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Who: Edge and OPEN
What: A much-disliked ninja tries to choose his time and place for confrontation.
Where: The greenhouse car.
When: Egret 28.

Considering things had reached the point where open calls to murder him were expressed on the message system -- and though Edge was sure they'd be written off as jokes, he was also sure that the ones making those jokes would not show the slightest moral qualm were they to happen -- Edge believed that an actual attack was only a matter of time. Any number of people on the train believed themselves superior, didn't they? And he felt certain the Council would, if not look the other way, debate such a situation without any meaningful resolution occurring. In other words, someone who wanted to hurt him had no reason not to try.

That being the case, this called for a little strategy.

So the mid-morning found Edge in the greenhouse car, sitting atop one of those large crates full of seeds, legs folded and hands resting on his knees. His eyes were shut, and overall he gave the impression of being deep in meditation. Of course, someone who could (and did) expect an attack would be an idiot to meditate in the open with his guard down, wouldn't he? But enough people thought he was an idiot that he fully expected it would meet their threshold of belief.

In reality, he was focused entirely on the environment around him, as he perceived it through his hearing. The end of his ninja scarf, pooled on the crate beside him, in fact hid his folded-up shuriken, right where he could snatch it up easily. So he was ready.

Now to see if anyone would take advantage. He hoped, at least, that he was being excessively paranoid...

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"I know right?" She giggled and ruffled his hair with her fingers. She hadn't realized how soft it was or how much it contrasted her own black hair. "It's because we're ninja's and so cleverly hidden." Yuffie kissed him again, tugging his lower lip with her teeth before flashing him a warm grin.

Everyone will absolutely be jealous of him because Yuffie thought that she was the most amazing princess ever.

"Oh? They don't know. Was it a secret?" It wasn't like anyone asked her but she wasn't hiding it from anyone. It wasn't like her dad was on the train or anything... that would be awkward.

Yuffie was... much more aggressive than he'd expected, and that made him shiver with pleasure. Honestly, from his read on her, he'd expected her to be a lot more shy about this all. That she wasn't... meant she really, really liked him. And trusted him enough to let go a little.

That was unfathomably gratifying.

"Well, I wasn't shouting it at everyone I met!" he said, tightening his arms around her warmly. "Maybe I should, but it would annoy people."

Yuffie grinned and booped her nose against his. "When aren't you annoying people?" The question was serious but there was a tinkle in her eyes and something about her tone that suggested that she liked that Edge wasn't a passive nobody. He had a voice and he used it.

"But yeah. Totally not a secret." Her cheeks were a little red but not overly so. She's gotten comfortable around Edge and she liked him a lot. If they pushed their relationship much further she was going to get embarrassed but that didn't mean that she liked him any less. Only that she was nervous about disappointing him in some way because she liked him.

Yuffie always managed to disappoint the people she liked best.

Ask Edge and he'd say that a super-cute, super-spunky girl couldn't possibly disappoint him! That might be a bit naive, but add in the fact that she was a ninja and understood a lot of things already that an ideal partner would need to understand...

"Am I annoying anyone at the moment? I mean, I'd annoy them by kissing the best girl on the train, but no one knows I'm doing that so it doesn't count."

Yuffie didn't know if it was possible but there was always a chance and she'd come to care about Edge... really care about him. It was scary and it meant that she cared what he thought of her. She wanted to be a princess that Wutai could be proud of but also a princess that Edge could be proud to call his girlfriend or whatever.

"Mmmm," She hummed as if she was considering the question seriously. "I don't think so. I think you're my biggest fan." Yuffie grinned and kissed him again. "But I'm okay with making people jealous." Because why not?

So hard to believe. Yuffie was so absolutely amazing, how did everyone miss out on her? Did everyone just... completely fail to notice that she was pretty and bright and cute and fun?

"I don't care," he said, meeting her eyes from so close. "Whether they're jealous or not, or if they think you're dumb or I'm way too lucky, or anything. Be with me, that's all I care about!"

"You say stuff like that and I don't know what to say." She was blushing and pouting but happy. It was impossible to erase the smile that was dominating her features. It was frustrating but in a good way that pumped her from head to toe with electricity.

"That's all I care about too." She paused and then added. "Just saying."

"No worries there. I've never met a girl like you, ever. Heh, I couldn't have, back in Eblan -- we didn't have many girl ninjas at all, and the ones we did were ones I'd trained, so it's not like I could even think of them as girls!" Too close a bond in a different way, there.

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