A/N: Hey everyone ^_^ I made this story just to fulfil my fantasies for both Rufus and Tifa, who somewhat looks good together, due to the fact that Tifa always looks good with blondes, one being Cloud xD

This is my first fic for FF so I'd want to know your comments when you read this ^_^

(The setting is before Avalanche was formed and Tifa was still working for Rufus :P)

The One Meant for Her

I always knew that someone like me, poor, peasant, and just his employee, could never get someone like him, sophisticated, talented, handsome, and the boss, and my feelings for him keep growing I feel like it's going to burst.

I began working here seven years ago when my father introduced me to him. Him, who was very young and still very handsome, who then grew to become an even more beautiful person than before and that just looking at him is causing my heart to do a thousand leaps in one beat.

These feelings I've had for him had been harboured inside me for the last six years, a year after I began working for him, and it was caused by the very one moment we shared together: a breathtaking kiss, a kiss that I could never forget.

"Mister Shinra." I said as I entered his office, and his piercing blue eyes met mine across the room. I tried my best to maintain composed as his eyes studied me. He stopped writing one of the documents I handed him a while ago and sat up straight and placed his hands on his desk. "What is it, Tifa?"

Just the sound of his voice saying my name sent shivers up my spine that it made me want to scream at him.

I handed in a red folder and watched him scan the files. "That is the document for the latest project that SEC has been included in, and they handed in the details for the project so that we could start with the minor things and get on with the big ones later, and they told me to tell you that they'd be holding a meeting this afternoon at three o'clock." I handed a stapled paper. "They also handed me the details of the meeting." He took it from my hand and when I was about to check for the other files, he grabbed my hands and pulled me, my body now bumping the table.

It surprised me, and maybe that was why the files dropped, but I couldn't look at them now, when my eyes were glued to his penetrating blue ones. "Sir?" thank god I found my voice. But he shook his head and then stood up and came around the table and was finally standing in front of me, my back side to the table and him placing both his hands on the edge of table beside my waist, making me feel really uncomfortable...but excited.

As I was about to open my lips, he lifted a hand and placed it over my lips and then he shook his head. His eyes were really very beautiful, and I suddenly felt myself being lifted and placed on the desk. He took hold of one of my hands and lifted it to his lips, never breaking that contact with my eyes. I heard him mutter something, but it really didn't enter my mind, because I saw his face come closer to mine, and it excited me that I met his half way.

I didn't really know who moved first, but we were suddenly on his chair, and I was straddling him and we never separated our lips together.

We kissed like beasts hungry for something we could never really get, and in one moment, he made moan and he took the advantage to slide his tongue in my mouth, and I slide mine with him, and I lifted my arms around his neck and pulled myself closer, and as we reached the closest point of doing something he would obviously regret, a knock on the door came. "Yo, boss man, you there?"

It was Reno, one of Rufus' best turks.

With Reno's disturbance, Rufus pulled back and slowly pushed me off his lap and he stood up and fixed his hair and neck tie, and looking at him, it was like nothing really happened before he knocked, and that really hurt.

"Come in." He finally said and the red head entered with Tseng, and they took their time to actually notice me.

Reno let out a whistled. "So, what is lady black here looking like a cat who was just placed in a bucket of cream, yo." I blushed at that. I forgot to fix myself up before they actually slipped, and when I was about to talk, he answered for me. "Miss Lockheart was asleep on the couch before you guys entered. She told me for the past few days, she hasn't been sleeping well, so I let her take my couch for a while."

The aloof red hair eyed me and looked at the boss. "Is that so?" he shrugged. "Okay then." And then he looked at Rufus and said, "Miss black here also mentioned to us that you called for us."

Now that caught me off-guard. The most wonderful thing that has happened to me was cut off because of me?

...

Then that was the time it actually came to me. Before I came here, the boss asked me to call for Reno and Tseng and that they should come once they were doing what they were assigned to do, and it seems that that what they were doing was something easy, because if I recall, I asked them around ten minutes ago.

Goodness!

Then I saw Rufus look at me, and then he raised a hand and gestured to the door. "If I may just tell you, you can go now. This matter is private." And since I couldn't really say no to him, I nodded and picked up the fallen files and ran out of the room, feeling three pairs of eyes on my back.

Since that day, he has been withdrawn and has done his best to avoid me, and even though my job is to hand it documents to him, he asked me to hand them to the turks and then they would give it to him, and the only time I could see him is when he comes to the office and the events we host, and the only time I was able to actually talk to him was a few weeks ago when I asked for temporary leave because Marlene and Denzel were sick, and Cloud was off delivering for a few months, so I had to go and take care of the two of them.

Then a few days later, they got well, and Cloud came, so I was secure again and I returned to work, only to find out that someone else took my job, and I was transferred to another job. Wow. That is just so annoying.

"Tifa?" I heard a voice say from behind, and I turned to mesh with a pair of red ones. I smiled at him. "Hey there, Vincent. What are you doing in this side of the building?"

Vincent was actually part of the Turks, so his side is actually not in the building, but in a faraway place from the company. He actually rarely shows up here in the company. Vincent only comes here to the building if he is offered a mission or something, but looking at him now, it seems as though he didn't come here to do just that, but it seemed like he actually came here to come talk to me, and the thought made me smile.

He shrugged to my question and smiled. "The boss asked me to come here for another mission, so I did, but I also wanted to talk to you."

I stared. He actually just did what I was thinking he was doing in my mind. A mind case of déjà vu? But I simply shrugged it off and smiled at him. "That is sweet of you, Vincent. But were you able to talk to the boss already?" He nodded and his black hair went up and down with him, and he looked very young too, and thinking about it actually made me blush. My goodness. I can't do this to Vincent when I feel something for someone else. I can't just lead him on when it will only result in pain.

I broke off my thought when I felt him shake me a little, making me look up at him. "What is it?" I heard him ask. I smiled warily. "I'm fine. Just tired. But, did you talk to him already?" he nodded. "Yes, I already did, an hour ago, actually, and I've been wandering round the building looking for you."

Gape. I was gaping at him, but then I smiled at chuckled. "Well, Vincent, you do have my number, so why don't you do what phones are used for and send me an SMS or call me." He laughed at my comment. "Oh." He shrugged. "I forgot, I actually do." Then he looked back me. "Want me to take you home? You've gone pale, and you are in no state to go driving."

I shook my head with a smile. "I'm fine. You don't have to concern yourself with me. It's just that my head hurts now, and I really want to go home now, and it was nice talking to you again."

When I turned and took my first step, he took me by the arm and turned me back to look at him, then he eyed me. "I knew it." I saw him mutter, rather than heard. "You really are in no state to go home. I'll drop you off."

"But-"

He covered my lips. "Shh. No buts." Then his red eyes stared at me.

In actual truth, when I first met Vincent Valentine, I thought he was the alone type of guy, because he was quiet, and he had this awkward aura coming off of him, and it scared me at first, but when I talked to him, he was actually very friendly and nice. Kind of handsome too. His body was well built, and every time he moved, his leather jacket would make sounds, and it was kind of...sensual looking at him and listening to his voice.

So, then I nodded. There was no sense in arguing with Vincent when my mind was actually pounding, as if it was about to explode any moment now. Talking actually hurts my head already.

I took my stuff from my table and I said good bye to the others, and he took me by the arm and lead me to his car. He opened the passenger's seat and secured me with a seat-belt, then he closed the door and walked around the hood to the driver's side. He placed on his seat-belt, placed the key in the ignition, and with that, we drove off.

I watched as they drove off as soon as Reno and Tseng left.

Actually, for the past few years, I've been watching over her from afar. I knew that there would come a time that she might leave us...me. I rejected her because I knew that I could never really give what she deserved, but I...I'm really just confused now. I'm not really sure what I feel for her.

I feel something for her, yes, but I'm not sure what. She's been under my skin since that incident six years ago, and I can't stop thinking about it because it felt like it just happened yesterday. Up to now, the images, the events, are still so vivid. I can still remember every single detail, and this time, I'm determined to forget them.

With that decision made, I look up at the cloudless sky.

A/N: What did you guys think? Is Vincent actually a nice stand in for Rufus?