Disclaimer: I don't own Vincent or Yuffie, Squaresoft does, though if they would be ever so generous, they could hand down a deed of legal ownership to lil ole me…hehe…I can dream can't I?
Mirror
~Sylvia Plath
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful --
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
Chapter 2: Yuffie
I was looking around the place for some materia to snitch when Cloud opened the coffin. I bounded over,
" What's inside?" I quipped and annoyingly, the spiky headed jerk just motioned for me to come over to have a look.
" Ewwww.... a dead man...yuck!" Well, it was really disgusting! Who on earth would leave a coffin in a great big mansion like this and leave a stinking corpse in it? 'Sides mansions like this are supposed to have treasure, or better yet, materia...I jumped back and yelled as an arm twitched and an eye opened.
Cloud and Tifa stepped back in combat position- as the man pulled himself up to a sitting position, looking around him as if he'd been sleeping for ages...wait...that's a coffin...gulp...I drew my conformer...and braced myself...
The man or vampire...whatever he was...slumped back into the coffin...
Eh? I looked to Cloud and Tifa for any ideas and they shrugged their shoulders.
".... uhhhh...." came the sounds from the coffin...I think he's in pain...I stepped closer; peering over the dude- he's eyes were shut. He was very pale and had long flowy black hair, which I wanted to touch...
He grabbed my hand mid-way and I yelped, his hand...it was in a metal cast...who the hell is this guy?
"...where am I?" he asked in a soft uncertain voice.
" Shinra mansion. Looks like you've been here for quite some time..." Cloud proffered.
"...yes..." his eyes were red, very pretty...Gawd! Yuffie what the hell are you thinking? They're freaky! I squirmed a bit and started kicking his shins,
" Hey! You might wanna let go off my hand now! You're cutting off the circulation!" I pulled my hand away as soon as I felt his grip relax and stuck my tongue out at him.
"...you're annoying..." he said in a dead-pan kinda voice....grrrrrrrrr....I started toward him, ready to pummel the obnoxious jerk when Tifa laid a restraining hand on my shoulder, shaking her head. Fine...I'll lay off the freak...for now...
And that was pretty much how it all started out... Vincent with the red freaky eyes, who slept in coffins and smelled like mothballs (he did, believe me, and the whole village of Nibelheim could smell him for miles and miles) and me, Yuffie Kisaragi, young, beautiful and-
.... whatever...
*sniff* spoilsport...
Anyway as you guys probably know, after that we just went places and saw stuff and saved the world from destruction, nothing big really. Just the usual things-blow-up-and-go-kaboom kinda thing till we kick some bad guys sorry ass and everything goes back to normal, nice and peaceful. Well, anyway, it's been three years since that whole thing with Cloud and the others and I'd finally come back to my native land, Wutai....
And as much as I missed the place...I regretted returning _ Godo's been at my tail for days ever since I arrived...blabbing stuff like how Wutai needs a ruler, Wutai needs this, Wutai needs that, Wutai needs...blah blah blah blah.... _ well, Yuffie needs some peace and quiet! Well, needless to say- I was annoyed, very annoyed...
So I decided to take off again to the wilderness and maybe fight a couple of monsters or two, get a nice tan in Costa del sol and visit some of the gang *grin* picking up a couple of materia on the way of course. My father of course thought otherwise-
" Where are you going? You just arrived!"
" Away...away from you!"
" But Wutai needs you, I'm growing old-"
" Like you haven't been telling me that for the past few days, I swear! It's driving me nuts!! All the talk about babies and ruling and- GAH!!!!!"
And this would be the time to stomp off into the forest with a pack slung over my shoulder and drowning out whatever the old fart was saying with my whistling. I didn't like being stuck in one place for too long, I'm a wanderer, a vagabond hell! An adventurer! Y'know? When the tingly feeling of wanderlust kicks in and you know you just have to go to a new place or you'd be driven insane...
Well, yeah, it's either that or i just got a hell of case of athletes foot goin on...on second thought _ yuck! Fungus, gross...
Anyway, when I was a good distance away from Wutai I stumbled...
And realized it wasn't a shrub or some stupid tree root or a rock or anything I expected it to be-
It was a man, bleeding like anything with numerous wounds all over that it was a wonder he was alive and that I even recognized him to be human. I rushed to his side, carefully turning him over and I caught my breath...
".... Vinny?"
Note: ;_; what's goin to happen to Vinny? Goin to post Chapter 3 soon, so just wait up for it...Oh, and once again, reviews would be much appreciated :3