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"I don't know what I think yet," said Xemnas. "The fact is that Naminé has the demeanor of a princess of heart. Yet, she is a nobody, and if one of the Princesses had become a heartless, I'd certianly know about it."

Xemnas sighed.

"This certainly merits further research..." he siad, more to himself than anyone else.

Passing the soda bottle to Xigbar, he said "Do you need a refill?"

Xemnas stared out to the heart-shaped moon of Kingdom Hearts.

"Braig...Are you familiar with the Princesses of Heart?"

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((Yes, short, but I've been busy. School is ending and I'm late in assignments. I'm trying to be more social and active and it's not working. Also, I'm dealing with some shmuck who has the nerve to post a comment on my "Sugar Daddy" AMV that I'm being disrespectful to the song's creators and that I should be arrested.))

((Yeah, we are. Why aren't you? And where is everyone else, for that matter?))

"No," said Xemnas, "It's not like that...It's almost like..."

Then Xemnas stopped short. It couldn't be...

"...but it can't be what I'm thinking. That would be impossible..."

((Sorry it's been so long. I've been having problems lately, and my creative side isn't what it should be. I'll be on sparingly from now on. This is short since I have class in literally one minute.

Oh, by the way, those who have read my earlier posts will note that I have made Naminé 17 going on 18 for the purposes of this RP, just so that the attraction is almost legal at least))

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Xemnas thought about that. What did he sense?

"It was...a very odd feeling," he started slowly, "I can't describe it. It's very similar to the feeling of warmth and security a romantic attraction would bring, yet this was different since the attraction was happening simultaneously. I think whatever it is might have something to do with her other..."

"Well," said Xemnas slowly, "I met someone today. A nobody..."

Xemnas proceeded to tell Xigbar all the events, in exact detail, that occured in the mall with Naminé.

"...and she seems to have a lot of potential, but I don't want to drag her into our world. But I can sense that, like Roxas and myself, her heart still exists somewhere. And there's also something different about her than any other nobody I've encountered."

After taking a deep breath, Xemnas continued "And...although she's obviously far younger than I...I seem to be developing...well...a sort of...crush...if you will...on the girl. Xigbar...Braig...my old friend, what are your thoughts on this?"

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((Yeah, I know that second paragraph is a cop-out, but it's been almost a week since my last post and I couldn't find a satisfactory way to re-tell the events.))

Xemnas smiled sadly.

"I'm glad you have faith in me. You know, it would take about half of you getting destroyed in the span of a few hours to do serious damage. Like that could ever happen," Xemnas chuckled.

Sighing, he continued, "Though you have to admit...my ehart has been weak before."

Pondering for an instant, he said "There's something else I need to tell you. Saix knows a little bit, but I haven't filled him in as much as I'm going to fill you in and, for the moment, I'm also going to need your confidence and secrecy on the details of this issue."

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Grrr...I had to do this ten numbers ago too. Stay on it. Double check after you post to make sure no one else's post got in before you.

"Well..." said Xemnas slowly, "it will be a lot less empty for one. I doubt our feelings will be all that different, but we'll have far more control, and we won't feel so...broken."

Xemnas stared at the moon and unconciously put his hand to his cloak pocket, "I imagine it will feel not dissimilar to being in love."

Noticing where his hand was, he pulled it back sharply. "No, Xemnas, don't think like that..."

Suddenly remembering he wasn't alone, he chuckled nervously. "Sorry Xigbar...just my residual emotions getting the best of me again. I have to admit you're not the only one who's been fraternizing with the fairer sex as of late..."

3579

The other day they were alive, but now they're floating at the top. I knew they wouldn't last forever, and now they're just a bunch of Dead Sea Monkeys.

3576

Oh god...I am just so unmotivated to do anything at all. Ugh....am I depressed? I'm not sad, I'm just...apathetic.

Xemnas took a deep breath.

"Did you ever wonder why we all seem to show an exponential amount of emotion for beings that supposedly have no hearts?"

Without waiting for Xigbar's reply, he continued, "Well, there's a reason for that, and it's about time I let you in on it. Nobodies whose hearts are still in tact somewhere will feel that residue, and that residue is infectious. If we're around someone who still has a heart or someone whose heart is gone but still alive somewhere, it's almost as if we have hearts again. Not enough for us to, say, stop our little experiment," and at this he motioned to the ever-growing heart-shaped moon in the distance, "but enough so that anyone who tells you you have no true emotions is full of sh**, as the kids say."

Xemnas sipped his soda.

"Now, you ask, where is this residue coming from? Kingdom Hearts is too far away unless our hearts were already in it. You're well aware that Roxas' other is still lurking about somewhere, and I commend you for keeping that little tidbit to yourself, but his residue alone is not enough to give all thirteen of us true feelings."

Xemnas sighed, struggling to find the words, "Walking through that door to darkness was a mistake, but it wasn't entirely unplanned. I was able to create a device that allowed me to grab my heart before it disappeared. Foolishly, instead of putting it back, I stumbled around and placed it in a container before I split apart and re-awakened as a Nobody in Twilight Town. All in the name of the experiment."

Taking a few deep breaths and another swig from the soda bottle, he continued, "When the rest of you showed up in Twilight Town, I knew what my Heartless had done. When we finally made it back to the Garden, my study was in shambles, but the container was still there, with my heart still in it. It was then that I decided to right the wrongs I visited upon you five, the only true friends I had, and came up with the idea of unlocking Kingdom Hearts so we could all regain ours. And the heart at the center of that moon, the cornerstone of this great experiment, is none other than...my own."

Xemnas looked gravely at Xigbar, "I'm telling you this because you are my best friend and you above all deserve to know, and because I still feel guilty for leading all of you into this. But also...my heart was weak when I found it. Indeed, it's the continued exsistence of all of you that keeps it strong. If any of you were to perish, I fear I would slowly become the monster everyone says I am."

He put his hand on Xigbar's shoulders.

"That's why...sometimes...I'm overprotective, short on temper, and a tad overbearing. I don't mean to be. But I care about all of you, and until our hearts are fully restored, you all are my humanity. And if anything happens to any of you...I become truly heartless."

Xemnas slumped back in his lounge chair, clearly emotional.

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It gets old when all telephone numbers in movies start with 555.

3534

That would have been more convincing if you had been the one who started this thread in the first place.

Xemnas smiled. He looked at his stopwatch. It read three minutes. Xemnas put it away and said nothing about it.

"It is good to have the old Xigbar back for at least a second," he said, "But I have to wonder what form you truly prefer? What I'm getting at is that all day I've been trying to find a way to reverse your condition, and something always gets in the way. I wonder if you're fated to this new childhood?"

Xemnas took a sip and continued, "I suppose if that's the case, you might consider yourself lucky. Many people would give anything to relive their childhoods, and correct the mistakes they made the first time around."

Xemnas looked at Xigbar. "Braig, my old friend, there's something I need to tell you. Can you keep a secret?"

3519

I want to say something witty, but I'm just too damn tired right now.

I had a dream last night where Doctor Octopus infected me with a plague by having me pick up an infected laptop.

3514

Bill...Strange things are afoot at the Circle K...

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I have nothing to say worth anyone's interests at this time.

Xemnas chuckled slightly and clicked his stopwatch.

Wait a second, he thought, When did I get a stopwatch?

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Roll back the rock until the dawn of time, and sing this song with me.