Summary: Yuffie has had no time for boys when she's busy fighting the heartless. When they're finally gone, she still finds fighting—between her and someone else. Squiffie, Clouffie
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"Hiyah!"
I threw my shuriken at a heartless, and panted as I dodged another one flying at me out of nowhere.
"There's so many freakin' heartless…" I muttered as I slashed ten more. I rested against a pillar to catch my breath as I sucked in as much air as possible.
Another eight heartless appeared, their eyes glittering (the bad way).
"Not again…" I groaned in annoyance.
My muscles were on fire and my lungs gasped for breath as I kept battling. I finally collapsed, every inch of energy seeping quickly out of my sweaty, shivering body. I closed my eyes tightly as a heartless lunged at me, but the painful impact never arrived.
The sound of thunderbolts and a gunshot met my relieved ears.
"Thanks Aerith; Leon." I smiled weakly as my muscles sighed in sweet relief. I got up slowly, blinking a few times to get rid of the headache I had.
"So what happened, Yuffie?"
"Whaddaya mean?" I turned around at the voice to squint at Leon, confused at his supposedly sarcastic remark. I swear, every word that comes out of that man's mouth is either boring, sad, sarcastic, solemn, and all the words that relate to the ones I just stated.
So, naturally, his remark HAD to be sarcastic, right?
"I thought you were better than that." He smirked. I pouted at Leon, who was looking innocently at me. I glared.
"At least I don't spend all day long, twenty-four seven, inside, looking at a bright computer screen!" I retorted, annoyed.
"Now, now, stop bickering you two." A soft voice spoke up, interrupting our conversation.
"It's not my fault!" I protested. "Why does he always have to pick on me? Huh? HUH?" I pouted at Aerith, clad in red and pink.
"Hmm. I don't know." Aerith smiled to herself as she shrugged her shoulders innocently. I ran off while Leon walked past Aerith, muttering incoherent words.
"I could almost kill you." He hissed in her ear. Aerith seemed unfazed.
"Oh, you wouldn't dare, Leon." Aerith grinned innocently.
The next morning, I ran down the stairs, putting my black vest on.
"CID!" I yelled.
"WHAT?" he yelled back, annoyed.
"Are we any close to getting rid of the heartless?" I asked as I watched Cid screw around with the computer, typing things up.
"When the loads of pork you eat fly." Cid grumbled back.
"If only I had a normal life, with normal people, with normal monsters…" I babbled on. "Well, I'm off to take down more heartless and Nobodies!"
"Need me to baby sit you?"
"Whatever. I guess I won't mind seeing your butt get kicked." I grinned at Leon before turning around and skipping out the door with a light blush on my tan face.
Ever since I hit puberty (which I was trying to avoid, and still trying to avoid today), I've been having weird feelings. I can't tell the difference between a crush or infatuation, or friendly love…
It's all so confusing. And annoying.
"Geez." Leon groaned as he swung his gunblade around.
"Hey Leon, watch where ya swing that thing." Cid grumbled in his chair.
"Yeah, yeah whatever Cid." Leon called as he headed out the door. A few moments later, Aerith came out.
"I bet those two are going to come back fighting like two little kids."
"Jus' wait an' see Aer, jus' wait an' see."
"Hah!" I yelled as I threw my shuriken at a few heartless.
"Nice."
I turned around to face Leon.
"Whaddaya expect, Squallie?" I grinned.
"That's Leon."
"Okay, Squalleon." I smiled as I defeated a few heartless.
"Hey, that's a cool name!" I added after an afterthought.
Now, you'd be calling Leon by his name if you heard 'that's Leon' so many times. But to someone like me, hearing it makes me want to annoy him even more.
Or at least crack a joke, if you know what I mean.
But jokes don't go by easily with Squall. I mean, Leon.
"Not funny." Leon replied, glaring daggers.
"You should be more light-hearted." I told him, resting on the roof of a building.
"Well, I'm trying to be, but its hard." He sighed as he sat next to me.
Wow. Leon being sincere? Scary, yeah?
But always, in that perfect moment, I find the words to ruin the whole thing AND get Leon insane.
"Well, I know its hard after she—" I quickly closed my big, blubbering, blabbering mouth, but it was too late. I hesitated and waited for Leon's reaction. Leon's calm eyes turned back into a fierce storm again.
"It's not HARD, okay?" Leon replied coldly. He got up and left, not looking back. Not even once.
"Aw, crap. Me and my enormously famous big and massive mouth." I groaned, annoyed with myself. I whacked a few more heartless as I ran after the direction Leon went.
"Why did Yuffie have to mention her? Right when I feel fine, she just goes and screws everything up." Leon growled as he paced down the alleys, swinging at every shadow he could see.
"LEON!" I yelled as I turned a corner. I found him walking extremely fast. Like those walker-runners? Whatever you call them.
"Why'd you mention her?" Leon questioned, still walking extremely fast and still not looking back.
"I'm sorry; I didn't mean to, I—"
"Whatever." He replied as he entered our secret committee building (not Merlin's house).
"Look! I didn't mean to!" I shouted after him in frustration as I slammed the door behind me.
"What are ye fightin' 'bout now?" Cid asked.
"They can never get along with each other, can they?" Aerith's voice brought up as I saw her appear in the doorway.
"Nope, and never will." cid chucked.
"It's because the heartless have put on so much stress! If there weren't so many, I'd wouldn't fight with him that much!" I argued.
"Face it Yuffie. You can Leon are like an old married couple." I gagged as Cid chuckled again.
"Okay well. I bet when the heartless and nobodies are gone, Yuffie an' Leon will still be a-fightin'. I'll bet 5000 munny."
"What?" I exclaimed. "You're BETTING on ME!"
"What will it be?" Cid asked.
"Fine, I might as well make some munny out of it anyways. I'll bet 7000 munny that Leon and I won't fight after most of the heartless disappear, if they do at all."
"So, deal?"
"It's a deal." I smiled.
But I wasn't sure if I'd be able to make it.
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A/N: Argh, the stupid ruler thing won't work... stupid computer. Okay, so I finally got my lazy ass to type the first chapter up. Well, this is one of the stories where I just keep writing and writng without thinking... so sorry if its a bit plotless. (cough) School is only like two weeks away, and I've got to buy all this crap and fill out all the stuff. So please.
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