Yay! The next chapter! Honestly, from this point on, I don't know how often I'll be updating because I've got a lot going on in my life right now and things are going to be busy, but I will try.

This whole chapter is Roxas' memories of his past so that's why it's all in italics. I made his parents Stella Fleuret and Leon, both from the Final Fantasy series if you don't know who they are (although Leon is also in Kingdom Hearts so you should know him).

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Roxas

I was four, just starting kindergarten. The first day I went to school, I remember being able to sense the darkness and light in people, I could tell if they were human or not, but I didn't really know what the 'or not' entailed. It scared me because I could start to feel people that weren't human hunger for me, but I didn't know why. I didn't tell my parents or Cloud about it, and now I don't know why I didn't, especially when I started hearing his voice in my head.

I could have been anywhere at anytime and his voice would just randomly go through my head. Then, I started getting weird visions of anything and everything supernatural. I even saw people from my future now that I think about it. Mostly, I saw him though. He was the image that gave me nightmares every night. He was constantly telling me that he was going to find me, so I was constantly living in fear and checking over my shoulder, just waiting for him to appear. Cloud and my parents noticed there was something wrong with me, I mean, how could they not? They took me to a therapist, but that really didn't make anything better.

My therapist was named Xemnas Superior, and it seemed like for the few sessions that I went to with him, it only made things worse. The visions got more vivid, and I would always see people, people I never knew, dying. One night, I saw my parents die, and that was the thing that scared me most. The day after, I stuck to them like glue, silently daring anything or anyone to kill them. They noticed the change in me immediately, but their reaction, was unexpected.

I sat in between my parents as we watched a movie that evening. Cloud was sitting on the chair next to us, only twelve at the time. My parents, after sending what was like telepathic messages to each other through their eyes, finally flicked off the TV and turned to me. Cloud stared ahead, like he knew exactly what was going on.

"Roxas, we need you to tell us what's going on." My dad said.

I shrunk back into the couch a little, looking between him and my mom. "W-what do you mean?"

"Everything that's been going on with you lately, just tell us exactly what's going through your mind." My mom begged.

I sighed and my body started trembling. "I-I don't know. I keep seeing and feeling things but I don't know what any of it means and I keep seeing people die." I said shakily.

Cloud finally looked at me, and I then knew that he knew. He and my parents knew something I didn't.

"What's going on? You all know don't you?" I asked.

My mom sighed. "Roxas we…"

She was interrupted when there was a knock on the front door. My dad sent a glance at her before he went to answer it.

I could feel the darkness like a sick fog descending over the area. It was so strong that I could feel it trying to grip my heart, and I knew my mom and Cloud were feeling the same.

We all heard the skin-splitting twang of a sword and we all saw my dad's body, suddenly suspended off the ground. A long sword ran through his chest and out his back, blood trickling down and dripping off his feet.

"Dad!" Cloud yelled, attempting to run to him before my mom grabbed his arm and kept him back.

I couldn't even move, I was completely frozen.

The sword pulled away and my dad dropped to the ground, gaping like a fish, his eyes filming over. A man walked into the living room, stepping over my dad's body, his sword at his side. The man had long silver hair and was very tall. He wore a black cloak with leather boots and his eyes were green and cat-like.

My mom, Cloud, and I were frozen to our seats by his presence. None of us moved as his eyes took in every inch of Cloud, my mother, and finally me. He grinned and his green eyes became red. "It is a pleasure to finally meet the Strife family." He said.

My mom, suddenly overcome with anger, jumped out of her seat. "Who the hell do you think you are Sephiroth! You can't just waltz in here and kill my husband!"

I don't know how my mom knew him, or how my family was even originally connected to him.

He merely smirked. "I assure you Stella, I had been hoping for there to be no bloodshed tonight but Leon simply would not make things easy for me."

"What do you want!" She snapped.

"I think you know perfectly well." He said, his eyes gliding over to me. I started shaking and I could see all of my visions coming back, including the one of him killing my parents.

My mom's eyes moved to me for a moment but then she quickly returned her attention to Sephiroth. "Get out now."

Cloud slid out of the chair he was on and ran over to me, but Sephiroth suddenly threw his arm up and Cloud went flying into the wall, hitting it hard and slumping to the ground unconscious.

"Cloud!" I yelled, finally unfreezing and running over to him.

My mom looked back at us and Sephiroth quickly raised his sword and stabbed her through the chest, making her jerk with the impact.

I stopped short of getting to Cloud when I saw this and turned back. "Mom!" I ran to her side as Sephiroth pulled his sword out of her and she fell to the floor. I rolled her onto her back and she stared up at me fearfully.

"R-run." She whispered, her voice raspy.

I tried to move but found my legs trapped to the floor by an invisible force.

"So, you are the light, correct Roxas Strife?"

My head snapped up at Sephiroth's voice addressing me. He now stood next to me and I wished I could inch away. "P-please, just l-leave us alone." I begged, tears streaming down my cheeks.

He gave me what should have been a sympathetic smile, but came out more like a Cheshire cat grin. He knelt next to me and picked me up in his arms. I would have fought, but something was still holding me back. He carried me over to the couch and set me down, sitting next to me.

"Now Roxas, that's not the polite way to talk to a guest." He chided, reaching up to wipe my tears from my cheeks.

I tried to turn my head away but I still couldn't move. Instead, I opted to just close my eyes so I wouldn't have to see his. "What do you want?" I managed to get my voice to work.

His hand was now just stroking my cheek as I was refusing to let more tears fall and surprisingly succeeding. "I'm so glad you asked. I think you know by now that you're not fully human. There's something very, very special about you. You have a very strong light in you and supernatural creatures absolutely love such a powerful thing. In fact, we feed off of it."

"W-what do you mean we?" I asked.

He chuckled softly and I felt the invisible force that had been restraining me disappear. I opened my eyes only to find that his had turned red again. I gasped and jumped off the couch, trying to get away and accidentally tripping over my mom's body.

She bit her lip to hold back a cry of pain and I raised my head off the floor only to come face-to-face with my dad, who was mouthing the word 'run' to me over and over again. He had started convulsing and I barely managed to keep myself from throwing up with all the blood spewing out of his chest.

I felt myself being picked up again and I started screaming and kicking, trying to get away, but Sephiroth's grip was strong and the second I felt his lips on my forehead, my energy started to drain out of me. I could feel him eating some of the light inside of me and the fight left me as well. I was again carried to the couch, only half conscious, and he sat down, resting me in his lap.

"Your light is strong." He said as he began petting my head and running his hand through my hair.

I shivered at his touch, but I was so weak now that I couldn't even consistently shake.

"I'll make you a deal Roxas. I will let your brother live. It's much too late for your parents now, but in return, I want you to do something for me."

I wished I could see Cloud, even to make sure that he was still okay, not completely for the assurance that he was there, because I'd rather he wasn't. I nodded slightly to tell him that I'm listening.

"Ten years from now, you belong to me. Your light is going to get much stronger in that time, but right now, it's still much too weak. If in ten years, you refuse to come to me, I will kill your brother." He said.

I nodded again without even thinking. I just knew that I had to protect Cloud. I moved my eyes to my parents, who both looked at me with a mix of happiness and disappointment. I could tell they were happy that I had saved Cloud, but disappointed in me for giving myself up. At that point, I didn't even know how they were still alive.

Sephiroth grinned and bent his head to kiss my forehead again, draining even more light from me. I felt myself slip into unconsciousness as I was lifted from him and laid on the couch. My eyes started to close, but before they did, I saw Sephiroth kill my parents mercifully.

When I woke up, everything flooded back and I found my parents dead on the floor. Cloud woke up not long after and we left, thinking we could hide. We moved to Hikari, but two kids who weren't old enough to be on their own by far were quick to attract attention. Angeal and Genesis told us who they were and that they had known our parents, so we took them up on their offer to let us live with them. That's when we met Zack, and he became Cloud's best friend.

Six years later, Cloud was eighteen and old enough to take care of both of us. I was only ten at the time, and he realised that when Sephiroth came back in four years, I would be taken away, so he decided to ask Angeal and Genesis to make him an angel so he could protect me.

I remember coming home from school that day, and I found him in the living room of our house with Angeal and Genesis on either side of him. Zack was standing off to the side observing, but everyone stopped when they noticed me.

"What's going on?" I asked.

Cloud looked at Angeal and Genesis quickly before he walked over to me, resting his hands on my shoulders. "You remember how you made that deal six years ago right?"

How could I forget? I nodded.

"Well, you did that to save my life, so now it's my turn to do the same." He said.

"What do you mean?" I asked confused.

"Cloud's going to become an angel." Angeal answered.

I looked up at my brother in shock. "Cloud! You can't do that!"

"Rox, I have to protect you no matter what. This is my decision, and I'm fine with it." He assured me.

I threw his arms off of me and glared at him, tears streaking down my face. "I don't care! You can't just throw your life away for me!" I yelled.

He sneered. "Oh, so I can't do what you did! I'm supposed to be your big brother Roxas and I couldn't even protect you that night! I don't care what I have to do, I'm not letting Sephiroth get his hands on you!" He yelled.

I froze, hurt by his tone. I took a step back cautiously and his anger faded. He pulled me into a hug. "Just trust me Rox." He pulled back and looked up at Zack, who I realised was behind me.

Zack nodded and put a hand on my shoulder, pulling me away.

"No! Please Cloud! Don't do this!" I begged.

Cloud gave me an assuring smile before Zack shut the sliding door that led into the kitchen.

I turned to Zack, tears still streaming down my face. "How could you! I thought you loved him!" I accused angrily.

Zack knelt in front of me, resting his hand on my shoulder. "Roxas, I do, but this is Cloud's life and it's his decision."

"You only don't care because now you don't have to watch him die!"

He looked down. "Trust me, no matter how much I love him I wouldn't want him to suffer through living for eternity."

"Then stop him!"

"It's too late. His life, his decision remember?" Zack reminded me.

My bottom lip trembled and I pushed past him, running upstairs and into my room, slamming the door shut behind me. I ran over to my bed and threw myself onto it, crying into my arms.

Cloud came in hours later. He walked over to my bed and lay down next to me, shaking my shoulder to wake me up. I slowly opened my eyes and when I saw him, I sat up and threw my arms around him, starting to cry again.

"Why?" I asked as I sobbed.

"Because you're the most important person to me in the world and it's my job to protect you." He answered, hugging me back and rubbing my back soothingly.

I suddenly pulled back and glared at him. "I hate you!" I yelled as I flopped back onto my stomach and buried my face in my pillows, crying again. "I hate you." I mumbled into the pillows.

He sighed and moved to lie down next to me, wrapping his arms around me and letting me cry into his chest. "I'm sorry Roxas." He apologised. He bent his head and kissed my forehead.

I don't know why he even put up with me after I said such a horrible thing to him, and after how harshly I treated him for the first month or so after he became an angel. The first time I saw his wings, I snapped at him and told him to cut them off. One time when I caught him training with Zack, I locked myself in my room for days. I just couldn't help thinking how it was all my fault. That he had given up his humanity for me. In the end, Sephiroth could have kept me for the rest of my life, but now Cloud was stuck as an angel forever. There was a difference, a difference I hated.

Poor Roxy and Cloud. Axel and the others are going to help them now though :D

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