AN: Hey everyone, sorry for the wait. I was kinda off and on with the chapter updating but as always its a nice long one for ya;-)I'll be finally getting KH2 in a month or so. But it'sthe UK ver. not Australian. The Australian release isnt til 28th September! -sigh- Gamers inAus. get the crap end of the stick. Well enjoy the chapter! It's got some nice action and fluff for ya :-D (I'm putting the rating up now incase the course language is getting a bit rough)


Chapter VI – Revenge is Sweet

Leon walked through the crowd having a growing suspicion that something had gone wrong. He saw Aerith standing next to Sally near one of the many gates in the area. "Have you seen Yuffie" Leon asked eying the area around them.

"No, I thought she was with you" she responded. Leon sighed and felt an oncoming headache approaching. "…Oh no!" Aerith said knowing exactly where Yuffie had gone.

"What? What is it? Do you know where she is?" Leon asked firmly. Aerith told him where Yuffie might have gone. Leon left before she could even finish her sentence.

'God, does this girl ever stay in one spot?' Leon thought frustrated at Yuffie's constant disappearing acts. 'How could she just go off like that? In this town especially! I don't even know what kind of people dwell in this place. For all I know she could be-"Leon's thoughts were cut short with yelling coming from the lab. He fastened his pace to a run and slammed open the door to the scientist laboratory. He un-sheafed his gunblade and held it ready.

"Those three little brats stole my report! I swear I'm going to make them my next subjects if I ever see them again!" the scientist yelled out in frustration. Leon quickly paced over to the scene easing back his gunblade.

"What happened?" He asked the scientist, demanding more the asking.

"Why should I tell you? Your 'friend' was part of it all" the scientist sneered back as he held out Yuffie's shuriken.

'Yuffie…' "Where did they take her?" Leon demanded again.

"What's happening?" Jack interrupted entering the door. "Is there something wrong?"

"Those henchmen of Oogy have taken my report!" the scientist rambled to Jack.

"What? Oogy? But how? I thought Sora took care of him" Leon said, remembering Sora ranting about this world and how he had defeated Oogy Boogy.

"Oogy can't be defeated; he's like the rest of us here." Jack said his now joyful face replaced with a more intense stare. "You can't kill something that's already dead."

'Shit! Yuffie's probably getting dragged there right now.' Leon thought. "Take me to him!" Leon asked Jack in a commanding tone. Not really caring for sincerities any more.

"Alright, follow me." Jack said.

"Hey! …Hey wake up!" an obnoxious voice said, followed by a kick in the shin.

"Owhh!" Yuffie broke awake, seeing the three loathsome children standing around her. Two of them were boys and one was a girl. One boy had a satanic mask, the other had a skull mask and the girl had witch mask. Yuffie tried to move but her hands and feet were bonded.

"Untie me you little shit heads!" Yuffie said trying to knock one out by thrusting her legs forward. She managed to knock the girl backwards into a bunch of cages. The two boys began to laugh when Yuffie knocked her over. Yuffie couldn't figure out if they were laughing at her or their accomplice. The girl who was just knocked over emerged a few moments later with a fuming look in her eyes.

"Shut up! Shut up!" she screamed hitting both the boys over the head. They shortly silenced afterwards, knowing it was taking away some their position of power. "I'm throwing her down to Oogy! That'll teach her for kicking me!" she said glaring at Yuffie.

"Oogy?" Yuffie said perplexed. 'How! I thought he got annihilated by Sora?' Yuffie thought rapidly as the children made their way towards her. From Sora's description of Oogy, he wasn't the prettiest site and Yuffie got nightmares from descriptions only.

"Hey! Let go off me!" Yuffie shouted, squirming around trying to escape their grip. For children as small as they were they were enchanted with some pretty strong arms. The more Yuffie struggled, the firmer their grip got. As they forcefully moved her to the back wall of the room, Yuffie looked up to where they were taking her. She was heading straight for a green coloured funnel. 'They're going to shove me in that!' Yuffie's eyes widened at the thought of being shoved down a pipe. She wouldn't call herself complete claustrophobic but being shoved down a tube freaked her out.

"We'll let Oogy Boogy deal with you!" the girl Yuffie had hit earlier said furiously.

"Yeah, and he just 'loves' the girlies" the satanic boy said deviously.

"And you seemed dressed just suitably for him" said the more stout boy.

"You dirty little basterds! I'm gonna kick your little arses once I-Ahhhhhhhhhh" Yuffie's threatening was caught short when she was shoved forcefully down the pipe. Yuffie fell down the pipe at incredible speed, almost as if the pipe was sucking her down to the bottom. When she arrived at the exit of the tunnel, she tumbled over repeatedly until she came to a halt bashing into the wall. Her vision was some what blurred and she felt incredibly dizzy.

"Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in. Huhoho" a booming voice said from the darkness. A pair of malicious eyes illuminated from the darkness, eyeing down on Yuffie.

Yuffie shot back to consciousness and got on to her feet; she wobbled a bit, being slightly dizzy still from the rough entrance.

"Ohhoh so this little feast is gonna be a live one. Excellent, I love a bit of a game before I eat." The voice finally emerged from the darkness and appeared almost scarier then Sora had described to Yuffie. The sack of bugs was only half repaired from his last defeat. His face was half attached to whatever it was originally attached to and his seams were splitting in parts, oozing out bugs every so often. Yuffie's eyes widened and she couldn't help but tremble as he moved towards her.

'Ah crap!'

"How much further is it?" Leon enquired Jack whilst striding hastily behind him across a curling hill.

"It's just up ahead across that bridge." Jack said pointing out yonder to a rickety old bridge.

'We must go faster!' Leon thought, starting into a jog. Jack's long strides were enough to keep up with the fur covered man's fast pace. When they finally reached the bridge, Leon began to run up to the entrance of the house.

"Wait! That's not the way!" Jack called out behind him.

"What? It's the entrance isn't it?" Leon said impatiently turning to face Jack.

"Yes but not to where she will be, we must get to that door down there." Jack said pointing to a large green door at the base of the building. Leon walked to the edge of the path and looked down to where Jack was pointing.

"Over here" Jack called over Leon to the other side of the path. Jack jumped into some sort of cage attached to a wire, which had a lever on it. Leon assumed it would take them down so jumped into the cage as well.

"Hold on to something" Jack said trying to hold back excitement in his voice. Leon raised his eyebrow and was about to ask why but was interrupted abruptly as the cage shot towards the ground. Leon reached for the nearest handle to clamp on to as they plummeted. The cage suddenly jolted to a stop inches from the bottom of the ground. Leon couldn't help but feel just a little bit shaken from falling suddenly like that. Jack gave out a small laugh as he felt the rush of fear and adrenaline. Leon shot Jack a glare at his enjoyment of freefalling from a cage.

'If this guy enjoys freefalling then God knows what Oogy is like.' Leon thought.

"Ooo I like this one, never had this much fun since that 'boy' came along and screwed up my seams!" Oogy called out as he chased Yuffie around his den. Yuffie was glad for once that she had her ability 'Clear Tranquil' which was able to give back some of her energy. Since Oogy's horrific machines would catch only her flesh every so often. Other then some near misses, Yuffie was dodging his attacks quite fluently.

'God, the one time I can actually do some sweet moves is when NO ONEis here to see me do them!' Yuffie thought as she dodged another round of bullets from a set of robotic cowboys. She was thinking of ways to swipe an attack to the fat sack but was worried he might swallow her if she got to close to him. She was after all only a small person and up against Oogy she was twice as miniature.

'I have to try and get a weapon of some sort. Otherwise I'll just be running in circles. Hmmm, that giant cleaver over there could be useful.' Yuffie devised an idea as she turned to lure Oogy over.

"Yo fugly! You want some of this!" she called out pointing her backside towards him, swinging her devil tail around. "Then you'll have to come get it!" she concluded flashing her middle finger at him.

"Why you little-" He growled to her as he stampeded towards her. As he came closer to her, Yuffie watched the cleaver swinging from the ceiling, as it was about to swing right where she was standing she back flipped out of the way in order for Oogy to get slashed. Once she was back on her two feet after the flip she looked to see what had happened to Oogy. She was expecting an even more grotesque site then he already was but she didn't see him at all.

"Do you really think I'd get swiped by my own devices? Ooo you will be tasty!" He loomed from the shadows behind Yuffie. She turned around just in time to see him reach out for her.

"Hey Yuffie! Catch!" Yuffie heard a voice call out to her and a shine of silver shot out towards her. 'My shuriken!' Yuffie flipped up into the air and caught her shuriken mid jump. While still in the air she turned and threw the shuriken towards Oogy. The blade slices across his belly opening up more seams. Yuffie landed on the ground catching her shuriken when she landed.

"You're in for it now fugly sack!" Yuffie said standing ready for another attack with her ninja star. "…Thanks Leon" She said off to the side when she saw Leon appear besides her readying his gunblade.

"You're in trouble young lady" Leon said in slightly strict tone. "But first we're dealing with him" he said death glaring Oogy. Almost without warning Leon lunged forwards, slashing at the already injured sack of bugs. Yuffie could have sworn she heard Leon let out a ruthless growl as he went for the attack. 'Getting a bit in character are ya' Leon?' she thought giggling in her conscious before she too joined the battle. She jumped up into the air and spun her shuriken again towards Oogy. Leon continued to slash away at Oogy as he yelled out in pain and tried to escape using his machines in a means of attack.

"You can't beat me! Yargh!" Oogy cried out getting another shuriken slash across him.

"I'll make sure you remember us then!" Leon said raising his gunblade to swing in his next attack, 'Rough Divide'.

"Leon, Yuffie you two escape I'll hold back Oogy." Jack said appearing into the battle. They both heard his call and ran to the exit. Yuffie swung her shuriken one last time and flipped off one of the rises to land on the floor. Her petite devil wings fluttered as she jumped off. Leon couldn't help but notice her rise in fighting skills as they exited hastily.

"Phew! That was a close one!" Yuffie said wiping her fore head and placed her hands on her knees to regain her breath, subconsciously remembering that Leon is just about to lecture her.

"I haven't seen you fight that well before… I guess if you're really put into a bad situation you can fight just as good with out me saving you from your pending doom." Leon said easing his gunblade on his shoulder.

'Did…I black out and miss Leon's two hour lecture on me running off without permission or is Leon complimenting my fighting ?…' "Um …thanks…I think" Yuffie said bewildered at Leon's compliment.

"Though that doesn't mean you can run off like you did! I'm not some knight in shining armour to come save your sorry arse all the time!" Leon said.

'Nope he was just postponing it…well why don't you spank me for being such a bad girl…damn it! Stupid head! Shut up! I don't want to fall for a 25 year old…who's staring at me…and god 'damn' he's hot…Damit' Yuffie said snapping out of her daydream.

"Well …it's not like I 'came' out here! Those little-…I'll be right back." Yuffie said remembering a group of kids she owes a 'visit' to.

"What? Where are you going? We have to get back! Yuffie!" Leon said calling out to her as he followed her.

"How the hell do you get back up there?" Yuffie said frustrated as she walked a circle around the base of the structure.

"Over here." Leon said walking into the cage which had gotten him down in the first place. Yuffie walked in with him and waited till the cage went up. She watched as Leon tried to pull the lever. Nothing happened.

"Yep, I think we're getting much closer…to the bottom." Yuffie said.

"Well let's see your means of transport, oh great leader Yuffie." Leon said sarcastically to Yuffie.

"With pleasure!" she responded robustly, exiting the cage. She was standing in the spot for awhile trying to see something to help them up, when a white object caught her eye. 'What…the hell…it's moving!' Yuffie thought as she tried to identify the object. She ran towards it and as she did the object identified itself to be a walking bathtub.

"This place is weird as all hell but I'm taking my chance with the bath tub. Hey Leon! Over here!" Leon walked around behind her as she was following the bathtub walk in circles round the base of the building.

"What the-" Leon said baffled at the portable tub.

"Let's jump into it!" Yuffie said getting ready to do so.

"What?"

"Come on!" Yuffie grabbed his arm and pulled him in after her in the tub. The both of them squashed in the tub with Leon landing on top of Yuffie as they fell in. The tub moved into action as they got in and started to head up the tree house-like building. Yuffie grew extremely red as she felt Leon lying on her back. She was practically engulfed by him since he was a lot larger then she was, though his warmth was lifted shortly falling in, as he pushed himself up into a sitting position towards the back of the tub. Yuffie sat up soon after he did. Sitting to the front and facing forward rather then facing Leon, since she didn't want him to see her extremely embarrassed expression, also to see where they were heading.

'Note to self: don't pull Leon into a moveable bath tub… What do I mean, 'don't'? Arghh damn it!' Yuffie thought, trying to fight the nerve to make her want to latch onto him.

"Well seems to be working" Leon said breaking the silence watching as the tub took them up the tree. As the tub went up the tree it started to elevate vertically, making it hard for Yuffie to stay at the front of the tub.

'Oh crap my grip is slipping. My arms are so sore from that fight, argh no…must…keep gri-' Yuffie's effort was in vain and she crashed into Leon.

"Sorry, I really didn't purposely let go! I mean I might of but ah…never mind" Yuffie spluttered out trying to move off him.

"…It's ok, just stop moving. You're pulling on this god forsaken mane of hair." Leon said slightly aggravated with his appearance, cringing every so often when Yuffie accidentally pulled on his mane.

"Sorry again heh" Yuffie said nervously laughing. 'Though your mane is mighty nice on my back… doh! Well I might as well enjoy it while it lasts. I doubt I'll ever get this close to him again.' By the time Yuffie had stopped fidgeting the tub had reached the bridge in which Leon had left earlier. Leon nudged Yuffie with his chest to signal her to get off him and out of the tub. Yuffie flinched when he did this as if she was snapped out of thought and practically jumped out of the tub faster then she got in.

"Are you alright?" Leon asked, oblivious to the fact Yuffie was embarrassed about their recent situation. Being the typical male, he doesn't suspect a thing.

"Yeah, yeah! Fine, fine!" Yuffie said while looking up to the top of the building. She saw lights on at the top of the roof. 'Those little basterds must be up there. I think I owe them some payback.' Yuffie thought vengefully, heading towards the door.

"Where are you going now?" Leon asked getting tired of her constant walking off.

"I'm paying a couple of 'friends' a visit." She said slyly, grinning at her thoughts of revenge. Taking out her shuriken, she twirled it in her finger while looking back at Leon. "I think I owe them thanks for their lovely kidnapping skills." Stopping the twirling blade in her hands, she spun on her foot and ran towards the building. Leon followed her without questioning feeling he needed to see who these kidnappers were.

Once they finally reached the top, Yuffie paused outside the entrance to the room which voices could be heard from. Leon waited a few steps behind; resting his gunblade on his shoulder then having it ready for battle, since he felt Yuffie should have the right to do her own payback.

'3…2…1!' Yuffie kicked open the door and threw her shuriken so that it would spin round the entire room. The three children were caught by surprise and were all hit by the shuriken. Yuffie caught it easily with her right hand and eased back since the three of them were crying out from the floor.

"I told you I'd come back to kick your sorry little arses" Yuffie said standing over the three of them. She glared down to them as they looked up at her in fear.

"We're sorry!"

"Please don't hurt us any more!"

"We were only told by Oogy to do these things!"

The three of them said cowering at her feet. Yuffie almost felt sorry for them…almost.

"We'll give you back your paper!" the girl said shaking Ansem's report to Yuffie. Yuffie took it willingly and stood down from them. Leon started to calculate what had actually happened to Yuffie and how she got into trouble. He merely shook his head at Yuffie's kleptomaniac issues.

"Well since I'm too tired to kick your arses more I'll let you off the hook this time, but next time you won't be so lucky!" Yuffie said trying to sound threatening. Leon thought it wasn't very effective, well from his point of view but I guess he wasn't 5 feet high.

The two of them left the three trick-o-treaters to tend to their wounds and headed towards town. It didn't take long for Leon to bring up the topic of the report.

"So why did you do it?" Leon asked.

"Do what?" Yuffie said pretending to not know what he was asking. Leon looked at her intensely to get her to take things more seriously. "Ok fine! Jezz your eyes are creepy when they're yellow…well anyway, I did it because the reports are more important to us then that freaky scientist. I mean he was trying to figure out ways to control the heartless! Isn't that proof enough that it's better in our hands?" Yuffie said trying to prove her innocence of stealing the documents.

"That still doesn't mean you can just take the documents" Leon said. "…though you do have a point"

'I know…WHAT!' Yuffie thought at Leon's shocking response. 'He's 'agreeing' with me? Ok this world is flipping me out!'

"I was going to propose a trade to the scientist but I guess we won't need to do that now that you have the document" Leon said noticing Yuffie's shocked expression. "You think I didn't know about his experiments? Aerith even suggested to me to propose a trade"

'Aerith too! Man, she was the one telling 'me' not to take the document. Well…I guess her way of obtaining it is different…but it's still the same thing!' Yuffie thought as Leon waited for a response from her. "Well I guess staying for longer really was useful" Yuffie said smiling at Leon.

"Yeah I guess…" Leon said in return.

"There you two are! I was getting so worried!" Aerith said running towards the two of them. They had finally reached town again and the party was nearing its end with only a few gatherings of people, or monsters in this case, remained.

"Yeah! It's a good thing Leon showed up when he did with my shuriken. I mean I would have been done for if he didn't!" Yuffie said pointing at Leon with her thumb and standing proudly with the outcome of their win.

"Jack also came to help, he made an escape for us" Leon added.

"Ah, you have returned safely!" A voice said from behind them, which turned out to be Jack.

"Thank you for your help back there" Leon said to him.

"Yeah! Your help was really great! I hope you taught that Oogy a lesson or two" Yuffie said as well.

"Yes, I believe we won't be hearing from him for awhile, you can count on that!" Jack said optimistically to them. "I'm sorry you had to confront him." He said apologetically.

"Nah, it's cool. It helped me get back in shape anyway!" Yuffie said smiling at him.

"Well, we best be off." Leon interrupted as he saw the scientist heading their way. Yuffie and the rest also spotted him carting his way towards them. They all knew what was coming and decided to hastily wave goodbye to Jack and head towards their airship.

Yuffie started to giggle once they all entered the airship.

"What's so funny?" Leon asked, not really expecting a straight answer.

"Hehehe You all started to bail when the scientist was coming, hahah you're starting to pick up my traits now! Before long you'll be stealing materia" Yuffie said bursting out laughing as they all looked guilty for what they were accused of.

"Well I ain't dealing with no shit from that wheelies guy about that damn report you have hanging out your pocket" Cid said, grateful he was out of his tin can costume.

"You better watch your materia then" Leon said.

"No way in hell you guys laying a hand on my materia!" Yuffie said forcefully. Everyone smiled and laughed at Yuffie's typical reaction, even Leon managed to quirk in a small smile. Yuffie smiled back at them all in return. "Well …let's go home"


AN- And we're outta Halloween Town! Yay back to character stories! XD Yeah the course language is building up a bit, but in my opinion they suited the situations at hand. Yuffie aint all weak :-P I'm trying to make her fight her emotions to Leon because in my opinion, if I liked a guy that old I would think there was something wrong with me. But then again, it's Leon XD. Hope you enjoyed their little side trip, next chapter is filling in the plot holes I've created XD also a bit of story intertwining. Hope to have it up in a month...if I'm not fully swept away by KH2 :-P