped into him. ]

I...

No! I did what I had to to stop you! You'd have destroyed everything if I hadn't!

[ Sora had done what was right, he knew he'd done what was right! Hadn't he? The thought still left a bitterness at the back of his throat that he couldn't quite swallow down.

[ Murderer. ]

[Ha. He can see that moment of indecision, that trepidation. Good.]

How can you be so sure? How did you know for a fact that's what it would do? By the time you killed me, we were so close to having it completed.

But because you were told it had to be, you did it without a single question. How callous.

[ To think that Sora had been used not once, but twice was unthinkable. He'd wrestled with the knowledge that destroying the Heartless was only helping the Organization, but he'd had no other choice but to move forward so he could stop them. What if he'd been used again?

[ No, Saix had to be wrong, he was baiting him, Sora was sure of it! ]

I know in my heart what I did was right. If I had to stop you to keep the world's safe then I'd do it again!

Hearts can be so misleading. I'm fairly certain that was something Xaldin was sure to impart upon the newer members if asked.

It's interesting to see you're still so willing to kill. I'll be sure to keep it in mind.

Ngh....

[ Sora's fist were shaking now. He was not happy not in the least, but at least he wasn't thinking about Riku leaving anymore. ]

I'm not a murderer!

Really? Then just what did you do to me?

I...[ Damn it. What could Sora really call it? Destroyed him? That was just as bad and Sora knew it. He wasn't an idiot, he knew what he did to the Heartless and the Nobodies, but it was all for the greater good. Sora had to believe that...

He had to. ]

Exactly.

[ Sora didn't know what to say. His hand moved up to his heart on instinct and he clutched at his shirt.

[ What if he had been wrong? ]

Xemnas wouldn't have given you your hearts back.

[ Sora spoke quietly, going off what DiZ had told them and what little he did know. ]

He'd have used it for himself and to hurt the world's.

I...I'm sorry.

[Oh. So. He was a little more intelligent than Saix had thought him to be, or had simply been very lucky and been told just the right knowledge. He shifted, slightly, and pressed his knuckles against his cheek in thought.]

I'm well aware of what Xemnas' plans were in regards to Kingdom Hearts. In fact, I would hazard a guess that I wasn't the only one.

[Marluxia and Larxene, possibly, and Xigbar always seemed to know more than he let on... And, of course, Axel.]

[ Sora didn't say anything. He was feeling a mixture of annoyance and sadness at the whole thing. He couldn't expect Saix to be on his die of the argument if he knew what the plans for Kingdom Hearts was. ]

...

[ He wasn't a murderer, how could he be when what he'd done was the right thing? ]

Not so black and white as you were lead to believe, is it?

I'm not an idiot, I know that.

[ Nothing was ever really simple was it? ]

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