Warnings: None.

Pairing: Leon/Seifer

Sassy's Note: Hate these two as a couple… but oddly enough, I enjoyed writing this.

Scar

"And here I thought you might have been destroyed along with our world," Leon growled, arms folded tightly across his chest. He never imagined he'd be in this situation, and now that he was, he wasn't happy about it at all. It wasn't the fact that his rival was still alive; it was the fact that his rival had chosen to call him out, even after all these years.

Seifer smirked in that way that was still all too familiar. "Thought the same about you, Squall." The blond leaned against the wall of the alley. "So tell me, where have you been?"

"That's none of your concern," Leon snapped, fists clenching tighter.

"No need to get angry. I was just curious." He shrugged. "Not that I even really care."

"Then why did you want to pick a fight when I haven't seen you in years?"

"Wondered if it was really you. Hard to believe you've stayed alive with that attitude of yours." Seifer's face was passive now. Leon knew all too well that that meant he didn't want his expression read. He was hiding something. Leon already knew what, and for a beat they were both silent.

"It would have been better if you had faded away with our world," the sable-haired man muttered.

Seifer's tone carried an intrigued quality. "Better for who, Squall? You or me?"

"Me," Leon whispered, closing his eyes and tilting his face toward the sky. For a brief moment, he let himself remember the past, and in that moment he could feel all his old emotions come flooding back to him.

"Sorry my being alive hurts you so much," Seifer said with a hint of a scowl in his voice. Though Leon couldn't see it, his eyes glazed over – as if he were remember too.

"Why you?" Leon asked, though not really directing his question as the blond man. "Why you? Why not Zell or Irvine… or Rinoa?"

Seifer sighed and regarded his rival as if talking to a three-year-old. "Don't you understand? They got off easy. They never had to worry about readjusting to a new life in a new world." His gaze became critical. "I thought you, of all people, would have been able to see that, Squall."

"Then why do you have to be here?"

"Cause this is where fate decided to put me."

"But why?"

"Stop questioning everything. You're getting nowhere."

Leon shook his head. "I don't want to be here anyway. Have your new world, Seifer. I'm going back to mine." The brunet turned away from his former rival, intending to head for his gummi ship. This place was not for him. He'd leave Twilight Town to Sora from now on.

"Wait a sec!" A few heavy footsteps and Seifer had Leon pinned to the alley wall. The brunet snarled and kicked the other man off. He was tempted to draw his gunblade, but Seifer obviously didn't have one. Besides, he wasn't looking for a fight. He just wanted to get out of here.

That's when he noticed Seifer's face. It was not longer trying to hide any emotion. His brows were drawn, and his mouth was slightly open. His eyes stared hard at Leon, as if trying to calculate something. The brunet knew what was coming before the blond had even started to speak.

"You still remember our last few nights together…" he said slowly.

Leon met his questioning gaze, but gave no other indication to the affirmative. It was enough for Seifer, though.

"What? Did it really fuck you up that much?" His tone was harsh, but Leon was past the point of being hurt. His emotional defenses were up again.

He turned from his former rival and lover, determined not to look over his shoulder as he said, "You've left me with more than one scar."

-end-

Sassy: Yes, I know that in the Kingdom Hearts Universe Leon's home world is Radiant Garden. I'm aware, I promise. But I've been playing VIII, and I just can't see that plot never existing when Squall/Leon is there. So I made the plot exist.

And, no, the prompt was not a setup. My friends didn't understand why I was cackling when this pairing and prompt got assigned.

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