A/N: Backstory is good. Yes. So, here we have a little KH I-verse thing. This features at least onesided Squall/Yuffie, because I've shipped these two since way long ago, but I've never had the courage to tackle their characters until now. Feedback would be awesome, as you know by now. Read, review, enjoy, all that jazz.
Airsick
For as long as she can remember, Yuffie's been airsick.
She's able to take anything on when she's on level ground, two feet planted down and the ninja stars flying out in front of her, boomeranging on back.
When she has her feet planted and her mind in the sky, she's able to get up in everyone's face, able to drag anyone away to play a game with her.
But you take the ground away from her and all of a sudden, she's completely out of her element. Cheeks bulging, stomach churning. She's a mess and a disaster and she can't focus on anything to save her life.
When the Heartless come and home falls far far away from her, she's sick the whole time, crying for the ground to come back. She's desperate, she's trying to grab onto something, anything to get the sickness away.
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She's learned to call Traverse Town home now that she's a little taller, a little more confident, a little happier.
She's not quite the same.
Though Yuffie's still airsick.
But it's not necessarily the same thing.
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She still gets nervous when the three of them, the ones that are left—Squall, Yuffie (hey, that's me!), Aerith—are in a gummi ship, floating like a balloon over the ground.
And she's still grateful, always will be grateful to Aerith for a special potion she takes before liftoff, to soothe her stomach and make passage a little easier.
But that's not the only time she gets airsick. Not anymore, because something on the ground's causing her stomach to pucker, to churn, and for the longest, longest time she has no idea what it is until she wakes up one morning with a name on her lips and a teen heart beating faster, faster.
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Squall makes her airsick.
The good kind of airsick.
She never really thought there'd ever be such a thing, but she never really thought she'd ever think Squall's voice and eyes and just—he was Squall and he was dark and gorgeous and there was no helping that. And every time he heals her in battle and every time he asks with worried eyes are you okay? and every time he fights her smiles it only gets worse and worse. This disease, this airsickness, this feet-off-the-ground, brain-in-the-sky complex she can't shake off.
And it's funny.
She doesn't want any potion to make this sickness go away.
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