Reno fell out of the vortex, the blonde getting in the way of his normally graceful entrance to a new world. He fought to get the blonde's struggling under control, glad that for now the world they were on seemed hospitable. He still painfully remembered the last time he had burst into a world he had never been to previously. He hadn't meant to end up in this world, but it was hard to navigate through the darkness with a frightened youth pulling his hair and clawing at his face. He pinned the blonde's frail form to the ground, "Knock it off kid!"

"I'm not a kid!" The blonde spat, still fighting to free himself from Reno's hold.

"Oh yeah? Then why the hell are you acting like one?" Reno panted, exerting all his strength to keep his charge captive.

The blonde's struggling lessened considerably and he scowled up at Reno, "Because you're hurting me Axel."

Reno didn't loosen his grip, "Are you going to behave?"

"What's that supposed to mean?" The blonde glared at him and under any other circumstances Reno would have laughed at the look.

"I mean are you going to try and beat the crap out of me with that giant key thing?" Reno frowned, trying to read the thoughts showing themselves in the blue eyes below him. He couldn't tell if those thoughts were emotions or not, it was still hard for him to understand how nobodies worked, they were emotionless but very expressive. Genuine emotions, but no feelings. It made him feel like a psychopath.

The blonde seemed puzzled, "I left the thing at that wet castle place."

Reno snorted, how he would love to see Maleficent's reaction to her self-proclaimed 'glorious castle' being called 'that wet castle place'. "You could still pop it out on me at any time blondie. Personally I'd rather not hurt you but if you attack so help me Gaia I will protect myself."

"Who's Gaia?" The blonde cocked his head to one side, discomfort at being pinned to the ground suddenly forgotten.

Reno laughed and got off the blonde, forgetting that only he and Larxene knew anything about Gaia, and he wasn't sure how much she chose to remember. "Don't worry about it. Let's just figure out where the heck we are."

"You don't know?" The blonde asked, incredulous.

Reno shrugged, "I would know where are if you hadn't thrown such a fit about being taken out of Hollow Bastion."

"Sorry but people don't normally get yanked into darkness like that, do they Axel?" The blonde set his hands on his hips and glared accusingly at Reno.

"You better get used to it kid, once you're trained up right you'll be able to do it too." Reno tapped the side of his head, "You better get it memorized kid, normal doesn't describe you anymore. Never did."

"What are you talking about?" The blonde growled angrily, "What do you mean I'm not normal?"

Reno sighed and ran his hand over his face, "Listen kid, do you remember anything before I found you?"

"I remember telling you I'm not a kid!" The blonde huffed irritably, crossing his arms in front of his chest.

"Point made then? Normal doesn't work when you don't remember what normal is." Reno chuckled and set a hand on the blonde's shoulder, "Listen blondie, I really have a limited number of things I can call you. Wanna pick a name for me so I don't hafta make one up?"

The blonde chewed his lower lip, "Pick a name?"

Reno shrugged, "Sure, just think of something that you like and I'll call ya that."

The blonde frowned in concentration, "I don't know many names though."

Reno shrugged, "You don't hafta think of it right away alright? Lets go figure out where we're at and then we'll worry more about a name."

"Can't you just poof us somewhere you know better?" The boy looked at Reno with puppy dog eyes, "Somewhere that's not so new?"

Reno sighed, "Listen kid, everything is going to be new for awhile. You'll get used to it, I promise."

"And if I don't?" The blonde huffed doubtfully, bright blue eyes boring into Reno's green ones.

Reno smirked, "Then you can pop that key out on me and kick my ass. Sound like a deal?" He put a hand on the boy's shoulder and steered him out of the room they had landed in. Reno pushed aside a large blanket that was covering the entrance to the small room and ran headfirst into a small group of teenagers.

There was a blonde boy about Roxas' height with brown eyes who was wearing, in Reno's opinion, more camouflage than any one person should ever wear. The boy shook his fist at them angrily and yelled, "What are you doin' in our spot?"

"Sorry kid, we got lost." Reno quickly covered, knowing that the 'we're visitors from another world' excuse never really went over well, people just didn't seem to believe in interplanetary travel and usually tried to throw him into an insane asylum. He remembered with humor the last time he had simply stated the truth. It had been entertaining watching that old man try to exorcise demons from him.

A brunette girl grabbed the fist the blonde raised in the air, "Hayner be nice! It's not like they knew!"

The boy called Hayner rounded on her, "Olette! Why are you siding with total strangers? They're trespassing!"

A very rotund boy with black hair spoke up, "Hayner aren't we trespassing too?"

Hayner rounded on him, "Shut it Pence! We found it first!" He turned to Roxas and Reno, "You better not have taken anything!"

"We didn't touch a thing kid, we just looked around." Reno ran a hand through the air, trying to brush off the accusation.

"I'm not a kid!" Hayner yelled angrily, his hands in raised fists.

"Yeah you are!" Olette placed her hands on her hips as she prepared to chastise Hayner for his rudeness.

"She's right you know, we are still minors." Pence backed up Olette with a laugh.

Hayner growled and turned back to Reno, "Fine whatever, just don't call me a kid alright? The names Hayner."

"So I surmised." Reno snorted, finding the entire situation rather funny. It reminded him of the arguments he used to have with Rude and Elena. He saw a lot of himself in the blonde boy in front of him, if he decided to overlook the enormous amounts of camouflage the boy was wearing.

"So what are your names?" Pence asked conversationally as Olette tried to calm down Hayner. The blonde was throwing a small temper tantrum.

"Sorry kid, not fond of introducing ourselves to strangers." Reno didn't feel the need to mention that the blonde beside him didn't have a name. Being nameless definitely made introductions harder.

Pence shrugged, "Alright then. I suggest you book it though, Hayner looks like he's gonna blow a gasket. Sorry about him by the way, he's not usually like that. He had a run in with Seifer and those never end well." Reno nodded in understanding, he didn't know who this Seifer kid was but he really didn't think he needed to. He steered the gaping blonde out of the small alley and Pence turned to watch them leave, "We'll see you guys around right?"

Reno shrugged, "Don't know how long we're staying."

Olette pulled Hayner by the ear towards them, "Just one moment please, he needs to apologize."

"Ow ow ow ow ow ow! Olette you're killin' me!" Hayner whined as Olette tugged on his ear, hard.

"Apologize!" Olette released his ear with a final twist.

Hayner straightened, rubbing his ear with an angry frown, "Sorry for bein' a jerk."

Reno shrugged, "No harm no foul."

Hayner cocked his head to one side and stared at Roxas, "Can he talk?" Olette punched him in the arm.

Reno frowned and nudged the blonde in the shouler, "Course he can."

The blonde nodded and cleared his throat, "I can talk."

Hayner laughed and Olette punched him again, "Knock it off Olette!"

"You're being so rude!" Olette frowned, grabbing Hayner by the shoulder and pushing him towards Pence. She turned back to Reno and started to apologize, "I'm really sorry about him, he can be so tactless! I'll make sure he acts better next time okay?"

Reno shrugged her off, "No problem. Like I said, no harm no foul. Got it memorized?"

"Yes I do." Olette giggled and began to walk back to Hayner and Pence, "Welcome to Twilight Town!"

Reno chuckled and ushered his gaping blonde away. At least he knew where they were now. He'd never been to Twilight Town before, but he'd heard Luxord talking about it a few times and he always said something about the ice cream. "You think up a name yet?"

The blonde shut his mouth when he realized Reno was talking him, "I'm not sure Axel, it's kinda hard. Did you have to pick out your name?"

Reno shook his head, "I had to pick out my first one, but my second one was given to me."

The blonde stopped, confusion written across his face, "What do you mean by that? You've got more than one name?"

Reno sighed and looked up and down the street, checking to see if anyone was in earshot, "Listen, I didn't have any parents to give me a name so I made one up on my own when I was about four. Then I was attacked by heartless, became a nobody, joined the Organization and they gave me a new name."

"You never had parents?" The blonde asked, "So I'm not the only one?"

Reno snorted, "Of course not. There's plenty of people without parents. I raised myself and I turned out alright didn't I?"

The blonde looked him over, "So it's not weird?"

Reno gave him a sad grin, "It's still weird, but it's not a bad thing. I wouldn't be surprised if any of those kids we just met were orphans like us."

The blonde nodded sadly and started walking again. "So what was your first name Axel?"

"Reno. Stupid name eh?" Reno chuckled, trying to remember why he had picked that name.

"Reno." The blonde tested his name tentatively. "I think I like it better than Axel."

"I do too, but I can't exactly do anything about it. I probably shouldn't have even told you what my first name was, I was supposed to forget it myself." Reno fished around in his pockets for some munny, thinking he might try and get some of that ice cream Luxord always raved about.

"Why?" The blonde raised an eyebrow as he watched Reno dig through his pockets.

"Organization is run by a hard-ass called Xemnas or the Superior. Changing our names is one of the ways he keeps his control-freak tendencies appeased." Reno grinned and pulled out a few pieces of munny, rolling the golden spheres in his palm.

"Can you pick out a name for me Reno?" The blonde asked tentatively, not meeting Reno's gaze.

Reno sighed, "You gotta call me Axel blondie."

"Sorry." The blonde apologized with a blush, "Can you pick out a name for me Axel?"

Reno chewed his lower lip in thought, completely nonplussed about how he should answer. He knew it was probably not wise to call the kid by the name his original self had, especially since his original self was still walking, talking, and running through random worlds like a madman. Then inspiration struck him, "How about I give you a real nobody name?"

"Nobody? What do you mean nobody?" The blonde scratched his head, confused.

"We're both nobodies, creatures without hearts. In all technicality we can't feel emotion or truly care about anything, it may seem like you care, but you don't. When you have a real feeling, its rare but it can happen, you'll know it. It's the whole reason why I came to find you. Us nobodies hafta stick together, got it memorized?" Reno tapped the side of his head.

The blonde frowned, still confused, "Nobodies?"

Reno nodded, "Nobodies. Wanna see if you like the name I picked for ya?"

The blonde nodded vigorously, "I don't care what you call me, anything iss better than blondie or kid."

"How about Zero?" Reno raised an eyebrow, gauging the blondes reaction carefully.

"Zero." The blonde seemed to roll his tongue around the word, testing it carefully. "I think I like it."

Reno smiled and clapped his newly named Zero on the shoulder, "Well Zero I'm pretty sure I know where we are now, wanna go get some ice cream?"

Author's Note: Yay! Sorry it took me so long to update! It's just been a hectic time of year ya know? At least it's a long update right? I know it seems weird to call Roxas Zero, but for now just roll with it. I won't be calling him that for long, promise! I just had to give him an actual name 'cause I was sick of calling him, 'the blonde'. Anyways, R&R!!!