Sorry. I've been very busy lately. I finished Kingdom Hearts II for the second time just to see more of Cloud and Leon…and now I have a vacation filled with the wonders of French reading…whoohoo…Oh well…

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A few days later, Cloud woke up later than usual, finding the house empty. There was a note of the door which read:

Went to help Aerith and Cid with something. Breakfast is on the table. Bought you some strawberry pocky sticks.

P.S. Yuffie is looking for you

Leon

Cloud smiled at the letter and went to eat breakfast. After he was finished, he took the strawberry pocky sticks box and shoved it in his pocket, after eating one of course, and exited the house in search of Yuffie. After a few minutes, he gave up trying to look for her and sat down on a bench.

"Giving up already" a playful voice said from behind.

"Yuffie, where were you?" Cloud asked her, getting up.

"Following you! I wanted to see if you could find me.

"Err….ok…so, why did you want to see me?" Cloud asked.

"I need help putting up Christmas decorations!" Yuffie said, lifting a box with Christmas lights. "I asked Leon and he told me to go away, and Cid and Aerith are busy, leaving you as the only person left! So wanna help?"

"Sure, why not?" Cloud answered.

"Great! Come on then to Aerith's!" Yuffie said skidding away.

-:- about an hour later-:-

"Phew! All done!" Yuffie said excitedly.

"Are you sure she won't mind all the lights?" Cloud asked; just looking at her house almost made him blind.

"You're not supposed to look at the lights directly!" Yuffie said, handing Cloud a pair of sunglasses, which looked more like goggles. "Put these on and then look"

Cloud obediently put the sunglasses on and looked at the house. "Wow…"

"See, I told you!" Yuffie said picking up the boxes of decorations. "Now to Leon's!"

"Wait…what!" Cloud asked. "You didn't say anything about decorating Leon's house!"

"Well…I'm saying it now, aren't I?" Yuffie said, resuming picking up the boxes.

"That doesn't count! You can't just go to Leon's house and decorate it! It's Leon's!" Cloud ranted on.

"So. It's not like he'll get mad. He's always mad at me so that doesn't matter and he'll never be mad at you because he can't" Yuffie said to Cloud's surprise. "Besides, the guy needs some lights and merriment!"

"Ok….but I have a really bad feeling about this.

-:-an hour and a half later-:-

"See, what did I tell you?" Yuffie said admiring her work.

"Well…" Cloud said uncertainly.

"It's perfect! All it's missing is this!" Yuffie said, hanging a mistletoe over the entrance to Leon's house.

"Why didn't you put one of those in Aerith's house?" Cloud asked curiously.

"Because I only have one…and Leon needs it more than she does" Yuffie said giggling.

"er…ok…" Cloud said before seeing Leon, Aerith and Cid walking over to the house.

"Quick, hide!" Yuffie said, and both she and Cloud hid in a bush.

"What the-" Leon said, eyes wide.

"Hey Leon I think you got punked" Cid said. "I wish my house could be vandalized like this…"

"Leon...err...I'm sure the person who did this means well and…" Aerith said trying to calm Leon.

"Yuffie!" Leon yelled, because, of course, it had to be Yuffie. He looked at the floor and saw an empty box of strawberry pocky. "Yuffie! Cloud! Come out, come out wherever you are!"

"Why did you leave that over there?" Yuffie whispered to Cloud.

"I don't know! I panicked...You said he wouldn't get mad!" Cloud whispered to Yuffie.

"Oh I'm very mad" Leon's voice said over them.

Both Yuffie and Cloud gasped. "Uh oh...busted…"

"We can explain…" Yuffie said.

"Please do" Leon said annoyed.

"Well…you see…IT WAS ALL CLOUD'S IDEA!" Yuffie said running away.

"Geez…that's no fair" Cloud muttered.

"So, Cloud, care to share your side of the story?" Leon asked, still annoyed.

"Err….err…" Cloud stuttered.

"Well?" Leon inquired.

"Leon stop that! You're scaring him!" Aerith said.

"Really? Am I scaring you, Cloud?" Leon asked.

"Err…err…IT WAS YUFFIE'S IDEA HONEST!...I'm sorry!" Cloud blurted out, shocking everyone.

"I know it was Yuffie…I just wanted to know your side of the story" Leon answered.

"So you're not mad?" asked a voice that came from the ceiling.

"Yes I am very mad Yuffie…at you" Leon said entering his house closely followed by Cloud. Neither looked up to see the mistletoe and just walked right in.

"Damn! I thought I had 'em this time!" Yuffie scowled.

"Better luck next time, kid" said Cid, catching her drift.

"Huh….ok?" Aerith said as confused as ever.

"It's nothing…let's go home"

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This was just one of those filler chapters…I had to make one in order to make the next one…came out crappy though…

Oh before I forget!

The next chapter is the last one!

I'm adding a short bonus chapter after that one just so you know what happens afterwards (It kinda ends abruptly) But I'm only adding it if I get 10 more reviews….starting…now!