Title: Jealousy

Pairing: SnowxHope

Genre: Romance and Humor (I hope)

Rating: T

Warning: Some suggestive words (Ugh, I'm not sure)

Disclaimer: The game Final Fantasy XIII and its characters do not belong to me in any ways.

Chapter 5: Chocobo

He could understand the Choco-fever in Cocoon, but Pulse too?

After a Cie'th stone mission, the group had gained a great companion that was the chocobo. Their strong legs leaped from cliff to cliff, taking them above the horizon to the places where human was unable to reach. To have a break from all the walking on Gran Pulse, plus obtaining some treasures here and there was cool.

But… was relying all on the chocobo to travel really a good thing? It had been long since they actually engaged in a battle, because if they did, the chocobo would be scared away. And Lightning had made it final that it was necessary to keep the yellow animals with them, as they needed the chocobo's aid to travel across grand Pulse.

Snow couldn't help but let out another sigh. He was rather tired with sitting most of the time, no matter how soft the chocobo's feathers (as the other said) were. In fact, he was pretty sure he had lost the feeling of his butt about an hour ago.

"Let's stop at the river over there. The chocobo need their rests. We need to refill water and get some food as well…" Snow couldn't be happier to oblige to sis' command.

Hopping off the chocobo, he began stretching his stiff body and moaned, overjoyed to have his senses slowly came back to life.

"Hey, come on now… Let me off" It was Hope's voice. He turned to the voice direction and was bestowed with the sight of Hope stuck on the beast's back. The bird had an utterly satisfied expression on his face as the teen looked at it pleadingly and begged to be released.

The bird evidently didn't want to drop the boy off, but as soon as he – much to everyone's curiosity and wonder, Snow could identify it was male – saw Snow on his way to them, he slowly lowered to give his rider a leverage to reach the ground… And by slowly, Snow meant really really slowly and really really unwillingly while giving him the stink eye. The blond huffed in irritation, that chocobo had got Hope to ride him all day, and he still didn't think it was enough…

Rubbing his beak on the side of Hope's neck, the chocobo pretended to be as apologetic as possible, and was reassured with a few gentle pats on his head and A KISS on his beak as well. The little bugger of a bird gave him a sideway glance, looking smugly and raised his legs as if to dig the ground, but the blond was sure the middle claw particularly liked to point at him, then he sauntered off to the river. Somehow he was not surprised when the animal headed to Hope's place.

Snow huffed again, but eventually rolled his eyes and chuckled. The chocobo's action was pretty much like a spoiled child vying for attention. And by all means, there was no way he would be jealous to a child in the appearance of an oversized bird. Decided to use the break to the fullest, Snow resolved to take a nap under a tree nearby.

-SxH-

His sleep was peaceful and quite pleasant, but his wakeup call was not, unless being splashed by water that had been in the chocobo's mouth counted as pleasant.

"Sorry about that, Snow. We've been trying to wake you up for some time now, but it didn't work… So Yuki suggested the idea… And…." Hope trailed off, casting his eyes over Satan's chocobo.

Gosh, he even named the chocobo. Does he really want to keep the bird with us?! Snow mentally screamed. "Nah, it's okay. Let's go."

The group resumed their quest in silent, until Yuki let out a shriek then began jumping wildly, as if struggling against something. The bird shrieked again and then took off in high speed, running away from the group. As a result, Hope was pushed off the chocobo's back. Fortunately, a certain blond was fast enough to catch him before he fell. And for your information, that certain blond had nothing to do with the small fire under the chocobo's tail.

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AN: Hi ya! First of all, I want to thank you so much for the reviews/favs/alerts :")

Special thanks IluvNaruto10, Midnight custard, Sora-chan120, ScreamYourLine, Bommie, Moonlight of Thunderclan, floatingxworld for reviewing the last chapter. :"D

And for anyone who alerted/faved my stories, I'm glad you like it enough or feel intrigued enough to do so. Silent type is not bad either, eh? :3

Btw, this chapter only means something if you know what the meaning of "Yuki" in English is. It's a Japanese word btw… You know the meaning of the word but still don't get it? Oh dear, I do have super weird sense of humor :|

Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy this chapter. Have a nice week and happy belated Easter (even if I don't celebrate it) :)