This hasn't been reviewed and stuff! But I feel bad for not putting anything up!! gaah! So I shall put this ones up! Hope they are alright! And I'm sorry for not updating sooner! really sorry! Things have been really hectic lately! Its all crazy! But anyhow! Here you all go!

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Pairings: Cleon, Akudemy

Warnings: violence, slash

Summary: Dreams and memories are resurfacing. What will happen to our broken lion?

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Recollecting, Remembering, Reminiscing

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"Why the glum face, babe?"

Selphie gasped and whirled around.

"Irvine!" She squealed, launching herself at him. He laughed and caught her, twirling her around.

"I was afraid you…" Selphie couldn't finish the sentence.

"Aww, Sephy, and leave ya all by yourself? Never!" Irvine grinned.

"Really, you two?" a voice broke in, causing them to step back and turn around. Quistis smirked, hands on her hips.

"Relax, Quisty!" Rinoa laced her arm around one of Quistis arms.

"Yeah, we just survived some big attack!" Zell appeared, lacing his arm around Quistis' other arm.

"Yes, but we will have to face it again." Xehanort materialized next to them.

"I think we should take things step by step." Axel said as he and Demyx materialized next. Demyx walked over and squatted down to check on Leon.

"Are you okay?" he asked, worriedly, feeling bad that he had not been there for Leon.

"Just fine, tired, but fine." Leon allowed himself to be helped up by Cloud.

"You are always fine, Squall, always." Rinoa smiled at him. Leon tensed, unsure of what to think and feel at seeing her there, at seeing every one there. Cloud felt Leon tense up and close himself off. Cloud glared at them, before turning his attention back to Leon.

"Come, you need to sleep. Tomorrow, we'll start your training. You have to learn to use the light and how to fight back the darkness. We can't have you fainting all the time."

Leon looked up at Cloud and smiled weakly. With Cloud's help, Leon walked off and towards the cabins.

"I don't think Squall is taking our presence here very well." Rinoa sighed sadly, looking at Leon walk away.

"His name is Leon." Tifa scoffed, glaring at her.

"How do you guys know Leon?" Demyx stood back up and frowned, arms crossing in front of his chest.

"I do not know if it is our story to tell." Quistis said, looking at them a bit uneasily.

"You better talk because Leon is important to us and we don't like to see him in pain. Which is something you all have caused him." Sora stood up as well, glaring at them dangerously. Riku stood behind Sora, backing him up. Yuffie made her way over to the steps followed by Tifa who sat on the top of the stairs. Roxas and Namine sat on the benches that lined the side of the deck. Sora and Riku took a seat on the ground, leaning against the bench. Aerith leaned against the rail on the bottom of the stairs. Demyx and Axel stayed standing up, expectantly.

"We knew each other, from before the heartless came." Rinoa began, walking over to the other side of the deck, where another bench was lined up against the wall. The others followed her and sat down. Sephiroth and Xehanort walked to the bridge, standing behind Cid.

"You are the memories that plagued him….those he could not safe?" Yuffie asked them, feeling this sudden anger.

"Yeah, we were childhood friends." Quistis nodded.

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" I can still here them scream, Cloud." Leon whispered as he sat on the bed, shoes, belts, and jacket off.

"And seeing them again….it is like….I can't explain it!" Leon cried out, hands clutching at his head.

"It is hard at first, seeing a person who you know was dead, again. You have no idea what to think….what to do…..what to believe….what do I do now? Was every thing a lie?" Cloud spoke softly, reaching over and squeezing Leon's hand. Leon looked up at him, confused.

"Aerith….it was hard, seeing her again, after having witnessed her die before." Cloud sighed.

"What do I do? They are dead, but they are right there….and…I always dreamt of seeing them again, of asking them….did they hate me? Did they forgive me?" Leon's voice began to break.

"Right now, everything is all jumbled up. Sleep, rest, let it all settle down." Cloud ran a hand through Leon's hair, Leon sighed, relaxing into his hand. He laid back and allowed Cloud to tuck him in.

"I can get use to this." Leon chuckled.

"Don't, come tomorrow, we'll start the training and no more fainting. So get a lot of rest, because you will be doing a lot of work." Cloud warned.

"When aren't I doing a lot of work?" Leon yawned, eyes falling shut already.

"Soon, we'll take a vacation…." Cloud vowed just as Leon fell into a deep slumber. Cloud sighed, before bending down and kissing him on the lips.

"Sweet dreams…"

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"Squall!"

Squall looked up and grinned.

"Rin!" Squall stood up and rushed down the stairs, immediately hugging his friend.

"Squall and Rinoa sitting on a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" a taunting voice reached their ears.

"Seifer!" Squall and Rinoa grinned as Quistis hit Seifer on the shoulder.

"Quisty!" Seifer pouted. The two blonds began to bicker.

"Hey, we brought you some pie!" Selphie walked in, a bag in her hands.

"Yeah! And souve…umm….soveneers!" Zell grinned, holding up a stuffed dolphin.

"Was it fun?!" Squall asked, excitedly.

"You would have loved it!" Irvine came in, holding up his camera.

"How are you feeling though?" Rinoa asked him, worriedly.

"Better. Papa says I'll be fine to go out tomorrow!"

"COOL!!" they all cheered as they walked together to the living room, to eat.

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"Squall? Are we always going to be together?" Rinoa looked up at Squall. She was leaning against his chest, starring up at the starry sky.

"Of course we will, Rin. Nothing will keep us apart." Squall vowed.

"That's good." Rinoa smiled.

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"Hah!" Seifer smirked, putting Squall on a headlock. All of the sudden he was on the ground with Squall pressing his hands behind his back.

"Too slow!" Squall taunted. Seifer bucked but to no avail.

"Totally not fair." Seifer huffed. Squall just laughed, but let Seifer up.

"You owe me." Squall reminded him.

"Yeah, yeah….let's go to the beach!!" Seifer grinned, slinging an arm around Squall and walking off.

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"Squall! Pay attention!" Selphie pouted.

"I am Selphie!" Squall sighed, exasperated.

"Well, hand me the decorations then!"

Squall sighed and picked up some of the spheres and handed them over.

"How do I always end up getting roped into helping you decorate the Christmas tree?" Squall wondered out loud.

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"Look at the butterflies!" Irvine says in awe. Squall can't help but stare in wonder.

"I don't think we should practice here." Irvine turns to Squall.

"Yeah, we could hurt the butterflies." Squall nods.

"Maybe we should bring every one here, they would enjoy it." Irvine pipes up.

"Good idea, let's tell my papa!" Squall grins.

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"Squall!"

"Quistis?" Squall turned to see Quistis crying and running towards him.

"Seifer, he's a jerk!" She sobbed into his chest. Squall frowned, rubbing her back, soothingly.

"What he do?"

"I saw him with Rin!" She cried. Squall felt his heart clench at that.

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"Hotdogs! My fav!" Zell smiled a bit watery.

"You are sick, so I thought it would be good for you to eat!" Squall smiled, putting the plate next to Zell on the bed.

"Thank ya, Squall!" Zell chirped, grabbing the plate.

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"Come on! Squall! Is that really the best you can do?" Seifer sneered, raising his gunblade. Squall snarled, raising his gunblade.

"I'm barely getting started." Squall growled, charging at him. Metals clashed before slashing into skin.

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"Irvine, are you being serious?" Squall asked, looking at Irvine, calculatingly.

"Yes! I know I'm always flirting with girls, but she is different." Irvine sighed, running a hand through his hair.

"Well, don't do anything stupid Irvine." Squall warned.

"I know, trust me. I would be the first to kill myself if I hurt her."

"We are barely seventeen, so you better be sure. If you are, she's at the library." Squall smirked.

"I owe you one!" Irvine called out as he ran out.

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Zell huffed as he slumped next to Squall.

"What's wrong with you?" Squall asked as he placed his book down.

"Nothing, just….that chick in the library?" Zell grumbled.

"Uhu…"

"She has a boyfriend." Zell muttered. Squall sighed. Zell had really liked her.

"Hey, forget her. She does not know what she is missing." Squall said, sincerely. Zell grinned.

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"Squall?" Rinoa laced her arm around his.

"Hmm?" Squall looked down into her brown eyes.

"Want to dance?" She grinned.

"No." Squall scoffed.

"Too bad!" She laughed, tugging him along.

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"Top student." Quistis grinned as she watched Squall practice.

"No, just the others don't really pay much attention to their studies." Squall shrugged.

"I'll have you know, I pay a lot of attention." Quistis pouted.

"Of course you do, you're always flirting with the teacher." Squall smirked, causing Quistis to turn bright red.

"I am not! You sound just like Seifer! He says the same thing!" Quistis huffed, causing Squall to laugh.

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"Squall! Get them out of here!"

"But!"

"Promise me!!"

"NOW!"

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Leon bolted up on the bed, startled. He looked down at his hands, noticing how tightly they were clutching the sheets. He took deep breaths, allowing his heart to slow down. Soft snores reached his ears. He looked up and smiled, noticing Cloud sleeping on the bunk next to his. He wasn't sure what time it was, but it must be close to if not morning already. He grabbed his boots and jacket and headed out. The belts were too much work at the moment. He stifled a yawn and made his way out of the cabin and into a hall. He had no idea where to go from there, so he just followed the voices. He recognized some of them, but his mind was still a bit too fuzzy to really register in his mind.

"Morning." He yawned, unable to keep the yawn in. He looked up to see his old friends there.

"Squall, how are you feeling? Ready to start your training?" Quistis smiled softly.

"I'm fine." Leon muttered, walking over to them.

"What about you guys?"

"We are angels." Rinoa reminded him. Leon winced, causing memories to flash in his mind.

"You know, we don't hate you." Irvine spoke up, smiling sincerely at him.

"We are proud of you, man! All that you have done on your own!" Zell grinned.

"We've kept an eye you, here and there." Rinoa smiled tenderly.

"How?" Leon flushed.

"Before, you use to talk out loud, remember?" Quistis reminded him. Leon smiled and nodded as he remembered that.

"I left you…." Leon sighed, sitting down.

"No…you didn't…." Rinoa placed a hand on his arm.

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"Squall, I can't find Rin!" Zell called out as he jumped and kicked some heartless away.

"What do you mean?" Squall turned to look at Zell.

"She ran off that way, and she hasn't come back!" Zell huffed.

"We have to look for her!"

"Go, Squall! I'll take care of things here!" Zell urged him on and Squall nodded, running off.

"Squall!" Squall looked up ahead. Irvine and Selphie were standing back to back, fighting off the heartless.

"Have you seen Rinoa?!" He called out as he slashed through another swarm of shadows.

"No, we saw her run that way, but the heartless gained on us before we could catch up with her." Irvine informed him, shooting down a heartless that had jumped towards Squall.

"Zell, he is that way, on his own." Squall motioned back where he came from, before rushing off.

"We'll get him, see ya outside!" Selphie called back as the two ran off towards the other side.

Squall ran, casting firaga and blizzaga as he made his way through more and more heartless. They just kept on coming. They did not stop!

"Squall!"

"Quistis!!" Squall rushed forward, slashing through heartless, before reaching Quistis and helping her up.

"Where is Seifer?" Squall asked her, remembering how Seifer never left her side.

"He's gone, Squall. Rinoa, I heard a scream, but the heartless were too much." Quistis choked out. Squall noticed how her hair was disarrayed, eyes wide with panic and fear.

"What you mean he's gone? What about Rinoa?" Squall asked, fear rising in his chest.

"He's…gone….not important. Fine Rinoa! She needs you!" Quistis urged him.

"The others are that way!" Squall motioned behind him.

"Squall, you leave. Promise me, that if things get too much, if too many of them pile up, you will leave. Promise me!" Quistis held on to Squall's arm, tightly.

"I promise." Squall vowed. Quistis nodded, before taking off.

Squall rushed into the ball room, eyes searching through the heartless. Finally, he heard the sound of the blade and saw some blue.

"Rinoa!"

"Squall!"

Squall pushed, slashed, burned and froze heartless all over, rushing over to Rinoa.

"Are you okay?" He asked her, helping her up.

"You must go, Squall! There are too many!" Rinoa looked at him, pleadingly.

"Not without you." Squall snapped, using his magic to keep the heartless back as he walked Rinoa over to the door. Rinoa looked back, immediately pushing Squall away.

"Leave!" She cried out, slamming Squall into the wall out in the hall. All of the sudden, there was a sudden crash.

"Bahamut!" Squall cried out, already knowing that things were too late. He stood up and rushed out, down the hall. He was almost outside when the whole building collapse down. Squall's vision blackened as he was thrown off, hitting himself on the head.

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"You promised, Squall." Quistis shrugged.

"It still did not take the pain away. I was the only survivor, or so I thought." Leon sighed, running a hand through his hair.

"I managed to teleport with the last of my energy, Selphie." Quistis informed him.

"The others were too far gone for me to be able to teleport them away." She sighed.

"Now, you have people here that love you and care for you." Rinoa chirped.

"Yes, like your boyfriend, that blond guy." Irvine smirked.

"He's not my boyfriend." Leon snapped, cheeks turning red.

"Of course not, you two just share a cabin." Demyx appeared all of the sudden, grinning from cheek to cheek.

"Like you are one to talk." Leon grumbled. Here he was, being teased by his dead friends, how did that worked out?

"I'll have you know, we do not share a cabin! We don't even have enough time to be together!" Axel materialized, sulking.

"This is a very grave time." Zell pointed out.

"So, Cloud and Leon slept together!"

The others turned to look at Leon.

"We just slept!" He huffed, face turning beet red.

"You two have no time for each other, and you two are dancing around each other. Wonderful!" Quistis shook her head. Axel just shrugged, lacing his arm around Demyx's waist.

"We have right now, mostly every one is asleep." Axel grinned, tipping Demyx's face up to kiss him.

BANG!!

"However, once again, something has come up." Demyx sighed, rushing over to see what was the commotion.

"I'm fine!! FINE!!" Roxas called out as he picked himself up with the help of Namine, from the floor.

"Are you okay?" Leon asked, worriedly.

"Kids." Cid grumbled as he went back into his room. No one else had bothered to get up.

"Well, shows how much they worry." Len mused, before ushering Roxas off.

"Namine got hungry, so she came to wake me up." Roxas flushed.

"Come, then. We'll eat something." Leon shrugged, guiding the two to the kitchen.

"You can cook?" Namine asked, amazed as Leon made his way around the kitchen.

"Well, yes. I had to learn how to cook to survive, I am not a great chef, but what I cook at least is edible." Leon shrugged.

"Good, because Sephiroth cannot really look. Do not put him in the kitchen, ever." Xehanort leaned on the door's entryway.

"That is good to know." Leon smirked, serving Roxas and Namine.

Xehanort stood up all of the sudden. The others looked at each other.

"We have to go." Demyx smiled apologetically, before vanishing. The rest followed suit.

"Sometimes, the whole vanishing deal annoys the hell out of me. Doesn't it?" Leon shook his head. Namine giggled while Roxas just chuckled.

"Too happy for this early in the morning." Cid grumbled as he came in.

"Here's your caffeine." Leon said, placing a mug of hot coffee in front of Cid.

"Hey! I smell food!"

Leon groaned, realizing he needed to make food for every one.

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"Is it just me, or does something feel……off?" Zell muttered as the group walked down the hall and towards the library.

"Something is off. Someone is here…." Irvine frowned.

"Someone who should not be here." Axel growled.

"Stop!" Rinoa cried out as she slammed the doors open. Axel, Demyx, and Xehanort froze. Two hooded figures stood there, in the middle of the library.

"What are you doing here?"

"Who are you two?"

"Answer!"

The hooded figures just turned around, faces hidden.

"Tell us!" Xehanort snarled.

The two figures rose their arms, slowly lowering their hoods.

Three gasps followed.

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Leon sighed as he closed his eyes.

"Concentrate. Find the light inside of you."

Leon listened to Cloud's voice. They were sitting in the middle of the deck, training. It was a bit hard with all the commotion going around, but it was better that way. Leon had to concentrate either way, noise or no noise.

"Now, I'm going to throw darkness at you."

Leon felt the sudden pang and heaviness, but he pulled on the light. It was like a string inside of him, a golden thread, and he pulled at it, using light to make a shield and push the darkness away.

"Good!"

The darkness began pushing harder and so Leon pushed back just as hard. Slowly, the two began to dwindle. Leon opened his eyes and looked around.

"Just refinement, that is all you need." Cloud beamed proudly, making Leon flush.

"That is great, I was beginning to worry."

Every one whirled around. Two black hooded figures materialized, causing every one to tense.

"Who are you ,and what do you want?" Sora snapped, getting up to his feet.

The two figures laughed as they took down their hoods.

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To be continued…

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Well, how was that, ya guys? Alright I hope! Blah! I don't like it very much! It all seems so rush, doesn't it? hmm, need to work on the other chappies! Sigh….blah! will replace this one later on, with a better version of it I guess! Luv ya'll!