Chapter 1 - What Happens Now?
Lady Yuffie Kisaragi sat on her throne. No one else was there in the room…just her…alone. She was all made up in her traditional Wutaian garbs, make-up and everything. Yet her hair was much shorter now, for she had cut it a few months ago, due to the necessary circumstances at the time. Now, it was the same length it had been all those years ago when she was a teenager. While she knew that she was alone, Yuffie still secretly snuck her hand in her pocket and pulled out a little pink orb that was wrapped in plastic. She looked about the dark wooded throne room to make sure she was surely alone and made an attempt to silently undo the plastic. The crinkling noise seemed so much more vocal with no other sounds coming from around her. When she finally removed the pink orb from the plastic, she slowly brought her hand up and placed it in her mouth. It was bubblegum and it was so good! It had been a long time since she had had any type of candy. Her representatives made it known to her that she should start eating healthy again…but her diet problems wouldn't have been a dilemma if it hadn't been for…
Yuffie sighed at the thought of Vincent Valentine. After their adventure with her deranged Uncle Jiro, their feelings for each other had been jumbled again. They still loved each other – but with Yuffie's position as the Lady of Wutai (and the fact that she was already married) they could not be together. It just wouldn't work. Vincent made it clear to her that helping Wutai was what she should focus on right now. Yuffie knew that was true. Why then did Vincent bother playing with her heart the way that he did? He told her the day before she left that she should not act the way she was acting and to give into the love that she felt for him. The very next day, he did a total 360 and told her that they were not meant to be together right now. What does "right now" mean anyway? Does that mean he would be there for her once Wutai was fixed? Or when Aki (her husband) was dead? It didn't make any sense…Yuffie chewed softly on the gum that she had so carefully kept hidden and sighed again, slumping into her seat. She had sent one text to him the night she left telling him that she would always be his friend. That was the last time she had tried contacting him. It wasn't worth trying to get a hold of him anymore than that, he wouldn't respond and it wasn't like he tried to get in touch with her either. It was true that she and Vincent had been completely cut off from each other since that night. "Vincent," Yuffie said whispered to herself. "It's been five months; do you still care about me?"
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It had been almost half a year since Vincent had seen Yuffie. He was surprised that she didn't try to call or text him hundreds of times. In fact, he was really surprised. He felt that it was probably a good thing though. Yuffie needed to focus on her kingdom and be with her…husband. It pained Vincent to know that she was sleeping with someone other than him, even though he knew that she didn't really love Aki and Yuffie was not ready to have children, so she wasn't doing anything with him either. Still, it broke his heart. While thinking of this, Vincent Valentine sat on his bed in his room at the Shinra Mansion. He had decided to let his hair grow out again, but not as long as before. It reached the tip of his shoulders, a sign that that was long enough. He had saved up his Gil so that he could refurbish it and make it more his own. It was half way done, thanks to the help of Cid, Cloud, and Barret; he was able to get a lot of the construction out of the way and Tifa and Shera were kind enough to pick out interior decorations that fitted Vincent's personality and needs. It was wonderful for Vincent to finally have a place of his own. His home was so big though, too big for one single person. He had thought of renting out the other rooms in the mansion – something he normally would have never done. Since the day that Chaos was exercised from his body, Vincent began acting like his real self – the self that had died so many years ago, along with Lucrecia. It was extremely liberating to his soul and to his friends. He had become a happier and closer person. This, he knew, was the reason why he began to feel love again. Yuffie had grown up and he had had a change of heart and they had come in contact with one another for a brief moment in their new lives. It was a love affair that had lasted only a few days but they were the best few days of Vincent's new life. He wanted her – he wanted Yuffie back. Vincent knew what he had said to her and a part of him wished that he hadn't said it. How could he have thought that they could be together? There was no way it would have worked. He had brought Yuffie's hopes up and then smashed them into a million pieces the very next day. He hated himself for that; but there was nothing he could do now.
"So what happens now," Vincent asked himself aloud. "Where am I going to?"
A/N: So, here's the first chapter to my sequel to I'd Kill You For Nothing! I hope it sounds interesting…will Yuffie and Vincent ever end up together?? Oh no! I'm soooo sorry this took a MILLION years to be written but I just got back from Europe a few weeks ago and Christmas popped up. Forgive me? PS: That last line was from the musical Evita.