Disclaimer: I don't own KH or KHII
facing forward
(to the future)
Yuffie has plans for herself. Since she turned ten, she had taken the habit of writing them all down on bits of paper which she stored away in a shoebox until adding another one. Compiled and in chronological order, they went somewhat along the lines of this:
-greeatst
ninja evr
-steal
a huorse
-becom
empreror of the wurld
(Let it be said that she was much busier with actually fulfilling these plans than improving her penmanship and perception of the alphabet, which, in case anybody didn't know, had thirty nine letters.)
-eat
a puffffferfish
-staeul
squalls belts
-go
to rising faslls
-go
to anothur world
(It was with some sadness that she accomplished that last goal – she'd wanted to go to another world, sure, but she also had been planning on coming back)
-find
the moogles
-go
tu third disterict
-learn
magic
-beat
squall in fight
(In her defense, nobody ever said it had to be a fair fight – with enough rope and glue guns, anybody could beat Squall, actually.)
-grill
a heartless
-grill
Squall's furry coat thing
(This was actually rather successful, if you ignored the fact that she burnt Squall's neck trying – curse Cid and his grilling books. Traverse town didn't have a library, not like Radiant Garden slash Hollow Garden, and even Yuffie read. As long as there were pictures, of course.)
There were more slips of paper, of course, hundreds of misspelled words and eight years worth of plans, the most recent ones regarding going back home to Radiant Garden slash Hollow Bastion, but after achieving that too, she stopped coming up with plans. It wasn't 'lack of direction' so much as a distinct drain on her imaginative capabilities. While she was living in Traverse Town, it was easy to come up with plans – there wasn't much else but the heavy gloom of the city and its oppressive inhabitants, the dark sky dotted with white and the cobblestone paths.
She probably should've figured that it was hard to make improvements on a currently perfect life – she'd gone back home, she'd fried the fur off of Squall's jacket, she'd gotten better in fighting (not that she really needed it now), and now it was sparkling rosy skies and Radiant Garden no slash Hollow Bastion and nice Squall and beautiful everything and she's never been more dissatisfied in her life.
So it was no surprise that she wound up stealing Cid's gummi ship to go off and explore the worlds and see if you really did grow a tail in Atlantis and see what animal she turned into at the Pride Lands and now she knows for sure that she'll be able to find more plans; they're in her head already, rattling around with pent up energy and she has a headache because of it sometimes, but she's happy. There's really nothing else to do after you've finished all your plans except come up with new ones, even if new ones include running away madly from a mob of rabid hyenas.
(Hyenas, however, were necessary in her recon to become emperor of the world – after all, that much she had left to complete.)