I Promise

Chapter 22- Comforting

Yuffie sighed, " Come in…." The last person she expected walked in, " Vincent…" She said quietly. " I came to check on you….are you alright?" She nodded her head, and stared at the floor. So many thoughts ran through her head, " When will we be going to rescue Reeve?" " I think after you recover a little bit more, then we leave with you directing us." She sighed again, Vincent noticed that Yuffie had been sighing a lot lately. " Yuffie, it appears that something is bothering you….." Yuffie sighed and looked up meeting his piercing gaze. " It is that noticeable?" He nodded his head, " How?" " Yuffie, you have lost the glint of mischief in your eyes, no longer hyper and energetic….you seem drained as though something very precious was taken from you." Yuffie mumbled as though to prevent him from hearing, " Yeah…….like my first….kiss."

The amazing thing was Vincent heard it, he sighed and shook his head. " It may have been your first but the second is always a charm." He smiled at Yuffie and she returned the smile. He was glad that he had cheered her up somewhat if only for a few moments. " Yuffie, I am going to be right back I am going to go get you something to eat…you should be hungry." When he mentioned something about eating her stomach growled ferociously, Yuffie just smiled. " That would be great Vinnie." Vincent did not even show the slightest aggravation of her using the pet-name 'Vinnie'. He nodded his head slightly and went off to make her and him a sandwich. Yuffie sighed, she was exhausted, trying her best to play it as though everything was alright was pretty hard at the moment, but hey he saw past her fake act. Now she only hoped the others didn't. Vincent saw a lot of things she tried her best to fake at. He always told her he knew so she wouldn't waste any valuable energy trying to pretend as though something was alright 8 or more times. Vincent retuned with two sandwiches and a glass of orange juice.

" Here you go Yuffie." Yuffie thanked him and grabbed the small plate that contained her sandwich. She took one bite, and smiled. " It is a goober sandwich! Vinnie you are the best!" Vincent gave a half smile and pulled up a chair next to her bed. They ate quietly with the exception of munching. Yuffie finished her sandwich and grabbed her orange juice. Vincent had just finished, he nodded his head at her to let her know he had to go now and do work. Yuffie sighed and nodded her head. But before he left Vincent was surprised. Yuffie slipped her arms around his waist. She was hugging him, Vincent to shocked to reply as usual just nodded his head and left. Yuffie crawled slowly back into her bed and closed her eyes.

The same dream, she was standing in nothing. She was surrounded by blackness, an eternal area of blackness. She just stood there, and out of nowhere appeared Jet before her. " Yuffie, return to me and the Storm Callers." Yuffie stared blankly at him and then she heard another voice, " You can't Yuffie, you said you were my friend." She turned around and there stood Vincent, like a lost child he was looking at her with mournful eyes. " He is not your friend Yuffie, all he can do is mourn about his dear dear Lucrecia." Yuffie sighed, she decided she would make this quick. " Jet, I shan't be going with you, for you are not the Jet I once knew….do you know how they got their names?" Jet's face was a contortion of anger and hurt. He raised an eyebrow, " Who?"

" Your group the Storm Caller…" He shook his head, " What does it matter?" " It does matter, long go your so called Colantel had magnificent powers. He could call up raging Storms, all natural weather disasters. He would summon them when he needed them. I was not born then but my mother was and she contained something. She knew what would happen if it fell in the wrong hands. She spent her whole entire life training to protect herself and her family. Along with summoning the power of her necklace. She would not allow herself to be a God, she would borrow the powers if only for a moment to defeat a threat. When she was done using this power she would not become power crazy…..for you see there were two necklaces. Colantel's powers were sealed in the second necklace. And I know where the other is…." Jet ran forward trying to grab her. Yuffie did not shrink back like she usually did, she held her ground.

She heard light footsteps behind her. She then turned back to see Jet pull out a sword. He brought the sword down, she waited for It to come. Instead she heard a loud clanking sound, metal and metal. She opened her eyes and saw Vincent was in front of her. He had saved her in her dreams by using his claw to block the blow. He kicked Jet and Jet went flying. He then turned back around to Yuffie and put his arms around her shoulders, " Wake Up….." He shook her vigorously.

Yuffie woke up screaming, " Eeeek!! What what!? What happened?" " Nothing Yuffie, I returned to check on you and you were moving around in your bed a lot mentioning necklaces…..Jet and me…" 'oh dear….. now he is going to be like what the….?' " Are you okay, Yuffie?" " Huh?" " Oh, yeah I am fine. You can go back to bed now if you want." " I'll stay here, otherwise I will be haunted by more nightmares." Yuffie flashed him a quick smile and sighed. Yuffie sighed, " Hey Vincent…" " Yes?" " Who is coming along to help us save Reeve?" " You, Cloud and Me. The others search the area to try and find Jet and whoever else." " Okay, before we go tomorrow please make sure nobody gets to cocky. The leader is a powerful man." " You have met him?" She nodded her head.

Meanwhile……

Reno was tired, he couldn't sleep. He knew tomorrow that operation…..whatever was important. He also wondered how Yuffie was doing. Rude and Elena were already asleep, he as usual was the only one up. He had heard someone scream in Yuffie's room. He had waited for a few minutes to make sure everything was alright. Nothing.. He sighed and got up out of bed, making sure to retie his ponytail. He got up and walked out of his room. Making sure to shut the door quietly, Now where could he be going? Rude got up out of bed and followed Reno. Reno stopped at a corner when he thought he heard someone following him. He shrugged his shoulders when he turned around and saw nothing. He turned back around and didn't even jump. There stood Rude, rock hard. " Where are you going?" " Yuffie's room." With that said Reno walked where Yuffie's room was at. Rude just shook his head.