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My Eyes Can't Lie...

"Yes, I see." The doctor said again.

"WILL YOU STOP SAYIN' THAT!? GAWD! YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO UNCOMFORTABLE!" Yuffie yelled.

"Well, I can fix you up. I will need to operate though, and you'll need help for at about three months; two at the most if I give you the new medication that heals you quicker. Then we remove the bandages. It should be successful, but if the operation does fail, then you will need to see a better doctor."

"Fine. When can I have the operation?"

"Now, if you want it badly enough. I know the owner of this hotel and I will get a room specialized. I have extra surgical utensils here, for emergencies. All sterilized and ready. Of course, you will need to take some sedatives. It will take about an hour for it to fully work. So, until then, you can feel the warmth of the Costa del Solian air." He said.

"OK." Yuffie said, now a little nervous.

"OK. Stay still. Here is the sedative." He held out a needle with clear liquid in it.

"It isn't a needle is it?" Yuffie said uneasily.

"Ummm...actually..."

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I HATE NEEDLES! NO! I DON'T WANNA SHOT! NOOOO! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Yuffie screamed, but stopped when Chekhov held her down.

"Hurry up!" She said.

"Alright. Done."

"Let's go Miss Yuffie."

"...sure..."

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"And then Grandfather said...What was that?!" Nanaki said as he heard a scream.

"I'd say that was the scream of a Yuffie Kisaragi." Vincent said. "She probably failed to steal materia from someone."

"I don't think so. Let's go." They both ran out to look for Yuffie, but gave up when they couldn't find her.

"Oh, well. The sun seems low enough. Let's go outside and find the others." Vincent said.

"Alright."

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"How does the sun feel, Miss Yuffie?" Chekhov asked.

"It's OK. I just wish I could see it."

"You will, don't worry."

*oh-so-familiar-battle-music-comes-on*

"Miss Yuffie! It's a turtle monster!"

"What!? Can you kill it?"

"I don't know! I'll try!'

"You better! I can't kill it! I have my Shuriken, but it is kinda useless if I can't see the enemy! Chekhov? You still there?"

"..." Chekhov was already down.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!  HHHHEEEEELLLLLPPP!" Yuffie screamed as she slowly lifted up her shuriken, listening for where the turtle monster would be.

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"I just can't believe that we are all here!" Tifa said happily.

"Well, almost all here. Yuffie isn't. Godo probably kept her in Wutai." Cloud said.

"Well, actually, I thought I heard Chekhov talking to the doctor who helped you in Mideel, Cloud. But I didn't see them." Tifa said confused.

"Me and Vincent heard someone scream and it sounded like Yuffie." Nanaki said.

"Well, maybe she is here. We just need to know where *#^%*@ she is..." Cid said just as they heard a scream come from the beach.

"Yuffie!" They all said in unison.

They all ran to the beach.

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"Alright. That's it! I have to try to hit it! If I don't even try, I'll..." Yuffie then threw her shuriken. Unfortunately, she threw it the opposite way of the monster.

"Roar." Said the monster.

"OK...for some weird reason, I think I missed..."

"There she is!" Barrett said.

"And here comes her shuriken! DUCK!" Cid yelled. "%^#@%&(^$" Cid mumbled.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKK! I'M GONNA DIE!" Yuffie screamed.

"Yuffie! WHAT'S YOUR *^$#%&$# PROBLEM?!" Tifa shrieked.

"I'll tell you later, but for now, kill the turtle thing! Please!"

~After Cloud kills the turtle~

"Why couldn't you do it? It wasn't that difficult." Cloud asked. They were all in the lobby now. Chekhov was healed, and sat next to Yuffie. Yuffie had dark sunglasses on.

"Yuffie? We're talking to you. Why don't you take your sunglasses off? We're inside." Cid said.

"Well, I...*sigh* First, I couldn't defeat the monster because I couldn't see it. Second, I won't talk off my sunglasses because I am...I'm..."

"Because Miss Yuffie is blind." Chekhov finished.

"What!?" All except Yuffie and Chekhov said.

"How?" Nanaki asked.

"Well, when you dropped me of near Wutai when everyone was going home, I met up with some idiot who wanted to steal my materia. I wouldn't let that happened. So, we fought. I won, but he threw something at me that stung my eyes and caused me to loose my sight. I barely made it home. But I did get to keep my materia."

"..."

"But, enough with that. Thanks helping me back there. I have to go in about 15 minutes, so, how are you all?

"Fine! I opened up a bar, and I called "Tifa's 7th heaven." Since the one in Midgar is no longer being used, I just named my new bar the same." Tifa said.

"I'm fine, I guess. But nothing happens in Nibelheim. I don't know what to do anymore. And me and Tifa were thinking about moving to Kalm, but we couldn't leave Nibelheim again." Cloud said.

"I'm working on Highwind, making it ride smoother, so if I ever have passengers who are a little weak in the stomach, it won't be so bad." Cid said.

"I am helping the villagers with everything. Other than that, I am just fine, as is Grandfather." Nanaki said.

"I am spending more money then earning now that I was kicked out of Gold Saucer. But that's OK." Cait Sith said.

"I am stayin' at Elmyra's house with Marlene. She says hi by the way." Barrett said.

"I do what I always do. Sleep. I didn't bring my coffin though, so I may not have as many nightmares as before." Vincent said.

"Wow! So, does everyone look the same?" Yuffie asked.

"Pretty much. Except for Barrett who died his hair pink. The fruit." Cid said with a snicker.

"WHA'??? You wanna start something, you little toothpick blondie?" Barrett said as he lifted up his arm/gun.

"Hey! If...you wanna...fight, then...at least...wait till I...I can see...so I can...laugh at the...person who...gets his...@$$ kicked..." Yuffie said a little slurry.

"Yuffie? What's wrong?" Nanaki asked, worried. By now, the sedative knocked Yuffie out.

"It is the sedative. The doctor should be here to take her to the room where he will try to fix her eyes." Chekhov explained.

"Oh."

"Yuffie? The room is ready." The doctor said.

"Oh, hello Cloud! Tifa! Everyone! I'll have to talk to you later, but the more time I waste, the less time I have to operate. Would one of you please carry Yuffie to the room?"

"I can't, my arms are oily from the lotion I rubbed on Tifa's back. I'd drop her." Cloud said.

"I have a loaded gun for a hand. I don't think you'd want me to do it." Barrett said.

"I'd pass out if I saw all the needles and stuff in the room." Cid said.

"*holds up megaphone* I could never part with it!" Cait Sith said.

"If you don't wanna do it, then just say so! Don't make any excuses! Men!" Tifa said angrily. "Just remember this is for Yuffie. Vincent, will you do it?"

"Sure." Vincent walked over to Yuffie and carefully picked her up. Then, he followed the doctor to the room.

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"So, how was the operation?" Cloud asked the doctor.

"It was fine. She is recovering, so no visitors until tomorrow."

"Everyone is already in bed, *yawn* I should be too. Goodnight doc!"

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Yuffie lay in her bed with a needle in her arm. Bandages covered her eyes and the heart monitor *beeped* a slow rhythm. Then the window across the room slowly opened. A dark figure with a long cape came through it. The shadowy person crept towards Yuffie, and took out a pair of scissors. He cut the tube that served as passageway from the oxygen tank to the mask covering her mouth and nose.

"If you can't breathe, you can't live. If you die, Cloud and the others will be too depressed to stop me! Especially since you will be the 2nd person they knew and loved to die." The thing rasped quietly.

Yuffie was slowly coming out of unconsciousness, but still wasn't able to breathe on her own. What would happen to her? She couldn't breathe. She tried to lift up her arm to push over a glass vase on the table beside her (she knew it was there because everyone gave her flowers for a get well present before she went into surgery and they told her where it was so she could feel it whenever she was sad), which would wake up Vincent, since he had the room next to her, but was struggling. Just as she faded into unconsciousness again, her hand pushed the vase off the side table and woke up Vincent.

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A/N: Wow. I wish I could write as much as a lot of other people. My chapters are so short compared to them! Please review!

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