'Thought'
"Speach"
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Barret stomped down the street angrily, stopping beneath the glare of one of the street lamps. He was more than just a little upset, he was down right ticked off. That damn vampire! It was all his fault! After everything he had done to protect her and Marlene still wasn't safe! Stupid vampire...Now he was going to have to take care of things himself, because apparently he couldn't count on any one else keeping his family safe.
He stopped and glared around, "Those numbskulls have to be around here somewher. When I find them..." The way Barret figured these were bad people he was dealing with. And where do bad people stay? Dark places crawling with evil. Midgar was a good bet. After all, this is where Shinra was and they're evil. Old Midgar, the slum of the city, was dark. Dark and evil. There you go. He continued his stomping down the stree, heading that way.
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Yuffie keept her breathing slow and her heart beat even. She did a quick peek around the chimney she crouched behind. Her target stood aproximatly fifteen feet away. She leaned her head back and closed her eyes for a moment to keep herself centered. The situation was sized up in her head, taking into account all the little things that could have an effect on the ituation. Such as wind, light and shadow, cover, noise, and dozens of other little things. She pulled out four shiny throwing stars, each one held between her fingers. Again she closed her eyes. Breathe in, breathe out...
She lunged from cover and went into a roll. The throwing stars shot out in rapid succession, each one landng solid on target. She came out of her roll in the shadows beneath a metal staircase. She then crept through the shadows to another spot so that she couldn't be tracked. 'Great, now to attack again.'
As she was creeping around to flank the enemy her pocket started to vibrate. A very colorful phrase learned from Cid went through her head. Yuffie backed up and found a small space to keep cover. She pulled the phone out of her pocket and flipped it open.
"..."
"Hello?" Tifa's voice sounded too loud in the silence.
"Shhhh!" Yuffie whispered harshly into her phone. "What?!"
"Umm..." Tifa looked at her friends, looking at her as she whispered on the cell phone. She gave Yuffie a brief account of what had happened that night and asked her to find Barret who had walked out and wasn't answering his own phone. "Be careful, okay?"
"Uh-huh, okay, bye." She grumbled to herself, "Man, they are soooo irritating." With ninja grace Yuffie stood and walked over to her "enemy". She pulled her throwing stars out of the poor satalite dish. One of the stars revealed sparking wires that surely ment someone was not going to be happy when they try to watch T.V. the next day.
"Uh-oh! Time to make a hasty retreat!" She dashed off and flipped gracfully over the ledge.
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Barret knocked another trashcan over in frustration. He paused when the sound seemed to echo longer than it should. Immediatly he was on the defense, his instincts letting him know that he was not alone. He lifted his gun and slowly spun around to survey the area. A noise came from behind and he spun to face it. It came from the alley. He walked forward slowly. There was nothing there. Another sound behind him. He spun again, but there was also nothing there either.
"Cowards! Come out and show yourself!" Laughter behind him made him spin again. Still there was no one there. Scraping behind. Spin again.
"Altright, so that's how you wanna play?" he charged up his gun, ready to fire at the next noise.
A tap on the shoulder had him spinning again, but this time his face met with a fist.
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When Yuffie finally found Barret he was sorely outnumbered and not handling the odds very well. He was currently on his knees while two muscled men held him down and another two kicked him. "Hyah!!!" Yuffie leept from the roof while throwing stras into the faces of the two men holding Barret down. They released their hold on him, and he rushed back to his feet and grabbed them both by their necks. Then he slamed their faces into each other, causing the stars to be pushed further in. They fell to either side out cold.
Yuffie threw her real weapon at one of the others, who quickly dogged out of the way. "Glad to see me?" She jumped up and retrieved her weapon throwing it again. This time it grazed the man's chest, spraying blood.
"I was doing fine on my own, runt!" Barret attacked the other fellow, letting his bullets fly.
"Is that why you were down on your knees begging." She dogged an attack and landed a roundhouse kick to his face.
"Argh!" He punched the other man in the jaw. "I was not begging!" He caught the man and threw him in the air then let loose with his gun again, shredding the body with bullets.
Yuffie took out a small dagger and threw it at the mans throat. It stuck and he went down, but not before throwing a metal sphere. "Run Barret!"
They didn't get away before the sphere exploded, sending bits of shrapnel every where as well as exploding with a huge blast. Yuffie and Barret were thrown twenty feet and were shredded by the shtapnel. Yuffie landed with an audible crack to her wrist and ankle. Barret landed head first and did not move. When the smoke had settled Yuffie looked up. the four brutes weren't moving, but neither was Barret. "Oh man..." Yuffie pulled out her cell phone with her good hand.
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What did you think? Please review, thanks. I only realized today a little inconsistency in these past two chapters so I went ahead and fixed chapters 4, 6, and 7.