#it was so much fun though ty xan

[aarcanechaoss]

Anon♡ here

Ty soo much for taking the request☆

The fanfic is great♡♡♡♡♡

Can you do a part 2 if possible?

(You xan decide what to put in the part 2 :) )

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Eyo glad you enjoyed it. I usually prefer people let me know what they want in their reqs LMAO but sure why not it was fun to write before.

Something was wrong with her co-workers.

Like seriously wrong.

Even her briefest interaction with the ADA this past week had been weird... Ranpo gave her chocolates... Ranpo Edogawa actually shared food with someone and for some reason he chose her.

Stepping into her shared office with the Black Lizard she sighed, if they looked at her weird one more time today she just might hit them.

Yep there it was that weird fucking look- something like pride shining in Hirotsu's eyes but with Tachihara it was pensiveness and the Akutagawa's... no she doesn't want to know what that look between them meant.

"Okay what is it?" She snapped.

"What's what?" Tachihara said a little too quickly.

"Everyone has been acting weird all week and I am on my last nerve." She pouted and some part of her hoped Akutagawa would say something, ease her worries maybe.

Nope, he just looked in the other fucking direction.

"No one's acting weird." Tachihara's hand moved to his neck- a nervous tick she'd noticed near immediately when they first met.

"I can tell you're lying." She deadpanned. "Did I do something wrong again? Have I somehow magically messed up something that I didn't know about?"

Yeah she was mad now- not even her wonderful Akutagawa's presence could halt it.

"Please I can assure you nothing is wrong Higuchi." His eyes shifted left and she just rolled her eyes.

"If you are going to lie I suggest doing it better... this is why I do all the undercover work." She tutted, turning to her desk.

Half an hour and a seething Higuchi later Tachihara caved... something about how he doesn't like Big Sis being angry.

"We know!" He practically shouted across the room. Gin smacked the man across the back of his head.

Higuchi just shot him a confused look.

"Know what?"

"About the kid." He continued.

Oh. Her stomach lurched.

"We were in the area when you went out for a picnic with your sister and that little girl- ya know that bonding thing you didn't make it to." Tachihara's face was burning bright red- embarrassed that he'd just blurted it out she supposed.

"Who have you told?" Was the only important question.

"No one Big Sis I swear. The ADA said that it wasn't their business and left so we followed suit." And she believed them.

"Is she your daughter?" Hirotsu asked calmly. She just nodded.

"Her name is Mai." She said finally. "She's four and yes... my daughter."

The room fell quiet.

"How?" She wanted to laugh- Akutagawa asking her questions about herself felt surreal.

"Hey bro when a man and a woman love-" Rashoumon shoved Tachihara out of his chair in an instant.

"That isn't what I mean." She nearly laughed, Diablo's ears were bright pink.

"I was 16 and stupid. Her father was a foreign exchange student in my class, and we hit it off... he left back to Italy, and I was pregnant with no way to tell him... I don't regret it though- she's my favourite person. Had her, turned seventeen and joined the Mafia end of story."

"Ah." Was all Akutagawa replied with.

"You're a badass you know Big Sis."

"Yes my daughter seems to think so."

And though it was still so very weird... she didn't mind the joyful laughter that followed.

[beanmaster-pika]

@xan-xus Lae I owe you my life ty for enabling me

OKAY SO Subject X doesn’t disappear, but Lea and Isa still go with the ‘become Apprentices’ plan bc they’re Dumb Teens. Fast forward and Xehanort has everyone in the lab (including the LITERAL BABY I’m so sorry they did that to you Ienzo) all “hm yeah we should totally experiment on our own hearts nothing could possibly go wrong!” and Lea and Isa are like “wh. what the fuck. are we in a cult is this what a cult looks like”

Spoiler: it is

Now, one scene I have envisioned very vividly is a change in Saix getting his scar. I’ve read posts that suggest he got it before he became a Nobody and that’s why it didn’t disappear like Axel’s tattoos did (OR MAYBE THOSE WERENT TATTOOS. MAYBE THEY WERE CLOWN MAKEUP), so I figure it happened right before he lost heart. Why? I dunno! Maybe Xehanort realized that he had a lot of darkness in his potential to get unhealthily jealous and went “hoo hee that’s prime real estate!” and decided to set the groundwork in advance! But because I am a sucker for characters bodily shielding their loved ones, X fuckin jumps in the way of the second slash so she and Saix end up having Inverted Matching Scars. I’m contemplating having it being over her eye and giving her an eyepatch and her being really salty about matching with Xigbar bc who’d want to.

Xehanort just rolls with it because if those three hold each other dear then that’s just more material to work with in the future, kinda like when one gathers a bunch of art supplies one has vague ideas for but never ends up using, so Nort Prep™️ doesn’t happen and he turns them all into Nobodies.

Also Lea’s unconscious for all of this because of my hc that the Radiant Garden squad’s numbers go in ascending order based on who got killed first. Ya boi’s just chillin in the back, his heart floating over his body.

Anyway they’re all Nobodies now, right? No feelings, nothing. They just want their hearts back so they can become Somebodies again. Since X is right there with them, they don’t need to worry about getting Saix up the ranks to find her. They just need to carry out their missions competently enough that they don’t get turned into Dusks. A lot changes when you take the search for X out of the equation—Saix loses his hungry ambition, Axel slows down. They don’t have to fight to get ahead; they just need to stay afloat. They lose that desperate edge that ultimately knifed them apart, and it’s only the scramble for kingdom hearts that drives them now. Much of the stress and pressure they dealt with in canon is gone. So what now?

It’s these two plus X. They don’t have emotions, but they do have their memories. X’s freedom was all they had hoped for, and ironically now that she’s got it none of them have the literal heart to be happy about it, and you can bet I’m lifting that line straight into my fic probably. They know that they were friends, though they can’t feel it now, and they know that they cared deeply for each other, so logically they stick together. They even have ice cream time on the clock tower.

Here’s the fun part: regrowing their hearts. With an actual circle of friends—though it’s small—their hearts actually start to regrow healthier, like how Axel’s did once he started hanging out with Roxas and Xion. Sure, Xemnas tries to interfere because “excuse me what are you nincompoops doing that’s my future vessel” but do you think they give a fuck?? No way!! I also buy into the “X=Skuld” theory, and one of her biggest personality traits is wanting to keep her friends together, and I don’t think amnesia’s gonna change that (at least I’m pretty sure she has amnesia. Ven, Marluxia, and Larxene sure do >:0). Xemnas wants to snatch away one of her friends for Evil Business?? Try it, bitch, she’ll cUT YOU. Xemnas has appearances to keep up so he doesn’t out and out start a fight with the Teenage Girl™️ but he’s lowkey pissed but whatever.

So with that fucked up end to their teenage years they grow into adulthood, not normal but far less shitty than what could have been. Saix still becomes Mission Man because he’s got to have some administrative skill if he got the job in canon, but despite how closely he has to work with Xemnas the Norting is unsuccessful—he’s got Axel and X stabilizing him. It’s a three-way positive feedback loop with people who don’t have anything else to do or worry about, and it keeps him safe and their new hearts keep slogging on with that regrowth, unacknowledged but doing their damn best.

Now let’s talk about Days. Saix still assigns Axel to train Roxas during his first week, and Roxas still has to train Xion for memory or Keyblade reasons I think?? But things go a little differently for them this time.

Axel doesn’t do assassination in this AU—no need for it—so it’s Xigbar sent off to Castle Oblivion instead to deal with the traitors. Saix doesn’t really care since he doesn’t have a personal stake in the situation. Axel never meets Sora, but he does hang out with Roxas more, so Roxas ends up growing to be a bit more of a little shit than he is in canon. The formative weeks are very important for a new Nobody with no memories, after all. Axel doesn’t have that desperation for a real friend that pushed him to befriend Roxas in canon, but he does have a more developed partial heart and it won’t allow him to just toss this poor kid to the wolves. He brings him up to the clock tower for ice cream time and Saix is like “why is he here this is our thing” and Axel has to go “be nice he was born yesterday” Roxas is just spacing out and figuring out how eating works. Axel adopts Roxas almost immediately, X does so in good faith, and Saix eventually comes around because the other two already did it. Then there’s the whole Xion situation, and all three of them are like Axel was in canon—a bit confused, but they got the spirit. Roxas likes her, so they do too.

OH YEAH ANOTHER IMPORTANT PLOT POINT IS THAT SAIX DOESNT REFER TO A CHILD AS “IT” :)

They don’t have to sneak around as much when Xion has Keyblade problems—the perks of having an actual friend in power—and from here all I really have planned is a whole lot of the radiant trio doing their best to look after these disaster children while stubbornly denying that they themselves have hearts and emotions pushing them to do so in the first place and it’s really wholesome and also maybe theres a pinch of Axel and Saix’s redeveloping hearts leading to redeveloping but unacknowledged feelings for each other and X and the kids try to wingman them (with a side of X being a little salty because the only woman her age in the organization is dead now and also was too mean to date in the first place) because I’m biased and still high on kh3 leaisa rights.

Eventually they decide “fuck it we may not have hearts but we’re doing fine, why don’t we just uhhhhhh fuck off to some far away world with the kids so they can have an actual childhood” but before they can everything goes to shit with the whole Sora situation and now he has THREE desperate Nobodies after him trying to get their son back, and they all disagree on which method will bring results and have a huge falling out and X has to watch helplessly as one of her best friends goes rogue and the other ends up being Norted and it’s painful. 🙃 But everything gets resolved a la KH3 and that’s the AU.