Disclaimer: FF7 is not mine. Belongs to Square Enix

"The other four have been arrested," Gigio explained as the Wutai Soldiers escorted four Officials out of the building.

Yuffie frowned. These were the four who were helping Liana. They admitted to it once they had heard of the situation, there was no way they could get out of it now. They didn't want Yuffie to be leader and thought getting her out of the picture was a good idea. But these certain four Yuffie never liked, they were the ones who were always looking down on her. She had no sympathy for them. These four just wanted to get the "young girl" out of office. They didn't really have a motive like Liana besides just pure evil , power and dominance.

"Good," Reeve said as he glared at the four before they loaded them into the cars.

"Yuffie I feel terrible about all of this," Gigio began, " I would never have expected this, I mean not from Liana."

"Nobody would have expected Liana," Yuffie said in a quiet tone. The whole death of Liana was still bittersweet, it would probably always be that way. Gigio had no clue as to what was going on. He never knew what Liana and the Officials were up too, but he felt completely guilty about telling them about Yuffie's whereabouts when she was in Midgar. It was because of that, that they knew when and where to attack, so that explained the explosion of MeiLin's car. But they were only using him as a pawn without his knowledge, who knows, maybe they would have got rid of him too after he served his purpose.

"So what's going to happen to Kira Sasaki?" Cloud asked.

"Were letting her go," Gigio began, "there's nothing to keep her for anymore. Once the officials admitted that they staged all of that to protect Liana, there's nothing more to keep her for."

Reeve sighed, "I think we know that Shinra is more secure now," he said with a smile.

Yuffie grinned, "Watch it," she said with a smile.

"Yeah enough of that Shinra Vs. Wutai stuff," a females voice said.

Everyone turned around to see MeiLin smiling.

"MeiLin!" Yuffie exclaimed as she ran over and gave her a hug, "What are you doing here? We were just about to go get you."

"Yeah well I wanted to leave now," the doctor began. "Besides it's been three days since I woke up and sitting in that bed for seventy-two hours is depressing. Besides with all the commotion I needed to come out and see for myself."

"Well that's the last of them," Yuffie explained while pointing to the cars that were driving away, "Off to Junon they go."

"So it's all over," MeiLin said with a satisfied sigh leaning against Reeve as he placed his arm around her waist.

"I think that's it," Tifa said as she walked up to everyone holding a bag that went over her shoulders.

"Home sweet home!" MeiLin said with a smile as Reeve checked his watch.

"Yeah the jet should be here in a little while," he explained.

"It's been forever since I've been in Kalm, I probably have an eviction notice on my door," the brunette joked.

"It's definitely been time consuming," the ninja said as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"I feel weird leaving here without nobody from Shinra watching," Reeve said with an uneasy expression.

Yuffie smiled as Gigio chimed in, "Don't worry everything is fine. Now that Wutai is pure again, things will be just how they use to be."

"Yeah, so that means more boring meetings and parties for me to go too!" The shinobi joked, " but seriously it'll be nice to have things back to the way they were. I never realized how much I liked it until something like this happened."

MeiLin smiled, "I don't want to say bye too you," she whined before embracing the young princess again.

"It's not goodbye, It's see you later!" Yuffie said trying to lighten the mood.

Reeve's phone began to ring, "I think the jet is here," he said before answering.

"I'll call you everyday!" MeiLin said while letting go of her friend.

"Yeah we'll go shopping again sometime," Yuffie said with a smile. Everyone exchanged hugs and goodbyes except for Cloud and Yuffie. She was dreading that moment, she didn't want to say goodbye to him…not at all. But she had to, this day was coming sooner or later.

"It's been a weird experience," she began with a smile.

"Yeah," the blonde replied with a small laugh.

Yuffie stared at him for a minute before continuing, "Thank you," she said quietly as she put her arms around his neck and held him tightly. 'Thank you for letting me love you,' she said to herself. Gawd that was torture.

Cloud held her tight, not ever wanting to let her go, "take care of yourself okay?"

The shinobi nodded, "you do the same," she whispered before pulling away.

"I will," he replied softly while giving her a look that made her heart break.

MeiLin shot her a sad look before turning to walk away with Tifa and Reeve.

Yuffie stared as Cloud followed to catch up with them. This was terrible, but it was happening. She had to just watch him walk away…no, she couldn't watch. She left from Gigio and walked into the house. Tears were threatening to fall from her eyes but she couldn't keep crying over him. It was over.

She entered her room and sat down at her vanity, looking blankly into the mirror. She looked like she usually did, but yet she looked different. She was wearing a black silk Chinese style shirt with silver dragons, and black pants. Her hair was down and her eyes were lined in black like usually and shadowed with a shimmery gray. She didn't know why she was suddenly wearing all these dark colors, it sort of just fit her mood and her mourning of Chekhov and also Liana. She played with one of her silver earrings that were dangling from her ear. It matched the silver necklace and bracelet that she was wearing. She couldn't help but keep staring in the mirror and analyzing herself, there was something she lacked, she didn't have that glow that she used to have. A moment later someone appeared in her doorway. She continued looking in the mirror at the person standing behind her.

"Why are you here?" Gigio asked while adjusting his glasses.

"It's my house," she said softly.

Gigio shook his head at the young girls remark, "You shouldn't let him walk away. If you love him don't let him go. You've been though enough to know that every day is precious, you can't take it for granted. If you want him in your life, don't let him go."

Yuffie turned around in her seat and looked at Gigio. He was right! She couldn't let him go! After everything they had been through they deserved to finally be with each other without all of the drama. She loved him, she couldn't let him go. She got out of her chair and threw her arms around Gigio before dashing out of the house.

'Please still be here!' She said to herself as she ran down the streets of Wutai.

"What's wrong?" The brunette asked.

"Nothing," Cloud said in a stiff tone.'Nothing, yeah right. How about everything,' he thought to himself.

MeiLin sighed as she entered the jet with Reeve before shooting Cloud an annoyed look.

Tifa tossed her bag inside before turning back around to Cloud. "Go back," she said softly.

"What?" the blonde replied with a raised eyebrow.

"Cloud you're devastated about leaving her. You can't go back to Midgar and leave things like this. You want to be with her," she explained with a few tears in her eyes.

Cloud shook his head, "It's not that simple."

"Maybe you're just making it harder," she replied.

Cloud stared at his friend for a minute. She was the last person he would expect to tell him to go back.

"Cloud I want you to be happy. And if being with her is what makes you happy…then I want you to go for it," she said with a smile. It was hard for her to say, but she knew it was the right thing. She could tell that they both really loved each other just from the way they said goodbye, it was as if they were both dreading it. She loved Cloud with all her heart and forever would, but she didn't want to see him like this, she knew it was wrong to have him be miserable.

The blonde hesitated. Yuffie had made it perfectly clear that she didn't love him and that she was just vulnerable. He didn't want to push anything. Her real love was probably Reno. "I can't," he replied quietly.

Tifa tossed her bag inside the jet, "You can't?"

"Excuse me I'm sorry," The ninja said as she ran through crowds of people. 'Shit!' She yelled to herself. The jet was supposed to be picking them up on the outskirts of Wutai. It was going to take a minute to get there, hopefully it wasn't already too late. She continued running and running until she finally spotted a jet. 'That's it! That's them!' She rejoiced to herself as she continued over to the jet. "Cloud!" She yelled when she was about fifteen feet away. But the jet started to ascend into the air.

"No! Wait!" Yuffie called as she ran as fast as she could. But it was too late, the jet was already taking off. "Cloud," she said out of breath as she watched it fly away. "Fuck!" She yelled in frustration before resting her hands on her knees trying to catch her breath. That was it, he was going back to Midgar. She was pretty sure Tifa would try to make some move on him and he would quickly remember how he loved her. Yeah, it was definitely the end of the line for the ninja. She stood up straight and lazily turned around to go back home when something caught her eye. She blinked a few times to make sure she wasn't hallucinating. But this was no hallucination, Cloud was right there. She opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out. He smiled at her before she ran over to him and jumped into his arms making him stumble back a little. "Oh my gawd I thought you left!" She said in a muffled tone since her face was buried into his neck.

"No," the blonde began while stroking her hair, " I couldn't leave you."

Yuffie pulled away and looked into Cloud's eyes. "I…. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean what I said the other night. It's just that I was trying to do what I thought was the right thing for everybody. But I knew it wasn't right for me, I do love you Cloud, I love you so much," she cried as she embraced him tightly and kissed him all over his face.

"I love you too Yuffie," he replied as a single tear escaped from his eye.

Yuffie quickly wiped it away as she pressed her face next to his, "With everything that we've been through and for everything that you've done for me I know I always want you by my side," she whispered.

"I'll never leave you," he replied quietly before kissing her fully on the lips. It felt like their first kiss all over again. Yuffie was so glad that she didn't lose him, she didn't know what she would do without him.

They broke from their kiss and the ninja began to laugh, "so exactly how long were you standing back there?"

Cloud smiled, "long enough to see you run like hell," he replied with a laugh.

Yuffie continued laughing before she kissed him on the cheek. "Well it was for a good cause," she said shyly before burying her face in his chest. He held her tightly as he kissed the top of her head. There was so much he wanted to say but he didn't know where to start. But at this moment they really didn't need words, they knew how the other one felt and just being in each other's arms was enough. The minutes passed by as they stayed that way, but at that moment time was endless.