Okay I haven't played FFVII in a while so, I may have to go back and play to do research, yeah I know blasphemy right! Oh well, I want to get most of this right.

Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine, belongs to SquareEnix.

After a year Wutai started getting something more than just plain old tourist. They were now getting rich, wealthy, materia collecting tourist. Men and women who would pay dearly for rare and mastered materia. After a couple of weeks, the money people spent on materia was being put into restoring the town and it's people. They can once again educate their youth and train the willing. They could create new jobs and start a real growing economy. They started to pay people to use rare materia so they can reproduce what little stock they had. Wutai finally seemed to be getting back on track. Yuffie who was wearing new imported clothes was walking out of Turtles Paradise she took a couple of steps and paused to look around at her surroundings. She took pride in what she saw, a future city, perhaps the next metropolis. A young couple passed by her in traditional robes, they nodded as they passed. She then continued on to her father's house.

She got to the steps, opened the door and made her way to the living room which was only occupied by a sleeping cat.

"Father I'm here! Where are you?" she bellowed as she continued to search through the house. Finally she found him in his shrine room. The room was full of smoke due to lit incenses, he was on his mat bowing down, worshiping the golden statue god. She continued to walk in, he suddenly rose and perked up when he heard sneakers on the floor.

"What!? It's not like old times father," she said as she sat down behind her father and bowed down to god.

"I understand but I still expect my daughter to carry on the ways of our culture," he said his voice slow, calm, and aged as he now sat there in silence. She looked down feeling a little disappointed in herself.

"That brings me to other matters," he said breaking the silence. Yuffie looked at her father confused.

"What matters?"

"Matters why I summoned you here in the first place," he continued. Yuffie stayed quiet as she stared at her father who seemed to be unaffected by her staring and question.

"As you are now here; I am proud to say my daughter a savior of the world, my daughter the bringer of formal glory to our great Wutai, but not to the throne?" he finished ending in a deep murmur. He then slit open his eyes as he glanced over at her direction. Yuffie looked away angered by fathers last remark.

"Well I can take over the thrown by myself," she said to her father in a low irritated voice.

"That is not tradition," he said loudly.

"What? Why does it always have to be about tradition? When I know you just want me to be…" she stopped suddenly then looked down to her side irritated. "I don't want to say it," she spat out.

"You were suppose to be married four years ago," he replied.

"I know… but I just... I don't know father I was simply not ready," Yuffie revealed defeated.

"Being ruler is not simply sitting up in the Pagoda all day. It takes a great deal of responsibility to be ruler of Wutai," he said regally.

"I can handle the responsibility!"

"You say you can, I know you can but is your maturity as great as you dignity and heart?" he then stood up, his socks making a soft thumping sound as he made his way to the door.

"Now if you excuse me I have other business to attend to," with that he left the room leaving her in silence. Yuffie watched her father leave before staring up at the many armed god. She looked down at the floor and bowed to her god and began to prey.

After preying for prosperity and peace, she then made her way out of her father's house, trying to figure out what her father meant by maturity being as great as her dignity and heart. What was she immature? No it can't be she helped saved the world and her city so it can't be it but what does he mean? Does maturity have to do with being married?

Yuffie continued to walk though town pondering about marriage and maturity, it made no sense. She continued to walk around until nightfall she found herself slightly drunk and alone on top of Da-Chao statue. The sky was full of stars but could be barely seen though the lit streets and roads of the growing city below. It was beautiful, her home and to think that she help it brought back its original light. She sat there looking down at the city, looking down at something she can own. She sat there in silence for a couple of hours then finally after a long decision processes she made her way down to Wutai.

"I have to stop running away," she spoke softly to herself.

"I am back father," Yuffie said as she reached her father's house it was now considerably late, yet she came in strong and resilient.

"Yes I can see that. What brings you here at this late of hour?" he asked as he was now pouring himself tea in the living room.

"I came here to say something. Well more like an announcement really," she said as she just stood there fidgeting with her fingers. Her father looked up at her as a response.

"Well I have been thinking a lot lately and I realized you're right I haven't been exactly the most mature person in the world. I really want to be a good ruler father and I want to do so...by following the traditional way," she ended silently waiting for anything to break the nervous feeling she had.

"I am proud of your decision Yuffie," he let out a hearty smile and made his way towards her to embrace her in a hug. "You do not know how much this means to me," he said happily. Yuffie felt like she was signing away her freedom right then and there.

The next morning Yuffie woke in her old room in her father's house. She moaned a bit as she heard voices in the room next door. She try ignoring them at first but alas they didn't seem like they would ever stop. Finally after a while she gave up and got up to see what was all the ranting about. She slowly made her way to the living room. Her father Godo was in deep conversation with a couple of guest. All of them were in traditional robes and all of them were old like her father with serious faces.

"Uh Hi! He he I didn't know my father had guest," Yuffie lied as she started to scratch behind her head. She looked at all the people who now were giving her mixed glares.

"Ah Yuffie we are now currently discussing your wedding. It will take place in a month, to give us time to take care of all the arrangements."

"Arrangements? A month?" she let out exasperated.

"Yes… let me introduce to you our wedding planner Mizizuko Haiashida, Hayate Kirima who well be the decorator, Tengo Tanaka who is town organizer and event planner, and Hatsomomo Yoshida who is your nakado "matchmaker" and will be helping you prepare for this event as well," he said as he laid out his hand as he was a game show hostess presenting prizes .

"Ha, I.. I better get some air," she squeaked stupidly and walked outside in her pajamas, barefooted as she started taking in deep breathes. She started to pace and finally she kicked the side of her fathers house in anger and bangede her leg and upper toe.

"D'oh, how can I be so stupid?!" she cringed as she grasped her throbbing toe. Citizens starred at her perplexedly as they passed by. Finally she decided to stop embarrassing herself further considering she was going to be a future ruler and run back home.

Hatsomomo was a very uptight, well dressed, traditional woman. She was a full woman who had small eyes, thin lips and a long nose. Her long black hair was always over decorated and her voice was high pitch and snobby. She wasn't happy to see that Yuffie was a modern, sarcastic, thin, young woman. She was especially mad when Yuffie was training in her expensive Kimonos. She now had to learn all the ways a wife had to be and come to expect. It was the worst thing Yuffie had ever experience, being stripped from her freedom and old privileges. But each time she saw her father looking at her, his face glowing with pride, she couldn't help but say nothing.

"Now your father says he wants to invite as many people as possible, so of course he gave me these invitations to give to you. He said he would be honored to meet those you befriended on your journeys. However if it was up to me no outsiders would be in invited to this ceremony," she finished.

"Yeah, yeah well thank god it's not!" Yuffie chortled before grabbing the invitations and went into her room. She made her way to the floor and started to think of those she wanted to invite. She invited all her neighbors and relatives even though she was sure the whole city knew by now. She then closed her eyes, trying her best to remember where all her friends lived. She then wrote down.

Midgar, Section 7, Seventh Heaven Bar. Cosmo Canyon Nanaki's Residence, Rocket Town Cid Highwind

Yuffie looked down at the three invitations, Is that it!? she thought. She couldn't remember where or how she would invite all the others, if she didn't know where they lived or much less have a home. She knew Reeves lived in Midgar still but didn't know where. She had no idea about Cloud and especially Vincent. Yuffie paused a bit, an image of a man in red cloak came to her, Hmmm like he'd come anyhow. She shook her head and returned out of her room. She handed back the invitations to Hotsomomo who was making herself at home reading her books.

"Here these are it!" she said cheerfully, Hotsomomo just pursed her lips and accepted them as she continue to read the book. Yuffie went back to her room mumbling.

-Author's Note-

Updated

(In this story her father doesn't live in the Pagoda but lives house in the North South part of Town. I figure why not, it's better than main mtn., I wasn't sure about the God either I'm pretty sure it was a Buddhist God, Okay as you see I've read Memoirs of a Geisha along time ago back in 2002 and loved it. I used Hotsomomo in the book as my basis for this story thank you. Oh yeah also... pre-advent though and pre DoC...so deal with it.. that sounded mean okay...slightly AU, also I haven't played DoC yet either.)