A/N: I hope everyone enjoys the random Vincent and Zack fanservice in this chapter. And Paopu, is short for Paopu fruit, which is a famous fruit from KH! Which reminds me. Lady Liberty, for the holidays, I would like: The KH Riku figure, the Jenova's Witness shirt (as seen in VG Cats if anyone reads it), and another shirt from cafe press. Anyway...

Disclaimer: You know the drill, I don't own. So there you are.

Tseng stood in Sephiroth's kitchen and glared profusely at the fridge in his presence. There, exactly as the General had hung it, was Lucy's report. And yet on the Shin-Ra boards was the same report. They couldn't find a trace of any sort of fingerprints on the paper beyond what they expected. "This is baffling Sephiroth, there's no evidence of fowl play in the least. Whoever it is has a vendetta against the whole command staff… This does not bode well."

"Agreed," Sephiroth nodded as he let his eyes sweep the kitchen. He sighed, someone wanted something, but it was unnerving that their black mail was so easily deterring. Not to mention they were using his daughter as the means of their blackmail. "I doubt that the posting of guards will help. They've gotten past the top officers of SOLDIERs and three highly trained Turks. Not to mention that we've managed to install the most advanced of all security systems here…"

"Seph, I'll keep looking, but until then why don't you update Tessa on the situation," Tseng commented as he walked over and picked up the report.

Sephiroth nodded and walked out of the kitchen, he descended the stairs and wound his way through to the back door. He stepped outside to the new pool, and wandered along the deck. Tessa sat under a parasol with several research papers on the table as she reviewed them. She looked up as Sephiroth approached, "hi. What's the matter? You have your angry face on again."

"It's just bothering me, someone is trying to blackmail the company," he sat down on another deck chair.

Tessa smiled, "I think you're blowing this a little out of proportion. It's just a harmless prank, like the time Zack orchestrated beach day in your office as an anniversary present."

"Don't remind me…" Sephiroth muttered.

She chuckled, "but in all seriousness, just keep on your toes. I'll have Glenn look at the results on the fingerprint scans and give them to you."

"I appreciate it," he replied and glanced over at the pool.

Kamui had on a Shin-Ra t-shirt and a pair of jeans, as though her pool time hadn't been her idea. Lucy had on her new swimsuit, as did Zack, the two were taunting the clone. Lucy's swimsuit was a rather nice floral one piece, while Zack had on a new set of black trunks with a pair of dragons on them. "Cheer up dear, you look like a drowning cat!" called Verdot from the hot tub where he and Vincent had decided to park themselves. Vincent glanced down at his swim trunks and sighed, "…Why did I make that bet…?" He wasn't planning on leaving in his heart-laden trunks to join in being scorned.

Verdot clapped him on the shoulder, "because you honestly thought you stood a chance."

Kamui frowned and tried to haul herself out of the water with a disgruntled look. Zack and Lucy pulled her back in, "you're no fun kid." Zack taunted as she tried to flee.

She glared at him, "Shut up! I just hate water is all."

Sephiroth stood up and walked towards where she was trying to escape. He gave her a kick in the head and held her just under the surface for a while. "You know you really should learn to swim."

She ducked out from under his foot and in a few strokes, crossed the pool, and flew out. Kamui spun around and glared at them, "I hate you! I wish I'd never been born!" And with that she took off running into the house.

Lucy gave puppy eyes up at Zack, "why do they always fight?" Her lip quivered, "It's really, really sad."

"Shh… it's okay kiddo." Zack hugged her and pulled her out of the water. "Sometimes brothers and sisters don't get along very well." He set her up on the pool deck before he climbed out. They walked over to the cooler by the pool and pulled out a pair of popsicles. "These are pretty good right?"

"Yep! I want Paopu!" Lucy declared as she grabbed the yellow one.

She picked up one and handed it to her father, "you should apologize."

Tessa chuckled slightly from her place on the chair, "Lucy, why don't you go show your father what you did in art class yesterday?"

"Okay! You too Uncle Zack!" She grabbed Sephiroth's hand and led him inside. She marched him up to her room and pointed at the picture on the door. It was a picture of Sephiroth, Tessa, and Zack all together on one side, on the other side was a picture of Vincent, Verdot and Tseng. She beamed proudly at her odd assortment of semi-stick figures, each one had the name floating over the head, which was the only way that Sephiroth could really tell them apart.

"This is very well drawn, Lucy." He complimented. "You're handwriting has improved."

She chortled gleefully, "thank you!"

Zack had a goofy grin on as he saw the Sephiroth drawing had a throbbing vein in the temple. "She's got you nailed."

"Silence Zachary," Sephiroth grumbled as he walked a few steps, "you two should take a shower. And if you see that thing get the mop out. The halls are covered in water."

Zack sighed and walked down the hall, he knocked a couple of times on Kamui's bedroom door. "Hey, when you get the chance, Seph wants you to clean up the water in the halls." When he didn't receive a reply, he shrugged and walked away, one hand beating the water out of his ear.

Lucy walked into her room, she cleaned off and pulled on a little blouse and dress with flowers on it. She sat down on her bed and pulled out her inherited Moogle doll, Kupo. She sighed, "I don't get it. Say Kupo, did any of Grandpa's brothers ever fight with him?"

She got no reply and she leaned back against her bed, out from under it slinked one of the several cats they'd obtained to deal with the pest problem. "Here, Mittens," Lucy called. The cat jumped onto the bed and nuzzled up against Lucy. She let one hand stroke the cat, "what do you think Mittens? Did you ever fight with your brothers and sisters?" The cat meowed, and rolled onto her back, "really? That's kinda sad. But maybe it's different for kitties."

The cat purred and fell asleep. Lucy smiled and rolled over before she too fell asleep.