-Flashback-

The day was young and bright. All along the paths, people scurried about, eagerly accepting this new day. The land was the people, and the people were the land, all were one.

A young girl stepped out into the sun. A smile made no attempts to hide itself across her rosy cheeks. Her heart fluttered with the anticipation of a new day. "Hikari, you look so cheerful today, what is the occasion?" The girl simply turned and smiled.

"Do we have to have an occasion to smile? I am happy daddy. All is right." The man shook his head at his child's wisdom. He embraced the fact that she was his, and hoped that all would stay like that forever.

-Present-

"Who is she? Or more importantly, what is she?" Saix urged, but Xemnas did not comply.

"Go to the others. Tell them that the top tower is to be cleared. We have a guest."

A grin broke across Saix's face, "So she can stay?!"

"Just do it."

Xemnas walked back to the girl. "Well Hikari, can we make a deal?"

She turned to him and smiled, "Name your price."

"I will help you find out wha- I mean, who, you are."

"But.." She replied with a knowing smile.

"You must stay with us. You may not leave, as long as the Organization prevails. With that, under no circumstances, are you to try to escape. You will be our..prisoner? No, that's too harsh. You shall be our guest. Eternally."

Hikari made a face, "Well, all right. I have no where else to be for eternity. At least I think I don't…"

"Good then. Oh and one more thing; it would be safer for you to stay away from anyone outside the castle. They are not like you. You are special."

"How do you kno-"

"Shhh." Xemnas held a finger to his lips, "I'm not stupid Hikari." And with that, he led her up to the top tower.

Hikari sat alone in the sheer-white room. Beautiful paintings embraced the walls like frozen memories. The crystalline windows held no light, simply black darkness, and a strange moon, the same moon she saw that night. That night, Hikari thought, what is 'that night'? A memory? Scattered? Lost? She clenched her fists, dozens of images racing through her mind. "What did Xemnas mean by, 'special'? Does he know who I am?" She thought out loud, "In fact, perhaps that was why he took me in, perhaps he knows something about me that I know not!" In her reeling mind, Hikari did not notice a dark figure slip into the room.

"Talking to yourself is the first sign of madness." Startled Hikari tipped out of the chair she had been sitting in, to the floor.