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Chapter 4
The boat ride had been pretty much what Yuffie had been expecting large waves, throwing up overboard, little kids running around, throwing up overboard, parents trying to calm down little kids and more throwing up overboard. That boat ride the other day had been a complete flook. She had just gotten lucky. Leaning over the edge of the railing she starred into the water. God she hated being alone, being alone made her think to much. Yuffie didn't like to think to much. She could leave Cloud and Vincent to do all the thinking, considering that they don't talk very often. Sighing, Yuffie walked away from the railing feeling better, she must of thrown up everything in her stomach. And was now very hungry again, but it would be best to not eat anything again until she was on solid ground.
Yuffie wondered if there was a arcade on the ship. She could go for some fighting games about now. She went to the lower floor and walked in a circle a few times, there was no arcade. Yuffie climbed down the stairs to see if there was one on the next floor. She made a slight squeal when she found it and ran to the fighting game. Putting in 1g the game started up. Her favourite part had always been to pick out the character. The over exaggerated skimpy costumes of the big breasted girls wearing mini skirts and string bikini's and the ultra buff men with huge ass and weird eight-packs. Real fighters didn't look like that, though Tifa and Barret were pretty close to the characters. She selected one of the girls. She was small and agile, with a dagger in each hand. The beginning battle scene started, her opponent was a large guy with only his fists and metal knuckles on them.
Yuffie had probably been playing for about twenty minutes when a group of people who had been playing other games stopped and had started watching Yuffie play against the computer. She was kicking butt! Beating all the high scores off the chart. She would have liked to continue to play but a voice came over the speakers.
"Would everyone please prepare for landing. I repeat please prepare for landing." All the kids and Yuffie groaned. She walked out of the arcade feeling a little bit better, she had been able to keep her mind off her motion sickness and keep a bunch of kids entertained. Yuffie yawned when exited the ship and walked onto the streets of Junon. The sun had already gone down and people were looking for places to stay. Yuffie didn't bother to try and find a hotel, instead she traveled through the 'city' and over the still unguarded elevator that took the people of Junon to the small village below. Yuffie figured she would just go and spend the night at Pricilla's place. But she knew that she was going to have to answer a lot of questions about Cloud. The not so little girl was still set on marrying Cloud one day. And from the way things were going she was going to be a formidable opponent for Tifa.
Yuffie was lucky and the little girl had not been awake when she had arrived. Pricilla's grandfather welcomed Yuffie in and brought her milk and cookies. Yuffie thanked him and ate them and drank the milk quickly before dozing off into a dreamless sleep.
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The next day Yuffie arrived at Edge at around 2 in the afternoon. She had to wander around for a little while to try and find Tifas bar. The air was clammy and smelled of gasoline. If Yuffie planned to stay here for a while it would take some getting used too. Tifas bar was around the center of Edge. Yuffie stood at the entrance preparing herself for the huge hug she was about to receive. Taking a deep breath, Yuffie stepped inside the dimly lit bar. A little bell dinged when she entered.
"Welcome to Seventh Heaven! I'll help you in a minute, so please have a seat." She didn't even lift her head from the dishes she was currently drying.
Yuffie sighed, walked over to the counter and slammed her hands down on it. "You know I don't like to drink that much Teef."
Tifa lifted her head and looked at the ninja. "Yuffie!!" Tifa quickly put the cup and dish cloth down, ran out from behind the bar and gave Yuffie a huge hug. "I've missed you!!" Tifa squeezed harder with every word.
Yuffie patted her back and tried to speak, "Tifa. I can't breathe," Yuffie managed to say.
Tifa immediately let go. "Oh sorry!" Awkward silence. "So what are you doing here?"
"I've come to bless your and Clouds lives with my presence." Yuffie made a little bow. Tifa giggled. "I ran away from Wutai."
Tifa sighed and shook her head. "Again?" Tifa was starting to go all mother on her.
"Yes again." Yuffie shot back.
"Yuffie do you remember what happened the last time you ran away from Wutai?" Tifa crossed her arms. "Barret had to save you from a pack of wild dogs!"
Yuffie looked away in shame. "I know that! But I'm stronger now! I've been training!"
Tifa looked her up and down. "You still look like the scrawny 16 year old I knew 3 years ago." Okay, so maybe she hadn't changed that much and she still scrawny but she was a little more grown up and defined. Yuffie decided to stick her tongue out at her.
Tifa sighed and rolled her eyes. "I guess it doesn't matter now. You're here now. So are you planning on staying with us?"
Yuffie nodded. "Yeah, just until I figure out where I wanna go."
"Well then come upstairs, I'll show you to the spare room."
Yuffie followed Tifa up the stairs and into a hallway with several doors on each side. They walked to the farthest one at the end of the hallway, just before the living room. "The bathroom is just across from your room, Marlene's next to yours, mines beside the bathroom. And Denzel's room is beside Marlenes."
Yuffie stopped Tifa before she could continue. "Where's Clouds room?"
Tifa turned a bright red. "Well, he uh um he…"
Yuffie burst into a little giggle. "Oooh! I get it!" She turned even redder than Yuffie thought she would go.
Tifa opened the door to the little room. A bed sat on a wooden frame tucked in the corner, a desk on the other end of it and a closet on the left wall and a window on the far wall, with a cheesy little chocobo and moogle print. The bedspread was the same a large fat chocobo was on the comforter and the same print was on the sheets, moogles danced on the pillow case. "Sorry about the sheets, Marlene picked them out."
Yuffie shook her head. "No, I like it. I think it's cute." Yuffie jumped onto the bed, threw off her bag and lied down. She shot back up. "Are you going to make me pay rent?"
Tifa laughed and shook her head. "No, we saved the world together 3 times, I'm not going to make you pay rent."
Yuffie wiped an imaginary bead of sweat from her forehead. "Good, `cause if you did I would have to go ninja on your ass." They both shared a laugh.
"Well I'll leave you to get settled in. Feel free to come down when you want too." Tifa walked out of the room and closed the door behind her.
Yuffie put her head on the pillow and started to unpack her bag. Placing her clothes on the hooks in the closet, she thought of how Cloud and Tifa had finally realized that they were meant to be together. She told herself to make sure she teased Cloud later.
Yuffie quickly finished putting her stuff away and headed downstairs. "Hey Tifa? Where are Cloud and the little brats?" She called while skipping down the stairs.
"Didn't think I'd see you here brat." A voice at the bottom of the stairs. Yuffie looked to see familiar fiery red hair, blue-green eyes and an un kept Turk uniform. Great. Reno. "Figured you would go off somewhere more exciting than Edge." His eyes seemed to mock her.
Yuffie glared at him. "What are you even doing here Reno?"
He put his hands on back of his head, and leaned back a little bit. "No need to get upset. I mean we're all friends here right? I come here often. The service is here is top notch."
Yuffie looked at him disgusted. "Still such a immature perv." She shook her head with her hands on her hips.
Reno just laughed. He gave her an 'at-least-I'm-not-a-little-kid' look. Yuffie glared harder. But instead of hitting him, she turned around and walked over to Tifa.
"So where are Cloud and the kids? They on a mission or something."
Tifa shook her head. "No. Barret would kill Cloud if he took Marlene on a mission. He's delivering a pizza to some rich guy. Denzel and Marlene are out playing with some orphans." Tifa returned to drying dishes.
"Oh, I see." Yuffie felt her stomach growl, she hadn't eaten about 5 hours. "Do you mind if I go look in the fridge?"
Tifa nodded. Not even bothering to look up.
"Thanks." Yuffie ran up the stairs into the small apartment above.
Downstairs Reno went to go sit at the bar. "You don't let me go look in the fridge."
Tifa looked at him through her eyelashes. "You don't live here."
Reno sighed.
Upstairs Yuffie opened the fridge to find only health food, she stuck out her tongue in disgust. "Poor Marlene and Denzel." The cupboards were the same. But she decided on crackers and light cream cheese. She would talk to Tifa about getting some junk food. Sitting down on the couch in living room, she tried to find something to watch but there was nothing on at the moment just kids shows. She sighed and turned off the TV. Yuffie swung her head onto the couch and stared at the ceiling. She could go downstairs and talk to Tifa, but Reno was probably still there. She didn't feel like his remarks right now. Yuffie walked downstairs anyways. She had better comebacks anyways.
"Tifa! I'm bored!" Yuffie complained while she ran down the stairs.
"You've been here for an hour and you're already bored?" Tifa had a hand on her hip and leaned on her opposite leg. Yuffie nodded. "Well, you could go out and find Marlene and Denzel. They've been gone for a few hours now."
"I guess it's better than nothing. Okay! I'll go find them!" She headed for the door, just as Cloud was coming back. "Hiya Cloud!" She said enthusiastically while running out the door.
"Was that Yuffie?" Cloud asked.
Tifa nodded.
"She's staying with us now, isn't she?"
Tifa nodded.
Cloud was about to say something but shut his mouth instead. "No point in arguing with you."
Tifa nodded.
Yuffie must have been walking around for about 20 minutes before she realized she wasn't sure where she was. She hadn't been in Edge for awhile, and it was always changing and growing. Yuffie guessed that they would be at the field playing soccer or something. Too bad she didn't know where that was.
"You lost?" Yuffie could tell it was Reno without even looking.
"No!" Okay she was. But she wasn't going to admit to Reno. "I'm just taking a detour." Smooth. Real smooth.
Reno laughed shaking his head. "That's what they all say. Where you going anyways?"
"None of your business!" She turned to walk away. She didn't need his help.
"Too bad. I happen to know this city inside out. Even the darkest alleys."
Yuffie turned around and snorted. "You probably spend most of your time in alleys finding hookers."
"I don't need to get hookers as a matter of fact." He held his head high in pride.
Yuffie made a gagging noise. "I'd rather not talk about your sex life."
Reno shrugged. "You're the one who brought it up."
"Well, I gotta go. I got kids to find."
"Oh, so your looking for the little brats." Damn.
"As a matter of fact yes. And I should hurry, you never know what type of creeps you could find out here." Like you. She added the last bit silently of course.
"So do you want my help or not, kid?"
Yuffie felt a little bit of rage build inside her. "I am not a kid!"
"You sure? Aren't you like 17?"
She clenched her first. "19! What're you 40?"
He put his hand to his heart. "Ouch. I'm 24." Wow. Yuffie thought he would older, considering he had been in the Turks for such a long time. "So. Help?"
Yuffie huffed. "Sure. Whatever. Where's the field."
He pointed off to the right. Huge help. "That's not much help."
"What? Do you want me to show you the way and hold your hand?"
Yuffie snorted again. He wished. "No, but a little more than the direction."
"So you want me to go with you though?" Yuffie glared at him, he was playing dirty. She was not going to admit she needed his help.
"If you want to." She was going to turn the tables on him.
"Follow me." He shoved his hands in his pockets and proceeded to walk away. Yuffie followed in silence.
They both stayed silent until they were at the field.
"Yuffie!" She could see an excited Marlene start to run over to Yuffie. Denzel followed her. Yuffie was greeted by a large flying hug from a hyper little girl that made her fall to the ground. Denzel stood there awkwardly, his face a light shade of pink.
"What're you doing here?" Marlene asked, still having Yuffie in a death grip.
"I'll be staying with you guys for awhile!" Yuffie said excitedly.
"Really!?" Denzel had a little sparkle in his eye.
"Really!"
Denzel and Marlene both cheered. Yuffie laughed at how excited they both were. "Okay, so let's get back to the bar!" They groaned. "Hey, this wasn't my idea. You can blame Tifa for this one." Marlene let go of Yuffie and jumped up.
"Okay! Let's go!" She grabbed Denzels hand and started to run. "Come on Yuffie!"
Yuffie stood up and laughed.
Reno stood there, hands in his pockets. "You seem to be pretty comfortable with your own kind."
If Marlene and Denzel weren't standing there watching her, she would've said something to Reno that she normally wouldn't say. But Tifa would have her head. Instead she punched him really hard in the arm. Causing him to lose balance. Yuffie laughed and walked away leaving Reno by himself. He just smirked and rubbed his arm.
"Good punch brat." He turned the other way and started to walk away, but stopped looked over his shoulder and said; "I'll see you later."
Yuffie stood there for a moment not moving. Marlene pulled on her shirt, causing Yuffie to snap back into reality. "You coming Yuffie?"
Blinking twice Yuffie shook her head. "Yeah, I'm coming."
They walked back to the bar, the two children holding each of Yuffie's hands. Marlene told her of all the stuff she had noticed. The little girl liked to gossip. She knew almost every detail about Cloud and Tifa. Even about the other children, like which girls liked Denzel. Marlene had been to busy talking to notice Denzel turn red again. Yuffie laughed silently to herself. Marlene was so dense, just like her father. Yuffie just hoped that she didn't end up too much like her father. It would be a problem if she started talking like him. Even worse if she started talking like Cid.
"Yuffie are you paying attention?"
Yuffie nodded. "Yes, Cloud and Tifa went out to dinner last night and you had to get a babysitter."
Marlene nodded. "Yeah, and since Denzel and I didn't like her we decided to play a trick. One of the ones you showed us. You know when you take a string and--"
Yuffie was happy when they arrived back at the bar. The kid talked more than she did. And that was saying something. Tifa had started to prepare dinner and Cloud was sitting in a chair reading the paper. Sheesh! Saves the world twice, helps once and he sits and reads the paper. Marlene and Denzel were lying on the couch having a foot war while some TV show played. Yuffie guessed that Tifa must have closed the bar early today. Yuffie went to go and help Tifa make dinner. But being Yuffie the only thing she was able to do was chop things up. Tifa wouldn't even let her try anything else. Yuffie was very skilled at chopping vegetables up. When dinner was ready they all sat around a little dining table. Yuffie and Denzel played footsies under the table, Marlene complained that she didn't like broccoli. Cloud sat there and laughed at it all. While Tifa looked like she might blow a gasket. She was turning into quite the mother figure. In the end Yuffie, Marlene and Denzel ended up getting in trouble. The 3 of them curled up on the couch with a big bowl of popcorn and watched a movie. Marlene and Denzel on either side of her. They fell asleep during the second movie. Yuffie dozed off not that much later. Cloud and Tifa stood there and watched them sleep before heading off to sleep themselves.
Woo! Another chapter! I'm really enjoying writing this! But if you like reading this too, please leave a review. Or a constructive crit. But no flaming! Oh and I just found out today that Bugenhagen actually died in FF7! And Cid and Shera ended up getting married. So whoops on my part. But hey, it's mah Fan Fic and those facts aren't that important! So yeah, leave a review!!! And I will give you Sephiroth on a leash! Or Cloud, or Vincent! But only if you leave a review!! XDD