Kingdom Hearts Fan Fiction ❯ Nobodies In Love ❯ Chapter 3

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Born a Nobody.

Demyx's story haunted Axel's dreams.

How was such a thing possible? Why would the Heartless claim such a young heart? And for Demyx to be strong enough in infancy to become a Nobody... what had he been meant to be? It almost made no sense. It was almost impossible for someone to be born a Nobody. He tried to imagine what it must have been like for Demyx and his mother. Probably a hard life, full of pain...but then again, Demyx was a pacifist so he didn't get into much trouble with anyone else.

~Meanwhile~

Demyx sat back, strumming his sitar in an almost mournful way. He was recalling the conversation that he had with Axel about the former being born a Nobody. He was in the middle of a strum when a memory struck him full force.

The room was bright. So bright. And he was being held by big, strong arms. Arms that came with a voice.

"There's no heartbeat."

And then there was sobbing. Painful grief stricken sobbing that grew louder as the infant Demyx was handed to his mother for what she assumed would be both the first and last time. Then he heard his own first cry, and felt a jolt as his mother was so startled she almost dropped him.

"I don't know how," he heard the doctor tell his mother, "but your son is alive."

The flashback jumped ahead to when Demyx was a small child. To the night he'd never forgotten. The last time his mother had said "good night" before the Heartless had come back for her. And this time, they had succeeded in taking her heart, turning her into a lesser Nobody. She had become the first Dancer Nobody. And she had given him power over her kind. That power, plus the fact that he'd been born with no heart, had saved him from the Nobodies and the Heartless.

He had only been seven years old when his mother had become a Dancer Nobody.

Since then, he had fended for himself, living in the streets and dodging any battle that he didn't have to fight. In the long run, he had been found by a blue-haired man with two long scars which formed an X between his eyes.

'There's an invitation I wouldn't want to make.' He had thought when he first saw the scar.

"Don't be afraid," the man had said. "My name is Sa'ix. I'm from a group called Organization XIII. We're a group of people without hearts, like yourself, searching for our hearts."

Demyx remembered staring at Sa'ix is as he had suddenly turned into a badger.

A familiar voice brought Demyx back to the present.

"Dinner's on me if you're hungry."

Demyx looked up and saw Axel standing there with a smile on his face.