Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts just the ideas of this story.
I am crazy guys I have way to much stuff to do and I'm sitting here writing this. But anyways here it is. Also guys from now on the story is in Xion's point of view, oh Xion's also a mute for now. Sorry for foul language but this story is rated T so what did you expect.

What Are Those Scratches?
Chapter I: Xion, Ziyon, Shiyon

~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ Nightmares

I fell on my butt. I crawled backwards until I hit a wall. I stared into the glowing yellow eyes of a Heartless it was humanoid with two antennae that went down to its feet. It was midnight black in color. I tried summoning Kingdom Key it didn't work. Then I felt its claws dig into my flesh it burned, stung. Tears rolled down my cheeks, they weren't of sadness but of pain.

Two figures watched this over a bald old man and a teenage boy with spiky raven colored hair, they both had golden eyes. While the boy looked away, the old man watched with no emotion. "I think this is a sizeable punishment for what she has done, don't you think Vanitas?" The old man said to the raven haired boy AKA Vanitas.

"Yeah, whatever" Vanitas said with a shaky voice.

"You don't agree with me, you're the one that picked it." The old man said.

"Yeah I picked the one that would hurt her least. Why do we have to do this Xehanort?" Vanitas asked the old man AKA Xehanort.

"I think we can stop that Heartless now." Xehanort claims as he walks over to me and dismisses the Neo-Shadow. "So do you have anything to say for yourself?" Xehanort asks me I part my lips just a bit but then close them without saying anything.

"Xehanort you know she doesn't speak." Vanitas says as he hands me Hi-Potion. I take it from his hand and drank it greedily. All the blood and pain was gone but there were still the scars new and old.

~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ Awoken

I look around, this place is very unfamiliar. I'm lying on a twin size bed. What's the last thing I remember? I can't put my finger on it. "Hey … I'm gonna … … … … her." What? I could only make out part of the sentence, what was he gonna do? "Yeah … go ahead, just … hurt her." At those words I looked around for a weapon. I can't show people the Keyblade so no throwing it around. Ha, a pair of scissors. I grabbed them and hid in the closet. The door opens just seconds afterwards. A boy with spiky blonde hair comes in. He looks confused for a second. "Oh is she maybe in the bathroom." He walks to the door right in front of me and knocks. "You in there?" he asked. I jump out of the closet and land on top of him. He's on his back. "Hey take it easy I'm not gonna hurt you." He said. I'm about to push the scissors into his neck when another guy bursts in and pulled me off the blonde and I dropped the scissors.

I kick and thrash but the guy holding me has an iron grip. "Hey, hey, hey, hey calm down we're not gonna hurt you. I'm sure your obviously scared but we aren't gonna hurt you. It's the exact opposite actually." The man said.

The blonde boy gets up. "We found you passed out in the middle of a park while walking home last night. And we couldn't have left you there, because then you might have ended up in an even worst place." The blonde explained trying to calm me. I stop struggling. It worked the man holding me let go and I ran past them into the next room and I saw a door to exit the apartment, which is what I concluded this place to be. I stopped before opening the door they haven't came after me. Is what they said true?

I walk back to the room the two were in. They were tidying up the place going back to normal as if nothing happened. "You see we aren't lying. I'm Roxas." the blonde said AKA Roxas. Now I felt a bit guilty I was about to kill this guy without even knowing what he wanted. I parted my lips to speak but as always I didn't say anything and closed them again. I looked down at my feet and shuffled around a bit, so I probably looked like a shy girl. Some of the black strands of hair fell into my line of vision.

"Hey can you tell us your name? Mine is Axel, got it memorized?" The redhead said. I looked up again and parted my lips once again but no words came out so I closed them.

"Hmm… you don't talk much, do you?" Roxas said.

"I got just the thing." Axel walked out of the room for a bit and came back with a notebook and pencil. "Here you go." He said as he handed it to me. "You can write, right?" Axel asked me. I nodded. "So you can understand us." Axel said. I started writing down my name, Xion.

"Your name's Ziyon?" Roxas asked. I shook my head.

"But that's what you wrote." Axel said. I started writing something else how my name is supposed to be pronounced, Shiyon.

"Oh, your name is Shiyon but it is spelled X.I.O.N." Roxas said. I nodded my head. I finally feel cold air on bare skin? Wait what, am I not wearing clothes. I looked down, oh my clothes are ripped.

I wrote a sentence down on the notepad, Hey if it isn't too much to ask can you maybe get me some new clothes.

"Umm… Yeah sure we can get you some clothes. Your about my height, so I'll go get some of mine, okay?" Roxas said. I nodded. Roxas walked out of the room and came back a few minutes later with a tee-shirt and a pair of pants. Basically what I was wearing already, the first difference they weren't cut up and the second they were a bit bigger than my clothes.

"Yeah, we'll leave the room while you change." Axel said before pulling Roxas out the room and closing the door. Before changing I looked at all the cuts and scars. *Sigh* All those Neo-Shadows, the training that's where all those cuts and scratches came from.

I really wonder where I am. None of this place looks familiar. Where's my home? All I see out the window is a city with neon signs everywhere, and a really big skyscraper in the distance. This place is nothing like Radiant Garden.

Once I was done changing I realized the clothes were a bit big, I probably looked like I was wearing my boyfriends clothes. Wait why did I think that? Whatever lets go see Roxas and Axel. I open the door to find Axel is cooking some eggs, or pancakes. Well whatever it is it's now burnt to hell.

Axel scratched the back of his neck. "Hehehe… You want some?" He asked. Pointing to the burnt food.

Roxas leaned towards me and whispered a few words into my ear. "Don't eat it he's not a very good cook." Before Roxas went back to… guess what, eating a piece of toast. I nodded to Axel. And he gave me an are you serious look. I nodded my once again.

"Alright, here you go." Axel looked really confused, but he handed the burnt egg to me anyways. Axel turned to grab something. And that's when I realized how hungry I was and gobbled the burnt egg up, it actually didn't taste that bad just burnt.

Axel turned back around with a fork in his hand. "What..? You ate that without a fork, I didn't know you were that hungry." Axel put the fork on the counter next to him.

Roxas stared at me for a second. "No one eats Axel's burnt food that fast. What do you normally eat?" Roxas asked. Then I remembered I've eaten worst things.

~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ Memory

I was knelt down in front of a deer. I stabbed a knife into it and skinned the deer I also cut out a chunk of stringy meat, it was covered in blood. I made a fire to cook the bloody dear meat. When it was done cooking I took a bite, I cringed. It wasn't the deer meat itself, but the metallic taste of blood.

~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ Present Day

"Xion, are you alright?" Roxas asked. I was pulled out of my thoughts and once I processed his question I nodded. "So anyways, Xion do you have a family to go to?" Roxas asked. I shook my head.

"So no family, explains why you were on the streets, but doesn't explain those cuts. Where did you get them?" Axel asked. I picked up the notebook and started writing, when I was done it read. It's not important, just some stupid cuts from my rough past.

"Not important! They're all over your legs, arms, and torso." Axel almost yelled. I looked down at my feet I realized I didn't have any shoes. And of course they wouldn't believe me, what was I thinking not important. For all they know these could be because I was in the human trafficking ring. A horrible thought, no these were from the Heartless, mainly Neo-Shadows but there were a few others, and all of them had claws. But they'd think I'm crazy if I told them beings of darkness attacked me while I was training to become a master of the mystic Keyblade. Unless I showed them the Keyblade, no that's against the rules. You're not supposed to show inhabitants of another world the Keyblade.

I came to the conclusion that I was on another world because none of this looked like Radiant Garden. In Radiant Garden there are no cities, just the one town. And I don't see the rising falls anywhere. Because the rising falls is a signature thing of Radiant Garden.

"Xion look at me." Roxas pulls my chin up to look him in the eyes. He looked a bit shocked when we made eye-contact. He seemed to get over it. "Xion you can tell us, we won't judge you, laugh at you, or anything like that." Roxas said. I saw in his eyes that he was being truthful, just like Vanitas. My legs felt weak, I then crumbled my legs couldn't hold me anymore. But before I could fall Roxas pulled me towards him so I was still standing upright, my head rested on his shoulder. I felt tears come down my cheeks they weren't of pain, but of sadness and anger. It felt good to just let it all go, to not keep it all bottled up. I cried freely.

Minutes pasted. I stopped crying abruptly. I could stand again but Roxas didn't let go until he was sure I could stand on my own. I rubbed the wetness of my big blue-violet eyes. Roxas and Axel didn't bat an eye about my actions. I guess girls do this all the time. While I'm so used to putting feelings on the backburner, so this felt very awkward and strange.

"So Xion you want to tell us now?" Axel asked, obviously with concern. I shook my head at this idea. "Oh you still don't want to. Well it can't be helped so how about we go buy you some more, umm… appropriate clothes." Axel suggested. I just nodded.

~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ About 20 minutes later

We were right in front of the giant skyscraper I saw earlier. I looked at it in awe. Roxas noticed. "You're obviously not from around here. That's Memory Skyscraper." Roxas pointed to the skyscraper of course.

"Wow" My fragile voice was soft.

"Huh… You said something." Roxas said surprise. I realized what I just did, I haven't talked for a really long time not even to Vanitas, and he was the nicest most, best friend. But then again wow isn't really that impressive. "Oh your not gonna say anything else." Roxas' excitement was gone.

"Okay we're here at the mall." Axel said as we walked up to a giant building. I let out a groan, I hate shopping, especially malls. "What don't like shopping? I thought most girls liked shopping." Axel said obviously thinking about the stereotypical girl. (In my opinion I personally hate shopping, worst thing ever. Okay I can think of worst things but ya'know.)

We walked into your regular clothing shop. I didn't even bother reading the name. A female clerk walks over to me, Roxas, and Axel. "Can I help you?" She asks.

"Well we need some clothes for her, and I have no clue about all this stuff." Axel said pointing to me.

The clerk turned to me. "Okay what are you looking for?" She asked. There was an awkward silence for a few moments.

Thankfully Roxas started talking. "Xion doesn't speak very often." Roxas told the clerk.

This raised the clerk's curiosity. "Do you know these two?" She asked me. I nodded. "Do you trust them as friends?" She asks me. I nodded again. "Okay just checking, we normally don't get mutes that come in with two guys. So what do you need to get?" She asked me. I started writing a list. Bras, panties, two pairs of jeans, three tee-shirts, a tanktop, two pairs of shorts, and a pair of shoes. The ones Roxas gave me were ill fitting because my feet were whoa, smaller.

The clerk looked over the list. "Okay we can get those." She said before pulling me along to get the clothing. She kept looking at my arms and legs. Finally she said it. "What are those scars all over your arms and legs?" She asked. We kept looking through tee-shirts, which one is not a V-neck or a scoop-neck. I finally gave up and grabbed three V-necks a dark green one, a light purple one, and a light blue one.

The clerk realized that I wasn't gonna answer about the scars because I was mute. "I forgot your not gonna answer." She said. I had the same problem with the jeans, they were all skinny jeans. I gave up a lot fast than last time and grabbed two pairs of black skinny jeans.

Thank you my luck is finally paying off there were regular cotton shorts instead of just short-shorts and sailor shorts. Thank you I grabbed to black pairs. Lucky for me the tanktops were right next to the shorts, so I grabbed one that was simple black cotton.

We went to get bras and panties next. (Seriously do you think I'd describe Xion's panties, you perverts. I'm joking with you guys of course I don't think any of you are perverts but seriously why would I describe Xion's panties.)

We went to get a pair of shoes. She kept suggesting high heels. I just went to grab a pair of boots, the ones I grabbed did have a heel, a 2" heel and the boots went up to my knees. I wasn't bothered by the heel at all. Because guess what, I wore boots like these all the time.

We then went to pay and Axel like the cool guy that he was paid for the clothes. Cool because I only have 1200 munny.

We exited the shop…

Oh yeah, cliffhangers. Authors did this all the time to me so now everyone has to deal with it. Actually cliffhangers are just a normal part of writing for suspense. Bye! Hope you guys enjoyed.