Volume One
I sat by my window every morning after he left. The Twilight Town train ran very close, so I could watch it as it passed. All the people going to Sunset Hill like he wasn't gone. Most of them didn't even remember him. He was never a part of their lives. Not like he was mine. No one knew him like I did.
Roxas. The mystery boy of Twilight Town. He just appeared one day, like out of the air. No one knew what to make of it. They had never seen anything like it. But I had. I lived it. He appeared the same way I did a year before. Not in Twilight Town though. I moved here not long after it happened.
They found me in a place called Traverse Town. A woman named Aerith found me and helped me. She explained what happened. How my home world had been destroyed by things called the Heartless. But I didn't remember anything. Nothing from my home. She told me that it was common to have memory loss after what I went through. I always hoped that some of the memories would come back, but they never did.
I left Traverse Town. I hated that place. It was too dark and I didn't want to be there. Aerith tried to talk me into staying, to join her and her friends in some mission that they were planning for. They said they were waiting for someone and I could help them. But I couldn't stay. I felt like I had to leave. Like maybe I could find my memories or, at least, a new home. One that I wouldn't forget.
I snuck aboard a ship that was leaving Traverse Town, never looking back. I didn't know where it was going, but I didn't care. I would make my way, finding whatever it was that I needed to find.
That's how I came to live in Twilight Town. I didn't really care for it that much, but it was better than the dark of Traverse Town. If I couldn't get back what I once had then maybe it was better to start where no one knew me. I had just enough munny from Aerith and her friends to rent a small room near the train station. No one found it odd that a kid as young as me was on his own. They said it had happened a lot, but no one would tell me exactly why. I think maybe everyone was trying to forget about a pained experience, so I didn't push anyone to tell me. I didn't want my new memories to be bad ones.
Life was simple. I got a job at the accessory shop in town and started going to school. There were a lot of kids around my age, but it was hard for me to make friends. Maybe it was because I was new, or maybe because I was scared. I don't know. So I tried out for this sport called Struggle, hoping that I could make friends that way. That didn't happen. I was too good at the sport and ended up beating this guy named Hayner. He already didn't like that too much and that didn't help.
But then Roxas arrived. Everything was different after that. He was friends with Hayner and his group, but he loved me.