Where the fuck was Yuffie?

Cloud tore through the school, rushing past giggly girls and terrifying Goths, occasionally bumping into the larger part of the population in his frantic search for Yuffie.

The bitch was plotting and Cloud needed to stop her before Cloud ended up owning a big, pretty, brand new black eye. He knew it was a stupid idea to tell Yuffie that he had a crush on her Kendo captain. That was just asking for social humiliation and/or pain. On the bright side, Tifa was helping him look for Yuffie too. They both knew what a huge mouth Yuffie had, and the way she had cackled and ran away right after Cloud had told her his deep dark secret had sent them both into a state of panic.

Tearing around the corner he heard a small voice at the end of the hall that he immediately zoned in on.

"Yea, so he really, really likes you but he's too shy for his own good so it would be like totally awesome if you would-"

Oh fuck.

Running up to the worst pairing possible, Cloud slid to a stop, almost taking out Yuffie, who had been animatedly chatting with Leon, said kendo captain. He slammed both of his hands over Yuffie's mouth, effectively shutting her the fuck up. Breathing heavily, Cloud briefly thought up some damage control plans, but his mouth was quicker… and stupider.

"She's on methamphetamines. So… uh… don't listen to her. She's full of shit… uh… and meth…" Cloud blurted out, ignoring the outraged noises coming out from under his hands, and staring at Leon with his big, lost eyes.

"Right." Leon replied, shifting his weight to one foot and raising his eyebrow at Cloud. Cloud's eyebrow twitched in nervousness, and slowly started to drag Yuffie away, trying not to make eye contact with the tall, surly brunette that he was hopelessly in love with. Cloud was almost away and was triumphantly tip toeing with Yuffie in custody.

"Cloud."

Curses.

Slowly turning back around to look at Leon, Cloud swore at himself in his head over and over.

"Yes, erm… Leonhart-senpai?" Cloud said, going shy, thus back to his Japanese childhood habits. Leon quirked an eyebrow at Cloud's name for him before continuing his original line of questioning.

"Was she telling the truth?"

Double curses.

"No."

Now, that response, might've worked if Tifa had come around that corner at the moment yelling, "Cloud have you stopped Yuffie from telling Leon that you love him yet?!"

If Cloud had been the least bit suicidal, he probably would have shot himself right then. Deciding that he was fucking caught, and couldn't weenie his way out of his impromptu confession, Cloud whirled around and pinned Tifa with what was supposed to be an angry glare, which more or less looked like a slightly pouting puppy dog that had just been kicked.

"Tifa." He all but hissed, stopping the brunette in her tracks, as she took in the fact that Leon was right there. You know, listening in to every single fucking thing going on. Cloud looked up and back at Leon with large, lost eyes, hating himself. Why was he so stupid? Of course Yuffie was going to spill his secret, it was in her very nature to do so.

A long silence ensued.

"It… it would be great if no one hit me." Cloud piped up, looking around, trying to get his preference of peace out in the open. Yuffie was pissed at him for his meth comment, Tifa was mad because she was only trying to help, and Cloud assumed that Leon really wanted to hit him for liking the brunette.

"Well, that not what I was going to do, so don't worry. What I was trying to ask, was if you would like to go somewhere after school today, since apparently you're so in love with me. I'd be lying if I said I hated you anyway." Leon said with a smile, trying to incorporate some damage control and ask Cloud out at the same time.

The end.