Chapter I
Changes Tell Just Who we Are
NOTE
New Kingdom Hearts fanfiction after a humongous break. To clarify things, this takes place before the Organization splitting up to go to Castle Oblivion to mess with Sora's memories. I made this fanfiction mainly to have fun and be lighthearted, ever since my three or four sequel story I made a few months back. So I hope you enjoy it!
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"You believe you belong in this world enough to not accept shelter from someone of your own kind? Pathetic." spat the hooded man, looking down on the girl. The young Nobody held a brave look on her face, but still avoided eye contact with the man. "Simply pathetic."
This, without saying, was if she didn't feel bad enough already. Waking up in the middle of a dark, dark beach, half choking under the current of the water, only to be woken up by a hooded man, offering her a home for services. Why was she refusing? Something inside of her felt wrong. Why was she straying from the darkness that would so willingly take her under her wing.
"I am in no position to refuse." she muttered silently. "I don't even know my own name, much less why I'm here. I will come with you and do whatever you need me to, if the offer still stands." The slightest breeze picked up her hair, creating a flowing, silver stream in the sky. Something about these words made even her lips twinge in pain.
Did she detect a smirk on the face of the hooded man? "Very well." He straightened up to his full height, almost twice that of the girl's. The man decided that the girl must have been around fifteen years old. "The Castle that Never Was is close by. You should recognize it immediately. We will be waiting there."
Suddenly, a black portal appeared, and the man backed up into it. The girl stood very still and waited for the man to disappear completely.
"Why couldn't I go that way?" she asked, as if she was going to get a logical answer from the air in front of her. Thousands of thoughts were running through her mind, but the first one was: What is my name?
"I don't even know what an appropriate name was." she smirked. It was funny how she knew basic things like how to walk and speak Japanese, but why did she not know others? It must have been basic, necessary instinct for a Nobody.
"For the sake of it," she told herself, beginning her walk from the beach, her legs still soaked from the salty ocean, "Kagami."
She knew this word very well as it was a literal Japanese word. Kagami stopped at the edge of the beach, immediately seeing the silhouette of something great behind an oddly shaped, bright moon. "The Castle that Never Was."
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"Welcome to the Castle that Never Was." came the same man the second that Kagami walked through the large, intricate doors. The man's hood was down, revealing long, beautiful blue hair and unusually pointed ears. He had a rough scar which stood to contrast his, almost feminine, beauty, right in the center of his face.
Kagami stayed silent, and looked up and down the man to memorize his ever feature. He was, after all, the first Nobody in which she had seen the face. In actuality, despite false memories from whomever her Somebody was, it was the first face she had ever seen. "Why couldn't I go through the portal?" she asked.
The man chuckled lightly. "I was giving you one last chance to turn back."
Kagami froze. She put her hands behind her back, and realized that she didn't recognize why she had clothing on. After all, she couldn't have been born with it.
"The clothes," he started, as if he was reading her mind, "I gave them to you before you had woken up."
Kagami gave a lopsided smile. She didn't know whether she should be more worried about the fact that she was seen naked, the fact that she was dressed in her sleep, or the fact that he had women's clothing on hand.
"Again, welcome." He began to walk forward, so through instinct, Kagami followed him. They ended up in a very large lobby, where strange-looking, lesser nobodies seemed to be constructing something. "Forgive them," he said, "the lower half of the castle is being completely reconstructed. Now," he made himself more comfortable in a chair, where Kagami preferred to stand, "about your name."
"Kagami." she said quickly.
The blue-haired man laughed slightly. "We were thinking something a small bit different, but if so, Kagami it is. I am number VII, but you will refer to me as Saïx because you are not a part of the Organization."
"If you don't mind me asking," started Kagami, "what is the Organization?"
Saïx laughed. "You will learn in due time. In the meantime, try to introduce yourself to the Organization members. The leader and quite a few of the seniors have been expecting you. You may even want to introduce yourself to Roxas, our newest member."
"What number is... he or she?" asked Kagami.
"Roxas, he, is number XIII."
Kagami scratched the back of her head, thinking it might be a bad omen. Still, she gave a look of superiority and folded her arms. "No problem." she smirked.
Whoa. Where did that attitude come from?
"Just like your Somebody." He laughed, and disappeared into yet another portal.
So... what happened now?
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Although confused and full of questions, Kagami came to the conclusion that it was pointless to ask them if her life itself was just a mirror. Taking a few random turns in the hallway and trying to avoid strange looks from the lesser Nobodies, waving odd hammers at her, she found herself in the kitchen. At one point on her journey to the room, she saw a man with long, black dreadlocks, complaining silently to himself. Deciding to ignore them and also deciding that she walked into an insane asylum, she shrugged.
"Why do they have food?" she asked. "It's not like we need to eat." Still, she opened the refridgerator. Something in her gut told her not to take the chocolate. Author's Note: This is a reference to Igor Lollipop's fanfiction. xD NOBODY touches Larxene's chocolate. She pulled out an odd, brown and green goop from inside of the refridgerator.
"Who are you and what are you doing with my experiment?!" came a voice that sounded strangled. A man with long, blond hair walked in, seemingly fuming. He was wearing the same coat as the other one. Snatching back the food from Kagami he continued, "You must be stray cat Saïx was talking about."
"Stray cat my ass!" Kagami said, suddenly angry, although without purpose. She most definitely was stray. A cat was debatable, however.
"You don't touch my experiments."
"Not my fault that it looks like guacamole gone bad." Kagami's hands clenched into fists.
"Child!" he spat.
"Skank!" she shouted back.
Thwack.
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"You okay?" Kagami did not open her eyes, even after hearing this voice. Although it sounded much nicer, or at least a bit more benevolent, than the first voice, she was a bit frightened. She vaguely remembered calling a crazy, blond man a skank and then being hit in the head with a large, blue shield.
"Hey?" came another one's voice. It sounded younger, but still as carefree. "Maybe she's still asleep."
"You don't think they sent her in to help with that new mission that everyone's talking about, do you?" asked the older-sounding one.
"The one with Naminé? I doubt it; I thought they had that all planned out." the younger one said.
"What's bothering me about this one is that the Superior left him in charge. I mean, come on! He's two levels below me. Even if I'm not going on the mission, he's way too low on the Organization to head that. Plus, I just don't like him." the older one ranted.
The younger one said nothing, so he must have made a gesture. Kagami decided this was the perfect opportunity to open her eyes. As she did so, she found two figures above her as she lay on top of a bed, much different from the kitchen floor she had passed out on. One was a blond man with a strange looking mullet and curious eyes looking down on her, and the other had honey blond hair with some kind of a fohawk and huge, cobalt eyes. Again, these two were wearing the same coats that Saïx had. They must have both been part of the Organization.
"She's awake!" said the older, mullet one happily. "So what did you do to make Vexen so angry?" he asked, in an uncharacteristic smirk.
"Vexen?" asked Kagami in a weak voice. "Oh. I called him a skank."
There was silence.
The silence immediately erupted into heavy laughter.
"I'm Roxas." said the younger one, extending his hand. Kagami shook it. "Number XIII."
"You're the one that Saïx recommended I met." Kagami smiled. She looked over at the older one, expecting an introduction, but instead he as flipping through various CDs that he owned and began to stuck a few into a stereo system. Through this, she could guess that she was on the older one's bed.
Roxas grinned. "That's Demyx." He pointed to the man, now kicking his speakers as they refused to turn on. "He's number nine, right after my best friend Axel. I'll introduce you two later. What's your name?"
Kagami was inwardly happy to see a friendly face, whether or not Roxas's ways of speaking matched his appearance. "I'm Kagami. Well, I named myself Kagami."
"Is that even a real name?" asked Demyx, finally getting the smallest bit of sound to come out of his system.
"We're not real anyway." Kagami laughed, falling backwards onto the bed again. It was surprisingly comfortable.
"Actually," started Roxas, sitting down on a bean bag chair, looking out-of-place in the overly white room, "I've been having these weird thoughts lately."
Kagami pushed herself up to see Roxas. He was looking at the ceiling, as if he was opening his eyes for the first time. "Like... is any of this for real?" He gave a slight laugh. "Or not?"
Kagami's eyes glazed over. For a second, flashes of images of a boy, a boy much different from Roxas, but somehow not different at all, invaded her vision. He had spikey brown hair and the same cobalt eyes, and he was closing an unbelievably large door...
"Kagami!" Roxas shouted.
Kagami snapped out of it. "Sorry, I thought I saw..." She looked at the ceiling. Most likely, she decided, she was having a memory of her Somebody, maybe of someone that Roxas reminded her of. "Nothing."
"Got it!" said Demyx, sounding very pleased with himself. "I haven't listened to Miyavi in forever." A male voice came on, singing a rather creepy, yet upbeat song.
"It's probably all your water you got in that thing." laughed Roxas.
"So, I'll call you Kaggy." Demyx smiled. He sat on the bed, uncomfortably close to Kagami, and Roxas joined them. "Any questions about the Organization so far?" he asked.
"Well, yeah, two. The first one is, what is Organization XIII?" she asked.
Roxas's eyes widened. "Saïx didn't tell you?"
Kagami shook her head.
"We're an Organization searching for Kingdom Hearts. This way, we would all get the hearts we deserve back." said Demyx. Roxas looked like he had something to add, but thinking better of it, he shook his head and smiled sadly.
"What was your other question?" asked Roxas, not bothering to ask Kagami if she understood.
"Right," she started, "Who was the guy that looked like Bob Marley?" she asked, thinking back to the man with the long, black dreads.
They both laughed hard again. "Xaldin." they both said at once. Kagami wanted to ask why everybody's names had an 'x' in them, but decided against it.
"You okay, Kaggy?" asked Demyx.
"You look a little uncomfortable." mentioned Roxas.
Kagami smirked and took this as an opportunity to be smart. "Let's see. I'm sitting on someone else's bed with two cute boys awkwardly close to me that just happened to pick me up unconscious."
Again, Roxas and Demyx erupted into laughter. The laughter stopped when rapping was heard on the door.
Roxas's grin grew larger. "'Ts gotta be Axel."
Author's Note: Okay, not the best first chapter, but I want this fanfiction to be lighthearted, and mainly a girl's journey through discovering the Organization and such. There will be more of a plot to thicken up later on, but I hope you like what I've got so far. Please read and review!
P.S. If you're wondering why Roxas seems to have a different personality, it's because I have a theory that he used to act more like Axel back when he was still a slightly loyal member of the Organization, and back before Ansem, or DiZ, reprogrammed his personality.
