Yuffie was just cheering in her head, 'Oh thank you dear gawd! First I have escaped the wrath that is non-pregnant-pregnant woman. Second I am going to DANCE WITH VINNY VIN VIN!!!! I am so telling Mr. Squeak Mc Squeaken tonight.' As she drifted to the dance floor with Vincent she grinned, "Rufus had plenty of dance lessons, I bet you'll do fine. Don't the turks at least give you a few dance lessons when you first join?" The ninja questioned her new dance partner.

Something clicked inside of Tifa, she felt like giving up on Cloud for awhile. The glass was released from the barmaid's deadly grip gently onto the table. "You know what?" She asked standing up grinning, "I'll dance with you tonight."

Vincent gave her a small smile, "No, dance lessons are not a requirement or a bonus or joining the elite Turks." One his feet hit the dance floor he gently pulled her toward him and placed his hands into the proper pose. Sure they were halfway through the song, but it seemed inconsequential to Yuffie.

Reno didn't know what to say at first. He just nodded and led her toward the dance floor. It seemed odd...she was giving up on Strife? He stopped all his questions and smiled brilliantly as the two made their way to the floor.

"Not even the elite Turks? Huh, my dad always said that they did learn how to dance. Maybe he was lying to me to make me go to my dance lessons." Yuffie pondered thinking, what it would be like seeing Vincent to be taught how to dance. It was an awkward looking picture in the ninja's mind.

Tifa waited on the floor for Reno and soon enough they started to dance and she didn't care. Tifa didn't care if Cloud came over and Omnislashed Reno, which would be entertaining all the way. She had one good thing to say to Reno, he could in fact dance.

Vincent's mouth twitched and one corner of his mouth turned up. "Perhaps so. I doubt you would have gone otherwise." His feet moved carefully around the floor and concentrated on not squashing her feet under his own.

Reno twirled Tifa around like a professional. His confidence never faltered for a second and his moves were smooth and flowed into the next. His movements agile and strong. Reno's eyes never tore away from Tifa's.

"What are you thinking?"

"You know it's a good thing that you ditched your brass boots. Since I might have lost a foot already." The ninja commented as she took the lead for a few steps before returning it back to Vincent. "You're doing pretty damn good for someone who might have only had one or two dance lessons. Oh hey look! Turkey and Beefa!" She chirped looking over his shoulder.

"Hmm.. What am I thinking?" Tifa muttered pressing her lips together and looking at the other dancers. "Well first of all I'm wondering how many dance lessons you've had thanks to Rufus. Second, how did you dodge that Vase from an angry woman? Thirdly, I'm imagining Cloud turning into a little mushroom cloud. Last but not least, did Elena do your tie?" The barmaid answered Reno's question smiling.

Vincent shrugged indifferently, "I guess." Vincent focused on his dancing rather than what Reno and Tifa were doing. "Let's leave them alone for now." He said with a light tone to his deep voice.

"Fine then." Yuffie answered tearing her eyes away from them to a quick glance at Cloud, still sitting there drinking. The ninja remained quiet as she sifted through her thoughts.

Vincent frowned. He often thought that Yuffie worried too much about Cloud. "Don't worry about him."

"But its too hard not to... You know Cloud, if anything gets him down eventually it's going to turn the tables against all of us." Yuffie paused thinking for a few seconds and decided to keep quiet for now.

Staring at her entirely Reno couldn't help but notice how good she looked. The dress was just her color. "Not many really, about three or four actually." He said with a small laugh. He shook his head, "You underestimate my Turk training. Dodging is part one of training! She wasn't really that great. I mean she was good looking and all, but as a person... well she lacked personality." He moved them to the left in one swift movement and twirled her out and then back in again. "Poor Cloud, but he deserves it." His piercing blue eyes bore into her warm brown eyes, "He's down right dim if he'd leave you alone like this." His tone had turned serious for a change. "Yeah, 'Lena did my tie." Smiling at her once again.

"GOD FUCKING DAMNIT CLOUD! YOU MOTHER FUCKING PANSY!" The used to be calm Ancient screamed at the picture in front of her. Along it's edges flowed the green light that was commonly called the life stream. Aerith's face was filled with rage her blue eyes now turning into two round blazing red infernos.

"GOD DAMN EMO! TIFA IS LIKE THE HOTTEST PIECE OF WOMAN OUT THERE! GO GET HER!" She continue to yell at the image of Cloud drinking and in the background Reno and Tifa dancing.

Tifa nodded as she heard Reno's reasoning. She had met this unfortunate woman before and he was right, she didn't have a personality. She did want to continue on the topic of Cloud but decided against it. It was still sore from earlier today.

Zack just blankly stared at Aerith as she continued to rant and rave. Finally once she had calmed down some he began. "Are you finished now?" He asked her nonchalantly. "If so, can we think about this logically? Yeah, Cloud is blind, he's not living like he's supposed to. He should be going after Tifa, but he's not. All Cloud is doing is drowning his sorrows." Zack looked at his poor friend as he downed a glass of bourbon.

"You can want Cloud to be happy all you want, but..." He hesitated with the next part of his sentence, "...we shouldn't ruin what Reno could have. That's not our job." What their job was wasn't exactly clear. Zach wanted his friend happy, but there was a small matter of messing with lives too much. The two of them could cause other matters and events to occur as long as they didn't mess with people's emotions. It contradicted that whole free will thing.

Reno looked at her and knew she wanted to say more. "If something is on your mind just yell it out. I don't mind, I like it when people are blunt. Screw beating around the bush just beat the bush down and then slice it with the hedge trimmer." His infectious laugh escaped once more.

"SHUT UP ZACK. I already know this. I also know a few loopholes." Areith grinned mischievously at Zack. If anything should be illegal in the lifestream the list would be Fangirls, that grin and bad breath.

A piece of paper and a pen appeared in the magical green air in front of Areith and from there she started to scribble down her plan. As soon as she was done the pen disappeared and so did the piece of paper. Into a hidden pocket on the inside of her shirt, Arieth might have seem innocent and cute. She was one pure evil machine, when it came to match making.

Tifa rolled her eyes and sighed, "Normally I would dump this on Yuffie but maybe this time I might get some reasonable suggestions. I'm tired of seeing Cloud so... Depressed all of the time. Makes me want to punch the walls out of the house. Or at least his brain."

Vincent made no gestures to show her that he had heard her at all. "I know, but he's a grown man and can take care of his own matters. If it does affect us... we shall take it as it comes." The sage advice seemed all too logical to him.

Zach looked at her skeptically. "Loopholes?" The grin on her face excited and frightened him at the same time. He wasn't sure which was stronger, but his curiosity beat the other two without a shadow of a doubt.

"I don't like this. I don't like this one bit. I hate when you make plans and shut me out. I want to know exactly what you are up to." Zack said firmly with his brow furrowed at Aerith. He was not sure how to approach this situation.

"Cloud is depressed and he will be depressed until he does something about it. The only one who can change Cloud is Cloud. As for punching walls, I would refrain." Reno watched her, and scrutinized the planes of her face as she spoke and worried over the swordsman.

Yuffie sighed, giving up on trying to explain her thoughts. They never came out right, as if anyone listened. "Where did you get that? Off one of the thousands of fortune cookies in your house?" The ninja jested at the vampire.

Arieth continued with her illegal yet legal grinning at Zack. "You won't find out what I'm doing. Even if you got this piece of paper. It's coded silly boy! But... I'll tell you if you make a bet with me."

"Hmm.." Tifa pondered, but the thought of smashing Cloud's face in or smashing some walls was pretty amusing. Also it lacked the destruction of property and skulls. "But punching walls is so much fun." She wined.

Vincent didn't know what to say. She had caught him off guard. "I don't have fortune cookies at my house."

Zach raised one eyebrow, obviously intrigued. "What sort of bet? About what exactly?" This new development was far more interesting than anything Zach had occupied himself with before.

"Be that as it may, it will do you no good. You should spend your time on better things. Things worthy of your time." Reno soon lost track of how long they had actually been dancing.

"Uh. Yeah you do." Yuffie replied grinning, "Correction. You did. I stole them last night." Suddenly her phone went off for only a few seconds, but the song was priceless.

Mr. Mr. Mr.!! Squeak Mc Squeaken! Squeak! Squeak! Mc! Mc! Squeaken! Squeaken Squeaken!

"It's a text message." The ninja answered Vincent's look before he even gave it.

"Simple. To see if you can stop my planning, or if I can get my plan to work." Arieth chriped before disappearing to start her plans. Before Zack could do anything.

"Things worth my time.. Hmm.. Maybe I can finally turn Yuffie into a decent lady. That would be a worth a lot of my time." Tifa mused, pondering what would happen if she did that to the poor ninja.

"I think that ship sailed long ago. Yuffie has a better chance of becoming a twenty stories high lizard monster." Reno laughed at his own joke.

"That would be a really bad idea." Tifa muttered, "She would destroy the whole place, then take everything of value. Plus her voice would kill." She grimaced at the thought.

"Ok, well what are you planning? Wait, you won't tell me! This is so damn backwards. I accept though." Zach had no clue what he was doing.

Vincent's look was one of utter disbelief. "No... I didn't." He looked at her phone as it went off. "What in the hell?" Even cool collected Vincent had moments where he wasn't so cool or collected.

"Whoa... You lost your composure! THIS IS SO GOING ON RECORD!" The ninja chirped pulling out her phone and quickly typing it in on her memo pad and quickly hiding it from Vincent's gloved hands. Soon enough her phone rang again this time it was Love Like Winter by AFI blaring out.

"Another text message." The ninja stated.

Vincent just stared at the ninja. "Who is it now?" He devised a plan for erasing that memo later. Vincent could be just as stealthy as Yuffie when he wanted.

"You just made a bad deal Zack!" Arieth's voice chirped through the endless life stream. She floated above Midgar and where the gang was hanging out. "Hmm.. How can I do this?" She pondered watching everyone's movements.

"I probably did." Zack nodded and watched both the scenes playing out down below and Aerith as she calculated her plans. "You know, it would help if I had any clue what you were thinking. Couldn't you even the playing field?"

"Yeah, I know, but hey... I got you to stop thinking about it for a little while." Reno decided that a twenty story Yuffie would be one of the next things to plauge his sleep. That was something that nightmares were made for.

"That is a good point there. But at least Yuffie looks cute while dancing with Vincent over there. I am proud of my work." Tifa grinned, another topic change for the win.

Aerith grinned and waved at Zack. "Why should I even the playing field? It's never even to begin with." Carefully Aerith set her plan in motion without any one of significance noticing. Zack doesn't count.

Zack sighed, "I guess I will just have to do this blindly won't I?" Running a hand through his dark hair he continued to watch. Zack hoped he could figure out her mysterious plans so there wasn't too much of a mess.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Yuffie grinned; she always kept her phone locked. If Vincent wanted to get her phone, he would have to work for it. "But if you want we can turn this into a guessing game."

Aerith grinned at him, "Of course! It's the funnest way to start a bet off!" With that deadly smirk on her face her plan was starting to unfold. Hopefully the way the way Aerith wanted them too.

Vincent shook his head. "I suppose I will just continue to wonder." Vincent wasn't much for guessing games. Most of Yuffie's games ended badly anyway.

"I have to agree with you there. You deserve an award for your fantastic work Tif, I've never seen Yuffie look like that."

The ninja pouted. "Aww. You're so boring at times Vincent. I really do need to try and get you smashed one day."

Vincent didn't answer at first. "Well you can try." Vincent hadn't been drunk in ages.