Disclaimer: Blah blah blah I don't own FF7 you know the drill.

"Gawd my head," the ninja mumbled to herself as she trudged her way into the bathroom and grabbed a bottle of aspirin. The past few days she hadn't been sleeping easily. She wasn't going to lie, she was stressing out about everything.

"Yuffie?" Gigio's voice called from downstairs.

"Uh," The shinobi moaned as she trudged down the stairs.

Gigio glanced over her as he frowned. "What's going on I told you to be ready at ten o'clock."

"I know Gigio but I didn't sleep at all and I have a giant headache," she explained as she fell onto the couch.

Gigio let out a sigh as he knelt down next to her on the couch, "I'm sorry Yuffie, we'll try to get you back home quick."

MeiLin appeared from the kitchen while holding a cup of tea. She let out a laugh as she saw Gigio trying to coach Yuffie to get up. She saw it almost everyday.... but she didn't get tired of it.

"I say we increase the security around Lady Kisiragi's residence. The closer we get to solving this the more danger she could possibly be in." One of the Wutai Generals explained.

"I think that's a good idea," Liana said.

"No no no," Yuffie said as she tapped her pen on the table. "I'm sorry but I don't want to wake up to SWAT every morning. I mean I think I have more than enough security, I don't actually want a whole crew surrounding my house."

"Lady Kisiragi," the General began but was quickly cut off.

"Thank you though for suggesting it," she replied quickly with a smile.

Liana cleared her throat, "Well then I think our other goal is to make sure Shinra stay's out of Wutai at this time. We don't want any outsiders it'll only complicate things. Right Gigio?"

Yuffie narrowed her eyes, "There isn't anyone from Shinra here," she explained as she cast a quick glance in Gigio's direction.

"Well I just want to make sure it stays that way, I mean I know you have friends from Shinra and I don't want them to try to influence your decisions," Liana began, "We all know how that worked out last time."

Yuffie's eyes widened before she stood up from her chair. "What is that suppose to mean?" She asked a little angrily.

"No offense Lady Kisiragi but when you suggested that Shinra partake in this it didn't do any good. If anything it could have made the situation worse. We just want to make sure it doesn't happen again," Liana explained.

"Yeah Yuffie, we're only trying to make sure that you'll be safe as well as the rest of the Wutai Officials. We already lost Chekhov, we don't need to lose anyone else. And at this time we need to be careful who we let around Wutai Officials. And we don't think Shinra is good to trust," Gigio explained while adjusting his glasses. "No matter who you know, or who are your friends, or who you're "dating."

Yuffie shook her head as Gigio continued to speak. 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING!' She screamed in her mind.

"So we're going to have to see to it that MeiLin leaves as soon as possible," he finished.

'That's it.' Yuffie thought. 'My only source to report back anything to Shinra is going to be cut. This is crazy! Gigio was suppose to be on my side, why did he do this!?'

The shinobi stood frozen as she let it all soak in. There was nothing else she could do. Her only source of Shinra was just exposed to all of the Wutai Officials. There was no hiding anything now. They knew MeiLin was there to spy basically. They knew Cloud and Reeve probably knew just as much as they did or maybe even more. And they knew that she was dating Cloud. Or at least they knew she was dating someone from Shinra, but she was pretty sure Gigio had already filled them in on everything.

"I'm sorry Yuffie, but this is the best way. For your safety and everyone else's. I didn't like this idea of working with Shinra from the beginning, but since you did I had to play along. I didn't mean to trick you but...it seemed like the only way," Gigio explained softly.

The ninja's gaze dropped from Gigio to the room of Wutai Officials. It seemed as if they were all disappointed in her. They were looking at her the same way that they had when she took her fathers place. She had lost all of their respect in a matter of moments.... actually maybe before that. Gigio had been playing this game all along when in fact he was planning to sabotage things from the very beginning.

"I'm sure you don't like it but you're over thrown by far, we've already all come to that conclusion," Liana said as she stared at Yuffie. "I think we can say this meetings adjourned now."

Yuffie continued to stand frozen as everyone made their way out of the meeting room, except for Gigio.

"Yuffie I'm sorry, but once you think over it I'm sure you'll understand why I had to do this," Gigio explained.

The shinobi turned to glare at him, "I'll understand?" She asked with her voice full of venom. "You completely stabbed me in the back! I thought I could trust you! Not just as my advisor but as my friend!" She yelled.

"I am your friend Yuffie," Gigio said as he stepped up to the girl. "I didn't mean to upset you, but I didn't have any other choice. What was I suppose to do just sit back and watch you make a big mistake!? I'm sorry but I couldn't do that!"

"Get away from me!" The ninja yelled as she began to storm out of the room.

"Yuffie wait!" Gigio called.

"You know what the funny thing is?" She asked as she turned back around to face him. "This whole time when I was thinking about who I couldn't trust, your name never crossed my mind! Not even once! Hell I was defending you when everyone else thought you couldn't be trusted! But looks like they were right and I was the one who was wrong," she finished before turning on heels and slamming open the doors. She walked down the steps and into the streets of Wutai. She was so mad she could barely even walk straight. Her vision was blurred with tears of anger and her mind was reeling. 'Why?' Was the only question that kept popping up into her head. Not only had he betrayed her trust, he made her look like a complete idiot in front of all the Wutai Officials. It took her so long to gain their respect and now she had lost it all. 'Their probably wondering what type of Leader am I,' She thought to herself. She was so distracted that she wasn't even paying attention to where she was walking into she smacked right into someone.

"Hey careful," a man's voice said.

"Gawd I am so sorry, I didn't..." She trailed off as she caught glimpse of the person standing before her.

He ran a hand through his fiery red hair and squinted his eyes at the girl. It was almost as if he was trying to read her mind just by looking into her eyes.

"Are you alright?" He asked finally, snapping her out of her thoughts.

"Yeah," she replied as she shook her head, "Sorry about that," she mumbled and continued walking.

"Whoa whoa wait, please don't walk away from me again," he pleaded.

'Not right now Reno,' she thought to herself as she stopped and closed her eyes. 'I don't have the strength for this.'

"Yuffie?" The ex-Turk asked as he walked up behind her and placed a hand on her shoulder. He was expecting one of two things. Either she would pull away in disgust or she would deliver a swift slap to the face. But seeing as how this was the feisty Yuffie Kisiragi he was expecting the slap. However to his surprise she didn't do either. She just continued to stand with her back towards him. "Hey hey what's wrong?" He asked with concern as he turned her around to face him. She kept her eyes closed as a few tears escaped and slid down her face. Reno's eyes widened, he never knew Yuffie to cry unless something serious was up.

"Things just aren't going very well," she finally squeaked out as her eyes opened slowly and looked into his bright green ones.

"Like what?" He asked innocently.

She shook her head and covered her mouth with her hand as she tried to quiet a sob that was threatening to escape.

"Shh it's okay," Reno whispered softly as he pulled her into his arms. He held her tight as he stroked her hair. He took in a deep breath of her scent, he missed holding her like this. He missed everything about her. He missed being the person who she ran to when she needed to be loved. If only he could change the past he thought sadly. He was caught by surprise when he felt the ninja's small arms wrap around him and pull him closer.

She buried her face in his chest as she continued to cry. She didn't seem to be thinking about their past right at this moment. It was almost as if she had forgotten that she hated him, forgotten about how bad she wanted to hit him that night in the bar.... and how a part of her missed him.

"I saw you coming out of the building over there. Does this have anything to do with the Officials?" Reno asked quietly, never letting go of the young girl.

Yuffie nodded. Reno had always been good about listening to her problems with the Officials. After all he was the one who kept her grounded when she first took the title from her father. He was the one who got her through all of her meetings and all of the bad talk that went on behind her back, with people saying she wouldn't be able to handle being "Lady Of Wutai."

"They hate me now, they think I've betrayed them and it's all because of Gigio!" She spat the last part like it was poison on her tongue.

"Gigio?" Reno asked as he pulled away from her a little so that he could look into her eyes. "What did he do?"

The shinobi sighed, "It's such a long story," she said as she pulled away and dried her eyes. "There's so much you don't know. So much has changed since I last you," she explained.

"Yeah," the ex-Turk began, "A lot has changed in both of our lives."

Yuffie raised an eyebrow as she looked at the crimson haired man wondering what he meant.

"Want to fill me in?" He asked, "There's a diner down by where I'm staying. We could talk about it over a drink."

"Sure," the ninja replied with a nod. With the day she was having a drink didn't sound too bad.