Well I left one hell of a cliff hanger last chapter didn't I? Cookies to anyone who can figure out what was going on in Yuffie's mind then.

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"SQUALL! Speak to me! Do something, Anything!" Yuffie cried, shaking the body, then trying to find a pulse, freaking out when she couldn't find one. Tears fell from her eyes as she lay there, holding on to him. "It…can't be over. It just can't…" her sobs echoed through the valley, "I honestly didn't mean to Squall. I know you probably won't believe me but I didn't…"

She searched him for something, anything that could be used as a makeshift bandage, to try and stop the bleeding. One panicked attempt at first aid later Yuffie slung him over her back, cursing at his weight and abandoning both weapons in the valley.

"Yuffie?" Called a high pitched voice, it was Aerith. Perfect! She's good with restorative magic, she can help me out here. Won't she? Yuffie thought to herself, would the flower girl even want to be associated with her after what she did to Squall?

"OVER HERE AERITH! HURRY!" She shouted out, Aerith rushed over, trying not to trip over her dress. She screamed slightly when she saw what Squall was. A bloody mess.

"Wha- What happened?" She asked, stunned.

"We… we were training but…" Yuffie choked on her own words. She couldn't bring her herself to say it, not to her best friend. Someone who always stuck up for her, she couldn't bear to see how much it would affect Aerith to find out that it was her who caused those injuries.

I didn't mean to hurt him. Honest!

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"Yuffie?" Asked Aerith. Ever since they returned to Merlin's place the ninja had locked herself away in her room. Squall was still out cold in the hospital.

"…"

"Yuffie, it wasn't your fault that Leon got hurt."

Yes it was, I was the one who hurt him in the first place. She thought to herself miserably.

"Look, how were you supposed to know you'd be attacked during training. By the looks of Leon, whatever got to him could have killed both of you."

It was me. I could have killed Squall, if it wasn't for you he'd be dead.

"Just please talk to me Yuffie. Please. You can tell me what happened, you'll know I'll believe you."

That's the problem, if you believe it. You'll hate me. You'll burst into tears, ask me why…

"…Why won't you open this door?" Aerith said, knocking again. Yuffie turned her head away from the door. "We don't have to talk about what happened if you don't want to." She heard the lock click open finally, Yuffie emerged from the room, red streaks from tears running down her face. Aerith put her arms around the younger girl as she sobbed slightly.

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"No. She can't be… Its just not possible. It just can't. She was like a sister to me…" Yuffie couldn't believe it. Aerith was gone. Taken from her, from all of them at the end of the masamune. She held on to her, crying. Trying to wake up from whatever sick dream this was.

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Yuffie Recoiled from Aerith, as though she was a burning piece of metal she just touched.

"Yuffie?" She asked, confused.

"S…sorry Aerith." The ninja said, stepping aside to allow Aerith to enter her room.

"Are you going to be okay now?"

"Yeah." probably not.

"Well that's good, the doctors say that Leon's going to wake up sometime today, Cid and I were going to see him." Yuffie froze, if Squall hadn't had his memory scrambled by what happened, he would tell Aerith and worse, Cid. Yuffie tried to hold back the tears as she spoke.

"Aerith…"

"Yes Yuffie?"

"I know who it was that attacked Squall, I mean Leon." Yuffie quickly corrected herself. She had gotten so used to calling him Squall, she had forgotten that he wanted to always be known as Leon.

"Well then, who was it?"

"It was… me." Yuffie admitted.

Aerith's eyes went wide from shock, she gasped and stepped away from the ninja.

"But…but…" She was trying to convince herself that it just wasn't true "H-how could you Yuffie?"

"I didn't mean too! It was just…" She sighed, she really had no excuse that Aerith would understand. How could she even possibly explained what had happened in her own mind. How instead of fighting in a crystal valley, they were in a pagoda. And how Squall had changed into a three-faced monster. She just couldn't.

"Yuffie…"

"Something happened to me out there Aerith, all I could think about was using this one technique, one that cut Squall open in all those places. I wasn't there. Its like it was me, but not me at the same time." She tried her best to say, a few droplets of water fell out onto the floor from her eyes. Dammit Yuffie, stop crying! she screamed in her head mentally.

"…" Aerith just stood there speechless, shaking her head.

"Aerith, please don't leave me. Not now!" She said, trying to latch on to her arm. Aerith shrieked and jumped away, stumbling on her dress sending her down on her ass.

"No… didn't you care what would happen to Squall? Couldn't you stop it?" She shouted, tears building up in her eyes.

"I didn't see Squall then. What I saw was some big ugly monster that I was attacking. I didn't mean for him to get hurt. You have to believe me Aerith. If you don't, no-one will." Yuffie cried out.

"Yuffie… I can't…"

"Why? Why wont you believe me? I didn't want to hurt Squall."

"…" Aerith picked herself up. She wanted to believe Yuffie, that it was an accident. But Squall was in hospital with 8 gashes across his body. 8 wounds do not all happen by accident by both parties.

"Please Aerith… please, try and make them understand that I didn't mean to do it. You… you're my only hope!"

"Yuffie…"

"Please… I'm begging you."

"…Okay." She said softly.

"Do you mean it?" Yuffie said through the sobs.

"Yes. I'll try and convince Cid and Merlin that you didn't mean to hurt him. But I can't convince Leon for you. That's something you'll have to do alone."

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Okay since this is my first KH multi-chap fic. I really need the reviews for this. I'm not sure whether or not I'm writing the characters OOC or not.