Disclaimer: I don't own final fantasy or square enix! I love them to death and everything that they've done is awesome… well except for a few things :cough,tutus,yuna,Kingdomheartsoneandtwocough:

A/n: here's chapter two! Hope everyone likies the Seph yuff! (I'll never call Sephiroth 'Sephy' for note. It's humiliating and horrible. …I call him Veddy. A lot to do with the theme song. Realized that vennie or what ever they say sounds like Veddy then they say ros. Veddyros? Sephiroth in Latin? Hmmm… maybe.. probably not.)

Oh, by the way, I'm not going to edit this one very well; it's one of those chapters that I have to get up in a short amount of time so please bear with me:( sorry!

Ghosts!

Chapter two: The curse of the little black cat.

Yuffie was smiling as she lain happily on her bed. Cloud had agreeded with her, anything that she wanted in that box was rightfully hers. He asked to inspect it, and she agreed, as long as everything was returned in perfect condition. Cloud had allowed her to keep her little bits of feathers and her 'phantom' materia as the now dubbed the black dotted materia. Cloud had also gladly thanked her for the groceries and taking the little ones to eat and play for the day. He, Tifa, and Barret how ever weren't pleased about her buying the children weapons, that was until Marlene commented that "Big sister had the same staff!" and the adults soon silenced themselves.

Yuffie looked out the window of the dark ship and sighed happily, her and the children had had such a well time. She had been uplifted buy them and felt a little cheerier then usual. Well, now that the day was all over there really was nothing to do… just to rest. And rest she would.

Marlene walked to the Bay of the ship with staff and holy materia in hand. Slowly but sweetly, she approached Vincent and tapped him awake with the staff. "Uncle Vincent?"

Vincent's eyes fluttered open and he sat up in his chair next to Cid's normal piloting spot. "wh…hm?" Vincent blushed at the thought of a child seeing him at his weakest. "Yes little one?"

Marlene smiled, "I look like big sister don't I?" Vincent smiled softly and nodded, Marlene had began to resemble Aries and it was evident, her style, and clothing and hair, some of her eyes too. It all must have been traits from her real parents.

"You're frail like a flower aren't you?" Vincent spoke.

Marlene stood dumbfounded and wide-eyed. In confusion she smiled and skipped away opening the door in the main hall.

Then there was a loud battle cry and a scream from the young girl. Vincent quickly arose to find Cid and Red XIII rushing to see what the matter was also. Barret soon followed, and so did Tifa, Cloud, soon Reeve, and finally Yuffie. Marlene quickly whipped Denzel in the head with the staff and proceeded to hit him full force with blows to the chest and face, "Don't hit me!"

Denzel blocked with his arms and soon with his sword till retaliation had been met.

Tifa shouted from the upper level of the ship, "Denzel! Cut it out!"

Denzel swung hard with the sword and nearly hit Marlene while crying in some slur of Japanese that he deemed 'cool'. Another swing and he was closer, again and again till Marlene dropped her staff. By this time Cid had grabbed Denzel by the back of the collar and Red XIII had taken the sword from the boys hands.

"Now why the hell would you do that!" Cid shouted to the boy.

"We were just playing!"

Marlene grabber her staff up and defended herself.

"Well, she's still just a little girl, you can't go swinging some toy sword in her face!"

Yuffie shouted, "Hey! What's wrong with 'little girls' old man?"

Cid glared at Yuffie and as the shamed Denzel down. "Now listen here! This is adult matters brat! So you'd best well stay out of this! And as I recall, another 'little girl' bought these things for them!"

Yuffie huffed, "Well I didn't think that they would really use them! I figured that they would only if they had to defend!"

Cid threw an angry fist in the air, "Oh, come on! You expect a little boy not to wield a fake sword around like a hero? I mean come on! His dad's a freaking mercenary! And You know Marlene well enough that you know she couldn't resist an adventure that Aries would have done!"

Yuffie bit her lip and her head sank nervously, 'I'm dead. I'm dead…'

Cid smiled up at her, "See you're to frightened to talk! Like I'm always telling you yah little…" Cid paused and thought of another word then the one he was about to use, "…jerk… It's men's talk!"

Yuffie huffed at him, "You're discriminating again! And that's not why!"

"Then why ya hellion!"

Yuffie pointed to Denzel's sword, "That thing's REAL you FREAK!" Yuffie covered her mouth realizing what she had just said. "oooo…I'm in trouble."

Everyone looked at her sharply, well everyone but Reeve and Red XIII.

Cloud spoke loudly, "You gave him a sword with a sharpened blade!"

Tifa covered her face, "They could have been killed!"

Barret pointed a finger at Yuffie, "The hell! Marlene could'a ended up fixed with an arm like me!"

Yuffie threw open the housing door and slammed it quickly behind her. "Dear God! Someone's gonna kill me!"

She ran up the flights of stairs hearing Cloud shouting at her in profane Japanese, "Yuffie! Come here! We haven't thought up a punishment yet!"

Yuffie ran to her room and locked the door leaving the lights off. She could easily find her materia and hid with it and her conformer. She paused only for a second grabbing the feathers from the box and lifted up her mattress. Cloud would be up shortly and she had to hide till he cooled off. Lifting the edge of the fabric on the box spring revealed a board that had been cut out before. Yuffie threw the materia in with her conformer, a pillow, a blanket, and some snacks that had been sitting out. She pulled part of the board over the hole after climbing in and pulled the fabric and the mattress over the box spring as she heard cloud walk up the steps followed by Barret and what sounded like Cid and Tifa. She pushed the rest of the board to shut the hole and grew quiet. If cloud were to lift the mattress, he wouldn't be able to see the board because of the fabric. It was a good roomy hiding place, well, for her maybe, but it was enough.

The door was flug open and Cloud spoke, "Yuffie, come out. This isn't funny."

Yes it is.' she thought.

Tifa spoke, "Hon, you have to stop hiding everytime that you get into trouble."

'no. I'm a ninja so I can.'

Barret stomped only to be met by the steal floor of the ship, "She ain't gonna be under the floor. Where haven't we checked?"

Yuffie froze; she had used that hiding spot a lot. She moved a small door that was on the other end of the bed, it would be cramped, but she had to she moved her materia weapons and food into the space, leaving the pillow and blanket. She closed the tiny door and curled up. The tiny door wasn't noticeable unless you were in the compartment because the hole that she came in was only two feet wide and long, a perfect square just for her. And the area that she was hiding in was only two feet long and was as wide as the headboard, leaving her in an emergency cramped space.

Just as she feared she heard the mattress slid off the bed and cloud frowned, "there is nowhere for her to hide… this has to be it." He pulled the fabric off to reveal the hole that the door had been cut out of. Cloud pulled it open to only find a pillow and a blanket.

"No Yuffie." Tifa stated.

Cloud stuck his head down too look around, "There's nothing."

'That's right there isn't anything, spiky hared jerk. You're not going to find this compartment because the handle to open it isn't visible when it's closed!' Yuffie almost chuckled but stopped herself as she heard the door slam.

She opened her eyes and pulled the blanket off of herself. She had moved back to the big compartment and had fallen asleep after a while. It was hard avoiding Cloud for that long, but he might go Ominislash on her butt. She rolled over and pushed the board out of her way. Then she slid the mattress off the box spring and sat up. Stretching all the while she took out her belongings and put them on the ground and hopped in bed. She surely had missed dinner but that didn't matter. She needed to sleep, and that she would! Cloud would be better in the morning! She smiled at the thought, "Mornin' Cloud! How are you?" "mhhh..mufff…yeah…ever…."

"Great!" Yuffie curled into a little ball among the pillows on her bed and made a little bird's nest.

"Finally, real sleep." She muttered.

'crack'.

Yuffie sat up, conformer in hand. "I'm not giving Red a bath!" Yuffie looked around the room desperately trying to find where the noise had come from. "Show yourself! I fear no one!" Yuffie spoke dramatically. She clung to the pendent on her chest and whispered to it and the feathers that hung from the strings, "New materia, don't fail me now." Before Yuffie, two citrine cat eyes opened. She felt her body freeze, "Se-" She stopped, cowering away "He's dead, he's dead!"

"Correct." A voice spoke.

Yuffie's eyes opened to spot a very irritated Sephiroth. "Why- why are you alive!"

He laughed and popped his neck while flexing his fingers, "I'm not."

He thrusted his hand through Yuffie's nearby computer. Yuffie's heart sighed in relief, he couldn't hurt her. "So, you're just something my minds made up to make me not afraid of Cloud."

"No, more of a…. Haunting."

Yuffie laughed, "You're a ghost?"

He scowled, "worthless human."

"Hey, you can't hurt me."

"Actually, from what I was told before I took on this curse, I can make physical contact."

Yuffie froze, true, he didn't have his sword, but, he was Sephiroth, he could probably have killed weapon with his bare hands.

"You see, the life stream doesn't deem my soul 'rest worthy.'"

Yuffie frowned still in fear, "So, you cant rest in peace so to speak?"

"Exactly…. Where's Cloud?"

Yuffie crossed her arms, "I ain't gonna go near the man!"

Sephiroth looked upon her questioningly, "Excuse me?"

"He's mad at me."

Sephiroth smiled, "Then lead me to him and I will end your fears."

"And my life…"

Sephiroth was quiet, "You're not worth my time."

Yuffie huffed "Sure." The door opened and Yuffie shouted "No! look out!"

Seeing Cloud, the Silvered haired man jumped quickly lunging at Cloud then quickly falling right through him, "What?"

Yuffie pointed, "Look! Don't you see him!"

Cloud turned around, "excuse me?"

Sephiroth glared at Yuffie, "Great JENOVA tell me this child isn't the only one who can see me."

"If you like, Tifa saved you dinner."

Yuffie shook her head, "I'll just eat it for breakfast. We can talk about it in the morning."

Cloud nodded and closed the door as he left.

"…you can't touch anyone, can you?"

Sephiroth clenched his fist, "This is the most horrible fate to ever surpass me."

Yuffie smiled, "And I'm the only one that can see you."

Sephiroth looked back at her, "Alright." He spun to face her, "Since you are my only channel to get me to the life stream, I'll make a deal with you."

Yuffie looked at him happily, "You're funny."

Sephiroth rubbed his eyes, "Dear heavens." Yuffie just sat quietly while he spoke. "Alright child. I'm your ghost now maybe. …if, and only if, you do what I tell you, I wont make you miserable."

Yuffie lay down, "Good night."

Sephiroth sat on the bed, "Then fine." He began to sigh heavily as he learned irritated the soldiers in Shinra.

Yuffie soon sat up, "What do you want?"

"Simply listen."

Yuffie shook her head, "I'll listen in the morning. It doesn't look like you're going anywhere, and even if you do, I won't really care."

Sephiroth glared lightly at her and frowned, "Wake up child."

"I'm not a child! I'm eighteen and going on nineteen! You can't boss me around, I helped kill you!"

"Take me back to the life stream!"

"NO!"

"If you don't I swear on my mothers head-"

OH! THAT'S A GOOD ONE!"

"Shut up you insolent fool! Take me to the life stream so I can die!"

"NO YOU…. What?"

"I need you to take me to the life stream so I can finally let my soul rest in peace."

"…but I thought that planet Gaia wouldn't let you?"

"If, and the if is big, I can get someone to willingly help me, then my soul will be free."

"Oh… so no more chasing us?"

Sephiroth sat on the bed in thought, "hm… well, I never considered that…"

"Oh! You're a jerk!"

He laughed when the ninja began to swat at him, she was out of reach, but even so she never could have hit him. Yuffie lunged forward at the laughing man and fell off the bed landing on him with a thud. Sephiroth sat up quickly realizing what had just happened, "You!" He spoke loudly, "You and make contact with me!"

Yuffie slid off of him and rubbed her head, "What the hell… I didn't think that would work."

Sephiroth stood up looking down at the flustered little ninja. "Well, it appears that I can make physical contact with my… shaman… should I call you?"

Yuffie huffed, "Yeah right. I'm just a ninja."

His eyes shot open and a smirk spread across his face as his hands moved for her neck. 'I'll kill her and use her body for my own! It's not much, but it's better then being a ghost!' He leaned forward and fell. "Hey…" Yuffie laughed as his body went through the wall of the ship and floated back in again, him with a smug look on his face.

"What's going on!" He shouted.

Yuffie stood thinking of the reasoning, "Well… maybe it works like this." Yuffie lightly poked him and made contact with on of the steal shoulder blades, "If you don't mean to hurt me… contact!" The Yuffie balled her fist and swung. The motion moved through the ghost and sent her spinning to the floor. "ow… but, If there is a negative means… then no contact."

Sephiroth looked at the fallen ninja, anger flaring in his eyes, "Then I have no power."

Yuffie stood up once more and smiled, "Guess not pretty boy!"

He bit his lower lip and sat on her bed after she crawled under the covers. "This truly is the cruelest of fates."

Here eyes split open, "Something's wrong." Yuffie sat up quickly seeing her new ghost companion was out of sight.

'…crying… I HEAR MARLEEN!' Yuffie threw her covers off and rushed to Marlene and Denzel's door right across the hall.

'Why didn't anyone else wake up?' Yuffie opened the door to see the young girl clung to the ghost's solid form.

"Sephiroth! What's going on!" Yuffie raised a fist to protect the young girl till Sephiroth held up an open palm for Yuffie's sake.

Denzel was playing his game boy leaving Sephiroth to tend to the young child. Marlene looked up at Yuffie wide eyed, "I had a nightmare."

Yuffie looked at Sephiroth who seemed to have no reaction to the child. "So why are you in here?" Sephiroth looked down at the child, "She came in to find you, and found me awake instead. …I guess that something about my ribbon accessory…"

Yuffie gasped, the ribbons were avalanches team symbol. Most people wore the accessory out of sight, when Marlene stumbled upon Sephiroth's ghost, she must have seen his ribbon tied to his wrist and awoke him from his spiritual sleep.

Yuffie walked over and patted Marlene on the head, "It's alright Hon! We're here now! Nothing's going to hurt you!"

Denzel cursed and threw his game boy, "I can't beat this stupid level."

"Denzel don't throw things." Yuffie called to him, "It's not very nice."

Denzel focused on Sephiroth not caring much for the event, "So, when's Dad gonna knock this guy out?" "He can't." Sephiroth patted Marlene on the forehead and sat her on the bed. "I'm a ghost my child . There really is no defeating me."

"Wait!" Yuffie looked a Sephiroth, "The children! They can see you!"

Sephiroth paused and thought, "…I suppose you're right… then maybe, my spirit can only appeal to the kindness of children." He glanced to Yuffie, "I told you, you are but a child!"

Yuffie huffed, "Now just a minute! I've already told you that I'm no child!" Denzel scratched his head, "Are you considered an adult by your countries standards?"

Yuffie's eyes widened, "…no…I'm not…"

Sephiroth nodded, "Then it is that. Deeming that you're possibly very much a child in your heart too."

Marlene smiled reaching out and holding on to Sephiroth's hair.

"Then it's not age necessarily…."

Sephiroth looked at Yuffie, "Then what should we do? The children know of me…"

Yuffie smiled, "Hey guys, keep him a secret till we figure out what to do with him, and then he'll let you ride on his back while he flies!"

Denzel's eyes lit up, "Fine by me!"

Marlene smiled, "For you auntie!"

Yuffie nodded putting out the lights and letting the children to rest. "Whew." She closed the door and opened her own to her silent room shutting the door behind her leaving the ghost to phase through it on his own.

"Why were you nice to the children?" Yuffie asked in a low tone.

"…simple… the children follow their mothers. No others then they have understood me. To fill in also, my mistreatment as a child, and my needs to control children when reviving mother was priority."

Yuffie pulled her covers up around her, "So, why'd the planet bring you to me, a girl without a mother?" Sephiroth looked at Yuffie, his hardness returning, "It's not my jurisdiction, but I believe the planet may be giving me a chance to…. How's it said… walk in your shoes?"

Yuffie nodded, "sure…"

A/n: Sorry for the drooling wait. I've been really busy. All last weekend I had an anime convention, and I really couldn't do anything while I was gone. Sorry that the editing on this one is choppy, I haven't worked on this fic in about a month and I found the chapter rotting in my computer, so I had to put it up ASAP. X( I hate being late on my chapters. Sorry that the story is a little unrealistic. I'll fix it up as it goes along! Love's ME!