Author's notes: I'm dedicating this story to my love, the Muffin Goddess,
who oh so loves the dark and mysterious one known as Vinny-poo, er, I mean,
Vincent. Enjoy.
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A Vampire's Passion
Chapter One
Trot, trot, trot...
"Wheeze! Huff! Pant! Whew! These mountains sure do take it out of ya!" A young girl, apparently a young ninjatsu in training, stooped at the foot of the Nibel Mountain range, panting for air. She hefted her traveling bag on the dirt and sat on a well-sized rock for a rest, and to inspect the materia she managed to swindle off a creep that was flirting with her earlier. She smiled in satisfaction to see that they weren't all bad. A few rounds with them and they'd be mastered without a sweat. "Well, I should hurry if I want to make it there before nightfall. Who knows what comes out then." She mumbled, shivering in the cold air while standing up again and gathering her belongings.
The thief jogged the rest of the way down the narrow ledges, careful not to slip. She rounded the beginning mountain path curve and could see the lights of the small town up ahead. It was quite a site to see it during the twilight hours; streaks of purple, blue, pink, and gold ran across the horizon where the sun began to slip under. She stood, taking in the view for several moments until continued on across a valley leading into the town.
"Finally! Here I am. I hope they're home..." The youthful ninja muttered, brushing dirt from her shorts and tank top to look presentable. Slowly she stepped up the front stairs to a large Victorian house with the matching address as she had remembered. The teenager tentatively reached up and gave a sharp rap at the front door. Several minutes passed and she could here the soft pounding of feet coming to the door. The door opened to reveal a spiky blonde-haired man in his nightwear, seemingly ready for bed. The man had a surprised look spread across his face. The ninja's mouth grew into a large grin. "Hello Cloud!"
"Yuffie?! What are you doing here?" Cloud asked in bewilderment.
"Heh! I thought I stop by and say hi. I'm sorta just travelling. Well, actually, my dad didn't want me loitering around Wutai for the rest of my days. So, I brought you guys some gifts for your wedding!" Yuffie explained, embarrassed. A woman with dark coal black hair and brownish-red eyes had come up from behind Cloud.
"Who is it, honey- OH! Yuffie! What a surprise!" The woman said, seeing Yuffie over Cloud's broad shoulders. "What brings you all the way here?"
"Like I said to Cloud, I came to give you guys some presents." The friendly girl said, letting a few giggles out. She heaved her bag off her back and onto the cement before opening it to rummage through it. She pulled out two well-sized wrapped boxes and handed it through the door to the engaged couple.
"But Yuffie, our wedding's not for two months!" Tifa laughed, excepting her gift.
"Oh! Well, that's not what I heard... Oh, well. You guys can open 'em whenever you want!" Yuffie told them, she started to shiver in the cold. Tifa noticed this and smiled.
"You're quite generous, Yuffie. Did you have a place to stay tonight? It's getting late." Tifa said her, seeing the last of the sun go down.
"Well, I was ganna stay at the inn." Yuffie replied. Tifa shooed her inside and closed the door.
"Nonsense, they charge way too much. Cloud, would you mind if she stayed?" Tifa asked her fiancée.
"No, not at all. You can use the couch in the living room." Cloud said. "I'll go get some blankets."
"Thanks you guys, I'd think you'd push me out like most people do." Yuffie stated, a bit ashamed.
"Just as long as you behave, you're welcome here anytime." Cloud said in a friendly tone, though she knew he was dead serious.
They gave her a bit of dinner and she thanked them again and went to bed on the sofa. It was two years after she had joined Clouds group, or Avalanche, as they liked to call it, and helped defeat Sephiroth. She had turned eighteen just three months ago and her father wanted her to explore like she used to. She wasn't allowed back until she had seen everything, as her father had put it. Soon, the haggard Yuffie was fast asleep.
Tifa and Cloud came downstairs, expecting to see Yuffie sprawled out upon the couch yet didn't. In the kitchen came hums of a cheery song. The betrothed couple went to spy on the young girl, to see if she wasn't stealing anything. However, to their amazement, she was washing dishes in the sink.
"Uh, Good morning, Yuffie. Why are you doing the dishes, if I might ask?" Tifa startled Yuffie, causing her to almost drop the plate she was drying. Had it not been for her ultra super ninja precision, it would have shattered upon the stone flooring.
"WHA! You scared me!" Yuffie huffed, recovering herself. "I was just repaying you for lettin' me stay for the night. They looked like they needed to be cleaned so I cleaned them."
"Thanks-" Cloud began but Tifa elbowed him in the ribs and shot a glare.
"I thought I told you to clean up after dinner last night! Thank you anyway, Yuffie, but you didn't have to." Tifa said with a warm smile. Cloud pouted in the background silently.
"Sure I did! I'll leave as soon as I can, too, if you want." Yuffie said finishing up the last of the plates. "I'm just running around, visiting friends, really."
"Well, since you are, I'm sure you could stay and give a visit to Mister Goth at the end of town." Cloud declared. Yuffie stared at him in confusion. "You know, Vincent. Coffin man. He lives down in the Shinra mansion still."
"Ah! Really?! He's here?! Well, there, but still... Nifty, I think I'll go bug him now. Thanks!" Yuffie laughed impishly. She always had a thing for bugging him and Cid. Tifa let out a laugh as she began to make pancakes.
"You want some breakfast?" She asked the teen.
"No thanks, I had some cereal. So I'll leave you two love birds together, k?" Yuffie said with a grin. 'I'm off to see Vinny. This should be good!'
After skipping out of Tifa's house, she found her way to the gate that led to the ominous Shinra mansion. She pushed through the barred gateway and moved through the untreated yard. Yuffie stood in front of the gate, staring up at oak doors. After a nervous sigh, she gave a push to the door. Once it was ajar, she stepped into the defiled old mansion, sneezing from all the dust. The most difficult task in this visit wasn't avoiding the goulish monsters, but remembering which room had the secret passage and which stone operated the sliding door. An hour later, after finally hitting the switch that led deep down into the bowls of the chateau, Yuffie was making her way down to the bottom of the spiraling staircase. Skulls and bones littered the dirt floor of the cavern that reeked with a dank stench. She timidly skipped over them and down the corridor. She came to a door to her left and one before her.
"If I remember right... This one is the one I want to go into." She said to herself, remembering the left passage was where the man she seeked slept. The girl gingerly turned the doorknob and pushed the door open. It was as dim as the hall she stood in and with more bones, there were coffins. Even more nervous than before, Yuffie gradually made her way to the middle of the room. Many of the coffins were unoccupied and the ones that weren't had skeletons lying within them. There was one, however, that possessed a lid affixed to it. It was positioned in the far back of the room. Yuffie crept up to it, glancing about apprehensively for anything threatening. Once she stood right before it, the now shaking girl cautiously reached up with one hand and...
BAM BAM BAM!!!!!
Whatever was within the coffin was certainly shaken up. Yuffie let out a brisk shriek as she watched the coffin lid fly off and a tall dark figure pull itself up with a gun held to her face. It appeared to be a man in black and red attire, save for his left arm which was in a golden claw-like thing. He was quite mysterious and uncanny looking to Yuffie and sent shivers down her back.
"Uh, heh! Hello there, Vinny." Yuffie said timidly, staring at the gun in her face. Vincent recognized the teen and lowered his weapon.
"Yuffie. What are you doing down here?!" Vincent demanded in an irate tone.
"Er, um, well I just came to say hi." Yuffie said with a nervous laugh. Vincent's face scowled at the ninja, causing her more nervousness. "Eheheheh, I guess you were sleeping weren't you."
"Yes. Yes I was. But you came and pounded on my coffin to say 'hi'. Well, hello to you too, Yuffie. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to go back to my atonement." The raven-haired man told her before lying down and shutting the lid back onto his coffin. Yuffie stared at the closed coffin. Reluctantly, she left after a few minutes and lagged towards the stairs. She stopped short of the staircase and turned back with a rigid look.
"Ya know! It makes me so mad that he just sleeps all the time in that stupid box! He really should get out!" Yuffie told herself. She came to a conclusion. She was going to, somehow and someway, get him out of his torment. Without any other thoughts, Yuffie marched back into the room and up to his coffin with a determined look in her eyes. She raised her fist and...
Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!
The coffin lid flew off again and Vincent sat up with a furious glare. Yuffie gulped in fear. She didn't want to piss of some one that can change into different forms of demons and hack you up in seconds. She only waved at the dark man and he only glared at her childish innocents.
"What is it now, child?" He implored forcefully in a deep voice.
"Uh, wellllllll..." Yuffie said, apprehensive again under his glare.
"SPEAK!" He barked, she cringed at his irritatedness.
"Well, I... wantedtoknowifIcouldborrowacupofsugar!" Yuffie rambled quickly. It was all that Yuffie could think of saying under his pressure. He stared at her; she smiled innocently, trying to hide her tension.
"Hmph! I believe there may be some in the kitchen." Vincent said, lying back down.
"Uh, where's the kitchen?" Yuffie asked before he could close the coffin. He let out a disgruntled sigh and sat back up.
"It's upstairs."
"Where upstairs?"
"It's on the bottom floor those stairs."
"Where?"
"In the left East Wing"
"Where's east?"
"That way." Vincent pointed to his left.
"What's the East Wing?"
"It's where the kitchen is!"
"So where is it again?"
"ARGH!!!!!!!!" Vincent threw up his hands and howled in fury.
'Uh, crap! HE'S TURNING INTO CHAOS!!!!!!!!!!' Yuffie thought in sheer fear as she watched him leap out of his coffin. Yet, he only grabbed her arm and roughly dragged her out of the room and down the hall. When they got back into the bedroom from the secret staircase, he pulled her down the grand staircase and into the common room of the mansion. He then led her into the East Wing and turned several times and brought her into the kitchen.
"Now take your damn sugar and leave! Please!" He snarled at her. He turned on his heal and went back towards the door.
'Well, I got him out of the box but now he's going back to it! What can I do to stop him?!' Yuffie thought hastily before, "Wait! Uh, do you know where the sugar's at?"
The sullen man stopped and turned back to the girl while rubbing his new headache in his temples. He opened up a rotting cupboard and pulled out a container and motioned to the ninja to take it. She opened the lid only to find an ancient substance that was once sugar.
"Er, It doesn't look like it's edible any longer." Yuffie said, pointing at the crusty mess. Vincent groaned and smacked his forehead with his claw, almost accidentally puncturing his forehead with it.
"Fine, I don't have any sugar so I guess you can leave now." Vincent said.
"But I need sugar!" Yuffie whined.
"Go and buy some sugar!" Vincent told her.
"Where do I buy sugar?" Yuffie asked him, now tugging on his arm.
"At the store!" Vincent yelled at her.
"Show me where the store is, Vinny!" She giggled and pulled him into the entranceway of the mansion.
"Fine! If you promise to not plague me any longer after this." He told her. She jumped in joy and let out happy giggles. Vincent rolled his eyes and walked with her to the front door.
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Author: HO! I am through with that chapter, on to the next one! Haha! I myself like Yuffie and Vinny fics; they are soooooooo cute together! Besides, I need a break from Aer/Seph fics so this is a good fic for me to work on! Next one will be good but I need five reviews! Common! Mommy needs a new review! WHEEEEEEEE! I'M SUGAR HIGH!!!!!!!! 'Tis why I right on sugar! Hahah! What?! Goodbye people!
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A Vampire's Passion
Chapter One
Trot, trot, trot...
"Wheeze! Huff! Pant! Whew! These mountains sure do take it out of ya!" A young girl, apparently a young ninjatsu in training, stooped at the foot of the Nibel Mountain range, panting for air. She hefted her traveling bag on the dirt and sat on a well-sized rock for a rest, and to inspect the materia she managed to swindle off a creep that was flirting with her earlier. She smiled in satisfaction to see that they weren't all bad. A few rounds with them and they'd be mastered without a sweat. "Well, I should hurry if I want to make it there before nightfall. Who knows what comes out then." She mumbled, shivering in the cold air while standing up again and gathering her belongings.
The thief jogged the rest of the way down the narrow ledges, careful not to slip. She rounded the beginning mountain path curve and could see the lights of the small town up ahead. It was quite a site to see it during the twilight hours; streaks of purple, blue, pink, and gold ran across the horizon where the sun began to slip under. She stood, taking in the view for several moments until continued on across a valley leading into the town.
"Finally! Here I am. I hope they're home..." The youthful ninja muttered, brushing dirt from her shorts and tank top to look presentable. Slowly she stepped up the front stairs to a large Victorian house with the matching address as she had remembered. The teenager tentatively reached up and gave a sharp rap at the front door. Several minutes passed and she could here the soft pounding of feet coming to the door. The door opened to reveal a spiky blonde-haired man in his nightwear, seemingly ready for bed. The man had a surprised look spread across his face. The ninja's mouth grew into a large grin. "Hello Cloud!"
"Yuffie?! What are you doing here?" Cloud asked in bewilderment.
"Heh! I thought I stop by and say hi. I'm sorta just travelling. Well, actually, my dad didn't want me loitering around Wutai for the rest of my days. So, I brought you guys some gifts for your wedding!" Yuffie explained, embarrassed. A woman with dark coal black hair and brownish-red eyes had come up from behind Cloud.
"Who is it, honey- OH! Yuffie! What a surprise!" The woman said, seeing Yuffie over Cloud's broad shoulders. "What brings you all the way here?"
"Like I said to Cloud, I came to give you guys some presents." The friendly girl said, letting a few giggles out. She heaved her bag off her back and onto the cement before opening it to rummage through it. She pulled out two well-sized wrapped boxes and handed it through the door to the engaged couple.
"But Yuffie, our wedding's not for two months!" Tifa laughed, excepting her gift.
"Oh! Well, that's not what I heard... Oh, well. You guys can open 'em whenever you want!" Yuffie told them, she started to shiver in the cold. Tifa noticed this and smiled.
"You're quite generous, Yuffie. Did you have a place to stay tonight? It's getting late." Tifa said her, seeing the last of the sun go down.
"Well, I was ganna stay at the inn." Yuffie replied. Tifa shooed her inside and closed the door.
"Nonsense, they charge way too much. Cloud, would you mind if she stayed?" Tifa asked her fiancée.
"No, not at all. You can use the couch in the living room." Cloud said. "I'll go get some blankets."
"Thanks you guys, I'd think you'd push me out like most people do." Yuffie stated, a bit ashamed.
"Just as long as you behave, you're welcome here anytime." Cloud said in a friendly tone, though she knew he was dead serious.
They gave her a bit of dinner and she thanked them again and went to bed on the sofa. It was two years after she had joined Clouds group, or Avalanche, as they liked to call it, and helped defeat Sephiroth. She had turned eighteen just three months ago and her father wanted her to explore like she used to. She wasn't allowed back until she had seen everything, as her father had put it. Soon, the haggard Yuffie was fast asleep.
Tifa and Cloud came downstairs, expecting to see Yuffie sprawled out upon the couch yet didn't. In the kitchen came hums of a cheery song. The betrothed couple went to spy on the young girl, to see if she wasn't stealing anything. However, to their amazement, she was washing dishes in the sink.
"Uh, Good morning, Yuffie. Why are you doing the dishes, if I might ask?" Tifa startled Yuffie, causing her to almost drop the plate she was drying. Had it not been for her ultra super ninja precision, it would have shattered upon the stone flooring.
"WHA! You scared me!" Yuffie huffed, recovering herself. "I was just repaying you for lettin' me stay for the night. They looked like they needed to be cleaned so I cleaned them."
"Thanks-" Cloud began but Tifa elbowed him in the ribs and shot a glare.
"I thought I told you to clean up after dinner last night! Thank you anyway, Yuffie, but you didn't have to." Tifa said with a warm smile. Cloud pouted in the background silently.
"Sure I did! I'll leave as soon as I can, too, if you want." Yuffie said finishing up the last of the plates. "I'm just running around, visiting friends, really."
"Well, since you are, I'm sure you could stay and give a visit to Mister Goth at the end of town." Cloud declared. Yuffie stared at him in confusion. "You know, Vincent. Coffin man. He lives down in the Shinra mansion still."
"Ah! Really?! He's here?! Well, there, but still... Nifty, I think I'll go bug him now. Thanks!" Yuffie laughed impishly. She always had a thing for bugging him and Cid. Tifa let out a laugh as she began to make pancakes.
"You want some breakfast?" She asked the teen.
"No thanks, I had some cereal. So I'll leave you two love birds together, k?" Yuffie said with a grin. 'I'm off to see Vinny. This should be good!'
After skipping out of Tifa's house, she found her way to the gate that led to the ominous Shinra mansion. She pushed through the barred gateway and moved through the untreated yard. Yuffie stood in front of the gate, staring up at oak doors. After a nervous sigh, she gave a push to the door. Once it was ajar, she stepped into the defiled old mansion, sneezing from all the dust. The most difficult task in this visit wasn't avoiding the goulish monsters, but remembering which room had the secret passage and which stone operated the sliding door. An hour later, after finally hitting the switch that led deep down into the bowls of the chateau, Yuffie was making her way down to the bottom of the spiraling staircase. Skulls and bones littered the dirt floor of the cavern that reeked with a dank stench. She timidly skipped over them and down the corridor. She came to a door to her left and one before her.
"If I remember right... This one is the one I want to go into." She said to herself, remembering the left passage was where the man she seeked slept. The girl gingerly turned the doorknob and pushed the door open. It was as dim as the hall she stood in and with more bones, there were coffins. Even more nervous than before, Yuffie gradually made her way to the middle of the room. Many of the coffins were unoccupied and the ones that weren't had skeletons lying within them. There was one, however, that possessed a lid affixed to it. It was positioned in the far back of the room. Yuffie crept up to it, glancing about apprehensively for anything threatening. Once she stood right before it, the now shaking girl cautiously reached up with one hand and...
BAM BAM BAM!!!!!
Whatever was within the coffin was certainly shaken up. Yuffie let out a brisk shriek as she watched the coffin lid fly off and a tall dark figure pull itself up with a gun held to her face. It appeared to be a man in black and red attire, save for his left arm which was in a golden claw-like thing. He was quite mysterious and uncanny looking to Yuffie and sent shivers down her back.
"Uh, heh! Hello there, Vinny." Yuffie said timidly, staring at the gun in her face. Vincent recognized the teen and lowered his weapon.
"Yuffie. What are you doing down here?!" Vincent demanded in an irate tone.
"Er, um, well I just came to say hi." Yuffie said with a nervous laugh. Vincent's face scowled at the ninja, causing her more nervousness. "Eheheheh, I guess you were sleeping weren't you."
"Yes. Yes I was. But you came and pounded on my coffin to say 'hi'. Well, hello to you too, Yuffie. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to go back to my atonement." The raven-haired man told her before lying down and shutting the lid back onto his coffin. Yuffie stared at the closed coffin. Reluctantly, she left after a few minutes and lagged towards the stairs. She stopped short of the staircase and turned back with a rigid look.
"Ya know! It makes me so mad that he just sleeps all the time in that stupid box! He really should get out!" Yuffie told herself. She came to a conclusion. She was going to, somehow and someway, get him out of his torment. Without any other thoughts, Yuffie marched back into the room and up to his coffin with a determined look in her eyes. She raised her fist and...
Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!
The coffin lid flew off again and Vincent sat up with a furious glare. Yuffie gulped in fear. She didn't want to piss of some one that can change into different forms of demons and hack you up in seconds. She only waved at the dark man and he only glared at her childish innocents.
"What is it now, child?" He implored forcefully in a deep voice.
"Uh, wellllllll..." Yuffie said, apprehensive again under his glare.
"SPEAK!" He barked, she cringed at his irritatedness.
"Well, I... wantedtoknowifIcouldborrowacupofsugar!" Yuffie rambled quickly. It was all that Yuffie could think of saying under his pressure. He stared at her; she smiled innocently, trying to hide her tension.
"Hmph! I believe there may be some in the kitchen." Vincent said, lying back down.
"Uh, where's the kitchen?" Yuffie asked before he could close the coffin. He let out a disgruntled sigh and sat back up.
"It's upstairs."
"Where upstairs?"
"It's on the bottom floor those stairs."
"Where?"
"In the left East Wing"
"Where's east?"
"That way." Vincent pointed to his left.
"What's the East Wing?"
"It's where the kitchen is!"
"So where is it again?"
"ARGH!!!!!!!!" Vincent threw up his hands and howled in fury.
'Uh, crap! HE'S TURNING INTO CHAOS!!!!!!!!!!' Yuffie thought in sheer fear as she watched him leap out of his coffin. Yet, he only grabbed her arm and roughly dragged her out of the room and down the hall. When they got back into the bedroom from the secret staircase, he pulled her down the grand staircase and into the common room of the mansion. He then led her into the East Wing and turned several times and brought her into the kitchen.
"Now take your damn sugar and leave! Please!" He snarled at her. He turned on his heal and went back towards the door.
'Well, I got him out of the box but now he's going back to it! What can I do to stop him?!' Yuffie thought hastily before, "Wait! Uh, do you know where the sugar's at?"
The sullen man stopped and turned back to the girl while rubbing his new headache in his temples. He opened up a rotting cupboard and pulled out a container and motioned to the ninja to take it. She opened the lid only to find an ancient substance that was once sugar.
"Er, It doesn't look like it's edible any longer." Yuffie said, pointing at the crusty mess. Vincent groaned and smacked his forehead with his claw, almost accidentally puncturing his forehead with it.
"Fine, I don't have any sugar so I guess you can leave now." Vincent said.
"But I need sugar!" Yuffie whined.
"Go and buy some sugar!" Vincent told her.
"Where do I buy sugar?" Yuffie asked him, now tugging on his arm.
"At the store!" Vincent yelled at her.
"Show me where the store is, Vinny!" She giggled and pulled him into the entranceway of the mansion.
"Fine! If you promise to not plague me any longer after this." He told her. She jumped in joy and let out happy giggles. Vincent rolled his eyes and walked with her to the front door.
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Author: HO! I am through with that chapter, on to the next one! Haha! I myself like Yuffie and Vinny fics; they are soooooooo cute together! Besides, I need a break from Aer/Seph fics so this is a good fic for me to work on! Next one will be good but I need five reviews! Common! Mommy needs a new review! WHEEEEEEEE! I'M SUGAR HIGH!!!!!!!! 'Tis why I right on sugar! Hahah! What?! Goodbye people!