Military Man

December 27, 2005

Merry Christmas to you guys! Sorry but maybe by the time this is posted… I should be saying Happy Valentine's Day. What happened to me? I sprained my ankle yesterday when I was skiing. Sucks no? it's kinda obvious that I am not home right now… unless you think I'm skiing on sand… I feel so useless right now, everyone is out skiing while I'm in here typing… to make it worse… I wont be able to party on New Year's Day Eve! And I'm the host! Argh…

Chapter 2:

Yuffie got out of the army green painted gummy ship. She was back home except the place was full of soldiers running around and… spitting. Yuffie shuddered. All the testosterone in the place was starting to freak her out.

The giant castle was still cold and gray. It didn't look a thing like a military camp to Yuffie. She imagined a torn down caste with bombs exploding everywhere and tents aligned in neat rows. But it wasn't… it looked exactly the same as it did before.

They landed on the lowest floor of the castle, it was a small island surrounded by glowing water. The group stepped on a large stone that brought them two floors up.

A group of soldiers stopped in front of Yuffie's dad and saluted. But then they noticed the shorter figure beside him that was not clad in army clothes. They smiled at her and ran off.

"Don't worry Yuffie, you're not the only girl here." Gen. Kisaragi patted his daughter's arm.

"I'm not worried about that!" Yuffie lied.

But Gen. Kisaragi saw right through her. "They're in the nurse's room." he pointed to the first room to the right. Something shot Yuffie's heart. That room used to be a coffee shop!

"DADD! What happened to the coffee shop!" Yuffie panicked and ran to her dad.

"Later Yuffie, I'm busy." Gen. Kisaragi barked at her.

Yuffie sighed. Same old dad.

"You don't need a coffee shop in the middle if camp." Leon said behind Yuffie.

"Of course you do! What if you need coffee!"

"There's a canteen on the 5th floor. You can get coffee there." Leon turned around to walk away.

"But what if I want a milk shake!" Yuffie smiled and tried to lighten his room.

But instead of answering her, he continued to walk away.

"Rude prick…" Yuffie murmured under her breath.

"Brat…" Leon murmured as he walked to the general who was still speaking to one of his fellow commanders.

"Leonheart." General turned to Leon.

"Sir, you called for me?"

"Yes… I have a favor to ask… it's about the room assignments." The general was a bit shorter than Leon but the man never failed to intimidate him.

Leon stayed silent and urged him to continue. "You see, there aren't any rooms left because of all the newly added soldiers. And the problem is, Yuffie has no where to stay." The general paused for a while to look at Leon's facial expression, which –as always- was emotionless. "I learned that your room still has one extra bed, am I right?"

Leon somehow pictured where this was going… and he was greatly disturbed. But orders were orders. "Yes, sir."

"Ok, Yuffie will stay in your room. Just until another room clears up." the general ordered not asked. "And… Leonheart, you may have noticed that Yuffie is a girl… so… uh…" the general stopped to find words to make this sound right. "…uh… just… uh… just don't do anything I'll make you regret." The general pat Leon on the arm and walked away towards another group of soldiers.

Leon didn't have a reaction to his orders, he should just stand the general's perky daughter… it wouldn't be that hard… right?

"Is anyone home!" Yuffie shut the door of the nurse's room. It was all white with hundreds of empty beds with immaculate white sheets. There was a group of nurses somewhere at the end of the room. The 4 nurses looked up from their small circle, all surprised to hear another female voice.

The four were looking like they were seeing a ghost. Another girl? "Hey! I'm not a ghost! Why? Is there one behind me!" Yuffie jumped away from where she was standing and ran to the 4.

They laughed. "Hey, I'm Aerith." The long haired brunette waved. "The blondie is Nami, the red head here is Kairi and the one with the pigtails is Selphie." They all waved and gave her warm smiles.

"I'm Yuffie… my dad's the general here." Yuffie greeted but they were silenced by the word "general."

"Yeah Yeah… the scary tall guy… he's my dad." Yuffie shrugged and sat down on one of the beds.

"General Kisaragi is your dad! No way! So… you gonna be a nurse here or something?" Kairi asked, handing something to Aerith from behind her back.

"Naw… he didn't say anything about working but maybe…" Yuffie noticed the thing they were passing… whatever it was, it caught Yuffie's curiosity.

"Anyways… it would be great if there's another girl in this place… all the guys… it gets kinda scary." Nami said shyly as she handed the stuff to Selphie who looked panicked.

"Yeah, I guess… ok, what the hell are you trying to hide from me?" Yuffie snatched the papers away from Selphie.

They were pictures… of guys.

"Hmmm… what are these?" Yuffie grinned slyly.

The 4 girls gave nervous laughs. "Uh… just a few soldiers…" Aerith mumbled.

"Arent they hot!" Selphie laughed. The others joined and Yuffie looked at the pictures. The first one was a picture of a spiky blonde guy taking off his shirt, the bottom showed a peek of nicely made six packs. The second one was a picture of another blonde guy, but he was tanner. The third one was a picture of… a rock. Seriously! It was a picture of Leon! "Hey! This is the guy…" Yuffie exclaimed, pointing at the picture.

"You mean Colonel Leonheart? He's hot isn't he?" Selphie smiled and everyone else giggled.

"The blonde with the tree background is Cloud, he's Leonheart's second hand man… he belongs to Aerith." Nami punched Aerith lightly in the arm. Aerith blushed furiously.

"The blonde with the tan is Tidus… he's Selphie's." Nami said shyly.

"Then who owns Squall?" Yuffie asked innocently.

"SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" They all said together.

"He doesn't like to be called Squall!" Kairi whispered fiercely.

"I heard, the last person who called him Squall is still suffering from trauma and he's in a mental hospital recovering." Nami added.

"They say that that guy had visions of Leon after him." Selphie said.

"Actually… I think he's pretty nice." Aerith shrugged.

Yuffie didn't believe a single thing these girls were telling her. But at least now she had friends, no matter how gossip filled they were. The whole afternoon was dedicated to showing Yuffie the ropes in the place. It was almost sun set when Yuffie walked to her room. Earlier that morning, her dad scribbled her room number on a crumpled piece of paper.

7H

Yuffie jumped on another rock and floated to the 7th floor. There were 3 hallways with wooden plates pointing to the rooms. Yuffie went right where her room was. The hallway was cold and made of rough rock like the rest of the castle. The doors were wooden with one tiny peephole. Yuffie stopped at the door with the characters 7H on it.

Yuffie got out her key and opened the door. It was a pretty large room, to Yuffie's surprise, cement walls with a coat of red paint. There was a blazing fire in the center of the wall. The two large windows had a perfect view of the empty courtyard where the soldiers most likely trained everyday.

Yuffie put down her bag and sat on one of the beds, both of the beds weren't made, and it didn't matter to Yuffie. She lay down and stared at the ceiling. Yuffie pouted and shifted in discomfort. "These beds are really hard…" Yuffie murmured.

There was a bigger lump beside her and Yuffie guessed that it was just a bunch of pillows… really hard pillows.

Yuffie faced the wall and then… something breathed in her face.

"AAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Yuffie screamed, jumped off the bed and fell on her butt.

The lump of "pillows" sat up and grunted. The figure had longish brown hair with nice biceps. He looked sideways at Yuffie and frowned.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY BED!" Yuffie shrieked at him.

"Nice to see you too." Leon grunted again and lay back down.

Yuffie stood up with her arms on her hips. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY BED AND MY ROOM!"

Leon sat up again and looked at her without a trace of expression on his face. "I think I was in this bed and room first."

"Buutt… butt… my dad said that this is my room!" Yuffie whined, defeated.

"And he's right." Leon messed up his hair but it immediately fell back into place. 'My hair's not like that…' Yuffie thought, a little jealous.

"How can this me my room and your room! … are you really a guy?" Yuffie asked suspiciously.

"Last time I checked… I'm a guy." Leon looked at the fire then back at Yuffie.

"So how can we share a room when you're a guy and I'm a girl? Is this an idea of a joke?"

"Do I look like someone who would joke?" Leon raised his eyebrows.

"No… hey! Why aren't you answering my first questions?" Yuffie got a pillow and threw it at him.

Leon was stunned for a few seconds and a few minutes passed in silence. "Because you ask too many questions. Good night." Leon said and took a few strides out the door.

Yuffie glared at the door. After a few minutes her eyes strained and she pulled them over to the bed where Leon was. A thought stuck her head. She was practically lying down on him! She flopped on the bed and realized that the bed wasn't hard… it was just Leon.

Is it just me… or did that last line make no sense at all…. Anyways… right now it's January 12 and the good thing is… am ankle's a lot better! It took me 17 days to write this… not bad huh? OMG! Did anyone see the kingdom hearts 2 website! The bhk's name is Roxas! And kingdom hearts 2 is coming out March! I'm excited as hell and I cant wait to get my hands on it. Thanks for all the reviews and please review! Bye!