Hi! This is my first story, and I hope you guys might like it. Sorry if the characters are OOC, but I've never actually played the game.. hehe ^_^; I have watched Advent Children and watched my brother play half of DoC (he never finished it haha) and then I watched all the cut scenes on Youtube :D Well, enough of my babbling.... On with the story!

Disclaimer: I will not, nor will I ever, own Final Fantasy VII (unless they realize that I'm just that awesome and they let me own it, but we all know that won't happen : P )

Enjoy :)

She had kissed him, simple as that. He barely had time to register it because he had been trying to comprehend the words she had said before the kiss. The words that any normal person would have loved to hear from someone they cared about. But Vincent Valentine wasn't normal, was he?

"I love you... and don't go running off, muttering about sins and monsters."

He pulled away hesitently. She looked him in the eyes, her own wide, sincere and full of love. Love for him. He couldn't be with her and he knew it. She deserved a life of happiness with a whole man, not one that was broken, imperfect. He couldn't let her be burdened with a demon. "How could you love me? What have I ever done to earn your affections?"

"It's the little things, the big things, everything! I love how you communicate-- with your shrugs and nods and gestures. I love how you let me stay with you in the mansion when my father disowned me. I love how you put up with me when I know you'd rather be alone. I love you because you've saved my life so many times I can't even count. I love you for being you! Vincent McBrood Valentine!" she smiled at the name.

He couldn't let this happen. She deserved more than he could ever give her. He wanted to be her friend. That was as far as he could go without hurting her, but he saw no way that she would want to be his friend after what he was about to say. "You don't love me. You're young. Do you even know what love is?" he said coldly.

"I know you think I'm young, hell, everyone thinks I'm too young to even be spoken to as an adult! But guess what Vinnie? I'm twenty-two years old, and I admit, I had no idea what love was a few years ago, but then I got to know you, and I just knew."

"Yuffie, I don't think you really know what love is. You want it to be love, when what is really is, is an infatuation."

"Maybe you just don't know what it's it's like to be loved by someone, considering Lucrecia chose Hojo--"

"Enough," he cut her off sharply and glared coldly at her. "Theres only one woman that I will ever love, and you're obviously not her, and you never will be. I don't love you. I can't love you. You're not her." he saw the hurt in her eyes before she could put her carefully crafted mask on. He knew the hurt of unrequited love, and he wanted to protect her from it, but that was a hard thing to do when you are the one causing the pain. Seeing that look in her eyes pained him and at that moment, for a reason unknown to him, all he had wanted to do was take her in his arms and hold her, take back everything he had said, whisper sweet nothings about love and how they would be together forever. But the words he spoke were true, or so he tried to convince himself.

"Why can't you let go of the past?! She didn't love you! But I do! I'm right here! I always have been! Why can't you see that?!"

"I'm a monster Yuffie... I don't deserve happiness."

"Everyone can be labelled a monster! I can be a monster! I've killed people, and took them away from everything they could have been, I took them away from families, and sure it may have been for the greater good, but that doesn't make me feel any better!"

"You wouldn't understand--"

"Then make me understand! I want to understand you Vincent! Just let me in."

"You will never understand!" he snarled. "You'll never understand my life, my sins, my pain. You'll never understand how to truly love and you will never understand the true pain of unrequited love." he said the last part lower, turning away.

"I already know the pain of unrequited love. You've shown it to me quite clearly." she quickly swiped away a stray tear. "Believe me, I know how it feels to love. I love you so much, that I can't even explain it, and I love you so much, that it hurts to know that I probably have no chance at all with you. Let me ask you a question. How do you know what love is? Can you really say that what you felt for Lucrecia was love?" with that, she spun on her heel and walked out the front door.

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It had been hours since their argument and Vincent was now worried. She had left so abruptly, that she left Conformer and it was now dark. She was out there, defenceless. Vincent knew better. She was far from defenceless. Even without Conformer, Yuffie was deadly. That still didn't stop him from worrying about her though.

He went to check her room, in case she snuck back in through the window. When he got to the top of the stairs, he saw her door was slightly ajar. He pushed it open and what he saw made him feel a pang somewhere in his chest for reasons he didn't know.

Yuffie was crouched by the open window. The room looked bare of the little belongings that Yuffie had. He guessed it was all in the bag that was slung across her shoulder. She saw him out of the corner of her eye. She turned, and crimson met silver. She gave him a small smile. "I'm Yuffie Kisaragi, and don't you forget it!" with a small wave, she flipped out the window.

He heard the small thud of her feet hitting the floor outside. He sighed, and then saw a note on the windowsill. He walked over and picked it up. It read "VINCENT" on the back in Yuffie's writing. Her writing, he mused, was unique, just like her. Some words were neat, and others were messy. There were big and small letters, smiley faces, hearts and flowers dotting the "i's." This note, however, held none of that. It was written in one neat font.

I'm leaving. I don't know when I'll see you again, or if I ever will again, but know that my feelings for you won't change. When you finally open your eyes, and let go of the past, just know, I will always wait for you.

Love

~The Great Ninja Yuffie Kisaragi

Another pang in his chest and an urge to go out and chase her took over him, and he stared out the window, not knowing what to do. After a minute, he jumped out the window as well, ready to bring her back and sort things out.

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