Been on a reading craze of FFVII fics lately. I absolutely just fell in love with the Yuffentine. Read some Kingdom Hearts too, wanted to see more FFVII/KH fictions though. I really want to see a well-written Yuffentine in the KH universe. I like Squaffie but to me Squall always takes Yuffie for granted and treats her like a kid, so I want to see how he is when Yuffie finally finds someone else to love and instead of a happy-go-lucky boy he always thought she would go with, it's a dark, mysterious, brooding man, and yet they still work.
Title: Hearts
Fandom:FFVII/Kingdom Hearts I
Summery: Sixteen to gain. Eighteen to save the world. Nineteen to lose everything. (And no amount of silences ever makes up for it.)
She had been sixteen when she had bumped into Cloud and his group. She had originally planned going about what she had been doing for the past while when she bumped into anyone in the woods: defeat the party and then take their materia. When she was defeated instead, she turned to following them and planned on tricking them for their materias.
She had been sixteen when she joined the terrorist group called AVALANCHE.
She almost succeeded too but she ended up giving it back to them when they had tracked her to Wutai. Her precious country that had fallen from honour and higher grace to a tourist trap. Her beloved Wutai deserved more that, and her people deserved more than to be gawked at.
She had been sixteen when she saved the world.
Planet. Gaea. Aeris had been the last Ancient and Cloud had led them against Sephiroth. She only wanted their materia and ended up fighting for the world. Thought she could slip away into the night and forget about them and instead they imprinted themselves into her heart.
Cloud with his blonde spiky hair and Mako glow-in-the-dark eyes. Tifa with her soft smile and fighter gloves. Barret with his huge build and fatherly heart. Aeris with her chiming giggles and pink dress. Cid with his smoking and swear words. Red XIII with his philosophical phrases and last of his kind. Reeve and Cait Sith with their jovial twisted humor. Vincent with his crimson eyes and silences.
She was eighteen when she helped saved the world again.
Cloud with his guilt, dragging it around, unable to move on. Tifa had waited patiently for him, because the man she loved would pull through. They took in a kid named Denzel with eyes so much like Cloud's, and the Geostigma infected many.
The summoning of Behamut by the Silver Haired Men; Yazoo, Kadaj, and Luz. The feeling of flying on a ship again and the nausea. The second attempt at Reunion and the rebirth of Sephiroth. Seeing all of AVALANCHE again after two years of isolation and growing up. The curing of the Geostigma. The weight falling off of Cloud's shoulders.
( Can sin be forgiven? )
They had one more year of peace, this time in happiness, when disaster struck again. Black fathomless creatures with yellow glowing eyes. Shadows detaching from the walls and chasing you. People falling, dying, disappearing.
They couldn't do anything against the new threat. The people looked to them for help but they didn't understand what this new enemy was. Swords and shurikens took them down but it was time consuming. Magic and Summonings worked for a while but the glow in the materias dimmed over time. More and more people fell but no new life sprung. The Planet was dying.
Tifa. Cloud. Barret. Cid.
They lost them one by one, each running back some place to save someone that had been forgotten, each being the hero they were. But they never rejoined the group afterwards. The PHS batteries died and they ran out of tears.
It wasn't fair it was all happened then, right when they finally thought it was all over and they could move on and really live. When Cloud and Tifa finally found their long awaited happiness in each other. When Cloud told Vincent that sin could be forgiven and that they could move on. When Marlene saw Barret again and Denzel was just getting to know the rest of the group. When Cid had Shera and maybe a baby on the way. When Red was settling into his role of guardian. When Vincent spoke more of life then Lucrecia, and Yuffie could read more of his silences.
In the end it was Yuffie and Vincent left together, alone. And the darkness of the night scared her so much more. Their happy world had crashed in less then a few months. It wasn't fair at all. She never got to rule Wutai and change things around.
The two of them trudged on hoping to find the others. They took turns keeping watch at night and Yuffie wouldn't sleep without clutching onto a piece of Vincent's cape, without his presence next to her, without the cool metal of his claw on her skin (couldn't sleep without being curled up next to Vincent's side and -oh- the nights when he was too drained to push her away, she crept into his arms). So scared she would lose him too. Holding onto the golden claw and threading fingers through long silky hair.
They marched on into the darkness. Delving deeper and deeper because they knew their friends, and they weren't the kind of people to run away but instead would go head first into anything. If they found the root of the evil, they would find their friends battling it.
It was a horrible time. Yet sometimes Yuffie found herself a bit more content, just a bit happy in the later days. When she curled into Vincent's arms at night. When he didn't pull away from her touches. The rare twitch of a smile and dry chuckle he gave. When she encased herself stubbornly in his arms and cape. When his breath brushed warm against her skin. The twin lights in their eyes that shined for only each other.
And the soft whispers in her mind, tentative as it playfully taunted her. The name that said if - when they win, it could end in happiness.
Yuffie Valentine. Yuffie Valentine. Yuffie Valentine.
The stupid blush that burned her cheeks as the words went round and round in her head. She wasn't too young to be thinking of marriage, and especially not for her noble lineage of Wutai. She would need someone to rule with someday. She wanted to ascend the throne with him by her side.
Yuffie Valentine. Yuffie Valentine. Yuffie-Valentine.YuffieValentine.YuffieValentine.
YuffieValentine. YuffieValentine-
( Yuffentine. )
Then one day they were surrounded and out numbered. The smell of gunpowder thickened the air and the whistling of her shuriken never sounded fast enough. The Materia glow had become too diminished to Summon and Cure3 barely healed. The black heartless creatures - Heartless because they laughed and giggled crookedly at your misery and pain, and all she wanted was to hold Vincent again. They separated the two of them, singled each one out, cutting them off from the other and drew them away.
It wasn't before long that they lost sight of each other and Yuffie screamed and shouted (Vincent! Vincent!) but she heard nothing. She fought and killed and pushed out All Creation, but she tired and when they overcame her at last, she fell.
. : - : .
When she wakes, she meets Squall Leonhart.
She travels with him because he found her (and on one else) lying on the ground. He takes her along, trains her to fight with her fists (it'll take two weeks to repair her shuriken), and teaches her the 'munny' of the new world (new #$!& - WORLD -) she landed in. He speaks of Gardens and angel wings. She smiles and laughs of Clouds and ninjas.
He believes she doesn't know a lot. She's young. She smiles. She laughs. She jumps and spins. She runs ahead of him and talks to the new people. She seems to shine in his eyes.
He takes her to the forest to train. When she sees his weapon she smiles. The first time he fires the gunblade, her heart skips and wrenches. When he turns so fast that his hair flies up, her eyes sting. And when he's quiet, it hurts. (It's hurts, it hurts, it hurts so #!& much.) Because she can read silences now, and his isn't so hard to understand but the one she wants with her isn't here.
And no amount of silences ever makes up for it.
So she whines, and tugs, and jumps on him. She pouts and kicks and she makes Squall (call me Leon) Leonhart move and grunt and call her annoying. He shouts at her or tells her to go away but he talks. The silences end and as long as he doesn't fire his gun, he reminds her of nobody.
She never tells him of crimson capes and glowing eyes.
Nineteen is not too young to lose everything.
. : - : .
They go into Transverse Town some time later after she had been adjusted. When she stopped being confused over the currency and the behaviours of the people. There, that's when she sees Aeris again. And her heart stops and jumps and pounds and she stares in disbelief as Squall (call me Leon) Leonheart introduces them.
And it's like someone had taken her heart and put it in a nutcracker and decided to squeeze it. She wants to cry and hug the breath out of the other girl, she wants to scream and run away from the impossible sight. She stands pale faced and stares glassy-eyed at the friend who had died that time years ago.
Aeirth takes her gently by the hand and leads her into the hotel. Macho silent man Squall nods once and tells them he's going patrolling so they should get to know each other, and with that, he's gone.
And they're alone. Yuffie sits on the couch alone in where she would later on call the Green Room with the solid ghost of a loved one. Aeirth makes the two of them a cup of tea (oh Shera -) and settles down opposite of the shocked ninja girl. The cheerful, loud mouthed, cheeky ninja remains silent and looks down at the steaming cup but doesn't pick up the tea from table. This is wrong.
Aeris is not supposed to be here.
The pretty flower girl was gone, sunken into the Lifestream and swimming in unity with the Planet. Tifa should be here. Cloud should be here. Hell, even Reeve, Cait, Barret, or Cid. And Vincent...
She drags her eyes up to meet those softly glowing green orbs (so familiar) with an aching heart that's screaming of betrayal -
And the last Ancient (again), the pretty in pink flower girl, smiles a sweet sad smile. Because she knows it too.
. : - : .
She has been there for barely a few months when she starts to realize, starts to notice, that there are new places (Hollow Bastion) and new lives (Rinoa) are being added to her mind. It confusing, it's unbelievable, it's (lies!) memories she had never been a part of taking place in her mind.
Her home (Hollow Bastion) (Wutai) where she grew up is changing (bright colourful flowers planted by Aerith) (a land of vast prideful people who will be hers to lead one day) and the new is mixing in with the old.
Her family (Squall, Aerith, the other children) (Godo, Mother, Wutai, Wutai, all the people of Wutai).
Her first crush (Squall) (Recca, her first head guard).
Her first vengeance (Heartless) (Sephiroth).
Even her age (born in Hollow Bastion, seventeen, youngest of all, looked after by Squall and Aerith) (born in Wutai, nineteen, Empress of Heavens, and the greatest Ninja ever!).
She wants to scream and shout and rant about that it was wrong! That she was Yuffie Kisaragi! Greatest ninja ever! A member of AVALANCHE!
Her one true love (...Squall?) (Vincent! Vincent Vincent Vincent! Vincent Valentine! The stupid, idiotic, angsty Mr. Brood! Vinnie Vinnie Vinnie! Vinnie Vin Vampire!)
She started to write in a journal every single thing she could remember, all things precious and all things small. She wasn't going to lose herself! She is Yuffie Kisaragi, Princess of Wutai, a member of AVALANCHE, defeater of Sephiroth, survivor of Meteror, member of WRO, and she isn't going to lose.
. : remember me : .