A huge thank you to my reviewers, I now have over 100 reviews! Sorry I'm not updating as much as I can. I've got a ton of schoolwork and… Blah, I'll tell you at the end of this chapter :)

Twenty years old is classed as an adult, right? But every now and then, twenty year olds need to gossip like sixteen-year-old schoolgirls, yes? Yuffie felt like that right now. Fortunately Rikku brought out her more… child-like side. Although she had mature incredibly in the past four years or so, some aspects of her personality were still yet to grow.

"Oh my god, Yuffie! You'll never guess what's happened?"

Before she had time to reply, Rikku pressed forwards a string of sentences that made Yuffie believe she had drank one too many red bulls.

"Auron and I have broken up! I know what you're thinking, don't think that! It's better off this way, y'know? We're still good friends and all, we're just better off alone…"

"Whoa, back up," laughed Yuffie taking a seat and smiling. "Why did you break up again?"

"We're better off alone. Well he is anyway. I tell you, he was always Sin this and Sin that. I'm like, wanting to forget about it and he won't shut up about it. Not many people aid in beating Sin twice, he almost says. Well, he doesn't say those exact words but I can just tell… Anyway enough about me and… oh, did I tell you!? I found a nice Al Bhed lad! I can't remember his name… I think it was Steve… Or maybe Bryan… or… Wait, hold on a minute. What Yunie? I'm on the phone… I'll feed the cat later… Anyway, what was I saying? Ah, never mind. How about you? What do you need to tell me?"

Yuffie glanced at the phone and shook her head, bemused. Only Rikku could speak of a break up in the air of someone being nominated for an award. Yuffie cleared her throat definitely.

"Well, Vince and I are… y'know?"

"OH MY GOD YOU'RE GETTING MARRIED!"

"No! Not that."

"He's not gay is he? What an idiot!"

"No!"

"Oh, I know. I can tell by your voice. You're buying a new rug aren't you?"

"…Is that code for anything?"

She could hear Rikku's confused tone done the phone as she spoke.

"No, it means… buying a rug. For your floor."

Yuffie laughed and shook her head, even though Rikku couldn't see that.

"Close, but not really. I guess I'll just tell you then. Vinnie and I are… well, we're having a baby."

There was a long pause after these words. Yuffie wondered if Rikku had fainted, but there was no thud or any other 'fainting after hearing shocking news' related noises.

The blonde blinked a few times and lowered her voice, in case someone was eavesdropping near by.

"What did Vincent say?"

"…I haven't told him."

Rikku's reaction was far from what she expected, and to Yuffie, she seemed to handle it very maturely.

"Ah. Hey, D'ya wanna meet up for a coffee? I haven't seen you in a while and a good old face to face chat would be nice, y'know?"

"Yeah," said Yuffie with a small smile, knowing the 'chat' would inevitably consist of 100 questions spewing from Rikku's mouth about her current situation. Nevertheless, she was another pair of ears… even if those ears didn't belong to her partner.

Rikku's blonde head, which was bopping up and down to no particular sound reared into view as she entered the coffee shop and headed over to Yuffie.

"Hey!" she cried, causing a few customers to jump slightly at the source of noise coming from such a small girl. She was about to throw her arms around the ninja, when she stopped midway, held out her hands and shook her head.

"Best not. You feeling okay?"

"I'm not made of glass," smiled her friend, pulling out a seat and indicating for her to sit down. She threw herself in the stool and waggled her legs excitedly, waving her arms to catch the workers attention.

"Two coffee's over here please!" she cried breathlessly as Yuffie forced back a giggle.

"I see you haven't changed much," she muttered with a grin, shielding her face from the angry looking worker.

She giggled and brushed back a bit of hair. "So, where's Vince?"

"Working with the WRO," she replied as two steaming mugs of coffee were placed down in front of them. "Oh, hey," she added. "Can I have a doughnut as well please?"

"I see you're already eating for two," giggled Rikku as the sugar coated calorie filled ring was placed in front of her. Yuffie chuckled and took a bite saying it was a good excuse to stuff her face without Vincent disapproving, which made Rikku delve into an anecdote about Auron's eating habits. Yuffie smiled, glad that her thoughts were finally on something else, even if it did include a very hungry Auron eating some supposedly poisonous fish.

"…You can get poisoned from it if it's not cooked right. What was it called again? Ah, can't remember. Anyway, you can die too! Auron was like, 'I don't want to die!' then Tidus goes, 'Auron, you're already dead!' it was funny at the time…"

Yuffie giggled and rose from her seat, stretching and licking the remaining sugar from her lips. "Come on, you can tell me all about Auron's favourite food back at mine."

"Ooh, I get to see Vinnie-boy? It's been ages…"

The pair grinned, threw some money down and left the shop, informing each other about their hectic lives as they travelled to Seventh Heaven, Yuffie's problems slowly melting away with every step she took with Rikku by her side.

Seventh Heaven had become so dull recently that Yuffie found herself wishing for some kind of enemy to come forth and try mess everything up again. Then she would silently scold herself for thinking such things and the possibility of putting her loved ones in danger to evade boredom. Rikku provided that extra bit of fun for her whilst Vincent 'ran off trying to save the world without her' as she so often fondly--yet begrudgingly--put it.

"Hey Marlene! High five!" grinned Rikku when the small brown haired girl emerged from the back. She giggled and joined hands with the young Al Bhed girl, the level of energy between them quite astounding.

"As bad as each other… Honestly…" chuckled Yuffie heading them to the back, taking a seat and pulling out her phone.

"I'm going to ring Vincent, okay?" she said, hoping he wasn't in the middle of some horrendous battle and the phone ringing would distract him. Rikku and Marlene quietly conversed amongst themselves, asking one another about school and Auron and boys…

The cool dialling tone rang through Yuffie's ears as she waited for his response. It soon stopped and everything was silent for a moment.

"Er…" said Vincent's voice. Yuffie sighed with relief and began talking, but he interjected.

"…I'm busy. Ring back later or leave a message… How do you turn this thing off?"

She could hear Reeve's voice in the background say, "Press the red button."

Vincent replied with a grunt and a beep was heard. He then said, "I do not understand technology, it's far too complicated. All we need is a phone that…"

"Vincent," said Reeve. "You didn't press the red button…"

"Oh…" he replied. There was another bleep and all was quiet. Yuffie looked at the phone for a moment, a look of confusion etched upon her face. She realised that was the answering machine and quickly hung up. Vincent was never good with technology anyway, she guessed it changed quite a bit during the 30 years he was sleeping for.

Yuffie fell silent through the majority of Rikku's visit, the thought of Vincent lodged in her mind, she wasn't registering what her friend was saying.

"Hey!" said Rikku snapping her fingers in front of her face. Yuffie jumped slightly and looked at the finger snapper in question. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, just a little worried about Vince, that's all…"

"C'mon, he's a big oy now, he can take care of himself. Anyway, they're all expecting me back so I should go. Ring em tomorrow, okay?"

"Will do. Take care…" said Yuffie slowly, her mind still elsewhere.

Rikku sighed, jumped up and pulled Yuffie in for a hug muttering, "I'm here, y'know?"

"Yeah, thanks," smiled Yuffie gratefully. Really, she was grateful but she wanted nothing more than to see her partner and tell him about her expectancy.

In her room, Yuffie kept the phone near by and kept a close eye on it awaiting his call. A torturous hour passed, consisting of her nervously chewing her nails--a bad habit, Dammit!-- repeatedly jumping up and glancing out the window at any noise and finding the odd magazine to read to keep her mind off things. Even they were against her. 'MY SHOCK PREGNANY! READ ALL ABOUT IT PAGES 4-44!' screamed the headline. Yuffie's hands shook with anger as she threw the paper down.

"Oh, go to hell!" she yelled as it made a satisfying slap upon the floor.

"Good evening to you too," said a familiar, deep and oh-so-sexy voice that she had heard one too many times and sent her crazy.

"Vince!" she cried, jumping up and attacking him with a hug that nearly knocked him flying. He caught her before either of then hit the floor and he wasn't sure he would surface alive from the kissing that followed.

"…What did I do to deserve that?" he muttered, glancing down at her short frame as she wrapped her arms round him.

"I just love you, I don't need a reason!" she said happily, taking a seat on the edge of he bed and pulling him down so they were in accord. She smiled nervously and uncontrollably blurted out, "baby!"

"Pardon?" asked Vincent. She took a deep breath and spoke slowly.

"You and me and a baby. We're having a bay. There, I told you!"

And she quickly hid her face, scared of a Cid-like explosion. She gingerly opened one eye to find a paler than usual Vincent with a shocked look beset upon his white face.

"I see," he said quietly, his facial expression rigid. "Excuse me for a moment."

He rose up and swept outside, ignoring Yuffie's call of, "Vincent!"

She outstretched an arm after him, but he simply left without looking back, so she slowly lowered her arm, feeling deflated.

"Men!" She said with a loud groan, throwing herself back on the bed and wishing the mattress would grow a mouth and swallow her whole.

First off, sorry about the crap chapter, I've had so much work on, I've got an exam next month, I've been Christmas shopping, learning my lines for drama, visiting everyone and trying to play a few games in between. Hectic life. Also, a thank you to Spiritslayer for giving me the motivation to write via messages (:

I think this story will have about four more chapters, and expect to see Reno again. That's all I'm saying :)

If I don't update by Christmas (which I probably won't. Sixteen over this year, must keep them all amused) I hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and a wonderful new year :)