Lean On Me (FF7)

RECORD BEAT!!!! CAN I GET A WOOT WOOT?!?!

~Yuffie's POV~

There's no way I could've woken up and known I was gonna watch my dad get shot on live television today. Nor did I know it would hurt so bad. Cloud has tried is best at cheering me up, yet even he has a hard time bringing a smile to my face. Eventually, he gave up and we walked to the deck and called my cousin Shawn. He said he'd had a feeling I would call and he would become ruler in my dad's place so that I didn't have to. He was always my favorite, the funniest, most encouraging, nicest. Now all I have to do is sign some papers saying that I'm letting him take my place and then he's free to be Wutai's next emperor.

"You done with that?" Cloud nods toward his cell phone in my hand. I couldn't find mine.

"Yeah," I toss it to him before sitting down on the crate we sat on earlier. "When are we going in for Denzel?"

"I was thinking tomorrow?" He raises an eyebrow and sits beside me.

"Sounds okay," I nod, laying my head on his shoulder. He drapes an arm around me and holds me to him as the cool air whips through our hair. For some reason, I don't feel sick. I should probably be crying my eyes out in my bedroom like a normal person, but death has hardened me over the years and even family deaths don't effect me as much as they should.

"What are we gonna do now?" Cloud says.

"What time is it?"

"Four thirty," he looks at his watch.

"Already?" I frown.

"Mhmm."

"Wow," I shake my head. The days feel like they're getting shorter and shorter.

"I know, right?" he sighs and closes his eyes.

"Cloud?"

"Mm?"

"Did you ever wonder why Sephiroth keeps coming back?"

"Yeah, actually," he nods. "But it isn't as obvious this time."

"Yeah," I shake my head.

He opens his eyes and looks down at me, crystal blue eyes with that slight glow to them searching my face. I simply look back, wondering how on earth his eyes managed to literally glow bright blue. Then he presses his lips to mine in a gentle kiss. My arms find their way around his neck and his find my back, pulling me closer with every second. It's like he's healing me with his love, making me whole again instead of a shattered, confused mess. Gluing my broken life together one piece at a time. Then I pull away, our foreheads together.

"What was that for?" I smirk.

"I love you," Is all he says before reconnecting our mouths.

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"Yes, sign here and here and here and here and there," the old man says, handing me a sheet of paper and a pen.

"So every blank?" I raise an eyebrow.

"Yes ma'am."

"Thanks," I mutter before randomly signing blanks that grant Shawn permission to be the next emperor of Wutai.

"How are you doing?" The man asks, his thick accent making it hard for me to understand.

"Eh, alright I guess."

"You don't want to be empress?" he raises his long, gray eyebrows.

"Nah, I've got a life to live you know," I smile at him.