Disclaimer: DON'T OWN IT! Only the fanfiction. You plagiarize this I kill you. Lol, I wouldn't kill you but you would almost be killed J
Another Note: Chaos is finally appearing. I realize how uncharacteristic Vincent was without the monster within him. Well, off we go!
Bunkai Shi: A Long Night
It was reaching midnight, and Yuffie was running out of things to talk about to Vincent. She had purposely avoided discussing her attempt at suicide and anything related to it. It wasn't long before Vincent turned out the lights, and then told her to sleep. Yuffie couldn't, she had burdens on her shoulders, and something she needed to lift. She desperately needed to confide to Vincent about her attempt at suicide her memories, but the courage in her heart wouldn't arise as she slowly watched the clock by her bed go back in minutes, leading into hours.
Yuffie's eyes were bloodshot by now, still staring at the clock, it was now three in the morning, and she wondered if Vincent was asleep. He had been so silent except for his breathing, she couldn't tell if he was awake and it scared her a bit.
"Vincent?" She whispered twenty minutes later.
"Your up?" He whispered back.
Yuffie became frightened; she didn't know he was still asleep or if she had wakened him up. She fumbled by says many umms, ohhhs, and lots more of gibberish Vincent couldn't understand.
"Just say it Yuffie," he said calmly.
"I Lied about saying I didn't remember" Yuffie quickly threw out feeling a little better.
"What do you mean?" He asked, his voice cracking a bit
"I…it's just I remembered, but it's a memory only to me, the feelings didn't come back with it…" Yuffie stopped on the verge of tears; "I thought it would be better to say I didn't remember versus saying I did but dropping you in the gutters. I'm Sorry, I thought I was saving you from a miserable heartbreak but then what I did caused me great pain and guilt. It was drowning me, I gained my gruesome memories from Wutai and then along with my guilt, I drowned, I didn't want to remember at all! I then understood why I tried so hard to suppressed them so hard…and it led me to try and kill myself. I couldn't handle it anymore." By the Yuffie finished, she felt masculine arms pull her out of bed and into his lap, cradling her like a mother would to her child. Yuffie cried her heart out, feeling comfort in her ex lover's hold.
"Yuffie…As much as the truth may hurt, it's a lot less painful then lying your whole lifetime about it. I'm glad you told me the truth." Vincent whispered in a hushed voice.
**You only wish that "Vinnie"** Chaos teased.
'I thought we agreed that you would live me alone Chaos' Vincent replied distastefully to the monster within him as it left him alone.
Vincent held Yuffie a little closer, cradling himself along with Yuffie. It was then Yuffie could tell this was hard for him, very hard, to the point she felt like death wasn't so bad. It wasn't long till Yuffie fell asleep, with Vincent looking at her with pain. He slowly placed her back in the bed and pulled the covers over. He walked over to the open window and glanced at the bright moon, remembering the time him and Yuffie were talking about his claw…how she said it was human to her no matter what he thought. Vincent blinked back tears, he felt like his world was crashing down before him. Yet he had to be strong, maintain his usual composure. Him looking sad would only add more guilt and pain to Yuffie and he didn't want that. He went to sit back in the chair and waited for morning to come.
It wasn't long after that Vincent saw Yuffie shifting violently in her bed crying. He stood quickly and ran to her bed, seeing she was dreaming, but having pretty bad nightmares. He glanced at her pain as he saw her struggle within her sleep, crying for her father to stop hitting her. He could see as she spoke, that she was in great pain in her dream. He had no clue what was going before he wake her; he heard a commotion come outside of Yuffie's room. Vincent slipped his head out to look into the hospital hallway, seeing the doctor pinned against the wall being asked questions by a hostile man.
"Where is Yuffie Kisaragi? I know she was checked into here!" The man asked, slamming the doctor against the wall harder.
"She checked out this morning! I swear!" The doctor replied, lying.
Vincent quickly walked back in to see Yuffie awake from the commotion, in a cold sweat. She looked like she had seen a ghost as Vincent hurried over to her.
"Yuffie, some one is looking for you and I don't think his intentions are well and we need to get out of here." Vincent replied quickly.
"Ke-Ke-Kenji…" Yuffie stammered, looking even paler.
"Is that his name??" Vincent asked.
All Yuffie could do was nod as she head the commotion come closer. Vincent grabbed Yuffie and opened up the air vent, sliding her in and then him after her before closing it quietly. Yuffie was still half-asleep and oblivious as to what was happening except that Vincent was kneeling over her as to protect her.
"Vincent…what are-" Yuffie started to ask as Vincent silenced her.
"I'm not going to let him or your father hurt you again…" Vincent whispered into her ear and then gave her a quick kiss. "Do you think you can escape through the vents if I distract them long enough?"
Yuffie looked scared at that, was he planning a suicide mission?? She laid there in silence as Vincent awaited an answer. Yuffie didn't have to reply, because she soon winced at the sound of Kenji and his men breaking into her room. Vincent shoved her silently down the shaft, motioning for her to go. [AN: Is that even possible? Shoving without making noise in a vent?? Oh well, for the purpose of this story, I'll say yes] Yuffie scrambled back to him, to give him one last swift kiss on Vincent's lips and then scurried down the vent. Vincent wouldn't be able to ask why she had done that because he heard Kenji shooting into the wall in frustration, knowing this was supposed be her room now.
"Her bed is still warm, look around for her." Kenji barked orders feeling the bed.
Yuffie continued to go down the vent and turned and turned, soon realizing she was lost. She cursed herself for agreeing to go by herself without Vincent. Hell, he'd probably die for her tonight all because he was hopelessly in love with her. Right as that thought struck her; she saw an open vent leading to outside, she glanced out of it, seeing the sun was about to rise earlier then usual. She quickly ducked as she heard shooting everywhere and bullet holes go through the vent wall above her. The sound rang in her ears as she heard another shot and she winced in pain, seeing a bullet lodged into her shoulder. She scurried to the opening, seeing there were dumpsters below, and some homeless people, but that was it, no sign of Kenji's men.
Yuffie pushed the vent door up and climbed slowly out to land on a dumpster making a loud thud. The homeless men just glanced at her with a weird look and then went back to their business. Yuffie jumped down from the dumpster and then made a run toward the main part of town. She continued to run until she felt her shoulder throbbing more. She let out a yelp but continued to run for her life, holding her shoulder.
She soon reached a small forest near the outskirts of NeoMidgar and headed further within the forest. There she collapsed onto a tree stump, not seeing a figure in red and black sitting against a tree, injured as well. Yuffie's eyes began to open a few hours later as she felt raindrops hit her body. She sat up slowly and saw Vincent slouched against a tree, bullet wound in his inner thigh. She gasped and ran quickly to him, nearly tripping over roots of the trees.
"Vincent!" She yelled shaking him but he didn't answer.
She glanced at his wound and then his face; if she didn't do something soon then he would die. She didn't think much as she grabbed a piece of bark, ridded it of its moss and such and stuck it in his mouth. She then felt around his wound, and then dug her fingers in as she heard him scream and bite into the bark to help the pain. Yuffie felt the bullet and yanked it out hearing him scream more as he came back to consciousness.
Yuffie threw the bullet aside and then pulled off his bandana, to tie around his wounded area. As she did this she felt a masculine hand on hers. She glanced up as she saw Vincent open his burgundy eyes slowly to catch a look at her. At that moment, Thunder was heard in the sky making Yuffie jump, causing her to collapse onto Vincent. Vincent couldn't let the moment pass him by, so he gently put his arms around her, as he felt rain pouring on the two.
"Thank you Yuffie…" He said softly, his dark ruby eyes flashing with kindness after he spat the piece of bark out of his mouth.
Yuffie just nodded as she blushed slightly. They were soon soaked, their clothes clinging to their figures, mainly Yuffie's. Vincent had to look up at her eyes and along the way he caught a big stain of crimson on Yuffie's shoulder and hospital gown.
"You're injured!" Vincent gasped pulling the sleeve of her gown down a little to see it but realized it was no good.
"Vincent it's really no big deal…"Yuffie trailed of and then winced.
She then glanced at Vincent confusingly as he pulled his shredded cape off then started to pull his shirt off.
"What are you doing?" She asked as he handed the shirt to her.
"I can't look and treat your wound properly with that gown on, so put this on, I'll look away" Vincent explained and looked away.
Yuffie slowly pulled the dirty hospital gown off with a little difficulty to discover she still had the shorts on that she had worn before she came to the hospital but was topless. She pulled the shirt over and noticed it had a big shred mark where her wound was.
"You can look now." Yuffie explained and Vincent looked back at her.
Vincent slowly went to work on her wound when he stopped, placing his claw on her uninjured shoulder.
"What's wrong?" Yuffie asked.
"I will need two hands to this successfully. I have 1 hand and then a claw." Vincent murmured, cursing his claw.
**That's right, your claw, the one that horrible Hojo gave us** Chaos sneered.
'When will you leave me alone?'
**I can't. That wouldn't be any fun Valentine. Besides, I'd get bored, there's nothing else to do** the monster replied and then was silent.
"I'll be your other hand." Yuffie said slowly snapping Vincent's attention back to her.
Vincent made Yuffie hold her shoulder pretty tight so he could see the bullet better. He then slid his finger in the wound to pull it out as Yuffie started to whimper and then cry softly in pain. She soon started to shriek loudly as the pain enveloped her, one of her hands grasping his upper arm with the claw tightly. He grasped the bullet and quickly pulled his finger out to see the bullet. The bullet was big and thick, as though it came out of a shotgun of some kind. He flicked it aside and then looked at Yuffie's face, feeling his arm that she was still holding go numb. Tears were kissing her eyes like mad, the rain had made her hair very damp and she was shivering, her nose a somewhat reddish color.
Vincent gently pulled her toward him, resting her head on his bare chest. He rubbed her back slowly as she sniffled and then coughed. He looked a bit into the rain, feeling his own long, wet, jet-black hair sticking to his back. He hesitantly placed his claw on her head despite Chaos' jeering, feeling her damp hair against his inhuman hand. She sat there leaning against his chest as she thought. She was deeply confused. Back at the hospital when she said her feelings for him were only a memory, was she lying? Or was it just that they were on the run together from Kenji? She thought for a long time trying to figure it out when she heard Vincent's breathing pattern change. She glanced up to see that he was asleep now.
She sat up a bit and turned her body so she was facing Vincent. She leaned in close to his face and then became hesitant, should she kiss him? She had once back at the hospital.
"I don't want this feeling to be a memory anymore…" Yuffie placed her lips against Vincent's and then backed away slowly.
She gently felt Vincent's arms around her neck, pulling her back to him. There, she felt her lips meet his again, for a few slow kisses before retreating. Vincent slowly opened his eyes to see a beautiful Yuffie blushing a few inches from his face.
It slowly stopped raining as the sun was fully up in the sky to start a new day. Seeing this as an opportunity to get moving, Yuffie stood hoping Vincent would follow suit. She reached her hand down to him as started to stand wincing, as he quickly had to lean against the tree to stand. Yuffie started at her feet, trying to get her brain to work but it wasn't complying, all it wanted was more of Vincent's lips.
"I'm sorry Vincent. I didn't realize your wound was still that bad." Yuffie quickly said feeling bad.
"It's alright Yuffie, if only I could find a long strong branch to help support me." Vincent replied.
Yuffie saw one and picked it up by her feet, "Like this one?" Yuffie asked.
Vincent gently grabbed it from her and they started to head off slowly. It had been two or three hours of traveling when he stopped. He sat down on a tree stump and looked around while Yuffie stood there confused. Where are we going? Yuffie thought. She walked over to Vincent and sat down, resting her head on his shoulder. He slowly slid his claw around her and leaned in to kiss her, placing his other arm on her elbow near her chest. As he kissed her lips Yuffie suddenly panicked in her head. The way he was holding her, mainly his human hand reminded her of Kenji violating her and she broke awake.
"No Kenji!" She yelled without thinking.
I got in some special Yuffitine fluff just for those Y/V fans. Hehe. What will happen now? Will Yuffie reject Vincent after all this time? Will it be the other way around? Will Kenji catch up with them? What about Tifa? All the questions may or may not be answered next chapter. Lol. Just continue to read folks. Please R/R. Also, I'd like to thank Ruri-sugar who inspired me to write a lot. She has a Yuffie/Vincent story too. Go check it out; it's called "My Eyes can't lie". Go now, but continue to read this story please too!