Metal Chocobo: Just a little side note, this series is a set of short stories that are connected. So for most chapters a few months have passed in between entries. I would also like to thank my several reviewers for commenting on my very first post
Disclaimer: Sadly I do not own any of Kingdom Hearts, Disney, or the locations within this story.
Ordinary Adventures
Chapter 2: Snowflakes and Car-Hopping
It was cold out. Not that nasty cold that left Yuffie wishing that she lived in Mount Fuji, but rather a light chill that made it cold enough for snowflakes. Man there were snowflakes; about a bazillion were coming down outside right now and Yuffie had spent the last hour catching them on her tongue. The only reason Yuffie came back into her apartment was because she had developed a brain freeze.
"Ahh," she sighed as she sank into the couch. Stripped off her snow covered gear and burrowed into the furniture under a fuzzy blanket.
As Yuffie was falling asleep, a strawberry blonde slunk out of her bedroom. The girl smirked then pounced on the unsuspecting ninja. There was a high-pitched girlish scream and then flailing limbs.
Yuffie was being jabbed and tickled by a monster. She couldn't see who was attacking her so she jabbed, kicked, and hit back. The girl managed to get a hold of some squishy flesh when it was shoved in her face. Since she couldn't breathe, Yuffie did what Yuffie would normally do, she bit it.
"Gwaaa!" her attacker yelled and fell off the couch. Unfortunately for Yuffie, the tussle had entangled the girls in the blanket, so she fell off too.
"Rikku," Yuffie growled as she starred at her attacker.
"You bit my boob!" wailed Rikku.
"You attacked me!" Yuffie yelled back. Rikku pouted a little and looked ready to start crying. Yuffie sighed and then said, "I'm sorry for giving you boob-pain, Two-k, now why did you attack me?"
Rikku immediately smirked at Yuffie's question. This made Yuffie inwardly groan. She knew that smirk, that was the smirk that Rikku used to get men to get her free stuff. Seeing it on Two-K's face with no hapless men around spelt trouble for Yuffie.
Rikku took her time in answering, "You got a phone call."
Yuffie perked up. She loved phone calls. They made her feel loved, especially when one of her studly man friends called because they sucked at talking on the phone. "Who called?" she asked with a grin.
"It was on your cell phone," Rikku continued as if she hadn't heard Yuffie.
The ninja's grin faltered and her brow furrowed. Nobody really used her cell phone number because everyone knew she always forgot it in strange places (Rikku once found it in a tub of Rocky Road in the freezer) or let the battery die. The fact that Rikku was able to answer it in the first place was amazing in and of itself.
"Who was it?" she asked again.
"A girl," Rikku said. She drew out the word 'girl' like an annoying little brother would.
Yuffie grabbed Rikku by the shoulders and pushed the girl onto her back. The black-haired girl sat on the blonde's stomach and shook her. "What girl?" she yelled It had been months since Yuffie had been on a date and she hated being single. If the girl was calling Yuffie, the possibility of getting a girlfriend was there. Spending another winter single was not acceptable to Yuffie. The season was bad enough because she couldn't surf, throwing in a bunch of lonely nights was not happening.
"Kairi," Rikku said with a knowing grin. Whatever reaction the girl was expecting, it wasn't what Yuffie gave her.
Yuffie stared blankly into space. 'Who the hell is Kairi?' she thought, 'Arrgg! I know that name!' She growled and leaned against the couch. Yuffie exhaled loudly and gave Rikku a mournful look.
"Is she someone bad?" Rikku asked worriedly. Her teasing mood had vanished when she saw that Yuffie was unhappy. "Is she an ex? I could kick her ass if you'd like, Yuff."
"No, no, no," Yuffie said waving her arms about, "It's nothing like that. I remember all of my exs in great detail. Thing is, I can't remember who Kairi is. Could it have been a wrong number, Rikku?"
Rikku looked thoughtful. "I don't think so." She finally said, "She asked for you by name. She was pretty timid and sounded a little young." Rikku grinned, "She asked if I was your girlfriend. As if! I told her I was very happy with my Gippal, thank you very much."
"Kairi… young… girlfriend," muttered Yuffie. Then it hit her. "Oh," she exclaimed putting her hands to her mouth, "The cute redhead from the islands!"
"Summer surfing fling?"
"I wish," Yuffie said with a grin. She looked at Rikku and continued, "Remember the Destiny Islands comp where I just barely finished second after that silver haired dude?
"Guys with my name, yeah I remember those islands."
"I just met this gorgeous babe there," Yuffie said savoring the memory. Not only did the memory have a cute redhead, it also held an exploding blender and a marriage fruit. "She was this cute little redhead," Yuffie continued, "So timid and unsure about how to react to me—"
"Most people have that reaction, Yuffie," cut in Rikku.
"I stole her first kiss and gave her my phone number," Yuffie said with a glare at the other girl. "I didn't get to see her again while I was on the islands. I'm so happy she called!" squealed Yuffie as she threw her arms around Rikku.
"She didn't leave a number, Yuffie," Rikku said quietly.
Yuffie's spirit fell. She pulled back from Rikku and looked at her sadly. "She didn't?" she asked.
Rikku shook her head. "The cell phone died before she could tell me. I'm sorry, Yuff."
The two girls sat in a gloomy silence. An idea started to form in Yuffie's head. She grinned and stood up. "I know how to get Kairi's phone number," she said.
Rikku perked up when she caught Yuffie's enthusiasm. "How?" she asked as she got up from the floor.
"The Destiny Islands' directory! It's a list of all the inhabitants' home addresses and phone numbers. Wuti has one, Tokyo has one, so why not the Islands?"
"It's a great plan, Yuffie, but do you have Kairi's last name?"
"I don't need it!" Yuffie shouted with an insane laugh. She leapt onto the couch's back and continued, "We have the surfer dude's last name! He's Kairi's friend, so he should have her number. Bwa haha haha haha—ekkk!" The 'ekkk' occurred when Yuffie lost her footing and took a swan dive off the couch.
Several hours later Yuffie had made some headway. She had figured out the surfer's name, which was Riku Jenova, and had just gotten his home phone number by pretending to be his elderly aunt.
Rikku had left the apartment an hour ago for a date with Gippal, so Yuffie had the apartment all to herself. Yuffie stretched and yawned. The surfer had spent the last three hours bullying and harassing phone operators into giving her what she wanted. She figured it was time for a break.
'After all,' Yuffie thought as she made herself a smoothie. 'Kairi wouldn't want me to keel over and die of starvation before our first date.' She was mindful to make certain that the blender top was on tight. She drank her smoothie before getting back to work.
Yuffie twisted the phone cord through her fingers as she waited for Riku to pick up. She could never remember ever being this impatient to hear from a man. Finally the phone was answered. Yuffie resisted the urge to cheer.
"Sephiroth speaking," a man, presumably Sephiroth, answered.
"Its this the Jenova residence?" Yuffie politely asked.
"Yes."
"May I please speak to Riku?"
"One moment please," Sephiroth calmly said. Yuffie heard the phone move and then the man bellowed, "Riku! Stop trying to suck Sora's face off and get down here!"
The phone was silent for a minute before Yuffie heard muttering on the other end. Then another man, Riku, was on the line. "Hello," he said, sounding somewhat annoyed.
Yuffie felt the direct approach would be best. "Do you have Kairi's phone number?" she asked.
"What?" the man asked, clearly surprised at the request.
"Do you have Kairi's phone number?" Yuffie repeated and then felt she should explain, "Look she's sixteen, or at least was this summer, red hair purple eyes, great body. She said that you were her friend, so do you have her number?"
"Kairi," he said slowly, "Has a great body?"
Yuffie was ready to scream. "Have you looked at her?" she snapped.
"Almost every day of my life," was the reply.
Yuffie glared at the phone. Clearly this Riku did not know what a good-looking woman looked like. She heard some noise on the other end of the phone. Riku was talking to someone.
"I donno, Sora, it's some chick who wants Kairi's body," Riku said.
"I want her phone number! PHONE NUMBER! Damn it!" Yuffie screamed into the phone.
The surfer heard some muffled swearing before another boy, who was much more cheerful, was on the line.
"Hello, this is Sora," he said, "May I ask who is calling?"
Yuffie smiled, "Hello Sora, nice to meet you. I'm Yuffie, do you have Kairi's phone number?"
"Yes, but it won't do you any good," Sora said.
"Why not?" whined Yuffie.
"Well, she's in Tokyo right now," Sora said a little uncomfortably.
"Tokyo," Yuffie exclaimed. She could do Tokyo, she lived in Tokyo. She was so going to find Kairi.
"She's staying with her… Oh God… uncle…" Sora trailed off with heavy panting. Yuffie tapped her fingers on the counter. She wasn't really in the mood to listening to boys do something she really didn't want to think about. "Riku, stop it… sorry Yuffie, umm what were we talking about?"
"Where is Kairi?" Yuffie asked through clenched teeth.
"She is staying with her cousin, Axel."
"Got a phone number?"
"No," Sora said. Yuffie wanted to cry; she was never going to find Kairi at this rate. "But I do have an address," he added.
"I could kiss you," Yuffie said with a grin.
An hour later Yuffie was banging on her good friend Aeris's door. The lady owned a great flower shop and Yuffie needed flowers. After all, flowers were a key part to wooing someone. Yuffie planned to woo.
"Aeris! Aeris, I know you're in there!" Yuffie yelled as she continued to pound on the door.
Suddenly the door was opened and Yuffie was banging against flesh instead of wood. The flesh was well toned and belonged to her good friend Leon, who she fondly called Squallykins. He was only wearing a pair of pajama bottoms and a scowl. Yuffie grinned up at him.
"Can Aeris come out and play?" Yuffie asked, "I need flowers."
Leon glared at her, "You shatter this neighborhood's peace and drag me out of bed because you need flowers."
"No," Yuffie said wagging her finger, " I shattered this neighborhood's peace and dragged you out of bed because I want Aeris out of bed to get me flowers."
"You are one crazy bitch," Leon said.
"Yup, but you love me," Yuffie said with a grin, "and if you don't get Aeris down here, I'm going to spend the entire night on your doorstep singing opera."
Leon growled and then turned around to go and get his wife. Yuffie smirked as she waited for Aeris. She loved the pair dearly, Aeris and Squall 'call me Leon' Leonhart were like older siblings, and understood they needed sleep, but she'd be damned if she spent another season single.
It was almost midnight and Yuffie was hiding in some bushes. She had the flowers (provided by Aeris's shop), she had the candy in a heart shaped box, and she even had a stuffed moogle doll. Yuffie was outside Kairi's Cousin Axel's house and she was nervous.
'What if she doesn't remember who I am?' Yuffie wondered completely forgetting that Kairi had tried to contact her first. Yuffie walked up to the front door and took a deep breath. 'What am I thinking?' thought Yuffie, 'I'm the Great Ninja Yuffie and of course she'll remember me. With my charm, I can easily win Kairi over.'
Yuffie rang the bell and found herself face to chest for the second time that night with an annoyed shirtless male. When she looked up, she saw that he had long, spiky red hair and a smirk. He was glaring at her, so she glared back.
"The flowers are lovely," he said, "but I have to disappoint you, I'm already taken."
Yuffie smirked back. "Charming," she said, "You must be cousin Axel. Is Kairi home? Because these are for her, not you."
Axel looked surprised. He rubbed the back of his head and said, "I didn't know that Kairi was a lesbo."
"She doesn't either, at least not yet," Yuffie said. The girl sighed, "I met Kairi last summer. She was cute, I gave her my number and haven't seen her since. She called my cell today, which my stupid roommate got instead, so I didn't talk to her and I wanna talk to her which meant pretending to be Riku Jenova's aunt which lead me here." Yuffie paused for air. With every word she said, she had been speaking faster and faster. She always did that when she was nervous. "So," she concluded, "is Kairi here?"
Axel blinked. "You are one weird chick," he said and then stood to the side of the door to allow Yuffie in. "Down the hall, second door on the right, he added after Yuffie came into the house.
Yuffie followed those instructions while Axel went back to his phone conversation. The girl crept up to the door and gently knocked against the wood. She waited silently for an answer from within.
"Go away Axel!" Kairi yelled from inside the room, "I don't wanna hear your Roxas woes. You don't need my help getting in his pants."
Yuffie's heart skipped a beat. Her goofy grin plastered itself across her face. She had found Kairi! Yuffie bit her lower lip, still smiling. Kairi sounded a little more forceful, which was a good thing since Yuffie wanted a girlfriend and not a pet.
The surfer ninja opened the door slowly and peeked inside. Kairi was sitting at a desk with her back to the door. The girl was reading a book by the light of a table lamp. Yuffie slipped in and carefully shut the door behind her. She sat her offerings on the bed and slunk up behind Kairi.
Yuffie grinned. She slapped her hands over Kairi's eyes and sang, "Guess who?"
Kairi sat still for a moment, then timidly asked, "Selphie?"
Yuffie shook her head, "Nope."
"Umm… Larxene, Axel's friend?"
Yuffie shook her head again, "Nope."
Kairi made a wild guess, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer?"
Yuffie grinned. "Close, but no cigar," she said. Yuffie then spun the girl around and cried, "It's meee!"
Kairi blinked. Yuffie grinned. Kairi blinked. Yuffie grinned. Kairi stared. Yuffie smiled. Then, "Yuffie?" Kairi asked slowly.
"The one and only," Yuffie said.
"What are you doing here?" asked a bewildered Kairi.
"Picking you up for our date."
"What date?"
"The one you initiated when you called me."
"I didn't even reach you," cried Kairi indignantly, "I got your roommate!"
"And for that I am truly sorry," Yuffie said. She got down on her knees so that they were more or less looking eye to eye. "But I am here now," she said, "and I brought flowers."
Kairi stared at her again, "How did you even find me?"
Yuffie grinned. "I have my ways," she said, "Now come get your presents!" The surfer then pulled the younger girl over to the bed and had her sit down.
"What is this?" Kairi asked lifting up the white blob.
"A moogle," Yuffie answered promptly.
"Okay… and you got me coconut chocolates."
"Is there a problem with coconut?" Yuffie asked.
"I'm allergic."
"Oh… I'll do better next time."
"You got orchids," Kairi said when she looked at the flowers.
"Are you allergic to those too?" Yuffie pulled on her hair, "I should have gotten roses… all of my gifts suck."
Kairi smiled at Yuffie. "I love orchids," she said softly.
"Well, at least I got something right," Yuffie said with a laugh. The two lapsed into an uneasy silence. This wasn't how Yuffie wanted their second meeting to go. She wanted excitement, fireworks, the good stuff, but so far, all she had done was mess up.
"It's nice to see you Yuffie," Kairi finally said.
Yuffie leapt into action. "Yeah, it's great to see you too," she said happily, "So what do you want to do?"
"Well," Kairi said thoughtfully as she got up from the bed, "The flowers need to be put in water, so I think that should be done first. After all, it would be bad if your gift died."
Yuffie nodded dumbly. Aeris would approve of Kairi's choice, they both seemed to believe that people needed to care for flowers. The two girls entered the kitchen in order to put the flowers in a vase. Axel was sitting at the table talking dirty to the phone and barely glanced in their direction.
"It he," Yuffie trailed off.
"Trying to arrange a foursome?" Yes," Kairi said as she started running some water. Yuffie gave her a look. She smiled and added, "Yeah, he's really weird. So shall we do this date thing later today, like after the sunrises?"
"Why not now?" Yuffie asked, quite puzzled.
"Because its after midnight, you vampire bat" Kairi said teasingly, "and unlike you, I can't stay up all night. I usually conk out in about an hour."
"Fine," grumbled Yuffie, "We'll meet for ice cream tomorrow. Tenish, at the Diamond Dust six blocks from here."
Kairi smiled slightly at the suggestion. She walked Yuffie to the door, which was when Yuffie kissed Kairi. This time Kairi didn't seem quite as surprised and she didn't freak out.
"Until tomorrow," Yuffie said with a grin, and then she left.
Yuffie woke up warm and content. She had a date with Kairi around ten. It was at an ice cream parlor in the middle of winter, but since Kairi agreed to it, Yuffie wasn't complaining. Yuffie took a leisurely shower and then ate breakfast. She got dressed and painted her nails. She wanted to look her best for her date.
Yuffie was just pulling on her roller blades when she glanced at the microwave clock. It read 10:54 am. Yuffie screamed. She was over an hour behind schedule.
"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit," Yuffie swore as she viciously tugged her blades on. She messed up on the straps four times before she got them on.
Yuffie raced out of the apartment. She fell down half a flight of stairs before she got her footing. She burst out of her building and sped through the crowd. Considering the crowds in Tokyo, Yuffie made excellent time by ducking and weaving.
She made it to the ice cream parlor by 11:30. After slamming into the glass door, she entered cautiously and looked for her redhead. No luck, Kairi wasn't in the shop. Yuffie growled, ran her hands through her hair and sat down on the counter.
She spied Rikku working behind the counter. "Two-K!" Yuffie yelped, "Have you seen Kairi?"
Rikku looked at her blankly, "Who?"
"Red hair, purple eyes, great body," Yuffie said with her face inches away from Rikku's.
Rikku looked thoughtful for a moment. "Well there was a girl in here who fits that description," she said slowly. Then Rikku shrugged, "She was in here for about an hour or so, just left about twenty minutes ago." Rikku looked around, Yuffie was gone.
"Stupid alarm clock dying on of all days," Yuffie muttered as she skated along. She would look up and glance around the snowy city every now and then, hoping to see red hair.
Yuffie was a romantic idiot, she hated to admit it, but who else besides a hopeless romantic idiot would chase after a girl she barely knew in the middle of winter. Yuffie had no idea if she was going in the right direction to find Kairi or even why she was going to such extremes. All she knew was that at twenty, she was sick of messing up. There was something about Kairi that Yuffie couldn't describe, but she dearly liked.
Then she saw it. Red hair across the street, Yuffie knew it had to be Kairi, after all how many redheads were there in an Asian city?
Yuffie stopped and yelled, "Kairi!"
The girl didn't seem to hear her, or at least she didn't stop. Yuffie growled, she had already messed up enough today and she wasn't going to screw up again. Yuffie took thirty seconds to analyze, Kairi was moving away on the other side of the busy street. It she tried to find a crosswalk, she'd have to wait for it and Kairi could be gone forever before Yuffie could make it across the street.
'Screw it,' Yuffie though angrily, 'I'm going to do what the Great Ninja Yuffie would do.'
Then, ignoring the strange looks she was getting, Yuffie ran up to the street and started climbing a bus. People inside of the vehicle were giving her weird looks, but she made it to the roof. She skated down the roof and nimbly hopped onto the top of a nearby taxi. For once Yuffie was happy for the over population and the deadlocked streets. She leaped and skated from rooftop to rooftop, slowly gaining on her friend.
"Kairi!" Yuffie shouted once she was closer, "Kairi!"
The girl turned around. The anger on her face was immediately replaced by shock. The girl watched as Yuffie finished crossing the street. Yuffie leaped off the roof of the last car and sped toward Kairi. Unfortunately the combination of ice and the busted brake from landing on the back of a pickup truck meant that Yuffie ran Kairi over instead of stopping in front of her.
They hit the ground in a tangle of legs. Yuffie, since she ran into Kairi, was on top. The girl lay there panting while she tried to recover from using her ninja skills.
"What is wrong with you?" Kairi barked when she pushed the older girl off of her.
"Don't be mad," Yuffie pleaded, "My alarm clock died. I came as fast as I could, but you were already gone, and Rikku was no help, so I ran over cars when I saw you because I want there to be an us."
They sat there again with Kairi starring and Yuffie silently pleading for forgiveness, even though she was smiling.
"I've fallen for you," Yuffie said quietly, "at least twice."
"I must be insane," Kairi said move to herself than to Yuffie. The girl stood up and slowly pulled Yuffie up too.
The pair started to walk down the sidewalk, ignoring the strange looks they were getting. Kairi smiled hesitantly. "Those were some fancy moves you used back there," she said, "Where did you learn to jump like that?"
"My dad," Yuffie said with a slight smile, "He's a dojo master in Wuti, taught me almost every thing he knew. We had a big falling out when he found out that I'm, you know… a chick who likes chicks."
"Well it was really something," Kairi said with a laugh, "I thought you were going to break your neck."
"Well excuse me, I figured our kids would want some excitement in the story of how their moms met," Yuffie said as she wrapped her arms around the other girl.
"But this isn't how we met," Kairi said sounding annoyed. She then stopped and gave Yuffie a strange look. "What kids?" she asked unsurely.
"Oh, the ones we'll have later on," Yuffie said. "Don't sweat it," she added and kissed Kairi on the cheek.
"I wanna take things one step at a time," Kairi said giving Yuffie the look.
"We will," promised Yuffie.
"Now for the first step," Kairi said, "Do you know of someplace where we can get warm?"
"I believe I do," Yuffie answered with a smile. And she did.
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