Hey everyone. Sorry it's been a while since I posted any chapters to any of my fics. I've been really busy with getting ready for graduation and work and stuff. I just posted another chapter on Yuffie's Secret if you want to check that out and now I'm posting this chapter. I didn't get a lot of reviews on this one, so I hope I get a few more on this one.

The dialogue part where they meet Vincent is pretty much the exact dialogue from the game. The parts I have added in are just Yuffie's thoughts and emotions on the situation. I do not own Final Fantasy 7 or and of it's characters, although I wish I did. Enjoy!

Broken Promise

Chapter 2: The Day We Met

"Come on Yuffie…. Please!" Cloud pleaded.

"Why do you want me to go with you?" I asked him. There was no way I wanted to go on the next mission with Cloud. He had talked me into going to the Gi Cave with him and Red. After that whole sabbatical, what with the giant spiders and undead fire spirits, I never wanted to go on another mission in Cloud's party again!

"Because I don't know what the next mission will bring. I need a strong fighter on my team," Cloud said trying to appeal to my ego.

"Then take Tifa. She's the strongest fist fighter you've got," I said not taking the bait.

"True, but I need someone with your ninja skills. After all you are always bragging about how good you are, and I've seen it for myself."

That did it. He had succeeded in conning me into it. Nobody could talk about my ninja skills being that damn good, without it all going to my head.

"Okay, fine, I'll go," I said, masking my pride with a look of boredom and exasperation.

"Great! We leave in twenty minutes. Meet down at the Candle."

I gaped at him as he headed back towards Bugenhagen's tower. Twenty minutes later, I was at the Candle and Cloud was splitting the group into teams.

"I'm taking Yuffie and Barret. Tifa you and Red will travel together and Aeris and Cait Sith. Meet up at the next town."

With that we headed out, Barret grumbling about having to travel with me. He didn't like me much back then.

It was hard work just getting to the next town. We fought battle after battle. When we finally reached the next town, it ended up being Nibelheim. This was Cloud's hometown. It was suppose to be burnt to the ground. We stayed at the Inn that night, resting up from the previous battles. Who knew the next day, we would face a bigger monstrosity, as well as a standoff with Sephiroth? Who knew my life would be changed the next day when I met the tall, dark, mysterious man of my dreams? I sure didn't.

The next day, Cloud got it into his spiky little head to explore the big, creepy Shrinra Mansion. Somehow I knew there would be trouble. Cloud was a magnet for trouble. We came to a room with a safe. Me being the treasure seeker that I was, eagerly agreed to help crack the code. It didn't take long. The safe opened and we ended up facing a huge, mystical creature that nearly killed the three of us.

We entered into battle and the first thing that happened was the creature used a powerful lightning spell on Barret, almost knocking him out. I acted as the healer and constant poisoning agent, while Barret and Cloud concentrated on physical attacks. After about an hour of battling we finally managed to defeat it. We collected Cosmo Memory, Odin, and the basement key from the safe, and then rested.

Once we felt we could move on, the three of us headed down to the basement. Cloud used the basement key to open a door that held a bunch of coffins in it. As he approached the center one, suddenly a deep voice came from within.

"To wake me from my nightmare! Who is it!" The lid of the coffin popped off and a man jumped up onto the edge. "Never seen you before. You must leave."

I stood behind Cloud looking dreamily at the gorgeous, yet creepy man that had just jumped out of a coffin. He had long, dark hair, deep crimson eyes, and rather pale complexion. Still, he was definitely pleasing to the eye. I realized how stupid I must look gawking at him like that, and put up the tough chick façade.

"You were having a nightmare," Cloud said.

"Man, you really were having a bad dream. Even I feel bad," I piped up.

The man's crimson eyes looked into my own stormy grey ones coolly, seeming to penetrate to my very soul. I shivered, but managed to hold his gaze.

"Humph… a nightmare…? My long sleep has given me time to atone," he replied.

"What are you saying?" Cloud asked, confused.

"I have nothing to say to strangers. Get out. This mansion is the beginning of a nightmare."

"…You can say that again," Cloud said more to himself, than to anyone else.

"Hmm? What do you know?" the man asked curiously.

"Like you said, this mansion is the beginning of a nightmare. No, it's not a dream it's for real. Sephiroth has lost his mind. He found secrets hidden within this mansion," Cloud began. Great..., I thought…not this again.

"Sephiroth!" the man exclaimed.

"You know Sephiroth?" the two of them said at the same time.

"You start first," the man said coolly.

So Cloud began the telling of his long-ass story, which I had to hear for what seemed like the thousandth time. I sighed and tried to pay attention. My mind kept wandering to the strange man we were talking to. What was his story anyway?

"…That's how it was," Cloud said finishing up.

"So Sephiroth knows he was created five years ago? And about the Jenova Project?" the man asked.

Cloud nodded. "He was missing, but has just recently reappeared. He has taken many lives and is seeking the Promised Land. Now it's your turn."

"Sorry, I cannot speak," the man stated.

I was disappointed, but piped up anyway, "Oh that's okay. It was probably depressing anyway."

"Hearing your stories has added upon me yet another sin. More nightmares shall come to me now, more than I previously had. Now please leave," the man said as he settled back into his coffin, closing the lid.

I wanted to know who he was. I started forward to tap on the coffin, but Cloud beat me to it. The man pushed the lid off the coffin and sat up.

"You're still here?" he questioned.

"Who are you?" I asked in a slightly disrespectful voice, not wanting him to understand my interest in him.

"At least tell us your name?" Cloud asked more respectfully then I had.

"I was with the Shinra Manufacturing Department in administrative research; otherwise know as--- the Turks…. My name is Vincent," the man said.

Vincent… normally this would have struck me as a funny name, but with this guy, it was very sexy.

"The Turks!" Cloud said, snapping me out of my reverie. So he was a bad guy? Damn didn't that just suck.

"Formerly of the Turks. I have no affiliation with Shinra now…. And you?"

Whew… he wasn't a bad guy. Good thing too, I would have hated to kick his ass. I wouldn't want to mar any of his gorgeous features.

"Cloud, formerly of soldier," Cloud replied. I said nothing. I was going for the mysterious, exotic beauty look.

"You were also with Shinra? Then do you know Lucretia?" Vincent asked.

Lucretia… there was no way that could a guy's name. My heart sank.

"Who?" Cloud asked.

"…Lucretia," Vincent replied.

Cloud shook his head. He had no idea who she was.

"The woman who gave birth to Sephiroth….," Vincent trailed off.

"Gave birth…? Wasn't Jenova Sephiroth's mother?" Cloud asked confused.

"That isn't completely wrong, but just a theory. He was born from a beautiful lady. That lady was Lucretia. She was an assistant to Professor Gast of the Jenova Project. Beautiful….Lucretia…," Vincent explained.

It was clear that Vincent was very taken with this Lucretia. My heart sank even lower. The hot, sexy ones were always taken.

"A human experiment?" Cloud questioned.

"There was no way to conceal the experiment. I couldn't stop her. That was my sin. I let the one I loved, the one I respected most face the worst," Vincent began.

"Okay, boring story #1," I interrupted. I didn't want to listen to this tortured man's sob story, especially when it dealt with another woman. Vincent disappeared back into his coffin. Cloud tapped on the lid again.

"Let me sleep…," came Vincent's reply.

So we left the basement room and headed into another. Here we encountered Sephiroth. Cloud forced Barret and I to stand back while talked to Sephiroth. We couldn't hear what the two of them were saying. Whatever it was, it didn't take long to say, because Sephiroth flew off and Cloud came back a few moments later.

As we were leaving, Vincent stopped us.

"Wait! If I go with you, will I meet Hojo?" Vincent asked.

"Dunno, but we are after him and Sephiroth. So sooner or later…," Cloud said.

"Lucretia… All right, I've decided to come with you," Vincent announced.

"Huh? Oh great, just what I needed…," I replied sarcastically. Inside I was so happy I could have screamed. I didn't know why, I just knew this was a man I wanted to get to know. I didn't know that soon, I would become the object of his affections….