Hi everyone! This is probably going to be a three part story. Sacred has been so patient with me and I appreciate it so much, but I wanted to at least give this out for him. I hope everyone will enjoy and be looking forward to the next part!

Disclaimer: Square Enix owns all things FFVII.

"Tifa!"

Tifa Lockhart instinctively rolled her eyes, her day had already been extremely stressful and honestly she was not really in the mood for her very feisty, very bubbly, yet very endearing friend Yuffie.

"Tifa, are you here?"

Tifa closed her eyes for a moment and let out a sigh. She was going to do her best to not be annoyed and at least seem happy to see her friend.

"I'm upstairs Yuffie."

Yuffie came bouncing into Tifa's bedroom, and maybe it was just the day she was having but Tifa swore that Yuffie was even more bouncy than usual.

Oh dear.

"Hiya Tifa, geez you make a girl work just for a one sentence response!"

Tifa could help but giggle in spite of herself. Yuffie was standing there with a bag that was at least half of her, and Yuffie looked like she was going to fall over at any moment.

"So the shelve guys are at my place right now setting up my materia display case." Yuffie blurted out a little too loudly.

Tifa winced a little as her ears began to ring.

"Oh? So you finally found one that was worthy of you materia huh?"

Yuffie stuck out her tongue. "Whatever, anyway I was hoping you could help me sort through all my materia and give me your thoughts on how I should display it. I have changed my mind so many times that I feel like I will never decide on how to put them up there."

Tifa was once again amused, even after all these years it was so fascinating watching someone get so worked up over materia and right now the look of distress on Yuffie's face was honestly just precious.

"Sure Yuffie, I'll help you."

Yuffie's eyes lit up. "You will? Man, you are a real pal! Thanks!"

And then Yuffie and Tifa proceeded to go through ALL of the materia in her bag.

Many hours later, a very tired Tifa tossed the empty pizza box into the trash can and leaned back on her elbows as she laid on the floor and admired her and Yuffie's work.

After a few moments Tifa felt Yuffie's eyes on her. She looked up at her friend with curiosity.

"What?"

Yuffie looked down immediately, as if she was ashamed for being caught.

"Nothing...I...I just was wondering...if you had told Reno how you felt about him yet."

Tifa felt her face flush, inside she silently cursed herself again for allowing Yuffie to get her drunk a couple of weeks back. She and Reno had this..well thing going on. Tifa honestly had no way to really describe it or define it. They had been doing the more than friends, less than lovers routine for a while now but Tifa had realized that she was wanting to be serious with Reno...and worse yet that she was completely in love with him. And the only person who knew...Yuffie.

"No, I haven't and I do NOT want to talk about this." Tifa's tone came out much harsher than she had wanted it to, but it was such an uncomfortable subject for her.

Yuffie flinched slightly and Tifa immediately regretted snapping at her. Tifa was about to apologize but Yuffie spoke instead.

"Sorry, I know it's been hard for you...we haven't been very supportive of you and Reno...I won't bring it up again."

Tifa softened, Yuffie was younger than her but Tifa realized that she needed times when she could be just a girl giggling about boys just as much as Yuffie did.

"No, I'm sorry for snapping. The truth is I am angry at myself because I want to really be with Reno in every way but it is not fair for me to ask him to change so that I get what I want."

"Do you know what he wants?"

Tifa sat there blankly staring at the petite ninja.

"Look I know I am just butting in where I shouldn't but I wouldn't be me if I didn't. From what I know, you guys try to keep it all real stress free, you don't talk about your friends and their problems, he doesn't go into details about his relationships with his coworkers. You'll talk about politics, philosophy, history, your dreams etc but you are both trying to keep it from becoming a true relationship because you think that is what the other one wants....your both assuming."

Tifa felt like she was in some alternate reality, Yuffie giving mature sound advice...about relationships?

"Before you say you want to be with him, you need to really know all sides of him and vice versa, if not it won't work."

"But Yuffie, the work thing is the most difficult aspect, not only do I not normally know what he is doing but his relationships with his coworkers...I don't know but it is complicated and I don't know if I will ever understand it or be allowed to understand it."

All of the sudden Yuffie's eyes lit up, and the mischievous gleam in her eye that Tifa had seen so many times before appeared.

"Yuffie...what's going on up in that head of yours?"

Yuffie giggled. "This is perfect, in all my worrying about the logistics of the materia, I forgot all about telling you of my latest great heist as a thief. It is about to be huge news."

"About to be..Yuffie what materia did you steal this time?"

"Transfer materia."

"Huh?"

Yuffie smirked devilishly. " Materia that can allow you to switch bodies."

"Again I say huh?"

"People are always saying to others that there is no way you can know what it is like to be in my shoes or whatever...so a scientist decided to take that idea and make it literal. He thought that in a school or other controlled setting, this materia would be able to hopefully bring about more tolerance. Of course in the wrong hands it could be extremely dangerous. Could you imagine someone transferring bodies with Reeve for a day? That kind of access could detrimental to every thing we've worked for.

Tifa blinked about Yuffie using the word detrimental and then tried to refocus.

"And so what you were doing the world a favor from swiping it from its owner?"

Something like that. Actually this time Reeve asked me to retrieve it, he wants the WRO scientist to look at it and honestly give this University professor a good scare to realize how quickly things can go wrong...overall I think Reeve is hoping he will destroy it.

"And you can assure me its safe."

"If you don't believe me, ask Reeve. The Professor was about to put it on the Academic Market when Reeve decided to use my...specific skills to his advantage."

Tifa still looked completely unsure so Yuffie insisted.

"How about this, lets go to Reeve and see if we can make this to everyone's advantage."