onepassingnight | 1st Crystal

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[Oerba, Vanille's dear home town. What would have happened if she and Fang never became l'Cie? Well she can very well experience it now. There she was, just a normal girl from Gran Pulse. Though tougher than the average human girl which came from living around many large beasts, she was sans powers, abilities, summons, and tattoos.

She sits upon a concrete railing and looks outwards at the mountainous scenery, smiling wistfully and swinging her legs delicately. There are Oerbian people walking around, bustling, laughing, and being a large family with each other.

A little robot comes rolling up to Vanille, making a little noise. The girl looks down at it]

Bhakti!

[She looks over at it and pulls it up with her on the concrete ledge.]

Here to give me some company?

[She giggles, but she knows this isn't her place. She knows this isn't her reality. She knows she's curled up next to Fang in a crystal stasis, dreaming forever with her friends all right and saved and she's all right with that.]

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"I caaaaan't," Gamatatsu groaned as he moved, hopping along a few paces behind Gamakichi.

Naruto took in a deep breath.

"Gamatatsuuuuu~!" He called out. At the same time, the boy was rustling in his jacket pocket, arm jammed awkwardly down the neck of his partially unzipped tracksuit. He pulled out a bag of potato chips. For some odd reason Naruto had a feeling this was a dream provided snack.

Naruto waved it from his spot atop of Gamakichi's head.

"And here I thought the winner would have this snack as a prize'ttebayo!"

Gamatatsu stared over,mouth opening.

"Snack? SNACK? SNAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!" The frog practically screamed, and jolted forward, almost throwing Vanille off and he tore towards Naruto. The blond flailed wildly atop Gamakichi's head.

"RUNRUNRUNRUNRUN!!!" He screamed.

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Vanille jolted, but threw her weight forward quickly in efforts to not be thrown. Was that all it took to get this frog to get moving?

"GO GO GO! WHOOOOOOO!" she called out! "Let's beat them! Get that snack! I bet it'll be delicious!"

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"They're gaining on us FAST!" Naruto shouted. But! He could see the spring in sight! They were almost there! VICTORY WOULD BE HIS!

But then, Gamatatsu decided to go for the snack.

"SNAAAAAAAAACK!!!!" The yellow frog cried, leaping into the air. Naruto felt the shadow--and his imminent doom--loom over him.

"...This is gonna hur--"

CRASH!!! Gamatatsu slammed into his big brother, pile-driving both of them across the ground. Suddenly, they both flew off the ledge, taking Naruto and Vanille with them...

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"No no no no! Don't!" Vanille cried out quickly as Gamatatsu lept into the air to claim his prize earlier than when it was due.

Yep, this was going to hurt.

The Pulsian girl went flying into the water creating a pretty big splash. If this was a dream, she could will the monsters that lived there not to be waiting on the shores once they breached the surface, right?

As Vanille swam her way up to the top, she envisioned the area completely devoid of nasty fish creatures and the like.

The surface! She took in a deep breath of fresh air and looked around for her new buddy.

Naruto surfaced not too long afterwards, gasping for breath. He looked around quickly--the concerned look on his face wiped away as soon as he spotted Vanille.

"Vanille!" Naruto waved over to her. He was close to one of the patches of land.

Vanille swam towards him, glad he was all right. She watched as the two frogs just casually swam by. She knew they would enjoy this kind of environment, but a sore spot on her leg cursed him for caring more about snacks than anything else.

She treaded the water when she was right next to him.

"Are you all right?" she asked looking him over.

Naruto rolled onto the patch of land, before pulling her up with him. He shred his forehead protector and jacket, which was heavy weight now that it was saturated in water. His fishnet undershirt was exposed, along with a glimmering green crystal necklace that hung around his collarbone, collecting a drop of water at the tip. Two ruby orbs flanked the crystal. In his waking world, this piece of jewelry had long since gone.

"Yeah, I'm fine. You okay'ttebayo?" He swept his hands through his wet hair, slicking it out of his face.

Vanille shook out her pigtails that hung in heavy curls around her shoulders. Her Oerban bead jewelry that were strung along her body dripped and her wrist bangles made sad, wet, clinking noises. The pelt that was on her backside laid heavily there and she opted to take it off, leaving just her brightly coloured short skirt left.

She also striped away her wet, soggy pouch that was strapped to her waist and sat it aside as well as her weapon and holster belt.

"I'm fine, too" she said once she removed all of the heavy materials off of her dripping wet persons.

She giggled. "They're having a good time"

"YOU LOVE YOUR STUPID CHIPS MORE THAN ME!" Naruto shouted in Gamatatsu's direction, but he looked back towards Vanille and grinned. The sun was beaming down on them as they both sat on the rock.

"They're having a good time! I haven't had this much fun in ages!" The blond exclaimed, lifting his hands into the air. His voice echoed a bit around them, bouncing off the walls. "This place here kinda looks like Shimagame! Well, at least a part of it, anyway."

"Me too! I'm having loooads of fun!" Vanille giggled, watching Naruto's animated gestures. She looked around Sulya Springs.

"This place has monsters, too, normally. Ugly fishy looking toads with horned tails." she lifted up her hands in a clawed gesture and scrunched up her nose like she was some sort of beast.

"But since you mentioned that we could do anything, I made them go away!" she said, sitting on her knees.

"So this place looks more like your home? I guess it's less mechanical then, right? More naturey?"

"Shimagame's not my home," Naruto stated. "I'm training there." He looked out towards the water. "But yeah, my home is mostly trees and wildlife. We have...um... radios? And I know the civilian cities in the world have movies, huge screens, and things like that! Maybe they have robots too. I dunno.

"We're really far away from civilians so maybe they have all of this stuff." Maybe. Naruto's world was a rather strange mesh of things.

"Training there? For what?" Vanille asked as she got more settled on the ground, reaching over and letting her finger graze over a flower petal.

"There's a lot of bad stuff going on back home," Naruto stated, and he flopped back, sprawling out in the grass. He kicked his legs upwards, spreading them out a bit before letting them hit the ground as well. "And I'm there for research! Animal research dattebayo. Animals are important for summons, kinda like how I can summon frogs."

Naruto looked up at the sky.

"...Its pretty lonely there, but...

"...Its for all the people I care about. I can stand t' be lonely for a little while."

Vanille looked down at Naruto. She could imagine him being constantly surrounded by plenty of people, especially since he was the strongest in his village.

The way he spoke was noble. It reminded her of people like Fang and Snow who wanted to protect the ones close to them. Even she wanted to protect the people she grew to call family.

She nodded. "I know what you mean. That's why I'm here now" she said looking out into the water. Sacrificing herself to save all of Cocoon and being forever crystallized.

"But you're here, too! And we're having a wonderful time!" She swung her arms into the air and flopped onto her back with the blond boy.

Naruto looked over at her face through the blades of grass that partially obscured her from his view. But he could see her red curls and green eyes that started up at the sky. He looked away, back up at the blue sky as well.

"...Yeah!" He stated, and smiled up at it. "...This is way better than training! Not a bad dream,if I say so myself."

"Hey, maybe next time you should show me more of Oerba! I bet you have a lot of interesting food there dattebayo!"

Vanille looked over at him, peering through the grass. "There's lots! I could show you all of the robots and stuff, too!" she giggled.

She pointed into the sky at a large sphere.

"That's Cocoon" she said. It was actually whole this time. This was as if the damage of Ragnarok had never been done.

"Lots of people live there away from Pulse. Maybe we could go there sometime, too! I'll take you to all sorts of places!"

"There's a city up there?! No way!" Naruto exclaimed, looking up at it. The sphere was huge---he wondered how high up it was and how many people were in it. Did they live up there to stay away from all the animals?

"Yeah! Lets totally go there sometime!" He pumped a fist into the air. "Sounds like a ball! Get it? Hahaha!"

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The animals and the people.

"Hahahaha! I get it!" she giggled. "We'll go! And it'll be so much fun! Go to Nautilis, Palumpolum, and Bohdum! We can look at the firework show and go to the amusement park!"

She reached over and took Naruto's hand. "I hope you come back soon! I know I'll always be here"

"H-heh! Sure!" Naruto grinned sheepishly back at her. But, for some reason, his vision became fuzzy... and, in Vanille's grasp, Naruto's hand slipped away, becoming transparent, until finally...

"...See ya."

And the blond hero disappeared. Around her, Gamakichi and Gamatatsu had also vanished, leaving Vanille in the Springs alone.

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