On Go, Broken Watches and Fluorescent Lamps

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Hikaru No Go

"Roxas…"

Xion sat in her room, balled up in a corner and putting a hand through her silky hair. She was very stressed out right now, because her best friends were nowhere to be seen. Axel had taken the day off and gone to see an Aerosmith concert. "I hate him so much…" Tears fell from Xion's face. What kind of friend was he to just take off somewhere without inviting her? She decided that he was going to get it big time when he came back to the Castle. That would show him not to mess with her.

Xion would have confided to her other best friend about all this 'tension', but he was nowhere to be seen. The Key of Destiny had gone off for a secret mission, but had not been heard from since.

Xion moved her hand from her hair to her face and started biting her nails very softly. It had occurred to her to take off to the world that Roxas had travelled to, but there was a problem.

She had no idea where that was.

Every time she asked other members where Roxas had been sent, all she got was scoffs and cold shoulders. None of them would tell her where he was. This made Xion very sad. Or at least as sad as a Nobody could pretend to be.

For a few days, Xion would not listen to anyone about anything. She would just stay curled up in a ball and sit in her room for hours on end. Even when Saix threatened to chop her head off, Xion didn't budge. What did she have to fear? She was a Nobody, a being who wasn't supposed to exist. No one could tell her what to do, not even the Superior.

Xemnas, that bastard!

That was it! She had enough! Xion got up from her fetal position and stood triumphantly. She was going to walk up to Xemnas, shove her finger in his face, and tell him this was just too much.

Xion decided to rest for a few hours, however. She needed her beauty sleep more than she needed Roxas. And that was saying something, for her.

Two hours had passed. Xion was walking to the top floor, where the Superior was sitting in his chambers. He had fallen asleep in his chair, reading a graphic novel; the book was resting on top of his face. To make the image even stranger, Xemnas was snoring under the book, allowing the foulness of his evil breath to dirty the pure pages of the book of life.

Xion recognized the book almost instantly. It was a Hikaru No Go graphic novel! But why would Xemnas-

"YES!" Xion exclaimed. Then she immediately covered her mouth. For the Superior had gotten up from his chair, the book discarded to the floor. The feeble girl trembled in fear as the towering Nobody glared at her with a stern look in his eyes.

Xion could not bring herself to look in his eyes, let alone utter a single world. Still shivering in fear, she started to speak. "Um, I-I was just-"

However, something seemed strange about Xemnas. He did not yell at her, did not wield his Etheral Blades in fury. He just stood there, looking at Xion, watching her, observing her hot-red cheeks, her soft nose, and her silky jet-black hair. But he was doing nothing else.

Slowly, Xion moved her head up to look at her boss's eyes. They seemed sad to her, almost like he was looking at a ghost of his past. Xemnas' lips turned into a sad smile, and he uttered the following words. "Ventus?"

Xion gulped. It was all she could do to keep her ground. "W-what?" She asked.

Afraid he would turn back to normal, she covered her face with her arms and closed her eyes in anticipation.

But the hurt did not bring her down. Instead, Xemnas smiled as much as he could. "My friend…" Then he began to lose the feeling in his body, and started to sink back into his chair. The last thing he did before he went back to sleep was reach out to Xion with his left hand. However, once he sank back into his chair, the hand crashed into the armrest, severely cracking it as a consequence.

Xion started to run out of the room, but then stopped. Bending down, she retrieved the graphic novel and ran away as fast as she could.

Xion glanced at her watch. 1:00. It was a kitty-cat watch with a black cat's face surrounded by the numbers, while the wrist portion had engravings of kitty faces. This watch always made her smile; it was a gift from Roxas after she had finally opened up to him and became his friend.

But not today. Today the only thing on her mind was finding her best friend.

It was 1:00 now. If she didn't find Roxas by 5:00, he was dead meat for sure.

Xion already had a plan formed in her brain. In five minutes, she would flirt with Xigbar for a bit to get the key to the room where Xemnas kept the mission reports. Then, she would look for Roxas' last mission that he was assigned to. Knowing where she was, Xion would teleport to that world and start looking for him. If she found him, then they could go home in time.

If not…well, she tried not to think about that.

It was the perfect start to the perfect plan.

Except for one thing.

Xion was walking down the stairs when she was hit in the head by a broken sitar. The instrument struck her on her soft cranium, causing her to lose her balance and start tumbling down the stairs.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

With each stair, Xion suffered more wounds and internal trauma, and before she knew it, she landed on her butt on the last step, before rolling down to the hard, unforgiving floor behind her.

With much effort, the Nobody moved her wobbly legs and stood up.

"Ouch!" She rubbed her backside. "That's gonna leave a mark."

Angrily, Xion wrote in her mind that she was going to kill Demyx at 6:00. She looked at her watch to see how much time the idiot had to live.

But the glass of the watch was now shattered and destroyed, and one of the arrows was missing.

If Xion had a heart, it would have sunk at this point.

Now what was she supposed to do?

To be continued