Leon shook as his hand reached toward the doorknob. Holding his breath he twisted it round and opened the large, wooden door. He let out a small gasp as he saw the place a mess and most of the furniture broken. Glass had been smashed everywhere and dust had settled upon everything. Leaving the door open he walked in dazed. His eyes started stinging. He pushed his way through cobwebs and reached the bedroom. He looked down as his foot stepped on something soft and floppy. Bending down he picked up the stuffed animal.

"Mr Wuggles," he whispered

* * *

"What's that?" Squall asked

"He, is Mr Wuggles," He watched as Rinoa caressed the rabbits soft head

"Wuggles?" He smirked slightly trying to hold back the laughter

"Yes, Wuggles. He's my most prized possession…except the necklace of course," she held onto the rings with her free hand "He goes everywhere with me,"

"And yet this is the first time I've seen him," Squall crossed his arms and leant against the wall

"Well he was in my pocket during the whole "Ultimecia" thing. I didn't want to let her see,"

"I think he could've helped,"

"Really?" Rinoa asked sarcastically

"Yeah, we could have showed Ultimecia and gone 'If you don't surrender we'll set the bunny on you'. I'm sure she would've coward in fear,"

Rinoa hit him playfully.

"You know? All that sarcasm hurts Mr Wuggles feeling. He needs a kiss," she started holding the rabbit out in front of her

"No, I refuse,"

"Awww c'mon Squall, give him a kiss,"

"No way!"

"Kiss him, kiss him, kiss him,"

"No, No, NO!"

"Just kiss the damn rabbit…!!"

Her voice trailed off.

* * *

Leon held the small rabbit in one hand and gentle kissed the top of his head. Slowly he looked around the small room. Walking over to the dresser he saw Polaroid's spread around the mirror. Each one reminded him of a different memory. Looking away he sat on the bed. Somehow it had been preserved aside from the dust. He coughed as a huge cloud filled the air. Aside from the mess everything was exactly how it was the day disaster struck. Ignoring the dust particles going up his nose, he laid flatly on the bed; his head resting on the pillow. Fidgeting to get comfy he kept feeling the corner of something hard jab into his neck. Lifting up the pillow he saw a box, it had "Squall" in cursive on the front. Taking it from its resting place he slowly opened it. Moving some white tissue paper he saw a large photo album with "Precious Memories" printed on the front.

Going against his better judgment he lifted the book out and opened it. The first picture made his eyes sting once more.

It was of him and Rinoa. It was taken just after their first kiss on the balcony. Both of them were shocked to see Irvine watching them with a video camera and then Selphie snapped a picture. They were both holding onto each other facing the camera with scared and embarrassed looks on their faces. Leon noticed he was the reddest.

He smiled slightly at the memory. Turning the page he saw a picture of the same event, they were standing in the same positions but this time they were kissing.

* * *

"Irvine put the camera away!" Rinoa hid her face in Squall's chest

"Hey, I'm just waiting in line!" Irvine laughed winking at her

"Please let me get another picture of you two," Selphie pleaded whilst jumping on the spot "that one's gonna come out funny, you both moved too quickly!"

"Selph, I don't think that would be a good ide-" Rinoa was cut off as Squall's lips touched hers. She felt him move his hand quickly as if to say "now!"

Rinoa saw the flash of the camera and reluctantly pulled away. She bit her bottom lip, giggling whilst turning away in bashfulness.

"Cute!" Selphie shouted squealing

"I know you are," Irvine winked.

Selphie sighed and pulled him away from the balcony. Squall turned toward Rinoa.

"I guess we'll have to deal with that a lot huh?" he asked

"Maybe, its not everyday Squall Leonhart gets a girlfriend,"

"How would you know?" he joked

Rinoa turned away and pretended to pout. She felt his arms go slowly around her waist

"You're gonna be my first for everything…and my last,"

He could tell the words caught her off guard. She let a tear of happiness escape. It was so unlike him. She turned back to face him and once again they shared a kiss.

* * *

This time the memory pained him so much he had to close the album. But he didn't let go of it. He clutched onto it, along with Mr Wuggles.

"Leon!" Sora's voice disturbed his thoughts "Are you here?!"

Slowly Leon walked over to the bedroom door and saw Sora eyeing the house suspiciously.

"What are you doing here?" he said in his emotionless tone

"I just wanted to see if you were okay," Sora continued looking around the room, his eyes came across a picture but just as he was about to pick it up Leon stopped him.

"I'm fine but I would appreciate it if you left me alone,"

"Well, Aerith said you could've been upset coz of Kairi. She said you'd lost something so I thought if you wanted…we could…talk,"

Leon was getting madder and madder. Why couldn't anyone keep to their own business?!

"So you're not going to leave me alone?"

"Nope," Sora did another cheesy grin

"Fine, then I'll leave. You'll find all the answers among these walls if not ask the others," And for the third time that day he stormed away.

Sora was left dumb-founded. He hadn't expected that but he accepted his words. Slowly he picked up the picture he'd been eyeing a couple of minutes ago. His mouth fell open at what he saw.

Leon was standing with his arms wrapped around a girl from behind and his chin resting on her shoulder. She had black hair which was highlighted with caramel streaks. He could only see their upper halves and from what he could tell she was wearing some sort of bathing suit. Around her neck was a silver chain with two rings on it. He eyed the rings carefully and noticed one of them had Leon's trademark symbol on and the other was a plain wedding band. He looked over to Leon who was smiling, which for Sora was the first time he had seen him looking…happy. Behind them he could see the beach and the hot sun beating down on them. He turned to the back of the picture and with the date he worked out Leon's age. When this picture was taken he was 21 years old. It had been four years since. Putting down the picture he walked into the bedroom. He saw the empty box on the bed but ignored it. For at the end of the bed was a large chest. Pushing down on the fastening it opened releasing dust into the air.

Inside were various amounts of objects. He lifted up a wad of newspaper articles and the first one was dated 8 years before. The newspaper was from a place called "Balamb", he made a mental note to ask about such a place later. He read the headline,

"ULTIMECIA DEFEATED BY SIX TEENAGED HEROES!"

Slowly he started to read the main article,

"Two days ago the world had received the confirmation that Ultimecia, the evil sorceress from the future has been defeated. Time compression is definitely over and the world should no longer live in fear. Thanks to SeeD our cities are now safe.

The armies and even Garden were surprised that six mere teenagers could defeat such a powerful enemy,

'From what we could tell, Ultimecia was so power that she had killed numerous amounts of SeeD's in the future. Surely in the future we should be becoming stronger so it is impossible to tell how they succeeded' General Caraway told us 'although I am very proud of my daughter, Rinoa, who fought alongside the SeeDs. Some might say she's a chip of the old block!'

After they had defeated Ultimecia the teens had all been separated in her world. Once time compression stopped four of them were found together on a beach near Winhill. But it wasn't until the next day that the two remaining heroes, Squall Leonhart and Rinoa Heartilly, were found in a flower field in Centra. Squall, who had just been named Commander of SeeD, had been found by Rinoa and she had watched over him during the night. They both suffered from exhaustion and are now recovering in Balamb Garden's infirmary.

'They were the true heroes' Zell Dincht, one of the heroes, told us 'they tried the hardest out of all of us. When we found them in the field they were both asleep and we thought they were dead. If it hadn't been for Rinoa's dog, Angelo, we would have believed they were until she ran over to them barking causing them to wake up'

A celebration party will be held in Balamb Garden as soon as each teens have recovered fully. Although outsiders are not permitted to enter the whole world will be celebrating alongside of them. Each and every person has applauded them and thanked the heroes of the world…Squall Leonhart, Quistis Trepe, Zell Dincht, Rinoa Heartilly, Selphie Tilmitt and Irvine Kinneas,"

Sora stopped reading.

Leon's really called Squall Leonhart? I do remember Jiminy telling me about that…wait! WHAT?!

"Selphie Tilmitt?!" He turned the page of the newspaper to look at a photo. There in black and white was an older looking version of his friend from Destiny Island "No way!"

Quickly he snapped up the paper and ran back to Merlin's house.