Time Line-Post DOC-Year Three-Month March
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Vincent Valentine had a problem, two problems actually, they were curantly in the kitchen cooking something that would most likely explode before thirty minutes passed. He sighed and put his head in his hands, their names were Yuffie Kisaragi and Shelke Rui, how he ended up sharing his mansion with the two woman, he hadn't a clue, it had been 2 years since Yuffie came to live with him and 1 and a half years since Shelke moved in.
He remembered cleary waking up to someone pounding on his door in the rain, when he opened it he found something he didn't expect, Yuffie drenched with a nap shack in one hand, he let her in wordlessly, (Cause when the normally happy and cheerful Yuffie knocks on your door at 3 in the morning crying, with a smile that didn't quite reach her eyes, you just let her in and hope to stop the water works.)
He called Tifa, asking her why she hadn't let Yuffie stay with her, but he didn't expect her to say, "I haven't seen Yuffie in almost 3 months Vincent, since she left for Wutai, is something wrong? Does she need a place to stay?" He told her no and went off to find her huddled in front of a fireplace, "Why didn't you go to Tifa's?" He asked, deciding to be straight up front about this, she huffed and muttered something like, "Of course you'd try and get rid of me."
She looked at him and asked him, "Why do you think Vinnie?" He just gave her a look that clearly said, 'If he knew he wouldn't be asking.' She sighed and said, "If I told you, you'd probably shoot not only me, but also lock yourself in a coffin, when you figure it out, I'll leave."
That had only left him more confused, with plenty more questions. Why didn't she go to Tifa? What is her reason that would cause me to shoot her? And do I even want to know? He decided to leave it alone, still wondering why not Tifa, for Tifa was her "Go to buddy." As she had put it, and Yuffie was hers.
Once the two got situated, he left for 2 months for some mission for Reeve, something to do with Deepground, when he returned, the mansion was cleaner then he remembered, and the basement blocked off. When he asked her why, she grabbed him by the collar of his cape and dragged him down to where they were nose to nose and he was thankful he didn't blush, she smiled in a sickly sweet way and said in a sickly sweet voice, "Because Vinnie, if you even so much as think about that damn coffin, I will castrate your sorry ass and then hang you up by your underwear on a flag pole." Then she patted his cheek and bounded off to do who knows what, leaving a very flabbergasted Vincent Valentine.
They then settled into a nice routine, she cooked the meals and cleaned the house, practically staying at their home more than working for Reeve, (He couldn't help but wonder if he gave her the title of 'Head of Espinoge' to satisfy her, which he wouldn't put it past Reeve, the old man held a soft spot for her) And he worked mission and helped fix the place up, about 6 months into their lifes Reeve sat them down and asked them a favor he knew he should have denied.
"Now, I know we all agree Tifa loves children, almost as much as she loves Cloud, but Shelke is like a little Vincent, she needs someone like Yuffie to help bring her out of her shell. So, I was wondering if you two would mind taking her in." He asked them, Yuffie just looked at Reeve, like he just announced Hojo had started working for him, when the two of them got home he was faced with a sight none ever really saw, Yuffie sat down on the couch, put her chin in her hands and stared off into nothing thinking. By far that worried him for her to be that quite.
She had cooked supper automatically, by the time they were finished, she sat him down on the couch and said something that shocked him, "We should take her in." Honestly he didn't think they were on friend terms, since when the first met she slapped her quite hard, let alone speaking terms, he told her as much, and she just smiled, not her cheeky one, but a warm one that eerily reminded him of Tifa's.
"Vincent." She said, not 'Vinnie, Vince, Vin-Vin, Vinners, V-V, Valentino,' (Honestly where did she get these names? What was wrong with Vincent?) He tensed, it was the first time she had called him by his given name and it party scarred him. "Reeve's right, Tifa's got her hands full with Denzel and Marlene, and Shelke is like you and Denzel combined, she lost like Denzel and is as emotionless like you, I want to help her."
And that was that, Shelke moved in, Yuffie insisted that she go to a real school since she still looked like a child despite being Yuffie's age, they went down to a hardware store so Shelke could have her say in her paint colors, and such.
He was standing by while they went through paint colors, then someone had to remark, "What a nice family he had." He had visibly tensed up, his face going stark still, which had scarred Yuffie and Shelke, he barely paid attention to what they were saying, but thinking back he should have been insulted. "Uh oh. Vinnie's had too much social contact, we best go before he permanently seizes up like that."
And the worst had yet to come, W.R.O had rumours flying about since he and Yuffie lived together, with Shelke the rumours just continued, though no one said anything to his face though, all except him.
He had been doing some last-minute paper work before he left, when Cait Sith bounded in, he usually paid Cait no attention, it was rambling, til it said those words in his annoying acsent, (honestly who could tolerate that, well Aerith did, Aerith could and was probably tolerating Sephiroth), "So, how's the Miss'us and child?" Vincent had silently pulled out Cerberus and blasted the blasted things head off, Reeve had stormed in, alerted that his favorite toy had been destroyed, again.
He asked what he had said, Vincent just shrugged and went out on his mission, unfortantly for him he didn't know that Reeve recorded what Cait Sith said and when he found out the esteemed president of the W.R.O was rolling on the floor laughing like a drunk Cid, no one questioned their leader laughing like a toddler, (Cause you don't question a strange man with an even stranger affliction with cats and robots)
What was his problem you might ask? He seemed to have a good, slightly strange life, his problem lead him to realize how similar his situation was to Cloud, at first he assumed he and the Ex-SOLDIER had nothing in common (He didn't take on the persona of a dead friend and took the term 'Living your Life' literal), but the more he thought about the more he realized the two did share somethings in common, they both had been experimented on by that blasted Hojo, had Shinra mess with them, both lost people they loved, and were naturally quite people.
Then he realized how similar Yuffie and Tifa were, both were kind-hearted woman who were fighting for love, Tifa for Cloud's and Yuffie's for Wutai, although Yuffie was a bit more brash than Tifa the two had both lost their mothers, shared a hatred of Shinra and had a weakness for children.
And then came down to Denzel and Shelke, both were lost children, ultimately alone, and needing love and guidance, which they found at the hands of AVAVLANCE, Yuffie had already remarked how similar the two were.
The problem was, he didn't want to have Cloud's life and problems, even though the two had simular lifes, if Yuffie decide to run a bar, it be damn near perfect replica.
He already hated how dependant they were on him and unfortunately for him, he was dependant on them, he wasn't sure if he could even go back to a life without them, the mornings became his favorite time of day. He'd wake up walk into the kitchen, to see Shelke at the table, waiting patiently for the breakfast Yuffie cooked. They would talk about her school, then when he came in Yuffie would ask about the W.R.O and Reeve.
Then after breakfast she shove them to the door, handing them both a lunch, (Because she claimed you couldn't trust those damn cafeterias) She'd shove him out first, saying "The W.R.O needs you." Then Shelke, saying, "School needs you." She would smile sweetly, then slam the door and lock it, to make sure they went were they were suppose to go.
He could leave, it'd be easy, they wouldn't notice he was gone until morning, but he didn't think he could handle the worry he heard on his answering machine, he spent some extra time on a mission, he listen to his voice mail, and he felt incredibly guilty at hearing Yuffie's tear-stained voice as the final one.
"Vince? Are you okay? Reeve said the mission was only supposed to last 3 days, its been a week, I know I shouldn't worry, but...Please, please answer your phone if you don't want to come home, just give me a sign your alive, it feels just like Omega...I'm scared..."
When she had whispered the last part, he hurriedly went home, unfortunately catching a fever, when he returned home she had been relived, until she found he was sick, she brought him upstairs cooling him down with a wash rag, and staying by his side all night, (He didn't know he had clutched her hand to keep her near, it was something she was pretty sure shouldn't come up)
Before he could contemplate this new-found discover, he heard an explosion, and a loud "Oops." Sighing he stood up and walked into the kitchen to find both females sitting on the floor with some kind of batter splattered all over the place, he left only to return with towels to clean up, he cocked an eyebrow at Yuffie, who stuck her tongue out at him.
"Don't give me that look Vinnie, the blender decide to attack us, ain't that right Shelk?" She asked, turning her attention to the girl beside her, who shrugged probably deciding it was best to agree.
Anothing thing that worried him was how she understood his silent, his gesture, she knew him better than he knew his self, and he even understood her better than most of AVALANCE, along with Shelke, he couldn't understand how these two started to mean the world to him.
"The blender is evil, Vince." Shelke agreed, bringing him out of his musings, they went about cleaning the floor up, until he felt a splatter of batter on his cheek, he turn his head to stare at an all too innocent Yuffie, who was merrily whistle. One part of him said ignore it, another part that sound suspestly like Chaos was chanting 'Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!' He ended up listening to the Chaos side and scooped up a bit of batter and threw it at Yuffie, hitting her square on the cheek.
Her eyes widen before she turned to stare at Vincent, her mouth twisted into a sinister grin and she scoop up some batter and threw it back, only for Vincent to duck and it to hit Shelke. And that was how the three of them found themselves covered in batter in the middle of their kitchen.
The two woman were giggling, while he was strangly chuckling, as he looked at the two woman who were still weakly flinging batter back and forth, he decided to stop thinking about this situation, while he really, really, really, didn't want Cloud's situation, it might not be so bad.
Until the batter bowl found its way on his head, he didn't remove cause he wasn't sure he was ready for Yuffie's smug grin, while Shelke wondered if she should hide Cerberus incase he might wanna shoot her.
Underneath the bowl he was smirking, he decided he could deal with this, as long as he didn't start saying Shelke was a gift from Lucredia, and Yuffie didn't open up a bar and secretly loved him, it would be fine.
Okay, I read a sweet fic about Vincent Yuffie and Shelke, normally I don't like Shelke, but in this fic, I actually liked how they all three interacted, it seemed sweet, til I realized why I liked it so much, It remind me of Cloud Tifa and Denzel, I blame the fact that I have alergys or a cold, and couldn't sleep until 2 freaking AM, oh I read Cloud assumed Denzel was a gift from Aerith, creepy huh? Though he did find him outside her church. :)