"She smiles, courage in that expression because love hurts and you don't always get what you want but love isn't about you anyway."

I think this line broke my heart. I loved it, I loved the whole thing, their reactions to each other were just perfect and I loved the ending. This was a painfully perfect read. :)

This was... wow. It's interesting; normally, while I love and adore Vincent/Yuffie fics, most of the time I find myself thinking, "well, that'll never happen, but it's good to hope." In this particular story, I was thinking to myself that it ALMOST KINDA WORKS. Vincent is giving her an answer, but then, Yuffie's not really expecting one. I like the dynamic flow of it; I especially like the random tangents Yuffie goes off on. Doing everything she did in the beginning because she thinks she's going to possibly (or know she will) die of a broken heart before the week is over? Gorgeous piece, loved Yuffie's voice and Vincent's rather helpless reactions.

i lovelovelovelovelove your writing!
this is really really really really really good! lol.

favorite<3.

Oh, oh, Oh! This was wonderful! I loved the reference to Orpheus and Eurydice; that was worked in very well. Yuffie was so painfully on-point; her wandering dialogue was quite brilliant. The end itself was an ace. Great job over all!

Very well written and a great story. One of the best I've read. The characters are ver in-character and I love it. I have so much to say about this but I cant find the words... good job.

This is one of the best things I have ever loved, and that sentence doesn't even come close to describing my adoring. It's heartfelt and awkward, and it stumbles and quivers, it's frustrating and its hopeful. I like that they bounced back and forth the final "yes" or "no" between the two of them until deciding on "maybe." It fleshes them out so very humanly.

Yuffie's mind-breaking awesomeness is in full force and my favorite of all is:

"Yuffie," he says, just to say her name. To taste the movement of it on his tongue. "Yuffie."

It was a fairly long time ago that I came upon this amazing "Once Upon a Time" story. It was a fairly long time agot that I favorited this story that struck me so truly and so deeply. This fic is remarkably akin to one of life's most unbearable truths: Happily ever afters are for fairy tales. There is no happily ever after, only the continuation of the tale until it comes to its end, even if it is just a prelude. The feeling that this story gave me has stayed with me since that first read, and I am forever grateful for the courage that it gave me.
Thank you very, very much Arabesque05

I'll admit that normally I don't read stories about games that I don't know much about (ie: Final Fantasy). But I know the basics of Final Fantasy, so when I saw your summary I went: "Whoah, a really happy ninja paired with an emo dude?" I especially liked the prompt that made you write the one-shot, so I decided to read it.

The second thing I have to say is that I also usually don't review. Why? Because - even though this is one of the reasons that I hate, and even though this reason is really lame, especially because I understand how writers who want reviews feel - I just feel too lazy to log in. And I usually write fairly long reviews too (which usually take me about 15-20 minutes each to write... time I'll never get back you know? especially for the stories that are really awfully written).

So anyway, I'll stop rambling.

Your one-shot was awesome. It was so awesome that I just had to write a review to show my appreciation despite my lame reason that I just listed above. It had almost perfect grammar and punctuation (excluding the run-ons which helped to reinforce the style of the fanfic). The style with the run-ons were really cool too because they showed Yuffie's personality and helped show how nervous she was. It really helped me to understand her and to feel the atmosphere and all. Plus, I loved the nice little lines you had in there. Ya know, the little snippets of metaphorical-ish wisdom-ish stuff and such. ("It's really rude, Vinnie, it's really rude to steal people's hearts because it's a vital organ and I like my pumping blood, you know?")

Also, I hate stories that end but don't really have an end. The type that kind of leaves you hanging and makes you wonder, "WHAT HAPPENS NEXT TO THEM??" But for your one-shot, it just seemed right. Like, for this story, you just COULDN'T write anymore for it. It HAD to end there. It was just perfect. Especially with the lines as Yuffie led Vincent out. ("And then she leads him out of his basement, outside into the bright light. (but nothing so cliché as out of the darkness)") And then of course the very last part where it said "This is not a love story..." (etc etc) -- I believe I've actually heard that in other fanfics before, but I didn't really mind. It really just fit this fanfic. And the last part helped bring closure to the matter. And it gave a lingering hopeful sort of feeling for the pair.

Anywho, I know this is a really long review. (Probably one of the longest I've ever written.) And yeah, I guess I might've lied and still rambled on after I said I would stop rambling... But I truly did enjoy your story. It's nice to see when a writer seems to really think about what they're writing out and then is able to bring their point and theme across. It was really a work of art. I loved it. It was beautiful. Really beautiful.

That was so good!
Spectactular!
I love how Yuffie sputtered out like that! xDD So her.
Awesome job!

You started this off with a bang--I was laughing at the first paragraph. I loved Yuffie working her way to Vincent while on the phone with Tifa--knowing she can't pick the lock, so she just scales it instead, while still on the phone. Absolutely priceless image.

Even her love confession--HA! She is just so...Yuffie. :D Her telling Vincent that she didn't find him attractive at all in the beginning because he was 'old and gross and weird and you slept in a coffin' was hilarious. She was so very young when she met him, and it is such a thing that a teenage girl--at least this one--would think.

...and she just cannot shut up. LOL!

"And then Cloud's Family Reunion, which I have dubbed Cloud Fucks Up Big Time Because He Lost My Materia" *dies laughing*

The end of that paragraph, where she's thinking about how he stole her heart and she's trying to keep her cool but she's losing it...it both had me laughing and made me so sad, because she's so in love and it hurts but she's trying to get it all out and...ahh, poor Yuffie.

And now it's so sad... :( Vincent not sure how to love, but needing to and wanting to, and Yuffie trying to be so brave. She really has matured; she's just still Yuffie.

Okay, you have officially made me laugh and made me teary in this, so quickly it's leaving my emotions all spinning in circles. "Combust with shame." LMAO!

The whole next section, with Vincent reflecting on the kind of person he has and that he'll hurt her, and her not caring and being brave...the whole scene had my eyes glued to the page; it was so beautiful and painful and it was the kind of scene that leaves you holding your breath because you're wishing so much for at least the once upon a time.

Love the ending. :) She reached the beginning, and at least opened up a realm of possibilities. Lovely, lovely story.

...That was awesome.

That was lovely.. That was funny but at the same time sad and soo angsty. I think I shed a tear. I just reviewed your other Yuffentine fanfic and I was hoping you would have more in production. Awesome depiction of characters and their feelings. Kudos.

I figured it was about time I reviewed one of your stories.

This one, strangely, seemed to irk me for some reason or another. I'm not even really sure what it was. Odd...

But the one thing I do know is that the ending seems kind of... tacked on. The whole first part of the story is all about him and her and it doesn't feel like a, as you put it, "happily-ever-after." But the final couple paragraphs really seems to negate the effect the stuff before it built up.

That being said, this was still a very nice surprise read for me.

This was absolutely lovely and in character. Bravo for Yuffie and Vincent!

Wow this is a really great story!