Nine Months in Nibelheim
(Summary)
This story takes place a year after the events of Doc. Yuffie turns 20, the drinking age in most of Gaia, and turns into a bit of a wild child. Her behavior became so wild that Reeve had to cut her ties with the WRO. With no job, Yuffie lived off the fortune that her father left when he died. However, Yuffie's careless spending and party habits quickly frittered away the fortune within no more than a year. A few drunken one night stands later and she finds out she is pregnant. Not even able to contact a single one of the possible fathers, Yuffie's last resort is to go to Tifa's new Seventh Heaven in Edge in hopes of getting some help from her friends…
Rated T for some Cid language and adult topics.
(Chapter One)
Guess what guys, I'm pregnant!
"That'll be 400 gil." A big hairy hand came from the front seat of the taxi at Yuffie's face. Yuffie gasped, her big eyes got even bigger.
"What a rip off! No way I'm payin that!" Yuffie tried the silver door handle, only to find it was locked.
"Oh no ya don't you little…" The whole taxi rocked as the big man in the driver's seat turned his body and reached for Yuffie's bag.
"Hi ya!" Yuffie karate chopped the taxi driver in the forehead squarely even with his thick unibrow. Her attack didn't cause a bit of pain to the big man. He reached for her again, but Yuffie reached into her pocket and held out her hand blowing tear dust into the man's eyes. While he cursed and rubbed his eyes, Yuffie found the window button and quickly rolled it down, leaping out of it and landing on the sidewalk with the graceful of a cat. "Sucker!" nyuk nyuk nyuk She chuckled to herself as she ran down the sidewalk toward the sign that stuck out with a flashing blue and white Seventh Heaven logo. Yuffie checked her watch. Five past nine, the bar should be hoppin right about now. She thought as she approached metal door with a sign outside of it saying open. She stood on her tip toes trying to look through the small window near the top of the door.
Argh! She jumped a few times and only succeeded in seeing an empty table. Well here goes nothing! She swung the door open so wide, it slammed into the wall beside it. Almost everyone in the bar turned and looked at her. Yuffie looked back at everyone. Cid sat at a table for two with a dark haired guy that Yuffie hadn't seen before. They both sat with cigarettes hanging out of their mouths and beers in their hands. As Yuffie began to walk towards the bar where she spotted a very busy looking Tifa, she overheard their conversation.
"Yeah…these women don't know a damn thing about buildin shit! I say we start building our own rocket. These old bones ain't gonna be able to do this for much longer now and I'll be damned if I die before achievin my dream!" Cid was saying.
The dark haired man nodded in agreement and the two made a toast to their new plans.
Yuffie looked to the other side of the room. Cloud? He seemed rather cheerful. As Yuffie passed that table, she overheard bits and pieces of the conversation and concluded that the other three men at the table had also been members of SOLDIER and they were sharing stories of old times.
Loud music began to play and Yuffie looked towards the back of the bar where a colorful jukebox sat. Wow Denzel!? It had been four years since Yuffie had really seen Denzel and he had grown so much! She smiled to herself watching him swing a young girl his age around clumsily as they tried to dance to the upbeat music.
Tifa looked up from pouring Barret a drink and spotted a new face in the bar. "Yuffie!?" she exclaimed. She sat down the bottle of liquor and literally ran through the short swinging doors from behind her bar and hugged the shorter girl.
"Hey Teef! Cool place." Yuffie smiled looking around at her new bar. The two girls analyzed each other for a while. Yuffie hadn't changed much in appearance. Her hair was longer in the front, short and choppy in the back and she styled it a little spunkier with two thin hot pink extensions in it that reached her chest.
"Isn't it!? How long are you in town?" Tifa had changed a bit since Yuffie last seen her, she was wearing more make up and exposing a little more of her chest than usual. Yuffie sent a glance toward Cloud wondering if he had anything to do with this change.
"Um…well actually…I sort of…" This is much harder than I thought! The great ninja Yuffie never has to ask for help!
"Tifa, could me and my bud get another beer!?" Cid yelled from his table.
"I'm on it!" She grinned instantly taking off without letting Yuffie finish. Yuffie took a seat at an empty table and waited a few hours until some of the strange people she hadn't seen before left the bar leaving only Cid, Cloud, Barret, Denzel, Tifa, and Yuffie. Marlene, being still a bit too young to witness the whole party scene was upstairs in her bedroom. She was ten years old now, Denzel fourteen.
The gang began to circle around Yuffie. "Well, well, well if it ain't the great materia thief." Cid said with a chuckle. Yuffie scoffed. After helping the gang on their many quests to save the world all he could think about was the time she stole their materia! He wasn't even there when it happened!
"Shove it, Cid or I'll deck you." The gang noticed that her threat didn't have its usual Yuffie spunk. She didn't even jump up and make her signature punch move.
"Life been treating you well?" Cloud asked taking a seat next to her. Tifa sat across from Cloud. Cid and Barret leaned up against the wall behind the table.
"Well…uh…ok, I'm just gonna say it!" Yuffie stood up and looked around at the faces of all her friends. "You guys, I'm pregnant."
Tifa clapped happily, but stopped and cleared her throat when she saw the sad expression on Yuffie's face. The entire room was silent.
Footsteps from across the room drew Yuffie's attention and she watched in surprise as Vincent Valentine himself came walking out of the dark corner he had been standing in. Whoa Yuffie thought when he walked right up to her.
He didn't say a word but sent a glance at the group of friends and then down at Yuffie. She stole a quick look at him. He hadn't changed at all. Same clothes, same hair, same gorgeous eyes. The only thing that worried Yuffie was that he still seemed to carry that same ton of guilt. After all he'd done for the planet, you'd think he'd feel as if his sins had been atoned for.
Yuffie looked chose to look at Tifa as she spoke since she was the easiest to face. "I…don't even know who the father is. I don't have any money or a place to stay. That's why I came here."
"Are you planning on keeping it?" Tifa asked. Everyone looked at Tifa as she spoke then back at Yuffie waiting for her answer.
"I…I'm considering adoption. I know I absolutely do not wanna kill the kid, but me raising baby!? I can barely keep track of my freakin cats!" Yuffie let out a fake laugh that didn't even fool Cid.
"Yuffie, I'd offer you a room here, but I'm renting the two spare bedrooms out to make extra cash. I really don't want to put you on the couch." Tifa looked at Barret who raised his hands and shook his head no. He of course had no space. He was in the process of moving back to North Corel to help rebuild the town that he'd been accused of abandoning. No one even looked at Cid because it was obvious that arrangement wouldn't work. In an attempt to possibly get himself off the hook Cid pointed his finger at Vincent.
"What about you, Vince? You got that mansion out in Nibelhiem all to yourself, dontcha? Of course you do. I helped you restore it!" He chuckled. "Why don't you give her a room?" Vincent sent him a death glare.
Yuffie saw his reaction and her feelings were hurt. She turned on her heels. "Fine, just forget it!" she yelled before running out of the bar.
"Vincent!" Cloud said glaring at his friend. "What's it gonna hurt?"
The crimson clad gunman heard Cloud, but he was busy staring at door Yuffie had stormed out of. A sharp pang of guilt stabbed his heart. He closed his eyes and breathed a heavy sigh.
Tifa smiled as she watched him walk out the door in pursuit of their troubled friend.
AUTHORS NOTE:
Thanks for reading and PLZ review even if its just to say it sucks or to point out all the stupid typos I probably made even though I doubled checked like fifty billion times.