Eivexst: Okay I'm jsut going to cut to the chase... I don't own anything from the final fantasy series.

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Marsha's POV: I saw Umbra step out side and was giddy to follow him, as soon as I stepped out side though I saw him have a woman pressed against the wall and that woman was grinning from ear to ear. [who the hell does she think she is!?] I thought angrilly.

After a while I saw Umbra pull a knife out pointing it at her stomach and I froze as I over heard their conversation and then saw the woman flying away... She had wings.

I saw Umbra walk inside and so I followed along behind him making it seem like I had been out there for a while now which was sort of true. "Umbra-kun, did you miss me?" I asked hugging him from behind and felt him stiffen slightly.

"Marsha, let go of me, now." He said with a slightly fearful voice as I looked up to see that Nelly was glaring at me with a VERY dark feeling coming off of her and I did as he said carefully and took a couple steps back.

"So then, what's up Umbra-kun?" I asked tilting my head as he tossed a paper to me it was a dispatch mission.

"I've been assigned to go on a mission with one other person of my choosing, I still have three hours to choose." He said walking away from me as he reached a hand up to his ear ring.

I looked down at the mission and smirked, it was a mission for two clanners to head out and relax at a hot spring where dunbuck wood grows and it said that admission required it to be a boy and a girl and I couldn't help some of the things that shot through my mind as I felt light headed all of a sudden.

"Hello Marsha." I turned to see Olint smiling at me in his usual fashion and found my self laughing when he picked me up into a hug spinning me around with him. "What is that you got there?" He asked.

"Oh, it's a dispatch mission that Umbra is going on, he needs to take one female clanner with him, I hope it's me." I said with a delighted sigh as Olint chuckled and put a hand on his chin while grinning.

"You know, that might just be the chance you've been waiting for Marsha, after all who knows, he might just like you after all." He said before walking away shouting towards Aksel in a obnoxious manor.

I smiled at the thought of it, me and Umbra going on to the hot spring, sharing a couple moments together under the night sky having to sleep next to each other do to the cold, then at the hot spring... I felt my cheeks burn at the thought.

"Marsha... what are you doing, Kupo?" I turned in shock to see Montblanc standing there with his head tilted slightly as he bit into a apple.

"N-Nothing uh, so Montblanc, can I go on that dispatch mission with Umbra-kun?" I asked giving him puppy eyes as he seemed to recoil from it before looking away.

"I-I guess Kupo, J-Just as long as Umbra is okay with it." He said scratching at the odd red thing on his head, I forget what mother called them as I hugged him really quick with a small squee of joy before chasing after Umbra-kun.

Leona's POV: I was finally able to get some free time now that the guys in the room left me alone as I saw Umbra and walked over to him smiling, he was... "Hey Umbra, what's up?"

I saw him look over at me with that near invisible smile of his. "Leona, it's been a while since we could talk to one another." I nodded my head in agreement with him it had been a long time since he and I could talk to each other with out the others.

"So Umbra, about that mission you're going on, mind if I go with you?" I asked with a small wink. "After all it's been so long so I think we're do for some time to bond."

I saw his face take on a slightly pink tone as he nodded after thinking for a little. "S-sure you can come along, I-I don't mind it Leona, let's have fun okay?" He asked with a grin that was a false one he put up in crowds and I nodded signing my name on the mission form next to his.

"Well I'll go hand this into the pub owner." I said in human as he handed me the paper with a smile on his face and I walked off towards the counter with it feeling a odd sense well up in me as I handed it to the man at the bar who stamped it showing it was finalized and I handed him the money for it.

I looked down at the paper to see we needed to leave in thirty minutes and I smiled, that would be plenty of time to pack for the trip... Maybe I shoud bring THAT with me.

"Are we good to go?" I flinched turning to see Umbra was behind me and I felt my face heat up do to my earlier thought lucky for me he didn't notice and I was about to reply when Marsha practically ran him over when she hugged him from behind.

"Umbra-kun." She said in a sickening sing song voice. "Will you take me with you to that dispatch mission?" She said then with a look I could identify as only want and I felt something burn as I grabbed her shoulder pulling her off of him.

I held up the mission paper. "I'm going with him on the mission Marsha, besides, it says that it's only members of the same clan, so you couldn't go even if Umbra said yes." I stated feeling the odd burning start to die down as a sense of triumph came over me at her distraught gaze as she read it over.

"B-but... I-I just..." She had a sad look like she was about to cry and I saw Olint walk over to her hushing her and putting his hat on her head tilting it down to hide her eyes since she was probably close to crying and I saw him start to guide her away and he gave me a different stare from his usual one making me feel bad.

I looked over to see Umbra looking at me with confusion. "Leona?" He asked and I realized what I had just done... I had just made a poor girl cry... All because of a stupid hug...

I excused my self and went into the room Olint took Marsha too as I heard the entire pub was silent and only after I went onto the room did things start to slowly pick back up again. "Leona, please, Marsha is hurt right now." I heard Olint say with worry.

"I-I know Olint, and, I'm sorry, I just... I just didn't want her to end up doing somehting to Umbra again." I said with my head low as he patted my shoulder in under standing, that was when I noticed he didn't have on his cloak and I looked over to see that Marsha was wearing it as if it were keeping her from getting wet in a storm with the hat off and I saw I was right.

"Marsha, sweety?" I asked in the best motherly voice I could pull, I may not be exactly old enough for it, but I apparently had the personality of one usually and I sat down next to her pulling her over to my chest stroking her ears. "Are you alright?"

Even though she was upset with me she still leaned into me like a kit would with her mother as she cried into my chest. "I-I just w-wanted me and Umbra-kun t-to go have fun!" She cried with sobs coming out of her after she said it.

"I know, but Umbra couldn't take you along even if he wanted to, I'm sorry I treated you like that marsha, but you need to remember that you and Umbra aren't that well aquainted, and he isn't entirely comfortable when it comes to people he doesn't know that well, so just give it time and he'll be more kind hearted to you, alright?" I asked as I had her look me in the eye and I smiled at her as she nodded.

"Y-Yes Leona-chan." She said and I kissed her fore head.

"That a girl, now come on, let's go out and tell Olint you and I made up, okay?" she nodded at what I said as she wiped her tears looking at Olint when we came out and was smiling up at him as she handed back his cloack with it folding properly and he smiled taking it from her hand.

"Thank you marsha, did you two make up in there?" He asked looking at both of us with his eyes open instead of the creepy look he has when they're closed.

"Yes we did Olint-san, Leona-chan and I made up." Marsha said with a smile towards me and winked which I took a sign to not tell about how she acted like a daughter confiding to her mother which I nodded at.

After a while it was time for Umbra and I to head out and I had my bag packed and THAT was in there too and I saw Umbra come out with Salus wrapped around his neck with a giddy expression on it's face as he pat it's head alinging his bag over his shoulder. "Shall we go Leona?"

I nodded and before we left Nelly came down and gave us both a hug and with Umbra I saw her plant a small kiss on his cheek. "Tell any one I did that and you'll be with the fishes." She said with her tom boy grin in place.

"Only if you and I can go for a swim." Umbra returned with a smirk causing Nel to blush before playfully smaking his arm and walking back in as we left following the path to muscadet which lied towards the west.

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Eivexst: Okay every one, I'm sorry I've taken so long to update this, it's just been one crazy thing after another, so I felt like letting you all know that my other story which is for the series soul eater, will be updating in the next couple days.

Ciao.