Here's chapter 3, everyone. Hope you enjoy it. Please R&R!
Disclaimer: I do not own FF7 or anything in it. Squaresoft owns it all.
[Chapter 3: Friday the 13th]
Vincent awoke the next day to the sound of the shower. The water pipes led into his room and ran underneath the room's floor. Luckily, there were four bathrooms in the house and only Yuffie's could be heard from his room. He yawned and stretched underneath the covers. He felt so tired, yet he didn't know why. He rolled over on his side to look at the alarm clock next to him.
"Oh man! I overslept!" he said as he pushed all the covers off of him and left them in a messy pile on the bed. He quickly grabbed a few things out of the closet and headed into his bathroom.
Vincent turned on the water to the shower. He stripped his black boxers off (A/N: Yes, that's the only thing he was wearing at the time. *wink wink*) and was such in a hurry that he jumped in the shower before testing the water.
He bit his lip and tried to resist yelling. He turned the knob all the way to hot and stepped back away from the water until it heated up.
**Hehehe...You're a moron.** Chaos chuckled.
*I didn't know it'd be cold!* Vincent almost laughed at his foolishness.
The water heated up as Vincent stepped into it. "Much better..." he grabbed the shampoo and squeezed the bottle.
Nothing came out.
He shook and squeezed a few more times before lifting it above his head. He closed one eye and looked up into the bottle with the other one.
Before he knew it, a big goop of shampoo had made its way to the edge of the bottle and dropped into his eye.
"Ahhh! Shit!!" he dropped the bottle and rubbed his eyes, getting some shampoo into the other eye in the process. And to make things even worse, the hot water turned to freezing cold.
**Hahahahahaha!** Chaos laughed his head off.
Vincent blindly stepped back and slipped on the bar of soap, causing him to fall into the shower curtain. He grabbed on for dear life as he tumbled forward and ripped the curtain ring from ring.
As soon as he came to the last ring, he stopped. The last ring was supporting his weight. He looked up with blurry vision.
"Please...oh please..." he tried placing one of his feet back down on the bathtub floor, but as he shifted his weight, the last ring snapped and Vincent went tumbling down to the hard surfaced bathroom floor.
"Owww!" he rubbed his head as he got to his knees and reached in the shower and turned off the water. "Yuffie...why'd you use all the hot water?" he whispered and got to his feet.
**Ya know what?**
*Shut up! I know what happened! Don't call me a moron!*
Vincent rubbed the remaining shampoo from his eyes. "Hey, where's my clothes?" he shivered from the cold water still on his body. He reached for a towel and wrapped himself in it.
His ears folded back. "Wait a minute..." he picked up the wet, fallen shower curtain and saw his clothes, soaked. He growled and picked them up in rage. He walked out of the bathroom and back to his closet. On the way there, he passed a mirror.
"Huh?" he backed up to the mirror and looked at himself. "Ahh, my eyes!" he rubbed his eyes some more. When he looked back at the mirror, his eyes were still red and watery. "What luck!" he said sarcastically and walked to his closet.
Luckily for him, he had spare black shirts and black pants. He grabbed them and threw them on the bed along with some boots.
Vincent chucked his damp clothes into the laundry basket and slipped on the dry clothes. Instead of wearing his usual gold boots, he slipped on a pair of black boots. He decided not to wear his scarlet cape.
Vincent went back into the bathroom and towel-dried his hair. He then ran a comb through his raven black hair. As soon as he was satisfied, he brushed his teeth and walked out.
"God what a morning!" he walked downstairs and into the kitchen. "Hey, Vinnie!" Yuffie greeted him as he entered. "What was all that commotion upstairs?"
He looked around in the kitchen. "Oh nothing. Where's Cloud and Tifa?"
"They're out riding chocobos. Sunny and Raven needed exercise." She grabbed the cereal box and poured some cereal into her bowl. "How long have they been gone?" he asked. "Hmm, let's see...they left around 11:00." Vincent sighed in relief. It was only 11:45, so they weren't home when the shower incident happened.
"Well...I'll tell you what happened, but you CANNOT tell Cloud and Tifa, okay?" Yuffie nodded and smiled. "By the look in your eyes, it seems as though you've done something bad. Really bad." Her smile went to a grin.
"Not really bad, but it's not good. I...ummm...had some bad luck in the shower and ended up ripping their shower curtain." Yuffie burst out laughing. "I knew you had to have done something like that from the noise that came from your bathroom! What did you do? Fall asleep in the shower?" she snickered. "I don't want to talk about it. I need to go to town and get a new shower curtain. What time did they say they'd be back?"
"Around 1:00 or so." Vincent nodded and started toward the living room. "Hey wait. Umm, could I come? I have nothing better to do." Yuffie spoke up as Vincent turned halfway and looked at her solemnly for a long moment. "Get dressed."
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Yuffie giggled and jumped around in the piles of leaves by the villagers' homes like a little girl. Each home they passed had a pile of leaves in the front yard and Yuffie liked jumping into them.
"You know, the people that raked those leaves up have to take all that time to rake them back up again." Vincent chuckled. He really enjoyed seeing Yuffie so happy and cheerful. Seeing her jump in and out of the piles of leaves was entertaining and amusing to him.
"So what, they're too lazy anyway!" he also liked her attitude. So youthful, he thought.
As they approached a clothing store, Yuffie hopped out of the last pile of leaves and ran up to Vincent. "Hey, while we're here, can I go shopping?" she asked sweetly. "Just until I get the curtain, then we're leaving." She smiled. "Thanks."
"I'll be by to pick you up after I get the curtain, so stay here, okay?" Yuffie nodded. As she turned to walk to the store, she spotted something shiny partially under a leaf. "Hmm?" she bent down and swept the leaf away. "Ohh!"
"What? What'd you find?" Vincent rushed over to her as she picked up the shiny coin and held it up. "I found 500 gil!" she bounced up and down happily. "Wow...and I thought Friday the 13th was unlucky!" she dropped the coin into her pocket.
Vincent's ears folded back. "You mean to tell me TODAY is Friday the 13th?" he said in a low-pitched voice. "Mmm-hmm. And I was wondering, 'wow, Vinnie had such bad luck in the shower. I wonder what's gonna happen to me today?' ever since you told me that."
Vincent turned, his cape blowing back in the light wind. He decided to put it on before he left. "I never believed that until today." He walked off as Yuffie laughed.
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"That'll be three hundred and fifty gil, please." The saleswoman said. "Three hundred?! Just for a shower curtain!?" Vincent complained. The saleswoman gave him a stone-cold glare. "Fine." He handed her the money and walked out with the square package in his hands.
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"Man, I can't afford this!" Yuffie looked at the deep purple cotton sweater. She turned it over and saw a big hole. "Ugh, never mind!" she put it back on the rack of sweaters as she heard the bell of the door being opened. She ducked and looked through a hole of clothes and saw Vincent.
"Hehehe..." she snuck quietly to the men's section of clothes and climbed into a clothes rack of black shirts and sweaters. Vincent searched over the women's section and found nothing. "Yuffie? Where are you?" he said as Yuffie tried not to giggle.
*I told her to stay here...* Vincent thought.
**She's probably still here. Just wait for her, she might be in the dressing rooms.**
*Yeah.*
Vincent decided to go look at the men's clothes.
**Lemme guess, black, right?**
Vincent chuckled as a sign of 'yes'. He went over to the rack of black shirts.
*I knew it! He always wants black!* Yuffie thought.
Vincent was going to the black sweaters where Yuffie was hiding. He was about to pull one out when something pounced out of the rack and tackled him to the ground.
"Whoa! Hahaha!" he laughed as she stood on all fours on him. "Grr, I am the mighty lioness out to kill!" she giggled as she stepped off of him. "Hehehe, then if you're a mighty lioness, then I'm the powerful lion king!" he roared playfully.
"Ahem." The saleswoman looked down at the couple. "If you want to act like children, do it somewhere else!" she nearly shouted. Yuffie jumped up and got in her face. "Excuse me, but you can't tell US what to do!" she shouted.
"Well then, at least get out of my store!!" the saleswoman shot back.
Yuffie looked as though she was about to smack her. She held back against it though. She already knew how much trouble she would be in if she did.
"C'mon Vinnie, let's go." She helped him up. "You haven't won yet..." said Yuffie as she slipped her the middle finger on the way out.
As the two exited the store, they laughed and gave each other a high-five. "Stupid bitch, who the hell does she think she is?!" Yuffie clenched her fists. "Hey, calm down. It's over, so let's just get home before Cloud and Tifa get back." Vincent said.
Yuffie's eyes sparkled as she saw two huge piles of leaves. "C'mon Vinnie, let's jump in 'em!" Vincent felt a little spark of playfulness in him and had an idea right then. He decided to trick her. He shook his head.
"No, that's okay, you can if you want." Yuffie shrugged and jumped in the first huge pile of leaves. She pretended to swim in them as she giggled. She lay down in them.
The pile was so huge, that it covered her whole body. This gave Vincent's idea a boost. Yuffie sat up and jumped into the second huge pile, which was right next to the first. She lay down and relaxed, letting the leaves cover her whole body.
Now was Vincent's chance to put his plan into action.
He quietly pounced into the first pile of leaves, his red cape blending in with some of the red leaves, acting as camouflage. He lay down fully to hide his whole body.
Yuffie sat up and looked back to where Vincent was last standing. She saw nothing.
"Vinnie?" she stood up. "Yo, where'd ya go?" she looked toward the direction of the house. With her back turned, Vincent snuck closer towards the second pile of leaves. He crawled without crushing any leaves.
"Umm...?" Yuffie bit her lip and turned to the direction of the clothing store. Vincent lay still.
*Maybe he went home...?* she thought. She looked back up to the direction of the house. Vincent was about six feet away from her.
With her back turned for the second time, he lifted his body up in a crouching position. He grinned and readied himself in a pouncing position, yet a twig from beneath his foot snapped in two and alerted Yuffie immediately. She turned just to see him lunge toward her.
"Ahh!" [Thump] "Ahahaha!" she laughed as she saw her 'stalker' on top of her. "Ha! Now I've pinned you!" he laughed.
"You little punk!" she said jokingly. "I thought you went home without me!"
"Never."
"Never?"
"Never ever."
"Never ever ever?"
"Yes. Never." He laughed. She looked up at him. "Never say never." She pushed him playfully to the ground and crawled on top of him. "Oh yeah?" he repeated the process of pushing her playfully to the ground and crawling on top of her. They laughed and pushed each other around in the leaves for another five minutes before Yuffie remained under Vincent and resisted getting back on top.
"Uhh...I'm dizzy..." she giggled. "Ah ha! Then the mighty lion king has won again!" Vincent teased. "Not a chance!" Yuffie pushed him down into the leaves and gained upper position again.
He grinned and pushed her down and crawled on top, his loose ponytail coming undone and his hair falling down, hiding most of his face. For a long moment, everything lay still as they stared into each other's eyes. And oh how beautiful that moment was for the both of them.
The wind blew silently and softly. It was so peaceful.
Vincent lowered his head and kissed her softly. She returned the kiss while wrapping her arms around his back. It was so much like the kiss she'd experienced after he saved her: she never wanted it to end.
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"Damn, what time is it?" Vincent said as they walked. "And you're asking me? The last time I saw a clock was at the clothes store. It was 12:10 when we left."
"Good, that'll give me time to put the shower curtain on before they get home. It's probably 12:40 now. I don't want Cloud finding out about this, he'll probably kill me." He sighed.
Yuffie laughed. "Hey remember that bitch at the clothes store? I want to get revenge." They stepped up to the front door and Yuffie was the first one in, followed by Vincent.
"And I mean, did you see the look on her face after I--" Yuffie stopped in mid-step, leaving one foot in the air. Vincent did as well as they both looked towards the couch.
"Umm, hey guys...heh heh, you're home early..." Yuffie chuckled nervously. Cloud looked impatient as he stood up. "Vince, we need to have a talk about other people's property. Let's start with the bathroom."
Oh boy, Vinnie was caught! Oh, I hope you liked that chapter, please review! ^__^!
Disclaimer: I do not own FF7 or anything in it. Squaresoft owns it all.
[Chapter 3: Friday the 13th]
Vincent awoke the next day to the sound of the shower. The water pipes led into his room and ran underneath the room's floor. Luckily, there were four bathrooms in the house and only Yuffie's could be heard from his room. He yawned and stretched underneath the covers. He felt so tired, yet he didn't know why. He rolled over on his side to look at the alarm clock next to him.
"Oh man! I overslept!" he said as he pushed all the covers off of him and left them in a messy pile on the bed. He quickly grabbed a few things out of the closet and headed into his bathroom.
Vincent turned on the water to the shower. He stripped his black boxers off (A/N: Yes, that's the only thing he was wearing at the time. *wink wink*) and was such in a hurry that he jumped in the shower before testing the water.
He bit his lip and tried to resist yelling. He turned the knob all the way to hot and stepped back away from the water until it heated up.
**Hehehe...You're a moron.** Chaos chuckled.
*I didn't know it'd be cold!* Vincent almost laughed at his foolishness.
The water heated up as Vincent stepped into it. "Much better..." he grabbed the shampoo and squeezed the bottle.
Nothing came out.
He shook and squeezed a few more times before lifting it above his head. He closed one eye and looked up into the bottle with the other one.
Before he knew it, a big goop of shampoo had made its way to the edge of the bottle and dropped into his eye.
"Ahhh! Shit!!" he dropped the bottle and rubbed his eyes, getting some shampoo into the other eye in the process. And to make things even worse, the hot water turned to freezing cold.
**Hahahahahaha!** Chaos laughed his head off.
Vincent blindly stepped back and slipped on the bar of soap, causing him to fall into the shower curtain. He grabbed on for dear life as he tumbled forward and ripped the curtain ring from ring.
As soon as he came to the last ring, he stopped. The last ring was supporting his weight. He looked up with blurry vision.
"Please...oh please..." he tried placing one of his feet back down on the bathtub floor, but as he shifted his weight, the last ring snapped and Vincent went tumbling down to the hard surfaced bathroom floor.
"Owww!" he rubbed his head as he got to his knees and reached in the shower and turned off the water. "Yuffie...why'd you use all the hot water?" he whispered and got to his feet.
**Ya know what?**
*Shut up! I know what happened! Don't call me a moron!*
Vincent rubbed the remaining shampoo from his eyes. "Hey, where's my clothes?" he shivered from the cold water still on his body. He reached for a towel and wrapped himself in it.
His ears folded back. "Wait a minute..." he picked up the wet, fallen shower curtain and saw his clothes, soaked. He growled and picked them up in rage. He walked out of the bathroom and back to his closet. On the way there, he passed a mirror.
"Huh?" he backed up to the mirror and looked at himself. "Ahh, my eyes!" he rubbed his eyes some more. When he looked back at the mirror, his eyes were still red and watery. "What luck!" he said sarcastically and walked to his closet.
Luckily for him, he had spare black shirts and black pants. He grabbed them and threw them on the bed along with some boots.
Vincent chucked his damp clothes into the laundry basket and slipped on the dry clothes. Instead of wearing his usual gold boots, he slipped on a pair of black boots. He decided not to wear his scarlet cape.
Vincent went back into the bathroom and towel-dried his hair. He then ran a comb through his raven black hair. As soon as he was satisfied, he brushed his teeth and walked out.
"God what a morning!" he walked downstairs and into the kitchen. "Hey, Vinnie!" Yuffie greeted him as he entered. "What was all that commotion upstairs?"
He looked around in the kitchen. "Oh nothing. Where's Cloud and Tifa?"
"They're out riding chocobos. Sunny and Raven needed exercise." She grabbed the cereal box and poured some cereal into her bowl. "How long have they been gone?" he asked. "Hmm, let's see...they left around 11:00." Vincent sighed in relief. It was only 11:45, so they weren't home when the shower incident happened.
"Well...I'll tell you what happened, but you CANNOT tell Cloud and Tifa, okay?" Yuffie nodded and smiled. "By the look in your eyes, it seems as though you've done something bad. Really bad." Her smile went to a grin.
"Not really bad, but it's not good. I...ummm...had some bad luck in the shower and ended up ripping their shower curtain." Yuffie burst out laughing. "I knew you had to have done something like that from the noise that came from your bathroom! What did you do? Fall asleep in the shower?" she snickered. "I don't want to talk about it. I need to go to town and get a new shower curtain. What time did they say they'd be back?"
"Around 1:00 or so." Vincent nodded and started toward the living room. "Hey wait. Umm, could I come? I have nothing better to do." Yuffie spoke up as Vincent turned halfway and looked at her solemnly for a long moment. "Get dressed."
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Yuffie giggled and jumped around in the piles of leaves by the villagers' homes like a little girl. Each home they passed had a pile of leaves in the front yard and Yuffie liked jumping into them.
"You know, the people that raked those leaves up have to take all that time to rake them back up again." Vincent chuckled. He really enjoyed seeing Yuffie so happy and cheerful. Seeing her jump in and out of the piles of leaves was entertaining and amusing to him.
"So what, they're too lazy anyway!" he also liked her attitude. So youthful, he thought.
As they approached a clothing store, Yuffie hopped out of the last pile of leaves and ran up to Vincent. "Hey, while we're here, can I go shopping?" she asked sweetly. "Just until I get the curtain, then we're leaving." She smiled. "Thanks."
"I'll be by to pick you up after I get the curtain, so stay here, okay?" Yuffie nodded. As she turned to walk to the store, she spotted something shiny partially under a leaf. "Hmm?" she bent down and swept the leaf away. "Ohh!"
"What? What'd you find?" Vincent rushed over to her as she picked up the shiny coin and held it up. "I found 500 gil!" she bounced up and down happily. "Wow...and I thought Friday the 13th was unlucky!" she dropped the coin into her pocket.
Vincent's ears folded back. "You mean to tell me TODAY is Friday the 13th?" he said in a low-pitched voice. "Mmm-hmm. And I was wondering, 'wow, Vinnie had such bad luck in the shower. I wonder what's gonna happen to me today?' ever since you told me that."
Vincent turned, his cape blowing back in the light wind. He decided to put it on before he left. "I never believed that until today." He walked off as Yuffie laughed.
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"That'll be three hundred and fifty gil, please." The saleswoman said. "Three hundred?! Just for a shower curtain!?" Vincent complained. The saleswoman gave him a stone-cold glare. "Fine." He handed her the money and walked out with the square package in his hands.
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"Man, I can't afford this!" Yuffie looked at the deep purple cotton sweater. She turned it over and saw a big hole. "Ugh, never mind!" she put it back on the rack of sweaters as she heard the bell of the door being opened. She ducked and looked through a hole of clothes and saw Vincent.
"Hehehe..." she snuck quietly to the men's section of clothes and climbed into a clothes rack of black shirts and sweaters. Vincent searched over the women's section and found nothing. "Yuffie? Where are you?" he said as Yuffie tried not to giggle.
*I told her to stay here...* Vincent thought.
**She's probably still here. Just wait for her, she might be in the dressing rooms.**
*Yeah.*
Vincent decided to go look at the men's clothes.
**Lemme guess, black, right?**
Vincent chuckled as a sign of 'yes'. He went over to the rack of black shirts.
*I knew it! He always wants black!* Yuffie thought.
Vincent was going to the black sweaters where Yuffie was hiding. He was about to pull one out when something pounced out of the rack and tackled him to the ground.
"Whoa! Hahaha!" he laughed as she stood on all fours on him. "Grr, I am the mighty lioness out to kill!" she giggled as she stepped off of him. "Hehehe, then if you're a mighty lioness, then I'm the powerful lion king!" he roared playfully.
"Ahem." The saleswoman looked down at the couple. "If you want to act like children, do it somewhere else!" she nearly shouted. Yuffie jumped up and got in her face. "Excuse me, but you can't tell US what to do!" she shouted.
"Well then, at least get out of my store!!" the saleswoman shot back.
Yuffie looked as though she was about to smack her. She held back against it though. She already knew how much trouble she would be in if she did.
"C'mon Vinnie, let's go." She helped him up. "You haven't won yet..." said Yuffie as she slipped her the middle finger on the way out.
As the two exited the store, they laughed and gave each other a high-five. "Stupid bitch, who the hell does she think she is?!" Yuffie clenched her fists. "Hey, calm down. It's over, so let's just get home before Cloud and Tifa get back." Vincent said.
Yuffie's eyes sparkled as she saw two huge piles of leaves. "C'mon Vinnie, let's jump in 'em!" Vincent felt a little spark of playfulness in him and had an idea right then. He decided to trick her. He shook his head.
"No, that's okay, you can if you want." Yuffie shrugged and jumped in the first huge pile of leaves. She pretended to swim in them as she giggled. She lay down in them.
The pile was so huge, that it covered her whole body. This gave Vincent's idea a boost. Yuffie sat up and jumped into the second huge pile, which was right next to the first. She lay down and relaxed, letting the leaves cover her whole body.
Now was Vincent's chance to put his plan into action.
He quietly pounced into the first pile of leaves, his red cape blending in with some of the red leaves, acting as camouflage. He lay down fully to hide his whole body.
Yuffie sat up and looked back to where Vincent was last standing. She saw nothing.
"Vinnie?" she stood up. "Yo, where'd ya go?" she looked toward the direction of the house. With her back turned, Vincent snuck closer towards the second pile of leaves. He crawled without crushing any leaves.
"Umm...?" Yuffie bit her lip and turned to the direction of the clothing store. Vincent lay still.
*Maybe he went home...?* she thought. She looked back up to the direction of the house. Vincent was about six feet away from her.
With her back turned for the second time, he lifted his body up in a crouching position. He grinned and readied himself in a pouncing position, yet a twig from beneath his foot snapped in two and alerted Yuffie immediately. She turned just to see him lunge toward her.
"Ahh!" [Thump] "Ahahaha!" she laughed as she saw her 'stalker' on top of her. "Ha! Now I've pinned you!" he laughed.
"You little punk!" she said jokingly. "I thought you went home without me!"
"Never."
"Never?"
"Never ever."
"Never ever ever?"
"Yes. Never." He laughed. She looked up at him. "Never say never." She pushed him playfully to the ground and crawled on top of him. "Oh yeah?" he repeated the process of pushing her playfully to the ground and crawling on top of her. They laughed and pushed each other around in the leaves for another five minutes before Yuffie remained under Vincent and resisted getting back on top.
"Uhh...I'm dizzy..." she giggled. "Ah ha! Then the mighty lion king has won again!" Vincent teased. "Not a chance!" Yuffie pushed him down into the leaves and gained upper position again.
He grinned and pushed her down and crawled on top, his loose ponytail coming undone and his hair falling down, hiding most of his face. For a long moment, everything lay still as they stared into each other's eyes. And oh how beautiful that moment was for the both of them.
The wind blew silently and softly. It was so peaceful.
Vincent lowered his head and kissed her softly. She returned the kiss while wrapping her arms around his back. It was so much like the kiss she'd experienced after he saved her: she never wanted it to end.
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"Damn, what time is it?" Vincent said as they walked. "And you're asking me? The last time I saw a clock was at the clothes store. It was 12:10 when we left."
"Good, that'll give me time to put the shower curtain on before they get home. It's probably 12:40 now. I don't want Cloud finding out about this, he'll probably kill me." He sighed.
Yuffie laughed. "Hey remember that bitch at the clothes store? I want to get revenge." They stepped up to the front door and Yuffie was the first one in, followed by Vincent.
"And I mean, did you see the look on her face after I--" Yuffie stopped in mid-step, leaving one foot in the air. Vincent did as well as they both looked towards the couch.
"Umm, hey guys...heh heh, you're home early..." Yuffie chuckled nervously. Cloud looked impatient as he stood up. "Vince, we need to have a talk about other people's property. Let's start with the bathroom."
Oh boy, Vinnie was caught! Oh, I hope you liked that chapter, please review! ^__^!