Flashback

"Squall!" Rinoa's voice sang into the caves "are you in here?"

"Rinoa! Yah come in I want to show you something" Squalls voice rang back. After getting lost in the maze of canals twice, Rinoa finally appeared before him. "What's all this then? Aerith told me you wanted me to meet you here." She kissed his cheek.

"hmm? Oh yah I did." He blushed "I wanted to give you something" he reached in his pocket and pulled out a silver necklace. In the center was a diamond shaped like a heart, it was surround by a silver outline. "Here" He handed it to her.

"Oh Squall!" Tears formed in her eyes "It's beautiful" Then she leaned in and kissed lips passionately. Squall grabbed her waist and pulled her forward to deepen what she had begun. After breaking it, she whispered to him "I love you"

"I love you too. I wont ever leave you. I swear it. I don't think I could love someone else" he kissed her softly this time.

"If you guys are done with this love fest, Aerith needs Rinoa to help make supper and Cloud needs Leon for...I don't know, he just said 'Get Leon'" A six year old Yuffie raised her eyebrows expectantly.

"Yuffie!" They said in unison, both blushing hard.

"What did I do?"
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Leon

Leon stared broodingly at the stars. 'She's alive' he thought ' I loved her once but do I still?' he had too many unanswered questions so he had come to lie on the roof of Merlin's old house. Plus, Yuffie would have seriously injured him if he had stayed. He's almost fallen through the covering but he'd been cautious. He recalled what happened after Yuffie dropped the bolt from the blue.

"What..." Leon whispered, eyes wide.

"I was running down the hall when I heard a voice... I- it was crying... I went up to the cell that it was coming from and knocked it down. I seen it was a girl but I didn't really pay too much attention. I just wanted to get out of there. I ran to the headquarters and grabbed my stuff and she- she grabbed hers too I think. I really wasn't watching her. We got in separate Gummi ships across from each other... it was-it wasn't till then that I got a good look at her. Then I knew. It was her. It was Rinoa, I knew it, I had grown up with her." Yuffie had a far away pained look in her eyes, and her voice sounded shaky but dull, like it wasn't really her talking. "And she looked up and I seen the recognition too, dawn in her eyes of who I was. We took off and talked over the intercom... She said she was going to look for Squall...she said she knew you were her light. Or she thought so... I-I told her to be careful and then I ended up here and... and...here I am." Leon jerked away from her violently and ran out the door. He need to think.

"Squall!" Sounded Yuffie's voice. She ran down the stairs and jumped in front of him outside. She had to stop him, talk to him about it.

"LEON! Why didn't you tell me?" he hissed

"I-I just did!" she said, scared.

"Why didn't you tell me right away! You knew this was important! That she was important to me!" He yelled

"I'm sorry! I didn't even want to see you in the first place!" her anger flooded back to her, "To tell you the truth I had forgotten! Yes forgotten!"

"How can you forget something like that! I think you just didn't want to say anything and then thought better of it! You wanted to cause me more pain Yuffie!" He pushed her roughly to the ground, but she was too quick and she swung her leg, hitting him below the knee. Leon landed on top of her, crushing her to the ground.

"Maybe I did!" she lied "because apparently I cause all your pain right!?"

"Yes Yuffie you do! I know you want to kill me!" he howled

"What are you talking about!? I would never want to kill you Squall! I never lied to you. Not once! Not even when I was little! I always kept on the straight and narrow with you. Always! How could you even say that!" She punched his arm hard "YOUR SUCH A JERK!" she shrieked at him. He flipped her over and slammed her on the wall. Yuffie winced but shoved back at him. They were both strong and every move they made to hurt each other, did exactly that. Hurt.

"IT'S LEON! You're such a liar Yuffie! Straight and narrow? Yeah right! You lied to me ALL the time" Leon never hurt a girl, but Yuffie made him lose his temper. He smashed a fist into her jaw. "YOU THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY TO LIE TO YOUR GUARDIAN!" She kicked him hard in the stomach, causing the air to escape him.

"YOU CALL YOURSELF A GUARDIAN? SEPHIROTH TOOK ME AWAY AND YOU BARELY FOUGHT! YOUR WEAK SQUALL! DO YOU HEAR ME? WEAK!" Yuffie slammed her other leg into his stomach "HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT I WANT YOU DEAD!? YOU OBVIOUSLY WANT ME DEAD! YOU NEVER THOUGHT TO COME BACK AND CHECK TO MAKE SURE I WAS GONE BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T EVEN CARE! YOU ARENT A GUARDIAN! CLOUD ACTS MORE LIKE ONE TO ME THAN YOU EVER DID!" She double attacked him, jumping and swinging one leg at his face then spinning around in the air, kicked him in the chest with the other. He flew backwards and smashed into a wall across the street. Shocked, Leon looked up at her. Yuffies' wide eyes held tears and her hands were over her mouth. "Oh my god Squall! I'm sorry! I never –'' her apology was cut off as he ran into the third district.

Cloud who had been watching the whole thing unfold, had been going to jump in to stop them when Leon dashed off. He came and took Yuffie inside. But she shrugged him off. "I'm going to stay at the accessory shop tonight" and with that she too scampered off.

He ran over the memory once again. 'She was right, I am weak. Does she really think that I'm not a good guardian?' His thoughts momentarily settled on Yuffie. 'She blames me...Cloud was right...Cloud' he scowled 'Maybe he should have been her guardian, he's more brotherly like anyways' he felt himself go deeper into depression.

Leon's ears picked up the creaking doors opening and the soft thump of boots jumping on the rocks. It was to light to be Cloud or Aerith. 'Yuffie' he thought 'what does she want now? To finish me off?' He saw a flash of color beside him, then he seen He saw a flash of color beside him, then he seen Yuffie land beside him. He remained silent.

"Hey" she said quietly sitting beside him, looking at the star too.

"What do you want now Yuffie?" He spat more venomously than he had meant too. He heard her quiet sigh 'She doesn't know why she's here' Confirming his thoughts she replied

" I don't know. To apologize maybe? I just wanted to talk. You know?" She glanced at him skeptically, catching his nod.

"Yah, I know what you mean" He whispered, "you shouldn't apologize, you were right" he admitted. "And I'm sorry that I hit you. I shouldn't have hit you no matter what my temper was like. You probably would have been better off with Cloud as a guardian...I am weak... I couldn't save you Yuffie... I'm the one who should be apologizing."

"I didn't realize I was mad about it till I said it" she considered, as if thinking a thought out loud. 'I would have been thinking it all the time' She shifted her position so she was facing him. "Your not weak, I'm glad you were my guardian" it was so quiet he had to strain to hear it. Louder though she laughed "And don't worry about my jaw. It ain't made of glass"

"But I am weak Yuffie! I was too scared to go back to see if Sephiroth had killed you. I just assumed! I was hopeless to stop him from hurting you and I should've been able to. Dammit Yuf! Its all my fault!" He said feeling shameful. She shook her head.

"No. Don't go blaming yourself. The heartless are to blame. To get technical, Sephiroth is to blame" She spoke his name almost like a curse, and Leon seen the flicker of anger in her eyes when she said it. "But not you Squall" Then looking away she murmured "Did you love her"

He sighed "It's Leon now Yuffie. Leon. I did love her..." he let his answer drift off silently adding to himself 'I don't know if I do now'.

"Did you think that... that she was your light?"

"Maybe. I think I thought she was..." He said ad he remembered the promise he had made Rinoa in the cave.

"Do you think of her often? Like do you miss her?" Yuffie inquired. 'What is this? Twenty questions?' he thought, but he answered her truthfully.

"I did yah. You know, when you love someone, you think of them a lot. I miss her sometimes. Mostly I think I'm lonely" he admitted to her. 'Where is all this honesty coming from?'

"I'm staying in the accessory shop tonight" Yuffie switched subjects, she sounded more confident than the moments before, as if she had reached a conclusion. "I'll be leaving in the morning. I'm going to do something for you first though"

"What's that?" Leon was curious 'something for me? Why is she being so nice?'

"It's a surprise" she shrugged "I'm going to go to bed now. Goodnight." And with that she left.

"Goodnight" 'What just happened here?'

Yuffie

Walking out of the fire door, Yuffie made her way towards the first district, using a the alley as a shortcut. 'I have to do this, for him. He loves her, not me. He stole my heart and that's more real than anything else. But its not meant to be. He loves Rinoa, that's how it's supposed to be. Oh Squall, you've left me nowhere.' A tear slipped, and she wiped in away ' Now look whose weak' she laughed.

Reaching her gummi, she jumped inside and grabbed the handle for the intercom. She punched in numbers, trying to connect to the other ship. She sighed when she got through. "Rinoa? You there?" She said into the microphone.

"Yuffie? Is that you" her voice sang through the static.

"Yah, hey I found him! Squall is here in Traverse Town."

"Oh Yuffie! Thank you, Thank you! You're a lifesaver! A real angel! I'll be there by morning!" she hummed

"I probably wont be here, I've decided to leave. But I'll talk to you later! Bye!" she switched off before Rinoa could say she should wait for her. ' I gave you up Squall'

Yuffie was glad that she was leaving in the morning. She knew she couldn't be happy for no one, and she couldn't pretend to be okay. She was shattered like broken glass.

' It's all part of the madness'

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A/N: soooooo...? I know, it was mostly Leon's POV this time but that okay right? I hate Rinoa don't you? Really I despise her... she's evil... I like to leave Squiffieness for the end...Or do I? Haha now you don't know if there will be Squiffieness soon or not! Muahahahaha!

Review Review! I wanted to have Cloud make the moves on Yuffie in this one but then I was like noo..im not that evil.. lol