other Pairings - Zack and Aerith hint, Cid and Shera, Yuffie and Vincent, Squall and Rinoa, Irvine and Selphie and Quistis and Sefier you'll see how these pairings fit in with the story as it goes on

My First Fan Fic so here goes


(2nd of May beginning of story)

Chapter one Admit it

The rain battered down on the windows of 7th Heaven as thunder clapped and Lighting light up the night sky. Tifa Lockhart woke with a start she was now sitting bolt upright and was covered in a nervous cold sweat and tears running down her face and the last words she heard ringing in her ears. "He's back Sephiroth" It had been Aerith that had told her while she had been sleeping the young flower maiden visited the bartender to tell her what she had witnessed. As another bolt of lightning light up the sky Tifa was already out her bed and running to his room, she had to tell him what she now knew and well she couldn't stay in her room with this weather ever since Tifa was a little girl she has always been scared of a thunder storms. Pressing her ear against his door and taking a deep breath she reached for the handle and walked in. Blonde hair stuck out from the covers and a slight smile graced the bartender's lips. As ghostly as she could she made her way to his bed little did she know the Ex-SOILDER was awake. Gingerly she climbed onto his bed and immediately Cloud tensed but it remained unnoticed by Tifa. Cloud was still awake as he had been for many nights with his mind torturing him over the guilt and pain he felt over Tifa, she had always been there for him and now with Vincent pointing out and making Cloud see what the Barmaid felt for him, yeah Cloud had always had feelings for Tifa but there were many things stopping him from speaking them out loud, like ' is what I'm feeling even real is it the Jenova cells messing with my mind, is this what I'm feeling over the guilt of losing my friends Aerith and Zack' to name a few. Tifa's fingers slowly danced over Cloud's sheet covered body which sent a shiver up her spine god how she wanted him to love her. With her fingers now gently creasing his face the warrior's eyes flew open, he had previously shut them when Tifa had entered his room. Cloud moaned slightly to try and give the effect that he had just woken up and ever so slowly and carefully not to scare Tifa he moved to an upright position so he could greet Tifa only to see tears running down her face. Although Cloud felt slightly awkward when he pulled Tifa into his arms he was suddenly over come with a feeling he only had felt on occasion whenever he had brushed against Tifa in the house or bar.

"Hey shh now I'm here tell me what's wrong" Cloud said in his most comforting tone possible and a sad and concerned look glistened in his beautiful Mako eyes. Tifa whimpered slightly before answering.

"Him he's back Aerith told me not moments ago" Tifa cried sobbing into Cloud's chest.

"What Sephiroth Aerith told you that Sephiroth's back?" Cloud asked with fear and anger coating his voice and he could feel his hands ball into fists. Calming himself before he asked

"When did Aerith tell you, I mean how and what did she say" he stumbled messily over his words.

"In my dream, we were in the Church at Sector 5 slums her church and she told me he's back somehow he's escaped the Lifestream and he's back that's all I know I got so scared I woke up and came immediately to tell you especially after well I heard the thunder storm you know I can't stay on my own when it's like this" she cried making Clouds bare chest wet.

"Look stay here with me for the rest of tonight just in case alright well that and I know you don't like these storms" Cloud sighed and with his free hand he lifted up the sheets and pulled Tifa under the warm covers next to him which sent his and hers hearts racing they were beating so fast both of them thought they were goanna explode. Tifa settled pretty quickly after that and got to sleep easily in Cloud's embrace. Cloud though spent the rest of his night wide awake with the girl he loved in his arms hardly able to breathe as he was that close to her. At 5am he no longer could take it slowly he snaked his arms out from under Tifa and then carefully pealed her hold on him off. Cloud then placed a soft kiss on her forehead and whispered "Happy Birthday I love you Tifa my angel always have always will" and with that he left his room with clean clothes and headed to the bathroom. By 5:30 the sound of Cloud's Fenrir roaring to life was enough to wake the sleeping barmaid that still rested in Cloud's bed.

"Did he really say that" Tifa asked the quite room whilst brushing her fingertips gingerly over her forehead where Cloud had kissed her not thirty minutes ago. Slowly she peeled the warm duvet off her and headed back to her room to get a change of clothes before heading to her bathroom to shower.

Cloud meanwhile was on the way to Kalm to see Barret and Vincent, Barret was currently staying with Vincent while he checked the area for oil it wasn't the best source of power but it was better than using the Lifestream to power the planet.

Tifa was just cooking up some breakfast for herself when she heard the sound of footsteps approaching the kitchen and just as she put added the eggs to the stove sure enough two smiling faces entered the kitchen.
"Morning guys how did you sleep" Tifa said smiling

"Good" Marlene replied

"I wanted to stay in bed but Marlene woke me" Denzel complained, then from behind their backs they took out the gifts they had gotten Tifa for her birthday.

"Happy Birthday Mum" They said in unison as they placed their gifts in front of the barmaid Tifa leaned over the counter and gave them a quick hug.

"Thanks I can't wait to open them but first you guys want some breakfast?" Tifa asked

"Yeah" the children replied in unison. They all sat down at the breakfast bar in the kitchen and began to tuck in to their breakfast.

"Tifa where's Cloud?" Denzel asked

"I'm not sure he left really early this morning" Tifa answered sighing a little

"A delivery?" Marlene asked. With a shrug of her shoulders Tifa answered "I'm not sure but I'm sure he will be back soon"

"Tifa will you tell us a story about you and Cloud?" Marlene asked taking a bite of her toast.

"What do you want hear about?" Tifa asked this wasn't an unusual thing to be asked by the young girl she always wanted to hear about their past and their days in AVALANCHE.

"Um what about the time he saved you from um that Don guy" the little girl asked

This wasn't good Tifa had no idea where she would of heard anything to do with the Don it was tight lipped and only Tifa, Cloud and Aerith knew about it of course Barret knew about the integration part but he was in the dark about the whole thing with Cloud dressing up as a girl and what have you all Barret and the rest of AVALANCHE for that matter knew about it was Cloud along with Aerith had managed to sneak into Don Corneo's mansion get what they needed before well ending up in the sewers of Midgar. A nervous sweat began to form on Tifa's brow.

"Marlene don't you want a different story I mean how do you even know of the Don" Tifa stumbled over her words she was that worried about this.

"Nope I want this one all of it" Marlene smiled rather devilishly in her reply. Sighing Tifa reluctantly began telling the story but first making the two children promise that they would keep this to themselves and under no circumstances were Cloud or the others to hear this. "So it all started after we had blown up Mako reactor five, just after Cloud had fallen through the plate, little did I know at the time" Tifa began as the kids listened in awe as they continued to eat although they were making more of mess then eating as food kept missing their mouths

Cloud had just arrived at Vincent's home and knocked rather loudly only to hear

"Fuck off will yea some of us need our beauty sleep besides its fucking 6am!" that was typical Barret for you always yelling and always swearing.

"Like you need beauty sleep" Cloud yelled back struggling to hold back laughter. Cloud could hear muttering and loud footsteps approaching the door and when it opened Cloud couldn't help but burst out into a fit of laughter, in front of him stood Barret dressed in a pale blue PJ set covered in baby Chocobos in nightcaps and slippers, Barret even had matching slippers.

"Spike what the hell are you doing here at 6am for god sake and look at you, you look dreadful" Barret said looking at Cloud.

"A long story now will you invite me in?" Cloud asked. Barret stepped aside and followed Cloud to the living room where Barret had just come from. Not seconds later a fully dressed Vincent entered the room knowing exactly why Cloud was there.

"So Spiky you like Tifa and what you're not sure what to do?" Barret asked

"Come on Cloud I've seen firsthand how she feels for you it's obvious as clear as day you just can't see it so I say ask her Cloud" Vincent stated he was right Vincent had a sense for this kind of thing he could just tell.

"I'm so nervous though I mean how do I even begin I mean to come out and just say well that I mean we've only really been on one date and I hardly remember any of that all I know is it was at the Gold Saucer" Cloud mumbled.

"Look Cloud Tifa is like another daughter to me and you've hurt her before don't do it again and force her into the arms of another but I do give my blessing for this I mean ok you're not prefect but you sure are better than some of the other scum that roams the streets of Gaia" Barret said, Cloud had turned red slightly at this and had hung his head in shame he had known before he hurt Tifa especially when Aerith had walked into their lives and found it so easy to show Cloud how she felt.

"Cloud I'll go wake Yuffie and I'll get her to come with you to help pick out the right one after all she is a female she'll have a better idea on what to get" Vincent said before leaving the room and heading to wake Yuffie.

About three hours later at 7th Heaven all was quite Marlene and Denzel were off at school and Tifa was starting on her daily chores that ranged to wiping down the bar to general house work, she had just finished folding the ironing and was heading up stairs to put it away and with the radio half hourly news muffled in the background she heard the sound of the familiar engine that belonged to the Fenrir. Tifa was able to ignore it and continue working on putting away the ironing well that was until she heard heavy footsteps and before she could turn to see him approaching his arms wrapped around her and Cloud rested his head against her shoulder and whispered to her "put that down and come with me" Cloud then took her hand causing her to drop the ironing and then was dragged out the door down the stairs then out the front door to Fenrir, Cloud quickly left her to lock up the house then returned and Gestured to Tifa to join him on Fenrir and when she did Cloud speed off for the beach, causing Tifa to fall forward and rest against him.

They arrived at the beach not 20 minutes later and as Yuffie had promised everything was set up like they had planned. A blanket rested on the secluded beach with a picnic basket resting on it as well as a bottle of Corel's finest bubbly, two champagne flutes and a battery powered stereo playing soft music and when Tifa listened carefully she could hear it was her song the song her mother had taught her to play when she was a little girl. Cloud laced his hand in hers and guided her over to the blanket that lay on the beach. Sitting down gentle next to each other, Tifa closed her eyes for a second to really listen to her song, Cloud on the other hand was getting all nervous and sweaty he was so scared about what he was about to do. Tifa turned to Cloud when the song had changed onto her current favourite song Eyes on Me. Cloud was sweating rather heavily now and he could feel the back of shirt starting to stick his back.

"Champagne?" Cloud somehow managed to ask in a clear and calm manner Tifa simply nodded yes. Cloud leaned forward and took hold of the bubbly and glasses throwing his surprise into Tifa's glass. This was all Yuffie's idea is had convinced Cloud it was the best way for him to confess to Tifa how he felt. A shaking hand gave Tifa her glass and at first Tifa didn't think anything off it until she spotted the ring.

"Cloud what is this" she asked in pure shock. Cloud then took hold of her glass and fished out the ring and motioned for Tifa to stand. She did so and Cloud moved so he was now down on one knee. Holding Tifa's hand as a blush reddened his face and looking into her beautiful chocolate wine coloured eyes he said.

"Tifa you have been my rock, my light and over these past few years, you brought me back to me, you nursed me when I was sick, this is my promise I will always be there for you and I promise I will not leave again because I love you Tifa Lockhart will you marry me?" Cloud asked his face as red as a tomato with embarrassment. Tifa fell onto Cloud tears streaming from her eyes as she punched Cloud's shoulder and muttered

"Why couldn't you of told me sooner" then she cupped Cloud's face in her hands and looked deeply and loving into his eyes and kissed him. Once they broke the kiss on the need for air Cloud turned to Tifa

"I take that as a yes?" Cloud asked and Tifa just nodded and Cloud slipped the beautiful sliver with sapphires engagement ring onto Tifa's delicate finger

"Happy Birthday" Cloud smiled crushing his lips with Tifa's again.

After finishing their romantic picnic they headed back to the bar, Cloud only had a sip of the champagne and then stuck to the bottled water that Yuffie had packed so Cloud could drive safely home and not re-orphan the children they cared for.

Once arriving home they were greeted by the whole of AVALANCHE including Shelke and the Turks, Yuffie was so excited she was literally bouncing of the wall, Barret well he was pacing the floor, Cid had poured drinks and himself and Reno were rather drunk, Nanaki and Shelke were sat just outside soaking in the sun, Rude was trying to keep Reno under control as was Shera was with Cid. As soon as the group heard the sound of Fenrir approaching everyone started cheering sure of the outcome of what had just passed. Parking Fenrir outside the bar Cloud helped Tifa off the bike and into the bar and stepping over the threshold well the bar erupted with cheers, shouts and laughter as Cloud's hand was laced with Tifa's as the sapphires sparkled in the light.

By the time the children returned from school Reno, Cid, Barret, Elena and Tseng were pissed out their minds and they were causing quite some trouble, Yuffie wasn't nearly as drunk she had only had like two glasses of bubbly and a shot but she was even more hyper than ever and Cloud and Tifa did feel rather sorry for Vincent having to deal with her mad state. As the children entered the living room they soon understood what was fuss was about and then double the chaos followed as they now had two children also bouncing off the walls.

That evening the bar remained closed and slowly the members of AVALANCHE and the Turks left some of them more forcefully than some of the others. It was agreed that evening that Denzel would get Cloud's old room when he officially moved into Tifa's, they were going to spend the night in Cloud's room as his bed was slightly bigger and in the morning they would go shopping for a king-sized bed for them and new stuff for each room just little things really, things that were necessary after all Cloud had spent a small fortune on Tifa's ring and they had a wedding to plan and thanks to Yuffie plans were all ready begin made so the wedding would take place this year and if Yuffie got her way which Cloud knew she would it would take place in a matter of months just like with Cid and Shera's wedding.


This is my First Fanfic's First Chapter I hope you enjoyed and I would like to hear what you thought about before I upload the next 9 or so chapters, Please go easy on me and no flames either please