#Disclaimer- I do not own them…I wish I did….

Pairing- Leon/Yuffie

The Ninja, The Gunblader, and The Heartless.

Leon stood up straight from his slightly crouched position and attached his gunblade to his belt. Well, one of them at least. Yuffie sprung up from snatching the last of her shuriken from the ground and pumped her fist into the air. "That was fun!" the young ninja said, as she jogged up next to him. The pair had just completed a short annihilation of shadows and dusks in the Bailey. Leon shrugged. He didn't really think of it or anything for that matter as 'fun', but more of a short time amusement. Like when Cid couldn't find his toothpick that replaced the cigarette. That was funny for about five minutes, then it started getting a little desperate.

"Oh, Squall. You're such a fun sucker!" Yuffie laughed, swatting his shoulder.

"The hell is a fun sucker?" He scowled, rubbing his shoulder as if Yuffie's hit had actually hurt.

"Oh," Yuffie shook her head and waved her hand, "its just my new word! Come on, we have to go check in with Aerith and Cid before going home." She smiled and wrapped her arms around the tall gunblader as they walked to Merlin's House.

They had just recently realized their feelings towards one another, (really it was more like Yuffie shouting what she felt and Leon quietly telling he shared them). It had happened when Yuffie was forced to move in with Leon after a wee little spat with Merlin, in which he insulted her knowledge of magic and Yuffie wrapped Merlin's frozen beard around his face. It was a lot more messy argument then it sounds.

When the pair approached the quiet house and Yuffie burst the door open, Cid spun around and glared at the ninja for the noise. He was enjoying the quiet. "Well its about time you two got back." Cid muttered after a minute. Aerith sat in the corner looking put out, and after glancing in the direction of a large pointy blue hat hiding behind a rather fat book, it was a good guess Merlin had refused to aid Aerith in her advance magic again.

"Hi Aerith!" Yuffie pulled away from Leon and skipped over to the brooding girl.

Leon closed the door gently, he didn't need to build another door for this house, and went to talk with Cid. "What are you working on?"

"Nothing much, but since the Heartless and Nobody population has decreased, I thought I could save some power by reducing the defense system." Cid explained as he continued to type in more codes.

"What's Aerith's problem?" Leon, instead of assuming what the problem was and possibly making an ass out of himself in the end, figured he'd ask Cid, it was easier because 1) Yuffie would say it was 'girl talk' no matter what it was. 2) He wasn't about to ask Aerith himself and 3) Merlin was being and ass to everyone since the fight with Yuffie. Especially to him since he had apparently "gone to the dark side" when the group learned the he and Yuffie had gotten together.

"Same old. He's taking revenge out on Aerith instead of Yuffie. What were you two doing down in the Bail-" Cid's eyes widened as he stared at Leon.

Leon scowled. He hated being stared at like he was a freak of nature. "What?"

"Why the hell is a Heartless on your shoulder!" Cid yelled, dropping his chewin' stick, and pointed towards Leon's left shoulder. Yuffie and Aerith looked up at the outburst.

The small shadow heartless twitched its antennas at the loud noise, and cowered into the fur that lined Leon's jacket. "Whoa! Aww Leon its sooo cute!" Yuffie squeed.

"Leon get rid of it right now" Aerith yelled, automatically on defense.

Leon sighed "Yuf, kill it." She pouted but nodded regardless, and pulled out a few shuriken. Leon had probably meant something along the lines of using magic since shuriken had a tendency to cut things…like skin. But Yuffie was positive she could make the shot. Besides, Leon didn't see the shuriken, yet.

The Shadow Heartless saw the light reflect off the shiny object and it hugged itself tight against Leon's neck. He tensed, not daring to move. Leon knew he could have killed it easily but it was on his shoulder, and it would have been an awkward hit with his gunblade. Besides, he may be a master of his weapon but with the angle, he could have easily stabbed himself, so he had to resort to not moving in fear if the shadow decided it wanted to rip apart his throat.

"Leon, I can't kill it. Its too close." Yuffie said, putting her shuriken away. There was probably a completly different reason why she didn't go for the mark.

The Heartless crawled onto Leon's chest, its claws clung to his shirt as it nuzzled its face into his chest.

Yuffie laughed. "It loves you Leon! Sorry little Heartless but he's mine!" The Heartless stared at her. "It looks harmless, Leon. Can we keep it?" Everyone stared at Yuffie in disbelief. "What?"

"Are you insane girl?" Merlin said, throwing his book down. "Kill it now!"

"But its not hurting anyone and I can't kill it without hurting Leon!" She was lying right through her teeth.

"Yuffie…" Aerith begun, until a thought came to mind. Sending an evil smirk to Merlin, Aerith continued. "Yes Yuffie. You can keep it."

"What?" The guys yelled.

"Leon, its obvious that it likes you, and it doesn't seem to want to hurt you." Aerith explained motioning toward the black lump on Leon's chest.

"Yay! Leon pet it!" Yuffie squeed again while bouncing excitedly.

"No." he deadpanned. He didn't want to keep the heartless, he didn't want it on his chest, and most important he didn't want to pet the damned thing.

"Puh-lease!" She begged

Leon scowled and lifted his arm. "You hurt me, you die." He warned and began to stroke the Heartless.

It immediately begun to purr at the contact. "Aww!" Yuffie giggled. "Its just like a kitty!"

And that is how Leon and Yuffie came to have a Heartless for a pet. This is their story. The story of The Ninja, The Gunblader, and The Heartless.

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A/N- This is really just a random thought that came to mind. I have an ending already planed out but I could always use help with coming up with stuff. Cloud will come in, in a later chapter but I don't know about Tifa. Review maybe? Possibly?