A New Ally (Remake)
When the group arrived at Nibelheim, Hiro was a bit pale when they were in the town plaza. "Is this where it happened Hiro?" Arxen asked Hiro, who nodded.
"Yea.." Hiro muttered, as he touched his scar again. He looked sad, and Aeris tried to cheer him up.
"Hey, cheer up!" Aeris said, and Hiro sighed.
"I'm sorry." Hiro said. Hiro reached into his pocket, and pulled out a black Mp3. A total surprise to everyone. "What?" Hiro asked them, and they all shook there head and looked around. He sighed, and placed the earphones in his ears.
"So what now?" Arxen asked the others.
"Tifa and I will take a look around. Arxen, why don't you and Hiro go to the inn. Get us some rooms just incase alright?" Cloud told the blue haired man, who nodded. "Alright. Hiro, let's go." Arxen said, but was surprised when Hiro had his eyes close.
"He must be listening to the music a bit loud." Arxen said, poking Hiro on the shoulder. Hiro looked over at him, removing one earphone. Arxen was able to read the screen of the black Mp3. Hiro was listening to Drown by Magna-Fi.
"Come on, we are going to find some rooms." Arxen said, and Hiro nodded. They walked over to the inn, and they entered. Hiro put his music player away, knowing that he would start to listen to it more frequently, and that would distract him.
"Three rooms please." Arxen said to the innkeeper, who just gave him three keys instead of asking a question about why only two people need three rooms.
"Thanks." Arxen said, walking towards the stairs. Hiro followed the blue haired man, and they both went upstairs to the rooms. They entered a room with four beds, and Hiro laid on one of them.
"I'm so tired." Hiro said, and Arxen laughed.
"I am too. When you guys picked me up, I was just done training." Arxen explained, and Hiro smiled.
"Sorry." Hiro said, and Arxen shrugged.
"It's okay. That was all I would do before you guys came along." Arxen said. It was completely silent until Arxen broke it.
"So do you like Yuffie Kisaragi?" Arxen asked the blonde, who blushed wildly. "H-How did you know?!" Hiro asked in surprise, and Arxen laughed.
"I saw you staring at her, and Aeris told me." Arxen said, and Hiro narrowed his eyes.
Damn your flaws at keeping secrets Aeris. I didn't want Arxen to know. Hiro thought.
"Don't worry about it man, I'll hook you two up." Arxen said, making Hiro sigh.
"It won't be that easy. She totally hates me. Because of a incident that happened four years ago." Hiro said, and Arxen was curious what happened.
"What did happen between you two?" Arxen asked, sitting down on a chair near him.
"Yuffie is from Wutai you see, and you know how Wutai isn't suppose to have any materia because of what happened after the war in Wutai?" Arxen nodded.
"Yea."
"Well, four years ago, my town was going to be sold to some random dude. I forget his name, anyway, he told me to steal materia from Wutai, rare materia. Knowing that Wutai had that materia, my friend Zek and I traveled there. We quickly went out at night and found the materia, which was kept in the leader's home. We entered, and took all the materia. A young girl, which was Yuffie, showed up, and I fought her. I won, and we left with all the materia." Hiro explained. He then snapped his fingers
"Oh. Now I remember that guy's name. His name was Tevin Nickels." Hiro said, remembering the name.
"What happened to the guy after that?" Arxen asked, and Hiro sighed.
"I killed him. Of course, it was in self-defense. He tried to kill me first, then I killed him. Axens, the town I was trying to save, was destroyed during a raid on the town. Apparently, the raid was caused by thieves, but the thieves disappeared after that. Nothing was stolen. So I doubt it was really thieves."
"Oh. Sorry to hear about that." Arxen said, and Hiro nodded.
"It is alright, I just have some bad things happen to me in my life." Arxen nodded.
"Sorry I asked. Anyway, do you want me to hook you up with Kisaragi or not?" Arxen asked, smirking. Hiro sighed, then also smirked.
"You won't give up huh?" Hiro asked Arxen, and Arxen nodded sheepishly.
"Alright..go ahead. Thanks man."
Later that night.
Arxen sighed, putting his hand through his hair as he walked down the inn hallway. He walked up to Yuffie's room and knocked on the door. Luckily, Aeris and Tifa were out, since they were looking around with Barret and Cloud. Hiro was also studying the town, along with Red and Cait. That left Arxen alone with Yuffie, and his plan was about to be set into action. Yuffie opened the door, and she sighed when she saw Arxen.
"What do you want Arxen?" She asked, and Arxen smirked. She didn't really like to talk to him, since he seemed to be getting good with Hiro.
"I was hoping you wanted to take a walk with me." Arxen said, and Yuffie blinked in surprise. "What?" She asked, and Arxen's smirk faded.
He let out a sigh. "Do you want to take a walk with me or not?" He asked, and Yuffie nodded.
"Oh, alright." Yuffie was curious why Arxen wanted to take her on a walk.
They walked outside of the inn, and they walked down the trail. The sky was full of stars, and the moon shined brightly through the night. Yuffie sighed while they walked, and she looked at Arxen, her eyes narrowed.
"Why did you call me out here? Do you like me or something?" Yuffie asked the blue haired man, who shook his head.
"No." He stopped walking in the middle of the town, and he turned to her. She stopped as well, and Arxen's eyes were looking at hers. Yuffie thought he was looking at her because of her looks, and she blushed slightly. But she was surprised when he asked her: "What do you really think of Hiro?"
"Is that what you called me out for?" Yuffie asked, sort of surprised and sort of pissed off that he called her out for that.
"Yuffie. Hiro is really sorry for what he did. He likes you Yuffie, you got to give that guy a chance." Arxen tried to convince her, but she gave him a cold look.
"He doesn't really care about me. I mean, look at what he did to me four years ago." Yuffie said, and Arxen sighed.
"From what I heard he does. He saved you from a rapist, and yet you still hate him. If he didn't really care about you, he would of let that man do whatever he wanted to you." Arxen said.
"W-whatever, I don't believe you." She said, looking down. Arxen noticed something in her eyes, a certain emotion that he wanted to trigger.
Guilt.
"Listen, just give the guy a chance. You and Hiro would make a very good couple. I could tell." Arxen said. "Sure, you both have your differences, like you being loud and annoying." Arxen said, and Yuffie growled.
"What did you sa- Woah!" Yuffie was walking towards him, and she tripped. Arxen quickly caught her.
"Hey, you okay?" Arxen asked, and Yuffie looked up at him. "Oh yea, thanks.." She said, and she noticed they looked like they were in a loving embrace. Arxen had her arms around her waist, while she accidently put her arms around his neck when he caught her. She grabbed his neck just incase he would let go. "Wow. This is totally akward." Arxen said, and Yuffie nodded.
"Yea, it looks like we-" But she stopped when she noticed someone in the distance.
It was Hiro, who stood there, eyes full of shock. Arxen looked at the direction she was looking, and gasped to see Hiro. He let go of her.
"Hiro!" Arxen was shocked to see his friend, and Hiro shook his head a bit, walking backward while looking at him.
"Hiro let me explain, there is a perfectly logical explantion for all this!" Arxen tried to get his friend to understand that it was a pure accident, but Hiro quickly ran away.
"Damn it, Hiro!" Arxen ran after him, and Yuffie couldn't help but run after them. Hiro ran fast, and Arxen was fast as well. Yuffie was far off from them. Hiro quickly noticed a mansion, which he kicked the door open. He ran into the mansion, and Arxen followed. Yuffie stopped at the doorway. She tried to catch her breath, and she watched Arxen and Hiro have a conversation.
"Hiro, dude let me explain.." Arxen said, and Hiro glared at him.
"Explain what? That you were going to take Yuffie and leave me alone? I bet you didn't even tell her why I stole all that materia in the first place!" Hiro yelled at Arxen, who tried to remain calm.
"Hiro, I was getting to that. Yuffie tripped and I caught her-" But he was cut off by Hiro.
"Shut up! She didn't trip, you two were embracing each other! Liar!" Hiro yelled at Arxen, who stood there. Arxen sighed
"Hiro I was going to help you! Yuffie just-" But he was shocked when Hiro shook his head.
"Shut up!" He said, running away from him. Arxen was about to go after him, but Yuffie ran up to him.
"Listen Arxen, he isn't going to listen. Just leave that loser alone." Yuffie said, and Arxen shook his head.
"No."
Hiro ran through the mansion, trying to get away from the guy he thought was going to help him. He entered a big room, and noticed a small vault near the wall of the room. Hiro, being curious, and thinking that he was away from Arxen, walked up to it.
"Might as well open it, maybe something in there will help me feel better..." Hiro said to himself, getting down on his knees. He tried to crack the safe, but it wouldn't open.
"Hmph..stupid vault. It is to old to listen to.." Hiro muttered, getting up. He turned around, and was about to walk away, but he turned around and slashed the door with his sword. It split in half, and Hiro smirked, but it faded when a giant monster came out. The monster was giant, and half of it was red, and the other half was purple with green arms.
"Damn..:" Hiro said, and the monster tried to strike him with it's arm. Hiro jumped back quickly, and he prepared for the next attack.
Hiro was surprised when a shuriken appeared and hit the monster, making it shriek in pain. Hiro noticed that it was Arxen and Yuffie, and Hiro's eyes widened.
"Damn.." Hiro looked around to see if the monster dropped anything, then noticed it had a key. Hiro quickly grabbed it.
"Might as well get out of her-" But was shocked when someone grabbed his arm.
"Sorry it took so long.." Hiro turned to see Arxen, who smiled.
"Let's take care of this thing." Arxen said, but Hiro pushed him back. "Don't get in my way." Hiro glared at Arxen, who sighed
"I'm sorry Hiro.." He said, but Hiro ignored him. Hiro jumped up and slashed the monster, making it shirek in pain. Arxen joined in, starting to stab him repeatly with one of his blades. Green blood poured from the two wounds, and Yuffie took her chance.
"Take this!" Yuffie threw her shuriken at the monster, but it disappeared.
"Slow!" Arxen cast the spell at the shuriken to stop it, and the monster cast a spell at Hiro, making him freeze in mid-air.
"Yuffie! Use a spell to call back the shuriken before my magic stops!" Arxen said, but Yuffie just stood there, sort of shocked about what was about to happen.
"Yuffie! Call it back!" Arxen yelled, but it was to late. The shuriken hit Hiro in the stomach, and Hiro laid down on the stomach. Hiro's eyes widened, shocked by what Yuffie did. She attacked me.. Hiro thought, full of shock. Hiro stood up, and he pulled out the shuriken from his stomach, and he threw it on the ground.
"H-Hiro? Are you okay man?" Arxen was about to run over to his friend, but Hiro jumped up into the air, and slashed the air. The monster appeared, and Hiro glared at it.
Hiro slashed it repeatedly, making green blood fly every where, and he finished it by stabbing it in it's chest. The monster made one final shirek before falling down to the ground, dying. Hiro then cast a white light to blind Yuffie and Arxen.
"Ah!" Arxen covered his eyes, while Yuffie did the same thing. When the light was gone, Arxen glared at Yuffie.
"Why didn't you stop it?!?" Arxen yelled at Yuffie, who looked down. Arxen sighed deeply, and ran his hand through his hair.
"Nevermind that, just go get the others. I'll get Hiro."
Arxen walked around the hallways alone, then he noticed a door down to the basement. He walked down to the basement, and looked around. "Wow..this place is messed up." Arxen said, walking foward, but gasped when he saw a door.
"Woah. Kinda dusty. Might as well check it out." Arxen said, opening the door. There was a coffin, and he walked over to it. "Wonder whats in it?" Arxen said, opening the coffin.
Out of it appeared a man wearing a red cloak. His hand was a golden claw, and he looked at Arxen. Arxen quickly fell to the ground in surprise.
"What happened? Who are you?" He asked, jumping back. He pulled a pistol.
"My name is Arxen, and I'm looking for my friend, and you are?" As the blue haired teen stood up, wiping himself off.
"Vincent. Vincent Valentine." The man introduced himself.
"SEPHIROTH!"
Vincent looked over at the door. "Sephiroth?" Vincent was surprised, and Arxen ran out the door, and Vincent followed.
Hiro
Hiro walked down to the basement, and he looked around. "This place..it's so familar." Hiro said, walking through the caverns. When he made it to the end, he gasped when he saw a library. "This place, I remember it." Hiro said. He started to look around, looking at all the books. "These books are pretty old." Hiro said.
"This is where she and I talked to each other." Hiro gasped, and he looked back to see none other then the One Winged Angel.
"SEPHIROTH!" Hiro said, quickly preparing for a attack.
"Hiro, stop. Why won't you join me? We can take over this world together. You are a powerful human being. Mother needs a ally." Sephiroth said, but Hiro shook his head.
"I will never join you! You stupid bastard!" Hiro said, making Sephiroth sigh deeply.
"Boy, you will join me." He said, and Hiro glared at him.
"Not after what you did to me. Not after what you did to Zek. Not after what you did to Avalance. And especially not after what you did to her!" Hiro said, and Sephiroth sighed.
"You really are protective of her aren't you?" Hiro glared at him.
"You won't even use her name.." Hiro slashed the air.
"Because you don't deserve to hear it!"
Sephiroth sighed, and threw him a green materia. "Take this..it could be some good use. You can also use this." He opened a portal.
"This will get you outside of here quickly. I heard of what happened between you and those two patheic excuses for humans.." Sephiroth then disappeared, leaving Hiro alone.
"I don't trust him enough.." Hiro said, running out of the basement, unaware that Arxen and Vincent were following him.
Hiro walked out of the mansion to see Avalance running towards him. "Damn." Hiro muttered, and he quickly ran towards the Nibelheim mountains. Hiro kept running, but was stopped by a strange creature, and Hiro sighed.
"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" Hiro summoned Obilivon, and it killed the monster in one hit, suprising him. He ignored it, and ran through the mountains.
Avalance
"He went through these mountains.." Vincent said. Arxen introduced the cloaked man, and they decided to let him join them.
"What happened to him?" Aeris asked Arxen, who sighed.
"Well, it's complicated. You see, I was talking to Yuffie, and she got mad at me for making fun of her a bit. She was going to hit me, but she tripped. I caught her, and it looked as though we were in a couple's thing, whatever. Hiro saw us, and quickly ran away. Of course, we followed him. I tried to tell him it was a accident, but he did not believe us." Arxen said, and Aeris gasped.
"Oh. We also heard about the little accident invovling Yuffie hurting Hiro." When they heard that, Avalance was furious at Yuffie. They have been walking for hours, almost out of the mountains.
Yuffie was in the back of the line, thinking of what to do when seeing Hiro. A part of her wanted to say she was sorry because of what she did to Hiro. Another part of her wanted to kill him.
"Anyway, Hiro should be at a town not far from here. Isn't there a town called Rocket Town near here Cloud?" Tifa asked the spikey blonde, who nodded.
"Yea." He said, a bit worried for the blonde boy.
"Alright, are we there yet?" Barret asked, as they crossed a mountain.
"Almost there, all we have to do is walk through these plains." Cloud said. It didn't take long, and they were near the entrance of Rocket Town. "Alright. Yuffie, I don't want you to search for Hiro. Instead, go to the inn and get us rooms." Cloud said, and Yuffie nodded. She was very silent.
When they entered the town, Yuffie walked into the inn.
"A couple of rooms coming up!" The innkeeper said, and Yuffie sighed when she got the keys.
"Thank you." She said, walking up the stairs. "Oh wait!" She stopped and turned to the innkeeper. "There is a young lad up there, and he is pretty depressed, would you mind trying to cheer him up?" The innkeeper asked, and Yuffie gasped.
Could it be- She thought, but she just nodded and ran up the stairs.
She looked into the room where the young man was, and was shocked to see Hiro, who was looking out the window. He apparently healed the wound, and he sighed. Yuffie was hiding, and she was deep in thought. Should I say I'm sorry? No! I should hate him! He made you a disgrace Yuffie! Yuffie thought, pushing the door open.
Hiro turned and gasped. "Yuffie? What are you doing here?" Hiro asked, surprised to see the ninja here.
"You idiot! You ran away from us! Those fools were worried! I don't know why, but they were!" Yuffie yelled at him, and Hiro sighed. "So..you weren't? I know that you hate me Yuffie.." Hiro said, and Yuffie nodded.
"Of course I hate you! You hate me, you made me a disgrace!" Yuffie kicked over the chair near her, and Hiro still looked down.
"Yuffie..please listen to me.." He said, and Yuffie clutched her fist.
"Yuffie..I don't hate you. I kinda like you." Hiro said slowly, blushing a bit.
"No you don't! Just shut up! Liar!" She said. Hiro moved away from the window.
"Yuffie.." He walked up to her, and Yuffie slapped him.
"Stay away from me!" She yelled at him, and Hiro stopped. He sighed in annoyance again.
"Yuffie.."
Yuffie glared at him.
"Look, I hate you! Just go kill yourself or do whatever!!!" She yelled at him, and then there was silence. She thought she had won, until Hiro sighed deeply in annoyance
"Yuffie. The reason I stole all that materia from your village was because my town was going to be sold to some freak who was going to kick us all out of our homes. I didn't want to, but it was for my friends.." Hiro said.
Yuffie just stood there, completely shocked. "Thats the reason?" She said, and Hiro nodded.
"Yuffie. I like you, ok? I'm going to admit it. But I want you to forgive me for some of the stuff I have done."
Yuffie just stood there. Do I like him? I mean, he is nice and he would help anyone, but do you? I kinda have liked the way he would stare at me. I guess...
"Hiro..sit down." She said calmly, surprising him. Hiro did sit down on the bed, and Yuffie sat beside him. There was a awkward silence, until Yuffie broke it. "You really like me?" She asked, and Hiro nodded.
"I do."
"Well, umm," Yuffie kind of sat there, thinking. Hiro noticed. "Well, I guess, maybe I was wrong." She said, and Hiro blinked.
"About what?" Hiro asked, and Yuffie sighed.
"I still have this..anger towards you. Yet, I can't really do anything about it. I mean, you did have a good reason, yet you shouldn't of stole from us."
"That is true." Hiro agreed, sitting there. "Yet I did. I knew it was wrong, but all on my mind was saving my town."
"I understand that." Yuffie said. She then looked at Hiro. "Well..maybe...I could give you a shot." She said, and Hiro blinked, looking at her.
"So, you're pretty much saying I can have a shot with you?" Hiro asked, and Yuffie nodded.
"Yea..I mean, you're a sweet guy. Maybe we can give us a sho-" Yuffie was shocked when Hiro leaned forward and kissed her.
The kiss was sweet, Hiro's lips were a little rough, and Yuffie's was a bit soft. To them, for some odd reason, seemed like forever, their hearts beating quickly. Yuffie stopped him.
"A little to early for that, Hiro..haha." Yuffie said, blushing a bit. Hiro also blushed. "WOAH!" Hiro and Yuffie looked over at the door to see Avalance.
"Oh..hey guys, we just came by-" Aeris began, but Hiro sighed.
"You listened to the whole conversation right?" Hiro asked, and they all nodded.
"We all want you to come back." Barret said, standing up.
"Really?" Hiro asked.
"Yea, I need someone to pick on every now in then." Cait Sith said, and Hiro smiled.
"Who would make me laugh when I was down?" Aeris asked Hiro.
"Who would help me when I was down too?" Red asked.
"I need a training partner." Cloud said, actually smiling a bit.
"And I need a best friend." Out of the group, Arxen stood out
"I'm sorry.." Arxen said, but Hiro shook his head.
"No, I should be sorry. I'm sorry for freaking out. I'm sorry for running away. I hope you all could forgive me." Hiro said, and Tifa smiled.
"Of course we will!" She said, and Hiro smirked.
Yuffie stood up, and stood beside of him. He looked at Yuffie.
"So, I guess we are a couple offically now, right?" Hiro asked, and Yuffie nodded.
"Yea, cutie." She said, smiling a bit. Hiro blushed.
"So what next?" Hiro asked, trying to get rid of his blush, and Cloud smirked.
"Well, we met a pilot who can help us. So we are going to go meet him." Cloud said, and Hiro smirked.
"Alright, we shouldn't keep him waiting now should we?"
Chapter 6 redone!
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