Yuffie Kisaragi Yuffie Kisaragi is an optional playable character in " Final Fantasy VII " . She is a Ninja and a Thief , wielding a large shuriken . As a rebellious and cocky tomboy , Yuffie desires to restore her homeland Wutai to the glorious nation it was before being conquered by the Shinra Electric Power Company . Despite her obnoxious personality , Yuffie is friendly , helpful , optimistic and willingly helps the party in their battles . Yuffie is a Materia hunter who can be found in various forest s on the Planet after the events at the Mythril Mine . As one of the optional characters , Yuffie has almost no impact on the game ' s main storyline , but there are some changes made to various scenes in the story if she is recruited by the player . Profile . Appearance . Yuffie is the youngest member of the party and is usually depicted as the shortest . She has short black hair that is sometimes depicted as brown . Her hair is a bit longer in " Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII - , " where it reaches down to her shoulders . Yuffie ' s eyes are dark brown in " " , " Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII - " , and her Play Arts figures , and purple in her main concept images . Her weapon of choice is the large 4 - Point Shuriken . In " Final Fantasy VII " , Yuffie wears a white headband with a green , sleeveless turtleneck jumper that bares her stomach and a pair of tan shorts with no belt and an unbuttoned / unzipped fly . Over her left arm she wears a protective gauntlet that originates from a single pauldron over her shoulder , presumably meant to also act as a shield . The gauntlet is held in place via a strap tied across her chest and around her back . Ninja - mail mesh covers part of her right arm and left leg , and an additional piece of armor covers the rest of the thigh . She wears a smaller wrist - covering gauntlet on her right arm , orange fingerless gloves , and orange sneakers with white leg warmers . In " Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children " , two years later , Yuffie wears a black tank - top with a white Hawaiian flowered design underneath a sleeveless dark - gray vest . Both stop just below the rib - cage , revealing her midriff . Her shorts , while still khaki , now fold back ( showing the interior fabric to be black ) over a dark - gray belted hip - pack that rests across her right hip . Yuffie ' s green forehead protector is replaced by a black long headband with white stripes on the rims . A white wristband on her right arm and a black cloth that starts from below her elbow and partially covers her left hand replace the gauntlets , while khaki - colored , laced knee - high boots with black socks that have two white stripes at the top , replace the sneakers and legwarmers . The animators for the film have noted that Tetsuya Nomura wanted Yuffie to have a " cute " face , and her facial animations were constantly redone . Her Wutai heritage gave them an opportunity to use Japanese clothing styles not present in the other characters ' appearances . In " Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII - " , one year after " Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children " , Yuffie wears her long , black and white headband seen in most of her outfits . Her attire includes a blue and black strapless top that reveals the midriff , with shoulder straps and a black and yellow belt looped from underneath her shirt and over her shoulder that hikes the shirt further up her stomach . She wears orange denim short - shorts with a yellow belt tied together with a cord , and a yellow pouch closed with string crossed over to create a loop that attaches to two buttons , as well as a dark grey ( although appearing white in game - play ) wristband on her left arm , and a dark blue fingerless glove with off - white adjustable string that covers her entire right forearm . Braced black and blue - grey boots with a yellow band across the foot of the boot and white thigh - high socks complete her ensemble . In " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " , a 9 - year - old Yuffie wears a green and yellow vest / hoodie underneath a white singlet and white shorts . In " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " she wears a green sleeveless hoodie , revealing her midriff with a yellow button - up vest over the top . Her orange shorts are buttoned and tied with a green rope . The shorts also have external pockets that extend beyond the pant legs . She wears white wristbands . Throughout all of her outfits she wears a white headband , sometimes wearing a second , black band tied over the white one . In " Final Fantasy VII " she has a pair of kunai knives tied to the ends of the headband to hang down her back . Personality . Yuffie has a cocky , proud , brash personality , and she can be aggressive . Yuffie is a tomboy and acts unashamedly towards her goals . She bestows honorific titles on herself , such as " Great Ninja Yuffie " , " The Single White Rose of Wutai " and states everyone is " Dyin ' to talk to a babe like [ her ] " . Despite being the daughter of Wutai ' s leader , Godo Kisaragi , Yuffie has little tolerance for tradition and is rebellious to Wutai ' s old - fashioned ways , which lead to her clashing with her father . Yuffie is clever and cunning , but despite this , she is not averse to heroics and is a reliable ally and caring friend . Yuffie is the subject of two running jokes in the series . One is her motion sickness , as she gets ill whenever on a moving vehicle , be it an airship or a boat . The other is her obsession with Materia . In " Final Fantasy VII " , she claims she wants Materia because Shinra banned it in Wutai and she wants to use it to restore Wutai ' s glory . However , her obsession is intact in her appearances before and after the game , having found various other reasons to hunt the magical baubles . Story . Early life . Yuffie was born at an unspecified time , but seems to be somewhere around the end of the Wutai War . Her mother is never mentioned but according to the " Creation Materials " section in the " Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega " guide , her mother was named Kasumi and died from an illness when Yuffie was young . As a child , Yuffie watched Wutai turn into a tourist resort and grew up on stories on how the area used to be a place of honorable mystique before Shinra ' s arrival . Meeting Zack and the Turks . In " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " , a 9 - year - old Yuffie first appears when Zack invades Fort Tamblin , proclaiming herself as " Wutai ' s Greatest Warrior " . Zack plays along with her antics and she runs off . After losing the war to Shinra , Yuffie ' s father and the leader of Wutai , Godo Kisaragi , turns their hometown into a tourist attraction . This does not suit Yuffie , who thinks about restoring Wutai to its former glory . At some time after the war , Godo is given a list of SOLDIER email addresses and locations of rare treasure by an unidentified blond man ( speculated to be Lazard Deusericus or Rufus Shinra in the " Crisis Core Complete Guide " ) , but Godo does nothing with the information . Yuffie steals the information from her father and sends Zack emails about rare treasure , intending to ambush him at the end of each mission and either steal from him , or seize the treasure for herself . She fails on both counts when Zack either does not fall for her ruses , or the treasure she finds is not up to her standards . As Yuffie continues to taunt Zack through emails the locations she leads him to become more dangerous , Yuffie getting her information from an anti - Shinra group based in Wutai . On the final mission , Yuffie steals Zack ' s Bahamut Fury Materia and escapes . She mails it back to him a few days later , not understanding how to use it . During " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " , Yuffie encounters the player Turks in Wutai , where AVALANCHE has set up a stronghold in the pagoda . Pursued by AVALANCHE , she is saved by the player Turk and starts scheming to steal their Materia moments after learning what Materia even is . Yuffie follows the player Turk into the AVALANCHE base and steals the bomb detonators planted in the pagoda , and the player Turk must chase her and get them back . Yuffie accidentally presses the detonator switch , and she and the Turk must cooperate to escape . Once they rendezvous with Tseng , Yuffie realizes the player Turk is with Shinra and flees . Joining Cloud and Meteorfall . The party runs into a Mystery Ninja in a forest who attacks them but is soundly defeated . After demanding a second round and having been turned down , Yuffie joins Cloud ' s party with the idea the others are intimidated by her might despite her loss . In Junon Yuffie forges a bond with Red XIII after Cloud is unanimously voted to infiltrate the Upper Junon . On the Shinra Cargo Ship , Yuffie disguises herself as a crew member , but suffers from seasickness , and says she does not want to be part of the investigation on Sephiroth ' s appearance on the ship . In Costa del Sol , Yuffie works part - time at the Materia shop for the day , only to steal the shop ' s Materia overnight . Later , when Barret is talking about the fate of his hometown , Corel , which was burned down by Shinra , the party is unanimously sympathetic toward him if Yuffie is not present . If she has been recruited by this time , she will not hesitate to voice her lack of sympathy for Barret , citing he should never have trusted Shinra . Yuffie has a chance of being Cloud ' s date in Gold Saucer when the party goes there to retrieve the Keystone . If Yuffie is Cloud ' s date the two will take part in a play and go sightseeing on the gondola , where Yuffie will kiss Cloud and then get angry at his unresponsiveness . After Tifa and Barret have been imprisoned in Junon and Sapphire Weapon attacks the city causing enough commotion for the two to escape , Yuffie disguises herself as a news reporter and assists Cait Sith and Barret in their escape . Yuffie steals the party ' s Materia when they enter Wutai , and they must chase her and save her from Don Corneo before she returns them . Yuffie proves herself to her father by beating the bosses of Wutai ' s Five Story Pagoda , and her father begins to understand the reasoning behind her position . If Cloud talks to Yuffie right before descending to the Northern Cave for the final showdown against Sephiroth , she will try to make Cloud sign a contract that says when the war against Sephiroth is over , the party ' s Materia will belong to her . Cloud refuses , saying he gets airsick whenever he reads while flying . Being an optional character , Yuffie does not appear in the ending FMV . It is later explained that she and Vincent were absent because they went to Midgar to help evacuate the citizens and Shinra personnel before Meteor hit . After placing an injured Rufus Shinra aboard a helicopter , Yuffie warns Vincent to be careful in his search of the Mako Cannon . She later saves him as the building collapses from a lightning strike . Post crisis . In " On the Way to a Smile " , following Meteorfall , the group returned to the Forgotten City to pay their respects to Aerith . Following this the group parted ways , with the majority of the group ' s destructive Materia being given to Yuffie in name but being kept " for safe custody " by Cloud . Returning to Wutai with the expectations she would be treated as a hero for saving the world from Sephiroth , Yuffie returned to discover her home town in ruin . Forgetting about fame , Yuffie offered her healing Materia to help those wounded after the Lifestream had passed through Wutai during Meteorfall . After a while a strange epidemic arose and , believing Yuffie to be the carrier , her father locked her within the family dojo to both quarantine her and protect her from the townsfolk . Freed by Yuri , a childhood friend , the pair left Wutai to investigate the Materia Caves for a Materia that might cure the " Midgar Disease " . Calling via cellphone but unable to find an answer on whether one existed from Cloud or Tifa , Yuffie and Yuri explored the caves newly opened when the Lifestream had erupted from the earth . While finding no Materia within the caves , the pair encountered many monsters . During a battle , a stray fireball released a black liquid from the ground which appeared sentient , and chased Yuffie and Yuri out of the cave , where it infected Yuri with Geostigma . Encountering Nanaki , who was traveling the world , Yuri revealed he had visited Midgar before Yuffie ' s arrival and that he believed he was the one to infect Wutai with the " Midgar Disease " . Returning to Wutai to discover the township had begun separating those infected from the populace by building a hut at the town ' s outskirts , Yuffie looked after those quarantined within the hut . Two weeks later , with the number of those infected increasing in spite of the quarantine , it was theorized the disease was not due to infection . Yuri hypothesized only those who had already been sick or injured and were thinking they were " going to die " were infected , admitting that he himself had thought he was going to die when he became infected in the cave . The township was made aware of the black water Yuffie and Yuri had encountered and warned the populace of the possibility of infected water . One year later , the number of " quarantine " huts had increased to two and the following year Yuffie embarked to investigate the Materia Cave to the north , passing Corel where she ran into Cid and Nanaki while Cid was testing his new oil - fueled airship . After Cid inadvertently left Nanaki and returned to Rocket Town , he and Yuffie continued on to the northern Materia Cave in search of a Materia that might cure Geostigma . Geostigma crisis . During " " , when Cloud ' s cellphone is lost in the lake in Forgotten Capital Yuffie ' s voice recording plays among others , where she says , " Surprise ! It ' s me , Yuffie " , although her voice is difficult to pick out as other pieces of dialogue are being played at the same time . Yuffie mentions the children from Wutai have gone missing , and tells Cloud to call her if he knows why . Yuffie appears in person along with the other playable characters from " Final Fantasy VII " during the battle in Edge . She arrives via Cid ' s airship ( still showing signs of motion sickness after parachuting down ) . She helps the party defeat Bahamut SIN , and brings Cloud ' s Materia collection from the Midgar ruins aboard the " Shera " . During the bonus feature " Reminiscence of Final Fantasy VII " , Yuffie sends a " Closed for Business " sign to Barret through the Strife Delivery Service as a way of getting Cloud to take a day off . She seems to call Vincent Valentine in the time after " Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children " because Vincent asks Cloud to relay a message to her , claiming she has no right to call his phone . Deepground conflict . In " Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII - " , having joined the World Regenesis Organization , Yuffie is in charge of the espionage and intelligence gathering . Yuffie works to fight against Deepground in 2010 . She is the one who rescues Vincent from Rosso the Crimson in the Shinra Mansion , where the bloodthirsty Tsviets were about to kill him , and takes him back to the WRO Headquarters . Onboard the " Shera " , she suffers from motion sickness , and leads the troops from the airships to the ground for the Battle of Midgar to shut down a generator inside the Shinra Building . Yuffie and Vincent go into Deepground to kill Weiss , but are stopped by Nero , who sucks Yuffie into darkness , kidnapping her and Vincent goes to save her , since Nero ' s darkness does not affect him . Yuffie and other AVALANCHE members aid Vincent in Omega ' s destruction and she is seen last in 7th Heaven , asking Tifa if she has heard from Cloud , most likely concerning Vincent ' s whereabouts . Gameplay . Yuffie is an optional playable party member who must be recruited . She is first fought as a random encounter in a forest location on the world map . After this , the player must give her all the correct dialogue responses to recruit her . The player must answer : Not interested , . . . petrified , Wait a second ! , . . . That ' s right and . . . Let ' s hurry on . As a party member , she wields shurikens which are long range , which she uses in Limits which normally damage all enemies . Her stats are below average , though she has the highest Luck stat . Her ultimate weapon , the Conformer , deals more damage based on the level of the enemy , making it the most reliable ultimate weapon . Yuffie is a date option for Cloud . She is the third most difficult character to date , only ahead of Barret , as her starting hidden date value is 10 , compared to Tifa ' s 30 and Aeris ' s 50 . Going to Wutai after recruiting Yuffie triggers an extensive sidequest involving her . Creation and development . Yuffie and Vincent were almost cut from the game due to lack of time , and they became optional characters . The main reason for there being so many cutscenes for Yuffie is because event planner Jun Akiyama , who was in charge of them , had a strong attachment to her . Her appearing in a battle and the scene with her afterwards were his ideas , and as development moved along the scope expanded . According to the " Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega " , in earlier versions of " Final Fantasy VII " , Yuffie and Wutai as a whole were very different from the finished product . Yuffie was envisioned as a 25 - year - old bounty hunter seeking Cloud and Sephiroth , and she in turn had a bounty on her head . Posters showing her stats would be found around the world , and Yuffie ' s stats , abilities and level would change when the party acquired her depending on which poster was inspected last . She was also intended to be an ex - SOLDIER . The Wutai subquest would have involved Shinra placing Wutai goods under high taxes , straining their economy . Yuffie would have stolen the party ' s money to try and help , but the town would reject the funds . A Shinra spy in Wutai , Sera , would have spread pro - Shinra propaganda , and planned to blow up the " Ten Face Mountain " to level Wutai and build a Mako Reactor in the ruins . Cloud and his allies would have to climb the mountain and stop her . Her mother ' s name would have been Kasumi Kisaragi and she would have died while Yuffie was still young . Yuffie ' s job class was originally listed as " Ninja ( Assassin ) " . In the Character Files section of the " Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega " Early Material Files , the recruitment info says Yuffie was planned to be available any time after passing Kalm . This may be why Yuffie has a spoken line in the Marshes scene involving a slain Midgar Zolom , which cannot normally be seen in the game . Voice . Yuffie is voiced by Yumi Kakazu in Japanese . She is voiced by Christy Carlson Romano in the English versions of " Kingdom Hearts " and " Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children " , and by Mae Whitman in " Kingdom Hearts II " and " Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII - " . Musical themes . Yuffie ' s theme is " Descendant of Shinobi , " which plays during the sequence after the party defeats her in battle and during many other scenes involving her . It is set in G major . This theme appears in a vocal form on the " Final Fantasy Song Book " Mahoroba " " album . The theme " Stolen Materia " is a variation of Yuffie ' s character theme set in E minor and is often used in association with her , generally whenever she is behaving in a sneaky or untrustworthy manner . It first plays when the party arrives in the Wutai area , again when they realize that much of their Materia has been stolen , after Yuffie locks two party members in a cage in her house , and once again when she and Godo agree to steal the party ' s Materia at the top of the pagoda . Other appearances . Yuffie has appeared in the following games in the " Final Fantasy " series : Non - " Final Fantasy " guest appearances . Yuffie has had key guest appearances in the following non - " Final Fantasy " games : Etymology . Yuffie is one of the few characters to retain a true Japanese name in the English versions across all " Final Fantasy " games ; most other character names are western - style names . The only modification made to Yuffie ' s full name is that the developers anglicized the name by adding a second F and an E to the spelling of her original Japanese given name " Yufi " . In French , her name , while pronounced the same way , is written " Youffie " . When fought as an opponent Yuffie is known as the Mystery Ninja .