Because you've been so patient with my computer problems, you get two chapters! Yay! That and this one is pretty darn short. Anyway, hope you enjoy as always and I apologise profusely for the delay, but my wonderful laptop (grr) has now proceeded to break FIVE times in less then a year! (Two hard drive crashes) what a great laptop! ^^; Anyway, hopefully updates will be more frequent again. Thanks for being so patient!

He was walking out of the town of Kalm when he felt an ominous hand on his shoulder. Grasping his gun, he spun; trigger half pulled, to stare into mako-blue eyes glaring fiercely at him.

"Vincent. Haven't you done enough already?" the blonde man asked, raising a fine eyebrow. Vincent shrugged the hand off his shoulder, lowering his gun. "What do you think about yesterday evening? Do you think I was right? That Tifa was a fool to save your ass?"

Vincent simply responded to this statement with his usual cool stare, which seemed to slightly perturb Cloud after a period of time. Narrowing his eyes dangerously, Cloud grabbed him by the arm and dragged him outside of the town establishment and towards the Midgar area, before un-holstering his sword.

"You made me lose my future wife. I'm not going to let that go lightly, because I love her. So, we dual. Fight me like a man. Or isn't there enough left in you to do that?"

It was obvious that the blonde swordsman was doing his best to anger him. It wasn't working. It was probably because Cloud is right, Vincent thought with a slight frown. He refused to lift his gun, instead keeping it pointed at the ground. Cloud lifted his sword. "So, what are doing? Because it won't be much of a fight for me if I can kill you first blow,"

"Go ahead. Only fools need to resort to duals," Vincent said softly. "Not that I need to justify my every move to you, but I was leaving Kalm because of the incident previously, to leave you and Tifa in peace. Either way, whether you kill me now or I leave, you will not have to see me again, nor I you," Thank the gods for that, he added mentally. "Put simply, I am not going to fight you here and now. The decision is entirely yours,"

Cloud lowered his sword slowly. "Alright, fine. If you want to hang on to that pathetic existence you call life, then I won't stop you. It's obviously what Tifa wants. And there's no point in a fight where nothing happens. Be grateful I don't just kill you here and now,"

Vincent resisted the urge to laugh out loud. If anything, Cloud probably would have ended up giving him bad and encumbering injuries, but not killing him. He had Chaos to thank for that.

*Why not dual? It could have been good,* Chaos' voice boomed inside his head. *Kill the aggravating blonde.*

Killing isn't the answer to everything. Sometimes it just creates more questions.

"You leave, go back to Nibelheim or wherever you go, and do not come back to Kalm. Got it? And you leave Tifa alone. Don't tell her that you're leaving. Deal?"

"Fine," Vincent said in his usual impassive tone. As long as he didn't have to fight, he didn't mind. What was not coming back to a town he wasn't planning on returning to when it could be more blood on his hands?

"What are you waiting for?" Cloud asked angrily. Vincent looked down into the glaring mako-blue eyes.

"Have a nice life, Cloud," Vincent said simply before walking away.