AN: As always, I don't own the characters.
I feel so useless here, stuck in Traverse Town with no way out. It isn't that I mind Sora being the Keyblade Master and having adventures – I guess I knew that would happen as soon as he acquired the Keyblade. It's that I want adventures too. Yuffie and Aerith have been telling stories of their past, and even Leon's said a few things. They've all led such exciting lives, I can't believe they're content to just stay here doing nothing.
They're reluctant to let me out of their "safe house", because the town (well, two districts of it) are swarming with Heartless. Yuffie's been teaching me to fight using her shuriken, and Leon even let me borrow his sword a few times. Cloud doesn't say much, just claims to have unfinished business with someone called Sephiroth, and is determined to find him. Aerith couldn't explain it to me – said Tifa was the person I needed to talk to, if she ever appeared. I asked who she was, but no-one would say.
Eventually, I was so fed up of this captivity that I just snatched up a weapon and went outside to fight the Heartless. I could deal with the Shadows, and even the Soldiers, but the Nocturnes always float just out of my reach. I'd just been knocked down by a particularly nasty thunder spell, when Leon appeared, furious. He absolutely slaughtered the Heartless, then dragged me back inside.
"What on earth do you think you're doing?"
I glare at him, but I can see the others are waiting for an explanation too.
"I feel so useless, so helpless, stuck here. Sora and Riku are both off who knows where fighting who knows what, and there's nothing I can do. I can't leave in case I'm kidnapped again for being one of the Princesses of Heart – I wish I wasn't one – and I'm sick of it all!"
None of them had expected such an outburst from me. Since then, they've all been finding me random jobs to do so that I don't have the time to think about it. Doesn't stop me though, I just think while I'm doing whatever pointless task I've been assigned that day. That's why Aerith and I are making endless paper chains, despite her insistence that because it's nearly Christmas, we ought to have decorations.
Yuffie, to Leon's great disapproval, is still teaching me to fight. I'll never be as strong as she is, but I can hold my own now.
Sometimes I hear Sora calling me, and if I knew where he was, I'd be right there – they wouldn't be able to stop me. Until then, I'm just making a paper chain that gets longer and longer by the hour. Aerith's working on the other end of it, trying to chat, but I'm mostly giving one word answers. I'm just not interested, unless she's telling me how I can get out of this place.
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