A/N: *evil grin* Hello, all you readers. Why don't you make yourself
readers and reviewers? I know that I have been lazy, but I had a writer's
block! *throws away writer's block* I'm all better for FF7..... Oh, any of
you G-Gundam peoples! I am not continuing 'Hiding Everything' Just thought
I'd let you know.
D/C: I don't own this. Just the plot. *^_^* Yuffie and Vinnie forever!
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THWACK!! THWACK!! THWACK!!
Yuffie rolled over in bed, shoving her pillow over her head.
THWACK!! THWACK!! THWACK!!
The ninja groaned, and looked around the room, peeking out from underneath her pillow with bleary eyes. Was it even light outside yet?
THWACK!! "Come!" THWACK!! THWACK!! "OUT!"
Yuffie frowned. That sounded a lot like Cloud.
Waugh!
Yuffie rose quickly from bed, and the instant her feet hit the floor, there was another loud 'THWACK!!' on the door. She padded over to the door, and froze as she heard another voce.
"I'm sorry, sir," said a curt voice. Yuffie's eyes widened. "But I am going to have to ask you to leave or please desist in banging on that door. There are other customers trying to sleep, and you are disturbing them."
"Sorry," Cloud's voice mumbled. Yuffie had to keep from laughing out loud.
Yuffie felt a hand on her shoulder, and turned quickly, guilty-eyed, to see Tifa, just as bleary-eyed as she had been before.
"Why didn't you just go out and make him stop banging on the stupid door, Yuffie?" The fist-fighter covered a huge yawn and stretched lithely.
"Uh..." Yuffie couldn't really think of an answer. "I..."
"Gah..." muttered Tifa, and winced as her back popped.
Aeris came to join them at the doorway, smiling. She looked as unruffled as ever, her honey-brown hair somehow still neat, even after the night of sleep. Her emerald eyes were drowsy, however.
"Good morning, Yuffie, Tifa," she said with a warm smile.
"Mornin'," said Yuffie, and yawned.
"Good morning, Aeris," said Tifa, smiling.
Yuffie's stomach growled rather loudly, and both older women turned to look at the young thief. "Uh... heh heh..."
"Hungry? I am too," said Aeris, and slung a friendly arm around Yuffie's shoulder. "Let's go get breakfast."
"In these clothes?" asked Tifa, her sleepy eyes widening slightly.
"Yah," said Yuffie, "Why not?"
Tifa blinked. Her nightgown was long and quite modest, compared to her usual outfit. She supposed it wouldn't be that bad...
"Okay," she agreed slowly.
"Great," said Aeris, and they unlatched the door and opened it.
"Waaah!!!" yelped Cloud, and fell into their room, quite literally.
"Uh... Cloud?" all three said in unison. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Ooh! That was great!" said Yuffie happily.
Cloud and the others had come to join them at breakfast. The man at the counter didn't seem to mind that the three were still in their nightgowns.
"But Cloud," began Tifa.
"What is it, Teef?" he asked, a pancake halfway in his mouth. His Mako eyes were large and innocent. Tifa had to bite her lip for a moment to keep from laughing.
"Why on earth did you wake us up so early?" Aeris yawned, and delicately sipped at her tea, still looking bleary eyed.
Cait Sith tried to fit up the stairwell, and then realized that he only had to walk down the hall. His stuffed face was annoyed for a moment, and then he wandered off in that direction. There was a loud thump, presumably as he hit the wall, then some mumbling and then silence.
Cloud gulped down his pancake, took a swig of milk, and then cleared his throat. Yuffie looked at Vincent out of the corner of her eye. He was reclining stiffly in his chair, arms crossed over his chest, cloak settled about his shoulders. His head was tilted down, and his midnight hair was falling in front of his eyes, concealing his face.
Yuffie gulped and looked back at Cloud with regret.
"Erm..." muttered Cloud, then his voice picked up. "Yeah! We need to head out, ya know, to..."
"To?" prompted Yuffie. Cloud looked a bit foolish.
"Well, I just think we could head to Kalm, maybe?" he looked hopefully around the table as Tifa buried her face in her hands. "What?"
"Gawd," said Yuffie, and slurped at her orange juice and giggled when it bubbled in her nose.
"I hear that they got a new shipment of materia," he offered, and Yuffie snorted some of the orange juice up her nose, gleefully. Tifa laughed, Aeris giggled, Cloud raised an eyebrow, and Vincent had no reaction. Yuffie was secretly disappointed.
Yuffie made an approving 'Hmm!' sound and nodded.
"If we are going to leave," said Vincent in his quiet, morbid voice, "Should we not? It will be getting light out, and that is the best time to travel."
"Right you are, Vinnie!" said Yuffie happily, chills going up her spine. Vincent cast her an annoyed look, and Yuffie was delighted to get a reaction. Even if it was just a look. And an annoyed one at that. It didn't matter to her!
"Well, then," said Aeris, and stood. "I am going to go pack."
"Me, too," agreed Tifa.
Yuffie bounced up without saying anything. To her surprise, Vincent stood as well. She smiled to herself and jumped after Tifa. As she brushed by Vincent, his long, ebony hair brushed one of her palms. Another chill went up her spine, and she could have sworn that Vincent was looking at her. She smiled and went a little faster.
"Gawd!" exclaimed Yuffie for the fiftieth time that hour. Their Chocobo leapt over another one of the many stumps that littered the 'path', as Cloud had called it. They had each managed to catch a Chocobo, as there had been a herd just outside the mile radius of the town.
Those fuzzy yellow birds had not objected at all to the makeshift reins, and they were actually some semblance of tame. Yuffie was suspicious, but everyone else was determined not to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Unfortunately, Cait Sith and Nanaki could not ride a Chocobo. Cait had agreed to stay in that town, as had the red dog-lion. Yuffie thought it was an absolutely boring town. It had no mastered materia, and nothing she would be interested in stealing.
"Waaah!" yelped Yuffie as she bounced hard on the back of her Chocobo. Aeris and Tifa looked back at her.
"You okay?" called Tifa, grinning. Yuffie nodded, but the movement was barely distinguishable from the bounce of the Chocobo.
Vincent looked at Yuffie from the corner of his eye. Where some people might have seen an ungainly sixteen year old, he saw a beautiful and-wait! He could not be thinking these thoughts. Where was his discipline? He shoved them into the back of his mind, where they danced and pestered him like small children.
For some odd reason that Vincent could not quite put his finger on, Yuffie stirred something deep within his heart, the cold metallic thing that it was. Something he had not felt since...... Lucrecia. No, that would not do. He refused to let himself be taken advantage of like that again.
Cloud looked over at Vincent, who was looking at Yuffie, who was very close to faceplanting in the ground. A question sprung to mind. Why the h3ll was he looking at her like that?
Yuffie screeched as she was knocked off of the Chocobo, but this time not by a bump. A huge monster in the shape of a rat had attacked her from behind. Vincent's face hardened and he jumped off of his Chocobo in motion. Tifa, Aeris, Cloud, Barret, and Cid were a bit slower at it, but they got off.
The young ninja cried out as it tore a large gash in her arm. Her good arm, her right one, was now useless as anything but a lump of meat. Vincent drew Death Penalty, but the rat-creature whipped Yuffie around in front of it, like a human shield.
"It's intelligent....." murmured Vincent.
He and the others formed a line, and attacked in turn. Tifa was the only one who could really get in close enough to get in a blow without endangering Yuffie, but even that was rare. The wind picked up and stung in their eyes, but Vincent didn't blink.
His-no, Yuffie-was stuck there, helpless. The monster gnawed at her arm, and she smacked it angrily across the muzzle. It gave a sharp squeak and dropped her right arm, but her left arm was not of any use.
Yuffie tried to stand, but the rat's whip-like tail lashed out and knocked her feet from underneath her. The AVALANCHE members could only watch in horror; their friend was being mutilated, and they could do nothing.
Vincent simmered silently, until his blood was at a boil and he was seeing red. He was angry when one of his friends got hurt, but this was out of the question. He had known Yuffie for months, yet he had known the others, too! Why was his reaction to this so strong?
He holstered his beloved gun and focused his energy into a white-hot point. Suddenly he realized what was going on. The Chocobos, though normally tame, warked and ran away as fast as they could. Cid and Barret exchanged glances and ran after them, leaving Yuffie helpless, Cloud, equally helpless, the girls, and Vincent.
Yuffie looked at him as the rat shook her arm, its too long teeth cutting in hard. The sweet taste of her blood was only fueling its primitive blood lust, and her reaction was honing the present anger.
The Wutainese girl cried out again as the bone crunched finally, and the last of Vincent's control disappeared at the look in her eyes; a look of utter despair and agony. His Yuffie, his friend! What was he thinking?
IT DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE, Chaos informed him, and he felt the wings rip through his back, and blood seeped down the hardened muscles. I AM IN CONTROL NOW!
Vincent knew that Chaos was right, and let him have his control. Vincent/Chaos let out a triumphant shriek and charged the staring beast. The last bit of conscious thought that Vincent had made him remember Yuffie. He looked down, and there was the Ninja, not with fear, but with a look of gratefulness in her eyes.
Chaos took control and Vincent didn't remember anything else.
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Yuffie felt her arm snap and cried out involuntarily. Vincent was furious, she could tell. No, this was not- "Ahh!" she cried again. The dark man's eyes were boiling, and suddenly wings sprouted from his back.
Aeris fainted as Chaos let out a wail; not from fear but from the sheer noise. Tifa, more battle hardened, did nothing at first, but when Chaos took off, a rather large rock struck her in the forehead. Cloud bit his lip, and realizing that he could do nothing to help either anymore, went to tend to the two women.
Yuffie watched Vincent's transformation with a look of amazement, which turned to gratefulness. How could she not be grateful? He was saving her life! Really, she wanted sob for Vincent, and tell him that he didn't have to do that, to run while he could, and the like.
Vincent just finished the transformation. His claws slashed through the rat's head, and it was decapitated before Yuffie could blink. Vincent came back to Vincent, as Chaos's killing lust had been suppressed for a while.
The rat fell beside her, dead, and Yuffie collapsed. "Cloud," she croaked, and the sword fighter looked up at her. " Go, and get attention for those two. I have the cure!" she added when he cast her a doubtful look. "I can take care of Vinnie and myself!" the name sounded like blasphemy on her tongue.
Cloud nodded and hoisted them on his shoulders. He took off at a steady pace, and Barret and Cid appeared, as if on cue. After some quickly exchanged talk, they rode off on the Chocobo's backs.
Yuffie crawled to Vincent, her right arm just hanging limply. It was numb from shock, anyways, she reminded herself.
"Vinnie!" she whispered, her voice ragged and her breathing labored. "Oh, Vinnie, please wake up!"
Vincent stirred and looked flustered even before her opened his eyes. When he did, the crimson orbs sparkled a deep color, and love flashed in his eyes.
Why am I allowing myself to feel this way? He blinked a couple of times, before realizing how close their lips were..... All he had to do was lean in and...
"Vinnie!" said Yuffie, and collapsed on his chest, and he held back the hiss of surprise and pain. "I love you so much, I thought..."
She froze and her face turned a brilliant scarlet. "What I meant was-"
"I love you too," Vincent cut her off.
"What?" she demanded, her face coming closer to his.
To her surprise, Vincent sat up, gripping her arms in his hand and claw, which was just as warm. There was no trace of Chaos left in his beautiful face, and hers was filled with desperate love.
He pulled her into his lap, her back to him, and he was surprised when she said nothing about her arm.
Of course! It was probably absolutely numb. He frowned at himself.
"I said....." he leaned in closer, until his breath was on her cheek, "I love you, Yuffie. I tried to ignore it, I tried to deny it....." he took a deep breath, and Yuffie felt the tickle on her ear. "I can't anymore. How long have we known each other?"
"A while," admitted Yuffie. She felt ridiculous, but so did Vincent. Here she was, sitting in Vincent's lap, in the middle of a bloody field, covered in blood, arm hanging limply, feeling no pain, admitting that she loved the man that she had dreamed about for months, feeling ridiculous. Nope, nothing was unusual.
"All that time, I tried to deny it, too....." whispered Vincent. "I love you so much..."
Yuffie smiled and sat up out of his lap. He looked startled and a bit hurt.
"I'm sorry!" he said immediately. "I had no right-"
"Silly boy," she whispered, and rummaged in her sack. Yuffie pulled out her Cure materia. Mastered, of course. "Hold still," she advised.
"You should treat yourself first," he said, softly.
"I'll do us both at the same time, how's that?" he nodded, and a pale green light enshrouded her. Her eyes opened and they were glowing so fiercely he wanted to lean down and kiss her, but suddenly he felt all of his aches going away. Her arm suddenly functioned.
Yuffie scooted away from him, placing the orb back in her bag. She looked at him, blank-faced, and for a moment he thought it had all been a joke. Then, she leaned up, her sweet smell coming over him even though she was covered in blood, and touched her lips to his.
At first it was chaste, but he deepened it bit by bit, probing with his tongue, and she pulled back and smiled. "Not yet, Vincent."
He sighed, and stood. "We should get going, Yuffie,"
"We should," agreed the ninja, and, delicately stepping around the corpse, picked up her Shuriken and walked back to her Vincent. She slid her small hand in his large on, and he placed his other hand nervously on the handle of his gun.
"Yuffie?" he said, voice hesitant. He had never talked so much in his whole life, it seemed.
"What is it, Vinnie?" she asked smiling at him. His breath caught in his chest, and he found the words at last.
"Ai shiteru," he said, and she smiled and closed her eyes, leaning against his chest.
"Ai shiteru, Vinnie..... Ai shiteru."
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A/N: Ok! *^_^* Was that any good? Ne? Should I continue or leave it at that? I am not sure, so review and tell me! I really didn't expect it to turn out that way, but I guess it's an okay ending! *^_^* Ja ne..... and review! *^_^*
~*Kumorimisora
D/C: I don't own this. Just the plot. *^_^* Yuffie and Vinnie forever!
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THWACK!! THWACK!! THWACK!!
Yuffie rolled over in bed, shoving her pillow over her head.
THWACK!! THWACK!! THWACK!!
The ninja groaned, and looked around the room, peeking out from underneath her pillow with bleary eyes. Was it even light outside yet?
THWACK!! "Come!" THWACK!! THWACK!! "OUT!"
Yuffie frowned. That sounded a lot like Cloud.
Waugh!
Yuffie rose quickly from bed, and the instant her feet hit the floor, there was another loud 'THWACK!!' on the door. She padded over to the door, and froze as she heard another voce.
"I'm sorry, sir," said a curt voice. Yuffie's eyes widened. "But I am going to have to ask you to leave or please desist in banging on that door. There are other customers trying to sleep, and you are disturbing them."
"Sorry," Cloud's voice mumbled. Yuffie had to keep from laughing out loud.
Yuffie felt a hand on her shoulder, and turned quickly, guilty-eyed, to see Tifa, just as bleary-eyed as she had been before.
"Why didn't you just go out and make him stop banging on the stupid door, Yuffie?" The fist-fighter covered a huge yawn and stretched lithely.
"Uh..." Yuffie couldn't really think of an answer. "I..."
"Gah..." muttered Tifa, and winced as her back popped.
Aeris came to join them at the doorway, smiling. She looked as unruffled as ever, her honey-brown hair somehow still neat, even after the night of sleep. Her emerald eyes were drowsy, however.
"Good morning, Yuffie, Tifa," she said with a warm smile.
"Mornin'," said Yuffie, and yawned.
"Good morning, Aeris," said Tifa, smiling.
Yuffie's stomach growled rather loudly, and both older women turned to look at the young thief. "Uh... heh heh..."
"Hungry? I am too," said Aeris, and slung a friendly arm around Yuffie's shoulder. "Let's go get breakfast."
"In these clothes?" asked Tifa, her sleepy eyes widening slightly.
"Yah," said Yuffie, "Why not?"
Tifa blinked. Her nightgown was long and quite modest, compared to her usual outfit. She supposed it wouldn't be that bad...
"Okay," she agreed slowly.
"Great," said Aeris, and they unlatched the door and opened it.
"Waaah!!!" yelped Cloud, and fell into their room, quite literally.
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"Ooh! That was great!" said Yuffie happily.
Cloud and the others had come to join them at breakfast. The man at the counter didn't seem to mind that the three were still in their nightgowns.
"But Cloud," began Tifa.
"What is it, Teef?" he asked, a pancake halfway in his mouth. His Mako eyes were large and innocent. Tifa had to bite her lip for a moment to keep from laughing.
"Why on earth did you wake us up so early?" Aeris yawned, and delicately sipped at her tea, still looking bleary eyed.
Cait Sith tried to fit up the stairwell, and then realized that he only had to walk down the hall. His stuffed face was annoyed for a moment, and then he wandered off in that direction. There was a loud thump, presumably as he hit the wall, then some mumbling and then silence.
Cloud gulped down his pancake, took a swig of milk, and then cleared his throat. Yuffie looked at Vincent out of the corner of her eye. He was reclining stiffly in his chair, arms crossed over his chest, cloak settled about his shoulders. His head was tilted down, and his midnight hair was falling in front of his eyes, concealing his face.
Yuffie gulped and looked back at Cloud with regret.
"Erm..." muttered Cloud, then his voice picked up. "Yeah! We need to head out, ya know, to..."
"To?" prompted Yuffie. Cloud looked a bit foolish.
"Well, I just think we could head to Kalm, maybe?" he looked hopefully around the table as Tifa buried her face in her hands. "What?"
"Gawd," said Yuffie, and slurped at her orange juice and giggled when it bubbled in her nose.
"I hear that they got a new shipment of materia," he offered, and Yuffie snorted some of the orange juice up her nose, gleefully. Tifa laughed, Aeris giggled, Cloud raised an eyebrow, and Vincent had no reaction. Yuffie was secretly disappointed.
Yuffie made an approving 'Hmm!' sound and nodded.
"If we are going to leave," said Vincent in his quiet, morbid voice, "Should we not? It will be getting light out, and that is the best time to travel."
"Right you are, Vinnie!" said Yuffie happily, chills going up her spine. Vincent cast her an annoyed look, and Yuffie was delighted to get a reaction. Even if it was just a look. And an annoyed one at that. It didn't matter to her!
"Well, then," said Aeris, and stood. "I am going to go pack."
"Me, too," agreed Tifa.
Yuffie bounced up without saying anything. To her surprise, Vincent stood as well. She smiled to herself and jumped after Tifa. As she brushed by Vincent, his long, ebony hair brushed one of her palms. Another chill went up her spine, and she could have sworn that Vincent was looking at her. She smiled and went a little faster.
"Gawd!" exclaimed Yuffie for the fiftieth time that hour. Their Chocobo leapt over another one of the many stumps that littered the 'path', as Cloud had called it. They had each managed to catch a Chocobo, as there had been a herd just outside the mile radius of the town.
Those fuzzy yellow birds had not objected at all to the makeshift reins, and they were actually some semblance of tame. Yuffie was suspicious, but everyone else was determined not to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Unfortunately, Cait Sith and Nanaki could not ride a Chocobo. Cait had agreed to stay in that town, as had the red dog-lion. Yuffie thought it was an absolutely boring town. It had no mastered materia, and nothing she would be interested in stealing.
"Waaah!" yelped Yuffie as she bounced hard on the back of her Chocobo. Aeris and Tifa looked back at her.
"You okay?" called Tifa, grinning. Yuffie nodded, but the movement was barely distinguishable from the bounce of the Chocobo.
Vincent looked at Yuffie from the corner of his eye. Where some people might have seen an ungainly sixteen year old, he saw a beautiful and-wait! He could not be thinking these thoughts. Where was his discipline? He shoved them into the back of his mind, where they danced and pestered him like small children.
For some odd reason that Vincent could not quite put his finger on, Yuffie stirred something deep within his heart, the cold metallic thing that it was. Something he had not felt since...... Lucrecia. No, that would not do. He refused to let himself be taken advantage of like that again.
Cloud looked over at Vincent, who was looking at Yuffie, who was very close to faceplanting in the ground. A question sprung to mind. Why the h3ll was he looking at her like that?
Yuffie screeched as she was knocked off of the Chocobo, but this time not by a bump. A huge monster in the shape of a rat had attacked her from behind. Vincent's face hardened and he jumped off of his Chocobo in motion. Tifa, Aeris, Cloud, Barret, and Cid were a bit slower at it, but they got off.
The young ninja cried out as it tore a large gash in her arm. Her good arm, her right one, was now useless as anything but a lump of meat. Vincent drew Death Penalty, but the rat-creature whipped Yuffie around in front of it, like a human shield.
"It's intelligent....." murmured Vincent.
He and the others formed a line, and attacked in turn. Tifa was the only one who could really get in close enough to get in a blow without endangering Yuffie, but even that was rare. The wind picked up and stung in their eyes, but Vincent didn't blink.
His-no, Yuffie-was stuck there, helpless. The monster gnawed at her arm, and she smacked it angrily across the muzzle. It gave a sharp squeak and dropped her right arm, but her left arm was not of any use.
Yuffie tried to stand, but the rat's whip-like tail lashed out and knocked her feet from underneath her. The AVALANCHE members could only watch in horror; their friend was being mutilated, and they could do nothing.
Vincent simmered silently, until his blood was at a boil and he was seeing red. He was angry when one of his friends got hurt, but this was out of the question. He had known Yuffie for months, yet he had known the others, too! Why was his reaction to this so strong?
He holstered his beloved gun and focused his energy into a white-hot point. Suddenly he realized what was going on. The Chocobos, though normally tame, warked and ran away as fast as they could. Cid and Barret exchanged glances and ran after them, leaving Yuffie helpless, Cloud, equally helpless, the girls, and Vincent.
Yuffie looked at him as the rat shook her arm, its too long teeth cutting in hard. The sweet taste of her blood was only fueling its primitive blood lust, and her reaction was honing the present anger.
The Wutainese girl cried out again as the bone crunched finally, and the last of Vincent's control disappeared at the look in her eyes; a look of utter despair and agony. His Yuffie, his friend! What was he thinking?
IT DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE, Chaos informed him, and he felt the wings rip through his back, and blood seeped down the hardened muscles. I AM IN CONTROL NOW!
Vincent knew that Chaos was right, and let him have his control. Vincent/Chaos let out a triumphant shriek and charged the staring beast. The last bit of conscious thought that Vincent had made him remember Yuffie. He looked down, and there was the Ninja, not with fear, but with a look of gratefulness in her eyes.
Chaos took control and Vincent didn't remember anything else.
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Yuffie felt her arm snap and cried out involuntarily. Vincent was furious, she could tell. No, this was not- "Ahh!" she cried again. The dark man's eyes were boiling, and suddenly wings sprouted from his back.
Aeris fainted as Chaos let out a wail; not from fear but from the sheer noise. Tifa, more battle hardened, did nothing at first, but when Chaos took off, a rather large rock struck her in the forehead. Cloud bit his lip, and realizing that he could do nothing to help either anymore, went to tend to the two women.
Yuffie watched Vincent's transformation with a look of amazement, which turned to gratefulness. How could she not be grateful? He was saving her life! Really, she wanted sob for Vincent, and tell him that he didn't have to do that, to run while he could, and the like.
Vincent just finished the transformation. His claws slashed through the rat's head, and it was decapitated before Yuffie could blink. Vincent came back to Vincent, as Chaos's killing lust had been suppressed for a while.
The rat fell beside her, dead, and Yuffie collapsed. "Cloud," she croaked, and the sword fighter looked up at her. " Go, and get attention for those two. I have the cure!" she added when he cast her a doubtful look. "I can take care of Vinnie and myself!" the name sounded like blasphemy on her tongue.
Cloud nodded and hoisted them on his shoulders. He took off at a steady pace, and Barret and Cid appeared, as if on cue. After some quickly exchanged talk, they rode off on the Chocobo's backs.
Yuffie crawled to Vincent, her right arm just hanging limply. It was numb from shock, anyways, she reminded herself.
"Vinnie!" she whispered, her voice ragged and her breathing labored. "Oh, Vinnie, please wake up!"
Vincent stirred and looked flustered even before her opened his eyes. When he did, the crimson orbs sparkled a deep color, and love flashed in his eyes.
Why am I allowing myself to feel this way? He blinked a couple of times, before realizing how close their lips were..... All he had to do was lean in and...
"Vinnie!" said Yuffie, and collapsed on his chest, and he held back the hiss of surprise and pain. "I love you so much, I thought..."
She froze and her face turned a brilliant scarlet. "What I meant was-"
"I love you too," Vincent cut her off.
"What?" she demanded, her face coming closer to his.
To her surprise, Vincent sat up, gripping her arms in his hand and claw, which was just as warm. There was no trace of Chaos left in his beautiful face, and hers was filled with desperate love.
He pulled her into his lap, her back to him, and he was surprised when she said nothing about her arm.
Of course! It was probably absolutely numb. He frowned at himself.
"I said....." he leaned in closer, until his breath was on her cheek, "I love you, Yuffie. I tried to ignore it, I tried to deny it....." he took a deep breath, and Yuffie felt the tickle on her ear. "I can't anymore. How long have we known each other?"
"A while," admitted Yuffie. She felt ridiculous, but so did Vincent. Here she was, sitting in Vincent's lap, in the middle of a bloody field, covered in blood, arm hanging limply, feeling no pain, admitting that she loved the man that she had dreamed about for months, feeling ridiculous. Nope, nothing was unusual.
"All that time, I tried to deny it, too....." whispered Vincent. "I love you so much..."
Yuffie smiled and sat up out of his lap. He looked startled and a bit hurt.
"I'm sorry!" he said immediately. "I had no right-"
"Silly boy," she whispered, and rummaged in her sack. Yuffie pulled out her Cure materia. Mastered, of course. "Hold still," she advised.
"You should treat yourself first," he said, softly.
"I'll do us both at the same time, how's that?" he nodded, and a pale green light enshrouded her. Her eyes opened and they were glowing so fiercely he wanted to lean down and kiss her, but suddenly he felt all of his aches going away. Her arm suddenly functioned.
Yuffie scooted away from him, placing the orb back in her bag. She looked at him, blank-faced, and for a moment he thought it had all been a joke. Then, she leaned up, her sweet smell coming over him even though she was covered in blood, and touched her lips to his.
At first it was chaste, but he deepened it bit by bit, probing with his tongue, and she pulled back and smiled. "Not yet, Vincent."
He sighed, and stood. "We should get going, Yuffie,"
"We should," agreed the ninja, and, delicately stepping around the corpse, picked up her Shuriken and walked back to her Vincent. She slid her small hand in his large on, and he placed his other hand nervously on the handle of his gun.
"Yuffie?" he said, voice hesitant. He had never talked so much in his whole life, it seemed.
"What is it, Vinnie?" she asked smiling at him. His breath caught in his chest, and he found the words at last.
"Ai shiteru," he said, and she smiled and closed her eyes, leaning against his chest.
"Ai shiteru, Vinnie..... Ai shiteru."
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A/N: Ok! *^_^* Was that any good? Ne? Should I continue or leave it at that? I am not sure, so review and tell me! I really didn't expect it to turn out that way, but I guess it's an okay ending! *^_^* Ja ne..... and review! *^_^*
~*Kumorimisora