Author's note: Well, congrats guys! You made me want to write another chapter! YAY! –dances- But it's kind of bad due to the wonderful thing called school that saps my imagination cells one by one. So… yeah. Thanks to the people who reviewed, even though I know two of you. Hewwo. –waves- You all made me write today… when I had all this wonderful time to myself to work on homework, I worked on this. So… be thankful. Yay.
To my dearest Akita: I'm thinking of throwing in some Akuroku somewhere in the story just for the hell of it, along with Zemyx and possibly Marvex. –ish shot—But I love that couple! Neh! Stupid summary wouldn't let me say it, though. --
And ALSO: REALLY HUGE NOTE: To Johanna Bella: I was looking at your profile thingy (like I do with all of my reviewers :3) and I realized that you were the amazing author of one of my all time favorite el oh el stories, A Misunderstanding. My gods, I was laughing so hard when I read that. You get a gold star and a quick update, Ms. Bella. So DOUBLE YAY! –dances more!—
Disclaimer: No, I don't own Kingdom Hearts II, or its characters and worlds. Really. I don't.
WARNING: Mature yaoi, hardcore stuff, violence, cursing, all that jazz. Will contain lemon… maybe a few lemons, not sure yet.
Things in Italics are Aïs/Saïx's thoughts. :3Suspension
Chapter Two: DiscoveryA soft groan was filled throughout the room as that same pair of golden eyes fluttered open once more. Greeted by the same darkness too, how wonderful. This whole world was just full of the dark, wasn't it? Aïs bet that these people probably didn't even know what the light even was. Imagine that, people living in the darkness… what poor souls.
Aïs, though, had realized that his time, something was different. He didn't wake up in the large, abandoned city. He seemed to have woken up in… a lab of some sort. There was another figure in the room, also with a black cloak on like the ones before. Aïs quickly shut his eyes again, pretending to be asleep. He didn't want to know what the cloaked figure might do if he was awake.
For the third time that day, the blunette began to panic, alarms going off in his head. Oh, shit! What the hell happened in that city? They… did they take me back to their base, or whatever they called it? Am I going to die here? Damn, damn, damn! Why—
"Ah, Superior, the test results are done."
Aïs almost let out a gasp, but didn't want to bring any more attention to himself. Aïs had recognized the voice as being the one who captured him—Vexen, was it?—but wasn't paying as much attention to the voice itself as to what he had said. The… Superior? Who could that possibly be? Oh, how Aïs was so tempted to just open his eyes a tiny bit, just to see how the hell this guy was in the first place. But he was smarter than that, only listening to the conversation right in front of him.
"As you can see," Vexen began, "Aïs was definitely attacked earlier, we're not sure by what. Probably Heartless, considering that he wound up near Memory's Skyscraper."
Heartless?
There was a short silence before Aïs heard a sigh. "So then, is he a Nobody, IV?" This new voice had to be the Superior's, certainly. It was deep, a commanding voice that any female would gladly work under. It held no emotion whatsoever, though, and this made Aïs a bit uneasy. How could such a powerful sounding voice sound so… empty?
"Yes, Superior, I believe that this man is, indeed, a Nobody."
"A what?"
Oops.
Two heads snapped over to who they thought was sleeping, but obviously was faking it. Aïs cursed himself for being so idiotic as to say something out loud. He kept his eyes closed, though, acting like a child who didn't want to wake up for school. The Superior must have known this was child's play, though, walking right up to Aïs and moving up close to his face.
Aïs felt the Superior's breath on him, and quite frankly, it was freaking him out. He slightly opened one eye, and was greeted by the Superior's own amber eyes staring right at him. He let out a gasp, trying to back as far away from the Superior as he possibly could, but alas, he was strapped to a cold, metal table. Strange how he hadn't realized that before.
The Superior chuckled at Aïs' reaction, moving away from the confused man. Aïs took this change to get a better look at the man… and what a sight he was! The Superior was tanned, almost as if he was in the sun all day. He had grey—no wait, silver—hair, reaching down in spikes to his shoulders. He had a strong build, and he was wearing the same cloak the other two were wearing.
This man was definitely a sight for sore eyes.
But he wouldn't let that show. Instead, he only looked up to the tanned man, who seemed to be looking over his body. Creepy pervert, Aïs mused to himself. He had refused to say a word, not wanting to say something stupid again. The Superior, after finishing his "check-up", looked over to Vexen with a nod. "Leave the clipboard, I want to talk to this… Aïs…" Said man glanced up and over to Vexen, forgetting that he was still in the room. He looked more normal than the other two Aïs had met, with blonde hair, styled the same as the Superior's. The man had green eyes, and didn't have as powerful a build as his leader.
Vexen nodded back, placing his clipboard down on the small table beside him, leaving the room. Aïs gulped, looking over to the leader of this strange world. He had walked over to the clipboard, picking it up and skimming through a few notes before looking back to the blunette, his face holding the same amount of emotion as his voice. None. What kind of man is he, to be able to not show simple things like emotion? Aïs thought.
"So then, Aïs," the Superior started, "do you have any idea why you are here?"
A blank expression was all it took to prove that he wasn't sure what was going on.
"I see… do you remember anything before you came here?"
At this, Aïs blinked. He hadn't really tried to remember what happened before he had come to this strange world. He tried to think… but there was nothing. "I… I don't… no," he stated, shaking his head.
The Superior tsked a few times, a smirk appearing on his face. "You don't remember? That's very strange, you should. Maybe… you just need a little hit to the head to remember…"
Aïs looked to the other man with a horrified look on his face, not wanting to be hit, or whatever was going to happen. "Wait, wait, don't I get any say in if I want to––" WHAM! The Superior had hit the blunette in the head with some sort of red object that seemed to be summoned in less than a second… looked kind of like a laser spear. Aïs yelped in pain, but only blinked when something started to come to his mind. Images.
It was coming at him like a lightning bolt, giving him almost no time to fully process them. Aïs saw almost everything; his childhood, parents, his friends… and the things that sent him to this world.
Little black figures had appeared out of the ground, with beady yellow eyes and black antennae on their heads. They had just come out of the ground out of no where, attacking almost everyone in sight. Aïs' parents, his younger siblings, his friends… and his whole town. Destroyed by these creatures, every one of the people who Aïs cared for and loved… all gone…
"O-oh… oh g-god!" Aïs cried out. All of those memories flying at him like a speeding bullet; it was too fast. It was all just going too fast, and a bit scary, too. What the hell were these strange creatures who were simply… killing everyone? Now he remembered; the little creatures were… heart snatchers! They attacked, and suddenly a pink heart-shaped object came out—probably the heart itself. And then, the body would just… disappear.
Was that what happened to Aïs?
Almost as if the Superior had read his mind, he began, "The creatures that attacked you are called Heartless, Aïs. They are creatures without hearts, searching mindlessly for anything that possesses a heart. A large group obviously attacked where you lived… thus obtaining most of the citizen's hearts."
Aïs had seemed to have taken it all in calmly, just trying to comprehend what was going on. These Heartless creatures had attacked his town. Stole hearts. But, what exactly did that mean, having your heart stolen? "Are they… are they all dead? Everyone who had their heart stolen?"
The Superior looked at Aïs with that same emotionless look. It was beginning to bother him; couldn't this strange man do anything else with his face? "Not exactly, you see, they have become Heartless themselves––"
"They what?!"
The tanned man smirked at the blunette––finally, some real emotion!––and nodded. "Well, that is what happens when a body loses its heart."
"Then… is that what happened to me? Am I a… a Heartless now?"
The smirk on the other man's face had grown wider, and he shook his head. "No, no, you aren't a Heartless. You had a strong willed heart, so the body was spared. That's what you are, Aïs; a body without a heart. But you can think, you aren't mindless like a Heartless is. You really are not supposed to exist… the body left behind. A Nobody." He said this very calmly, but in a bored tone, as if he had said it before.
"A Nobody…" Aïs mused. So this was what he was now? Surprisingly, he didn't feel too scared about it… it seemed as though he didn't care about it at all. His mind wanted to, but his heart––wait, his non-existent heart––didn't want to feel.
"I believe that's enough information for now… I have told you much more than you need to know. Why don't you stay here for the night?"
"Do I have a choice?"
The Superior's smirk turned into a sly grin at the silly question. "Why no, you do not. But with a new… body, you will need a new identity. A new name…" He paused for a moment, looking as though he was thinking deeply. "Saïx. You will be known as Saïx." With that, the Superior began to leave, but the new Nobody stopped him.
"Wait, if you give me a new name, am I allowed to know your name?"
The Superior didn't move for a moment, and the blunette feared that he might've angered him. But, he was answered by the powerful voice that had explained what was happening to him now.
"Xemnas."
And with that, the lights shut off and he left the room, leaving Aïs ––no, Saïx––alone, with only the glow from the moon to use as a light in this dark new world.
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