Title: Little Pink Band-Aid
Rating: PG/K+
Pairing: AerithxYuffie
Summary: It's hard to find a band-aid that fits heart scratches.
Notes: Giftfic for vollykins on LJ(volian).


Yuffie remembers when Aerith used to care for her, back before their lives went spiraling upside down and inside out and when they had still been happy and safe at home. She remembers when she used to be just a little girl, running through the bastion without a single care in the world, and when she used to trip and scrap her knee on the tiled, library floor. She smiles, because she remembers how she would cry afterward, how she would run to Aerith because no one else could make it feel better quite like she could and no one else had the little pink band-aid that looked quite like Aerith's did.

"Where does it hurt most?"

Little lips pull down into a frown, and she presses a single finger to her reddened knee, eyes watering up at the stinging burn. "Right here!"

"Then I'll just have to kiss it and make it better."

"Where does it hurt most?"

Now it's her turn to make it all better, to kiss away the pain and bandage up that little scrap on Aerith's heart that she hides from everyone's view with an oh so beautiful – yet so very false – rose-colored smile. Aerith takes her hands and presses her fingers to the lace on her dress, directly over her chest, with that grin still on her lips even when her emerald eyes darken slightly in the sadness that is buried there.

"Right here."

She frowns.

She doesn't know how to fix that, she says, she doesn't have the right sized, pink band-aid for heart scratches and she doesn't know what to kiss to make it all better, but she can try. And she's leaning forward and kissing away the false, gorgeous smile, to at least mend that little scratch the best that she can, and she's doing it without really realizing what she's doing, because all she knows is that a kiss will make it better.