Warning: Marineford war spoilers.

Satisfaction.

Kizaru didn't feel much. His life had been spent in a haze, his spacey, laid back nature preventing anger, fear, love, lust...almost all emotions. He didn't know what it felt like to leap for joy, only a vague feeling that could, in theory, be the beginnings of happiness. He had never cried over a death, or even cared that it occurred. Occasionally he may feel be slightly surprised, like when he discovered Benn Beckman had sneaked up on him and had drawn a bead on his head, but that was simply his slow reaction time assessing the situation.

He did however, feel and love satisfaction. Satisfaction made him feel good. Satisfaction made him feel satisfied, a tautology that worked for him. And the best way for him to feel satisfied was to catch vermin. Rats were good: he hunted rats a lot. And pigeons: often he went down to the park and lasered pigeons from a tree branch. But pirates were his favourite. Pirates had to die. So he killed them, or caught them and gave them to Impel Down, to kill or torture them until they were functionally dead as they saw fit. Even watching others kill pirates was satisfying to him.

He felt the biggest twinge of satisfaction in a while when he saw the death of Portugas D. Ace, but that was nothing compared to when he watched the death of Edward Newgate. His entire body, entire self felt satisfaction, even downright happiness, when he saw the pirate stop moving. When he saw the blades and bullets had finally struck their mark, unlike the other hundreds of attacks aimed at the man. When Whitebeard died, Kizaru gave a real laugh, and almost danced, if he could be bothered.

But, he decided, that satisfaction would be absolutely nothing, nothing, compared to capturing the Blackbeard pirates. So, he decided, that was his new mission.

And when that was done, maybe Monkey D. Luffy would be the pirate king. And then Kizaru would take him down too.

And then, maybe, he'd be fully satisfied.

AN: Just a little thing that popped into my head when reading through the chapters with Kizaru again is that he barely ever shows emotion outside his `Ooooooooh` state. The closest I can see is when he gets a bit more serious fighting Rayleigh, but even then he's pretty spacey. So yeah.

I used the word `satisfaction` to much here methinks. But it was fun to write, and I kinda like it. Any feedback?