Kingdom Hearts 2 with a surprising twist.

All Characters belong to Tetsuya Nomura

Anger, Depression, Regret, and Guilt, Roxas felt all these things as his keyblades clashed with the chakrams being thrust at him by his best friend, Axel in the basement of the old mansion in Twilight Town. They jumped apart for a breather, both panting heavily and drenched with sweat. Their eyes locked for a moment before Axel pushed himself off the ground and jumped through the wall of flames surrounding them. Roxas scanned the area carefully waiting for any sign of his friend, being sure he wasn't caught off guard. He felt a small break in the heat from the flames behind him, and jumped to the side just in time to see Axel land right where he'd been standing a moment before.

Roxas, seizing the opportunity, threw the Oathkeeper at Axel. It collided with Axel's rib cage, sending him flying into the air, before whizzing back into Roxas' hand. Roxas threw himself into the air and brought his keyblades down as Axel recovered from the blow he'd received and blocked once more with his chakrams. Their weapons collided once more, before Roxas pushed Axel back. Seeing an opening, Roxas threw himself at Axel, who thrust one of his chakrams into his abdomen. Roxas ignored the wound and grabbed Axel's arm pulling himself behind him. Roxas gathered all the strength he had left and in a last ditch effort brought down both keyblades on Axel's back. The two of them began hurtling towards the ground at high speed and slammed into it with monstrous force.

Roxas landed on his left leg, shattering it, but managed to jump away from the impact site with his remaining leg. He took a moment to let his pain ease, then stood and surveyed the spot where Axel had landed. Axel was currently lying on his back, having flipped over during the fall, on the slightly cracked tile flooring of the basement. Roxas started to hobble toward him until the red head rose from the ground. Roxas summoned his keyblades again before realizing that Axel couldn't keep fighting if he'd wanted to. His right arm was hanging limply by his side, having most likely been broken on impact, his left was clutching probably what was left of his rib cage after the brutal assault Roxas had unleashed upon in, and there was a small puddle of blood dripping from the huge gauges that Roxas' keyblades had made in his back. Roxas once again felt the overwhelming guilt, remembering the events on the night of his departure from the Organization, and how his own self pity had led to his best friend being hurt, both physically and emotionally.

"Axel….", Roxas choked out, the lump in his throat growing bigger with every passing second.

"Let me ask you something", Axel said in the same strained voice as Roxas, as he sat down on the floor, "If we don't have hearts, if we can't feel, if we don't even exist……then why are we both ballin' our eyes out?"

"I guess, maybe because…." Roxas mumbled thoughtfully as he sat down next to Axel, "We have hearts after all".

"Yeah, I guess so….", Axel said while pulling a bottle filled with a green liquid from his pocket and handing it to Roxas, "Drink it, it'll heal your wounds".

"What are you gonna do?", Roxas inquired after drinking the contents of said bottle.

"I'm just gonna take a little nap", the pyro replied, laying down and closing his eyes, "Wake me up when you're done with whatever it is ya gotta do."

Roxas nodded and continued deeper into the basement to find the answers to the rest of his questions.