Alright...its 3am when I am posting this. But I am tired but I just wanna post it. So here we go. Spent all day writing it and so here it is. Enjoy!
Ch.2
Over the next five days Roxas was sent out on missions with the other members. Learned more about the Organization and the goal they had while also taught him more things to know when out on missions.
On the fourteenth day since Roxas had joined, Saix woke up early like he always did. He got out of bed with a yawn and stretched. Though Saix wasn't second in command like Axel, who probably had gotten up even earlier to prepare giving out the missions for the day, Saix was always very diligent about his work. Whether he was out on a mission or doing some task around the castle, he always was very serious about his work. It was something he had always been good at, ever since he first joined the Organization. He was second best at doing his job, next to Axel.
After getting prepared for the day, he headed off to the kitchen to grab some breakfast. When he got to the kitchen, it was dark and empty. There was a few times where Saix actually managed to get up early enough to see Axel in the kitchen, but it would only be a few minutes before Axel would head off elsewhere to do some paperwork. He would rarely actually say a 'hello' or say anything on those days, as he would be buried deep in writing papers and checking various other things.
After Saix ate his breakfast, he made his way down to the Grey Room, where Axel was usually if he wasn't filing paperwork in his room. There, as he expected, he saw Axel, sitting on one of the couches, writing things down on the clipboard in his hand.
As soon as Saix walked into the room Axel looked up, "Ah Saix, just who I wanted to see." Axel said as he stood up.
Axel looked through the papers attached to his clipboard before pulling on off and handing it over to Saix, "You're stuck with the zombie today, have fun with that, " He said with a slightly chuckle.
"The zombie? Oh… You are referring to Roxas," Saix said. He wasn't too surprised Axel still was using that insult for Roxas. Though it had been now fourteen days since Roxas arrived, he still didn't talk a whole lot, but he was doing much better than those first few days.
"Of course I mean him. It still amazes me how out of it he always seems to be. At least he seemed to understand how things work around here now. He is doing good for a zombie," Axel said as he grinned.
"Do you really need to keep calling him that? He has shown a lot of signs of improvement over these days, and he probably will continue to improve," Saix asked.
Deep inside his mind he knew it was pointless to ask, but he just felt like asking anyways. Ever since Axel had become the second in command, he had a habit of coming up with various rude nicknames or just flat out insults towards the other members. The only ones who didn't get insulted by Axel were, Xemnas, Xigbar, and Saix. Saix at least knew why Axel wouldn't insult him or the Superior, but he never figured out the reason for Xigbar.
"You know how I am, first impressions are how I judge people. I don't care how they act afterwards. Unless he does something that truly amazes me, then I still see him as just a quiet, boring, little zombie, only here to help us achieve our goal," Axel said coldly.
Saix sighed. He knew he shouldn't continued on with his thoughts on the subject. Over the years he had learned that it was pretty much pointless to try and argue with Axel. Not because he was second and command and had more authorize over him, but Axel would just come up with any reason that he thought of to seem like he was right.
Saix sometimes wondered if Axel was letting the power of being second in command go to his head. Saix never really thought about it much anymore, but he did wonder why Axel had changed so much even since he became second in command. Not just with his eyes and ears….but just how he acted overall. Saix knew that there had to be something, but he just never could figure out what.
With a heavy sigh, Saix went to go sit on one of the couches, without another word to Axel and began to look over the mission report. Axel just shrugged casually and went back to looking through his paper and writing carious things down.
Soon a few other members came into the room and sat down on the couches. A few of them Axel talked to and gave mission sheets too. Soon the only remaining members in the room were, Axel, Saix, Larxene, Marluxia, and Demyx.
Roxas soon came in after a few minutes and walked to Axel to get his mission report as usual. Axel looked up from his clipboard and at Roxas.
"There you are. Here is the mission report. You are working with Saix today. This will be your first real mission, not the beginner stuff that you have been doing before. So you better do this extra well. I won't take your zombiness as a excuse if you fail the mission," Axel instructed with a sharp and harsh tone. He glared down at Roxas, who just remained silent as he took the mission sheet. "Check in with me when you and Saix are ready to go."
"Okay…" Roxas said as he nodded and went to get things prepared.
After he got the items he needed, he walked over to the couch where Saix was sitting. Saix looked over at Roxas and stood up, "Are you ready to go Roxas?"
Roxas didn't say anything, but he did nod in response.
"Then let's go," Saix said as they walked over to Axel to let him know that they were heading out on the mission.
Saix opened a Corridor of Darkness and they walked through, and then exited out into the Side Street of Twilight Town.
"So this will be our second mission together," Saix stated as he checked over the mission report one last time. "As well as it being your first real mission."
"Yup," Roxas said.
There was a moment of silences between the two. Neither of them said a word. Even though Saix was known for being quiet, this silence between them just felt awkward. Roxas still wasn't much of a talker so his simple and quiet responses weren't all that much to have a conversation with.
Saix cleared his throat, "Well… Enough standing around. Are you ready to complete the mission?"
"What?" Roxas asked, looked a tiny bit spaced out, "Oh. Yeah. Let's go."
The two made their way up the Side Street while a few Shadow Heartless appeared around them. Roxas summoned his keyblade and Saix summoned his claymore and they attacked the Shadows. Once the Shadows were dealt with they made their way to the Station Heights. After looking around for a little bit they stumbled upon a group of Heartless. Several Yellow Operas and Possessors swarmed around them.
Without time to think or say a word, the Yellow Opera stuck thunder magic towards the two while the Possessors started to swarm around them. Saix gripped his claymore tightly and began swinging it at the Yellow Operas.
"Take out the Possessors first. I will keep the Yellow Operas at bay as best as I can," Saix said.
"Right!" Roxas responded as he smacked the Possessors around him. While Roxas was taking care of those Heartless, Saix kept hitting the Yellow Operas around, while also trying to dodge their strikes of lightning.
Roxas soon came up to help once all the Possessors were gone. The two of them finally managed to take out the remaining Yellow Operas.
Once all the Heartless were defeated in that area, Roxas and Saix made their way to the Station Plaza where several more Yellow Operas showed up and now also some Scarlet Tangos. The two charged at the Heartless and began to attack. They fought the two types of Heartless while also doing their best to dodge the constant lightning and fireballs being thrown at them. After a lot of dodging and attacking the Heartless in the area were finally defeated.
After a moment of looking around the area, they saw there were no more Heartless up there, so they headed back down to the Station Heights. On the way back down a couple more Yellow Operas showed up, as well as two Dire Plants. Once those were taken care of they went back to the Side Street where more Yellow Opera and Shadows showed up.
Once they had checked around for any more Heartless and saw that there were no more around, they headed back to the portal.
As they walked back, neither of them said a word. Saix felt like he should at least try to talk with Roxas again. Roxas wasn't going to become more talkative if they never talked with each other.
"Now that the mission is over, what do you plan to do next?" Saix asked as they stood next to the portal.
"I was just going to report to Axel, and then go to my room like always," Roxas responded.
Saix almost looked a little surprised, but he could understand. Since Saix always took his work very seriously, there were many times he went straight back to the castle to fill out his report. But he also couldn't believe that Roxas would just go back to his room and, presumably, just sit around for the rest of the day. Saix would at least do various other things around the castle to keep himself busy.
"Roxas, you don't have to go back and do nothing everyday after work," Saix started to say.
Just then laughter was heard from behind the two. They turned to look to see three kids running down the alleyway.
"Move it, Pence!" A boy with blonde wavy hair shouted.
"Hey, wait up!" A brown haired boy, known as Pence, yelled as he, and a girl ran to catch up with the other boy.
"Last one there has to buy the winner an ice cream!" The blonde boy said with a happy grin.
The girl shook her head, "Oh, sure, now you tell us."
"No fair, Hayner!" Pence shouted as he caught his breath.
"Better get flyin' if you don't wanna end up buyin'!" Hayner laughed as he ran towards the Sandlot with the other two right behind him.
Roxas watched the run off, and once they were out of sight he looked over at Saix, "Who were they?"
"They are some local kids who live in this town," Saix replied.
"Really? They sure acted weird." Roxas said.
Saix raised an eyebrow, slightly confused by Roxas's statement, "What do you mean by that?"
"Why did those last two seem to enjoy getting pushed around like that? They were even making those 'ha ha' noises," Roxas explained.
Saix stared at Roxas for a moment, thinking over what was just said. Saix knew that Roxas didn't seem to have any memories of his life as a Somebody, so the memories of emotions and feelings were not something he had. Saix hadn't thought of how hard it must be for Roxas to process stuff like that until now.
"It's laughter," Saix started, thinking of how to phrase it so Roxas would understand, "People with hearts they laugh at things… It's just something that they do."
Roxas slowly looked down at the ground, "Oh...I guess that makes them different from us then…"
Saix looked at Roxas, he still didn't seem to fully understand everything around him. Saix knew that he wasn't bad kid or anything, just seemed a little lost. After thinking for a moment, Saix come to a conclusion.
"Come on Roxas, how about we go get some ice cream," Saix suggested.
"Why?" Roxas asked.
Saix sighed. He hadn't really thought of a actually reason for it. Saix didn't really know why… it just felt like something to do. It had gotten pretty boring over the the years in the Organization. Saix didn't really get along with any of the other members, except for Axel, though nowadays they barely talked to each other like friends. So much had changed over the years and now Roxas shows up in the Organization. The Nobody of the Keyblade master. The one who will help achieve the Organization's goal. Out of all the other members, Saix didn't mind so much being around him. It almost brought back the, now faint, memories of when Saix was a Somebody and would hangout with Axel's Somebody. It was something he hadn't thought about in a long time.
"It's… because… we are friends," Saix said. The word 'friends' almost felt foreign to his mouth, for it wasn't a word he had said or thought about in a very long time.
"So… friends are people who have ice cream together?" Roxas asked.
"That is… one way of putting it. Friends do all sorts of stuff...like those kids we just saw. Laughing at things and hanging out with each other. Come on, let's get the ice cream," Saix said as he began to walk towards the shops area.
After the two got their ice cream they headed up the the clock tower were they sat down and began to eat their ice cream.
After a few bites of ice cream Saix spoke up, saying something he had meant to say before, "Roxas, perhaps after this, after your next mission, we can meet up back here for ice cream. Just going right back to the castle, you don't have to do that. It's nice to sometimes just sit down and relax. You don't really want to just keep going back right after each mission and sit around doing nothing, do you?"
"Ha ha, nope!" Roxas chuckled slightly, "Hey I laughed… I guess we really are friends."
Saix looked at Roxas with surprised, he hasn't expected the small laugh or what was said. But he didn't mind. After all these years it was nice to have someone who felt like… a friend.
Roxas Diary Entry : Day 14
Saix and I went on a mission to Twilight Town. Afterwards, we went and had ice cream again up on the clock tower.
He said that friends do stuff like that. Or they that laugh over things together. So does that mean me and him are friends?
Secret Report: Saix
Today I was assigned another mission with Roxas. It was the second mission we have done together. By now he has begun to talk more like a regular person, perhaps some of his memory has come back. He has shown good progress since he first joined. It is still hard to believe that he is the Nobody of the Keyblade master, but I suppose he really is.
Alright and that wraps up that. Boy that took so long to write. I tried my best to think what Not Norted Saix would say in these situations. Hope I did good!
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