Chapter 14! Xion's number! But sadly this won't be from her P.O.V. Disappointing right? Well too bad! :D This chapter will be from a character I haven't even introduced yet! But you all know and love her! So please enjoy this chapter in Yuffie's P.O.V.! A little side stuff that will get involved with Sora and the others! So hang on and enjoy! A little Yuffie/Leon for ya cause I'm a fangirl! :D Enjoy!
"Leon!" I called at the top of my lungs, "Leeeeeeeoooooooooonnnnnnnnnn!" I huffed. He still hasn't answered me. Maybe he can't hear me. Hmm. This should get his attention. So I grinned really wide, cupped my hands around me motuh and screamed, "YO, SQUAL!" "Yuffie!" he shrieked, causing me to laugh uncontrollably, "You know my name is Leon!" "Well you didn't answer to Leon and you answered to Squal so that's your name now, Squal!" I laughed.
"Don't call me that!" he yelled, clearly angry, which made me laugh more. I love to antagonize him. He makes it so easy! "Squal! Squal! Squal! Squal! Squal! Squal!" I sang while dancing around in circles. "Ugh! Yuffie!" Leon calls, "Will you stop being stupid for two seconds and help us locate Vanille like we promised?" I laughed and stopped dancing. "All right!" I called, a grin forming, "SQUAL!"
"Ugh! Yuffie!" he yelled. I laughed and ran up to where he, and Sid were. "Did you call Cloud and the others to find out if they have seen her?" I asked. "Yes." answers Leon, "Cloud hasn't seen her, and neither has Aerith or Zack." "Well phooey!" I said, stomping my foot. "Why do you always act like such a child in times like this then act like a woman when it comes to fighting?" asks Leon. "Because it's cute and you love it!" I giggled.
He rolled his eyes but was smiling so I knew he was messing with me. He still dresses the same as he did when we saw Sora last. His hair is just to his waist now and he looks two years older. No big. I dress the same too, keeping the same outfit just for my new size. I'm still small, just taller now. Still not as tall as Leon though. And I kept myhair short so it wouldn't get in the way, and Leon said I look cute with short hair.
Sid still looks the same. Just older. He says he doesn't have to change himself for some whore. His words not mine. Hey! He was saying I'm a whore! I'm a ninja stupid! I huffed, "Let me call them." Leon handed me the communicator and I called Cloud's. "Yes? Leon?" he said. "Nope! Yuffie here! Have you guys had found any clues to finding Vanille yet?" I asked. "No, sorry. It's dry here too. No sign of her what so ever. Maybe we're not in the right world. She could be anywhere if it was the Darkness that took her." answers Cloud.
"I'm sure it was. Their description did all but scream Darkness Took Her! I know it, Squal! Darkness took her, and we're just not looking hard enough!" I said, hitting my hand with my fist and furrowing my brows. I was angry now, we've been looking in the same world for three weeks now! We need to move on but no one will listen to me! "We need to go to a new world if we want to find clues of where she's been." I said, looking at Leon for support.
"We'll find her, Yuffie. I do think your idea is good though. Sid, stay here with the others, I'll go with Yuffie and search other worlds. If you need us you know how to call." says Leon. "Yeah, yeah, yeah I know." Sid grumbled, with a wink, so we knew he was taking us seriously. "To the ship!" I ordered, throwing my hand up in the air with my first finger up to show I was in charge and I charged towards the ship. With Leon running behind me yelling at me, which made me laugh some more.
We got onto the ship and I tried to be captain but Leon pushed me out of the seat to the one beside it and he got in captain seat. No fair! Leon always gets t o be captain! I laughed and saluted and he looked at me with a raised eyebrow and I laughed, "On the job, Captain Squal!" "Shut up, Yuffie." he said with a smirk as he started the ship and we took off into the sky and I screamed, "WOOHOO!" as we flew quickly out of the atmosphere of that world and we were hurtling through space.
"So, where do you suggest we look first for Vanille?" asks Leon, never taking his eyes off the screen. "Hmmmm." I said, thinking hard, "Maybe Hollow Bastion? I know it's been evacuated, but that means she could be there! To hide!" I said, happy with myself for coming up with that conclusion. "Hollow Bastion it is then." says Leon, changing our flight line, so we were headed towards Hollow Bastion now. It took a while to get there but when we did, it was as I had expected. Empty.
No one was here, so we parked the ship and set about searching for Vanille together. "She has to be here!" I said. "Chill, Yuffie, she'll be where ever she is then we'll find her. So calm down. We'll find her." says Leon, obviously trying to make me feel better, which really wasn't working this time so I was frustrated and just wanted to find her now so we could go home.
I shouldn't have suggested this place. It's bring too many memories back to me and they aren't happy, well the first ones are, like when I found Sora again, but the others after he left. They weren't happy. Not at all were they happy. I just want to go home now. I should have listened to Leon, or at least let him decide where we should have gone.
"She isn't here! Like I said, we should just leave and go to another world." I fought. But Leon insisted on looking here for awhile longer. "But why?" I demanded, "It's clear she isn't here, Squal!" "Yuffie, calm down." he sighed, "We'll find her. You have to give it time."
"We don't have time! You know how fast the Darkness can take over someone like Vanille, someone like Serah or me?" I asked, "Not too damn long!" "Yuffie." he sighed, standing and looking down at me as I glared up at him, "You need to calm down. You're freaking over nothing. It will take time to find Vanille. But we will. SO just chill out. If you want to leave we'll leave, but wait a little bit so I can look around some more for clues."
I didn't say anything. "You can even wait right here for me to get back. I won't be long. I'm just going to check the hall outside of the castle. Okay?" asks Leon. I nodded and sat down on the wall's top I had been standing on with Leon. He jumps off it and runs off. I watch him as he leaves until I can no longer see where he went.
I sigh and sat there, waiting for Leon to return. I needed to talk to him but the Vanille Disappearance has gotten in the way. I want to tell him how I feel about him so bad. Sure we flirt a lot, and I think he likes me the way I like him. But I want to be his girlfriend. Leon is smart, strong, and passionate. I want him to be with me, to protect me, to love me. But I can't have that until I confess. But I'm just so scared of him rejecting me.
I wait, hoping Leon'll be back soon so I can finally tell him how I feel. I just have to suck it up and be me! I always tell him what bugs me, what I like and what I don't. Well if I like him, it shouldn't be too hard to tell him. Should it? I don't know anymore. But I'm not going to give up! When he comes back I'm going to tell him how I feel! I'll tell him that I love him and that I want to always be around him, because he makes me, me!
When is he coming back anyway? I sighed and sagged my shoulders and watched as the sun began to go down. "It's getting late. Shouldn't we leave right about now? Or go sleep in the ship?" I asked myself bordly. I sighed and stood up. I better go get him. He probably got lost again. Typical Squal.
I heard moaning behind me and I quickly spun around and I gasped. "V-Vanille?" I asked. She reached her hand out to me. Something's not right with Vanille! She's smiling and her eyes are rimmed with gold! She's being controlled by the Darkness! I was right! Take that, Squal! The Darkness does have her! Now back to the problem. Help!
Vanille, with her bright orange hair in usual curly pigtails and her brown eyes rimmed in gold wearing the same thing she had when she disappeared; a red belly shirt vest thing zipped up with a red short skirt and red and black ankle boots with some red and black bangles on each wrist, reached out for me and I tried to step back, but if I had, I would have fallen head first onto the concrete bellow!
"Vanille!" I tried, "Vanille, it's me! Yuffie! Your best friend! Vanille, listen to me!" She kept walking towards me smiling and reaching for me. I couldn't go anywhere so I pulled my giant shurikan out of my backpack and held it defensively so I could protect myself and not hurt Vanille.
"Vanille, listen to me! It's Yuffie!" I tried again. She didn't speak, just came up to me and whacked the shurikan out of my hand and grabbed my by the throat and lifted me into the air! "V-Vanille!" I gasped desperately. This isn't Vanille! "Vanille! V-Vanille, snap o-out of it!" I yelled, but them gasped because she tightened her hold around my neck. Leon! Where are you? I need your help!
Vanille continued to squeeze on my neck and I kicked at her, hoping to knock her down so I could get free. Her smile faded and her eyes glowed completely gold! Then I felt a sudden pain inside my body, like my insides were on fire! I screamed, which also took my air and I was suffocating now too. Just great! Leon, where are you!
It was getting so bad I couldn't hardly breathe anymore. "V-Van...ille!" I gasped, trying to reach my best friend. But of course I can't. Vanille smiles at me again as she squeezes the life out of me and it hurts so much. Not because I'm dying here, but because I will never get the chance to finally tell Leon how I feel about him. That I love him. I wish he would come so he could save me. He always shows up in the nick of time to save my life.
I couldn't form words anymore and my vision was becoming blurry. I fought it back and I could see relatively well still. But I couldn't breathe, and that made holding on even harder. "Van...ille..." I whispered, my big brown eyes starting to close. Leon...I love you. Always have... Now if only I could tell him that.
"Vanille!" screams the voice of someone all too familiar, "Release Yuffie! Now! Or I'll be forced to hurt you!" I opened my eyes and looked to the side with my eyes to see Leon standing there. "Leon...!" I gasped. He looked at me and gripped his sword tighter. "Let. Her. Go. Now!" he growled. Vanille dropped me and faced Leon. The last thing I said before I passed out was, "Leon...!"