Sorry the prologue was like, epically short, but that was as much as i could write without killing it. =]

anyway, read, review, enjoy! (not necessarily in that order)

Disclaimer: i do not own any of the sexay KH staff, nor do i own the domain name.

hell, i don't even own a fake keyblade modeled after the real one.

all that's mine is the chick.

yep, that's mine. xD

Chapter 1

"You sure you want to do this?"

"Stuff it! I gotta give it a shot, don't I?"

"Alright, but you're going to lose…"

The five youths crowded around the green felt covered table, focused looks intent in their eyes. On the table a deck of cards was mostly scattered, the rest shared between the platinum-blonde male and the charcoal haired female sitting at opposite ends of the table, steely poker faces in place.

"show me what you got" the girl said, her white eyes glittering with what could pass for amusement.

"Full house…" the male across from her said, his own sky blue eyes carefully smug. The other three men kept their eyes trained on the girl, waiting for her next move. They were a young man with fiery red hair in long spikes and emerald eyes above tear drop tattoos, another youth with dirty blonde hair fixed into a sort of mullet crossed with a fauxhawk and sea teal eyes, and an older man with a long ponytail streaked in silver and a single visible amber eye, a black eye patch covering the other and adorning his heavily scarred face.

"What have you got, Raine?"

The girl smirked nonchalantly, placing her cards face up on the velvety green poker table, one by one, simply to mess with the head of the male.

"Royal flush…" She said, weaving her fingers together and placing her chin upon them, hoisting her elbows onto the table and grinning across at the male, the three others beginning to grin excitedly. "Now, if memory serves correctly, Luxord, Royal Flush beats a Full House… right?" she smiled innocently, the men around her struggling to stifle laughter. The platinum blonde she had addressed, Luxord, let out a piteous moan, letting his head fall onto the green felt with a soft thud. The fiery red head patted him on the back, his grin almost too wide for his face.

"Cheer up, man, you knew this would happen. It always happens!" he said, leaning across the table to slap Raine a quick high-five, delight etched on his slightly angled features. "Isn't that right, kid?" Raine nodded jovially, reaching across the table and grabbing at the munny sack.

"You know it always happens and yet you still insist on betting against me!" Luxord looked up from the table, a grin plastered on his face.

"Ah, you make a good point there… After all, you play cards as if you were born with an ace in your hand! Your somebody must have been one lucky bird!" Raine hit him on the head with the munny bag, still grinning in 'delight'.

"Aw, thanks, Lux! But flattery won't get you your munny back!" she said as she pocketed the sack of munny, laughing at the pony-tailed man's raucous laughter.

"Man oh man, she got you there, dude!" he said, pushing the redhead out of the way. "Now lets get this all stashed, you know the superior will have a cow if he catches us actually having 'fun'." He said, standing up from the table to leave all the cleaning to everyone else, ever the lazy bastard. The redhead and Luxord quickly slipped out behind him, leaving Raine and the mullet-haired boy to clean up the cards and stash the table in some unknown place the Superior would never look, like Vexen's lab, or Larxene's panty drawer. The two nobodies worked in silence, the usual routine between those two, when surprisingly, the blonde decided to speak.

"uh, Raine…?"

Raine turned to look at her blonde friend, who seemed to wiggle on the spot while playing with his fingers, looking ever the frightened child in a mall full of strangers. Her white hues found his teal ones for an instant before they turned away, leaving her bewildered for an instant before she continued with her task of cleaning up the evidence.

"w-well, I was wondering… nobodies have no hearts right?" the blonde asked, playing with the drawstrings of his hood now, determined not to look at the female.

"well, an emotional heart, no, but a physical one is needed, so I assume we have one" she said, not looking up as she folded the large octagonal poker table in half and slid it under Luxord's bed, safely out of sight.

"w-well… if we don't have emotional hearts.. W-why…. Why does it…" the blonde fumbled his words, realizing that she was doing all the work and quickly falling to his knees, picking up the scattered cards and placing them in a little box that lay open a few feet away from his kneeling figure.

The females white eyes turned to look at him again, widening a tad in curiosity "hmm? Why does it what, Demyx?"

"why does it…" the blonde lowered his gaze to the floor, pale fists clenched in determination as he tried to muster the strength for what he was about to say. He decided to go for the safer question, though not too far from what he truly wanted to ask. "why does it hurt at night when I stare out at the moon…?"

The girl looked at her friend, eyes slightly wide. She stopped her task and thought a moment, trying her hardest to come to a good conclusion. After a while, the words that flowed from her lips were true enough, but tasted a lie when she spoke them.

"I think we cannot feel complex emotions. But the shadows of what we used to feel are still there, reminding us of what we have lost…" Her eyes glazed over as she spoke and she felt herself sink into her memories, memories of a boy with blonde hair, a motorcycle, someone oddly similar to her in face, a gate of light….

"Raine? Hey, Raine, are you there?"

"h-huh? What?"

She stood in the middle of the room, arms outstretched, palms facing the floor, with absolutely no clue how she had gotten there. Her white hues searched the room, hoping for an explanation, an excuse, ANYTHING. But she found nothing, only a scared looking Demyx with a bunch of cards in his hands.

"a-are you okay…?" he asked, dropping the cards into the little box, closing it gently and slipping it underneath the other blonde's bed. She nodded, russet hand sliding over her eyes to get to her temples, trying to rub the memories out of her tired mind.

"yeah, probably just a little tired…" she said, lowering her hand to flash a smile at the blonde reassuringly. He let out a sigh of 'relief', standing up to continue his question, when a commanding voice rang through the room, shaking the two nobodies to the core.

"all employable nobodies report to the Hall. There is an assignment waiting for those whom I choose."

"well, you heard the tanning salon freak, let's go" Raine said, shaking the little episode off of her mind with a little toss of her head. The blonde nodded, deciding the question could be saved for a better time.

"what do you think he's got for us this time?"

"who knows? Probably some butt-backwards quest for his special brand of hair-gel"

The two sighed in unison, dreading the assignment already.