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The Sea of the Skies, the space between Worlds; the place where The Lanes Between bridged Worlds.

God damn it's boring out here.

You know what's out here?

Nothing. A grand load of nothing. I'm sure it would be different if I was actually on any of The Lanes Between, travelling the pathways that naturally existed, but, well, I'm not.

Oddly-colored, ever-shifting space, tiny motes of light -the remnants of Dimensional Barrier that drifted alongside my temporary home-, the ever present Darkness that permeated this place, and the long distant stars were the only company I had.

Beautiful, yes. But the beauty only remained for the first few hours, and disappeared entirely as I got more and more bored.

Of course, it isn't like I had anything else to do. I was alone, on a rock, in the middle of nowhere -literally, at that-, with nothing to do but stare at the sky for the rest of the non-existent day.

It'd be great if I could actually go somewhere, but as far as I could sense -which was quite far, mind you-, every World I might have wanted to go to was surrounded by Dimensional Barriers, and I couldn't get through them, in or out.

Perhaps if there were more Heartless, or even if I was just a lot stronger, but I wasn't getting through them the old fashioned way any time soon.

Which, now that I think about it, is probably a good thing. The release of the Heartless en masse was what caused the Dimensional Barriers of many Worlds to break down in the first place, which meant that I was around either before the Heartless started really coming, or after Sora killed Xehanort's Heartless and brought all the World's back and strengthened the Barriers again.

Not sure which would be better, honestly. Unfortunately, for the moment, both lead to me being bored out of my mind.

I sat up, once again cursing my lack of a mouth. What I wouldn't give at the moment to just sigh. Express my boredom in anyway other than mentally.

Alas, I couldn't.

My eyes drifted towards the remnants of the Dimensional Barriers that surrounded this little bubble reality, pieces that were inexplicably being drawn to the bubble rather than shooting away from it like physics and trajectory demanded.

Oh, if only I could scoff.

Physics had no hold out here. In the Sea of the Skies, Darkness and Light ruled.

Case in point, despite being on a half-sphere only a few meters in diameter, gravity remained on the exact same amount it was back in the Naruto World.

Convenient, honestly, but certainly wrong.

One of the pieces of the Dimensional Barrier settled into a drift outside of the bubble, slowing down just as it had sped up to come there.

For a few moments, I just looked at it, a tiny mote of light (one of thousands that drifted around) that just sat there, a backdrop of shifting space and stars serving as a highlight.

I stood up, walked over and sat next on the edge of the bubble, let my feet drift over the side of the bubble and into the Sea of the Skies, the mote of light in reaching distance.

Utterly bored out of my mind and not entirely caring of any possible consequences, I reach out and grabbed it.

It changed at my touch, unreality and unphysicality dismissed; shape, form and color born in an instant.

Elastic, like handling rubber. Colorful, a burnt orange and green.

Familiar, because I recognized it the instant I saw it.

Gummi Block.

I pulled back, a cube-shaped Gummi Block clutched in my claw.

What?

Why was a fragment of the Dimensional Barrier suddenly a Gummi Block?

That doesn't even make… sense...

Oh. Right.

That's what the Gummi Blocks are, fragments of the Dimensional barriers. That was why Gummi Ships are even a thing, because Gummi Blocks can pass through Dimensional Barriers and allow travel through the Sea of the Skies.

Pass through the Dimensional Barriers.

I looked down at the Gummi Block in my claws.

Pass through Dimensional Barriers.

I looked up, my eyes tracking the hundreds of motes of light.

Pass through. Dimensional Barriers.

Hundreds of fragments of the Dimensional Barrier.

Pass through Dimensional Barriers.

I couldn't quite find the heart to curse the fact that I couldn't smile.