My Best Friend

Hey! Here's another update! Ok… I am trying to work on all this in advance so that I can just post my updates every week. Ok… it's only been out for a day but I am here to edit… just cause I have nothing to do! Ok… before I updated, this was more of a rush so I am here again to make this a bit longer.

To the awesome reviewers! You know I love you guys and I wish I could respond to each and every one of you but I sadly cant… but I'll just say some stuff… Yeah! The last one didn't have any errors! sorry I cant always update my stories…. I try!

Chapter 2: Sophomores

Yuffie

"I think that the sophomore year is the most useless year of all!" Yuffie announced while eating her strawberry parfait.

"Why's that?" Leon took a sip of his… tea.

'Bleh… I can't imagine how he could drink that stuff, it's just water with leaves in it!' Yuffie thought.

"Cause you're not new to high school, you don't have a prom and you don't get to laze around in the second half of the year." Yuffie said simply, taking another spoon full.

"Then it's like a rest year." Leon took his last sip.

"Yeah… but it's boring!" she took her last spoon and frowned.

"Not if you join something." Leon looked at her as if to say… "That's your 5th parfait… can we go now?"

"OK! Fine! We can go now. What's to join anyway?" Yuffie stood up as Leon paid for the food.

"Cheerleading…"

"Nah… it's full."

"Band…"

"Are you serious? I can't even hold a violin without making it break." They walked out of the shop.

"School paper?" Leon offered.

"Can't write." Yuffie shrugged as they headed to the park.

"Sports?" Leon sat down on the grass.

"Hmmmm… now ya got me thinking." Yuffie smiled.

"Ok… Basketball?"

"Squallie… seriously, have you EVER seen a girl in the basketball team?"

"No… fine… chess?" Leon held back a laugh and kept a straight face but Yuffie could tell that he was smiling inside.

This is some thing that they got over the year… they could tell what they were thinking. No… they did not have the psychic thing but they knew each other well enough to know how they would feel when something happened.

"Ok… uh… football."

"Squallie… I am a petite five foot three girl. Do you think I WON'T be crushed the first time I walk on that field?" Yuffie smacked him on the arm.

"Hmmm… I guess we can't all be like me." Leon joked.

Here's another thing… Leon wasn't sure why but he could relax around Yuffie… he didn't have to put his guard up. He could joke around her… and only her.

"Nah… not all of us can grow six inches in a year." Yuffie frowned and glared at him.

Yes… he is now 6 feet tall at only 15. Yuffie doubted that he would grow anymore. Yuffie grew… half an inch…

Leon smirked. "Track and Field?"

This processed through Yuffie's head. She was fast…heck that was the only thing she beat Leon in when it came to sports.

"Do I hear a winner?" Leon raised his eyebrows.

"I think you do." Yuffie smiled broadly.

"Now what do we do?" Leon lay down on his back.

Yuffie jumped up. "Race ya to my house!"

"HEY! YOU GOT A HEAD START!" Leon got up and ran after Yuffie who was miles away from him already.

"Sir, the car's right over here if you need one!" his driver shouted out from inside his black lexus.

"What do you think I am? A quitter?" and he ran to catch up to Yuffie.

But in the end… we know who got there first.

Track and Field Try-outs!

"NEXT!" Cid shouted from the racetrack.

"Ready?" Leon raised an eyebrow at Yuffie.

"Me? Have been for all my life." Yuffie jumped up.

"Good Luck." Leon called out.

Yuffie ran to the field. "Yeah Coach, I'm ready!"

"It's Cid. Not Coach. You just gotta run the whole track as fast as your short legs can carry ya." Cid crossed out the name KISARAGI on his clipboard. There was no way that this girl could beat the 2.16 minutes the other guy did. He just let her run so that her hopes wont be crushed. He was such a softy sometimes…

Cid held the timer. "1…2…3… GO!"

Yuffie immediately ran… more like bolted. She ran, one foot in front of the other, her hands were clenched in a loose fist. She felt light and cool because of the breeze that she was collecting. She loved it.

Tiny beads of sweat were forming on her forehead but she didn't mind it. She just kept on running… until she passed Cid. She wasn't even panting, she only had a light sweat on her forehead. Cid looked at the timer then at Yuffie then back to the timer.

This isn't possible. It wasn't possible that she ran the whole lap and wasn't even panting like all the other idiots and what was more amazing was that she beat the school record.

"How did I do?" Yuffie bounced over to him.

Cid stared at her in disbelief. Thank you lord for this blessing, he prayed.

"1 minute and 36 seconds." Cid cleared his throat. "You… you just beat the school record."

Yuffie looked shocked then flattered. "So… I'm in?" she asked sweetly.

"I wouldn't allow it if you weren't." Cid regained his composure.

"YUFFIE KISARAGI IS THE NEW MEMBER OF THE TEAM! TRY-OUTS ARE OVER!" Cid shouted to the spectators.

A bunch of guys cheered, Yuffie guessed that these were the Track people. Then she looked at Leon proudly. He gave her a small smile, a smile only reserved for her.

Later

"Here's to our new member!" Sora cheered holding up his glass of beer. Everybody clanked glasses and drank.

They were celebrating, they had a new member and she was a pretty good one too Nami, Aerith, Axel, Sephiroth, Kairi, Wakka, Selphie, Cid, Cloud and of course, Leon were there with a bunch of other guys.

Not all of them were in track, only 5 of them were, Axel, Sephiroth, Lulu, Tidus and now Yuffie.

"I know Yuf, you just needed track as an excuse to see me more often." Axel smirked at her.

"I see your face more often than I would like… but believe what you want… you'll never know if what you're saying is true." Yuffie gave a seductive smile then stammered away to Lulu.

"The speediest girl in the whole school, ya might actually get us to win a few times." Lulu was standing at a corner, not eating anything, obviously watching her figure.

"No wonder you guys never win anything! You don't have any faith in yourselves!" Yuffie put her hands on her hips.

Lulu gave her an evil look. Yuffie realized what she said so she giggled nervously and ran away.

Yuffie walked over to Aerith but stopped when she saw her talking to Cloud, both obviously into each other.

Tifa and Quistis were laughing at another corner, Yuffie walked to them.

"You know, Yuffie, I tried out for track a moment ago and… I would have gotten in if it weren't for you." Quistis said to her darkly.

"Uh… there's always next year." Yuffie couldn't help it… she felt threatened. Quistis is a junior and 5 inches taller than her.

"No… next year I'm trying out for cheerleading." Quistis shrugged. "It's a wonder why such short legs can carry you so fast."

Yuffie frowned.

"Are you saying that I cheated?" Yuffie frowned.

"I guess." Quistis rolled her eyes.

"I did not cheat." Yuffie felt a pang in her heart and her cheeks start to heat up.

"Whatever." She shrugged and took another sip of beer.

Yuffie wanted to say something smart to shut her up but her head was blank… she never let other people intimidate her like that. She was always the snappy one with something to say. But Quistis was different… she dominated the whole school…

"Yuffie… is something wrong?" Leon suddenly walked to her.

"My hero! My savior!" was going to escape her lips but she liked it better when her dignity was intact.

"Leon, now you decide to come to me." Quistis said seductively.

"No… actually, I was here for Yuffie." Leon frowned.

"Oh… a little of this won't change your mind?" Quistis unbuttoned another one of the buttons on her shirt, to reveal a little.

Yuffie immediately looked at Leon's facial expression. His normal rock solid expression was still there and his gaze was locked onto Quistis' face. Was he inhuman?

Quistis frowned a bit, seeing that Loen didn't take the invitation.

"Talk to her like that one more time and I'll make sure that the next two years of your high school life will be hell." Leon said coldly to Quistis.

Quistis' frown deepened. She turned around and stomped away.

Yuffie felt like she could kiss him. But then the thought of that just made her cheeks burn.

"You okay?" Leon looked at her.

She nodded, not sure whether she still had pride.

"If you ever have any problems like that… come to me. I can fix them for you." Leon looked at her again then frowned. "If you are wondering if I think that you're useless… it's not true." He fully turned to look at her.

"I'm here for you, Yuff."

Yuffie looked up at him, her eyes shining. She immediately went back to her normal self.

"I'm pretty bored… what about you?" Yuffie looked up at him.

"Same… wanna get a movie?" Leon suddenly stood up straight as ifasking her to leave.

"Get? Don't you mean watch?" Yuffie stood up too.

"Let's get a DVD." Leon got his jacket and put it on.

"Cool! I wanna watch a horror movie!" Yuffie said, excitedly, following Leon out.

"LEONHEART!" Cid called out.

Leon turned around and raised an eyebrow.

"Don't forget, football practice everyday this week, be on time!" Cid shouted before downing another bottle of beer.

"Sure coach." And he closed the door.

The two walked outside when a navy blue Audi pulled up. Leon opened the door for Yuffie and they got in.

"You really are loaded aren't you Squallie…" Yuffie smiled at him.

"What makes you say that?" Leon lifted an eyebrow.

"You always have a different car whenever I see you." Yuffie sat back and felt the black Italian leather.

"My dad just likes collecting cars." Leon opened the door and they went to a CD store.

The doors opened and before them was a 7 floor building full of racks of CD's.

"I can't believe that this is only one of the things you own." Yuffie linked arms with Leon.

Leon felt a little static go through his entire body. But he collected himself in time for her to notice.

"No big deal… tell you what… when I inherit all this… you can have this store." Leon looked at her and saw her face light up again.

"I can't do that! You can't do that!" Yuffie said through laughs.

"Actually, I can." Leon smirked. They got their movie and got back into the car. \

A few minutes later, they were driving through the gates of the Leonheart mansion. It was funny that a neighborhood like this could only be a 5 minutes drive away from Yuffie's.

It was a European style house, the kind with high ceilings, large windows and huge gardens. It was the most beautiful house Yuffie has ever been to.

They ran up to Leon's room which was on the fourth floor. They popped the DVD into the DVD player and started watching.

"That guy's too thin… you can practically see his bones." Yuffie frowned at the guy on the screen.

They were watching Shutter, some Japanese horror movie.

"Reminds me of someone beside me." Leon looked at her and she hit him with a pillow.

Then a scene with a ghost on the guy's shoulders flashed, they both held in their breaths.

"Hey… Squall… I'll get more popcorn, k?" Yuffie got up and hopped away, leaving Leon to watch the creepy scenes.

He took another bite of popcorn. Wait… didn't Yuffie just get up to get popcorn?

Suddenly someone cold was sitting on his shoulders and the scene that they just watched flashed in his head. Holy shit.

Leon immediately stood up and let the person sitting on him fall on her butt. Leon felt shivers run through his spine. He turned around quickly to find Yuffie on the ground laughing and gasping for air.

"Y…You completely freaked out!" Yuffie was turning really red, and so was Leon. He should have suspected her for doing something like this.

Leon just glared at her, not knowing what to say.

"I… I have never seen you so scared in your life!" she was practically crying.

"I wasn't scared… just surprised how would you like it if I sat on your shoulders out of nowhere!" Yuffie stopped laughing and Leon finally realized what he said and blushed a bit.

Yuffie cut the awkward silence short, like she usually did. "If you sat on my shoulders mister, I'd be hunched for life." She laughed again.

He immediately got rid of the weird feeling he had a moment ago.

"I'll get you for this, Yuff."

DONE! Ok! I'm not sure if a lot of you watched the movie shutter, but it's really freaky. When it comes to horror movies, Japanese undoubtedly rock. You should watch this! I couldn't sleep for days! Hmm… a little feeling felt by Leon? Hmm… I dunno! Thanks for all the reviews! And continue to review! Don't you know how much radiation I absorb from my computer? Don't let my future cancer case go to waist and REVIEW! Bye!

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