Chapter 3

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Yuffie looked around the bar as she talked to Tifa. Nope, no sign of Vinnie. She sighed as the barmaid looked up.

"What's wrong Yuffie?" The older brunette asked with concern. When Yuffie was quiet for more than ten minutes, you knew something was wrong.

"Nothing." The usually hyper ninja muttered as she drank the soda Tifa had given her.

Tifa narrowed her eyes and gave her younger friend the yea right look.

Yuffie looked up. "What?" she asked innocently as the barmaid went back to business. She sighed as she went to watch the kids. At least the little buggers would keep her entertained while she waited for her gorgeous vampire.

"Hey Marlene." She sat down beside the little girl who was coloring.

"Hey auntie Yuffie." She answered as she drew something that resembled a chocobo. Yuffie watched as Marlene kept drawing a strange looking chocobo and then she added some blue. It took Yuffie a moment to realize those were eyes.

Funny, Yuffie thought, if you looked at the picture a certain way it looked like….

She burst out laughing as she realized who Marlene had drawn. "Say, Marlene. You wouldn't mind making a picture for me would you?" She asked a she tried to contain some of the giggles.

Marlene looked up from her picture. "No." She answered trying to figure out why Yuffie had started laughing. Oh well, she thought, Yuffie always laughed for no reason.

"Could you draw a picture of someone say……Vincent?" Yuffie asked with a mischievous glint in her eye.

"Okay." Marlene nodded as she finished her picture of Cloud. "Auntie Yuffie, why do you want a picture of Vincent?"

"Um…." Yuffie thought of a good reason. "Because we don't have many pictures of Vinnie and I thought it'd be nice of were could."

Marlene nodded. She smiled as she drew. She knew Yuffie was lying. It was obvious Yuffie wanted a picture of Vincent, or Vinnie as she called him, because she liked him, just like Cloud liked Tifa.

Marlene put a lot of black and red as she created another masterpiece. She glanced at the black. Wow, she had used a lot just for Vincent. He really was as depressing as Yuffie said. "I think it's done." She told Yuffie proudly as she handed her the complete drawing.

"Thanks Marlene." She was about to head down when she remembered chocobo butt's picture. "Say Marlene, could I take the picture of Cloud downstairs?"

"Why?" The little girl asked as she started to put away her crayons.

"So I can show Tifa of course." The ninja grinned widely.

"Ok." Marlene replied as she handed the other picture to Yuffie who skipped down the stairs.

Yuffie laughed as she looked at chocobo butt's picture. She jumped down the stairs as she looked at Vinnie's picture. "Wow, Marlene. You've really out done yourself this time." It was Vincent alright. He had his signature messy ebony black hair, the smoldering crimson red eyes. Marlene had also added his ragged red cape, golden claw and the pointy clown shoes. She giggled to herself. She truly loved Marlene right now.

"Hey Teef." She said in her usual cheery manner.

Tifa smiled. It looked like her friend was back to her normal happy self. "Hey. What have you got there?" She nodded to the pictures Marlene had drawn.

"Oh this." Yuffie giggled. "It's nothing really." She handed them to Tifa.

Tifa looked at the pictures confused, why did Yuffie have a picture of a chocobo with blue eyes?

Yuffie looked at her friend's confused face and laughed. "Geez, Teef, you think you would know who this is. After all, we all know you're in love with him."

Tifa blushed as she realized what the picture was. "It's Cloud?" She asked as she started feeling the giggles coming. She laughed. No wonder Yuffie had them; she was probably going to show Cloud. Then she glanced at the pother picture. It had a funny cape and a lot of black hair. It also had dark red eyes. "Vincent?" She asked Yuffie who looked ready to fall off the chair. The Wutian girl nodded.

They heard the back door closing which only meant one thing. "Cloud's home." Tifa said as Yuffie picked up the pictures.

"Be quiet." She told her best friend. She needed to see Cloud's face when he saw his "portrait".

"Hi, Cloud." She greeted him as he walked through the door.

"Uh, Hi." He said warily. If there was one thing his blond head knew more than anything else was that Yuffie was a bad sign.

She handed him a paper. "Can you tell me what that is?"

He glanced at it. "Um…. It looks like a really bad chocobo to me."

Yuffie looked insulted. "You're a big meanie Cloud! I go through all this trouble to make you a picture of yourself and you tell me it's a bad chocobo!"

Cloud's face turned beetroot red in matter of seconds. "This is me?!"

"No duh!" Yuffie said. "See! It's got a blond spiky head and big blue eyes!" She exclaimed as she pointed to the picture's head and eyes.

Tifa suddenly burst out laughing. She had had to contain her laughter when she had heard Cloud's response but she just couldn't keep it in anymore. "Chocobo…" She giggled.

"You were in on this!" Cloud asked as he watched Tifa bend over laughing.

Yuffie laughed along with Tifa as Cloud stared intently at the picture obviously trying to see the resemblance.

"Whatever." He muttered after a couple of minutes. "I'm going to take a shower."

Tifa was still trying to regain herself when Yuffie heard the front door open. She peeked and saw the familiar red cloaked gunman.

She slipped into the bar where Vincent was sitting in a corner by himself. "Hey, Vince." She chirped happily.

"…" Was his response.

"Look at what I drew today." She said excitedly as she showed him the picture of Cloud.

"…A chocobo?"

"No silly!" She shook her head. "See its Cloud!"

She watched in amusement as Vinnie studied the picture for a couple of moments. "It appears you are correct."

Yuffie nodded proudly. "Look at this one!" She gave him the other drawing. His face still remained as impassive as ever.

"Yuffie who is this supposed to be?" He asked about two minutes later.

"It's supposed to be you Vinnie!" She told him.

"…….Why did you draw me?"

"Because Vinnie…" She couldn't possibly tell him because she had gotten Marlene to make a picture of him just to annoy him. In fact deep down she had only done it to have some way to have him close. "Because every time you leave I miss you. Besides who else but Tifa actually puts up with me. We all know Barrett and captain cancer call me a brat. Reeve only puts up with me because he needs my super awesome ninja skills. Cloud only lets me crash here because if he didn't then Tifa would kick his ass out. Besides as much as I like Red and all, I don't want to bug him. Then that leaves you. You actually listen to what I say and every once in a while answer instead of just saying dot-dot-dot. You're my bestest friend Vinnie."

At the end of her short little speech Yuffie felt like she had poured her guts out into a diary. She glanced at Vinnie who was staring at her picture still.

"….You're my best friend too, Yuffie." He whispered so only she could hear.

Yuffie smiled as she bear hugged Vinnie. "You mean that Vince?" She asked as she hugged him.

"Yes, I do." He said as he smiled slightly. He hugged Yuffie a bit before releasing her.

Yuffie smiled even as she pulled away. She felt better than happy, it was strange. Who would have known that out of a simple drawing this would come out of it? She would have to thank Marlene the tomorrow.

That was another reason why she liked Vincent. Because he was her best friend, the one who listened, the one who cared. He was her Vinnie. Besides, in the end best friends became something more, right? Maybe that would happen with them.

Yuffie hoped it did. She wanted the hot gunslinger to be all hers.


Now that I look at it, this chapter isn't so short. Anyways since you already read it please review. I can't tell you how sad I get when no one reviews. It makes the plot bunnies in my head stop running and we don't want that. So please hit the button below this and review. That will make me very happy and make the plot bunnies keep running. Then I update more often.