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A/N: I just completed Kingdom Hearts II, this takes place about a weekafter the game is completed.Everyone has gone to Hollow Bastion, Yuffie is still in Aeris' body and has been avoiding Cloud for the most part while rebuilding the city.Thanks to my reviewers, I do apologize for the long wait between updates!
It had been a month. Yuffie and the others had been restoring Hollow Bastion and found a house to live in. Merlin had also moved in with them and was still trying to make the potion to turn them back.It was on this peticular night that she sat outside to do some thinking."What am I going to do, it's been a couple months already!" She kept muttering to herself. "Why do you get yourself into these horrible messes Yuffie?"
"What's wrong?" Yuffie froze and then turned to see Sora standing there grinning in front of her.
"SORA!" She shrieked and then covered her mouth when she remembered that everyone else was sleeping.
Sora grinned and put his arms around her as she hugged him. Yuffie took his hand and led him away from the house so they wouldn't wake everyone up. "When did you get here?" She asked.
"Well I thought that I should let everyone know that we defeated Xemnas so Organization XIII is gone... The heartless should be pretty much gone by now!" Sora grinned happily. "So what mess are you in this timeYuffie?"
"I'm... wait a second... how do you know that I'm Yuffie?" Her eyes widened.
"Number one: because you were talking to yourself and I heard you call yourself Yuffie. Number two: You aren't acting anything like Aeris, and Number 3: Leon sent me a short letter saying what happened." Sora gave a cheesy grin.
"HE TOLD YOU? That jerk was supposed to keep it a secret... Cloud is probably the only one that doesn't know... Aeris knows but she doesn't know that Leon knows and Cloud thinks that I'm Aeris and that's why everything is a mess."
"Never a dull moment." Sora said as he shook his head. "Why can't everything be normal for at least a little while?"
Yuffie sighed and shrugged. "So, you found Riku and Kairi right?"
"Yeah, they're at Destiny islands... In a strange way things are almost the way they were before I got the keyblade."
"Are you and Kairi a couple now?" Yuffie couldn't help but ask with a evil grin.
"N-no... you know that we're just friends!" Sora answered, feeling his face turning red. "I-I'm um... I'm tired so uh..."
"You can stay at our house! Just be quiet, Leon isn't a very happy camper when he's woken up." Yuffie led Sora back to the house and gave up her bed for himwhich he happily took.
After putting some blankets down for herself, Yuffie lied down and closed her eyes. Immediately she opened them again. The floor was HARD! "Sora better appreciate me giving up my bed!" She muttered to herself as she began tossing and turning. When she had finally almost gotten asleep she felt something on her shoulder. Opening her eyes, she saw a huge bug. Holding in her scream, Yuffie silently jumped up and brushed it off, trembling. She HATED bugs.
After that terrifying incident Yuffie decided that she was not sleeping on the floor and looked around to see where she would be able to sleep. Hm... There was room on Leon's bed... but if Cloud saw her sleeping with him... Aeris hogged the whole thing... Oh, what was the use, she was going to end up with Cloud and she knew it!
Yuffie sighed and walked over to where Cloud was and looked over him silently. His face had a slight frown on it and he was completely silent. Why must you be so cute? She couldn't help but ask herself. Though cute wasn't the word that most people would use to describe Cloud, Yuffie couldn't help but think it. In sleep he looked adorable and harmless. "He's not quite like that usually!" She muttered but with a small smile.
She was feeling very sleepy soYuffie carefully sat laid down next to Cloud. She give a small smile as she closed her eyes andcouldn't help but think that she was enjoying this very much.Vagely she felt him put his arm around her before she fell asleep. I could get used to this. Was her last thought.
"OOMF!" Yuffie grumbled as she felt something hit her. "Goajd kamomka."
"Was that supposed to be english?" She heard, what sounded like Sora, say.
"Don't wake me up!" She lifted her head to say and put her pillow over her head to muffle them.
"Aeris, get up, you're starting to act like Yuffie when you try to wake her up!" That was Cloud. Apparently her muffling skills weren't the best. When he grabbed the pillow and easily pulled it away from her she sighed.
"Fine." She muttered as she lifted her head and sleepily swung her legs off the bed. The events of the night before came back into her head and when she realized that she was still on Cloud's bed she felt her face redden. Sora and Cloud were the only ones in the room luckily, but then she realized that Aeris and Leon would have had to see her before they went wherever they went. Sora's smirk was enough to make her blush anyways. Oh, who cares what Sora thinks! I can get him back by teasing him about Kairi.
"Are you... alright?" Cloud asked her and Yuffie shook her head to get out of the daze.
"Yep, never been better!" She piped happily and just gave a smile when he raised his eyebrows at her.
"Sleep well?" Sora asked her with a smirk and when Cloud wasn't looking she stuck her tongue out at him. "Mature." Was all Sora said.
"How long are you staying?" Yuffie asked quietly with a fake smile.
"I actually just came to see if all the Heartless are gone, and make sure that everything's going alright."
"Everything's fine." Yuffie answered with a smirk. "So you don't have to hang around,I'm sure that you have a lot to do."Cloud walked out for a momentwhich left her and Sora alone.
"I wouldn't mind seeing what happens with the whole potion thing either." Soramuttered quietlyto her. Yuffie glared at him.
"Look, don't talk about it, c'mon Sora... this is serious." She answered before walking off to get dressed for the day.
Cloud came back in to get something. "Aeris is acting pretty strange, eh Cloud?" She heard Sora say.
He was so dead.
Unfortuantely, Yuffie didn't get the opportunity to hurt Sora, considering that when she came out Cloud andhim had left. "LOVELY!" She muttered. Sighing she walked over to a chair and sat down. Merlin had told her a couple of days ago that the potion was almost ready. Yuffie had done her best to avoid Cloud to prevent her feelings from advancing but... it hadn't worked so well."I"m Yuffie! I'm the little girl that nobody notices... I shouldn't feel this way." She cried to herself. Well... she was seventeen, but still... Why did it have to be Cloud of all people? Couldn't she like someone a little less... morbid?
"I have to tell him before I turn back... it'll be my last chance." She muttered. Suddenly the door swung open, "Yuffie it is ready!" Merlin gave her a bottle and then leaned over and caught his breath. "Finally I have completed the potion, you can finally switch back!"
Yuffie started at the liquid. "What do I need to do?" She whispered.
"Just drink it and then a few minutes later you'll find yourself back in your body. Unfortuately, for some reason, the drink stops working a few minutes after it's been made, so you need to drink it now." Merlin urgently nodded.
Yuffie took a deep breath and drank it before she could have any second thoughts. "I have to find Cloud and tell him..." She muttered and ran out as fast as possible.
"Oh wait Yuffie! Oh dear... I forgot to tell her that instead of going back to her body, her body will go back to her. Oh well, I'm sure that everything will work out fine."
Yuffie ran as fast as she could. "Sora, where's Cloud?" She asked when she finally found Sora.
Sora was about to tease her but saw the anxiety in her face. "He went down towards the dungeon part to-" Yuffie didn't bother to listen to the rest of what he said, she had to hurry.
"Cloud!" She yelled when she got there. There was no answer so she quickly entered and was glad that there was some light. "CLOUD!"
"What are you doing Aeris?" Cloud asked as he appeared, seemingly out of nowhere. "This isn't a place for you to be, I'll be done soon and then we can talk."
"I'm not weak." Yuffie answered and then remembered what she had come to say. She could feel tears coming to her eyes and quickly blinked them back.
"Aeris..." Cloud put her hand on her shoulder seeing the pain on her face. "What is it?"
"I'm so sorry..." Yuffie choked out, trying to keepher voice from shaking."I didn't mean for things to go this far, I thought that it would be fun, but it's horrible. It's so horrible."
"Are you sick?" Cloud asked as he put his hand to her forehead.
"I wish I could tell you how I feel... but I don't have the right." Yuffie looked up into Cloud's eyes, which, instead of the usual coldness, were filled of worry. I love you Cloud... I wish I could tell you, but for once I'm going to do the mature thing. "I know that you think of me as a little brat, but I'm not."
"I don't think that you're a brat." Cloud answered for her. "I've never said that."
"Trust me, you do." Yuffie stepped back from him and felt a wave of dizziness come upon her before she stumbled to her knees. Vagely she felt Cloud's arms go around her waist. Then the feeling was gone.
Cloud's arms quickly let go and she turned to see his look of surprise and horror. "See... you do think that I'm a brat." Yuffie told him and knew that she had her body back, considering her voice sounded like hers again.
"W-what's going on?" Cloud asked his voice barely above a whisper stepping away from her.
"Aeris and I switched bodies a couple months ago." Yuffie answered. "It's been me in her body this entire time. Everything that you said, it was to me... not her."
"How could you trick me like that, this is low even for you Yuffie." Cloud said his voice cold.
"At first it was just for fun, but then I felt myself-"
"I don't want to hear it, where's Aeris?"
"She's with Leon." Yuffie managed to say, though her voice felt hoarse from the tears in her eyes. "Cloud, I'm not a child anymore."
"What you did is extremely childish, you've just proved to me that you haven't grown up." Cloud answered.
He quickly brushed past her but stopped for just a moment to look at her. Then he turned and kept walking and Yuffie fell to the ground sobbing her heart out. She had seen the look in his eyes.
It was hatred.