A/N: 8D Hey guys! Yeah, a new story is about to unravel, and there will be a few familiar characters also. (If you've read Who Needs Love? that is...). So here is the first chapter. It's a little short, I know, but hang in there, okay? xD I hope you enjoy!
I do not own Kingdom Hearts, Square Enix and Tetsuya Nomura do.
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Chapter 1
The heart was lost. The darkness was too much. There was no light, not even in this tiny little heartless called a "shadow". With its yellow bug eyes and dark claws and talons, it hopelessly wandered across the vast area of lush green grass and a few scattered trees in the night, accentuating its yellow eyes. It twitched a bit, moved its head in different directions, catching anything that moved in suspicion off gaurd. Alas, the dark creature was alone tonight, but it was determined to find something. Something of immense value. Something that was worth fighting for. Something called...
A heart.
Its long feet clumsily made its way on the dirt path making a divide between the great sea of grass. Its zig zaggy feelers waved here and there in front of its face while its head bobbed side to side with each step taken near the great city in the distance. It stopped, blinking a bit at the lights that the buildings emmitted and the other lights coming from elsewhere. Hearts. In a split second, the shadow heartless molded into the ground, quickly gliding onto the ground unseen by anyone or anything. Although this heartless wanted the heart, it did not want to destroy it. In fact, it wanted to observe it up close and see what "light" is like. With a dark void in the pit of its chest, it couldn't help but be a bit curious.
The little dark creature reached a fence, easily gliding under it and snuck into a pitch black alleyway. It recovered its form above the surface next to an old dumpster and peered around, blinking at everything in sight. Though, it was rather difficult, since everything was huge and bright. But the one thing that kept its interest, were the humans walking casually around. It stayed behind the dark alleyway, watching people pass and go by without a care. Some showing emotions, whether it be alone or to another, while some just showed nothing at all. But this little heartless knew...
They had the thing it was seeking.
The rule of a heartless was that there were no rules at all. There were no such things as emotions and intelligence. There was only brute strength and blind determination by a force or darkness itself. This little heartless, however, broke quite a few of the heartless rules and remained stationary, not laying a claw on any human. It's curiosity led it to fascination as it observed the heart's condition in each human. There were so many to comprehend, that its little head could not keep up with this for one day. Time went on, and the little shadow noticed the brink of sunlight heading over a large skyscraper with a large clock on the top. It quickly took refuge under the dumpster, feeling that if its presence were known, it would ruin its observation. Even though it was daytime, the heartless felt no pain from the light, for the dumpster's immense darkness from the bottom kept it shelter as it kept its observation going. Its senses heightened when it felt a strange force coming this way.
It moved closer to the light, barely touching it with its face when it noticed a peculiar girl looking strangely at it. She was a bit small with pungry cheeks and soft maroon hair that framed her face. Her green eyes blinked once or twice, trying to figure out if she's really seeing large, yellow eyes staring back at her. With a small smile, she left. The heartless remained there in curiosity, wondering why a little girl with such a pure heart, smiled at the darkness, or rather "it". The heartless decided to memorize her heart's presence and scent as it continued to keep shelter under the dumpster until night would fall.
Stars twinkled in the night as the street lamps of the city grew dim and the people came by less and less, giving the tiny heartless a chance to squirm out from under the dumpster and into the night. Giving itself room to twitch and fidget from being under that flat space all day, it decided to walk around a bit but being cautious wherever it went. It stopped shortly, however, when it felt the presence of something familiar. It stopped in its tracks and turned its buggy head toward the presence, or more like the person.
It was the little girl who looked at it earlier. A warm smile grazed her face again as she approached it slowly. The shadow merely tilted its head curiously at her as she took one step closer. No one was around, so that was a relief. She stopped right in front of it, still having a smile on her face. Even though it was dark, her green eyes were still noticeable with its unusual twinkle and glimmer. The little maroon-headed girl stuck out a hand.
"Hi, what's your name?" she asked.
...Name...?
The heartless looked at her hand, eyeing it up and down, wondering what this strange gesture meant.
She giggled as her hand went back to her side. "You're not from around here, are you?"
The shadow remained fidgety and restless, unable to give out a specific "yes" or "no".
"I guess I'll take that as a no," the little girl smiled.
...No...
The tiny heartless put a clawed finger to its non-existent chin at the word "no".
The little girl giggled and shook her head and repeated "no".
Little Shadow followed the gesture, making the girl laugh.
"You're funny, mister shadow."
"Mister shadow" merely cocked its big head at her and put another finger to its chin.
The little girl bent over, pointing to herself. "My name is Trinity."
The little heartless pointed its claw to her, followed by a nodding Trinity.
...Trinity...
"Trinity!!!"
Her little auburn head turned to the voice, which was her mother waving to her from the steps of a building.
"Trinity sweety, it's getting late!" she called.
Trinity nodded. "Coming mom!"
The heartless looked at her mother, then back at Trinity, wondering why humans have so many complicated gestures and words. The little girl turned to it and smiled.
"I have to go now, mister shadow. I'll come back tomorrow, okay?" Trinity reassured to the heartless.
The shadow knew that shaking the head meant "no", so what meant "yes"? Without a second hesitation, the little shadow made a faint nod. Trinity regained her small posture and smiled warmly one last time before taking her leave.
"You're my friend too, okay mister shadow?" she asked before turning in the direction to her home.
...Friend...?
Not knowing what this word meant, it merely cocked its head to the side again.
Trinity laughed and waved to it. "Good-bye mister shadow! I'll see you tomorrow!"
In a quick flash, Trinity was in her safe little home away from the little heartless shadow as it watched the building from which she disappeared in. The shadow waited, for what seemed like hours on end for Trinity to come back out, but when the sun started to shine its rays through the sky scrapers, it took refuge under the dumpster once again, waiting for its new "friend" to come out again.
End Chapter 1
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A/N: So? How was it? Did you like it? Yeah, a bit boring, I guess, but I'll make sure Chapter 2 stirs up something. xD Thanks for reading and please review! C8