Lexaeus, being the buff and bulky man that he was, tended to be underestimated by the others. With the expection of Zexion and Vexen. He was quite the observer and carefully chose his words. So basically, he was the strong and silent type.

Then again, it didn't help how the company he kept were and could be just as silent as he.

Lately, he started to take note of how oddly both Vexen AND Zexion were acting. The two seemed dazed. He saw how Vexen just stood there, as some acidic liquid ate through his research notes he had been working endlessly on. Or how Zexion would sit there with a thick book laying on his lap, re-reading the same page over and over, while dramatically sighing ever so often.

Lexaeus could not figure out as to why the two were acting strangely. He had even questioned the two as to why they had been acting out of the ordinary. In response, he received dotted stares, before they quickly turned away, while trying to quietly stifle their own laughter. They assured Lexaeus that there wasn't any problem. Yet, he was unconvinced.

He was determined to reach the bottom of this. So he did something he normally would not do: talk to the members on the top side, of his current dilemma.

Marluxia was of no help. He was far too uninterested to even remotely care. Larxene found it amusing and only laughed about it. She too was no much of a help. Then, there was Axel...

"Maybe the keyblade wielder is the cause of their current condition." The redhead spoke with an amused look spreading across his facial feature. Lexaeus frowned as he looked at Axel.

"What do you mean?"

"I wonder?" Axel said innocently before turning away, wandering off to who knows where. Lexaeus was a bit baffled by Axel's statement. With a sigh, he made a decision to converse with Naminé and the replica about Sora.

When he had entered the witch's room, questioning her of the brunette she became flustered. In fact, her face turned beet red as she quickly hunched down to lower her head, sketching away in her sketch book.

Lexaeus decided to let her be, and turned his attention towards the Riku replica. He figured the replica would have answers, considering how it did have Riku's memories of Sora.

"So you want to know Sora's affect on people?" The replica stared at Lexaeus strangely. "Why don't you just go find that out on your own?" With that the Riku replica walked past a frowning Lexaeus. What was with people wanting to walk away from him? With a soft sigh escaping his lips he made his way to find Sora.

When he had found Sora, which wasn't a hard task to do, he saw Sora inside the memory projection of the Hundred Acre Woods. It was amusing seeing a fourteen year old boy taking a hold of a cuddly bear's hand, leading it around the place. In fact, it appeared that he was helping the bear locate his friends. Lexaeus puzzled over as to why he was taking his time helping the memory projection of his friends. Even if Sora was concerned over Naminé, he sure took his time helping others.

But why?

Why would he do such a thing? It wasn't like he was gaining anything from it all...

"-xaeus... Lexaeus?" He looked up to see a concerned Zexion, looking in his direction.

"Hm?"

"Are you feeling well?"

A smile and a nod.

"I assure you, I am fine." From Lexaeus's simple response, both number IV and VI understood what he had meant. Lexaeus could not keep his mind off of Sora.


A/N: Gosh, it was so hard thinking of a chapter for Lex... (shakes fist)