A/N: Hello, and welcome to the story! Please know that this is my story for Wishing-Fire's Destiny Challenge. Go look up some of her challenges because she has some crazy good ones! So far, this has been a little tough to write because I am restricted to writing 200 words. If you've ever read any of my stories, you know how wordy I can be, so this really is a challenge.

Anyway, the character I chose to write about is Yuffie Kisaragi. Yuffie has to be one of my favorite characters, so being able to write about her is both fun and killer. The Yuffie I know and love always has something to say or do, but I'm having to chain her down thanks to the word-limit. Regardless, please enjoy what she has to offer in these very restricted glimpses of her life. :)

Rated T for Yuffie Kisaragi and Cid Highwind. For real. You do not want these two around your children. Vulgar language, suggestive themes, and maybe violence.

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, Yuffie, any of the characters in this story, etc, etc. Challenge is by Wishing-Fire.

Petals of a White Rose

1. Her First Love

"Squall." She doesn't know why she says it. She just wants to say his name.

"It's Leon," he corrects unpleasantly, as if he's been battling a wedgie for the past day. (Although, considering his attitude, more like his whole life.)

"Prickly prick fits more." Yuffie sticks out her tongue and glances at her shuriken, which is making her stiff, burning-like-acid muscles ache to throw it to relieve the momentary twinge.

They had been training for over two hours, but Yuffie isn't willing to admit she is sore. She doesn't want to look like a wuss in front of him—that guy over there, the one that has a deranged obsession with changing his name and is so sweaty at this point that he's impelled to take his shirt off, which Yuffie's hormones aren't begging for—please-for-the-sake-of-the-hormones-do-it!—at all.

She's also not thinking about his unkempt hair, which wavers over glinting blue eyes that can make her as flighty as the butterflies in her stomach.

Okay, so she's thinking about him. But love has nothing to do with it.

She loves everything except Squall. Promise.

…Just pretend her fingers aren't crossed.

A/N: And that's the end of the first theme. So Yuffie's in love with a prickly prick, eh? ;) I was a little iffy about Yuffie calling Leon 'prickly prick'...but it just popped in my head, and I thought, "Ohmigosh. Yuffie would totally say that." I do love Squffie, but I'll try not to flaunt it too much in this challenge. I'm going to have her interacting mostly with the Hollow Bastion crew, but mentions of Yuffie's crush and of course the crush himself will be involved.

By the way, there are 200 words written in this. I counted all of the words that are in the phrases connected by dashes. If you eliminate the dashes in each of the connected phrases, you will discover that there are 200 words. So don't be confused if you copy and paste just to double-check whether I did 200 words or not. I promise there are! ...Just pretend my fingers aren't crossed.

Ha, just kidding. xD So, thanks for reading if you did! The next theme is First Steps. Review if you'd like! I would love it very much. And I will REALLY love you if you can correctly guess why I named the story what it is. Hint: You won't be able to tell if you only know Yuffie by playing Kingdom Hearts.

Anyway, thanks for reading, and stay tuned!