}}No I don't own them although I would love to have a Vincent or Sephiroth plushie!*makes big begging eyes at her readers*{{
Yuffie woke up early on the last day they would be spending at the mansion. She snuck past the guy's room, amused to hear the soft sounds of two exhausted warriors sleeping off a night of passion that had kept them up till nearly three in the morning. I guess there is something to be said for having JENOVA cells and mako inhancements, She thought as she made her way into the kitchen. Soon she had a pancake feast going on the huge stove Cloud had installed when Vincent and Sephiroth had presented him with their idea and the gift of the Mansion. Tiffa had been overjoyed and Yuffie had offered to come every summer when it got far to hot in Wutai for her liking to visit the cool little mountain town and serve as cook during the busiest travel season of the year.
Crystal Midgar had formed up nicely and once they found Rufus sitting in his old office, nearly starved but still alive, they had sent him for some mako treatments and he had come back healthier and more sane then any previous member of his family. Reeve had ben relieved as much as anyone if not more. He really wasn't suited to be president of the slowly crumbling company though he had 'pulled it together nicely in the time of crisis.' As Rufus had put it. The blonde former scary powermonger had proven that he did get a good business gene or seven from somewhere in his messed up family by pulling out all the stops and reforming the enrgy company to use 'naturally renewable resources for generating power.'
Barret and his daughter Marline were living in Corel town again. Having used a great deal of his 'War chest' gill to restore the place to a somewhat neat and permanent appearance Barret had redeemed himself in the eyes of that town's citizenry, and begun to make himself a happy life again. Nanaki had been hiding out in Cosmo canyon for quite some time, focusing on restoring the community after the damage caused by the weapon explosion. Grandpa Brunehagen had returned from the ancient city after long being thought dead, and was cheerfully enjoying retirement. In his words, "Work is for the young and the strong, liesure for the old and the tired."
So it was that their little group had begun to return to the seperate lives they had ben ment to live if JENOVA had never been brought to their world. Now it was time to go home to Wutai and make a place for her two loves in her own home. Her father had been quite adamant that he wanted to see the materia she had collected during her journey and soon. He had however expressed tenative appriciation for her having helped save the world and aid those who had suffered too much loss in the disaster. "That's something your mother would have done." His letter had said, and he had meant it too she could tell by how the ink there had ben stained by tears. A year and a half was long enough away from home.
Truth be told she missed the old statues and red tile roofs and maybe just a little bit she missed her father. She wanted them all three to be home and settled in time for her seventeenth birthday. The question was how was her father going to take the fact that she was going to have two bisexual mako enhanced men who could easily take over the world should they be of a mind living with his only daughter. Her smirk of amusement from thinking of how he was going to pop a vein had not faded by the time the scent of her cooking had brought down the other four remaining members of AVALANCHE and their former foe down stairs to eat.
Cid had married Sheera at last and had come back to help with the remodel of the mansion only when he found it impossible to live with the woman while she was pregnant. Every week he recieved an email from her with a digital photograph of her ever expanding belly which he would flash around with pride. He was about to go back for the child to be born but first he was going to transport the three of them and Vinnie's vintage hot rod to the opposite end of the shinobi's island. Yuffie had expressed a wish to take a 'road trip' with the guys so that they could get used to being each other's sole housemates.
"Going to miss this in the mornings Yuffie." Cloud said as he finished loading the dishwasher. He hugged the slender shinobi before passing her off to Tiffa for similar treatment. She ran upstairs and made a last check of her room before dragging her three duffles and her once again hugely stuffed pack out to the hallway. Sephiroth had not accquired many things to replace that which he had given up for his quest to become a god. He only had a large pack on his back so he took two of her duffles which allowed her to slide down the smooth bannister all the way to the ground floor.
She flipped into the air to avoid the carved angel Tiffa had put in place of the freakish gargoyle at the base of the bannister and landed in the circle of Vincent's arms. "Excellant form and perfect landing the Bone Village judge gives it a 9.8" he teased her. She stuck her tongue out at him and recieved the now almost familair chastisement. "Don't stick that out unless you intend to use it Yuffie Kissagari." One of these days she was going to surprise him and stick it down his throat, or Spehiroth's. She had come to love the silvermane as much as Vincent did and as much as she loved Vincent himself. This was no surprise to the slender shinobi. Yuffie had known that she would end up loving them both since she had seen them intwined in that huge crystal in the north crator.
She climbed in between the two in the front seat. It wasn't bucket seats like a normal sports car, no vinnie had put in a bench seat with racing seatbelts for the three of them in the front just like their was in the back. She wound an arm around Vince's shoulders and the other around Sephiroth's. "Let the journey continue!' Yuffie exclaimed with cheer. And Vincent gunned the engine and pulled out of the driveway to meet up with the Highwind on the mountain road where they could load the car into the loading bay of the improved aircraft.
Vincent sat with Yuffie at the table in the Highwind's conference room as she displayed her carefully planned designs for the new rooms and porch she wanted to add to her little house in Wutai. "These are very well thought out Yuffie. I am sure we will be able to put our skills that we learned during our adventure's and the restoration of Midgar to good use." He offered. Her smile made him feel good inside like only one other person's could. That person strolled in and draped himself around the gothic gunman. "Indeed Yuffie these are fine plans, but the question remains what your father will say when we all arrive." The silvermane reminded her.
Yuffie just smirked. "Doesn't matter does it? You guys won't leave me if daddy blows his stack will you?" She allowed her lip to quiver a bit which made both hardened warriors laugh easily. "Of course we won't my precious shinobi." Sephiroth admonished her. "We are united by the will of the planet and nothing short of that same will can seperate us, not now or ever." He swore to them both.Yuffie got up and joined in the hugging, still blessing her good fortune to be so deeply bonded with two of the most special people on the planet.
Something odd in the planet's energy that she had learned to percieve with the help of the two mako warriors made her stomach do flip flops and her head spin. The two of them looked around but not with their eyes then the will of the planet welled up in them and informed them that all was going according to it's plans and to rest easily. Though they all three of them thought that they recognized the energy that flowed through them on it's way to elsewhere they did not wish to speak it aloud lest it be proven an incorect conclusion.
At that very moment in Cosmo Canyon Nanaki's head arched back and he howled in frustration. After all this time? Surely you jest? How can it be when I am the last of my kind that you have a mate for me? He asked the planet. She is last of her own kind as well child of the beast people. It is my wish that you two together shall bring forth a new kind intirely. Go to the city of the ancients by the lake where your lost one rests and wait there for further instructions. The planet commanded him.
Brunehagen watched as his excited adopted grandson searched out and chased down a chocobo that was specially trained to carry the beast leader of the Canyon when he had to go elsewhere in the world. It's gleaming feathers glinted golden in the noonday sun as the freshly armed and ready Nanaki once again asumed the mantle of Red XIII and reentered the world he had hoped never to have to venture out into again. "At least he remembered to take his special clip and all that nice materia he had left over from that northern adventure of his. I wonder what the planet was insisting he do that was so important?" the ancient man pondered and then he turned over in his hammock and went back to his midday siesta.
At the opposite end of the island from Wutai Yuffie greeted the aged wanderer named Mukako, who had tought her many of her better shinobi's skills when even her father's knowledge had failed to bring about the necessary results in her advancement. Mukako was not human by any stretch of the imagination. Many in her line had speculated as to what he was, and Yuffie, though she did not know it was closest to guessing the truth when she thought that he might be an ancestor changed by the will and power of the planet into a guardian for the line of Kissagari. In point of fact he was an ancient and little remembered god who had once had legions of worshippers when there were more shinobi in the world then the few that remained now.
"Your father will not be pleased but he too will come to accept the will of the planet as something to which he must also bow." Mukako informed her, then he walked around her and went to look at the two who were with her. "It is strange that the Silvermane, the Rubey Eyed Assassin and the Thief should come together now, but then it never does rain but it pours. Get you home soon child your land needs it's heir back as soon as may be." Yuffie bowed to her aged instructor and went to get back into the car. Vincent was staring at her with questions in his eyes and Sephiroth was not to far behind. "He sounded almost as if..." Yuffie nodded and gestured for him not to complete the thought. "Let's get up the road a bit before we talk about it okay. Mukako always did give me the ever loving creeps, and the fact that he hasn't changed since I was three says something to that being a reasonable feeling ya know." The two nodded. They had come to accept the instincts of the young shinobi as being acurate as there own if not more so, and in the case of someone she had known since toddlerhood they would be foolish not to do so.
Nanaki! Wake up Nanaki!i Red stirred as the planet called him awake. He had been slumbering at the edge of the lake where Cloud had laid Aeris to rest for some time now. He had only left once when he had needed to have the taste of hot blood in his mouth, since nothing had yet overcome the ancient's charms to infest the place. Yea planet is it time? He asked it. I would not have disturbed your little nap otherwise beastkin. Swim out to the middle of the lake and then down. There is something you must retrieve from the bottom. He obeyed the command his tail turning from true flame to fur shaped as flame at his will. He did not want to have to get the flame going again if it was extinguished, it was painful to do so. He swam down into the cool darkness untill he could see nothing in front of his nose. A few inches more beastkin, now open your jaws and grab that which is in front of you and pull hard in reverse. He did as he was told the thing in his mouth tasting like fabric, and pulled.
He felt the heavy thing come loose from the bottom and then he swam for the surface. He had a greated lung capacity then humans but it was not unlimited. He needed to breathe and he wished to see if what he had recovered was what he thought it might be. If so he was going to have a lot of explaining to do to a certain spiky haired innkeeper at the Mt. Neibleheim bed and breakfast.