A/N: Part Two! Finally, right? I'm sorry it took so long, to be honest, I kind of forgot I had this stored on my computer... *shrug* No one's perfect, right? Please read and review and I promise the next part will be out faster. :)
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, nor do I own any of the characters who I play around with. If I did, well... Lets just say there would be some
very different plotlines in the games.

Part Two:

Epiphany

Leon knew there was something wrong with his fighting partner, he just could not figure out what it was.

He would sit up at night and try to figure out what it was; he could never find the answer.

He began to notice changes in the ninja's behavior, little things that he might have ignored before; such as how she stopped skipping everywhere she went.

Leon saw that when she sparred with him, she slowly stopped making fun of him all throughout their training sessions – and she stopped complaining about wanting to do other things besides training all day.

Those were just little things, though, the warrior told himself. They should not give him the sense that she was not herself.

She was still the same Ninja who he had saved when Hallow Bastion was taken by darkness; the same ninja he had been training with for eight years, had been putting up with for twenty.

There was something different about her, though. Something that had changed recently.

She still called him "Squall" despite his protests and still insisted that she was the best Ninja ever.

It took him weeks to figure it out.

Yuffie had stopped her constant smiling.