AN: Hi guys! It's been awhile since I've written but I am back. I've been playing Final Fantasy XIV (I'm so addicted. In fact, if you have it and are on the NA server Bryn hit me up! My main character is Asha Ayame.) Anyway: Asha, Kiss and Yuki are my personally owned characters. Any other name that you see I have permission to use and some I will rename for the sake of privacy if requested. Now on to the disclaimers… I do not in any way own Final Fantasy or any extension of the game and its branch offs such as the series, any merchandise, spin offs ectara. I do not advocate for Square Enix nor do I take credit for any of the great work that Yoshi P. created and continues to put forth.

Soul Contracted: Lalafell

In the shadows of the night a small, rounded figure scurries through the dark trying her best to avoid being seen. "Eh, eh, eh." She huffs and puffs as she moves her small little Lalafellen legs. "Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh!" Faster and faster she pumps them trying to rush to the Soul Hunters threshold located in the Shirogane housing district. Her goal tonight? To return before her mother noticed she was late. She had told her mom she would be home around eight tonight but with any luck she was stuck in a dungeon. It's rare for someone such as herself to be seen around.

Most Lalas have reached the age of adulthood hood and young ones are not that easy to find. She however was a mere five and yet attempts to keep up with her kind. Her adoptive mother, a Miqo'te, found her alone on the steps of Thal when she was only a few days old. Asha held the small little popoto like creature in her arms and instantly fell in love with her. Asha thought the right thing to do was to stay in the city for a few days to see if anyone would come to claim the missing child. Sadly, well to Asha it wasn't sad at all if she were honest to herself, no one had even mentioned a missing child. Not a single whisper of one floated around and she figured if a week had gone by and no one claimed her then this rare gift was meant to be hers. So, Asha named the white haired little ball of chubbiness Kiss. Something sweet and loving… and very off base at times. Honestly, she's a bit of an ass hole. Oh, the woes and regrets of an advanced child as Asha would soon come to see.

It's well past two am and she should have been home by eight. ~Mother is going to be peeved!~ "Run wittle legs! Run! Why can't mah knees bend when I needs 'em?" She said aloud to herself just as she flew down the stairs and rounded the corner to the entrance of the yard.

"Probably because Lalafells don't have any knees?" Came the smooth response of someone sitting by the mailbox. "You know, if you want to sneak in late you probably shouldn't talk out loud to yourself. You also may wish to refrain from running with a glowstick lighting your way. I'm not sure if it's funny or embarrassing to receive calls from various residents talking about how your daughter is running around in her paladin armor clanking her sword and shield on her back as she runs at all hours of the night with a glow stick in hand chanting "Oh fux, oh fux!" Which, I might add is not a mantra you learned from me. Have you been hanging out on the docks again hm?" Out into the light steps a raven furred Miqo'te with green eyes that seemed to shine bright enough to create a natural glow around herself. Her skin pale, though not sickly, with makeup that made her look as if she were a living doll.

"Nuuuu! I would neva hang down there if you said not too."

"You see… Momma knows when you lie. Any time you lie or misbehave you start to take on the baby talk you've started to grow out of. Honestly, I'm not upset you're late. An adventurer's life is unpredictable. However, you could have sent a moogle to let me know." Asha reached her hand down to 'zush' the little lala's white hair and as she did Kiss's eyes lit up like fireworks at the Moon Fire fair. Her green and red eyes sparkling with hope.

"Sooooo, I'm not grounded?" Kiss asked.

"Oh, you're grounded. Not for being late but for not sending a message and for cursing through the housing area."

"But momma I- "

As they stood in the yard a loud deep scream came from inside the guild house. Puzzled they both looked towards the door just as the manly voice began to yell "Where is she? Where is the midget?! Ooooh I know she did it. Where is the little witchling?!" Crashing sounds and the sounds of furniture being tossed around and flipped over could be heard even outside making Kiss and Asha curious about what was going on; and as the Twelve would have it they wouldn't have to wait long to find out. Out from the front door burst a large muscular Hyur with shoulder length black hair with riven bits of red streaking through it, a tan as brown as a Mexican's ball sack and a big old throbbing vein in the center of his forehead.

"Hi Kuuuuuuusssshhhhhh." Asha noticed the attempt to be extra cute with his name but said nothing. She merely smirked to herself and hung back to see what kind of prank she pulled this time.

"No, no. Don't get cute with me! You know damn well why I'm pissed at you ya little shit."

"Wah I do?" She asked giving her best shoulder shrug and kept her smile well hidden. Though her eyes… her eyes shone with pride.

"Don't play innocent. Your mother should be teaching you by now that when you do things to other people karma comes back to bite you in the ass." Kush ground out from behind his teeth. His anger was seething, and Asha still didn't know what it was her daughter did.

"Okaies look. I dunno what you think I did but I didn't do it. I've been gone all day. Momma fed me a biiiiig breakfast, packed a lunch and sent me to level. I spent the first few hours eating sweet buns at the tea shop and then I was at the docks with Yuki until nows. Gaahh! Looket! Your accuzations is making meh talk like a baby. Oh, the stress you bring on to meh!" Dramatically the little Lala faints to the ground where she lay still for a solid minute before peaking her eye open to see if the two in her company had left. Kush, however, was not giving into the little Lalafellen's antics. He simply picked her up and set her upon Asha's shoulders so that Kiss and he were eye to eye and in a stern voice he spoke.

"So, you mean to tell me that you have been gone all day, yes? Okay I can believe that, but can you tell me what you did before breakfast? If I recall Asha cooked for everyone. I know because she tried waking me up to eat with everyone else and when I saw it was only eight thirty I made a half-conscious decision to sleep in instead of eating. So, in that time that everybody was rushing around you are going to tell me you did not sneak in the Venus flytrap from the garden and place it just under my sink so that when I woke up to begin my day it wouldn't snap at my di- "

"Boy part." Asha quickly inserted for him.

"What your mother said. Someone else was evil enough to do something like that aside from you Kiss?" Kush preened for an answer as he leaned in closer; His right eye squinting as he widened his left one to eyeball the little trouble maker.

"Wahhh?! Me? Nuuuuu. I would never. Maybe you did it in your sleep or if someone did do it then whoever did that must have been really upset with you. You probably called them a short stack of pancakes." Suddenly a little gasp followed by the sound of hands clamping over something cut through the night air and if Asha was right then it was the sound of her telling on herself.

"Aha! You did do it you little shrimp!"

"Weellll you keep calling me short! Shrimp, shorty, midwet… migwit…. Whatever! Then you called meh a short stack-ah pancakes and poured syrup on my head! I hope it bit it off, humph!" Kiss harrumphed and climbed down the Miqo'te's back and down her leg onto the ground.

"Joke's on you spitball. It' missed. Although I no longer have to trim down there this week."

"Kush! Shush! She's still little! Don't say things like that in front of her." Asha chided.

"She doesn't even know what it means. Relax. Don't cough up a hair ball over it." Kush fired back.

"Kush has a hairy ball sack as hairy as mommy's upper lip!" Kiss laughed, clearly knowing what he had meant after all. Sometimes Asha hated that her little girl could pick up on things so easily. So young, yet well beyond her years.

"Hanging out at the docks, avoiding your leveling then hiding it and trying to dis-member" the wicked kitten force stifled a giggle "a fellow member of the guild. That's two weeks grounding."

"Only two weeks? She could have caused some serious harm. I like to flex naked in the mirror before I dress." The Hyur pointed out.

Out of nowhere came a flying popoto dive bombing the shins of human male. She circled her arms around his legs and her mouth opened as wide as she could make it go just before she clamped down onto his left ankle and sank her teeth in like a little vampire. Kush yelped in pain much like a cartoon character and proceeded to shake his leg trying to free the carnivorous munchkin from her death bite. Finally, she did let go and when she did she flew a decent five feet or so before landing on her bottom safe and sound on the grass.

"What the hell you friggin' pale oompa loompa?!"

"Stahp tryin' to get me in more troubles!"

All the while as the three of them carried on below, a pink haired fuzzy ball of fur decked out in a set of ninja armor had been perched upon the guild hall this whole time. The Master of Soul Hunters staying ever vigilant… or perhaps he's hiding from work. With a little smirk to himself he thinks: ~I'm glad she signed a soul contract with us. That little Lala is going to bring about interesting times. ~ Being lost in thought the pink Miqo'te did not notice when he leaned forward just a little too much and began to topple his way down from the roof and down to the ground. The arguing bunch became quiet when he hit the ground face first and as if aware of his staring audience he turned over onto his back, crossed one leg over the other and rested his hands behind his head. With a light chuckle his lips curl into a smile and part once the corners could go no higher turning his smile into a toothy grin.

"Here enters Tomo." He says like he had intentionally meant to reveal himself in such a manner.

"On his face." Kiss added.

AN: Okay everyone please forgive me. It's been a while since I've written as stated in my previous AN so I'm off my game… FOR NOW. If you have any ideas for Kiss to use to prank people with or to add to her shenanigans or rather her Lalafell-igans. No? Fine! We will stick with 'shenanigans'. Then send me a message and I'll see what I can do. Take care for now!