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Dran growled low in his throat, gaining the lovers' attention.
"What is it, Dran?" Squall stood up as he heard footsteps outside their tent and frowned at Seifer, "What the hell…"
It was only a two day's ride away from Seifer's homeland. The blonde started to leave but Squall shook his head, "Stay here."
"I'm a good fighter, you know."
"Yeah, and so am I. Just stay here. Dran, come." Squall walked out of the tent, Dran by his side.
"Woah…a welcoming committee?" the brunet chuckled, his eyes taking on a hard gleam that belied his cheery expression.
"You're Squall Leonhart?" On of the fifteen men he counted asked, "Yeah? You got business with me?"
The man laughed, "I'm Seda…the man who is going to defeat you."
"Hold on a minute…you're here to get your ass kicked, that's all?" Squall laughed.
"No, and don't laugh you fuckin fool." Seda glared at Squall, "I heard the king of Esther is with you too. I'm going to defeat you and kidnap the king as Ransom."
The brunet laughed again, "You and what army?"
Seda glared at him, "I don't need an army to defeat you."
Squall raised a mocking brow, "Well, I'll see if I can change your mind."
The blonde got out of the tent as he heard the fight starting. Chuckling to himself he saw as the brunet made a couple of people fly. Dran was sinking his teeth in one of the men's neck, and the blonde shivered at the ferocious growl on the usually good-natured animal. After watching for a few minutes, he was able to count ten dead.
"Don't move. You must be the king." Seifer tensed as he felt the cold point of a knife against his throat.
"You know, you should know better than to let your guard down around an opponent, but gathering form the way you are staring at the boy, you and him are lovers, right?"
Squall turned and glared at the man, "Get away form him, you bastard."
"Don't move…you caused enough trouble already. If you move I will have him killed." Seda laughed from behind the brunet.
Grey eyes hardened, "You will never win like this."
"Really…actually, I'm gonna let you stand motionless like that and carve my name on your ass." Seda laughed, "What? Would you rather the blonde there dies?"
Seifer shrugged apologetically as he was forced unto his knees and bound.
"I'm warning you kid, one move and I'll kill him."
Dran growled. "Hey, get that wolf away from here."
"Dran's my wolf." Squall smirked at the way looking at the white wolf made the man shiver in fright.
A kick was delivered to Seifer's side and although the blonde made no sound, pain was etched on his handsome features.
"Stop it!' Squall cried falling t his knees.
"Squall!" Seifer sat up, "What the hell is wrong with you? Squall!"
"I told you to call me Leon." The brunet chuckled after long quiet minutes.
Seifer frowned, "Damn, just when I thought the situation couldn't get any worse."
"Hey, no senseless talk, what the fuck is going on?" Seda growled
Leon stood up, dusting his clothes, "Excuse me for my former rudeness, I'm Leon…it would do you well to remember my name in the future…maybe I should carve it on your forehead so you will remember your sore defeat every time you look in the mirror."
Seda sputtered blasphemies, "I'm the one in control here. I still have your lover."
"My lover? No way, that guy turned his back on me that night about a week ago, didn't you Blondie?"
"Go to hell."
"You see, he even remembers what he told me, too." Leon chuckled but it held no humor at all.
"I said I am in control. If you move I will kill him."
"You know, just between us old pals," Leon cocked his head to the side, "I don't really care about that guy's life, it's just that Squall miserably does."
Seda frowned in confusion.
Leon shrugged, "I guess it really can't be helped. Watch this." With the speed of lightning Leon pulled out to knives, whirled around and threw them at the two men holding Seifer captive. "What the hell!"
Leon pouted, "Ara…looks like Seifer dear is free…" Seifer stood up, frowning at the ropes on his wrists. Leon walked over to him and cut them, "I suppose you can take it form here…I do so hate to burden my conscious."
Seifer grinned, "This is the first thing you said that I happened to like."
Leon grinned, "Show me a good time." "Hah, I'll show you to the time of your life."
The blonde grabbed Seda, who was getting ready to run away, and in a few minutes, the man couldn't run away even if Tsunami decided to plague the and he stood on.
Leon clapped merrily, "Nice. Very nice."
"Go to hell…I want Squall."
Leon's smile disappeared, "Stop being a fool…just for your benefit, you know."
"Whatever. I don't need your advice. Let's go."
Ara…that's a Japanese phrase used by women mostly (since it's so feminine) and it comes closely to meaning "whoops"