This is only part one. I'm almost done with part 2. Its short but they don't really fit together and the ending...is quite unexpected. But it was really my goal to write in the first place.
Moon light shown bright throughout the forest. Its light bouncing off of the lake, creating a peaceful looking view. The sounds of animals could be heard throughout the whole forest.
A fire crackled and lit up a partial bit of a clearing. Smoke filled the air and left a faint smell.
Vincent was very ready to talk about what had happened.
She absolutely refused to talk about it.
Yuffie wanted to forget.
Wanted to move on.
"Yuffie?" He had whispered her name after what seemed like hours of waiting. Yuffie glanced in his direction from within the warm brown blanket. An angered expression crossed her face and he looked away.
" Go to sleep Vincent." She said in a flat voice.
" Yuffie, you do realize that we are going to have to talk about it at some point." He told her. She sighed angrily. Her head shot out of the blanket and she looked at him.
" When I'm on my deathbed we can talk about it, there problem solved." She said flopping back to the ground. Vincent closed his eyes, prepared to just do that when he realized that it didn't work that way.
" Yuffie, I'm serious. We need to."
" We did talk about it. Three years ago." She deadpanned. He rolled his eyes and stood up. Yuffie glanced at him but made no attempts to get away from him.
He sat down, right next to her. She stiffened and rolled over to look at him. His face was expressionless except for his eyes. His eyes showed sadness. Yuffie sighed.
" What exactly do we have to talk about?"
" I want you to know, that what we did was wrong."
" I already knew that." She told him arrogantly. He decided to ignore that and continued.
" You should also know that I'm sorry." He told her. Yuffie was quiet for awhile after that. She was sorry too, but couldn't bring herself to say it.
For a long time, they both sat there looking at the stars. Yuffie felt like crying and Vincent kept thinking of how he got himself into more sins. Finally she spoke, giving him more information on what she knew.
" Kade."
" Hmm?"
" His name was Kade."
" Oh... And his middle name?" Vincent asked her. He was actually very interested. Because she wasn't the brightest person ever. He knew now that she had known, even if it was for a little bit. Or maybe she had never known?
" His real name, Kaden. Kade for short. Skye was his middle name." She said very quietly. He hn'ed and yawned.
Kaden Skye.
It seemed to fit. Even if he never met them.
Vincent heard a noise further away and scowled. Yuffie had heard it too and shot up. She looked around, but saw nothing. Their eyes scanned the forest, both had good vision but still couldn't see anything.
" Sounded like someone walking." Yuffie muttered standing up. A cold chill ran up her spine and she stepped backward.
Vincent sensed her unease and put a hand on her shoulder. She only nodded and continued watching.
Yuffie heard another crunch. A frown appearing on her face. She was sure it wasn't an animal. It sounded exactly like boots crunching on twigs.
Just when Vincent was going to wave it off as an animal, a sharp, ear splitting scream sounded throughout the forest. The scream sounded like a lady screaming, but higher, louder, and like there was multiple ones.
Yuffie put her hands over her ears and winced. It was loud, and it hurt her ears. Vincent seemed like it hurt him too.
They both tried to plug their ears from the sound but no matter what they did it kept going.
And they couldn't leave the forest, neither had experience there so they had no way out.
Finally the screaming stopped, in one second. Vincent frowned, that was not normal. They both waited in anticipation. Awaiting their attackers first strike. Which would reveal their location and give the two an upper hand. Since both were master killers.
But nothing came.
For hours, they both sat back to back. Watching for anything that may seem like a threat.
And although both were very serious about staying alive out there, both were thinking of their "incident."
It had been an accident really. Vincent and Yuffie, bored to death. Each one carried baggage on their shoulders. It was only natural they would travel together.
After Kadaj and his gang attacked, they both joined together to traverse the world and do all sorts of things. Gathering information, and helping whoever needed help. Of course it ended abruptly at 4 and a half months.
Both knew why they stopped abruptly. It had gotten too awkward. So both made up a dumb excuse to have to leave. Vincent's being he had work to do with an old friend and Yuffie said Wutai needed her.
Neither said anything during the Deepground incident. They kept that quiet. But it wasn't until after Deepground they realized their mistakes had caused a sin to add.
But instead of trying to comfort the other, they turned on each other. Pointing out the others flaws. Making the situation worse than it should have been. They both had realized that. But they were blinded by grief, broken hearts, and anger so they acted on anger. More than they would act on grief.
Yuffie was sure she cried more than she did when she found out her mother died.
Vincent felt like crawling back to his coffin, and sleeping until the world ended.
" Hey Vincent, if...things were different, like I didn't fight in Deepground, what do you think would have happened?" Yuffie asked after two and a half hours of silence. She wasn't even sure he was awake.
" I would have died Yuffie, you saved me multiple times while you were there. But... I suppose things would have been very different. Had I survived without you." Vincent said after thinking.
" Oh, I know it would have been different. I just wanted to know what you thought." She said.
" How do you feel?"
" Hurt. Its gotten better though, you know? It still... still hurts. To know we'll never see him again." Yuffie said painfully.
" At least you got to see him." Vincent said, and Yuffie heard the bitterness in his voice.
" I only got to see him for a four weeks and he was gone Vincent. And all I have left is a picture."
" Where...is the picture?" Vincent asked, he'd never even bothered to ask about that. Always angry.
Always angry for nothing.
" I have it. I made lots of copies. But only one is left..." She said touching her pocket not even realizing it. Vincent looked behind him. She sat still, touching her pocket. And he knew right then and there, she had the only picture of Kade.
Vincent wanted to see him.
" May I see it?" He asked. Yuffie turned around. And had a look of worry on her face.
" Don't steal it. I'll make copies later. Just...just don't take it away from me." She said in a helpless, fragile voice. Vincent watched as she carefully took the image out of her pocket. Yuffie unfolded it, carefully. " I know its damaged. But it was the one thing I could grab from my belongings. This and the Conformer." She muttered before carefully handing it to Vincent. Vincent suddenly forgot about guarding them. He was shocked.
Vincent Valentine, Ex-Turk was stunned.
He had faced many hardships.
He had killed, without a second thought.
Didn't care for another human life for a long time.
Never thought he'd see the day.
When he would see the picture of the baby who had died in his sleep.
His baby.
Everything will be explained in the next chapter.
Its almost finished.
But until its posted...Review please!
