I don't own Kingdom Hearts, nor any of it's characters. They are the property of Disney and Square Enix. I hope you enjoy. It's been some time since I wrote a fanfiction. I just haven't been feeling like it. I may turn this into a weekly thing. Hopefully, I can return to it. I hope it doesn't sound too awkward. I may as well do something, especially since my Wednesday was pretty boring. I hope things go smoothly. Does anyone think its silly that a nearly 26 year old woman is still into Kingdom Hearts?
Chapter One
"Can't they just give me a break?" Axel asked himself as he laid in his bed, looking up at the white ceiling. It had been six days since that boy showed up, but he was still expected to show the new kid the ropes. Why him? There were other people in this godforsaken, mechanical castle that could have given that zombie guidance. I mean, sure Xigbar and Xaldin were always scouting for new recruits. Zexion and Vexen were always away in their labs, doing who knows what. Saix was too busy always barking out orders that the boss man gave him. The superior was an enigma and didn't know where the guy went half the time. Saix may care about that, but the fiery assassin didn't bother.
"Who is that kid anyways?" Axel pondered as he recalled his first encounter with the boy. He had shown up in Twilight Town one day after finishing business as usual, the twenty-five year old man always got some ice cream at this time of day. It was sort of the only thing he had looking up in his pathetic, endless nonexistence. Axel had wondered why he didn't just end it all but one would need a heart to actually care about ending it all, right? The fiery redhead didn't have that and neither did anyone else in the hollow world he and them called home. Anyways, Axel found himself in the company of someone unexpected.
"Boss, what are you doing here?" Axel asked dumbfounded almost dropping the ice cream bars that he had just bought from the old lady at the ice cream shop.
The hooded man remained silent for a bit. Axel felt awkward seeing him here of all places. "I could ask you the same thing in regards to those sweets." Axel felt himself embarrassed at the aforementioned sweets. He couldn't really argue with the boss man because he lacked the authority to do so. "I have someone that I would like you to meet," the man said, snapping Axel out of his shock.
"Meet?" Axel asked.
"Yes, he's a new member. He is very important," the boss replied. The two had encountered the forest that sat at the edge of the small, semi-developed town, the forest was lush green and it seemed endless. Axel had to trek through this same forest on a numerous of missions that just somehow dragged into the night. The missions that Saix gave out didn't have a deadline, so some members like Demyx and Axel himself would use them as some sort of a vacation. The only difference, Axel would finish up and go back while Demyx would have to be dragged back to the castle, kicking and screaming. "We're here!" Xemnas called.
They had reached the seemingly endless forest and entered a clearing. Axel was so preoccupied in reminiscing about the mundane that he just tuned out Xemnas and his footsteps or even the annoying chirping of crickets and birds that called this place home. Did they ever get tired of being stuck in the same place like Axel and Demyx did? Did they ever try to escape it? The answer was probably no. "Number XIII, Roxas, glad to see you still here." Xemnas spoke.
Axel perked up and looked at the person the Superior spoke to. The boy appeared to be fifteen; he was dressed in a white shirt, some pants that seemed to be a mix of black and khaki brown, black sneakers with red on them and some other aspects that Axel didn't bother to take note of. The sandy blonde haired boy just stared up at both of them with empty sky blue eyes. "Why isn't he saying anything?" Axel thought. "Oh right, he had just appeared. I guess, that explains why he didn't run off and just stood here like some sort of statue."
Xemnas turned to Axel. "I leave him in your care, Number VIII."
"What-no! Boss!" Axel tried calling out as Xemnas abruptly left in a portal of spiraling blacks and purples.
The boy stared up at Axel with the same empty eyes. "What, can't you do anything else?" Axel asked the boy annoying. The boy's head lowered. "Well, at least you're not a complete zombie." the redhead joked until he remembered the ice cream bars, which had melted away in one of his coat pockets. Axel sighed. "What a waste of good munny. I guess, I have to buy some new ones."
Axel threw the bars to the side, some wildlife would just eat them up. After all, the old lady at the store told him that the packaging was made from some biodegradable material or some shit like that. Axel usually was against littering since discarding the bars in the nearby town got him away from that bleak castle for some time. "Do you want some ice cream, kid?" Axel asked the blonde kid.
"Ice...cream?" the boy asked. Axel was a little shock for a bit.
"Yeah, ice cream, it's something people eat. It's really sweet and cold. Kids like you and grown ups like me can't get enough of the stuff. Heck, in some worlds, people can't get enough of the stuff that they turn into walking whales and have health problems," Axel wanted to face palm at that lousy joke. He thought this newly awakened nobody would at least give him some sort of reaction at the mention of obesity and health problems. I mean, he's encountered some nobodies, mainly dusks that would act offended or just nod their heads as in some mention of laughing. No, reaction came from the boy. Axel was pretty much stuck grabbing the boy by the arm and leading him out of the forest. That was more of a nuisance than just him staring up at him with those blank, blue eyes.
The boy kept falling and Axel would have to keep picking him up, the boy wasn't used to his body. The redhead wondered if he was like this when he was first born. Either way, the boy got the hang of it and pretty much started walking normally like a human. Axel was relieved since he didn't want to think about training this kid to walk, he was a teen not a toddler! The redhead decided to take this boy to get more ice cream.
The old lady was a little surprised to see Axel back in front of her shop. "I see, you have a sweet tooth. I guess, you're addicted, eh?" the old lady chuckled. Axel just took some more munny, small light yellow coins out of one of his pockets and gave them to the lady. He didn't want to hear more unfunny jokes for the day. The old lady came back with two more ice cream bars and gave them to Axel.
The old lady smiled and went back to running her small shop. Axel turned around and saw that Roxas was looking at something, the boy was looking at some speck of dirt on the ground at first. However, now he wasn't looking at that. Axel followed the boy's line of sight and saw that he was looking at three kids. One of them with the same ice cream bars that Axel had just bought. The boy went walking off and Axel stopped him by clumping a hand down on his shoulder. "I can't let you wonder off. I am in charge of you. I can't let you do as you please."
The boy seemed to keep "fighting" against Axel, but he relented once the three teenagers were gone, Axel had put away the two ice cream bars that he had just bought in one of his pockets with his spare hand. "Well, I think you and I best get going," Axel said but then stopped.
The boy stared emptily at him. "I can't have you going back to that empty place just yet." Axel scratched the back of his head and then remembered his special place. He looked at the boy and then paused. "Do I really have to bring you there? You might just ruin my-" Axel then noticed that the boy was looking elsewhere.
"Well, I guess I have no choice," Axel remarked. The two of them were up a hill and near the train station. They climbed some stairs and finally reached an exit. Axel gently sat down, showing the boy how to sit, the boy took a seat. The redhead had to make some readjustments since the boy was skittering towards the edge of falling off. "Why can't you just be normal?" Axel groaned. "Well, anyways, I think you deserve this as some sort of birthday gift," Axel said pulling one of the ice cream bars out and handing it to the boy.
The boy unwrapped it and handed Axel back the wrapper. Axel chuckled a bit, "I guess, I didn't have to teach you that. You're not so much as a zombie as I thought, are you?"
The boy didn't respond and slowly began munching into his light blue ice cream bar. Axel did the same, but when he started biting into his. "Man, why does this have to be so salty?" Axel remarked out loud.
The boy looked at him with a sort of glint of amusement. "It's salty...but sweet," the boy replied.
"True," Axel finished. He was smiling a bit on the inside. "I guess, you're not a complete zombie, are you, eh Roxas?" he thought to himself.
The bells of the clock tower began ringing. Roxas began grasping his ears, "Too...loud," he said. Axel saw the boy going back and forth. He began to panic. The blonde haired boy slumped to the side. Axel picked up the boy. "What set off that reaction?" he asked himself.
A slivering white thing appeared out of a vortex, a Dusk. The thing looked at Axel, it had something black sitting in the jaws of its almost zipped up mouth. Axel grabbed the black thing, careful to make sure he didn't tear it, it was a black coat. It was very similar to his but much smaller. Axel looked at the slumped over boy. "I can't leave you here. Perhaps, Vexen or somebody at the Organization would know how to fix you." Axel wrapped the boy up in the coat, well rather slipped the coat over the fifteen year old boy's body. It looked awkward, especially with the bulges from the clothes he had on already along with the black sneakers with red. It would have to do until they got back to the castle.
The crimson haired man woke up in his bed, nothing had changed. Everything was back in place. The boy had woken up, Saix had told him. Axel was a little relieved. Saix took notice of the small smile forming on the man's face. "Get Roxas ready for his presentation. The superior and everyone is awaiting to see him."