Hey everyone! This is great, I've decided on a title for this story. I
really want to thank everyone for coming up with ideas for the title. I
especially want to thank Duran the Gladiator for coming up with "To Love
and Protect" because well, as you already know, that's the title name!
Well, except for the 'You' part. Anyway, I'm glad all of you told me that
you wanted a sequel. It gave me an inspiration boost to start this. Thanks,
everyone.
Same text applies to this story, just as the prequel (is prequel even a word?): * *-a persons thoughts, talking in their mind. ** **-Chaos speaking " "-speaking [ ]-rarely used; if an action happens quickly ( )- authors notes most of the time ~~~ or +++-new scene; I'll rarely use the '+' sign, though. ~~~- also can mean flashback; I'll let you know if it does or not. If any other text is used, I'll let you know what it means.
As I promised, this prologue goes out to all of you.
Disclaimer: Squaresoft owns all Final Fantasy 7 material. I own nothing of any Final Fantasy.
To Love and Protect You [Prologue] {Dedicated to all the reviewers of 'I'll always be by your side'}
"Yuffie, dinner's ready!" A familiar feminine voice called from downstairs. "Coming!" Yuffie reached for her bookmark on the nightstand. She slipped it into her small, navy blue book and closed it. She set the book by the alarm clock and hopped up from the bed. "Dinner's getting cold, hurry up, Yuffie!" the voice echoed up the stairway.
"Yeah, yeah, I said I'm coming!" she ran out the bedroom door and slid down the guardrail of the steps. She jumped off the end of it and onto the couch, bouncing high into the air, doing a backwards somersault and landing perfectly right in front of the kitchen entrance/exit.
"Showoff..." Cloud mumbled from the kitchen as Tifa cheered and clapped. Vincent just smiled. "At least I HAVE ninja instincts!" Yuffie bragged as she entered and grabbed a plate from the cabinet and rummaged through the various sorts of foods Tifa had prepared. Most of them she liked, though.
"And why would I want ninja instincts?" Cloud chuckled in a jokingly way. "Because they come in handy!" Yuffie smiled as she filled her plate with mashed potatoes, steak, and green beans. She grabbed a bowl and filled it with noodles.
"Aww, look at the big girl eating her vegetables!" Cloud teased. "Hey now, I like green beans!" Yuffie sat down at the table and joined the rest of her friends for dinner.
"Oh by the way, Sunny's doing great." Cloud said out of the blue. "That's good. I really never have the chance to see him." Yuffie wiped her mouth with a napkin. "Well why don't you go pay him a visit after dinner?" Tifa suggested. "Yeah. I think I will..."
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Yuffie exited the house and walked out to the stables. It was already dark and all you could see was the light reflecting from the moon and stars onto the ground. "Huh..." Yuffie sighed as she entered the stables.
Her breath was visible in the cold air. "Brrr..." she rubbed her hands up and down on her arms. "Sure is cold out here..." she walked up to Sunny's stable.
"Hey boy, how have you been?" She petted the large bird on the head. "Wark!" it chirped. "Haha, you miss me? It's kind of been a while." she leaned over the stable door and petted it's back. "Oh!" she saw how neatly the bird's feathers were in line.
"Cloud even brushed you? Wow...he's so nice!" Yuffie laughed and petted the bird on it's head again. She unlatched the lock and opened the stable door. The bird wobbled out as Yuffie took hold of it's reins and led it outside.
"Warrrk!" the golden bird cried as it was led to the outside back part of the stables. "Shh, keep it down, Tifa and Cloud will wake up!" Yuffie commanded Sunny to lay on the ground.
As soon as the bird settled itself to the cold ground, Yuffie sat down next to it. She lay back, watching the stars.
"Remember when we used to do this in Wutai? Gosh, I wanna go back..." Yuffie felt a tear fall from her eye as she continued admiring the stars and their beauty.
"Look up there, Sunny. Those stars have so much freedom..." she wiped the tear from her eye. "While we're grounded down here." she mumbled. Sunny stayed quiet. "But I guess that I have freedom. I don't have to live in Wutai if I don't want to. I can go wherever I want. I can do whatever I want to do. Well, except for drinking at a bar or something...I'm still under-age." She tried to smile.
"And now that I'm alive again..." her voice trailed off. "Well, it's just good to be home." She closed her eyes and said a prayer to Phoenix in her mind. As she finished, a gust of wind blew through her hair.
A moment later, she opened her eyes. "But I'm not really home..." she shook her head. "And here I am, talking to a bird who can't even understand a word I'm saying..."
"Wark...wark..." Sunny looked at Yuffie. "I wish I could understand a word you were saying..." she hugged the bird. "...Do you miss Wutai?" she finally asked as she released him. "......." Sunny looked away.
"Huhh..." Yuffie sighed. "I don't really want to go back, but yet, then again I do. I mean, Wutai is a nice town and all, but dad...dad might not like it if I go back."
Yuffie thought for a moment. "Well, he might, but I don't wanna fetch materia for him again!" she laughed. "Plus I really want to live with Vinnie in his new house, ya know?" she smiled. Another gust of wind struck her.
"Brrrr...its really cold out!"
"Sure is..."
Yuffie about jumped out of her skin. She turned to her side to see who was there.
"Oh Vinnie, it's only you. You almost scared me to death!" Yuffie smirked. "I'm sorry. But may I ask, why you are out here in your pajamas?"
Yuffie looked down at her sky blue pajama pants. They had little gold chocobos all over them. She then looked at her baggy shirt. It was white with a white tiger printed on the front. On the back was KISARAGI printed in bold, red letters.
"Oh...umm well, I just wanted to look at the stars with Sunny. We used to do it all the time in Wutai."
"In your pajamas...?" Vincent still questioned. "Yeah, so what!" she fought back. "Heh, sounds like that crazy ninja girl I've always known." Yuffie blushed a bit and hid her face in the shadows.
"Come on, you're outside wearing a T-shirt in the middle of November!" Vincent chuckled. "It's actually only the 10th of November." Yuffie argued. "Close enough. Aren't you cold?"
"Yeah."
"Then why don't you come on in?"
"I haven't finished watching the stars with Sunny."
Vincent sighed. "Alright...if you're going to stay out longer, then at least wear something warm!" Vincent threw her a jacket. "Thanks." Vincent walked away. Yuffie slipped the jacket on.
"Whoa! This thing's HUGE!" she looked the jacket over. The sleeves were much longer than her arms and the jacket was baggy when she stood up. She looked back at her shirt under the jacket.
*Dad...*
Godo had bought her that shirt when she was 14. He bought her an extra large one so that she'd probably never grow into it. She could wear it around the house as pajamas. A tear fell from her eye.
*...I miss you...*
Do you like so far? I hope so! This was a little longer than I expected, but oh well. I mean long for a prologue, not a chapter! Well anyway, please review!!
Same text applies to this story, just as the prequel (is prequel even a word?): * *-a persons thoughts, talking in their mind. ** **-Chaos speaking " "-speaking [ ]-rarely used; if an action happens quickly ( )- authors notes most of the time ~~~ or +++-new scene; I'll rarely use the '+' sign, though. ~~~- also can mean flashback; I'll let you know if it does or not. If any other text is used, I'll let you know what it means.
As I promised, this prologue goes out to all of you.
Disclaimer: Squaresoft owns all Final Fantasy 7 material. I own nothing of any Final Fantasy.
To Love and Protect You [Prologue] {Dedicated to all the reviewers of 'I'll always be by your side'}
"Yuffie, dinner's ready!" A familiar feminine voice called from downstairs. "Coming!" Yuffie reached for her bookmark on the nightstand. She slipped it into her small, navy blue book and closed it. She set the book by the alarm clock and hopped up from the bed. "Dinner's getting cold, hurry up, Yuffie!" the voice echoed up the stairway.
"Yeah, yeah, I said I'm coming!" she ran out the bedroom door and slid down the guardrail of the steps. She jumped off the end of it and onto the couch, bouncing high into the air, doing a backwards somersault and landing perfectly right in front of the kitchen entrance/exit.
"Showoff..." Cloud mumbled from the kitchen as Tifa cheered and clapped. Vincent just smiled. "At least I HAVE ninja instincts!" Yuffie bragged as she entered and grabbed a plate from the cabinet and rummaged through the various sorts of foods Tifa had prepared. Most of them she liked, though.
"And why would I want ninja instincts?" Cloud chuckled in a jokingly way. "Because they come in handy!" Yuffie smiled as she filled her plate with mashed potatoes, steak, and green beans. She grabbed a bowl and filled it with noodles.
"Aww, look at the big girl eating her vegetables!" Cloud teased. "Hey now, I like green beans!" Yuffie sat down at the table and joined the rest of her friends for dinner.
"Oh by the way, Sunny's doing great." Cloud said out of the blue. "That's good. I really never have the chance to see him." Yuffie wiped her mouth with a napkin. "Well why don't you go pay him a visit after dinner?" Tifa suggested. "Yeah. I think I will..."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yuffie exited the house and walked out to the stables. It was already dark and all you could see was the light reflecting from the moon and stars onto the ground. "Huh..." Yuffie sighed as she entered the stables.
Her breath was visible in the cold air. "Brrr..." she rubbed her hands up and down on her arms. "Sure is cold out here..." she walked up to Sunny's stable.
"Hey boy, how have you been?" She petted the large bird on the head. "Wark!" it chirped. "Haha, you miss me? It's kind of been a while." she leaned over the stable door and petted it's back. "Oh!" she saw how neatly the bird's feathers were in line.
"Cloud even brushed you? Wow...he's so nice!" Yuffie laughed and petted the bird on it's head again. She unlatched the lock and opened the stable door. The bird wobbled out as Yuffie took hold of it's reins and led it outside.
"Warrrk!" the golden bird cried as it was led to the outside back part of the stables. "Shh, keep it down, Tifa and Cloud will wake up!" Yuffie commanded Sunny to lay on the ground.
As soon as the bird settled itself to the cold ground, Yuffie sat down next to it. She lay back, watching the stars.
"Remember when we used to do this in Wutai? Gosh, I wanna go back..." Yuffie felt a tear fall from her eye as she continued admiring the stars and their beauty.
"Look up there, Sunny. Those stars have so much freedom..." she wiped the tear from her eye. "While we're grounded down here." she mumbled. Sunny stayed quiet. "But I guess that I have freedom. I don't have to live in Wutai if I don't want to. I can go wherever I want. I can do whatever I want to do. Well, except for drinking at a bar or something...I'm still under-age." She tried to smile.
"And now that I'm alive again..." her voice trailed off. "Well, it's just good to be home." She closed her eyes and said a prayer to Phoenix in her mind. As she finished, a gust of wind blew through her hair.
A moment later, she opened her eyes. "But I'm not really home..." she shook her head. "And here I am, talking to a bird who can't even understand a word I'm saying..."
"Wark...wark..." Sunny looked at Yuffie. "I wish I could understand a word you were saying..." she hugged the bird. "...Do you miss Wutai?" she finally asked as she released him. "......." Sunny looked away.
"Huhh..." Yuffie sighed. "I don't really want to go back, but yet, then again I do. I mean, Wutai is a nice town and all, but dad...dad might not like it if I go back."
Yuffie thought for a moment. "Well, he might, but I don't wanna fetch materia for him again!" she laughed. "Plus I really want to live with Vinnie in his new house, ya know?" she smiled. Another gust of wind struck her.
"Brrrr...its really cold out!"
"Sure is..."
Yuffie about jumped out of her skin. She turned to her side to see who was there.
"Oh Vinnie, it's only you. You almost scared me to death!" Yuffie smirked. "I'm sorry. But may I ask, why you are out here in your pajamas?"
Yuffie looked down at her sky blue pajama pants. They had little gold chocobos all over them. She then looked at her baggy shirt. It was white with a white tiger printed on the front. On the back was KISARAGI printed in bold, red letters.
"Oh...umm well, I just wanted to look at the stars with Sunny. We used to do it all the time in Wutai."
"In your pajamas...?" Vincent still questioned. "Yeah, so what!" she fought back. "Heh, sounds like that crazy ninja girl I've always known." Yuffie blushed a bit and hid her face in the shadows.
"Come on, you're outside wearing a T-shirt in the middle of November!" Vincent chuckled. "It's actually only the 10th of November." Yuffie argued. "Close enough. Aren't you cold?"
"Yeah."
"Then why don't you come on in?"
"I haven't finished watching the stars with Sunny."
Vincent sighed. "Alright...if you're going to stay out longer, then at least wear something warm!" Vincent threw her a jacket. "Thanks." Vincent walked away. Yuffie slipped the jacket on.
"Whoa! This thing's HUGE!" she looked the jacket over. The sleeves were much longer than her arms and the jacket was baggy when she stood up. She looked back at her shirt under the jacket.
*Dad...*
Godo had bought her that shirt when she was 14. He bought her an extra large one so that she'd probably never grow into it. She could wear it around the house as pajamas. A tear fell from her eye.
*...I miss you...*
Do you like so far? I hope so! This was a little longer than I expected, but oh well. I mean long for a prologue, not a chapter! Well anyway, please review!!