A.N: hey hope you like this chapter as much as I liked writing it remember R&R (read and review) plz I'll love you forever but if that creeps you out I wont

Disclaimer: (turns to lawyer) do I have to do this?? (lawyer nods) ahh ok I own nothing but my piss pot character Ariana

Australian dictionary:

Piss pot: alcoholic.

Chapter 4

Next morning, Ariana got up early and got changed into white singlet and the usual denim short shorts then made her way down to the kitchen to make some breakfast and get a beer, Ariana was making scrambled eggs, Loz showed his face in the kitchen "that smells good" he said sniffing the air with his eyes closed "what's cookin?"

"Scrambled eggs and I'm gonna put some bacon on soon, want some?" asked Ariana spatula in hand.

"Mmmmm, yes" said Loz his mouth watering.

While Loz and Ariana where eating Loz asked "so um Ariana what to girls like?"

"What do you mean, girls like lots of things" Ariana asked confused.

"Uh… like as a present… from a guy" Loz replied nervously

"Ooooo, who's the lucky girl?" Ariana said intrigued.

"I'm not telling" Loz said blushing slightly, Ariana thought it looked so odd to see a grown man blushing.

"Aw come on" pleaded Ariana "I won't tell anyone".

"No" said Loz persistently

"Come on, I can help and I promises I won't tell anyone" said Ariana desperately

Loz sighed and looked over his shoulder to see if anyone was coming then leaned in to Ariana's ear "it's Tifa" he whispered.

"Oh my god!" Ariana said, she was so excited for Loz she jumped off her seat and hugged him, tipping over the chair in the process, so now Loz was on the floor and Ariana was lying on top of him. Just then Kadaj walked in, his eyes went the size of dinner plates as soon as he saw the scene in front of him, Ariana quickly jumped off Loz, "it's not what you think, I just went to hug him and the chair tipped" Ariana explained hurriedly, kadaj just said "whatever" and went to the cupboards, "um pain killers are in the top cupboard third from the left" informed Ariana.

"Thanks" Kadaj replied and went back to bed.

"So let's get you started on your training" said Ariana a determined gleam in her eye "first we're gonna get you to cook Tifa breakfast in bed. Here put this on" said Ariana handing Loz a pink frilly apron that matched her own, "sorry but it's the only one left" said Ariana seeing the expression on his face, "now let's get cooking, first we'll start off easy you do the bacon and I'll do the eggs".

20 minutes later…

Loz was stopped in front of Tifa's door, he knocked and Tifa told him to come in, "um, good morning Tifa, I thought you might like some breakfast in bed" said Loz stepping into her room, tray in hand and the pink frilly apron still on.

"That's so sweet of you" said Tifa sitting up in her bed; she patted beside her for Loz to sit down, "I'm not going to be able to eat all this" she said "um no offence, but what's with the pink frilly apron?" she asked seeing Loz's attire.

"Well I didn't want to get any grease on my outfit, this is pure leather, do you know how much this get up costs and plus it was the only one left" said Loz, Tifa just giggled. Loz and Tifa continued talking; Ariana came down to Tifa's door as soon as she finished doing the dishes.

Yazoo was on his way to the bathroom when he saw Ariana sitting on the floor with her ear to the door, Yazoo was about to ask her what she was doing when she put her finger to her lips and mouthed Tifa and Loz, intrigued Yazoo joined her.

5 minutes later…

Reno, Rude, a very sick looking Kadaj, Yuffie, Cait Sith, Red XIII, Marlene and Denzel had joined Ariana and Yazoo at the door, "this is disgusting" said Kadaj and he stalked up the hall to the bathroom for about the fifth time that morning. "Well we better be getting out to the bar everyone will be wondering where we are" said Tifa.

"Shit! Everyone to the bar" whispered Ariana and everyone ran to the bar silently as they could. A minute later Tifa and Loz joined everyone at the bar, "morning" said Ariana cleaning a glass trying so had to keep a smile off her face, "Tifa can you take over I'm going to the church" Ariana said and went up to her room to get her keys and a water tub.

Ariana made her way through the ruins of Midgar and down to the church, she went in and put her stuff down by a fallen pillar, she stopped in front of the pool this is it, no more Geostigma she thought and took off her bandages, she took a deep breath before diving into the crystal blue water, the water reminded her of Cloud's eyes, once she had surfaced she looked down at her shoulder and saw her Geostigma glow fluorescent green then lift off her shoulder in particles and fly into the air.

She continued to swim around freely without being in any pain. Just then Cloud walked in and saw that her singlet had gone see through, he put his hand on the side if his head blocking his view, "I'm not looking", he said as he walked over to get her a towel, he put her towel at the side of the pool, "are you going to help me out or what" said Ariana holding out her hand, he grabbed her hand and she pulled him in, when he surfaced he looked very mad, Ariana was amazed to see that his hair hadn't changed one bit "god damn it Ariana, you got my clothes all wet" said cloud annoyed, Ariana just splashed him in the face.

"So take them off and put them on the pillar to dry, but for god's sake leave your boxers on" said Ariana and he did just that.

"Well, you may as well have a swim with me, I bet I can beat you to the other end" said Ariana cockily as always.

"You're on, what's the wager?" asked Cloud happy that he would finally get the chance to wipe that cocky smile off her face, there is no way she can beat me, I was in SOLDIER Cloud thought.

"Um let's make this interesting, if I win you have to take me on a date"

"Ok and if I win you have to give up booze for a whole week" said Cloud confidently

"You're on Blondie" Ariana said ruffling Cloud's hair on her way to the edge of the pool, they got in their positions "ready to get your arse kicked" asked Ariana, Cloud just ignored her.

"Ready, GO!" Cloud said they swam with all they had, swapping positions frequently but in the end Ariana won.

"Ha, I win now you have to take me on a date, not so confident now are we Jenova boy? You're not the only one who had Jenova cells in them" boasted Ariana, Cloud looked at her confused, "and I'm half pissed" Ariana then got really dizzy and fell over backwards "whoa" she said on he way down, Cloud just stood there laughing his head off.

"Well don't just stand there laughing help me up", Cloud helped her up but she just over balanced and pushed over Cloud in the process, they we're in the shallow end so they we're in no danger of drowning, Ariana was on top of Cloud.

"Wow it is just not my day, first I fell on top of Loz, now you that is just too weird" Ariana said sitting up straddling Cloud's abdomen, "Ariana would you get off me already" said Cloud

"Alright, alright I'm up" said Ariana getting up, this time she actually stayed up, she helped Cloud up then went to check on his clothes "they're still drenched" she said looking over to Cloud and for the first time noticing that his body was quite muscly "what?" said Cloud noticing that Ariana was staring at him.

"Oh, I just noticed how muscly you are, nice abs by the way" said Ariana smiling.

"Uh thanks" said Cloud flabbergasted by Ariana's forwardness.

Ariana picked up her towel and started to dry herself, she was walking over to Cloud when she slipped, yet again on some water, she fell forward but this time Cloud caught her and didn't fall over too. Their faces were only inches apart, Ariana was looking into Cloud's eyes, "I love your eyes" she said moving forward slightly, Cloud closed the gap between them, Ariana deepened the kiss, Cloud snaked his arms around her waist and she put her arms around his neck, they continued kissing and only broke apart for air.

"I'm sorry" said Cloud hastily, they didn't talk for the rest of the time and kept to themselves.

Once Cloud's clothes had dried and he'd got changed again, Ariana filled the water tub, "what are you doing?" asked Cloud.

"What does it look like I'm doing, I'm filling this water tub so I can take it to my village and heal the kids" said Ariana.

"You never told me how you got Geostigma, y'know that" said Cloud curious.

"Oh, I thought I did" said Ariana, Ariana then told him the same story that she told Tifa, in the end she was crying, Cloud wiped away her tears and walked out of the church.

"You still owe me dinner!" yelled Ariana "arse hole" she muttered afterwards and left.

I saw thatZack had yet again entered Cloud's thoughts and he didn't sound too happy with Cloud.

Go away; I don't want to talk to you right now. Cloud just shut Zack out of his thoughts, he needed to think.

Why do I keep kissing her, I don't like her like that and now I owe her dinner.

Ariana went to the place Tifa had mentioned the other day, the forgotten city. Once Ariana had got there she went over to a clearing in the forest of glowing white trees, it seems secluded enough, great place to think she thought and sat down by one of the trees.

"What are you doing here, stranger?" asked a man startling Ariana out of her thoughts, he wore a crimson cape and had longish black hair.

"Um, I'm sorry I just came here to think, I'll leave if I've desecrated your sacred land or something" said Ariana scared shitless.

"Your not from around here are you?" said the man

"No" said Ariana "if you don't mind me asking, what's your name?"

"It's Vincent Valentine" he said. Vincent, Vincent, where have I heard that name before? She thought "oh I know now, you're Tifa's friend" said Ariana triumphantly.

"And who are you?" asked Vincent

"Oh yeah, my name's Ariana Fair" said Ariana smiling dumbly.

Vincent and Ariana talked a little while longer, when it started to get dark Ariana decided it was time to go back.

"Well it's been lovely talking to you Vincent but I should be getting back to the bar" she said getting up and turning around "um, you wouldn't happen to know the way back would you? Vincent gave her directions back to the bar and told Ariana to say hello to the others for him.

When Ariana got back to the bar Tifa ran up to her "thank god you're ok, I was getting worried about you. You haven't seen Cloud have you? He's been gone for days"

"I'm ok Tifa, I was just talking with Vincent, he seems…nice." She said trying to think of a word that best describes Vincent.

"Good, but have you seen Cloud" asked Tifa concerned.

"No" lied Ariana "have you tried calling him?"

"Yes, I've left a ton of massages on his voice mail" said Tifa sighing "oh well I'm going to bed now."

"Ok I'm gonna stay up a bit longer" said Ariana.

A.N: hey hope you like this chapter if you have any questions about anything just ask oh and don't forget (you've got to be getting sick of this by now… god knows I am sighs) plz R&R