Hello! It is I Serenity, finally back from my trip. I now present to you the first chapter in the sequel to Stealing Hearts! Sorry it took so long!
P.S. Thoughts are in italics and belong to the last person who spoke.
Yuffie sprinted through the back alley ways in the dark. Panting she risked a glance behind her. No one followed. She slowed to a fast walk to catch her breath.
I'm finaly in the clear... I have to be carefull or they'll catch me. I don't care what they said there's no way I'd accept pity from those rich kids... But he looked so sad... think I will miss him afterall... But if I had stayed I would have been in a gilded cage. I AM NO ONE'S PET! Yuffie continued to mentally scream the opinions she had about the stories those people had told her. Feeling as though she were being followed she quickly ducked behind a dumpster.
Feet pounded on the concrete as a silver haired guy raced down the alleyway.
"Riku hold up! She isn't even down this alley! Besides man she hates you now," Another guy with the spikiest brown hair she had ever seen.
"I can't let that stop me! I love her," Riku shouted at his friend. "I'm not gonna lose her again! You think I'm just going to sit back and let her get caught by the new guys!"
Yuffie knew who they were talking about. A new gang had formed in the streets of Hollow Bastion and they were dangerous. Why the hell do they care about me so much? Yuffie wondered. She was just a skinny girl whose looks were surpassed by nearly every other girl on the street. Or at least that's what she thought. But no, this guy chased her to the all over the place ever since she had first ran away a month ago. She snorted at the thought that he had actually said he loved her.
Riku's turned hearing the noise. He knew she was here. He just had to find her. He couldn't let her go, not after he had fallen for her. Surely she'd go back to normal if she regained her memory. Wouldn't she? He started to inspect the alleyway. "Sora she's here. I heard her. Please start looking for her. If she just got back her memory everything would go back to normal..."
"All right. Man you got it bad for this chick. You get everybody to look for her at least four times a week, you have private investagators, and you look for her every day. Man when was the last time you slept," Sora asked as he poked around behind some crates.
"... I don't know," he said siganling to Sora that she was behind the dumpster. He and Sora continued to talk as if they didn't know while steadily inching towards her.
Yuffie looked around trying to find a way out. She knew she couldn't out run them and for some reason she didn't want to fight them... Which was strange because she had no qaulms with hurting people who tried to cage her. Maybe I should try to climb a fire escape? Or could I use some of the smoke bombs I stole? Her plans of escape were cut off as Riku stood in front of her.
"Yuffie... Please trust me." He whispered, holding his hand out to her. She looked at his eyes overcome by a strangely familiar emotion...
"Riku?" Something in her eyes flickered as she suddenly screamed with pain, clutching her head. She nearly fell, but Riku caught her.
"Sora! I think something's coming back to her! Call the others she needs to rest!" Riku looked down at Yuffie as Sora hurried to get the others. She had passed out from the pain... He wondered just what she remebered...
Yuffie floated in darkness. She stood trying to remeber where she was. "HELLO?" she called. "Nothing. Great, I've finally gone psychotic." She jumped as an image flashed in front of her.
Riku held her in his arms in an abandonded building. " Hey watch it clutz. What would you do if I wasn't always here to save your ass?"
"I suppose that I would go on with my life and continue to live here instead of moving in with you... Would you prefer that to my clumsiness?"
"...That's not the-... I didn't mean-... Ugh! No..." He stood in silence. He gave her the same evil smirk that he has the first day they met.
" Well I mean it's so obvious that you want to live with me, considering how you just threw your vulnerable self into my arms."
I really did move in with him... Were they all...telling the truth? Yuffie was torn from her thoughts as the image faded. "No! Where's the rest!" she shouted as she was lost to darkness once again.
Riku paced outside her room. Namine had kicked him out saying she neede to put Yuffie in clean clothes and that she needed rest. Aerith with her newly acquired medical degree claimed that Yuffie neede rest and that if Riku woke her up she'd kill him. He was still tempted to force them to let him stay, but unfortunately for him both Axel and Leon had agreed with the girls. Therefore he was stuck out here in the hall way.
"WERE IS HE? I NEED TO SEE HIM," a shout from inside the room told him Yuffie was awake. Rubbing his ears a startled looking Leon opened the door ushering Riku in.
"Hurry up before she yells again," Axel pleaded from inside. Riku hurried in and found Yuffie looking frantically for something.
"Yuffie? What-" He was cut off as Yuffie rushed over and lunged at him. Thinking she was going to try to hurt him, he nearly sidestepped untill she rapped her arms around him.
"I'm sorry. I really did move in with you. I... don't remeber anything else...but I'll stay..." She looked at him as if asking for his permission and forgivness at the same time.
"Why do you think I kept looking for you," he whispered as he held her closer.
Serenity: Okay peoples how'd you like it? As always please review and tell me if you have any suggestions! I'll put up the next chapter as soon as I can.