Xigbar... thought he didn't need his heart anymore, that it wasn't... 'functional' anymore;That he didn't need it, and it didn't bother him anymore. It had been stolen, years and years ago, he knew this fact well enough, was faced with the effect every day, every moment. He grew accustomed to simulating the emotions in his brain, followed by expressing them. Not in words, that would only bring lectures and suspicions of his ignorance... or rather, some might say, stupidity, but rather in actions; Sadness and anger expressed with simple target pratice and happiness, or something remotely resembling of it, in hollow laughs that echoed off the walls. His lack of a heart stopped bothering him after a year. In the beginning, nearly ten years ago... the very start of when he found himself sans a heart and emotion, he had been confused and angry, lashing out recklessly, and sometimes he was bitter and guilty of his past actions. And after a while... he calmed down, followed by finding himself accepting what happened, then finally, it became nothing more than normality.

He would awaken, he might brush his hair somewhat, bother someone, go see Saix for a mission, do said mission, then end his day by drifting off into a dreamless slumber until he awoke the next day -not morning, there was so sun- and repeated the process; Just a simple, usual routine.

Laughing, choking, smashing, waiting...

Finding something fascinating

Something lost, and something found

All you think might be unwound

Today, that routine was broken like so many other days, routine slightly fractured by a meeting in the Round Room. Normally, he would have slept through it... Superior Xemnas never said anything of great importance, most of the time repeating himself over and over until even Saix grew impatient and exhausted by the ramblings. He doubted the meeting was important, but he didn't want to be repremanded for missing it.

Xigbar didn't do anything besides yawn as he sat up and swung his legs over the side of the.. well, it could barely be called a bed; It was more like a icy cold, uncorfortable metal cot than anything else, lacking blankets and what could be considered the worse pillow ever made. Unlike the other members, he slept without his cloak, only clothes in underwear and pants while his boots rested beside the cot, heel touching the lower left corner. He stood, breathing slowly as he grasped his coat and slipped one arm in, followed by the second, zipping it from the top down to below his waist; His boots came on with a lazy chuckle, letting it roll from his mouth without thinking. Another day, another mission, though today was slightly different. He opened a swirling black and purple portal, highlighted with a peculiar blue, stepping through so he ended up on his numberized chair, barely dropping a centimeter onto the white metall All the members were present, including Number XIII, a blond with the most.. beautiful hair that rivaled strings of spun gold. Normally, he wouldn't say such things, he wasn't... expressive of anything, almost always labeling it as 'awesome' or 'cool', not bothering with the details, but Roxas... Roxas was different.

"Salutations, friends," Superior Xemnas took a short pause, voice just barely echoing in the rightly named Round Room. He closed his amber orbs for a second, face resting on his gloved knuckles. "Kingdom Hearts is growing steadily. Number XIII and XIV are making great process with their...keyblades."

The word rolled off his tongue, hissing the 's' softly.

"But the main news for us... is that a new world has been revealed, and surely houses many Heartless for Kingdom Hearts..."

Xigbar sighed, no longer paying attention; So it was a new world... that just meant more work for them, which he didn't nessicarily want... but then again, there was nothing to do around the Castle besides poke fun at others, sit around, and sleep, so he might as well work. At least it was somewhere new, not the same old Twilight Town or Halloween Town... He tilted his head slightly, and Roxas' gaze of cerulean brightness crossed his, but the boy looked away; He figured Roxas had been looking at him for a short while, eyebrows raised. Sometimes... he found himself day-dreaming about the blond; Nothing disgusting or horrible, but.. he just found the boy... mezmerising almost. He simply couldn't explain it. They were decent friends, but Roxas was around Axel most of the time, so they couldn't always be talk unless they had a mission or Axel was gone, but lately... he had found Roxas staring at him; Dyring missions, meetings, or even in the Grey Room. Whenever his one-eyed gaze met those twin jewels, he suddenly felt better. It was like everything stressful or irritating just melted away; Even target pratice didn't make him... and he hated to say it, 'feel' better. He couldn't describe as anything but 'feel', at least to him.

By the time he had faded out of his trance, the meeting was over and all of the members had left. Great... not one of them even thought to 'wake him up'. Scoffing, he teleported himself to the Grey Room to receive his mission from Saix.

Xigbar appeared in outside the Grey Room on a silver and white platform, white, nearly trasperant stairs leading both up and down. Strolling inside, he took in the the room's view in for the thousandth time, simply because. A massive window to the north, Kingdom Hearts floating in the sky, a gray couch and coffee table on the left side of the room, and a coffee table and three chairs to the right, all resting on a floor mixed with gray, white, and blue lines, pulsing with that seemed like electricity. Oddly, the room was bright, despite outside being pitch black with only light from Kingdom Hearts and the many buildings below, and no source of light in the room.

"Yo, kiddo," Xigbar greeted Roxas with a wave and grin, one hand shoved in the pockets of his cloak as he leisurely walked up the tiny male, who turned, smiling.

"Hey Xigbar," Roxas was cheerful, waving back at Xigbar."We've got a mission together."

Xigbar's eyebrows quirked in slight suprise. He hadn't had a mission with Roxas for a while now. He stared into Roxas' eyes, and there was something... inside them. He thought it might have been emotion, since Roxas' expressed more emotion than nearly all of the Organization combinded, but he lacked a heart as well, so it was impossible.

"Cool, kiddo, where we goin'?" Xigbar questioned, smirking softly.

"That new world," Roxas stated."Saix said the world was called Fantasia. We're gonna explore it for our mission."

"Huh.. Well then, c'mon, tiger. Let's go." Xigbar exclaimed, opening a portal for the two, leting himself walk through first, before Roxas followed. He didn't want anything to attack Roxas.