Yuffie rested in the crook of Aya's arm and Aya was in a wake sleep. She was asleep enough to rest but awake enough to defend herself and her master. Down stairs Aerith was making breakfast and Cid was reading the paper and drinking his coffee.
"Could you wake up the girls please?" she asked as she flipped a pancake.
"Sure" Cid said and got up. Quietly he walked to the girl's room and opened the door. Deciding it was a better idea to wake Aya first probably because she seemed easier to wake.
"Hey kid... Wake up" he nudged her. Her eyes snapped open and she jumped in Cid. Her hand slapped over his mouth and she roughed him up a bit.
"Aya?" Yuffie asked feeling the warmth that was Aya gone from her side.
"Yes?" Aya asked and got back into bed.
"What where you doing?" she muttered
"I fell"
"mmm good night" Cid groaned in pain. He crawled to the door and shut it behind him. Then he promptly went to Cloud's room and pounded on it so hard it shook the frame.
"What?" Cloud asked finally stumbling to the door.
"We need to talk about Aya"
"What did she do to you?"
"she beat me up! What's it look like?" Cloud sighed. He walked to there room and saw the two girls holding each other. Cloud walked over to Aya and brushed aside her hair. Her eyes snapped open and she growled. A hand grasped his throat and she slammed him to the ground. A feral noise that Cloud only heard in the wildest jungles and darkest of caves.
"Aya" he choked out and her grip tightened and growl grew louder. A hand carefully traced the side of her face and her eyes widened.
"Cloud?" her grip loosened and she fell to the side.
"I'm sorry Cloud" she whispered.
"Say you're sorry to Cid as well" She stood up and fell to her knees and pressed her forehead to the floor.
"Please forgive me Cid. If there is anything that I can do for your forgiveness I am bound by a Strife's honor and respect for my elders," She said and her hair fell around her.
"Help me out in the shop this morning and your free"
"Thank you sir," she said, "but you must know I will be at the hand and foot of my master and her need always comes first,"
"Aya?"
"Master?" She looked up and turned to Yuffie.
"Quit calling me master and get back in bed. Its cold"
"Yes master. If you don't mind Cloud and Cid I must tend to my master" she urshered them from the room and shut the door behind them.
"Master?... How does your family work?"
"Yuffie must have done something to help Aya out a lot for her to call her master" Aerith came up the stairs.
"I can't believe you. You still haven't woken those two up?' Aerith opened the door.
"Aerith be careful!" Cloud grabbed for her arm but missed. The brave flower girl unknowing of the dangers that lurked in the room walked right up to the bed and gently shook its occupants.
"I can't watch" Cid said and covered his face.
"Aya.. Yuffie.. wake up.. Its time for breakfast.." Aya reached up and pulled Aerith into the bed with them.
"Its warm Aerith. Please sleep with us" Aya said and they made a sandwich of the three.
"Girls its breakfast and the bed is to small!" She wiggled a bit.
"Mmm But it's nice. You smell like flowers and moonbeams" Aya said breathing in the scent half asleep.
"Breakfast now" she said and sat up.
"But Aerith-" Yuffie whined.
"No buts. Get dressed and come down for breakfast"
"Yes ma'am" Both the girls said and got up. Aerith walked out and Cloud was dumbstruck.
"How-"
"Be firm Cloud. Be firm" She said and smiled.
"Right then….. Once you're finished with breakfast kid come to my shop and I'll get you workin off your debt" Cid said and faced the dazed teenager.
"Yes sir" she nodded and shut the door. The girls got dressed and walked down stairs.
"Hey Yuffie" Aya asked as they sat down with a plate of pancakes.
"Yeah Aya?" Yuffie took a sip of orange juice.
"What was that thing you put on?"
"A shirt?"
"No under your shirt" Yuffie turned red.
"A bra?" Cloud choked on his juice and Aerith gave her a puzzled look.
"Yeah whats it for?"
"Umm….. Well… uhh…."
"Didn't Auntie teach you?" He coughed. Aya turned red and shook her head.
"I was ten…. I don't understand… Whats wrong?" She bit her lip and Yuffie squeezed her hand.
"Its okay! Um.. Ugh… Aerith… what do… How do? Uugg"
"Fairy godmother might know what to do… Or at least explain it…."
"I should not stress my master so. I fail as a servant," She pulled out her nightstick and pressed it to her stomach.
"I will end this now"
"Ah! No suicide! Im not stressed! As your master I order you not to!" Yuffie took the nightstick and Aya nodded.
"Why do you call her master?" Leon asked.
"What did you need done today Cid?" Aya asked side stepping the question.
"Um just move some boxes around and sweep and your good" Aya nodded. After breakfast was finished and put away Aya Yuffie and Cid where making here way to the gummi shop. Aya stopped and made her nightstick into a katana.
"Hear that?" She asked. There was a slight hiss in the air and Shadows appeared.
"Master, Cid run!" Aya yelled and started hacking away. Cid cursed forgetting his weapon at him and Yuffie pulled out shurikins.
"Shit Shit shit! Aya protect Cid!"
"Yes master!" She lept and blocked an attack from a heartless.
"Get him to the shop!" Aya frowned and took out two heartless.
"I won't leave you master!" She said and Yuffie cartwheeled back.
"I am your master! do as I say!" She said.
"..." She pulled a charm from her pocket and smashed it into dust. The powder wove a wall around the three and Aya nodded.
"Be safe master" With that. She pulled a charm whispered something and grabbed Cid's arm. They shot into the sky and Yuffie grinned. The charm had made a sheild and what ever touched it was dispatched within seconds. Cratwheeling and spinning she killed some heartless. Grimacing she ran leading them away from the direction that cid and Aya left to. The sheild was falling and flickering like a flame. Just as the shield flickered out Yuffie jumped on the roof of the hotel. She watched as the shadows clawed at the walls and tired to grab her. She grinned and let out a laugh.
"That's right! You can't get the drop on the greatest ninja ever!" She said and climbed to the very top. Breathing in the calm night air she grinned. She could see all the disricts from here. She saw the door's of Cid's shop open and Aya struggling to leave. Cid clamped his hand over her wrist as she tried to get out. She was holding back big time. grinning she quickly and skillfully jumped from roof to roof and promptly landed in front of Aya.
"Master!" Aya tackled her. They laughed and Aya did the work Cid asked.
Across the town the world gates opened and three tall menacing men walked in with crossbows and quivers attacted to there hips.
"Are you sure?"
"We've tackled her before with this charm and we're doing it again" Each looked like an exact copy of the other. Behind them was a small boy slightly the same but meerly a teenager.
"Should we-"
"Its glowing brighter! There must be more than one!"
"More than one? What is this?!" The crowed around the charm. The smaller man stayed back.
"This is not right.. We can't do this," He grit his teeth and looked up. A drop of rain fell on his head. Soon the rain came down in buckets and they had crammed into a booth of the cafe. The oldest, Orion, Was flirting with the waitress. The younger brother winced, hoping the poor girl had enough sense to leave.. To run from his family. He winced as visions came up. Her smooth skin littered with bruises and cuts. the color from her eyes gone completely as she held and nursed a baby girl. He wanted to cry at this vision. To scream out against it but it proceeded. The child was ripped from her mother and put up for sale as a slave.
"Brother? What troubles you?" The second brother , Abbadon, asked.
"The fact that there are two left... We are so close brothers.. So close," He lied. The three laughed heartily and nodded.
"Soon brother we will be rid of th-"
"This place has the best hot chocolate Aya! I swear its like they melt a candy bar in a cup and add milk!" Yuffie chattered and pulled her into a table in the corner of the cafe.
"There she is.."
"Lets get her now."
"No wait she will lead us to the next Strife... The last two..." Orion grinned at his brothers. Abbadon grinned at the third brother, Azreal.
"She would make a good slave don't you think?"
"Or a breeder. She looks very fertile," Aya grimmanced.
"I'll be right back Yuffie," She ran into the bathroom. Yuffie followed behind quickly. Aya coughed and vomitted.
"Aya!" Yuffie quickly pulled the hair away. Orion looked at the youngest.
"David.. This will be your first kill... The brown haired girl.. When the time is right you will shoot her through the heart and we will go after the other..."
"Aya are you okay?" Yuffie asked as Aya spat and flushed the toliet.
"I guess I'm not used to eatting so much in a short about of time," Aya groaned and Yuffie pressed a towel to her head.
"Lets get you to Aerith and see if she can help" She helped her to her feet and wrapped an arm under her arms and Aya leaned on her.
ugghh so sleepy.. Merry christmas! Happy new year!