Prologue: How it all Began

Many people in the world show their hearts on their sleeves. Others hide it from the world forever, never showing it until they most need it. A very few don't have them at all.

These people are called Nobodies, the opposites of Heartless. They are the shell of the strong hearted people taken by the dark devils that plunge into every world, destroying everything in the way. But you see these people, called Nobodies don't technically have hearts, but they show the world that they do. Each of them different in many ways that it hurts to see them as no one. They show that they care and have feelings that they don't actually have. They search for Kingdom Hearts to get a heart, but then they'd be complete. Maybe Kingdom Hearts was inside of them and they already have hearts, they just need to know how to find them.

But then if they died, nothing would be left behind.

In a way there was something left by the dead, even the Nobodies. Something that no one could find or gather from the ground, it was a pure substance that could never die itself, in a way.

They lived on by their memories.

That was the immortal way that Lea wanted to live, everyone memorizing his name until his death. People remember him for the things he did for others, or his friends. It was passed on to his nobody Axel, in every shape and form. He continued to live in the shadow of himself, until he could be complete once more.

But then Roxas came into his life.

This small, energetic blue eyed boy took emerald eyes that Axel bore. Axel couldn't help taking a liking to the boy, there was something about the bright blue orbs that looked at him, they seemed familiar to him. It was odd, he remembered everything before turning into a nobody; expect this lingering feeling.

Axel did the only thing he could think of to ease this simple, yet complicated feeling, he befriended the boy. He took Roxas under his wing and taught him everything he knew about being a nobody. When Axel found out that Roxas had no memories before becoming a nobody, Axel made it his business to poke into Saix's brain to find out his name prior. After that, he looked up all the info he could find on the brunette.

But then things got complicated, Axel was set out to kill the person carrying Roxas' heart. His chest tightened, as he knew he faked sadness of the situation. Their was something about the orders he didn't like. But he came back, keeping Sora in complete shape, and a hope of Roxas being complete. However when he came back to the clock tower, he found a 'sad' Roxas eating alone. One word out of his mouth, and Roxas jumped; their was never a time that Axel felt like he had a heart, even when he was Lea, only Roxas made him feel this way.

That's why he paid no attention to the squeezing in his chest, the warmth that radiated inside Axel's body. He couldn't feel, but he knew he never had this emotion before; even in his past life.

So when Roxas left the Organization, he felt like a piece of him was missing. In a way, he was right. Axel lost the only thing that made him alive, a person and not a nobody. He had lost his heart to the sleeping boy that once saved his life. The same person he chased after, thinking Roxas was still in there, and gave his life for.

Or at least, what remain of it.

What hurts the most
Is being so close
Having so much to say
And watching you walk away.

He knew that no matter where he went, he'd still love Roxas and would always love him. Even in the next life, where they hopefully shared.

Never knowing
What could have been
Not saying that loving you
Is what I was trying to do

But loved him, he did.