Bunkai Kyu: "It's Time"
Yuffie sat in her cell, a few tears escaping down her now dirt stained face. She was such a fool to let herself break her charade and let her anger blind her. She looked herself over with shame for the hundredth time. She still saw the same cut up barefoot feet and legs, covered in mud. Some cuts here and there and the garments she wore to seduce Kenji.
Yuffie bit her tongue to keep the crying noises to come out and felt blood now in her mouth. Every time she remembered what had happened earlier she bit back more and more tears. She was humiliated now and her friends had seen.
[Flashback]
Yuffie heard the door to her cell open. She felt strange as the guards grabbed her and bound her ankles and wrists with chains. They then connected another chain and the guards held it, tugging her along like a dog on a leash.
She saw where she was going, out into the rest of Wutai, so people could see her shame. She looked away as some people laughed, some pointed, some wept and some just choose to look away. She stopped when she saw some one familiar. It was Tifa, in the crowds with Cloud and Cid. She wept as she looked at them, they hadn't seen her yet.
She let out a big yelp as she felt a whip against her back and the guards yelling at her. Hearing the commotion Yuffie saw that Tifa now saw her. Yuffie quickly looked away as Tifa shouted towards her. The guards yanked her along as Yuffie resisted against them.
"Tifa!" she screamed to Tifa's attention again.
Yuffie noticed that the guards were going to go by her friends soon. Yuffie tried to resist more and lost her grip in the ground and was yanked forward a few feet. She landed in the opening where Tifa gasped and saw her in chains.
"Yuffie Kisaragi, of the Wutai throne will be executed in two days for treason and disgrace to his majesty, Lord Kenji Kisaragi." Tifa heard the guards announce.
"Cloud, Cid. I saw Yuffie!!" She shook them.
"##$&*%# Where?" Cid asked
"Over there, where those guards are. They are dragging her around town like an animal!" Tifa cried and ran off toward the guards.
"TIFA!" Tifa heard her name being called loudly in the big crowds.
"Yuffie!" Tifa called back lost in the crowds until she saw a whip rise in the air and strike.
She heard a scream and saw Yuffie out of nowhere fall in front of her and then dragged on the ground by the Wutai guards. Tifa ran toward the guards and kicked one quickly sending him flying. Tifa was about to kick the other went she felt something hit her neck; she collapsed to the ground, sleeping dart in her neck still.
The remaining guards grabbed Yuffie and headed to the palace as Yuffie felt things hit her, she looked and saw young children throwing rocks and food at her. She looked away upset and the next thing she knew she was in her cell
[End of Flashback]
Yuffie then let it all out, she cried hard and wished she never decided to sleep with him. Or even try to do it. She punched the ground in frustration and could envision Vincent scolding her and he did back when he was his real old self, when Lucreia was more important and atoning sins. She missed how he used to be cool and casual anywhere anytime. How when she first saw him without that cape, how she first met him, how she first kissed him, when he said he loved her, when they first consummated their love, when they talked of the future together, how she helped him move his past behind him, how he would call her stubborn, and she missed just him in general all the more. More tears came town her cheeks as the cell door opened.
"It's time" the guard stated and she knew what was to come.
She breathed slowly as she was instructed to dress in a plain white kimono that was handed to her. She turned away from the guard and slowly stripped, wincing as her wounds stung. Once in the white kimono she was led out to the public square by guards and Kenji, where a cement block laid, she was commanded to kneel in front of it.
"Today, a traitor's blood of the Kisaragi throne will be shed. Not in vain, but in justice." Kenji's voice boomed to the crowd. "I will list her offences and then as tradition she gets her speech on why she had done these things."
Yuffie spotted Tifa in the crowd hidden next to a not so well hidden Cloud. Next to them was Barrett and Cid, near the ground was Nanaki. She smiled weakly toward them as Kenji started to read her offences.
"Lady Yuffie Kisaragi is being executed on these bases: turning against the ruler to the throne, seducing the leader of the Wutai Country, trying to kill the Leader of Wutai after sleeping with him, betraying her father, running away against orders, killing Wutainese guards, and lastly, lying to the country."
Yuffie noticed the shocked looks on her comrade's faces at the first few charges. They were probably upset and ashamed with her as she thought. She sighed as she felt Kenji push her face into the groove of the cement rock. She heard the traditional sword of the Kisaragi family being unsheathed.
"My speech" Yuffie cried.
Kenji quickly pulled her back up by her hair, causing Yuffie to cry out in pain.
"Make it quick chit" He whispered in her ear, still holding her back with her hair,
"Country of Wutai, I hope my death will mean something. At least I'll be joining my forever soul mate. I did these crimes because I had no choice. My father Godo Kisaragi abused me, my brother Kenji Kisaragi raped me, I ran away, I was followed, attacked even; most of the killing of Wutainese guards were in self-defense. Kenji killed my soul mate, I came here again, in hopes Kenji would think I wanted to marry, when in truth I would kill him for he killed my father and many people I loved. I wanted revenge, and i knew Kenji would be a bad ruler for Wutai. I, however, knew if I were in his place, I would rule with love and peace not War and fear. I slept with him, to get him when he was most vulnerable, but my blind rage got the better of me" Yuffie stopped, trying to control the tears with no avail. Telling the country her motives was not a easy thing.
"And...Now I'm here, being executed by my twisted brother, who's a violent, perverted drunk." Yuffie stuttered and felt her face burn after Kenji hit her. He pulled the sword to her throat.
"You rule on the basis of Fear Kenji. This is a good example people of Wutai. Because I say one thing about him people don't normally know he decided to use violence as a means of fear. Sooner or later, people will see that you have no talent to rule country, you use your muscle and not your brain." Yuffie spoke slowly, knowing he could slit her throat any moment.
She breathed as she felt the sword about to go across her skin. She the felt it pressed against her skin and starting to move.
Your probably like, wow! Sakura Yosei finished a chapter so soon -.- Anyway, I thought this chapter was better then most but the whole "speech" part I think sucks. Anyway…I'm off to write the other chapters.