Of Time And Place - A Yuffentine Fan Fiction
AU: Sorry if this chapter seems rushed... I'm not sure if I'm totally awake right now... Probably not... XD Please review if you can. ^_^
Previously
"Oh shit," She thought frantically. "How long has he been watching me?" Yuffie tried to come up with some liable excuse for being anywhere near this particular shower-stall, but not a single useful thought came. She found it impossible to think clearly when faced with the deep wells of his amazing molten-gold eyes. "Vincent I...." She started, but found that she was suddenly incredibly dizzy. She attempted to steady herself by grabbing the stall wall, but her hand missed and because of the wet floor her already dizzy self slipped, falling backwards towards the stone tile of the bathroom floor...
Chapter Two
Yuffie awoke with a start, her head throbbing painfully, though it seemed it had been resting on ice for awhile now. Vincent was sitting in a chair next to her, gently cleaning away a gooey substance from her head and the back of her neck. "So, I landed on your shampoo bottle, huh?" She asked him jokingly, though the sound of her voice only succeeded in making her head throb harder. Vincent stared down at Yuffie with wild eyes before once again being the composed man the young girl was used too. "Yuffie, you cracked the tile..."
"Oh, so you're saying I weigh a lot!?" She half-joked this time, momentarily flinching from the pain sound was causing her. "You've lost a lot of blood." The dark man muttered, as per usual, he didn't seem to ammused with the cheerful ninja-girl. However, the brilliant girl was not to be foolled. She had deduced that Mr. Grumpy-Pants was really worried about her and considering his personality he probably decided it was somehow his fault.
"No worries, Vinnie!" Yuffie yelled, triumphantly jumping up on the bed. "I am the champion of the earth and the sky. I am the conquerer of evil. The single white rose of Wutai, the great ninja Yu- Ugh...." Suddenly the great ninja was flying backwards in a familiar swaying sort of motion. Vincent, seeing her lose what little balance she had been successfully maintaining, moved swiftly to gently catch the fallen champion. "I think you should rest more."
Again he was treating her like a little kid. She hated it when he did this, she supposed he was like this to everyone but that thought didn't exactly "cheer her up" either. She would always be just another part of the group to him. They'd never really be friends, not from his point of view. Vincent didn't seem to want her as a friend at all and that.... That hurt her a little. She understood why he wanted to keep a distance between himself and the rest of the world, but for the love of materia all the others in AVALANCHE were considered his friends. Why was it only her that wasn't?
"Hey, Vinnie?" She asked, her voice barely a whisper. "A- are you gonna be okay?" The dampened warrior stared at her with an expression of, could that possibly be confusion? "Yuffie, why would you ask something like that now? You are the one who is injured, we have not been in a battle recently so there is no reason I would be injured, and- you're bleading agian..." He stared at her with a worried expression, his eyes glowing with an unfamiliar emotion, once again leaving the young ninja girl unaturally speechless. Well, almost....
"Answer me..." She demanded, "Are you ever going to be okay? Or have you given up? Cloud tried that trick too, but Tifa wouldn't let him and I won't let you." The battered girl stared up at the man who always seemed to be watching from somewhere in the shadows, the man she'd come to care for like a dear friend, family, or more? "Let me help you Vincent. I'm sick of being the only one in the group who doesn't seem to be allowed to care about her friends."
End Chapter
Many thanks to xXSilverwilkenwingsXx for their review of my story. Thank you so much for your advice, critique, and story idea. *wink* I hope you keep reading and I hope that my writing is able to improve itself. Thank you again. *bows humbly*