Tifa cracked the white egg on the counter opening the shell and spilling the yoke into the bowl mixing it with the others for Barret's morning twelve egg omelet. She'd heard the sound of the door opening and went to see who'd come in.
"Sorry but we're not open for another four… Cloud!" Tifa swift fully crossed the room to take her spikey haired husband in her powerful arms.
"Hey Teef," Cloud smiled as he embraced his wife, "Miss me?" he asked.
"Of course," She said nuzzling his chest, "How was your trip to Costa De Sol?" she asked.
"Fine," Cloud said, "I don't know why Reeve wanted me there his trip went off without a hitch."
"He's just worried," Tifa said stepping away from him, "With the election around the corner he can't be too careful. Besides it's got to be better playing body guard than acting as delivery boy. Especially in a place like Costa De Sol."
Cloud smirked, "I suppose your right," he said, "The Sunny beaches are certainly a better slight then the grey skies of Edge."
"You kept away from the bikini clad girls right?" Tifa asked teasingly moving back behind the bar to finish with Barret's omelet.
"Of course babe," Cloud chuckled moving behind her and wrapping both arms around her waist making her smile. He brushed her mass of silky black hair aside and kissed her neck earning a soft moan from his wife.
"Get a room you two," Yuffie said stepping downstairs into the bar.
"Nice to see you two," Cloud growled keeping his arms around his wife as the young ninja walked behind the bar and began rummaging through the fridge for her breakfast.
"Yuffie are you going to make Barret's morning twelve egg omelet and feed Vincent as well as our other guest?"
Yuffie raised a slender eyebrow, "Um no." She answered.
Tifa smiled turning around in Cloud's embrace, "Then we're not getting a room," she said kissing her husband.
Yuffie turned away indignantly pulling the carton of milk from the fridge and finding a box of cereal and retrieving a bowl from the cupboard and fixing her breakfast.
"Guest?" Cloud asked pulling away the kiss.
"I finally managed to rent out that spare room," Tifa explained returning to Barret's omelet. "The man asked about you."
"Really?" Cloud asked leaning against the bar.
"He wants you to make delivery," She explained.
"What kind of delivery?" He asked watching Yuffie smell the carton of milk and fill her bowl of cereal.
"Don't know," Tifa said, "All he said was that he needed you to make a special delivery and is willing to pay handsomely."
"How much?" Cloud asked.
"One hundred thousand gil," she said earning a low whistle from Cloud, "And that's up front," she explained.
"I'll talk to him later," Cloud said, "Is he here?"
"Nope," Yuffie said with a mouthful of chocolate puffs, "He left a few hours ago." She wiped a steam of milk that had poured from the corner of her mouth.
"Really?" Tifa said, "I didn't hear him leave?"
"It was really early," Yuffie explained, "You were probably asleep."
"So then why were you up?" Cloud asked suspicious of the young ninja.
Yuffie said nothing scooping up another spoonful of Chocolate Puffs.
"Oh yeah," Tifa said remembering last night. "How was your date with Vincent?"
"Her what?" Cloud asked raising a blond eyebrow.
"It wasn't a date!" Yuffie said spraying the table with milk and chewed chucks of cereal. She quickly realized her mistake and grabbed for her napkin wiping away the milk and bits of cereal off her face.
Tifa giggled, "Really?" She asked feigning confusion. "Then what'd you two do all night?"
"Nothing," Yuffie said defensively, "We just took a long walk is all," she explained, "You know how Vincent and I enjoy our long walks."
"Sure," Tifa said her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Shut up!" Yuffie hissed as footsteps sounded from atop the staircase.
"Something wrong?" Vincent asked stepping down the stairs into the bar.
Yuffie's cheeks turned red as a summon Materia, "Nothing," she said hiding her face in her cereal bowl devouring spoonful's of chocolate puffs. "Tifa was just interrogating me about where we were last night."
"We took a stroll," Vincent said taking a seat in the corner by himself, "That's all."
"See?" Yuffie said slurping down the chocolaty milk at the bottom of her bowl. "Just a walk nothing to be suspicious about." She said standing from her seat and rushing towards the door.
"Where are you going?" Tifa asked.
"Have some errands," she said closing the door behind her, "I'll be back later."
Five, Kayaku counted seeing the way the man carried himself. Five covert security in the main lounge he'd determined. Amateurs he thought watching them pat their pistols concealed under their jackets. They also constantly looked at one another less than they watched the entertainment that was all around them, and they watched the entertainment more than they watched the customers.
The whole point of covert security was to be covert. While the big bouncers stood tall in the corners flashing their muscles giving customers cold looks and some even held imposing submachine guns looking as intimidating as possible. While the big guys looked scary the covert security blended into the crowd looking like one of the normal customers observing the patrons from a closer concealed distance and if and when trouble arrived they'd be close enough to stop it quickly while the treat focused on the large intimidating looking bouncers who were mostly there to manhandle anyone getting too rowdy and scare anyone thinking of starting real trouble to thinking differently.
That was the idea anyway but to Kayaku he'd found all five members of the covert security team in the first ten minutes. It was easy, he simply had to find the men who either couldn't stop handing their guns, refused to drink alcohol, and kept touching their ears to hear their ear pieces better. But Kayaku supposed this was amateur hour for him. This seedy establishment was far from a Wutai militia safe house, or a Shinra embassy. No it was much less than anything like that.
"Hey baby want a dance?" a young raven haired girl asked him leaning on the table her face and body too close for comfort. Kayaku was used to working in places he felt uncomfortable in but strip clubs were definitely one of the worst. He closed the laptop that he had open in front of him.
"How about you stop looking at girls on your screen," she said over the loud obnoxious music trying to sound seductive, Kayaku just thought she sounded desperate to make a buck, "And enjoy the flesh and blood in front of you."
Kayaku caught sight of a man entering into the club dressed in an expensive white suit heading through the club and straight through the back room. The security guards didn't give him a second glance and a few even nodded as he made eye contact with him.
"Sorry," Kayaku lied glad he didn't have to give a half assed reason for turning the young topless girl down, "But I'm here for business not pleasure."