Me: And the final chapter is here! What started as a one-shot to help with writer's block turned into this and I'm rather pleased with it so far.
Disclaimer: If I didn't own it before why would I own it now?
Warning: Yuffie gets attacked, Cloud gets moody, and I get random!
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The Great Ninja Yuffie never hid, she was fearless and no foe could stand up to her might. She would never run from a fight, never hide like some child. So the fact that she was camped out on the roof behind the chimney was not her hiding. Not at all. It had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Cloud and Leon had declared that she would die, not in the least. And the fact that she had been there long enough to befriend a heartless and train it to come to its new name, Chester (1), was completely irreverent.
"Tea time!" a voice called and Yuffie looked down. Sora smiled up at her brightly as he climbed the hidden ladder to deliver her daily food allowance. "You know you can't stay up here forever."
"I can too," Yuffie said as she grabbed the basket the small brunet was holding. "Where are my cookies?" she asked as she rifled through the contents, "Chester likes cookies."
"Aeris said no more cookies since it's not healthy," Sora said happily as he patted the small heartless next to the ninja. "You're really going to have to come down sooner or later."
"No I don't. Cloud and Leon are pissed and that's a fight I don't want any part of. I mean, Cloud can't do anything because he's so fat right now, but Leon will kill me! I'm just fine up here on the roof."
Sora didn't respond, his ocean blue eyes suddenly wide and staring over Yuffie's shoulder. Slowly the ninja turned, barely daring to breath. Crouching on the chimney was Leon, his eyes dark and fangs out. "Found you," he growled.
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Cloud tilted his head up at a high pitched scream, but shrugged it off and continued his raid of the fridge. He could feel Cid's gaze on his back and growled slightly. "What?" the blond snapped.
"Do ya really need to eat so fucking much?" Cid asked, "Yer eating us out of house and home!"
Cloud growled again and grabbed a bottle of ketchup, throwing it at the blond pilot's head. "You calling me fat?" he snarled, a hand going to his bulging stomach.
"No!" Cid said meekly as he cowered at his place at the table, "Not at all!"
Glaring at the pilot for a minute, Cloud grabbed salami and peanut butter he had placed on the counter and stormed back to his room. Passing Tifa in the hallway, the blond had to fight the urge to rip her to shreds when she placed her hands on his stomach. "And how are babies today?" she cooed as his midsection. (2)
"Hands. Off," Cloud snarled, "Baby's mommy doesn't like being touched and will bite!"
Tifa looked up at him with wide brown eyes as he bared his fangs and lashed his tail against his side irritably. "I'll just be going then," the brunette squeaked and ran down the hall.
Cloud glowered at her for a moment before finally entering his room and plopping down on the bed. With a heavy sigh he dipped his salami in the peanut butter and took a large bite. Oh that was good. Grinning broadly, the blond flopped onto his back to finish his snack. He had just managed to take his final bite and was about to lick the inside of the peanut butter jar clean when something thumped against the inside of his stomach. Wincing slightly Cloud brought a hand up to massage the place that had been struck when two more thumps hit him.
"Be nice to mommy," the blond muttered, "I don't like it when you kick my nerves. It hurts."
"Babies getting you again?" a voice asked from the doorway.
Looking up Cloud nodded as Leon entered the room, a smudge of blood on his shirt. "You'd think they were SOLDIER too from the way they're kicking me," the fighter muttered as he rubbed his stomach.
"Poor baby," Leon cooed, leaning down to kiss his mate.
Cloud purred softly and wrapped his arms around the brunet, drawing him closer to deepen the kiss. Just as Leon's tongue licked at his lips, the blond felt a particularly hard kick to his stomach and winced, pulling away. "I blame you," Cloud muttered as he wrapped his arms around his bulge and turned away.
"Of course," Leon sighed, "Well I got Yuffie back, think I might have broken her arm. If you want a go at her I think Aeris is-" The brunet blinked at the spot Cloud had been only seconds before as a new high pitched scream echoed through the house.
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Leon spooned against his mate's back, absently rubbing his hand over Cloud's swollen belly as he nuzzled into blond locks. He could feel his children moving beneath the blonde's skin and smiled softly. A soft golden tail gently wrapped itself around his leg as Cloud moved to a more comfortable position, his mouth falling open slightly in his sleep.
A low purr started in Leon's throat and he nuzzled closer to his sleeping mate, grey eyes intently watching for any sign that Cloud was waking up. When the blond failed to respond to his movement, the brunet smirked slightly, wrapping his own tail around Cloud's leg.
"Don't you dare," a voice muttered as Leon leaned in to press his erection against Cloud's ass.
"I thought you were sleeping," the mercenary said sheepishly.
Cloud glared at him over his shoulder. "I was."
"Sorry," Leon felt his ears flatten slightly against his hair as he shrugged.
Sapphire eyes looked at him for a moment before rolling slightly. Cloud shrugged off Leon's embrace and started to rise before falling back. The fighter frowned slightly, attempting to rise again. "I'm stuck," he said after several more failed attempts at standing.
"Do you really need to get out of bed?" Leon purred as he embraced his mate.
"Unless you want me to pee on you," Cloud deadpanned, "Yes." Leon's ears went flat against his head at the thought; that was not pleasant. Quickly helping his mate out of bed, the brunet moved to help Cloud to the door. "I can make it to the bathroom on my own, thank you very much," the blond growled.
Smiling sheepishly, the mercenary got back into bed and settled down to go back to sleep.
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Something wasn't right, but Leon couldn't put his finger on what. Groggily the brunet opened his eyes to find an empty bed. Frowning he looked over at the clock, registering the time before glancing back at the empty bed. Reaching out, Leon felt Cloud's spot before sitting up. It was cold, it shouldn't be cold. The brunet's frown deepened as he sat up and listened intently. Surely Cloud hadn't been so pissed about him wanting some? A soft groan met his ears and Leon was instantly out of bed.
Quietly the brunet made his way into the hall and froze. Aeris was standing at the bathroom door with a severely beaten looking Yuffie, a distressed Cid, and a downright horrified Sora. The small keyblade wielder was clutching Chester to his chest as if his life depended on it. Chester looked as if he wanted nothing more than to claw Sora's eyes out.
"What's going on?" Leon asked uneasily.
The group turned to the brunet with wide eyes and Leon tilted his head in confusion. That's when the smell hit him. Blood. Cloud's blood. Lots of Cloud's blood. With wide grey eyes, Leon rushed forward, pushing his way through the crowd so he could stare into the bathroom. The blond fighter was sitting in the tub, three tiny kittens nestled against him.
"I'm not speaking to you," Cloud said primly as he nuzzled one of his kittens, a little boy with straight blond hair, grey eyes, and blond ears and tail.
"Why didn't you call me?!" Leon yelled as he rushed to his mate's side, gently reaching out for his kittens.
Cloud hissed and blocked him from touching the babies, gathering them into his arms. "Now Cloud," Aeris said from the door, "Let them meet their daddy."
The blond seemed to consider it for a moment before moving back to allow Leon access to the infants. Recognizing that attempting to take the boy in Cloud's arms away would probably result in painful injury, the brunet moved to pick up the second boy. Light green eyes stared up at him in wonder as spiky brown locks bounced slightly. The little boy turned his head to look back at his mother, almost as if seeking reassurance that the person holding him was okay. His chocolate ears were extremely fluffy, as was his tail. When Leon brought him closer to his body, little hands reached out to grab his night shirt.
"How can he hold his head up?" the mercenary asked dimly.
"Probably the mako," Cloud shrugged, "Some of it has to transfer from me to them."
Leon nodded numbly and turned to the last infant, feeling his tail bristle. A little girl with deep green eyes stared up at him. She had shear blond hair, almost white, with distinctly white ears and an almost silver tail. "Why does she look like Sephiroth?" Leon growled.
"I have no idea," Cloud shrugged as he picked her up, "Probably the mako again. It's the only reason Sephiroth looks like that."
"So I don't need to know anythi-ow!" Leon winced as Aeris slapped him on the back of the head.
"I'm going to assume you're just tired and not stupid," the brunette healer said.
Cloud smirked slightly as he wrapped his tail around the infants and nuzzled Leon's side slightly.
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"We parented Satan spawn," Leon whimpered, his eyes watching his daughter Cissnei climb the drapes…again…
"Take Zack and let me catch Roxas," Cloud sighed as he pushed the small brunet child into Leon's hands.
The nine month (3) old smiled up at his father innocently and the mercenary scowled. "Do not give me that look," he stated, "I know someone has claws and shredded Aeris' blanket. And it wasn't Roxas or Cissnei." Zack just giggled and reached for his father's face.
"Um Cloud…Leon?" a voice asked uncertainly.
Cloud raised his head from under the couch where he had just retrieved his son while Leon plucked Cissnei off the curtains. Yuffie stood in the doorway, shifting from foot to foot as if expecting to be reprimanded at any moment. "What did you do?" Cloud asked.
"You know how I wasn't supposed to tell anyone that spell I used on you?" the ninja smiled sheepishly.
"What did you do?" Leon sighed.
"Well I ran into Sephiroth and I thought he would be really cute with cat ears and I just kind of remembered what I said with you Leon and I didn't realize I said it out loud and well…can I hide in your house until Sephiroth stops looking for me?"
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1. Who knows what this is from?
2. What the hell is it with people thinking they have the right to touch someone's stomach just because they're pregnant?
3. And we ignore development time. I blame mako!
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Me: Oh my god I finished that fast. I meant to have this up tomorrow, but I just want it up so I can work on other stuff. That's it for this particular story, don't bother alerting. I'm leaving it rather open for a specific reason, my y!gallery account. I'll probably continue it on over there, but not here. If you want to find my y!gallery just go to my profile and follow the link. Make sure you're logged into y!gallery when you do or you'll get an error message. If you're not a member go to yaoi . y-gallery . net and sign up. Just take out the spaces.
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