This came to me rather suddenly and I had to write it down. First KH fic, hope you like.

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Nobodies only pretend to have hearts.

For all of Yen Sid’s wisdom, Sora thought, he couldn’t be more wrong. Nobodies, he was told, didn’t truly exist, didn’t feel – they were mere husks of people whose hearts had been corrupted. If that were true, why, then, did those in Organization XIII prove him wrong? As Sora watched Axel fade away – watched him die, there was something so real and so pure about his words; nothing without a heart could have said that. He had fought many in the Organization, and with each one, he felt a pain, deep and hallow, as if he were killing a person. Only recently did Sora come to realize that they were people. Like all other life, they could not be replaced.

Sora watched as the last traces of Axel faded into nothing, as if he had never existed at all.