The door swooped open when I pushed it lightly and I was met with darkness yet again.

One small light bulb flickered and swayed in the wind I had just created. It cast a small white glow in the centre of the cube-like room but didn't reach the black corners. The light descended in waves across a metal table stationed just below the bulb. A small monitor sat next to it, bleeping mutely to the heartbeat of the body lying there.

The body. It was so familiar, and yet so distant. Her face was grey and emotionless, stripped of colour and life. Her hair hung limply in her eyes and sprawled across the pillow beneath her head. Wires were stuck in her body at odd and uncomfortable angles, she also had red scars where more wires had been before. A white sheet covered her naked body in a less than dignified way and one hand fell from the table and hung loosely.

I stepped closer and closer, wishing this was a dream I could wake up from, wishing this wasn't true. I swallowed when I stood next to her, studying the broken body. I could see black bruises through the sheet from where she had fought for her life. There was a bandage wrapped around her waist but congealed blood was seeping through in a dark scarlet colour.

That was the real me. That was who I was.

There was a clanking behind me as Vincent entered the room, but the sound to me was far off, as if you were underwater.

Tears fell at an uncontrollable speed down my cheeks and onto Yuffie's bare skin, moistening the it.

"How... How could anything like this actually happen?" I whispered to myself. "Why would someone do such a thing? ...Maybe, I'll just wake up, and this will all be a horrible nightmare. It can't be true, can it?" I rambled at no one. "I mean, everyone I knew was a simulation? Dad, Sensei, Vincent?" Their faces appeared briefly in my mind; my father's proud face as I left home, Sensei's smile as he looked down at the town from Da Chao, Vincent's face in the void as we slipped out of each other's arms. Everything I feel, everything I am, can that really be a lie?

I reached out and touched the face in front of me. Her skin was ice cold at my touch and I felt a strange sensation passing though me. My fingertips tingled from the touch and I brought them up, studying the strange feeling. As I watched, the flesh from my finger disintegrated and seemed to brake off into the air, shattering into tiny pieces and scattering into the air like glitter. I choked back a gasp as new tears sprung. I went to pull up my shirt when I found half of it had already disappeared. I was now in two parts. The stomach that was once there I could now cleanly put my hand through. My feet had already started disintegrating too. My blurry eyes looked up at the man beside. "I don't wanna go. I don't wanna leave." I pleaded.

His eyes were welling up. "...I don't know what to do."

"Don't leave me, please! I don't wanna be on my own again." I latched my arms around the man's chest and cried silently, watching the glitter rising.

His breathing was steadier than mine and he held me tighter, tighter than ever before.

Of course this just made me feel sadder about the fact I would leave him behind. That I would never see him again. I would never see anyone, not my family, not my friends. The world the real Yuffie had seen I would never discover. I would never see the annual fireworks at the Gold Saucer, or the beauty of Cosmo Canyon in a sunset. I would never have a husband, I would never have a family of my own.

My life was ending.

Here and now.

I pulled my head from Vincent's warm chest and looked up into his sad eyes. "Thank you. Thank you for everything. I will never forget you." I whispered, smiling. Now only my thighs and hips remained below my waist, my shoulders and head being the only thing above that. Of course I could still feel them, but I couldn't touch anything.

Then I did something I thought I would never have the courage to do. I leaned up to Vincent's face and kissed him softly on the lips. I tried to wrap my arms around his neck but they just went straight through him, like a ghost. I pulled back as the last of my lower body disappeared and my neck was starting to dissolve. "Take care of her." I told him.

His hand rested on my cheek and he nodded slowly.

"Goodbye Vince." I whispered finally.

As the last my face disappeared from view I saw Vincent's hand drop as he stared into the space where my eyes had been. "...Goodbye Yuffie."

Then, all was black.

OOOOOOOOOOO

The air in the continent of Wutai was always humid, cicadas chirped happily in the browning trees and apart from a few spurts of grass, dust lay along the dry paths. Da Chao's rock was decaying slightly, but it did every year. The sun swam in the hot air just above the small town and a wind from the ocean blew in every few minutes, lifting the lifeless dust from its position and swirling it through sky.

A man stood on the tallest point of Da Chao, looking out over the beautiful town and the surrounding wilderness. His traditional kimono flapped in the breeze which had unsettled the dust behind him, throwing it into curves and twists. The mop of brown hair on his head wavered until the breeze calmed.

"Sensei."

The man turned from his vantage point and bowed low. "Miss Yuffie, it is a pleasure to finally meet you."

"Oh, yeah. Sure." I replied, scratching the back of my head.

"Do you wish to speak to me?"

"Yeah, um, Sensei-"

"Please, do not call me such a word, for I was never your teacher."

"Oh. Yeah. Well, sir, I just wanted to thank you for all the things you've done for my village for the past three years, even though I haven't been here myself." I answered, fiddling with the various fastening on my shorts.

"It is an honour to work in such a place Miss Yuffie."

"Well, that was it. I'm off now... It was nice to finally meet you." I waved briefly at the man.

"And you Miss Yuffie." He nodded his head and watched me walk away.

It had only been a couple of days since I had awoken in that weird room, but so much had changed.

For one, I remembered everything. I mean everything. I don't know how it happened, or why, but I ended up not only with my memories but with my other body's memories as well, and her life in this world. That's how I knew Sensei, and why I had to thank him, he'd been so good to the other me. My body was also healing fast from the experiments, I couldn't even walk when I first woke up!

I walked back down the mountain path and met the man who had gotten me through it all. "All done Vinnie!"

He scowled at the nickname and but walked with me back towards Wutai. "Is that all you wanted to do?"

"Yeah, and just say hey to dad, I haven't seen him in a while." I replied, scuffing my shoes on the ground.

He grunted in reply.

"Oh, and, I'm sorry she called you a vampire."

"You remember that too?"

"Yep! But come on, it was a bit weird, you can't blame her! I'm sorry she called you Creep too."

"...What?"

...

Uh oh.

"Huh? Nothing." I lied, my cheek's flaring.

"What did she call me?"

"Geez nothing Vince just let it go! Hey, is that Cid over there?"

"Yuffie." He replied in a warning tone.

"It's nothing! Honest!"

He sighed and carried on walking, thinking better than to argue with me.

Nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk...

I giggled at his expression and grabbed onto his arm, intertwining our fingers.

I was so happy.

Thank you alternate Yuffie, thank you.

A/N: Done! Done, done, done, done, done! I'm so happy with this story, even though it's confused so many people! I'll be happy to answer questions or write a brief summary of what happened in an extra chapter if you feel you need it! Thank you so much again to all the people who reviewed, you are all wonderful, lovely people! Check out my page for more Yuffentines and take it easy!