I'd never been good at expressing my feelings.
It's what made me a good Turk. It's also, what caused me to lose Lucrecia. No, I'm not letting my self-imposed sin haunt me. After the Omega incident I let go of my past. How could I not, when I've finally begun to age again? I can live in the present instead of being a stone in the river of time.
Namely, the feelings I've been hiding, or more like not expressing, have been those for a certain ninja. I think I finally saw her as the woman she'd become last year in the battle with Bahaumut. She was still the bubbly ninja we all knew but… She'd really grown up. No longer did she look like the lanky teen she had been. It also surprised me that she matured so much.
When Cloud fought the remnant of Sephiroth, who then became the aforementioned mad man, she didn't throw a fit when we agreed it was Cloud's battle to fight. Sure, she still pouted a bit, but that was just Yuffie. I could see the understanding in her eyes.
In a way, I've been blind. She clearly had feelings for me, as I for her. But instead of taking a chance with love again, I tried to shut her out. I even told Cloud that she had no right to call my phone. I ran from the situation… I was scared. Afraid of rejection, afraid she'd leave me like Lucrecia. So, I put up a wall. I tried to avoid her as much as possible. Though, sometimes in my periodic visits to the WRO headquarters I'd see her in the halls. She'd flash me her signature goofy grin, and it'd take all my will power not to take her face in my hands and tell her exactly how I felt. Followed, by some explicit thoughts I'd been having of the young ninja lately. Galian Beast always howled in laughter whenever those thoughts came to mind.
He was also one of the reasons it was so hard to keep my composure around Yuffie. Galian was very…impulsive. He saw that I found Yuffie attractive, and to him that was reason enough to entertain those thoughts I'd had of her.
I'd been a fool.
It took almost losing Yuffie to Nero's darkness to realize it. I loved her, and I couldn't bear it if she'd been hurt. Or worse, if I'd lost her. I'd lost one love already, I wasn't about to lose another.
That's why I had only one thing in mind once I returned to Seventh Heaven after Omega's defeat. Walking into the bar I ignored the chatter of all my friends, heading straight for my target. Yuffie bounced off a bar stool to greet me, but before she uttered a word I pulled her into my embrace, silencing her with a kiss. Her hands tangled themselves in my hair and one of my hands cupped her cheek while the other wrapped around her waist. We stayed like that for awhile, oblivious to the cheers from our friends.
When we finally broke apart, she stayed in my arms and looked up at me,
"Wow Vince, nice to see you too!"
She grinned,
"And here I was thinking you saw right through me."
I smirked,
"I wouldn't say that,"
as I eyed her petite form appreciatively. She laughed and struck a pose.
"Well, it's no wonder you couldn't resist me! Everyone's dying to talk to a babe like me!"
With that she proceeded to tug me around to socialize. I allowed a small smile to flitter across my face; she thought I saw right through her? More like I couldn't take my eyes off her.
Author's notes
So what do you think? Vincent's not too OCC is he? I tried to make his character evolve a little and imagined this would be sorta what he'd be like after the game Dirge of Cerberus. Idk about the kiss scene with Yuffie, but I thought it was cute! Haha when I mentioned evolve it made me think of Pokemon. xD Totally random but whatever! Reviews anyone?