Kingdom Hearts © Square-Enix

Well, I'm not really sure that this has been done before, (because I'm never very sure about anything and my attention to fine detail is at a minimum) so if it has, my bad. Don't spite at me, just tell me. Maybe a little bit OOC because I probably haven't really got a good hold on their characters yet.

Brutal Truth
It first popped up in Yuffie's mind when she was watching the keyblade master obliterating his final opponent during the Hades Cup. After going easy on him and gracefully loosing, (Okay, so maybe that wasn't exactly the way it was, but it was close.) Yuffie had been in a fowl mood as she watched the tiny kid pound away at everyone in his path, thinking how easily it could have been her doing the exact same thing. She had gotten even more fumed when Leon brushed past her with a smirk before he and Cloud confronted the teen. Only when she saw that they were thoroughly mopped with by Sora and co. did she regain a little bit of joy. Of course, spending so much time pondering over the boy left her with some interesting theories, especially during the Leon-Cloud match. The spunky girl caught up with the two after their loss.

"Hey! Wait up!" she called as she scurried to catch up to the two of them. Leon stopped briefly to cast her a quizzical look before turning his back on her again while Cloud just walked on, completely unconcerned about Yuffie. If there was one thing among many that she really despised, it was being ignored, especially by Leon, because he always ignored her when she least wanted to be ignored.

Frowning, Yuffie put in an extra effort to catch up, and before long she had wedged herself between Leon and Cloud. Again, Leon looked a bit annoyed, and Cloud completely unfazed at her existence. Yuffie didn't take well to either of these reactions, so she decided to spark the conversation… beginning on a sour note.

"So, you two really got beat out there," she said with an earsplitting grin. The notable frown from Leon and the slight twitch from Cloud were enough to refill her joy bar to a max. So what if she just got her butt kicked by someone who was younger than her? He kicked everyone's butt during the tournament, including the two guys she had sandwiched herself between.

"We did better than you," Leon muttered, clearly still bitter about the defeat. That bit certainly poked Yuffie's joy meter down a notch, but she quickly recovered her regular optimistic physique as she directed her stare between Leon and Cloud at a lightning fast pace, no doubt irking both males. One may testify Yuffie's sanity right then, but Leon knew that this was just her normal mode, which made dealing with her a hassle at times… like this one.

"Stop." Yuffie's stare landed on Cloud, who, for the first time, had finally said something. Though it might not have been the most positive of greetings Yuffie would've liked to get, she certainly didn't complain, especially since she hardly knew him beyond his name. However, it wasn't soon before her eyes were darting between the two guys again, much to their annoyance.

"Yuffie…" The sentence from Leon did not need to be finished, because his exasperated glare was enough to tell the girl exactly what he wanted. Yuffie returned his glare with a wide smile as she received her planned opening to take a stab at her subject of choice:

"Say, Cloud, do you have any kids?"

There was a sudden halt to Leon's step, and Cloud seemed to have almost tripped on his cloak at this comment. Had their not been a thousand other spectators walking around them and Cloud not known this girl and Leon not have been there, Cloud would've very well weighed the option of detaching her head from her shoulders, permanently. Yuffie looked completely oblivious to how her innocent question caused such an impact on the reserved blond. In fact, there was an air of curiosity that hung in her eyes that stated fairly well that she meant not harm.

"Yuffie, don't be ridiculous," Leon muttered as he gave her a frustrated look. The day was horrible enough as it is because he had just lost to the same person for the third time, and he certainly didn't need a conversation like this to weigh it down even more.

"Well, Squall, do you have any kids?" she pestered. She could just feel the air tensing with that comment, but she wasn't bothered a bit, lured in by amusement.

"It's Leon," he stated.

"Well, do you?" Yuffie asked again. Another piercing glare told her she couldn't be farther from the truth. "Hey, I'm just asking."

"It's an odd thing to be asking about." It took a while for Yuffie to register that this had come from Cloud, because she never expected him to be talking. (Didn't seem like the type to waste unneeded breath.) Her grin immediately came back as soon as she realized that the spiky-haired guy had just given her more openings to carry on the conversation, whether he knew it or not, liked it or not.

"Well, you can't blame me because after your guys got whipped by Sora it was quite obvious," Yuffie went on, her eyes swishing back and forth from Leon and Cloud to gauge their reaction. She was a bit disappointed when she saw that none of them had wavered a bit. (Though internally they were having dark thoughts about losing once again.)

"What do you mean?" Leon knew he was treading on dangerous ice with the way this exchange of dialogue was going, but he couldn't help but be curious, especially if it involved Sora. Normally though, he would've blown her off, preferring whatever it was he was doing at the current moment than taking a dip in icy, murky waters.

"Wait, I have to ask another question," Yuffie said as she directed her attention to Cloud. The boy gave her a blank look, though it might've been interpreted as a warning of danger. "Are you by any chance a girl cross dressing as a guy?"

That remark did it, though outwardly Cloud hardly twitched. He got snide remarks about him being feminine in the past, (though why he really didn't know because it was very obvious to the eye that he was male) but he thought he had solved the case when he had started wearing what he wore. Either that, or the wing really wiped people's minds clear about the commenting, but here was a girl who wasn't afraid to tell it straight to his face. Nonetheless, her presence was ticking off Cloud.

"Yuffie, what are you trying to get at this?" Leon asked impatiently, quite fed up with the day as it is. He wished she'd get to the point so he could throw himself down on a bed and think. After all, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right?

"I don't know," she confessed truthfully. "I just thought that maybe you and Cloudy here had a kid together."

There was another abrupt halt to their pace, causing several people behind them to grumble and complain. No one really cared for them because one "Shut up!" from Yuffie was enough to send them off. Cloud was already looking for an escape route and ditch them until further notice while Leon began compiling a million reasons and ways to tell Yuffie that what she had just suggested was the simple most unpractical things she could have ever said. He wondered briefly is Yuffie knew that it was impossible for two males to produce offspring, but decided that they had better not go there in fear of her prodding more questions, and he had already had enough questions from her today to last years.

"It's impossible," Leon told her, seeing that it was probably the best answer for the situation. Yuffie, however, seemed unconvinced.

"Well, you can't deny that he looks like the two of you crossed, only shorter" Yuffie pouted, making a point to pat them both on the head to show what she had meant. Even Cloud and Leon couldn't object to the fact that Sora had spikes like Cloud, roughly the same hue of hair as Leon, and both of their determination to pursue… eh… whatever it was they were to pursue. The point was though, plainly enough, she was wrong, and no doubt both of them wanted to get that fact across to her.

"Yuffie, it's impossible," Leon repeated.

"Why? It makes sense!" Yuffie stated, though all of her common sense was screaming just the opposite at her. The look on their faces was priceless, and Yuffie wished she had something to capture the moment with.

"No, it doesn't," Leon said, and with that, he and Cloud began speeding up their pace. Being stubborn as she was, Yuffie increased her speed as well.

"Can you prove that?" Yuffie challenged, actually beginning to believe in her crazy imagination.

"Go ask Sora yourself if you don't believe it," Leon said before he and Cloud vanished into the crowd, leaving Yuffie stranded behind. Aggravated, she mumbled to herself:

"Fine, I will!"

"No, my mom's still back home," Sora said. He didn't know why he sounded apologetic, but it seemed his answer came out that way. Yuffie gave a dejected sigh. Once again, she had lost to the man she so wished to prove wrong, but she knew well before this that there was no way she would be able to win this one.

"But you know, you do kind of look like him," Donald mused as Sora gave him a surprised look.

"Who?" he asked.

"That Cloud guy," Donald answered.

"Gawrsh, do ya think Aerith might be his mother then?" Goofy asked. Another gear in Yuffie's mind began clicking. Yes! Of course! Why didn't she think about this before? It made so much more sense!

"Guys, I'm pretty sure I know who my parents are."

"I can't believe her," Leon sighed. Cloud didn't need to ask to know that he was talking about Yuffie, but he did have something he wanted to ask. He pondered on whether or not to voice his thoughts, and ultimately decided that he did need another's opinion.

"Do I really look like him?" Cloud asked softly, referring to Sora. Leon examined the other quickly, and upon doing so found something very disturbing about his image next to Sora's.

"…Yes."

And that was the brutal truth.