The Drabble Diaries
by Tomoyo-chan
Disclaimer: I don't own. Set in Kingdom Hearts universe.
Name Change - June 26,2012
~Just as you used to be someone else before the Heartless, so too did I.~
They sat and talked sometimes. It seemed that she was the one to get his most words from the silent soldier - though Yuffie was determined to surpass that record of hers. She understood in a way how he had to be strong, and she never pushed for words. Oxymoronic, but it worked.
One day she turned to him and said "Did you know my name didn't always use to be Aerith?"
He had vague memories of Cloud calling her something different once, but hadn't thought of it. "It used to be Aeris. It meant 'flowering' or 'earth.' But that was before I entered the Lifestream and before our planet was destroyed."
Leon didn't know what the lifestream was, but it sounded mystical in nature, some kind of magic.
"After I came back to life-" she only smiled at his look askance, "it was like I wasn't the same person anymore. It just wasn't the same without my own planet that my name had come from."
They sat in companionable silence as he digested the information.
"I changed my name because I wasn't the same person anymore, either. Squall was the boy from before Time was broken. Even before the Heartless took out world I didn't feel like Squall anymore. After, I took the opportunity to change it since no one no longer knew who I was. I could be anyone."
Aerith hummed as she smiled. "You chose well." Leon got the feeling she wasn't talking about his name.