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Chapter 20.
"But I'm tired." Yuffie complained, stopping yet again and rubbing at her sore ankles. Sephiroth turned to look at her. "We're never going to get anywhere if you don't get a move on."
"But Sephy, we've been walking for hours and my feet hurt, this suns to hot, my bag feels as though it's getting heavier by the minuet and," she stopped as her stomach made a loud rumbling. "I'm hungry too."
"We need to get to reach the ancient city as soon as possible." He returned, "We can't get through Nibelhiem now because that friend of yours will have informed the others by now."
Yuffie pouted and shifted the weight of the bag to the other shoulder, tapping her shoe on the floor a couple of times before jogging back up to Sephy awkwardly.
He looked at her in a sideways glance and regarded her small form. She was flushed from the heat and all the walking they had done, her chest heaved at each laboured breath yet she still made such an effort to keep up. Maybe he was been a little too hard on her…they hadn't had a break for quite some time.
He sighed under his breath.
"Fine we can take a five minuet break, but that's all." He muttered.
Yuffie bounced on the spot, dropping her bags to the ground instantly.
"At last!" she called cheerily, dropping down to sit beside the bag and kicked her shoes off.
Sephiroth plopped himself down on the ground a little away from Yuffie. He opened his pack and took out a canister filled with water; removing the cap and taking a deep guzzle of the liquid. Without looking up he handed it towards Yuffie saying, "You'll dehydrate if you don't drink enough."
She smiled at this and took the canister from him.
After taking a long guzzle of liquid she looked around at the bleak surroundings of grass land and the dark rising mountains of Nibelhiem in the distance.
"I can't believe we have to hike the long way around." She muttered childishly. "And i especially hate the hike towards the mako reactor up there on mount Nibel...it's way creepy if you ask me after all those people died in there..." She stopped her ramblings suddenly and flashed Sephy a sudden 'sorry i forgot you were still there' kind of smile.
Sephiroth just looked at her in puzzlement. "What's wrong?" He questioned rather innocently. "Why did you stop?"
Yuffie shrugged and looked down at her knees that were pressed together nervously. "I just thought it might be a touchy subject with you and all." She replied.
"Why should it be such a touchy subject with me?" He continued to stare at her lowered head. "Are you playing some sort of game?" She looked up at him, her eyes widening slightly.
"I don't understand, what has that reactor to do with me?"
Gasping lightly, it was now Yuffie's turn to be the one confused. "You...killed...and Zack, cloud and Tifa were...Don't you remember?"
Sephy shook his head. "In all honesty i don't remember a lot of things since i became conscious again...the things i do remember mostly involve my mother or Avalanche."
"Well," Yuffie began in a matter-of-fact manner, "You only encountered Avalanche 2 years ago. So Cloud must have really hit your head pretty hard with that sword of his during the last battle if you can't recall anything before then." She smiled at him politely and rose to her feet. "Come on, we've rested enough for now. Let's get going before this nice weather changes."
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Sephiroth paced back and forth beside the small camp fire for the umpteenth time. Sleep was evading him. He glanced over at Yuffie who had curled up quite comfortably in his blankets. She looked peaceful tonight, innocent, as she had always been. He sneered to himself. He'd taken all the innocence this little Ninja had to offer.
A soft sigh was released from her slightly parted lips and she snuggled further into the think grey blanket the was wrapped loosely about her.
Sephy pulled his eyes away from her and forced himself to concentrate on something else. Tomorrow they would continue on until they reached the Mako reactor Yuffie had mentioned. He strained his mind for a few moments but couldn't really recall much happening there at all. A name she had mentioned didn't register in his mind, Zack. Of course he knew of Cloud and Tifa, the spiky haired puppet and the chesty fist fighter.
"Why can't I remember?" He mumbled a little too loudly. Yuffie groaned and rolled onto her back, her knees still bent towards the fire on her left. Her right hand was draped lightly on the exposed skin of her stomach where her top had rolled up and her left arm was slung towards the fire. She looked so vulnerable as she laid there in her bedraggled state. Her body had never been overly eye catching in the least but lately she had seemed more...filled out. Back when he had first seen her 2 years ago she had been an un-shapely teenager, her hips hadn't developed and her chest was flat. She was definitely different. Her hips had widened only slightly, but enough to be noticed and as for her breasts...they hadn't really grown much either but they were by far so much more shapely.
Back when he spotted her in Wutai he hadn't exactly looked her over properly but as he stared at her form now he could see the definite change in her.
He found himself drawn over to her side where he knelt and silently bent over her small body as he reached for the blanket that had slipped off her as she moved. He pulled it slowly over her as he took in every inch of her. He felt like a criminal taking this opportunity to take stolen glances of her at her most vulnerable.
He peeled his eyes away from her once more and remains seated beside her, this time his eyes settled and content on watching the flames of the fire dancing.
It had been like this every night since he had recovered from his fever.
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Yuffie paused as she adjusted the bandana tied about her head. "I'm presuming it's not much further." She called to Sephiroth who struggled over the uneven surface of sharp rocks and slippery slopes of the Nibel mountains.
He stopped to look across at her while trying to keep a cool aire about him. "What makes you say that Ninja."
"Well for starters just over there is a small cave entrance leading to a natural mako spring." she pointed out.
Behind her Sephy sighed in relief to himself. He had found it quite tiresome having to cross the mountains, he would much rather stick the set paths and roads through.
"Hurry up will yah?" Yuffie said as she bounced off towards the little cave entrance. She didn't realise she was being watched tentatively.
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The darkness that filled the old reactor wasn't enough to hide the deep red cloak that spun and swirled in a slight breeze that was forcing its way around the room that had once contained the experiments of Shinra.
The dark figure huffed to himself at the stench of death that still lingered. The pain of those once held here in the capsules of pure mako energy. Poor bastards.
He didn't really know what he was doing here, he's just been drawn here, as though a part of him was pulling him to journey deeper into the rank old complex.
There was definitely a presence near by.
He strode confidently rough the chamber of capsules and up the steps at no great speed. A pale hand emerged from beneath the blood red cloak and reached out towards a dark, rusting door atop the stairs. He clasped at the handle and with an almighty push it popped open. He thought it might have been a little more difficult to open a rusted door but strangely it had opened easily. His eyes slid to the hinges and noted the slight lack of rust that had sprinkled on the floor from a previous opening. Someone had already opened the door recently. He pondered if they were still inside as he himself took a step into the dark room. He reached for his weapon and released it from its holster, clinging to it professionally as he continued on his way. Hopefully he wouldn't need to use it.
His metal capped boots echoed around the room with each step disturbing various rodents gnawing on anything they could get their teeth into.
The figure of red made his way towards the preservation tank Jenova had once been kept in and with a swift movement he knelt down and touched a piece of shattered glass at his feet.
A sudden movement to his left made him jump to his feet and raise his weapon.
"V...Vincent!" Came the young woman's voice. "Thank God for you Vincent." She wept as she flung her self into his arms.
"Aries!" Vincent couldn't bring himself to move. "I...don't understand."
"She tried to kill me Vincent." Aries buried her face deep into his chest and clung to him.
Vincent continued to stare ahead while the girl held him. "Who?...I thought you were already dead!"
"Yuffie...Yuffie and Sephiroth tried to kill me." She wept. "Oh Vincent I was so scared, but you'll protect me wont you?"
Vincent looked down at her small form and slowly wrapped his arms around her.
"I'll protect you." He whispered.
Authors note: Hmm i sooo wonder what's going to happen next keep reading to find out. I love each and every one of you guys for reading my work and leaving me comments on how to improve.
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