Chapter II
This Is a Correlation
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I'm pretty happy with how the first chapter came out all things considered. I'm hoping this chapter will reveal more about Kagami herself and her relationship with the various members of the Organization. You may even get a hint at what she's there for, if you pay close attention. ;D So, enjoy!
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The man was tall. This kind of tall was something where you'd expect the person to be overdeveloped and lanky, but Axel was nothing of the sort. He was slender, and seemed like he could be more flexible than the average girl. His face was both calm, but it had a kind of roughness about it showing that he had either gone through too much already or anticipated too much, and Kagami couldn't decide which one was worse. She tried not to look at him in his emerald eyes in fear of her head being bitten off. 'Maybe I'm assuming too much.' she thought.
He smiled at Roxas, but simply gave a straight face to Demyx. He didn't seem to notice Kagami at all.
"Axel!" said Roxas, grinning, "S'what's up?"
Axel gave a smirk back, "I just put a dead rat in with Larxene's tampons." He sat down in the bean bag chair that Roxas had so recently sat up from, and glanced over at the girl. "Not another one." he sighed.
"Another what?" asked Kagami, a temper she didn't even know she had rising to cloud her vision. "How can you call me another one when I don't even know who I am?" She crossed her arms and waited much too eagerly for the response.
"Pet." he said simply, raising his eyebrow. "First Namine and now you."
Kagami felt something break in her. She stood up from the bed and glared at Axel. "Pet?" she asked angrily, and stormed out of the room.
Axel sighed and put his hands behind his back.
"Nice." Demyx commented.
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A few days had gone by and Kagami hadn't visited Roxas, Demyx, or Axel in any of that time. Roxas had become concerned, so he finally decided to confront Saïx and ask him why exactly she was here. He thought maybe, then, she wouldn't mind being around them as much as she did because she would know why she was here.
And maybe Axel would talk to him again.
"Saïx," Roxas said, walking into the living room, ignoring the loudly hammering Nobodies that seemed to be able to communicate non-verbally to coordinate the job plan right. Without asking for permission, very uncharacteristic of Roxas, he sat down on the uncomfortable black leather couch and looked at Saïx, who didn't even seem to acknowledge that he had walked in the room. Roxas's face twisted.
"You know, just because you're in a higher position than me doesn't mean I'm scum." Roxas commented. Saïx threw him a squinted glance, but looked away again.
"I never said you were scum." Saïx laughed lightly, but his face did not show amusement. He stood up slowly, almost menacingly, and looked down at Roxas, just as he always seemed to, and not because of his height. "You're the fucking golden boy." He grinned a grin that Roxas never wanted to see again.
Roxas gulped, but kept his most intimidating face on. He had never heard Saïx use that kind of language. Instead, he stood up and got close to Saïx's chest, trying to size him up, although failing just a little bit. "Why is Kagami here?" he asked.
Saïx must have thought that this was very out-of-the-blue, because he chuckled and loosened his narrow eyes. "Nobody under eight needs to know this."
"There you go again!" Roxas shouted, "Thinking I'm less than you just bec-..." Roxas slowed down, and it clicked: Nobody lower than eight? Axel could ask! But the puzzle pieces didn't fit... he wouldn't ask about Kagami. Not since the scene three days ago they made. But if Roxas could just convince him...
"Continue." Saïx posed.
'This has to sound convincing.' Roxas thought. "Forget it." he said in mock annoyance. "I'ma go now." He stormed out of the room.
'Well, that sucked.'
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Kagami didn't know if she was more bored than she was annoyed, but whenever she saw Axel or even just a mention of him, she would get tense and angry. She hadn't even spoken to Roxas or Demyx in fear of him being there.
There were some plus sides of hanging at the Organization, however. Whenever different members of the Organization were out at seperate missions, Kagami would go into their rooms to try to learn more about them. Despite Larxene's tough exterior, her room was unusually pink. She probably did this to emphasize her differences from the rest of the Organization.
Xaldin's room, however, had too many unmentionables.
Roxas had never gone on a mission, but he was hardly in his room. It seemed to be full of different photography of the sky that he cut out of magazines. There would be semicircles in the bottom of the picture that she guessed were models' faces cut out from the photograph. What was with him and the sky?
However, as Kagami went through the room, she couldn't help but to think what had happened those three days ago. She was having fun, befriending two members of the Organization, when suddenly... why would Roxas say something like that?
"I've been having these weird thoughts lately. Like, is any of this for real? Or not?"
And that strange thought of that boy...
His face was fading from her mind. He seemed both new and familiar at the same time. Shaking it off, Kagami didn't want to deal with memories she never had. All she wanted to do was find out why she was there, where she came from, and where she was going.
"It's you." came a light voice.
Kagami jumped; at first she thought it was Roxas, seeing her looking through his room. Then, she noticed that the voice was too light and high to be his. It was definitely a girl's voice, but not a very girly one. Larxene, maybe? No, she wasn't screaming.
Kagami gave in and turned around. Standing before her was a girl, maybe a year younger than her if she even knew her own age. Her hair was a platinum blond near the ends, but more of a golden blond at the roots. Her eyes were a bright blue and her lips were almost the same color as the rest of her skin; totally pale. Kagami couldn't help but wonder if she had any blood flowing through her system at all (Not like that would matter if she was a Nobody). The anomaly wore a white sundress with simple, white sandals.
"Wh-what?" asked Kagami, trying not to seem suspicious.
The girl laughed lightly, and looked at Kagami in her green eyes for a moment. Kagami tried to look away, but somehow wasn't able to.
"I can read your memories." the girl said in a near whisper, "You know Sora."
"What are you talking-!" Before Kagami could continue, a hand was put up by the girl to silence her.
"If you know what's best for you, you will remember your Somebody and leave this place. If you can do that, I can make everyone forget." the girl said.
Somebody. There was that word again. "Make everyone forget?" asked Kagami, when she decided she probably should have asked about her Somebody instead.
"Nobody will have to remember you. In a castle like this..." The girl looked down the hallway behind her, "No matter how far away you are... if somebody remembers you that is here, you are most likely bound to the castle." She looked up. "I never really figured it out myself, but I've only been here a short time."
"I don't understand." Kagami said a little too quickly.
The girl giggled again. "You will, soon." She left the room and turned to the right.
"Wait!" shouted Kagami. This girl knew something about her Somebody! She ran up to the opening and looked to the right, but the blond girl was missing.
Kagami thought for a second, and then laughed. What was the point in finding her Somebody, anyway? What was the point in feeling whole if she was comfortable here? But she wouldn't be comfortable here. Not until she found out why she was here.
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"Please?" asked Roxas to Axel, who seemed to be avoiding looking at him. Axel took the jug of milk that was in his hands and started to gulp down as much as he could straight from the carton. Getting rid of his milk mustache with his Organization coat, a stream of white showing up against the pitch black, he set the half-empty carton on the table. "I hope you didn't backwash." Roxas said absentmindedly.
"What good will it do me if I know where Kagami came from or whatever?" asked Axel. Still, Roxas could tell he was considering.
"It probably won't do you any good." Roxas admitted, "But I'm your friend. You said so yourself, right?"
"Kind of." Axel started, scratching his hair through one of his long, crimson spikes, and finally meeting Roxas's cobalt eyes.
"So friends do each other favors." Still, Axel said nothing. "I'll promise you something if you ask?"
"Okay, I'm curious." Axel started, grinning and amused. "Why do you want to find out why she's here so bad? Got a crush on her or something?"
"No." Roxas said, and Axel could tell he was serious. "I think that if she's this important we all have a right to know why she's here. Besides, I think you two just got off on the wrong foot. We could all be friends?" This was more of a question than a statement.
"I'll think about it," Roxas said, dropping something questionable into the remaining milk and leaving the kitchen. He offhandedly kicked a Nobody that was in the way. When Axel was frustrated, he enjoyed demonstrating what little authority he had.
At least he had power.
But... did Roxas really say that they were friends? Or was he just saying that to get him to talk to Saïx? "Forget it." he said to himself.
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"Mission Sora," The Superior started to the group later that night, "Has been postponed. We have, with much difficulty, paused time, but only for the equivalent of about two weeks. We need this to prepare. Many of the Organization members have become out-of-shape from lack of practice-" his gaze shifted to Larxene, who seemed to be going a little crazy on the chocolate, "and therefore we aren't ready. Until the moment we are ready, Sora and his companions are sleeping in a field- Yes, Demyx?" he paused.
Demyx pulled his hand down. "Why don't we just get rid of Sora while he's sleeping and time has stopped?"
"We can't hurt anybody while time's stopped, moron." Larxene spat at him.
"As if it didn't take enough of my power to stop time, please don't bicker about it." Zexion almost begged them as he rubbed his temples from an obvious headache. This Nobody was quite scary looking; he had hair that flipped to one side and was usually the silent type. For some reason, he had many fan letters in his room. Author's Note: Fangirls. xD Aw. Gotta love 'em.
"Thank you," Xemnas, the Superior stated, although without much gratitude. His long silver hair went beneath his back, and his tan skin stood out in a room full of pale-skinned members. "I want to stress upon you all how serious of a mission this is. It is foolish to simply go up and attack the chosen one; he has beaten enemies of unspeakable power with his single keyblade. This is why we have our two secret weapons."
Roxas's heart skipped a beat. Did this have anything to do with Kagami? Would he pick up some hints? He glanced over at Axel, who was already looking at him. Confused, Roxas looked at the rest of the Organization members, as well. All eyes were on him.
"Namine and Number XIII." Xemnas smirked. "The Golden Boy."
"BHK." Axel laughed. A couple of chuckles followed.
Roxas frowned. Saïx must have told Xemnas about the conversation they had, which could be dangerous. He could get another talk of how to not butt into other peoples' business. Either that, or The Golden Boy was a widely spread nickname. Roxas was honestly just getting used to The Key of Destiny.
The rest of the meeting consisted of meaningless talk about the construction of The Castle That Never Was. It wasn't as if that mattered to half of the members, anyway, who would be spending quite a bit of time in Castle Oblivion which Xemnas mentioned he also had needed to extra time to complete that.
Axel didn't look over at Roxas again for the rest of the meeting.
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Sweat was causing Kagami's silver hair to stick to her wet skin, and her breathing was becoming shorter and quicker. She had scaled almost the whole castle at least twice in search for this girl. After a while of thinking, she had given in and decided, if even just for the sake of knowledge, she wanted to know who her Somebody was. Just to know.
Kagami was becoming uncomfortable in her clothes because the sweat was making her stink and her clothes disgusting. If she wasn't living a normal human life, why did she have to go through the human uncleanliness? This just didn't seem fair. She suddenly felt a bulge in the side of her black shorts. Pushing her hand into her pocket, Kagami pulled out some kind of wood in a chunk that could cause a splinter.
Before she could tell what was going on, Kagami drew a blank. Unexplainable images flashed through her mind, and they went by so fast that she couldn't remember much of anything. Only one thing caught her eye;
A storm.
A boy with spikey, brown hair.
Was that Sora? The one the blond girl mentioned?
So she couldn't get another spaz attack, Kagami shoved it back in her pocket. It seemed, either way, that it wasn't doing what it had a second ago, anyway. Maybe it was something of her Somebody's? Maybe whenever she found something of her somebody's she could remember who she was.
What confused her was why she didn't remember her Somebody but most others did.
"I'm not finding her." Kagami admitted solemnly to herself. She was woozy and not feeling right, but was right next to Saïx's empty room.
Pushing the door open and entering the unusually plain room, she fell on top of his bed. "The meeting will go on forever. Just for five minutes..." she told herself, snuggling farther into the bed, reaching out in her mind's eye for more memories of Sora. "Five minutes."
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Reach... reach. You're almost there. I'm being sucked in. Come with me.
Kagami suddenly felt warm, and quickly forgot what she was dreaming about. Still, she couldn't get herself to open her eyes, and buried her head deeper into Saïx's pillow. It hadn't been five minutes yet. Maybe two. Three tops.
Saïx had pulled the blanket over Kagami. She had to have been sleeping there for at least an hour because she wasn't moving and the warmth had spread a little bit farther than her body into the rest of the bed. It wasn't like Saïx slept that much, anyway. He went over to his desk and began to jot down notes for planning.
Without thinking, he periodically looked over at Kagami just to make sure her chest was still moving up and down.
Author's Note: Well, there's the second chapter. I never plan anything before I write a chapter, so I'm a little worried about what's going to happen as far as Axel and Roxas's friendship is concerned. xD; And and and NAMINE! xD You'll be seeing more of her, I'm thinking. I hope you liked it, and please R&R!
