I had just closed my shop for the night, ascending the stairs to my room above my shop, and sat on my bed. SOMETHING ABOUT HIM... I laid back on my bed and stared up at my ceiling. It was covered in what was painted to look like a starlit sky. I sighed as I started thinking about today's events.

I didn't originally plan to close the shop early today, but I finally remembered what today was, with the help of one of the town's moogles. I just have to keep seeing the grave even though it hurts me, I just have to.. to.. to keep remembering so his memory won't be lost.... I drew forth my keyblade, tears brimming my eyes, and head forth to the Keyblade Graveyard. The place where the Keyblade War was fought and many great wielders had lost their lives, including my brother, though I was very young when this war was fought, I have the vaguest memories of him. And through the memories of others, we can live on forever (y/n)...  I could hear his voice tell me in a distant memory as I neared his weapon that stood amongst many beneath a darkening sky. His always stood out in the crowded mass, after all, it was the only vivid memory I had of him.

IN YOUR HAND, TAKE THIS KEY. SO LONG AS YOU HAVE THE MAKINGS, THEN THROUGH THIS TAKING, ITS WIELDER YOU SHALL ONE DAY BE. AND YOU WILL FIND ME, FRIEND – NO OCEAN WILL CONTAIN YOU THEN. NO MORE BORDERS AROUND, OR BELOW, OR ABOVE, SO LONG AS YOU CHAMPION THE ONES YOU LOVE.

He said as he helped me hold his keyblade. I didn't understand that it would mean I would become a keyblade wielder like him back then, but I swore that I wouldn't use it as a toy to impress masses. I approached his key, placing a halo of flowers on it handle, and felt a small raindrop hit my hand as I drew it back from his keyblade. I sighed looking up at the sky and drawing out my own key, I  knew I wouldn't be staying long, I just thought that maybe the rain would have held off just a little bit longer  I opened a keyhole back to Twilight Town, though the keyhole would only take me to the center of town so I would have to walk back to my shop. I don't know what made me decide to take the back way through the town and back to my shop, but I did and as I rounded a corner, I caught a glimpse of a man angrily hitting a wall. His face didn't read anger, it read pain, I knew that all too well, pain can really hurt a heart and make you do stupid things. It is why I left Radiant Gardens after my mother died. The town knew I could wield a keyblade and thought it was a great thing to try and keep me there after darkness fell on it; they just wanted me to keep them safe and me trapped.

The man placed his hand on the wall he had just hit, I noticed the ripped glove and beads of blood forming over the broken skin, "H-Hey, um, are you okay dude?" I spoke up from behind him. Way to make it look like you were creeping on him (y/n). He glanced down at his hand and answered," Yeah, just dealing with icky jobs.", without looking at me. I lightly sighed to myself and stepped closer to him. He had wild, fiery red hair, purple tears shapes under his eyes, and slightly taller than myself. I placed my hand on his arm and whispered CURAGA, and I watched as his hand healed. He just glanced at me, without saying anything then averted his gaze to his boots. "It's probably none of my business but sometimes holding in that ickyness just makes it worse, sometimes it helps to have someone to talk to." I said knowing it was never a truly easy task, but it does help, I used to talk to Merlin before I left and it felt a little better with time. He slightly stiffened up at my words, "Yeah well, what do you do when the icky job is forgetting the person who was the one you told all your problems to?" I look up into his eyes, trying to read the source of his pain, then I looked down. I don't even know his name yet, why would I expect him to tell me what ails him?  "Well um... uh... Red, you can't really ever forget someone who means something to you, even if they are gone, we have their memory in our heart. As for what I did when I stood where you are, I found someone new to talk to." I stood there and bit onto my lip, trying to keep it from quivering, he didn't know I had just came back from the Keyblade Graveyard. "Hey, I didn't catch your name." I cocked my head slightly, Changing the topic much Red? , and slightly giggled. I told him my name and asked for his in exchange with a bit of a light-hearted joke. "The name's Axel, got it memorized?" He had said lightly tapping his head, earning another giggle from me. I had invited him to tag along with me back to my shop, along the way I found myself smiling and laughing more than I had in a long while. HUH, THIS... THIS FEELS... KINDA NICE I smiled to myself as we neared the clearing in the buildings just before we'd reach my shop but I stopped walking. I caught a glimpse of something I had never seen in such a big mass since I left the now Hollow Bastion. Hundreds of shadow heartless in a mass before me. Axel had caught up me, asking me in a concerned voice, "Something wrong (y/n)?" I hushed him and silently made my way closer to the heartless mass. He silently rushed in front of me, but I stepped back in front of him and continued onward to the mass. Axel just stood there and watched me as if I had lost my mind. Champion the ones you love... I love this town, my shop,  my moogle  friends. "(y/n) are you crazy?! Those things will destroy you and take your heart!" Axel whispered yelled, praying it would knock some sense into me, but I had ignored him, getting closer to the mass, the tip of my shoe brushed against the shadowy blob. As if a gun went off, they all sprung up ready for an attack. Axel came running, yelling, "(y/n) hang on I'm coming!", as he drew forth a set of chakrams readying himself for the fight. I dropped down into a fighting stance, a ball of light forming around my hands as I drew forth my weapon. My keyblade, Bleeding Hearts. Axel had stopped running and watched me as I lurched forward, skillfully and elegantly dispatching all of the heartless before me. Dodging, blocking, then countering watching as each heartless dissipated. I stood up and continued to onward to my shop as my keyblade faded into a white light. "Wow (y/n), you didn't tell me that you were a key blade wielder." I just stood in front of Axel, with my back to him, "Axel, it's not something I freely talk about, not anymore..." I grabbed my other arm to comfort myself at the thought of what those memories held in Hollow Bastion, of myself fighting until I could no longer stand, my arms so weak... I brushed away those thoughts and continued to my shop.

It wasn't too much longer until I reached my shop, not too big not too small, but sizable enough to hold an upstairs apartment. "Well here we are." I said as I opened the door and let Axel inside. I had forgotten the few boxes of newly synthesized items were sitting on the main counter. I should have put these away before I left, oh well... I showed him about the shop, and as we came back to the entrance I sat on the main counter, next to the boxes, and gestured for Axel to sit a chair near a work bench, which he had flipped around and straddled to face me. "Alright Axel, it seems I've lifted your spirits, but I think it's time you tell me your story. I know it may hurt but that's the only way it'll get better." He looked at me, his held a mixture of emotions, it looked like he was fighting them. Suddenly, I watched as he let got, and it all spilled out, with tears fell down. I came down off the counter and grabbed the sides of his face, not out of affection but compassion. I gently raised Axel's head as I looked into his reddening eyes and gave him a soft smile and wiped away some stray tears. He lightly chuckled. "What is it Axel?" I said with a widening smile as he slowly began to seem to cheer up. First time in awhile, especially on a day that has never done anything for me but made me sad, I find myself smiling. Truly happy..."It's nothing (y/n), I was just thinking about what someone told me once that now suddenly doesn't make any sense to me." I looked at him slightly cocking my head, and noticed Axel staring at me lost in thought before he released another set of chuckles. I just smiled shaking my head as he looked at the clock, with eyebrows furrowed. "(y/n), hate to have to run, but my boss is probably wondering where I am." Axel tells me as he stands conjuring what looks like a dark portal. In all the worlds I've seen, I have learned to not question one's abilities too much, but I did question the boss bit. "Boss? Um, okay Axel but you're going to tell me about your job next time we meet." He laughed, "If you don't forget." I laughed thinking about how I don't think it would be possible for me to forget him," How can I? I always got my friends memorized." I remembered how he tapped his head earlier, so I decided to do it in a similar fashion. He laughed and waved as he stepped through the portal.

"Pretty eventful day, huh (y/n)?" I say to myself as I strip down and put my pajamas on, then crawl into my bed, falling asleep under my personal starry sky.