I wrote this for Axel day, I realize that it's late but meh I don't care. I wanted to do AkuRoku as Riku see's it. I also got this Idea that Axel doesn't feel anything unless he's near Roxas. And I realize that I have sooo many other stories I need to be working on so this is just something to help me through my writer's block! So tell me what you think!

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts

Dead Emotions and the Struggle Begins

Blue-Green eyes lingered on the two forms below, yellow and red together as if meant to be.

Darkness wrapped itself around the onlooker and he stood there with an aura of sadness gazing at the scene taking place before him. He gripped a black strip of fabric tightly. How could this happen? Two beings such as the ones below were not capable of interacting like this, of feeling like this.

Small voices reached his ears as he watched the blur of red and yellow, the only brightness in this dark world. Then yellow pulled away and looked into the distance. The onlooker could barely hear the conversation between the two, but he could feel the despair. The atmosphere was thick with it.

Red turned and called out, sorrow that should not be there filled his voice. But the other kept walking, and slowly the onlooker watched as the abandoned nobody slowly straightened, indifference returning to him and the last ghosts of emotions slipping away.

The onlooker knew what he was about to do. He knew that he was taking away the one thing that made the redhead feel real. He knew that it had to be done, he knew that in order to save the world's he had to take yellow away from red. So why did he hate himself for it?

He gazed down again at the figure and met two deep pools of emerald green. In those eyes he saw the emptiness held within all nobodies, but deeper than that there was something more. Those eyes held a need, a longing, and that's when the onlooker finally understood.

They were the same.

Not literally, of course, but in the way they both had something dear to them, something worth dying for.

As the redhead disappeared into the darkness the onlooker knew he would cause problems. Because they both fought for the same thing, but only one of them could have it.