Disclaimer- I do not own Final Fantasy VII and am writing this story only for fun.

Chapter IV

Vincent stood by the entrance to the Gold Saucer, red orbs looking out over the crowd. He didn't know what was going on but Chaos was yelling at him to be on full alert; you don't need to tell me. Yuffie was sitting on the ground next to him playing with a fire materia, still wearing the clothes he had giving her.

"Can we go check in now? It's so boring out here," she started throwing the materia up in the air; she still had bandage all over her that he could barely see under his shirt that she was still wearing. "Marshmallow can find us later inside and I'm hungry too."

The ex-Turks gave a small sigh, "You ate before we left and all the way down here."

"Yeah four days ago and if you call rations foods you're weirder then I thought."

Vincent looked down at her, the shirt she was wearing was too big and if one didn't know her they might have thought her a boy. Her hair was still as short as the last time he saw her and her shuriken was on the ground next to her, along with the few things they had brought with them.

His eyes went back to watching the people walking by them heading into the resort, "It will be easier for Barret to find us out here," he said. His metallic claw shot out catching the materia in midair, a sound came from the ninja that was returned with a raised brow from the gunman. Did she just growl at me? And I thought I was the one with the demon inside.

Another 30 minutes went by with Yuffie going on none stop; Vincent was doing his best to tune her out, as well as Chaos still yelling. "Hey Vinny!" Vincent looked to see the Wutai princess standing in front of him, her hands on her hips. "Vincent have you heard a word I've said?"

How did I get struck with her? The young ninja has always been a good friend and a loyal fighting companion but sometimes she just annoyed the hell out of him. Now after spending four days on the road with just her, she was really starting to get him. He put his hand to his temple; he could feel a headache coming on.

"Wow Vinny, are you feeling okay? You don't look so hot; maybe you should go get some rest."

A sigh escaped his lips before he could stop it. He hated the nick names that the others had came up with for him but for some reason Yuffie was the only one that he never asked to stop calling him by them. He looked back to notice some of the bandages were turning red, damn she reopened her wounds. "I'm fine Yuffie but perhaps you should go on ahead and check in." He would have preferred keeping her in eyesight, what with everything that has been happening but she had already lost a lot of blood. "Once the others get here, I'll change your bandages again."

"You know I think you enjoy taking my clothes off." Yuffie's hands shot up covering her mouth as she turned her head looking anywhere but at him.

Vincent could feel his cheeks heating up and was once again thankful for his cape. He couldn't help but wonder where this feeling was coming from. He held the materia out toward her, "Here."

She turned back to him and he could see that her cheeks were a little pinker then normal. She reached for the materia in his hand and put it in the pouch hanging on her belt, "Thank you."

"Hum…pardons me but are you Vincent Valentine?" Both faces looked to a small man, no taller then Yuffie, who looked like he was going to faint. He was wearing the uniform of the Gold Saucer employees and holding a clip board in his hand. Vincent looked him up and down before answering with a nod, "Oh good, I've been trying to find you…"

"What do you mean you've been trying? We did all the looking and it was the lass that saw him." Crimson and gray eyes turned toward the young girl standing behind the man and the cat in her arms. It was waving its hands around and hollering at the employee.

The gunman notice that one of it's leg had been resent and that it was missing part of it's tail; it also had some bandages but they were starting to fall off. There were also cuts on the girl's arms and legs where her pants had been ripped. The small man backed away from the crazy cat, keeping an eye on Vincent. After he left there came a chuckle from the princess. "What's so funny?"

He could tell that she was trying not to laugh, "I think you scared him." Vincent raised one of his eyebrows which pushed Yuffie over the edge as she busted up laughing. The ex-Turk growled at her as a sob came from the girl cutting Yuffie off. She went to stand by their friend and put an around the child's shoulder, "Marlene, what's wrong?" The girl tried to answer but she was crying too much.

Vincent felt sorry for the girl, he was moving to her side when the hair on the back of his neck stood up. He stopped in his tracks, senses going to full alert. He looked but couldn't see anything; the headache came back as Chaos started screaming and then he realized. "Where's Barret?"