A.N: Heyz everyone, hope you like my story be nice it's my first fanfic. Of course read and review.

Disclaimer: ahh here we go….. I do not own final fantasy or any of its characters (sadly) I own Ariana.

Chapter 1

A low rumble rang through the desert on the outskirts of Midgar, as a young woman rode her motor bike to the city, her black lower back length hair flapping in the wind and her deep emerald eyes fixed on the city.

As the young lady entered the dreary city it started pouring rain, "fantastic" she mumbled sarcastically she quickly parked her motor bike at a near by bar called 7th Heaven. She walked in to the bar to see two suited men playing pool, one with long blazing red hair and one who was bald, two children running around the bar, a man who was sitting by himself talking to the bar tender and then there was the bar tender, who was the only woman in the bar, she had black hair that went just down past her shoulders.

Just as she started to walk up to the bar the man with red hair came up to her "hey, doll face what's your name?" he asked, she just rolled her eyes and walked past him to the bar.

"Excuse me, is there a place I could stay around here?" she asked the bar tender

"Well you can stay here if you like" she replied looking up from a glass she was cleaning.

"Yes, thank you" the girl said looking around the bar again.

"Name's Tifa Lockheart by the way" she said holding out her hand.

"Ariana Fair" she replied and shook her hand, what Ariana didn't notice was the man next to her look up.

"Come with me and I'll show you to your room" Tifa said leading Ariana behind the bar and through a door way leading to a hall, they walked to the end of the hall, Tifa pointed to the door on her right and said "this is your room." she then pointed to her left "this is Cloud's room, so if you need any thing during the night just go to him, remember to knock first or he might slice your head off" she then added "he's a tad paranoid" seeing Ariana's shocked expression. She then pointed to the door next to Cloud's "bathroom" she stated, " well I'll let you put your bag in your room, and when your ready just come down and I'll introduce you to everyone".

Ariana entered her room and surveyed her surroundings, it was a small room, there was a single bed in the corner with a table next to it and there was wardrobe in the corner opposite the bed, it'll do she thought as she dumped her bag on her bed and left the room. When she got back to the bar, she saw that three people, a weird looking dog and a cat sitting on its head had now entered the bar, Tifa, seeing that she had come back out to the bar, came over and led her to the pool table where the two men in suits were. She indicated to the man who had walked up to her before, "Ariana this is Reno. Reno this is Ariana"

"We've already met." Ariana said bleakly.

Tifa then turned to the bald man "and this is Rude".

"Hello it's so nice to meet you" she said smiling.

Reno just stood there, his mouth a gape "why were you so nice to him!?" he asked a shocked expression on his face.

"Be-caw-se, he didn't try to hit on me as soon as I got through the door" Ariana replied smugly.

"I like her already" said a girl with short black hair who had just walked up to them "hi I'm Yuffie".

Tifa led Ariana over to the crowd of people who came in while she was in her room. "This is Barret" she pointed to a big muscled man, "this is Cid", she pointed to a man with blonde hair

"How you goin lil missy?" he asked, Cid had a thick southern accent.

"Good thanks" Ariana replied.

"This is Red XIII and Cait Sith" she said referring to the red dog and the cat that was sitting on its head. Just then the two young kids came up, "hello I'm Marlene and this is Denzel" said the little girl.

"Well aren't you two just the cutest little kids I have ever seen, wanna play a game later?"

"Yeah, awesome" said Denzel, then the children ran off.

"They are so sweet!" said Ariana to Tifa

"Yeah, they are absolutely gorgeous, when they aren't annoying the shit out of you. Just one more person left to meet". Ariana assumed it was the man sitting at the bar looking to be in deep thought, the two young ladies walked up to the man who looked to be about 23, he had blonde spiky hair and striking blue eyes that caught Adriana's deep emerald ones. "Hi I'm Cloud Strife" Cloud said in a serious tone.

"Ariana Fair" Ariana said uneasily. Tifa led her behind the bar. "Is he always like that?"

"Pretty much, but not that serious, something must be bothering him" she said concerned.

After playing a game of tag with Marlene and Denzel, Ariana made her way to the bar. "Hey Tifa, can I get a beer?"

7 beers and 4 hours later……..

By this time Reno and Yuffie were flirting with each other, Cid, Barrat, Rude, Red XIII and Cait Sith had left, Cloud, Marlene and Denzel had gone to bed and Ariana had passed out on her bar stool. When Tifa went to lock the door she herd a thud, she turned to find that Ariana had fallen off her bar stool and was on the floor, with a sigh she went over to her and tried to pick her up but with no luck, so she tried waking her up…still no luck, so she went to her last resort.

"Cloud!" Tifa yelled. She waited. No response. "Cloud!" she yelled a bit louder. She waited again.

"What!?" Cloud called back.

"Come 'ere" said Tifa impatiently

"Why?" Cloud said similarly.

"Just come here ok" Tifa said getting annoyed.

Cloud came through the bar a minute later with an annoyed expression on his face, he was dressed only a pair of black boxers (a.n: Sexy much). "What Tifa, I was sleeping" he said with a tone that matched, if not surpassed that of his face.

"Can you take Ariana to her room, she's a dead weight, I can't lift her or wake her up" said Tifa

"Ok" said Cloud irritated.

"Her room's across from yours." Added Tifa, she didn't know if he knew that yet or not.

Cloud bent down and picked her up bridal style, Ariana cuddled up to Cloud's bare chest and wrapped her arms around his neck, his body stiffened at her touch, "you smell nice" she said so softly that only Cloud heard, and with that he carried her through the hall, she continued to sleep talk all the way to her room, "don't wash that" she mumbled just before he kicked open the door and lied her down on her bed then took off her shoes.

A.N: hope you liked it remember to read and review