Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Final Fantasy 7 or it's characters; they belong to Square Enix and designed by Tetsuya Nomura. If I owned them I wouldn't be writing the Fan Fiction I'd be making all come true. bhahahahaha.

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Authors Note.

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Thoughts/ talking to themselves.

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She already knew it was going to be a long afternoon of just walking around and barely having to fight these monsters or if she got really lucky some old fart with Materia. She had yet to come across one monster that was even a decent fight, she wasn't even getting a good work out, sigh, she thought to herself as she plopped down on the ground.

One. Two. Three. Four. Only four Materia. That's all I got. Ughhh. These people suck.

She looked up at the sky it was clear as a whistle, maybe a few clouds here and there. The young Ninja laid back against the tree her dark brown eyes looking through the blue Materia. Ever since she was little she new these small spheres held a lot of power inside of them, thats why she was after them. The young ninja wanted to help her home and she believed these Materia were the answer.

Rustle. Voices. Rustle. Voices.

"Cloud come on! Can't we just rest, a little?" A female voice perked the from the voices she heard.

"Tifa, we need to keep looking for him." This time a male voice.

Hmm. More victims. Mawhahaha, now it's time for the great Ninja to make her move.

She smiled to herself as she climbed up the tree to wait for the voices she heard to come closer so she could sneak attack them and take their Materia.

As soon as the small group of people were close enough she jumped out and began attacking with her 4-point Shuriken. She actually smiled during the battle, this group of people were actually making her fight. Now theres something I didn't expect from a pretty blond. A potion here and there they were actually holding up against her. The spiky-headed blond was the toughest, she had knocked out the wolf/dog looking thing a few times but the girl in the pink dress kept healing him. Not to mention the old man standing by the busty girl and the big guy, was yelling to spiky-head to beat the 'Brat' and to show the little rat what fighting really was.

"Ooooo!" She yelled but she was at her point, she fell to the ground with a big thump and rubbed her head.

Meanie.

She thought as she stood up once more ready for another round. "You spiky-headed jerk! One more time, let's go one more time!"

"Not interested." The spiky head replied.

Ha. This is good. He's scared.

"You're pretty scared of me, huh!?"

"...petrified." He said. Sarcasim, fine I don't need this. She thought.

"I'm really gonna leave! REALLY!" She said smug.

"Wait a second!" He called back out to her.

This was it, she eyed this guy and sized him up and down.

"You want me to go with you?" She responded.

"...That's right." He was saying this in a 'not so sure' voice.

"All right! I'll go with you!" She said to the blond.

Looking behind him the rest of his gang came up to him, she took a step forward, "My name is Yuffie Kisaragi, the GREATEST Ninja EVER!."

They all looked at her but it was the girl in the pink who walked up to the young ninja and let her hand out to shake, "My name is Aeris Gainsborough, nice to meet you Yuffie."

Yuffie looked at her hand, then quickly shook it grinning like a monkey who just found a banana. If only they knew, heheheheh.

She'd come to find out that the spiky blond name was Cloud Strife, the busty chick was Tifa Lockhart, the old man who called her brat was Cid Highwind, the big guy was Barret Wallace, the dog/wolf thing was Nanaki but they all called him Red XIII, and the cat like thing she didn't notice before was Cait Sith which strange to her, it was a robot sitting on a Moogle.

What a rag-tag group of LOSERS.. lol.

Yuffie thought as she started on with them. If only she knew where this would later lead her.

Yuffie had joined forces with them, learning that they were on a mission to find and kill Sephiroth. Yuffie knew exactly who he was, he was the General that was leading the Shinra forces back in the Wutai war. She had heard plenty of stories. He had caused her people trouble before, maybe she would stick around to see what would happen. May, she could get revenge for what had happened to her home land. She grew up seeing it turn into a resort, nothing was the way as it was when she was a kid.

She had been tagging along with them for about a week now and she seen more battles than she could count with both her hands. Maybe this would be somewhat fun she kept telling herself. Yuffie shortly after realized that they were the group called Avalanche, the ones the news kept painting as the bad guys and now she was one of them kind of.

Yuffie usually stayed away from most of the group, Cid had taken a liking to calling her 'Brat' all the time now which she would in turn call him 'Old Man'. She also found herself getting closer to Aeris the girl who first said anything nice to her. She found she could talk to her more than she could the rest of the team. One night she was sitting a ways off from the group and Aeris had come to sit next to her.

"So, what's a young girl like you doing out here traveling alone?" Aeris asked her.

Yuffie wasn't sure what to respond. "Umm, I've been looking for a way to restore my homeland, Wutai, Shirna ruined it with the war."

"Your from Wutai, explains the ninja part. Hehehe, how old are you Yuffie?"

"I'm 16, but I'm not a KID, I can take care of myself." She said to the flower girl.

"I didn't say you couldn't. What about your parents? Don't you think your mom or dad are worried about you?"

Yuffie froze and that didn't escape Aeris, before Aeris could say something Yuffie spoke up, "My mom is dead, she died when I was a kid and my dad doesn't care, I know he doesn't."

"I'm sorry Yuffie."

"It's okay Aeris, it happened when I was a kid I can barely remember her." Nothing more was said they sat there until Yuffie passed out.

After that night, Yuffie would always talk to Aeris. Aeris was like the big sister she never had. But Red XII, whom she called Nanaki is real name also began to get close to the young girl.

Nanaki made sure she got some food during dinner before Barret and Cid ate it all.

If she had to pick two best friends they would be Aeris and Nanaki. She forged a even greater bond with Nanaki after Cloud voted to infiltrate the Upper Junon and with luck they were able to get out alive and with out to much trouble.

Shortly after the boarded the Shira Cargo Ship, she disguised herself as a crew member but she got so seasickness and decided she didn't want to help with looking for information about Sephiroth there, so they had left her behind in Costa Del Sol where she even got a part-time job at the Materia shop, but she only really did this so she could steal the Materia at night fall. Sure enough she did, she laughed to herself the next day. Lucky for Yuffie the group didn't know her little secret.

After a few weeks of no information Yuffie and the others decided to head to Nibelheim to see if there was anything on Sephiroth there, since that was where almost everything started in the beginning.

The town was a ghost town and it creeped Yuffie out giving her werid vibes since they stepped into town. She got to see the house Tifa grew up in and even the one Cloud grew up in. She learned then that they have been childhood friends since they were kids, she was kind of jealous she never really had a friend like that or someone she could really count on. Not since her mothers death.

They had gone through the whole town until only the biggest house, more like mansion was left to check. Yuffie ended up along with Cloud and Aeris to check out the creepy mansion. Oh how she didn't even want to go, but Cloud picked her, even after she stomped and kicked about it. Cloud was their leader so she had to listen to him plus everone else voted her to go.

It was dusty, really dusty as the trio walked in the from the front door. The only other people from the team with them were Tifa and Cid but they only came in after the three cleared the first floor. The others, Barret , Cait, and Red stayed outside to watch for anything, the town may have been deserted but they couldn't take the chance. Tifa and Cid were sent to the upper level to check it out, while Yuffie was stuck heading into the basement with Cloud and Aeris. Needless to say she stayed near Aeris the whole time.

After a few doors and a few battles, they came across a locked door. Yuffie was already scared of this place and one locked door was good in her book.

"I guess it's locked, can't go in. Let's leave." Yuffie said grabbing Aeris's arm, but just as she turned to pull her away Tifa and Cid came into view.

"Any luck?" Tifa asked.

"Nothing just monsters and this one locked door." Cloud said.

"Then let's leave!" Yuffie said once again.

"Shut up Brat, you giving me a fuckin' headache again." Cid nearly yelled at the ninja.

"OLD MAN! Shut up!" Yuffie yelled at him. Cloud only sighed and Aeris laughed.

"Oh relax you two... OH! by the way we found this key, it wasn't easy to get this big blob thing jumped at us and we had to fight it. Maybe it opens that door." Tifa said and to much of Yuffie's dismay as soon as Cloud put the key in the lock, it opened.

"Maybe's there's Materia in here..." Cloud said, he knew exactly what would happen. Yuffie quickly perked up and walked right up to Cloud.

"Well, Spiky-head what are we waiting for?"

Cloud only almost smiled. Walking into the room it was small, dark and had two coffins one to each side. Yuffie pressed into Clouds back making Aeris and Tifa laugh.

"Scared a Vampire is gonna suck your blood brat." Cid laughed, "Great ol' Ninja blood."

Yuffie shot daggers at him with her eyes.

As Yuffie and Cid kept up on the staring contest, Cloud went looking around the room and began to open each coffin, The first had nothing inside so he quickly moved to the next one. When he got to the right one and opened it, the thing that was in the coffin was the last thing any one of them expected.

There was a man inside, wearing black and cloaked in red and his eyes were closed. Yuffie only peered from behind Cloud and screamed when his eyes shot open and crimson eyes were staring into her dark brown orbs.

OMG! VAMPIRE! Heh. Not good.

Yuffie began to freak.

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R&R please! worked hard and even took notes down about the game... even had to play some of it again. I know it's short but future chapter will be much longer. Tell me what you think second chapter up VERY soon. -Mars