Yuffie sat at the end of a cliff looking out over the island to the small town at the end of the horizon. It had been almost 3 weeks since they killed Sephiroth. Everyone else went back to there hometown or to see family again. Yuffie on the other hand collected all the materia for 'safe keeping' and said she would go back home. But when remembering why she left in the first place and happened to join up with AVALANCHE she decided to wait a little longer.

"Princes Yuffie your father wants to talk to you."

"...about?"

"He didn't tell me, but it seems he would like to see you right away..." A young man walked in to her room. His long black hair was pulled back and braded. And his silver almost white eyes looked at her sadly. "I think its about your marriage..."

"MY MARRIAGE!!!" Yuffie jumped up and threw her hands in the air. "God! I hate him for this! Doesn't he know that I'm not going to marry anyone for this stupid place!"

"Princes...." The young servant let out a quiet sye.

"WHAT!?!?!"

"Its been done that way for the past 252 years of the Kisaragi rain over Wutia. And even more so before that."

"I know but my dad keeps on picking the ugly ones." She paused and walked over to stand next to him, as she was fixing her dress. "And when I say ugly I mean BUTT UGLY."

The servant let past a small laugh, then turned to the door. "Shell I tell him your on your way?"

"Sure fine."

"..." He bowed his head and walked from the room.

--

"So dad what ya want me for?" Yuffie walked in to the top floor of the tower, and watched as her father turned around to her from talking to someone.

"Yuffie..." The king walked forward to the young princes. "I have chosen the man you shell marry."

"....him...." She looked past her father to the man standing in the corner. He had long black hair just like all the other men from Wutia. He looked a lot younger then most her father had chosen for her, maybe about 20. He held a samurai sword but was dressed more like a high up snob that wouldn't fight in a battle for anything. She looked at him for a minute or so then looked back to her father. "No."

"Yuffie this is not your chose any more I have given you ample time to pick a husband and this is it!"

"Its not far-"

"I don't care you will marry him in four days!" He turned around to have his back to her.

"I will NOT!" She stamped her feet on the ground then walked out of the temple. When she got back to her house she was followed in by her servant.

"So...?" He looked hopefully at her.

"I'm going!" She grabbed the shiruken from under her sheets on the floor and a bag that was sitting under her dresser.

"Your leaving?!?!"

"Yes......" She walked past him to the door only to be stopped by him.

"But you can't just leave.....your father will be mad at you and your wedding is in four days...."

"Well I'm not going to it."

".........please just try to talk to your father once more......I'm sure you can work something out.....if not you can just delay it maybe ask him more time to find a husband...."

"You think he'd listen to me?"

"....well you can try...."

--

"Until I'm 17 oh come on!! That's not enough time!!!"

"It is plenty....if you don't want that then you get married in four days."

"...." She looked down at her feet. "...fine ok then.....I can find someone in time...."

Yuffie looked back to the sky. "...this just isn't far!!!" She complained but fond no answer to her plea. "I just didn't have enough time...." It wasn't fare at all. With out realizing it she had forgetting her own birthday. The same day Sephiroth had died was her 17th birthday, it would be to late now the time was gone and she had no chose. She looked back at the village. "I wonder what I can do to stop it." She paused for a minute and went threw her options, finally only one thing came to mind. 'I could just get Reeve to come and pick me up and go back to Midgar again.......no wait bad idea...' She remembered the past few weeks that she was there. She was so mad when she fond out Reeve was happy she was leaving, it was true she did probably make him almost go insane but still he wasn't sapost to admit it to her with any amount of her asking him. She looked back at the sky. "This just isn't fare!!!!"

The man opened his eyes slowly and looked around. He was no longer in the temple of Ancients in witch he was sapost to die, and not in any room in Midgar or Junon. ".....I'm I dead...." He asked to no one but found his answer.

"Oh thank the gods your awake."

He looked over at the person. She was dressed in Wutian clothes. "Where am I......."

"What do you mean." She walked to his bed side. "Your back home...after 22 years.." She sat down next to him.

"..........Wutia......" He looked around the room and started to remember it all. He was laying in his old house, in his old room, in his same old bed he had 22 years ago. "But I can't be back here if I'm here then Shin-Ra will come and burn the village. I have to get back to the Turks we have to fight Sephiroth! Reno and Rude can't do it alone....even with Elen......." He trailed off as she put her hand to his lips.

"Sephiroth was killed by the group called AVALANCHE. Meteor almost crashed into Midger. Even with Meteor stopped Midgar was destroyed and Junon with the other Shin-Ra territories are not under Shin-Ra control."

"But Rufus....Heidegger, Scarlet, Hojo?"

"Rufus Shin-Ra was killed by Diamond weapon. I don't know about the other three but I think there dead.....You have nothing to worry about now. Shin-ra wont force you to work for them any longer...they can't."

"......." He closed his eyes. "So its all over..."

"Yes..." He could hear her stand up. "But...."

"huh?" He opened his eyes and looked at her.

"The king wishes to see you right away....when you feel you can walk there."

"....ok.....I'll see him right away."

"Oh I almost forgot to greet you back." She looked at him and smiled. "Well come back home General Tseng Yu." She bowed her head and walked from the room.

"......out of the Turks and back to be General.........I wonder how long I've been here...." He looked over to see a few light green materia laying on the floor. Most likely cure materia that were the ones keeping him alive well he was in a coma. "Wonder why the King would talk to me...." He got up, it took him a few minutes to walk again but then he was fine. The wound on his stomach was healed tremendously now and didn't hurt that much as back at the temple. He looked down at the dark blue Turk suite. He was about to put it on when he noticed other clothes laying out. Wutian clothes, he put them on instead seeing they would be a little more proper for the time being.

--

"Ahhhhhhhh....General Tseng Yu. You look a lot better then when I saw them bring you back. It's been a long time!"

"King Godo." Tseng bowed his head then looked back at the King. "I feel a lot better......Sir if I may ask how did I end up back at Wutia?"

"...well even though we don't have an army any more we still have ninja's all over. One that was watching the temple went in and got you."

".....oh......"

"Well it doesn't mater now. Please come sit with me and eat." The King walked over to a room and sat at a table. Tseng followed quietly. "You most be hungry since you were asleep for so long.

"Yes....I am..."

"Well eat if you are." The king himself started to chow down.

"So how have things been?"

"Much better....much better...." There was a pause for a moment. "except...."

Tseng looked up at the King as the Kings voice got a little more concerned. "What's wrong?"

"...well.....its not a big issue....but....." He paused again making Tseng a little nervous.

"What's the mater? Can I be of any help?"

"....I think you could but......"

Tseng was now very uneasy about the situation. He wasn't used to having problems drag out so long. Both President Shin-Ra and Rufus would tell him what was wrong right away. "So..." He tried to get the King to answer.

".....the princes is now 17 and has to marry....."

"..." Tseng's eyes got wide. "Oh.....that would be a problem.......so what do you want me to do? Do you need help to find someone suitable for her?"

".....well....."

Tseng looked to the floor he knew what was coming and how he could not say no to the King. "...yes?"

"I wanted to ask you if....you would like to marry her?"

"......me..........."

"Yes? I believe that when I can no longer be King you are one of the only people that can take it over. Also the princes needs someone that can control her."

"....." Tseng closed his eyes and thought about it. 'Boy Elena would be pissed off right now if she knew what was going on.....good thing she thinks I'm dead.....I think..'

"So what do you say?"

He looked back up to the king. "It would be an honor."

"Great! ....but there is only one other problem..."

"What?"

"We don't know where she is."

"....don't worry I'll find her....."

"Thank you....."

--

Yuffie was looking down at the PHS she held. She quickly hit the buttons as she watched the small blocks fall down the screen of the phone. She had 'borrowed' it from Reeve just as he dropped her off out side of the village. She really didn't mean to take it, this time she was honest about it, he asked her to call someone in Junon to tell them he'd be late and she just forgot to give him the phone back. She started to hit the buttons faster the game was speeding up and she wasn't very good to begin with. She was getting so involved in it that she didn't even hear the vary quiet foot steps behind her, that even quiet a 'ninja' should be able to hear them. "God damn it.....errrr.....damn game......" She watched as the rows grew higher up the screen. Suddenly someone grabbed her and put there hand over her mouth and pulled her close to there body.

"You should never sit with your back to anything other then a wall." A man whispered in her ear. He let go of her mouth slightly when she stopped struggling.

"Damn! Reno I'm goin-"

"Not Reno...." He whispered again not letting his voice get to loud so she could make out the owner.

".....Rude?"

"...nope..."

"Cid?" She was now throwing out names as they came to her. She knew Reno had followed her places over the last few weeks and done this same thing but that was in Midgar or in Junon and he was the only one.

"Not ether."

"........Reeve?"

"Now if it was Reeve you would have been out by now...being such a good ninja and all."

"...........Cloud? Vincent?"

"no and no...."

"Then who the hell is it?"

"......I can't just tell you now can I?"

"..errrr...your really pissing me off now!!"

"oh to bad.."

"Let me go!" She tried to grab her materia pouch but he got it first.

"Come on that's not fare!"

"I'm going to kill who ever this is!!"

"I doubt that very much." He finally let go of her after taking the materia and shiruken.

"Ok your de-" She turned around to confront her attacker to find a ninja in all black only letting his eyes show. He was tall and had blackish gray eyes that seemed some what familiar. "Who the..."

"So your going to kill me?" He let his voice be louder then a whisper now but not in to the same yelling as the young princes. "Lets see...." He raised his hands up in a fighting stance and looked at her.

She stopped for a minute and looked at him puzzled. His voice was definitely familiar but she couldn't quite place it. It had to be something she had heard only a few times. She came back to reality when she saw him charging at her. She jumped out of the way but was still hit hard to the ground.

"Come on you fought Sephiroth, I should be killed easy." He backed away and looked down at her.

She was still a little stunned that someone was even attacking her but more so that it was a Wutian ninja. "Hey don't you know who I am!?!?!"

"Yuffie dear. Please don't act so stupid." He started to charge at her once more. But this time she was ready. She ducked down just as he was about to hit her and grabbed his left lag, making him almost fall to the ground. He quickly jumped back up to his feet and kicked her in the stomach.

"Damn it!" She fell to her knees. Now she know he couldn't be any ordinary ninja from Wutia he was much more skilled, definitely not a thief ninja, a pure 100% ninja. But this only brought up a very good point. She had leaned that ninjas fight fare one on one unless they have to fight other wise and this is why he took her materia and weapon. She would have to be very fast with it but she knew how to win. 'He must be week to weapons like that..'

He was standing a good distance away now and ready to charge at her again with the weakest of all the ninja skills that he, being extremely skilled, made deadly. "What's wrong Yuffie?"

"....errr..." She got up and looked at him. "You messed with the wrong person now!"

"hump, we will see young princess." He charged at her again this time she evaded the attack and tried to hit him hard in the back. But well doing so he stopped short in his attack and spun around and grabbed her fist and held it tight. "Now, now hasn't anyone ever taught you to use the fighting style you were trained with not the one of an other." He twisted her arm around and pulled her close to himself.

"Hey!" She tried to push away from him but found it to be not so bad if he wasn't trying to kill her.

"Not much of a ninja that's for sure." He spun her away and she landed on the ground not far from the edge of a cliff, but close to other things.

She looked around for a weapon then saw something even better. The PHS was laying on the ground in the same spot she dropped it. She grabbed it and started to dial a number. The Ninja saw this and ran to her and grabbed the phone.

"Getting someone to come wont help you if you were in a real battle...." He threw the PHS over the side of the cliff. "Now come on if this was real you'd be dead so...." He jumped back. "Why don't you think about that and try to kill me. He started to run at her again this time with a lot more force.

'Well I do know one thing. if I don't kill you Reeve will.' She heard the PHS fall to the ground and from what she could tell shatter in to pieces. "errg.." She looked up at him and ducked down this time trying to grab at the materia he had taken from her.

He quickly grabbed it himself and threw that to over the cliff. "Stop trying to play games Yuffie if your going to fight you can't rely on your thief skills!" She looked up at him but it was to late. He bent down slightly and punched her hard in the stomach sending her back.

"....ok fine.....I don't care that you attacked me.......or the PHS...it wasn't mine anyway....but now that you did that to MY materia your going to pay for that!!!!" She started to run at him in the same attack he had done but he stepped to the side and put his arm out strait in front of her. She didn't have time to stop the attack and instead tried to duck down but missed. She went tumbling to the ground, and fell on her face.

"Materia isn't important to a Ninja, Yuffie." He walked back. "Use your skills."

"....." She couldn't move and instead she just laid there. "Ok fine you win. Now can you stop it and let me go!"

"..........no that's not good enough....." He grabbed out a green materia and focused on it. "Cure 3!" Light surrounded Yuffie and she was healed. "Round 2 try harder this time."

".....no way I'm not fighting you!" She got up and started to walk away.

"You have no chose!" He ran in front of her and pulled a knife out. "If you don't fight me and take me down I'll kill you!"

"huh?!?!" She jumped back. "Come on you can't just kill me!"

"Then if I don't kill you....you.." He turned the knife around so he held the blade and the handle was to Yuffie. "kill me...."

"but....?"

"What wrong I was trying to kill you."

"but.....huh....I...I don't get it."

"Fine! If you don't take the knife I'll kill you!" He threw the blade down into the ground and ran at her this time not as an attack but so he could start to kick her. She started to try and doge the kicks but found it to hard to doge his fast moving feet. She jumped into the air but when coming down found he was ready to fight hand to hand. He start to punch as well as kick her. She finally ran to a bridge and ran across it to the other side. "If you run you only make it harder!"

"What?"

"Here then!" He ran forward then hit the ground with his fist. "Grand spark!!!!" A line of fire flew under the ground under the bridge and threw the ground to Yuffie hitting her back hard.

".........but that's Rude's move......" She shook her head and looked up he was making his way across the bridge to her as she stood up. "Hey wait a minute! How can you use that?!?!"

"What these moves! Some one had to show them the moves." He stopped for a minute then pointed at her. "Turk light!" A ball of light and electricity flew from his hand strait for her. She ran to the side and just dogged it leaving a small mark on her left shoulder.

".....your a Turk!"

"....was...." He came running at her again and this time she just dodged out of the way. "That's better...."

"And this is the best!" She held up the shiruken she just stole back, not a moment after she threw it at him and hit him back. Taking advantage of this she jumped on top of him and started to hit him hard, until he raised his hands up to show he would stop fighting her.

"So who are you?!?!"

"Why don't you just take off my mask?"

"Oh come on it bad luck to ta- I mean just tell me!" She started to feel a little foolish that she just started to say the old bad luck fortune but still didn't show it.

"Your right it is bad luck to take off an others mask."

"I don't care just tell me who you are!" She put her hands around his neck to make it seem she would kill him.

".........oh come on now you know I'm not just going to tell you."

"God, fine I know your a Turk cuz you can use that stuff, but Reno can't use Rude's attacks and Rude can't use Reno's attack and your obviously NOT Elena and Tseng's dead I saw it with my own eyes."

"....right.....so he is dead is he? Does everyone think so?"

"No shit."

".....how long ago was that?"

"About......." She started to think then stopped and looked down at him. "Damn it! Tseng how the hell did you live, why the hell did you attack me, and why the hell are you back here?"

"All good questions, first I don't know, second just because I haven't had a good fight in a very long time, third this is where I live. Any thing else............Princess?"

"......no.."

"So would you please get off of me?"

Yuffie finally noticed how she had landed on top of him. It was indeed one of the most unusual positions. ".....right..." She started to get up but made sure as she did to knee him in a few spots for what he did to her.

When he got up he brushed himself off and removed the mask letting his face be uncovered. His long black hair fell down and in the wind. "Shell we get going back to the village now?"

"huh? Who said anything about me going with you?"

"Your father sent me to get you. It also seams that he has chosen a husband for you."

"I know, probably that ugly guy that was here last time." She started to walk away.

"Oh your materia should be fine....but......I'm sorry about the PHS.."

"Don't worry about it."

He walked up to her and walked close to her side. "Well I'm still sorry."

"No really don't worry about it....it wasn't mine anyway."

"oh....hehehe...who's was it?"

"Reeve's...."

"......."

"huh?"

"Oh nothing."