The rest of dinner for him was awkward, he knew that both of them would confront him, he won't be able to just walk away this time. He gave a heavy sigh and finished his dinner quickly, feeling like a child. Arixane always finished first, she was gone by the time he was finished, but he'd find her.

Walking down the hall away from the dinning hall, he looked around everywhere for her. The silver eyed Nobody was nowhere to be seen. Luxord headed for the dorms and went to her room. Knocking, there was no answer, he opened the door, peering in, he didn't see her. He shook his head, she could be in the training room, she wasn't there. Luxord gave a sigh, she'd turn up, she used to always disappear like this when she first started out, when she was closer to Zexion than anyone else. She could be in the library. She used to hole up in there for hours and not come out, once more, when she was closer to Zexion. He went to the library, it would be difficult to find her there, he hardly went there and the place was huge.

He entered the library, she hid in there when she didn't want to be found. Usually it is Zexion who finds her, that's how they got closer in the first place.

"Arixane!" He called, his voice echoing in the library. No reply, he went forward, going into the first alley way of towering shelves, each filled to the maximum of books, how did they get that many books in the first place? He shook his head, clearing the thought away from his mind. She wasn't in the first row, he went down the next row, feeling like he was intruding, he never really was a reader, and being in the library searching for Arixane wasn't exactly a good way to start coming. He gave a sigh. She wasn't easy to find. He left the alleys of towering shelves and went to the tables, scanning them, he found no sign of her. He closed his eyes, shaking his head. He started for the door.

Leaving the library without success in finding Arixane, he didn't know where to go look next, perhaps Axel would know. He went back to the dining hall, seeing the redhead poking around at his food. Luxord shook his head, approaching him.

"Do you know where Arixane has gone to?" He asked Axel. The pyro looked at him, shaking his head.

"Don't think I do, she's not in her room?" He asked in reply. Luxord closed his eyes and shook his head as well.

"Perhaps she's taken advantage of the fact that it isn't raining today and has gone for a stroll in the town below." Luxord muttered, turning to walk away.

"I'll come with you." Axel said, the sound of his chair scrapping across the ground was followed by Axel's hurried footsteps to catch up to Luxord. The two went down in Dark City. Walking the paths looking for Arixane.

Arixane came to Memory Skyscraper, as the boy in her dream had, the boy was Roxas. She just wanted to trace another Keyblader's steps, trying to find out what happened to this Xion person. Since Axel showed no sign of know who she was. She'd have to find out herself. The girl seemed to never have existed. She gave a sigh, Roxas crying as he wrote that journal entry told her that the girl had existed. She sighed, turning around. The rain came, pouring down in buckets, making it hard to see, she pulled her hood over her head. Turning she stared up at the top of the skyscraper. Giving a heavy sigh.

"Arixane!" Luxord's voice was carried over to her by the howling wind. She twisted her head, turning and bolting towards the sound of Luxord's voice.

"I'M HERE!" She yelled, running forward through the alley ways. She shielded her eyes and came into an alley, she stopped, it seemed almost endless, she didn't remember coming this way. She was lost? All she had to do was open a dark corridor into the castle and she'd be fine. But she'd already shown Luxord she was there, he would get worried if they didn't meet. She scoffed, worried, something a somebody was supposed to feel. She shook her head and turned around, going the other way. She came back to Memory Skyscraper, it was a rather good landmark, plenty of paths came this way, he'd find her sooner or later.

She began to shiver somewhat, why was it always cold there? She looked around her, giving a sigh, she felt lost, even though she knew exactly where she was. Two sets of footsteps splashed towards her from the northeast passage on the right of the skyscraper. She walked towards them, Luxord and Axel came into the clearing. Luxord didn't stop until he had Arixane in his arms.

"Never do that again." He whispered in her ear. He had been genuinely worried about her. Arixane could only nod. Luxord pulled back away from her, gazing into her eyes.

"What were you doing out here in the first place?" Axel's voice met them, Arixane's eyes widened and she looked to Luxord in panic.

"Both him and Xigbar know, it will only be a matter of time before the rest of the Organization knows. We'll continue once you're in dry clothes and back at the castle, now come on." He said, pulling Arixane towards a dark corridor that Axel had opened. Entering the castle, Arixane retreated to her room, getting out of her wet clothes, she quickly got into dry ones and came back out, Luxord and Axel stood on the other side of the hall. She felt stalked, Luxord had some sort of right, but Axel, they were close, but he was just about everywhere now. She walked across the hall.

"So, what were you doing out there, Arixane?" Axel asked her. Arixane looked to her pyro friend, hanging her head.

"I don't really know." She told him shaking her head. Axel gave a laugh, rustling her hair like she was a little kid. She tossed her head and glared at Axel.

Axel had to bite back a comment about her beginning to act like Roxas. The way she hung her head and then shook her head from side, instead of Arixane, he saw Roxas. Axel only laughed and messed her hair up. Luxord cleared his throat, almost agitated. Axel looked to the blonde, seeing his poker face, that meant business. Axel raised his arms up in surrender and walked away from the two, going into his room.

Luxord finally noticed he too was sopping wet, what a hypocrite. He shook his head and looked to Arixane.

"You should go change." Arixane said, as though reading his mind. Luxord nodded and went to his room. Arixane was left in the hall.

She went back to her room, feeling awkward just standing in the middle of the hall that way. She sighed and laid down on her bed, trying to think what had pulled her to the Memory Skyscraper. She closed her eyes, it was like a magnet. Pulled towards her magnetic pole. Luxord came in not wearing an Organization coat, in a black long sleeve shirt and black pants.

"You should really do something with your room." He told her, nearly cringing at the utter blandness of her room. Arixane looked at Luxord, shrugging she looked up to the ceiling. "I don't know what to do." She gave a huff. Luxord gave a smile and joined her on the bed, taking her in his arms. Arixane couldn't help but smile to herself. She snuggled a bit closer to him.

"How long have you loved me?" She asked him. Luxord gave another sigh. He thought back, it was all blurred really. When had just friendship blossomed into love? He shook his head.

"Can't remember, I think it wasn't too long after you came." He told her, Arixane just nodded. She felt safe, protected, she twisted to look outside yet stay in the strong arms that held her. She gave a sigh, closing her eyes.

"You'll be able to see Kingdom Hearts soon." Luxord broke the silence. Arixane's eyes flew open and jumped up to meet his eyes.

"When?" She asked him excited. Luxord sat up, letting her go walking over to her window, he gestured for her to join him. She leapt off her bed and joined him. He looked up to the sky, searching. His eyes stopped. He pulled Arixane in front of him.

"Look to the upper left corner of your window." He told her, Arixane obeyed and saw the faintest outline of a heart in the sky. Her eyes widened.

"Is that the beginning!' Arixane said, Luxord smiled and nodded. She nearly let out an excited squeal.

"Do you know how long it would take to finish it and we get our hearts?" She asked him, basically jumping up and down. Luxord was laughing.

"I don't actually know, Xemnas may know." Luxord said. Arixane somewhat dulled, she could see something behind Xemnas' promise about them getting hearts, it was something much more sinister. She just couldn't figure out the Superior's plans.

Luxord saw her expression after he mentioned Xemnas. He wondered what it was about. Of course the Superior was a bit shady, but Luxord didn't think he would be hiding anything.

"What's wrong?" He asked. Arixane's eyes had wavered away from him while he was in thought. Her attention wavered back to him.

"Nothing, why would there be something wrong?" She asked, giving him a charming smile. It failed though, he wasn't convinced, he wouldn't say anything else on the subject though, not for now at least. Arixane's eyes darted back outside, watching the outline of Kingdom Hearts. He looked to it as well, Arixane gave a sigh and went back to her bed, flopping down, her hair fell into mess and she closed her eyes, putting out her bottom lip slightly in a thoughtful way. She opened her eyes, looking at Luxord. He returned, laying down, he took her in his arms again, she gave a content sigh.

"Will these feelings continue once we get hearts?" Arixane asked him. Luxord looked down to meet her lovely eyes.

"I'm not sure." He told her, she actually frowned. He didn't know, maybe someone else in the Organization would know. She'd ask later. Right now she was just happy, she hoped they would remember. But what if they didn't? The thought put a damper on things, the perfect moments like this would cease to exist, this was only the first day that they were… together? Yet, it seemed like forever. It seemed right. She had been staring into Luxord's eyes the entire time she was thinking about it.

His gloved hand reached up and caressed her cheek. His eyes holding a comforting, reassuring look.

"It'll be fine, even if we forget, I feel our destinies have been entwined, feeling something like this as a Nobody, it would be impossible not to feel them as Somebodies, what do you think?" Luxord asked her with a loving tone in his voice. She smiled, feeling reassured, nodding. She wrapped her arms around him and leaned into his chest. Closing her eyes, feeling safe.

I'll never forget this. She thought sternly to herself. She opened her eyes and looked up to Luxord, he too had closed his eyes, his breathing steady, either trying to fall asleep or was already. She gave a small shrug and fell into sleep herself.

Dreams, always believed to be portal to other worlds, yet when they plague the Nobody's mind, they are opportunities to see the world that they come from, and remember, relive moments as their Somebody. Up until the morning, when they rise and return the world in which they can't truly feel.

Arixane had read that passage when she came across a book by none other than Vexen, always putting a dark aura on things with his cold personality. He was rather friendly if you acted at least like you had half the intelligence he has.

Upon bringing up dreams, Arixane was certainly reliving a moment of her Somebody's life. The girl she used to be was young and joyful, running around the woods and back yards with the other children of her town. She was at the edge of the town when she saw the first sign of darkness, a Shadow. She thought it was cute and approached it, but someone yelled at her and she was torn away from the dark thing.

"Those things are evil Ariane, stay away from them, they destroyed my home world. Remember the day I first showed up? I was hurt and nearly dead." A voice whispered into her ear. She began to shiver in fear, looking up to meet a pair of blue eyes full of worry.

"Does that mean they are coming for our world?" She asked, terrorized. The sadness that the man had always worn was there, he nodded solemnly.

"But remember, the Keyblade Warriors will come and they will save us all, remember that story, love?" He asked her. She nodded eagerly. The man picked her up, giving a slight laugh.

"Lets get you back to your mother, Ariane." He told her. The girl nodded, turning to look back in the woods, the creature sat there, watching them. It hadn't attacked.

Arixane woke up, seeing the suddenly all too familiar face of Luxord, he was peacefully asleep. He wasn't just familiar from her time in the Organization, he was the man from her dream. Memories just kept floating back. He had given into the darkness not two months later. Yet it was impossible to remember his name. She began to shake. The coincidence was so huge, it was creepy. Fate had played well to make sure the two had met again. But why?

She didn't find any disturbance in this though, she actually found it comforting. He hadn't seen her grow up and fight against the darkness. He made her promise to fight her hardest, as though he just knew. She reached up and brushed her fingertips across his cheek, just under his eye.

"You saved me all those years ago, when I was just a child. How come you act like you don't remember me?" She whispered silently.

"Probably because the last time you saw me was when I was a little girl." She whispered, replying to herself for him. She gave a small sigh and nestling back into her lovely little nook within Luxord's arms. How long was it, before she joined the Organization? Two years or ten? It had only been a year since she joined and she was reaching the age of her Somebody when she gave into the darkness. She felt it. She closed her eyes and let sleep take her again.

They woke the next day to Arixane's alarm clock going off in the dark. Luxord pulled his head up groggily, looking at the clock. Then to the sleeping female in his arms, he shook her awake gently. Arixane gave him a bit of a growl. He laughed and shook her again. Her eyes opened a little, then closed again.

"I don't want to…" She muttered. Luxord gave a laugh.

"Come on, wake up, love." He shook her a bit more again, Arixane opened her eyes groggily again, looking full on him. She gave him a sleepy smile. She slid out of his arms and stood, stretching. Groaning as her back popped loudly, Luxord raised an eyebrow. She looked at him.

"What?" She asked him, stretching out her shoulders and arms. Luxord shook his head, looking to the ground.

"Nothing." He told her, standing off the bed and coming up beside her, he kissed her forehead.

"I'm going to go get a shower." He told her, Arixane gave a sweet smile, nodding. Luxord left her room.

Arixane herself needed a shower, so she went and got some clean clothes and made her way to the showers.

Coming out feeling clean, she walked down the hall and into the Grey Room. No one looked at her while she entered the Grey Room. Approaching Saix she gave him a cheery smile, always trying to make the Castle that Never Was a somewhat brighter place. Saix didn't return her smile, but she could see something in his eyes, a bit of recollection. It disappeared in milliseconds.

"Get to work." He said, handing her a file of missions. Arixane gave her elder member a nod, taking the manila folder and made her way over to the couch, sitting down beside Axel, she opened it. She still had missions with Luxord, how much longer was it until she'd go on another solo mission? Not that she didn't enjoy her time with Luxord, she just liked to be alone sometimes. As she thought of it, she realized they'd only been on two missions together. So she looked around for the blonde, not seeing him there, he was most likely on his way. So she flipped through her files, when she stopped dead, she had a mission with the Superior.

Performance Check; Go with The Superior to Neverland to embark on a double mission in collecting Emblems and taking out a major heartless.

Perhaps she should knock that one out first. She nodded to herself and stood. Going out of the Grey Room, she ran into Luxord.

"Ready to go?' He asked her, clearly aware that he still had missions with her. Arixane shook her head.

"I have a performance check with the Superior that I want to get out of the way before I do anything." She told him, Luxord nodded.

"Good luck." He told her, Arixane nodded with a smile and went on her way to the Superior's office. Approaching the steps, she saw Xemnas coming down the stairs already, she watched him descend with grace.

"Something I can help you with, Thirteen?" He asked her, stopping on the third step up, looking down on her. Like he needed to be up higher to look down at her that way. Even though she had grown some, she still had to crane her neck somewhat to meet the Superior's eyes.

She nodded, "I have a performance check with you in Neverland, sir." She told him. Xemnas gave a nod. A dark corridor opened behind her.

"Lets be on our way then." He told her.