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 Eight: Don't Tell Me You Didn't Say Goodbye
Crimson eyes flickered open slowly and he rolled out of the inn bed. He wiped the sleep from his eyes, amazed at how soundly he had slept the night before. Glancing out of the window, he could see the oil pastel colors of a Wutai sunrise. It took him a moment to remember why he had a black suit on his chair. 'Yuffie...'
-- "I wanted you to know that I love the way you laugh. I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away" --
He solemnly dressed in the suit and heard a knock on his door. Silently, he prayed that it was Reno, coming to get him for a mission in Wutai that he would refuse completely. He only wanted to stay far from Wutai, but wasn't he already there?
His crimson eyes sank to the floor. 'Yuffie...' He heard the door open and looked up to see Reeve in a black suit similar to the one Vincent wore.
"Tifa made me come to get you," he said honestly. "She was worried that you wouldn't come." The once stoic and unfeeling man nodded.
"I'm comin', I just needed to think for a minute." He sighed, then followed the controller of the robotic Cait Sith out of the room and downstairs, where the rest of AVALANCHE was waiting.
Tifa had not put any make-up on, so that it would not smear when she started crying again. She wore a long, black dress and her hair was merely put into a pony tail. Cloud stood next to her, his chocobo-colored spikes contrasting greatly against the black suit that he, and every other male in the room, wore. Barret leaned against the wall across the room, his daughter, Marlene, wearing a sad expression and a dark green shorter dress. Cid and Shera were next to them, Shera holding her infant daughter, Lacey, in her arms. Both were also clad in black, Lacey in a pale pink sun dress. Nanaki lay beside Tifa, his tail swishing in pure aggrivation that a friend had been ill and he had not been contacted, nor had his healers.
Vincent remained calm, though he was screaming on the inside. He was the first person to break the quiet trance and leave the inn. Slowly, they each started to follow. He led the way to his love's palace and met Shake on the elevator. They bowed respectively and Vincent could tell that the younger man had been crying recently. "Thank you for coming," the coco-haired young man said softly. "It would definitely mean a lot to her."
Vincent smiled half-heartedly. "I had to come. You know why, Lord Shake." The other man blushed. "Excuse me," he said as he stepped off to go to the room where the visitation would take place.
-- "I keep your photograph, I know it serves me well. I wanna hold you high and steal your pain." --
Tifa felt the warm, salty tears fall down her cheeks and buried her face into Cloud's chest. He murmured to her, but felt the same way. Vincent sat in a chair, her long raven hair cascading over his shouldres and long bangs covering his face. He could not bring himself to do or say anything to those people that Yuffie had considered friends, but had not been there for so long. Why Yuffie had requested them there was still a mystery to both Shake and Vincent.
Shake had found the note before Vincent and they had read it. There were places where things had been added as after thoughts, places where things had been scratched out, and complete blank spot that she had left in case she thought of anything else. She had invited AVALANCHE, Shake, and Dr. Hushman to her funeral before it had happened. Vincent's name had been circled, though neither man knew why. Shake's name had also been circled, but they reasoned that it was because he was to become the Lord of Wutai.
After a short ceremony, Yuffie Kisaragi's casket was taken to the Kisaragi tomb to be buried with her mother, father, and brother. Vincent, Cloud, Barret, Cid, Shake, and, much to Shake's dismay, Tifa carried the casket.
-- "'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome, and I don't feel right when you're gone away... You've gone away. You don't feel me here anymore..." --
Vincent watched as the blood red roses seemed to wilt in his hands. It wasn't worth putting them on her casket, so he chucked them into a ditch while no one was paying attetion. His heart ached terribly as the casket was placed in the tomb, then the tomb shut and sealed... Forever. He would not be allowed to be buried with her. He could not place flowers on her grave when he felt sick and lonely. He could not even think of anything except her storm carressed grey eyes that always shone with hope and happiness during their AVALANCHE days, but seemed so full of love and pain the past month.
'Tell me I was dreaming...'
-- "Hey! Wa-ait! Vin-nie!" --
He could still hear her voice.
--"Your target, apparently. Sheesh. And I'm told that I'M daft!" --
For minute, he thought about returning to that coffin in the ShinRa Mansion... Maybe someone could find his bones there some day... The bones of a monster? Or the bones of a human, though?
-- "I'm afraid of monsters, but I'm not afriad of you... Guess that means you're not a monster, eh, Vampy?" --
"I won't go back to that coffin... She would not want that. She proved to me that I am not a monster. That I can love."
-- "I love you."
"I love you too." --
He did not realize how zoned he was until he felt the soft mattress beneath him as he fell onto the inn bed. "I miss her already."
-- "The worst is over now and we can breathe again. I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away. There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight. I wanna hold you high and steal your pain." --
A knock startled him from his nap that he had not realized he was taking. Pulling his hair back hastily and trying to look halfway decent, he opened the inn door and found himself neck to face with a greying man in a matching iron-colored suit. "Hello, are you Mr. Vincent Valentine?"
Looking warily at the man, Vincent nodded. "Yes, what do you need?"
The man smiled half-heartedly. "I am Jack Trade, a lawyer born and raised here in Wutai. The late Ms. Yuffie wished for me to bring this to you if she was to... Well..." He extended a suit case. "This is yours, now." Vincent took it and Jack Trade left quickly.
Sitting on the bed, Vincent placed the suitcase before him. He lifted the lid slowly and saw a stuffed chocobo that he knew as 'Chibi Choco' on top of some papers. At the bottom, he found a tape and tape player. He popped the tape into it and heard his own voice singing the song that he brought her. Yuffie's voice joined in, then she sang a solo, and he joined in for the chorus. Tears stung his eyes and he heard the song end.
"Hey, Vinnie. I hope that this didn't make you, like, cry or anything!" Her voice was only slightly distorted through the tape player. "I guess that I'm dead if you're listening to this. I wanted you to hear how awesome we sounded and never wanted our song to be forgotten. I love you, Vampy-kun, and I have since we first met! The new you is so much easier to carry on a conversation with, but I loved you all the time, not just recently." She cleared her throat and he could tell that she was probably crying. "Right now, you're on your way out the door to go find Shake. You need food, I think. I'm not hungry, but I'll eat for you.
"I wanted you to know that I love you and I'm not afraid," she said softly. "I know that it's from my song, but it's the truth... Hold on to me, love. You know I can't stay long, all I wanted to tell you was I love you and I'm not afraid. Please, Vincent, don't forget me. That's my biggest fear, knowing that my friends forgot me. I love you, Vampy-kun! Bye!"
Vincent could not bring himself to press stop. He heard something on the tape and realized that it was her still, she was sobbing.
--'Cause I'm broken when I'm open. I don't feel like I am strong enough. 'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome and I don't feel right when you're gone away." --
Crimson orbs read through the papers. Many were songs or notes that she had written to him during the time they were together. He found the song that she had received from him and a note that he had given her one morning that she had not been feeling good. The last paper that he found was an envelope with his and Shake's names printed on it in hasty hand writing.
He opened it, curious as to what it said.
Shake and Vincent,
I know that you two are my closest friends, so I must write this to you. My bank account has a lot of gil. It goes to the two of you. Please, split it up and get on with your lives. Shake, get married and have lots of kids! You've always loved midgets! Have some of your own!
Vinnie... As much as this hurts me, please find another. I know that you're probably glaring at this poor, innocent piece of paper right now, but it will make me feel better. If you can't find another, I'm always here for you. If you DO find another, I guess that I can settle for second best, but only in your eyes! I don't want you to think of me as the woman who hurt you. I know that Lucrecia hurt you, but I think that she only used you. Don't turn your head away, please, just read.
Lucrecia KNEW that she would have to marry Hojo. She KNEW that her child would be used for the Jenova experiments. She KNEW that it would hurt you... So, don't be so upset over her. I would never, EVER, hurt you, Vincent! I love you too much and it probably hurts to be away from you. I meant everything that I said in my song that I dedicated to you. You fight away my fears, Vincent Valentine. And I love you for it.
Please, guys, don't greive too much. I love you both (Shake as my kid brother that can be utterly annoying and Vinnie... I think that's a given!) and don't want to look up from the Life Stream to see you two, in twenty years, still moping. I'll resurrect myself and come rattle chains in your closets!
Love,
Yuffie Kisaragi
Vincent smiled at the paper and folded it, vowing to let Shake read it sooner or later. He continued looking through the papers again. "'Cause I'm broken, when I'm open. I don't feel like I'm strong enough. 'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome and I don't feel right when you're gone away... You've gone away... You don't feel me here... Anymore..."
-Fin-
YK2: --sobs-- Can't believe I actually wrote her death! I'm so sorry, guuuuuuuuyyyyyyyys!
Surka: BUT! There's an alternate ending!
YK2: Oh, YEAAAAAAHHH! BUT! Does Yuffie die or live in the alternate ending!?
Dracon: That would be everyone's question... review, please.
YK2: Till Next Time! AUDI!!!
-The gang from 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!
Chapter Eight: Don't Tell Me You Didn't Say Goodbye
Crimson eyes flickered open slowly and he rolled out of the inn bed. He wiped the sleep from his eyes, amazed at how soundly he had slept the night before. Glancing out of the window, he could see the oil pastel colors of a Wutai sunrise. It took him a moment to remember why he had a black suit on his chair. 'Yuffie...'
-- "I wanted you to know that I love the way you laugh. I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away" --
He solemnly dressed in the suit and heard a knock on his door. Silently, he prayed that it was Reno, coming to get him for a mission in Wutai that he would refuse completely. He only wanted to stay far from Wutai, but wasn't he already there?
His crimson eyes sank to the floor. 'Yuffie...' He heard the door open and looked up to see Reeve in a black suit similar to the one Vincent wore.
"Tifa made me come to get you," he said honestly. "She was worried that you wouldn't come." The once stoic and unfeeling man nodded.
"I'm comin', I just needed to think for a minute." He sighed, then followed the controller of the robotic Cait Sith out of the room and downstairs, where the rest of AVALANCHE was waiting.
Tifa had not put any make-up on, so that it would not smear when she started crying again. She wore a long, black dress and her hair was merely put into a pony tail. Cloud stood next to her, his chocobo-colored spikes contrasting greatly against the black suit that he, and every other male in the room, wore. Barret leaned against the wall across the room, his daughter, Marlene, wearing a sad expression and a dark green shorter dress. Cid and Shera were next to them, Shera holding her infant daughter, Lacey, in her arms. Both were also clad in black, Lacey in a pale pink sun dress. Nanaki lay beside Tifa, his tail swishing in pure aggrivation that a friend had been ill and he had not been contacted, nor had his healers.
Vincent remained calm, though he was screaming on the inside. He was the first person to break the quiet trance and leave the inn. Slowly, they each started to follow. He led the way to his love's palace and met Shake on the elevator. They bowed respectively and Vincent could tell that the younger man had been crying recently. "Thank you for coming," the coco-haired young man said softly. "It would definitely mean a lot to her."
Vincent smiled half-heartedly. "I had to come. You know why, Lord Shake." The other man blushed. "Excuse me," he said as he stepped off to go to the room where the visitation would take place.
-- "I keep your photograph, I know it serves me well. I wanna hold you high and steal your pain." --
Tifa felt the warm, salty tears fall down her cheeks and buried her face into Cloud's chest. He murmured to her, but felt the same way. Vincent sat in a chair, her long raven hair cascading over his shouldres and long bangs covering his face. He could not bring himself to do or say anything to those people that Yuffie had considered friends, but had not been there for so long. Why Yuffie had requested them there was still a mystery to both Shake and Vincent.
Shake had found the note before Vincent and they had read it. There were places where things had been added as after thoughts, places where things had been scratched out, and complete blank spot that she had left in case she thought of anything else. She had invited AVALANCHE, Shake, and Dr. Hushman to her funeral before it had happened. Vincent's name had been circled, though neither man knew why. Shake's name had also been circled, but they reasoned that it was because he was to become the Lord of Wutai.
After a short ceremony, Yuffie Kisaragi's casket was taken to the Kisaragi tomb to be buried with her mother, father, and brother. Vincent, Cloud, Barret, Cid, Shake, and, much to Shake's dismay, Tifa carried the casket.
-- "'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome, and I don't feel right when you're gone away... You've gone away. You don't feel me here anymore..." --
Vincent watched as the blood red roses seemed to wilt in his hands. It wasn't worth putting them on her casket, so he chucked them into a ditch while no one was paying attetion. His heart ached terribly as the casket was placed in the tomb, then the tomb shut and sealed... Forever. He would not be allowed to be buried with her. He could not place flowers on her grave when he felt sick and lonely. He could not even think of anything except her storm carressed grey eyes that always shone with hope and happiness during their AVALANCHE days, but seemed so full of love and pain the past month.
'Tell me I was dreaming...'
-- "Hey! Wa-ait! Vin-nie!" --
He could still hear her voice.
--"Your target, apparently. Sheesh. And I'm told that I'M daft!" --
For minute, he thought about returning to that coffin in the ShinRa Mansion... Maybe someone could find his bones there some day... The bones of a monster? Or the bones of a human, though?
-- "I'm afraid of monsters, but I'm not afriad of you... Guess that means you're not a monster, eh, Vampy?" --
"I won't go back to that coffin... She would not want that. She proved to me that I am not a monster. That I can love."
-- "I love you."
"I love you too." --
He did not realize how zoned he was until he felt the soft mattress beneath him as he fell onto the inn bed. "I miss her already."
-- "The worst is over now and we can breathe again. I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away. There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight. I wanna hold you high and steal your pain." --
A knock startled him from his nap that he had not realized he was taking. Pulling his hair back hastily and trying to look halfway decent, he opened the inn door and found himself neck to face with a greying man in a matching iron-colored suit. "Hello, are you Mr. Vincent Valentine?"
Looking warily at the man, Vincent nodded. "Yes, what do you need?"
The man smiled half-heartedly. "I am Jack Trade, a lawyer born and raised here in Wutai. The late Ms. Yuffie wished for me to bring this to you if she was to... Well..." He extended a suit case. "This is yours, now." Vincent took it and Jack Trade left quickly.
Sitting on the bed, Vincent placed the suitcase before him. He lifted the lid slowly and saw a stuffed chocobo that he knew as 'Chibi Choco' on top of some papers. At the bottom, he found a tape and tape player. He popped the tape into it and heard his own voice singing the song that he brought her. Yuffie's voice joined in, then she sang a solo, and he joined in for the chorus. Tears stung his eyes and he heard the song end.
"Hey, Vinnie. I hope that this didn't make you, like, cry or anything!" Her voice was only slightly distorted through the tape player. "I guess that I'm dead if you're listening to this. I wanted you to hear how awesome we sounded and never wanted our song to be forgotten. I love you, Vampy-kun, and I have since we first met! The new you is so much easier to carry on a conversation with, but I loved you all the time, not just recently." She cleared her throat and he could tell that she was probably crying. "Right now, you're on your way out the door to go find Shake. You need food, I think. I'm not hungry, but I'll eat for you.
"I wanted you to know that I love you and I'm not afraid," she said softly. "I know that it's from my song, but it's the truth... Hold on to me, love. You know I can't stay long, all I wanted to tell you was I love you and I'm not afraid. Please, Vincent, don't forget me. That's my biggest fear, knowing that my friends forgot me. I love you, Vampy-kun! Bye!"
Vincent could not bring himself to press stop. He heard something on the tape and realized that it was her still, she was sobbing.
--'Cause I'm broken when I'm open. I don't feel like I am strong enough. 'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome and I don't feel right when you're gone away." --
Crimson orbs read through the papers. Many were songs or notes that she had written to him during the time they were together. He found the song that she had received from him and a note that he had given her one morning that she had not been feeling good. The last paper that he found was an envelope with his and Shake's names printed on it in hasty hand writing.
He opened it, curious as to what it said.
Shake and Vincent,
I know that you two are my closest friends, so I must write this to you. My bank account has a lot of gil. It goes to the two of you. Please, split it up and get on with your lives. Shake, get married and have lots of kids! You've always loved midgets! Have some of your own!
Vinnie... As much as this hurts me, please find another. I know that you're probably glaring at this poor, innocent piece of paper right now, but it will make me feel better. If you can't find another, I'm always here for you. If you DO find another, I guess that I can settle for second best, but only in your eyes! I don't want you to think of me as the woman who hurt you. I know that Lucrecia hurt you, but I think that she only used you. Don't turn your head away, please, just read.
Lucrecia KNEW that she would have to marry Hojo. She KNEW that her child would be used for the Jenova experiments. She KNEW that it would hurt you... So, don't be so upset over her. I would never, EVER, hurt you, Vincent! I love you too much and it probably hurts to be away from you. I meant everything that I said in my song that I dedicated to you. You fight away my fears, Vincent Valentine. And I love you for it.
Please, guys, don't greive too much. I love you both (Shake as my kid brother that can be utterly annoying and Vinnie... I think that's a given!) and don't want to look up from the Life Stream to see you two, in twenty years, still moping. I'll resurrect myself and come rattle chains in your closets!
Love,
Yuffie Kisaragi
Vincent smiled at the paper and folded it, vowing to let Shake read it sooner or later. He continued looking through the papers again. "'Cause I'm broken, when I'm open. I don't feel like I'm strong enough. 'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome and I don't feel right when you're gone away... You've gone away... You don't feel me here... Anymore..."
-Fin-
YK2: --sobs-- Can't believe I actually wrote her death! I'm so sorry, guuuuuuuuyyyyyyyys!
Surka: BUT! There's an alternate ending!
YK2: Oh, YEAAAAAAHHH! BUT! Does Yuffie die or live in the alternate ending!?
Dracon: That would be everyone's question... review, please.
YK2: Till Next Time! AUDI!!!
-The gang from TMIWD