May 15, 2010 14:11
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here]When he rounded the corner into the larger hallway, Kurogane determined to put the thoughts of being the only patient there aside. Even if that were the case, it didn't change his final goal for the night. The magician would have been helpful, but he was confident enough in his own ability to get things done
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leela,
kirk,
naruto,
klavier,
meche,
donna,
tenzen,
tsubaki,
xigbar,
anise,
minato,
indiana jones,
naminé,
claire bennet,
kurogane,
lana skye,
mello,
brainiac 5,
xemnas,
ange,
albedo,
minako,
tsukasa,
agatha,
two-face,
yuffie,
kiba,
edgar,
neku,
tifa,
matt,
reeve,
battler,
spock,
zack,
haseo,
shinji,
sechs,
ronixis,
endrance,
senna,
asuka,
bella,
sora,
prussia,
leon (so2),
rei,
renamon,
mihai,
germany,
gant,
cissnei,
brook,
tim drake,
kairi,
venom,
chekov,
depth charge,
nigredo,
rita,
chise,
ratchet,
riku,
cloud,
yomi,
sasuke,
rolo,
kaworu,
mccoy,
scar (tlk)
Alright, that decided it! Tonight, she'd go after her file and Hanna's stuff.
Yuffie would have liked to dig up the others', too, but she realised with a jolt that she didn't even know what to look for. She'd never thought to ask about their fake names. Damn, that was sloppy of her! Bad ninja, no cookie, blah-de-blah ( ... )
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The moment he hit the end of the hallway as it crossed with the next one, Zack halted in his jog and used his flashlight to take a quick look around. There were a few patients here already: some guy who looked like definite soldier material, a teenage girl and boy, and then--
While Yuffie was far from his top choice of person he'd want to run into, she was still someone from Gaia. More than that, she was informed, armed, and may have somehow made plans with Cloud or Aerith. Besides, she'd probably spotted him by now, so Zack shrugged his shoulders and strode over to her.
Despite the jogging, Zack was far from being short of breath. He would have had to run a lot farther before he got to that point, and so he was able to easily wave to the ninja in greeting. It was still so bizarre, just how much she'd grown, and yet he knew that she would have been a responsibility rather than a help in her younger years.
Of course, he still would jump to protect her if something happened, but she was ( ... )
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… Oh, alright. Fine. Maybe he wasn't trying to strut his stuff. Yet. But that didn't mean he wouldn't, and Yuffie swore, swore, that if he tried for even a minute to pull rank-or age!-on her, he was so in for it. His pockets would be picked. So picked. Not that they'd have anything worth picking in them ( ... )
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There was a familiar voice cutting clear across the others before Cloud even reached the main hall, and he was glad to have been right in his assumption. Turning the corner, he caught sight of not only Yuffie, but Zack as well.
He also caught the tail end of their conversation, and that part worried him. Not the best topic to start the evening on. Maybe this place had allowed him a few more moments with the girl that he wouldn't have had otherwise, but it was still unfair to just snatch her away afterward. She deserved more than that. Her and Zack together.
But the latter was still here, and Cloud managed a smile for both of them, saying nothing in response to Yuffie's question. He hadn't seen her either, of course, and the ninja had just named the only others he'd run into while on the trip. Really, he wanted to hear Zack's answer for himself.
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Great. Awesome. Fan-goddamn-tastic. Yuffie's fingers clenched hard where they gripped her shuriken, as a multitude of scenarios past, present, and possible ran through her mind. She'd lost people here. She'd lost people before, oh, plenty of them, but this place liked to hit for the solar plexus time and time again. And-Aerith… Yuffie didn't want to lose the flower girl again. Not now, not ever. Aerith deserved better. She deserved the world.
Zack had a point, though. Tomorrow, they'd check; they could just go up to a nurse and ask. Tonight, they had to do something. They had to get something accomplished. "Right," she agreed, before letting the conversation slip away.
It was both her basic nature and years of practice that allowed Yuffie to grin, flashing bright and sly. Still, she didn't say anything-yet. If Cloud didn't correct Zack's ( ... )
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Zack had the right idea about Aerith. They wouldn't get anywhere trying to search for her at night. Not unless they had a better idea of where she might be. He hated thinking like that; he wanted to just be able to take off and search every nook and cranny, but this place wouldn't allow them to do that so easily. They would ask the staff tomorrow, even if it made them feel helpless.
Their plans seemed to have already been made for them anyway. "So you think those files might be helpful to have?" Yuffie was the veteran here, after all. Though it was still amusing how easily she gave orders to both him and Zack. He wasn't going to complain, but it was amusing. "I'm up for that."
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Don't worry, he quietly told the girl, even though she had no way of hearing, I'll find you. To make up for leaving her behind ( ... )
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Unlike you was the unspoken implication. "And I didn't find it," she added. Jerk probably thought she'd keep her lips buttoned out of spite. "I commissioned it. The alchemist disappeared… must've been days ago, now. Sweet kid." Naïve, too, but there was no bite to the thought. The worst could happen to anybody in this dive; Yuffie hoped that Skuld had gotten away light. "You better be grateful, Cloud. The stuff I had to go through to get the metal for that thing? Eugh. Made the slum sewers look like a daisy patch. Well. Smell like a daisy patch."
Rotten sewage and the plumbing job from hell aside, Yuffie remembered that night almost fondly. She'd gotten so much done, and Yukari the Banana Fairy'd been okay for company. Hella fun to tease, of course, like always. And, weirder than weird, they'd actually managed to get along! Kinda! About as well as they ever did, anyway; only maybe better ( ... )
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