Revenge is a Dish Best Served Hot

Commissioned by: Hobgoblin

Written by: christhestampede

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Yuffie climbed off the Highwind's ladder and stormed across the field to a nearby clump of trees, fuming and kicking at the ground as she went. Before entering the grove she turned and shook her fist at the departing airship, cursing and yelling to no avail over the hum of the rotors as Cid took off with the rest of the group towards the Gold Saucer. Yuffie was being left behind as punishment for her actions in Wutai, and she wasn't happy about it. She thought she had already been punished enough, what with all the spankings, and it wasn't like she hadn't apologized.

Ever since she had stolen all their materia it seemed like Cloud no longer trusted her. She had tried to make it up to them by passing the trials of the pagoda, and bringing the power of Leviathan to their fight against Sephiroth, but it had been to no avail. Cloud had taken away all of her good materia, and left her with only weak, crappy ones. The only one she had left that she even kinda liked was the morph materia. She found this useful because she was able to use it to turn monsters into treasure, and if there was one thing she was always hungry for, it was more treasure.

As she pushed her way deeper into the small glade of trees she wondered why everyone put up with Cloud's shit. It wasn't like he was the most trustworthy individual after all. Hadn't he lied about his entire past, and even given the Black Materia to Sephiroth? Yet nobody seemed to mind; it was only her that they singled out. Cloud was a wuss too. She saw the way he looked at Tifa; he was clearly in love with that bimbo, and yet he didn't even have the balls to say anything to her. And of course Tifa was too dumb to even notice, but Yuffie saw it clearly.

As she made her way through the trees lost in thought, she was suddenly startled back to reality by a low growling from behind her. She spun around and saw a pair of muus emerge from the ground. They were clearly bent on attack so Yuffie reached behind her and drew her giant shuriken from her back.