A/N: Yeah. I had always wondered what the hell Yuffie was doing in that forested area, and why she decided to attack Cloud and his gang. AND SO THIS WAS BORN. MWAHAHAAHA.
Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII Characters and Places belong to Square Enix.
She could feel her legs burning as she fled, her heartbeat the only thing she could hear, her lungs expanding and contracting the only thing she could think of.
Brown eyes looked around the foliage, green, brown, black, blue, grey, red the only things she could comprehend. She wasn't sure what she was running from anymore. She wasn't sure if the thing chasing her was still chasing her, or if she was just being paranoid.
Suddenly, her foot tripped over an upright root, causing her to collapse to the ground, her chin skidding across the grass, the heels of her palms digging deep into the compact dirt. She could feel something crick in her neck, her spine snap all the way up from the base to the neck, and her eyes were briefly blinded by blades of grass, ants, and a spider that decided it wanted to crawl across her nose.
Quickly bolting to her feet, she looked around at her surroundings, trying to tell if the monster she had been fighting was after her or had lost interest. Keen ears caught sound of metal clashing against steel-claws, the sound of a monster shrieking as it died filling the forest air, and thinking that maybe if she stuck around the sight of a fight her chaser would definitely think better of attacking her, she ran towards the sounds, jumping into the trees and hiding in the foliage.
She looked down to see a blonde haired man with a large sword accompanied by a girl in pink, a girl in red gloves and a black man with a gun for an arm standing next to a red furred canine-like creature covered in tattoos. Staring at them with wonder, she saw the flash of Materia and her mind immediately blanked of the danger she was in, the location was in, the fact that she didn't know who the hell these people were or how strong they were. She just knew that she had to have that Materia.
And with that thought in mind, Yuffie Kisaragi jumped down from her perch in the trees and ran to her destiny.