== Day 0 == First Meeting==

Axel sighed heavily as he stepped through the dark corridor. If it was anyone else he would've just bailed in favor of taking a nap or avoiding Saix. Even so, an order from the top wasn't something to be ignored. He stepped onto the grass before a large fenced up mansion in the middle of the woods. Before him stood the superior and a boy of small stature already wearing the coat, the newest member of their ranks.

"Axel, you will escort him back to the castle." The superior ordered, walking towards the dark corridor that Axel took to get here,

"Right. He got a name?" Axel asked lazily, resting his hands on his hips, his eyes widening in shock as the newest member pushed his hood back. His face triggered a memory long past. A special memory back before everything turned so wrong...

The superior stopped for a moment, looking back towards the newest member. "Number Thirteen, Roxas."

Axel walked alongside the boy who kept his hood on, his head lowered. Something about the newest member made him feel uneasy, something that made him think about a puppy getting kicked. That for some reason, he couldn't just abandon him like this.

As a few of the town's kids ran by, Axel noticed Roxas glancing towards them, probably following their movement, curious as to what this new world presented before him. Right, a new "life". Axel rubbed the back of his head, then clasping Roxas's shoulder.

"Hey, let's make a pit stop."

Atop the tower, he handed Roxas a sea-salt ice cream.

"You put it in your mouth, and chew. Here, watch me." Axel said taking a bite as Roxas stared at him for a few moments. Then he mirrored the gesture, licking his lips as he seemed to like the treat.

"It's salty..."

Axel turned his head, surprised to hear a new Nobody speak relatively well.

"But sweet too..." He finished as Axel couldn't help but chuckle.

"Yeah well, that's why they call it sea-salt ice cream." Axel remarked with an amused smile, stretching out his arms he turned back towards Roxas whose dulled eyes seemed to light up.

==Day 7== Number XIV==

Roxas opened his eyes to a white ceiling, sitting up, uncertain of what to do so he rested back into his bed.

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"ROXAS-" Axel stepped in, stunned that their newest member somehow had the audacity to sleep in. He grumbled under his breath as he pulled the limp child out of bed, shaking the lingering sleep from his eyes and pushing him into the hallway. He dragged him by the arm down the hall, " We all were supposed to convene in the Round Room today. I told you not to oversleep, so why the heck were you still in bed?" He asked, seriously annoyed as this happened almost every day.

Roxas looked at him with a blank expression, tilting his head slightly in acknowledgment, somehow ticking off Axel even more so. If either one of them were late then Zexion would most certainly place the blame on him, or worse, Saix.

"The Bas-" Axel murmured then realized he was still on the clock, looking back at the glossy-eyed child looking up at him with big blue eyes. "-ket. Basket." He grumbled. As they entered the round room, his bad mood turned sour-looking at the people who were essentially his co-workers. He then

"Sit here, and don't fall." Axel said putting Roxas in his seat, then teleported to his own seat, resting his head on his hand, just in time for the arrival of their leader.

"Good tidings, friends. Today is a momentous day." Xemnas remarked he held everyone's attention. "I am pleased to announce that a new comrade has been chosen to wear the coat."

Axel noticed Vexen's smirk out of the corner of his eye as someone else walked into the round room, a hooded figure who glanced towards Roxas. Number 13 seemed surprised by this, but he wasn't going to complain about the kid breaking out of his daze.

"Number XIV. Let us all welcome one of the Keyblade's chosen."

Roxas wandered back to his room hanging his head as he did what Axel told him.

"Roxas."

He heard a voice behind him. Roxas turned his head to see a blue-haired man holding a black book in his hand.

"This is yours." He said simply he handed Roxas the book. "A journal for your thoughts. I can assure you that no one will read it should you decide to use it." He said simply as he walked off, leaving Roxas to look at the book with a blank expression on his face.

-Roxas's Diary Entry: Day 7-

After seven days of clinging to a number and a name, I had trouble processing anything else. I couldn't have told you who the people in black coats were, or what they wanted with me.

It's been a week since I got here. Saïx told me to keep a diary, but he said nobody would check it. What am I supposed to write about? Today they told us to go to the Round Room, where we met our new member, No. XIV. Was I like that when I first got here? I think I was. But I don't remember too well.