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!
Chapter Four: Then, Who Are You?
-- "Please, don't leave me here alone..."
He looked back over his shoulder at the shivvering ninja. "You are more than capable of taking care of yourself. Go back to Cid's or do whatever you wish... I have things that I must do on my own."
The vampiric man walked away, the sounds of her sobs following him as he disappeared into the night. "You'll come back," he heard her say. "And the monsters in your heart will consume you!" --
He sat up quickly and looked around only to find himself in her bed for the fourth morning in a row. Looking down at his claw, he was reminded of the demons that lurked within him. "I will help her," he promised himself.
Beside him, she moaned and tossed to her other side. With a faint smile, he sank into the bed beside her and wrapped his arm around her waist. She turned back over and snuggled closer. Without realizing it, Vincent's claw was running through her hair as his eyes studied her sleeping face. Slowly, he was learning who she was again. Maybe not the bratty ninja that he first met, but still the same old Yuffie.
-- "You don't know what it's like! You don't know what it's like to want something so bad that you could feel it! That you would kill yourself for it! I am forced to feel that way, got it? My town is supposed to mean everything to me! I am supposed to guide it's way through hard times and sooth my people's souls whenever something goes wrong!" Vincent watched her throw another pillow across the room of her hut and hit Cloud with it. The blonde man merely deflected it and stared at her coldly.
"That does not tell me anything as to why you are leaving, Yuffie." He caught a green plush pillow. "You are running away from your people that need you right now."
Yuffie's grey eyes glared at him with tears threatening to fall. "You don't understand," she said in a husky voice. "So fuck you." With that, she grabbed her knap sack and sprinted past the two men.
Cloud turned to Vincent with wide MAKO eyes. "Did she just say-?" The taller man nodded. "Okay, I know where she's going, then. She'll be at Cid's within a week."
Vincent watched Cloud leave the small hut quickly and smirked. 'She's not going anywhere,' he told himself silently, picking up her Conformer. About the time that he turned around, she burst back into the hut, red with embarrassment.
"I... uh..."
Vincent's smirk had fallen off his face. He extended the hand that held her Conformer. "Go to Cid's, he will take you in. Barret already has a child to deal with."
Yuffie flushed crimson again, taking the Conformer. "How did you know where I was going?"
The vampiric man shrugged. "A lucky guess." --
Yuffie awoke to the feeling of cold metal on her stomach. Looking down, she realized that her shirt had come up and Vincent's arms were wrapped around her waist. She smiled to herself and could hear his slow, rythmic breathing. His heart thudded softly directly behind her head and she turned to better hear it. Falling into his slower than average lub dub, she felt safe for once in her life.
The ninja turned her head and grabbed her handkerchief to cough up blood into it. She felt Vincent move to accommodate her new position and wake, though she could stop coughing long enough to acknowledge him. She felt herself gagging and made a dash for the bathroom. She knelt, puking into the toilet.
"Are you okay, Yuffie?"
When she was finished, she slumped into a sobbing heap beside the porcelain toilet. Vincent rushed over and wrapped his arms protectively around her. She sobbed into his chest, her words barely audible between stifled sobs and through her hands and his bare chest. "I'm a f-f-freak of n-nature!"
"No, you're not," he said softly to her.
She coughed into her hands, blood covering them. "Y-yes I am!"
Vincent hugged her tightly to him and kissed the top of her head. "You'll get through this... I know you will."
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"Next up is our very own Masked Woman!"
She looked the part of a gypsie. Her long skirts were a deep marroon with a long purple sash and a tied off white blouse with gold hoop earrings and many jingling bracelets. She sang many of her usual songs and, when asked for an encore, she smiled good-naturedly.
"Usually, I ask what song, but tonight I've got a friend that I wrote a song for. No laughing, because it's a song in progress! For a friend."
She took a breath and hummed a slow, lulling tune. "La la la la... You walked into my life, not a care in the world... I can't believe that you're still here for me. When I cry, you help me through. When I scream, you fight for me. You're still here, though I never asked. Maybe this is... Baby, all I can ask you to do for me... Is stay with me for one more night... One more night of laughter is all that I need... Because you walked into my life, more depressed than anyone I've ever known... I can't believe you're still here for me. When I cry, you help me through. When I scream ,you fight for me...
"Once you left me, and I thought that my world was gone... You were gone and my life just plain sucked... The most beautiful things were so dull and nothing seemed fun... You came into my life, back to me... I can't believe you came back for me. When I cry, you help me through. When I scream, you fight for me. You're still here, though I never asked. Maybe this is... Love?"
Vincent smiled at her, knowing that she was looking at him through her white lace mask. 'What... Is this that I am feeling? It must be love, because it's so strong.'
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Vincent laughed at her attempts to reach a wrapped gift he had in his claw that he held way over his head. "Vin-nie!" she whined.
He laughde even harder seeing her glaring at him. "Okay, here." He handed her the gift and she took it, looking at him with suspicious eyes.
"What is it?" she asked slowly.
He chuckled. "Open it."
She looked up at him looking more beautful than he had ever seen her, wearing black sweat pants and a baggy tee-shirt, her long hair was down and she wore no make up. Slowly, she unwrapped the gift and opened the box. "A... song?" she asked slowly.
He smiled down at her. "It was a song that my friend and I wrote long ago. We wrote it for her and her husband to sing as a duet, but she never did." He didn't seem at all upset about his friend, so Yuffie took it out and started humming the woman's part.
"It's not too awfully hard," she commented. "BUT, I'll need someone to sing it with." She grinned wickedly at him and he shook his head frantically. "Aw, c'mon, Vincent! Shake can't sing and I need someone to sing with!"
The tall man looked as if he'd been asked to cut off his... yeah... and watch it burn. "Wh-what!? I can't sing, Yuffie!" She pushed out her bottom lip, giving her the 'I'm-Cute-But-Pouting' look. "I'll think about it."
-- "Puh-lease, Vampy-kun?"
Vincent looked down at the young ninja, his crimson orbs plainly stating that he did not want to ride any rides or play any games. "No."
She pushed out her bottom lip and sniffed a few times. "Guess I'll just... Go to bed, then..."
"You do that," he said emotionless.
She turned and glared at him. "Jackass!" --
"I guess that'll work for now," she said with a sigh and coughed into her handkerchief. "I'm sleepy," she added with a yawn. She crawled into her bed and watched Vincent as he took off his shirt and crawled in beside her, their nightly ritual by now.
-- Vincent looked at his sleeping bag longingly, then at the sleeping ninja who was supposed to be on watch with the also sleeping Aeris. 'I'll let them sleep,' he told himself. 'And wake Red XIII and Cloud for next watch.'
Half an hour later, Yuffie awoke with a jolt and looked over at Aeris, who was asleep. 'Uh-oh...' She scrambled over to wake her pink-clad comrade, but a hand on her arm startled her. "Who the-!?" She found herself looking into garnet eyes. "B'Jesus! You scared me!"
He nodded. "I apologize. Wake Red XIII and Cloud in half an hour for watch change."
With that, he walked over to his tent. Yuffie's gaze followed him, then fell to the ground, her cheeks burning with embarrassment. 'Who does he think he is? Mr. High-and-Mighty Vampire... Grrr.. If it wasn't for the fact that everyone else likes him, I'd kick his butt! That.. And I'm sure he'd be cute without that damn cloak!' --
Yuffie opened her eyes and looked around the dark room to see Vincent looking out the window at the moutains of Da Chao. She smiled at his silhouetted frame, then realized he was talking on the phone.
"I don't care. I'm not leaving her. She's a friend in need and that was AVALANCHE's pact before we split up... I don't think that any of the others know, so I will not tell you. I don't care, Reno." There was a silence. "Fine. Good bye. Tell Rude and Elena farewell for me. If I am ever in need of a job, I may seek you three out."
The Lady of Wutia watched him shut the cell phone and crush it in his claw. "Vinnie?" she asked meakly.
He turned and she could see his smile through the dark. "Sorry if I woke you," he whispered to her. "Reno called... They're going back to Junon."
She smiled back at him and coughed lightly, no blood this time. He crawled into the bed beside her. "G'night, Vince."
"Sweet dreams, Yuffie."
YK2: Yuppers...
Surka: OH! Tell 'em 'bout the bonus chapter!
Everyone: HUH!?
YK2: Oh yeah! I've got an alternate ending! It's in process, but I didn't like the way I ended it originally and am making an alternate ending!
Toni: Okay... That is odd.
PK: Yes, well, we all knew that YK2 was odd already.
YK2: HEY! I resemble that statement!
Vincent: The review responses....
YK2: OH YEAH! Here we go!
Neko-Yuff16 - I had the chapter up for, like, fifteen minutes, then got an e-mail saying that I had a review! Sheesh! Either you live on the other side of the world or you're a night time person too. Tragedy? Hmmm.... ::evil grin:: Wait and find out!
The Pebble - Good, I was hopin' that I wasn't going too fast or too slow with all this! Thankies!
foureyes - I couldn't make Yuffie-san go insane! She's crazy enough! Besides, I think that going crazy could have only been a Cloud thing. We all know that he was "special"!
Fire Gemron - Hey! No worries! That's how many previous reviewers now? YAY! I'm lovededed! Can't wait for your story!
Ezri-Candy - YAY! That's 5 Vinnie plushies, 3 Sephys, 2 Cids, 2 Clouds, a Cait Sith, a decapitated Aeris (I apologize Aeris lovers, I dislike her greatly), and two Tifas! OH! And my 3 Nanakis (I love RedXIII, he's soooo cute!). No Barrets yet...
Sorceress Fujin - OKAY! I'm updatin'! Sheesh!
Hotaru170 - It's all written and typed, but I'm too lazy to update!
Cattiebrie393 - Hope I got your name right! Obie kabie! Glad you like!
YK2: WHEW! I love my reviewers! They're so nice and tell such sweet lies!
Surka: Yeah, like telling her that her fic is good...
Vincent: ... Are you going to update?
Sky: VINNIE! -- tackles him --
YK2: The deities all hate me... Till Next Time! AUDI!!!
-The gang from TMIWD