Hey guys! I hope you're liking the story so far! And I'm REALLY sorry that this story is progressing SO slowly -_- I think just 2-5 more chapters until a time jump and then another time jump that will start to overlap Crisis Core's timeline. I hope you guys are willing to stick with me on this story til the end!

The shuriken flung back to me, I raised my arm to catch it and amazingly enough, I did. "Bravo Cissnei!" Alan clapped from behind me, congratulating on my first ever catch. "Very nice!" He grinned. "You've been practicing while I've been gone haven't you?" He asked suspiciously, yet jokingly at the same time. He ruffled my hair, "well the teachers told me to expect great things from you, and I guess they're right!" He exclaimed, surprised that my teachers weren't exaggerating. "You have determination, that's a great quality to have you know." He smiled at me warmly, I did the same.

"Thanks." I said, rather nonchalantly. Everybody has been telling me that, but not as much as telling me that you can't trust anyone because everyone was your enemy. 'I better watch out for that Reno kid then...' I looked back at Alan, who was still ranting about determination.

"-So you'll never have to be in that situation!" He looked back down at me and apologized. "Sorry..." He laughed nervously. "I was starting to rant again wasn't I?" I laughed and nodded. I've known Alan practically ever since I've arrived at Shinra, and he's like my older brother.

"Come on Cissnei," he took back the 4-pointed shuriken. "I think you've made a lot of progress, you can have an early lunch." I beamed at him.

"Yay!" I ran to the door. "Aren't you coming?" I asked, whirling around to see him pick up his own shuriken.

"Yeah, not now though." He glanced up at me. "I'm going to practice for a while." He then spun around and threw the shuriken. His throw is a lot more smoother than mine, and a lot harder. The shuriken just went through the manikin like it was a warm knife through butter.

After I had quickly slapped two sandwiches together, I had made another two for Alan. I snatched a piece of paper and a pen and wrote:

For Alan

On it, just to make sure that no one would eat it instead... Still, it's not like a piece of paper would protect it. I shrugged it off and left floor 56, which was the main area for Turks to stay in. It was the where the lounge was and where we all ate dinner and breakfast. But we could just pop in for a quick lunch whenever we wanted, there wasn't a set time.

I didn't really like eating with the other Turks, it was kind of awkward, I was the practically only girl in this whole organization! I would usually just sit with Alan and his friends but it would still be rather awkward, counting that I didn't really know who I was sitting with.

I sighed and walked to the elevator. I didn't really have anything to do until dinner, and that was at six and that's about six hours away! I pressed floor 53 to go to the female Turks reside. 'Maybe I'll go read that books in my room...'

Ever since I had got given my new room, there's been a big pile of books in it. I still don't know if they were supposed to be there, if someone had given them to me or if the previous person had left them and had forgotten to take them back with them.

I sighed again, wishing the elevator would hurry up so I could get to my room.

Ding!

"Finally," I muttered angrily to no one in particular. The doors slide open.

I walked to room 08, my apartment. It was actually pretty roomy for one person. I made my way into my room and browsed through the bookshelf that was in it, 'which book...' I preferred fantasy and adventure, ever since reading a book including angels.

Angels were probably my favorite mythical creature, they had wings and in the book, it had taught me that wings symbolizes freedom.

I sighed, reminiscing. 'I wish I had wings like an angel.'

"Cissnei!" I heard someone call from outside my apartment. I had finally chosen a book called 'Tomorrow, when the war began.' Not a fantasy story but it did have adventure so that was good enough, and besides, that was the only book that looked interesting enough for me to read for six hours.

"Coming!" I yelled, I placed the book down on the couch and opened the door. Alan was standing there with his hand midway in the air, about to knock on my door.

We made our way into the elevator and he clicked floor 56. "Hey, thanks for that sandwich." He said out of nowhere. I smiled, so the piece of paper did its duty after all.

"No problem," we were sent into an awkward silence.

After arriving at our destination, he spoke up. "You know, you could actually go on your first mission soon if you keep making progress like that." He referred to this mornings training session. "But I'm warning you, it's actually really hard putting training into practice when you're suddenly moving around and dodging..." He said, his voice full of alarm.

"Why don't you just give me more training?" He looked down at me while we walked.

"Well, once you've almost finished learning the shuriken, you'll get a few different trainers for evasive tactics and defensive tactics." He explained to me simply. I nodded, slightly disappointed. I didn't really like meeting new people, you have to make the perfect first impression and the worst part about that is that you only have on chance at one. Hence its name, a 'first' impression.

Alan pushed open the twin doors, leading to a room which kind of actually looked like a cafeteria if you really looked at it. There was a place where you get food, eat food and where to throw your food out. But that's not the only similarity it had to school cafeterias, it was also separated from the lower ranked Turks and the higher ranked. It was actually kind of funny.

"Alan, over here!" I heard a voice call him over. Alan grinned at his friend and went over to sit with him.

"Come on, Cissnei!" He gestured for me to go over as well.

"Hey, who's this?" I looked up to see a someone that never sat at our table before. One of Alan's best friends, Ethan, answered for me.

"Lucas, that's Cissnei." Ethan quickly said. 'Lucas' nodded.

"So... What weapon do you use, Cissnei?" Lucas said, trying to spark a conversation.

"Shurikens," I said monotonously. Lucas grinned.

"Just like your brother huh?" He gestured to Alan. Alan laughed. "Kind of 'like father like son'."

"Okay, that theory is completely wrong." I said, Lucas looked at me curiously. "First of all, he's not my Dad. Second, I'm a girl. And third, we're not related at all!" It got really awkward for them, I could tell. I mean, some girl, who isn't related to Alan is sitting within their group of friends. Plus, I was being the scientific me, always spoiling the fun. Or as they would call it, a 'smartarse'.

"So... She good at it?" Ethan, the gun wielder asked, not really paying attention to me.

"Yeah!" Alan replied enthusiastically, grinning at his friend.

"She's already caught it!" Ethan and Lucas both raised an eyebrow at this.

"Everyone can catch things..." Lucas said, still not paying to the person they were talking about. 'Man... These people are oblivious...' I thought to myself, slightly struggling to take the so called 'tender' steak.

"Hey," Alan said, picking up his fork which still had a piece of steak on it and using it to point at them. "It's hard to master the shuriken!" With that, he popped the meat into his mouth.

"Sure it is," Ethan rolled his eyes. "And besides, the shuriken looks like it should be a girls weapon." Alan narrowed his eyes.

"Okay, a challenge then." He said, defending himself. "After dinner we go to the trained area and you guys try to use a shuriken." Alan smirked. "Keyword: try." He held the 'y' for emphasis. "If you guys can do it, I'll give you both twenty bucks-" He said.

"And if we don't?" Ethan said slyly.

"You give me twenty bucks." The three men all smirked and agreed.

"It's on." I shook my head in disappointment. "What?" Lucas said, finally they paid some attention to me.

"You guys are so immature..." I got up and emptied my tray of leftovers. I left them, all stunned from what I said. 'Guys are so weird...'

Well, soon enough, Alan had dragged his two gun wielder friends off to the training center and I went as well... What? I wanted to see if they would find it hard!

"Well, pick one." Alan walked to the table and made a sweeping motion over the shurikens, like he had done when it was my first try. Ethan grinned and took one that was quite different to the others. It had two blades and a handle in the middle, I believe it was called the Twin Viper. I flinched, I had read up on shurikens and the Twin Viper was one of the hardest to use. Ethan threw it up and caught it, probably to get a feel for it.

"You realize that one is one of the hardest to use, right?" Alan said, pointing at it with a surprised look on his face.

"Yeah, but I'm not a beginner!" Ethan said confidently, I wasn't surprised at his reaction. He was always kind of stubborn and I think he has a pretty big ego. I saw Lucas walk over to the table and grabbed the Boomerang. Funny thing is, that it's named after what it literately is!

Alan put no protest to Lucas using the Boomerang, I guess it was quite easy to use.

"Okay, you two try and hit one of those manikins." He pointed to the manikins that were ten meters away.

"Easy!" Ethan pumped his chest out, what he usually did before doing a challenge. He said it 'pumped' him up. Lucas smirked at Alan.

"That's easy!" He said, raising the boomerang to throw it. Ethan did the same. Alan just grinned and crossed his arms smugly, he backed away to stand next to me. "Get ready to catch them," he bent down to whisper in my ear. I smirked, honestly, I also had a suspicion that they would fail as well.

"Three, two," Alan gave them a countdown. They straitened up and aimed. "One, go!" They threw it at the same time, they both successfully hit the manikins and both cut them. Ethan turned around while Lucas kept watching the shurikens fly. "That was easy!" Ethan declared, at that moment, the shurikens can flying back. They had made the same mistake I had, they didn't expect it to come zooming back at their heads.

"Get down!" Lucas yelled, pulling Ethan down. Ethan had barely escaped, it literately took off the top of his hair.

I reached up and caught the Boomerang, trusting that Alan would do the same with the Twin Viper. "Pay up!" Alan grinned, they groaned and dipped their hands in their pockets, fishing out some cash. "Here..." Lucas grumbled, slapping the money into Alan's hand. Ethan did the same, not saying anything, wallowing in his defeat.

I grinned smugly, that just proved them wrong. 'Told you using shurikens were hard! Even a little girl can use it better than you!'

Okay, I bet some of you are going 'This story is SO drabbly!' But let me just tell you now, it's about Cissnei's life so I want to cover most of it and how she lived (In my imagination).

A one on the shuriken names, they are all based off Yuffie's Weapon so they may seem a little familiar to you!

And also, that 'Guys are so weird' thing, I implied for that to be in here xD I can't really help it though... My school is filled with weird boys -_- They go around with their friends stealing each others shoes, and even trying to dunk their pencil cases in the toilet! I mean come on! O_O Are all boys like this or something?

Please review~! Reviews are like cookies... And EVERYONE loves cookies! ~ I got that off someones profile. So if you like cookies, REVIEW! And could you guys also tell me if was boring? I found it slightly boring when I was proofreading it... I DO TAKE ANONYMOUS REVIEWS!