Why? Why did she have to be taken from me? Why couldn't she have stayed? Why did they use her like that?! I sat there... Thinking, and holding on to the last bit of her. I held the small blue shell in my hand. Staring at it as I waited for something to happen. Waiting for her hand to clasp onto mine and the shell. For her to smile at me and say, "Let's go get some ice cream Roxas." I waited... And waited, as the the water on my face kept falling onto the stone. I shut my eyes tight and started shaking, clenching my fist around the seashell. I brought it to the spot on my chest where a heart would be. But it was an empty gesture. I didn't have a heart. I couldn't have a heart. I couldn't be a Nobody if I had a heart.

Opening my eyes I looked out to the sunset. Remembering all the times that Axel, and me, and... and... Xi- Xion? Xion! We would look out at the sunset while we ate ice cream. Axel would always ask us if we knew why the sunset was red. And give us the same answer we'd heard before with the same look. And then he'd ask us if we, "Got it memorized?" We'd laugh and push each other while we ate. He... He... He fought her. He always brought her back with force. Standing up I wiped the water from my face and looked back at the seashell. The only thing I had left of her. Of one of my best friends. Of Xion...?

She was my best friend; why couldn't I remember her clearly? If I couldn't remember her face, or her, completely, her last words were still fresh, "Roxas... I need you... to do me a favor. All those hearts that I captured... Kingdom Hearts, set them free. It's too late, for me to undo my mistakes. but you can't let Xemnas have Kingdom Hearts. You can't. Goodbye, Roxas. I'm glad, I got to meet you. Oh, and of course, Axel, too. You are both my best friends. Never forget, that's the truth." Her last words to me, and her last request... For me to set Kingdom Hearts free. Placing the shell into a pocket within my coat, I looked back to the sunset. Free Kingdom Hearts? How do I do that? What will that do? Could that... Bring her back? If I destroy Kingdom Hearts?

If I destroy Kingdom Hearts she'll come back, right? And then we can run away together. And Axel will too. The three of us will run away from the Organization and we'll be free from them. We can go on that vacation and... Eat all the ice cream we want. No one will tell us to go and collect hearts, no reconnaissance, no worries. We could go see that little fairy and fly together. We could... Be together. Forever. And I need is to destroy Kingdom Hearts to do it. We'll be together and we'll... Ask Axel if he knows why the sunset's red. We'll ask him if he has it memorized. And we'll laugh and be friends again. Looking back to the top of the clock tower, I could see the same spot we'd sit on everyday after our missions. That'll be the first place we go together. We'll eat ice cream together and then...? What'll we do? Maybe Xion will know? I looked at the tower. The big bells all around the top. Our spot... Right in the middle. Red. The farthest color, all around the tower.

Looking at the entrance I walked towards the doors. Looking inside I opened the glass doors and made my way to the stairwell to the top. While I walked I thought of all the things we'd do together after I freed Kingdom Hearts. As I opened the final door I stepped into the light. Looking at the sunset I sighed heavily. This'll be the first thing we do. And every year on this day... We'll come back here and we'll eat ice cream and laugh. Like we always do. The wind blew strongly against me. Blowing some of my hair over my eyes. Looking to the wall of the tower I placed my hand over the seashell. Where my heart would be. We don't need them to be Somebodies. We are Somebodies. We are best friends.

Moving my hands to my hood, I pulled it over my head. I raised my hand and opened a Corridor of Darkness. The familiar black doorway to wherever I wanted to go. But I wasn't being told where to go. I knew where I needed to go. The Castle That Never Was. The place where the Organization, and Kingdom Hearts are. We'll be together again... Xion...? And Axel, too. Looking back to the sunset one last time, I kept my eyes locked on the sun as I walked into the corridor, but instead of the regular black walkway to the doors of different worlds I felt myself falling.

I looked all around to see a bright blue sky, passing by clouds as I kept falling. I flailed my body as I tried to right myself, but I knew that I was going to hit the ground soon. It couldn't end this way! I need to set Kingdom Hearts free! I need to get my friends back! Soon enough I hit the ground, but instead of it crushing me I only felt my body feel a slight pain. Like being tackled by a Shadow. As I groaned softly, getting on my knees before pushing myself up I was surrounded by dust and smoke. I could hear voices on the other side of the dust wall but I couldn't understand anything they were saying. But I needed to get to The World That Never Was. I don't have time for this.

Losing my patience I raised my hand to open another Corridor, but before I could, the dust cleared and on the other side were a bunch of people. They were all wearing the same kind of thing. Like a uniform. They all stared at me. I was sure they couldn't see my face but they all looked curious. As I felt the energy to create a Corridor well up in my hand they all suddenly began laughing. While I needed to leave I was confused. Were they laughing at me because they didn't think I was a threat to them? They brought me here, keeping me from getting...Xion back. I would show them I was a big threat to them.

Lowering my hand I was about to summon my Keyblade, the damned weapon that caused all of this. But before I could they all pointed and continued laughing at the person closest to me. A girl, shorter than me by quite a bit, wearing the same thing as every one of the girls there. A white shirt and a skirt, as well as a long blue cape. She also had really long socks, and her hair was the color of that other ice cream I always saw when getting sea salt ice cream. Axel called it, "Pink." She looked angry as her head looked at the ground. Axel told me about this before. He said it was bullying. When a lot of other people pick on someone. He said it was stupid, too. While everyone kept laughing at her she looked to a tall man next to her. He looked older than anyone I'd seen before. He had no hair on the top of his head, it was all around his ears and looked like it went behind it. He wore a long blue cloak without a hood and was holding a long stick. They seemed to talk to each other before the girl walked up to me.

She was talking but I didn't understand it, and I didn't care. I need to leave. I need to free Kingdom Hearts. Raising my hand I felt the Corridor begin to form but before I could completely form it the girl grabbed my coat and pulled me down. Annoyed and frustrated I lifted my hand to push her away while she looked in my hood. She looked as annoyed as I felt until she pressed her face into my hood and placed her lips onto mine. I wasn't sure what she was doing. I'd never seen anything like this before. As she pulled away from me she said something again, but I couldn't understand it like before. But this time I felt a burning pain on my hand. This felt worse than being cut by a Zip Slasher, or being hit by Saix's claymore.

As I fought against the pain I began panting as the pain dulled away. I grabbed my left wrist and felt across the back of my gloved hand. I could feel bumps on my hand. I pulled back the glove enough to see what it was and I saw a lot of symbols put together. I didn't know what they meant as the man with no hair came closer to me and looked at my hand. He said something before pulling out a piece of paper and writing down the symbols.

Once he finished he looked back to the other people and said something. Without warning everyone began floating up and away to the big building next to me. As they all left they shouted something to the girl in front of me, and flew to the building. Was I at the place with the fairy? Neverland? It didn't matter where I was. I needed to leave. As I lifted my hand to open a Corridor the girl in front of me grabbed my arm and started to pull me with her.

As she said something I shouted at her. "What are you doing? I need to leave! What did you do to me?!" Instead of my out burst stopping her it only seemed to make her madder. She stopped and turned around to yell at me, but I still couldn't understand her. She simply grabbed my arm again and dragged me through a bunch of hallways and staircases. There was something between us that I couldn't remember. Axel had told me about something like this. Where a person wouldn't be able to understand or speak to someone, and the same the other way. He had called it something about some sort of wall... A language barrier! That's what he had called it. We couldn't understand each other through a language barrier.

But language barrier or not I needed to get away from her and back to Kingdom Hearts. The sooner I freed them the sooner I'd have... Her back. What was her name again...? Why can't I remember her?! Before I could remember... Her name, the girl opened a wooden door in front of us and pushed me in. As I stumbled slightly into the place I turned back towards her. She was yelling, at me?, and waving her arms around as she walked around me. Turning to keep my eyes on her I saw that the room was larger than my room at the Castle had been. And instead of being gray it had a bunch of wood everywhere. There was a large standing chest and a mirror over some drawers. There was also a table with a candle and some chairs. The bed in the middle was big while next to that was a pile... hay? Axel told me about something that looked like it.

As I surveyed the room the girl kept yelling at me. I needed to leave but every time I tried to open a Corridor she swatted at my hand and kept yelling. I was losing my patience, and my hearing. "Shut up! I don't know what you're saying, and I don't care! I need to leave here and bring my friend back!" As I finished shouting the girl looked more annoyed than I felt and pulled out a small stick. She mumbled something before pointing her stick at me. Nothing happened for a moment before I heard an explosion and was thrown towards the wall to my left. Groaning from the sudden collision with the wall I began to sit up until I heard the girl's voice, but this time, I understood her.

"Why can't my spells ever work right," she groaned as she stood up. Spells? Does this world use magic? Whatever maybe now she can understand me and I can finally tell her to leave me alone so I can leave.

"Now that I can understand you-"

"I can understand you now," she pointed out while interrupting me, "That was supposed to be a silence spell."

I didn't care what it was supposed to be. "Like I said before, I need to leave here. So stop interrupting me and let me leave." I was becoming more annoyed with her and losing more patience I didn't have.

Raising my hand I was about to make a Corridor before I heard her talk again, "You can't leave! You are my familiar and you are not allowed to leave your Master's side!" Master and familiar?

"What are you talking about. I don't know what a familiar is, but that's not me. I am me!" Nobody would tell me what I was anymore! I felt my Keyblade well up in my hand, as I got ready to leave by force.

Hello people, and things of that nature. I want it to be known now that I do not own Kingdom Hearts, nor do I own The Familiar of Zero. Onward. After the recent holidays and getting a game that I played before I realized My favorite game was Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. It was an idea for a while that I finally got to happen. Roxas is the KH character, not only because he is my favorite but also because he does not often get his own story. This is only the first chapter, but let me know what you think of the story and let me know if anyone seems out of character. Anyway read and review to let me know. If you have any questions, don't be afraid to ask but I might not give a straight answer if it gives away the story. And if you dislike romance being an aspect of this I'm sorry. It is my primary genre. Tell me who you want him with if you want, and I might hold a poll later on. But still I digress. See you later.