Katsu: Right into the FOURTH CHAPTER! W00t!
Sin: Reviews, I'm AMAZED!
Katsu: You SHOULDN'T be, people actually ENJOY my writings thankyouverymuch!
Sin: knock on wood.
Katsu: does that no kidding .

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Long ago sorrow flickers softly, Memories of conflict set in motion
Always clinging to my eyes, The white scream froze
The wandering of the setting moon
My existance surely is here now, Waiting is...
Not shead tears and such, Only the moment we embrace

Re-sublimity, Kotoko

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"Now, now Kisaragi, all we want is something you have, we must be able to come to… ah… some form of agreement?" He licked his lips and grinned at her, watching gleefully as her snarl became more apparent with each passing second.

"Yeah, here's an agreement for you, you and your goon-squad take a hike and I won't kill the lot of you!"

"Feisty!" Keith Granger was now clapping his hands in mirth, "Well now, it seems we'll let Hiros have his fun then…" With that he stepped back and all of the men surrounding her cocked their guns. "Miss. Kisaragi, I'll ask you one more time, where is the White Materia, I know you have it, now tell us where it is and I won't send the icky order out to kill you."

Icky? Who uses that word nowadays?

"No way in HELL!" Yelled Yuffie digging her heels into the ground for emphasis, and before their leader could even open his mouth she threw her Shuriken to her side and then ran towards the guards as they scattered from her weapon.

Gunshots rang out behind her, but she was glad to see that most of the men didn't contain any aim whatsoever. One went wizzing by her head and she sucked in a surprised breath. The shuriken came flying back to her hand, catching it and bounding off to what direction she had been certain she had came from.

More bullets came and grazed past her, at some points she was glad that she had changed directions so randomly. For with their bosses loud angered shouts she could feel their aim improving in dire needs to not piss off the man even more.

There were loud footfalls behind her and she twisted her body in mid stride to throw some of her attackers off course. Her eyes grew wide as a bullet went to hit her right in between the eyes, she easily deflected it and decided it safer to have the larger shield on hand. There was no way she was fast enough to out run a bullet, that was for certain.

She could see only twenty or so of the men, her mind raced with the possibilities of where the other thirty or so had disappeared off to. It had been sheer luck she'd made it out of the ring of guns without a scratch, but now was the worst time she could let down her guard, one bullet grazed her arm and she flinched, but didn't let her other arm to go grab the wound, so the blood flowed freely.

She deflected more fetal shots to her abdomen and skull then let a few smaller throwing stars fly, hitting about five or so of her pursuers but the wounds were not fetal. She ran as fast as her legs could bring her, she had always prided herself in her quick and agile movements but there was no way she could out run them forever.

In front of her Yuffie could faintly see a line of what she assumed was more soldiers, she cursed and ran off to her side, cutting down her chances for a surrounding like before. In an instant she was face to face with a bunch of heavy armored men, all carrying large metal swords and swinging blindly at her.

She felt hopelessness seize her, all around her there was gunfire, and now she was slowly being boxed in like as rabbit for hunt. She heaved in and out deep breaths, trying to catch her breath and still dance around the bullets.

'Vincent and Cloud could do this! I've seen them take on at least this much!' Even though her chances were nearing impossible, Yuffie threw out her Conformer with all her strength, taking down two of the bulky soldiers in the process. Her breath hitched as she saw an opening that she could slip through.

Her mind screamed for her to run, to run as fast and hard as she could through that tight little hole and into freedom, and she did. The only problem was that she didn't see the missal flying towards her feet from the other side, being too distracted with her chance for survival.

When it hit the ground at her feet she screamed as she fell forward onto the rocky gravel, when she pushed herself off the dirt floor and scrambled to her feet, her heart sank deep into her gut.

She was boxed in again, and behind her was a horde of Deepground soldiers.

'No! When the Hell did they survive!? We wiped out all of them from what I heard, how could this many have escaped?' Her eyed shifted to all her directions, trying to find another weak defense, but they were walking closer and closer and every time they did she could see their resolve thickening.

"Miss. Kisragi," Damn, he had an annoying voice, "You seem like the type for a little bargaining fun…" the man stepped forward again. "I'm willing to give you a chance to survive this, if you can simply defeat all those to your left…" he gestured to the twenty to her left, "and those on the right," the Deepgrounds… And they all had those missals but no guns, they contained swords and large guns, but if they could only shoot one and then re load like she'd encountered before then she still had a chance to dodge around them.

"And if I win?"

Keith chuckled, "Then little ninja, I let you free, but if you are knocked to your feet with a severe wound then I will take the White Materia from you…"

Yuffie needed to catch her breath still, and her wound was still bleeding slightly on her arm. She still needed a little more time to heal herself, already holding a potion in her hand, she casually clamped her hand over her wound. Healing it with the odd mixture and improving her chances of the battle she would be in.

"OK, but don't you find it rude that I you know my name and yet I don't know what to call you or your little battalion?"

"Ah, you must forgive me and my poor manners," He apologized, "My name is Keith Granger, and those around you are part of a nice little squad we'd like to call the N.W.O, with the help of some rogue Deepground Soldiers thrown in for the mix…"

Yuffie readied the conformer, equipping in some fire 3, thunder 2, and a full cure, the only other materia she had managed to bring out of her bag without a hassle.

"Alright, so you N.W.O freaks want the materia ne? Well you have to go through the Great Ninja Yuffie, warrior of the light!"

And so, the battle began.

Like Keith had said, the other men and woman with guns backed out of the small little ring and stood, waiting for their leaders orders. The others charged mercilessly firing a barrage of missals, ones that Yuffie miraculously managed to dodge, even though they were heat seeking. She threw out her Shuriken, noticing the scramble to re load and shoot again all at the same time, she ran forward while doing so, causing the Conformer to fly heavily through the crowd in front of her. She could feel a bunch of Swordsman on her back, charging in so the others would have time to regroup. Yuffie calculated that at least five to ten were injured from her Shuriken as it sped through their ranks, some jumping to the side to get out of her way.

Instead of catching it with her right arm like she normally did, she took five steps forward, allowing the boomerang-like weapon to race behind her, she heard a satisfied 'ough' as she had sliced down two more of the sword carrying men that had just jumped up to slash down at her. Her left hand caught it and she switched tactics, spinning around and casting a fire spell right in the middle of the wave that was nearly twenty feet away.

Instead of what she had hoped the men on the sides let their fallen comrades in the middle that had been hit fall to the ground and kept approaching. She cast another one, this time thunder, and to the side of the group, cutting down at least eight from the electric shock coursing through their bodies.

There weren't many more of the ground attackers, but she noticed that the launchers were already back into position. She took off running top speed towards the opposite side of the field, catching the soldiers off guard and she ran right through them. They ran after her, stopping to try and slash her but failing miserably, they just weren't fast enough to catch the best Ninja Wutai had to offer.

Another layer of mini-bomb like bullets rained down on her, she wasn't surprised to see that they had taken down their 'comrades' on the process. She heard the explosion behind her and knew that they had taken down her remaining pest problem.

She focused on diving out of the way for the other ones coming at her, feeling the ground shake underneath her feet as each bullet exploded near her. She felt clumsy as she twirled around and literally spun away from them, her luck was holding strong until one lucky one managed to catch the ground beneath her. She was blown into the air, falling heavily onto her newly healed shoulder, she jumped to her feet, pulling out a Hi-potion and pouring it into her damaged limb. She seethed out a hissed breath as the medicine kicked in and made a wave of pain course through her left arm, she gingerly flexed the appendage.

She once again readied a spell, sending off the shockwave towards those in front of her, her mind felt dizzy with happiness as she saw their numbers depleting before her eyes. Her legs pumped quickly and she threw out another handful of mini-shuriken, surprisingly hitting a man's gun and causing the ammunition in it to explode, taking him and the four around him to the lifestream.

She was hit squarely across the back with a blade-like weapon and she fell to her knees and threw herself out of the way, as she dodged/rolled out of the line of fire, she saw that the other side had come out on an all offensive and abandoned their shooting positions. All except for maybe ten were on the other side; she slammed her shuriken into the abdomen of the one who hit her killing him instantly. She then kicked off his chest and sent him stumbling into the two behind him, blood splattered all across the ground, hers and his.

She cast a full-cure, pleased as the shimmering light passed over her and closed up her wound, along with healing some of her fatigue.

It was probably the hardest fight she had ever done on her own, but so far she had them scrambling. She still had much further to go to wipe them out, but if they had thrown in the warning towel that early it meant they weren't underestimating her at all.

Keith clenched his fists angrily as she watched this child tare through his men, cutting them down by twos, it wasn't long until she was injured again, this time on her leg. She used the sword wound distraction to kick the man in the neck, snapping it and taking care of one more of his underlings. After she had ran off, even with the cut on her leg and the crimson liquid gushing out for all to see, she threw a potion on it, stopping the blood flow and continued her battle. Another wave of missals hit the area where she stood, but because of the soldiers around her, they took most of the hits, considering they were larger in size and held more body heat. She WAS thrown to the ground, however, and one of the few that had survived rushed forwards to finish her, Keith knew it was hopeless.

How could someone her size and shape take down seventy men all on her own, it would have been nearly impossible for even the best man he had in his army to kill off twenty other beings, let alone even more then that. He could only hope his trump card would be ready soon so he could unleash them onto this annoying Wutainese Flea.

She stood triumphantly after another half an hour of the grueling fight, she had finally taken care of the men on both sides and was casually walking out of the circle. She wiped a bit of blood from her face and began to part from the circle, when he had only been about ten feet away from the last spot she'd shot down a man on she heard a shout. Spinning around to catch what was happening, she saw Keith grinning, with ten other men and woman aiming their guns at her, maybe twenty-five or so feet away.

"I should have known that scum don't play fair," She spat out, feeling the adrenaline rushing from her body and leaving her weak and cold, "Son of a bitch," She added as an insult, feeling the anger well up inside of her.

"Now, now, I'm keeping MY promise, but I don't think she was a part of the deal….."

When Yuffie turned around to see what he'd meant, she saw a flash of red, and then she felt an intense pain across her chest. She went flying backwards, her blood seeping out of her chest wound, she tried to stand up again but she was punched so hard in her gut that she coughed up blood. As she began to fall back to the ground, she saw the red eyes and similarly colored hair of someone whom she considered a ghost.

"I told you, Wutai Flea, I would have my revenge, now darling, where is the Holy Materia?" She was being held upright by the hand that clamped on her throat making her hover just an inch above the ground. The life sustaining liquid was leaking down the sides of her mouth and her eyes were hazy and unfocused.

"Go….back….to…H-hell!" Coughed out the Ninja, scratching weakly at the arm that held her air supply, she was thrown to the ground with a snarl, but before she was finished off a loud voice stopped her.

"NO! Retrieve the White Materia, this one shall be the first experiment to see if our research proves true!" Yelled another voice, and Yuffie spat out the blood in her mouth, heaving in as much air as she could raggedly, her chest feeling like it was on fire.

"As you wish," the crimson-clad woman replied, distaste clear in her voice as she grabbed Yuffie roughly and yanked off the backpack that was strapped onto her back. "If I had my way, you would be a part of the lifestream by now…" She whispered scathingly, then grinned. "But then again, perhaps your death will come soon, depending on the curse brought upon you…"

Yuffie was fading in and out of consciousness, she could see the woman digging through her belongings, she tried to life her hand to stop her, to grab her Conformer and slash at the bitch who was supposed to be dead. The most she could do with her body now was shift her hand slightly and tilt her head to the side, to let the blood leak from her mouth.

"Found it," Announced the woman casually, standing up and holding the white materia, Yuffie used all of her strength to sit up and reach for her Conformer, but she was caught and the woman kicked it behind her with one foot. As she handed it over to her superior Yuffie clutched her chest, her breathing coming in uneven and unbearable pain coursed through her petite body.

"Good….good…..now….use……..Ninja…" Was all she could make out as the pain lanced through her, she slowly looked up and saw him pouring a vile of foul black liquid onto the materia with gleeful hands.

The intense light was too much for Yuffie to take, her mind screamed for her to fight with all her remaining life to get back the materia, but her body refused to move. She was paralyzed from the grave wound that spilt warm blood from her chest. Finally, after what seemed like an hour of intense light, the glow faded away to show a swirled materia with black liquid not really mixing with it.

The man threw out his hand to point his palm at Yuffie, before she could register what was happening, a pain so intense came across her eyes that she could have sworn that she had been slashed across them too. She screamed out in agony and clutched her eyes, a blood redness filled her vision and then melted away, along with the pain in her head. When she looked up to sneer at them and tell them that their materia had backfired on them, she felt her eyesight dim, her eyes grew wide as she tried to focus, only to find that the light her eyes took in was a little less.

Dread wrapped around her like a suffocating hug, and the new man before her began to let out a horrid laugh that crashed through the silence around them. The spell that the white Materia had cast on her had been random, but both sides knew what the curse was, a curse of blindness… One that originated long ago.

….A Curse of blindness.

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Unsaid...Unheard...Unseen...Just an illusion
Traveling to the other side of time I become a lost child An unforgivable desire
Only your voice...your fingers...the warmth near you...

Unspoken thoughts get tainted by the shredded night wind

Re-Sublimity, Kotoko

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Katori: Wow, that was one hell of a scene, I was almost feeling the heaviness of breath as I wrote it, I'm really glad that I'm Okay at righting fight scenes…

Sin:….. So let me get this straight…. You didn't PLAN to have her come back from the dead… but what the hell are you going to do with R-

Katori: AH//clamps hand over Sin's mouth// SPOLIERS!!! You aren't supposed to tell them who that is, they have to figure it out on their own.

Sin//snorts// as if they DON'T know who it is! But anyways… yay… blood slaughter…. So… do you really think that Yuffie could have pulled that off in the game?

Katori: You know what, I think she could, When I was playing DoC Vincent was ambushed by about fifty Deepground Soldiers in Midgar before, during, and after he was fighting the Dragonfly. If he could take on that many then, given the right amount of time and planning, Yuffe could as well. Yuffie also implied that Cloud and Vincent could do it easily, but I have a suspicion that they would have had as much trouble as she did.

Sin: So, NOW what's going to happen?

Katori: Simple… people are going to R&R & THEN they'll get the next chapter! I need to know people are going to read this, I really like it so far and I hope everyone does too.