Diclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts.

Note: Written for LJ's "30kisses" comm for Theme 19: Red
Decided by Birth

There wasn't much the members of the organization knew about their lives when they had had hearts. They didn't remember their names, their homes, or who they had used be. Their birthdays though, strangely, most of them recalled.

Axel's birthday was in July, the hot month of lions and yellow grass. The time of the many-faceted Ruby, red and gleaming in the light, blood red and smoldering in the dark; glowing from the inside out.

Zexion, on the other hand, had been born in January, the coldest month of the year. A month with clouds instead of sunshine, a month not white nor black, but more depicted in shades of gray. January was the month of Garnet, a red so dark it looked black.

Zexion had never dwelled on the thought of birthdays, the past representing no significance to him, but Axel always found it amusing; remembering with a smile each time he kissed Zexion that opposites do indeed attract.