melodiesoflife | Bust-ing Out!

Characters: Yuffie Kisaragi
Where: Aqures Ixen
When: Late December 19th to December 20th
Summary: Yuffie is waking up from crystal stasis and more than just a few changes occurred. The cute little thief is now 17..
Warning: Some language and sexual humor~

Waking: Dec. 19th close to midnight

I was dreaming?

The crystal slowly began to break apart and disappear as Yuffie's eyes fluttered open. Her heart was racing as her nightmare came to an end. Her hand reached out grabbing at air as fresh tears streaked down her cheeks. Her throat tightened as a name trickled from her lips. "Yuri.."

She let her arm fall to the side as she remembered memories home. Her hands grabbed her head as she brought her knees to her chest. "Why is this so confusing!?" Those she knew here and those she knew from home. She unclenched her hand and looked at the white orb resting in her palm. It was real but it felt like she never left.

Wait.. Her eyes looked down at her chest. Things have certainly changed.

City: Dec. 20th morning

Yuffie wouldn't say she was adjusted but she wasn't going to spend her time mulling it over in a hospital room. It didn't surprise her that Mooshoo wasn't anywhere in sight and she was sure that he would eventually learn that she was back and come find her. He probably hadn't missed her anyway.

She walked through the city noting her two years of physical development. Would people recognize her? She was still the same height as before but her chest grew two sizes, and her eyes held the gaze of someone who has seen the passing seasons of war. Her hands went out and distinctly grabbed at her chest. She had to tell someone!

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"Most have been preoccupied by holiday preparations," he began. "Many heroes have been..." he paused as he noticed her lack of covering. He made to offer her his cloak, when he truly noticed how she now appeared.

"Wha...what happened to you?" he asked, dropping his previous conversation entirely.

"Happened?" She understood the question but it was so board she didn't really know how to answer. She looked confused for a moment before lightly scratching under her noise.

"Well I don't really know." That was an easier answer. "I was in the crystal and I was half asleep and half awake. I dreamed of home and it was like two years pasted."

It sounded crazy as Yuffie said it out loud.

Ramza looked away. "Two years..." All that time passed in a single week. Years of Yuffie's life gone. "Are you...alright?" There was so much that could happen in that time, and to have all of that condensed into such a small window...

"I think so." Yuffie tried to smile her usual confident smile. She didn't really want anyone to worry about her. "My country was finally getting back on it's feet. We were all helping out so that is good."

Though right before the crystal shattered a new plague had come to her home and it was one recognized from her time in Crystallis. Maybe it really was her and not Yuri who brought the sickness to Wutai?

"Wutai has grown stronger? I am glad to hear it," Ramza offered, genuinely happy to hear of the prosperity of his friend's country. That had been Yuffie's wish, after all. He hoped in two year's time, he would be able to say the same of Ivalice.

Although, it was worrying to think how quickly the time had passed back on Yuffie's home world. His smile faded away. What if two years had passed in Ivalice? "And you were there in your world for that time? You were never...absent?" he asked.

"Honestly it was like I was never gone but it also feels like I never left here... like I didn't know that this place even existed because it was like a dream. All I could think of was home." She knew that she wasn't making sense but talking it out helped. Well it helped her think it through more.

Yuffie leaned back against the hospital bed that she had found herself on and looked up at the boring white ceiling. "I wish I understood. It was like nothing I did here mattered there." But, isn't that what a dream was? Maybe it was only a dream, expect that she remembered everything clearly and she felt the changes in her body when she woke.

"What is most important is that you are awake again." They could puzzle over the rest in due time. Until they knew how and why the Crystal Stasis occurred, they had little to go on.

"What you do matters here. Maybe you were sent home so that you would not have to worry about your country while you are here." When he thought of it that way, the stasis almost seemed like a gift. "You missed no time there. You will not have to fear your absence causing grief. I...I can only hope it is the same for all us Heroes."

"Well.. I think I will still worry. Things were getting better." She made sure to emphasize past tense when she spoke. Before waking up here again she had been with Yuri looking for a cure to a sickness that had recently plagued the planet.

There really was no rest for the princess over the last two years and there wasn't going to be any now either. "While I was there I was able to heal a lot of sick people though. So that's.. something." Even though it was making her sick by doing so.

Yuffie placed a hand over her head. Everything was just too complicated.

"Oh." Ramza picked up on Yuffie's meaning. His voice went quieter. "Are there a great many sick?" Plagues and fevers, like the one which had claimed Ramza's mother, swept through Ivalice often enough that Ramza treated it as a tragic fact rather than a rare occurrence.

It was no wonder she did not seem relieved, to discover some illness on the winds of her homeland.

She gave him her best smile when she spoke. "Nothing I can't handle. I will find the cure when I get back. Who knows maybe I can even find it here." She shivered at the thought of the thick slug spilling from the caves mouth as she and Yuri tried to make their escape.

"I think I'm going to go see what I've missed. Hopefully Mooshoo didn't forget me or give away my room." Yuffie didn't know if she wanted to be alone but she didn't want to make Ramza worry anymore than he already would. There was no reason to make him feel worse.

By now, Ramza was used to Yuffie coming and going from any given conversation, usually when talk turned too personal. He pushed himself up from his chair and headed for the door. He did not know how draining the stasis had been for her, so if she wanted to be alone, it seemed best he leave. Then Yuffie could go, or stay and rest if she needed.

But he'd not leave her on that note. He turned at the door. "You are not so easily replaced, Treasure Princess. You will find what you seek. But, rest a little before you go searching for it."

"If you say so."

Her voice was soft as she watched him leave the room. She was going to follow but she figured it was best if she waited until he was gone. Maybe she would just leave through the window and scale down the side of the building like last time. At least that way she could get home without running into anyone else.

Bust-ing Out!

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