A Ninja's Destiny
Prologue
By: Hotaru170

Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy or any of it characters. I wish I did own Vincent though; he is so hot. Anyways, I want you all to know that I totally suck at English. I don't want you all to get mad. I will try to get this as grammatically correct as I possibly can. This is going to a very short prologue. I promise to make it up to you though. Chapter one will be really long. I just want to kind of set up my plot line here. I might change a few more things around in the timeline but I'm not sure yet. I will accept all compliments, but if you want to flame then please do it responsibly. My email address is Hotaru170@aol.com or SenshiOfSaturn@aol.com.

'Represents character thoughts' "Represents character speaking"

Cloud looked at everyone and said, "Our next stop is to the Temple of the Ancients. We have to get the black materia before Sephiroth does." He looked towards the back at Yuffie, who appeared to ignoring him. He was getting tired of her childish behavior and frowned in annoyance. 'Why does she always have to get on everyone's nerves? I don't know how much more of this I can take. If she weren't such a strong fighter I would have left her in Wutai. I really would have left her behind, if Aeris had not begged me to let her come. I still don't trust her. What if she is a spy for the Shinra or for Sephiroth? I better keep an eye on her.' Cloud thought to himself.
Yuffie looked to the front where Cloud was standing. 'I know that look on his face. He is fixing to scold me again. He thinks I am ignoring him. He has no idea that I heard every word he said. Ha Ha, what irony, I can't even let them know my true self.' Yuffie sighed and looked down. Vincent who was standing next to her looked over and saw the look on her face. 'I wonder why she got sad all of a sudden.' He looked towards Cloud and saw the look on his face. "He is fixing to yell at her again. He probably thinks she was ignoring him this whole time. I saw by the look on her face that she was aware of every word he said. She was even aware of her surrounding. I never expected her senses to be so well developed. There are things about her that she hides from the others. I didn't even have a clue until just now.'
Cloud finally spoke up and said, "Yuffie, what do I have to do to get you to listen? I am trying to explain our next course of action and you are standing there ignoring every word I say. If you didn't want to be a part of our team then why did you insist on tagging along? If you want to continue to travel with us then you need to grow up and start acting responsibly." Yuffie looked up at Cloud and was about to reply but Vincent beat her to it. He said, "Excuse me Cloud, but I believe you are mistaken. From what I have observed, Yuffie heard every word that you said. I think you owe her an apology for jumping to conclusions." Everyone in the room was standing there with their mouths open in shock. They couldn't believe that Vincent just stood up for someone. Not to mention that the person he was defending is Yuffie of all people.
Yuffie looked at Vincent funny, and was wondering why he was defending her. 'Aeris has been the only one to ever stick up for me. I wonder why he did all of a sudden.' Cloud just stood there speechless. Vincent has never questioned his judgment, or ever questioned him when he scolded Yuffie. After a few minutes of waiting for an apology, Yuffie finally got tired of waiting and stormed out of the room. Vincent watched her walk off and gave Cloud a very piercing glare before he turned and left the room too.
Aeris watched them walk off before she turned to Cloud and frowned at him. She said, "Cloud Strife, I can not believe you just did that. She stood there waiting and you just ignored her. Vincent was right you do owe her an apology. You didn't even ask her if she heard you before you started degrading her in front of everyone. I know she is the youngest but that doesn't make you her father. You had no right to treat her that way. Now if you don't apologize to her before the night is over, I will never talk to you again. Is that understood?" Cloud looked at her with shock written all over his face. He thought to himself, 'How come they are taking her side? I am the leader here and I was just trying to get her to pay attention. I might as well apologize or Aeris will never let me live it down.' Cloud sighed and said, "Alright fine, I will apologize to her. I just get tired of having to deal with her childish behavior." Aeris looked at him and tapped her foot in annoyance. "Have you ever wondered why Yuffie continues to follow us Cloud or do you still think she only wants to steal our materia? Do you ever think that maybe she wants to help stop Sephiroth from destroying the planet? Or do you think that maybe she continues to follow us because she likes being treated like a child who knows nothing and only gets in the way? I think you should open up your eyes and realize how bad that you really treat her. And even though she probably thinks nobody cares, she still continues to fight. You don't even give her a chance to defend her actions. You don't know anything about her because you never gave her a chance. You judged her the moment we came across her in that jungle." Aeris got up out of her chair and walked out the front door without another word.
Cloud did apologize for the way he spoke to Yuffie that night but he still didn't trust her. Yuffie lay on the ground outside looking at the stars and thinking to herself. 'Does Cloud even care how much it hurts when he treats me like that? Does he even care? Would he think differently of me if he knew the truth about my life? He doesn't realize how hard this is for me. My sister doesn't even know I exist. My real father doesn't is only worried about his experiments. My only brother is trying to destroy the world and now I must fight against him. Gosh my life sucks!'

Ha! Now is that a cliffhanger or what. I know it isn't that bad. You probably have figured out some of the many plot twists that I am developing here. I warn you; when you find out about Yuffie's past (Well the one I have made up! ^_^), you will probably have to read it twice to make sure you got it right. Well anyways, I must get going now. I know this chapter is really short, but I promise the next one will be longer. Sayonara, minna!