Uhm, yeah. I'm going to rewrite this story. Each chapter. I've read this story and my delivery sucked so I'm going to go ahead and try again.

In the meanwhile the next few chapters are going to be strangely unattached to this first chapter, mostly because this one's rewritten. So till then. And yes, this is still the prologue, except cited differently.

Roxas is never surprised. Nor is Roxas ever happy or sad for that matter. No matter how many times Axel said "Boo!" or jumped him from behind, Roxas never flinches nor does he scream. Except for the occasional reflex defense that Roxas administers accidentally, Axel has never seen Roxas show any sort of emotion. Only the indifferent, cold blue eyes and the thin line on his mouth except for when he was thinking.

Axel liked Roxas. Everyone in the Organization does. That's right. Axel and Roxas both belonged to the same organization. That's how they met. Roxas was five and Axel was seven back then. Even back then Roxas did not fail to put on a straight face. It looked silly on a five year old, but it was never silly when they fought. The keyblade and the chakrams often clashed in the training room, although the keyblade usually won, Axel still treated him for ice cream after every training session. Roxas would eat the whole thing and never get a brain freeze while Axel usually held his head against the wall. Still, Roxas wouldn't laugh at his antics although a five year old should have done so.

The Organization is simply called Organization XIII. It's a group consisting of thirteen members who were specifically chosen throughout the world to be trained into ruthless killers. For every member that had joined, they added a number to the organization. They stopped the tradition after Roxas came, though. Their leader, Xemnas, never really explained the reason why and Axel never really cared. As long as Roxas was with him, he shrugged it off.

However, there were times Axel didn't like being around Roxas. The first time he realized it was on a mission they were given. They were to kill a government agent from discovering the roots of their group. Axel didn't really like getting his hands dirty and left the whole process the Roxas. A few minutes later, Roxas came back with a gun in his hand and a straight face that said mission accomplished. When they returned to headquarters, Axel asked how he'd manage to kill the man thrice his size.

"Easy. I acted my age and shot him while off-guard."

Axel laughed. It was an interesting sight to imagine, Roxas showing emotions. He wanted to see it for himself. So he had asked Roxas how he managed to pull that off when he doesn't even smile at the organization members. The child shrugged and continued licking his ice cream. Axel sighed.

"That's because I hate you all. Didn't you know?"

Axel froze. He didn't understand. Didn't everyone in the organization join of their own free will? Axel was asked if he wanted to get off the streets, of course he said yes. He had assumed everyone else had a tragic past and the Organization was their only hope of sanctuary from the outside world. The mercenary industry was beautiful compared to the dirty street life.

That night, Axel sneaked in Zexion's room. He bugged the man to tell him about Roxas's past. Zexion didn't enjoy being pestered, so he gave Axel a summary of the whole thing. Axel found out that Roxas had a brother named Cloud. This brother of his was the reason Roxas was even in here. Apart from that, Zexion didn't know anything else and so Axel didn't sleep that night, wondering what happened between Roxas and his brother.

For the next few years, Roxas grew more and more distant in Axel's eyes. He still ate ice cream with him, but apart from that and the missions, they never talked. Most of the time, Roxas would just train and train until his body gave out. Xemnas kept giving him more and more missions to go on and soon Axel barely even saw Roxas for ice cream anymore. At that point, he snapped and grabbed Roxas by the hand as he was training.

"Axel, stop."

"No, you're always training, always on missions or always with Xemnas doing who-knows-what! You haven't been spending enough time with me!"

"Axel, I have no obligation to spend time with you."

"Yes, you do! I'm your best friend, dammit! Best friends help each other out when they're in trouble!"

"I never claimed to be your best friend and only until recently have I heard you declare me as your best friend."

"Dammit, Roxas. With all the shit you've been pulling you haven't realized all the time we spent together as best friends? I'm Axel, your best friend. Got it memorized?"

"…"

Thanks to Zexion, Axel managed to find out that that was the date of Roxas's birthday. He had thrown him a huge party with the cake and the candles and everything else in between. Axel even got him a birthday present, a skateboard. That was the only time Axel had seen Roxas's eyes spark. From that moment on, Roxas never once complained about Axel nor his declarations of being a best friend for that matter.

Since that year, Axel had managed to put up a birthday party for Roxas and had given him presents that had somehow sparked a small reaction of happiness from the blonde. Each year the gift was different, and each year Roxas kept getting busier and busier but on his birthday even the missions had stopped and Axel pulled it off.

Sometimes when the two best friends talked, Axel would try and get more information out of the blonde. It usually failed, but there were rare chances he would say something about his past.

"Roxas, how'd you manage to get a keyblade? We all have different weapons, I know but how did you end up with a keyblade?"

"The leader says it's because I have a strong heart."

"…"

"I know, Axel. I don't understand either."

"But you wield two, you used to wield only one. We don't even-"

"Axel. I know we don't have hearts. I knew that the first day I got here."

"I know, I know. Because of your brother. Sheesh."

"…I don't blame Cloud for the position I am in now."

"Tell me about him."

"There's nothing to tell."

"Come on. Even some physically features? I won't kill him, I swear!"

"…don't even joke about that or I'll kill you."

After a while, Axel realized that Roxas wasn't in the Organization because of his brother, he was in the Organization for his brother. He didn't fully understand the situation, but Cloud had managed to get involved with the Organization and somehow Roxas paid for it.

And on Roxas's 14th birthday, he received a surprise from Axel that he would thank him for.

It's short, but it'll have to do. I'm not looking for a beta reader, considering my erratic momentous uploading sprints. I'm sorry, but school is really hectic when you're a senior. And when I mean hectic, I mean "too-lazy-to-do-anything-but-sleep" sort of hectic. The type you'd like for a while.

AND NO. THERE IS NO AKUROKU PAIRING HERE. JUST FRIENDSHIPPERS. Unless of course…

Till I rewrite the next chapters~