Unholy Union
By: Spellspinner Vincent Valentine
Rating: M
Paring: Vincent Valentine/ Yuffie Kisaragi
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Vincent and Yuffie belong to Squaresoft, now known as SquareEnix, (They should have stuck with Squaresoft…it had a nicer ring…) and to its individual character designers and whatnot. Trust me…if I were rich as hell…I'd buy Vincent and Yuffie. But since I'm poor…I'm just going to take the characters for a serious joyride. Other Final Fantasy VII characters, Advent Children Characters, and Dirge of Cerberus characters will be mentioned in this fic.
FYI: I abuse flashbacks…Flashbacks will be indicated such as –Half a year ago- I also hop locations occasionally. When I change locations or use flashbacks I break them off with -:-:-:-:--:-:-:-:- Dreams are going to be a big part of this as they are most of the flashbacks. The –Half a year ago- will be in bold in those instances to separate them from normal flashbacks. Hopefully that will not be too confusing.
Warnings: 1: This story is a lemon…it will eventually be posted on adultfanfiction until then it remains edited because I have no desire to get in trouble here. 2: Minor Cloud/Tifa 3: No flames on my pairing. I have a great counter flamer and she will not play nice. 4: Minor spoilers nothing too serious and of course some artistic liberties were taken.
AN: This story occurs after the events of Dirge of Cerberus. Yuffie's father, Godo Kisaragi, has arranged for her to be married to a young man in the village. Invitations have been sent out and Vincent is stunned. Portions are flashbacks as this story is a sequel to Dark Desire. You MIGHT have to request it from me via email. Some edited flashbacks remain. You do not actually have to read Dark Desire to understand what exactly happened between Vincent and Yuffie.
The mere fact that you are reading this is due to the efforts of Faraway Dawn. She is the reason this fic exists really. She wanted me to write it and she pesters me to work on it. Same thing with Silent Angel too…her art inspired that entire story. So incase no one else thanks her for pestering me, Faraway Dawn, much thanks…I'm glad I'm actually writing these. Also special thanks to Kisho, for giving me a name for Cid's new airship.
This story will likely update slowly. Silent Angel takes precedence for me and I kinda have writers block with this fic.
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Chapter 2
Arrival
It only took half the day for word to reach everyone that Yuffie was engaged. Soon Vincent found his phone ringing every few minutes, usually because someone was shocked or angry and figured he was the best to rant at. Tifa had called in a total outrage that Yuffie would dare get engaged without at least telling her first. Cloud called too, a waste of minutes, according to Vincent, seeing as Cloud was so shocked he could barely string two words together. Cid threw a tantrum about the "brat being too fuckin' young to be gettin' fuckin' married!" and Barret said something along the same lines. Reeve sounded frustrated only because it meant Yuffie's WRO work would be put on hold for a while. Shelke called also. She was not worried at all about the wedding, but she was not thrilled either.
"I'm not going to pretend I'm upset about it all…because to be honest I don't really like Yuffie…she treats me like a child. In reality I'm only a few months younger than her too." Shelke sighed and wiped down glasses for Tifa. "…But she's not going to be very happy…"
"What makes you say that?" Vincent said glancing out one of his windows. If she was unhappy about it…she would have told someone…anyone by now.
"Well…you two did sleep together didn't you?" Shelke asked in a completely composed way.
Vincent almost dropped his phone. From what he was aware, no one, absolutely no one knew about what he and Yuffie had done.
The silence made Shelke smirk slightly on her end. She had only been making a guess based on how Vincent and Yuffie had behaved around each other since she had met them both. Vincent however was not denying it and his breathing had changed suddenly, it was the reaction of a man shocked. "…So you did sleep with her…"
"W-wha…" Vincent narrowed his eyes slightly. He could not figure how Shelke had known. "H-How did you…"
"It was just an educated guess…and apparently a very good one."
Vincent could hear the laughter in Shelke's voice. She was amused by the fact that she had figured out what was going on and more particularly why Vincent was so upset by everything. It might have provided mild amusement if it were someone else's life.
"Well anyway…like I said, she's not going to be happy Vincent. Yuffie doesn't strike me as the type to sleep with one person and then run off and marry another. The marriage was probably arranged, and she wouldn't have slept with you if she didn't feel something for you."
Vincent sighed. "It could simply have been lust."
"I doubt it…Oh! Vincent I have to go…Cid is picking everyone up in two days and I have not packed yet. I think Cid plans to pick you up after he collects us. It'll be about a day of travel before we actually all go to Wutai. So I'll see you in a few days."
Vincent waited until Shelke hung up before slowly shutting his phone. It could have simply been lust… Vincent shook his head slightly. What he felt that night had not been mere lust. It had been a raging desire that no amount of his renowned willpower could suppress. The next morning what he felt was not the regret one feels when lust drives their actions. Rather, what he felt was warmth, contentment, and love. Love…
The emotion he had almost forgotten about. Love…
Knowing Yuffie was lost to him, fated to belong to another, destined to be another man's light was breaking him, even if he didn't admit it or show it. He still loved her, still wanted her, still needed her, and fate was having a good laugh because he could not have her. Never again will she be mine…Yuffie…
For two days Vincent did not seem to move. He sat on his bed merely staring off into space. During the first day he sat out of the sun's light and only glanced outside when it began to rain. That tended to be the only time he left his room. He would exit from a window and climb to the roof of the home he had in Kalm. There he would sit in the rain, just feeling the rain, taking in its scent, hearing its quiet song on the roofs and streets. It was something Yuffie did once. She sat out in the rain for hours and he tried to get her to go inside before she caught a cold.
She threw her head back, and her wet bangs stuck to her face. She was smiling brightly and saying that he needed to just sit in the rain sometime, to just feel it and let it surround him. She said he would feel alive and free.
Eventually he had given in and sat with her. They watched lightning strike in the distance, they listened to thunder crash louder than the waves on the shorelines, and somewhere in all the chaos Mother Nature was displaying, there was a moment in which they just connected. At least that was when he remembered feeling like she was something…special.
That day was only a few weeks after Meteorfall. It was right before he felt something was not right and left. Two years after Meteorfall the connection was still there. They had all changed but she was still Yuffie. It was something he loved about her. She seemed to stand unchanging against the flow of time. Somewhat like himself. No matter what happened she was still Yuffie.
He often wondered if that connection that day in the rain had been what made him notice how she stood against time in a way similar to his own.
Vincent looked up at the dark gray sky. It was the color of her eyes, her beautiful eyes. Yuffie Kisaragi was like the rain… almost. Her eyes the color of the clouds it fell from, her smile the fleeting glimmer held in every drop of rain, and her true strength hidden within an innocent appearance. He used to think the rain was sad. That it was the dour weather that could make one feel as though hope had faded. Yuffie had told him that without the rain there would be nothing to smile about when the sun broke through. Always so optimistic…
Was she happy about this wedding to be? Did she even know about it? Even if she didn't she could not get out of it. Wutai's laws were simple and finite. Break one of them and you were banished never to return and the greatest of shame would befall your family. Even if it was not what she wanted, she would be trapped like a small bird in a grand cage. He sighed in frustration. And this is how it has to be…
The rain fell for the rest of the night and Vincent finally returned to his room. The events of the day, which had been so much more exhausting than they should have been, caused him to fall asleep swiftly.
There she was again in his dreams, laughing and smiling; waking up beside him with a cheerful grin on her face lit by the orange and red rays of the early morning sun.
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-Half a year ago-
Yuffie looked at him with a cheerful grin. "You look cute in the morning you know." She whispered between yawns.
"Do I?" he answered back softly. Vincent looked down at her as she snuggled closer to his body.
"Yeah…and when you are asleep you look so innocent. Like an angel or something." She smirked and whispered, "Nothing at all like the vampire you dress like."
Even without looking she knew there was a slight smirk on his face. The soft chuckle that followed made her smile. "I suppose I do tend to dress a bit…dark."
"It's ok though," Yuffie said quietly laying her head on his chest. "You pull off that look really well. You're probably the only guy who looks ridiculously hot when he's trying to look creepy."
Another soft chuckle seemed to escape Vincent's lips. Yuffie could be so blunt sometimes. Just one more thing he liked about her. She had a nasty habit of telling a person exactly what was on her mind, and she had no mercy for the person her ideas were being dished out to. Once she yelled at him and told him to 'grow the hell up' stating that he was too attached to the past, just like a child. She left him speechless that day, and Cid did not let him forget about it. He was grateful she had said it though. Life just seemed better since he had taken her advice.
"Hey…Vincent?" she whispered quietly while tracing her finger lightly across his chest.
He looked at her. "Hm?"
"…You…won't regret any of this….will you?" She sounded afraid. As though she was uncertain of what his feelings were.
"No...never." He whispered back, and when Yuffie lifted her head to look at him she smiled.
He had meant it. The look in his eyes said it all. Everything that had happened he would treasure. "Good..."
"You will not…will you?" he asked. He would understand if at some point she regretted giving herself to him. She had been a virgin and now…
"Never. All I ever wanted since we met was to be yours."
He had never heard a woman speak so sincerely. No one had spoken to him so honestly and he had never felt more truth in anyone's words.
"Why me though?"
She smiled cheerfully and brushed his bangs out of his eyes. "Because I am exactly what you needed…and you are exactly what I needed."
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The second day was much the same; he packed only a few things since they would be staying in Wutai for a while. During the morning he waited on his bed silently for the rain. When it rained, he sat out on the roof. What am I going to do when I see her? He thought staring at the water dripping from his wet hair. Am I going to be able to let this happen? Will I just…let her go? "I have to…" He told the falling rain. But I want her still… "…but that does not matter…" I need her still… There was nothing he could say against that. "I'm just a fool…" he muttered lifting his hand and tilting it to the side. He watched the water fall slowly onto the roof. He knew he would never be free of her. She was a dark desire that should have remained a mere desire. Had she stayed just a desire…I would not need her so now.
Vincent stood slowly remaining perfectly balanced even as the wind whipped his hair and cloak past him. "I was weak…to let you break me so easily…Yuffie Kisaragi."
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Yuffie Kisaragi narrowed her eyes at her father. It was one thing to arrange a marriage without her consent, but to send invitations to all her friends behind her back, now that was unforgivable. …What is Vincent going to think?
"OF ALL THE BONEHEADED THINGS YOU'VE EVER DONE YOU OLD FART!!!!"
"Yuffie…refine your language at once." Godo glared at his daughter. She had too much of her mother's stubbornness. Her mother had been a wonderful woman though. Yuffie had all his worst attributes too. To think Leviathan would be cruel enough to make her stubborn, ignorant, and arrogant…why could she not have just been arrogant? I could have dealt with her arrogance but honestly this is enough to drive any father insane. "You are older than the average married woman in Wutai! It is time you married and took control of Wutai."
"I don't want to get married!!"
"I do not care." Godo said sharply setting down a map of Wutai. There were plans written on it, plans to expand the town a bit further to include a new school and training areas. "You are a grown woman and you will behave like one! You know the laws Yuffie. You were to be married at sixteen. You ran away and joined that group Avalanche and have been away too long to be married. Tell me did you honestly think I had forgotten?"
"I kinda hoped so…" Yuffie muttered. She knew her father was far too stubborn to forget such an important thing. She was still thinking about what everyone would say when they realized she was getting married. Tifa would be supportive as always, Cloud would probably get a bit defensive. He was like a big brother to her at times. Then there was Barret and Cid. The two of them would probably be too choked up. The two of them were like a pair of teddy bears once you got past their foul mouths. Reeve probably wouldn't mind as much as long as she would still be able to conduct her business for the WRO. Shelke was probably going to be thrilled. The two of them had never gotten along on account of Vincent and Lucrecia. Nanaki was likely to be proud of her and then of course, there was Vincent.
They hadn't spoken since the day half a year prior and she missed him dearly. What would he think of all this, the man she had willingly given herself to? What would it do to him? All that she had fought for, every smile, every laugh, every meaningful glance, was she destined to lose it now? Would Vincent let it be that way? Of course he will! He wouldn't fight to keep me…he would rather let me go…no conflict and no bloodshed in that. Vincent, don't you remember what happened the last time…you just stood back and watched?
How many years of hard work had it taken for her to get him to confess everything to her? Vincent had told Shelke because Shelke experienced some of it through Lucrecia's neurodata. About three hard years of prodding for information, then a half year of annoying phone calls, then that night, in the morning he told her everything, and even convinced her to stay a bit longer than she had planned.
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-Half a year ago-
The sun had risen and it was mid morning when Yuffie finally got out of bed. "I swear…I'm gonna kill Reeve. Leave it to him to have a stupid mission ready for me the morning after the best damn night of my life."
Vincent watched her slowly gather her clothes from the corner of the room. "How urgent were your orders?"
"Level 2. Nothing serious really he's just nosey." She looked over her shoulder at him. "Why?"
"I received orders from him a few days ago myself. Level 5 priority."
Yuffie blinked and went over to the bed. She threw her clothes down and crawled onto the bed before climbing on top of Vincent. He watched as she crossed her arms over her chest and gave him a look of unmistakable fury. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE IF YOU HAVE A LEVEL 5 PRIORITY MISSION!?!!?! VINCENT, THAT'S LIKE NATIONAL SECURITY ON A WAY BIGGER LEVEL!"
"I am aware."
"Why the hell are you so calm about it!?"
"I found something more important that required my immediate attention."
"And just what the hell is more important than Level 5 priority orders?!"
He shrugged and looked at her. "You."
She blushed. Vincent said she was more important than the world basically. Vincent was always irritated by people who did not follow orders. Orders brought calm to the chaos and that was why he liked them. If everyone followed orders things went smoothly. Vincent however, had disregarded top priority orders, to spend a night with her.
"Well…if Vincent Valentine can ignore orders," She said kicking her clothes off the bed and pulling the covers away from his body. "I think Yuffie Kisaragi can afford to do the same…Reeve will just have to wait…."
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"…And that is why you are marrying Hayate Tachiyura…Yuffie are you listening to me at all!?"
"I'm listening and I'm not marrying that poor excuse for a boy!" Yuffie shuddered involuntarily. "I mean you can't even call him a man! He's such a big baby I punched him once, no power in it mind you, and he cried! He was fourteen when I did that dad!"
"He has grown up a great deal since then. We will speak no more of this. You will be marrying him. Leave Wutai before the wedding and you may not return…ever. Do not marry and I will have little choice but to banish you from Wutai. Do you understand me Yuffie?"
Yuffie crossed her arms and grumbled. "Yeah pops I understand."
When she was finally allowed to leave she went straight for Da Chao. Even though it was raining that was where she always went when she was frustrated. From the top of the statue she could see the sea beyond the forests around Wutai. From there alone could she clearly see the horizon and easily wish for what lay beyond the treacherous waters. There was a huge storm out on the vast expanse of the sea. It would get worse in a few hours but until then Wutai was receiving only a moderate downpour. Typical autumn weather for the area, and yet the storm seemed to be a personification of the conflict raging inside her.
On the other side of the water to the south a bit was Vincent. On the other side of those waters was the one person she could not bear to face now. He knew by now, about her engagement, and what would he think of it? …Vincent isn't weak…but this would…crush him. After everything I told him, everything we've been through together, after that night…it would be the ultimate betrayal. The very things she swore she would never do she was on the verge of doing. She had told Shelke she would never hurt Vincent by choosing another over him. Her father had seen to it that she would not have a choice in the matter. First promise broken already… She had also told Vincent that she would never be with another. I told him before I left that I would wait for him forever if I had to. I swore I would be only his. I swore I not do what Lucrecia did. I would not let myself belong to another. Tears clouded her vision. I'm…sorry Vincent…
She had only a few days to prepare for the arrival of her closest companions. Wutai would be prepared for a celebration, she would have to dress formally, she would have to act the part of a happy engaged woman. I'm gonna have to lie through my teeth. Right to his face too…
Yuffie was bothered by the fact that she would have to lie to Vincent. If he asked if this was what she wanted, she would have to say yes. She would have to smile and pretend that everything that had passed between them had never happened. If he asked if she loved him, she would have to lie and say 'of course not…I'm engaged to Hayate. I wouldn't be marrying him if I didn't love him.' or something along those lines. All Vincent would need to do was look into her eyes and he would know she was lying, that was of course, if he would even look at her after something like this. She was spoken for now, and he was a gentleman, he would step back quietly as a gentleman should. I wish he would quit being such a goddamn gentleman for a change and get pissed! Beat the crap out of Hayate…after I have a go at him of course! Then do something stupidly romantic, like sweep me off my feet and carry me far away from Wutai! Yuffie groaned at the mental image. I'm turning into such a girl. A few hours into the evening the storm grew worse and Yuffie conceded that she would be safer in her house than atop Da Chao.
Finally home, Yuffie discarded her wet clothes and pulled only a blanket around her. She sat and rummaged through a small box she kept on a shelf. Pictures of her escapades with her friends, the day they found the coffin containing Vincent, they day Vincent and Aerith got sunburn on the Tiny Bronco, the night they stayed at the Gold Saucer (She had dragged Vincent and Cid out to have fun.) and pictures of them in the arcade, pictures in Costa del Sol, all sorts of pictures. The Gold Saucer pictures took the cake as her favorites. Vincent beat Cid effortlessly at any game Cid challenged him to. Yuffie had stood to the side laughing hysterically and taking pictures. Then there were the pictures of the moogle that snuck up on Vincent. Vincent had been only mildly startled by the moogle and looked more irritated by it than anything.
She smiled at the picture. Vincent really did look evil when he was irritated. He was probably only a half second from drawing his gun when Cid said something about seeing Cloud sneaking around with someone. Vincent hadn't been interested but she and Cid certainly were. So all around Gold Saucer they snuck trying to figure out who Cloud was out so late with.
After a while she and Cid gave up the chase. Cid went up to his room and Vincent only remained because he said she should not be wandering around alone. He seemed to be eyeing every man who so much as glanced at her in a lecherous way with a look of utmost loathing. Yuffie figured, at the time, that he was just being a bit protective, now she had to wonder if he wasn't even in the slightest way attracted to her then. Even more so she had to wonder if he would become his reclusive self again after she was married.
I worked so hard to get him to come out of that dark little world of his…she thought lying down with one of the few pictures she had of him smiling. I wonder if he'll shrink back into it…I wonder if he will regret anything that happened between us…
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The next morning in Kalm brought only chaos to Vincent's usually calm mind. He could not stop dreaming about her and he would be seeing her soon. He gathered his few things and left his home to wait for Cid. Shelke had left a message stating that Cid would be gathering them all in his new airship Serfia. Vincent sighed. Cid never said where he found this ship. He only knew that Cid had a new ship not long after the Shera crashed in Midgar. He knew Cid was also in the process of rebuilding the Shera (hard work since the ship was the product of ancient technology) and would be renaming it the Shera II.
He waited outside of Kalm as he was instructed and looked in the direction of Edge when a faint mechanical sound blew in with the wind. It would be about a day's time before they all were gathered and arrived in Wutai. It was nearly sunset when they reached the coast. Vincent had been staring blankly out the windows for some time, instead of staying in his usual corner. The coast first, then the forest, and just beyond that was Wutai, bathed in the evening sun like a small flower in a large garden. Cid made sure to land in a large clearing near Wutai.
"Right then, everybody off my damn ship!" He yelled over his shoulder after yelling at a few of his crew to get his bed ready, because he damn well as not sleeping at an inn in Wutai when he could sleep on his baby. He glanced at Vincent who either had not heard him, or was too deep in thought to have given a damn either way. "Hey Vince, you alright?" Cid said walking over to Vincent, who was now staring out at the forest path just ahead of the Serfia.
"…I'm fine Cid." He answered softly. Vincent knew Cid was no fool though; he would be able to tell that Vincent was anything but fine.
"Certainly don't sound it." Cid said helping one of the technicians lock the ship's anchors. "Ya know…for someone who was the closest to Yuffie, you certainly don't seem to happy about her getting' married."
"I suppose I just feel she is too young…"
"Right…too young to get married, not at all too young to sleep with someone more than forty years older than her…."
Vincent tensed suddenly. Cid knew. He turned his gaze to Cid. "…How-"
"Shelke spilled to me. She said you'd either be getting dead drunk in Wutai or be off brooding in some dark place. I asked why and she told me."
"Great." Vincent muttered leaning against the large window.
"If it makes ya feel any better," Cid began lighting a cigarette, "I ain't told anyone else. Figured if the two of you wanted everyone to know you'd have told us by now." Cid glanced out at the path. "So why the brat? I mean she's barely half your age."
"If I knew why I would be a wiser man. I can not explain it Cid."
"Ya love her?" Cid muttered. "I mean you damn well better, no man with any decency sleeps with a woman he doesn't love."
I do love her…Vincent nodded. "I never thought myself so weak before Cid. Giving into a desire like that…I have ruined her and now she is to be married."
"You sound jealous."
Vincent sighed. "Maybe I am."
"Well, let's get goin' Vince. Yuffie probably misses ya."
She doesn't...she and I have not spoken in half a year. If she missed me we would have been in touch by now. If she missed me she would not be engaged to this…Hayate.
Cid and Vincent followed the others into Wutai where Godo was waiting to greet them. Slightly behind him and to his left was Yuffie. Her hair was swept back and pinned elegantly in place, she was wearing a slight amount of makeup, and her usual attire was discarded. Vincent noted that she was wearing the traditional attire of an unmarried, but promised, woman it was elegant and modest with pale pastel shades of peach, pink, and purple. She looked stunning.
She was smiling too; her father began speaking with Barret and Cid who appeared to be the oldest of the group. The others were talking with Yuffie and all Vincent could do was stare. He heard Tifa say how beautiful Yuffie looked. Yuffie just laughed and said she did not look that great. Then Cloud asked if she was excited about getting married. Yuffie smiled and said she was. Nanaki asked if she loved Hayate or if it was an arranged marriage. Yuffie's answer was crushing. "Of course I love him. I wouldn't be marrying him if I didn't." Then Reeve and Shelke began asking Yuffie other questions. If she was looking forward to maybe having a family, and if she would continue working for the WRO when she had the time. "Of course!" was her cheerful answer each time.
Vincent didn't breathe again until Cloud called him over.
"Don't you have anything to say to her Vincent?" Cloud said quietly.
Vincent slowly looked at Yuffie. She looked so happy and he felt so crushed by it. He mentally reprimanded himself. This would be good for Yuffie; he had no right to hold her back from happiness.
Only Yuffie heard the agony in his voice when he managed to say softly, "…Congratulations…"