Tell Me I Was Dreaming
By: Yuffie Kisaragi2
I only own my own characters, I think you can tell which ones they are.
Nope, this is not based off of the song... This is an eight chapter short story that I will try to update every week or so. Don't hold me to that, though! Read onward!
foureyes : I apologize for the typo! Though I agree, it's hillarious if you pronounce it!
Ezri-Candy : I'm updatin', I'm updatin'! Thankies for readin' another one of my fics, though!
Neko-Yuff16 : And thankies to you for readin' another one of my fics!
Hotaru170 : And thankies to you for readin' another one of my fics! WOW! Three previous reviewers are back! I'm liked!
Kagato.Masaki : Glad you like it! Please keep readin'!
Chapter Two: Who the fuck are you?
-- "Please," a small voice begged their blonde captain. "Don't make me get in that submarine! I'll hark all over you! I mean it! I'm really clausterphoebic!"
Cloud sighed. "Yuffie, who will watch over you if you do not come with me?"
She got a pouty look on her face, her lower lip over lapping her upper to make it look pouty. With a few sniffs, she looked at Cloud. "Please? I'll sit here on the shore and wait for you! I swear it! But, I'll get sick if you make me ride!"
Vincent sighed. "I will watch over her. Take Tifa and Cait Sith instead." Cloud looked at the taller man, then nodded.
Once they were gone, Yuffie tagged along behind the vampiric man, staying quiet. "Why did you do that?" she asked suddenly.
The dark-haired man shrugged. "I thought that we would all grow tired of your complaints."
"You're so mean! Jerky Vampy-kun!" --
"Yo, man! Get up!"
Vincent opened his eyes and saw Rude. "What?"
The bald man nodded toward the door. "We're here. We can get off this damn boat, now."
Vincent slipped his shirt back on and grabbed his weapon and bag, then followed Rude off the boat onto the deck, where all four Turks stood in and stared in disbelief at Wutia. It was no longer the little village that they had remembered. Sure, they had heard that the town had become a city, but they had never imagined that it would have gone hi-tech! Sky-scrapers, apartment buildings, homeless shelters, everything that a normal city had, Wutia had.
"Well, that would explain why Yuffie disappeared," Vincent muttered, remembering her dislike of tight spaces, including crowded streets.
"Wutai sure has changed," Elena said softly in awe.
Reno shrugged and turned to his comrades. "Champron said that there's a bar called Turtle's Paradise that's cheap. He'll have someone there to give us a quick run-down on the lay-out of the building. Leave that up to me. You three go and enjoy yourselves. Meet outside at eleven-thirty. It's nine now. Let's go." Needless to say, Reno took the leader role over and handled it nicely.
As the four stepped into the bar, the were met with the welcoming smell of cigarettes, beer, and cheap perfume. A beautiful piano and singer duet floated through the air. "Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping.. Hello, I'm still here. All that's left of yesterday..." Applause rang out and the Masked Woman smiled, her mouth the only thing visible.
The piano started up again and she seemed to become part of the song. "I'm so tired of being here. Suppressed by all my childish fears. And if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave. 'Cause your prescence still lingers here. And it won't leave me alone. These wounds won't seem to hel. This pain is just to real. There's just too much that time cannot erase. When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears. When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears. I held your hand through all of these year. But you still have all of me."
Vincent found a corner table and sat down to watch and listen to this entrancing singer. Elena and Rude sat across from him, tearing his attention away from the beauty on stage. The blonde sat on her boyfriend's lap, laughing at the look on Vincent's face.
"You look like you know that woman from somewhere and are deeply, madly in love with her," she said with a grin.
"Whatever," Vincent joked back. "You're just mad because Reno made you two leave him the hell alone." By the time he looked back up to the stage, she was taking a drink, finished with the song that had him entranced.
A guitar started up and she grinned wickedly as she sang another song, only it was faster.
Vincent, Rude, and Elena spent their time chatting about how much Wutia has changed, but both men seemed entranced by the singer on stage when Elena wasn't paying attention.
When the crowd was shouting for an encore, the woman smiled and coughed into her handkerchief, then nodded. "What song?" Many shouts of various songs filled the bar and she laughed a beautiful laugh like chiming bells. "Okay.. Bar Keep's Choice!" The balding man flushed. "What say ye, oh mighty barkeep?"
-- "What say ye, oh fearless leader of blonde porcupine heritage?"
Cloud glared at the teen, who merely grinned in response. --
"I don't know," he said bashfully. "How about... Taking Over Me?"
There were shouts of approval and the woman smiled again. The piano started up, then was joined by guitars and drums. "You don't remember me, but I remember you. I lie awake and try so hard not to think of you. But who can decide what they dream? And dream I do. I believe in you. I'll give up everything just to find you."
"We've gotta go, Vince," Rude whispered, nudging him.
As the tall, vampiric man walked out, he didn't notice the woman on stage, still singing, but watching him. The light glinted off his metal claw, and she knew instantly. 'Vincent!'
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-- The dark man stared up at the diamond speckled night sky. "I am a monster..." he told himself softly.
"I'm afraid of monsters," her voice came from behind him. Without turning, he knew that it was Yuffie, who was temporarily staying at Cid's house. "But I'm not afraid of you... Guess that means you're not a monster, eh, Vampy?" He could hear the arrogant smirk in her voice, though didn't see it on her face when he turned around to face her. She looked at him with her grey eyes that seemed like storm clouds, ready to burst with rain and lightning, her face was blank, as if unsure what to expect from the man.
He smirked. "Come on," his tenor voice said softly. "It's late and you are probably hungry."
"You buyin'?" she asked quickly. He nodded. "Fine, let's get to that restaraunt before it closes!" --
"There should be one guard and there's a window left open." Reno yawned. "So, how're we gonna do him in?"
Vincent looked at Reno with a blank expression. "Silencer on my gun, one shot through the head." They all turned and watched a limo drive past, then continued their unofficial meeting. "It's easy and only messy on the bed."
Elena and Rude both nodded their agreement. The spit fire also nodded. "Kay, Vince. It's your night, then."
-- "I wanna go too!"
Cloud shook his head at the ninja princess. "If you got injured, Godo would have me hunted down. You can stay up here on the Highwind with Cid's crew."
She looked down and to her left. As the others prepared for battle and Cloud gave them a pep up speech, she walked across the deck and picked the taller man up by the neck of his shirt. "Listen, Sunny Day. I don't care if you think this is just for glory, but I don't. I'm going to help save my people as well as everyone else, because there is no reason to let them die. There is no reason to live if I can't help."
Vincent watched the scene with invisible pleasure. He had been waiting for the ninja to suddenly erupt since day one with AVALANCHE. Tifa bit her lip in worry whereas most everyone else laughed. "Let her come, Cloud," Tifa said after the ninja had thrown him into the side of the Highwind.
"Fine, then. She can come. But, I mean it. If she's injured, I can't take her by myself." --
Vincent hopped into the room last. Reno looked at his three comrades and nodded. Six silenced shots took out the guards that weren't supposed to be there. Vincent opened the door and slipped in, Reno, Rude, and Elena staying back.
The room had a dresser and a four poster bed with red and white sheets and blankets. As he crept around to the side of the bed, he saw intense grey eyes looking up at him. "Sleepel," he heard her whisper. Three thuds indicated the fall of his comrades.
Jumping back and taking aim, he glared at the woman with lower back length chocolate hair. "Who the fuck are you?" he asked in a dangerously low whisper.
"Your target, apparentally. Sheesh. And I'm told that I'M daft!" A throwing star cut the man's human hand, causing him to drop the gun that he held. She stepped forward to get a better look at him, stepping into a pool of moonlight. Vincent's eyes widened.
-- A beautiful woman with long chocolate and sun-streaked hair and intense grey eyes smiled up at him from the picture. "Yuffie.. Wow, you're absolutely gorgeous," he said to himself. He frowned at the rest of the picture. Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Marlene, Cid, Shera, Red XIII, and Reeve all smiled out at him. Yuffie, being the shortest, was sitting cross-legged wearing denim shorts and a green tank top, grinning up at him with no true emotions in her stormy grey eyes. --
Sure, she was a year or so older, but she looked pretty much the same. "Yuffie?"
She smiled half-heartedly. "It is you. And I was hoping that it wasn't..." She sighed a ragged sigh and took her fighting stance. "I guess you're not going to just give up, are you?"
"Still the same, huh?" he asked with a chuckle. "Never will I truly give up."
"Figures..." She threw a small shuriken at him, which he dodged. Still wounded, Vincent was unable to use his own weapon. He lunged at her. With a last second side-step, Yuffie allowed the man to run himself into the pole of her bed and brought her hand in a chop style onto the back of his neck. He slumped to the floor and she gazed at him hurtfully. "I truly never expected you to come and try to kill me... Tifa or Barret, maybe... But not you." She coughed into a blood stained handkerchief.
-- Yuffie smiled up at Vincent, a bouquette of roses that she had just received from her date in her hands still. "He was afraid to come in, because Cid said that you'd kill him. I don't think you could hurt a fly while in human form, though." With that, she skipped down the hall to her room. Vincent stared blankly after her, thinking that she was truly as crazy as Barret had implied. --
YK2: Whew, now that that's over!
Surka: It's over!? --Throws a party--
YK2: I meant the chapter, Surka. Not the story.
All: Awww! There's MORE!?
YK2: Yup! If I get reviews, that is! Thanks to: foureyes, Ezri-Candy, Neko-Yuff16, Hotaru170, and Kagato.Masaki for my first five reviews!
Dracon: For a good story, read Always Smiling by Ezri-Candy. It's a very well-written story.
YK2: Even if Ezri does like evil cliffies!
Sky: Yay Yuffentines!
Toni: I like Yuffroths, myself.
PK, YK2, & Hacker: Huh?
Toni: Yuffie/Sephiroth fics.
Paine: Did not realize they had a formal name.
Toni: Why not?
Sephiroth: Why... HER?
Yuffie: Hey! What's wrong with me!?
Vincent: -- to YK2 -- You might want to keep her away from me, she is rather frightening at times...
Sky: VINNIE! -- huggles Vincent --
Vincent: Oh, unmerciful Gods and Goddesses!
YK2: Well, I'll let you get on with your lives, now! Till Next Time! AUDI!!!
-The gang of TMIWD
By: Yuffie Kisaragi2
I only own my own characters, I think you can tell which ones they are.
Nope, this is not based off of the song... This is an eight chapter short story that I will try to update every week or so. Don't hold me to that, though! Read onward!
foureyes : I apologize for the typo! Though I agree, it's hillarious if you pronounce it!
Ezri-Candy : I'm updatin', I'm updatin'! Thankies for readin' another one of my fics, though!
Neko-Yuff16 : And thankies to you for readin' another one of my fics!
Hotaru170 : And thankies to you for readin' another one of my fics! WOW! Three previous reviewers are back! I'm liked!
Kagato.Masaki : Glad you like it! Please keep readin'!
Chapter Two: Who the fuck are you?
-- "Please," a small voice begged their blonde captain. "Don't make me get in that submarine! I'll hark all over you! I mean it! I'm really clausterphoebic!"
Cloud sighed. "Yuffie, who will watch over you if you do not come with me?"
She got a pouty look on her face, her lower lip over lapping her upper to make it look pouty. With a few sniffs, she looked at Cloud. "Please? I'll sit here on the shore and wait for you! I swear it! But, I'll get sick if you make me ride!"
Vincent sighed. "I will watch over her. Take Tifa and Cait Sith instead." Cloud looked at the taller man, then nodded.
Once they were gone, Yuffie tagged along behind the vampiric man, staying quiet. "Why did you do that?" she asked suddenly.
The dark-haired man shrugged. "I thought that we would all grow tired of your complaints."
"You're so mean! Jerky Vampy-kun!" --
"Yo, man! Get up!"
Vincent opened his eyes and saw Rude. "What?"
The bald man nodded toward the door. "We're here. We can get off this damn boat, now."
Vincent slipped his shirt back on and grabbed his weapon and bag, then followed Rude off the boat onto the deck, where all four Turks stood in and stared in disbelief at Wutia. It was no longer the little village that they had remembered. Sure, they had heard that the town had become a city, but they had never imagined that it would have gone hi-tech! Sky-scrapers, apartment buildings, homeless shelters, everything that a normal city had, Wutia had.
"Well, that would explain why Yuffie disappeared," Vincent muttered, remembering her dislike of tight spaces, including crowded streets.
"Wutai sure has changed," Elena said softly in awe.
Reno shrugged and turned to his comrades. "Champron said that there's a bar called Turtle's Paradise that's cheap. He'll have someone there to give us a quick run-down on the lay-out of the building. Leave that up to me. You three go and enjoy yourselves. Meet outside at eleven-thirty. It's nine now. Let's go." Needless to say, Reno took the leader role over and handled it nicely.
As the four stepped into the bar, the were met with the welcoming smell of cigarettes, beer, and cheap perfume. A beautiful piano and singer duet floated through the air. "Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping.. Hello, I'm still here. All that's left of yesterday..." Applause rang out and the Masked Woman smiled, her mouth the only thing visible.
The piano started up again and she seemed to become part of the song. "I'm so tired of being here. Suppressed by all my childish fears. And if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave. 'Cause your prescence still lingers here. And it won't leave me alone. These wounds won't seem to hel. This pain is just to real. There's just too much that time cannot erase. When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears. When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears. I held your hand through all of these year. But you still have all of me."
Vincent found a corner table and sat down to watch and listen to this entrancing singer. Elena and Rude sat across from him, tearing his attention away from the beauty on stage. The blonde sat on her boyfriend's lap, laughing at the look on Vincent's face.
"You look like you know that woman from somewhere and are deeply, madly in love with her," she said with a grin.
"Whatever," Vincent joked back. "You're just mad because Reno made you two leave him the hell alone." By the time he looked back up to the stage, she was taking a drink, finished with the song that had him entranced.
A guitar started up and she grinned wickedly as she sang another song, only it was faster.
Vincent, Rude, and Elena spent their time chatting about how much Wutia has changed, but both men seemed entranced by the singer on stage when Elena wasn't paying attention.
When the crowd was shouting for an encore, the woman smiled and coughed into her handkerchief, then nodded. "What song?" Many shouts of various songs filled the bar and she laughed a beautiful laugh like chiming bells. "Okay.. Bar Keep's Choice!" The balding man flushed. "What say ye, oh mighty barkeep?"
-- "What say ye, oh fearless leader of blonde porcupine heritage?"
Cloud glared at the teen, who merely grinned in response. --
"I don't know," he said bashfully. "How about... Taking Over Me?"
There were shouts of approval and the woman smiled again. The piano started up, then was joined by guitars and drums. "You don't remember me, but I remember you. I lie awake and try so hard not to think of you. But who can decide what they dream? And dream I do. I believe in you. I'll give up everything just to find you."
"We've gotta go, Vince," Rude whispered, nudging him.
As the tall, vampiric man walked out, he didn't notice the woman on stage, still singing, but watching him. The light glinted off his metal claw, and she knew instantly. 'Vincent!'
-----!-----
-----!-----
-- The dark man stared up at the diamond speckled night sky. "I am a monster..." he told himself softly.
"I'm afraid of monsters," her voice came from behind him. Without turning, he knew that it was Yuffie, who was temporarily staying at Cid's house. "But I'm not afraid of you... Guess that means you're not a monster, eh, Vampy?" He could hear the arrogant smirk in her voice, though didn't see it on her face when he turned around to face her. She looked at him with her grey eyes that seemed like storm clouds, ready to burst with rain and lightning, her face was blank, as if unsure what to expect from the man.
He smirked. "Come on," his tenor voice said softly. "It's late and you are probably hungry."
"You buyin'?" she asked quickly. He nodded. "Fine, let's get to that restaraunt before it closes!" --
"There should be one guard and there's a window left open." Reno yawned. "So, how're we gonna do him in?"
Vincent looked at Reno with a blank expression. "Silencer on my gun, one shot through the head." They all turned and watched a limo drive past, then continued their unofficial meeting. "It's easy and only messy on the bed."
Elena and Rude both nodded their agreement. The spit fire also nodded. "Kay, Vince. It's your night, then."
-- "I wanna go too!"
Cloud shook his head at the ninja princess. "If you got injured, Godo would have me hunted down. You can stay up here on the Highwind with Cid's crew."
She looked down and to her left. As the others prepared for battle and Cloud gave them a pep up speech, she walked across the deck and picked the taller man up by the neck of his shirt. "Listen, Sunny Day. I don't care if you think this is just for glory, but I don't. I'm going to help save my people as well as everyone else, because there is no reason to let them die. There is no reason to live if I can't help."
Vincent watched the scene with invisible pleasure. He had been waiting for the ninja to suddenly erupt since day one with AVALANCHE. Tifa bit her lip in worry whereas most everyone else laughed. "Let her come, Cloud," Tifa said after the ninja had thrown him into the side of the Highwind.
"Fine, then. She can come. But, I mean it. If she's injured, I can't take her by myself." --
Vincent hopped into the room last. Reno looked at his three comrades and nodded. Six silenced shots took out the guards that weren't supposed to be there. Vincent opened the door and slipped in, Reno, Rude, and Elena staying back.
The room had a dresser and a four poster bed with red and white sheets and blankets. As he crept around to the side of the bed, he saw intense grey eyes looking up at him. "Sleepel," he heard her whisper. Three thuds indicated the fall of his comrades.
Jumping back and taking aim, he glared at the woman with lower back length chocolate hair. "Who the fuck are you?" he asked in a dangerously low whisper.
"Your target, apparentally. Sheesh. And I'm told that I'M daft!" A throwing star cut the man's human hand, causing him to drop the gun that he held. She stepped forward to get a better look at him, stepping into a pool of moonlight. Vincent's eyes widened.
-- A beautiful woman with long chocolate and sun-streaked hair and intense grey eyes smiled up at him from the picture. "Yuffie.. Wow, you're absolutely gorgeous," he said to himself. He frowned at the rest of the picture. Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Marlene, Cid, Shera, Red XIII, and Reeve all smiled out at him. Yuffie, being the shortest, was sitting cross-legged wearing denim shorts and a green tank top, grinning up at him with no true emotions in her stormy grey eyes. --
Sure, she was a year or so older, but she looked pretty much the same. "Yuffie?"
She smiled half-heartedly. "It is you. And I was hoping that it wasn't..." She sighed a ragged sigh and took her fighting stance. "I guess you're not going to just give up, are you?"
"Still the same, huh?" he asked with a chuckle. "Never will I truly give up."
"Figures..." She threw a small shuriken at him, which he dodged. Still wounded, Vincent was unable to use his own weapon. He lunged at her. With a last second side-step, Yuffie allowed the man to run himself into the pole of her bed and brought her hand in a chop style onto the back of his neck. He slumped to the floor and she gazed at him hurtfully. "I truly never expected you to come and try to kill me... Tifa or Barret, maybe... But not you." She coughed into a blood stained handkerchief.
-- Yuffie smiled up at Vincent, a bouquette of roses that she had just received from her date in her hands still. "He was afraid to come in, because Cid said that you'd kill him. I don't think you could hurt a fly while in human form, though." With that, she skipped down the hall to her room. Vincent stared blankly after her, thinking that she was truly as crazy as Barret had implied. --
YK2: Whew, now that that's over!
Surka: It's over!? --Throws a party--
YK2: I meant the chapter, Surka. Not the story.
All: Awww! There's MORE!?
YK2: Yup! If I get reviews, that is! Thanks to: foureyes, Ezri-Candy, Neko-Yuff16, Hotaru170, and Kagato.Masaki for my first five reviews!
Dracon: For a good story, read Always Smiling by Ezri-Candy. It's a very well-written story.
YK2: Even if Ezri does like evil cliffies!
Sky: Yay Yuffentines!
Toni: I like Yuffroths, myself.
PK, YK2, & Hacker: Huh?
Toni: Yuffie/Sephiroth fics.
Paine: Did not realize they had a formal name.
Toni: Why not?
Sephiroth: Why... HER?
Yuffie: Hey! What's wrong with me!?
Vincent: -- to YK2 -- You might want to keep her away from me, she is rather frightening at times...
Sky: VINNIE! -- huggles Vincent --
Vincent: Oh, unmerciful Gods and Goddesses!
YK2: Well, I'll let you get on with your lives, now! Till Next Time! AUDI!!!
-The gang of TMIWD