This will be the last time I update until Friday. Won't go near a computer until then.

Heh, heh. Destruction has a british accent!~

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Softening of Stone

Yuffie stood out of her chair, and ran out of the room. The group could hear her feet hit the stairs.

Tifa caught Vincent's eye. She quickly motioned for him to follow Yuffie. He nodded and was on the stairs the next moment, his crimson cloak swishing behind him. Vincent knocked on her bedroom door. He waited a moment. For a moment there was no reply. "Come in..." In her voice he could tell that she was still crying.

He opened the door slightly. She stood by the window, gazing out at the street below, the sky dark with clouds. She turned her head back and looked at him. "Hey, Vinnie." He stepped closer to her, though it still kept a distance of about two feet.

"I'm glad that," She fought for the words, "that you came to see if I was okay. But, I just need a little bit to myself... okay?" She prayed she had not offended him.

He nodded. He completely understood what she ment. He didn't want to be around people after the events that had happened to him. But he had seclusioned him self for thirty years.

"And Vinnie?"

"Hmm?" He began to turn towards her again when her lips brushed his cheek.

"Thank you."

He felt his cheeks blush slightly. As he left the room he felt an odd warmth in his chest.

Yuffie pulled a chair up to the window and opened it. A gentle breeze blew gently in, brushing against her cheeks in a calming manner.

"Yuffie?" Destruction's voice came into her head.

"Yes?" Yuffie answered.

"The story you told the others... That is how I came to be here, in you?" Destruction's tone was slightly curious.

"Yeah. It was how I came to be expiremented on." Yuffie bit her lip.

"I am... Sorry." Destruction could feel waves of emotions coming off of Yuffie. She could barely tell what was what. The mixture of emotions confused Destruction. She could feel hope, dread, regret, and others she could not name, all coming off the young ninja.

"It's not your fault, Des! Your not the one who kidnapped me." Yuffie leaned forward with a sigh and put her arms on the window sill.

"Des?"

"Yup. That's the nickname I thought of for you."

"...Nickname?" Destruction asked, confused.

"I give all of my friends nicknames. Tifa's is Teef, I call Vincent Vinnie, and Cloud is Spike." Yuffie stated simply, a small smile on her face.

"It is... odd to think of a demon with a friend." Destruction mumbled quietly.

"You didn't have demon friends?"

"Demons are taught by there parents and then sent off. They are expected to use their powers where they are needed. Some demons find mates, but none ever have 'friends'." Destruction explained.

"Did you ever find a mate?" Yuffie asked.

"No..."

They sat in silence for a few minutes. Yuffie thought over how she had kissed Vincent's cheek. Her cheeks turned a slight pink at the thought.

"Yuffie, would you be okay if I looked at your memories of Vincent?" Destruction asked. She wanted to know more about the mysterious man of which her host had feelings for.

Yuffie hesitated a moment. She appreciated that Des had asked before going into her personal memories, but she wasn't sure. "Yeah."

Destruction began to look at the memories. Yuffie didn't know how, but she could feel Destruction's presence as the demon went through her memories. "Vincent has many demons in him...?" The question was phrased as more of a statement.

"Yeah. Chaos is the main demon, I think. I've seen him turn into the Galien Beast, Hell Master and Chaos before. It was a weird experience, seeing him change." Yuffie paused,"One moment, the tall crimson-loving man is there and the next a powerful demon." She sighed at the memory of his first change from man to demon.

"They are all lower class demons than I... Though Chaos is very close, seeing as chaos and destruction seem to go hand in hand. Vincent seems much more..." The she-demon struggled for the word, "Much more emotionless in your memories. As though he turned his emotions to stone rather than feel sorrow."

Yuffie nodded as she thought about this. It was true that Vincent had changed a lot since the fateful day that the fun-loving ninja had thrown off the top of his coffin and screamed 'Vampire!' He had opened up more since then. He had confided his past in her and gave her something she usually never received. Trust. He had trusted her to keep his past a secret and she, without realizing what she was doing, told him everything about her self. From her mother's death to how she became part of AVALANCHE, he knew it.

"You two are close, yes?" Destruction asked.

"I guess you could say that. We would usually take watch together and talk. If our watch was not together one of us would stay up with the other anyway."

"That's what I would call close." Yuffie laughed at the demon statement. It was followed with a gasp when Yuffie looked out the window.

"Rain!" She laughed out. She stuck her hand out the window as the little drops hit her hand. Her feet hit the stairs as he ran downstairs. Tifa had just finished cleaning up the mess from the group gathering. "I'm going for a walk!" Yuffie yelled to Tifa.

"It's raining, Yuffie!"Tifa replied, bewildered.

"That's the point!" Yuffie ran past Vincent and out the door. Vincent watched Yuffie in the rain, her melodious laughter rang out. Vincent lifted his hand and trailed a finger on hi cheek in the place that her lips had touched, if only briefly.

Well, talk to you guys next week! I'll come home on Friday and I leave in about a half an hour.

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