Roxas/Axel/Sora One-Shot

Axel's fading away. These are his reflections, his feelings, his heart…

Axel's Final Thoughts

"Nobody would miss me." And then you walked away, without a single glance back to me. Heh, not that I expected anything like that from you. Nobodies... we don't have hearts, so of course no one would miss you. You knew that, we don't have the capabilities of missing someone, or something.

We can only pretend we know what it was like to have hearts, pretend to know what it was like. Truth of the matter is, I don't remember ever having a heart. But I do know that I never saw anyone else in the Organization the same way I saw you.

But you just went and walk away, the one thing I actually appreciated. Something that made me feel like I had a heart. You gave me that glimmer of emotion that made me feel like I had a friend. Do you not know that I saw you as a friend? "You're wrong!... I'd miss you..."

Then you went missing and we got a clue to your location. The Organization ordered me to bring you back, although I would have gone regardless, just for the chance to see you again. Sad that you couldn't even remember you best friend. Even sadder was that I was disheartened by that. Heh... disheartened, as if I have a heart to be disheartened.

I'll admit the second time I was excited that you knew my name, and knew we were friends. But I managed to get the truth out that you were just as clueless as the first time. I had already been given the order to eliminate you by the Organization. And I would have done it too if you hadn't gotten away.

Can't say I was happy that you finally got your memory all back by the time it was too late to spare you. I had already given up on bringing you back. Best friend or not, I was getting rid of you. You didn't seem to have a problem striking me down. At least we patched things up before you were gone completely.

But since you got your memory back, I wasn't going to let that Sora get away with existing while you had to give yourself up to him. I planned on getting you back if it was the last thing to do. Tell me... how do you get something from someone? Simple, you take that one thing they cherish most and demand an exchange. So much for that idea however, Xemnas took Kairi out of my hands and my only chance at seeing you once more.

You know what? It's only now, as I'm fading away to nothingness, that I realized my mistake. You didn't disappear, you aren't gone either. You just have different looks. Sora is still you, and you were always Sora. Neither one of you ever realized it though.

"Axel... you're fading."

"Well... that's what happens when you put your whole being into a single attack."

"Don't talk... save your strength."

Silly... Just like you. Sora was definitely just like you. There was no strength to save. I was a goner. At least I went out with a bang.

"Roxas... he was the only one I liked... Made me feel like I had a heart... "

"Axel..."

"Funny... you make me feel the same way." That's because you are both one in the same. But even though I don't see Roxas in front of me, only Sora. I am still happy I got to see one or the other in my last moments of existance.

Roxas... let's meet in the next life.

Yeah.

Silly... just because you have one.

Such is the fate of a nobody. Got it memorized?