A/n:
Emi: Wow, it has been a while again.
Tifa: you're getting too lazy.
Emi: I can if I want to. I'm getting ready for college, so I'm hanging with my friends as much as I can.
Sephiroth: But you've been neglecting me, milady. ::pouts::
Emi: Not on purpose, Sephy. **Pets Sephiroth** Anyway, I hope you like this chapter. It gets into more of the action and we'll see some Vinti and Seti.^_^
Tifa: Both of them? Wow, lucky me.
Where the action begins
The next morning, I became conscious by a knock at the door. I slumped up in my bed and looked to see the girls were already gone. I looked over to the clock as it read 8:37. I couldn't believe they could be already up. I pushed myself out of bed as I looked in a mirror. My tube top, as short as it was, hung messily on my body. The knocking on the door began to get louder as I began to become more irritated.
"Who is it?" I asked with a scowl.
"It's me. Open the door," said Sephiroth's voice.
I gave a yawn as I walked over to the door. I fixed my tube top and pants and hair. I opened to see the impatient silver hair man tapping his foot. He looked at me up and down as a grin formed on his face. I gave him a visible roll of the eyes while placing a hand on my hip.
"What do you want, Sephiroth?" I asked in a grumpy voice.
"My, someone's cranky. Well, I have found out some good stuff that'll get us on the right track. Also, Aeris told me to call you down for breakfast," he replied as his hair sway behind him.
I heard what he said, but I was a little preoccupied as I looked at his handsome face. He was so perfect in form. It looked as if he was God's gift for the Planet. I continued to look at him until he waved his hand in my face. I blinked my eyes and saw he was wearing one of his usual cocky faces. I hated that face.
"What are you looking at?" He asked in an innocent voice.
"Oh, shut the hell up! I'll be down soon," I replied pushing him out the door.
I closed the door and walked to the bathroom. I immediately took a shower and placed on my blue fighting outfit. I cleaned the room a bit and decided I was ready to join the others. I opened the door and walked out to see Vincent walking down the hall.
"Vincent! Good morning!" I said in a cheerful voice.
"Oh, Tifa, good morning. You look well," replied Vincent with a small grin. I gave another cheerful smile as we both made it down to the kitchen. It didn't surprise me that the room would be packed. Aeris was on the stove cooking away while Yuffie was serving the food to the men. Cid and Barret sat together laughing and cussing away while Cloud and Nanaki hungrily ate their food. I smiled to them and said my hellos when I saw Sephiroth sitting at a corner table. I walked toward him while Vincent joined the others. Sephiroth looked up to me as I took a seat.
"Did you already eat?" I asked curiously.
"No. I have no intention of eating," replied Sephiroth with a scowl.
"Why is that?" I asked.
"Well, She's cooking all wrong with the steak and eggs. She might as well burn it!" replied the silver hair man.
I couldn't help but to giggle at his statement. I never thought he was so picky about how people cooked. I knew he was a great cook, so maybe he only eats what is great. As much as I knew about Aeris, she told me on our journey long ago that she was a bad cook. Maybe it was my time to show Sephiroth that I was good at other things than fighting.
"Don't worry, I'll make our food," I said with a cheerful grin.
I rose from my chair and walked up to my brunette friend. She looked over to me and gave me a loving smile.
"Good morning, Tifa. Do you want me to cook your food?" Asked Aeris with her sweet voice.
"No, that'll be okay! I'll cook Sephiroth and my food," I replied stretching my arms. "Besides, I feel like cooking this morning."
"Okay, go ahead then," said the Cetra girl.
She took Yuffie and her plate of food and walked over to the group. I looked at the ingredients left to make a mouth-watering breakfast.
"Let's see four eggs, two steaks, onions, bacon strips, seasoning salt, butter, pepper, and salt. This is good!" I thought as I placed an apron on.
I sliced a piece of butter in the pan and cracked two eggs. I began my work as I could sense eyes watching my every move. The smell was so alluring even I was dazzled. Cooking was such a wonderful thing to me. It made me relaxed a little. It has been a while since I cooked or did anything with friends around. I could feel a simple smirk form on my face.
Soon after, I had two plates of steak with two eggs and bacon. I walked over to Sephiroth and placed a plate of food in front of him. He looked at the food and took a whiff of the cuisine. He took his utensils and began to cut the steak. He took a piece of the tender meat and placed it in his mouth. His eyes began to dance as he chewed the food. I knew I still had it.
"Impressive, Lockheart," said Sephiroth with a wide grin on his face.
"Well, I'm glad you like it!" I replied with a simple, happy grin.
"Hey, Tif, where's my food!" yelled Barret.
"Hey, Aeris made your food," I said pointing at his plate.
"I rather have that!" replied Cid as he looked at my plate.
"Hey! I think I did a great job!" said the pink girl.
"Aeris, I think this is a rather fine meal," said Vincent.
"Thank you, Vincent," she replied with a slight blush to her cheeks.
"Sorry, Aeris, but Tifa is the better cook," replied Cloud.
"Cloud, thanks for the compliment, but I think you should support your girlfriend and not me," I said with a chuckle.
He looked over to an annoyed Aeris as he tried his best to look cute. She glared at him with her evilest eyes making the spiky hair boy feel fear. We couldn't help but to laugh out after that moment. Even Sephiroth showed a wide smirk at the incident.
After everyone was done eating, we walked into the library once more. Sephiroth had something to tell us all, so we all took a seat. I walked over to where Vincent was standing and took the seat beside him. He looked down at me and I gave him one of my cute smiles. I heard a cough and turned to look over at Sephiroth who was trying to get everyone's attention.
"Alright, we all know why we're here," said Sephiroth. "Hojo and Jenova are back on the Planet and they want to rule world. Their powers now combine has surpass any of ours. Also, they have brought back to life Zack, whose strength is more powerful then Cloud's.The only way to beat them is to find the silver and gold materia."
"Yeah, we know all of that, but where do we start, yo?" Asked Barret.
"Well, yesterday as I looked in this small book, I found the whereabouts of these materia. Supposedly, the Gold materia is at a mysterious island south of Mideel, but it is shown once and while. When we get that materia, it shall show us a beam to where the other lies," replied Sephiroth as he held up a small book.
My eyes grew as I recognized the book from the one I held last night. I knew that book was the answer somehow.
"So, who's going to the island?" Asked Aeris.
"Yeah, we can't all go. How about three of us go and the rest of us will wait for back-up," commented Cloud.
"Great idea, Cloud," said Yuffie.
"All right.. Tifa, Vincent, and I will go while the rest of you wait for us," replied the general. "Let's get our things together and then we can set off there."
"Alright, I'll get the Highwind ready then," said Cid as he stood up.
"Let's get started then," replied Nanaki as he rose from the ground.
I nodded my head in agreement as the others did the same. I walked out the library as I notice someone beside me. I look to my left and saw it was Vincent. I placed a strand of my hair behind my ear as I looked at his handsome face. He looked as if he was a good match with Sephiroth in looks.
"Tifa? Why are you looking at me like that?" Asked the Ex. Turk with curiosity.
"Oh, I'm so sorry! I was just thinking," I replied as my face grew a crimson color.
"I see..." said Vincent with a smirk.
"Vincent..I can tell you've changed for the better," I commented as I placed my hand on his shoulder.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I mean, you're little more social, nicer, and you so..attractive."
Vincent looked at me as I felt my cheek burn a little. He looked down a gave a small chuckle, which surprised me a bit. He stopped where he was as I felt him grasped my hand. His touch gave me chills down my spine as I never lost sight of his face. He walked closer to my side and softly caressed his other hand on my cheek. What was he doing? He bent down as his lips went closer to my ear.
"You did this for me, Tifa. You helped show me that my life was meaningful still and my heart can live once again," whispered Vincent.
I froze at his words and his soothe speaking voice. I helped him recover his life? I tried my best to talk to him as he became a very good friend on the last journey, but I never knew I meant so much to him changing. Still, why did he stare deeply at me like that?
"Ahem!"
The two of us stopped our conversation as we looked to see Sephiroth. He was leaning unto the wall with his arms crossed. I felt a little embarrassed as Vincent looked as if nothing happened. Vincent turned back to me and said a quiet good-bye. He released my hand and left as he gave a look to the silver hair man. I stood there silent and still trying to remember the way Vincent moved and talked to me. It made my whole body shiver, but in a good way.
"Having an intimacy moment, weren't you?" Asked Sephiroth as he glanced towards me.
"Not really. Vincent and I were just talking about his change in personality, clothes, and looks.. How long were you listening?" I asked curiosity.
"Enough to know that the guy likes you," replied Sephiroth.
He pushed himself off the wall and walked with me to my room. I grabbed my items and met him at my door. We both decided to walk around the town until the others were ready to go. I felt an awkward silence between each other. What could we talk about?
"Thank you, Lockheart," He said.
"For what?" I asked in astonishment.
"For helping me, making your friends understand, and mostly forgiving me for what I did long ago," said Sephiroth.
I looked at him and gave him a peaceful sigh. He already apologized and yet he keeps on going.
"Sephiroth, it's alright. It was never your true intention to kill the ones I loved. I know you're a good person," I replied with a cheerful smile.
"Thanks..By the way, I remember you and Cloud leaving out the library last night. What happened between you two?"
"Oh, well, I told him my feelings were now just being friends with him. I'm over him."
"That's good to hear. I think it was for the best anyway. I mean you looked kind a pathetic yearning for him to look at you instead of Aeris."
"Oh, wow, thanks, you cocky bastard," I replied as I rolled my eyes.
He gave a nice grin while I smiled back. I looked up into his eyes and felt myself mesmerized in them. They were so beautiful and alluring. I felt my hand being pulled by his muscular hand as he bent down towards me. Was he going to kiss me? What was this feeling I felt? It felt like the same feeling I felt with Vincent not so long ago.
"Hey, you two, time to go!" said Yuffie mischievously.
We drew our attention to the younger fighter and nodded. She gave us a little look with one of her toothy smile. She was thinking something dirty. Somehow, I can tell it in her face..
"I guess we'll finish our 'talk' later. Let's go," said Sephiroth.
"Uh, yeah, sure.." I said unsure of him and myself.
Later, the rest of us made it on board the Highwind. We walked to the control room as we stood in front of the glass. I stood side to side with Cloud, as usual, as Aeris stood by his other side with his arm on her shoulder. On my other side, stood Sephiroth with his arms crossed and grumpy looking face. Beside him were Vincent and Yuffie, as both of them looked over toward Sephiroth and I.
"Yo, Cid, let's get this journey going!" said Barret.
"Hell yeah!" replied Cid.
With that, he motioned his crew to lift off as they listen to his command. We rose from the ground and began to soar through the sky. My heart leaped in excitement as I watched the land below. I looked up to Sephiroth and gave him a light-hearted smile. He looked down at me and gave me a quick smile. I drifted my gaze to Vincent as he stood looking downward to the ground. He looked so handsome that I could tell I was blushing.
"Tifa? Are you alright?" Asked Yuffie walking up to me.
"Yeah, Yuffie, Of course I am," I replied coming back to my senses.
"Sure you are," comment the ninja girl, "Hey, Cid, when will we get to the mysterious island?"
"Probably in about three hours or so. I tell ya this ship is so fast it'll make you shit in your pants," said Cid with a laugh.
"How about we have a good girl talk, Tif?" Asked Yuffie with an eager expression.
"Sure," I said in confusion.
"I hope it's okay if I can join it," replied Aeris with a sweet smile.
"Yeah, sure, it'll be fun," I replied with my own smile.
"You guys stay here and have your manly talk or whatever," said Aeris to Cloud.
"Yeah, I'm sure we'll do that," replied Cloud.
He went for a kiss on her lovely lips, but Aeris moved her head and let him kiss her cheek. It seemed she did that on purpose. Why was this? Yuffie waved to everyone as she lead the way for us to the Operation room.
TO be continued...
A/N: o0o0o0o0o0 What are they going to talk about? Who does Tifa like? Why did Aeris receive a kiss only on the cheek from Cloud? These entire questions will be answered in the next chapter. Now, I'll update when I get some reviews, so REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tifa: you're getting too lazy.
Emi: I can if I want to. I'm getting ready for college, so I'm hanging with my friends as much as I can.
Sephiroth: But you've been neglecting me, milady. ::pouts::
Emi: Not on purpose, Sephy. **Pets Sephiroth** Anyway, I hope you like this chapter. It gets into more of the action and we'll see some Vinti and Seti.^_^
Tifa: Both of them? Wow, lucky me.
Where the action begins
The next morning, I became conscious by a knock at the door. I slumped up in my bed and looked to see the girls were already gone. I looked over to the clock as it read 8:37. I couldn't believe they could be already up. I pushed myself out of bed as I looked in a mirror. My tube top, as short as it was, hung messily on my body. The knocking on the door began to get louder as I began to become more irritated.
"Who is it?" I asked with a scowl.
"It's me. Open the door," said Sephiroth's voice.
I gave a yawn as I walked over to the door. I fixed my tube top and pants and hair. I opened to see the impatient silver hair man tapping his foot. He looked at me up and down as a grin formed on his face. I gave him a visible roll of the eyes while placing a hand on my hip.
"What do you want, Sephiroth?" I asked in a grumpy voice.
"My, someone's cranky. Well, I have found out some good stuff that'll get us on the right track. Also, Aeris told me to call you down for breakfast," he replied as his hair sway behind him.
I heard what he said, but I was a little preoccupied as I looked at his handsome face. He was so perfect in form. It looked as if he was God's gift for the Planet. I continued to look at him until he waved his hand in my face. I blinked my eyes and saw he was wearing one of his usual cocky faces. I hated that face.
"What are you looking at?" He asked in an innocent voice.
"Oh, shut the hell up! I'll be down soon," I replied pushing him out the door.
I closed the door and walked to the bathroom. I immediately took a shower and placed on my blue fighting outfit. I cleaned the room a bit and decided I was ready to join the others. I opened the door and walked out to see Vincent walking down the hall.
"Vincent! Good morning!" I said in a cheerful voice.
"Oh, Tifa, good morning. You look well," replied Vincent with a small grin. I gave another cheerful smile as we both made it down to the kitchen. It didn't surprise me that the room would be packed. Aeris was on the stove cooking away while Yuffie was serving the food to the men. Cid and Barret sat together laughing and cussing away while Cloud and Nanaki hungrily ate their food. I smiled to them and said my hellos when I saw Sephiroth sitting at a corner table. I walked toward him while Vincent joined the others. Sephiroth looked up to me as I took a seat.
"Did you already eat?" I asked curiously.
"No. I have no intention of eating," replied Sephiroth with a scowl.
"Why is that?" I asked.
"Well, She's cooking all wrong with the steak and eggs. She might as well burn it!" replied the silver hair man.
I couldn't help but to giggle at his statement. I never thought he was so picky about how people cooked. I knew he was a great cook, so maybe he only eats what is great. As much as I knew about Aeris, she told me on our journey long ago that she was a bad cook. Maybe it was my time to show Sephiroth that I was good at other things than fighting.
"Don't worry, I'll make our food," I said with a cheerful grin.
I rose from my chair and walked up to my brunette friend. She looked over to me and gave me a loving smile.
"Good morning, Tifa. Do you want me to cook your food?" Asked Aeris with her sweet voice.
"No, that'll be okay! I'll cook Sephiroth and my food," I replied stretching my arms. "Besides, I feel like cooking this morning."
"Okay, go ahead then," said the Cetra girl.
She took Yuffie and her plate of food and walked over to the group. I looked at the ingredients left to make a mouth-watering breakfast.
"Let's see four eggs, two steaks, onions, bacon strips, seasoning salt, butter, pepper, and salt. This is good!" I thought as I placed an apron on.
I sliced a piece of butter in the pan and cracked two eggs. I began my work as I could sense eyes watching my every move. The smell was so alluring even I was dazzled. Cooking was such a wonderful thing to me. It made me relaxed a little. It has been a while since I cooked or did anything with friends around. I could feel a simple smirk form on my face.
Soon after, I had two plates of steak with two eggs and bacon. I walked over to Sephiroth and placed a plate of food in front of him. He looked at the food and took a whiff of the cuisine. He took his utensils and began to cut the steak. He took a piece of the tender meat and placed it in his mouth. His eyes began to dance as he chewed the food. I knew I still had it.
"Impressive, Lockheart," said Sephiroth with a wide grin on his face.
"Well, I'm glad you like it!" I replied with a simple, happy grin.
"Hey, Tif, where's my food!" yelled Barret.
"Hey, Aeris made your food," I said pointing at his plate.
"I rather have that!" replied Cid as he looked at my plate.
"Hey! I think I did a great job!" said the pink girl.
"Aeris, I think this is a rather fine meal," said Vincent.
"Thank you, Vincent," she replied with a slight blush to her cheeks.
"Sorry, Aeris, but Tifa is the better cook," replied Cloud.
"Cloud, thanks for the compliment, but I think you should support your girlfriend and not me," I said with a chuckle.
He looked over to an annoyed Aeris as he tried his best to look cute. She glared at him with her evilest eyes making the spiky hair boy feel fear. We couldn't help but to laugh out after that moment. Even Sephiroth showed a wide smirk at the incident.
After everyone was done eating, we walked into the library once more. Sephiroth had something to tell us all, so we all took a seat. I walked over to where Vincent was standing and took the seat beside him. He looked down at me and I gave him one of my cute smiles. I heard a cough and turned to look over at Sephiroth who was trying to get everyone's attention.
"Alright, we all know why we're here," said Sephiroth. "Hojo and Jenova are back on the Planet and they want to rule world. Their powers now combine has surpass any of ours. Also, they have brought back to life Zack, whose strength is more powerful then Cloud's.The only way to beat them is to find the silver and gold materia."
"Yeah, we know all of that, but where do we start, yo?" Asked Barret.
"Well, yesterday as I looked in this small book, I found the whereabouts of these materia. Supposedly, the Gold materia is at a mysterious island south of Mideel, but it is shown once and while. When we get that materia, it shall show us a beam to where the other lies," replied Sephiroth as he held up a small book.
My eyes grew as I recognized the book from the one I held last night. I knew that book was the answer somehow.
"So, who's going to the island?" Asked Aeris.
"Yeah, we can't all go. How about three of us go and the rest of us will wait for back-up," commented Cloud.
"Great idea, Cloud," said Yuffie.
"All right.. Tifa, Vincent, and I will go while the rest of you wait for us," replied the general. "Let's get our things together and then we can set off there."
"Alright, I'll get the Highwind ready then," said Cid as he stood up.
"Let's get started then," replied Nanaki as he rose from the ground.
I nodded my head in agreement as the others did the same. I walked out the library as I notice someone beside me. I look to my left and saw it was Vincent. I placed a strand of my hair behind my ear as I looked at his handsome face. He looked as if he was a good match with Sephiroth in looks.
"Tifa? Why are you looking at me like that?" Asked the Ex. Turk with curiosity.
"Oh, I'm so sorry! I was just thinking," I replied as my face grew a crimson color.
"I see..." said Vincent with a smirk.
"Vincent..I can tell you've changed for the better," I commented as I placed my hand on his shoulder.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I mean, you're little more social, nicer, and you so..attractive."
Vincent looked at me as I felt my cheek burn a little. He looked down a gave a small chuckle, which surprised me a bit. He stopped where he was as I felt him grasped my hand. His touch gave me chills down my spine as I never lost sight of his face. He walked closer to my side and softly caressed his other hand on my cheek. What was he doing? He bent down as his lips went closer to my ear.
"You did this for me, Tifa. You helped show me that my life was meaningful still and my heart can live once again," whispered Vincent.
I froze at his words and his soothe speaking voice. I helped him recover his life? I tried my best to talk to him as he became a very good friend on the last journey, but I never knew I meant so much to him changing. Still, why did he stare deeply at me like that?
"Ahem!"
The two of us stopped our conversation as we looked to see Sephiroth. He was leaning unto the wall with his arms crossed. I felt a little embarrassed as Vincent looked as if nothing happened. Vincent turned back to me and said a quiet good-bye. He released my hand and left as he gave a look to the silver hair man. I stood there silent and still trying to remember the way Vincent moved and talked to me. It made my whole body shiver, but in a good way.
"Having an intimacy moment, weren't you?" Asked Sephiroth as he glanced towards me.
"Not really. Vincent and I were just talking about his change in personality, clothes, and looks.. How long were you listening?" I asked curiosity.
"Enough to know that the guy likes you," replied Sephiroth.
He pushed himself off the wall and walked with me to my room. I grabbed my items and met him at my door. We both decided to walk around the town until the others were ready to go. I felt an awkward silence between each other. What could we talk about?
"Thank you, Lockheart," He said.
"For what?" I asked in astonishment.
"For helping me, making your friends understand, and mostly forgiving me for what I did long ago," said Sephiroth.
I looked at him and gave him a peaceful sigh. He already apologized and yet he keeps on going.
"Sephiroth, it's alright. It was never your true intention to kill the ones I loved. I know you're a good person," I replied with a cheerful smile.
"Thanks..By the way, I remember you and Cloud leaving out the library last night. What happened between you two?"
"Oh, well, I told him my feelings were now just being friends with him. I'm over him."
"That's good to hear. I think it was for the best anyway. I mean you looked kind a pathetic yearning for him to look at you instead of Aeris."
"Oh, wow, thanks, you cocky bastard," I replied as I rolled my eyes.
He gave a nice grin while I smiled back. I looked up into his eyes and felt myself mesmerized in them. They were so beautiful and alluring. I felt my hand being pulled by his muscular hand as he bent down towards me. Was he going to kiss me? What was this feeling I felt? It felt like the same feeling I felt with Vincent not so long ago.
"Hey, you two, time to go!" said Yuffie mischievously.
We drew our attention to the younger fighter and nodded. She gave us a little look with one of her toothy smile. She was thinking something dirty. Somehow, I can tell it in her face..
"I guess we'll finish our 'talk' later. Let's go," said Sephiroth.
"Uh, yeah, sure.." I said unsure of him and myself.
Later, the rest of us made it on board the Highwind. We walked to the control room as we stood in front of the glass. I stood side to side with Cloud, as usual, as Aeris stood by his other side with his arm on her shoulder. On my other side, stood Sephiroth with his arms crossed and grumpy looking face. Beside him were Vincent and Yuffie, as both of them looked over toward Sephiroth and I.
"Yo, Cid, let's get this journey going!" said Barret.
"Hell yeah!" replied Cid.
With that, he motioned his crew to lift off as they listen to his command. We rose from the ground and began to soar through the sky. My heart leaped in excitement as I watched the land below. I looked up to Sephiroth and gave him a light-hearted smile. He looked down at me and gave me a quick smile. I drifted my gaze to Vincent as he stood looking downward to the ground. He looked so handsome that I could tell I was blushing.
"Tifa? Are you alright?" Asked Yuffie walking up to me.
"Yeah, Yuffie, Of course I am," I replied coming back to my senses.
"Sure you are," comment the ninja girl, "Hey, Cid, when will we get to the mysterious island?"
"Probably in about three hours or so. I tell ya this ship is so fast it'll make you shit in your pants," said Cid with a laugh.
"How about we have a good girl talk, Tif?" Asked Yuffie with an eager expression.
"Sure," I said in confusion.
"I hope it's okay if I can join it," replied Aeris with a sweet smile.
"Yeah, sure, it'll be fun," I replied with my own smile.
"You guys stay here and have your manly talk or whatever," said Aeris to Cloud.
"Yeah, I'm sure we'll do that," replied Cloud.
He went for a kiss on her lovely lips, but Aeris moved her head and let him kiss her cheek. It seemed she did that on purpose. Why was this? Yuffie waved to everyone as she lead the way for us to the Operation room.
TO be continued...
A/N: o0o0o0o0o0 What are they going to talk about? Who does Tifa like? Why did Aeris receive a kiss only on the cheek from Cloud? These entire questions will be answered in the next chapter. Now, I'll update when I get some reviews, so REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!