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Well, this is the boring part where the story actually starts getting to the actual plot. Yes that's right I do actually have one. Maybe not a good one, but a plot none the less. I can only hope you won't be too bored.

Chapter 8: Cats and Dogs?

As they made the slow, cold trek to the Crater Yuffie was strangely quite. It didn't help that Sephiroth kept looking back at her and snickering. Every time she accentually caught his eye, he kept raising his eyebrows seductively and then bursting out in laughter again.

And it certainly didn't help that she found herself strangely turned on by this new, flirty Sephiroth. There was just something darkly attractive about evil incarnated looking at you like he wanted to bang the hell out of you.

After about the 1000th time Yuffie decided she'd had enough. "Gawd, jerkwad, why don't you just rape me and get it over with."

"I can't, you might like it." He replied with that damn smirk on his face.

"You wish! I can do better than a crazy killer dude that tries to take over the world when he's bored."

"Hey, at least it's productive."

"No, productive is helping at the local animal shelter, that's just maniacal."

"Midgar doesn't have an animal shelter though."

"Is that why you wanna blow up the world? You never had a puppy?"

"Actually, I'm more of a cat person."

Yuffie rolled her eyes.

"They're much more independent, they don't actually need you around, and they can take care of themselves. That's my ideal kind of woman too"

"Why would I care?," Yuffie muttered. Yet she found herself making a mental note of it anyway.

Shrugging he said, "Thought you might want to know."

At the Northern Crater

"So...where did you put the materia?" Yuffie asked when they got there.

"It's at the bottom."

"Ah man, we mean we gotta go all the way back down there?"

"Unfortunately."

"Crap."

"Shit."

"Poopie."

The two looked at each other for a moment before laughing. Yuffie was beginning to wonder if he'd always had this sense of humor, or if it was a recent addition. And if so, why?

As though he thought they'd wasted enough time, Sephiroth said, "We might as well get it over with, come on, let's mosey."

Yuffie stopped dead in her half stepped tracks, a look of sadness in her eyes.

"What?" He asked.

"Don't say that."

"What?"

"What you just said. Don't say it, that's what Cloud said."

"Well, as though that wouldn't be reason enough not to say it, why?"

"That's what he said, and now we're separated. So just, don't say it."

"You mean you actually want to be around me? I thought you wanted to decapitate me?"

Beginning to get a little uncomfortable, she replied, "Well not really, I mean, I don't really have anything against you. To tell the truth, I was just traveling with them to get their materia. Cloud's the one who wants revenge."

"I killed your friend."

"Oh, yeah, you did didn't you? But I don't know why though. Aeris never hurt anyone in her life. So why her?"

"...Mother wanted it."

"You always do what your mother tells you?"

Sephiroth looked up to find Yuffie staring straight at him, right into his eyes. At that moment, she didn't look like a child anymore. She looked like someone who knew too much about the pain in life for her age. He thought for the first time what this young ninja must have gone through, being the last of her people to follow the old way. And he suddenly understood why she acted to way she did. It wasn't because she was childish, she was desperately trying to hold on to the child she'd never been able to be. And for the first time in his life he didn't feel alone anymore.

He stepped towards her, but before he could reach her, the air was suddenly rent with the sound of machinery. He looked up to see that damned airship in the sky, closing in fast.

"Damn it." he said reaching out his hand, "Come on, we have to go."

Strangely complacent, Yuffie nodded her agreement and took his outstretched hand, and followed.

End Chapter8

Woooooow 0o The plot thickens. Well, I hope this chapter didn't turn out to be the festering pile of dog doo that I feel it may be. Leave me a review, and good or bad tune in next week for another chappie of...whatever this is called.

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