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(/Ryona THE SHOPKEEPER's P.O.V/)

Now, I've had my fair share of weird-o's come into my little boutique looking for woman's clothing, but never before has one of AVALANCHE's own come barging in looking like a mouse in a lion's den. He's just standing by my door cursing the precious chime I've placed over my door. I'll have him know I paid a whole 40 gil for that thing, it's priceless thankyouverymuch!

I'm wondering if the man is going to block my entrance all day and curse my pretty wind chime or if he's going to move and buy something. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that he's buying for a lady-friend of his for the first time. I've had many of those, guys popping in every once and a while asking if I have a certain kind of shirt that's in style or a pair of boots ect…

Well it's rather practical for everyone to be staring at this strange but yet heroic male that just entered my store uttering a string of vulgar curses. In fact, I think I hear the faint creaking of a hanger that someone must had let swing in mid air. I look around for the blasted noise and eye it to my immediate right, I narrow my eyes at it as if willing it to cease it's annoying sound but it fails to listen. Oh well…

I turn my head to watch the blond man stride closer to where I'm standing and I inwardly smile; I can now say I've had one of Avalanche shop in my little place of business! I can't wait to brag to that bitch from the cosmetic's store down the street that say's Tifa Lockheart came in looking for perfume!

Stupid Carla and her stupid cosmetics store, oh, I think he's speaking to me, I suppose I should tune in.

"So do you have anything that's green?"

Everyone's staring at me now, I hear a few sniggers but I choose to ignore them, I put on my very best smile and ask him what color of green he'd like or if he had a certain article of clothing in mind. "How should I Fing know! You don't only have one shade of green or something?"

Oh Shiva, this is going to be a long day…..

(/Yuffie's P.O.V/)

OK, I TOTALLY do NOT see the little white birdie he pointed out a few minutes ago when I asked him what Cid was doing in a Woman's store. I demanded that we go see what Cid was doing or at least spy on him so I have dirt for later but Vincent gave me this pained and weird looking face… keeping in mind his idea of a 'pained face' was a slight cringe and his nose kind of twitched. I swear to Leviathan his nose TWITCHED! It did this, 'bunny' thing… It was kind of cute too…. I grin from just thinking about it.

However, Vinnie twitching is yet another thing to add to the 'list of weird things happening' today and I'm obliged to say that the list is getting quite long. Then he randomly points out a white bird that flew right by me while I was looking to see what Cid was doing, so I spin around to catch a glimpse of it but it's not there, I don't dare call him a liar but I'm starting to catch on to his little plan. I might as well play along with it, maybe he'll slip and end up giving me a hint to what he and the others are doing.

"Vinnie, are you SURE you saw a- hey, N-NOW what are you looking at?" My accusation turned into a meek little squeak as he leaned in closer.

He reaches up and his fingertips just skim the side of my face, I'm still not used to him doing things like this, but it feels good all the same. He delicately picks out a piece of fluff that somehow got into my hair and I feel myself lighting up as red as his eyes. I mutter a slight thanks and he lifts my chin upwards and places his lips on my cheek for a split second before pulling back.

I stop him from moving away by grabbing his shirt and he stares down at me, his scarlet eyes holding mine in a soft gaze. I can feel my heart jump up into my throat and begin ferociously beating quickly. I slowly reach up to stand on the tips of my toes and my face is so close to his, I know I'm blushing, but I can't handle it, he does the strangest things to me.

My lips are only an inch from his, time slows down as he leans down and brushes his lips against mine, my eyes slowly close, but not before be both catch the large red object hurtling towards us.

WHAM!

OK, WHO THREW THE &ING BALL?

"AUNTIE YUFFIE! UNCLE VINCENT! CAN YOU PASS ME THE BALL?" Marlene is waving over at us, smiling and holding both of her arms out in an over-exaggerated wave. Beside her Denzel is looking quiet pleased with himself as he just stands there WATCHING me and Vince with this little 'ha ha, got you' face. Damn the kid has been hanging around Tifa too long, now he's even acting like her, as if the shot wasn't on purpose.

Unfortunately he's got another one of Tifa AND Cloud's traits….

Good Aim….

Man that throbs!

(/Vincent's P.O.V…. holy, that's the third switch this chapter…. O.o/)

I just managed to jerk back when that ball came bounding right for us, unfortunately I wasn't fast enough to stop Yuffie from getting smashed in the face with it. Both of us immediately look to where the ball came from and see the two children that Tifa is looking after, Marlene and Denzel. I worriedly check Yuffie's injury to see if she's broken her nose from the force of that kick, I have to say I'm rather amazed at how fast and hard the boy can kick the bouncy ball.

Something he no doubt learned from Miss Lockheart herself.

It turns out Yuffie's OK on the outside, but she's rather mad right now, both her and I realize that the kick was on purpose but she can't very well prove it. I take the ball away from her before she can whip it back at them and hurt the boy she so badly wants revenge on.

"Why don't YOU come over HERE and get it?" Snapped the ninja playfully before grabbing the ball back from me and tossing it lightly to Marlene. This takes me by surprise considering the vengeful and particularly evil look she was giving Denzel.

She gingerly rubs her nose and tears have already filled her eyes, I feel like smiling from the cute little pouty face she's making, but I'm more worried that she's feeling dizzy. She looks away furiously, I guess she doesn't want me to worry when all she did was get hit by a ball.

"Are you OK?"

She gives me a small smile as she's rubbing her nose, a nice red mark is now taking place where the ball made contact. It looks like she has sunburn in the shape of a circle right in the middle of her face, I allow myself a small smile and she groans.

"That bad huh?"

I try to look like it isn't that bad, but honestly, I'm having a hard time trying not to laugh, my mouth is already cracking into a larger smile. I try to hide the mirth behind my fist but she sees it and groans even more, she walks over to the edge of the bridge we're standing on and puts her head to the railing, refusing to move. "Why me!" she whines in a childish voice.

I can't believe I'm doing this but I'm laughing, well, more like chuckling, and I feel horrible about it, I really do! But it was that adorable face she just made and the complete and total ridiculous situation that we're in that makes me crack.

She turns her head and sends me a rather viscious glare which makes me abruptly stop and give her a reapproachful smile. She snorts and lifts her head from the side of the bridge before walking over to me and hitting me on the arm.

"Vinnie you're so mean!" But she's not grinning ear to ear once more, I think she's happy that I'm laughing even if it's at her misfortune. I'm glad that I feel so much more comfortable showing my emotions now; she's slowly pulled that side out of me. She grabs my arm and begins stomping back towards Tifa's bar, pretending to be mad at me, but I know otherwise.

We enter Tifa's bar and she's currently washing the counter with a ratty old rag, she looks up and greets us as we enter. I nod to acknowledge her but Yuffie just sits down on a stool and pouts again. I sit down beside her and Miss. Lockheart gives me a confused look before gesturing to her friend, I'm unsure if she means the ninja's behavior or is she actually saw te huge red mark on her face.

"May we have some ice?" I ask politely, Tifa nods and disappears into the small freezer where she keeps the bags of ice. She puts some in a plastic bag, wraps a towel around it and hands it over to me. I then turned towards Yuffie and gave it to her before explaining to the bartender what she deserved to know.

"Denzel hit her in the face with his ball,"

Tifa looked outraged, she frowned, her eyebrows knitting together in disbelief. She began muttering something about when that boy came home she was going to have a nice long chat with him.

(/Normal P.O.V/)

Cloud strife came waltzing in feeling rather proud of himself for sneaking around back and hiding the present before anyone caught him. However, what greeted him was not what he expected at 2 in the afternoon.

Tifa was scowling and Yuffie had an ice pack over her face.

"Whoa, what happened here?"

Yuffie sighed, she knew this was going to leave a nice bruise somewhere, but she was glad that her nose wasn't swelling because that was ALL she needed. She took the ice pack gingerly away from her face and then touched her nose softly, she felt pain, yet at least it wasn't broken.

"Vinnie?" She quietly whispered, he leaned forward, "In all honestly, does my nose look that bad?"

He tilted his head to the side and inspected her face, he was sure that she was going to have a bit of a sore spot there. Since the twenty minute she had been hit with the ball, the red shape on her face had lessened considerably and now could barely be considered a blush. Her nose didn't look deformed or oddly shaped at all, he was glad they had gotten the ice on it when they did because then she would have had to worry about a swollen face.

"You look OK," He assured her, "The redness is pretty much gone,"

She took the offending coldness away from her face and set it on the counter, the both of them were pretty much ignoring Tifa and Clouds conversation as Tifa filled in Cloud on what happened so far.

Yuffie abruptly stood up, threw the ice pack on the counter and turned towards Vincent, who was barely shorter then her, even though she was standing and he was sitting. She grabbed his metallic arm and proceeded to drag him out the door, tired of the way everything was happening that day.

"Let's go get something to eat, I'm starved!" she offered him an explanation, then looked forwards and began weaving her way through the busy crowded streets to find a nice little restaurant they could dine in.

A small café caught her eyes that she had never seen before, she looked back to see Vincent eyeing her with a confused expression on his face but she simply smiled. She took an immediate turn to walk through the front door and then peered around into the dim lighting.

It was a nice quiet place that had small booths sitting back to back to each other around the windows of the place and then smaller round tables that held four people or two, depending on the size. The room held a redish tint to it and there was a nice saxophone playing jazz music in the background. Almost instantly there was a chipper girl with light brown almost blonde hair with amazing green eyes and round glasses coming to greet them.

Her nametag read a convenient: 'Hexana' and this young waitress had a very thin structure to her, but she was absolutely bouncing off the walls as she led them to a small booth table and placed down two table settings and a pair of menus.

"Hello there, my name is Haxana but you can call me Hexy! I'll be your waitress this afternoon, can I start the two of you off with some drinks?" She chirped, pulling out a small notepad and holding her red pen ready.

"Water," Yuffie replied in awe, surprised with herself for so brainlessly answering the girl, she was just so…. Happy… it reminded her of someone, but she just couldn't place who.

"I'll have a coffee," Vincent replied coolly, he didn't look the least bit interested on the outside, but Yuffie could tell there was a conversation waging on in the depths of his mind. 'Hexana' bounced away to get their drinks and Yuffie set her full attention to the outside window, watching for the demons to finish their conversation with Vincent.

'Stupid Kids, they had to ruin the make-out session!'

'Yeah, but you've got to admit, her face all red like that WAS kind of funny'

'Would you two stop? Why must you care so?'

'Because it's…. fun to torment you?'

'Just imagine what she feels like under that shirt-'

'This conversation is over'

'And Holy Helldemons, did you SEE how hyper that waitress was?'

'Leviathan, she scared the shit out of me!'

'…'

Vincent sighed and gazed over at Yuffie while his demons were squabbling back and fourth with no real purpose at all. She seemed to be smiling serenely and tapping her fingertips to the beat of the soft music that was drifting through the place. It actually caught him off guard that she wasn't demanding to know what Chaos and Hellmaster were thinking, nor was she grinning or acting in an outrageous fashion.

It was a strange thing what talking to someone for a while will do to you, he would have never laughed like he did before without Yuffie's 'guidance'.

Yuffie wasn't oblivious to Vincent's stare, but she was rather interested in the conversation that was happening just behind her. Sure enough, there were two girls, one having boy problems and the other listening.

"Well Jeesh, Folken," Said the friend who had been listening to her friend's boy problems, "You've got to talk to him! Tell him you don't want to fight anymore!"

"Easy for you to say, one smile at a guy and you have him on a leash! Besides, he still doesn't know that have a crush on him…"

"If he meant what he said that he would travel from the Golden Saucer just to see you then he must like you, do it Folken, you'll regret it if you don't"

Yuffie totally agreed with Folken's friend, come to think of it, Folken was probably a nickname, it wasn't some normal everyday girls' name… her eavesdropping was interrupted when Hexana put down their drinks and asked them what they wanted to order.

After placing a quick order of chicken strips and fries and waiting to hear what Vince ordered, Yuffie went right back to listening. It turned out that Rixia was the other girls name and that Folken had gotten into a fight with a guy that she liked, they had been chatting over the phone for months now and Folken had been irritable that day. Which led to a fight, and Rixia was POSITIVE that Folken just needed to talk to him and it would be OK.

"When did you become so… smart with this kind of thing?" Folken quietly asked, sounding sheepish for asking.

It was then that Hexana went over to their table and overheard the last bit of th conversation. She grinned and put her arm on Folken's shoulder from what Yuffie could see in the reflection.

"Rixie's right, no need to be so shy Folken! We've known you for three years now! If you like this guy, he must have some personality and I'll bet he's attractive too!"

Folken tried desperately to get the spotlight off of herself, she glared over at Rixia who was innocently stirring her drink.

"And what about you?" Her voice was suddenly soft and sadness seeped into her tone, Rixia snapped to attention and looked away. She smiled and gave her best: 'oh it's nothing' look before replying to her friends inquiry.

"Me? I'm fine, don't worry about me!"

"BS! I saw that post on our website! You're still upset about her death! Why can't you just tell us how you feel about your grandma dying?"

Yuffie slightly smiled, in a way, all of those girl were a really nice example of how friends should help one another. In a way, they reminded her of Herself, Tifa and Aeris, it wasn't hard to find the connection between the six of them.

"Everyone has problems," Whispered the dark man in front of her, Yuffie looked up at him astounded and then smiled, trying to look innocent.

"Vincent, were you listening into their conversation?"

"You were,"

"Was not!"

Vincent shook his head and gazed out into the hot summers day, it really was a perfect time of year, it was hot sure, but everything gave off a beautiful shine. He was glad that today and exceptionally tomorrow were free of rain, he wanted this to be a fun time for her.

"Vincent?" Her voice interrupted him again and he turned his head to look at her once more. She shifted and looked down, her face already riding on a blush, and she began playing with the table cloth in a distracted manner.

He reached across the table and put his had overtop hers, she ceased her fidgeting and then slowly, shyly, looked up into his eyes. "Thankyou for everything, you're such a sweet person,"

He gave her hand a small squeeze and then slowly let it go as their waitress came back with their food. He realized that he probably had never been this happy since before he had his heart broken by Lucrecia. Perhaps he wasn't the monster he had always thought himself as, or maybe, slowly, he was turning into something better. It was all thanks to Cloud for waking him up in the ShinRa mansion, he was due a thanks to the man, if not for him, he would have never met Yuffie, or any of his other newly found friends for that matter.

"So….." The waitress was chewing her bottom lip thoughtfully, she stared back and fourth between the two of them and then finally spit out her question, "Are you two together?"

Before Yuffie or Vincent could reply, the girl names Rixia from the other table spoke up and leaned over to look at the two of them from her isle seat.

"Duh Hexy! Of COURSE their together! I was totally just over hearing her call him sweet, and I saw him put his hand over hers before you came back! Besides, how can two people who look so cute together possibly NOT be all over each other!"

Yuffie turned bright red and Vincent stayed silent, yet both knew that regardless of how she put it, it was true; they were together. They smiled at each other as Hexana began scolding Rixia for listening to other's chat's then began to eat their meals in peace.

Rixia was grinning like the Cheshire Cat.

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Katori: There, cute and funny…. I am done PEOPLE! I had a bit of a writers block near the middle but I'm OK now. I'm sad to say that there should only be about two more chapters after this!

Finally…..

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