Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Final Fantasy VII characters.

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Summary: Vincent saves both Elena and Tseng from being tortured by Kadaj's gang. Elena, on first sight, starts to have feelings for Vincent, but what about Tseng?

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A/N: I decided to write a male/female story, since I've been writing a lot of yaoi lately. I hope you enjoy this story, and I also hope you review and tell me what you think. Anyway, here it is…

This update will be short due to writer's block, so Vinny-san won't be in this chapter or the next.

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Saving Me:

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Chapter Two: Affliction Part One:

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Elena groaned as she rolled over on the muddy ground beneath her. Her head ache but her stomach hurt worse. As soon as consciousness gripped her, she felt nothing but soreness in the middle of her belly.

What happened? Where was she?

She opened her brown eyes and met fuzziness in her vision. She rubbed her eyes, keeping one hand on her stomach to soothe the pain. She looked at her surroundings and all she saw was a collection of white trees.

They looked beautiful in the moonlight, giving them a bright glow. The tall grasses merely camouflaged with the night sky. She had never seen anything like this at all in her life.

But where was Tseng…?

She didn't see him anywhere and it was starting to worry her immediately. She sat up and continued to clutch her stomach. Unfortunately sitting up wasn't a good idea because the wound on her stomach opened and the blood trickled down her arm.

"Aw…you've opened the wound again".

Her spine froze up into a block of ice by the sound of that voice. It seemed that as soon as she heard that voice yesterday's events recollected in her mind. She began to shiver from both the cold in the air and the chill in her spine.

She looked over her shoulder to see a young man with long silver hair. He had aqua green eyes that held nothing but a clear indifference to her poor condition. His head was slightly titled to the side as he checked her out.

"I guess that's a good thing. I can use that to my advantage", the silver-haired youth continued, never showing a single emotion on his face.

"You're Yazoo, right?", she managed to say.

"That is correct", he said.

She wished he would've just said yes. His voice was a little bit too creepy for her comfort.

"Where is Tseng?", she began. "The man that was with me".

"I'm sure Kadaj or Loz is with him", the whelp answered as he gracefully seated himself beside her. "Besides…you shouldn't be worried about him when you're in danger yourself".

"What?", she cried as she crawled away on her butt.

"We really didn't appreciate you giving Mother to the man you call Reno", he began as he got up again.

He looked down at his leather attire as he wiped off any mud that had gotten onto it. this boy was very creepy…too creepy. He turned his cat-like aqua green eyes onto her. She watched the gun hanging from his hips warily, wondering what he was going to do with it. she knew she couldn't just get up and run because he could easily pull that gun out and shoot her dead with it. But he wouldn't go through all that trouble just to bring her here and kill, would he?

"Would you like to tell me where this Reno person has taken Mother?", he asked.

"No!", she shouted instantly.

He let out a long sigh, "I would've hoped that things wouldn't have to happen like this…", he muttered.

Simultaneously as he said this, he unhooked the gun from his hip and pulled out a thick and huge bullet from his pocket. Her brown eyes widened to saucers as he stuffed the bullet in one of the hole.

She didn't care if he could shoot her with that gun anymore. She crawled to her feet and high-tailed it in the opposite direction like she stole something. She was panting heavily as her heart pounding violently in her chest.

"Ah, come on! I don't want to hurt you!", she heard him call in his usual calm tone, knowing he was lying through his teeth.

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He let a sharp grunt rip from his lip unconsciously when he felt a stabbing pain in his side. His dark eyes snapped open and saw the night sky above a series of white trees. He tried to move but unfortunately he was tied to one of the trees by a tight rope.

"Glad to see you are still alive".

That voice…

Oh, god he was still in hell…

His dark eyes traveled down and met the aqua green eyes that were merely inches away from him. The owner of the cat-like eyes was a youth with medium-length silver hair. His lips held a small smirk on them and it just chilled the black-haired man to the bone to see him like that and so close to him.

"Where am I? And where is Elena?", he asked instantly.

"You mean that witch that shot me?".

His dark eyes looked over the silver-haired youth's shoulders and saw another male with silver hair step out. He was staring at him with an amused look on his face and he didn't like it one bit.

"Yazoo's taking care of her. Why? Do you care for her?", the youth in front of him asked.

"Of course I do and I'm not going to lie about that", the black-haired man hissed.

"I could tell by the way you were protecting her", he said as he moved away from him. "She'll be perfect to get you to spill the beans".

Oh, shit!

How could he have been so stupid?

"Don't you dare touch her!", the leader of the Turks shouted at their retreating forms. "Whatever you plan to do to her…do it to me instead…".

He let himself dropped sluggishly against the ropes that restrained him. He was pretty high up on the tree and he just stared at the ground as the younger boy walked up to him again.

"I was hoping you'd say that", he said with a smile.

"What are we going to do to him, Kadaj?", the other silver-haired youth asked, feeling a sudden surge of happiness rush through him.

"Hm…since it'll probably be hard to strip him naked and use the whip on him, we could just try pulling off the bones in his toes, Loz?", the one named Kadaj suggested as he smiled back at his counterpart.

Tseng gulped when he heard that. He couldn't figure out why the silver-haired youth was so malicious and so cruel. Who was he? Where did he just these ideas from? And why does it seem like he's met him before?

He was ripped from his thoughts when he felt two points of metal on his chin. He looked down and saw that the silver-haired adolescent was holding a double-bladed sword to his chin. He summoned as much anger as he could in his dark eyes in a death-glare.

"Ah, don't look at me like that. You brought this upon yourself, ya know", the youth said as his grin broadened.

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A/N: And CUT! This was shorter than I would've thought it would've been. I'm not really enthusiastic about writing another chapter yet but maybe your reviews will change my mind.