I'll continue writing this at my own pace, but I'll try for a chapter or two a week. I'm aware it isn't exactly like Roxas's story but hey, it's a fan fiction.

Chapter One: Nobody

I wasn't really sure what to think of my life at first.

It seemed to be comprised of nothing, nothing but a crushing, eternal blackness that stretched on forever. I wasn't sure how long I remained like this, half formed thoughts forming in my mind before flicking away. Brief glimpses of...something...or someone, but they were always gone before I could fully capture their meaning.

For a brief moment, I felt a startling feeling rush through me. I felt empty.

Then, suddenly, it was gone. And light blossomed into my world.

I wasn't really sure where I was, but my mind automatically produced words for everything I saw, though technically speaking I had just been born. No child would have a vocabulary like mine. I saw something bright and yellow my mind instantly told me was called the sun, a mansion, a gate, many different things besides. My mind seemed to know exactly what everything was, as if I had lived a decent time on the earth before.

The fact remained I still had no idea where I was.

I sat like that for a while, staring around, before someone appeared. He looked...cold. Emotionless. He had dark skin and silver hair, and flat orange eyes that showed very little but interest.

I stared, and he explained some things to me. Explained how I was a Nobody, (which I took as an insult until he fully explained), explained how I was "special", and explained how he wanted me to join his group to gain the answers that I sought.

It was incredibly tempting, and seeing how I had no where else to go, I wanted to agree. But something was wrong. The way he was looking at me wasn't right. I turned down his offer.

I learned his name was Xemnas, and he showed me a name. In glowing letters the simple four lettered word was "Sora", and he added an X to the end. I watched the letters shift and he informed me this would be my name. It never occurred to me until just then I was nameless, and I watched as the letters finally slowed down to form the name I would be called for the rest of my existence.

Roxas.

A burning need suddenly flared up inside of me, it was amazing in its strength. I wanted, more than anything at the moment, to learn who Sora was. Who was he? Was he one of the strange flickering memories that never solidly turned itself into a picture in my mind?

To my surprise, Xemnas let me walk away, his strange eyes locked onto me. I headed through the forest near the edge of the mansion, wandering through a hole in the wall into town. A sign informed me it was called "Twilight Town". I watched the pedestrians walk by, smelled the scents a city usually has, food, smoke, the faintest trace of water...

I saw some kids, three of them, one a girl the rest boys, talking together and eating some blue ice cream. I felt my heart twist, wondering if even that sensation was real. They looked really happy together, laughing and joking, one of them quickly dodging the girl's topic of a summer report and diving into a story about the beach.

Jealously ripped through me like wildfire. I quickly walked away, leaving the chattering friends to their activities.

A voice.

"Y'know, you don't have to wander around like this."

I jerked, spun around to see a man with red hair and strange markings under his eyes surveying me. I didn't like it instantly, he was dressed in the same black cloak Xemnas had been in.

"Who are you?" I said suspiciously, my own voice sounded strange to my ears.

"Axel."

Silence. Suddenly, he smiled and handed me a blue ice cream stick. I stared like an imbecile, looking at it suspiciously.

"It isn't poisoned you know." Axel took a big lick out of his.

I licked it gingerly. It had an odd flavor, salty but sweet.

"Want to talk up on the clock tower? I know a way up there. I don't think Xemnas did a good job explaining the Organization to you."

I narrowed my eyes. "Why do you guys want me in the Organization so much?"

"If you come with me, I'll tell you."

I hesitated, but followed him to the clock tower in the distance. We had to pass the laughing kids again. One of them, the blond male, gave me a funny look, like I was a gangster or something.

We sat down on the high clock tower, our feet dangling over the void. It was a long way down.

"The Organization is comprised of people like you and me...Nobodies." Axel said. He grimaced. "We don't have hearts, mentally speaking. We can't truly feel. Some of us remember, like me I guess, how it felt to be happy or mad. Some don't remember that, like Saix. He's a member of Organization XIII too, got it memorized?"

Was that all I was, a Nobody remembering what it felt like to...feel?

"The Organization wants to help. We're seeking for our hearts, trying to find it. We want to be whole, I guess."

I remembered that feeling of emptiness I had experienced, terrifying in its depth. But it wasn't there now.

Axel flicked the stick off the tower, watching it sail downwards. "I could blabber on more, but I can't say much else. That's us in our core. What do you say?"

What could I do? I accepted.