Polls results: Roxas/SoraxOC is the winner! Well, this poll has proven to be entertaining. Well, let's be looking forward to this pairing and the story that unfolds from it.
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Yuki sat against the locked door, her eyes staring at the blank ceiling. She absently fingered the charm on the bracelet as she thought of the girl who had been attacked before her eyes.
"So... this is the true nature... of darkness."
Yuki closed her eyes and put her hand on her chest where her heart was, feeling the soft thumping that alerted her of her existence with a small smirk. "The dark side... no sugar and spice here. It's all reality... Is this supposed to show me something, or what?"
Yuki breathed in deeply, her eyes furrowing as her heart quickened when she took in more oxygen, allowing more blood to receive the source of life. She then thought of how the girl's heart was taken by the heartless. Yuki expected to feel sick or something at the fact that she had witnessed someone die when she could have helped them but... but...
"Why do I feel so... amused?"
Yuki shook her head and ran her hand through her hair. Was it normal for her to feel this way after seeing death? After acting so coldly? Yuk felt a smirk creep across her face as she remembered the girl's pale face after she died.
"Am I... a monster?"
Sighing, Yuki watched as yellow eyes appeared in her shadow once more before the small heartless came out. /...Troubled... liege is... succumbing./
Yuki blinked at the small creature and crossed her legs. "Hmm? What do you mean? What am I succumbing to?"
The Shadow looked at Yuki's charm. /Insignia... transfer emotions... Liege is... letting darkness take control. Emotions... overrun./
Yuki smiled at the small heartless and clutched the charm in her palm. "Ah... you must be feeling what I am... the confusion. Hey... is it normal for me to feel happy about death?"
/That is... for Liege to decide. Do you wish... to feel this way?/
Yuki sighed and banged the back of her head against the door. "I dunno... I mean, humans are supposed to feel sad, right? Ugh... I guess I wanna feel the sadness everyone feels. It's creepy to like the sight of people dieing." Yuki looked to where the shadow was previously and blinked, seeing that it had, once again, disappeared before saying any form of goodbye. Yuki gave her shadow a flat look and crossed her arms. "Yeah... thanks."
Yuki then jumped when she heard a sharp knock on her door. "Hey, are you alright in there?"
Yuki scrambled to her feet quickly and cracked the door open to find Axel standing before her with crossed arms. Yuki laughed nervously and rubbed the back of her head. "Uh, yeah... why do you ask?"
Axel raised an eyebrow at her and shrugged. "I dunno... why do you talk to yourself?"
Yuki blinked and grinned. "Uh... I..."
Axel shook his head and started walking down the hall. "Whatever... I was just wondering. I heard you on my way here."
Yuki nodded her head and looked to the side with an emotionless expression. "Oh..."
Axel raised an eyebrow and paused, sighing after a few moments and ushering Yuki back into her room. He then proceeded to sit cross-legged on her bed while giving her a blank stare. "What is it?"
Yuki looked up and blinked. "Huh? What do you mean...?"
Axel gave Yuki a flat look and hit her lightly on her head. "You know what I mean."
Yuki furrowed her eyebrows and rubbed her head gingerly. "There's nothing wrong... nothing I can't handle anyway. Weren't you on your way to do something or another?"
Axel shook his head. "I just finished. I was sent to get Xaldin to see Xemnas. Well, if you're finished, I wouldn't mind leaving our conversation right here."
Yuki looked at Axel strangely and crossed her arms. "What the heck?! You're the one who just walked right in and started to talk... and it hasn't even been three minutes."
Axel grinned and got up from the bed, ruffling Yuki's hair as he made his way to the door. "Whatever. Come on, we can train if you have all of this free time on your hands."
Yuki gave Axel a flat look as she followed him out of the room. "Ugh, come on! I do enough training with Luxord!"
Axel shrugged. "Fine. If you don't want to get any better then go ahead and sit in your room. Maybe the Keyblade master will beat you when you first meet."
Yuki blinked and stopped walking. Axel noticed and turned to face her, seeing that her hands were clenched into fists. "What's wrong?"
Yuki furrowed her eyebrows and looked up at Axel. "I don't want to fight Roxas..."
Axel narrowed his eyes and turned around, his hands closing into fists as well. "... We don't have a choice. If we did, then maybe..."
Yuki blinked and looked up at Axel. "Then maybe...?"
Axel blinked and shook his head. "It's nothing... well, get a move on!"
Yuki shook her head and trailed after Axel through who knows how many hallways.
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Yuki stood at the back of the room where she often trained in with Luxord. Axel was currently practicing his fire techniques on a bunch of nobodies he had summoned. Sighing, Yuki jumped when she felt a hand on her shoulder. Yuki looked over her shoulder to see Saix watching Axel finish off the last nobody.
"The Keyblade master has made an advance."
Yuki narrowed her eyes as Saix motioned for her to follow him through a shadow portal.
"Come, there isn't much time for you to get over there and observe him."
Taking a quick glance at Axel, she nodded and obediently followed Saix through a shadow portal.
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As she arrived at the other end of the portal, she found herself outside of the castle and before Xemnas. Xemnas nodded to Saix, who then disappeared into his own shadow portal.
"Yuki, the Keyblade master is now in Twilight Town. I need you to go there and keep an eye on him... strictly the Keyblade master. No interaction whatsoever with the commoners is allowed. Do you understand?"
Yuki nodded and felt her heart tighten. She would be so close to her home, but so far from it... Yuki's eyes widened when Xemnas put his hand on her shoulder.
"Now, I'll give you three hours to observe him, then you are to come back. Find his weaknesses and strengths. If we find more information on him, then we can prepare for future battles with him."
Xemnas then opened a rather large shadow portal to his left.
"Observe closely."
Yuki nodded and slowly walked into the portal.
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Yuki arrived in Twilight Town and found herself on top of the same old clock tower. Yuki felt something inside as she remembered the new friends that she made at the tower. Shaking her head, she went to walk back down from the clock tower when she saw three familiar people walking towards her.
"Y-Yuki...?"
Yuki's eyes widened as she saw Hayner, Pence, and Olette in front of her. Yuki felt her eyes watering and quickly shut them. She ran around them as fast as she could and made her way down the clock tower stairs. Hayner narrowed his eyes and started to run after her with the other two.
"Yuki, what's wrong with you?! It's us!"
Yuki kept running and felt tears forming in her eyes. I'm sorry... I can't...! You have to stay away from me...
Yuki gasped and turned her head around when she saw Hayner gripping her arm. His eyes widened when he saw her tears and faltered, letting go of her arm. Yuki smiled and whispered something quietly to him before taking off again. When Pence and Olette caught up to him, they were confused.
"Hayner, why'd you let her go? She's been missing for a long time!"
Hayner stared after Yuki and quietly repeated what she said.
"Thank you, I'm sorry for this...?"
Olette furrowed her eyebrows and thought about what Hayner said.
"Why are you saying this?"
Hayner turned and looked at his friends and wore a sad expression.
"She said thank you... and that she was sorry. She didn't forget us, she's just... trying to get away for some reason."
Olette looked at where Yuki was just a moment ago and felt a grim expression on her face as well.
"What's going on around here...?"
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Yuki stopped and leaned against a wall while trying to catch her breath. Yuki was still crying and saw the droplets fall onto the ground.
"I'm... sorry, guys. I'm sorry..."
Yuki quickly wiped the tears off of her face and frowned. If she stayed on the streets, other people were bound to recognize her as well. Yuki gripped her hands into fists and looked to the side where there were broken pieces of glass. She quickly grabbed the biggest shard of glass and grabbed a bunch of her hair at the nape of her neck and closed her eyes. She quickly cut off a good ten inches of her hair and felt her shorter hair fall against her back. It was now a little past shoulder length, and she could guess how uneven it was. Yuki winced and looked down at her hand as she dropped the shard of glass to see a rather large cut on her hand. Biting her bottom lip, Yuki tightened her hand into a fist in hopes of putting enough pressure on it.
"Well, time for a new identity, I suppose."
Yuki looked around and summoned a shadow portal. Looking in, she slowly walked into it and let it close behind her. The only thing she left were her strands of hair and a few droplets of blood. What a good impression that place would have.
Yuki walked out of the shadow portal and found that she was standing in front of a store that she never saw before in her short few days at Twilight Town. She went inside and heard the bells jingle to alert the owner that she was there. Yuki quietly looked around the store and looked for clothing that she would wear. Yuki somewhat grimaced on the inside at how girly most of it was. Slowly walking around, Yuki smiled to herself and laughed quietly. It seemed like an Olette kind of store. Yuki blinked when she saw some clothes that caught her eye. Even if she didn't like clothes shopping, she had to admit that she liked the clothing that she just found. She quickly found her size and walked to the cash register to pay.
The cashier smiled and took the clothes from Yuki.
"Hello, I hope you found everything alright."
Yuki nodded and smiled. She wouldn't talk to the commoners... The cashier nodded to Yuki and wrung up the price. Yuki quietly paid the money with her blood free hand and took the clothes from the cashier lady and made her way out of the store. The cashier blinked and quickly yelled at Yuki.
"Hey, you forgot your change!"
Yuki quickly made her way to an abandoned alley and closed off any opening with her dark energy. Yuki quickly changed into the clothes she had just bought and disposed of her old clothes. Yuki released the barrier she made with her dark energy and walked out of the alley. She now wore a white sleeveless turtleneck with a thin gray and silver vest over it. The grey vest had two pockets and was unzipped. Her pants were replaced with black cargo capris and she kept her black shoes. Yuki looked at her reflection in a store window and nodded. At least she looked a little different than before... Yuki grimaced and looked down at her hand to see the caked blood. She could smell how strong it was and sighed. She remembered what the lady once did to heal her and looked at her other hand. She slowly gathered energy into it and attempted to heal her other hand.
"Steady..."
Yuki furrowed her eyebrows as she tried to maintain control over how much energy was released. She didn't want to release a lot of energy at once, but the shadows were hard to control in one specific area. Yuki released her hold on the shadows and watched as they disappeared from her hand. Yuki frown as she looked down at her hand. She had only managed to heal it some of the way... if the tissue were to be agitated, it would start to bleed again... not to mention the fact that it still held a rather noticeable scar. Oh well... she could live with a small scar. Yuki felt her eyes widen when she started to feel something stir within her...
"He's around here..."
Yuki quickly turned around and ran towards the feeling. She felt the feeling growing stronger and stronger as she ran. Before she knew it, the feeling was more than she could stand. Yuki looked around, sure of the fact that he would be near. Roxas... Yuki blinked when she only saw a young boy around her age and a dog like person and a duck like person. The boy turned around and looked at Yuki with a curious expression. Yuki felt her eyes widen when she recognized whom it was. It was the boy from her dream.
"You..."
The boy blinked and pointed at himself.
"Huh, me...?"
Yuki blinked and shook her head. She strained a smile and tilted her head to the side.
"Ah, it's nothing... I thought you were someone else..."
The boy nodded and smiled at Yuki. "Hey, I'm Sora, and these two are Donald and Goofy."
Yuki blinked when Sora said his name.
"Sora...?"
Sora nodded and held out his hand.
"Yep, who are you?"
Yuki blinked and smiled weakly.
"Yuki. Pleasure to meet you..."
Yuki went to shake hands with him, but felt her hand start to bleed. Looking down, Yuki quickly took her hand back and tried to hide it. Sora, Donald, and Goofy already noticed though. Sora smiled and pointed at Donald.
"We can heal that for you if you'd like."
Yuki blinked and cocked her head at Sora. He reminded her of Roxas... so much...
"O-okay..."
Sora nodded as Donald walked up to Yuki.
"Heal!"
Yuki watched as a green light enveloped her hand and started to heal her wound instantaneously. Yuki smiled softly and nodded to Donald.
"Thank you."
Donald smiled proudly at Yuki.
"It was easy!"
Yuki laughed as she found Sora looking at her strangely. Yuki blinked and tilted her head in confusion.
"Is something wrong...?"
Sora shook his head and pointed at Yuki. "... Do I know you from somewhere...?"
Yuki blinked and shook her head. "I don't think we've met before this. I mean, you remind me of someone, but I highly doubt that you're him..."
Sora tilted his head and smiled.
"Who?"
Yuki looked up and blinked.
"His name was Roxas..."
Sora, Donald, and Goofy all gave Yuki a strange look after she had mentioned Roxas. Yuki blinked and looked at all three of them, a smile coming onto her face.
"You know him?! Do you know where he is?!"
Goofy shook his head and scratched the side of his head. "Nope, all these other fellers keep mentioning this Roxas feller, and they keep saying that Sora's this Roxas person."
Yuki felt her eyes widen and looked at Sora.
"Really? You don't look like Roxas..."
Sora shrugged and crossed his arms.
"Yeah, I'm only me, right?"
Yuki smiled and nodded.
"Yeah... I guess so."
Yuki felt her eyes widen as some heartless started to appear around her.
"No... not now!"
Sora, Donald, and Goofy all got into a protective stance around Yuki as Sora summoned his Keyblade.
"Don't worry, Yuki. We'll protect you!"
Yuki looked at the Keyblade and felt a massive amount of pain in her head. Yuki yelled loudly and gripped at her head. Falling to her knees, she tried to suppress the pain.
"No, you have to... stop."
Sora looked down at Yuki with a worried face and glared at the heartless.
"It's okay, we can fight."
Yuki shook her head as lightning like images of lightning like flashes returned to her head. Yuki yelled once again and shook her head, tears forming in her eyes.
"No, you have to... stop."
The heartless took notice of Yuki's pain and started their attack on Sora. Yuki watched in horror as the heartless were defeated one by one. Yuki felt the pain intensify as the Keyblade struck down all of the heartless. When the three finished fighting, Sora walked up to Yuki with concern.
"Are you alright, Yuki?"
Seeing that the Keyblade was even closer to her, Yuki shook her head.
"Stop..."
Sora furrowed his eyebrows and let his Keyblade fade as he squatted down to her eye level.
"Yuki, what's wrong?"
Sora put his hand on Yuki's shoulders and watched as she stopped gripping her head. Yuki quickly wiped off her eyes and looked up at Sora. Her eyes widened when she saw Sora only a few inches away from her. His eyes looked like Roxas' eyes... Yuki looked around for the heartless and saw that they had faded away into nothing.
"The heartless..."
Sora smiled softly and nodded.
"It's okay, we took care of them easily."
Yuki stared dully at Donald and Goofy, who nodded in return. Yuki stood up and brushed off her cargos.
"I see..."
Sora nodded and stood up as well.
"Yep! Now there's nothing to worry about. As long as my friends are with me, nothing bad can happen!"
Yuki looked at Sora and smiled sadly.
"Yeah. Friends must be your strength, right?"
Sora nodded.
"Yeah, without those two, I wouldn't be able to do much..."
Goofy smiled and put his hands in his hips.
"Gawrsh, you can do well without us, Sora!"
Sora grinned and laughed with the other two as Yuki smiled at them.
"I kinda envy you guys..."
Sora looked back at Yuki with a curious face.
"Huh?"
Yuki blinked and shook her head.
"Ah, it's nothing... Anyway, what are you guys doing here, anyway?"
Sora smiled and nodded at the other two.
"We're looking for my friend Riku and King Mickey... have you seen them?"
Yuki's eyes widened slightly at Riku's name, but luckily, no one noticed. Yuki shook her head and smiled sadly at them. She felt a little bad when they started to wear sad expressions. Sora smiled regardless and nodded towards Yuki.
"Well, thanks anyway. We should probably get going; we have to keep searching for our friends."
Yuki smiled and waved as they left her in the sand lot. Yuki looked down at her once wounded hand and furrowed her eyebrows.
"So... he's Sora?"
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