Hehehehe! Seventh chapter! Enjoy! R&R PLEASE! Ooh starts out in Riku's POV
Riku's POV
'Hmm.' I thought as I looked at the blue prints.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" I asked, looking around the room.
Olivia spoke up, "Yeah, I agree with Riku, I don't know if Yuffie will want to do this, after all it IS a soldier attack. And she is a soldier. So why would she go through with this. I mean she might run off or something."
"She won't run off." Cloud's cool reply came.
"How can we be so sure?" Vincent asked, "She has not said anything about her job. How do we know she does not like it?"
"Because she told us when she was yelling at us for not telling her we were with the Rebel Group. Quote: You think I like my job! Do you think I want to kill? Do you think I wanted to be in the army? No! I didn't I never wanted to do this stupid job in the first place: Un-Quote." Sora said his large wing twitching.
"Well Tif?" I asked, looking over at the martial artist, she hadn't said anything.
"Whatever." She snapped. Tifa had not been in a good mood, she had been fighting with Vincent, which is actually strange because they don't seem to be the type to argue.
"So who will go?" I questioned.
"Wait!" Olivia cried, jumping up from her spot on the floor. " We CAN'T do this mission, especially with Kai…I mean Yuffie around here."
"Olivia? Did you just almost say Kairi?" Sora asked, narrowing his blue eyes.
"No! I mean, yes, but it was an accident." She replied nervously.
"And why can't we go on this mission Olivia?" Cloud asked, his voice hard.
Olivia gulped, she didn't do well under pressure. She searched around the room frantically, as if looking for someone to help her. Her big cats ears twitched and her long tail swayed back and forth quickly, she tugged a strand of thick black hair nervously and her glowing yellow eyes darted everywhere.
'She looks pretty when she's nervous.' I thought absently, but realizing what I just thought I mentally kicked myself. 'No! You don't think that about her! Bad, Riku, bad.'
"Well, there's something…uh I've gotta use the bathroom. Be right back." She said and ran out of the room. We all gave her a quizzical look before looking at one another.
"I TOLD you she was strange." I said to Cloud who shook his head and glared at me with eerie dark blue/green eyes. I smiled, my long sharp fangs glinting in the dim light.
Olivia's POV
'Oh man, oh man, oh man. What am I going to do!' I thought darting through the twisting hall ways. 'I almost told them! And I don't want Sora to be mad at me.'
I turned a sharp corner and slammed straight into a slim figure. I glanced at the person sitting across from me and realized it was Kairi. I stood up and looked down at her.
"Watch where you're going." I spat.
"Sorry." She mumbled. "Do you know where Sora is?"
'Sora? Why does she want to see him?' I thought, then immediately becoming suspicious, I went through her thoughts.
'Is this girl going to answer me? I just asked her a question. Hello. Anyone in there? She sure is weird. Anyway I've got to find Sora, I want to tell him something. And I'm kind of glad that ninja got kidnapped by these guys. They don't seem to hard to beat. Commander Auron and Captain Seifer will be pleased to here my news.' She thought.
My eyes widened. 'She's part of the army! Oh my gosh, I knew it. I KNEW it! I've GOT to tell everybody!'
"Uh…you going to answer me?" She asked.
"Huh? Oh um…no I haven't seen Sora." I answered.
"I think you're lying." She said, eyeing me.
"I'm not!" I exclaimed.
"Yeah you are. I can tell when you're lying, like when you lied to Tifa about stealing her boots, that were in your pack, your eyes became purplish." She replied.
"How did you know that?" I asked her incredulously.
"Because I saw you put them in your bag."
"Oh."
"Now tell me where Sora is!" She said.
"No I-." I was about to finish my sentence, but Vince walked around a corner. He saw me and strode over.
"Hmm I thought you were going to go to the bathroom." He said in monotone.
"I…I was, but um I ran into Kairi and we were um, talking." I said nervously.
Vince eyed me and I could tell he didn't believe me, but I was thankful that he saved me from killing the girl.
"Come along Olivia," Vince said, "I have to buy some things."
I mouthed the words 'thank you' and turned to face Kairi, "Well I gotta go. Later." I called cheerily.
"You do not like her very much do you?" Vincent questioned.
I smirked, "Not one bit."
Yuffie's POV
"Yuffie, Yuffie wake up." I voice said to me.
"Goavway…" I mumbled into my pillow.
"What was that?" The voice teased.
I lifted my face up from the pillow, "I said: go away!"
"Hey! Don't bite my head off." He said.
I realized it was Sora, and tried to push myself up. It didn't work.
"C'mon lazy, get up." A deeper for said, I knew it was Riku.
"I don't wanna get up!" I cried.
"Oh well, get up we've got training today." Sora said.
I jolted up, this was my chance to beat Cloud up.
"Alright! Let's go!" I said jumping off my bed and pushing Riku and Sora out of my room. "Let me get dressed and I'll be out here in a second." I quickly got dressed in a black shirt with brown belt buckles for straps, short black shorts, knee high black socks, elbow high fishnet arm gloves, a black head band, a black scarf, and black combat boots. Ever since I got here I had become prone to black. I owned nothing but black clothes and I had burned my old uniform while at a camp fire one night with Cloud and Sora. I ran out the door and down the hall.
"Hurry up you guys!" I yelled back at them, they gave a bewildered glance at each other before running to catch me. I skidded down the slippery hallway and practically jumped down the steps. I took a short cut through the good dining room and slid into the kitchen, slamming into the small counter-like thing in the middle of the kitchen.
"Oof." I grunted as both Riku, and Sora slammed into me. "You two NEED to loose some weight."
"You…" Riku growled, but I guess couldn't come up with a name to call me.
"What's the matter Riku? Cat got your tongue?" Olivia teased.
"Shut up Kitty, I didn't want to insult her." He snapped.
"Uh-huh." She muttered. "Now move your fatass and let me get the knives." She ordered.
"Yes ma'am." Riku said, giving a mock salute. The cat girl rolled her yellow eyes and gracefully slid over to the drawer.
"No breakfast this morning we're training really hard today, so I don't have time to cook." She said.
"NOOO!" I whined slamming my fist on the table. "I'm hungry."
"Deal with it." Tifa said angrily.
I was surprised Tifa normally didn't yell, "Hey uh…Tif? Somethin' wrong?"
"No." She said briefly before walking out of the kitchen.
"Whoa. What's wrong with her?" I asked.
"She and Vincent are fighting." Olivia answered.
"Oh."
"Mm-hm."
We walked outside considering everyone else had left us and headed toward the training field. When everyone else came into view I sped up, eager to get Cloud to be my partner before anyone else did.
"Hey! You guys! Cloud is MY partner! I get to kick his butt!" I exclaimed, probably looking like a madwoman, waving my arms, screaming at the top of my lungs.
When I arrived and was standing next to Sora and Tifa my hands on my knees, and I heard laughter only to find Riku, Sora, and even Vincent chuckling at me.
"Shut…up…" I gasped, clutching my chest.
"I'm sorry you looked a tad bit…crazy?" Sora said, imitating Vincent with his good grammar and for that he received a glare.
"Shut up." I growled, though very amused Sora got in trouble, well sorta.
"Now what was that you were saying?" Tifa questioned.
"I said: I am going to spar with Cloud. He is MY partner only because he beat me last time." I said. I also knew another reason, but wasn't about to discuss that one. "Is that alright with you Spiky?" I looked over at him, only to find that he was purposely avoiding my gaze.
He shrugged, "Whatever."
"Okay I'll go wi-." Riku started to say, but someone interrupted him.
"Hey, um, mind if I join you guys?" A small shy voice said.
We all spun around to see the petit body of Kairi, we didn't know what to say so we all looked at Mr. Big-Shot Leader.
He scratched the back of his head, and shifted slightly. "Uh, sure, I guess."
She smiled her pretty smile and gave a soft glance at Cloud. I felt my cheeks heat up. 'What is she doing!' I thought.
"Thanks." She said meaningfully.
"Cloud's my partner." I said grumpily.
She glanced at me for a second with her pretty violet eyes, then looked at Sora. "Okay I'll be Sora's partner." She said. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Olivia's features scowl, her eyes flashing.
"Alright." Sora replied smiling.
"I guess I'm stuck with Riku again." Tifa said snippily, shooting a glance at Vincent. He didn't even shrug, but instead turned to Olivia and stuck out his arm.
"That means you are my partner Miss Sanchez." He said to her, she laughed and hooked her thin arm around his. "Who shall go first?"
"Cloud and I will." I said quickly before anyone else could say so. They all shrugged and Cloud and I got ready.
"I will say this again: ready do get yourbutt kicked?" I asked him sweetly. He didn't answer, in fact he didn't even look at me. "Hey what's wrong?"
"Nothing." He answered hollowly.
"Uh-huh. And I'm the Commander's girlfriend." I said sarcastically, I saw his eyes narrow at the mention of the name Commander but he let it slide.
"Let's just get this over with." He said. I was very hurt, normally Cloud would play along with my little mind games, just to humor me. What's up?
"Okay…" I trailed, pulling out the sword the ever-so-wonderful-Sora-and-Riku taught me how to use. He unsheathed his blade and I automatically gulped. I had forgotten how unusually large it was. I stood back ready for him to make the first move, never make the first move when it comes to Cloudy over here, I had learned that the easy way, only cause I saw Sora get hisass kicked. Cloud's eyes held mine, hypnotizing me, apparently I had also forgotten how his eyes cam put you in a trance. He drew his arms back and swung at me, and I being the dumb butt that I am almost blocked that attack a little too late. And for that I nearly went back five feet. He charged at me again, his sword raised and I brought my sword up to shield the attack, nearly breaking my arms while doing so. I jumped back and swung my sword at him, but because Mr. I'm-such-a-great-swordsman always had to beat me, blocked that so easily. And all he did was keep attacking me, by the time my back was pressed up against a big oak tree, I was panting like a dog, and I could see Cloud's hair matted with sweat, making it droop a little, and making him look very sexy. 'I think I might drool.' I thought humorlessly, being sarcastic, but sure enough I felt warm liquid run down my face. 'Oh no, oh no, oh no.' I reached up and touched my face only to find it was sweat. 'Thank you God! I have to take control of this battle.' I thought quickly. Feeling bold I glanced around to make sure no one was looking, which there wasn't. 'We must've gone far.' I stood on my tiptoes and gave Cloud a peck on the cheek. His eyes widened and I took advantaged of the wonderful moment to attack him. I pushed him back toward where we started, him blocking every hit I made at him not so gracefully. 'I must win.' I leapt into the air, and flipped over his head, then I slammed my sword against the back of his knees, causing him to sink down to them. He was at my mercy. I grinned and lowered my face close to his, imitating what he did to me the first time we sparred.
"You lose." I whispered, then turned around, and walked back. When I arrived over with my friend's I was overcome by cheers.
"Whoo-hoo! Go Yuffie!" Olivia cheered, punching the air. "That was awesome!"
"Hahaha! Go Yuff! You beat my brother!" Sora exclaimed.
"Very well done Yuffie." Vincent said, trying to bite down the smile that was forming on his lips. Tifa walked over to me and gave me a bone-crushing hug.
"Congratulations." She said.
I saw Kairi smiling, but I could tell it was forced. 'What's wrong with her?'
"Nicely done Yuffie." Cloud muttered, brushing past me. 'Now what's wrong with him? Is he angry that I won, or about that kiss?' I wondered. The last person to congratulate me was Riku, he had a large smirk on, showing his deadly fangs. I was still getting used to them.
"I've taught you well, my young student." He said teasingly, and by the way he emphasized my, he was reminding me of his kiss, causing my blush reflexes to kick in.
"Hey…you and Tiff go next." I said nervously. I think he was a bit hurt, but shrugged it off and walked off to get ready, he winked at me and I grinned. "Go Riku!" I called weakly from being so tiered, plopping down to sit.
"Thanks for your enthusiasm." He called back, making me grin harder. I saw Cloud slowly walk up and reluctantly sit beside me.
"Alright Blondie, what's bugging you?" I asked him once more, just as the two started fighting, I turned my eyes back to them but was still pressing for an answer.
"I told you before, nothing."
"Bull shit." I snapped. To my enjoyment he looked surprised, I mean genuinely surprised.
"What's it to you?" He questioned. 'Was he making this a game?' I thought, and even if this wasn't I was going to make it one.
"Well maybe I wanna know."
"Well maybe I don't want you to know." He snarled. I grinned cheesily, pestering Cloud was fun.
"But I wanna know!" I whined.
"Gods you're annoying." He said seriously, I was wondering what the hell was going on with him, but I decided to ignore it.
"Thank you." I replied sincerely. He didn't reply, that means I won the argument! Well sorta. But that's beside the point, the point is I got the last word in! We continued to watch the rest of the people spar, but became mighty interested when Kairi went up, the first thing I noticed was that she was powerful. Really powerful. And in 15 minutes she had Sora gasping for breath.
"Ready to give up?" She teased him. He looked up and smiled at her, and I who was unfortunately I was sitting next to Miss Envy over here, and I could practically feel the anger radiating from her.
"Jealous much?" I whispered in her ear that received a death glare from her and a sharp jab from Spikes.
"Oww!" I exclaimed. When Sora came over and collapsed to the ground I made a joke about being out of shape.
"Quit teasing him." Kairi ordered jokingly. 'Maybe she's not that bad.' I decided.
"We have to get going." Olivia snapped.
"Are you positive you want to go Olivia?" Vincent asked, still looking guilty. After all, he had shot her.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Let's go." She growled.
"Where are you guys going?" I questioned, I hadn't heard anything about going anywhere.
"Um, it's nothing Yuff." Sora said quickly, "We're just going to get a few things."
"Oh okay, can I come?"
"No." Cloud said coldly. I stared, hurt. What was wrong with him, all of the sudden he's shunning me.
"Oh…" Either he was oblivious to people's feelings or he was completely ignoring the hurt that was clearly showing in my voice. I felt tears sting the back of my eyes, and I spun away quickly, and started walking up to the house. "I'm going to be in the house." I called, my voice cracking. I ran up to the house and threw open the door. After a few minutes I heard someone come in.
"Yuffie…?" Riku said quietly.
"What?" Was my choked reply, yes I had been crying, see after Cloud had kissed me, it wasn't like when Riku had kissed me, I had felt…strange. But in a good way.
"Are you okay?" He inquired.
"Yeah I'm fine."
"No you're not." He said coming over and sitting next to me. "What's wrong?"
"N…nothing."
"Is it Cloud?"
I looked into his aqua-marine eyes and nodded slowly, "Yes!" I wailed, throwing my arms around his neck. I could tell he was caught off guard, but he put one hand on the back of my head and one around my waist and he gently stroked my hair, and I just kept crying, none of us saying anything, but both of us lost in our own little worlds, our own little nightmares.
: MISSION Cloud's POV
"Alright," I started, "Olivia there's only a few guard's can you distract them?"
I saw her grin, by distract I usually meant kill.
"I'd be honored too."
"What should I do?" Sora asked miserably. I nearly growled, he had been worried about that stupid soldier girl again. She had just disappeared with out a word and he had been worried sick. Of course he didn't know she was a soldier and I wasn't about to tell him.
"You go with Tifa, and Vincent to the weapon tent, I've got some things to take care of." I replied, bored. We waited while Olivia gracefully stalked over to the two soldiers were standing, she had her cat ears and tail tucked away so they could not tell she was different.
"Hi. I need some help, I just moved around here, and I got lost. Mind showing me where to go?" She asked, flirtatiously batting her eyes. But I could sense her disgust.
"Sure." The soldiers pleased reply came, "Show us where to go." She led the two soldiers into the woods, and I waited anxiously.
I heard two pain filled screams, and much to my sickening displeasure it came as a relief to me. Disturbing right, enjoying the sounds of people dying. She came back cleaning off her daggers and smiling.
"Ah, I needed that." She said, "You guys ready?" The other three nodded. And with that we departed, silently agreeing to meet back here. I walked around in the woods, knowing exactly where I was heading too. I arrived at the camp, nurses and soldiers walking around, busying themselves with cooking for, what I guessed, was a celebrating camp fire. My MAKO enhanced eyes picked up on Kairi, Seifer, and Sir Auron immediately.
"So they are around here?" Seifer questioned.
"Yes. And if we attacked them all together, they wouldn't be hard to defeat." She replied.
"What did I tell you Seifer? I told you she was good." He said trying to sound casual, but no one could mistake the pride in his voice.
"And the blonde one, Strife, has got a thing for the ninja." She said eagerly.
"Is that right?" Sir Auron asked amused, she nodded.
"Oh this is good," Seifer said, "Strife is going soft." I could feel my blood boil, who were they talking about, me? If they think I'm going soft, they got another thing coming.
"Very well done." Sir Auron said.
"Thank you, Commander." She said, beaming.
"Don't mention it."
I could feel the right side of my body ache, I had to restrain myself from jumping up and killing all of them. I suddenly heard a loud bang, most likely gun powder.
"What was that?" Seifer exclaimed.
"I don't know, but let's find out." Sir Auron said, then they all hurried off in the direction of the bang.
"Let's get going." I heard Tifa whispered in my ear. I nodded and hurried off.
When we met up with everyone else again, they looked very excited.
"So how'd it go?" I asked.
Olivia grinned from ear to ear and gave me a thumbs up, " Mission complete!" She exclaimed winking.
"Good, now let's go." I replied, running off, the other's just behind me.
'Another day Sir Auron, another day.'
Oh my gosh! I'm sorry it took awhile for me to update this! It was longer than I expected, and probably sucked too. But I think this is my longest chapter yet, so congratulate me, not really but I'm proud of myself. So go ahead, click the little button that says 'review' please!
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