-Titanic Fantasy- (Part One)

Boarding

Tifa looked out at the crowd of by-standers and waved as the massive ship started to pull away from the dock. She was traveling with her soon-to-be husband, Kadaj, in first class. She hardly knew any of the people on the boat. However she knew a fairly small group of first class passengers. There was Aerith Gainsborough, Zack Fair, Rufus ShinRa, Loz, Yazoo, and Kadaj.

According to Rufus, all of his Turks would be traveling as third class. Well . . . all but people named Tseng and Elena. Since he seemed to like them more, he bought them second class tickets.

"Rufus," Tifa began to argue. "You shouldn't have separated them by how much you liked them."

"Shut your mouth, girl!" He snapped "You aren't the one in charge of the company. so, who gives you the right to tell me how I should be running my company?"

"I- I'm sorry." She said as she looked down at the ground.

"Don't be so hard on her, Rufus." Kadaj chimed in as he threw his cigarette overboard. "She only gave her opinion."

"Well, see that she keeps her opinions to her self." He replied as he stormed off to find the dinning hall.

Aerith and Zack looked at Tifa sympatheticly as Kadaj's smile turned into a sharp glare.

"What the hell!" He yelled to Tifa. "Why ? Just why would you do that?"

"I only thought-"

"That right there is the problem, Tifa. You don't think !" He interupted. "You'll have to learn to keep your mouth shut."

With that, he and his two brothers went off to find the Cabin that they, including Tifa, would be staying in. Zack turned to Tifa. . .

"Don't take it too personally. I'm sure this will all have blown over by the time dinner is served." He said with a smile.

"Keep your head up." Aerith joined in.

"Thanks, guys." Tifa said.

As Aerith and Zack walked off, Tifa went to the very front of the boat. She looked out over a railing, and gazed at the horizon with a blank face. Her hair, which at this time was pulled into a sloppy bun with a strand of hair hanging down by her right eye, was hardly effected by the winds. Her black and white shirt and long skirt combo was topped of with a large hat that sat slightly crooked on her head.

Just a little distance behind her, sitting on a bench, were one of the workers that Rufus had in steerage and a man by the name of Vincent Valentine. Vincent and the Turk seemed to be friends.

"Remember when you use to work for the ShinRa company, Vince?" Said the red-haired man.

"Yes, and I don't miss a damn thing about it. Why do you ask?"

But the red-haired man didn't answer. His gaze had fallen onto the first class woman that was leaning forwards on the rails. Vincent caught this and tried to talk some sense into his friend.

"Whoa now. . . don't go getting any ideas. She is not something that you are permitted to touch, and or flirt with. Not to mention that she is out of your league."

"Yeah," Said the other with a sigh. "You're probably right."

Later that night, Tifa, and the small group she knew, attended dinner. The most uncanny thoughts were running through the womans head. When the waiter had arrived with the menus, she stood up and started to walk away.

"Tifa!" Called Aerith. "Where are you going?"

"I need to get some fresh air." Tifa half-lied without turning back to take a last glance at the table.

Meanwhile, the steerage passengers were also at dinner.

"Have any of you talked to Tseng or Elena?" A bald man, with a mouth full of bread, bellowed.

"Rude, it is very... well, rude... to speak with your mouth full." Grumbled a small ninja.

"oh be quiet, Yuffie." Muttered Rude

"She has a point." Said a man by the name of Cloud Strife. "But, no, I don't think anyone has seen, or heard from, Tseng and Elena."

Rude sighed and sipped at the alcohol in the cheap cup next to him. Cloud frowned a little at Yuffie, who was now slurping her soup. The read-haired man spoke from his seat at the table.

"Weren't you the one complaining that Rude was being... uh... rude?"

"Oops..." Yuffie said with an awkward laugh. "I guess you've got a point."

"At any rate," Said the red-haired man. " I'm going up to the top deck to smoke a cigarette."

With that, he pushed his empty plate aside and walked off.

"You jump..."

Tifa had gone up to the front of the boat and took off her navy blue heels. Careful not to rip her navy blue evening gown, she climbed over the railing and gripped them tightly behind her.

The red-haired man had seen her do so, and walked over as silently as possible so that he wouldn't frighten her into jumping right away. However, by the time he was in arms reach of her... one of the boards creaked.

"Don't come any closer!" Tifa demanded. "I'll jump!"

"If you were serious, you would have done so already. What are ya, crazy ?"

"I don't even know you, So there is little point in you trying to stop me."

"Let me fix that. I am Reno Sinclair, and you are nuts."

"Ha, funny." She said sarcasticly as she rolled her eyes. "Well, , you might as well give up. I'm tired of being treated like a dog by my fiance, his brothers, and that damn Rufus ShinRa. I can't take any more of it... so-"

"You know, the ocean waters get to the negitives at night. Its so cold, that if you survive falling in... all you could ever want is to die. You don't die quick either. Its a slow... sharp... horrendous pain. Once you can't feel your body anymore, you become thankful that the end is near."

"Shut up!" Tifa snapped.

"That could take hours. At the rate this ship is moving, you'd be pulled into the rudders, and chopped up, in fifteen minutes or so." He shrugged. "So I guess if you jump, I'll have to dive in after ya. I'd have to climb up the boat to, at the very least, the third class decks with you on my back."

"Surely you would do no such thing." She argued as she turned to face him.

"Look, miss, I'll tell you this once. You jump you're an idiot. So, you jump... I jump."

Tifa sighed and started to climb back over the rails. Reno offered her his hand.

"I'm fine. I can do this one my ow-" She slipped. " AH!"

Reno quickly grabbed her hands and started to pull her back up.

"You, miss, are one crazy... crazy bitch." He said with a look of relief and a smile.

Once she was almost pulled up, she fell forwards knocking them boat the the ground. At the same time, Kadaj and an officer who heard her scream had arrived on scene.

"Get up!" The officer ordered Reno.

"What the hell is wrong with you, Turk ?" Shouted Kadaj.

Reno got up, and was just about to shout back when...

"Stop this!" Tifa demanded harshly. "That is no way to treat the man that just saved the woman who is to be your wife. Steerage passenger and ShinRa employee or not."

The officer and Kadaj both threw a puzzled look.

"thats right, yo." Said Reno in a cocky fashion. "She leaned too far over the rails and slipped. I had to pull 'er back over, and in doing so... we fell backwords. It's not an easy job to do on your own."

"R-right." Kadaj stuttered. "Well, I guess I should thank you. Come have lunch with us tomorrow."

Him and the officer walked away. Kadaj called told Tifa to follow him back to the cabin.

"Meet me at the bottom of the grand stair case, Reno. I will take you to where you need to be."

And with that she ran off with her fiance.

. . . To Be Continued . . .

PLEASE NOTE: I Don't Own A Thing ! I just got the idea to use a Titanic theme ^^" I'll get Part two up ASAP :D