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I'm not particularly fond of this one.
Now, I'll admit, the Nara are some pretty nice people. As a clan of 40 or so people, most of them were pretty kind, accepting me into their midst with nary a care.
Of course, that may have been because the female half of the Nara's found me cute, and the male half were too lazy to object. While it wasn't bad, per se, it's definitely not an exaggeration to say that the female Nara's were quite domineering.
It may have also helped that I didn't actually need anything. I didn't need food, I didn't need water, I didn't even need to sleep.
Though, I couldn't actually eat, or drink, even if I wanted to. And after about 4 hours of lying on a couch, eyes closed and trying to get some shut-eye, I found that I couldn't actually sleep, either.
I... I found it quite hard to miss that, actually. Not needing to waste several hours every day doing nothing… it certainly had its own perks.
Several days passed before I fell into a routine. Although, routine was perhaps too complex a word for a schedule that effectively boiled down to hanging out with Shikaku during the day, then hanging around with the rest of the Nara clan for the evening, and, after that, in the dead of night when most of the Nara clan was asleep, continuing exploring my nature and my abilities.
Granted, most of that was little more than getting used to the Darkness that permeated the village. It was, effectively just building up a resistance to the siren's call of Darkness, through repeated and lengthier exposures. I'm 98% sure that if I still had a Heart, it would have been hopelessly corrupted beyond measure by now.
Good thing that I was lacking in one, no?
Though, it was a slow process. It'd be weeks before I felt comfortable enough to expose myself to it for more than a few hours, but that was fine by me.
I was a considerably patient person, when my existence and freedom wasn't on the line.
Unfortunately, I could also be rather excitable when it came to cool things; and the raw primordial force known as Darkness was, despite the inherent danger, pretty fucking awesome.
I was going to be careful of course (not being careful was an open invitation of obliteration), but there was no way in hell that I wasn't going to seek to understand and use it. The things that Sora, Riku and Xehanort were capable of doing was temptation enough to ensure that.
Speaking of, I'd have to make sure to learn Magic at some point, too, though I wasn't sure I could find someone who'd be willing to teach a Heartless.
To do that though, I'd have to get off world, then find a world with a wizard that can teach me magic.
Easier said than done, considering the nature of the Worlds of Kingdom Hearts; with every single star a different and distinct World, which may or may not encompass every setting in existence.
No shortage of Wizards, to be certain, but that didn't mean that I'd be able to use the Magic in question. Obviously, I couldn't use Chakra of the Naruto-universe, which would likely mean that I wouldn't be able to use similar energies of different Worlds. Which was a considerably large amount, actually.
Somewhat sad, but I could live with that.
After all, it'll be a long time before I'd be able to figure out everything that the Heartless were capable of doing.
And right now, time was the one thing I wasn't lacking.