This is PreChain of Memories... Why don't I just say PreCoM? XD

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Naminé sat quietly doing a quick sketch of the room she saw in front of her. She wasn't completely sure why she drew it. It lacked so many colors… In fact, there were only two major colors around her. And one color was only the grey caused by the shadows. Except for herself, the room was as empty as the one color that covered everything here. White. It was as if any and all other colors had disappeared into oblivion…

But apparently not Castle Oblivion.

Naminé really disliked it here. Everything was so devoid of all colors, except for white. And she was sure there were even some people who didn't even consider white to be a color… It was tempting to just get her crayons and color the walls herself! She had a red that she was sure would make those rose sculptors on the wall just perfect! But… She knew the castle's lord, Marluxia, would have thrown a fit at having one of his beautiful flowers soiled by a crayon. But perhaps if she used pink instead he wouldn't be so angry about it. Naminé giggled at the thought. Marluxia seemed to love everything and anything pink. His scythe, the flowers he used in battle… Even his hair.

She stiffened her growing giggling as someone teleported into the room. Naminé was instantly glad she had stopped her giggling. The one who had teleported in was Vexen. Nearly the opposite of Demyx, who to her disappointment, had stayed back at the Castle That Never Was –she had always found that name tremendously funny for obvious reasons-, Vexen seemed unable to tolerate any kind of fun going on around him. He had once said it was because people should always have better things to do then sit and play around. Vexen had even used to complain about Naminé always sitting around and drawing. He had been silenced about that when Marluxia informed him that that was how Naminé used her powers to alter people's memories. Vexen had seemed surprised. Had he not known of Naminé's power? Probably not, since he now seemed to be around Naminé more often. He would just bring a notepad and a pen and then just observe her as she was drawing. He would just stand, or occasionally even sit, in front of Naminé as she would draw. He would occasionally scribble something down on his notepad, or even more rarely, he would ask what she was drawing or even why she was drawing it. It could get kind of nerve-wracking, actually.

Naminé could admit that originally she hated it when he came at first, but eventually, she got used to it and even liked it when he visited. The more often he visited, the more she realized that almost no one else came into the room. She would often even feel disappointed when Vexen didn't visit. She would draw slower, make more mistakes, and even look to the door every few minutes, despite the fact that Vexen and the other residents of Castle Oblivion preferred to just teleport wherever they needed to go instead of using the doors. Who knows, maybe the doors were just put there for her use…

Naminé finished her drawing of the room as Vexen walked over to her desk. She let him look over the drawing and scribble down a few notes before she flipped to the next page. She sat there for a few moments wondering what she should draw next. She had seemed to draw everything she could think of drawing. She had even drawn a picture of Axel and Larxene kissing a few days earlier… That had actually gotten a laugh out of Vexen and Marluxia, who had both came that day. And then Marluxia advised that she should tear up the picture before either Larxene or Axel saw the picture... Or maybe Marluxia was just jealous of Axel, she had thought then with a laugh.Naminé didn't tear it up, but she made sure that she never went to that section of her sketchbook when they were around.

Naminé looked up at Vexen and a random thought passed through her head. He's so old… And then Naminé looked back to her sketchpad with a grin on her face. She had an idea of what to draw now. Who knows, maybe Vexen would laugh again if it ended up turning out horribly wrong…

Naminé picked up her black crayon and started the drawing…

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Naminé held up her sketchbook so Vexen could see the picture clearly. Vexen gave her –or maybe her picture- one of his crooked grins. He didn't have to be told what he was seeing to realize what she drew.

After all, she had drawn what she had thought he looked like when he was younger.

"It's surprisingly accurate… But I suppose you could have just indulged yourself in my memories to see what I looked like back then, though it didn't seem like you had any gaps through your pencil strokes long enough to have gone through my memories. Perhaps you can observe people's memories as you draw at the same time? It didn't seem like you could before.Is it possible thatyour powers advanced? An interesting matter…" And with that he disappeared as he teleported away. A few minutes after he left, Naminé looked over her drawing.The Vexen in the picture seemed different somehow than the Vexen that she was used to seeing. His hair was almost black. She supposed it could have just changed to it's current murky blonde as he got older, but wouldn't it have just turned grey or something? And the facial strusture seemed a lot different as well... It was as if in some point of his life he had just drastically changed... The thoughts didn't stay in her head for too long though. She looked over the picture again.

"You looked kind of handsome when you were younger."

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That was interesting to write…

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters mentioned or Castle Oblivion. And the idea for some kind of Vexen friendship/romance goes to Phantomfan07.

...I found the idea of a Vexen romance hard to come up with. I mean... He's old. XD ... So I decided, why don't I make him younger! But that would be a bit strange... Plus he wouldn't be a Nobody anymore... So I decided someone could imagine him younger... And Naminé is an artist... so why not? And she drew as he was before he was a Nobody and all, but she doesn't even know what a Nobody is yet...(or at least I don't think she does. XP)so she's just kind of confused...XD... And the hint of Larxel was rather fun to write. XP. I might make a chapter for them later... After I finish the requests and find my AkuRoku chapter... I might just have to rewrite that chapter... I seriously can't find it anywhere...

What would a Vexen/Naminé be called anyways? Vexine? Namixen? XD... Anyways...

I was glad that so many people liked the first chapter. Someone even requested that I continue on with Demyx coming back to the islands. I might do that one soon, because we shouldn't just leave Kairi without Demyx, should we? XD...

So far I have requests for:
AkuRoku, friendship and yaoi
Namixas
Demyx returing to the islands
and I just did the Vexen request... so.. yay. XP

I've never written yaoi before... just because I found it kind of wrong... but I might do it since someone requested. :) ... And I have a slight problem doing Namixas. Naminé and Roxas are just so perfect together that it's hard to write. XD ... But Demyx returing to the islands should be an interesting one to write...

Anyways, review! And you can send a request if you wish. XP