A/N: I know that there is alot of original content in this story right now, but it was necessary to put Saix in an unfamiliar surrounding. Nira and Kamada are going to be in the story for quite some time. I don't think they'll be so in the middle of things later but right now they are. I know this isn't the greatest story out there, but I still felt a little discouraged when I didn't get any reviews for my first post. Sorry if that sounds selfish. Anyway hopefully I'll get some reviews with this update.

Disclaimer: Yeah I know...I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Organization XIII. Ooooohhhh but I wish I did.

In the Next Life

Saix was getting used to his new living situation with Kamada. Nira would come by often to check up on them. Sadly, the blue haired man hadn't remembered anything else since the day he had awoken in this place. He had learned many things about himself…but none of it had seemed familiar. It was as though his lost memories were drifting farther and farther away from him as time went on.

Anyway back to what he had found out about himself. Saix had quickly learned that his hunger was near impossible to satisfy. He could eat more than his two new friends combined and still have room for more. He also learned that he was…unusually strong for someone of his size and body type. He had effortlessly lifted Kamada's sofa completely off the floor as though it was a pillow. Saix enjoyed the night skies, and often found himself staring out his bedroom window at the stars. The scared man attributed this to a possible reason why at some point someone had called him the Luna Diviner.

Saix had told his companions about that particular memory which had surfaced shortly before his falling asleep his first night at Kamada's house. Nira had told him that she would look into what the title could mean, but they turned up very few explanations as to why Saix would be called that.

It had been close to a month since the blue haired man began living his new life. His frustration with his inability to recall anything from his life in the past was becoming apparent. He would spend whole days at the local library researching memory loss and reviewing old texts on astrology and moon phases attempting to trigger something. Saix would have probably gone mad weeks ago if Kamada and Nira weren't there to tell him to slow down and relax every once and a while.

Many more days passed on in this way…unfortunately this quiet pattern was not meant to last. Another week passed by and Kamada couldn't help but notice that his new friend was becoming rather edgy. The man's shoulders were becoming tense. He was getting very snippy and his temper was becoming more and more easy to ignite. One of his temper tantrums occurred that day…but this one became violent. Nira was over and she asked what she always did when she arrived. The usual, 'Hi guys how are you? Hey Saix ready to crack out the books again?' and Saix just lost it. Sitting at the table in the kitchen the man buried his face in his hands and spoke quietly.

"What's the point? We're not going to find anything new." This wasn't an uncommon response from Saix as of late, so Nira gave him encouragement as always.

"Oh come on Sai. You never know. Today may be different. You can't just give up." Saix, instead of giving her a weak smile and motioning for her to sit, laid his head down on the tabletop.

"Different…just like yesterday was going to be different. Just like that day before that was going to be different." His voice was gaining volume as he spoke. "Everyday is the same…False hope followed by the feeling of being let down." Saix had jumped up from his seat by this point, knocking his chair over, he was yelling at Nira now. "I've had enough of living like this! All I ever feel is disappointment! What is the point of having my heart if the only thing I can feel is pain!?" Punctuating his screamed statement, Saix struck the underside of the table, sending it flying into the living room. Kamada and Nira were shocked by the display of anger and were more than a little frightened. Saix was practically snarling now. After a moment, he calmed with a dumbfounded expression on his face. "W-what...What did I just say?" Looking over to his friends with a cautious expression, "Are…are you two hurt?" Nira shook her head.

"No Saix we're alright, but I think you remembered something unconsciously. You said 'What's the point of having my heart if all I feel is pain?'" Saix cocked his head to the side he though for a moment.

"But…saying something like that would suggest that I didn't have a heart at sometime…" Saix went and retrieved the table from the living room and replaced it in the kitchen. He stared at it for a long while. He spoke quietly, as though to himself, "The moon…I mentioned something about it before right?" Kamada nodded.

"Yeah you asked what phase it was in, but you couldn't remember why it was important." Saix thought long and hard, but no answer was forthcoming.

"Well…tomorrow is the full moon. I think I may get my answer then, but I get the feeling that something terrible is going to happen. It's been bothering me for the last week or so. I've noticed I'm becoming prone to unexplainable mood swings, and before you make any jokes about it, I am quite sure this is one hundred times worse than PMS. No matter what I'm feeling I'll get these strange destructive urges that are hard to ignore." Saix was looking quite worried now. "Maybe I don't want to know who I was. If this was normal behavior for me…perhaps it's better if that part of me remains buried." Nira looked upset.

"Even if you find out you did some things you don't like…learning about your past is more than that. It was your identity once. Don't you want to know who you were, so you can make yourself into someone better?" Saix gave his weak little smile and sat back down at the table. Nira studied his profile for a moment before her eyes settled onto something. "Hey…your ears are pointed. I don't think I noticed that before." The blue haired man looked startled at the abrupt change in subject. Placing a hand to his ear he felt the pointed tips.

"Huh…so they are. Is…that strange?" Nira giggled.

"No not really. Everyone in the military has pointed ears because they were—" Nira stopped quickly. The burgundy eyed girl looked as if she had overlooked something major…Kamada too. "The soldiers in the military have pointed ears because they were genetically engineered to be physically superior to normal people." Saix looked taken aback.

"So…you think I might have been part of the military?" Kamada looked skeptical of that deduction.

"I don't think that's the case. You see the people engineered for the military are made with deficiencies in certain parts of the brain so that they don't go rebel and start killing everyone. They don't give them names either. They just refer to them by serial number. 'Saix' doesn't sound like a number to me. Except for the number six, but since the government began production of soldiers nearly a century ago, number six is probably long since out of commission." Nira looked relieved that Saix wasn't part of the military.

"Seven." Kamada whipped his head around to look at the elfin-eared man.

"Uh…what?" Kamada tucked a stray lock of emerald hair behind his ear in discomfort. Saix had a look of intense concentration on his face.

"Not six…seven. The one who called me the Luna Diviner…he also called me number seven. Thirteen…there…were thirteen of us. They had special names too. It wasn't in the military…it was an organization." Saix gasped and clutched his head in pain. He began spouting out disconnected thoughts and sentences. "Superior…only one left…must stop…number nine is gone…eight betrayed us…We'll make sure he receives the maximum punishment…we don't have hearts…remember what it was like…makes us special…ugh…Kingdom Hearts…where is my heart?" Saix was trembling in pain. Nira snapped out of her shock at some of the things he was spouting out and began to shake him in hopes of bringing him back to them. It was clear that remembering all this was hurting him.

"Saix! Saix! Snap out of it!" Saix's head shot up, his golden eyes wide.

"Uh…None of that made an ounce of sense to me. Did either of you understand any of it?" Kamada thought hard, violet eyes intense.

"You talked about others. You referred to them in numbers, nine and eight. You said nine is gone. I can only assume that means that he died. You also confirmed what you shouted earlier. You said 'We don't have hearts', and 'that makes us special'. Saix? What is…Kingdom Hearts? You asked it for your heart" Saix looked astounded for a moment.

"Kingdom Hearts…I don't remember." Both Nira and Kamada deflated. "It was…important though. The…Superior…he wanted it. He brought us to that place…a place that was white and empty." Nira listened intently, wide burgundy eyes blinking rapidly while processing what she had heard.

"White and empty…there isn't anything like that around here." Sweeping stray white locks out of her face Nira brightened, "Hey I hadn't thought of this approach. Maybe you do remember all this stuff…you just can't access it all. When I have a hard time remembering things, I try to draw it out. It usually works." Saix cocked his head to the side, blue hair spilling over his shoulder with the action.

"Draw?" Nira nodded and ran to the living room for a brief moment before returning with a pad and pencil. Handing the objects to the pointed eared man she sat at the kitchen table with him.

"Just draw. Don't think about it just draw." Saix looked uncertain but did as he was instructed. Placing the pencil to the paper slowly an image began to appear. Nira was surprised at what was depicted. "It's…a balcony overlooking a heart-shaped moon." Saix appeared lost within the drawing.

"Kingdom Hearts…" Kamada looked confused at the drawing.

"That is Kingdom Hearts?...Hey it's a moon! You're always looking at the moon. Maybe this balcony you drew was the balcony to your room…But wait…Where in the world would you be able to see a heart shaped moon?" Saix's golden eyes never left the paper.

"You can't. Not here. Not on this world." Nira looked shocked, surprised, anxious, and excited all at the same time.

"Not on this world? So you're from another world! That explains why things here aren't familiar to you! You've probably never been here before." Saix nodded unsurely.

"Well…that seems plausible. But…if I'm not from this world, how did I get here? If I can figure that out, perhaps I can return to where I came from." Tossing white and black hair over her shoulder Nira beamed at her new friend.

"Yeah! We'll help you any way we can Sai. You're our friend now so there's no way we're gonna let you try to do all this yourself." Rising from her seat, Nira moved to Saix's side and enveloped him in a hug. Saix rose from his seat quickly and backed away snarling.

"Don't touch me!" Nira was taken aback. Regaining his composure, Saix looked ashamed. "I'm…sorry Nira. I don't know why I did that. I appreciate any help you can give me. I guess…I don't like being touched." Bright gold eyes cast at the floor, Saix turned around and headed for his room. "I think maybe some rest will do me some good. I'm going to bed." Kamada nodded at the blue haired man's back. Looking unnerved at Nira after their friend shut the door to his room, the violet eyed boy shook his head.

"I'm not sure how much more I can take of this Nira. He's a good guy, but there's too much about him that we don't know." Nira huffed at Kamada in anger.

"Don't you dare start talking like that, he needs our help Kamada." He shook his head again, tossing emerald hair about with the motion.

"Nira listen…I'm not saying we shouldn't help him. It's just…that I think that this little emotional management problem he has could be dangerous. We never reported that we had found someone to the authorities like we should have." Nira nodded worriedly.

"Yeah I know, but think about it Kamada. They probably would have taken one look at him, seen his ears and sent him to the holding facilities for soldiers. Sure Saix is a little moody, but he's a normal person." Kamada arched an eyebrow at his friend.

"Yeah, a normal person that can eat more than a garbage disposal and probably bench press a truck."

Saix could hear them arguing in the kitchen easily. He hadn't said anything to them about his amazing hearing because he felt he was probably strange enough in their eyes. Saix understood to a point why it was hard for them to accept him with how odd he seemed to be, but he felt afraid for the first time. Would they tell him to leave? He didn't know, and he would probably never know. Suddenly Saix felt angry. What difference would it make if he was a little different? Didn't he still have the right to live how he wished? Saix felt something lurch inside him. 'The moon! I must have miscalculated the timing! It's full tonight! Kamada! Nira! I could hurt them.' Saix felt the tug on his insides again, this time it was painful. His head was pounding now. God! Everything hurt! Hands surging to his head, Saix dug his fingers into his hair and grit his teeth. The pain was near unbearable now, he started to pull on his hair as the pain began to boil beneath his skin. 'I need to get out of here! Kamada and Nira will be in danger if I remain here.' Stumbling to his feet, Saix staggered to his door one hand still clutching his head. Wrenching the door nearly off its hinges, he ran out into the living room and fell to the floor. Nira surged up off the couch and ran to Saix in worry and confusion.

"Saix! Are you ok? What's wrong are you hurt?" Reaching down to put a comforting hand on his shoulder, Saix slapped it away.

"No! Don't touch me!" Saix scrambled to his feet before he stumbled and had to hold the side of the sofa for support. "The moon…ngh…tonight…" Kamada's violet eyes widened and he ran to the window to look.

"He's right the moon is full. We were off by a day." Nira looked at a loss for what to do." Saix knew he needed to get out of there NOW. Pushing himself off the side of the sofa, he ran for the door. Pulling the door open, this time actually ripping the door out of its socket, he dashed outside into the night. "Saix! Come back!" Kamada grabbed Nira's hand, and they followed after Saix into the forest behind the house.

A/N: Wow this was a long chapter for me. I hope you guys like this since I am enjoying writing it.

R&R It makes me smile a lot and you will too.