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Part Three:

Effect

As soon as Leon had realized what was so different about his partner, he began to wonder why she had stopped smiling.

She had managed to smile for all of the twelve years that had passed since they lost their home, why would she stop now?

Leon realized the Ninja had finally decided that they were never going to go home, which was the assumption everyone else in Traverse Town had come to as well.

Soon after Leon decided she must have given up hope, he began to notice that the town seemed a lot dimmer, as though Yuffie's smile had brightened up the world.

Thinking about it, Leon realized that it probably had. For twelve years there had always been someone smiling, someone hoping. The hope of the young woman had kept the townspeople aware that there was hope to be found somewhere. Now that she had apparently given up hope, the people of Traverse Town started to doubt that there was hope anywhere in the worlds.

Leon wondered if the Ninja knew the effect her smile had on the town, and marveled at how long she had managed to keep smiling.

It was no wonder she had stopped, really, everyone had been telling her for eight years that there was no hope of going home; that it would never happen.