I'm what's left. Or, maybe I'm all there ever was.

-Xemnas – I – The Superior


Naminé wondered what was so bad about being a Nobody. DiZ claimed that Nobodies weren't supposed to exist, that they didn't have hearts because their "being" was an abomination. They were unwanted and useless in a universe where having a (strong) heart made all the difference. Yet how could that be true? DiZ managed to make use of Naminé—did she not possess a unique power that no other person—Somebody or Nobody—possessed? Even without a heart, Naminé had a use. A purpose, even.

After all, there was darkness before there was light. There was nothing before there was anything. Infinity existed before time. You don't exist; you're not supposed to exist, DiZ was so fond of telling her in his usual condescending tone. And Naminé would hang her head in shame—as though it was her own fault for coming into being—and pretend that she agreed. And she didn't. No matter what, Naminé couldn't believe that Nobodies weren't mean to exist. They had always existed within Somebodies, sometimes sleeping and sometimes wakeful, but always, always there, just beneath the surface.

Like now, the only difference was that she no longer lived within Kairi but within herself. She was both Kairi and Naminé just as Kairi was both Naminé and herself. Two halves of a whole that were whole and complete even within and of themselves: Naminé was everything Kairi had the potential to have been. She was made up of everything Kairi had chosen not to be but that didn't make her any less a part of Kairi. She existed within Kairi and as part of her she could exert some influence—minimal though it was—over Kairi's actions and decisions.

At the same time, Naminé was herself. Perhaps a Nobody could not come into their own being without a push from the darkness but surely that didn't make her any less a person. She had a personality, now a body. Somebodies like DiZ believed that the light was life-giving and that the darkness could bear nothing (except for terrors in the dark and death). It wasn't natural for darkness to bear life. Darkness took life away.

Naminé set down her red crayon.

She was born of darkness yet created with Kairi's light. She was what Kairi could have been. She was what was left of Kairi, in a sense: she was what remained of Kairi's darkness. At the same time, though, was not Naminé also all that Kairi had ever been? Kairi began her life with pieces of Naminé as part of her outward self. It was only as she grew that she changed and became the Kairi that her friends knew and loved.

Maybe Nobodies like Naminé weren't supposed to exist, as DiZ said.

The fact remained that they did, and that changed everything.


This was just a practice for getting Naminé's voice right. An experiment, I suppose you could say, since I've never written anything for the Kingdom Hearts fandom before. It's just that...that line Xemnas says during 358/2 Days makes me think of Naminé for some reason, so I used it as inspiration for this. I do hope you enjoyed. Please let me know what you thought. I can't improve without your comments :) They make my day, if you care to leave one.