Devil's Obsession, Angel's Passion
A.N.: I had fun writing this story from beginning to the end. Yes. I have finished this because I needed this out of my head, and a possessive Vincent Valentine is so much fun to torture with Yuffie around. I'm kind of tired of reading fanfictions that have a nice, guilty Vincent who denies Yuffie, so I decided to torture him on making him see things that Yuffie does out of her heart. There will be seven chapters, so there will be no epilogue. It kind of kills the explanation of the title anyways.
Is a possessive Vincent an affectionate Vincent? I don't know, so feel free to critique my knowledge and my writing. Please, no short or degrading comments; I really need to know what you think so far.
This will be the one and only disclaimer in this story: I don't own Final Fantasy 7 or the characters.
Chapter 1: Charity and Greed
Yuffie Kisaragi is known to be the most hyperactive, uncontrollable, obnoxious self-proclaimed Great Ninja since her beginning with AVALANCHE. She once stole materia and leave people behind defenseless and angered, and people thought that she had no concern with those she stole from.
It was later that they discovered that the Great Ninja Yuffie stole materia because her homeland, Wutai, was once a beautiful land for her people to live in. When war had started against Shinra, they lost, and her land turned into a tourist attraction that stained her people's honor. Not only that, many of her people lost the will to fight back as well as losing their homes to the businesses outside of their land. She wanted to free her land through gaining many materia, even she has to dirty her hands. Her reasons were justified, even it was ironic that she would have to steal and leave people to their own devices, but what they didn't know that she divided her reasons into sections.
Vincent Valentine was the only person to discover her two-sided reasons.
He found her by accident. His teammates were resting in an inn, while the others were out training. He was just roaming around the place to mentally map out Wutai, and he came across an argument. He didn't mean to pry, but when he heard a familiar young feminine voice in the argument, he decided to oversee the argument and see if intervention was needed.
"This store doesn't need the old man! His business is no longer good here, and my store just started." The owner was an outsider of Wutai and held an indication that he is from another city. The young girl, Yuffie, was standing next to an older gentleman who seemed frantic yet hopeful. Around them, bystanders from Wutai were watching what would happen, and they were whispering about Yuffie, calling her "Yuffie-hime" or "Tenshi-hime".
"I don't care! You took over the store that doesn't seem that anyone is coming around to buy your stuff! Besides, none of these items are from Wutai. I know; we don't make this crap and put them in boxes." She pointed a fact to the owner, and some of the people nodded to agree with her. None of the products in his store were useful for the basic daily needs for the people, and no one knew how to use them.
"W-What? How do you kn- You little-" Yuffie held a bag up and shoved it in front of his face.
"Five thousand gil to sell this store back to that old man, contract and all." The owner smirked and increased the payment.
"Six thousand gil, plus another thousand for moving and future rental." Yuffie glared and shoved another bag.
"Eight thousand gil for the contract and documents, your truck, and to never come here back again." The man smiled and swiped her bags out of her hand.
"Deal."
Vincent never understood why would Yuffie do it. He didn't intervene as he saw the process go through without any hidden intentions. When the owner gave the older man back the store with the documents, the older man thanked Yuffie with so much relief and gratefulness that she was blushing. She chuckled and waved off the praises from her people until she was finally alone. It was then Vincent decided to appear beside her.
"Yuffie." She turned to the gunman with a bright grin.
"Vinnie! I guess you got me." Vincent grunted and stared at her incredulously.
"Why would you do it? You do know that it was already enough to buy back the store." Vincent asked, unsure why would the young girl give up four-fifths of her gil out of her own pocket. She would have negotiated with her cleverness, but Yuffie snorted and frowned.
"Well, these bastards are too stubborn when they came around and took over my people's stores. I tried that once with much persuasion I can muster, but they all wanted was money twice as much as their business. It's either their way or no way." She turned to him and smiled, holding up another bag of gil that was smaller than the others.
"It may not be much, but let's go get something to eat. I know a small restaurant that makes a mean ramen, and I want to give them a tip for their expecting baby girl."
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That was three years ago.
Now, Yuffie would disappear in the midday after being assigned into each WRO mission and receiving her paycheck. Her country was free from Shinra's control, and it was recovering to regain back their heritage. Even though she was free to come visit her country, despite no longer being a princess, she decided to stay around Edge with her friends to help Tifa around the bar and the kids. No one knew where would Yuffie would disappear to, and every time she reappears, she would grin and give Marlene and Denzel a gift from being away. Tifa would ask where Yuffie was, but Yuffie would shrug and said "Around." Vincent couldn't help but discreetly follow her once more after their recent return from the WRO mission, clearing out monsters too close to Rocket Town. He made sure that he wasn't making too much noise or obvious detections that she was being followed.
Yuffie was walking around the city, trying to find a store that caught her attention. She saw the store somewhere before she left, and she needed to find that store before evening. A glimpse of something soft and plushy caught her attention and made her grin. It was exactly what she was looking for, and she looked up to catch the name.
Bingo.
Without another thought, Yuffie walked into the toy store and grabbed as many stuff toys, vehicles, and swords she could hold onto her thin arms toward the counter. The young woman smiled and knew who was buying this much. Without questioning her, the cashier began to scan the price tags from the smaller items to the more expensive items.
"That will be one hundred twenty thousand, five hundred eighty gil. Will it be cash or credit?"
Yuffie paid it through her debit card and asked the cashier.
"Is it possible if I could send these toys to the orphanage and have a ride to the orphanage?" The cashier smiled.
"Sure! I'll call someone to pick you and the toys up. Wait for a bit after I place the toys into the bags." Yuffie nodded until she felt shivers go up her spine. She turned around to see if anyone was watching her from the window, but all she saw was walking bystanders and no one else. She swore that she had felt something during her travels and missions, and they felt like someone was watching her. It unnerved her, but she had a feeling that they meant no harm. However, it did feel like someone was trying to plan something to trap her from ever walking free ever again.
"One of the workers here has agreed to carry the toys and take you to the orphanage. Are you ready?" Yuffie snapped her attention back to the cashier and shook her head.
"Ah, no. It's okay. I think I can take the toys to the orphanage. Besides, I do have another obligation I have to attend to. Sorry about the inconvenience." The cashier frowned and tilted her head.
"Are you sure?" Yuffie smiled nervously and slipped the bags into her arms.
"Y-Yeah. Thanks though!" Yuffie ran out with a nervous mind. She seemed to try shaking off the feeling of being watched, and she could feel like she was prey under a hawk's watch.
0000
Once again, Vincent was walking along with Yuffie in a mission that Reeve assigned them to. He listened to the one-sided conversation, but he didn't care. He knew that Yuffie would continue talking without his consent, but the ex-Turk didn't mind. As long as Yuffie would continue talking as well as walking beside him, he would always keep her close, despite her attempts to retain her independence. He would allow the children in both the orphanage and in Tifa's bar to accompany her during his absence, but he would not allow anyone else to travel with her. No one else would be next to her presence but himself, and he would make sure that he would accompany her on times after the mission.