Disclaimers: I sick of these...I know you know what they know..wtf...

Shards

He had lost pieces of himself over the years, he knew it, he could sense their absence even though he couldn't feel it. But here stood the little girl that Axel took, he said something about a connection to the keyblade weilder. Her deep blue eyes and auburn hair, she was whole.

Every piece held together by the fabric of her heart and soul, Saix loved it and hated that he did.But she had a nobody, she didn't know it but she did. Why should he be left torn apart while she remained full?

Her eyes sought him out apart from the shadows, behind the bars of her prison. Her expression reminded him of some great caged beast, weary and pained by the death of her freedom. He could almost feel the emotions that coursed through her body, it tainted and sickened the darkness around him. Kairi's spirit was fading aganist the ever present darkness and emptyness that came with being in the World That Never Was.

He almost felt sorry for her – almost.

And still he sensed pieces of hope inside her, hope that somehow someway aganist all odds Sora would come for her. Saix was amused by this the most, he had lost all hope along the way he couldn't even recall the feeling of hope. It must be a stupid emotion he thought, for it was keeping this girl going and it would only shatter her heart in the end when he never came.

Hope – that was why she rebelled aganist the darkness and hated those, like him, who clung to it so desperatly.

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Kairi found it strange, sometime she hated her captors with such a passion her anger threatend to explode. And sometimes when she watched them from behind her bars, she felt so sorry for them. Sorry enough for her heart to ache, sorry enough to cry for them when they could not cry for themselves.

He watched her now, crying. Thinking that her situation was the reason for her tears, let him think that, she thought.

"Tell me, does it hurt when you cry?"

The oddity of his question stopped her soft sobs for a moment.

"No." Was her muffled reply.

"Really, I always thought people suffer something when they cry."

Kairi nodded, "They do, but it doesn't hurt, the tears that is."

Suddenly and with swift ease, his hand reached past her bars to grasp her chin and suprisingly he softly pulled her chin up so their eyes met.

"Then whats ailing you, Kairi?"

The answer came slowly and quietly, "I don't know anymore."

Something dawned on his face and seeming sastisfied her released her. His frame became a shadow and then his shadow became nothing.

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Nature's wrath still frightened her. Saix could see that now, as she jumped each time the storm outside flashed, sending a deep rumble throughout the castle.

She huddled in the corner of her trap, closing her eyes to each quake.

Saix laughed, in many ways she was still a girl.

Blue eyes fretfully searched for him, and when she spotted him he was surprised to see a small look of relief on her face.

"You're here," She mumbled.

"Hmmm, you don't sound to glad."

"Should I be?"

Saix smirked and walked further from her and closer to the door.

With the speed of a dusk she was at clinging to the cell bars, "Wait! Don't go!"

The Luna Diviner hadn't expected such a reaction, but none the less he complied. Walking up to her prison and looking down on her.

"J-just don't-don't leave me a-alone, I've had that happen before." She mumbled returning to her corner.

Saix smirked the whole time, watching as she fell to sleep with a look of peace to her features.

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ohhh...this turned out better then I thought...please tell me what you think!