Author's Notes: Two in one day! I'm on a roll, which will probably end here.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any of its characters or its Final Fantasy characters.
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"Here's the disk." Cid grunted from his spot on the floor, Yuffie hiding a giggle behind her hand at the two old men fighting.
"Thanks." Leon grunted, reaching down to pluck the disk from the pilot's hands before Merlin could inflict more damage. "I have to get this back to Ansem's computer lab, now. Sora's in there." he paused, and suddenly, Yuffie found her eyes on him, the silent question burning.
With a delighted smile, she simply nodded, and followed Leon out when he turned to leave. He wanted her with her. She didn't know whether it was that he wanted to protect her, or he just wanted her away from the two old men, but the fact was he preferred her with him. As she ran alongside him, dodging the security system that had turned on them, she couldn't help but beam.
She stood beside him as Aerith forced the disk into the computer, and now, they sat back, to wait.
"Hey. Squall." Yuffie snapped her fingers to get his attention.
"Leon." he corrected automatically, but it showed he was listening.
"I heard Hades is having a Cup now. Are you gonna enter?" she questioned.
"Maybe." he replied simply, folding his arms over his chest now, eyes on the machine that had sucked their keyblade-wielding friend inside.
"Who with, as your partner?" Yuffie pressed, blinking, seemingly to be honestly curious, and she was taken aback when Leon turned to her with a strange look on his face.
"Who else? I thought you liked entering those." he replied, looking confused now as he watched her.
"I do! I just thought... maybe you'd want to enter with Cloud or something." she replied, leaning back in her seat, inwardly marveling. Squall didn't feel the need to ask her to be his partner.
"Oh. No." he replied simply, and they lapsed into a comfortable silence, Yuffie enjoying the warm feeling spreading to the very tips of her fingers and toes, Aerith pretending she didn't see the uncomfortable look, and slight blush on the cheeks of the swordsman. Her focus was supposed to be on Sora, Donald, and Goofy right now.
But still. It was pretty cute...
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Author's Note: Yeah, I saw the look he gave her when he came to get the disk. It's really there! Go find it, if you don't believe me.