icedark_elf (icedark_elf) wrote in 25prompts, @ 2009-05-13 22:11:00 |
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Entry tags: | icedark_elf:ffvii/naruto |
Fic: Violent Eyes (FFVII/Naruto, Orchid-PG-13)
Title: Violent Eyes
Author: GW Katrina/icedark_elf
Claim: Final Fantasy VII/Naruto
Prompt: 14-Orchid
Characters: Zack, Yuffie
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1,730
Warnings: Fusion fic. Zack being a SOLDIER
She was the Amazing Super Awesome Yuffie, Most Excellent Ninja Ever.
Which was why Yuffie was never going to admit that she had gotten herself stuck up this tree.
She’d been following what’s his name, the nice SOLDIER who didn’t seem to mind that she was always kicking his butt. She was awesome, but it was nice when her enemies took defeat with grace. But she had to practice being stealthy, and when he had turned around, she had taken to a tree. And, somehow, gotten stuck.
Caught on something, the ninja in training twisted, trying to free herself. Ignoring the fact that she had just destroyed any chance she had of being stealthy, she thrashed around, huffing as that just seemed to make whatever snagged her hold on harder.
Totally not fair.
“You okay up there?”
Looking down, she scowled down at the SOLDIER. “I’m fine. I’m -training-. So go away.”
He quirked a brow at her. “All right then, Treasure Princess.” Oooh, he was mocking her! She kicked her shoe at him. He caught it, and smirked. “You lost something.”
Yuffie sniffed. “Give that back right now, Zack Fair.” She had his name with his number. And she remembered how well it had worked for her mom when she had pulled out full names.
Tossing the shoe into the air and catching it, he just snorted. “Look, kid,”
“Super Ninja Yuffie!”
“Kid, if you need help, just say. I’ll be more than happy to help you down so we can continue this bizarre game of tag you are playing at, but....”
His voice trailed off, and the man twisted. After blinking at him in confusion, Yuffie yelped as he leapt up, suddenly on her branch. She didn’t know he could jump like that. “Hey, what....?”
Zack looked at her, frowning. “Elemental country ninjas.”
Yuffie’s mouth snapped shut. The Elemental Countries. She had heard a lot about them. A group of countries to the west of Wutai, where there was even less lifestream on the surface than in Wutai. They didn’t use materia over there, which still made her head hurt to think about, but something called chakra. And they had all sorts of weird abilities over there.
Plus, some of the countries didn’t like Shin-Ra -or- Wutai. Her father had been getting reports about rogue groups coming in and attacking both sides in an attempt to weaken all of them. Most likely hired by some of the Daimyos of the Countries. Pricks.
As silently as he could, Zack untangled her from whatever had caught her and slipped an arm around her waist. Yuffie would have protested, but she had froze when she had seen the three man team slip through the woods below them. She couldn’t tell what headband they were wearing, but they looked big. A lot bigger than her. Even a lot bigger than Zack. Which wasn’t good. At all.
Whatever thoughts she had were scattered as Zack tensed, and then they were both flying through the air. She had half a second to register that the place where they had been standing was suddenly full of kunai. Oh, reeeally not good.
Zack hit another tree, and then the ground, bolting, arm still looped around Yuffie’s waist. Twisting, she clung to him as best she could, a bit in awe of how fast they were going. She knew that SOLDIERs were dangerous and hard to fight, but she’d never realized why. They were super fast.
Not faster than the other ninjas, it seemed, as Zack went up again, and she saw that they had just missed running headfirst into one of the people after them.
“They can do some sort of thing where they trade places with other objects,” she gasped out, clinging harder.
Zack growled. “We don’t know that much about them. After the war, probably will learn more.”
After the war. Which she knew that Shin-Ra might win. Which meant that they would go after the Elemental Countries.
Suddenly, Yuffie felt like kicking Zack really hard. He was a mean person who wanted to fight her people. But a sudden shift in direction made her focus more on not throwing up. Oooh, that felt bad.
Then they suddenly stopped, and she could hear Zack muttering foul things under his breath. When the man shifted suddenly, she was surprised to find herself being set on a branch. “Stay here,” he ordered.
“Hey, I’m....”
Zack’s hand caught her chin, and made her meet his eyes. “Yuffie, I’m not kidding. I want you to stay here and stab anyone that gets close, got it? I’m going to have to fight them, and I can’t if I have to worry about you, too.”
Her mouth hanging open, Yuffie could only stare at him.
“Yuffie!” His voice reminded her of her dad’s, and she just nodded slowly.
He grinned at her, and ruffled up her hair. “Good girl. Be the awesome ninja I know you can be and keep yourself safe, all right?”
Unable to speak, a bit startled at the rapid changes in his attitude, Yuffie could only nod. Then Zack was gone.
For a long few moments, she couldn’t move, clinging to the tree trunk as she hear the start of a battle down below.
That was Zack. He was trying to fight off three ninjas so they wouldn’t kill him or her.
He was trying to protect her.
She didn’t need protecting. She was the great ninja Yuffie!
Scrambling down the tree, Yuffie looked around, trying hard to find out where the others were. She wasn’t about to let Zack get all the glory for fighting off three Elemental Country nin. Staying in the tree itself, she balanced on the lowest branch, listening hard for what direction the fighting was coming from. It only took a moment to see Zack, who was moving as fast as before, and striking out with that big blade of his to hack at one of the ninjas. For a moment, Yuffie was sure that he was going to miss, then he moved forward, snake-quick, and hit the man solidly in the chest.
There was already blood on his sword.
That meant that two were most likely taken care of.
That Zack had...killed two of them.
It seemed so out of place with the man she considered a playmate that Yuffie froze.
And Zack spun around, and she froze for entirely different reasons.
His eyes were red. Red with black marks.
She knew the legends of eyes like that. The Copy Wheel Eye.
Why did a -SOLDIER- have it?
A startled noise behind her made her jerk around, and she yelped as she realized one of the ninja had been sneaking up on her. From this close, she could see the two rock symbols on his headband. And he wasn’t paying a bit of attention to her. Instead, his eyes were focused on Zack behind her.
“Sharingan,” he murmured.
Zack sighed. “You know, I had been trying to let you guys live. But nooooo~, you have to attack me and the kid. Still, with only one of you, I’d have told you to go. Killing people isn’t fun. Not now. Now you saw the eyes. Mom would whop me upside the head if I let you get away.”
There was a sad sound to Zack’s voice, and then it was as if he was suddenly there, sword right through the middle of the other man’s chest. With a twist, he pulled it free. Sighing, he looked at Yuffie.
Eyes wide, she took a step back. He just killed a guy for seeing the fact that Zack had one of the rarer bloodlines of the Elemental countries.
Zack sighed, and crouched down, holding his hands to his side. “Come on, kid, I’m not going to kill you.”
That got a snort, and Yuffie eyed the trees around her. She didn’t know how far she could get, but at least she’d put up a fight. She was a ninja after all.
While debating the best escape route, she heard a sigh. It was the most pathetic sound she had ever heard, and it made her look back at Zack.
He looked like a big kicked puppy.
Blinking some at the sudden change, and the fact that his eyes weren’t red anymore made something in her stomach calm down. “How do you -do- that?” she asked, a bit surprised. “I mean, you were all boom, bam, I kill you all just a minute ago. Now you look like that dog that lived in the fort that nobody fed.”
Zack frowned a bit. “I do not.”
“Do too. All sad and puppy eyes and everything.”
“Do not.”
“Do too.”
“Do not.”
“Do too, do too, do tooooo!”
Stomping her foot, Yuffie shook her head. “You are such a dork. I’m not scared of you after all. Not that I ever was,” she rapidly backtracked. “You’re just a big dorky puppy with scary, scary eyes.” Snorting, she turned her nose up. “You owe me treasure for trying to act all scary.”
The look he gave her was totally dumbfounded.
“And more treasure so I don’t tell anyone about your eyes.”
Not that she would, not really. He was -Zack-, and she didn’t want mean ninjas coming after him just because of his eyes.
There was a long moment of quiet, and Zack was looking at her very, very closely. Yuffie felt the urge to fidget.
Then he was ruffling her hair. “Come on, kiddo. I can’t give you treasure, but how about some ice cream. I think I can swing that.”
She brightened. “That sounds good.”
Watching as he moved to collect the headbands of the men who had attacked them, Yuffie blinked as he handed her one. “To give to your father. We might be at war, but he should know who all his enemies are.”
The other two he tucked away into a pocket. Then, after a minute to clean his sword, he put the blade on his back, and held a hand out to Yuffie. With only a second of hesitation, she took it.
And while she was at it, she stole some gil.
She knew he noticed, and smiled when he let her get away with it anyway.
It was nice that her friend was still her friend.