Awakening

Author's Note: I am back with a new chapter. I'm so loaded with projects, yo. HOW DO YOU PPL SURVIVE. Because I'm telling you the truth, I don't think I can survive my third year of intermediate school. Seriously. Oh, and I'm using the terms of school that they use in Fruits Basket. That manga rules. Go Furuba.

Warning: I don't think much language in this chapter. After all, it is Vincent's chapter. Well, then again, Chaos will be making an appearance. So, probably language. Most likely no violence.

Disclaimer: I am so sick of these things. I use them all the time on LiveJournal. But they must be stated. I do not own Yuffie, Vincent, any of the characters, ideas, or anything else cited from Final Fantasy VII. This is all owned by Square-Enix. WHOO LONG DISCLAIMER.

Damned girl… well, she's not damned. I just can't believe she stole our materia.

I told you she was good for nothing, Vincent.

I still don't believe in that, Chaos. She has her uses.

Psh, whatever! When she screws you over yet again, you'll come crying back to me like you do every time.

…

I check my pockets for any materia that she might have left, just to realize that she left us none. Damn it. Well, we'll just have to travel. "I just can't believe it…"

"Damned #$# girl," Cid blurts out. He sure speaks out whatever's on his mind. I envy him for that. Being able to do as he pleases. I lost that ability while I was atoning.

"Well, we can't go on like this. Let's go up north and follow her." Well, I don't plan on going on without my materia. And if I remember correctly, this is a peninsula. So this should be the only city on it.

We walk up, run into an Adamatoise. They're quite fond around the beach, and I think this is the first time either Cid or Cloud have seen one. I shoot it down, but not fatally wound it. It should be stunned long enough for us to get to Wutai. Yuffie is Wutaian, after all. Or so she claims.

We run to Wutai, quickly as we can, the others behind us somewhere. When we get there, she's nowhere to be found. "Where could she be…?" I say aloud, thinking to myself. I'm thinking that maybe I should have killed her a while ago… No! I can't allow myself to be that primitive.

We run inside the nearby store, and the clerks are a bit… secretive. We look around, not seeing anything to be nervous about. It worries me… why would they be so secretive?

Because they want to kill her first, and you're in the way.

Shut up, Chaos. Must everything resort to violence?

Hmm, basically.

…

What do you know, a treasure chest. I feel a bit like Yuffie, wanting to open it as soon as possible. She's rubbing off on me.

Cloud opens the chest, and there happens to be an MP Plus materia. Perhaps we can keep this… Oh no. There goes Yuffie, hopping off my claw. I would personally not like to see her ass this close to my face.

Oh, please Vincent. You know you loved it.

I did not, Chaos.

Oh, you're no fun.

…Anyway. Cid's too old to catch her quickly, so we missed our opportunity, and lost more materia. I assume this is why the store clerks were being so secretive. To protect one of their own.

We walk down to the nearby bar, Turtle's Paradise, and we see no one else but the infamous Turks. I miss being a Turk, but that was when it was still ShinRa Manufacturing. It being a mako-obsessed power company turns me off now.

I'm not paying too much attention to them, but Reno's turning down a fight. Elena's upset about it now. I'm interested on what they'll have to say.

"Even the booze tastes bad now." …What an interesting quote made by a Turk. I haven't met anyone so dedicated to drinking more than Reno and Rude. How fascinating, they are. Just plainly fascinating.

We leave the bar, and ask the nearby girl whether she's seen Yuffie or not. What a lively response. I never would have expected this.

"I know, I know! Right there, in your face is Da-chao!" That's too much information right there. Everyone knows that's Da-chao. Just answer the damn question, child. "No, I haven't seen anyone climbing the mountain today." Thank you for answering the damn question.

We go inside the house next to her, and we speak to the elderly lady. She's apparently claimed by Alzheimer's. She thinks that we know her.

"No, grandma! These are more strangers!" More? As in, someone else? "A strange girl came in here earlier!" We look behind the bed…no one there. Behind the door…no one there. The screen! There she is. She speeds out, and I snag a bit of her shirt with my claw.

Ooh, Vincent. I think she's playing hard to get.

Well, I don't. It was a sincere accident.

Oh, lighten up, Valentine. You are so dense.

"What?" I ask, letting the piece of fabric float to the ground. It's just a piece of clothing, after all. I run out the door, and see the jug outside of Turtle's Paradise shaking. That must be her, cramped in the pot. Cloud directs Cid and I to block off the other directions. I block off the way to leave Wutai, while Cid blocks off the way to Da-chao. Cloud hits the pots a couple of times, before it falls over and breaks, exposing the young ninja. She tries running to the nearby exits to escape, but Cid and I are blocking them. Finally, we catch her, and she admits defeat. Finally, we'll be able to go inside her so famed home.

Isn't this what you've dreamed of, Valentine? To rape her in her own home?

No. Not everyone is as demented as you, Chaos.

But, come on! I thought the whole reason we came was to make her a slave! Are you kidding me? This is no fun.

You thought wrong.

You are such a party pooper, Valentine.

She leads us down the stairs and tells us some sad story. I'm not buying it, like Cid, though Cloud is about to be in tears. Must he believe everything?

She tells us to pull the right lever, and because I don't trust her, I pull the left. A cage comes up from above, trapping us, and leaving her time to escape. "Fuck," I say, under my breath, as the cage goes back up. Why didn't I look up? We try pulling the right lever, and the cage comes crashing back down. I knew I shouldn't have trusted that ninja.

We run up the stairs quickly, and seeing that there was nowhere to hide, we run into the town square. We look around, searching for anything suspicious. "I remember this one time, in this one mystery book…" Oh God, here goes Cloud and his dramatic book telling. "This one dude like, rang a bell and…"

"Just get to the damn point!" I now have more respect for Cid than I ever have before. I shall personally have to thank him later.

"Well, I think we should ring the bell!" Cloud sprints up the stairs and rings the bell, revealing a door on the side of the structure. How convenient. Cloud actually got something right for once. We run through the door, and we see something out of the ordinary.

A ninja has our ninja. How interesting. "Don Corneo?" Cloud must be quite familiar with this man. "What are you doing here?"

"Since you screwed it up last time, I've went bride shopping again! And this time, I've got two chickies!" …Who's the second one? Ah, that Turk. Elena, her name was? I'm not quite familiar with her yet.

You idiot, you could have taken her. But NO, and now look. The fat old man has her. You should have made a move earlier.

I don't lust like you do, Chaos.

Lust? Please. It's all for the fun, Vincent. Now, go get the babe back. Maybe you can score. Two for one, how do you like the…

Shut up. Now.

The ninjas run up the stairs, and we chase after them. There are ShinRa here as well? They sure get around. They attempt to assail Corneo, yet he moves and they pounce on me. I push them off of me, and in another attempt to assail the voluptuous man, they fail. Cid stabs one with his harpoon, and the body falls on top of the other. Damn, this gave him time to escape.

We go out the door, and now I know where we are. We're in that nearby dojo. We run through the dojo and when we make it outside, the other two Turks are standing there. What were their names? I think it was Rude and… Reno. Yes, Reno. Like the television show.

We negotiate to go after Corneo, after Cloud explains our situation. We're not partnering up, we just decide not to fight them until we get what we want. Reno reminds us again that it's their vacation, and then we run off, toward the direction of the village.

We decide to ask the little girl by the house whether she saw "the Don" or not, and we get another lively response from her. "Yeah, I saw this really fat dude! It looked like he was floating, and he nearly bowled me over!" Yeah, that sounds like him. She's got a great description of him. Perhaps ShinRa should hire her for observations. She could get great pay doing write-ups. Really.

We run up to Da-chao, and the Turks are with us. We decide to split up, and I decide to follow Rude. First, we run onto the hand and we don't find anyone, but we see a great view of the city. We go back, and run into a fiery cave. Rude looks down the crack, looking to see if they had fallen into the lava; I find that quite foolish. Instead of finding our ninja and his Turk, he finds fire (like I had thought), and he comes out blacker than he already was. Ha ha. What a great pun.

We go outside the cave, and Reno finds us, laughing at Rude. "Damn, man, what happened to you? You look like a burnt gram cracker."

"…" Well, if I were him, I wouldn't want much of a response, either. Either way, we run further down the mountain, and we find the voluptuous man. "Oh no, you've found me! Well, you're not ruining me this time. Come meet my new pet. COME TO DADDY, RAPPS." …That man has many issues.

"Vinnie! The fat man wants to rape me! Help!!!!" Oh, now she asks for help.

Look, here's your chance. She wants you to rape her instead. Isn't that nice?

If you don't shut up, the "fat man" will end up raping her instead of me.

Oh, you're right for once. I'll shut up now.

Now, no longer being distracted, I shoot the purple dragon floating above us, before it summons a gust of wind. Cid takes his harpoon and stabs one of the wings, leaving it limping in the air. I shoot the other wing, while Cloud prepares to do one of his "special moves". The beast falls to the ground, and the swordsman unsheathes his sword, jumps in the air, and slices it in half. "What do you call that one?" Cid asks, chuckling. "Uh… I call it Braver!"

Very interesting. Anyway, as we were having this discussion, Reno seems to have come and kicked Corneo off the side of the mountain. That's nice. Yuffie's all squirming around, so I'm assuming that that she's ready to get off. If she keeps moving though, either I'll accidentally shoot her or she'll slide through the ropes to her death. Either way wouldn't be well for her.

"Get me down! I say, get me down!"

Hey Vincent. She looks pretty vulnerable like that. Doesn't that turn you on?

No, I'm not into bondage.

Sure you're not.

I have no time to discuss this with you.

You know I'm gonna bug you about this later.

Just shut up, please.

"Just shut up, please," I accidentally say out loud. Oh my. I hope I didn't hurt her feelings too bad. But, she does need to shut up. I shoot one of her ropes, and she throws it to me, apparently wanting me to hold it as she climbs across. I hold it, daring to let go if she even makes the slightest wrong move to trick me, and she climbs across it quickly, hugging me when she finally makes it onto land. "Vinnie, thanks so much for helping me!"

"…My materia?"

"Oh, right…"

This seemed like a good time to close the chapter. So, tell me if you like it! I know I did.