Please Save Me
Chapter 1
Five years after omega
Vincent Valentine was walking down the now lively streets of Edge as he walked by the people of Edge; he saw a new look in their eyes. He was still thinking that he didn't belong with them even though all the demons were gone, even chaos was gone. He wanted to move on but the scars of his past kept hunting him. He turned down the familiar street where Tifa's bar, Seventh Heaven was located. When he walked in he saw that the Tifa was serving a few drinks to a couple of people sitting in front of her. He walked right up stairs to the room Tifa would always give him when he would come and visit. Vincent sat next to the window to look out into the sky to look at the now full moon. As he admired the moon he heard a scream come from down stairs and stood up and ran down there to find out what was going on. When he got to the booth he saw a familiar face but this time the face he saw was bloody and bruised up, it was Yuffie. He couldn't believe it the young hyper ninja was here bleeding to death and the bar tender scream because of the way she looked.
She opened her eyes slowly, the light peeking from the slightly open door made her eyes sting. She slowly turned her head to the right noticing her best friend Tifa, soundly asleep holding her hand. Tifa stirred at the movement coming from under her hand. Tifa awoke, slowly lifting her head realizing that Yuffie finally had awoken. After realizing that Yuffie had awoken Tifa falling out of her chair said.
"Yuffie! You're awake."
With tears of joy streaming down her cheeks, she said. "I knew it; I knew you would make it."
"What… What happened?" Yuffie asked.
Tifa looked up at Yuffie with concern in her eyes. "What… What do you mean? Yuffie don't you remember?"
Yuffie trying to sit up in bed "ugh!" escaped from her lips.
"Yuffie are you okay?" Tifa asked to her.
"How long have I been here?" she asked.
"Well... You have been here for ..." Vincent cutting in said.
"For 3 1/2 days, 15 hours, 2min, and 15 sec" (but who's counting, I'm not)
He finished off for Tifa.
"Vinny, your here too!" Yuffie asked him. Looking to the corner where two unmistakable crimson eyes watched her.
"Who do you think carried you here?" he said lifting an eyebrow.
The door swung open!!
"Yo brat you finally awake?" Cid said as he and Barret walked in.
Yuffie looked up at him and said "Shut up old man... ouch!!!" Her stomach began to hurt.
"Shut up the both of you, oh and Yuffie how are you feeling?" asked Barret.
She looked at him next "I'm feeling ok".
"That's great to hear Mrs. Kisaragi" said the doctor walking in with his clip board at hand.
"Doctor when can she come home?" Tifa asked.
The Doctor looked up at Tifa. "She can go home today, if the exams go well."
"That's great" Tifa said, with a smile.
"Now can you all please go into the waiting room while I perform the test on Mrs. Kisaragi."
Nurses came in with some medical equipment to run the test. They all filed out of the room with Tifa coming out last. About 30 min later the doctor came out and explained to Tifa that Yuffie need to stay put and rest as much as she could for the following 2 weeks. Tifa agreed to the conditions. She grabbed the bag full of clothing that she had brought so that Yuffie could change into.
They all boarded the truck out in the front. On the way to the bar Vincent set next to Yuffie. While Yuffie argued with Cid, Vincent's mind wondered off to an old memory.
Flash back:
Cid was driving the air ship above Cloud.
Vincent told the group. "He can handle this alone"
"Why, why can't we help?" Yuffie Stomped on her foot on the floor.
"This is man talk" Cid yelled at her.
"SEXEST, SEXEST!!" Yuffie yelled back at him.
"Shut your trap lass" Cait sith said.
They all looked back down at Cloud fighting.
End of flash back.
They reached the bar and went inside to find that everyone was already there waiting. Tifa let everyone know that Yuffie needed to rest and took her straight into the room that she had Shera prepare for her. Yuffie went to the bed and sat down looking at her hands. Tifa looked over her shoulder and saw the sadness in her eyes. As she stood up from putting the bags down, she asked: "Yuff ... What happened to you?"
Tifa looked at Yuffie trying to find the answer in her eyes. But, all she saw was saddness in those once shinning eyes. Tifa sat there waiting for an answer. Yuffie cleared her mind of what had happened and Tifa wanted to know what happened to her. She turned to face her best friend, tears already at the bridge of her eyes.
"Tifa, I didn't..." Yuffie paused a moment. "I didn't know what to do, but he came at me with such force... I... I knew that I shouldn't have gone alone but he's my father and I let him trick me again... Tifa don't let him take me away." Yuffie put her hands to her face and began to cry. Tifa put her arms around her and pulled her into a bear hug.
"Yuff, what did Godo do to you?" she asked hoping that she would get an answer.
"Please, I just want to forget." Yuffie didn't want to remember what had happened to her.
"Okay, Yuffie you don't have to tell me now but when you are ready I will always be here for you." Tifa told Yuffie.
Yuffie had fallen to sleep in Tifa's arms. After all the crying Yuffie did, she had finally gone to sleep. She headed downstairs to find that Shera and Cid were out in the front watching Marlene and Denzal play. Barret and Cloud were watching TV in the back; Vincent however was waiting for her to leave Yuffie's room so that he could go up. She decided that she would clean up the bar a bit. Before Vincent ad gone up he heard a question being asked: "How is she?" he heard Tifa answer softly. "Not good."
Vincent went right into the ninja's room right after Tifa had come down. He really didn't know what caused him to care so much but one of his friends was hurt. He sat next to her bed watching her chest go up and down with the beat of her breath. So many things had happened to her but she was always able to cover it up, but this time she was finally broken. Now all he wished for was to see her smiling again, he even wished she would wake up and call him Vinny. He sat there watching over her like a guardian that would always protect her no matter what.
YUFFIE'S DREAM:
She walked down the path to her father home. He had called for her; it had been awhile since she had seen him. As she entered her old home she looked around and saw that in the center of the room her father was kneeling down praying to the gods. She walked up to him.
"Father I am here." she said as she lowered her head not bring it up unless he spoke back. She heard movement around her, and then felt someone's hands grip her shoulders. At that moment she knew that there where more men in the room. She lifted her head in time to see that they were grabbing her from all around, tying her up to a pole that was at the back of the room.
"FATHER!!!!! What is going on? What are you doing to me?" she asked him as she kicked and tried to get out of the rope bindings. All he did was raise his hand and the men left the room.
"MY dear child you have betrayed us and know you must be punished." Godo told her. He pulled out the whip that had dried blood from pervious uses and began to punish her.
"FATHER PLEASE STOP!" she yelled, tears falling down her face.
"STOP!" She yelled once more but to no avail her father kept on.
Back to the real world:
"STOP!" Yuffie awoke in cold sweat.
Vincent looked up at Yuffie; she had just had a terrible dream. He went and put an arm around her shoulder and whispered. "Don't worry I'm here."
She looked up at him and hugged him as hard as she could speaking into his chest. "Please don't let him hurt me" she seemed as though she was begging him. "I won't let anyone hurt you, Yuffie" he told her. "Yuffie, just try to go back to sleep, I'll protect you" She looked up at him and nodded, She knew that if he was by her side that he would chase all the bad things away and with that last thought she had drifted in to deep sleep. Vincent looked down at her and thought to him self 'she tries to act grown up but really she will always be a child who's scared of the dark.'
THE NEXT MORNING:
Yuffie awoke and found that someone was holding on to her tightly when she looked to her side and saw Vincent there asleep, she couldn't help but smile. 'He didn't leave at all just like he said he would' she smiled at the thought and closed her eyes again. Vincent felt Yuffie move beside him and realized that she had moved a bit closer to him and that he was still holding on to her. He liked having her so close to him, but since when? Did he have feelings for Yuffie, the girl who always made jokes? He kept thinking of ways to figure it out but always came up to the word love. Could he rally love some so innocent like Yuffie? He pushed the thought out of his head and hugged her tighter and looked up at the ceiling.
Downstairs Tifa was up very early cleaning up some of the things that the guys messed up. She sore that she would kill them one day. She felt two eyes upon at her. She turned to find Cid.
"I'm hungry, Tifa" he told her. All she did was turn and walked in to the kitchen to prepare some food.
Tifa looked up to the ceiling and thought about Yuffie. What did her father do to her?
Back upstairs:
Yuffie woke for the second time that morning and found that two crimson orbs were watching her. She moved a little not felling her legs.
"Good morning, Vincent" she said as happy as she could be. Vincent looked at her and nodded as if saying good morning to you too sleepy head.
"Thank you" she said to him standing up from her bed. He looked at her confused
"For what Yuffie?" he asked her.
"For protecting me" that's all that she said before walking out the door. Vincent followed shortly after. What a day it's going to be. He looked out the window and he got the oddest feeling he was being watched.
"Brat, so how are you feeling?" Cid asked her when he saw her come in.
"So much better." she told him putting a big grin on her face. Though behind that smile was the truth of her feeling which was fear.
