Nobodies with Nothing to Do

Chapter 1

Summary: Exlyai and Axel are best friends. She manipulates volume and silence, and he can control fire at will. What could possibly go wrong?

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, all characters and locations and such belong to Disney and Square Enix.

Saïx found me first. I saw a strange man with blue hair and an X-shaped scar on his face. He stared straight at me, his hands in the pockets of his long, heavy-looking, black cloak. I returned his stare and thought to myself. How strange was this? I blinked, and when I opened my eyes again, he was gone.

That was the first time I had seen a Nobody. The second time, it was Xemnas himself, come for me. I had felt the darkness in my heart for a while, but I had never known it would amount to this, as I was still happy in my world of Twilight Town. I was walking home on a deserted side street, and I walked toward the old abandoned castle. I saw one of the black cloaks, and my curiosity was piqued. Silently tiptoeing toward him, I stepped on a twig. Panicking, I thought he would turn around and see me, but his glare remained on the lock of the castle gate. I walked toward him, and he turned around. "I'm sorry!" I yelled. Xemnas laughed a throaty laugh, one I would never hear again, and told me the story of organization XIII. I stared at his face the while, fixated on his bronze skin and silver hair. As he was telling me the story, my mind knew he was right. Xemnas was always right, only because nobody wanted to question him and get Dusk'd.

Therefore, why was I sitting here, face to face with Axel in the Grey Area? His emerald green eyes bore into mine, a hidden desire embedded in them. The hair I knew so well was still doing what it did best, defying gravity in the spikes we were all accustomed to. It stuck up at all angles possible, and all angles impossible. Protruding from his lips was his baby pink tongue, a mocking gesture, and his face was scrunched up in a way that made his purple upside-down teardrop tattoos become unleveled. Being the tall man he was, I looked up at him and he looked down at my face, which had an equally ridiculous expression on it. Judging by the size of the crowd I heard gathering, either Axel never lost a staring contest, or everyone else was back from their missions and just extremely bored. Probably the latter. My eyes were beginning to pool with water, and it was nearly to the point where I couldn't see a thing. Although this was the case for the both of us, we kept each other's gaze, a hunger to win more important than our eyesight at the moment.

That went on for a good three minutes, then, not able to keep my eyes open any longer, I blinked. Roxas, who had apparently assigned himself referee in the process, called the results. "Exlyai wins!" he shouted to the crowd. I was very confused, because I know I blinked! And I blinked some more, to clear the water from my eyes and hopefully the confusion. When my vision finally cleared, I saw Axel standing off by the window covered front wall, overlooking all of The World That Never Was. I looked around at the crowd that had gathered. Everyone but Xemnas.

"Ha-ha, good job, Ninjy!" Xigbar said as he clapped me on the back. I winced, yet managed a weak smile. I wasn't a fan of what nickname my weapon, the nun chucks, had given me, but then again, who ever like the nicknames Xigbar gave them? The crowd of Nobodies was raving loudly over my victory. Too loudly. I rose up my hands and made their voices momentarily useless. Manipulating volume and silence sure was useful. I laughed.

"Could you guys please stop being so crazy?" I asked. I got a few death glares, a few nods, and one finger. I waved my hands over my head.

Xaldin, Lexaeus, and Saïx went off, probably to join Xemnas in the Round Room. Marluxia and Larxene went off to Larxene's room, probably to host a make out session. Vexen opened up a Dark Corridor to who knows where, probably off for some science. Zexion stalked off in the direction of the library, Demyx hot on his heels. I laughed at the pair of strange friends, then I scoffed when I saw that Zexion's face was in his weapon, as usual. I still don't get how you attack with a freaking Lexicon. Xion and Roxas opened a Dark Corridor, hands linked together. I looked around. Just me and Axel left now. I walked over to the sulking redhead, and then proceeded to laugh in his face. He flipped me off and sulked some more to his room. Unable to contain my laughter, I decided to open a Dark Corridor to his room before I fell over and died.

I wrinkled my nose as I entered his room. All the time we spent together in his room, and I never got used to the teenage boy smell, which I didn't understand because Axel said he was 20. Maybe it's one of those lingering scents. He was sprawled out on the ground, his face deep in his carpet. I sat down next to him and locked my arms around his waist, pulling him up. "Axel! I don't wanna lose you over a staring contest!" I shook him for emphasis. "Love me!" I yelled, knowing full well he wouldn't be able to control his laugher. He exploded as he closed me in a big hug.

"Of course we're still best friends!" He said between guffaws. "Saïx just gets jealous!"

Shaking my head, I tried to think of yet another reason why he would be jealous of me and Axel being friends. Then, I came across a memory from my early days at the Organization. The thing was, when Axel and Saïx hang out, they stare at each other for like ten minutes, then they talk for about… three seconds. When I was able to talk fluently and remember things about a week after I came to the Organization, I saw their little "hang out" and could have sworn they were dating. The next day, Axel and I were assigned a mission together, so I asked him about it. He swiped at me with a chakram, apparently this topic came up a lot at the castle. "I'M NOT GAY!" he yelled as he attacked me. That was the day we became best friends.

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