I'm so sorry! See, I wanted you to vote on the couple for Cloud on my new fic, but I wanted to start the fic so I just picked Tifa/Cloud! I'm sorry, I just wanted to get a chapter or so up. By the way, my new story is called "The Legend of Nanaki" so check it out if you'd like ^_^! Anyway, please R&R.



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[Chapter 14: A big misunderstanding]







The next day, Cloud, Tifa, and Vincent were all sitting at the kitchen table. Yuffie, of course, was still in bed and it was about 11:00. She usually slept late, but now, she got to sleep even later for she didn't live with her father. Godo would always wake her up and make her train or fetch something for him.

Yuffie rolled over in her sleep. She was soon awakend by the sound of someone yelling. She sat up quickly and listened who was yelling.

"Vinnie...!" Yuffie moaned. "Man, and I was having a good dream, too!" She slid out of bed and yawned. "I wonder what he's yelling about...?" the young ninja grabbed her usual outfit and slid her PJs off.

After she was done getting dressed, she quickly combed her hair and ran downstairs. The yelling was getting much louder as she approched the kitchen. She walked in.

"Vin---nie! Why are you yellin' like that? You woke me up!" Yuffie yawned again. Vincent took his hands off the table, where Cloud and Tifa were sitting, and turned around to face her. ".....Roy has escaped...." he mumbled with his eyes closed.

"WHAT?!!!?!!" Yuffie stepped back. "How, when?!"

"He escaped this morning, we think around 7:00 or so." Cloud said. "So that's what you were yelling about...." Yuffie said. "Yeah, and Reeve will be here today to pick him up and take him to jail!" Vincent said. Yuffie walked further into the kitchen.

"Well, why can't you just tell him that he escaped and NOT to come over?" she asked. "No." Tifa began. "We can't. His PHS is offline and there's no way to reach him."

"What about his home phone number?" Yuffie asked. Cloud shook his head. "His phone has been disconnected also...." Yuffie couldn't belive it. "There's no possible way to reach him then?"

"No." Vincent said. "Reeve will be pretty mad at us if he found out we didn't have Roy. He might even think we set this up as a joke..." "Reeve is our friend, he'd never---" Yuffie was cut off by Vincent. "Not a close friend, Yuffie..." Vincent looked down.

"We saved the world together! He IS a close friend!" Yuffie argued. "Well, I don't know...." Cloud spoke up. "He MIGHT belive us if we told him that Roy just escaped. You never know." Tifa said. "Yeah...let's hope so...." Vincent said.

About 30 minutes later, everyone went downstairs to show Yuffie the cage. Her eyes widend.

"W-what is that...?" she asked, looking at the huge hole in the side of the cage. "We don't know. We've been trying to figure that out since we saw it." Cloud said. "I told you they looked like Chaos marks!" Vincent shouted. "Hey-hey! Don't get mad at me! It's your fault he escaped!" Cloud shouted back.

"ME?! YOU'RE the one who pissed him off when you showed him his gun and all that you said!!" Vincent yelled.

"How'd you know what I said? You weren't even there to hear it!!" Cloud yelled.

"I have ears ya know!! YOU were the one who caused him to escape!!!" Yuffie ran to Vincent and Tifa ran to Cloud. "Settle down you two!" they both said. "It's nobodys fault, what happened, happened. Okay? There's no reason to fight about it." Tifa said.

Vincent looked away as did Cloud. "Sorry Cloud...." Vincent said in a low voice. "Yeah...I'm sorry too..." Cloud spoke up. Tifa smiled and ran around to the hole in the cage. "I dunno Vincent...Chaos? He really couldn't transform here without us waking up."

"Well? Any other solutions?" Vincent crossed his arms over his chest. Yuffie ran over to Tifa and examined the hole as well. "Hmm...this IS strange...." Vincent walked over to Yuffie and examined it, too. "It wasn't done by hand...nor any weapon that I know of..."

Cloud joined them and examined it. "Maybe Reeve could tell us?" he said. "Maybe...." Vincent said not taking his eyes off the hole. Cloud thought of something right then and there. "Vince...I wanted to give you this earlier, but just fogot to..." Cloud reached into his pocket. Empty...

He reached into his other pocket. Nothing... Cloud was starting to panick. He reachen into his other pockets and found nothing. Vincent and the others gave him a weird look. Cloud began to sweat. "Um...it's around here somewhere...uh...hang on..." Cloud ran upstairs and into his bedroom. He looked on his dresser and found where a gun was supposed to be. Nothing was found.

Cloud ran back downstairs and to Vincent. "Uhh....Vincent....I....I think it was stolen...." Vincent looked at him strangely. "What was stolen?"

"I was uh....gonna give you the Ultima Gun...but....it's gone...." Cloud said nervously. "WHAT?!!!?!?!?!?!" all but Cloud said. "Roy probably took it from Cloud's room!" Yuffie said. Tifa jumped. "Ahh!! He was in our room!??" Vincent's rage built. "GRRR ROY! How could you!?!!" Vincent shook his fists.

"Dammit! If only I had a better cage!" Cloud cursed himself. Vincent looked back at him. "No, it wasn't your fault....Roy just got the gun and there's nothing we can do about it now...."

A knock was heard at the door. "That's Reeve!" Cloud ran upstairs to answer it. Vincent, Tifa and Yuffie did as well, but Yuffie tripped over something.

"OWWW!! Damn thing! What did I trip on?!" Yuffie crawled to where she'd tripped. Vincent and Tifa ran back to her. The ninja found a hole in the ground that she fell on and all three gasped.

"A hole?!" Yuffie was helped up to her feet by Vincent. She brushed herself off. "Yuffie, are you okay?" Vincent asked before being concerned about the hole. "Yeah, but that hole....Roy must have escaped through it...." Tifa nodded. "I'll go tell Cloud while you guys examine it." she said.

Yuffie kneeled down in front of the hole. "Wonder how far it goes?" "Not far." Vincent began. "He dug a hole here and probably didn't go very far to come up outside the house. We should of looked outside to find the hole."

"Oh, and Yuf...if you don't mind me calling you that, I'm sorry for waking you up this morning." Yuffie smiled. No one hardly ever called her Yuf but Tifa and Barret. Sometimes Cloud would, but not much. AND she liked it coming from Vincent.

*Yuf...he called me Yuf...yay! When he says it, it makes my heart melt...* Yuffie thought.

She then cracked up laughing.

*'Makes my heart melt'? what was I thinking? I never have said anything like that in my life!*

Vincent stared at her and wondered what the hell was going on. "Uh...Yuffie? What's so funny?" Yuffie snapped out of her thoughts and laughed harder. "N-n-nothing!" She said in between laughs. Vincent smiled. He just found out what she was laughing about.

"..........Yuf........" he said simply. Yuffie stopped laughing then went back to thinking. She then went back to laughing. "S-s-stop calling m-me th- that!" She fell to the ground, holding her sides laughing so hard. Vincent started laughing. "Yuf, ohhh...Yuf!" Vincent said. Yuffie laughed more.

They both heard yelling from upstairs. Yuffie quit laughing and got up. Vincent listened in on the conversation.

~Upstairs~

"WHAT?!?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE ESCAPED?!?!?!" Reeve yelled. Cloud backed up. "Sorry! We couldn't get ahold of you to tell you sooner!"

"Sooner?! When the hell did this happen?!!?" Reeve continued to shout. "This morning! AND quit your yelling!" Cloud shouted. Reeve lowered his voice a bit. "I know what this is! You're lying! You're the ones who FREED him!!!" Reeve yelled.

~Downstairs~

Yuffie's jaw dropped. "What?! He thinks WE freed Roy?! That traitor!"

~Upstairs~

Cloud and Tifa were shocked. "WHAT???!!!" Tifa yelled. "WE didn't do ANYTHING!!!!"

Reeve laughed. "And why am I supposed to belive you?! Where's the proof!?" "Oh we have the proof! Come with us!" Tifa and Cloud led Reeve downstairs. Yuffie and Vincent backed away from the door and acted casual.

Cloud opened the door quickly and rushed in. He ran over to the hole where Yuffie had tripped. "See? He dug this after he broke out of the cage! Tifa told me!" Reeve walked over to the hole in the cage. He set his briefcase down.

"Any nimrod coulda set this up! You could of tore the cage apart and dug that hole! You set this up! I know you did!" Reeve shouted. Yuffie and Vincent's jaws dropped again. "What?!" Yuffie waled over to Reeve. "Why would WE let out a dangerous criminal that we've captured?!" she pushed Reeve.

Reeve stumbled back. "Don't EVER let me catch you push me again!" Reeve resumed his normal position. "Because I can put you in jail!"

Yuffie was really mad. "Put me in jail?! For what?! Pushing a low life like you around?!" Reeve took out his handcuffs and twisted Yuffie's wrists together behind her back and cuffed her.

Vincent could of swore he saw Yuffie's eyes turn bright yellow for a single second. Reeve pushed her up against the cage. "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be held against you in the court of law." Vincent ran towards Reeve. "Goddamn you! You can't do this to me! I'm the Princess of Wutai!"

Vincent pushed Reeve off her. "What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Vincent yelled. "You are all under arrest for freeing a most wanted criminal and attempting to harm the will of others." Reeve said as he pulled out his gun. "Now all of you, get you're hands in the air! NOW!!" he pointed his gun at them.

Yuffie struggled in the handcuffs. "You jerk! We'll get you for this!" "Harming the will of others?! How?!" Tifa yelled. "Get on the floor right now with your hands on your head!!" Reeve shouted. Tifa and Cloud put their hands up and got on the floor. Vincent remained with only his hands up.

"You too! Get on the floor right NOW!!!!" Vincent didn't move. Yuffie tried to kick Reeve, but he doged it. "You jerk!!" Yuffie yelled. Reeve took out another gun. It was smaller.

He pointed it at Yuffie. Vincent quickly drew Death Penalty and shot the gun. Reeve's finger pulled the trigger right before the gun was shot from his hand and Yuffie's neck was struck by a small dart. Reeve quickly pointed his other gun at Vincent. "GET ON THE FLOOR WITH YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD!!! NOW!!!!!!" Reeve shouted. Yuffie was slowly losing consciousness every second.

Yuffie fell to the floor, still conscious....but not by far. "DROP YOUR WEAPON RIGHT NOW!!!!" Vincent threw Death Penalty to the floor. "ON THE FLOOR!!!" Reeve yelled. Vincent slowly got on his knees and soon to the floor with his hands on his head.

"I thought you were our friend...." Vincent said slowly. "The law's the law. I enforce it and you broke it. Now you do the time!"

Yuffie was barely conscious. She reached into her back pocket. It was pretty hard to get anything out with handcuffs, but she managed. She pulled out what looked like some mini shurikens. Reeve turned to Cloud and Tifa, whom were still on the floor. He picked up the dart gun off the floor.

"I hope this still works...." he pointed the gun at the wall and fired. The dart bounced off the wall and hit the ground. "Good..." he pointed the gun at Tifa.

While Reeve was looking away, this was Yuffie's chance before she went out cold. She threw the mini shurikens to Vincent. Vincent slowly inched his hands to them so Reeve wouldn't see any movement from the corner of his eye.

Vincent grabbed the mini shurikens and looked at Yuffie to say 'thank you' with his eyes, but as soon as he saw her, she was out cold. Vincent's rage built. He aimed one of the shurikens at Reeve's dart gun, still laying down. Vincent didn't know much of the arts of Wutai, where they used weapons like this and there were so many ninjas that lived there, each time you went around a corner, you'd see at least 3 of them walking by.

Vincent thought back to when Yuffie had told him some ways to fight with shurikens and other ninja weapons.

~~~"When you use a shuriken, always concentrate on your target, never look away, and think of ways to defeat targets. Big targets need lotsa concentration, while little ones need a lot, but not as much. Think of a rabbit, they are small targets where to as not need much concentration, now think of a animal about Red XIII's size. They are big targets, but not very tall and as to need more concentration than a rabbit. A human is a tall, yet fairly small target. Just concentrate on where you want the shuriken to hit the target, then aim and throw. It's complicated, but well worth the effort, and us Wutaians know the ways of the ninja."~~~

Vincent remembered that as clear as day. She had said something else, but he could not remember it. He never thought he would actually need that advice, but now was the time. The time to save his friends.

Vincent thought up all of that in only a few seconds, yet it seemed like hours. He concentrated on his target. Aim for the hand. He closed his eyes. He only had 3 shurikens, meaning 3 chances....

Vincent opened his eyes quickly and threw the mini weapon. Bullseye. It hit Reeve's right hand, cutting it slightly. Reeve dropped the gun as soon as the impact came. Unfortunalty for Reeve, his other gun was by Yuffie. He'd forgoten he'd put it there. As the gun fell to the ground, Vincent, Tifa, and Cloud all quickly got up. Cloud drew his sword and Tifa stood in a fighting position, while Vincent picked up Death Penalty and aimed it at Reeve.

"HANDS OVER YOUR HEAD!!!" Vincent yelled. Reeve backed up. "Well boys and girls...I have one more trick up my sleeve." Reeve said. He quickly reached into his pocket and pulled out a small device with a red button. He pushed the button and threw the device across the room.

"What was that?!?!" Cloud yelled. Soon, Cloud got his answer, about 20 different men in dark blue suits ran into the room and grabbed Tifa, Cloud, and Vincent. They cuffed them and took away their weapons and led them upstairs.

"That's why it's always a good idea to bring reinforcements along." Reeve smiled.







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