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Setting: Post DoC

THIS CHAPTER STARTS WITH A BIT OF A LEMON. IF YOU'RE NOT INTO THAT KIND OF THING, SKIP AHEAD.

Change of Mind.

Written by Vanillabeancobain

Prologue

Tifa grinned as the last patron left the bar and put the last few glasses away, wiping the table top as she collected them and dropped them in the dishwasher. What a day. First she had to wake up at the crack of dawn as Cid dropped Barrett off to collect Marlene and Denzel for the school holidays, then she needed to sort out the other million and one things that she hadn't had time for on other days. Pay registration for her car and the Fenrir, organize her bills, her tax information…. Ugh. Then, of course, she needed to open the bar and work a full night. It was 3AM and she was not in the mood for anything but bed, she decided, putting out the light as she left the bar for the evening.

She felt a hand slide up the small of her back and sighed softly, leaning in against the warmth of his touch. "Rough night?" Cloud asked,

"you have no idea…" she said softly.

He wrapped his arms around her waist tightly and she leaned into him, feeling his hard muscle against her back. Slowly, his hands began to massage into her shoulders, relieving the built in tension from hours of holding glasses, bottles, drink trays and opening and closing refrigerator doors. She gasped slightly as she felt his mouth and warm tongue leaving hot wet kisses on that weak spot where her neck met her collarbones. She could feel him leering at her as her breaths sped up with the contact and his hands started working their way up the front of her shirt, lifting the fabric and raking into her skin longingly. "I've wanted to do this to you…" he said in between kisses "…all day."

She turned to face him, bringing her lips to his and smiled when she felt that wolfish grin just before their mouths impacted. She loved feeling him smile as he was kissing her. Tifa let out a sharp yelp as he picked her up and flung her over his shoulder, carrying her unceremoniously up the stairs, her legs dangling with each step upwards. As they entered their room, she hastily took off her shoes, skirt, top… not caring where they landed on the floor and laughed as Cloud lowered himself over her on the bed. Warm, teasing kisses landed over her lips, her neck, her chest and eventually he stopped, smirking at her expectant look as he ran his fingers along the elastic of her underwear. She gave him a look, the one usually reserved for swearing in front of the kids or when Marlene didn't say thank you to someone. The death glare. It had never looked so sexy as he eased his fingertips around the side of her underwear and slowly, tentatively, circled the mound underneath. Delicately using his fingertips to tease her further. She sighed and leaned back into her pillow, breathing growing ragged, as he used his free hand to slide the offending item of clothing off and brought his lips down to her entrance. Her eyelids flew shut as she started to chew on her lip, in her own world of gentle paradise as he slowly started to bring her over the edge. He glanced up at her, tongue lapping slowly and teasingly at her nub, and smiled at her look of absolute arousal. He would not last long today. "Starting to unwind a bit?" he asked, smirking at her inability to immediately answer him.
"just… a-a little" she responded, hissing through her teeth as he slowly started sucking and then returned to gentle laps and circular motions over her.

Without another word, Cloud loomed back over her and slid himself into her. Tifa let out a small whimper, muffled as she buried her head into his shoulder. He dragged himself through agonizingly slowly, afraid it would be over too soon, she felt too good. After a few strokes, he picked up the pace and she started to let out little gaps. He started to thrust in harder, grinning down at Tifa as she let out a loud moan. He could hear the headboard banging a steady rhythm into the wall as he thrust in, again and again with a faster pace, about to reach his limit. "cloud…" she whimpered. His smirk broadened.
"C-Cloud…" she cried out, louder. The banging as the headboard hit the wall added to his intoxicated feeling, it seemed to fill the whole room along with his ragged breath, her gasping and mewling. It seemed to fill the whole building, a symphony of percussive sounds as he drove into her again and again, he was just about to—

"CLOUD!" Tifa half shouted at him, suddenly looking annoyed. "Somone's knocking on the front door!" His face fell.
"Tell them to fuck off"
"Cloud." She said firmly, the mother like tone in her voice.

He sighed and pulled back on his clothes, dragging his feet as he walked to the front door.
"Who is it?" he asked, defeated.
"Let me in, Cloud!" cried out a familiar voice. "I've been knocking for at least ten minutes! What are you doing up there anyway?"
He pulled the chain off the front door and opened it up slowly. The young shinobi gave him a sunny smile and leapt inside as he closed the door behind her.
"Did I wake you up? I forgot my key…" she trailed off.

As of last week, Yuffie was living in their spare room and helping out at the bar while she had a small vacation from the WRO. She had said she was simply bored of being in an office, but everyone knew that she was worried about Vincent. He hadn't returned since that incident, it had been almost 2 months with no word. Reeve had search crews looking around, whether for a body or a man no one was certain, but Vincent was good at hiding out when he didn't want to be found so it wasn't exactly encouraging.

Her spirits picked up when she was around her old friends and she kept herself busy helping Tifa or going out to clubs or to see bands play on the nights off Tifa insisted she had twice a week. No matter how annoying she may have once been, Cloud viewed her as a sister and was glad to see that she was slowly lifting out of her depression and worry caused by Vincent's absence. He ruffled her hair affectionately

"HEY!" she whinged "it took hours to get ready.!" Yet she smiled despite her protests.

"Alright, Yuffie," Cloud faked a yawn as they walked up the stairs "I'm beat. See you tomorrow…"
She smirked slightly when he turned toward his room and saw that his shirt was inside out. As he opened his door, she could distinctly make out a pile of clothing littering the floor leading up to the bed. She sniggered as she opened the door to her own bedroom and began to undress "tired, huh?" she muttered, freeing her legs from her boots and placing them back in her wardrobe and listening for anything from the next room.

"It was just Yuffie…" Cloud sighed as he slid back out of his pants "…forgot her key again." Cloud glanced at Tifa and nearly walked to Yuffie's room to skin her alive- Tifa had fallen asleep.

"Teef?" he called out gently, running his fingers along her cheek softly. A small snore escaped her lips; she was dead to the world.

"Damn." Was all he said. Cloud climbed into bed next to her and tried his best to fall asleep.

Yuffie grinned impishly as she hung her bag up, remembering to take her keys out of her pocket and put them on the dresser for the morning. It would be a shame to forget your keys, wouldn't it? That's why she had spares for every member of Avalanche on her person at all times. Yuffie grinned evilly as she hopped into bed. Messing with Cloud was guaranteed to cheer her up, even without Vincent there.

Vincent.

She hoped he was ok.

AN:

Let me know what you think. This will be an eventual Yuffie/Vincent Yuffie/Reno pairing with an extremely obvious CloTi thing going on. The plot will kick in over the next chapter; I just wanted to set the scene in a way that was totally Yuffie before jumping in to what's coming ahead.