Hello! Sorry to keep you waiting! Here's chapter ten! Please R&R!
Disclaimer: I do not own FF7 or Avril Lavigne's songs.
[Chapter 10: Moving In]
~~Flash~~
"Hopefully, I'll be getting us a house to live in."
~~Flash~~
"Together..."
~~Flash~~
"Ah, so this is the house you got us??" The young ninja asked.
"Yes. Happy birthday." The gunslinger replied.
Yuffie squealed with joy and hugged him tight. "You really, really, really got us this house?!" she asked again, really excited by now.
"Yes and I hope you like it."
"Like it? I LOVE it!! You are so sweet to get this!!"
"Sorry for upsetting you."
"Aww, naw, I knew you couldn't forget my birthday! And this is better than ANY vacation!"
Vincent smiled. "I'm pleased to know you enjoy it. I thought you might like the scenery along with the log cabin atmosphere."
~~Flash~~
"Three scrolls of the white tiger..."
~~Flash~~
"Um, yeah! I love it!" she giggled. "How'd you know I'd like it, though?"
"Simple. Everyone in Wutai likes snowy backgrounds in life. I thought you would, too."
A tear came to her eye. "Thank you so much..."
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"Gawd! We sure gotta lot of stuff!" Yuffie said as she helped Vincent carry in the luggage. "Are you sure you got it all?"
"Yeah, for the millionth time, I made sure we had it all before we left!" He grabbed two suitcases as Yuffie grabbed her duffel bags. "Just making sure!"
She walked up to the front of it and looked behind it. Behind it was a long slope that dropped steeply downward. So...they really lived at the top of a mountain...
Yuffie stared over the horizon. So many thoughts rushed through her mind.
*For some reason...this place...reminds me of...Aeris...*
Yuffie dropped her bags and fell to her knees. Vincent dropped his luggage and ran over to her.
"Yuffie! Are you okay?! What's the matter?!"
She buried her face into her palms and sobbed uncontrollably.
*...Aeris...*
~~Flash~~
A young, teenage girl walked up to the form of a young woman with her back hunched up against a wall.
~~Flash~~
She lowered her head and sobbed a few times, then walked over to a blond- haired man.
~~Flash~~
She sobbed a few more times and leaned forward, the blond-haired man catching her in mid-fall. She cried into his chest, letting her tears fall freely.
~~Flash~~
"Cloud...." Yuffie whispered. She cried a little louder. "Aeris..."
"...Yuffie..." Vincent bent down to comfort her. "Please don't think about that right now..." she removed her hands from her face and looked at him, soon-to-be-spilt tears swirling in her eyes. "I-I can't stop thinking about it..."
Yuffie's voice was harsh and dry. She grabbed Vincent and cried into his chest. "Please don't die...I can't bare to see another person I care about die..." Vincent closed his eyes and gently placed his claw on her back. "......"
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"Are you positive you're okay now?" Vincent asked with concern as he lay back on the couch, watching over Yuffie carefully.
Yuffie was hunched forward in a chair sipping some hot chocolate. "Yeah, I'm sorry if I scared you back there. I was just thinking about stuff..." she fiddled around with the mug.
"Are you sure?"
"...Yeah...I think so..."
"Thinking about what?"
"Well, this cabin sorta reminds me of Aeris...just somehow..."
".............."
*I wonder why?* Vincent thought.
**Did Aeris have anything to do with these mountains or anything?**
*I don't know...*
"I don't know why, though. It's so strange...maybe it was because of the Ancient City? The Forgotten Capital? Remember, it was in that deep crevasse with all that ice and stuff surrounding it? But why would it remind me of this place?"
"I don't know..."
"Well, whatever. It's over now and I don't need to worry about it. I'm sorry I got all upset back there. You didn't need to worry too much." She rotated her mug around in circles and watched the hot chocolate swish around.
"Hmm...well if you just want to forget about it that easily, then I guess it's fine. Let's get unpacked into our new home."
Yuffie smiled.
*Home...*
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"Yeah, hahaha! I knew there was something up when you were like 'Pack all of your stuff just in case.' That was so lame! Hahaha! I knew you had something weird planned!"
Vincent grinned. "Was it THAT obvious?"
They both laughed as they walked down the hallway. "So you have all of the furniture in here? Who helped you with all of this?"
"Reeve." He said simply.
"So that's why you kicked him in the restaurant!" she giggled. "Oh, by the way, does this have a second floor?"
"Well, yes and no. There is a second floor, but it only has one room on it. It's kind of like a storage room. I'll show you once we're done unpacking."
"Mmm kay." Yuffie smiled, but then realized...
*Wait a minute! If we live in the same house together...alone...then...do we share a room?!?!!?* she pondered in her thoughts.
"Uh...Vinnie..." she stammered. "Hmmm?" they both stopped in the hallway.
*How do I put this into words? Ahh! Think Yuffie, think! 'Are we sleeping in the same bed together?' Yeah right! What do I say?! Oh no...he's looking at me all funny now...*
"Err..."
*'Are we sleeping in the same room together?' No! How do I say it?! Gawd damn it! This is all my fault!*
"What--"
"AHHH!" Yuffie screamed from being taken out of deep thought so quickly.
"Sorry, what did I say?"
"Huh? Oh, nothing...I was just lost in thought..."
"Well then, what were you going to ask me?"
"Never mind, it's not important anyway..."
"Okay..."
They proceeded down the long hallway until they reached one of the rooms. "This is your room. How do you like it?" Yuffie's jaw dropped in awe.
Inside was a nicely made bed with pink flower pedals spread out across the pillow and blankets. There was several candles that lit up the whole room and they were scented as vanilla. The room looked like a fancy hotel room that would cost over 500,000 Gil to sleep in.
"It smells wonderful and it's beautiful..." she hugged him again, letting her duffel bags drop to the floor. "Who lit the candles?"
"I told Reeve to stop by right before we got here and light them. It's not as fancy as I wanted it to be, but hey, what do you expect in a log cabin?" he chuckled.
"It's okay. I don't like REALLY fancy stuff anyway. Where'd you get the flowers?"
"....."
"What's wrong?"
"I don't want to say..."
"C'mon! The surprise is up! Tell me!"
"No, it's not that. Do you really want to know?"
"Yeah!"
"Promise you won't get upset?"
"Huh? Why?"
"Because they're from Aeris' flower garden."
"......" Yuffie sighed.
"I'm sorry. But I though you'd like them."
"I do! I really do! It's just...I just miss Aeris, okay?"
"I understand. Go ahead and unpack in your room." He turned and walked away.
"Wait! I really love my room! Don't misunderstand!"
"Okay. I believe you." He smiled.
She smiled back. "Thanks for the room."
He nodded, turned around, and walked off.
Yuffie ran into her room with her duffel bags and shut the door.
"Hahahaha!" she dropped the duffel bags on the floor. "Hehehahaha!"
*And I almost believed he and I were going to share a room!*
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Yuffie finished unpacking and went over to her bed. She slid her hand over the delicate fabric. "Wow...he put this all together for me..." she whispered.
She picked up a flower pedal and held it in her palm. "It's so soft..."
*He didn't have to put all this together for me...*
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Vincent finished unpacking and dusted himself off. A job well done.
He opened his door and walked out. He shut the door behind him and turned briefly just to see Yuffie standing there, with her arms crossed. "Oh, sorry. Didn't see you there."
"Are you going to show me the second floor, now?"
He nodded and led her to the entrance of the 'second floor'. "Now, this is just like an attic. It's not that big and it's only one room."
"Okay."
He opened the door to reveal a spiral staircase, made from steel from the looks of it. The steps and rail was painted black and it was a small room with a window to the left. It was so small that you couldn't reach the window too easily without having trouble getting past the stairs.
"Ladies first..." he gestured her forward. "Thank you."
Yuffie climbed the spiral stairs, which led to another door when she reached the top. Vincent motioned for her to open it. When she opened it, she saw that it was VERY dusty inside. "Hmmm..."
"Yeah, sorry about that. I still need to clean this up." Yuffie recalled something in her memory.
"Hey, did you build this?"
"No. It's actually a pretty old cabin."
"Oh, I see. But this room isn't too small." She scanned the room over and over. It was just an old room that looked like an attic, the only thing lighting it up was the window to the left.
"I just thought of something..."
"What is it?"
"Did you mean what you said back there?"
"Huh?"
"When you packed up my guitar, you said you couldn't live without my music. Did you really mean that or did you use it as an excuse for just bringing it because we were moving?"
"I love your music, you know that. Which do you think I meant?" she smiled. "Because you couldn't live without it."
"Right." He smiled and gestured for her to follow him back downstairs.
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"Hey, are you hungry?" he asked. "Not really, but I could use a snack."
"What would you like?" he said as he opened the refrigerator. "What do we-- Holy Jesus!" Yuffie shouted. "Where'd you get all of this food?!"
"I told Reeve to put some in for us. I guess this isn't very much to him." He looked over the packed-full refrigerator and snickered. "Oh well."
"We got enough to last us years!" she laughed.
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It was 10:00 p.m. as Yuffie decided to hit the sack. "Boy, I'm beat!" she laughed as she collapsed onto her bed. "Hey, I wonder what Vinnie's room looks like? Hmm..."
She changed into her pajamas and hopped into her nice, comfy bed. She put her flower pedals in a book to dry them and keep them for good luck. "Haha, for good luck I might as well equip Luck Plus materia! Hahaha!" she snuggled farther into her bed. "So soft and warm..." she blew the candle out and turned over. "I love this cabin..."
I hope you liked that chapter! Please review!
Disclaimer: I do not own FF7 or Avril Lavigne's songs.
[Chapter 10: Moving In]
~~Flash~~
"Hopefully, I'll be getting us a house to live in."
~~Flash~~
"Together..."
~~Flash~~
"Ah, so this is the house you got us??" The young ninja asked.
"Yes. Happy birthday." The gunslinger replied.
Yuffie squealed with joy and hugged him tight. "You really, really, really got us this house?!" she asked again, really excited by now.
"Yes and I hope you like it."
"Like it? I LOVE it!! You are so sweet to get this!!"
"Sorry for upsetting you."
"Aww, naw, I knew you couldn't forget my birthday! And this is better than ANY vacation!"
Vincent smiled. "I'm pleased to know you enjoy it. I thought you might like the scenery along with the log cabin atmosphere."
~~Flash~~
"Three scrolls of the white tiger..."
~~Flash~~
"Um, yeah! I love it!" she giggled. "How'd you know I'd like it, though?"
"Simple. Everyone in Wutai likes snowy backgrounds in life. I thought you would, too."
A tear came to her eye. "Thank you so much..."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Gawd! We sure gotta lot of stuff!" Yuffie said as she helped Vincent carry in the luggage. "Are you sure you got it all?"
"Yeah, for the millionth time, I made sure we had it all before we left!" He grabbed two suitcases as Yuffie grabbed her duffel bags. "Just making sure!"
She walked up to the front of it and looked behind it. Behind it was a long slope that dropped steeply downward. So...they really lived at the top of a mountain...
Yuffie stared over the horizon. So many thoughts rushed through her mind.
*For some reason...this place...reminds me of...Aeris...*
Yuffie dropped her bags and fell to her knees. Vincent dropped his luggage and ran over to her.
"Yuffie! Are you okay?! What's the matter?!"
She buried her face into her palms and sobbed uncontrollably.
*...Aeris...*
~~Flash~~
A young, teenage girl walked up to the form of a young woman with her back hunched up against a wall.
~~Flash~~
She lowered her head and sobbed a few times, then walked over to a blond- haired man.
~~Flash~~
She sobbed a few more times and leaned forward, the blond-haired man catching her in mid-fall. She cried into his chest, letting her tears fall freely.
~~Flash~~
"Cloud...." Yuffie whispered. She cried a little louder. "Aeris..."
"...Yuffie..." Vincent bent down to comfort her. "Please don't think about that right now..." she removed her hands from her face and looked at him, soon-to-be-spilt tears swirling in her eyes. "I-I can't stop thinking about it..."
Yuffie's voice was harsh and dry. She grabbed Vincent and cried into his chest. "Please don't die...I can't bare to see another person I care about die..." Vincent closed his eyes and gently placed his claw on her back. "......"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Are you positive you're okay now?" Vincent asked with concern as he lay back on the couch, watching over Yuffie carefully.
Yuffie was hunched forward in a chair sipping some hot chocolate. "Yeah, I'm sorry if I scared you back there. I was just thinking about stuff..." she fiddled around with the mug.
"Are you sure?"
"...Yeah...I think so..."
"Thinking about what?"
"Well, this cabin sorta reminds me of Aeris...just somehow..."
".............."
*I wonder why?* Vincent thought.
**Did Aeris have anything to do with these mountains or anything?**
*I don't know...*
"I don't know why, though. It's so strange...maybe it was because of the Ancient City? The Forgotten Capital? Remember, it was in that deep crevasse with all that ice and stuff surrounding it? But why would it remind me of this place?"
"I don't know..."
"Well, whatever. It's over now and I don't need to worry about it. I'm sorry I got all upset back there. You didn't need to worry too much." She rotated her mug around in circles and watched the hot chocolate swish around.
"Hmm...well if you just want to forget about it that easily, then I guess it's fine. Let's get unpacked into our new home."
Yuffie smiled.
*Home...*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Yeah, hahaha! I knew there was something up when you were like 'Pack all of your stuff just in case.' That was so lame! Hahaha! I knew you had something weird planned!"
Vincent grinned. "Was it THAT obvious?"
They both laughed as they walked down the hallway. "So you have all of the furniture in here? Who helped you with all of this?"
"Reeve." He said simply.
"So that's why you kicked him in the restaurant!" she giggled. "Oh, by the way, does this have a second floor?"
"Well, yes and no. There is a second floor, but it only has one room on it. It's kind of like a storage room. I'll show you once we're done unpacking."
"Mmm kay." Yuffie smiled, but then realized...
*Wait a minute! If we live in the same house together...alone...then...do we share a room?!?!!?* she pondered in her thoughts.
"Uh...Vinnie..." she stammered. "Hmmm?" they both stopped in the hallway.
*How do I put this into words? Ahh! Think Yuffie, think! 'Are we sleeping in the same bed together?' Yeah right! What do I say?! Oh no...he's looking at me all funny now...*
"Err..."
*'Are we sleeping in the same room together?' No! How do I say it?! Gawd damn it! This is all my fault!*
"What--"
"AHHH!" Yuffie screamed from being taken out of deep thought so quickly.
"Sorry, what did I say?"
"Huh? Oh, nothing...I was just lost in thought..."
"Well then, what were you going to ask me?"
"Never mind, it's not important anyway..."
"Okay..."
They proceeded down the long hallway until they reached one of the rooms. "This is your room. How do you like it?" Yuffie's jaw dropped in awe.
Inside was a nicely made bed with pink flower pedals spread out across the pillow and blankets. There was several candles that lit up the whole room and they were scented as vanilla. The room looked like a fancy hotel room that would cost over 500,000 Gil to sleep in.
"It smells wonderful and it's beautiful..." she hugged him again, letting her duffel bags drop to the floor. "Who lit the candles?"
"I told Reeve to stop by right before we got here and light them. It's not as fancy as I wanted it to be, but hey, what do you expect in a log cabin?" he chuckled.
"It's okay. I don't like REALLY fancy stuff anyway. Where'd you get the flowers?"
"....."
"What's wrong?"
"I don't want to say..."
"C'mon! The surprise is up! Tell me!"
"No, it's not that. Do you really want to know?"
"Yeah!"
"Promise you won't get upset?"
"Huh? Why?"
"Because they're from Aeris' flower garden."
"......" Yuffie sighed.
"I'm sorry. But I though you'd like them."
"I do! I really do! It's just...I just miss Aeris, okay?"
"I understand. Go ahead and unpack in your room." He turned and walked away.
"Wait! I really love my room! Don't misunderstand!"
"Okay. I believe you." He smiled.
She smiled back. "Thanks for the room."
He nodded, turned around, and walked off.
Yuffie ran into her room with her duffel bags and shut the door.
"Hahahaha!" she dropped the duffel bags on the floor. "Hehehahaha!"
*And I almost believed he and I were going to share a room!*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yuffie finished unpacking and went over to her bed. She slid her hand over the delicate fabric. "Wow...he put this all together for me..." she whispered.
She picked up a flower pedal and held it in her palm. "It's so soft..."
*He didn't have to put all this together for me...*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vincent finished unpacking and dusted himself off. A job well done.
He opened his door and walked out. He shut the door behind him and turned briefly just to see Yuffie standing there, with her arms crossed. "Oh, sorry. Didn't see you there."
"Are you going to show me the second floor, now?"
He nodded and led her to the entrance of the 'second floor'. "Now, this is just like an attic. It's not that big and it's only one room."
"Okay."
He opened the door to reveal a spiral staircase, made from steel from the looks of it. The steps and rail was painted black and it was a small room with a window to the left. It was so small that you couldn't reach the window too easily without having trouble getting past the stairs.
"Ladies first..." he gestured her forward. "Thank you."
Yuffie climbed the spiral stairs, which led to another door when she reached the top. Vincent motioned for her to open it. When she opened it, she saw that it was VERY dusty inside. "Hmmm..."
"Yeah, sorry about that. I still need to clean this up." Yuffie recalled something in her memory.
"Hey, did you build this?"
"No. It's actually a pretty old cabin."
"Oh, I see. But this room isn't too small." She scanned the room over and over. It was just an old room that looked like an attic, the only thing lighting it up was the window to the left.
"I just thought of something..."
"What is it?"
"Did you mean what you said back there?"
"Huh?"
"When you packed up my guitar, you said you couldn't live without my music. Did you really mean that or did you use it as an excuse for just bringing it because we were moving?"
"I love your music, you know that. Which do you think I meant?" she smiled. "Because you couldn't live without it."
"Right." He smiled and gestured for her to follow him back downstairs.
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"Hey, are you hungry?" he asked. "Not really, but I could use a snack."
"What would you like?" he said as he opened the refrigerator. "What do we-- Holy Jesus!" Yuffie shouted. "Where'd you get all of this food?!"
"I told Reeve to put some in for us. I guess this isn't very much to him." He looked over the packed-full refrigerator and snickered. "Oh well."
"We got enough to last us years!" she laughed.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It was 10:00 p.m. as Yuffie decided to hit the sack. "Boy, I'm beat!" she laughed as she collapsed onto her bed. "Hey, I wonder what Vinnie's room looks like? Hmm..."
She changed into her pajamas and hopped into her nice, comfy bed. She put her flower pedals in a book to dry them and keep them for good luck. "Haha, for good luck I might as well equip Luck Plus materia! Hahaha!" she snuggled farther into her bed. "So soft and warm..." she blew the candle out and turned over. "I love this cabin..."
I hope you liked that chapter! Please review!