Title: Protection
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Characters: Yuffie, Leon, Aerith
Prompt: #26 Teammates
Word Count: 1,146
Rating: PG-13
Summary: All her life all she wanted was to impress Leon. She really didn't need to.

Author's Notes: I do not own Kingdom Hearts. Mild violence, mild sexual themes, mild swearing.

Tan muscles slid against her own much paler skin. His breath was hot on her neck as were his lips. Brown eyes met blue and there was a certain amount of electricity in their gazes. Yuffie let out a soft moan as them man captured her lips with his. Abruptly, there was a knock on the door. 'Who the hell,' Yuffie asked herself, 'would knock on my door so late at night?'

"Yuffie," someone yelled into her ear, causing her to jolt up in surprise, awakening her from her dream.

"Squall," she groaned, throwing her pillow at him weakly. "Why'd you wake me up?"

The man glared down at her, "We were supposed to start training two hours ago."

"Sorry," the girl mumbled, "But I was having an awesome dream."

The man just continued to glare at her, "Be in the Waterway in a half hour." With that he stalked out of the room.

"What's his problem," Yuffie asked the empty room as she headed out of her hotel room. Now that she had become a heartless-killing machine, she had collected enough money to get her own hotel room. No offence to Aerith, but she snored quite loudly, and to be put plainly, Yuffie couldn't sleep at night. She stalked down the hallway to the dining room quietly with her ninja stealth, watching for a sudden heartless attack.

"So what's for breakfast," Yuffie asked Aerith when she arrived in the room.

"You missed breakfast," was her answer. As if to prove her point, Aerith held up a soapy dish from the sink and frowned, "Did Leon get you up? I sent him nearly two hours ago."

Yuffie gaped. Squall had let her sleep in? Then he yelled at her when she didn't get up! Inwardly she fumed. 'He must have just forgotten about me,' she thought in a huff. "Fine, I'll go find him without having a lovely breakfast."

"Good," Aerith grinned, "Because there's nothing to eat. Now go before Leon gets angry."

"Come on," Yuffie whined, "Why do you always call Squall Leon? It's such a crappy name. Leon Leonhart. How geeky."

"Go," Aerith urged, ignoring the younger girl's comments.

"Fine. If you really don't want me to stay…"

"Go!"

Just as he told her, Yuffie found Squall in the Waterway. Instead of greeting her, he glared (as usual). "Hurry it up, we have training to do."

"Come on," Yuffie begged, "We trained all yesterday and all of the day before that. Can we do something fun for once?" Now she brought out her pout, I'm so sore Squall! And I'm hungry!"

He continued to glare, "I never said you had to train. Go and find one of the local boys or Aerith if you want to have 'fun'. I'm training. And my name's Leon!" He growled out.

"Fine Leon. Enjoy your training. It's not like I wanted to hang out with you anyways!" Yuffie left in a huff. "The stupid idiot," she muttered, "How does he always make me wanna cry?" She ran. It was all she could do. He always made her feel so young and childish when she wanted to feel grown up. Like she deserved to be in love with him. He expected her to fight the heartless, something not eve Aerith; a grown woman could do; yet he treated her like an unworthy child. Life was so unfair. When she finally stopped, she was surprised to see where she was. The Dalmatians' home. With a shrug she headed inside. Sometimes all she needed was a place to sort out her emotions and that was exactly what this home helped her do.

Once inside, the puppies that Sora had found immediately pounced on her. They were so adorable that it was hard to hold onto her anger no matter how badly she wanted to. "Come here you cute little puppy," she called to one, picking it up and smothering it in a hug. But, a series of rapid barks brought her out of her happy state as she stared at Pongo, whom was growling at the back door. "What is it boy," Yuffie asked. She found out a minute later when a series of Large Bodies' entered the room. The dogs ran out immediately, Pongo gathering his pups up to protect them. 'Heartless shouldn't be here,' Yuffie thought in a rush, 'we secured this area complete with a spell!'

Quickly she pulled out a shuriken and stabbed it into the first Large Body while dodging a blow from another by doing a back flip. A third came at her from behind, but she did a double kick and stabbed it with a kunai knife. 'They keep coming!' She gaped. In the next couple seconds she had taken down three more, but they were quickly replaced. In an accidental attack that left her wide open, a Large Body came charging at her and hit her in the side, causing her to gasp in pain and fall over. Another one kicked her and slammed her into a wall. Just when she thought it was all over, she was surrounded and weaponless not to mention injured, there was a click of metal and various sizes of munny and health balls fell on her. Slowly she looked up to see a long, brown haired man standing over her, gunblade drawn.

"Squall," she gasped in pain and happiness.

"You idiot," he hissed as he took out the remaining Large Bodies. He bent down over her to examine her wounds, "Just bruises," he said more to himself than to Yuffie, "If you trained with me, none of this would have happened."

"If I had trained with you the dogs might be dead."

He was silent. She was right. "Don't go off like that again," he warned.

"Why not?"

"Because I won't be here to protect you." He was hovering over her, looking into her upturned face and slowly coming closer until finally their lips meant. It started as a gentle kiss, but it quickly heated up. Shocked, Yuffie stared at him.

"Is this a dream?"

He shook his head, "Don't do anything stupid when I'm not here to protect you. I want to protect you. Always."

Yuffie blushed, "I want to protect you, too. We're teammates, we protect each other. That's our job." She kissed him this time.

Tan muscles slid against her own much paler skin. His breath was hot on her neck as were his lips. Brown eyes met blue and there was a certain amount of electricity in their gazes. Yuffie let out a soft moan as them man captured her lips with his. But this time it was not a dream, but reality. It was a reality better than a dream. They were friends, lovers, and family. But overall they were teammates. They watched each other's backs. Together was what they were in all that they did.