A/N: Credit to LiveLifeLikeNeverBefore for ideas for Anna's past!

"Your what?!" Yuffie exclaimed, staring at the girl behind Keto's chair.

"...My younger sister." Keto repeated, his eyes had glazed over and he looked straight ahead, trying to avoid the questions he knew were soon coming.

"But... How... What..." Yuffie didn't know which question to ask first so instead her mouth tried to ask them all at the same time, typical.

"Her eyes..." Vincent was leaning against the door again and had recovered from his shock, the gun back in it's place. He kept his eyes trained on the strange girl but directed the question to Keto. "They're mako infused..."

Anna started to shy away from the tall man and stared at the floor, trying to hide the faint glow in her purple irises. She swallowed hard, grabbing hold of Keto shirt once again.

"Yeah, after my father was killed seven years ago, a lot of things happened." One of Keto's hands, which was resting on the table, curled into a fist. His face was still placid but no doubt the thoughts going through his mind weren't good ones. "He was killed on an island not far from here, it was an uninhabited island so there was no reason for someone to be there and accidentally shoot him. Someone was hired to do it. I was left there on my own with no way of getting off the island but a rowing boat I could hardly move, it took me five hours to row back to Belzeek. Meanwhile back home, Shinra had decided to eradicate my whole family. Some SOLDIER were dispersed in my home town, Junon, to kill anyone related to my father. I was safe because I wasn't supposed to be on that island but no one else was. SOLDIER murdered my mother in the living room in front of Anna. They kidnapped her and took her back to headquarters."

Anna's body trickled away from sight again and but her hold on Keto's shoulder was still strong.

"She was six."

Vincent and Yuffie shifted slightly and tried to digest this new information.

"Professor Hojo started experimenting on her, that's how she got her hair and eyes. He thought it was fitting for a young girl. Plus she was his first successful experiment to gain invisibility, though he was careful not to let her walk through walls."

There a small rumbling noise in Vincent's chest at the mention of Hojo.

"Even after Hojo was gone and Midgar was destroyed, Anna was kept as a secret experiment, still locked away from human contact. She only managed to escape six months ago."

Yuffie gasped loudly at the thought." So you were locked up for six and a half years?" She said asked the air behind Keto.

He nodded grimly. "It took me over a week to reach home again and by then Anna was long gone. I found my mother on the floor when I arrived and had to bury her myself, I thought Anna was already dead." Keto closed his eyes and tried to block the memories that were now flooding into his head. "To survive I did odd jobs around Junon and stayed in the family home, praying that Shinra wouldn't come back for me, there was no where else to go. After Anna returned six months ago, I knew it wasn't safe to stay there then and we fled here to Belzeek."

"What happened after that? How did you end up in jail?" Yuffie asked softly.

"We thought we were safe here, we thought even SOLDIER wouldn't dare to venture here. But about a week ago, Shinra came for us. I got myself arrested as a distraction to let Anna get away and promised to meet her back here as soon as I could." He sighed loudly. "I'm sorry for keeping this from you."

"Why did they kill your family?" Vincent's voice was quieter than before, it was his way of sympathy.

"I don't know. That's what I want to ask Rufus before I kill him."

"Hold on, wait." Yuffie held her hands out and thought for a second. "There's one thing I still don't get, why do you want to kill Rufus? It was his father who killed your family."

"But he still kept Anna prisoner for years, and came after her when she escaped. I also found out recently from an ex-SOLDIER who came here that Rufus was in charge of the entire operation carried out to wipe my father's name from history." Keto continued.

Yuffie looked over at Keto and smiled, placing a hand over his fist. The hand slowly relaxed and Keto gave Yuffie a grateful smile for understanding.

"Yuffie." Vincent butted in, spoiling the moment and making Yuffie uncomfortable. "If we try to kill Rufus, we will have to fight the Turks." He explained from his stance by the door.

"That doesn't matter!" She stood up from her seat and made the chair fall backwards. "Keto needs our help and I'm not letting him down. Did you hear what he just said? If worst comes to worse then we can trick the Turks anyway, we don't have to fight them."

Vincent was startled by Yuffie's outburst but recovered quickly, turning to Keto. "What exactly do you want us to do?" He asked, stealing glances at the girl who had reappeared at Keto's shoulder.

"To help." Keto sat up straighter in his chair and turned around to wipe some dirt off his sister's cheek. She looked away in annoyance but smiled at Keto. "For one, Anna has to come with us because there's no one else to look after her, Shinra could come back now they know I've escaped. But when we start this mission I just need help tracking Rufus down and infiltrating his building. He disappeared soon after AVALANCHE's battle in Edge."

"See!" Yuffie boasted to Vincent. "We don't to kill any one, we just have to help get him in there. It'll all be fine!"

"You can leave if you want to, no one's forcing you to stay Vince." Keto said dryly.

"It's Vincent, and I'm staying." He told them, standing up straighter than before.

"Then let's go!" Yuffie insisted, running for the door.

Vincent moved to the side to let her pass and waited for Keto and Anna to leave. He followed after.

--

"So how exactly are we getting off this island?" Yuffie complained, looking around the harbour they were now standing in. There was a hefty wind blowing on them but the waves underneath the pier they were standing on were still calm. Yuffie looked up at the sky and to see clear blue staring back at her, the sun blazing down. "I don't know if you remember but Cid told us to find our own way back."

Keto held his hand up to protect his vision and scanned the boats around them. "We're going to steal a ship." He said lightly, walking towards a large unmanned ship. He tugged at the invisible force holding his hand and lead her up the pier.

Yuffie grinned and ran after them, she knew she was going to enjoy this.

Vincent joined them as they reached their chosen ship and Keto boarded the giant wooden vessel. It looked like a pirate ship out of fairy tales, huge white sails, a carved wooden wheel, a deck the size of a football pitch.

"Hey Vince!" Keto shouted after him. "We need to set sail as soon as possible in case someone sees us! Get in!" He called out, loosening the ropes tying it to the pier.

"It's Vincent." He muttered, walking up the wooden plank and onto the magnificent ship.

Soon after the anchor was lifted and the ship set sail out of the pirate harbour, it's owners shouting after them with angry cries.

"You want it back, come and get it!" Yuffie screamed over the deck, laughing at the poor helpless men stuck on the pier.

"Don't intimidate them Yuffie." Vincent scolded, feeling out of place in the boat and stumbling about a bit.

"Oh come on, where's your sense of adventure?" She asked, skipping around him with ease. The tablets were still working well.

"No Vincent's right." Keto called from the back of the ship. He was supposed to be steering but instead he was looking over his shoulder warily. "You don't want to see a pirate angry and I think they're heading our way. Anna." She took him over at the wheel and Keto ran to the edge of the ship to get a better view. "At least there's only one ship..." He commented.

"What?!" Yuffie yelled, running over to the edge as well and observing the size of the ship chasing them. "We'll never out run that thing!" She complained, pointing to the monstrous black ship. "Who paints their ship black anyway?!"

"Then we're just going to have to fight them." Keto stated, looking around for some sort of weapon he could wield.

"What?!" Yuffie repeated. "Why the hell would we want to fight them?!"

"We've got no choice. Anyway, you and Vincent are long range fighters from AVALANCHE and my father taught Anna how to use a bow before she was four. Most pirates use swords, like me, so we can get them, before they get to us. Vince, can I borrow a gun?" He asked, turning the ex-Turk.

"It's Vincent." He repeated again, pulling out his least favourite gun and handing it to Keto.

Yuffie scowled at Keto, still unsure about the new situation she was in. How long were those tablets going to last?

"It's an adventure isn't it? I thought you were the best ninja in world?" He asked as he crossed his arms.

"I am!" She retorted. "Alright then!" She jumped onto the beam that lined the edges of the ship. "Show me what you got pirates!"

The huge midnight ship was nearly upon them and the crew could hear it's massive sails blowing towards them.

"Let's take them by surprise!" Keto called out to Anna. "Put down the port anchor and turn the ship!" He commanded. Anna nodded, spinning the wheel.

"I'm ready for you, ya parrot lovers!" Yuffie yelled at the boat, still stood on the beam, her Conformer above her head ready to fly.

"Yuffie, bong!" Keto shouted.

"Huh?"

But it was too late. The ship jerked to the left under the anchors pull and the main sail flew round with it, the wooden log at the bottom smacking into Yuffie's forehead. She blacked out from the hit and fell backwards into the tropical waters below.

"Yuffie!" Both Keto and Vincent shouted together, running to the side the ship to see if she would resurface.

Keto pulled a leg up over the side and tried to jump off before Vincent's claw grabbed him. "No, I'll go."

"What?" Keto responded, pulling his leg off the edge and moving closer to Vincent. "I don't have a good weapon, you're an expert at long range shooting and if you're gun powder gets wet, we're all done for." He explained.

Vincent looked him up and down before grunting in defeat. He turned away from the teenager and started shooting at the enemy behind them which were now in range.

Keto smirked proudly and jumped overboard head first. It took him a while to get used to the stinging salt water in his eyes but they soon adjusted to the change. He looked around the clear waters for any sign of Yuffie's unconscious body. Five metres below and to the left of him, Yuffie's wrist cloud clearly be seen caught on the edge of a reef. The rest of her hung precariously over a huge chasm that dropped so deep, the water looked almost black. Keto forced himself deeper in the water and tried to avoid the huge schools of fish surrounding him. He pulled her body out from the drop and wrestled her wrist from the coral. It released itself but blood starting trailing out of little cuts.

"Get your feet out of the water, Keto, you know there are sharks around here."

Keto's father's voice resounded in his head. Akanji Island isn't far from here... He thought, already panicking about shark attacks. There also seemed to be a cut on Yuffie forehead where the sail had hit, it was releasing blood a lot faster than those on her wrist. Keto swam as hard as he could while he held Yuffie, up to the surface, taking a large gasp of air as he reached it. He could hear gun shots and loud cries coming from the ship way above his head but could hardly see the enemy on the other side. Keto swam towards the ship, dragging Yuffie behind him, and pulled them both up the ladder craved into the side of the ship. Once he reached the top he pulled Yuffie into his arms and laid her down in the centre of the deck, trying to get her to breathe again.

"They're not backing down." Vincent commented, shooting another crew member in the chest.

Anna had now let go of the wheel and was letting her arrows fly through the clear skies and ripping the sails of the black ship.

"Aim for the main mast, take it out and they won't be able to come after us." He told Vincent.

Vincent grunted in annoyance of being told what to do by a seventeen year old but obeyed the instructions. Three bullets hit the mast and one more was shot slightly to the left to guide the masts fall into the middle of the ship, causing a hole in the deck and two more men down.

"Anna, steer us towards Junon!" Keto yelled, still trying to get Yuffie to breathe again.

--

A huge meadow stretched in front of my eyes and a light breeze lifted the unkept grass beneath my feet. The strange thing was, I couldn't feel it. There was no sky or sun above my head either, just endless white. A small apple tree resided to my left, it's leaves golden and scarlet. I could hear murmuring from the other side so I ventured my way over there, enjoying the feeling of the soft grass on my bare feet. The fresh air filled my lungs and had a familiar smell...

"Wutai?" I questioned, slowing down my pace as the grass turned to dirt beneath me. The voices were much closer now. I stepped carefully as I edged closer to the tree and stopped when I saw a woman's figure. Her hair was slung back messily and she hid a picnic basket behind her. My breathing hastened when I noticed the lab coat and red shoes. I ran around her and found who she was talking to. "Vincent?" I whispered. I could hardly recognise the Turk Vincent but his scarlet eyes gave it away. He was lying under the tree's branches with his hands behind his head. "Wait, this isn't right! Vincent and Lucrecia never came to Wutai!"

The two looked at me before blowing into dust carried away by the wind.

I blinked twice and frowned. "Huh?" Looking closely at the tree, I saw a small white lilly at it's base. "Aerith?" I stooped down and touched the the flower, feeling it's silky texture between my fingertips. A drop of water fell onto my nose and caused me to fall backwards with surprise. I stared up at the tree to find the source but saw nothing. Instead, a white petal floated down off it and landed to my right in the dirt. "Roses?" I scanned across the apple tree to see no apples in sight, but white roses stemming off it's branches. "What's that supposed to mean?" I asked to no one. Another drop of water landed on my forehead and the scene in front of me flashed away.

--

Keto crouched on top of Yuffie and waited as she coughed the sea water out of her lungs.

"What happened?" She asked hazily, pushing herself up onto her elbows.

Keto smiled warmly at her. "You fell into the water and passed out, I got you back."

"You...saved me?"

"Yeah."

Yuffie stared up at the wet man's face and then at his white shirt, his now see through white shirt... She stared for a little too long.

A loud shot went off behind them and Keto jumped three feet away from Yuffie. "Dude what the hell was that for?" Keto yelled, staring at the burnt remains of one of his sleeves. Luckily the bullet didn't break the skin.

"There was a piranha on your sleeve." Vincent replied, walking away.

A/N:Urm I'm kinda stuck for ideas now, anyone got any thoughts? Hope you enjoyed the latest Chapter! If you have any questions on Anna and Keto's past please ask, it was really hard trying to explain everything that happened to them! x