A/N: Okay, first I shall explain the title. Yes, "Proof of Existance" IS a spin on the graveyard like area you go to in the game while fighting Luxord and Saix right before Xem. I got the idea ... one's success in life isn't measured by that life's content, but, instead, the people in that person's life they impacted ... Make sense? Good.

Disclaiminess: I don't own any of the characters, alas, and I think Nomura-Sama's already married. XD

Far too musically inclined.

That was really the only way he could even begin to describe the boy standing before him. He was fidgety and nervous with maybe a tinge of pinkish anxiety on his cheeks, nothing at all the picturesque formality that should be presented when speaking to a superior.

But damn of the boy didn't look graceful all the same.

The report in his grasp was … horrid … but the nervous little smile he gave was almost enough for Xemnas's mind to raise the words off the paper and rearrange the letters into … a more professional layout.

That smile would've been heartwarming…

If he'd actually had a heart, of course.

"IX, you realize, of course … this report is worthless to me, yes?"

He nodded with a panicky tenacity, though it was quite clear this was news to the Sitar-Wielder. His grating blatancy at lacking more refined qualities--or even, for that matter, decent posture--had been growing on The Superior's nerves and he was making it well known with tense dark skin, furrowed silver brows, and a strange little glow in his orange eyes that … well, sort of made Demyx feel apprehensively squeamish.

"No. I thought not…" Xemnas gave a insipid little sigh and waved an elegant gloved hand, dismissing The Melodious Nocturne from his intricate marble office. He heard the clicks of boots fade away but didn't see their owner disappear with his face leaned into his hands and digits rubbing his eyes.

"You savin' him for a rainy day 'er somethin', Mansex?"

"Address me formally or not at all," He chided with a growl in his tone to the voice that had been pinpointed above his head.

"Superior." The corrective vote had moved. The usual occurrence of bouncing all over the room without momentum, well … it was nothing new, and he tire of trying to remedy something that would never be cured.

"No, II. His failure to bring back the Olympus Stone has signed his death warrant. He is of no further use."

"Is that the only reason you're sendin' the kid to the slaughter though?" The look risen out of onyx confines told him to pursue. "I mean, he is the only one of us that swears we still have hearts an' all ." The next look informed him he was being too bold and with a large grin he disappeared, not sparing his leader a colorful farewell.

He leaned back slightly more comfortably in his chair. Although Xigbar had an unyielding knack for appearing the lesser informed, nothing could be further from the truth. He had a vexing ability isolate meaning beyond reason and expediency beyond tact.

He was right. Demyx was … too real. He swore Nobodies had hearts and, to anyone who disagreed, he'd swear they had souls that simply longed for hearts. 'A soul can create a new heart,' He would defend.

And Xemnas, even in all his glorious supremacy with brambles of nothingness that spanned into both the Realms of Light and Dark, would dare to say that was 'Playing God', a term to which the musician was obviously alien. The silverhaired swordsman may have desired to purloin his effects from The Heart Of All Worlds, but even he was not wool-eyed enough to see the blatant truth that he had a proverbial and yet somehow still literal gaping wound in the cavity of his chest. To deny such obvious and simplistic information was … unfathomable to the commander of 13 non-lives.

And so he would not regret his decision. He would not falter, and he would not lose any of his dour yet impassive guise.

The boy was next to die.

Conclusive note: I want to thank Akimaru-Zaithara (MaruChan! --who is also my girlfriend) for betaing for me. I'm horrible about trying to be poetic that my plot gets blurry and I use metaphors that people just don't get (as I've gotten comments on the past about xD), so she helps me be more blunt about it.