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"Oh thank goodness you're okay!" A voice breathed.

Creep had lugged me for an entire day through the forest. I didn't make it easy for him, he'll have black bruises a plenty by tomorrow. Nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk...

A large pair of boobs were squished against my face and suffocated me. "I was so worried."

I flailed my arms about in a panic before the breasts were taken away from my mouth. I was huffing heavily afterwards. I looked up at the owner of these mountains and found a familiar face.

"Ahh! Creep's girlfriend!" I yelled, taking a couple of steps back and putting up my hands. I recognised the place I had been taken to; North Corel. The slums were exactly the same as I had left them a couple of day ago; dirty, small and gross. Creep had let me down inside an average sized grey tent with holes in the corners. There were a couple of camp beds inside and a small lantern hanging from the ceiling that cast a yellow glow on everything.

The dark haired girl frowned at me. "Yuffie?"

"How do you know my name as well? You are stalkers, aren't you!" I accused, looking back and forth between the two strangers.

The woman looked over at Creep concerned. "It's just as you said." She told him.

Creep grunted in response, his eyes still on me.

Big Boobs looked back at me and smiled. She had a nice smile, you really wouldn't expect someone like her to be a stalker.

But then again, here I am!

"Well then, we'd better help you. I'm Tifa, it's nice to meet you!" She laughed.

I stared at her. She was introducing herself after she stole my chocobo?

"Tifa." Creep stepped forward. "Yuffie seems to remember something about us."

"Yeah; you shot me," I said pointing at Creep. "and you both stole my chocobo!"

Tifa frowned at me, and then at Creep. "You shot her?" She seemed a bit angry.

"No." He replied.

"Uh yes you did, there's a great big hole in my back to prove it!"

Tifa's eyes narrowed at Creep.

"You were there too." I said to Big Boobs.

She looked at me, astonished, while Creep smirked behind his collar.

"I think something happened to Yuffie while she was away." Creep explained. "That gunshot on her shoulder was a couple of hours old when I found her, but it was from my gun."

Tifa thought for a moment before turning to me. "Yuffie why don't you sit down and tell us what's happened this week?"

Well, I knew they were crazy, but I couldn't resist telling them about my adventures. Maybe they were just deluded fans who wanted to be my friends, I couldn't just leave them!

So I proceeded to tell them all about my adventures across the world! They had a lot of questions at the start when I told them about finishing my ninja training (I think they were impressed I had completed it so early) and leaving Wutai for the first time on my own, but they were listening intently to the rest. I told them about my journeys in Rocket Town and North Corel and finally about how I ran into them. I'm sure they could remember what happened but they insisted I explained my side of the story.

When I finished the stalkers were in deep thought. I amused myself by seeing if one of my hands was bigger than the other.

They were the same size.

Anyway.

Yuffie, have you ever heard of AVALANCHE?" Tifa asked, her maroon eyes were deep and worried.

I snorted. "Duh, everyone's heard of AVALACHE! They saved the world! Twice!"

The woman nodded at my words. "So you never met AVALANCHE?"

"...No..." Why was this woman so interested in AVALANCHE, I thought they were my fans.

"I also found her with her Oritsuru." Creep added in.

"Of course, that's one of the best weapons on the Planet by the way." I gloated. I'm allowed to, it's pretty special.

That set off another batch of Creep's dark chuckling.

Tifa sighed heavily before looking back at me. "Listen." She said taking my hand. "There's something I have to tell you."

I frowned at her tone, it was too serious for my liking.

"Something seems to have happened to you since we last saw you. Before you interrupt me saying you didn't know us last week, just listen. You did know us last week; you've known us for the past three years."

Okay. These guys were crazier than I thought...

"Your life since you were sixteen is different than your memories dictate. When you were sixteen you joined AVALANCHE on their journey to defeat Sephiroth and met us. We're part of AVALANCHE." She indicated to herself and Creep.

So, so deluded.

"Yuffie you saved the world!" She exclaimed excited, grabbing hold of my other hand. "You're famous! You've seen the far corners of the Planet and embarked on dangerous missions across the world. It's lot to take in but this is the truth." There was conviction in her eyes but I just wasn't feeling it.

"Look, that's a very nice imagination you have, but I think you guys need to see someone. Someone in a white coat perhaps..." There was no nice way of putting it; these two were mad.

The woman stared at me. "Yeah I guess that did sound quite unrealistic." She blinked at me before snapping her fingers and running over to one of the camp beds.

"Barret's moving this week; that's why I'm here, so I have some of Marlene's old photos!" She fiddled around in a box that was hidden under one of the beds and picked out some photos. She brought them over and showed them to me one by one.

"Look, this was you three years ago."

The photo was set in a what looked like a bar or some kind of restaurant. The shelves were still bare and boxes lay scattered about the place. Creep, Big Boobs and three other weird looking men stood in the photo. A cat with a crown sat on top of the counter and a red lion like creature sat by their feet. There was a little girl standing by the feet of one of the other men and waving at the camera, she couldn't have been more than four.

There was another girl in the photo. She sat cross legged on the floor, waving her hands in the air. She had short dark brown hair and a giant shuriken attached to her back.

...Me.

"What?" I stared in disbelief at the photo, how could that be me?

"That was our first day in Edge. Cloud, Marlene and I had just moved into the new bar and everyone in AVALANCHE was giving us a hand."

An intense headache pounded against my brain as another snapshot appeared in my head. I was inside the bar in the photos and throwing little bits of polystyrene everywhere. The girl in photo joined in while Creep stood in the corner looking out the window. I pulled a face at the girl and spewed the white confetti all over Creep. I clutched my head in protested and let out a cry.

"Yuffie!" Tifa called, taking hold of my shoulders. "Yuffie what's wrong?"

I blinked. "I-I don't know." I stammered, taking another look at the photo Tifa had shown me. "Maybe you are telling the truth..."

Tifa smiled a bit, pointing out the people in the picture. "This is Cloud, that's Barret and his daughter Marlene, Cid's standing there and that's Cait Sith on the counter top. Nanaki is sitting by our feet, so are you and that's Vincent." She relayed, finally pointing to Creep.

So that was his real name... I liked Creep better.

But then a thought hit me. "If I was off with AVALANCHE for three years, what happened to my father, and Wutai?" I demanded.

"Lord Godo is faithfully helping his country recover from the Shinra war." Creep - sorry Vincent - replied.

Dad was okay...

"It's late, you'd better get some sleep. It must be a lot to take in." Tifa told me, getting up and folding the fabric door of the tent back over.

Vincent (I'm never going to get used to that name) had disappeared into the blackness that lay outside the tent's light but I never heard him go.

"You can sleep in Vincent's bed, he seems to be out for the night." She explained, nodding towards the bed I was sitting on.

I pulled off my heavy duty trainers and yanked the blanket down. But as soon as I had laid down, I regretted it. "Ow!" I yelped and pulled myself upright again. "Ow ow ow ow ow!" I complained, clutching my shoulder.

"Here, I'll heal it." She took a glowing green globe out of her pocket sat down on her own bed.

"That's not going to help!" I cried. "I think Vince had a Poison materia inside his gun, it'll just get infected if you restore it!" Geez, why'd she think I hadn't healed it already?

"This isn't a Restore, it's a Heal materia." Tifa explained, her hand now aglow with light green wisps of light.

...

"Oh."

'TGETITI'MTHEGREATNINJAYUFFIEKISARAGI!

Right, breathe Yuffie, she is from AVALANCHE.

I watched as the green light expanded to engulf my shoulder and intensified. The green light got even bigger as I stared at the wonderful glow. Tiny green vines twisted in intricate patterns across my shoulder before finally it dulled, showing my fully healed shoulder.

"There. I used a Restore materia at the same time to heal the wound, it'll ache a bit tonight but you'll be fine by tomorrow." She put the materia away again and flicked her boots off. "See you in the morning Yuffie."

"Night Tifa." I replied, smiling slightly at her, she didn't seem like such a weirdo anymore.

I remembered I still had my socks on (I can't sleep with socks on, that's gross) and pulled them off quickly to find a surprise waiting for me...

I stared down at my feet in horror and disgust.

Where were my toes?

First, I find out everything I remember from the past three years in false (though I'm still debating that), and now I have no toes! What is that about?

I plucked up the courage to poke them with my hand and sure enough, there was something solid there! I could still wriggle them too, but why couldn't I see them?

Tifa stirred in her bed and I immediately flung my feet under my blanket to hide them. All she did was reach for the lantern above our heads and switch it off, but my heart was still in my mouth. I know I'm supposed to have known her for years but I didn't want to tell her I had no toes!

No, it's probably just a delusion I told myself. The Restore just made me a bit dizzy, I'll be fine in the morning.

I pulled the covers right over my head and tried to forget everything that had happened today.

...

Oh geez this was gonna be tougher than I thought!

OOOOOOOOOO

The rich tapestries of Wutai's pagoda stretched in front of me as I lay face up on the floor. My chest was heaving up and down like I had just run a marathon or two and I could see my father doing exactly the same thing next to me.

"O...old coot...n...ot...bad..." I wheezed between puffs.

"You've...also...improved..." My father huffed back.

I noticed the blonde man from the photo standing in the corner of the room along with Vincent. The four guardians of the pagoda were standing around us too, but not my teacher...

"Hah...Ha, ha..." I giggled in my weakened state.

"...Heh, heh..."

"Ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaa..." By this point both Godo and I were in fits of laughter on the floor.

"Wa ha haaaaa...!"

We continued laughing at eachother before finally regaining our composure and standing up.

"It's time I gave this to you, Yuffie..." Godo announced in a solemn voice. "This is Leviathan Materia. Take it." He produced a red glass orb from his pocket and chucked across the room.

I caught it (duh) and smirked.

"But Lord Godo. The Leviathan Materia should only be given to the person who conquers and takes over this pagoda. That is our custom..." Staniv interrupted. He never liked me.

But he wasn't gonna take it away from me! I earned it! "Custom, custom, custom! I'm so sick of hearing that! It's so stupid!" I exploded, stomping around the room.

"Silence, Miss Yuffie!" Gorky ordered me.

Like usual, I ignored him. "Then what 'bout all the rest of you? You have all that power, are you satisfied being cooped up in this tower?"

"Yuffie!" My father warned me.

"You too dad! Just because you lost the war! And turning Wutai into a place like this!"

"...What do you want to say?" Chekhov asked, shooting my father a warning look before he interrupted.

"You've turned Wutai into a cheesy resort town peddling to tourists, how dare you! Da Chao Statue and Leviathan are ashamed!"

The old man was speechless as I let rip.

"She is a kid." Shake muttered from the corner of the room.

"Wh-What did you say?" I screamed, turning round.

OOOOOOOOOOO

Suddenly the room disappeared to black and I found myself sitting in a small bed inside a tent.

Oh yeah.

My heartbeat slowed as I sat in the darkness and tried to figure out what just happened. Big Boobs said I'd known her and Creep for three years, maybe we went to Wutai in that time? Was that a memory then?

I looked over at the table at the side of the room and saw my materia glowing iridescently. I could see the white form of Leviathan swimming round in snowy swirls inside a red globe. His tail swished dramatically, propelling him through the clouds of white, his eyes alight.

It was hard to believe all of this was true but, I guess I had no choice. There was no way around the situation, I just had to trust my 'captors'.