"Okay, relax Teef, you can do this girl!"
"You can do what, Teef?"
"EEEP!!", Tifa shrieked uncharacteristically, spinning around from her post at the front door.
"Yuffie?!? How did you get in here if I've been standing at the door the whole time?", the bartender managed to gasp out, one slender hand still clutching at her heart.
The shorter woman raised an eyebrow at her, before chuckling lightly.
"Are you seriously asking that question? Teef, I'm a ninja. I can do anything. But judging by the way you were freaking out over there I probably could've just barged in the front door. You wouldn't have even blinked, woman!"
Tifa glared.
"I was not freaking out. I was calming myself, thank you very much."
"Sure, sure. And I'm gonna marry Rufus Shinra."
Tifa blanched.
"You're not very funny, you know that?"
"Sure do, Teef-Teef. You all don't pay me enough to be funny.", the Wutain girl quipped back as she slid her small frame onto a barstool gracefully. She sighed and began tapping her nails against the smooth wooden counter.
"Yuffie…not to be rude, I mean you know I LOVE having you around, but…"
"Have you seen Vinny?"
The martial artist's face instantly turned from apologetic and guilty to confused.
"Uhh, no. The last time I saw him was at Cid and Shera's wedding. I thought he was going to stay around Rocket Town?"
The usually upbeat ninja scoffed and smirked in a strange, almost bittersweet way.
"That's what was SUPPOSED to happen…", she trailed off, with a faraway look in her eyes.
"A lot was SUPPOSED to happen…and a lot that wasn't happened instead.", she whispered.
Tifa's eyes widened.
"Yuffie…you haven't gone back to Wutai yet?", she asked incredulously.
"…no.", the girl muttered, almost embarrassed.
Suddenly, the young woman lifted her head, a smirk on her face and the familiar sparkle back in her eyes.
"But, 'nuff bout me, Tif. What were you standin' round at the door givin' yourself a pep talk for?"
Tifa blushed prettily.
"I…uh, well I-I-I…kinda sorta have a date."
A resounding thunk sounded throughout Seventh Heaven as the little ninja's bar stool hit the floor, the speed at which she had stood knocking it from under her.
"WHAT! WITH WHO?"
Staring at the ground the busty brunette watched her suddenly very interesting shoes trace the floor.
"…Rude.", she mumbled lowly.
Yuffie opened her mouth, surely to say something snarky, but was interrupted by the sound of knocking at the front door.
Tifa whirled around, mortified that Yuffie was there to witness her loss of her cool.
"Yuf-"
"Don't worry, Tif. I'll watch the place for you", the Princess interrupted her gleefully, "Go get 'em, Tiger!"
The taller woman's cheeks once again did a very nice impression of a tomato.
"Yuff…shut up."
Straightening her skirt, and patting down her hair, she cleared her throat and answered the door, polite smile already fixed on her face.
"Hi, Rude!"
