Author's Note: About a year and a half ago, my dear Ghost, and I started a project that we would soon come to call simply the "Heartless Project." We thought, "What if Xehanort wasn't the only one who become a Nobody and a Heartless? What if the entire Organization had Heartless, just like Xehanort's Heartless, or Ansem as we still call him. (Screw Ansem the Wise, he's DiZ, end of story.) And so, we began to create their Heartless, something that we're still working on to this day. This story was written a year ago, Christmas 2008, and was the first time the Heartless had been used in a story. As you can tell, we hadn't created everyone's Heartless yet, and most of the ones found in this story have changed drastically and been redesigned over the past year. But this story will forever remain the first story with the Heartless, and Ghost, has asked me to post it for everyone, and so I am. There will be much more with the Heartless to come, in fact I'm working on a huge project story with them now. Any questions concerning them will be answered in that story, as it is their personal tale. But this is their official announcement, and I hope you enjoy.

Asi was used to being faced with problems brought on by other people. He had become used to it the very day he had become his Master's right-hand man, which hadn't been long after he arrived at the End of the Worlds. He took a sort of sense of pride that they had to come to him to solve their problems, using it to remind them that he was above them, just as he should be. The one thing Asi had never anticipated was the problems that he had been facing recently.

No, most of his recent problems had nothing to do with the Heartless at all, or the Nobodies, for that matter. All the problems Asi had been dealing with for the last few months all seemed to be brought on, to put it quite simply, by The Girl.

How one small girl could cause so many problems, the Guardian would never know. He did know that The Girl was a Hell of a lot more trouble than she was worth, as he had told his Master immediately after he had brought her there. Ansem had only laughed at him, and then informed him that it was now his duty to protect The Girl. Asi hadn't been happy at all. And more than that, he hadn't consented without a fight.

He had begged, threatened, given his most pitiful looks, and when all that had failed, Asi had resorted to what he knew best, and simply tried to seduce his way out of it. The next morning Ansem had smiled as he left the room, saying simply:

"You still have to watch her."

Asi had been furious then.

So he had given up, and finally agreed to watch The Girl. That's when his troubles had begun. He had never met another living soul who could get themselves in the trouble The Girl seemed to. She could be found being kidnapped by Riku in a rescue attempt one minute, then hanging off the edge of a balcony courtesy of Arlene the next! Needless to say, the Guardian wasn't at all fond of having this Girl constantly under his care. But that didn't matter, because Asi had been told to protect her, and he would do as his Master wished for him too. No matter how much he hated it.

That's why he couldn't say he was that surprised on the day in question, when The Girl had once again posed a problem to him. The only difference was that he hadn't been expecting this particular problem at all.

"Christmas?"

"Yeah, it's about a month away! So, what are we going to do for it?"

The Girl, Kairi, Asi mentally reminded himself, stood before him, smiling an innocent smile, one Asi would have believed if he didn't know better.

"We don't, celebrate Christmas…"

The Girl's face fell, as she looked at him in shock.

"You don't celebrate Christmas? But why not!? It's a fun time of year! I remember me, Sora, and Riku used to have a blast! We would always…"

But Asi wasn't listening anymore, too lost in his own thoughts. He had never really thought about Christmas since losing his heart, and never even realized that it was Christmas time. Now that he thought about it though, he saw that he hadn't celebrated Christmas ever in this form. The last time he had taken notice of the holiday he had still been Isa, joined with Saïx to form their Somebody. He had liked Christmas, actually… All the music and dancing, and sweets and presents… And romance under the mistletoe. Asi hated admitting that he was just like Saïx, and that he too liked romance… Just not as much, maybe… Or in a way that wasn't as romantic…

"Asi?"

Asi snapped his attention back to The Girl, who was looking at him in concern.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes, I'm fine… So, you liked Christmas, huh?"

The Girl smiled again, nodding happily.

"Yeah, it was always fun!"

"Yeah, I liked it too…"

The Girl sighed dreamily. "It's too bad we can't celebrate it…"

And for the first time ever, Asi realized that he agreed with The Girl.