It's been eight months.. and I'm only halfway through this challenge. This is very depressing.
Well, FFN became stupid and annoying. Only the last letter of my titles show up. The previous chapter, instead of saying 'Breakfast', it just says 't'. 't'. -.- So.. no more spaces between letters. Dx
LOL anyways, this is the "Prompt of Your Choice" drabble. Hope I used it wisely. xD Yuffie has long hair in here, by the way. Basically, it's the story of why she has short hair. Oh, and thanks for the sweet reviews! They mean sooo muuuch! :D
Radiant Memories
~Twenty Five~
Hair
"Die!" a charcoal-haired ninja yelled as she threw a kunai towards her enemy. The unfamiliar Heartless easily dodged it by teleporting, making the girl groan in annoyance. Yuffie Kisaragi wiped the sweat on her brow, a smirk on her pale face. "Oh, that's how you wanna play, huh?"
And in a puff of smoke, she disappeared.
The Heartless looked around the place nervously, while Yuffie smiled evilly from her hiding spot. She let out a victory cry and threw five shurikens at her enemy's back, confident that she wouldn't miss it. However, the monster wrapped itself in a force field, making the weapons bounce off of it and head towards her. Shocked, the ninja ran off in any direction, just hoping that she would dodge the sudden attack.
SLASH.
Her eyes widened. The heavy weight on her shoulders was no longer there. Half a year's worth of her thick, black hair fell to the ground before a few strands were carried by the wind.
Pure hatred appeared in her eyes. She disappeared once more in a puff of smoke, leaving her opponent confused. Clutching her gigantic shuriken, in which she infused with magic, the short-haired girl jumped out of her hiding place and threw the weapon at it, in which it dodged. However, Yuffie caught the armament, not caring about the blood that appeared on her palm due to the sharp end, and sent it right back. The Heartless ducked as the shuriken flew right over it, but the weapon made a boomerang effect, thus killing it.
Yuffie picked up her weapon and stared at the black hair laying on the ground. Her eyes began to water.
She ran straight home and forcefully opened the door, startling everyone in the household.
"Yuffie? Is that-" Aerith stopped in mid-sentence, shocked to see her friend's new length of hair.
"What's wrong, Aeri.." Leon began, but trailed off as well once he saw the ninja.
The ebony-haired girl ran right past them and into her room, where she plopped onto her bed and touched her hair.
Ever since she was young, Aerith would always brush her hair and tell her how a girl should always take good care of it.
The boy she liked.. he liked girls with long hair.. He was in love with one who had long, black hair with a caramel-colored streak. So, Yuffie thought that if she grew her hair as long as hers, he would like her back.
She laughed sadly. "I'm such an idiot."
She ran her fingers through her hair, trying to get used to the shortness of it, when someone knocked on her door.
"Come in.." she said in a sad tone. A brunet entered the door and stood next to the door awkwardly. "Oh.. Leon.."
The man's eyes widened, if only for a second. The only time she ever called him 'Leon' was when she was really angry, disappointed or upset. "Your hair." he said.
"Huh? Oh. It's different, huh?" she faked a smile. "Oh, well. I was gonna cut it anyway."
"You've always loved your long hair.. how could you say that?"
"It doesn't matter." He would never like me anyway.
"Well.. if it makes you feel any better.." he looked away, avoiding all eye contact. "I like you better with short hair."
"W-What?"
"You look.. cuter." With that, Leon left, leaving a surprised Yuffie behind. She didn't think that the word 'cute' even existed in his vocabulary.
When she regained her senses, she smiled.
Short hair.. huh?..