Dance For Me
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Tifa sighed as she looked out the window. Cloud was obsessed and crazy with Aeris. When he had saved her from North Crater, she knew from his eyes that he simply thought that's what he was supposed to do. She wiped off a tear at the thought of this. That Aeris..took his heart form me... she thought miserably.

"I hope you're happy now! Because.. I'm giving up! I give up on Cloud!!!"

She screamed in rage toward the ceiling. Then a calm voice startled her.

"No use talking to the dead."

She was shocked by the voice and turned around. Her face was flushed with rage, but mostly with embarrassment that someone had heard her. She saw the man in the cape. The mysterious one. Vincent Valentine. She stammered,

"Wh..when did you come? What have you heard!?"

"I heard enough."

His short simple reply made her angry and embarrassed.

"Do you know how to knock!?"

"I did."

She sighed. It was her fault after all. She was too deep in thought to notice him.

"I...I'm sorry.. I didn't mean to."

Vincent shrugged casually.

"It happens."

His short replies made her feel somewhat weird. She decided to go get something to drink, and brushed past him when she noticed something red streaming down from his head. She stopped and looked at the wound. It didn't look very serious, but it was bleeding quite a bit.

"Your..head.."

Vincent raised his hand and touched the wound. He looked surprised.

"Hm..? Just a small scratch."

"But it's bleeding terribly! Let me see that!"

Tifa forced Vincent to hold still while she removed his bandana he always wore to keep his long locks out of his face. It wasn't a small scratch, but not so big either. Looked like a blade scratch.

"How..what happened?"

"Oh..nothing."

Tifa was tempted to get the information out of him, but decided to ask others. She walked to the shelf in her room and took out the emergency First-Aid kit. She took out a cotton, tweezer, alcohol, and some vaselin looking like medicine to put on the wound. She spilled some alcohol in the cotton, held it with the tweezer, and carefully cleaned the blood and the wound. She was sure that he was wincing each time the cotton would touch his wound. After cleaning, she applied some of the medicine on his wound and stuck a purple barney band-aid there.

"Does it have to be barney?"

"Well..do you want tellytubbies?"

This silenced Vincent. He quietly snatched back his bandana and put it back on his head. Tifa tilted her head.

"Now what was it that you came here for?"

"....We're 5 hours away. Get some rest."

With those few words, he left, slamming the door behind him, leaving Tifa confused. She decided to get some rest after all. Promised Land would be tiring.. with that Aeris.

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Tifa woke up when the ship slightly shook. She raised her upper body and rubbed her eyes. She had a slight headache. Then she heard a faint knock. She found Red trying to knock with his paws, standing up with his hind legs. It was such a funny scene, and Tifa couldn't stifle her laughter. After five minutes of laughter, she finally asked Red.

"What is it?"

Red looked furious, but he replied to Tifa as nice as he can.

"We're here. Get ready in 15 minutes."

With that, Red ran out, wondering if he really looked that silly. Tifa giggled once again, and stretched out on her bed. She did her quick morning exercises and went to the bar. Already Cloud was there, deep in his own thoughts. She didn't bother to even talk to him. Probably Aeris, she thought. She wondered who was driving the ship. Then she realized they had already landed. She wondered how long she slept. Tifa once again stretched her arms and walked to Cait Sith. His back was against her, and it looked like he was hiding something. When Cait was hiding something, it meant trouble.

"What are you doing?"

Cait looked startled. He stammered,

"N..Nothin! Go! Go! We're here! Yeah!"

Tifa raised her brow and pushed Cait Sith out of her way.

"Yuffie!?"

Yuffie looked at Tifa innocently and smiled.

"Um..Hiya!"

"What are you doing here?"

"Puking my brains out."

"How..?"

"Heh..it's a secret! You'll never know that I thought those Promised Land must have precious materia!"

Tifa laughed at Yuffie's dumbness. But she thought she'd go with it.

"Oh fine..if you don't want to tell me.. Oh well.. Boohoo for me!"

Suddenly Cloud raised his head.

"Let's go."

Everyone looked at him.

"Let's go..Aeris she would be waiting, wouldn't she?"

Tifa knew he was insane. He didn't make much sense.

"WHat are you guys waiting for? Let's go!"

Everyone reluctantly followed Cloud as he marched out to the new land.

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Thanx for reading! ^^ r&r would encourage me to write more! heeehee.. Thank you for reading! Sorry for insane Cloud..