Luna Diviner, Across Boundaries

A Kingdom Hearts fanwork by Raberba girl, written for Wishing-Fire's "100 Theme Challenge: Round Two"

Summary: More drabbles about Isa/Saïx, both canon-based and various AUs.

Introduction: I actually haven't finished or posted any installments of my "Wishing-Fire's 100 theme challenge" series yet (except for Stepsiblings: Luna Diviner, 100 Moments - Smile, where Xem attends an awards ceremony for Saïx's students, including Miranda). But I've made very good progress on it and am roughly 75% done, so I figure it'll get finished eventually. Besides, I'm getting desperate to keep up the post-a-fic-every-day momentum for at least a little longer, and I had this idea that seemed to fit best in this series, so it's getting posted early. X'D

Oh, and the first 100 theme challenge series is all Stepsibs-Saix, but this second one will be Saïx from any universe.

Speechless (theme 17) [postable edition] {rough draft}

Summary: Lea finally finds out why Saïx made no response back then. Post-canon.

o.o.o

Lea looked like he was dying. A complete overreaction in my opinion, since Roxas and Xion seemed only a little dismayed at the discovery, but Lea was acting as if they hated his guts.

"But it was you who killed them?" Xion said unhappily. "It wasn't...someone else?"

"Who exactly did you have in mind?" I said dryly. She already knew Sora's role in the deaths of half the Organization; was she thinking of him, or someone else?

"What did they do, anyway?" Roxas wondered. "Zexion's always been kind of nice... Why would you kill him? Or even Vexen. He was supposed to be on our side."

Lea finally uncurled. "HAH! So glad you asked, Roxas, because it was actually THAT GUY SITTING NEXT TO YOU who told me to do it!"

Now Roxas and Xion were staring at me with wide eyes.

"I told you no such thing, Lea Hayes."

"Wha-! WHAT?!"

Roxas's and Xion's betrayed expressions, I could care less about; but Lea's seemed to cut my heart. "I told you to eliminate the traitors," I clarified. "Vexen and Zexion were not traitors. You weren't supposed to eliminate them."

"Since WHEN?! Wasn't it your idea to knock out everyone between you and the head honcho?! We agreed to-!"

"That was Isa's idea." Then, when they all gave me confused looks ("I thought you are 'Isa' now," Roxas said), I felt uncomfortable and tried to clarify. "When Isa and Lea were working as partners, that was our agreement. We wanted Isa to become the Organization's second-in-command for our own purposes, since we cared nothing about the Organization itself at that time."

"How come Isa is talking about himself in third person?" Lea asked warily.

"Because by the time Axel did become powerful enough to eliminate those in the way without drawing undue suspicion to himself, Saïx was the one making the plans. No longer Isa."

Roxas and Xion looked confused, but horrified comprehension was starting to dawn on Lea's face.

"He wanted as many vessels as possible to be available," I said softly. "Yet you unnecessarily destroyed two of them. When he found out what you'd done- When he found out that you had done it for me...he was so angry." I didn't want to remember that.

"Th... Wait, what...?!"

"I didn't exactly thank and praise you when you told me you'd eliminated more than just the traitors." What little had been left of me was touched to see that Axel, despite everything, had still remembered our old promise. It was Saïx - Xehanort - who had been silent, too outraged to even speak.

He had left the room without a word so he could concentrate on demanding an explanation from me and then punishing me. Yet what happened afterward was worse...when he encouraged Axel's friendship with the young newcomers, until Axel gradually lost faith in me and then gave up on me. That had hurt worse than anything Xehanort could ever do to me.

No longer, though. Lea eventually came back, and this time he hadn't given up on me, and the reason I'm sitting here alive and well is entirely thanks to him. ...I suppose Sora as well, but it was mostly Lea.

"You are kidding me," Lea said in amazement. "You mean you were so speechless back then because Baldinort was mad at me?"

"I will thank and praise you now, though. Even and Ienzo ultimately came to no harm - quite the opposite, in fact - and your loyalty to our friendship did not go unappreciated. Thank you, Lea."

"It seems wrong to thank someone for killing people," Xion grumbled.

"I'm sorry, Isa," Lea said.

"It's fine. You couldn't have known."

"I should've figured that something was up when my best friend started turning into someone else!"

"I told you, it's fine."

"Baldinort better be glad he's already dead, otherwise I'd go kill him..."

o.o.o

Author's Notes: I always thought it was weird that when Axel told Saïx that he'd killed Zexion, Saïx had NO REACTION, he didn't say a word.

It occurred to me the other day that what if...what if Saïx actually hadn't wanted the non-traitor C.O. team members dead? As in, what if that had been Isa & Lea's plan at one point, but over time, the Xehanort in Saïx had wanted to preserve as many vessels as possible? Maybe he was actually angry with Axel rather than pleased. o.O

Now, I don't think that's actually what Nomura intended in canon, but it's an interesting theory that I think there's enough room for. XD

My original idea had been to write the incident when it actually happened, but the whole Xehanort-possession thing would have made me too uncomfortable to post it. I decided to make a postable edition that takes place after Isa is free. It's still not great, but my conscience doesn't bother me as much that way. :/

I might one day try a different take on the RokuShi-find-out-their-mommy-was-an-assassin idea, but I was more restricted in this particular story, because the main point of it was something different.

Complete: 1/100