Kiri looked around the room with a bored expression, her mind was clouding lazily with the foggy sensation of sleep that continued to slowly attempt to take over. A yawn prodded softly at her until if was soundlessly freed. It had been at least a day and a half since she had slept, the affects had only just starting to begin yet still hit her mentally like a bag of bricks, the fact that everything started at once didn't help her much either. She would've given into the urges to drift off hours ago but in her mind it just didn't seem right. Why would it seem fair for her to go and experience the relaxing feeling of sleep whilst Vexen stayed awake with his work, and she kept this in mind as she endured fatigue with him. Rubbing her eyes that had already begun forming a raccoon-ish ring around them she rid of the clouded vision that was continuously forming. Stifling another forming yawn Kiri blinked, a look of shock seemed to form on her face as a result to not letting the yawn pass.
'Vexen seems to still be unaffected still.' She noted watching him carefully as he went about his with frantic motions. It seemed so unfair though, Kiri wished that she could somehow assist him so his work could progress more quickly, then he'd be able to rest himself as well. Boredom mixed with exhaustion, making Kiri's eyelids droop dangerously, threatening to force her to sleep as she sat still. Standing up in order to prevent this Kiri stood up, wavering slightly which caused her to grab a hold of the chair arm in order to stabilize herself. It was going to be a long time before Kiri was going to be able to sleep and if she was planning on staying awake she'd have to find something to do to distract herself. Glancing towards the door a small mental replay of of what had happened earlier with Marluxia flashed through her mind, sending shivers throughout her body, it wouldn't be a smart decision to go out there without someone else again especially should she meet up with him again. Yet, curiosity had already taken it's hold of her, there was other people in the building and she could sense them, the very thought made questions pop into her mind at a rapid pace, not all of them could be cruel, could they?
Kiri glanced over at Vexen again, his back had remained turned and all of her actions had so far gone unnoticed by him. 'His cloak...' Kiri thought gently, leaning her head to the side somewhat in a questioning way. Marluxia had been in possession of a cloak that looked exactly the same, it was most likely a uniform of some sort that was required to be worn around the building. Walking over to Vexen she grabbed at his sleeve gently, giving it a number of small tugs until noticed by him.
"Yes Kiri?" His attention remained glued to his work, aggravating Kiri slightly. Giving a more forceful tug at his sleeve again Kiri looked up at him with a pleading look as he glanced down at her. She nodded her head over to the direction of the door, pointing at it as well with her free hand frantically and continued to tug at the fabric of his sleeve. Vexen sighed slightly and went back to his work, muttering a quick, 'later' as a reply. Unhappily Kiri let go of his sleeve, she had figured this would be the answer and had come up with a bit of a backup plan just in case but it didn't feel right to go through with it just to feed her curiosity. Leaving Vexen to his work Kiri walked slowly over to the divided section of the lab that was more room like, it had originally been made up for her due to the fact that Vexen hadn't really found it a good idea for her to have a separate room, although, it was more of his room anyways due to it becoming a bit of a storage area.
Rummaging through things as carefully as she could in order to prevent alerting Vexen of her actions she slowly attempted to locate a spare cloak of his. She had seen him putting it somewhere around the room in the past, at the time she had found it odd of course, the need to have two of the exact same uniforms, of course it wasn't like his work was completely well, clothing friendly. Kiri looked through a number of the shelves in the small storage and felt the strongest feeling of satisfaction and victory as her hand touched the recognizable black fabric. Yanking it out roughly she felt a growing sense of nervousness combined with excitement, and carefully she folded the cloak until it was easily hidden, then slipped it carefully in her baggy sleeves. Shuffling back out into the main lab she spared another small glance back at Vexen, her emotions dancing as she saw her actions still going unnoticed. She began to proceed more cautiously while passing Vexen, freezing and glancing over whenever she heard irregular movement from him. This process felt as if it was taking forever, until finally she took one last glance back at the blond before slinking out of the room closing the door behind her as soundlessly as she could.
Once outside of the lab Kiri smiled slightly to herself, nearly letting out a silent giggle as she pulled the cloak out from under her sleeve and slipped it on. It was quite over sized on her, the sleeves dangled at least an inch past her fingertips, the bottom of the cloak dragging across the floor as she trailed down the hall, this was very unconvincing, yes, and Kiri knew that but at the moment she couldn't really do much about it.
'With any luck the others around here will have a lower IQ then the people I'm used to being around, so they'll be easier to mislead.' She thought positively while continuing down the hall, nearly tripping over the fabric as it swayed carelessly around her chilled bare feet which brought then mental cursing and thoughts on how she shouldn't put on at least a pair of socks before leaving. Kiri shivered from the cold of the floor, added to that the unsettling thought of how many things could go wrong with her unorganized and failure prone plan. Pausing, she glanced out one of the windows into the dark sky, at the not so small light that had caught her eye. She stared up at the unknown object in awe, having expected a glistening moon instead of what was in front of her at that moment, a large sparkling pure gold heart, shining it's radiant light down onto the world. Captivated by it, Kiri barely heard the sound of an approaching person and grew quickly frantic as she realized how close they were to her. Looking towards the ground she yanked her hood up, sheltering her face in shadows and timidly attempted to walk away from view before the person saw her.
The figure was whistling joyfully as he walked slowly down the hall, and the happy tune matched his appearance suitably. His pale blue shimmering eyes that seemed to hold the very ocean itself inside of them, dirty blond hair that stood up boldly in a bizarre fashion Kiri had never laid her eyes on before that moment, his figure was lean, tall, skin paled slightly; he smelled like the scent that lingered in the air after a day of rain in the evening. Kiri froze as he passed her, glancing up only momentarily to see that he was giving a gentle wave in her direction as he walked by. His actions brought slight confusion to Kiri's mind, yet a small smile crept onto her face as she looked up fully at the back of his form as he disappeared around the corner. Without much thought in the issue she started to walk slowly in the same direction that the man had gone in, it made her feel slightly guilty though when she began to think about it. This was pretty much considered stalking minus the obsession issue. She had to continue to remind herself of the dangers of others, of how this man could very well be exactly like the pink haired one Marluxia and it comforting to that one twirk, only to bring several more with it.
Approaching the corner Kiri looked down at the floor nervously, biting her bottom lip in hope that he hadn't heard her footsteps against the floor while she walked after him. However, as soon as she turned to her left to walk down the hall the man had wandered down, she hit a thick mass covered in black. Mentally yelping Kiri licked her lip feverishly having bitten it out of shock when she had bumped into the man, looking up at him her creamy violet eyes widened with fright as she locked eyes with his bright blue ones. She calmed down slightly seeing that the boy was smiling down at her kindly, his eyes held no sign of hostility in them.
"I haven't seen you around here before," he started suddenly causing Kiri to jump slightly in surprise at the disturbed silence. "you wouldn't happen to be that new girl by any chance, uh, Xion I think her name was, would you?" He question, smile turning into a sheepish grin almost. Kiri shook her head only earning a confused glance from the male. Confusion danced slowly to a small amount of what appeared to be unhappiness before quickly flaring back to confusion. Kiri giggled silently at the faces he was making as he thought.
"Then who are you?" he asked finally more to himself rather then Kiri. Feeling much more secure around the man already because of his happy seeming nature she flicked the hood of 'her' cloak back quickly and flashed a smile up at him. This only earned a more confused look from him, followed by another question. "That doesn't, really tell me anything. How about your name?" Frustration rose in Kiri's mind and if she could she probably would've groaned because of it. Pondering over her options for a few minutes Kiri held a single finger up to her lips, like a librarian would if she was hushing a group of noisy students, and shook her head. The poor man's expression grew to another state of confusion altogether and it took a stream of gestures, leading up to the last of them being Kiri pointing at her mouth and sadly shaking her head with a tiny shrug, before she finally saw it all clicking together in his mind through his eyes.
"Y-you can't talk?" He stuttered slightly, looking shocked and almost sympathetic. Kiri's expression turned to unhappiness as he looked down at her with near pity, and shook her head violently with determination. The man looked sheepish again, seeing that his sympathy was unwanted by the purple tinted black haired girl. "So you must be the one Marluxia was talking about earlier, one of Vexen's little replicas..." Trying to ignore the name mentioned with the man's out loud thought Kiri grinned, nodding to confirm this familiar fact. The man laughed holding out his hand, hesitating momentarily Kiri took it slowly, giving a quick shake before almost yanking her hand back to her side.
"I'm Demyx, number nine is what you've probably heard me referred to by the old coot Vexen though!" He laughed loudly not noticing Kiri looking at the floor nearly embarrassed, judging by how the lower ranked member talked about him, her creator wasn't as respected as he had led her to believe. Almost thankful when Demyx's laughter was silenced by heavy approaching footsteps, Kiri flopped her hood back up again before looking back at the newly approaching person. Again, it was another male, only this was was followed by a strong and intimidating aura, almost leading Kiri to shudder at the presence of it. The man had a stern, cold golden stare, almost as cold as the stone they stood on. His hair was light blue, boldly styled up near the front, and drifting down to the man's waist from the back of his head. A pink scar laid between his eyes and as much as Kiri wanted to ponder about how he could have received it she instead fearfully pushed the mental images deep into the back of her mind.
"Xion..." He stopped in his tracks, looking down at me with his emotion deprived eyes, for the second time in the row Kiri had been mistaken for that 'Xion' girl.
"Saix this is-" Demyx was cut off before he could even begin his explanation by the cold glare the blue haired man deemed as 'Saix' shot at him quickly. "Silence number nine. I wish to speak to number fourteen alone." Kiri's eyes grew wide and frantically she looked back at Demyx, her eyes almost pleading for him to not leave her alone with this man. Demyx frowned down at her again, his expression filled with sympathy again, before turning a heel and quickly walking away leaving the two of them alone. Glancing back up at the man Saix, Kiri could almost feel her body shivering under his fixed stare, it worried her, being unable to read any trace of emotion or thought through his eyes. It was like he had no soul to peer at through those two golden windows.
"You've returned from your previous mission already I see, which means with such timing you can be set out on another one." He explained sternly, not wanting to even agree with him, but too shaken with fear to neglect and even explain the situation Kiri nodded stiffly. The two stood in momentary silence before a swirling ring appeared beside Kiri, making her jump and almost pull away as she felt one of the black tendril that swayed around glide across her hand. "It will be a search and destroy mission; the heartless population in this world has grown out of control. Your partner for this mission should already be there, now go." Kiri didn't need anymore instructing, and quickly fled through the portal in desperation to get away from the bitter man and his heart stopping glare.
Stepping out into a much different air Kiri almost plugged her nose with disgust as the scent of decay and rotting matter filled her. She gagged as she unplugged her nose in desperation to even get mildly used to the foul stench.
"Terrible, I agree, now let us get on with the mission." Turning her head into the direction of the familiar and irritated voice with near horror Kiri felt a swirl of different emotions rush through her all at one. Long, pale blond hair that swept down only a little further then his waist, piercing emerald green eyes that made you feel as if you were staring at a giant glacier... Vexen.
