Finding you
Hey guys! Thanks for all the reviews ya gave me! I didn't even know anyone actually read this cause I haven't been to for two weeks! School's hectic and I've gotta keep my nights free for schoolwork and parties. So I had less time for my fics, but thanks so much! You guys always get me motivated! So here it is!
To my awesome reviewers:
SimpleNClean92: I'm enjoying it too! I love writing this one! Ya know what… I sorta quit on the list… dunno but feel free to add. I sorta lost track of how many there is.
39xSyko- Don't worry! Yuffie aint gonna die… but since you gave me the idea… just kidding! Yeah… in a way he is a bit OOC but I'll try to make him as Leon-ish as I possibly can! Sadly you will never see the kids again… I just suck don't I?
Queen of Twilight- yes! It's finally out! I didn't realize how long it's been since I updated! But here it is! this is sorta eventful… if you count the little things I guess…
Not my longest chap but it's ok.
Magy- heeh! You gave me the idea of adding another guy into the story… maybe a little..or a lot of jealousy! Heeh!
Soras friend 901tjn395- your prediction is sorta true… but you know me… I just HAVE to make things so complicated.
Screennameless- just a question… are you the same person as the one that reviewed in some of my other stories or does everyone just have this name? Hehe! I'm making the button order people around!
Chapter 2: Making decisions
Inside Yuffie's hospital room, Cid, Aerith and Cloud were waiting patiently for Leon to get out of his trance he's been in for hours. They've been there ever since the clock struck two, which is the start of visiting hours and it was already 6.
"Wonder what it will be like without her." Cloud said, still trying to comfort Aerith.
"More damn quiet definitely." Cid chewed on his toothpick.
"It won't be the same without her." Aerith said, behind sobs. They were all staring at her sleeping figure on the bed.
"She will be missed." Cloud hugged Aerith even tighter than before.
"Hey… I'm not dead… just lost my memory. You don't have to mourn." Yuffie said lazily and tried to sit up.
"Get back down." Leon said quietly.
Yuffie pouted at him. "You're not my mother."
"Just lie back down Yuffie." Leon glared at her.
"What if I don't feel like it?" Yuffie returned the glare.
"I'll make you." Leon shot back.
"Not if you can't catch me!" Yuffie immediately shot up and ran out the door.
Leon growled and got up to get her.
Yuffie
Yuffie was running down the hallway, she turned around and found Leon running behind her.
"YUFFIE GET BACK HERE!" Leon shouted coldly at her.
"Ya can't catch me, ya can't make me!" Yuffie stuck out her tongue and took a turn.
Leon continued to chase her, she felt more childish when it came to him… maybe it was cause it was so easy to get him mad or maybe cause she liked his facial expression when he was going to scold her or maybe it was because she knew that if she ran… he'd run after her. She knew that she has known him her whole life but right now… it seems that she only knew him for a day.
Yuffie reached a dead end she turned around and Leon was running straight at her.
"Damn it." she jumped quickly, she was going to leap over him when… he caught her by the ankle.
"Yuffie… why do you try to keep on running away?" Leon rolled his eyes.
"Cause I know you'll never catch me." she smiled widely.
"Whatever… at the mean time… cover your back please." Leon handed her a robe.
Yuffie looked at her back and she just remembered that hospital gowns have slits at the back. Her eyes grew big and she started to twitch.
"Why didn't you tell me ya big idiot!" Yuffie quickly covered herself with the robe he gave her.
"You didn't give me a chance." Leon said blankly.
"You didn't ask for one." They glared at each other for a while when Yuffie suddenly remembered.
"Hey… how did you stop me when I was trying to leap over you?" she raised an eyebrow.
"You've done that to me a lot of times. I should know what to do to stop you from running away from me." Leon turned around to hide the pain of remembering the old Yuffie.
"Running away from you? Why wouldn't I run away from you when you're trying to keep me bed-ridden for the rest of my life!" she jumped in front of him. "Why cant you look at me in the eye?" she moved her face closer to his.
Leon didn't move from where he was from. Her face was only a few inches away from his. He got his mind back and reminded himself that this wasn't… Yuffie.
"Were you always this… sad? What happened… girlfriend passed away?" Yuffie tilted her head.
There was a look of pain in his face and she knew that she hit a tender spot. Leon didn't answer her he couldn't look at her…he had so many things on his mind that he didn't know what to start fixing first. But he had to admit that talking to Yuffie did make him feel better… even if she's just known him for a day.
"You know what? Let's not talk about that." Yuffie linked arms with Leon.
"Yuffie… we should get back to the room. You still have a head problem." He led her to her hospital room once again where his friends were waiting.
Yuffie jumped back onto the bed and crawled under the covers. There was a knock on the door. It was a nurse dressed in all white.
"Visiting hours are ending in one minute." She nodded then left.
"Yuffie, you'll be alright without us right?" Aerith looked at her with a worried expression.
"Yeah! What do you think I am a kid?" she smiled sweetly.
"Brat, that's exactly what you are." Cid messed up her hair.
"Hey…" she slapped him on the arm.
"We'll be seeing you tomorrow, Yuff." Cloud gave a small wave.
Leon was the last to leave, he stared at her intently and then walked out the door.
'What's his problem?' Yuffie shrugged and downed the ice cream Aerith left for her.
the house
The four were in the dinning room, not saying a word. The fan above them was moving quickly and the yellow lights were dimmed. Cid was still munching on his toothpick. Cloud was sitting on the dining table with Aerith in his arms. Aerith was just sitting there, thinking about Yuffie. Leon was pacing around the room, thinking of what to do next.
Cloud broke the silence. "What do we do about Yuffie?"
"We let her stay there for another night." Aerith said firmly.
"What about the brat's memory?" Cid said finally throwing away the chewed toothpick but he put another one back in his mouth.
"We get it back." Leon stopped and looked at all of them. All of their faces said, how?
"We bring her back to her most memorable time." Aerith said.
"Memorable?" Cloud looked at her.
"A time she enjoyed a lot and where a lot of her memories were made." Aerith finally sat up.
"Our trip." Leon said.
Leon was referring to the trip around the worlds they had a few months ago. He knew Yuffie had a lot of fun there because she kept on nagging that she wanted to do it again constantly.
"We could do that." Cid nodded.
"We should use the same ship and go to the same places." Cloud looked at Leon. "Will it work?"
"It's worth a try." Leon replied and they were off to bed.
Hospital the next day
It was 7:00 in the morning and Yuffie had nothing to do… she already stuffed the doctor's pockets with soil, scared the nurse that pissed her off, rode around on wheelchairs and of course, finished all the food that Aerith gave her.
So she flicked the tv on. She passed the Chinese channels, CNN, shopping channels, one channel that was showing the care bares, Yuffie shuddered at this one, the weather channel, MTV that was playing some old band that didn't sound good and then she landed on the travel channel.
They were featuring Wonderland. The world was horrifically colored with it's excess use of pink… but the green was ok. They were talking about how much of a maze the place was and you really had to have a good sense of direction if you wanted to get out of there 5 years from now.
Then they interviewed the queen, the host somehow offended the queen and she wanted to chop his head off but he said she could do that after the show because it was GP rated.
Yuffie had a really strong feeling that she's been there before, the places seemed so familiar and she felt like she already felt the shudder she could only get by looking at that place before. (A/N: that was a confusing sentence!)
"MISSSS KISARAGIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" a man's voice hollered from outside.
Yuffie giggled and hid in the closet. Hehe! He found out about the soil!
The four
Visiting hours weren't until 2 so they had to preoccupy themselves with what they were going to do. They made a decision that they really were going to travel through all the worlds. There were still heartless so they would always have to be on guard. They were going to ride the ship, diamond dust, the ship that they rode before.
Aerith was packing hers and Yuffie's stuff. She folded at least 10 skirts, 15 shirts, 2 pairs of shorts, Yuffie's headbands, her changes of underwear, her shoes and pairs of socks. And she also packed her stuff, 10 pink dresses in different styles and different shades of pink, 15 pink skirts, 1 white shirt with the word pink on it, 9 pink shirts, 10 pairs of shoes, not all pink, one was magenta.
Cid was tuning up Diamond Dust, filling it with fuel, changing the oil… etc.
Cloud was shopping around Traverse Town for the things Aerith ordered him to buy for the trip.
Leon was training in the waterway, slashing invisible enemies with sweat running down his forehead. He stopped, his muscles didn't hurt from the heavy weapon anymore, he got used to it and he thought that going to other worlds would be a better challenge for him, training-wise.
He was tired and thirsty so he decided to go up and ask old Merlin for a drink.
"What can I do for you son?" the cheerful long-bearded man asked.
"Just something to drink." Leon replied shortly.
"So… how did you like the scarf your lady friend made for you?" he raised his eyebrows.
"She got into an accident, and lost her memory." Leon starred blankly at the water he was pouring into a glass.
Merlin stopped. "Oh dear."
"We're trying to get her memory back by bringing her to all the worlds we went to, to get her memory working." Leon took a gulp of water.
"I have something that could bring fragments of her memory back." Merlin said, turning around and looking through a chest.
Leon immediately stood up. "She can get her memory back!"
"Only fragments. It could be a person, a place, a happy or sad memory or a thing. It depends on what memory the medicine hits first." Merlin took out pills. "I only have seven of them. That means only seven memories will be given to her but with those memories, more memories will sprout." He handed the pills to Leon.
"I can try it now?" Leon suddenly felt excited and he had to get to her right now.
"No. You have to wait seven days after the accident, excluding the day she lost her memory. One pill can only be taken once every seven days, if you are ahead by that seven days by even a second, her memory will be jumbled again. So you have to be careful when using these. One small mistake can change everything." Merlin gave him the last warning. "I hope she gets her memory back." Merlin said quietly.
"Me too." Leon left the house to tell everyone about the medicine.
House
"So there's no telling what she will remember." Cloud said, clearly interested.
"It could be anything or anyone." Leon replied for the 50th time.
"Can we give it to her now?" Aerith asked hopefully.
"We have to wait 5 more days. We give it to her at exactly 9:00 at night five days from now." Leon replied.
"Why 9?" Cid was chewing in hyper-drive that it was weird that he could still speak.
"Because that's the time I am sure that she was in the hospital." Leon answered.
"Just as long as she will be ok." Aerith said.
"She will… she will…" Cloud hugged her.
hospital at around 4
"Yuffie… we're going on a trip." Aerith said happily.
"Really! Where!" she was immediately excited.
"Around all the worlds." Cloud got her stuff.
"Then am I checked out already!" Yuffie immediately jumped out of her bed.
"Yeah now go put something that doesn't flash anything." Cid said grumpily.
Yuffie rushed through her things. She took out a pair of short khaki shorts, a green shirt, shoes that reached up to her knee and a green hair band. She changed into her clothes and ran out the bathroom.
"Ready to go!" Yuffie jumped up and down.
"Where's Leon?" Aerith asked.
"Here." Leon walked into the room and looked at Yuffie. she was wearing the exact same thing she wore when they left a few months ago.
"What are you looking at Squall!" Yuffie stuck her tongue out at him.
"Did you just call me Squall?" Everyone immediately looked at her in shock.
"Yeah… why is everyone looking at me like that!" Yuffie looked creeped at because of all the staring.
"Why did you call me Squall?" Leon walked closer to her.
"Isn't that your name?" Yuffie took a step back and looked confused.
"How do you know?" Leon asked, his eyes growing big.
"The doctor called you Squall so I called you Squall! What's with you! Did you change your name or something!" Yuffie looked scared.
Everyone sighed. "It's Leon."
There was a ring in Yuffie's head. "Those… what you said… is so familiar…"
They looked at her again. "She's remembering what you said to her before!" Aerith clapped happily.
"Huh?" Yuffie was confused… very confused…
"Leon used to tell you that his name was Leon not Squall-" Aerith was cut by the look Leon gave her.
"She will remember that on her own. If we don't tell her anything, we'll know if she remembers something." Leon said sternly at them.
"Ready to go?" Cid got up from his chair.
"YEAHHHHHHHH!" Yuffie jumped up and ran out the door but she stuck her head back in. "Nice scarf Squall."
Leon looked at the plaid scarf she made for her.
YEAH! I finished this in 2 hours! Major fastness! Maybe it's cause it's only 8 pages… short but I will make the next one a lot longer! Ahm… the story's getting into place already… and that's how the story's gonna be. Please review! I love you people who do!
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