As Leon sat on his bed thinking he heard the slight sound of feet softly padding their way across the wooden floorboards of the house. He looked up slightly and just caught something passing his ajar door. Ignoring it Leon let himself fall back onto the soft cool duvet and his eyes slowly fluttered closed.

As he slept colours swirled in front of his eyes and eventually began making images of the young Neko some of them ok and slightly funny like Sora chasing a ball of wool some of them a bit erotic, like Sora being out stretched on the bed naked with a rose in his mouth causing an unconscious movement between his legs, eventually he woke up and sat up right he was then startled slightly by the sound of something running at top speed out of his bedroom. He brushed his thumb along his fingers curiously they were indeed wet. During his dream he had been lying down on his bed and a rather naked and highly aroused Sora had been licking at his fingers after their nightly activity. It was at that moment that Leon's brain clicked into gear and had woken him up. How could he think things like that after all the young one had been through already, the last thing he needed was someone else using his young body for their pleasure and Leon had been celibate since his last relationship with Cloud before Cloud met Vincent. Leon wasn't too bothered they hadn't the most idealistic couple anyway.

He threw his legs off the side of his bed and turned on the bedside lamp and ran a hand through his chocolate coloured hair. At the same time brown ears peered around the door then followed by brown bangs and finally blue eyes. Leon looked over towards the young Neko and gave him a slight smile. Sora slowly made his way into the room and padded over towards Leon keeping himself close to the ground his tail trailing along the floor. Sora then lay down in front of Leon's feet his tail twitching lightly and his small blue eyes starring up at Leon. Leon's lips curled slowly into a smile and bent down to stroke the Neko's head which rose up to meet him. "You're not scared anymore?"

"Never said I wasn't still scared."

"So..."

"I don't know, just go with it." Leon shrugged slightly, he did enjoy petting the Neko, and it was quite relaxing. Not long after he started petting Sora the soft Neko began to purr. Strangely Leon laughed slightly Sora looked up at him with inquisitive eyes. "What's funny?"

"Hm, Oh nothing it doesn't matter, come on climb up." Sora looked at Leon oddly for a bit then looked over to the bed, raised his tail and used his cat like legs to spring himself up onto the bed and settled down on the duvet as Leon pulled it back around himself and rested his head against the headboard.

Sora set about making himself comfortable walking around for a little before resting his head down on the pillow opposite Leon. Not exactly what he had expected but then he didn't fancy rushing things. If Sora needed Leon's help or comfort or anything he'd wait for him to tell him. Leon watched vigilantly as Sora drifted off into a deep and peaceful sleep before finally settling down himself.

The next morning Leon was up pretty early and was sitting downstairs when there was a knock on his front door and Rinoa walked in,

"Hi Squall."

"...Rinoa"

"What's wrong?" Leon looked up at the woman from his cup of coffee and spoke solemnly

"I've told you before not to call me that anymore."

Rinoa looked at her old friend and childhood and continuing crush, she smiled broadly at him then heard something moving up stairs and a slight yelp.

Upstairs Sora had fallen out of bed and was buried under the duvet.

"What was that, is someone here?"

"You wouldn't understand Rinoa." answered Leon as he took another drink of his coffee

"What isn't there to understand?" Rinoa then started making her way towards the stairs but as she started on the first few steps Sora came running down in the other direction at the smell of freshly brewed coffee. Rinoa squeaked as Sora bolted past her not realising she was actually there. Leon looked down from the table at him jumping up and down at the high counter attempting to make a grab for the coffee pot.

"Thirsty?" Rinoa cooed

Sora's little head snapped round to look directly at Rinoa and quickly took refuge under the table Leon was sat at.

"What was that ?"

Leon felt Sora curl around his legs, 'Confidence growing then or is it just because I'm the only one here?' Thought Leon as he looked towards Rinoa. "He's a Neko; I rescued him the other day."

Rinoa looked at Leon with a somewhat unnerved look on her face, "So he's staying with you is he?"

"Yes." Leon stood up and put his cup into the sink looking back at Sora who stayed under the table. So Leon made a coffee inside a small bowl and put it with the sugar under the table before standing up to look at his visitor. As he brushed his hair out of his eyes he looked at the worried look on Rinoa's face.

"Is he sleeping in your bed?"

"He slept, on, my bed, last night." another look cast itself over Rinoa's face as Leon walked away into the living room then made his way upstairs. Rinoa quickly turned back into the kitchen and looked under the table.

"Hey, you ok?" She smiled brightly at Sora who was dipping is small tongue into the bowl lapping up the coffee

Sora simply nodded his head gently and then looked up at her licking his lips clean.

"Come here so I can get a better look at you then." Sora slowly crept towards Rinoa but she made no move until he was well within arms reach. As he got close enough Rinoa made a grab for Sora's hair and hauled his head to the floor and twisted her hand in the opposite direction. Sora tried to yell but the pain seemed to stifle his voice.

A few flashbacks wrecked his head and he jerked involuntary as Rinoa pulled him close, "Don't get too comfortable here, Leon's mine so don't you get any little smart ideas this is your only warning you little freak." With that Rinoa let him go and he bolted up the stairs and hid in the spare bedroom and ducked under the bed. Hearing Sora make such a lot of noise he went into the spare room. "Hello?"

Getting no answer Leon started looking around the room, checking under the bed last where Sora was curled up and crying hard. "Hey you ok?"

Leon stretched out a hand to touch Sora but he flinched away from him.

Leon looked at the little one deeply concerned then went back down stairs to Rinoa, "What happened?" He asked rather coldly.

"I..I don't know...I went to pet him and he shot off up stairs." Rinoa had a sorrowful look on her face which Leon took for genuine confusion and sorrow.

Leon sighed deeply, "It's alright Rinoa he's still a little nervous around new people."

Rinoa brightened up a little with a slight smirk for the knowledge that she had gotten away with her rotten little deed.

"So how long will he be staying here?"

"I don't know, maybe just until he's better but who knows when that'll be?"

Rinoa's lips turned back down into a somewhat growl.

"What about Merlin can't he just magic him better?"

"Merlin's magic doesn't work like that Rinoa, It's not that simple."

Rinoa folded her arms and pouted in a slight huff.

"Look I'm going back upstairs to see if he's ok, stay if you want." With that Leon made his way back up to the spare room.

Downstairs Rinoa fumed with anger that little freak was managing to screw things up just by being in Leon's house, well she'd soon fix that. Leon was going to be her's and her's alone no matter what it takes.

Upstairs Leon was trying desperately to get Sora to come out from under the bed with no success at all. So he flipped out his cell and called Aerith.

"Hi Leon, how's the Neko? "

"It's the Neko I'm calling about Aerith, he's under the bed in my spare room and wont come out, I'm a bit worried about him."

"What's this, the big strong Leon worried?"

"Yuffie It's not polite to interrupt people's conversations, sorry about that Leon, I'll be right over."

True to her word Aerith was round in no time and let herself in.

"Oh, Hi, Rinoa, Leon didn't say you were here."

"No I expect he didn't."

"Have you seen the Neko he rescued?"

Rinoa felt her stomach churn just at the mention of the little freak in her way. "Yes but only for a second, I went to pet him and he ran away from me." Rinoa tuned her voice to sound rather pitiful earning her a hug from Aerith.

"Aww, don't worry yourself, he's just jittery around new people, he'll soon get used to you as long as you keep visiting."

Rinoa nodded as Aerith let her go and headed up the stairs.