"Because I'm not in your future. What's the point if we can't stay together?" As strong as Yuffie makes herself, her heart is still fragile. It's hard to get close and even harder to stay there. She's constantly in fear of losing what she has, be it her country or her family.

There is to much she wanted to protect and for the longest time she hadn't cared about others because she knew she'd loose them too.

Yuffie turned away from MarKus. "You know, when I get home... I'll probably have to marry someone my dad picks anyway." Wutai wasn't stable and it needed help which usually came from political marriages. Not that Yuffie wanted that but she had read her file, it felt inevitable.

"If you were from Gaia... maybe it'd be different."