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The sun was high when Godo Kisaragi's body was laid into the ground. His family and friends was gathered to watch Godo being sent into the next world, not that many should miss him, he had been a real pain in the ass while alive and most of the people there at his funeral was there because they wanted to give their support to Godo's daughter, Yuffie. Yuffie was standing next to her fathers grave, looking down into it with brown eyes, not showing any emotion at all. She was dressed in a black dress and shoes and her shoulder length black hair flew in the warm wind of Wutai. No tears had she cried since her father died. Her brother Cloud came over to her and put a arm around her shoulder in a attempt to comfort his younger sister. Yuffie looked up at her half brother and smiled faintly before gazing over the crowd around her. Her eyes spotted two young women which she had only seen once in her life. Her half sisters and her eyes became even harder and she frowned before growling once.
Aeris looked at her now dead father's grave; she had only met him when she was a baby, which was right before he threw her and her mother out. Aeris had beautiful brown hair and green eyes, although they couldn't be seen, she had hidden them behind a pair of dark shades in a attempt to hide the black eye and she had put on a hard make up to try and cover her dark bruises that could be found all over her face, they were her ex husbands work. She closed her eyes for a moment when the unpleasant memories came back to her. It had been close this time, Vincent had almost killed her this time, she had only been able to escape from him because on of her neighbours heard her screams and kicked her front door down and been able to scare Vincent away. She touched one of her bruises and flinched a bit in cause of the pain. She raised her gaze and came to watch Yuffie and Cloud where they stood beside the newly dug grave holding each others hands and leaning on each other. Oh how she wished she had someone like that.
Tifa watched the crowd with steel hard crimson eyes. 'Pitiful pathetic people' she thought and tossed her long black hair back from her face. She didn't belong here and she didn't want to be here either. She was here only to get her money that she was sure her father had left for her and then she would be heading back for her wonderful, classy life in Midgar. She too laid her eyes on the two siblings standing at the grave and snorted. 'Oh why don't you look at that, the tomboy brat and the noble savage, how sweet' She snorted again and frowned. Couldn't they get this over with so she could go home with a large sack of gil.
The funeral was over and now the great party was about to begin. 'Ugh, parties, I hate parties' Yuffie sneaked upstairs and entered her room to change her clothes from that uncomfortable dress she wore into a pair of black denim pants and a dark green turtle neck T-shirt. She also put on her black boots and her Stetson hat and voila she was ready to work as usual at her family's ranch. She turned around to walk out right when Elmyra walked in with a frown on her face. Elmyra was the house maid kind of, she took care of mostly everything in the main house. She was quite short with brown hair and blue eyes and had a warming smile.
"And where are you going Yuff? You have guests downstairs if you haven't noticed. Don't you care about that?" Yuffie just glared at her and rolled her eyes and put a hand on her hip.
"Actually Elmyra I don't give a shit, I didn't want them here in the first place, and I have more important things to do that entertain some oldies who're only here to celebrate the death of my old man, now can I go, there are many things to do before this day is over." She walked past Elmyra before she could retort and made her way through the corridors and down the back stairs that lead to the kitchen and from there walked out onto the porch. On the back porch stood Tseng and Rufus, smoking and talking to each other in low voices. They looked up when Yuffie stepped out and she smirked lightly at the two.
"Enjoying your self Tseng?" She asked sarcastically cocking an eyebrow. Tseng just smirked slightly and exhaled some smoke before answering.
"It's a wonderful day, so why not spend it with a good friend?" Yuffie looked over to Rufus who lazily leaned on the porch rack holding a glass containing something that looked like some whiskey, he looked at her and raised his eyebrows and drank from his glass.
"So, Yuff, should I read your fathers will now or would you like to wait for a few days?" Rufus Shinra had been Godo's lawyer and now that he was dead, Rufus had become Yuffie's. Yuffie sighed and looked at the two men in front of her and slumped her shoulders.
"Let's get this over with Rufus." Rufus nodded and tipped his Stetson hat to Tseng before walking inside after Yuffie.
Rufus sat behind Godo's desk looking through some papers before gazing up and glanced over the people in the room. Yuffie was leaning on the wall beside one of the windows, she was looking down at her feet with a hard expression on her face, Cloud was sitting in a large arm chair not far from his sister, and he was watching her with worried eyes. Rufus frowned a bit, Yuffie wasn't going to take this lightly he was sure. He now paid his attention on the other three women in the room. There was Aeris who was nervously sitting in a arm chair that looked to big for her, and Elmyra who was calmly reading a newspaper, and then there was Tifa, she was dressed in a very expensive dress and was sitting in a chair ignorantly polishing her nails, she looked like she was taken right out from a model magazine. Rufus coughed to get their attention, Aeris jumped at the sound but Rufus paid no attention but saw Cloud quickly glance over to the girl, and then ordered his papers and laid his eyes on Yuffie.
"You want me to take this the easy way or the hard way Yuff?" Yuffie frowned.
"Take it the easy way Rufus, so we can get this over with as fast as possible."
'Oh yeah, Yuffie is NOT going to take this easy' Rufus thought and nodded to Yuffie.
"Okay then, we start with you Elmyra, Godo has left you 5000 gil for each year you have worked here, that's 34 years, 170 000 gil." He looked at the woman who now had a shocked expression on her face.
"Oh dear, Rufus dear what am I supposed to do with that much money?"
"You can always save them, or invest them, I can tell you more later. Now Cloud, In a deal your mother and Godo made when they got married, Godo has left you your house and two percent of the ranch to you, or 200 000 gil, I suggest you take the percent they are more valuable, but that's just a suggestion."
"What do you mean he only get's two bloody percent?" Yuffie yelled in anger, and Aeris jumped in fear. "He should be given more!"
"It's okay Yuffie, It's what our mother asked for and that's what he gave her. I'll be fine and I really don't care about what's given to me 'kay?" Clouds calm voice seemed to calm the young woman down a bit because Yuffie leaned back onto the wall.
"Thank you Cloud and now if I may continue..." He looked questionably at Yuffie and she nodded. "I have now come to the last part of Godo's will, his daughters. He has left you all a third of the ranch, but" he held up a hand when both Tifa and Yuffie started to protest by yelling as high as they could. "but, to get the ownership of this ranch you all must stay on this ranch a year, and you can not be leaving it for more than one week in a row and you can only leave for four weeks in total. If you don't approve to or break these terms, you will be given a check on 100 gil and the ranch will be given for charity." During Rufus speech Yuffie had become pale but was now flushing with anger.
"CHARITY? A WHOLE YEAR, WITH THOSE TWO IDIOTS?" Yuffie screamed on top of her lounges. Tifa rose from her chair graciously and stepped over to the fuming Yuffie with a snobbish look on her face.
"Hey Look her brat, I don't want to be here, but I want my damn money and if staying on this god forgotten ranch out in middle of nowhere is the only way, I will stay here." She snorted and then turned her back to Yuffie. Aeris had also become pale and was now shivering while whimpering.
"Oh god oh god oh god." She whimpered with tears starting to build up in her eyes. Yuffie glared at the older girl and stomped over to her with a deep frown.
"So, are you staying or what?" She spat, which only made Aeris to shiver and whimper even more. Yuffie rolled her eyes. "Oh, please shut up and stop being such a wuss for fuck sake." At this point Aeris nerves broke and she started to sob loud heartbreaking sobs. "Ah, please not this to!" Yuffie threw her hands into the air and sighed, she heard Tifa make a very rude comment towards her and she quickly turned around and glared at the elder girl and stomped over to her.
"What did you say bitch?" She growled and pushed Tifa so that she stumbled backwards. Now it was Tifa's turn to glare and her crimson eyes flashed in sudden anger as she pushed Yuffie.
"I said, you fucking stupid unfeeling brat" Yuffie was going to retort but was interrupted by Cloud who now sat on his heels in front of the sobbing Aeris.
"Why don't you both just shut up? Yuffie I'm very disappointed at you, I thought you had more dignity than that. You both are grown women, behave like it." He growled before turning to Aeris again, and started to mumble soothing words to her. Yuffie said nothing she only stomped back to her previous place and stood there staring holes in the floor. Tifa went back to her chair and glared at the wall, both women had angry expressions on their faces.
After a few minutes Aeris had calmed down and so had Yuffie and Tifa, so Rufus continued to read the will.
"Wait a minute Rufus did you just say Reno Highwind?" Yuffie asked with a dangerously calm voice.
"Um... Yes Yuffie I did, he and I are going to watch over the three of you during this year." Rufus had feared this; he knew that those two didn't get along very well. "But this is what your father wrote and that is what is valid."
Yuffie didn't respond, she just growled before sighing. This was going to be a looong year.
The sun was setting when Yuffie sat on her black chocobo and was slowly heading east through the long fields that had belonged to her family for almost hundred years. She was still fuming with anger and the chocobo under her moved impatiently. Yuffie smiled slightly and looked down at the chocobo.
"You wanna run Shadow? Okay then let's get all this steam out of us shall we?" She let Shadow run freely as fast as she could and didn't stop before they reached a hill which showed the view of another ranch. The Highwind Ranch. Yuffie calmly watched the quiet ranch for a few moments until her chocobo started to squirm again.
"We haven't gotten it out of us yet huh? No I guess not" She petted Shadow on the neck and watched the ranch again. She turned her head when she heard the sound of an engine, it was a motorcycle and she knew exactly who it was, Reno, so she growled once before turning Shadow around and set off as fast as she could.