Summary: Yuffie has had no time for boys when she's busy fighting the heartless. When they're finally gone, she still finds fighting—between her and someone else. Squiffie, Clouffie
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts.
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Chapter Continues-
"Hmph." I muttered angrily to myself as I remembered the words of the bet yesterday. I got up, and cleaned myself up.
"We'll see whose right… I can totally control my temper. At least I still have time to make amends with Leon… there are still heartless and nobodies out there."
I left the building and ran all the way to Merlins.
Opening the door, I found Cid, Aerith, and Leon gathered around the computer, their gaze focusing on the screen.
"What's up?" I asked in confusion as I tried to peek at what they were doing.
Stupid Leon is so freakin' tall.
"It appears that there are much more heartless appearing around town, including a bunch of Nobodies as well." Aerith explained.
"Cid's going to install this new defense mechanism system for the town. He's loading it right now." Leon added, interested in whatever Cid was typing in that computer.
"So, is this defense thing going to turn the heartless into crap, or do you need me to?" I asked, thinking a day off would be nice.
"Yup, jus' 'cause I'm installin' this new thing don't mean it can take out everything, you know." Cid grumbled.
That man needs to cheer up. Seriously. He's like an old Leon.
"Yeah, yeah. I'll see you guys later!" I called out as I headed out the door and shut it behind me.
After a few minutes of walking around with no luck finding any heartless, I came upon a swarm.
"Holy cow, I guess Aerith was right… there are a lot more heartless than expected. Especially in one area." I muttered out loud to nobody in particular as more heartless popped up.
Little did I know, someone was watching me.
"Take that!" I threw my shuriken at the heartless and leaped up to catch it. The heartless dodged them, and every second, more appeared the take the places of ones I already destroyed.
"ARGH! It's no use!" I cried out angrily as I was quickly surrounded by a ring of heartless. I took down as many as possible, but every single time I destroyed just one, another would take it's place, leaving me no painless way to escape.
I lurched forward as I felt a neoshadow land roughly on my small back. I struggled to try and free myself of the creature but it was no use.
The pain was fierce as the neoshadow raised a claw and pierced my delicate tan skin with a sharp ebony claw.
I gritted and grinded my teeth together as I felt the claw spread my wound even more.
The energy I once had earlier was completely gone, and I fell to the ground, limp and faint, with the shadow still on my back, searching for my heart.
I heard a distinct 'pop' as I slowly got up, feeling the crimson blood rush down my back and on my thighs. As I stood up on my aching feet, I swayed and tried to get my balance, using my weak arms as support.
As I looked around, the heartless were gone.
"Uhh…" I glanced around again in confusion, wondering what had just happened. But I caught a pair of blue eyes for a split second before they disappeared.
Was he who I thought he was?
I blinked but the mysterious person was gone.
Vanished.
I shook off the thought as I saw a piece of a black material, probably from a cloak and not from my clothes, on the ground.
It seemed so familiar…
"Oh my god! Yuffie, are you okay?" I turned around the find the pale and shocked face of Aerith.
And that's when the devastating pain came back.
"Oh… uh yeah. I'm okay." I smiled.
But I fainted a few seconds later.
I slowly opened my tired eyes as I saw a navy blue blanket on top of me.
"I don't have a blue blanket…" I mumbled sleepily as I curled around. Realization hit me as I shot up.
Ow. My back seared with a brutal burning pain as I gingerly fingered the long scar on my back. That did really hurt. But still.
What the hell?
This was Leon's bed! I then remembered everything. It all came back to me. The blue eyes, the small piece of material from the black cloak, and most of all, the slash in my back.
But seriously.
What the hell was I doing in Leon's bed?
Just then, Leon opened the door and walked in.
"Are you okay?" were the first words that came out of his mouth.
"What am I doing in your bed?" I asked, suspicious, and crossing my arms.
"Well, you fainted and everything, since what I'm guessing is that a heartless clawed at your back, and you lost a lot of blood and then fainted. What I'm wondering is how the heartless disappeared." He explained.
"Then why didn't Aerith cure me? Huh? Huh? HUH?" I asked, still suspicious of the whole thing.
"If you say HUH one more time I'm going to choke you. She fainted, too." Leon sighed. "I had to carry her and you—the BOTH of you—back here."
"Oh." I muttered.
"I had to bandage your back since so much blood was gushing out of it."
At this remark by Leon, I winced. "Until Aerith wakes up, you have no way of recovering quickly. Are you okay though?" he asked for the second time in a row.
"Yeah."
"Well, I've got to go check on Aerith. I swear, that woman faints at every single horrifying thing she sees." He muttered, walking to the door. I smiled at his true remark.
"Hey Leon?" I called.
"Yeah?" he replied, eyes concerned.
"Thanks." I smiled.
"No problem, Yuf." He smiled back as he shut the door gently behind him. I heard his footsteps fading away, and closed my eyes for a few moments, but frowned.
The pair of blue eyes still stuck out in my mind. Why did I feel I recognized them?
I shook my head and winced at the sudden pain in my back.
So this was Leon's room. As I glanced around, my eyes fell on a picture. I carefully picked it up and looked it over.
It was Leon and Rinoa standing together at a dance.
"Leon knows how to dance…?" I smirked to myself.
"He looks really happy in this picture…" I gave a small smile and put the decorated frame gently back in its place.
Leon's room was nice, organized, tidy, and neat. The exact opposite of my room. Well, my room isn't totally bad… okay, maybe it is. I can see why Leon put me in his room.
At least his looks better than Aerith's pink one…
"Hey, Yuf." I glanced up quickly to see Aerith standing there with her staff. "Cure."
I sighed in relief as I got up from the bed and stretched, smiling when I didn't feel the slightest ounce of pain.
"Thanks Aer." I smiled.
"Hey Aerith, Yuffie. I'm going to go check out how the town's doing, okay?" Leon's head popped in the doorway.
"Yeah, sure." Aerith and I chimed.
"Glad you're feeling better." Leon gave the smallest of smiles before disappearing.
"Yuffie? Yuffie!" Someone was shaking my shoulders. I blinked.
"What?"
"You should rest a little bit." Aerith told me.
"I'm not tired—" I stopped as I gave a great big yawn.
"Sleep." Aerith commanded as she left the room. I pouted and got back into bed before falling fast asleep.
Next Morning—
I woke up with groggy eyes as I squinted into the bright daylight. I stretched, and felt something next to me.
Skin… Mouth… Nose… Eyes… Holy crap, it was a face.
I shot awake, wide-eyed. I covered my forehead with a hand to block out the sunlight, and I saw Leon…
Bare-chested.
Next to ME.
The hyperactive moron who's 17 and has raging hormones.
I got red in the face. "I think I'm going to faint." I muttered before falling back into the sheets. I flinched as I heard Leon slowly get up. I shut my eyes tightly as I felt Leon check me.
After a few minutes, he got up and took a towel to go (supposedly) take a shower. I opened one brown eye and peeked around the room.
"The coast is clear." I got up and tried to find my vest, and spotted it on a chair. As I was lifting it up, I spotted a large tear across the back.
"Aw MAN… I have to go shopping with Aerith again…" I groaned. I froze as I heard footsteps approaching the door.
Someone was coming.
I took a giant leap toward the bed and rolled on my back just as the door opened quietly. I shut my eyes tightly as I heard Leon grumbling something incoherent about Aerith. I peeked and I saw Leon pacing around with a white towel around his waist.
Apparently when I flushed a deep, dark shade of crimson, Leon noticed this and put his cool hand against my red cheeks.
That didn't help at all. Because it made me redden even more.
"Aer! I think Yuffie's sick or something!" Leon called.
"I'm not sick." I sat up, rubbing my cheek to get rid of the redness. Somehow, you always have to wait for a blush to disappear.
Rubbing it only makes it look as if you've been slapped.
"Ah!" Leon's hands flew up away from my cheeks and he stood there, paralyzed.
"Now what do we have here?" I turned to see Aerith putting her hands on her hip.
Ah, the famous "did you do something naughty?" pose.
I looked away embarrassed as Leon put his hand to his own forehead.
"It's not what you think." I told her after a few moments of dead silence.
"Uh huh." Aerith laughed, unconvinced. I was just about to say something back when the image of some spiky-haired boy came to mind.
I shook my head, and Aerith and Leon both stood there bewildered as well. Leon was the first to speak up.
"Did you—did we just all think of him at the same time?" Leon asked, confused.
"Weird…" I muttered.
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A/N: Okay, another chapter. I was thinking of splitting this long chapter (for me anyways) up into two different ones, but I decided against it. So now. It seems not a lot of people are interested in this story. So,
I want ten BRAND NEW reviews before I continue with this story.