Wow, okay, so near-naked lady was pretty moody. That much was clear. Which was not an UNUSUAL reaction, Yuffie found. Lots of people were moody. Particularly when speaking to her. Not that there was any pattern there or anything. It was just moody people being grumps.
"Whoa, okay, rude, lady, I'm tryin' to help ya here," Yuffie shot back at the woman's reaction, but she supposed it WAS pretty stressful when you first came to Zephron. Especially if you didn't take it in stride like Yuffie did! (By which Yuffie meant 'assume you'd time travelled and spend a good few months just causing chaos for fun before realising you'd better take this situation seriously').

"Yeah, well, it's super true nonsense, lady, so you'd better listen. This is a whole new world. We got people showin' up all the time. And none of us know how to get back home, so you'd better get used to it," Yuffie replied defensively when the woman criticised her summary of events.

Well, this lady didn't know what materia was. That was annoying. That happened a lot around here, and Yuffie sighed. Oh well. There would be other opportunities.
"Hey, striking when the opportunity presents itself is the way of the ninja!" she replied, striking a ninja pose with her fingers together for a moment, before giving her a smile. "But since you don't have any, I guess it's okay. I mean, where'd ya even keep it? They've got this neat invention here called pockets. It's what ya get when you wear more than a bathing suit," she teased, because she was still annoyed at that little dig at her manners. "And manners are for LOSERS, anyway. My Dad rules all of Wutai and he couldn't teach me manners, so don't go thinking you can, lady," Yuffie added, resisting the urge to poke her tongue out at her.

"Ehhh, I don't need your gil," Yuffie replied, taking half of a step away, hands behind her back in a playful skip. "Buuuut, lucky for you, I'm the great hero Yuffie Kisaragi, ninja extraordinaire and saviour of the world! So I ALWAYS help somebody in need. So whatcha wanna know? Where you are? This town is called Torensten. And it gets wrecked like, more than Midgar does. But that's okay! 'cause there's plenty of heroes around to save the day. It's primary exports are super kick butt ninja warriors!" she grinned. And then she paused. "Just kiddin', there's only one. Me! But I'm more than enough to go around with MY awesome skills!"


@dona

Torensten could be a busy town, which suited Yuffie fine. In many ways, it reminded her of the slums of Midgar, only less gross. But a crowd was always good, because it was easy to disappear into a crowd, and to move through people, and there was always something interesting going on. It was a good way to pass the time, now that, y'know, her entire life mission was over and also a world away...

She was snapped out of her thoughts when some frantic woman grabbed her, panicking over where she was. Yuffie reeled back a little, taking in the woman for a moment.
"Geez, lady, take it easy, would ya?" Yuffie shot back, looking her up and down. She took a moment to process what the woman had just said, and then rolled her eyes. Oh, of COURSE. Frantic, confused. It was another one of those dimensional whojamawhatits. People from other realities dumped here. Just like had happened to Yuffie. "Lemme guess?" she said, putting her hands on her hips as she peered at the woman. "One minute, you're in your own world, where apparently they haven't invented, y'know, pants, or anything, and then suddenly you woke up here and you were all like 'say whaaaaaat'," Yuffie guessed.

"Don't worry, it's been happenin' to tonnes of us. People keep turnin' up here, and no idea how. Sometimes their memories go all screwy too. Or people who, like, are one hundred and twenty percent DEFINITELY dead show up like they came from the past or somethin'. It's super weird," Yuffie 'explained', pretty unhelpfully as she jumped about subjects with abandon. "Buuuut, I know what you're thinkin'. So first of all, you haven't time travelled. We're not in the past. It's like, another world or something," since Yuffie had assumed she was stranded in the past for far too long, she thought best to explain that immediately.

"Anyway, try not to worry, 'cause you've landed on your feet. You've got none other than the Amazing Yuffie, right here to help you out! I've been here a little while now, so I'm kinda totally an expert. Of course, all tour guides deserve a little pay, so, don't suppose you have any materia on you, do ya?" she ventured. She figured it was pretty unlikely, but hey, could you blame a girl for trying?




@dona

Yuffie shot the trainee a grin when Caius threatened a shuriken to the butt. It looked like her training techniques were working! Obviously! Which wasn't bad for something she'd made up on the spot. Clearly she could do this whole teacher thing after all! Which made sense, right? After all, she'd conquered the Pagoda so she WAS the best ninja in Wutai. It made sense she'd have to start giving ninja lessons soon! Maybe she should start with Mikoto. Teach her some badass ninja techniques!

"Uh huh. So, whatever's going on is super weird, and we can't do anything about it. Kinda sucky," Yuffie replied, but as far as she knew, there was nothing they could do. Which was why she was there. It was time to give up on thoughts about getting home, at least for now, and find her place in this new world. So; Dragonblades. Being a hero! It made perfect sense to her. At least, until whatever was going on here ended and she got out of there.

"Uh, I didn't say I wasn't gonna train, jus' that I didn't hafta," Yuffie countered, when he told her about training. "I can train. I can train super hard, and then kick all your butts even more than I can already!" She explained, throwing a few more mock punches as she jumped around for a moment, 'training' in her head, obviously. Because she'd be darned if he was gonna think he was better than her for training! Besides, she could find easy ways to skip training later on if it got boring. She was a pro at wriggling out of actually having to do stuff she didn't want to.

"Hey! Who you callin' 'children'? I'm not some dumb kid! I'm Yuffie Kisaragi! I'm the champion of the Pagoda of Wutai! I helped beat Sephiroth and Jenova and saved the entire world. I'm not a kid!" she insisted angrily, annoyed at being spoken down to. He reminded her of Sonon, the way he treated her like a kid. Cloud, at least, had never done that. He'd treated her like an annoyance, yes, but he'd never made her feel too young to be adventuring with them. "Wait? Combat test? You mean, we're gonna throw down? Ohhhhh boy! You're in trouble now, mister!" Yuffie grinned, throwing a few more air punches and dancing to adjust her stance. "So, do I jus' kick your butt here, or do we go somewhere special for it?" she beamed, ready for the fight. This was going to be GREAT! She'd beat up their leader right in front of them. They might just make her the boss of the Dragonblades right away after this!

@caius

Yuffie followed him out to the courtyard where a bunch of the Dragonblades were, apparently, training. He started lecturing one on not keeping their guard up and Yuffie just rolled her eyes. Gawd, he reminded her of her Dad or instructors back home. She hadn't come here to be trained. She already knew how to kick butt. She'd come here to be a hero. Still, maybe he needed her to help teach this lot now. That made sense. After all, she was the Champion of the Pagoda. She'd beaten everybody else back home.
"I'd thrown a shuriken at their butt while she wasn't looking. That'd learn 'em," Yuffie input her teaching technique helpfully. Well, it would be, if she ever got asked how to teach.

"Okay, firstly, I'm from WUTAI. Alright. And I get you probably haven't heard of Wutai 'cause, like, we're on another planet or something weird - seriously, I still don't know the deal with that - but the thing about Wutai is, us ninjas? We train, like, all our lives! I could not train ever again and STILL kick the butts of all your guys out there, so don't worry about me! I'm not afraid of a little hard work!" Of course, Yuffie also had plenty of techniques for AVOIDING training since she usually hated it, but she decided not to say that here.

"Anyway, as for why I wanna join, it's not for personal glory. Did you not HEAR who I am? I am like, already pretty glorificus. I am fully gloried up. Any more personal glory and they'd be like, whoa, that Yuffie girl, she's so amazing, and like, start a religion about me or something," Yuffie boasted, although of course 'personal glory' had been one of her motivating factors. Even if she didn't want to say it.

"You wanna know why I wanna join? 'cause my whole life I spent fighting to save Wutai. To get rid of Shinra an' to make Wutai what it used to be. Except, here, there is no Wutai. And even if I go back home, Shinra's done for. I won! And now I'm like, what am I meant to do now? I always had a reason for everything I did. All the fighting, all the schemes, all my ideas, it was to help Wutai. I mean, if you're not fighting FOR something, if there isn't a reason why you do all the stuff you do, you're not a hero at all. You're just some butthole," Yuffie explained her in-depth, clearly well thought out philosophy. "So I'm lookin' for a cause worth fighting for, and I was like, hey, you guys beat up monsters and are heroes. So, I figured, we'd be a natural fit. So, where'd I sign up?" she grinned, feeling that this sales pitch should be more than enough.




@caius