Chapter 7

Jumping off the roof, I throw my four-point shuriken at the gabby foul-mouthed git. He blocks with his spear and then my shuriken breaks it. And then, he runs in the house! What a coward! But I'm not letting him go. I run in the house after him and see him pulling one of his ornamental spears off the wall. I should have known they were not just for display.

"Now you're going to get it brat!"

"I'm not going to be the one that's going to get it, you old sexist git!" And with that said I attack again. I run up to him and start to slash at him with my shuriken. The old git blocks them with ease so I pick up the pace. I slash faster, harder and start pushing him back towards the open front door. I get him to the archway of the door then kick him in the face sending him through the open door. He quickly stabs his spear in the ground and flips on his feet before he touches the ground.

"You're quite skilled, I'll give you that, little girl. But you'll have to do better than that to beat me." He says in a smug voice while wiping the blood from his bleeding lip.

I just smirk. "You haven't seen anything yet Shinra scum!"

"Neither have you little girl. Now that I have space I can finally spin my spear. Do you think you can keep up with an old man?" The old git is says mockingly.

He starts to run at me with his spear behind him. I wait until he gets close and jump out the way throwing my shuriken. He spins his spear and deflects my shuriken back at me. I easily catch it and change my attack pattern. I fish some materia out of my pocket. Lucky day! It was my Ice materia. I back flip away from his attack, which nearly had my head, and start chanting. I point the materia at him and released the magic. The old git is frozen instantly. "Yes! Take that! No one can beat The Great Ninja Yuffie!"

I should have kept my mouth shut. The ice turns red and explodes leaving an unscathed but chilled Shinra pilot. "Why wont you just die!"

"I wont fall to a child playing Ninja." He says. He's mocking me again! He charges quicker then before and catches me by surprise. Just as he is about to thrust his spear into my gut, Aeris blocks his attack with her battle rod and Tifa punches him in the face sending him through one of his neighbor's windows.

"Are you all right Yuffie?" Aeris asks in her motherly voice. I don't get a chance to answer as Tifa pounces on me pinning me to the ground.

"What the hell did you steal this time!" She shouts right in my face. "I didn't steal anything!" I shout back.

"Then why was that man trying to kill you?" Aeris say pulling Tifa off of me. "It was because he works for Shinra! He was one of the pilots that bombed Wutai!"

"Girl I've never been anywhere near Wutai. During the war I was positioned in Midgar as Captain of the MAD (A.N. Midgar Aerial Defense) division. (A.N. Yes I made that up but it give us more background information on him that the game doesn't) And another thing I haven't worked for Shinra for five years! With that said he goes back into his own house and slams the door.

"Now that all your fun and games are over, Tifa and I are looking for a man called Cid. He might have a plane we can use. Do want to help us look for him?" I start a laugh nervously and they both give me a queer look.

"The man I put through that window would not happen to be him would it?" Tifa asks me sternly." I nod my head and Tifa lets out an exasperated cry and reaches out for me. I duck and flee towards the Rocket that this town is so aptly named after.

Why oh why did I do this? The simple answer is that my agenda from the start was to steal their materia. But now I feel so bad. I don't feel bad that I betrayed Tifa, Aeris, Red, Vincent and Cid. I feel bad that I broke Cloud's trust, he must hate me right now and it pains me more then these dammed ropes. I am currently tied up on one the many godly faces that my people worship. Standing at a distance in front of me is a small fat man. Who the hell is this blond fat git? And why does he keep asking me multiple-choice questions! Why didn't I pay attention during rope escape lessons?

"Dio let her go now!" Cloud has come to save me! But why? I took all their materia. That's it, he just want the materia back. "Yuffie are you all right?" Cloud shouts to me.

"Why do you care? I took your materia if you have already forgotten!"

"We'll talk about later!" Cloud then looks at the small fat man and draws his sword. Cloud starts to say something but the wind and distance makes it intangible. Dio then raises his hand and a big flying monster swoops down on top of Cloud, Aeris and Barret. The monster is thrown into the air as it is hit by Barret's Big Shot. Aeris then does her Earth's Breath move. Cloud jumps into the air and kicks off of the monsters face. His sword starts to glow and lose rocks from the mountain start to fly around him. The rocks start to glow a molten hot color and then Cloud points his sword at the flying creature.

The rocks bombard the monster, and I can hear the creature's cries of pain as the rocks smash its bones and rip through its wings. The monster lets loose a death cry and fall down the mountain out of sight. That was the first time I have seen Cloud let loose such a powerful attack. It makes me wonder how much he held back during our few sparring lessons. As I look back toward the group, I spot that fat git hanging from the cliff. Barret has his foot positioned above his hands. With a loud laugh he steps down on his hands and shouts, "That's for the people of Sector seven slums!"

"What are you waiting for? Get me down!" I shout, wanting to get down as soon as possible.

"Why did you do it Yuffie?" I look away from him not wanting to make eye contact.

"I did it to make Wutai strong so we could fight for our freedom." I say quietly, still not making eye contact.

"Yuffie, you do realize that we will have to defeat Shinra sooner or later and that would have meant Wutai's freedom from Shinra." Cloud explains to me calmly.

I nod but don't speak. I want to cry but don't want to in front of Cloud. I start to shake and sniff, I'm fighting a losing battle. Cloud pulls me into a tight embrace and I let loose and cry into his chest.

I don't know when I stopped crying or fell asleep but when I woke up we were camping near the dunes of the Gold Saucer. I have to make it up to Cloud. I have to show him that I deserve to be his friend. Perhaps if I take him on a date at the Gold Saucer, I can show him I deserve to be his friend.

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