Author's Note: The last chapter in a short but fun story. Yes, Yuffie is annoying. Wait a minute... I just realized. Out of my favorite characters, Yuffie has been paired with all of them. Squall, in KH; Reno, in lots of fanfiction; and Vincent, in lots of fanfiction. Does that mean I have a lot in common with Yuffie? Disturbing, I just won't think about it.

"Gawd… that hurt like hell…" whined a voice next to him. Squall painfully opened his eyes, then quickly closed them again to block out the neon lights. The message still burned in his head though- Traverse Town. He heard someone get to their feet next to him, but he couldn't find the will to get up. Someone decided he didn't have a choice.

"Squall! You're alive… I think! Squall? SQUALL?" said the voice again. Squall… he didn't deserve or want that name. Squall had let everyone on his planet die or worse. Squall had left them all to it. He didn't want to be Squall anymore.

"That's Leon," he corrected her faintly, picking a name at random.

"Leon? I'm not Leon! I'm Yuffie! Did you scramble your brains?" she demanded. Yuffie, of course. He winced; did she have to talk that loud?

"Not you. Me," he corrected her again, still not opening his eyes.

"You must have really scrambled your brains. How many fingers am I holding up?" said Yuffie. Squall felt her cold fingers pry his eyelids open, while her other hand was a few inches away from his face. Three fingers were clearly raised.

"Twelve," he said dryly. Yuffie, of course, took it seriously and bombarded his eardrums.

"THAT'S NOT RIGHT! We need to get you medical attention!"

"Just calm down. I'm fine," he reassured her, mainly to shut her up. He opened his eyes again, letting them adjust to the glare. They were in a neat cobble stoned town with people bustling around. He saw that they were receiving quite a few stares, but the really odd thing is that no seemed as surprised as they should. As he got to his feet with the help of a handy street lamp pole, a woman in a pink dress ran over.

"Yuffie? Squall? Thank goodness I've found you. Have you seen Cloud?" asked Aeris.

"We haven't seen anyone else yet," said Yuffie.

"My name's Leon," added Squall quietly. Aeris gave him an odd stare, but then she looked thoughtful.

"Actually, that's a good idea. I've met a few people here and our names probably seem a little weird to them. To avoid any unnecessary attention, we should change our names a little. I'll be Aerith," she explained.

"Will you $#!$ wait up!" called another familiar voice. Cid hopped over a parapet and landed in the main area. He skidded to a stop near them, panting.

"Can't…even…wait…at my age…shouldn't….#&$#…too much," the engineer mumbled in between gasps as he caught his breath.

"Sorry, Cid!" Aeris smiled apologetically. "Anyway, we were just discussing changing names to better fit in here. This place obviously isn't our world, after all."

Squall knew Aeris had his sudden name change all wrong but made no move to correct her about his intentions. He didn't feel like being called stupid by Yuffie or any them.

"&#!$, I'll keep my name whatever I want," disagreed Cid.

"And another thing," said Aeris. She hit Cid firmly but lightly on the head with her pole. "You have to clean up your mouth Cid. We don't know what kind of place this is, and right now the more we fit in the better."

"Well from what I've heard people have been dropping out of the skies and appearing in alleyways all &#… all day," he rearranged his questionable grammar hastily as Aeris raised her pole again.

"Still…"

Finally Yuffie spoke up. It almost seemed that it caused the ninja physical pain to be silent for more than a minute. "Guys…" she whined, "Can we just find a hotel or something? Pleeeeeeaase?"

(Switch)

…And finally let his eyes open. There was almost no light, but from what Reno could make out, he was just in an empty room. There might be enemies anywhere, and he was grateful that he still had his electric rod. Carefully getting up, he examined the place further. There was only one door, but before he could move towards it; it opened.

A man walked in, and for a second Reno thought he was looking in a mirror. The man's eyes were the exact shade of green as his, and his hair was also extremely similar. (He didn't have the ponytail in the back though) Heck, the guy even had a scar under each eye. With Reno his scars were under and curved away from his eyes. The man's scars were under each eye and vertical. And of course the guy was wearing a black cloak, but if they had both dressed the same way then it would be really weird. Reno carefully let his face loose all emotion as the man started to speak.

"My name is Axel. You are Reno, a once school teacher with a much more interesting past before that. That doesn't really matter now," Axel said, with a faint, twisted smile.

"You can fight. That's all we need to know. We're offering you a job in our little…. club, an organization if you like. Congratulations," said Axel, throwing a black cloak similar to what he was wearing at Reno. Reno refused to be an idiot fumbling over himself to catch the cloak and drool over Axel in gratitude like a dog. He neatly sidestepped the cloak and let it fall onto the floor. Axel's eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Sorry," Reno said flatly, "I'm done with organizations."

"You don't really understand the situation," countered Axel. His voice was low and steady. "We are the ones who will save the world, and you can't afford to say no."

Reno didn't doubt for a moment that Axel wouldn't kill him. He knew he could put up a good fight, but he also doubted Axel was alone.

"Fine." Reno bent down to pick the cloak up and draped it over his shoulder. Axel nodded and left the room. Reno followed him. Sure, this organization would 'save the world', but 'save' was only an opinion. Technically, they could 'save' everyone by killing them. He had no choice but to join for now, but he absolutely refused to allow another cage to build up around him. As soon as those first bars rose, he would be out of here.

Reno's eyes caught a golden shine momentarily, which he realized came from someone's boots. They were pointed at the tips, and the person's pants were neatly tucked into them. Just like…

"Valentine?" he blurted. He didn't exactly whisper it, but it wasn't that loud. However, the cloaked person turned his head to look at him. Reno couldn't make out his face, but his eyes glowed an eerie yellow. It couldn't be… Reno jerked around as a person tugged his cloak.

To be honest, the guy was about as high as Yoda from an ancient series of remakes of even more ancient movies.

"Hey buddy," said the guy in a really squeaky voice, "The first thing you gotta do is deliver this to a hotel room in Traverse Town. It should be where a guy named Leon is. Don't be seen delivering it, okay?" The guy looked up at him- and he was a mouse?

The guy was talking real low and a bit nervous, and Reno had a feeling that this order wasn't part of the organization's plan at all. Perfect. He took the message from the mouse and nodded.

(Switch)

Yuffie sat on the hotel's bed, staring at Squall's face intently with her dark eyes. At the moment he was reading some scroll with a weird expression on his face. It was funny how much like Vincent he was. She knew there was something bothering him, and also knew she had a better chance of getting a frog to lay a chocobo egg than to get him to talk about it. Then again, he probably had as much reason to be unhappy as any of them did now.

"Whatcha reading?" she asked with an innocent smile.

"Nothing," he answered. Yuffie snorted. That piece of paper really looked like something to her- but maybe it was her imagination. Carefully… step by step… she maneuvered around to the other side of him. She stood on her tiptoes to get a look at it.

and that's what happened to your ruler Ansem. We've

got to find this 'keyblade' to get rid of Ansem- and

the darkness- quickly or it won't be no use. What he

did to your world will spread to others, so we need

to find the person the keyblade chose quickly. I think

he'll end up around Traverse Town, so keep your guard

up, ya know? I'll explain bett-

At that point Yuffie's tiptoes could no longer take the pain. With a yelp she fell over, knocking into Squall and nearly sending both of them into the table.

"Ack! Sorry! Squall, are you okay?" she squealed, trying to untangle herself from him. He pulled away and got to his feet.

"That's Leon," he said. Yuffie rolled her eyes and much to her surprise so did he. "I would have let you read it when I was done…" he sighed, giving the paper to her.

The ninja quickly scanned the paper, her eyes widening slightly. Keyblader? Darkness? Oh, how awesome….

"This means we get to go on another adventure!" she exulted. "I'm going to go look for the guy riiiiiiight now!" Yuffie cartwheeled out the door ready to work, ignoring Squall's attempt to stop her. She wouldn't let Cloud, Vincent, or anyone-else-dead-or-potentially-dead down. Finding a kid with a giant key to kick some dark butt, how hard could it be?

Squall watched as Yuffie did a little cartwheel out the door, the balcony door, and then….splash….right into the waterway in the alley outside the hotel. He hoped that water was deep enough to stop any broken bones.

"Squall, you jerk! Come down here and help me this instant! ……My foot's caught and I'm stuck…" she moaned.

"That's Leon!" he called as he walked to the edge of the balcony. A sopping wet Yuffie stared up at him pleadingly. She looked pretty pathetic, like a deer trying to tug its way out of a trap.

"Fine! I promise I'll never call you by your real name again; just get me out of here!" she with such blatantly fake sincerity that it was almost scary. Squall didn't grace that with an answer, but he did jump down and gently unwedged her foot from the grate it was caught in.

"So who exactly are we supposed to be looking for?" she asked, wringing her scarf out. He just shrugged.

"Well, it's still just some guy or gal with an oversized key, and then getting him to slice open some manically laughing fruitcakes. You agree, right? It isn't gonna be hard."

Squall shrugged again, glancing around the dark alleyway. Like an unspoken answer, hundreds of bright yellow eyes watched in the shadows.

End Note: Okay, explaining the whole "Valentine?" thing. It is said tht Vincent might be in Kingdom Hearts 2. Also, the glowing eye unknown has boots exactly like Vincent. I know I killed him in this fic, but come on, he's Vincent. I wouldn't be surprised if he sat there dead for a week and then just suddenly popped back to life. (Actually that's how this fic originally ended) Yup, anyway, review me. You have no idea how much this would make my day.