AN- Like Woah I've updated withen a month! Thats an achievement for me! hahaha Iguess I'm trying to keep it up to scratch so I dont fade out again. I've actually spotted plots holes in my story already! hahaha yay! -hits head- Playing KH again kinda does that... but anyway I'm not too sure about some scenes but yeh I hope its alright. I'm trying to keep things as in-character as possible since Leon is very different from Squall, personality-wise. I plan onexplaining how/why he changed during this story... so anyway enjoy chapter 4! Oh and watch out for quotes/scenes that are referencing to something/one


Chapter IV – Reminiscences

The sunlight beamed off the extensive sword as it was held up to Yuffie's neck.

"Give back mother's energy" The tall man ordered down at Yuffie. Yuffie was in a state of shock and fear to even move let alone say anything to the man. The fact that a blade was drawn up to her neck was threatening enough. All Yuffie could do was whimper quietly.

Yuffie closed her eyes, holding back tears. 'I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die.'

"Hmph! Let me take you to the promised lands." Once saying this he raised his sword above Yuffie as if to execute her on the spot. Yuffie's heart stopped as she looked up to the blade almost blacking out as the made rush of blood ran to her heart in terror, though a sudden clash of metal snapped her out of her blank out.

"Yuffie! Run!" Leon had his gun blade drawn out and had forced the tall dark man away from her by hitting his sword away but Yuffie was still stuck in a trance and didn't take in any of Leon's words.

"Yuffie!" Leon was fretting this time, scared that Yuffie had passed out which would make things harder since he knew that his enemy at hand wasn't just a push over and escaping wouldn't be a simple option. He justthanked God that he got to her in time; he only just arrived around the corner when he saw Yuffie being held down by an extremely dangerous opponent. He moved so fast when he saw her he didn't even remember when he struck the cloaked man back.

"I…I…I can't move Squall, please don't leave me" Yuffie sobbed out, the shock of the moment had caught up with her and she had started to cry. Leon saw how the situation was turning out and just prayed that Cid came with the airship soon.

"You dare get in my way of Mother's power." The cloaked man said to Leon, grabbing his attention again. "You are much a fool" He sneered at Leon. He bent down low to his blade getting ready to strike down the gunblader. Leon gripped his gunblade tighter and kept it low, ready to defend himself and Yuffie.

"Bring it" Leon said just before the dark man swooped towards him. Leon only just caught the man's blade with his own as it struck in from the side. 'He's fast!' Leon said trying hard not to show emotion of shock to throw off his fighting stance. He remained close in front of Yuffie to make sure he could easily return to her side if the man tried to strike her down while he was in battle. Leon found it hard to swipe in an attack because the man would swoop into nothingness then reappear in a new area and attack again. It was alsodifficult because he couldn't use any strategies to get into any good spots because he didn't want to leave Yuffie's side.

As the battle fought on Yuffie wassobbing into her hands. 'I have to get up! But I can't! I feel so useless, Leon's risking his life for me and all I'm doing is sitting here crying. I don't know what to do! What can I do! I don't want to be useless!'

The battle was showing signs of defeat, that being Leon's defeat. Leon couldn't withstand another round of fast blows from the black caped man. The gunblader couldn't comprehend how he was becoming so fatigued by the battle. His pride however, didn't let him give up on the fight that easily, but slowly his focus was starting to tremor with this small lose of focus one of the long swipes whipped him across the stomach, sending him flying backwards knocking down onto the ground, sliding across the dirt and stopping a few feet from Yuffie. Yuffie looked up from her hands to see Leon's bloody mess on the ground next to her. She could see him looking at her looking as if he was trying to tell her to run. The site of Leon in that state made her scared; scared he was actually going to die. Yuffie never saw Leon ever being defeated, she always saw him win battles and only getting minor injuries but this time he was bleeding all over the ground. Yuffie suddenly had the energy to move again and quickly crawled over to his side. She placed a hand on his wound as if to try and stop the bleeding. Leon was slowly losing focus in his eyes. She turned to where the man who had made him like this and saw him standing right above her. This time however Yuffie had intense rage in her eyes and glared straight into the darker mans green eyes.

"You… You won't get away with this!" Yuffie trembled out. As saying this the materia in her bag started to react to her rage and created a magical aura around her self and Leon. The materia almost had a mind of its own and let out a giant whip of magic and struck down the cloaked man, knocking him off his feet and into the market stand behind him. Yuffie didn't even think it was she who made the attack. It happened so fast that Yuffie couldn't even remember what had happened. Whatever it was it left Yuffie in a much drained status.

"Hey kid! Quick! Get on board!" Yuffie gave a dazed up look to see Cid hanging out the side of the air ship. He shouted out something to someone else inside the airship, most likely Aerith to come and help the two of them quickly. Cid grabbed a joystick that he had made to use the airship controls without being in the cockpit. He brought the airship low to the ground causing the markets to blow back and forth. Cid jumped out and lifted Leon onto the ship. Aerith jumped down and picked up Yuffie as well as her bag and brought her onto the ship. Once on the airship the doors slowly started to close up behind them. Aerith turned back looking through the doors to the scene looking at the crashed-in market stand. Giving it a worried look she looked out to the coliseum and saw a red cloaked man standing outside the gate. By the time she saw him the doors had closed off her view.

"What the hell was he doing there!" Cid said to no one in particular, heaving Leon onto the nearest bed. Aerith followed close behind with Yuffie in her arms. Yuffie was stuck in a half dazed state and couldn't make out what she could see or hear. All she could remember was being put on the bed next to where Leon was and Aerith placing her hand on her head as if to coon to her sleep.


Some turbulence in the airship shook Yuffie awake from her resting state. It took her a few moments to recognise where she was and how she got there.

'Oh yeah that scary cloaked man came… Squall…' "Squall!" She turned from her bed to see Leon on the opposite bed next to her own. He had been stripped down to just his leather trousers, his bare chest had bandages wrapped around his torso. Parts of the bandages had blood seeping through in small patches. Yuffie hopped off her bed with a bit too much energy, forgetting she had just awoken from a long sleep and she lost balance causing herself to fall forwards onto Leon's bed. She barely missed putting her hands right on top of his wound. They hadlanded right on the edge of them, her head nearly landing on top of him.

'God you trying to kill him again'

'Ah shut up stupid subconscience.' Yuffie said to herself. After holding her position of balance over Leon a few more secondsshe finallystraightened up and stood over him. She couldn't help but stare at his sleeping figure. She'd never seen him asleep before, though it wasn't her first time seeing him shirtless. The first time was a little less grim looking. Yuffie noticed he had a few other scars on his chest now that she was close enough to see it clearly. The only one she really saw most of was the one on his face, which he'd never tell how he got it. He moved slightly in his slumber causing Yuffie to stop moving and breathing hoping if she didn't move he wont see her if he woke up. 'Yeah, great theory there' She hit herself subconsciously and let out a sigh of relief when he didn't awake.

'I wonder what he's dreaming off…'

"Could Squall Leonhart, Student ID. 25693. Please come to head office." An announcement spoke over head. A young man looked up to the message and rolled his eyes in acknowledgement. He stood up from his spot on the ground and flicked his fringe back onto his short cut brown hair.

Making his way to an elevator situated in the middle of the school grounds he saw a tall, blonde teenaged girl heading in the same direction.

"Are you being called to the head's office as well?"

"When am I not?" He replied. She laughed at his response.

"Yeah, it's the sad truth now, isn't it?"

"…wh-"

"'Whatever'" she said before he could. He shot her a frown at her mimicking. "You're still as predictable as ever Squall"

"…whatever, and even if I am so reliable why are you heading to the head master's office Quistis?" Squall questioned.

"I really don't know…but-" by the time she had started her next sentenced they had arrived at the head master's office. Squall had turned to Quistis waiting for the continuation of her sentence but Quistis had already walked in front of him and saluted the Head Master. He caught up behind her and saluted as well.

"Ah! Punctual as always" Cid said as he noticed them enter the room and salute. "Well I guess you're both wondering why I've summoned you here and something tells me you might already have a hint." The two of them returned a look of understanding to the head master. As he said this more people entered the room. A spunky blonde haired male with a tattoo on his face, a young man with a cowboy hat and a youthful girl wearing a yellow one piece entered the room. "Ah so you've all made it here on time for my briefing, that's good"

"Anything for the boss" the man dressed similar to a westerncowboy said.

"Yes, well, on to the point of the matter. I have just been urgently informed that the sorceress Ultimecia and Maleficent are working together in a scheme that will put not only us in jeopardy but this whole world. As we have already gathered Ultimecia is still trying to master Time Compression. Our section has been ordered by the King to take down Ultimecia while he gets another section to deal with Maleficent. So our objective is to find and obliterate Ultimecia's plan of obtaining Time Compression which could warp us all into different times and god only knows what else it could do."

The group of students just stood stunned at the newly revealed information. They had only just started persuing Ultimecia, but now they have to deal with Maleficent as well. The spunky blonde was the first to break the ice.

"So you want us to do the impossible?" He said with an exaggerated hand movement with his hands.

"Well it's not impossible if we know where to go." The students responded with a confused look. The head master chuckled at their expressions. "Ok, maybe that was a bit vague. Along with the information I was given there was a location map attached and what is scary about the information is that Ultimecia is very close to where this school is."

"What! That's crazy!" The girl with the yellow one-piece dress gasped.

"Crazy as it sounds, it is true. The challenging part is getting there" The head master responded.

"What do we have to do, sir?" Squall finally spoke, wishing to get to task straight away.

"Well…we don't really know. It's an area which is magically sealed off and is, well still being analysed."

'So what are you expecting us to do? Walk up to it and knock?' Squall thought to himself, growing impatient with his head master's leisurely way of explaining situations.

"So until further notice I suggest you all be ready to dive into a battle at any time. SeeD squad dismissed." The group of students exited the office and headed off in their separate ways from the elevator.

'Was there even a point to that meeting? All I learned was our school was selected to do some dirty work for the King, who I still suspect is the core reason why things are getting out of control. I mean the man spends more time on his projects then he does anything to help the world.'

"Deep in thought again Squall?" The said man turned around to see who was talking to him.

"…Deep in thought most likely" Leon opened his eyes to a familiar voice. "Holy crap!" the figure speaking stumbled backwards off the bed in which he was laying. "Owww damn it! I swear Cid needs carpet not metal flooring! Jezz! Gonna get a bruise on my arse now"

Leon looked down off the bed to see Yuffie sitting on the floor rubbing her backside. He raised an eyebrow on how she made the sudden fall but knowing Yuffie she was probably doing something daft. He tried to sit up in bed but forgot he had a fresh wound across his abdomen; he groaned in pain and fell back down onto the bed.

"You really shouldn't do that; it would probably make it worse." Yuffie said once she got up off the floor.

"No really?" Leon added sarcastically.

"Yeah!" she returned with equal sarcasm. There was a slight stare off on who would comment first but was interrupted when Aerith opened up the door to the room.

"Oh Yuffie! You're up! Thank goodness! Oh and you too Leon. Good, good! I've been so worried!" Aerith said ecstatically about their recovery. "Your wound might take awhile to heal Leon, so don't put pressure on it" as she noticed more blood seeping through the material. "It needs to be re-bandaged again…"

"Again?" Yuffie said confused.

"Yes, you two have been out for a few days now." Aerith said walking towards Leon's bandages.

"You're kidding!" Yuffie exclaimed. Leon seemed surprised as well.

"Your wound was very deep Leon. I had to use more then just magic to heal it" Aerith said while undoing the bandages. "…though now that I'm seeing it again it's starting to heal up, I should be able to cure it faster now." She saidin relief, conjuring up a cure spell to help the healing process. The majority of the wound healed over with the spell,only leaving only a slightly deep cut. "That should do Aerith; I can take care of it from here."

"Are you sure?" Aerith asked him slightly apprehensive.

"Yes" Leon said sitting up on the bed.

"Ok, Leon I can understand being knocked out but why was I in a coma?" Yuffie said interrupting the healing scene. She was still trying to remember how she even got into it.

"Well…I…don't know. That's why I was so worried." Aerith said anxiously. Yuffie just stood there trying to think of what had happened but all she remembers was Leon passing out in a bloody mess.

"Halloween Town is a few hours away now kiddos, Prepare for some turbulence." Cid announced on speaker phone.

"Halloween Town! Oooh! I've always wanted to go there Sora told me a bit about it! It sounds so trippy! ...Though he said you need to disguise yourself as one of them." Yuffie said pondering how to disguise herself.

"Heh well lucky for us I learnt a spell off Merlin before leaving, I thought it would be some fun also" Aerith said smiling.

"Ohhh yeah! This is gonna be kick arse!" Yuffie said completely forgetting she was pondering on what had happened before. Leon just sighed at her short attention span of concentrating on something. That or he was just comparing it to himself, who pondered too much on simple maters, though was it really just a simple mater?

"Yo Leon you gonna put a shirt on or are you gonna walk around topless in town?" Yuffie teased pointing at his bare chest even though she would prefer him shirtless.

"I wasn't planning to" He replied swinging his legs around off the bed. "Well if you don't mind I'd like to get changed…this is the room I put my belongings in after all" Leon said looking at Yuffie and Aerith.

"Oh sorry, I'll be in the cockpit with Cid then" Aerith said leaving Yuffie behind with Leon.

"…um…" Leon looked over to Yuffie who had her face to the ground.

"What?" he asked.

"…I'm sorry…" Yuffie said timidly, looking up at Leon slightly. Leon got up from the bed and walked over to Yuffie. Yuffie wasn't expecting him to walk right over to him and started to flush redwhen she could sense he was very close to her. From where she had her head, Yuffie onlysaw his slightly deep wound across his stomachand the top of his leather pants which were hanging from his hips.

"Well we're both alive, aren't we? So don't worry about it. We both know we didn't expect that outcome so don't get down about it." He said placing a comforting hand on her shoulder. Yuffie couldn't believe the words that just flew out of Leon's mouth that second. 'Squall? The comforter? Now I definitely know the world is ending…and is that his hand on my shoulder?' Leon raised his hand from her shoulder and turned around to get a change of shirt out of his luggage.

"Yeah I guess your right I mean if it's not like I purposely dropped my mat- MY MATERIA!" Yuffie suddenly realised she had a bag stuffed full of pilferedmateria and ran out of Leon's room to see if it was brought on board the ship.

Leon had turned his head at the sudden exclamation of the word 'materia' and only just saw Yuffie exit his room. He sighed at her sudden action. 'That girl has a one tracked mind.'


AN- To Halloween Town mweheheh XD I've actually drawn their costumes, so yesh some of you might know already what they will look like. Oh,with the whole Leon conforting thing, I thought he would do something like that, since he does kind of'comfort' Sora in the game to go find his friends so yehhh. Oh and the part with Selphie being there will all get explained/warped later on -nod- Well on to the next Chapter! Halloween Town! Time for some fun! XD