Ok, first off…I'd like to thank SimpleNClean92, for pointing out that when I published chapter 8, it just so happened to be Cloud's b-day. I felt so bad that I missed his birthday that when I went to my friends house we watched Advent Children and listened to FF7 soundtrack sooooo many times…Note to Cloud… JUST BECAUSE I MISSED YOUR B-DAY DOESN'T MEAN I DON'T LOVE YOU! FORGIVE ME CLOUD! Ok I'm good…on with the story!
This Chapter may or may not be long….I don't know what your opinion is…
With good times, there are bad times…
Cloud kept glancing at his watch. He had promised to bring Leon to Aerith's house at 4. It was hard to keep track of time and fight Leon at the same time. When his watch read 3:30, Cloud gave up. "Sorry Leon, but I'm tired. Can we call it a day?"
Leon scowled for a moment before lowering his gunblade. "Fine. I should be heading home anyway."
"Wait!" Cloud yelled. Leon turned.
"What?"
"Well…uh…How about we go over to Aerith's for some…tea? Yeah tea. Lets go get some nice calming tea!"
Leon raised an brow. "Are you ok, Cloud?"
"Uh…no. I don't feel good. Could you, uh, Walk me back to Aerith's? That's where I'm staying!" Cloud watched Leon's reaction. His eyes were changing from blue to gray to a silvery color. Cloud figured that he must be deciding on what to do.
"Cloud, why are you lying to me?" He asked after a few silent minutes.
Wow, he's good. "Uh," Cloud couldn't think of what to say.
"….Ok, fine. I'll take you. But only because I want to talk to you about something." Cloud groaned quietly. Whenever Leon wanted to talk to him, it was always about something important. Like why he kept leaving, why wouldn't he just stay with Aerith, etc.
"Fine."
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Yuffie smiled. Leon's first birthday party. Which was sad if you think about it. He was turning 25 and this was the first birthday party that was for him.
Cid, Riku, Sora, Donald and Goofy were pushed off to the side while Aerith finish making the house look 'perfect'. Sora had managed to bring Riku back just five minutes ago, which to Aerith, was just in time. Yuffie grinned and ran up to Cid.
"Ohhh Cid!" She sang.
"What?" He grumbled. He didn't like Aerith to tell him what to do so he was is a bad-ish mood at the moment.
"Cid, did you bring the cooler?" she whispered, making sure Aerith wouldn't hear.
Cid's expression brightened. "Aerith said not to, but I know Leon likes his alcohol." He chuckled to himself.
"You brought it!" Yuffie beamed. Cid nodded. "Woohoo!" She punched the air in a silent victory. Sora, Riku and the others watched in confusion, they were not able to hear what was being said.
Aerith cleared her throat. "Cloud and Leon should be here any minute now." She announced.
Donald looked out the window. "Here they come!"
"Gir! NO!" Riku yelled. But it was too late. Gir had used that weird power that Shadow Heartless have, and sunk to the floor and crawled under the door. The group watched in horror. Cloud had not yet seen Gir.
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Cloud mopped as Leon kept talking. Leon never talked a lot but when he did. He sometimes would forget that he's supposed to be somewhat anti-social. I guess that's what happens when you date Yuffie.
Leon paused. "GIR!" He squealed. Wait…Leon…squealed?
Cloud watched as Leon ran and picked something up off the ground. "Leon, what are you doing?"
Leon turned. In his arms, was cradled a small Shadow Heartless with a silver ribbon tied around his neck.
"Leon! What the hell is wrong with you? That thing could kill you! Put it down." Cloud demanded.
Leon stuck his tongue out. Cloud looked completely confused. Ok, first Leon squealed and now he's sticking his tongue out? What is wrong with him? "Cloud, I'd like you to meet my friend, Gir!" Leon announced holding Gir out for Cloud to see.
The Heartless stared up at Cloud with slight confusion. It's head was cocked to the side. Cloud had to admit, it was kind of cute. "Go on! Pet him, he wont hurt you. He hasn't hurt anyone." Cloud watched Leon's eye's for any change in emotion. Like joking or being dishonest. But if the abnormally small Heartless wasn't hurting Leon, he had a good chance in not getting hurt either.
Cloud slowly began to pet the Heartless. It began to purr and Cloud smirked. "See, she's nice. Now come on. We're almost to Aerith's house and I wanna go home." Leon said, pulling Gir closer to him.
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The group sighed, as they watched. Cloud hadn't attacked Gir.
Aerith jumped away from the window when they began to move towards the house. "Guys! Away from the window! Get ready!" Cid ran, towards the door. He had sent up the keg while everyone was occupied with the scene outside.
The door slowly opened. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SQUALLY!" Yuffie shouted running up to him. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down for a kiss.
"You. You planned this didn't you!" Leon yelled. Yuffie backed away from the harsh tone in his voice. Gir jumped out of his arms and ran behind Riku's legs.
"Leon, we just wanted to celebrate your birthday for once!" Yuffie protested.
Leon watched everyone's facial expressions. Than chuckled. "Thanks. But no singing!"
" O' course not!" Cid smiled and clapped Leon on the back and handing him a glass. Leon looked into the glass and he grinned.
"Thanks." he whispered to Cid, and drank the rum in one gulp. Cid laughed. "Where is my cake!" he demanded.
"Here!" Riku said pointing to a table in the middle of the room. He too had a glass of what Leon had.
After, a few hours, Leon and Riku had drank more than half of the keg. Cid had only two glasses because Leon and Riku were guarding it and wouldn't let him have more than two. Gir had gotten a hold of a glass and obviously it didn't take much to get a Heartless drunk.
Leon had also collected a few gifts. Riku and Sora had gotten him a gunblade-care-kit, Aerith a book (of course), Donald and Goofy had given him 2,000 munny so he could buy what he wanted and Cid and Cloud had given him a new gunblade. It was the Hyperion series, but Leon had refused to give up his old LionHeart series, and decided to keep the new one as a display since it was hand crafted.
"Y-ya know what -hic- I'm gonna say to Tifa next time I see her?" Leon asked, while hanging off of Cloud's shoulder.
"No, what?" He answered truthfully.
"I'm gonna say, Tifa! Your boobs are too big, give some of your boob meat to the less fortunate!" Cloud laughed.
"Leon! I heard that!" Yuffie said, and slapped him on the arm and marched off to watch Aerith yell at Cid for brining the keg of rum to the party.
Gir was sitting in the leftovers of the cake and plashing around in it like it was a pool. Riku and Sora hadn't been seen in little over an hour, and Donald and Goofy were desperately trying to find them, and calm Gir down at the same time.
"Who was that?" Leon asked.
"Leon, that was Yuffie." Cloud answered.
"Who the hell is this 'Leon' person? I don't know any Leon!" Leon shouted.
"Leon, Leon is you!" Goofy shouted from across the room, while chasing Gir who was throwing bits of cake at him.
"NUUU! My name is Squall! Hyne you people are stuuupidd!"
"Leon- I mean - Squall, you need to lye down and stop drinking." Aerith said. She had just finished yelling at Cid and was now trying to control Leon from doing anything stupid.
"SQUUUIIIIEEEEE" Gir screamed as Goofy and Donald cornered him and tackled him to the floor. Gir used his power, and escaped from their grasps easily.
"MY RUM! MINE!" Leon yelled wrapping his other arm around Cloud's waist. "You cannot have my Rum! You-you-you PINKY!"
"Leon! Get off me!" Cloud said trying to push Leon off of him while he finished off his 11 glass that night.
"No…" Leon threw his glass to the floor, when he discovered that it was empty. Leon's eyes turned to a glazed blue. There was a mixture of feelings on his eyes that Cloud could not explain.
"Squall, please let go of Cloud and lay down." Yuffie begged quietly.
"NUU!" He yelled, pushing Yuffie away. "Cloud…?"
"Uh…yes?" Cloud asked.
Leon didn't answer, but instead head butted Cloud in the side, forcing them to fall to the floor in a heap.
"Leon! What the hell--" He was cut off when Leon closed his lips over Cloud's. Cloud's expression was pure fear, shock and horror. Everyone fell silent. Gir had stopped climbing on the ceiling to watch. Yuffie and Cid were silently laughing. Aerith looked like she was going to kill.
Leon pulled away and rolled off of Cloud, unconscious. Cloud stared at Leon. "What- who- why?"
Yuffie and Cid burst out laughing. And Gir fell off the ceiling and landed on Cloud's head. "Cloud, Leon was drunk, he didn't know who you were, and he kissed you!" Yuffie laughed.
Gir jumped down and started to touch Leon's face. "I KNOW that Yuffie!"
"Yuffie….mmmmm" Leon mumbled in his sleep. Gir was slowly stroking his face, tracing his scar and outlining his lips. "Ummmm Yuffie"
It was Yuffie's turn to look morbidly horrified. And Cloud laughed.
Gir started to lick Leon's face. "Yuffie…no….no stop it Yuffie, cut it out…." Leon's facial expression looked pained.
"Ccchhhhhooooccccccccccoooooolllllaaaaattttttteeeeeeeee" Gir mumbled and continued to lick Leon's face.
"Yuffie!" Leon yelled in his sleep, "Yuffie! Nooo Rape! Yuffie Rape!" Leon started to trash around in his sleep.
Before anyone could stop Leon from hurting himself, the door burst open. "Hey Guys!" said a young woman.
"Tifa! You, came early." Aerith stated.
"Yup!" Tifa grinned "OH MY GOD!" Tifa gasped, as she watched the small Heartless lick Leon's unconscious face. Although Leon was in fact unconscious, he was thrashing around and his pained expression on his face didn't leave. "Get away from Leon you damn Heartless!"
"NOOOO!" Everyone said in unison.
'Poof' a small pink-purple and black heart floated into the air and slowly disappeared.
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Leon woke up the next day with a killer hang-over. He groaned and rolled off the bed.
He shuffled to the bathroom to take a shower in hopes that it would help him.
After 20 minutes of realizing that it wouldn't help much, he decided that his daily coffee would help some.
Yuffie sat at the kitchen table looking sullen. "What's wrong, Yuf?" he whispered. His own voice echoed in his head, and not helping.
"….it-it's nothing to worry about right now. Just get better first, then I'll tell you." she said, lowering her head. Leon watched her until his head reminded him that he needed some meds. Shrugging he continued with what he was doing.
Within the hour Leon felt, better. Not wonderful, not great, just better. His headache was gone and he no longer felt that he needed to spend the rest of his life on the bathroom floor. Yuffie had moved to the living room, were Leon was resting. "Leon, are you feeling ok?"
Leon groaned and rolled onto his stomach. Yuffie smiled sadly, and began to rub his back in small circles.
"You don't remember yesterday, do you." She stated. Leon shook his head slowly. He couldn't. He remembered going out to train with Cloud, then he was walking Cloud back to Aerith's house, and he introduced Cloud to Gir and-
"Where's Gir?" He asked rolling to his side so he could face Yuffie.
She frowned. "Leon, first I want you to know that, she's very upset. After we told her. Don't overreact." Leon nodded. He didn't even know what he was agreeing to but he didn't care at the moment. "Ok, well. Leon you had to much to drink and you had passed out. Shortly after, Tifa came back. She saw Gir, licking your face because somehow, he had gotten a hold of some of the rum that Cid brought. But anyway, she saw Gir and before we could explain, Tifa, killed Gir." Yuffie was hardly able to say the last sentence. She was crying on Leon's shoulder. Her small shoulders shaking.
It took Leon a moment to realize what she had just said. Leon had jumped up and ran to the door so fast that he had knocked Yuffie off the couch. "No Leon, wait! Don't blame Tif-" He didn't hear her finish her sentence, he slammed the door and ran to Aerith's house.
Leon banged on the door. Aerith opened the door slowly. "Where's Tifa?" he snarled.
"Leon, listen,-" She was cut off.
"No, Aerith. Let me explain." Tifa said coming to the door. "Come in Leon." Aerith reluctantly opened the door wide enough to let him in.
"Leon, I'm sorry." Tifa began. Her face was red and puffy. She had felt terrible for killing Gir after Yuffie and Aerith had explained who he was and what the small Heartless had meant to Leon.
"Tifa do you know why I cared for that Heartless?" He asked suddenly. Tifa shook her head. Her long black hair covered most of her face as she hung her head. "Tifa, Gir, she was the only thing that could hurt me but didn't. every time I let myself open up. To love someone or something, it always finds a way to hurt me in the end. Rinoa, she died and I had felt betrayed and guilty. I didn't think I could ever love again, I feared that they would leave me. But then I found Yuffie. She…we…we have both felt pain beyond anything. She even betrayed me at one point. But I was able to over come that. But Gir, I know it was stupid to love a Heartless as a dear friend. But she never hurt me. We got along because we are both unable to fit in properly. I still have trouble getting along with all of you, and I've been living with you all for almost 11 years. And Gir, she was abnormally small, and got along to well with humans. I can only imagine her life." Tifa watched as Leon told her his feelings. She was surprised. She hadn't noticed how much Leon really had changed. She didn't know that he had so much trouble trusting people. This only made her feel worse.
"Leon, I'm sorry. I didn't know…" Leon raised a hand motioning for her to stop.
"Listen, I know that I must sound stupid, but I wanted you to know why Gir was special to me. Tifa, I feel, upset, and quite angry with you, but I suppose I can get over it." Leon shuffled his feet. "Tifa, you destroyed the only other thing that I trusted. I know that trusting a Heartless that wouldn't hurt a human, is odd, but still."
Tifa rested a hand on his shoulder. "Leon, I know. You don't have to continue. But you do have us. Why cant you trust us?" Leon shrugged. He really didn't know why he refused to trust them. He didn't know if it was because he feared being betrayed or that if anything happened to them he would always blame himself. It was always how it happened. Tifa laughed sadly. "don't blame yourself. That's exactly what you were doing wasn't it." Leon smiled slightly. "I swear Leon. You blame yourself for anything that wasn't directly your fault, I'll give you a fist full of hurt. She laughed. "Oh, and Cloud told me what you were gong to say to me. But I think you were quite drunk so I wont hold it against you."
"Thanks Tifa." Leon turned to leave.
"Leon," Tifa begun again. He turned. "Cloud said that, oh geez I cant believe he's making me tell you this but, Cloud said that, that kiss last night was sadly the best one he ever had." Leon looked dumbstruck.
Tifa laughed. "Leon, go get on with your life. You are being mope!" Leon nodded.
He would have to live on. Having Gir taught him a lot, that he should trust people more and then he wouldn't have to depend on odd things. On his way home, Leon heard the voices of the animals of Hollow Bastion, a cats meow, a dogs bark. He wondered for a moment, what animal Gir had been. But then realized that he again was living in the past. He would have his memories, but that is better than pretending that the small, black, Heartless was behind him, where ever he went.
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A/N- GAH! BAD ENDING BAD ENDING! NUUUUU smacks head STUPID, STUPID, STUPID! Ok, I'd like to tell ya'll that first of all, this isn't done. I'm gonna have a Epilogue to make up for the shitty ending XD… I have trouble writing, endings and smutty stuff. And sad things sometimes. Especially if my little brother has control of the TV and is watching the Discovery Channel and watching about how a hearing aid is being made….argh…so annoying!
I do NOT like Tifa a whole lot, but a lot of my guy friends like her only for her breasts so technically, if she did something so make them smaller…I guess…she wouldn't have so may fan boys wanting to rape her…'shudders' those perverted losers…
Ok, no one did that little thingy I had last chapter which is ok, I'll just have to ask my friend on what pair to do next….which reminds me…my friend (TheSecondAdventx) has posted a cute little fanfic about Sora and Riku. Its titled Homecoming. Please read it for her! I wont wait forever to post the epilogue cause that would be dumb but, until next time!