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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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[Terra still isn't sure why or how people come and go from this world, but he knows all too well what it's like to be suddenly separated from a close friend.]

Sora. Let me know if you want to talk.

How unfortunate for you. I can't imagine how much the loss of something so important must mean to you.

[...This would probably come off a lot more sincere if he wasn't smirking. Oh well. Saix is just here to enjoy the misery Sora is trying hard to hide.]

[How many times has Riku left now? Either way, this can't be easy for Sora. Axel's lost his best friend here on more than one occasion, too, so he understands.

Well... he can try to make light of this. Somehow.]

... Where are you at?

Hey, Terra.

[ Sora's still keeping the smile on his face, though it's really not easy. ]

It's okay. It's the third time it's happened, so you get used to it.

[ That was a lie. You never really get used to it, well to the fact that it happens maybe. ]

[ At least pissed off is a better emotion than sad at the moment. Sora's instantly glaring at the screen. Like hell he'd trust you, Saix. ]

Ngh, why don't you find someone else to bother!

[ Three, at least by this version of Sora's count. ]

Hey, Axel. I'm up on the island, near ----.

[ He has a feeling Axel's going to show up, which is fine, he doesn't mind. ]

Again? You can go home more than once?

[Roxas knows the island well enough by now to recognize roughly where Sora's broadcasting from. He portals up to the beach, walks along the sand until he reaches his Other, and just sits down quietly beside him, close enough to bump shoulders.

It seems like everyone's leaving lately. Selfishly, he realizes that even if things aren't quite what he'd like them to be, he still has Axel. It isn't fair.]

One of these days... he's gonna have to figure out how to stick around.

When you make a public post like this, you only have yourself to blame when anyone decides to respond.

I wonder how many times someone you love will be torn away from this place, leaving you with nothing?

Don't move, then, got it?

[Because yeah, he is gonna go up there. Just you wait.]

You're the one who responded!

[ Sora's glare deepened and his fist balled up. ]

Even if they all left I wouldn't have nothing! They're still in my heart and that's more than you can say for yourself!

[ It was a low blow perhaps, but Sora was pissed. ]

[ Sora nodded. ]

Sure, okay.

[ He'll be waiting, Axel. ]

[ Sora nodded. ]

Yeah, but you wont always remember this place when you come back.

[ The smile turned a little more genuine as Roxas sat beside him. He leaned against his brother taking comfort in the fact that he was close by. ]

Yeah...maybe one day he'll get it.

[ Not that Sora could really blame Riku for this. Things happened one way or the other. ]

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!

That's enough.

[Axel decides to butt in here before things get too far.]

I'm simply stating the truth.

[Axel shows up a few minutes later through a Corridor of Darkness not too far away from where Sora is up on the island. After he spots him he makes his way over... then shoves this in Sora's hands. Here take it it's awesome.

But don't worry. Axel has a Sea-Salt ice cream pop for himself.]

Yo.

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.

[ Sora blinks in surprise at the sudden appearance of the sundae. He looks up at Axel only slightly confused. ]

What's this for?

[ Though he could guess it was because he was feeling bad, ice cream as comfort food never really equated in his head for him. There's a first time for everything and Sora isn't going to complain. Actually he should hurry up and eat it before it became soup. ]

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!

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