I Was Born As A Nobody
Chapter 3 – The Baby Nobody
A/N :
Hmm, I think I'll answer the reviews here:
Allison Kinglsey:
Hmm... I guess it's a matter of preference, right? I don't hate anybody from KH series, I like all of them... hahaha... Oh, before you draw on her face, you need to think twice. Because I kinda love Xion, by the way... LOL
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts and everything mentioned in my story that doesn't belong to me. Keith/Xkeith and the plot belongs to me, though.(I only copy and paste this disclaimer... haha...)
"Xemnas is in his lair right there. I'll wait here for you" Xion says to me, starting joke around wtih me. She points to a door in the end of the hallway. This 'castle', as Xion called from before, is big and boring. The whole castle walls are painted white, which is already causing problems to my eye.
"Why don't you come in together with me?"
"BECAUSE... even if I come in with you, the Superior will make me go out. He usually only let one person in his room, besides himself, of course."
"Alright then, see you in a minute. That's if I can come out alive" I say to her, feeling pessimistic about the whole thing.
"Oh, c'mon, he won't bite, you know!" Xion says, with a reassuring smile. As I open the door, her smile changed into a sadistic grin.
"Oh, it's you. Have a seat, Keith" Xemnas say.
His room is a bit darker than the other parts of the castle. It is painted gray, and the lights are also dimmer, much to my relief. At least, I don't have to exert my eyes further.
I sit on a chair across from him. He is currently reading something which looked like an important file. On his desk, I see a folder with my name on it. It is later that I realize the name written on the folder have an 'X' written in the front of it. Xkeith, huh? I wonder who he is...
As I wait for Xemnas to stop reading the file, my mind starts to wander around. I start thinking about the mysterious swords that I accidentally summoned yesterday.
"Keith, do you know about the Heartless and Nobodies?" Xemnas suddenly asks, cutting my wandering mind.
"Nope, never heard of them." Although Xion has already mentioned something about the Heartless, I still don't know anything about it, so I decided to just stay quiet and listen to what he has to say.
"The Heartless are the monster that you fought yesterday. They can steal people's heart. You're lucky that they left you alone without a fight." WHAT? HE KNEW? Then, does that mean he knows about those swords, too?
"As for Nobodies, we, Organization XIII, are all Nobodies. A creature that lives in the twilight, a creature which is a side-product of what the Heartless does. When they steal a strong person's heart,
the body left behind within the process becomes a Nobody. Nobodies don't have heart, so they can't have any feelings towards anything"
"Damn, these stuff are killing my mind, you know." I say in my mind, not realizing that I talked it aloud.
"You don't have to. Because soon, you will realize something even more confusing." Just after he say that, a knock is heard from the door.
"Lord Xemnas, the analysis is complete. The result is a positive." A rather old-sounding voice says from behind the door.
"You may come in, Vexen." Xemnas replies. The door opens. An old man with long, straight blonde hair come in. He is carrying a pile of papers on his arm.
"Keith, when you're asleep, we perform a few analysis on you. And do you know what does it say?"
"Hm, be out with it." I said, starting to get impatient.
"You're one of us"
"What do you mean by I'm one of you guys?"
"You're a Nobody"Xemnas said, with a grin on his lips
"Oh, I'm a Nobody... WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? I'M A NOBODY?" Once again, I'm overreacting again.
"Calm down, boy. In fact, you're a special kind of Nobody. The first one of your kind. You're a Nobody since you're born. And that explains what happened in the hospital where you were born." Vexen says.
"What happened at... that time?" I say in my mind. Then, in a flash of light, I remember it all.
"Madam, your baby is A BOY!" the doctor said.
"Give him here, let me see my baby!" A woman, looking a bit pale from giving birth to a baby, said to the doctor. I guess she is my mother.
The baby was pale, unlike other babies, which is supposed to be pink just after it was born. It didn't even cry at all, which is even more confusing.
The doctor thought the baby is already dead, because it didn't even move at all. So, the doctor told the bad news to the woman and took the baby away, so that she didn't get sadder from looking at the dead baby.
Suddenly, random weapons, such as swords, guns, etc, started appearing out of nowhere and attacked the people in the hospital. In the end, a timed bomb appeared and exploded, reducing the whole hospital to rubble.
The baby, remained unharmed from all those things that happened around it.
"So...I did that?" I say, still not believing the flashback I just had in my mind.
"Yes. Your powers went out of control because you're angry that the doctor assumed you're already dead. Normal babies can't hear things when they're just born, but, I guess you're an exception, since you're a baby Nobody." Xemnas explains everything to me.
"Earlier, you said that Nobodies can't have feelings, but, why can I get angry against the doctor?"
"I can explain it." Vexen steps inside the room, realizing that he was still outside. He closes the door, then walks to Xemnas' side.
"It appears that you still had a very little piece of what I thought to be your heart. But, it starts to degenerate across the time, merging with the one that still remains now, as it doesn't have any function inside a Nobody's body. It also appears that the parts that were still there isn't functioning like normal. It minimizes the feeling you have. It also..."
"Uhh... Can I just see the report later? I'm still having a headache right now, so I don't think that I can take in all these things at once." Vexen lectured like crazy. My brains is overheating. I guess there's no stopping him until I tried to.
"Yes, you can." Vexen says, slightly annoyed for being interrupted in the middle of his lecture. He hands me the pile of papers that he has been carrying. "Be sure to give it to Superior Xemnas after you read it, though. He hasn't read it."
"Okay then. So, what do you suggest I do for now? Can I go back to my..." I realizes that I'm in another world. "err...world?"
"Apparently, you can't. We don't know the world where you used to live in, so we can't portal you back there. But, we can let you stay here for a while." Xemnas says.
Crap, why don't you just tell me that you don't want to let me go because I'm an important lab-rat?
"Oh, and two more things. First, your name from now on changed to Xkeith for the time being. Second, please steer away from the other Organization members until I let you do so." Xemnas says, nearly forbidding all I can do.
"Oh, what are you? My father?" I says sarcastically.
"Don't be rude to the Superior, child!" Vexen says, though I can see that he is holding back his smile.
"Oh, you must be my mother, then? Man, I can't believe I'm the offspring of you both together" Ughh... it's just too disgusting to imagine it.
"Then you must believe it, kid.. Because it's true!" Vexen says with a grin. I shudders, A LOT, upon hearing it. In fact, I almost fell from my chair.
"Just kidding." Vexen says, with a large grin, seeing my reaction.
"I know, old man, I know..."
With that, I leave Xemnas' Lair of Doom, and find out Xion is playing something in Nintendo DS. Yes, a DS. I, myself, a Nobody from a normal world, don't even have it. "Man, can't things get any more..."
Even before I finish talking to my mind, Roxas appears from the other end of the hallway, wearing nothing but his trousers.
"HELP! RAAPPEEE!" And then, he disappears into another room.
"Well, isn't today colorful? Err, no, of course not, because all I see from the moment I wake up are white walls" I says in my mind.
"Oh, you're done! How was your first meeting with Xemnas? Why does it take so long? I could have gone to Hell and back, and you still hadn't showed up!" Xion says. I think she's bored to her mind waiting for me.
"I apologize, my princess. Then what can I do to atone for my sins?" I says, borrowing a line from a movie I have watched.
"HUH?" As expected, she is surprised from what I just said.
"Never mind, then. So, where would I be staying tonight?" I completely change the direction of the convesation. Am I great? (No? Hell no...)
"You can stay in my room, if you want, but there's some spare room in this castle, you know."
"I guess I'll just take the spare room, where can I find one?"
"C'mon, I'll take you there." Then, she walked in front of me.
"PLUS, can I have something to eat? You know, I haven't eaten anything for a week."
"Alright, then. I'll go get some later for you." Xion says with a smile.
Walking to my new room took forever. How big is this castle really? Anyway, the room turns out to be just fine. I mean, the room is exactly the same as Xion's room! At least, I still have a bed to sleep on.
"Enjoying your new room?" Xion says, stepping out of a portal, carrying a large sandwich.
"Umm... Not really. The room's a bit boring for me. Can I add anything if I need to stay here longer than expected?" Of course it's boring. The room only has a desk, a bed anf a window for God's sake!
"Of course you can." Xion hands me the sandwich. "But don't repaint it, because the last time we repaint our own rooms, Xemnas can't find any other bucket of paint, except for a pink one."
"Pfft..." I scoffs, scattering food everywhere from my mouth to my bed.
"Hey! Stop that, it's disgusting!"
"Disgusting, eh? You try eating something while imagining Roxas painting his room pink, wearing a pink apron..." Xion chuckles.
"Alright then, I guess I'll leave you for now, before I get your disease of craziness!" Xion says, as she stands up from my bed
"Oh, one more thing!"
"Yes?"
"Where can I find the bathroom?"
"It's opposite the stairs in this floor, just beside your room" Xion points to the left side wall.
"Okay, beside my room? Got it."
Xion walks to the door and tries to open it. But...
Click! It's locked. See! I'm just as unlucky as ever.
"Here, let me try opening it for you" I offers her my help. I stands up from my bed, then walk to the door. Unfortunately, I trips over something and landed on the ground with Xion just below me. My lips pressing into hers. Yep, THAT position.
"Err... Look, I'm sorry..." I apologize, as I get up from her, my face burnt up to crisp cause it's so damn hot. Okay, I'm just blushing.
"I-It's okay. I'll j-just make a po-portal then." she stutters, blushing madly from what just happened
Then she portalled away. I then touch my lips, my face still burning up.
"I...kissed her?" I ask, to nobody in particular.
After about a minute, I shrugs it off. But, I can't sleep at all that night. Thanks to that incident.
A/N:
There goes chapter 3! Whoo, I'm writing like CRAZEEEHHH! Review PLEASE! (puppy face).
Xkeith is pronounced Skeith, not Ex-Keith, but Ex-Keith itself has its own meaning, though. Which means that Xkeith was once Keith.
I'm a child of a dysfunctional parents, Xemnas and Vexen. While Xion is...errr... hard to explain.
About all the confusing stuff above, please read it because it's going to be important to understand the rest of the story.
Preview for the next chapter:
More confusing stuff inside, as Xkeith tried to understand his own being. Probably until the next chapter only.