Two Love And Dream

Rayne: Thank you all for reviewing. And sadly, there will not be two different endings like in Lights Out. There's only going to be one. But I have an idea that will please both Vincent and Squall fans. You'll find out when this is all over! Don't forget! Keep voting for either an Squiffie or a Yuffentine!

Disclaimer: I do not own any Final Fantasy 7 or Kingdom Hearts characters. Now stop rubbing it in, I'm gonna go cry…

Note: My motto's just gonna be, "It'll come out eventually…"


Chapter 7: Wounded Wolf

In the back of the Gummi Ship, Yuffie Kisaragi groaned, finally coming out of the sleep she had been in ever since they had found their long lost friend. She rubbed the back of her head, trying to blink away the stinging rays of light that were beating down on her. Looking around, she saw that she was in the back chairs of Cid's ship, Shiva, everyone else asleep in the front. Everyone except Leon who was asleep next to her.

Yawning, she sat up, the blanket that she had been draped in falling off. Her hand was caught on something warm though. Pulling it off completely, she saw her hand intertwined with Leon's. Glancing at his face, she smiled. Amazing how he looked so innocent and non-cold when he was asleep. If only he was always like that. She gently took her hand from his, placing the blanket over him. With the lack of something warm, she shivered. Yuffie forgot how cold space was.

"Squall!"

Her eyes widened and she looked over everyone, seeing who was all there. Cid, Cloud, Aerith, and Squall…dammit…No one from Wutai was there. Her heartbeat picked up a few notches. Oh Leviathan, where are they? Where's Vincent? She looked all around, but she couldn't see any of her friends. Yuffie remembered the world starting to vanish and her yelling out…and then Vincent embracing her to keep her safe.

They couldn't have died; Ang would have said something about people dying when the dimensions merged! She paused, looking down at a wrinkled bit of paper in her hand. Carefully, she opened it up, scanning over the words over and over again. Ang is…gone? Wait, does that mean…No. She wasn't going to think like that. Vincent and Tifa and all of them were alive. She just had to find them.

A moan drew her attention to the man next to her. Leon moved around, eyes scrunching up as if in a bad nightmare. Not knowing what else to do, Yuffie laid back, trying to calm down, and rested her hand against the Gunblade Wielder's side. She pulled the blanket around both of them, watching as the stars went passed them outside the Gummi Ship.


Leon couldn't find where he was. This wasn't a dream, it didn't feel like any dream he had had before. It felt…different. More like a memory than a dream. He was on a balcony of some kind airship, or at least it looked like an airship. It was nighttime, stars dotting the sky and the moon shining brightly down onto the place where he was standing. He ran a hand through his hair, only to find that he didn't have long russet hair, but short, thick locks. Really short.

He looked at himself. His clothes were different too. He still had a leather jacket, but it was now long sleeved, no designs were stitched into it, and fur lined the neck. Luckily, he still had his Griever necklace and his belts, but he felt a lot younger. Leon didn't know how, maybe it was the small bit more energy that he hadn't felt in a long time, but he did. "Squall!" he heard beside him. Turning around, his eyes widened.

"Rinoa."

A woman stood there, creating a storm of emotions that threatened to overtake him. Her lips formed a perfect smile that made him go numb, her highlighted black hair billowing around her like a dark halo. Small, graceful hands brushing a few locks behind her ear as the baby blue jacket she wore swung in the wind. Eyes, mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful, stared into his azure ones. Yes, the woman he couldn't save and the woman who now stood before him.

Everything came flooding back to him, everything about what happened. Balamb Garden. SeeD. Seifer Almasy. The Sorceress War. Matron or Sorceress Edea. Laguna Loire. Their fight. Ultimecia. Rinoa. His other life. What happened to Leon- No. What happened to Squall if the Heartless had never attacked.

He would have been happy.

He would have lived like he should have.

It would have been perfect.

How could he know all this? It didn't make sense. If he tried, he could remember what happened when he was seventeen, but it always ended up with two answers. He fought in the Sorceress War and Hallow Bastion was destroyed again. Rinoa became a sorceress and Cloud disappeared. He fought to get Rinoa back and he fought to save Yuffie's life. It didn't make sense!

"Squall?"

Leon was back on the balcony. And Rinoa was still beside him, calling his name. He stared at her, wandering if this was real. It felt real, god it felt so real. Her hand caressed his face, brushing a few strands out of his eyes. She was the reason why he had changed his name, but now she was standing right in front of him. Did that make him Squall or Leon?

"Hey, what was all that about? You just jumped right out of bed and came here. It sort of freaked us all out since you've been asleep for a few months. What's wrong? Are you alright?" Rinoa asked, smiling gently at him. Asleep? A few months? The last dream of Rinoa was just a few months ago. But he wasn't the one asleep. It was…"Yuffie," he whispered, looking aside as he thought over what had been happening. The woman in front of him frowned. "Yuffie? Who's that? Squall, are you okay?"

"What do you mean 'asleep'?" He asked roughly, glaring at the sky and it's illusion of safety. The young woman in front of him frowned and ran her hand through his hair, making him jerk his had back. Her frown increased, her brow furrowing. "You don't remember do you?" she muttered the question more to herself as if she couldn't believe he didn't remember.

Squall, or Leon, he was still so confused, shook his head. "Just tell me," he whispered unsurely. Rinoa sighed and tried to smile, "We had found you outside during this storm, but you didn't wake up. We tried everything, but you still stayed asleep. You've been in a coma for a really long time, almost in and out. Gods, I thought I was losing you…"

His voice caught in his throat and his head began to pulse painfully. All he wanted to do was scream out, "It wasn't me in the coma! It's Yuffie!" but he couldn't get the words out.

"Squall?"

"Squall!"

"Come on, Squall! Wake up!"

The world vanished around him as his lids came open, finding worried gray eyes looking at him. Sitting up a bit, he winced as he felt pain in his leg. The damn cut. Yuffie saw the wince, but knew he would deny being hurt of she asked. "Come on, we have to get ready to get off. We're almost to Traverse Town," she said, reluctantly crawling out from his side and plastering on a fake grin. She couldn't bring herself to put on a real one with her mind worried about Vincent and her friends.

Leon wasn't happy about her leaving his side either, but he masked it just like her, putting on his mask. He had strong feelings for her, but now it was all sort of jumbled. He didn't know whom his heart was truly with. Yuffie…or Rinoa? He shook the thought from his head. The dream was real, he knew that, but there was still little chance that she was alive and in any of the worlds safely.

The other people in the ship were barely waking up as well, all having a confused look on their face. Cid muttered a few curses under his breath, shaking his head and lighting up another cigar. Cloud seemed to edge closer to Aerith, who was half scared/half confused. Leon wandered if the same thing had happened to all of them. But he kept his mouth shut, standing up with the help of the chair.

Blood was starting to soak through the piece of cloth he had secured around the wound, he could feel it sticking to the inside of his pants. Wincing, he tried his best not to limp so the others wouldn't know about his injury, though since Cloud was there, he probably knew, just chose not to say anything. For that, he was grateful. He really didn't need Aerith bashing him over the head for not telling her as soon as they got on the ship. You never wanted to get the flower girl angry.

All of them left Shiva, heading through the World Entrance to see what had happened to Traverse Town while they were gone. They stood still as they saw Heartless swarming all over the First District, the townspeople hidden in their houses. Cloud was the first one to come out of his daze, "Aerith, Cid! Go to the Hotel and clear it out! We'll need to run there as soon as we're done!

The two nodded and ran off, Cid's Venus Gospel already out. Yuffie looked around for her Conformer, but couldn't see it anywhere, instead settling on the pouch of shurikens at her waist. Leon struggled to lift his Gunblade without showing he was hurt, rushing forward and slicing through a group of Shadows effortlessly. All of the Heartless were basic Shadows and Soldiers, guessing around forty of them total.

Yuffie launched herself into the air by jumping off the wall, sending five of her stars into another group of Soldiers. Landing as gracefully as she could pull off, she ran towards the Café, snatching up her secondary weapons as she went. Luckily, some of the Heartless chased after her, leaving Leon and Cloud with an amount they could take care of easily. She jumped from table to table, throwing and catching as she continued to destroy wave after wave of Shadows.

Hell, this was a piece of cake compared to Wutai.

Cloud let the groups around him bunch up, surrounding him. He stood there, Mako blue eyes closed, breathing the cool air steadily. Just as a Soldier spun, heading towards him, the ex-mercenary brought his Buster Blade around, successfully taking care of a dozen Heartless in one hit. Quickly he took care of more groups, helping Leon dispose of the ones he had.

This wasn't settling very well for the Gunblade Wielder. Leon liked to be…. independent and be able to take care of himself. With the damned leg, that meant that he had to rely on Cloud and Yuffie to take care of most of the Heartless.

Like hell.

One thing that irked Squall more than anything was having to rely on other people to get the job done and so, painful as it was, he ran forward, slicing through Shadows left and right. There was more than one occasion when either Yuffie or Cloud had to move out of the way to prevent getting hit from his hybrid weapon. But still, he kept going, even throwing the occasionally fire shot here and there.

By the time the guy was winded, the whole district was pretty much cleared. Yuffie picked up her shurikens, sticking them back in her pouch, then looked around. The place was absolutely, positively, without a doubt…. fucked up. No better word for it. Burnt marks covered the ground; scratches caused by a blade criss crossed all over. It was a wreck.

Leon panted, falling onto the ground with his arm still holding up his Gunblade. He should have known to control his temper by now, it was a wonder he hadn't hit his two comrades while he had attacked. Yuffie crouched down before him, resting her hand on his leg, "You okay? You sort of went nuts back there-" he winced. She had touched his cut.

Noticing this, Yuffie looked back and forth between him and his leg. Grabbing a shuriken from her pouch again, she ripped his leather pants up to his knee, revealing the piece of fabric he had used to cover up his wound. For a second, she thought about slapping him right on it. "Squall Leonhart! You ass! Why didn't you tell us that you were hurt!…. And when did you get hurt!" she yelled, standing up and placing her hands on her hips.

Glaring icily, Leon forced himself up only to fall back onto his ass. Throwing her hands in the air, Yuffie yelled out, "Cloud, Squall's-"

"It's Leon."

"Whatever- Leon is hurt. We gotta sneak him into the Hotel, I really don't want to be hearing Aer rant about how we should take better care of ourselves," Yuffie told the Swordsman. Cloud nodded and both of them helped the injured man up begrudgingly, Leon glaring at the ground in embarrassment. The First District was officially cleared so there was no worrying about that at least, but the Second District was a problem.

To keep Aerith from finding out that Leon was hurt they had to run/drag him all the way to the alley entrance and climb up onto the balcony of the Green Room. Once the room was checked out and they found out that Aerith and Cid were in the Vacant House with whoever had stayed while they were gone, Cloud went to the Tenant's Office in the back to get medical supplies and potions.

Leon sat back onto the one bed he and Yuffie always shared, his injured leg hanging off. The ninja that was currently racking his brain scurried around the room, trying to find an extra piece of clothing or rag to clean his leg with. Sighing, she finally came upon an old t-shirt from the suitcase her mother had packed her the day the Heartless destroyed Hallow Bastion.

Pushing all thoughts about that day and the dimensions out of her head and focusing on the current situation, Yuffie grabbed her partner's leg without warning. "Shit! Yuffie!" Leon cried out, sitting up quickly. She winced and pulled away quickly, "Sorry!" He glared at her as she hesitantly took his leg and unwrapped the bloody cloth that was around the wound.

No one spoke anything for a while, silence hanging like a dark storm cloud in the room. Leon's thoughts went back to the dream of Rinoa, questions pummeling his brain at full force. Yuffie took notice of this, raising an eyebrow at this. "Squ- Leon, you okay?" she asked tentatively.

He looked up at her. Confusion, questions, even worry raged on in his eyes, a mask no longer hiding it from her. The young Shinobi paused, her voice catching in her throat at the rawness of the emotion that she saw within him. Then it was gone like a steel door cutting her off from him. Sighing, Leon muttered, "It's nothing…" before he realized that he had a question of his own.

"Yuffie?"

"Hm?"

"Why were you asleep for so long?"

Her movements slowed as her heart thumped louder. Was she supposed to tell him about the other dimensions? Ang had said that they would find out, but when? She hadn't been exactly clear on the damn subject. Would they all just magically know at the same time what their other past was? Did they have the dreams she did? Did Cloud and Aerith meet Tifa and the others?

"I guess I was just sleepy…" Yuffie replied exhaustingly.

"Bullshit."

Yuffie stopped finally and threw the bloody cloth onto the bed. "I don't know why the hell I was asleep, alright! I blacked out and I woke up on the Gummi Ship, that's all! Now quit interrogating me and change, there's a huge rip in your pants," she said, smiling innocently at him at the last part of the statement. He glared at her, but lightly, not as angrily as he usually did. She smiled even more and glanced at her handiwork. The cut was now clean with a new cloth around it, all that was needed was the potion.

Leaving to go find Cloud, Yuffie opened the door only to be stopped by a thought. She turned around, glancing at the Gunblade Wielder who was struggling to get to the dresser. "Squall?"

"It's Leon."

"…Leon…be careful…for now on…"

He paused and stared at her, before loosening up and giving her a small smile. "I will…"

Yuffie smiled back and shut the door, leaving him alone in the room. It wasn't too long before the echoing of Aerith's yelling reached him, making him wince. Hopefully he would live through the end of this.


Rayne: Yesh, this chapter is done! Finally, after all this waiting! Sorry that it took so long, but High School is taking it's toll, not any time any more, and I've been on a drawing high instead of a writer's high. If you want to see the cover picture for this go to www.x-xnever-kryt-t. and go to Two Love and Dream. Chapter 1 is up on there, but the first picture is up. Squall, Yuffie, and Vinnie in all their loveliness! Hopefully, the next chapter will be out faster (like not in 5 months) but it comes when it comes. Can't make any promises. Maybe my creative writing club will help get me into more of a writer's high. Love ya!

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