142 Snapshots
Snapshot #8: ((requested by Hiroshikata))
Leon was leaned against a wall with Yuffie springing a peace sign infront of them, both very happy...
A simple picture, that's all it was... No signs of a relationship were revealed in the shaded spot on the side of a dead street. The day was blazing and sticky, and making everyone irritable and agitated.
Of course, for some... This day made their moods quite different. Well, maybe just one person...
Squall Leonheart. Forcefully known as Leon in Hallow Bastion, or 'Radiant Garden' as they were all trying to restore it too. He was the one that had changed maraculously that day, that even Aerith got crabby. On that day, when Leon graced the world with a smirk, his hair was as chocolate brown as every, his eyes shimmering with something no one had really seen.
Ever since he had lost the one he really ever loved... Rinoa ((yeah she's not in this...)) to the heartless when they were younger... Leon had insisted on being called 'Leon', never smiled much, and was extremely serious. It hadn't done too much good to mope, but secretly, Leon was absolutely devistated. Yuffie was the only one to realize that that's why he was always like this. It was hard for her to keep it a secret, but she did it well...
His clothes were the same, but a tad bit musty after working on carrying some rubble out of the bailey way after yet another collapse because of the heartless. He was leaning against the wall, his foot up against it, his arms crossed heavily across his chest. Gunblade behind him. His back was arched so the weapon didn't dig into it too much. His expression screamed 'leave', but really his eyes danced and flamed with a happy that hadn't been there in a long time.
The tiny smirk the only other thing besides his eyes saying that he enjoyed having the hyper girl around...
Yuffie Kisaragi. Usually know as Yuffie, or "Leave me alone!". She was given the name, because of her upbeat attitude about absolutely everything. Most people, when they saw her, and the expression that told them I-want-to-talk-to-you-you-better-listen, they'd scream that phrase at her. But tecnically, she was never known as that.
Her black hair swaying slightly with the breeze, her headband ends moving in rhythme too. She was bent in a almost squatted potition, her back slung forward a small bit. Her smile was as wide as ever, her eyes gleaming with michiviousness and luck, and pride... Her hand was spread in a peace sign, thrust closer to the camera, as far as her arm could extend. Her feet were planted firmly on the solid ground. Her clothes were also musty. She had been working with her friend all day.
It was coming close to the evening, but of couse there sun was still at its hottest in the sky. The rays glittered through the rugged shade they had, but only just barely. The wall behind them was a brick - gray, obviously a shop trying to be rebuilt after all the damage it had absorbed. The shade was a dark, almost maroon red that had multiple rips and holes in it. The street had a lot of dirt clustered and stomped all over it, but no one in the world ((literally I guess lol)) seemed to mind. The sky was unvisible, but from the light tone, it was easy to tell it would be dark, soon enough.
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It was pretty silent with the girl for once. Squall, or Leon... Had to admit, the silence was weird with Yuffie around. It must have been one of the rare times she actually thought about something. But, that also meant something was on her mind, and was bothering her... Despite the fact she was the most annoying girl he had ever met, Leon definately knew that whenever she was downbeat, the team started to fight a lot more...
Along with fighting, Yuffie never stopped it, or made it light with her attitude. It was better to get her out of funks and be annoying, than quiet, and listening... Now, there was no doubt in Leon's mind that he didn't want to do this... It was hot, sticky, and he was really irritated already from the heat. And the fact everyone made them clean out the rubble on a day like this yet.
He sigh and stood up, stretching his back. "What's on your mind Yuffie?"
"Hmm?" She looked up from the rock she was trying to figure out how to carry. "Oh! Nothing Sq - Leon..."
"You would be talking if there wasn't... I haven't had to turn off my hearing yet." Yuffie gave the slightest smile.
"Very funny Leon..."
"Seriously... what's wrong?"
"Well... I was just wondering something. But, you probably don't want to talk about it much."
"I don't care, shoot..." He shrugged, bending back down, and wrapping his gloves around a rock, and thrusting it up with himself. He placed it in the wheelbarrel and gazed at her. She's pretty cute when she's distressed. Leon froze. Did he seriously just think that? Yuffie was a teammate. An annoying one! And, ontop of that, she was two years younger than him. And, he only loved one. Wait, why was he even arguing against it? He didn't love Yuffie!
"Well..." She sigh, and decided there was no way to ease the question on. "Do you think you'll ever see her again?"
"Who?"
"Rinoa..." She said sort of slow. She didn't want to upset him, if that's what it seemed to him Yuffie was trying to do.
"Probably not." He shrugged, thinking it was sort of a simple answer.
"Don't you wish?"
"I don't get my hopes up Yuffie, you of all people should know that."
"Well... I mean, Leon... You're always so serious. And... And you never really joke around about anything, unless it's in a semi - serious way. I miss the old Leon."
"I'm still the same person Yuffie." He was becoming more curious at what she was getting at.
"Not quite." She sigh. "I mean, don't you think Rinoa would have wanted you to be happy and move on and ... stuff." His anger began to rise at the thought of Yuffie telling him this. She was never serious... Who was she to tell Leon all of this stuff?
"You wouldn't know anything about it Yuffie. You were young."
"So were you..." She muttered back in her defense.
"You really want to play with my temper?"
"There's no fuse to play with! It's always say one thing and you blow up like dynomite!"
"At least I am serious about this! Radiant Garden is a major issue to a lot of places out there... And you seem to make a joke about absolutely EVERYTHING!"
She simply shook her head and went back to putting the heavy rocks in the wheel barrel. But, she realized she was still on this rock. Of course... She thought sourly as she tried picking it up. Yuffie was strong, absolutely no doubt about it. But, when it came to rocks, she was just lazy. But, because Leon was not on speaking terms with her anymore, she tried picking it up by herself, and just about toppled over another rock.
Steadying herself, She attempted at stepping over another rock, but almost, again tripped. Closing her eyes, she tried to focus this time... It was serious stuff! Moving rocks without falling! Come on! Sighing, she began stepping over more rocks, and failing miserably. She felt herself already being scratched up at her ankles, just above her shoes... Her socks being torn up aswell.
She was almost there, but she tripped on basically nothing at all, but she felt the weight being lifted off of her, and someone catching her before she basically collasped onto the pile of box, hitting it, and probably being knocked out.
Blinking a few times, she smiled. "So, you do care about the annoying girl?"
She looked up at him, being astonished... He was smiling. "Well... You may be annoying, but I don't think you falling on rocks is quite the punishment I had in mind."
"Obviously ignoring me wasn't either..." She smiled up at him, for once, completely serene and calm with herself. Not all jumpy, happy, hyper like normal.
Yuffie is a lot more mature... When she's not jumping around... Maybe... He closed in a bit closer to her, only about four inches from her lips. He sort of smiled, not exactly knowing what was going on. He wasn't one to show his emotions... definately...
Blinking fast, Yuffie couldn't comphriend what was happening as fast as it was. Leon suddenly shoved her into him, kissing her forcefully on the lips. Yuffie was in shock. Leon never, ever, EVER would do this... Maybe he was brainwashed...
So many thoughts rushed through both of their minds that it was obvious that they both didn't know what Leon just did, and how Yuffie was reacting to it. Luckily, no one was around to see this happen to them. The streets hot enough to fry an egg, obviously would not be the first choice for most people. They were completely alone, and could forget this was ever happening.
When Leon pulled back, Yuffie's face went from its normal pale color, to a bright pink. He knew he was blushing himself, as he sort of half smiled at her. He wasn't used to smiling, so it felt odd, but she simply laughed and hugged him.
"I always liked you Leon..." Yuffie said quietly, her voice slightly muffled by his shirt.
"I always thought about you so much..." Leon offered slowly, but much louder than she was. "I wanted to see the reaction to this..." They pulled back and Yuffie smirked.
"So you liked me too?"
"I still do Yuff..." He smiled at her, kissing her quickly and pulling her hand. "I think we should be done." He grumbled, still obviously mad that they made the two go out there and work for the whole day. "Let's go."
Yuffie nodded and dropped his hand. She had spotted Aerith looking for them hastily. "Yuffie! Leon!" She smiled at them both, as they met each other in the street.
"Hi Aerith." Leon said, just out of politeness... Once again, still irritated.
"Great!" She ignored Leon's glare and turned to Yuffie. "We forgot to start our picture journal!"
"Oh that's right!" Yuffie stomped her foot in such a childish way. "Well, did you already take the picture?"
"Yeah... Cloud was about to leave... We had to before he left..."
"Who all was in it?"
"Merlin, Cid, Cloud, Tifa, Sora, Donald, and Goofy... Why?"
"You got a picture with them too? And you didn't come get us?!?"
"I'm sorry Yuffie, we forgot until Sora mentioned it." The ninja was about to continue to argue, but for all three of their sakes, Leon stepped in.
"Let's just take one here, right now... the two of us?"
"Oh, that'd be a good idea!" Aerith had brought her camera, hoping that they would have suggested it, and told them to go over by the wall, in the shade of the deep red, so her camera didn't reflect too much light. Of course, this didn't effect Yuffie. When it came down to it, Yuffie jumped out ahead, giving a straight forward peace sign, her feet planted firmly to the ground.
Leon had a slight smirk, glancing at the girl who was so photogenic. The only thing he did was lean up against the wall, his leg up, his foot flat on the wall. He quickly turned to the camera, but couldn't swipe the grin off of his face. The flash went off and the picture was taken.
It came out of the camera, and there they were... Leon's first picture he actually took with a smile... Yuffie's like... billionth. "Thanks!" Aerith smiled her sweet and soft smile... She began walking away, having a slight idea of what Leon's smirk was about.
"Aerith!" Leon called, his voice raising over it's usual limit. She turned around and raised her eyebrows. He glared at her, giving her an expression she knew what said. Nodding, she turned back around, and hurried around the corner.
"Uh... Yuffie?" He began to blush already.
"Yeah?" She turned to him with the hyper mood back in her eyes.
"I'd appreciate... maybe if we didn't tell them right away. It would be sort of weird if uh - " His cheeks got even redder at this, and Yuffie simply smiled a very wild grin.
"It's okay Leon... I know you're embarassed that you like a little hyper ninja, but that is totally cool!" She did her peace sign again. "After all... I like the town grump!"
He took in a breath, ready to correct her, but simply shook his head and took her hand. She hugged him quick, and accepted it. "I think you were right... About Rinoa wanting me to be happy... She'd be happy to know I picked you at least."
Again, Yuffie only smiled...
It was really unlike the both of them... But of course, anything could happen when you're cleaning up rocks...
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Okay, they could have seemed so OCish in that one... but, I really haven't done any stories with Yuffie, or Leon for that matter... So, give me a break. I hope I did good, but for me it was just sort of... meh...
Please review, and thank you thank you thank you to anyone who's reviewed, and double thanks to the people who give me requests! I'll update ASAP, because it's Saturday (cheer!)
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