Nobodies can feel Sadness
Author's Notes- I am currently working on Reverse/Rebirth. But it's taking me awhile. I wanted it up for Halloween, but since I'm moving house I've been plenty busy. But, while it's on my mind. Happy Halloween! To all my reviewers. Hope you enjoy your Halloween Nights and parties!
Sora sat up, shocked. He looked at his body, surprised. He tried to remember what happened the day, before. Had he fallen unconscious? He couldn't remember for some reason. But what he did remember was what happened in front of the old mansion. He had summoned some kind of weapon, and used it against those guys in the silver jumpsuit. That weapon. A KeyKunai? Sora frowned on his way down to the Usual Spot. When he passed through the Sandlot, he couldn't resist picking up a struggle bat and making a few swings with it, slowly a smile formed on his face, as he remembered taking down Seifer. He looked at his bat, and was actually expecting it to change into the form of the KeyKunai. But it didn't change. Sora sighed and pouted. He threw the struggle bat over his shoulder. Sora heard a loud thump, followed by a quite grunt of pain. Sora turned and saw a figure in a black coat. He was rubbing his head, and walking away. "Sorry!" Sora called out, worried that he was going to get in trouble for hitting the guy. He just seemed to go off in a huff. must have been some kind of emo. In the back of his mind, Sora registered that the cloak, which the man was wearing was somehow familiar. He brushed it off and continued to the Usual Spot. The rest of the gang was already inside, licking some sea salt ice-cream. Olette passed one to Sora. He thanked her and started devouring the salty and sweet frozen treat. "What are we doing today guys?" Hayner asked, once his ice-cream was gone. Olette frowned at him. "Homework!" She said, defiantly. Hayner rolled his eyes. "I swear we'll do it later. But right now, I don't know, I was thinking the beach." Olette bit her lip. The group hadn't been to the beach, so far, this summer and she would want to go and chow down on some watermelon down there. "But. Where would we get the money?" She asked, frowning. Hayner, Pence and Sora frowned. Leave it to Olette to think of the downside of a situation. Olette stood up. She started doing the calculations, in her head. "Money for four people to go to the beach and back, by train. Then money for food. And maybe something extra for souvenirs." Olette smiled. "Right. If we're going to go to the beach, then we'll need money, and to get money, we need to get part time jobs." All the boys gasped for air, as if the very thought of work, was killing them. Pence and Sora laughed, but Hayner stayed dead serious. Olette sighed. "Really?" Hayner shrugged. "I don't like work." He said. Sora and Pence jumped up, beside Olette. "Oh well. I guess we'll just have to go without you, dude." They mocked, smiling. Hayner's jaw fell open, in disbelief. His friends were going to go to the beach, without him. Never! He jumped up. "Fine. I'll work!" He said. The gang ran out, looking for people to get jobs from.
Sora tried his hand at mail delivery, using his skateboard to go around Twilight Town, giving mail to all who he had to, which was a lot. He had to go around the whole length of the Town and back, just to complete his job. He was panting, by the end of it. The woman in charge smiled at him, as he gave him his money.
Hayner was helping out a rich little girl, who needed help with her Grandstander work. He was a master of keeping the ball, in the air. A small crowd was gathering, and Hayner and the girl were loving the attention. They smiled at the crowd, until, at last, the act was over. They was a huge applause from the audience, and Hayner was paid, just under the amount Sora had been paid.
Olette and Pence were helping out with cargo and getting it up to Station Heights. Then they gave up, when they were almost run over by the cargo. So they tried getting rid of some bees, and quit, when the bees started chasing them. They finally found something they were half decent at, when they started cleaning up the streets. By this time, Sora and Hayner had moved onto putting up posters. They detailed that the struggle competition was coming up, in two days. "Are we still entering together?" Hayner asked, as the two were putting up the posters. Sora nodded. "Good. We can fight in the finals. That way whoever wins, we can split the prize money between the four of us." Sora smiled, shakily. He still wasn't sure he was a good a fighter, as the rest of the guys, but he was going to try his best. "It's a promise then!" Hayner exclaimed, putting up the last poster. Hayner and Sora went and collected the money, they earned for doing the posters and added it to the collection that Pence and Olette had got. Olette had pulled out a special, hand-made pouch. She had been counting all the munny, in her head. "WOW!" Olette exclaimed, happily. "We raised 5000 munny!" She said, throwing up the pouch. She handed it to Sora. "Don't let Pence and Hayner get their hands on this. They'll waste it, in seconds." Olette said, entrusting the pouch, into Sora's hands, leaving Pence and Hayner to storm off to the station's entrance, pouty faced.
"They want to go to the beach?" Diz asked, somewhat amused. "Is that a bad thing?" Kakashi asked, frowning. Diz nodded. "I never designed the beach in Twilight Town. The larger I make this program, the more entry points, our enemies can use." Diz said. Kakashi nodded, understanding now the situation they were in. Sasuke remained, silent. Diz noted that. "Oh please. Don't be like that. He won't mind, being disappointed. He can't be." Sasuke scowled. "That wasn't the only thing I was thinking about. Hayner, one of your programs, suggested the beach. If there's no beach, in the simulated Twilight Town, then why did he suggest it?" Sasuke questioned. Kakashi raised his eyebrows. He had missed that point, himself. Diz hesitated. "The heart is difficult to control. I have copied the basis of every person's heart, in Twilight Town. However, their hearts cannot always been controlled. It's difficult to digitise a heart." Sasuke made a noise. "More like impossible. When are you going to learn that the heart is the most complex thing in this world. You'll never be able to understand the heart's philosophy." Diz scowled at Sasuke, who disappeared into the simulated Twilight Town.
Sora had started running towards the entrance of the station, but as he was running, out of nowhere, a struggle bat came and threw him off his feet. He collapsed onto the ground. Above him, was the man he had hit with a struggle bat, this morning. Was he going to get his revenge? Sora flinched, as the cloaked man raised a hand. But he was only extending it, to grab Sora's. He pulled up the blond, to his feet. "Do you feel him?" The man whispered into Sora's ear. Sora frowned. "What?" He questioned. The man sighed, and Sora saw hell red eyes staring into his skull. The man let go of Sora's hand and walked off. Sora frowned. "That was so weird." He said, aloud. "Hurry up Sora!" Hayner cried, impatient. His three friends were waiting, Olette and Pence looked a little concerned. "Who was that guy?" Pence asked, looking over Sora's shoulder, trying to find the cloaked man. Sora shook his head. "Not sure, exactly." Sora answered, truthfully. The three inspected Sora, looking for cuts and bruises. There didn't seem to any. "Hey. Wait a sec. Where's the money pouch?" Hayner asked, his eyes bulging. Sora's own eyes widened. He patted down his pockets and looked back onto the ground. The four groaned. They weren't going to the beach today. "That guy…he must have taken it." Olette said, confirming what the others were thinking. They sighed, and decided to pool some change together and buy four ice-creams. They climbed up to the top of the station and sat on the edge, licking their ice-creams. "I'm really sorry guys." Sora said, a sad and faraway look, in his eyes. "Oh come off it!" Hayner cried, hitting him on the back of the head. "So we didn't go to the beach today, this experience will always be in our memories…so we can always remember, how much of an idiot." Everyone looked at Hayner. He smiled, and held up a finger. "Wait, it gets deeper." He said. "Even if we can't be together forever, we'll always exist like this in each other's memories." The others were stunned. Then they burst into laughter. Hayner blushed. "Shut up!" He cried. Pence, Olette and Sora laughed, harder. Sora looked upon the sunset, that was spreading out throughout Twilight Town. There was something eating away at him. It was these dreams, and all these other weird events, which had been happening after them. This recent one. When he had saw that man's red eyes, he felt a shiver down his spine. They were familiar. He tried to remember them. Something very much like them, had appeared in his dreams. The Sharingan? Was that it? Sora struggled to remember, but he thought it was right. And the user of the Sharingan was Sasuke. That was his name. And then there was what Sasuke had said. 'Do you feel him?' That was what he had said. He had been talking about someone. Naruto? The person's from his dreams. "Who are you Naruto?" Sora said to himself, so that nobody else could hear.
"Here!" Sasuke said, throwing the pouch at Diz. "Maybe you can buy yourself some ice-cream!" Sasuke was not a happy camper. Diz seemed indifferent, and went on with tapping on his keyboard. "What's the Organization doing?" Sasuke asked Kakashi. The silver haired, ninja looked up from his novel. "Not much. They're quite… for the moment. We need to get Namine to hurry up." He said, sadly. Sasuke smiled a bit. Kakashi didn't like the predicament they were in, either, and he was starting to believe that Namine may indeed have emotions.
Namine was sitting beside Roxas' pod, drawing a picture of her and said Keyblade Wielder kissing atop of Station Heights. She had tears running down her face, falling onto her white dress. She looked much the same as she did two and a half years ago, when Roxas had started his great slumber. Apparently, Nobodies didn't age like humans did. Their growing was slowed or something, but in most cases, the Nobody looked older, than their Somebody. Namine stood up and looked at Roxas' face. Even though it had made sorting out the memories so much harder, Namine was, secretly, glad that Roxas had organised that he and his friends used their powers to protect their memories of their time in Castle Oblivion. "I love you." Namine said, and she left the room, unable to bare the fact that Roxas was in the same room, as her, and not be able to hug each other. She was faced with one option. She needed to extract the memories from Sora and restore Roxas, Naruto and Sakura. And the way that Diz was doing it, was not going to cut it.
Sora woke up and made his way to the usual spot, only to find that no one was there. Olette and Pence walked in to the room, smiling. "Thought you might be here, Sora." Olette said. "Sorry, but Hayner has to help his mom clean the house, from top to bottom. So, me and Pence are planning to go shopping. You want-" Olette stopped in mid-sentence. Sora frowned. He observed her and Pence. They had completely frozen. What was going on? He poked Pence in the stomach, and he started to fall down, like a statue. Sora grabbed Pence, before he could fall and hurt himself. "Be careful Sora." A high voice, that was clearly female, from behind him. He turned around and saw a black haired girl, in a white dress. She hadn't been there a moment ago. How had she, suddenly, appeared? "Hello Sora." She greeted him, with a smile. "I wanted to meet you, at least once. But, I need something of you. Could you meet me at the old mansion?" The black haired girl walked out of the Usual Spot and, suddenly, Pence and Olette regained mobility. "-to come with?" Olette finished her sentence, as though nothing had happened. Sora stared at them. "Did you not…What happened just there?" Sora asked, sounding like a crazy person. The two just rolled their eyes. "You're so like Hayner sometimes!" Pence accused. "You would do anything to get out of a shopping spree." The two made their way off to the shops. Sora ran past them, aiming for the old mansion.
"That girl…she knows something." Sora said, to himself, as he was going through the forest. Just then, four silver guys in jumpsuits, appeared. "Not you guys again!" Sora said, jumping back. The silver figures made a grab for Sora. He turned and ran, the figures following.
Namine was waiting for Sora, in front of the simulated old mansion. But he didn't come. Namine waited ten minutes, before deciding that something was wrong. Her hand was engulfed in light and a weapon appeared in her hands. It had only been, recently, that she had discovered the ability to wield a Keyblade. Xion had, apparently, had recovered this ability about twelve years ago. But had only really been able to use the ability when inside of Roxas. The Keyblade represented Destiny Isle. It was named Destiny's Embrace. Namine ran through the forest. She could sense Nobodies.
Sora ran into the Sandlot, looking for a weapon. Unfortunately, Seifer, Fuu and Rai were also in the Sandlot. "Hey there Pip Squeak!" Seifer greeted, with a sneer. "If you're here to practice for the Struggle Tournament tomorrow, you can forget it! There's no way I'll let you near a struggle bat." Sora growled, menacingly. Just then, the whole place was flooded by guys in silver jumpsuits. Seifer and his gang jumped up. "Whoa! Who are you? I demand that you get out of my town!" Seifer ordered. The creatures didn't listen to Seifer and, instead, decided to attack. Seifer, Fuu and Rai couldn't resist the attack. "Normal attacks don't work, on these guys." Sora said, remembering his last confrontation. One by one, Seifer and his friends fell to the ground, unconscious. The creatures surrounded Sora. 'If only I had the KeyKunai.' He thought, desperately. Just then, the girl with black hair came running through. She slashed and destroyed half of the enemies. And then, Sora's wish came true. Numbers surrounded his hand, along with a flash of light. The KeyKunai appeared, and Sora turned on the remaining enemies. "Ice Release!" He cried, as he trusted a large frozen lance like weapon forward. He pierced and destroyed all the remaining enemies. After the creatures had disappeared, Sora turned to the girl, with black hair. "Who are you?" Sora demanded. "What the hell is going on?" The girl sighed. "My name is Namine. And, as for what's going on with you…" Suddenly, the whole world shook. Namine and Sora both fell. Behind Sora a huge being had landed. Sora turned and gasped. It was a huge version of the small guys, in the silver jumpsuits. "A Twilight Thorn!" Namine cried. Sora seemed to remember something like this. A fight between Naruto and Sasuke versus a Twilight Thorn? 'But how did I know that?' He asked himself, in his head. The creature sent a fist down, and Sora deflected it, with his KeyKunai. Namine jumped onto the creature's fist and threw her Keyblade at the creature's eyes. But the blade was blocked by the other hand. The blade disappeared and reappeared in Namine's hand. She grimaced. "It's more intelligent, than I gathered." She said, biting her lip. Sora threw off the creature's hand and began making hand signs, at a speed that should have been impossible to use. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" He cried. Sora felt a huge tug, on his body, as his chakra left his body and started creating bodies, of its own. The clones began launching themselves, into the air. "Rasengan!" They cried, each of them holding a blue spinning sphere made of chakra. About fifty chakra spheres collided against the giant. At that moment, Namine went right up against the creature, slashing right in half. The figure dissolved and Sora turned to Namine. "Answers! Now!" Namine sighed. She held up her hand, and a black and purple portal appeared. She walked through, expecting me to follow. I did so. Letting the darkness swallow me.
I was in a white room. Namine was sitting on some sort of ledge. She sighed. "Before I start answering your questions. I have my own. Do you remember your true name?" A sudden wave of fury washed through Sora, but that was stopped when his memory forced up the conversation between him and a cloaked man. "My True Name is…" Suddenly, another cloaked man emerged from a dark portal. "Namine, please." He sounded concerned. "But he has a right to know!" The man sighed. "Sasuke!" Sora shouted. "That's your name, right? Why did you steal that money pouch from me, yesterday?" Sasuke shook his head. He turned to Sora. "My name is Ansem." He said, taking off his hood. He didn't look anything like Sasuke. This man was older. He had tan skin, amber eyes and long white hair styled into three points. Sora was taken back. Namine seemed quite surprised too. "But it doesn't matter, Sora, this is all just a bad dream." Another black portal appeared behind Sora, sucking him through it.
When Sora awoke, he was under Seifer's foot. Fuu was taking a photo, with her camera. Rai was laughing away. Fuu had a small smirk, on her lips. Sora growled, and the three backed off, laughing. "Where did those guys go?" Sora asked. Seifer turned, his face had turned solemn. "I'm not sure. They were here, and all of a sudden they disappeared." Seifer shrugged. Sora frowned. He hadn't been able to get much info today, but he was positive that something was going on. "What are you guys doing here?" Seifer's question distracted Sora. He turned and saw Hayner, Pence and Olette looking, directly, at him. Hayner's eyes were filling with tears. He turned and ran. "Hayner!" Sora cried, running after him. Olette and Pence were following, close behind. "Wait up!" Sora found Hayner in the Usual Spot. He was in a foul mood. "You were playing with Seifer?" Hayner asked, trying to keep his voice level. Sora shook his head, violently. "No! It wasn't like that. I just…" Sora's voice faltered. Hayner went silent, and Sora slumped next to Pence and Olette. "I don't get it. Why's he acting this way?" Olette bit her lip. "Hayner has issues with Seifer, as you well know. What you might not have known, is that Seifer and Hayner were best friends." Sora's eyes widened. Olette continued. "When the struggle tournament came around, Hayner and Seifer fell out. And Seifer started stealing Hayner's friends and fans. He probably thinks that Seifer's trying to steal you now." Sora nodded, understanding the situation a little better now. "That's not what's happening. And if Seifer did try to get me to be one of his little dogs, you know I'd tell him to shove it!" Hayner smirked. "Thanks." Hayner breathed. He jumped up. "Well then. I guess that all that's left is to kick Seifer's ass tomorrow!" Sora nodded and laughed. The guys decided to talk strategy for the rest of the day. Then the four went their separate ways. Hayner and Sora were the last to leave. "I've been thinking…" Sora began. Hayner gave a cry of fake shock. Sora threw him a mock punch. "I've been thinking, what happens if the two of us are faced against each other, before the last round. What do we do?" Hayner shrugged. "If that happens, then we give it our all, and see who the better fighter is." Hayner smirked, as he saw Sora's uncertainty. "You'll do fine." He said, finally, as he began his walk home. Sora smiled and made his own way home.
"Namine! You stupid girl! You don't get to decide how Roxas and the others wake up! Leave that to me!" Diz was shouting at Namine, who flinched, in fear. Sasuke was in the room in seconds. "Stop it Diz! You're scaring her!" Diz scowled at Sasuke, who had kept his hood down, since he had revealed his face to Sora. Diz and Sasuke stared at each other. Diz was the first to break off. He sighed, angrily. He wasn't used to children being so disobedient and fighting against him. Sasuke raised a hand and sent Namine to her room, through a corridor of darkness. She frowned, sadly, and left for her room. She began drawing, it showed Naruto and Sora existing at the same time, and then the next one showed herself and Xion dancing with Roxas. Tears slid off her eyes and splashed onto the page. "This world is so cruel…"
Author's Notes- Namine! I hate writing sad pieces like that. I know how this story ends and I feel sorry for Namine, even though she has a sorta happy ending. Right, well considering this chapter, I think I changed it a lot. Why? Well, I hated that whole dream sequence, it was completely unneeded. And as for Hayner, well, there was enough sadness in this chapter, so I wanted the chapter to end, happily on their end. I mean, in the few chapters to come it's going to be really emotional.
Next Time- A struggle to Remember…