The First Mission

A/N: This is my first Kingdom Hearts fic! X3 Yay! Now, the summary is in here b/c I'm not going to spoil 358/2 days for anyone. So, here's the summary!

People thought she was dead. They thought that she had gone back into Sora. The truth? She gave Roxas the memories that he needed so that Sora would wake up and she was transported to a new world that she didn't know how to get out of. Now, she is going on a journey to meet up with Roxas or Riku again and tell them what was to come..

So, that's what this story is all about. Updates may be slow because of schoolwork but, I will try to at least get one a week! X3

Xion watched as Roxas lunged forward at Riku and began fighting again. She couldn't help but cry out, "Riku, please! You have to stop him!" She watched the two down below as Riku let the darkness from his heart loose and became Ansem. She watched as Roxas let the keyblades fall and they appeared to her. She clung to them and watched DiZ come and talk to Riku.

Riku looked up at the spot where Xion was standing, picked up Roxas, and left with DiZ.

Xion opened a Dark Portal and went back to the Organization for one last time.

**In Xion's Room in the Castle That Never Was**

"Are you really going to leave?" Axel asked from the doorway.

"I have to.. I don't belong here. I was created a puppet. I've done what I was made to do. Now, I'm going to do something for myself," Xion turned toward Axel. "Axel, please save Roxas... Go to Twilight Town and you'll eventually run into a girl with blonde hair. She looks a bit like me.. Ask her if Roxas is alive and tell her that you're a friend of mine.. Ask her to take you to Riku and talk to him.. Tell him that it is my final wish for Roxas and Sora to be able to co-exist. I've found a way for Roxas to be his own person without Kingdom Hearts.. It's too late for me.."

Axel walked over and put his hand on Xion's shoulder. "It's never too late. I'll cover for you for as long as I can so that no one is sent after you."

Xion nodded. "Thank you, Axel.."

Axel nodded and went to leave her room.

"And Axel?"

"Huh?"

"Roxas won't remember much about me. Tell Namine to give you the picture of the three of us so that he will remember. It should jog his memories."

Axel nodded and left the room.

Xion smiled a little and put a few more things in her pockets..

**Grey Area**

"You can't request to go to a certain place. We need you to go to Beast's Castle," Saix told Xion.

"I won't be pushed around anymore. Want your keyblade wielder? Let me go where I want," Xion told him.

"You are a puppet. Nothing more. We could easily take away everything precious to you," Saix told her.

"I no longer have Sora's memories. I am my own Nobody. I gave Roxas the memories he needed and he is safe. Let me go where I want," Xion retorted back.

The others in the room were now watching the two argue.

"Oh? How'd you manage to stay alive then?"

"That is for me to know and you to never find out. You'd be destroyed if you tried to get there anyway."

"Why is that?"

"What's the fun in telling you?"

"I'll allow you to choose where you go."

"I'll go to Beast's Castle, then. What is my mission there?"

"All you have to do is collect hearts. Simple enough for you?"

Xion opened a Dark Portal and stepped through it in response. She had just said she was going so that she could go to Parallel. It was burning the night hours there and she had to find the information she needed.

**Axel**

Axel sighed. He'd traveled through the entirety of Twilight Town and hadn't found Namine yet. He knew that she was the one that Xion had been talking about.

"Organization members on a mission around here? Haven't seen any of you in awhile," a boy wearing the Organization XIII's cloak said, walking over a bit.

"What do you want?" Axel asked in a demanding manner. He didn't want to have to deal with this imposter.

"It took you quite awhile to come for him, Axel," the person said.

"How do you know who I am?" Axel said quickly.

"I'm a friend of Xion's. She talked about you and Roxas a lot," he replied.

"I see. Do you know where Namine is? Or maybe a boy named Riku?"

"You're looking at him," the person replied, pulling down his hood to reveal silver-blue hair and a cloth around him eyes.

"Well, Xion is alive."

"I know that much."

"Wanna hear the rest of her message?"

"Continue."

"Xion said that it's her final wish for Roxas to be his own person. She said she knows a way to give him a heart but, she didn't tell me how she was going to do it or when she was going to do it. She told me to tell you that if Roxas is still alive to keep him alive until she could get to you."

"Is that it?"

"Yes... Is Roxas still alive..?"

Riku nodded. "He's quite the obstinate Nobody. He's tried to attack Namine and me on many occasions. He won't see Sora, either."

"I won't leave the Organization but, I will help as much as I can. Let me see Roxas."

"I still don't trust you."

"Well, I'm sorry for that but, if you want Roxas to cooperate then he'll probably want to see a familiar, friendly face. You're hiding in that old abandoned mansion, right? I'll go there by myself and you can make sure that no one is following me," Axel told him, walking toward the hole in the wall that led to the mansion entrance.

**Roxas**

He was sitting on the floor of the room they left him in when they weren't trying to convince him to go and see Sora. What was so great about Sora, anyway? He could do everything that they needed Sora to do. Why not let him stay and keep Sora asleep? That's right, 'cause he's a Nobody that is lucky to have been able to live for three hundred and fifty-nine days. He was lucky to have two, no one, good friend. He couldn't remember... Did he have another friend other than Axel? He could see a blurred face but, nothing more...

"Roxas..." Namine's voice came through the door.

"I'm not going to see Sora so stop trying to make me!" he yelled, throwing the pillow he had on his bed at the door.

The door opened to reveal Axel, Namine, and Riku standing near each other.

"So what? You're helping them now? Nice. This another secret of yours, Axel?"

"Roxas, friends keep secrets from each other to protect one another. I didn't tell you so that you wouldn't get upset and get yourself killed. Though, you've done a pretty good job of almost dying already," Axel chuckled.

"Do you realize what I've been through?! I had to kill her, Axel! I barely remember who she is but, I know that I killed her! It was my fault and I don't want Sora back! That's all that everyone is worried about! Sora, Sora, Sora! I hate that name! Do you all really want me gone that bad?!" Roxas yelled back.

"Would you shut up for a minute," Riku told him. "Let Axel finish."

Namine walked up to Roxas and handed him the piece of paper with the drawing of Axel, Xion, and himself. "That's her. Her name is Xion."

Roxas took the paper and studied the black-haired girl. Xion.. That was her name.. Memories came flooding back to him.

Roxas, if you hold it up to your ear you can hear the ocean..

This puppet has to play her part..

I have to make you a part of me too!

Roxas held his head as the memories finally stopped.

"Roxas, Xion wanted you to see Sora. She's trying to help you. She went somewhere to go and try to fix things. She's knows how to make you a real person."

"Sh-She's alive?"

"Yeah. I don't know where she went though," Axel told him.

"Would you please come see Sora?" Namine asked him.

"See where you came from.." Axel told him.

Roxas nodded and followed them out of his room

A/N: Yeah, yeah.. I know. Some of them are a bit OOC but, that's okay, right? I'm not one of those people that's going to go deep into character analysis. I'm pretty sure I nailed Roxas though! ^^ I'll try to get more posted up soon! 'til then, read and review! Also, if you're reading and liked this story, tell friends about it!