This is a short one but I'll get another one up for you soon enough. Hope you've all had a good week, mine's been hectic but more importantly...I'M GOING TO JAPAN NEXT YEAR!!!!! This epicness beyond epicness, while not official I was told at the interview I got into the Study Abroad program; so I am incredibly happy. Other than that I keep getting new plot bunnies. I have literally started another story, though this time it's One Piece. I've already got the first chapter written...and it's 20 pages long. Yeah, I think it's becuase I find Kreig to be annoying...anyways enough of my rambling time to get onto the important stuff! Shout outs: Sololight and Enyara.

Disclaimer: I've been forgetting these but I have been saving the kitties that die every time it's written.

Chapter 36: Time to rebuild

The cave tunnels were collapsing and everyone had run back to the center to keep from being crushed. Kira gave a quiet sigh of relief as they sat there watching as Cloud and Tifa pulled themselves onto a ledge. As the two of them looked around Kira waved a hand and called over teasingly "Heey! You two play nice, you here!" Kira laughed as the two of them blushed brightly enough that she could see it from the other side of the cavern the others laughing as well.

Tifa waved over to them yelling "I'm glad you're all safe! Though sometimes I wish you would break your jaw Kira!"

Kira grinned as she called back teasingly "Now that wasn't very nice."

The others chuckled as Kira settled down next to Vincent, her legs hanging over the edge glancing back as Barret asked "But…now what're we going to do?"

Kira shrugged as Red commented "Holy should be moving soon, and that means this place will…"

Cid sighed as Kira laid back her hands under her head as the pilot muttered "Oh, Lady Luck don't fail me now…"

Kira's eye twitched and her shoulders slumped as she muttered "You have got to be kidding me." The roof of the cave was collapsing! Kira sat up and pulled her legs in; smashing the cigarette that Cid had dropped as he stared at the rocks falling towards them. Kira blinked as the dust settled and tilted her head as she stared at a pinup muttering "Well that's a very interesting rock."

Cid whacked her on the back of the head exclaiming "Stop letting Yuffie rub off on ya!"

Kira grinned and ran a hand through her hair straightening it out before following everyone jumping onto the ship calling to Cid as he made his way to the bridge "Looks like Lady Luck still has a thing for ya Cid." The pilot chuckled as he slid down one of the floors to the door of the bridge Kira following him down, sliding through the now open door, stopping only when her feet slammed into a railing. As the group settled down where they could without sliding around they heard a rumble building up and suddenly they were sent flying as Holy released like a geyser. Kira grabbed onto a railing as they flew upward, some of the unluckies hitting the ceiling as they flew up. Holding on for dear life as they found themselves falling to the back of the airship, Kira dangled there for a second before grabbing onto Cait as he slid back the mechanical cat jumping onto her back his arms locked around her neck. Kira grunted as she found her face slammed into the floor as the engines turned on and they took off. Cait got off of the girl and leaned over her worriedly as she didn't move for a moment before groaning "Ow." Pushing herself up Kira glanced at her grip on the railing that hadn't been released and sighed slowly unclenching her fingers from around the pole. Sitting on her knees she leaned back and rubbed her forehead with a sigh glancing over at Cait as he stood there for a moment before patting the cat's head and pushing herself to her feet. The mechanical cat jumped up happily before hurrying over to his moogle and getting on as Kira moved over to Cid as he piloted the ship and asked "Where we headed?"

He glanced back at her before answering "Midgar. We lost a lota weight with that fall we should be able to get there real fast." Kira nodded and moved around checking the others casting small Cures and a Cura on Barret's temporarily broken nose.

Everyone was staring out the window at the city of Midgar as Meteor sucked up all the Mako. Kira's eyes narrowed as she saw that Holy wasn't really helping, it was holding Meteor up! She glanced at Barret as he exclaimed "Wait a damn minute! What's going to happen to Midgar? We can't let that happen!"

She turned to Barret exclaiming "Forget Midgar and start worrying about the whole planet!"

The mechanical cat scratched the back of his head before saying "I had everyone take refuge in the slums, but the way things are now…"

Kira glanced down as Red stalked up next to her saying "It's too late for Holy. Meteor is approaching the Planet. Holy is having the opposite effect."

Kira shook her head as the Highwind moved away from the city and she blinked as a small light caught her attention and she stared at it as it started to grow larger Tifa asking "What's that?"

Snake-like beams of light were flowing from the ground and Kira muttered "The Lifestream…" They watched as the Lifestream from all over the Planet streamed forth and attacked the Meteor the people on the ship wincing at the light that it emitted, Kira pulling down her sunglasses. As the light faded most everyone gasped as they saw that Meteor was gone and Kira looked at the ground below a sad smile on her face as she muttered "Thank you…Aerith." Looking at the others she smiled as they cheered. The planet was safe and for the first time in a long time they could rest.

Kira shook her head leaning on the railing next to Cait Sith as the mechanical cat looked up at her, as she smiled, asking "Why aren't you as happy as the rest?"

Kira looked down at him before grinning as she said "I am. Now we get to rebuild, make something new. There are going to be a lot of hardships that come ahead, it's always easier to destroy then build but I think we can handle it." The cat nodded as he turned back to watch the others Red jogged up to Kira who kneeled down to scratch his head. The feline put his paws on her shoulders and rubbed his face against her own causing the girl to laugh and lose her balance making her sit on the floor. As everyone started to calm down Red got off of Kira and let her wrap an arm around his shoulders as she leaned against him.

She glanced up at Cid as he asked "So where do you all want to go?" Kira blinked and tilted her head, the side of her head on Red's neck and sighed.

Most everyone wanted to go home, even Vincent was headed for the Shinra Manor, and they looked at Kira curiously before she grinned saying "I think I'll stick around Midgar. We're gonna have plenty of work to do once we get there." The people that were going to stay in Midgar groaned momentarily before grinning as they glanced at each other. Landing the Highwind everyone walked off of the ship and stretched in the open air.

Yuffie grinned and waved at the group energetically saying "Well I guess I'll be off then."

Kira raised an eyebrow at the ninja and warned "Yuffie…" The ninja glanced back with a sheepish grin as the woman continued "First off, give me back my wallet and second give everyone back their materia."

Everyone blinked before searching their persons quickly before leveling glares at the girl who slumped and started handing back the materia muttering "Darn, former pick-pockets." Kira chuckled as Tifa snatched all the materia and put it in a trunk that she had brought out with her and locked it before shoving it into Cloud's arms. Yuffie gawped at the older girl for a moment before exclaiming "What'd you do that for?!"

Tifa shook her head as she explained "This is powerful stuff and we wouldn't want it in the wrong hands. Plus we know Cloud won't use it."

Kira laughed at the horror that was sketched across Yuffie's face and slung an arm around the girl's shoulders giving them a friendly squeeze as she asked "You really didn't expect us to give the materia to you, did you? At the moment no one on the planet needs that kind of power."

The ninja looked up at her and asked "What about you? You can still perform spells right."

Kira shrugged saying "Well, it's not like I can just change what I am now can I." Yuffie sighed before hugging the former SOLDIER, much to the older woman's shock but she hugged the girl back for a moment.

Yuffie pulled away and grinned at the others before splitting off form the group waving energetically yelling at them "See you guys later! Make sure to call sometime!" Kira grinned as the ninja ran off heading back to Wutai and probably trying to find more materia along the way.

Red nuzzled Kira's hand and the girl knelt down wrapping her arms around his neck as he murmured to her "You are always welcome in Cosmo Canyon."

Kira grinned and leaned back saying "I'll make sure to not be a stranger then." The feline nodded and moved to the next person he was going to say his goodbyes to as Kira moved over to Vincent and looked up at him for a moment before grinning as she said "We'll see each other again." The former Turk nodded blinking when Kira gave a mischievous smile and hugged him. Pulling back quickly she grinned at his shocked expression saying "Yes! You should see your face right now I always wondered what your reaction would be." The man rolled his crimson eyes and uncharacteristically for him wrapped his arms around her shoulders for a brief second in hug before pulling away to smirk at the shock that was sketched across the girl's face. Kira chuckled and shook her head momentarily before backing away and waving to him as he headed for Nibelhiem.

Kira grinned and ducked her head slightly as Cid ruffled her hair fondly saying "See ya around kid. Try not to get killed."

Kira swiped at his hand before kissing his grizzled cheek and chuckled as she replied "Yeah, same goes to you old man."

Cid huffed and yelled at her "Who the hell are you callin' old?!"

Kira grinned as she replied simply "You." Cid huffed again before chuckling and heading back to his ship to go off to Rocket Town. Barret, Cloud, Tifa, Cait Sith, and Kira all waved up to the ship as it took off watching it until it was out of sight.

Kira looked over at Barret as he crossed his arms and sighed saying "I'll see you guys in Midgar eventually. I'm going to Kalm first to get Marlene." Kira grinned and nodded at the man as he too walked off leaving the three humans and the mechanical cat behind to trek to Midgar.

As they made it to the edge of Midgar they looked around to see small numbers of people milling around assessing the damage of what had taken place others making their way up the sheer slopes to escape. Midgar was trashed. Kira sighed and propped her hands on her hips muttering "This is gonna take a lot of work…but first we should probably find some place safe to crash." The others glanced at her and nodded quietly the amount of damage having shocked them into silence.

They looked down at Cait as he bounced in front of them saying "If you don't mind you can stay where I am."

Kira grinned and glanced at the other two who shrugged and she turned back to Cait saying "Lead the way. We've got a lot of work to start tomorrow."