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Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Oct 17, 2021 10:20:30 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Halloween was Yuffie's favourite night of the year. You could throw on a moogle cloak, run out into the night, take whatever you wanted from people and egg their houses if they didn't give you it! This was not, truth be told, entirely that different from Yuffie's usual modus operandi, although the candy was usually replaced with materia, the eggs with.... well, actually, no, eggs were good, and she still wore the moogle cloak. But now she could do it with legitimacy!
Of course, it didn't take a genius to know that the equation of Yuffie + Free Candy = Yuffie on a Sugar Rush and that was not great for anybody. Running about the town, her moogle cloak/costume flowing behind her, she was eager for more, which was when her eyes were drawn to the store offering 'free samples'. She grinned. Was there any better thing than free samples? Now if only materia shops did those! She ran towards the shop, holding out her candy bag.
"Gimmegimmegimme!" she said with excitement gleaming, pushing past a girl dressed as a monkey.
Wait a minute. That wasn't a monkey costume! She just had a TAIL! Nobody was getting Yuffie's free candy without wearing a proper costume! "Hey! Can't you read?" she said to the monkey girl. "It says free samples for people in costume only! YOU don't have a costume, so quit tryin' to get MY candy." Yuffie grinned, making her way up to the store owner and holding out her bag with a big grin. "TRICK OR TREAT!" she declared with a big, toothy smile. "Aren't you a little old for this?" asked the store keeper. "I dunno, are you a little old to get NINJA'D IN THE FACE!?" Yuffie asked back, striking an overly-excited pose with her shuriken in her hand. The store keeper sighed, and just handed over a piece of candy. "Kids today," he sighed. Yuffie looked at the single piece. "One bit!? What a gip!" she whined, turning around to see the strange monkey girl still watching her.
"Hey! Monkey girl!" Yuffie moved over to get her attention, putting an arm around her and leading her away from the crowd. "Way I see it, you don't get ANY candy 'cause you're not in costume, and I only got one bit of candy, which totally sucks. Soooo.... it's like I said, trick or treat. And they didn't give us a treat. So............... wanna go egg the store with me?" she asked, grinning excitedly.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Sept 25, 2021 11:52:39 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie found herself glaring back. Somehow, his denial made her even angrier. He didn't remember? What, just like that, was he meant to have forgotten all the evil things he had done? Like somehow, that made it OKAY? That the most evil person the universe had ever known had a spot of amnesia so, hey, he wasn't to blame for what he did?
No. Yuffie wasn't going to have that. He had to PAY! He had to know what he did! "I'm not talking about Wutai!" she yelled back furiously. And then she paused, and thought. "Uh, although, yeah, you can pay for that too!" she said after a moment's thought. And then she was back on topic. As she thought about Aerith. That horrific moment when she saw Sephiroth's blade pierce her back. The moment that she died. The moment that Yuffie had failed to save one of the only people who had ever been nice to her, despite all of Yuffie's crap. Despite everything she did. Aerith always liked her. And she had died. "Aerith. Her name was Aerith. You killed her. You stabbed her through the back, like a coward! I-I... I'm the long range attacker, I should have SEEN you! I should have stopped you! But I was too slow!" Yuffie hesitated. The pain, the guilt, she'd never shared. They all felt guilty over Aerith's death. But Yuffie was meant to be FAST. She was meant to be SNEAKY. She should have seen the sneak attack coming. If anybody was going to stop it, it was her. "You murdered her right in front of us... And why? Because you thought she was the only one who could stop you! But you were wrong! We stopped you anyway! You killed her for nothing!" Yuffie yelled.
"Maybe you need ME to explain, then. Poor Little Sephiroth doesn't remember? Well, let me tell you!" she shouted, still driven by her anger. "Jenova! Yeah, bet you remember THAT name, right? You found out all about Jenova, and it drove you mad. Made you want to destroy the planet. And you nearly did it, too. But we stopped you. We killed you and we destroyed Jenova too! We saved the planet! You should be dead!" Yuffie continued to yell, before pausing breathlessly, and finally the moment of logic catching up with her, and suggesting that maybe, just maybe, telling the psychotic killer the exact chain of events that made him go psychotic in the first place was not the best plan of action...
No, screw it. If Sephiroth was here, it was a matter of time, and he'd remember. He'd remember and he'd burn this world like he had Yuffie's. And this time, Yuffie didn't have a team to stop him.
"I won't let you do to this world what you did to mine," Yuffie insisted. Her world. Her future. The past. Where ever they were, she couldn't let Sephiroth destroy it. "I'll find a way to stop you!"
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Sept 16, 2021 10:27:28 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
His voice... There was no forgetting that voice. So cold. So clinical. The voice of a monster. She had heard him speak. Not often, but she had. And those eyes. Those cat like, piercing eyes... He might not have been dressed like him, he might not have acted like him, but this was Sephiroth. Yuffie knew it in her guts. And she knew that it was completely insane for her to stand against him alone. Bragging aside, she knew that it had taken all of them to defeat him really, and she didn't stand a chance to fight him alone.
But if she was right, if she was in the past, and if this was Sephiroth from before... Could she stop him? Could she change his future? Could she save her?
Yuffie's eyes narrowed when he said he didn't have to explain himself to her, and she felt a sudden surge of anger. "Yeah, you do," she shot back fiercely. "You killed my friend. No, she was more than a friend. I betrayed her and screwed her over and put everybody in danger and she never blamed me. Not for a second. She understood. She forgave me. She was always there for me. She was family. And you killed her in cold blood. So yeah, you owe me an explanation. So you better get talkin'!" she said angrily, her eyes slightly damp at the memory of Aerith.
"And you wouldn't have stopped there, would you? You summoned meteor, you threatened the entire planet. All the battles, all the things we lost, it was because of you. But we beat you. We stopped you. So you can't be here. You can't. It can't have all been for nothing. She didn't die for nothing!" Yuffie yelled, her anger genuine and totally replacing the previous goofy humour that seemed to emanate from her.
"So who are you? HOW are you here?" Yuffie demanded.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Sept 14, 2021 16:04:53 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie's brain took a moment to adjust and replay the figure in front of her. He had a ruined book, was wearing plain clothes, and looked... mildly annoyed. But he was definitely Sephiroth. No doubt about it. Sure, he was wearing a lot more shirt than the last time she had seen him, and he had legs again, which she presumed were useful, but he was, without a doubt, Sephiroth himself. Here.
And she was going to have to face him alone.
But then he did something she did not expect. He excused himself politely. What? What was going on!? She was pretty sure Sephiroth had never said two words to her in their entire quest to stop him, and now he was just, politely excusing himself and leaving? What? Was he RUNNING AWAY from her?
Yeah... Yeah... that made sense, right? She was the Great Yuffie! He was obviously scared of her!
.....Not even Yuffie bought that herself. So what was going on?
Wait, if she was in the past, was he... past Sephiroth!? Did that mean if she killed him, she'd save Aerith!? She'd stop all the bad things he'd done? Could she change the future? She wasn't sure how it made sense, yes, she was in the past (according to her, anyway), but centuries in the past, since Wutai didn't exist. So how could Sephiroth be there? It didn't make any sense.
It would have been a lot easier to think without all the yelling from the coffee lady.
"Okay, okay, geez lady, I'm leavin'! You're gonna regret it though! 'cause one day, you'll be tellin' your kids about how you missed your chance to serve drinks to the Single White Rose of Wutai!" she boasted from the doorway, barely ducking a thrown cup in her direction when she still seemed to refuse to leave. "Fine, I didn't want your stupid Fraccicano anyway!" she yelled, dodging out the door.
Sephiroth was slipping away, but she could still see him. That silver hair was hard to miss. The wise thing to do was run away. To leave him alone, just like he had asked. But Yuffie HATED doing what she was asked. Besides, he didn't seem like normal Sephiroth. So if she was right, he was Past Sephiroth, and this was her chance to save the future.
"Hey! Stop!" she ran after him, jumping in front of him. "You're Sephiroth! You can't be Sephiroth! Sephiroth doesn't drink coffee! He blows up planets n' stuff! Who are you? What are you doing here, huh!?" she asked angrily, pointing at him and leaning forward angrily as she blocked off his path.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Sept 14, 2021 15:24:25 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
So, Big Dress Lady wanted to visit Wutai did she? Well, that didn't surprise Yuffie. Non-Wutians always wanted to visit. That was how Shinra had turned it into a tourist destination. Personally, Yuffie hated that, but she figured that she could still support her new friend. Possible friend. Well, she had no idea what her name was, but if she had magic, she had materia, so she was a friend in the sense that Yuffie would hang out with her until either she learned her name or figured out how to steal all of her materia from her. Either was good! "Well, actually, in my time, we're kinda moving away from the whole 'tourist destination' thing. It was forced on us for a while but now we're free! But it's okay, I'm totally a big deal in Wutai, I can get you in," Yuffie smiled, apparently not quite comprehending that they were (by her reckoning) in the past and therefore the future of Wutai hadn't happened yet...
"So I'm gonna make the wine taste gross? Wine ALREADY tastes gross. I snuck some out from the Highwind when we were celebrating saving the world. I dunno how you grown ups drink that stuff. It is REALLY yucky," she remarked, wrinkling her nose, obviously not having acquired a taste for wine yet. "But okay. Make the wine even grosser. I can do that!" she beamed.
"Huh. Darned consequences. Always gettin' in the way of my great plans," Yuffie sulked with her arms folded when Hilda pointed out all the reasons just stealing the money was a bad idea. Why didn't the victims have the good sense to just give up when they got stolen from? People were always chasing her down to reclaim their property. It wasn't fair!
"We could just bust her outta jail afterwards?" Yuffie suggested, but she could already see Hilda wasn't buying the idea. "I'm Yuffie Kisaragi! Champion of the Earth and Sky! Defier of Evil! I can totally save somebody who's innocent from prison!" she went on cheerfully, but she could see the idea was already forgotten.
"Hey, I'm not some petty thief. I don't jus' steal 'cause I want money," Yuffie protested. "But I do totally steal gil when it shows up people's dumb faces," a sentence that probably made more sense in her head. "Plus, stealing their buttons? That'll be so funny when their pants fall down!" she giggled, already amused.
And then she revealed that she couldn't make Yuffie normal size again. "You mean I gotta do all of this as tiny?" she asked. "Wow, lady, you're lucky I'm the world's greatest ninja. Even being shrunk won't stop me. TINY YUFFIE, GOOOO!" she cheered, throwing her hands up in the air. "Uh, of course, carrying all those pills for the wine is gonna be super hard this tiny, but I can do it!"
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Sept 11, 2021 16:24:51 GMT -6
"Get ready, Torensten, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie gave Verik a quizzical look when he mentioned having his 'own' magic. How did somebody have their own magic? Sure, you could learn from materia, right? But it was the materia that evolved and grew. Not the person. Maybe he DID have some materia of his own and he was just holding out on her. Maybe they just called it something else in the past? Like, Ye Olde Materia Ball or something. She'd have to listen closely to find out more.
"I mean, hey, I got my own spells too," she said defensively and quickly, in case he thought she wasn't as AWESOME as him or something. Plus, well, she did, even if her's came from her own materia. "But hey, you can never have too much materia, right? Since you offered, sure, I'll take ALL the materia we find," she beamed a smile at this. Wow. This was working out even better than she had expected. She had a new party member AND he was willing to fork over all the materia?
RES-ULT!
Then he asked a more serious question. It seemed he was concerned about his fellow party members. Yuffie had to admit, she had wondered where Cloud and the others were too, but she didn't have any reason to believe they'd be here. She had, maybe, privately, hoped. Not that she'd admit it, because of COURSE she was fine on her own, but maybe, quietly, at the back of her mind, she had wished the others were there with her.
"Okay, see, that sounds like a sorta 'leadership' question an' people don't normally ask me stuff like that," she admitted. "Uh, even though I was TOTES in charge, obvs," she said quickly. "Honestly, I got no idea. I mean, I dunno how we came to be stuck in the past or why or if anybody else is gonna show up here. BUT, if they are, you gotta figure, they'll follow the trail same as us, right? And then we can all meet up in the nearest town! Better than hanging around the woods, yeah? I mean, don't you want a nice comfy bed 'n stuff?" Yuffie pointed out, in a stroke of what was, by her standards, actually reasonable logic.
"Plus we don't even know if everybody shows up in the same place. Maybe they're like, a gazillion miles away! We'd never find 'em and just spend all our time loitering here til we like, turn into trees or somethin'. Nope, the smartest thing to do is head for the nearest town. Yep, that's totally my decision as the boss lady!" she said proudly.
And not just because she wasn't quite sure how to make Beaky stop on his methodical plod along the path...
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Sept 11, 2021 15:25:35 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
It seemed big dress lady was trying to outsmart her! Well, Big Dress Lady, Yuffie thought, you have to get up mighty early to outsmart YUFFIE! Like, at least, maybe, 10.00 am? Who got up earlier than that anyway? Look, even badass ninjas need their beauty sleep, okay? Gawd, stop bothering her.
Wait, what was she thinking about again?
Oh yeah! Big Dress Lady and the time travel comment. "Oh, no, I'm like, from waaaaaaaaay in the future. A few centuries. Or, maybe decades. I dunno, look, I never really studied history. But the world I'm from is TOTALLY different. I don't think you even GOT a Wutai here. That's where I'm from, by the way. Wutai! It's the best nation on the planet!" she said proudly, jabbing a thumb at herself.
So, Big Dress Lady's plan was to spoil reputations? Well, that sounded WAY more boring than Yuffie's idea, but going after the hoity toities and ruining their day could still be fun. She looked at the tablets that Hilda produced. They were, of course, gigantic to the mini Yuffie, who took them in. "You want me to poison their wine? I'm a ninja, not an assassin," she said in protest. Once again, there was the distinct possibility that despite dedicating her life to the way of ninjitsu, Yuffie didn't appear to actually understand what a ninja was. "I mean, I can totally do it, of COURSE. I am the BEST at being sneaky!" she said loudly, which, well, might have been fairly contrary to the point.
"Uh huh, poisoning wine and collecting gossip. This sounds pretty borin', I gotta tell ya, Big Dress Lady," Yuffie said with a nod. "Seems to ME that the problem you got is you need the money to get to the right people, right? And they raised all the money here. So, uh, why bother with all the borin' gossiping and trying to make these nobles vote one way or the other. I mean, all you gotta do is STEAL the money and give it to whoever wants it, right?"
"Lucky fer you, I'm not just a great ninja, but also a master thief and materia hunter! I can steal your gil for you and then we'll make the hoity toities look DUMB for losing their money AND we can donate it to the people who need it. After I take a little finder's fee, of course. Whatcha think?" Yuffie grinned at her great idea.
"Also make me big please. Don't worry, I am STEALTHY like a NINJA so nobody will hear me coming!"
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Sept 11, 2021 14:31:01 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie's well honed ninja senses warned her of the incoming onion via a complex, well trained set of nerve endings that delivered the message to her brain which stated; 'you've just been hit in the head with an onion'. "Owww!" she said, rubbing the back of her head. Well, she'd never said her well honed ninja senses warned her BEFORE it hit her head, did she? She turned around, offended, and looked at the dragoon. "Hey! What's the deal!? I thought you were on my side!" she protested. "Can't you see I was about to have an awesome magic showdown with this guy!?" she complained, gesturing in the direction of the diminutive wizard, who was using this as an opportunity to flee.
The Dragoon seemed to be challenging her to a fight. She turned, slightly aghast, annoyed, but with a smirk crossing her face. Oh, this Dragoon wanted to fight, did she? Ohhh, Yuffie would show her! Nobody challenged the Great Ninja Yuffie to a fight and got to get away! She grinned, even as the Dragoon, Ren, it seemed, lay down her gauntlet. They COULD fight, but doing so would mean the other thugs got away, along with their secret stash of gil.
Sounded logical, right?
Yeah, well, LOGIC was no match for YUFFIE! "Oh, I'll take you on! I'll KICK YOUR BUTT!" she said, throwing several quick jabs to show that she was ready to fight. "An' you've made one miscalcu- miscalc-u.... mis... take!" she grinned. "'cause all I gotta do is kick your butt before they get outta here safely, right? I can do that! I'm the Great Ninja Yuffie! I can beat anyone!" she said confidently, flipping her shuriken down to her hand and taking her fighting stance. "Alright, Furball! Let's go! Time to take you to town, YUFFIE-style! Didn't wanna hafta split the treasure with you, anyway!" After all, that was the rule of fighting together, right? You split the spoils.
Or, well, Cloud shared it out. Which MIGHT also have lent to her plan to steal all of the party's materia. Okay, so she felt guilty about that now, but hey, Cloud should have let HER have the cool summon materia first! So in a WAY it was his own fault, right?
Yuffie moved in quickly, tossing her shuriken at the dragoon, the wizard behind her forgotten for her new target. She flipped in the air as she did so, moving to catch it as it returned to her hand as the Bolt materia inside began to crackle, electricity snaking around her hand. "Any time you wanna surrender, jus' say the word!" she beamed, throwing a lightning bolt out at the Dragoon.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Aug 25, 2021 13:03:14 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
It was morning, which SUCKED, traditionally. Nothing good ever happened in the morning. Boring people went to work, fun people were still asleep, and there wasn't really much good to steal. People were just waking UP. You had to wait 'til they were gone to get at their materia, and that was if you weren't stuck in the past where there didn't seem to BE any materia. Yuffie COULD have spent it asleep, but she always had too much energy for that. Besides, she'd probably get nagged to pay her rent again. Gawd, why didn't people just let her crash? She'd tried to explain she basically saved the world in the future, but nobody believed her. Or cared. Which was totally rude.
Anyway, she was awake now, and she figured she might as well go and try the coffee shop. After all, she never really had coffee back home. She'd tried, but Tifa and Cloud and the others had choice words about the idea of 'mixing Yuffie with caffeine'. She didn't see the big deal. It wasn't like alcohol. Grown-ups drank coffee all the time and THEY were fine, so why couldn't she?
She burst into the coffee shop with her usual bundle of energy, making her way over to the counter. "Gimme one of those Unicorn Frappicanos!" she insisted, totally butchering the name. "With EXTRA cream. Ohhh, and do you have those multi-coloured sprinkles? I want some of them!" she said, her face an eager grin as her voice carried loudly. She looked up at the menu over the coffee stand to take a look at the actual prices, and suddenly gaped.
Wow, coffee was EXPENSIVE.
"Uh, hey, do you do world saver's discount? 'cause, not to brag or anything, but, I like, totally saved the world," Yuffie said conversationally, leaning for a moment on the counter. "I mean, it was in the future, but that's still gonna happen ONE day so it totally counts," she added quickly. "See, there was this total bad guy called Sephiroth! And he was all like, I'm gonna summon a meteor to destroy the world. And I was like, HA! I don't think so!" Energetically, she jumped up onto the counter to better make her point and do an impression of her heroics. "For I am the Great Ninja Yuffie Kisaragi! Champion of the Earth and Sky! Defender of the Innocent! Be warned, evil doer, for now you face the Single White Rose of Wutai! And I will stop your evil ways!" she proclaimed, pointing at an imaginary Sephiroth before her dramatically from where she stood. No doubt in her head, there was an exploding multicoloured background of light and special effects along with some dramatic music, instead of her just standing on top of a counter in a coffee shop yelling. "And he was all like, 'oh no, not Yuffie!' and I was like, 'Ah ha, evil doer, now you meet your end!' and we had this big fight, and, well, I TOTALLY kicked his butt. Practically single handed, of course. It was all, 'HOO! HA!'" She started doing martial arts impressions, throwing punches and kicks, before she span around to face the cashier again, jumping in the air as she did so. "So, like, you should-" she began, but mid-jump brought her to the edge of the counter, and suddenly she lost her balance. "WHA-WHA-WHOOOOOOA!" and she fell clean off of the counter.
"EEK! OOHF! HEY!" She managed half of a recovery, jumping from one table to another, kicking coffee everywhere and disturbing patrons, before her momentum carried her directly to the table nearest the window, where she eventually lost her balance, and fell in a heap of flailing arms directly into the table at which a certain silver haired gentleman sat quietly reading a book...
Yuffie crashed into the table, sending coffee everywhere, and ending up upside down in table wreckage, staring up at the figure. "Whoooooooa.... Owwwwwww....." She groaned.
She must have hit her head harder than she thought, because he looked kinda like...
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Aug 25, 2021 5:52:55 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
"Whoa! Hey!" Yuffie kicked a little as she was lifted from the Big Dress Lady's, well, big dress and plopped on a bench beside her. The woman was looking at her with serious Tifa-Face. Which was like Mom-Face except, well, Yuffie had never really known her Mom, so she associated the look of general disapproval and 'what were you thinking' with Tifa more than any parent figure. She adjusted her top from where she had been lifted, and stared back at the Big Dress Lady. "Nobody taught me. I learned it all myself. That was all pure Yuffie, baby!" Yuffie beamed proudly. Plus, guardians? How young did she think she was? Nobody took charge of Yuffie! Sure, she had been in the party and MAYBE sometimes she'd let Cloud and Tifa THINK they were making the decisions, but she was OBVIOUSLY the leader, right?
"Uh, okay, I did NOT know that," Yuffie admitted when the Big Dress Lady started to explain how she had disrupted some charity event. It still sounded dumb to her. If rich people wanted to give money to charities, they should do anyway. Why did they need to use music as an excuse? "But, like, I know this won't make sense to you, but you don't gotta worry. See, I'm from the FUTURE, and, well, like, therefore I know everything works out anyway. So, just, like, relaaaaaax," Yuffie smiled brightly. Yes, she was still operating on the theory she was stuck in the past, and therefore nothing she did could possibly have any consequences.
She explained the situation, and how she had wanted to use Yuffie's skills to see the 'proper conclusion to the gala'. Which, Yuffie translated, meant only one thing. "Sooooo, what you're sayin' is, to win the money, we gotta win the Battle of the Bands?" she asked, grinning brightly. "Alright! Me and you, we can totally do that! Dad always said I acted like I belonged on stage!" This was not actually a compliment, given that she was supposed to be a ninja. "I mean, my performance in there should have ALREADY won it for us, but we can always do an encore!" she beamed.
