A/N:

Another update. :3

Saïx silently turned random ways, eventually going to the back room where they first met. Hoping this would trigger something in her memory, he pulled out the book he read to her when he stumbled upon her in the secret library. He showed the book to her, called Heartless, and sat down. Patting the seat next to him, she uncertainly sat down and looked at the book.

"Saïx-san," the girl next to him tugged on his sleeve childishly. "If Nobodies don't have hearts, and Heartless do- why don't they just switch the titles around? It would make more sense."

"I-I…" she touched the book as delicately as if it would shatter if she stared at it. "I think… I've seen this before, right?"

"Yes." He flipped to the page about the differences on Heartless and Nobodies. "You asked a question I couldn't answer due to my lack of knowledge."

"I suppose… it's a way to tell us we are still inferior to that of things with hearts."

"Nobodies…" she traced her digits lightly over the word printed in black ink, furrowing her brows. "I think… I understand it now."

Saïx raised a brow. "How so." It was more of a demand than a question.

When Axel walked by Xemnas's office, he wasn't expecting a stern hand to grab his wrist, turning him to face the Superior. He grimaced, and turned to face him completely, making the silver-haired man let go of him.

"Where's the Replica?"

"Yukia? Saïx took her somewhere. Said he was gonna 'take care of her.'"

Xemnas's eye twitched. Turning away, he mumbled to himself "If you want anything done right, you have to do it yourself…"

Yukia laid her head calmly against Saïx's shoulder, making the Berserker stare at her in doubt.

"What are you doing?"

"I-I'm sorry," she said, sitting up straight, and looking at the ground. "That was rude. Um… don't I need to see somebody?"

"I don't see why you should be concerned about where you must be."

She wanted to laugh, but was afraid that the scarred man next to her would do something horrible to her.

As he lost control again, Yukia kept taking the blows and bled-bled until almost all her veins ran dry…

She chocked up, coughing harshly into her hand. Her entire body began to hurt, and scars she didn't remember receiving began to crack open. Blood spurred from these re-opened wounds, and she struggled to keep her body under control.

"Yukia?" he kneeled beside her twitching form, crimson liquid staining the pure white marble beneath her. Dusks gathered around, whispering in hushed voices, cackling silently. "Don't just stand there. Get things to help me keep her together. Now!" they all scattered, lanky bodies twisting this way and that, some stumbling on their own rubbery limbs.

Xemnas appeared in the mess of blood and Dusks, walking calmly over to Saïx.

"Lots of trouble, those Replicas, don't you agree, Saïx?"

Saïx resisted the urge to growl and lash out at his Superior, and instead settled for a rude comeback. "That would explain the many flaws of the Organization, wouldn't it, Superior?"

Xemnas frowned, bringing his brows together in disgust. "Let her bleed and die. She's just a Replica. No more of use to us than Dusk food."

"Au contraire, Superior." A black portal opened, and through it walked Marluxia, roses swirling around him in a very menacing [feminine] manner. "You'll find her as useful as a million hearts."

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Ohhhhh, cliffhangers are the ones that kill you, aren't they?

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