Kuro could sense how his story had seemed to get to the other, frowning softly. He felt like there was probably more to this ‘gentle darkness’, ‘light of destruction’ stuff than the other was letting on, but… well, he wasn’t going to force out details.
“Sora and his friends are at least slowly learning that not all darkness is bad. Sora’s friend Riku let his heart be enveloped by the Darkness once, and from what Sora said they never really got over the guilt of it for a while. But while he doesn’t us the powers, he’s accepted that his darkness is a part of him.”
“And Sora…. well, when we first met, he was a little freaked out. But luckily he saw that I wasn’t just a creature made of darkness and… well, here I am. I’m not exactly able to travel to other worlds on my own, but I don’t really mind that. I like traveling with Sora. Even if he doesn’t really understand the powers of darkness, he’s been so nice to me…”
“It’s probably a good thing about this learning to duel stuff. If there’s no bad darkness here, Sora can just use this as time to take a break from traveling around and saving the worlds and just have a bit of fun… He doesn’t show it, but I can’t help but feel like the pressure of all this hero stuff gets to him sometimes…”
It came out before he could stop himself. Jaden had to pause then and there, wondering if he had said too much. They were only three words, but he couldn’t afford to look like he was weak in any way. His guard had dropped and he wasn’t sure why-
‘Because he’s a child of darkness like you are.’
Oh. Yubel had a point there. He composed himself as best as he could, smiling in a way that wasn’t entirely forced.
“You know, if you want to go to places yourself, I can teach you. I’m still learning, granted, but I know enough to go to worlds nearby if there’s already a faint path to them.” He understood that Kuro liked traveling with Sora. He himself enjoyed the company of Pharaoh and Banner when he traveled. And of course the company of Yubel. But he knew that going somewhere yourself was sometimes just the satisfaction one needed.
Fun. Right. He’d gotten so side tracked by his slip up he’d forgotten the part about Sora dueling for fun. He wasn’t sure how to comment. He kept forgetting about the concept of dueling and fun being in the same sentence. Luckily he did have Yugi to help remind him of that.
“Right. You can’t exactly learn about duel monsters if we stay out here and talk about things not related to the game. We should probably get back in there and find you a deck that speaks to you. Decks are something you gotta pick out yourself, you know? Sora’s a great guy, but he can’t pick your new partners out for you.”
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