Disclaimer: I don't own the franchise, or any affiliates of Final Fantasy VII. That's Square Enix's deal.
This is a little seven part fic about the rest of the gang's take on the Cloud/Tifa relationship and the mini crisis that ensues.
[Yuffie POV]
Those two are as thick as bricks. No, they're thicker than that. They're as thick as Wutai Island is long
I have never seen a pair that is so married-like as they are, and yet not actually married. They live in the same house. They both pay bills. They help each other out. They act as support (Tifa for Cloud more than the other way around, but I guess it's the thought). They're even raising two kids in the name of Dao-Chao! Ok, Marlene and Denzel aren't exactly theirs, but they're still raising them!
My point is, out of all the things they can see and notice, they are completely oblivious when it comes to each other's feelings. And I don't mean whenever Cloud is feeling unsure or when Tifa is feeling blue. Oh, believe me; they're more than able to read each other then. What I'm talking about is their feelings. Ya know, the little fact that they're both in love with each other but they're both too dense to know? If you're an outsider and have a shred of common sense, you can probably see it too. I mean, come on. Even three years ago it was as noticeable as a materia's shine. The way Tifa hovered over Cloud when he was in that coma, or how Cloud was willing to dress up as a girl to rescue Tifa from Don Corneo. (Ok, I wasn't with them at the time, although I wish I could have seen that, but I heard about it later on.) To me, only a guy who is head over heels for a girl would risk his masculinity and sexual identity to do what he did.
Why can't they see it? I just don't get it. Is it because they don't think it's possible? Is someone able to make his or herself so bent on believing in one thing, that they can't see the truth? Could Cloud and Tifa be so… sure of thinking their love is one-sided, that they can't tell that it really isn't?
I swear if that's the case, I'm going to sneak into Seventh Heaven one night and just beat them senseless with my boomerang. I mean it. If they're that idiotic enough to make a lie their own version of the truth, they deserve a beating over the head. Ninja-style.
But beating them with a boomerang (while that would be satisfying on some levels) won't do two shurikens worth of good. They need to snap out of it and realize that they have a chemistry between them that would make a lab explode. The problem is, they're never gonna do it on their own. Three years ago, after Meteorfall, the group of us (excluding Cloud and Tifa, duh) were together talking about stuff. We had a lot of work to do, but we sort of wanted to enjoy some time together before we had to go back. Cloud and Tifa couldn't make it that night for some reason (it might have been to talk to someone about building a new Seventh Heaven in what was to be Edge. Can't remember). Anyway, we were all talkin' and the nice, complicated subject of Cloud and Tifa came up. Well, Cid, Vince, and Barret might be typical men and have little awareness for that kind of thing, but even they could tell about those two. Now, I want it to be known that I wanted to do something about it. Drop some hints, give them a little push in the right direction. But in the end, the others convinced me that we should just butt out. I didn't like the idea. I was a little more sold on it, though, when I found out they were gonna live together. I totally thought that within a year of having to share the same space, they'd pretty much ihave/i to realize the other's feelings. Right?
Pssh. So much for that. It didn't happen at all, 'cause here we are, three fricking years later, and they're still chugging along, just being friends. They go about their lives, acting as if they're utterly happy about the situation.
Yeah, right. I'm not that stupid. What do they plan to do, live like this forever? Are they going to be able to go on that long without saying anything?
Am I?