Feel For You
Summary: Summary: Kairi's memories of her life before arriving on Destiny Island are few and very precious. If only she knew who they were about...luckily, Naminé can easily find out... Pre-KH, major spoilers, partial-AU (when it comes to Birth by Sleep at least)
Pairings: Canon (including one-sided), i.e. AxelRoxas (stated by Nomurahimself as canon), PartialSoraKairi, PartialRikuKairi, etc. Also look out for: ...I don't know. We'll have to see. However, I can guarantee at least PastBraigOC(unnamed), PastEvenOC(/LucreciaCrescent-turned-KH character), and probably one or two others you weren't expecting.
Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, or anything I might cameo in this story. Trust me, if I owned Kingdom Hearts, Saix would have more personality/screen time, Axel and Saix would have remained friends, and Braig would have repented and been less evil after becoming an Apprentance. Go away now while I mourn this horrible loss.
Chapter Ienzo:
Tome of Judgement
Zexion considered himself a man of science, just as all the ex-Apprentices did. He went through every step in the process in a methodical way, ignoring what any previous perceptions were and creating a conclusion based on the evidence that made sense, no matter how unbelievable it seemed.
But there were some things Zexion never really wanted to know the evidence led to.
"Hello, Zexion," greeted Naminé quietly when the youngest-looking Nobody save Roxas entered her quarters. Her head was just slightly bowed in submission, but her eyes gleamed as she looked up through her bangs. "Can I help you with something."
"No," Zexion briskly replied, gaze skipping over the blonde without pause as he looked around the room. "I am merely looking for Marluxia. Is he here?"
Naminé shook her head slightly. "No...he went on a mission for Xemnas just a few hours ago."
Zexion's eyes, only one visible due to his hair, narrowed at the carefree use of the Superior's true name. They promptly trained on Naminé, who looked surprisingly...amused, by his suspiciousness.
"You should address him as Lord Superior, as he commands, unless told otherwise," he told her stiffly.
Naminé just smiled slightly. Sadly. "But I was told otherwise," she said in her soft voice, full of much more emotion than any Nobody should be allowed to possess due to their lack of Heart. "A very long time ago..."
Zexion frowned slightly, but didn't push the issue, knowing full well that Naminé wasn't likely to lie. A Corridor lazily drew up from the floor behind him.
"Should Marluxia return, inform him that I am waiting," he said with a dismissive last once-over of Naminé's form. He turned away, but before he could take a step closer to the Corridor of Darkness, Naminé spoke words that made him completely freeze in his tracks.
"You should laugh more," noted the blonde, a smile in her voice. "It's rather comforting...and she misses it, you know. Very much. It's one part of her Heart that has yet to leave her..."
For once in his life, Zexion was speechless, wide purple eyes trained on the wall before him. Naminé let out a tinkling laugh.
A familiar laugh.
A laugh eerily similar to...
"After all," continued Naminé, her smile small but full of fondness and amusement when Zexion glanced over his shoulder, "isn't it true that you once pledged to take care of her? Of Kairi? Once, long ago...when she was your sister in all but blood...when one couldn't say Kairi without-"
Zexion fled through the Corridor, but not before the dreaded name escaped Naminé's mouth.
"-Ienzo?"
Truly, there were some conclusions Zexion never wanted to come to. The fact that Kairi Garden, his ward's granddaughter, his close playmate and friend so very long ago, had been turned into a Heartless...
Was one of those Heart-wrenching conclusions.