The Heartless formally known as a Heartless

Leon slowly opened his eyes, and stared at the ceiling for the longest time. He thought about his dream in which him and Yuffie had adopted a Heartless as a pet. The thought almost made him laugh. Almost.

Leon turned to his side, expecting to find his Ninja still fast asleep. But instead came face to face with a pair of bright yellow eyes.

"Ahhhhh," Leon was caught off guard. His arms and legs flailed about wildly until there was a loud THUD. "Shit."

The door opened and Yuffie poked her head in. "Leon, are you ok?"

The gunblader groaned in response as he got up off the floor.

Yuffie giggled. Leon was definitely not a morning person. Just because he woke up at 7 o clock almost everyday didn't mean anything. He was literally the living dead until he got his coffee. "That little Heartless was watching you sleep all night, it was cute."

"That's nice." He answered sarcastically, as he dug in his dresser for clothes for today.

"Here," Yuffie handed Leon is favorite mug for coffee. It was decorated with little lions and pure white feathers, which was also cute. Yuffie thought a lot of things were cute, like Leon's bed hair, or that noise those annoying Hollow Bastion birds made first thing in the morning. Leon nodded his thanks for the coffee. "Ya know, I was thinking. We should name it."

Leon set the mug down after drinking about half of it. "Yuf, we don't even know if it's a boy or a girl."

"I don't think it matters. I don't think Heartless can have sex."

Leon choked on his coffee. "What!?"

Yuffie giggled "You know what I said, and besides have you ever seen a pair of Heartless do it!?" Yuffie left their bedroom laughing at the idea. Leon picked up his bundle of clothes and headed for the bathroom.

A squeak and a smaller thud, and soon the Shadow was trailing behind Leon. All the while that Leon was in the shower, the poor little Heartless sat outside the bathroom door.

"Yuffie, is that thing still there?" He asked from behind the bathroom door about twenty minutes later. He could feel its presence. Yuffie wasn't the only one with ninja talents.

"Uh huh!" Yuffie answered. She was to busy watching anime, which one Leon didn't know exactly but she had a lot. Stupid anime addict. Leon had been meaning to send her to one of those help groups. Cid went to one and look how he turned out!

"Would you occupy it? The damn thing is annoying me."

Sighing, Yuffie paused the DVD player and snapped her fingers. "Come here little one." The Heartless came scurrying over to her almost immediatly. She placed it on her lap. "We need to name you."

"How 'bout Dead." Leon shouted as he opened the bathroom door to let the steam out.

"Haha, funny Squall." Yuffie rolled her eyes. She was spending way to much time with Leon. Yeah they live together, train together, work together, and other thing, but it was still weird when she started picking up things that Leon does. Like rolling his eyes, or arching his eyebrow in question. "Well lets see. You love Squall, you like to purr, and you're really friendly. I know! We can name you Rinoa!" Yuffie exclaimed.

Suddenly all noise in the house stopped. "There is no way in hell that I'm letting you name that damn thing Rinoa." Leon shouted, still in the bathroom.

"….ok, fine then. How about Hyne."

Leon entered the living room and sat down next to Yuffie. His hair still wet and dripping all over the floor. Yuffie scowled at him until she realized she was acting like Leon again. Besides, if he ruined the floor it was going to be all him that would have to fix it. Haha, Leon would have to do manual labor.

"Why Hyne Yuf?" Leon had one eyebrow arched, the other one pressing down, and his arms crossed. The look was lost due to the fact Leon was completely slouched and sinking into the couch.

"Well, you say it a lot, and it sounds cool." Yuffie nodded. It did sound cool! Like a kind of foreign or retro name. Whenever Leon said it Yuffie always imagined him wearing a funny hat and eating some strange sausage like food.

"Sorry but we can't name it Hyne."

The ninja deflated, almost literally. "Why not?" Yuffie pouted. It would have sounded so cool! Calling out to a little black heartless with such a strange and almost emo sounding name. Leon had just dashed all her dreams. Dream crusher, thats what he was.

Leon smirked, and wrapped his arm around Yuffie's shoulders. "Because, Hyne was the Goddess in my world before I came to Hollow Bastion. Remember?" Leon poked her in the side of the head. Yuffie nodded as her head tilted slightly to the side from the force. She remembered that Leon's world was one of the few that were completely destroyed. Her world along with Cloud, Aerith, and Cid's was too. "Well, Hyne was the god that gave the Sorceresses in my world their power." Need to change subject, Yuffie was learning, Oh right naming that thing…. "Why not Griever?"

"That lion on your necklace? NO!" Yuffie pondered for a moment. "I know, we'll name it Gir!"

Leon frowned. "…Gir?" He spoke slowly. As if he was afraid to speak the name. As if the name would bring him unspeakable horrors and nightmares. As if the name would bring immeasurable amounts of idiocy.

"Gir is the cute little robot on Invader Zim! Remember?" Right. The names coming from anime-freak here.

"Oh yeah that show you watch….at 11 o clock at night." The Ninja nodded frantically.

How could he forget. That damn show always got in the way of his…needs. It wasn't his fault he always got hungry at eleven and he couldn't cook. That and it gave Yuffie a look as if her brain was dripping out her ear.

"Gir, welcome to your new home!" Yuffie exclaimed, throwing her arms into the air and grinning down at the black blob in her lap. The Heartless purred in response. "And Gir, we will not treat you like a Heartless. That means no killing it" She fixed Leon with a look that clearly spoke 'no-stab-stab' before placing Gir in Leon's lap before she ran into the kitchen. Coming out seconds later with her hands behind her back.

"What are you doing?" Last time she had her hand behind her, he ended up falling in a large pile of Merlin's books and a rather large bruise on his back and going to bed that night with the dreading fear that he would wake up the next morning with something dead on his front steps.

Grinning, the ninja showed Leon and Gir a silver ribbon in her hand. Leon sighed in relief. It was something safe. Unless…no. Yuffie never thought like that this early in the day. "This will be like a collar."

She tied the ribbon around Gir's neck, and smiled some more (if it was possible) as the Heartless continued to purr.

"I'm positive this is the Heartless of a cat…" Leon muttered as Yuffie begun to scratch Gir's stomach. Why did he agree to this?

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A/N-- Ok this was really just a boring chapter I know. But I had to have them name it! I want a pet Heartless now…sniff…yes I watch Invader Zim, tis an awesome show! I also don't own Invader Zim, the name Gir, or anything that has any references to FFVIII. I'm so poor ;-;