Chapter 2
"coming clean"
"What happened?"
Ysaerus said nothing, staring Roxas in the face.
"Ysaerus-"
"Nothing!" Ysaerus lied. He turned away so Roxas couldn't see his face. He could never lie to Roxas's face. Roxas put his hand under Ysaerus's chin and turned his head back around so they could look straight at each other.
"Ysaerus, what happened?" Roxas asked calmly. Well, having no heart helped him seem calm, but really, he was feeling almost nothing. Ysaerus said nothing, look Roxas straight in the eye, and that's when Roxas noticed something on Ysaerus's scarred face. "Ysaerus…you haven't been sleeping, have you?"
"I can't sleep…I keep thinking of her…Lying there as if she were just sleeping…" Ysaerus said, tears falling down his face. Roxas let go of Ysaerus.
"Ysaerus, Reimei's gone," Roxas said coldly. "You need to get on with your life." Truth was, he wasn't sure how to deal with Ysaerus's problem. This is the best he could do since he couldn't possibly ever feel the same way, heart or no heart.
It seemed like just yesterday when in all happened.
The ball.
The dying.
The rape.
Reimei being dead.
Roxas hadn't seen Archronos since that night. And it would be best for that too, seeing as how Archronos was found standing over Reimei with no memory of being in the room or going into it.
Poor Ysaerus had been affected so deeply by the entire ball, that he just collapsed mentally.
Ysaerus stared outside the Usual Spot, trying to check and see if anyone was coming their way. He played around with a diamond ring then quickly pocketed it. He didn't want to talk about the subject for much longer. If Reimei hadn't died, he wouldn't have broken his back.
So he wouldn't be in this stupid contraption.
"There was a slight…problem in Radiant Garden," Ysaerus said, looking back at Roxas. He was willing to change the subject to anything, as long as it didn't contain anything about Reimei. "There was someone in a black cloak. A girl. And when she left, little monsters that I've never seen before came.
If Roxas was a normal person he would have stared at Ysaerus as if he was insane. However, seeing as he was part of an organization of thirteen members who had no hearts and the fact that he, himself, weilded two giant friggin' keys. He's seen odder things.
"Were you able to see the person's face?" Roxas asked. It was probably Larxene, but it could have been someone else.
Apparently, black cloaks were "in" right now.
"No," Ysaerus said, "but she knew my name!"
That surprised Roxas. Not many people knew Ysaerus.
"Well then, let's go and pay Radiant Garden a visit now, shall we?" Roxas asked, drawing up a portal.
"How are the targets?"
"Good. They are finally advancing."
"And the doctor-"
"Doesn't know what the hell is going on.
"Good. Ysaerus is still in a wheelchair, I presume?"
"Yes."
"Good. Keep it that way. Don't let the doctor cross paths with him.
"Yessir!"
