Devil Inside

[Sora788]

Author: Sora788
Rating: K
One-Shot
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts.

Devil Inside

An eerie quietness filled the spacious, white room. Vibrant rays streamed through tall wide windows, giving the room a radiant glow. A long pallid table stretched across the middle. At the end, an empty adolescent sat peacefully drawing away in her sketchbook. Putting the pencil down on the table top, she flipped through the pages one by one, adoring her artwork. She stopped at a picture she drew of another Nobody, one just like her. His blonde spikes were in all directions, his pale skin matched hers, and he had the same sad blue eyes. Letting out a depressed sigh, she continued to rummage through the pages.

The concealed door to the left flung open as a tall woman dressed in black robes scurried in. Her blonde antenna like hair wobbled in place as she marched angrily across the room. Her evil eyes darted from one picture to another that had been carefully taped onto the dull walls. Snatching a drawing of an island surrounded by blue water and a Paopu tree, she crumbled it up and tossed it to the speck-free ground. She ripped off another drawing, one that consisted of Marluxia, and tore it in two, then threw it with the other drawing. Madly, she growled, “Stop sticking crap on the walls, Naminé!” She continued to strip the rest of the walls that held Naminé’s work.

Naminé sat in utter silence, her sorrowful eyes trailed Larxene’s every movement. Closing her precious sketchbook, she held onto it tightly, afraid to let it go in harm’s way. Moving it closer to her chest, she inched back in her chair and reluctantly listened to the sounds of annihilation.

Rip.

Another drawing destroyed.

Crumble. Rip. Tear.

One after another, the drawings were torn and ruined. Every rip of each picture caused a tear in her heart.

Smash. Rupture. Destroy.

Another tear in her heart. It was as if each drawing held a part of her. Each ruined picture took that away from her.

The floor had been covered with paper, covering most of the white tile. Naminé’s gaze had not been broken. Her expressionless face did not stir.

“Clean this place up!” Larxene ordered as she kicked a few crumbled paper balls. “I want these walls clean and empty the next time I come here. Get it?”

Not a single word slipped from her mouth. Naminé simply glared at the frustrated girl before her. Giving a dramatic sigh, Larxene banged the door behind her as she thundered away. Slowly moving to the floor, Naminé gathered as many sketches as she could in her fragile arms and carried them back to the table. They poured from her grasp and spread evenly in front of her.

Slowly and gradually, each torn piece had been smoothed flat. She stacked them one on top of the other and placed them at the edge of the table, as she stared at the roll of tape laying untouched next to her assortment of crayons.

---xxx---

“Naminé,” Larxene bellowed once more the next day, “Didn’t I tell you yesterday to stop ruining the walls with your damn crap?”

Naminé did not bother to look up from her drawing book, not once. Instead, she concentrated on drawing. “Are you listening?” Larxene questioned, her voice filled with great irritation.

Grunting she ripped off every picture that hung in the room and took them with her downstairs. “I told her to get rid of this, not re-attach them!” she muttered under her breath as she stormed down the stairs. She met Axel at the bottom.

“Axel!”

As he twirled around, she tossed the bundle of papers at him. They fluttered violently, cutting in between them, and then floated down by Axel’s feet on the floor. Some were faced up while others were faced down. His emerald eyes scanned across each drawing. He let out an involuntary laugh, “Did you draw these? They’re so amateur!”

“Burn them.” Her cold voiced matched her cold heart. “Now!”

“Huh?”

“You heard me.” Saying that, she swiftly climbed the stairs and back towards Naminé. Without hesitation, he snapped his right hand and a thin flicker of fire appeared on his index finger. A smile came across his face as he watched the flames bouncing across the stationary. Each paper burned and disintegrated to a pile of ash within seconds. With one movement on his hand, the flames disappeared instantly. Steam from the ashes floated in the air.

---xxx---

Her smooth lines connected with one another as she glided her black colored pencil swiftly across the sheet of paper. Her hard strokes created shoulder length hair with the yellowish pencil she now held. After getting hold of a red crayon, she didn’t have to think twice about what she wanted to drawn in next. A thin grin spread across her pale, stressed face.

The door flung open harshly as Larxene barged in. Her eyes swept the room, she frowned at the sight of more drawings taped to the walls. Her voice vibrated through the room as she yelled, “Axel! Come here now!”

Naminé flinched slightly and hastily closed her book when Larxene made her way over to her. She snatched the object from her weak grasp and with haste, flipped through each page. The picture of Roxas caught her attention first. “Who’s this? Roxas?”

The page fluttered to the ground when she tore it out. “You drew Sora, Kairi, and Riku?” She ripped those out as well, along with every page. Her subtle movements ceased when she turned to the last page. The pupils of her eyes turned into puddles of water, her face became hot and red. Her eyes gazed at the crude illustration of herself in a black robe with two pointy red horns erupting from her hair and a devilish tail coming from behind. At top in bold letters read, ‘Devil’.

She lowered the book carefully until Naminé came to view. Naminé remained silent and looked ahead of her with blank eyes, avoiding any eye contact.

“You…think that I’m the devil?” Larxene’s words clashed together as she spoke.

No answer.

Gently setting Naminé’s drawings aside on the table, she held Naminé’s hand and hoisted her from the chair she sat in so silently. The far away look engraved on Naminé’s face had not altered at all. Larxene embraced the plain girl as she wrapped her arms tightly around her, bringing the frail body against hers. Naminé’s arms swayed helplessly at her sides, not hugging Larxene in return.

“I’m sorry…I just thought…that you were trying to make more mess for me…”

Larxene’s sorry speech had been interrupted by Axel’s sudden intrusion. “You called?” His playful emerald green eyes lay at the two girls in the distance. “Can I join?”

Larxene frowned at his remark as Axel edged closer to them, “Help me clean this place up.” Her original intention was to get Axel to burn Naminé’s work in flames, but she now disregarded the thought and changed her mind.

Without any question, Axel began to place everything back to its original state with Larxene. The drawings and sketches that once hung on the barren walls were back in place. Slowly, everything was back to the way it had been.

Larxene gave one last look at the room and headed towards the door with Axel. She was stopped by Naminé’s call.

“Wait.” Naminé said, approaching Larxene with a piece of stationary in her hands. She gave it to Larxene and waited patiently.

A smile churned on her face when she saw what Naminé had drawn for her. There were two people: herself and Larxene (with no red horns or a tail this time). The two were hugging each other and the words ‘Best Friends’ were written above in cursive. “I forgive you.” Naminé uttered, breaking the silence.

Taking the roll of tape from the table, Larxene cut two pieces and taped the picture onto the wall with the rest of the drawings. “This will stay here forever.”

Axel peered over their shoulders to get a better view. Naminé glanced up at Axel. Grabbing a few crayons, Naminé drew in Axel hugging Larxene from behind and smiled. “There. Now it’s complete.”

Axel gave his childish smile and said, “But I wanted to be in the middle.”

“Shut up.” Larxene replied with irritation.

-The End-

I hope that Axel's remark in the end didn't ruin it, but I wanted to lighten the atmosphere...lolz. I hope you liked this, please tell me what you think. Thanks.

-Sora788

[Angelsinflight]

its a cute story lol shows a sensitive side to Larxene lol. nice job your writing is really good ^^

[Sora788]

Lol, thank you =]

I've always wanted to make a fic of these two. I think Axel was a nice touch.