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Aerith – 10
Tifa – 8
Yuffie – 4


Four years had passed since Godo picked up the girls. Four very, very nice years in his opinion. He felt like heaven sent him another extra gift aside from Yuffie.

All girls had grown to healthy, happy children. And Godo knew they loved each other like sisters, matter of fact, in their eyes, they saw themselves as real sisters.

"Daddy! Daddy, look!" A voice was heard from outside. As he looked out of the window, he saw Yuffie running towards the house in the garden. It was weird, ever since he had the girls in his house flowers started to grow in the garden. This phenomenon was nowhere else to be seen in Midgar, except for a church not far from the house. Godo assumed it had something to do with his eldest daughter. A childish voice pulled him out of his thoughts.

"Daaaddyyy!" The door opened with a loud bang. Yuffie had always been the most active sibling. And the most noisy. Godo smiled to himself.

"What is it, squirt?" He crouched down and playfully ruffled his daughter's black hair. Yuffie had never been the very girly one. She liked to play with toy shurikens and play ninja with him. It was almost like he had a son, Godo thought.

"Look what I got!" She opened her tiny hands. A butterfly was sitting on her palm.

Godo nodded and scratched his chin in surprise. "That's beautiful, kid. Did you find it in the flowers?"

"Yea, Tifa showed me n I catched it." She responded proudly.

"Caught, Yuffie, caught." A voice said from the doorway. Tifa was standing there, a flower in her hand, smiling at her surrogate father. She laughed as she saw Yuffie repeating the word 'caught'. "Daddy? I got you something." She then stepped up to Godo and reached out the yellow flower.

"Wow sweetheart that's really beautiful. Thank you so much." He ran a hand over Tifa's long dark hair, making the girl show her wide smile.

"Hey Daddy." A taller girl in a pink dress and a red jeans jacket came walking down the stairs.

With her mere ten years, Aerith had something that other kids around didn't have, something that people would call beauty. Godo could only imagine how much of a gorgeous woman she'd once become. Of course his other two daughters would too, but the eldest had something special, the piercing emerald eyes almost looked mysterious and yet so gentle. And with every passing day she looked more and more like her mother, from what he could remember.

"I finished the book you gave me. It was great." She smiled at him and walked up to her sisters, crouching down in front of Yuffie. She placed a hand on top of her head. "Sweetie that's a very beautiful butterfly. But maybe he misses his home out there with the flowers. Don't you think?" She asked the youngest with a serious face.

"Ohhhh." Aerith couldn't help but stifle a laugh when Yuffie's eyes turned wide. "I didn't think of dat. Sowwy butterfly." She then turned around and walked outside carefully.

"So Daddy, can I have another book?" The oldest turned to her father.

"Well sure sweetheart. I'll give it to you later when it's bedtime, ok?" He took the book she reached out to him.

It was then they heard a cry from outside. It was out of the question to whom it belonged. Tifa was the first to rush outside and run towards the kid, who had apparently fallen to the ground, seemingly afraid of something she starred at one direction. Tifa crouched down by her crying sister's side first checking if she was hurt anywhere. Making sure that she was ok, she followed her gaze and gulped in shock. Now she knew what was wrong.
A huge wolf was growling at them. Behind it, Tifa saw a tiny puppy wolf.

"Wow, ok, ok, that's not too good." She tried to calm herself down. Yuffie was clinging to her now, bawling. She put a hand around the tiny figure. "It's ok Yuffie, don't cry you'll make it mad, try to calm down." She rubbed her back. "It's alright, it won't bite as long as we don't get any closer." Tifa said more confidently than she actually was. Relief shot through her as she heard steps behind her.

"Yuffie! Tifa! What happened?" Aerith came closer, panting slightly, Godo following right after. He almost bumped into his daughter when she suddenly stopped in her tracks. He immediately saw what the problem was and stepped in front of his children.

"Aerith, take them inside. I got it here." He ordered.

"Ok Dad. Be careful." Aerith obeyed. She knew it was dangerous but knew as well how strong her father was. Turning around to her sisters, she crouched down and picked Yuffie up. She thanked Gaia for making the girl so small for her age. With ease, she held the youngest up with one arm and took Tifa's hand in her free one. "Come on, Tif. Don't run, be very careful." She ordered as she cautiously stepped away.

She almost reached the front door when she turned around and saw her father walking up to the house contently. Her attention was quickly drawn to the kid in her arms though. Yuffie had quieted down until now, realizing somehow that it was important, but now she sniffed again. And the sniffs soon enough turned into sobs. Tiny arms slung themselves around Aerith's neck, clinging to her for dear life.
"Aww sweetie, don't cry. It's okay now." Aerith started rocking the small body. "Shhh. You're safe Yuffie, you're ok." She kissed the girl's temple softly and kept whispering soothing words into her ear while never stopping the rocking motion. It didn't take long until she was calmed down again.

"Wolf is gone, all is good." Godo said from behind.

"Daddy! You ok?" Tifa asked worriedly and rushed to her father. He picked her up easily, making her giggle.

"Of course I am. And the wolf is, too, fortunately there was no need to hurt her. She was just scared we would hurt her baby, you know?" He looked at Tifa's brown orbs.

"Ohh yeah. I read that wild animals only attack when they are scared. See Yuffie? They were more scared of you than you were of them." Tifa said reassuringly as she smiled at the child in Aerith's arms.

"I didn't mean to. They looked fluffy. I'm sowwy." She laid her head on Aerith's shoulder.

"That's ok honey." The eldest chuckled and tilted her head back, smiling at her. "But don't go near fluffy things that are alive, not on your own, ok?"

"Kay." Yuffie's voice was muffled against the red jacket.

"Let's call it dinner, hey? It's getting dark." Godo said as he put a hand on his eldest daughter's back with his free hand and let her inside.

"Yay, dinner!" Yuffie grinned.

"You're so simple Yuffie." Tifa laughed.

The youngest just tilted her head questioningly but then grinned at her older sister, though not really understanding why the latter was laughing.


It was dark outside now and the girls were sitting on the sofa, watching a comedy on TV. Tifa sat in the middle with her sisters on the side. Yuffie laid her head on her small shoulder. Tifa brushed a hand over the black hair in response.

"Tired?" She looked down at the youngest.

"Mmno." Yuffie instantly shook her head.

Tifa raised an eyebrow at her. "Riiight." She chuckled.

"Shh, girls. I can't hear what she's saying." Aerith shushed them, swatting Tifa lightly on her thigh.

"Ok ok. Geez." Tifa rolled her eyes at her older sister. She turned to Yuffie again and lowered her head a little so she didn't have to speak so loudly. "Hey squirt, you can lie on my legs."
The youngest nodded silently and shifted, laying her head on Tifa's lap. The latter put her arm around Yuffie, resting her palm on the child's belly.

Godo smiled at his girls from a chair next to the couch. He knew this was exactly what his wife would call 'peace'. Even after wolf attacks and whatever other adventures the days would bring…as long as he could witness scenes like this, if anyone asked if he was happy, he could always answer with a confident 'yes'.


End

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