Disclaimer: as always I don't own all the Final Fantasy stuff involved in this story, hmmmmm Do I have to do a disclaimer for every chapter? Please tell me because I don't know.



It had been two hour's since they had left the mansion, they had decided to go separate ways and meet up later.

"Grrrrrrrr, why did Aeris run away, she was so inconsiderate to the rest of us, I mean I was just happily sleeping and when I finally decide to wake up we have to go and find her," Yuffie grumbled for the 55555 times that day. Vincent decide just to let her talk, it was easier that way. He was glad she chose him to be on her team, Cloud and Tifa had obviously gone together, and Barret and Cid had no real choice, they had to go together.

"I mean, like one moment your sitting on a comfy sofa watching you and Cloud bitch at each other, and the next your on the back of some stinky bird," she continued, hearing what she had said the Chocobo bucked sending her flying to the floor. Vincent turned round and saw her lying in the mud.

"Bad, stupid bird," he shouted at it, it bucked again sending Vincent in to the mud as well, then it legged it as fast as it could.

"Great, just superb," Yuffie exclaimed sarcastically, she rolled her eyes and fell back into the mud.

"We'll just get another bird," said Vincent standing up and giving his hand to Yuffie,

"Yes, that would be a good idea…If we had any greens to catch one, or any money to buy them," She said trying to get the mud off her shorts.

"Didn't Cloud send some to the ranch for save keeping, we could get one of them out," He replied.

"Oh yeah, there was that scrawny one we called Hojo and that really pretty, Sparkly one called Jessie, Ohh lets get that one," she said as they started to walk along, they weren't that far from the ranch.

"You mean the gold Chocobo, Cloud would be so mad if we took that out," He said

"Ohh, well then do you want to ride Hojo?"

Vincent shuddered at the thought, Yuffie laughed "Well then we take Jessie, I thought it was sweet he named it after that dead girl, what was her name again?" she said with a slight skip, keeping up with Vincent was hard.

"Jessie, perhaps," He said with a slight chuckle

"Oh yeah, well duh," she said to herself, she turned red, "Hey, do you think I'm stupid," she blurted out

"No, you are very…. um cunning," he said

"Well thank you, I guess. You still going to teach me to read?"

" Whenever we get the chance, okay, and don't worry I won't tell the others," he said keeping his eyes up.

"Thanks, I knew I could trust you," she said trying to gain eye contact with him, he finally looked down at her; and gave her a quick smile.

They walked on.

"We are nearly there now," he said breaking the silence

"Thank Leviathan, Gawd, my leg brace keeps sticking in my leg, I think that stupid bird broke it," she said, then she fell on to the ground. Vincent kneeled down next to her,

"Let me see," he said straightening out her leg.

He pushed the bottom of her shorts up.

"Oh dear, its sticking in your leg, you have to take it off," he said seeing the sharp metal pushed slightly into her leg.

"No way, it will hurt," she said keeping her eyes tightly shut.

"How on earth did you walk this far like this, it has to come off I'm afraid," he said, "Count to ten, and squeeze my hand," he said giving her his real hand, he started to pull the metal out of her leg, she screamed and dug her nails in to his hand, "Owwwww, okay let me change hands," he exclaimed stopping the metal removing for awhile, he took his hand out of hers and replaced it with his Claw, he quickly started tugging the metal out again, she scratched and pinched as hard as she could, it wasn't making any difference two the heavy metal claw.

"Okay all done," he said as he pulled it of her leg, "we'll get this fixed at a weapon store or somewhere that they can weld it back together," he said waving the brace around,

Yuffie opened her eyes, slowly. She cast a cure on it quickly to take away the pain away.

He helped her up; she tried to stand but lost her balance.

"Vincent, I can't walk without that thing, ever since an accident I had in Da Chao I've never been able to support my self without it." She looked down, sadly.

Vincent looked at her, what could he do. A thought came to his mind. He remembered a gift his sister had given to him on his ninth birthday. She had told him that if you played this flute it would lure Chocobo's or Moogles. It was a long shot but he had to try. He took it out of his cape pocket and bought it up to his mouth.

"Cool, you can play the flute," Yuffie shouted from the floor, he nodded and began to play it.

The tune was pretty, Yuffie hummed along softly.

Sure enough a chocobo started to run at them,

"Wow, Magical!" She breathed, it wasn't a golden chocobo but it was better than the last one that was for sure.

Vincent smiled; the flute had never worked before. He petted the Chocobo's head; he lifted Yuffie up and placed her side-saddle (because her leg was still sore) on the front of the bird, he climbed on to the back, he put his head band in the Chocobo's mouth, because inconveniently the wild Chocobo's did not come with reins, he put his arms around her waist so she wouldn't fall off and tugged the reins, the chocobo started to run, very fast. The wind pulled Vincent's hair back; it blew wildly because he had taken his headband off. Yuffie stared up at him, he was having a lot of fun, and he was smiling and laughed now and again. Yuffie clung to him, she had never been on a Chocobo so fast, she was really impressed by his flute playing and was convinced that the Chocobo was magic, she laughed, a magic chocobo, that was cool.

They travelled on for about another 7miles, and then stopped, they were now at the meeting place and had seen no sign of Aeris, the other's weren't there yet either. The poor chocobo was tired and needed to rest. He ran forward for a refreshing drink from the river, as soon as Vincent had taken Yuffie off his back. He drank quickly, than found a nice piece of green grass to rest on.

Yuffie was surprised that it didn't need to be tied to a tree or something. She looked around, Vincent was washing his face in the river, and he turned to look at her. He walked over to her.

"How is your leg?" he asked

"It's fine now, as soon as my brace is fixed I'll be able to walk again," she said starring up at him. He bent down and helped her up, she stumbled but he managed to hold her up.

She looked at him for a while and then pushed him over, he landed on his back,

"Hey what was that for!" he said, confused.

She had managed to prop her self up on her knees and sat on his stomach, she bought her head down to his; she bumped his nose with hers. Vincent swallowed a lump that had formed in his throat and stared up into her eyes, she gave him a questioning look. He smiled and tilted his nose away; she tried again and kissed him softly on the lips. She was expecting him to push her off, but instead he kissed her back and put his hand on her hip, bringing her closer to him. She finally broke away and smiled. Vincent sat up and put his hands on her back, she slid hers across his chest.

"What was that for?" he finally managed to ask

"It was for being so Vincent, and I love Vincent so I wanted to kiss you," she explained turning red.

"Well this is for being so Yuffie, because I love Yuffie," he said laying her down on the grass and repeating the way she had done before,

Suddenly the chocobo woke up, it warked happily at them and ran around them franticly, one of it's feathers fell effortlessly to the floor, it got bored of running around and went for another drink.

Vincent finally released Yuffie and picked up the feather, he brushed it against her cheek, she giggled happily,

"Hey that tickles," she laughed

He did it again but this time under her chin, she squealed and wriggled underneath him. He sat up and tickled her belly.

"Quit it," she said between her uncontrollable laughs.

"Never," he whispered

"Erhmm, I hope we're not interrupting anything," Cid said from behind them

"Ahhhhh," Vincent jumped off of Yuffie and looked at them.

"Vincent was just helping me up," Yuffie said to them

"Yeah, right well how come your still on the floor," Barret added

They looked at each other and laughed, and then they looked over to Cid and Barret.

Cid and Barret started laughing too, "We won't tell the other's, we promise," Cid said.

Yuffie and Vincent sighed; they thought that Tifa and Cloud wouldn't understand, how wrong they were.



A/N: oh I have History coursework to do so I have to go, Next chap WILL have Tseng I promise. Please R&R.