OPERATiON KiSARAGi
Chapter 2
Of Hamburgers and Fries
The rain had stopped a while ago and it was only to Yuffie's benefit. Grinning, the ninja strapped her prized possession to her back, her shuriken, and quickly gathered about her things. She'd return the damn room later on tonight. Not like that stupid innkeeper had anyone important coming. With that said, Yuffie stepped outside into the quickly dissipating rain and slowly sunshine began to show through.
"Hmm... First stop would of course be NEW clothes. These damn threads just ain't cutting it no more."
Yuffie still traveled about in the same old khaki shorts & green sweater. Not surprisingly though, they didn't fit as well. Over the years Yuffie had begun to mature. Her once stick figure now was that of a curvy woman. She had not grown any taller, to her dismay; her hair had grown rather long thought. It was now down to the middle of her back and the chocolate locks were exceptionally soft.
Tifa's got her boobs and I've got my hair. Hmm… I guess it's a fair trade. Hehe, course with knockers like those they'd probably only end up blinding me when I fight… then again the opponent would probably be blind too. Hahaha! Sucker.
With that train of thought in mind, she fluttered over to various clothing stores; trying to find something that would not hinder her in battle or flash the world her newly acquired assets. Finally she decided upon something simple, a pair of camouflage shorts, with a white tank top. Her shoes were in serious need of some new one's so she bought some new sneakers; they were like the old ones but were just a simple color of black. She already had a load of materia, now it was time to get something to eat.
Walking at a hurried pace she reached a small restaurant called Mideel Haven; and boy did Yuffie consider it haven. Looking around she spotted a table and grinned before seating herself and calling a waiter over.
"Welcome to Mideel Haven, I'm Jin. How may I help you?"
Yuffie smiled, she could literally smell the delicious aroma wafting about the room. Hmm… what did she really need right now?
"I'd like 1 large cherry Pepsi, 3 large cheeseburgers and a bunch of French fries."
Jin looked at her confusedly, such a young woman as herself could not eat that much. Shouldn't she be worrying about weight or something?
"Ah um… is that all?"
"OOH! Do you guys have like those little umbrella things! I want one of those in my drinks please!" Yuffie smiled cheekily at him before winking.
He simply nodded his head, took the menu that Yuffie hadn't even bothered to look at and walked away with her order.
During that waiting period, a young man who looked to be in his twenties came and sat down at her table. Yuffie narrowed her eyes, who the hell does he think he is. This is MY eating time buster!
The young man smiled before introducing himself, "Hey there pretty thing, the name's David. I couldn't help but wonder what a pretty woman such as you was doing sitting here all by herself."
Barely audible Yuffie grumbled, "Trying to avoid creeps like you."
"I'm sorry what was that?"
Grinning to herself she smiled sweetly, "Oh nothing. Say Dave, would you like to join me?" Yuffie grinned seductively before placing her hand lightly on his knee.
David grinned, obviously thinking he scored, "Well since I'm already here, I don't see why not."
Hey she could be hot and seductive too you know!
Smiling to Yuffie he called the waiter over and ordered a meal too.
After enduring his endless chatter about how much he could weight lift and other things that Yuffie seriously found non important her meal arrived. Grinning she interrupted him, "Let's eat! In my country it's a custom to eat without talking, it's rude to both you and the food your given kay?"
David looked confused for a minute before nodding his head and began to eat slowly. Yuffie on the other hand, dived straight in. It felt like FOREVER when she'd last had a hamburger and some fries. There wasn't anywhere on the good ol' open plains where a hamburger joint was set up.
In the time it had taken Yuffie to devour her meal, David her buddy was still working on his drink.
I knew he'd be useful for something.
Smiling cheekily, she gathered herself together before standing up, David looked up in confusion, "Where you goin' sweetie?"
"No where, I just got to use the little girl's restroom, don't worry Ill be back in a jiffy!" David smiled before lightly smacking her ass as Yuffie walked away. She stopped, winced, turned around and gave him a hug instead.
Then she proceeded in the wrong direction of the restroom, like he'd notice anyways.
"Why am I the LUCKY one to attract attention? Unwanted, potentially harmful to my health attention to be exact!" Yuffie shouted out in a high pitched whiny voice
I should have clobbered his ass!
At least you got a free meal and not to mention some cash.
Yuffie held up the wallet she had borrowed from David, not only had he so graciously paid for her meal, he even asked her to hold onto his wallet what a nice guy.
"And boy is he loaded! Whooo imagine the hamburgers I could buy!"
Smiling to herself, she continued her trek back to her room at the inn.
There were two things Yuffie noticed when she walked into the inn; the first was the innkeeper was missing. The second was the spare key to her room was gone.
She narrowed her eyes, this was indeed suspicious.
Maybe he just rented my room out?
Her instinct did not agree though, sighing before wondering why her, she pulled out her prized possession; her shuriken. Slowly she began to trek silently up the stairs to her room.
Upon coming to the hallway, she noticed the door to her room was slightly ajar and noises could be heard from within.
"Find it?"
"No"
Yuffie raised an eyebrow; just who did they think they are. No one barges into HER room and gets away with it. Well … technically speaking anyways.
She grinned before grabbing a flash grenade, slowly she approached the door. They were still rummaging about; probably looking for one of the many materias' she had stolen over her travels.
A floorboard creaked, and the shuffling in the room stopped.
Shit! Dammit, here goes nothing!
Bracing herself Yuffie, ran into the room stopped and grinned at them.
"It's her!"
"You won't get me this way suckers!" Then threw the flash bomb and turned around covering her eyes. The two men surprised, immediately looked at the bomb and then it exploded and bright light blinded their vision.
They stumbled to the ground holding their eyes as Yuffie ran in grabbed her bag, scrawled a YK on one of their cheeks with a sharpie she coincidently happened to carry around (just like her black pepper) threw the key at them and proceeded to jump out the window. She rolled once then stopped pulled herself to her feet and ran like a bat out of hell.
"How about me and good ol' Tifa here work together or something? We can get to know one another better. Her and I can scan the perimeter of areas check and see if the locals seen anything you know that kind of thing. What do you say about it Blondie?"
Cloud growled, there was no way in hell he was letting Tifa be alone with HIM of all people.
"No."
Tifa had gone off to call all the Avalanche members and get them together. It would take a good two days for all of them to show up, seeing as how they all lived in different parts of the world. For now, the Turks and Cloud were staying at her place. It had plenty of rooms and space. Her new bar was much better than her old one. Her countertops were mahogany wood, and her mixing utensils stainless steel. The walls were a deep red with pictures of her and avalanche in the day. The tables in which people sat and were served at were just wood that you could buy for cheap.
She had her share of bar fights and wanted the things they could break to be easily replaceable. Upstairs she had a total of 6 rooms. They all had two twin beds in them with one big dresser. Except for one room, it was her master bedroom and it had one king size bed. The theme was for an Asian idea. She loved it to death and had taken great time and care in it along with her new bar.
Reno frowned; he just wanted to get to know the brunette a little better that's all. He wouldn't hit on her… much. Grinning to himself he lazily withdrew a cigarette from its carton before lighting it. While she was busy contacting her friends, Reno and Cloud would go over the plan and figure out where to start.
Cloud pinched the bridge of his nose, Reno and he had been discussing the redhead and Tifa for the past hour. He didn't see why the stupid redhead wanted to get her alone anyways.
"Why yo"
"Why's it so important anyways?"
Reno took another drag; boy did he love his nicotine.
"Shuddup Reno." Glancing upwards, there stood Elena, behind her was Rude. They looked impeccable as ever, their Turk suits neat and clean; her hair short and out of the way and Rude with his glasses on. He never took them off, except for certain occasions.
"Lena! Where ya been!"
The young blonde narrowed her eyes at him; sometimes she wondered how he could be so dense one minute then so serious the next.
"Out on that case? The one where were trying to get more leads for your dumb ass?"
Reno grinned, before lazily walking up to her and slinging an arm around her shoulders, "Aww Lena babe, you mad that I left you all alone with big ol' Rude?"
Hissing at him she shoved his arm off, "Get off me." Then proceeded to stalk over and sit down at a table. Cloud noticed the black briefcase she carried and also noted her gun. Even if they had made peace between one another he still didn't trust them fully. His sword was within grabbing distance.
Elena ignored them and instead set her briefcase down on the table and opened it up. Inside was a laptop, probably hooked up to the main servers in Midgar and more than likely had access to satellite.
"Rude and I found some interesting things after doing some research and of course speaking to people. We visited Mideel this morning, seems there was a young girl by the description of Yuffie. She high tailed it though. That and the innkeeper is dead. So I'm guessing she knows someone is after her."
Tifa walked in at the moment, "Elena! How nice to see you." She smiled pleasantly; ever since they had made peace she and Elena had surprisingly become pretty good friends. She knew the Turk cared deeply for a certain silent guy and that she was finally over the loss of Tseng.
Elena glanced up and smiled before getting up and giving Tifa a hug. "It's nice to see you! How have you been?"
The girls seeming to ignore what was going on around them or what they had just been talking about immersed themselves in chatter.
Reno rolled his eyes, before lighting up another cigarette. Tch, women.
Cloud annoyed, cleared his throat and looked imploringly at Elena.
"Oh! Right, sorry." A pink color tinged her cheeks as she was slightly embarrassed before scuttling back over to the laptop and began again.
"Anyhow, as I was saying she was last seen in Mideel. The room that she was in was ransacked so it's obvious they're looking for the materia. Another thing is we found blood."
Tifa covered her mouth; obviously she was worried about her young friend. She still considered the young ninja a child in so many ways. "Was it Yuffie's?"
Elena smiled sadly, "Were not sure. There still performing DNA tests on it, and we don't exactly have her blood on record but we'll definitely be able to tell if it's a male or not. If it is someone hopefully we can try and match it."
Cloud ran a hand through his blonde locks, sometimes he wondered if he was ever just going to have a nice normal life.
"What else did you find out?"
Elena looked at Rude hesitantly, as though she was thinking about something. Rude simply nodded his head at her to continue and she listened.
"Um… we've also received reports about a young man in the smuggling ring who is also after Yuffie. There are a number of different guys tracking her but this one stood out the most. He was one of those faces people would not be able to forget if they saw it again…"
Cloud looked at her, his blue eyes willing her to continue.
"He matches the description of a former comrade and friends of yours, Vincent Valentine."
AN: so what chu guys think of it so far? Good bad? Boring? Eh please leave some reviews hehe ; iid like to know. Cuhz I mean all dese ppl seen it buh nobody leaves a review to lemme kno if its borin or not ;