...Yeah, I know. [Sora isn't stupid, when it comes down to it. He knows he can be kind of oblivious sometimes, but he isn't stupid. Even if the Keyblade doesn't do the same kind of thing to him as it does to Xion, having it's been hard on him as well, even if not to the same degree.] He just... doesn't get what it's all about. Didn't. Doesn't? Di- I don't know. I was asleep that whole year, I didn't see him go through all that stuff... I saw him hit rock bottom, though. I... think he kind of needed that, a little.

[He loves Riku - BFFs forever and all that sort of thing. But Sora grew up on his journeys too, and he knows that some of what happened, to Riku at least, was necessary. He took it too far, but it was necessary.]