A Break from Routine


Prologue

To say the life of a nobody was tedious would be an understatement. The days all seemed to blur together into a cycle that bored both your mind and body. Wake up, meetings, mission, sleep and repeat. It was a wonder you had been on edge lately. To make things even worse, all of your so-called-coworkers were just too damned attractive. What did Xemnas do? Pick up a bunch of idol-school drop-outs to make nobodies?

It seemed cruel to say the least. Even if you could tell from overhearing various conversations with the other members that it really wasn't that simple for how all of them came to be under Xemnas' thumb.

When it came time for the morning meeting you huffed and trudged around your room getting ready for the day, taking care of your general hygiene and getting dress. Just as you would any other day. You wracked your brain for any kind of deviation from your routine that you could come up with. Something, anything. But even things that you had used to deviate from the others out of protest had become dull and pointless to you.

Sighing in defeat, you give yourself one final once over in the large mirror that hung on the back of all the bedroom doors in the World that Never Was. You did take slight consolation in the fact you were having a good-hair-day as you run your fingers through the locks once last time before heading out the door to the standard meeting.

The halls were empty as you made your way to the standard meeting place. You weren't surprised, almost everyone would have gone ahead of you by this time—even Demyx who was notorious for oversleeping was surely there by now. You found yourself really not caring about this fact though. Even if you were late you doubted anything would come of it since you weren't really a true member anyway. Serving more as an extra pair of hands then a true numbered member.

Xigbar, with his cruel jabs, had once pointed out she could be member number zero. You had always been irritated how much that fit. You were irritated about how you didn't have any kind of magic like the others. How you truly had no use. You were kept around like a lab rat for Vexen to poke and prod at—figuring out how, with what little power you had, you managed to have a will strong enough to retain a human form. You weren't even worth the time to be given a new name with an X. Instead you were just told to essentially "pick one and get on with your non-exitance"

You had a bow and a knack for remembering what it was like to have a heart, that was it.

Though it could have been worse, Xemnas could have seen these traits as not good enough and sacked you off when he found you. Even if you wouldn't consider your life right now to be really living, it was certainly better then being dead.

When you got to the meeting you simply warped up to your chair and sat, being earlier still then you expected the meeting hadn't even started yet the members still bickering amongst themselves. You tuned out the rest and relaxed in your chair. Today would be just like any other day.


BRK: Just some basic housekeeping. This whole story came from me wanting to branch out of my story-rating comfort zone so you get to benefit from me curling up on the floor in second-hand embarrassment. You're welcome. Each chapter starts from where the prologue left off. This takes place before the events of the first kingdom hearts game, so none of the babies will be in this. Please enjoy.