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Chapter 2: Memories of Da Chao

'Chaos speaking to Vinnie'
'Vincent speaking to Chaos'
'Thinking'
"Speaking"
Yuffie returned to her room to grab a change of clothes then headed directly to one of the three small bathrooms located outside of her quarters. She walked inside and turned on the shower as hot as she could stand it, stripped out of the filthy bloodstained clothing and stepped under the hot jets of water, willing her muscles to relax. As the ninja cleansed her body, she began to think.
She thought about the unfortunate incident with the materia on the main continent of Wutai. She, Vincent and Cloud were headed north when she swiped everyone's materia, leaving them without the glowing orbs and facing Shinra soldiers.
As she played this portion of the incident over in her head, she had to wonder, what in the hell was she thinking? The people that took her along in their travels could have been killed.
She sighed as she stepped out of the shower, quickly dress and returned to her quarters to flop on the bed. Climbing under the cool sheets, she remembered how angry Vincent was when he looked at her before she ran towards Wutai.
'I'm sorry, Vincent but you wouldn’t understand…I'm sorry everyone.' She ran as fast as she could, hating herself for what her father was making her do.
--Flashback--
Since she was thirteen, she had been living on her own. Lord Godo had given his daughter her own home and basically left her to fend for herself. He claimed it as being one her 'life lessons.' Yuffie knew though, that the real reason was simply that he didn’t want her constantly around him…and it was just too much for him to even have her in the same house.
This fact pained the young Yuffie Kisaragi greatly. She remembered the nights that she spent alone in the quiet house with only her father's cats to keep her company. It was on these nights that she wished her dear mother were still alive to comfort her and chase away all of her fears.
Yuffie felt warm tears trail down her cheeks at the thought of her mother. They had a picture perfect mother daughter relationship and if she had been a few years older, she and her mother could have passed for sisters. Her mother was the envy of the other women of Wutai because of her flawless beauty and ever-youthful appearance.
Yuffie had no problems talking to her mother about any problems that she had and knew that her mother would not judge her like her father would. Though she loved her father, her mother actually understood her. She was Yuffie's best friend and confidant. She was also the sole person responsible for Yuffie's mastery of the Shuriken.
When she was twelve, her mother developed a lump in her breast. The lump turned out to be malignant. Despite all of the treatments that were used to stop the progression of the cancer, nothing worked. No cure materia, full cure materia, radiation therapy or chemo stopped the rate of growth in the cancerous cells.
As the disease ravaged her mother's body rapidly, Yuffie stayed by her mothers side, sometimes going days without eating. When one of the Guardians of the pagoda forced her to eat, I was dry toast and tea, nothing more. The whole situation was tearing the young girl apart. Her once loving father became distant and it seemed he no longer loved her. Her mother deteriorated rapidly and within six months of the cancer diagnosis, her mother passed away.
Due to the fact that Yuffie had not been eating properly, her body wasted away over those months. Twelve hours her mother died, Yuffie collapsed.
Lord Godo had his daughter taken to the hospital in Wutai where she remained in a coma for three weeks while the doctors tube fed her and pumped her full of vitamins and supplements for the deficiencies that occurred during her distress. Yuffie Kisaragi flat lined twice during her period of recovery.

After she was released from the hospital, the situation with her father went downhill. No longer did they act like father and daughter, but roommates instead. There were arguments over the littlest things and Yuffie could never figure out what she had done to anger her father so.
Three weeks after the final argument, Yuffie celebrated her thirteenth birthday…without her mother. That was the day that she received her own home…
All the way on the other side of town.
.::-o-::.
A year had past and even having her that far away from him wasn't enough. Godo needed more space from the girl who reminded him of the wife he missed so deeply. He decided to send her on a quest. After thinking about what he was to do, he decided to have her become a materia hunter, and made up a story to tell Yuffie.
Yuffie was told was in order to restore Wutai to power; they needed more materia to restore the strength of the warriors that protected the Wutain people. With this explanation, Yuffie set off on her journey. After two years of stealing and searching for materia, her mischievous persona came to the foreground hiding the young teenage girl who was so stricken with grief over her mothers passing, she had died twice over. She wanted no one to see her pain.
She did not want their pity.

Yuffie began to notice around her sixteenth birthday that even with all the materia that she had been bring back to Wutai, nothing was changing except the amount of gil in her father's pocket. Though he didn't think that she noticed, she did. She knew that he was taking some of the more valuable master materia that were meant for Wutai's revival and selling them for profit.
Yuffie confronted Godo about this and he was shocked that she had noticed but that shock turned into outrage.
"How dare you accuse me of something like that! I am your father and the ruler of this land." Godo said, his face turning red.
"You know that its true and I'm tired of doin' this crap! And I won't anymore! I haven't spent more that three weeks home at a time in the past two YEARS because I have been out stealing materia from innocent people! I nearly had my leg severed escaping a gang of rapists, now I will have to use this thing-" pointing to the metal brace that went from her hip to her knee "for the rest of my natural life or never normally walk again! This was suppose ta bring about a change in Wutai, but nothin' has changed at all except the amount of gil in your account!
“You could have at least had enough respect for your own daughter and her safety to tell her the truth or send someone else. You just don’t want me around because I remind you of mom!
“When I am the crowned ruler of Wutai, I will make this land and its people strong once again. I will change it from the tourist town you turned it into after the war with Shinra! We will be as great as Cosmo Canyon once again!"
Lord Godo stared at the equally red-faced Yuffie and clenched his teeth. "Yuffie Kisaragi, you will continue exactly as you have been doing until your seventeenth birthday. At that time, you will find a mate. If you do not find one before you turn eighteen, I will arrange a marriage for you to the person of my choice and you will be married two weeks after your eighteenth birthday such as tradition dictates. If you do not comply with my rules and terms, you will be disowned. You will have no claim to the Leadership of Wutai and will be stripped of the Kisaragi name.
“You have done nothing to earn my respect for two reasons; one, you have not won the battles against the guardians at the pagoda, and two, you have not won a great victory against an enemy both are required to earn your Ninja title and earn my respect.
“Until that day, I will treat you as the child that you are." Godo turned and stormed out of his house and went to the top floor of the pagoda.
"I will beat you old man. You may be my father and though I still love you (Leviathan knows why), I will love to cream you when I take on the pagoda and my great victory will go down in Wutain history as one of the greatest ever recorded. You WILL show me the proper respect as a Ninja and as your daughter." Yuffie vowed with fists clenched.
A thin line of blood trickled down her wrist and to the floor from where her nails punctured the skin of her palm.
--End Flashback--
She then recalled what happened after that sleazy, disgusting, old man, Don Corneo, kidnapped her. But there was one thing that she did gain from the experience, besides her renewed study of ropes, chains and other bindings…and how to escape them.
Ever since the Da Chao incident, she had been able to interpret what Vincent was feeling by looking into his eyes. He had been angry, of course…but when he finally caught up with her after being captured by Don Corneo there was something else. He had not been angry and maybe it was the sunlight on Da Chao or her eyes playing tricks on her, but he looked slightly relieved to find her first until....

"I don't care what you're doing, so much as the idiotic

way you're doing it." Vincent said to Corneo.

What he had said on Da Chao to Don Corneo had hurt her,. but when she looked into his eyes, she saw a strange mixture of emotion. She saw regret, embarrassment and anger.
He was angry that Corneo actually put his teammate in harms way and the fact that he intended to use Yuffie for sexual favors infuriated him. It looked as though he regretted what he had said and was embarrassed that those words that came out of his mouth the way that they had. It was like he hadn't meant for it to come out that way.
'Why would he regret what he said? I did steal their materia after all…' She thought.
.::-o-::.
Ever since she had met Vincent Valentine in the basement of the Shinra Mansion, she had thought that he was quite handsome. Those intense crimson eyes, strong nose, unruly raven hair that managed to escape from the blood red bandana that kept it from his face, and his tall dark appearance made her heart flutter.
'Come now Yuffie, you can't have a crush on a guy you just met ten minutes ago…grow up!' She remembered telling herself.

Since that point in her journey. she had always been aware of the feelings that were produced whenever he was near. 'Maybe this is more than just a little crush.' She thought to herself. She had never acted on those feelings because she knew they would be unwelcome. If there were to be anything at all between her and Vincent, he would have to initiate it.
.::-o-::.
Vincent, Cloud and Cid had defeated Corneo's flying beast. Rude freed the Turk, Elena and herself. She almost ran into Vincent's arms but after a struggle within herself scuffed the dirt with her orange shoe and murmured "Thanks Vince."
With a nod, they headed down the mountain with Cid calling her a brat and berating her the rest of the way down the mountainside. Each word stung her terribly but she would not allow herself to cry. 'I can not do this now…I will not let him see what his words are doing to me.'
'This is all Godo's Fault! They will never trust me again.' The latter was the icing on the cake, almost causing her to lose the hold she had on her tears.
.::-o-::.
What she didn’t know however, was how bad Vincent felt at the punishment Cid was dealing out to her…he felt that all the name calling Cid was doing more damage the Cid knew.
But once they returned to the Tiny Bronco, she looked up at him and gave a shy smile…
.::-o-::.
"If only you knew, Vincent, If only you knew. You are not the only one who has suffered. We are more alike than you think." Yuffie said as she cried herself to sleep.
.::-o-::.

Vincent walked into his quarters and lay down on the firm mattress. He closed his eyes and began thinking about a memory that had been nagging at him for some time…
The incident at Da Chao.
She had stolen all of Avalanche's materia during the middle of their quest; it had angered a majority in the group. Barret and Cid were at the top of this list. Though he was angry at first, that anger quickly left him and was replaced by a different emotion…Worry. He was worried about the young Ninja.
The whole situation didn't seem right to him, it was almost as if she HAD to take the materia though she did not want to. Despite the fact that she currently possessed all of the materia that they had collected, deep down, he knew something dreadful was about to happen to her.
And it did.
---Flashback---
Despite the fact that the young Ninja was absolutely deadly with her weapon, a shuriken, she, along with the female Turk, Elena was captured by the disgusting pimp of wall market, Don Corneo.
Vincent led the way, desperate to find the young ninja. With the help of Reno and Rude of the Turks, Cloud, Cid and Vincent had managed to track them to the Da Chao Mountains before splitting up to find the two missing women.
Cloud walked to the base of the mountains and turned to face the other men. "We'll split up. Rude and Reno, take the path that leads further up the mountain, Cid and I will take the ones that go towards the fire cave. Vincent if you're okay being alone, you take the remaining path."
"Lets hurry the hell up and get that lil' brat and get our fuckin' materia back!" Cid said, lighting another cigarette.
Vincent nodded and darted up the path leaving the others behind. The others watched him quickly make his way around a bend in the path and began to head up themselves at a slightly slower pace.
After a few minutes, Vincent was becoming even more agitated; there was no sign of them so far and no word from the others.
'Chaos, I require your assistance. I need to find Yuffie quickly before she is injured or worse.'
'Why should I help you, host?'
'My name is Vincent and if you don't, she will get hurt!'
'Fine.'
Vincent closed his crimson orbs and gave Chaos enough control to take over his senses but not transform completely.
-Flash!!-
A picture appeared behind Vincent's closed eyelids…it was the face of Da Chao. Vincent opened his eyes and sprinted up the mountainside with renewed vigor. Using a memory from when he was a child to direct him, Vincent ran straight to the area that was shown to him by Chaos.
.::-o-::.
As Vincent rounded the corner he saw the corpulent form that could only be the perverted Don Corneo. He glared at the round man as the Turks, Cloud and Cid came up behind him. Looking up, there was Yuffie…bound by ropes and struggling to get free.
Vincent turned his attention to his surrounding, looking to see if there is any way to free the two women while Cloud and Cid were talking to Corneo.
"GROSS-NESS! Don't mess with me old man! You don't even have any Materia!" Yuffie's voice broke through the men's conversation.
He began inching towards the women when Corneo started to look his way and froze…he had been following the conversation and Cloud looked over at him as if expecting him to reply.
"I don't care what you're doing, so much as the idiotic way you're doing it." Vincent said to Corneo.
Vincent looked up at Yuffie's gray eyes as the words came out of his mouth and the others went back to their conversation. 'I did not intend to sound so spiteful.' Vincent thought. He regretted the words deeply. 'I hope that it didn't hurt her too much.'
'Since when did you start caring about others feelings?' Chaos said, spitting out the word 'feelings' as though it was of the vilest things to say in existence.
'No matter what she makes people believe, she is actually very sensitive. Now leave me be Chaos.'
Just as he had finished communicating with the demon, Corneo's 'new pet,' Rapps, attacked the trio, with Yuffie and Elena hanging upside down from the eyes of the Da Chao statue.
The battle with Rapps was over fairly quickly even without their materia. Vincent walked over to begin untying Yuffie and Elena but the Turk, Rude, had already beaten him to it.
With feet firmly planted on the ground and Don Corneo disposed of, courtesy of Reno, Yuffie stood next to Vincent. He looked over at the now obviously embarrassed and shaken teen. His sensitive ears picked up her murmured "Thanks Vince" and acknowledged he with a small nod.

On the way down the mountain, she was called almost every name in the book by one Cid Highwind. Though she did not show it, he saw that each word cut through her like a knife. He watched her every move and saw the slight slump of her shoulders and the hitched breaths she drew. It was almost as if she was trying to hold back tears.
'Even when injured, I have never seen Yuffie shed one tear…I will find out what she is hiding.' He silently vowed to himself as the boarded the Tiny Bronco.
Cid and Cloud were seated in plane and starting the engine when Yuffie turned to Vincent and gave him a shy smile.
'I still don't know how she does that…'
'Me neither…the little one has strength.'
"Remarkable." He whispered to himself.
---End Flashback---

Vincent's thoughts were broken when he heard muffled sobs coming through the wall between their quarters. 'She hides her emotions well.' He thought to himself.
No one else in Avalanche, except the recently departed Aeris and maybe Tifa, seemed to think that the young Yuffie Kisaragi had any sort of personality besides that of the smug, thieving, brat persona that she wore to mask her true pain. There was much more to this young ninja than she allowed anyone to see…but if they had bothered, they would see so much more.
The thought that she was hiding her true self so deeply made Vincent sympathize with her. He was a professional at hiding his true emotions from the world. He didn’t like idea of her shutting down so completely that she showed no emotion at all.
He did not want her to become like him.
Chaos had a point though. Why did he care so much about Yuffie?
Maybe because of the way that she chose to hide her sorrow while the other's in Avalanche had no problems with expressing their frustration, anger and sorrow. Never once had he seen her lose her temper, cry out when in pain, or express her sadness openly.
It made him wonder, how many times has she gone off by herself and just cried? She must have been bottling up the emotions that she didn't want others to see for years. How much longer could this brave Ninja keep up this façade without a proper outlet?
And thought no one else realized it, she does actually care for her teammates. She is always the first one to use her cure materia or potions when someone was injured. When things would get too depressing, she would try to lighten things up and motivate the others when things were not looking so bright. She was a mature young woman; it's just that her protective façade that she had conjured up had hidden this fact.
.::-o-::.
There was once again silence coming from the room next to his. 'She must have fallen asleep.'
'Someone so young, vibrant and beautiful should not have to deal with burdens such as the ones she is carrying. She should not have to hide who she really is.'
'Wait. Beautiful? Where did that come from?' He thought as his brow furrowed. Was it true? Did he actually care for her in a way that was more than one would treat a comrade?
He could not think about that right now. Soon would arrive at the falls that his beloved Lucrecia had made her home.
Vincent closed his eyes thinking about his approaching visit with the woman who had stolen his heart and soon fell asleep. There were no nightmares this day, only an extremely confusing dream of his dear Lucy and another smiling female figure that he could not make out, on a bluff overlooking the ocean.
o-o-Author's Notes-o-o
(3/15/05): The last time I played ff7, I had Vincent before I went to Wutai and when Yuffie ran off, I still had some materia left. That’s why Vince is with them during all the events.
Formatting Edit 7/18/07
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