And so the journey continues...
Squall and Yuffie are out in the middle of a desert canyon area with not much to live under, searching for civilization,...
A huge point in squall's life happens, when he refuses to remember who he is...in this chapter you'll find out the real answer.....
on why he changes his name....
Chapter 5
Squall hurls his gunblade over to his shoulders to rest after recooperating, he saw nothing but a hazardous dry desert with it's continuous hue of yellow and orange that made his eyes squint. Cactus ahead just stood like people standing so still, he expect them to hop in and out of the sands like the cactus back at home but these don't seem to be as lively, (Thank hyne...) Canyon ridges and dunes, the only landscape around them and beyond that was hazed ghostly horizons of the sun.
He looked over his scuffed fur shoulders and commands to Yuffie "Common, let's go....."
Yuffie is busy stuffing her bags and looks at him awkwardly wondering where he received that commanding voice,
"Err?...Like, excuse you?"
She blinks several times wonder who made him king to command, she hurls her bag behind her to carry and picks up her armor,
"Heh! You think that I would want to follow you Lion boy!.."
Squall watch her march in front of him in her short height and raises an eyebrow
"Lion boy?..."
He blinks confused at her giving his silent gaze of disturb ness, he didn't like the 'cute name'.
Yuffie looks back at him "YES,. That thing you wearing..."
She points to his necklace, his shiny silver griever pendant of the LionHart. It gleams the reflection of the sun above in a yellow hazel before giving a learn at his face, he looks back to her.
She re-asked, "That's a lion right?"
He gazes briefly at it then looks at her, puffing a rebellious blond strand off his eyesight, "Yeah, "
He rest his other hand on his hips reluctantly, holding the weight of his blade on his shoulder, "It's only a pendant, doesn't really mean am some animal....alright"
Yuffie, she snaps her head away refusing to look at him, "Look, if your gonna walk around with a stupid lion on, it HAS to mean something right? Either way...I don't need you okay? So DONT you comman-!o-ff-ht!"
She trip over an object recklessly waving her arms around before hitting the floor with a dust thud. She flips back up and skips a few times protesting and wincing while Squall watched her with a blank face not even wincing at her fall.
Yuffie protest angrily "WHAT DA' @#$@#!! Oooowww! My #$%# Feet! OOOwwww!! GRrrrR! Who the H@l% put that S^&$ THERE!!!"
Squall frowns seriously at her and calmly goes to investigate the object she tripped on, he kneels to it, and carefully examines it as his boots crunch the soil of sand around it. The shiny object looked sharp and almost metal like, it sticks out of the ground oddly like. A dagger. He dims his eyes pensively while Yuffie got up and dust her self.
Yuffie grumbled "I Hate this $#$%#$ desert!! TRipping over Sh*T! "
She continues to dust her self as a chain curls around her ankles unknowingly and suddenly yanks her down, making her fall again flat on her face vulnerable to move.
She screamed "Let me go you piece of @#$@!!" dust releases around her as the ground shook violently, it crackled open as it shook as if something was growing out of the sands. Sand cascaded to the side as a figure stood up meandering sand around it taking a shape and form as the sand slide away.
Squall drew away his attention to the object and immediately stood up widening his eyes briefly before he launched forward pulling his blade down his shoulders swiftly and swings it across her ankles. She widens shrieking seeing the quick blade swing past her legs, she looks away only to hear the blade release sharp metallic sound, and her legs no longer feel tight but free to move. Yuffie looks up with her huge eyes surprised and focuses on Squall behind her posed defensively with his blade before him in a serious pose. Squall's jacket ruffled in the sunset wind and he was looking dead on behind her. She quickly looks behind her scuffing her legs to move away from what ever it is he's looking at.
There before them was a large black figure creature unlike anything they seen before, it heaved forward like a creature of darkness with only dark tight black skin, the only thing that stood out was it's blank yellow glowing eyes and a large broken heart symbol that reflects a red light ominously. It's large claws waves before itself assuring it was not friendly and might even look hungry for all they know.
Squall commandingly without shifting his sight of the beast towards Yuffie, "Get behind me,...now.." He cuts the wind before him with his lionheart to assure her he can take the beast.
She nods several times and scruffs up and dust her self behind him,. She then swings out a large pinwheel spear across her arm's width "Hey I can fight too!"
The black skinned creature lingered forward towards them dangerously, and quickly aims it self towards squall, Squall pushes him self towards the side and swings his bade before him before holding his posture again facing he beast. The creature fixed its large orb eyes towards them apparently not content it wasn't defensive, it wants to hurt them.
He warned her still watching the beast steadily, "Have you ever fought this thing before?"
Yuffie didn't stop staring at the ugly creature quivering "N-No.."
Squall rubbed his boot toe against the ground ready to attack, enticing the beast to come at him,.."..What are you?...and what's with the broken heart?"
It suddenly releases a high pitch scream and sheers forward towards them moving it's legs at a great speed to attack them, raising it's talon hands to slice, Squall quickly crouches down on his knees and slices his gunblade upwards above his head slicing and blocking the attack away as the creature eases speedily behind him. Squall widen his eyes and shifts his position again holding his blade up, this time running towards it, dragging his gunblade behind him. The creature runs sideways dodging his attack awaiting for Squall to run pass him so it can stab his back. Squall misses, swinging his blade upwards as the beast blasting a dark magic on Squall's back
a gust of purple haze mixed with thunder strikes him.
"GRRRR!" Squall coughs feeling his lungs filled with smoke, turning towards it again and heaves in his leather jacket, Yuffie can only watch in horror.
"So it knows magic too! Your no different from the rest!" He suddenly goes in a full sprint dragging his lionheart as it pulses an energy across the metallic surface, his blade spilling a rough blast of white eternal rings, he leaps up and swings the blade hurling the energy rings across the beast. The creature shrieks in horror and from the overkill, kneeing down ready to die, although Squall wasn't done with it.
Squall lands on one knee and slices at the beast several times, tearing the black skin with the cut of the blade, dying to see it bleed, he couldn't understand where his anger was coming from, but he had to release it. He heaves angrily as he points and shoots the beast with several bullets across it's heart area at the motionless black body till he realize he's shooting a dead beast, he stops and heaves. Squall lowers his blade as he phants heavy breaths, the edges of the gunblade makes a sharp noise against the sand, he stared at the carcass as the gunbarel of the gunblade smoking from the overkill. Yuffie has her hands across her mouth in disbelief silenced from his very disturbed angry behavior, she didn't know how to react, she pulls her hands away from her mouth.
She frown at him angrily at his behavior and shouts at him clenching her fist, "YOU SENT IT TO F*&^%KING HELL ALREADY!!!...STOP SHOOTING IT!! ..."
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It was night fall, and Squall and Yuffie manage to make a fire in front of a bush to rest for the meanwhile. Yuffie continuously poked a dry branch at the fire they made and gives a worried glance at Squall, he hasn't said a word since the attack. He kept on staring at the fire with a guilty look, his blue eyes focusing on nothing in particular. He sat inward, his arms resting on his knees and hunched forward, his hair mimicked the same. Yuffie frowned and for once she was curious to what he thought, it kinda scared her how he just buzzed off like that firing that creature back there, like he was incredibly upset.
Yuffie pouted her lips annoyed seeing him so blanked out, "What the hell is your problem?"
Squall blinked a few times as if awoken by her sudden attitude " What?" He glared at her dangerously as if saying not to talk to him like that.
Yuffie glared at him "You know well what the hell am talking about! Why did you say it was 'no different' and what da f%^k was all that shooting about!?"
Squall looked away and mumbled "Leave me be its none of your business...."
Yuffie "Who give a f$%king S^&t! " She suddenly grabs him by the jacket and shakes him furiously " Tell me you jacka$$! You were acting like some LUNATIC !"
Squall stood up and shook away the girl feebly shaking him and shoves her off with his gloved hand he walked backwards away from her and narrows his eyes "Just me alone alright!! I don't prive in you damn business! God...." he turns and starts to walk off upset.
Yuffie sits back down shoved away and blinks at him shocked "What da f$%k@! HEY!! ", she watches him walk off, she puts her hands around her mouth and shouts to him " AM f%^&kinG TALKING TO YOU ...YOU RUDE BASTER! "
Squall continued to walk looking down ignoring her, her attitude upset his thoughts, why couldn't she just let him think. (god, just back off....) He looked up dimming his eyes seeing the sunset,. Seeing it inch closer towards the ground spreading its light blues and greens around turning to night, in the haze of blues and yellows he saw a figure. He raises his head a bit higher focusing his blue cold eyes to see more clearly, he places a gloved hand above his brow to see clearly. In the gassy haze of the sun's horizon he saw a figure, slender, standing there holding a hand to the hips yet the figure waved in the gassy-like image. He widen his eyes more as he saw the figure waved a long bluish cloth behind the legs, daggling a long featherlike dark hair across the head. He couldn't see the figure's face but it looked slender, curved around he hips, it was her,. It HAD to be her!
Squall was standing still there blanked out in his thoughts as Yuffie continued to holler at him, he didn't here her protesting a long time ago. He suddenly starts to jog towards the sunset, Yuffie raises an eyebrow and stands, "What?! What did you FIND?!?! I WANT HALF! " She stands to follow.
Squall saw the figure more, the tanned face, the richness of the dark eyes, the flowing strands of dark awaiting for him, he suddenly starts to run in an anxious anticipation. His jacket folded behind him in his full sprint towards the sun lighted image, widening his eyes ( She's alive!! ...) The image open it's arms towards him, he opens his arms and closes his eyes wanting to feel her weight in his arms once again, he couldn't believe it!
Yuffie stops watching him in a shock expression yet confused, the sunset light shadowing across her hair and body watching him.
"Rinoa!!"..He hugs forward, and stops. He looked in his arms feeling nothing, He phanted scared and looked around her, "W-wha?!"
He looked confused and lost, and rubbed a gloved hand across his hair almost going mad looking around. "RIIINNNNOOOAAA?!?!?!"
Squall heaves anxiously looking around only seeing Yuffie behind him giving him a confused stare. He sees nothing but the vast desert, it was a mirage, she was a mirage. His hopes blew him over making him feel like a fool to believe, he stopped believe why did he believe!? He stood there and slowly runs his hands across his hair in pure frustration as he sits on his knees feeling him self swallow hard trembling closes his eyes.
Yuffie expression changed from confused anger, to a sadden frown. Now she understood why he behaved this way, shouting a female name like that out of no where
one can only guess it he was all frustrated and depress over a girl. She watched him and dimmed her eyes starting to feel sorry for him.
( It was all over a girl...I didn't know,. Am sorry)
Squall didn't shed tears, but he expressed a very solitary look towards the sands, his hair hid his eyes in a shadow. He rest his gloved hands on his knee not saying a word as if Yuffie wasn't there. The sun was gone and all was left was a silouhuete of red clouds mixed with blues across the sky fading to night in the desert.
After a few mints, Yuffie walked slowly towards him, frowning. She gently steps before him in her boots and looks down at him hanging her arms beside herself no longer posing her determined self.
And for the first time Yuffie didn't talk to him disrespectfully." Squall?. You okay?"
He only blinked once still looking down, he winced inside when she said his name. The reminder of everything just suddenly rushed at him, little memories.....
~~~~~~~~~~ In his mind~~~~~~~~~
The voice of a seeD, "Commander Squall Leonhart, We're ready to launch attack to Galbadia!"
Zell's voice "Squall! Rinny needs your help! She's hanging for dear life over at the quads! You have to save her!"
Quistis's voice "You always seem to be a fast learner hmm? I saw you dancing Squall, you did pretty well."
Cid's voice "And for that reason I appoint you leader of this operation Squall, I know you can do this, you have leadership inside of you."
Irvine's voice "Go man go! Your the one that has to attack the Sorceress if all else fails!"
Rinoa's voice " Why do you have to be this way! Shutting your self from all of us!." lowers her voice..."...... shutting your self from me,..why can't you talk to me?.."
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He blinked at the flash backs, and winces his eyes closed "I failed them..."
Yuffie blinked confused at him "Huh? Them?"
He frowns his eyes still kneeled there as it grew darker " I failed them all,..even her.....am sorry....." he closed his eyes..
Yuffie "Sorry? For what?! ?...Squall?" She waved her hands up frustrated.
When she said his name he can hear a faint memory of Rinoa calling his name desperately when he fell off the Sorceress's float, her face...that face..it's gone. His failure.
He winces him self and said defensively "Don't call me that.."
Yuffie blinked confused, "What? ...What the hell are you talking about! I only said 'Squall' ?" she questioned at him.
Squall winces again and slowly stands..." Please...." he rest a hand on his head getting a headache
( I don't want to remember,..I don't want to remember how I failed them, ...I don't even want to remember who I was...)
Squall waved his hand at her "Just don't call me Squall again please!...."
Yuffie confused, "Why? What the hell am I suppose to call you then...? Lion-boy?..."
Squall looked at her tiredly and waves his hand absentmindly while his other hand hold his head.
"..." ( A new name? ...Am not the same person anymore,..I don't deserve to hold that past..to hold who I was, I don't want anyone to recognize my name. They'll find me, and know me as the one who failed everyone,..no...I CANT face that. I HAVE to change my name, so NOONE can find me...but..I need a name I can still respond to,
it can't be just any name......)
Squall looked at him self looking for an idea and saw his griever lionhart necklace,..seeing the sign of his lion, something he couldn't hide regardless. His last name was Leonhart...how about just Leon....he can still respond to that still.
He looked up slowly, "Leon,..."
Yuffie squints her eyes "Huh?
He looked directly at her with his cold blue eyes, " Leon,... call me that ok? Leon..."
Yuffie stares at him confused "Huh? Leon?..." She blinked confused and watched as Squall walks pass her towards their small fire. "What ever you say..." She shrugged.
He sits down before the fire and rubbed his temples briefly feeling a headache,..(...I don't ever want to remember...ever...)
Yuffie sits beside him and glances at him fumbling with her bag as she curiously ask "Squall,..who is Rinnoe?"
Squall gave her a dangerous glare resting his arms over his knees again , "I SAID Leon...."
Yuffie pops a small piece of beef jerky in her mouth and mumbled in her chewing mouth "Er..sorry Leon..."
He extends his open hand towards her as if asking for something, she glances at his open glove and gives him a confused stare. "What?"
Leon raises an eyebrow at her seriously "Can I have some?....?" He glances at her bag of beef jerky.
Yuffie blinks at him and shrugs giving him a piece reluctantly, "Fine..but ONLY cause you slashed that demon over there..alright? "
Leon ignored her intentions and took the piece and bite a piece chewing on the beef-jerky despite it's heavy taste flavor looking at the fire.
She looks at him confidently "Partners?...."
He didn't reply, "...." She puffed the strands of black hair before her eyes impatient for his answer.
Leon only chewed on the beef jerky still in his thoughts, she replied nudging against his ribs suddenly "Well!?.."
Leon glares at her briefly, then gives a shrug turning back his gaze towards the fire, "Sure...whatever..."
He didn't mind, she gave him what he needed and he offered his protection, he steadily hold the hilt of his blade watching the night after swallowing the beef-jerky.
She grins pleased to have him on her side and leans back chewing another piece of dry beef, she knew at this point it was his way of saying yes.
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2004/jan/2
Please leave a small message! Should I just let it end here people??! Or continue? ^.^
Squall and Yuffie are out in the middle of a desert canyon area with not much to live under, searching for civilization,...
A huge point in squall's life happens, when he refuses to remember who he is...in this chapter you'll find out the real answer.....
on why he changes his name....
Chapter 5
Squall hurls his gunblade over to his shoulders to rest after recooperating, he saw nothing but a hazardous dry desert with it's continuous hue of yellow and orange that made his eyes squint. Cactus ahead just stood like people standing so still, he expect them to hop in and out of the sands like the cactus back at home but these don't seem to be as lively, (Thank hyne...) Canyon ridges and dunes, the only landscape around them and beyond that was hazed ghostly horizons of the sun.
He looked over his scuffed fur shoulders and commands to Yuffie "Common, let's go....."
Yuffie is busy stuffing her bags and looks at him awkwardly wondering where he received that commanding voice,
"Err?...Like, excuse you?"
She blinks several times wonder who made him king to command, she hurls her bag behind her to carry and picks up her armor,
"Heh! You think that I would want to follow you Lion boy!.."
Squall watch her march in front of him in her short height and raises an eyebrow
"Lion boy?..."
He blinks confused at her giving his silent gaze of disturb ness, he didn't like the 'cute name'.
Yuffie looks back at him "YES,. That thing you wearing..."
She points to his necklace, his shiny silver griever pendant of the LionHart. It gleams the reflection of the sun above in a yellow hazel before giving a learn at his face, he looks back to her.
She re-asked, "That's a lion right?"
He gazes briefly at it then looks at her, puffing a rebellious blond strand off his eyesight, "Yeah, "
He rest his other hand on his hips reluctantly, holding the weight of his blade on his shoulder, "It's only a pendant, doesn't really mean am some animal....alright"
Yuffie, she snaps her head away refusing to look at him, "Look, if your gonna walk around with a stupid lion on, it HAS to mean something right? Either way...I don't need you okay? So DONT you comman-!o-ff-ht!"
She trip over an object recklessly waving her arms around before hitting the floor with a dust thud. She flips back up and skips a few times protesting and wincing while Squall watched her with a blank face not even wincing at her fall.
Yuffie protest angrily "WHAT DA' @#$@#!! Oooowww! My #$%# Feet! OOOwwww!! GRrrrR! Who the H@l% put that S^&$ THERE!!!"
Squall frowns seriously at her and calmly goes to investigate the object she tripped on, he kneels to it, and carefully examines it as his boots crunch the soil of sand around it. The shiny object looked sharp and almost metal like, it sticks out of the ground oddly like. A dagger. He dims his eyes pensively while Yuffie got up and dust her self.
Yuffie grumbled "I Hate this $#$%#$ desert!! TRipping over Sh*T! "
She continues to dust her self as a chain curls around her ankles unknowingly and suddenly yanks her down, making her fall again flat on her face vulnerable to move.
She screamed "Let me go you piece of @#$@!!" dust releases around her as the ground shook violently, it crackled open as it shook as if something was growing out of the sands. Sand cascaded to the side as a figure stood up meandering sand around it taking a shape and form as the sand slide away.
Squall drew away his attention to the object and immediately stood up widening his eyes briefly before he launched forward pulling his blade down his shoulders swiftly and swings it across her ankles. She widens shrieking seeing the quick blade swing past her legs, she looks away only to hear the blade release sharp metallic sound, and her legs no longer feel tight but free to move. Yuffie looks up with her huge eyes surprised and focuses on Squall behind her posed defensively with his blade before him in a serious pose. Squall's jacket ruffled in the sunset wind and he was looking dead on behind her. She quickly looks behind her scuffing her legs to move away from what ever it is he's looking at.
There before them was a large black figure creature unlike anything they seen before, it heaved forward like a creature of darkness with only dark tight black skin, the only thing that stood out was it's blank yellow glowing eyes and a large broken heart symbol that reflects a red light ominously. It's large claws waves before itself assuring it was not friendly and might even look hungry for all they know.
Squall commandingly without shifting his sight of the beast towards Yuffie, "Get behind me,...now.." He cuts the wind before him with his lionheart to assure her he can take the beast.
She nods several times and scruffs up and dust her self behind him,. She then swings out a large pinwheel spear across her arm's width "Hey I can fight too!"
The black skinned creature lingered forward towards them dangerously, and quickly aims it self towards squall, Squall pushes him self towards the side and swings his bade before him before holding his posture again facing he beast. The creature fixed its large orb eyes towards them apparently not content it wasn't defensive, it wants to hurt them.
He warned her still watching the beast steadily, "Have you ever fought this thing before?"
Yuffie didn't stop staring at the ugly creature quivering "N-No.."
Squall rubbed his boot toe against the ground ready to attack, enticing the beast to come at him,.."..What are you?...and what's with the broken heart?"
It suddenly releases a high pitch scream and sheers forward towards them moving it's legs at a great speed to attack them, raising it's talon hands to slice, Squall quickly crouches down on his knees and slices his gunblade upwards above his head slicing and blocking the attack away as the creature eases speedily behind him. Squall widen his eyes and shifts his position again holding his blade up, this time running towards it, dragging his gunblade behind him. The creature runs sideways dodging his attack awaiting for Squall to run pass him so it can stab his back. Squall misses, swinging his blade upwards as the beast blasting a dark magic on Squall's back
a gust of purple haze mixed with thunder strikes him.
"GRRRR!" Squall coughs feeling his lungs filled with smoke, turning towards it again and heaves in his leather jacket, Yuffie can only watch in horror.
"So it knows magic too! Your no different from the rest!" He suddenly goes in a full sprint dragging his lionheart as it pulses an energy across the metallic surface, his blade spilling a rough blast of white eternal rings, he leaps up and swings the blade hurling the energy rings across the beast. The creature shrieks in horror and from the overkill, kneeing down ready to die, although Squall wasn't done with it.
Squall lands on one knee and slices at the beast several times, tearing the black skin with the cut of the blade, dying to see it bleed, he couldn't understand where his anger was coming from, but he had to release it. He heaves angrily as he points and shoots the beast with several bullets across it's heart area at the motionless black body till he realize he's shooting a dead beast, he stops and heaves. Squall lowers his blade as he phants heavy breaths, the edges of the gunblade makes a sharp noise against the sand, he stared at the carcass as the gunbarel of the gunblade smoking from the overkill. Yuffie has her hands across her mouth in disbelief silenced from his very disturbed angry behavior, she didn't know how to react, she pulls her hands away from her mouth.
She frown at him angrily at his behavior and shouts at him clenching her fist, "YOU SENT IT TO F*&^%KING HELL ALREADY!!!...STOP SHOOTING IT!! ..."
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It was night fall, and Squall and Yuffie manage to make a fire in front of a bush to rest for the meanwhile. Yuffie continuously poked a dry branch at the fire they made and gives a worried glance at Squall, he hasn't said a word since the attack. He kept on staring at the fire with a guilty look, his blue eyes focusing on nothing in particular. He sat inward, his arms resting on his knees and hunched forward, his hair mimicked the same. Yuffie frowned and for once she was curious to what he thought, it kinda scared her how he just buzzed off like that firing that creature back there, like he was incredibly upset.
Yuffie pouted her lips annoyed seeing him so blanked out, "What the hell is your problem?"
Squall blinked a few times as if awoken by her sudden attitude " What?" He glared at her dangerously as if saying not to talk to him like that.
Yuffie glared at him "You know well what the hell am talking about! Why did you say it was 'no different' and what da f%^k was all that shooting about!?"
Squall looked away and mumbled "Leave me be its none of your business...."
Yuffie "Who give a f$%king S^&t! " She suddenly grabs him by the jacket and shakes him furiously " Tell me you jacka$$! You were acting like some LUNATIC !"
Squall stood up and shook away the girl feebly shaking him and shoves her off with his gloved hand he walked backwards away from her and narrows his eyes "Just me alone alright!! I don't prive in you damn business! God...." he turns and starts to walk off upset.
Yuffie sits back down shoved away and blinks at him shocked "What da f$%k@! HEY!! ", she watches him walk off, she puts her hands around her mouth and shouts to him " AM f%^&kinG TALKING TO YOU ...YOU RUDE BASTER! "
Squall continued to walk looking down ignoring her, her attitude upset his thoughts, why couldn't she just let him think. (god, just back off....) He looked up dimming his eyes seeing the sunset,. Seeing it inch closer towards the ground spreading its light blues and greens around turning to night, in the haze of blues and yellows he saw a figure. He raises his head a bit higher focusing his blue cold eyes to see more clearly, he places a gloved hand above his brow to see clearly. In the gassy haze of the sun's horizon he saw a figure, slender, standing there holding a hand to the hips yet the figure waved in the gassy-like image. He widen his eyes more as he saw the figure waved a long bluish cloth behind the legs, daggling a long featherlike dark hair across the head. He couldn't see the figure's face but it looked slender, curved around he hips, it was her,. It HAD to be her!
Squall was standing still there blanked out in his thoughts as Yuffie continued to holler at him, he didn't here her protesting a long time ago. He suddenly starts to jog towards the sunset, Yuffie raises an eyebrow and stands, "What?! What did you FIND?!?! I WANT HALF! " She stands to follow.
Squall saw the figure more, the tanned face, the richness of the dark eyes, the flowing strands of dark awaiting for him, he suddenly starts to run in an anxious anticipation. His jacket folded behind him in his full sprint towards the sun lighted image, widening his eyes ( She's alive!! ...) The image open it's arms towards him, he opens his arms and closes his eyes wanting to feel her weight in his arms once again, he couldn't believe it!
Yuffie stops watching him in a shock expression yet confused, the sunset light shadowing across her hair and body watching him.
"Rinoa!!"..He hugs forward, and stops. He looked in his arms feeling nothing, He phanted scared and looked around her, "W-wha?!"
He looked confused and lost, and rubbed a gloved hand across his hair almost going mad looking around. "RIIINNNNOOOAAA?!?!?!"
Squall heaves anxiously looking around only seeing Yuffie behind him giving him a confused stare. He sees nothing but the vast desert, it was a mirage, she was a mirage. His hopes blew him over making him feel like a fool to believe, he stopped believe why did he believe!? He stood there and slowly runs his hands across his hair in pure frustration as he sits on his knees feeling him self swallow hard trembling closes his eyes.
Yuffie expression changed from confused anger, to a sadden frown. Now she understood why he behaved this way, shouting a female name like that out of no where
one can only guess it he was all frustrated and depress over a girl. She watched him and dimmed her eyes starting to feel sorry for him.
( It was all over a girl...I didn't know,. Am sorry)
Squall didn't shed tears, but he expressed a very solitary look towards the sands, his hair hid his eyes in a shadow. He rest his gloved hands on his knee not saying a word as if Yuffie wasn't there. The sun was gone and all was left was a silouhuete of red clouds mixed with blues across the sky fading to night in the desert.
After a few mints, Yuffie walked slowly towards him, frowning. She gently steps before him in her boots and looks down at him hanging her arms beside herself no longer posing her determined self.
And for the first time Yuffie didn't talk to him disrespectfully." Squall?. You okay?"
He only blinked once still looking down, he winced inside when she said his name. The reminder of everything just suddenly rushed at him, little memories.....
~~~~~~~~~~ In his mind~~~~~~~~~
The voice of a seeD, "Commander Squall Leonhart, We're ready to launch attack to Galbadia!"
Zell's voice "Squall! Rinny needs your help! She's hanging for dear life over at the quads! You have to save her!"
Quistis's voice "You always seem to be a fast learner hmm? I saw you dancing Squall, you did pretty well."
Cid's voice "And for that reason I appoint you leader of this operation Squall, I know you can do this, you have leadership inside of you."
Irvine's voice "Go man go! Your the one that has to attack the Sorceress if all else fails!"
Rinoa's voice " Why do you have to be this way! Shutting your self from all of us!." lowers her voice..."...... shutting your self from me,..why can't you talk to me?.."
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He blinked at the flash backs, and winces his eyes closed "I failed them..."
Yuffie blinked confused at him "Huh? Them?"
He frowns his eyes still kneeled there as it grew darker " I failed them all,..even her.....am sorry....." he closed his eyes..
Yuffie "Sorry? For what?! ?...Squall?" She waved her hands up frustrated.
When she said his name he can hear a faint memory of Rinoa calling his name desperately when he fell off the Sorceress's float, her face...that face..it's gone. His failure.
He winces him self and said defensively "Don't call me that.."
Yuffie blinked confused, "What? ...What the hell are you talking about! I only said 'Squall' ?" she questioned at him.
Squall winces again and slowly stands..." Please...." he rest a hand on his head getting a headache
( I don't want to remember,..I don't want to remember how I failed them, ...I don't even want to remember who I was...)
Squall waved his hand at her "Just don't call me Squall again please!...."
Yuffie confused, "Why? What the hell am I suppose to call you then...? Lion-boy?..."
Squall looked at her tiredly and waves his hand absentmindly while his other hand hold his head.
"..." ( A new name? ...Am not the same person anymore,..I don't deserve to hold that past..to hold who I was, I don't want anyone to recognize my name. They'll find me, and know me as the one who failed everyone,..no...I CANT face that. I HAVE to change my name, so NOONE can find me...but..I need a name I can still respond to,
it can't be just any name......)
Squall looked at him self looking for an idea and saw his griever lionhart necklace,..seeing the sign of his lion, something he couldn't hide regardless. His last name was Leonhart...how about just Leon....he can still respond to that still.
He looked up slowly, "Leon,..."
Yuffie squints her eyes "Huh?
He looked directly at her with his cold blue eyes, " Leon,... call me that ok? Leon..."
Yuffie stares at him confused "Huh? Leon?..." She blinked confused and watched as Squall walks pass her towards their small fire. "What ever you say..." She shrugged.
He sits down before the fire and rubbed his temples briefly feeling a headache,..(...I don't ever want to remember...ever...)
Yuffie sits beside him and glances at him fumbling with her bag as she curiously ask "Squall,..who is Rinnoe?"
Squall gave her a dangerous glare resting his arms over his knees again , "I SAID Leon...."
Yuffie pops a small piece of beef jerky in her mouth and mumbled in her chewing mouth "Er..sorry Leon..."
He extends his open hand towards her as if asking for something, she glances at his open glove and gives him a confused stare. "What?"
Leon raises an eyebrow at her seriously "Can I have some?....?" He glances at her bag of beef jerky.
Yuffie blinks at him and shrugs giving him a piece reluctantly, "Fine..but ONLY cause you slashed that demon over there..alright? "
Leon ignored her intentions and took the piece and bite a piece chewing on the beef-jerky despite it's heavy taste flavor looking at the fire.
She looks at him confidently "Partners?...."
He didn't reply, "...." She puffed the strands of black hair before her eyes impatient for his answer.
Leon only chewed on the beef jerky still in his thoughts, she replied nudging against his ribs suddenly "Well!?.."
Leon glares at her briefly, then gives a shrug turning back his gaze towards the fire, "Sure...whatever..."
He didn't mind, she gave him what he needed and he offered his protection, he steadily hold the hilt of his blade watching the night after swallowing the beef-jerky.
She grins pleased to have him on her side and leans back chewing another piece of dry beef, she knew at this point it was his way of saying yes.
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2004/jan/2
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