Here's a nice little short fic that I'm playing around with.
I own nothing…. Reality's a bitch.
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Yuffie was sitting at the bar in coloring a picture in one of Marlene's coloring book. What use to be a black and white picture of a dancing chocobo was now a giant purple bird with monstrous fangs. It was wearing a cloak similar to Vincent's and a tiny image of Cait Sith was hand drawn in under the birds steel covered claws. Cait Sith's black and white tail was hanging out of the hideous looking chocobo's fanged beak.
"How interesting." Reeve said while looking over her shoulder. "Aren't those books for children?"
"Aren't stuffed toy cats for little kids?"
"Cait Sith is a very unique and complicated robot with cybernetic abilities. He does not qualify as a stuffed animal." Reeve smiled as he took a seat next to his spymaster and secret crush. She had sharp eyes and ears, but when it came to seeing things that were staring her in the face, Yuffie was oblivious.
"So he's an expensive toy. A toy is still a toy, Reevie."
Yuffie started to hum softly to her self while putting the finishing touches on her "masterpiece". Reeve sadly watched her elegant had draw specks of blood across the paper. Yuffie needed happiness in her life. Every time he tried to get close to her, she would brush him off like he was joking. She couldn't tell when he was joking or actually flirting with her. Tonight he would try again to capture the attention of the petit ninja.
"Dinner will be ready in ten minutes. Hey whatcha drawing?" Tifa snatched up Yuffie's picture and held it up to the light. "Um, that's pretty interesting, Yuffs."
"I know I figured I'd give it to Vinnie to decorate the mansion with. He needs more color in his life."
"He don't need that kind of color. This is just wrong, kid, plain wrong." Barret looked away from the picture and crossed the bar to start a game of cards with Cid.
The bar was closed due to rainy weather. Tifa had invited everyone over for dinner and they were now just hanging around the bar chatting.
Vincent and Shelk, to Yuffie's cringe, were sitting in the farthest corner discussing mako injections. Reeve saw the hurt look in his companion's stormy eyes. Vincent and Yuffie used to be close. They used to go on every mission together, always watching each other's back and depending on the other's skill. A few months ago Vincent invited Shelk to move in with him. Yuffie hadn't visited him since. She preferred to sleep in her room at the WRO headquarters, or occasionally, to Reeve's delight, at his house.
Cloud was talking to Red about his delivery service, while Tifa was behind the bar cleaning up.
Reeve studied Yuffie. She was wearing her usual attire of short shorts and a green turtle neck. Her headband though, was blue and purple. She was no longer allowed to wear her green headband with her clan's symbol upon it. In a fit of rage, Godo had banished Yuffie from Wutai two months ago. She seemed smaller than usual, tomorrow Reeve made a point to start slipping vitamins in her food. Her eyes that once were so full of mischief were duller than they use to be. It shocked Reeve that no one else noticed the small change in the group's youngest member.