AU: My third Kingdom Hearts fic ever. Enjoy?
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"Roxas, are you really sure you don't have a heart?"
"I don't know…I can't just look inside."
I hadn't expected a response like that. 'I don't know' was very different than his usual reaction to talk about hearts. Whenever Demyx presented arguments on our lack of feeling (many of which I saw a lot of sense in), Roxas would always reply with some bitter denial. The kid was heartbroken ('scuse the pun), so of course he wouldn't give something as hopeful as Demyx's theories a chance. All Roxas wanted was to understand who he was, and in truth, I knew a lot more about him than he did. Last time I got even remotely close to letting something about his past slip out, Saix bitched at me about it for hours. It's not like I was keeping quiet because I respected Saix or anything; I just knew it was best for Roxas not to know. That boy has a lot of anger inside of him, and I wouldn't want to do anything to provoke his temper. Sometimes I wonder how Roxas would react if he knew that I sided with Demyx. He'd probably think I was crazy. Hearts and feelings and love were all just a fairy tale to him.
But today caught me off guard. I had expected him to snap at me with another bogus explanation on why we obviously couldn't have hearts. No, 'I don't know' was far from blatant denial, and I intended to encourage the possibility of acceptance.
"'I've been thinking a little differently about all that lately. I think I might have met somebody who's starting to change my mind."
Oh man. The shock, the excitement that engulfed me when I heard those words…indescribable.
"Since Xion showed up, I've been thinking about everything differently."
…Had I heard him wrong?
"Xion…?" I must have heard him wrong. 'Xion' did sound a little like 'you', after all.
"Yeah." He stared into the setting sun with a far-away smile. Looking at his lips made me realize that my mouth was agape in disbelief.
"She makes me feel, you know? Or at least feel like I'm feeling…if that makes sense." He was practically beaming now.
"Yeah…I know how you feel…" God knows I did.
"I'm gonna head back. I'm worried that she didn't show up." And with that, Roxas left. To go see her.Turns out that Xion had tried to skip out of the Organization again. And if you know anything about my history with Marluxia, you should be aware of how I feel about traitors. Xemnas told me to retrieve the cowardly little runaway by 'any means necessary' when I returned that evening.
It would be a pleasure.