Mar 03, 2010 15:01
Luckily for Mele, the night had ended before Tenzen had changed his mind and deemed Mele appropriate for target practice. Even if the situation of who was mocking who had seemed to change into the Iga ninja's favor. Despite her behavior, perhaps the insolent woman could serve some sort of use nonetheless. He had been trapped in this place for a
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rika,
kirk,
klavier,
axel,
meche,
kagura,
tenzen,
anise,
minato,
rude,
leonard,
the doctor,
ranulf,
england,
indiana jones,
naminé,
utena,
luke fon fabre,
zex,
niikura,
taura,
hayes,
peter parker,
kurogane,
lunge,
lana skye,
mello,
brainiac 5,
xemnas,
ange,
albedo,
anthy,
nunnally,
remy,
tsukasa,
agatha,
peter petrelli,
mele,
two-face,
yuffie,
erika,
the scarecrow,
sync,
battler,
scourge,
tyki,
wolverine,
zack,
l,
haseo,
shinji,
sechs,
senna,
haine,
scott pilgrim,
aigis,
gumshoe,
dahlia,
ritsu,
hanatarou,
beatrice,
sora,
prussia,
ashton,
rei,
claude,
renamon,
keman,
guybrush,
alkaid,
von karma,
hanekoma,
guy,
heat,
kairi,
kio,
venom,
depth charge,
kibitoshin,
allelujah,
fai,
riku,
aerith,
rolo,
yue,
ema skye,
mccoy,
scar (tlk)
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"It's not you or me. It's Landel. He doesn't just take people from their homes, no matter what they're doing and why they're doing it. He snatches 'em right out of time, too." Her tone dipped low, and it took a little bit of effort to keep her spunky-girl speech pattern as it should be. "Cloud's from Meteorfall; he was watchin' it happen, and then he woke up here. Reno used to be here, too; I haven't seen the jerk in days, but he was from the year before me. It's… It doesn't add up, like a paradox, y'know? I bet if-when-we find a way back home, we'll end up right where we were when we left. Me in 0010, Cloud in 0008, Reno in '09. See? You haven't missed anything, it just hasn't happened for you yet ( ... )
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"Jumping to conclusions?" he repeated, shakily. "You just told me it was 0010 before you got here... I haven't been around people in a long time, I thought...." But everyone else was messed up too. Cloud was behind. Younger. Reno was the same as Nanaki.
He looked at the table.
I don't want you to die....
"...is your friend better?"
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"Yeah, well… I guess I could've phrased that better," she muttered, leaving her hand where it was. "I thought you'd be able to tell for sure what year it'd been before you wound up here." Turned out that she was the one who'd jumped to conclusions, go figure.
Instead of dwelling on that, she hopped right on over to the next thought-track. He hadn't been around people for a long time? Nanaki was almost as much as a wanderer as she was, in his own way, but most of his disappearing acts had been limited to the first two years of the Geostigma incident. So, '08 or '09? That wasn't too bad, or so she figured. Could've been a lot worse.
"My friend? Wha- Oh, d'you mean Yuri?" Yuffie hesitated again, unwillingly reminded of the night with the shapeshifter, but she flashed a grin like it was nothing. "Yup! It all got fixed." No harm done, she wanted to add, but couldn't. Too many people had died, including Yuri's mom. ( ... )
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He nodded and she explained about her friend, feeling relief a little reluctantly. Guilt was getting in the way.
"Did I....help?" he asked, suddenly getting a headache as he tried to comprehend their realities. Hopefully she'd seen him since he'd gone into the forest. He didn't want to explain that and he hoped that for whatever reason he blacked out, he was still ok...
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She grinned. "You came dashing in with Cait on your head."
Breakfast was going cheerfully ignored, she noticed offhand. Or, well, not so cheerfully; things were really kind of rocky. Still, she'd eaten enough to keep Plucky off her case, and lunch wasn't exactly a long time away.
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His shoulders relaxed again and he tilted his head at Yuffie. He'd come bounding in with Cait on his head.... Huh. He wasn't sure what he thought of that.
Yuffie might not be eating, but Nanaki wanted more. He picked up a sausage, nibbling along it to soften it up, picking away bit by bit.
"You never told me who else is here..."
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Lucky for them, for AVALANCHE, that they'd never managed it. Lucky for the whole wide world; they'd only just started really picking themselves up off the ground again, and with Geostigma on top of it all, there was no way the W.R.O. could have been able to launch a successful counterattack. Nope. As usual, when the going got tough, AVALANCHE got roped into doing the dirty work ( ... )
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He went through the people in his head. Zack was dead, he didn't like turks, he liked Sephiroth even less and.....
"Aerith...."
Dead. like Zack. only he cared about her. What if his Grandfather was alive too?! But Yuffie didn't mention him. but if this place brought people back to life.... Grandpa probably wouldn't want it... It would be selfish to wish him back, just to tell him all the things that had happened and see how proud he was.
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No. Not thinking like that. Yuffie wanted to hope, and so she hoped. The moment broke and so did her stillness, and she bumped shoulders companionably with the now-human Nanaki. Physical contact was a rare thing for her these days; it felt weird, now, after all this time. "It's a real trip, lemme tell you. One of these days, I swear we're gonna blink and find all of AVALANCHE fallin' on our laps. Cid, Barret, Reeve. Vince. Bunch of old farts," she added, lightly.
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"Maybe some other people too," he said quietly, hopefully.
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Nanaki leaned against her, and Yuffie allowed herself a moment to lean back. The tension under her skin was still there, always was these days. Another reason for her to get out and get something done tonight. A good long run around, preferably with no monsters or horrific hallucinations, and she'd be peachy-keen! Maybe she really could run, literally run? It was worth thinking about.
"So, what'dya think 'bout this whole 'being human' thing?" she asked, curious.
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Nanaki could feel her tension. Yuffie was usually to completely relaxed she was more like a wind elemental than skin and bones. He inhaled and nuzzled her shoulder before sitting up. Maybe he'd think of a way to help her. He wanted to write a note to everybody too, determined now that he knew Aerith was....here.
"I don't like it," he grumbled. He was still a little ashamed at the attack on humans... still confused about his place in the world. Maybe moreso now. "I can't walk. Or get comfortable. Eat. Fight. But I want to try to write a note. How should I tell everyone what happened?"
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She swung her legs, kicking them back and forth in a steady rhythm underneath the table. Yuffie'd always been brimming with energy, practically humming from it, and the restlessness was only gonna grow the longer she stayed here. "What you 'should' tell 'em depends on who you need to tell," she answered, scratching her cheek thoughtfully. "And if you want it to go on the board, you've gotta be careful with the wording. They censor a lot of stuff. Loosely, but, yeah. It's mega annoying."
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"Where can I find paper and pens? I just want them to know I'm here and human. And I want to say hello to Aerith. Does she know she's dead?"
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"I'll do?" She snorted. "Gee, thanks. Maybe I'll charge you for this after all." She hadn't been planning to in the first place, not seriously, but she could always change her mind. Quick as snap. "Hang on, though-I think I've… aha!" One quick flick of the wrist produced a pen, apparently out of nowhere, and a couple of seconds spent fumbling in her pocket produced some spare paper. She tossed the paper onto the table in front of her, twirling the ballpoint easily between her fingers.
The pen didn't falter at the mention of Aerith's death, but a flicker of darkness passed over Yuffie's expression. "Dunno," she said, nonchalantly. "Never asked." Never want to. "Anyway, just a quick note, right? 'Hi, bye', that kind of thing?"
'Dear AVALANCHE,' she wrote.
'This is everybody's favorite talking footrest, A.K.A Wiser Than Thou, Needs More Ribbons, or Mr. Fuzzywuzzles. Just calling into say hi, and that opposable thumbs are wicked cool. Double hi ( ... )
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