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Notes: You know, I could just stop writing if I don't start getting some new reviewers. You know who you are. My threats are so weak.


The Secretary

Episode 36: Kleptomaniac

Jessie ran after the small child. The miniature ninja was jumping on rooftops, walls, and boxes. "GET BACK HERE YOU BRAT!" Jessie was finding her self restrain beginning to wane…

She felt her legs start to strain. Her running slowed and she collapsed onto a pillar. Her breathing was shallow and she clutched her chest in pain. "How… can… she… run………… like that?"

Her boss stopped beside her. "No luck?"

"Shut up, Seph."

Sephiroth shook his head in dismay. Then, a rope looped around the SOLDIER's waist. With his arms restrained, a very shocked Sephiroth was pulled off the ground to dangle helplessly.

Jessie watched mutely as a short-haired girl stole the silver-haired man's wallet. The thief smirked as she ran off with Sephiroth's wallet and Jessie's gun.

Pushing herself off the support, Jessie grabbed a chief's knife out of her boot holster. She cut her boss down, who fell with a solid "thump."

"That child is going to die." Sephiroth had turned red with anger and humiliation.


"OH SHIVA IT BURNS!" RSL ran towards the bathroom to rinse the acid off of his neck. Plan B had also failed. What am I going to do?

He heard the door open as the water rinsed the pain away.

"Hello, RSL." The SOLDIER knew that voice… Oh no. Please tell me this isn't happening. "What are you doing, Sugar?"

"Wishing I was dead," he mumbled. After the burning sensation had ceased, he met Scarlet's eyes. "… You do know this is a men's room, right?"


Sephiroth ran into Jessie's back. "Why did you stop running?"

Jessie turned to look at him. Her amber eyes had a crazed look in them. The SOLDIER backed up slowly. He kept his arms up to protect himself from the attack he knew to be imminent.

She smiled as she raised her arm. The materia in her Mythril Armlet glowed. She pointed her arm out towards the bouncing yellow and green blob that was the thief. With a grin she released a fire3 that surrounded the child.

Sephiroth could make out the child huddling in fear atop a mountain shaped like a very round man. "Please don't hurt me," the little girl cried.

The Shinra employees walked up the hill, the flames never stopping their dance. When they were close enough to grab the little girl, Jessie ceased the materia's onslaught.

Sephiroth picked the child up by the hood of her shirt. "Alright, could we have our stuff back?"

The mini-ninja grudging handed her 'treasures' back to their respective owners.

The brunette poked at the little girl's baby fat. "Who do you think she belongs to?"

"I'm the Great Ninja Princess Yuffie! No one owns me!"

Sephiroth sighed. "Must be Lord Godo's daughter… I suppose we'll have to return her." He threw the little girl over his shoulder, and the pair walked down the mountain.


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