Strife and Lockhart- enemies or lovers?
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy 7; it belongs to Squaresoft, Sony and other associated groups, don't sue, and even if you did, you wouldn't get anything, I'm a flat broke student, suing me would make no sense at all. I may not own Cloud and Tifa, Yuffie and Vincent, but all original characters and ideas belong to me! I do not own Lays Potato Chips, or a park, or classical music, or a manor or anything for the fact - just my computer and some other stuff, I'm just a kid.
A/N: Ooh.lots of conflict in chapter two. My favorite FF7 couple are fighting, oh my *gasps* what have I done? Wahoo, thanks for the terrific reviews people, they mean a lot to me. Arigatou minna-san, ^- ~\\//.uhh.yeah. Anyways, here is chapter three of Strife and Lockhart- enemies or lovers? No you may not flame me.I am not perfect, nobody is. If you don't like it, just say it nicely and suggest something that would make you happy 'cause I'd be glad to put your ideas in it, however no Aeris and Cloud pairing, I just don't like Aeris. Anyway, enough of my talk, the talk you don't want to hear, here it is:
Chapter 3
~*~*~ Cloud's P.O.V. ~*~*~
Cloud couldn't say anything. He was shocked. Tifa Lockhart hated him, the one girl that he had actually shown interest to by will, hated his guts. All because of his damn pride, it was his fault because he could have brushed it off and been cordial.
Unfortunately, it wasn't his style to go and do anything to please anyone but himself, especially a girl. However, he denied himself of a chance he would more than likely never have again. His chance to be with the most beautiful girl he had ever laid eyes on.
'You're an idiot, do you know that Strife? Damn you boy, it was so easy to brush off, but you HAD to go and answer her like that, you are so goddamn stupid. She even apologized to you.she even told you the reason why and you just HAD to be the idiot you are and mess it up' he thought to himself.
His pride countered all those with axioms of 'I won't let a damn bitch like her put me to shame just because she's the sexiest chick I've ever laid eyes on' and things like, 'her heart is as ugly as sin' and ' she's nothing but bad news, look at that horrible temper and she is so rude'
Cloud's mind was all blurry; he fought not to agree with his pride. He finally contradicted it with a stinging remark, 'How the hell can you call her a bitch when you want her so bad? How can you say her heart is ugly? Her heart is beautiful, just as she is on the outside. If she were such an awful person, why in hell would she apologize to me? Answer that- I know you can't, you just had to go and mess up what would be a great relationship with her, damn you pride. You made her hate me and there's not a thing I can do about it. How can you say her temper is horrible, did you stop to listen to the words you said? Damn, when she said she hated you she really meant it and I can see why'
His pride couldn't retort to that, Cloud fell silent. He couldn't face Tifa, not for now at least. He felt broken by the last three words he had heard fall from her lips. If it were anyone else, he wouldn't have cared. He didn't even know her but he felt an undeniable connection with her and confessed to himself that he had fallen for her. It was going to be so hard for him with his malevolent temper and pride to make it up to Tifa. He pleaded to God for some type of assistance.
~*~*~ Tifa's P.O.V ~*~*~
'Tifa Lockhart, what the hell is your frigging problem? Why in God's name did you have to be such a bitch? Damn you child, all you had to say is that you weren't in the mood to talk and none of this crap would have happened. How could you? He is the hottest guy ever and.and you just HAD to start with the bitchiness. Dammit Tifa, you better start hoping that this was all a nightmare because if I recall correctly, you and a certain Mr. Strife here are going to be lab partners for a whole frigging year' she reproached herself.
Tifa paled at the memory of Mr. Lewis saying that they were not allowed to change lab partners. She cursed herself also at the memory of telling Cloud that she hated him. She messed up a chance to make a friend, messed up the chance to be his lover.
'Tifa Lockhart, you so messed this up'
She flipped her long hair over one shoulder and pretended to ignore the little buzzing voices that tormented her insecurities in a certain situation of a particular golden-haired, aqua-eyed individual who went by the name of Cloud Strife. She began to read the given pages, memorized the information and proceeded to do the questions.
Cloud saw her little gesture from the corners of his eyes and wanted to melt on the spot. Little did Tifa know; she was driving a certain golden haired boy wild with her innocent actions. She casually turned the page and concentrated on her work. Cloud watched her intently from the corners of his eyes. He was fascinated by her angelic appearance, her kind heart and even more intrigued by her fiery temper. In his eyes, she was perfect. Cloud sighed inaudibly and began to do the work as well. Every two or so minutes, his eyes strayed to the beautiful girl beside him. Cloud half- wished that his pride didn't exist; it was an annoying voice that bid him to do all the things that he didn't really want to. Yet it was so strong, and was hardly ever right. It prohibited him from doing many things. He wanted to apologize to her badly.but he couldn't. He could not possibly face her so soon.not after that.
The bell rang
They all practically bolted through the doors and ran for the cafeteria. Tifa gathered her books, walked nonchalantly to Yuffie's locker, and waited patiently for her. A few minutes later, the small and swift girl burst the corner and nearly collided with Tifa.
"Yo Yuffie, what's with the speed?" Tifa asked her single friend for the moment at the godforsaken school, as she assisted her up.
Yuffie had fallen flat on her back to avoid collision with Tifa. She took the proffered hand and stood up as if nothing happened.
"Oh, my Accounts teacher was giving out homework when the bell went, we had to practically break down the door to get out and not get caught. She's so boring, and I personally don't understand a word that comes out of her mouth. You'd think she'd learn English first before she wanted to teach English-speaking people Accounts," Yuffie explained as she threw a few books into her locker.
"Ah.I see" Tifa said as she took the information. "So, what exactly am I here for?" she questioned.
"Yeah, I told you to come here so I could show you where we sit for lunch, we don't eat in the cafeteria.we sit outside on the pathway to school after we buy our lunch, sometimes I bring lunch to school." She said in one breath and nearly choked after it.
"That's cool.but who's the 'we,'" Tifa asked, albeit a bit curious as to how Yuffie could talk so much, so fast.
"Oh, there's Alex and his girlfriend Joanne, there's Serena - she's Alex's little sister. Then there is Ana and Chris"
She said as she counted off the people on her long fingers.
"That's our lunch group. Alex and the rest of us have been in that lunch group since seventh grade.we still are. Man, next year we'll be in twelfth grade.that is some powerful friendship- a whole five years. Ah.enough of my yapping.lets go!" she continued while she began walking towards the cafeteria.
Tifa nodded and began to walk as well. "Umm.Yuffie, is it Alex Yee and Joanne Cheng?" she asked quietly.
"Yeah, do you have a class with them or something?" Yuffie asked.
"Yeah, they're in my Bio class" she answered as they approached the noisy cafeteria.
Yuffie grabbed Tifa's upper arm and dragged her towards the general food line and they stood in line.
As they waited for the long line to make its way up to the cashier, Yuffie decided to talk a little, relieving some of the pent up boredom from waiting in the slow-moving line. "Hey Tifa, how'd the Bio class go? thought I saw Strife go in there, you and him get together yet?" she asked Tifa while elbowing her and winking at her in an irritating fashion.
"Yuffie, please don't mention that.that thing's name to me again, I hate him he is so ugh" Tifa said, exasperated that Yuffie had brought up his name. Tifa sighed in annoyance. It was bad enough to sit beside him twice a week. Now when she had no need to be near him, she had to put up with Yuffie's questions that pertained to him.
"Okay, so what'd he do? It's to be something bad because right after English Lit. I personally saw you checking him out. Cloud is one of the hottest guys in the school - that is apart from Vincent. I heard he's single.something about that none of the girls here are cute or nice enough. Who knows, maybe you're the one. I mean, Strife doesn't exactly say stuff to people. What'd he do?" she asked with a speed worthy of the gods.
Tifa marveled that Yuffie wasn't hyperventilating. She took a deep breath, "I wouldn't care if he was the hottest guy in the universe."
Her heart contradicted her, 'oh but you DO care and he IS the hottest guy in the universe. Tifa, what are you talking about? You KNOW that you like him, you have this thing for him.if it was anything other than like, I would say that you lo-'
"Cloud Strife is the most insensitive, rude, disgustingly sickening, incompetent jerk I've ever met in my entire life" she broke her own thoughts and said in the same low, whisper-like growl she had spoken to him earlier with, "I was wrong to answer him the way I did, but I saw it and I apologized, I apologized to him sincerely. I really meant it but he apparently doesn't recognize the meaning of the words 'I'm sorry' because I saw where I went wrong with the conversation, and I did mean my words, if I didn't mean them I wouldn't have said them. I hate him and that's that" she finished her statement, her eyebrow twitching in anger and her fists trembling with suppressed rage.
Yuffie held her hands up in defeat, "okay, so my pal Tifa is livid with Strife, it's all good.I won't ask.but I have a pretty good idea about what happened" she said as they approached the top of the line.
Tifa snatched the last chicken sandwich and a bottle of Snapple whereas Yuffie grabbed a slice pepperoni pizza and a V-8 Splash. They made their way to the cashier, paid for the food, and left the noisy cafeteria. Yuffie led Tifa down the footpath alongside the driveway, it was a nice quiet spot and they sat on the concrete flooring and waited for the others.
A few minutes later, Alex and Joanne came down the pathway.
"Hey Yuffie, what's happening? Hey Tifa - it's Tifa right?" Joanne said in her friendly voice as she sat down beside Alex.
"Yeah, it's Tifa" she answered, while she absently crinkled the wrapper of her sandwich. She opened her Snapple and took a sip.
Yuffie took a sip of her V-8 Splash and struck up a conversation, "Yo people, I was thinking.Tifa is our newest member of the group, so I was wondering if we could like, you know, go out to commemorate it."
"I think it's a good idea Yuffie, Don't you think so Alex?" Joanne said as she took a sandwich out of her bag.
"Yeah, it's a great idea. So where do you want to go - the movies? How about the mall?" he agreed enthusiastically.
"What do say about it Tif - it's your choice" Yuffie said as she lifted her pizza to her mouth.
Tifa took the sandwich out of its bag and seemed to be deep in thought.
'Tif?' she wondered to herself, she was so new to this school and they had accepted her and spoke to her so familiarly to the point that they used the shortened form if her name.
After a pause, she spoke up, "Sure, why not? How about we go to both, it IS a tough choice to pick between the movies and chilling at the mall. So maybe on Saturday we can go, I'll have to ask my parents though.I'm pretty sure they'll agree."
"Yeah, it'll be so much fun; we can go shopping and stuff. Ooh I know, the first thing we'll look for is swimming stuff for our Biology trip. I can't wait" Joanne said happily.
Alex's eyes lit up as he thought of going to swimwear store with Joanne to try on all types of swimsuits for his eyes to feast on.
Serena, Ana and Chris sauntered lazily towards their usual spot. Greetings and introductions were exchanged and they all began to eat.
Fifteen minutes later, when everyone was finished with their lunch, Serena playfully punched Alex in his side. Much to her dismay, he didn't even flinch.
Being the childish teen she was, she pouted and crossed her arms. The rest of them laughed at her.
Tifa thought she was adorable and she somehow reminded her of herself when she was younger.
"Hey Serena, let me show you how to do a proper punch" she said as she motioned for her to come.
Serena was there in a split second with big puppy-dog eyes.
Tifa chuckled.
Tifa took her hand in hers "first, you bend your fingers like this," she bent the younger girl's fingers firmly "then you fold your fingers down like this" she brought the bent fingers down to her palm "and then you bend your thumb, to curve over your other fingers. If you make a fist any other way, you'll end up hurting yourself more than your opponent," she explained while she too made a perfect fist.
Then she punched an invisible attacker with much vigor, Serena was eager to try. Tifa held up her palms for her to punch and the eighth-grader punched. Tifa smiled and patted her on the back.
"Good punch - you have potential. If you want, I can teach you a little self defense.if you want.so you won't be dependent on your brother. It's good to know how to defend yourself; I don't want you punching up your brother though. You should ask your parents or your brother if you want me to train you" Tifa offered the bouncy girl.
"Tifa is a martial arts EXPERT, she knows practically every possible style" Yuffie explained to the group, "I wish I was as skilled as her, I only know how to use shuriken and kunai. Tifa is a master in like almost all martial arts, I think that's so cool," she rambled on.
Tifa bent her head to hide her blush, "aw.Yuffie, you didn't have to say that, I mean I still have to finish my wushu training," she protested weakly.
"Tifa, you don't have to be so modest, if you only have wushu to finish, that means you have mastered kung fu, karate, K-1 fighting, kick boxing, ninja arts, kendo, judo.and a whole ton of other styles, you have something to show off about" Ana stated with a grin. "If I were you, I would show off," she continued while smiling friendlily at her.
"Yeah, I agree with Ana. Honestly I can only do a little bit of street fighting.I only know how to disarm people and stuff like that, Alex and me have been doing street fighting for a while now" Chris said while he ran his fingers through his shoulder-length black streaked with blond hair.
Alex appeared to be pondering something with his little sister prodding him in the ribs for an answer. Apparently, he came to a decision and spoke up,
"Tifa, if you train this little brat here," he indicated to Serena, "you are going to have to know how to deal with kids, she may be thirteen - and a genius at that, but she acts like an eight-year old. Oh and you have to make her promise not to practice what you teach her on me. If you're cool with these conditions, away with the brat" he said with a grin.
Serena was in Cloud Nine when she heard that and she thanked her brother endlessly. Tifa smiled at Serena and the little girl beamed back.
They spent the rest of their lunch hour chatting and eating. Tifa had exchanged telephone numbers with them and they all got the opportunity to know her better, she now went by Tif, the shortened form of her name.
The bell signaling that the lunch hour was finished went off and the seven parted to their various destinations. Serena to the swimming pool - she had gym, Alex, Tifa and Yuffie to T.D. (A/N: Technical Drawing) Chris, Ana and Joanne to Computer Science.
On their way to the Art studio - where the T.D. classes were, Alex, who had become close to her - and showed a brother-like personality to Tifa, struck up a conversation about his little sister - Serena.
"Hey Tif, thanks for all you've done for Serena, I can see that she likes you a whole lot. You're a cool person, I'm glad that you're here because usually people reject her because she is.well, she has kidney problems and it kind of, well.it depresses her. She doesn't really want people to find out about it.and whenever they do find out, they forget about her. She looks up to you.I can see it. I think that you're a true friend," he said earnestly.
"I had no idea.I'm sorry to hear it Alex. She reminds me a little of myself when I was her age, but she is a terrific kid. You are lucky to have her for a little sister. I personally think she is the cutest thing I have ever met. I won't treat her indifferently or anything. In fact, I'll love her as my own sister. I'm an only child but I've always wanted a younger sibling.Serena will be perfect" she replied while she flashed a sympathetic look at him.
Upon reaching the Art studio, Yuffie grabbed three T-squares from a cupboard and tossed one each to Tifa and Alex. They caught the flying pieces of wood and plastic with ease. Yuffie kept one for herself and the trio made their way down to the middle aisle of the classroom to their chosen drawing boards. The others who came in did the same.
A few minutes later, Cloud and Vincent came into the room.
Time froze as the two "enemies" locked eyes.
'This bastard is in my class - thank God I have Yuffie and Alex in this class, I think I would die from trying to hold back from killing him' she thought as she grit her teeth and clenched her fists. 'Okay Tifa, breathe.calm down.you can do this' became her silent mantra as she turned away and yanked Yuffie who was sitting to her left towards her.
"Yuffie I have a favor to ask of you" she asked the energetic girl in a whisper.
Yuffie whipped her neck around so fast Tifa had to wonder how she didn't have a serious case of whiplash. "Huh? What's the favor?"
Tifa's wine-colored eyes glittered with anger as she jerked a thumb angrily to the golden-haired, aqua-eyed Cloud Strife who sat at the back of the classroom with his posse.
"Yuffie, I want you to make sure that I don't kill that boy. I can't believe it, he is in all my classes so far," she said in a harsh, exasperated whisper.
Yuffie nodded and struck up a conversation with Tifa and Alex to help try cool down a now furious Tifa. After twenty minutes, no teacher showed up.
"You know, I'm really fed up with these teachers not coming to teach their damn classes," an annoyed Alex said.
"I don't really mind, but after a while it really gets to me," Yuffie partially agreed while she was idling with another shuriken key chain, this one was one of the five dangling from her schoolbag.
"Well, I agree with Alex here, it gets to me when they don't show up" Tifa said as she snatched one of the interesting key chains off Yuffie's schoolbag. "Hey Yuffie, where'd you get these, these are pretty cool" she said as she ran a long creamy finger along the edge of one of the blades.
"I got a whole ton of them at home, you can have that if you want; everyone in our group has one. You should see my shuriken at home.I can't bring it to school or anything but its real cool. If you can come over to my house after school I'll show, I have kunai too," she offered.
"Sure, no problem.hey Alex, what type of weapon can you use" she asked Alex.
"Who me?" he asked her with an innocent look on his face.
"Well, I don't know any other Alex here" she answered with a sisterly grin and a light punch.
"Well.I play around with knives and daggers.I have a pair of twin broadswords at home - I do a little kung fu, that's it basically - that is apart from street fighting," he answered her.
"That's really cool, swords - all types, used to be my favorite weapons at a time.but then I got attached to my gloves. I love kickboxing, I just feel so focused with it. It is best to be comfortable with the style you choose. Fighting just makes me feel so focused, you guys agree?"
"Yeah, like if I had a bad day or something, I train with my shuriken and vent out my anger in a way that I'm not injuring anyone.the worst I can do is damage some property" Yuffie said with a laugh as she started sketching a portrait of Alex who had his head on the desk.
"Yeah, I agree with Yuffie there, it's much better to get rid of your anger while training other than letting it out on people" Alex said while he traced random patterns on his drawing board.
The three had nothing more to say so they sat in companionable silence and waited patiently for the remaining forty-five minutes to pass. Alex remained in his comfortable position and fell asleep. Tifa spent the time composing the notes and lyrics for a new song. Yuffie finished her sketch of Alex and was now sketching Tifa.
Finally, the bell rang. A sleepy Alex woke up and yawned. Tifa put away her manuscript book and the precious book of her song creations. Yuffie gave them the sketches of themselves and tossed her pencil case into her bag.
They all looked over their schedules and saw that they all had Geography so they had to go back to their homeroom. On the way back to the class, they met up with Joanne, Chris and Ana. The usual greeting was hard to make out due to the annoying buzz of voices so they used simple gestures to indicate acknowledgement. Alex casually carried Joanne's books, draped an arm around her shoulder, and dropped a kiss on her forehead.
'They so love each other' was everyone's thought.
"Aw come on people, not in the hallway, stuff like that is for locked classrooms - or even better yet, at home.or.or the movies and stuff. Please not here," said a rather embarrassed Yuffie said this as she saw some seventh graders catch a glimpse of the pair.
"Y'all know better than that, and we're supposed to be setting an example for the little seventh graders, we are responsible eleventh graders who are capable of controlling our hormones," she continued.
Everyone looked at Yuffie with shocked expressions, "That sounds awful strange coming from you Yuffie" said the shocked group of adolescents.
"Okay, okay it did sound weird coming from me-" she said as Chris broke her off.
"Yeah, you're right - you go on even worse than these two when you see Vincent, you go all gaga over him" he said with a chuckle.
"People, let's go, we'll be late for Geo." Ana broke in before the spat could even begin and began to walk off with Tifa. The others dropped the argument and scrambled to catch up with them.
They got to the class with no more of the friendly bickers and sat down, Tifa hadn't realized that they were all in the same homeroom, but was cheered nonetheless.
'At least I won't have to worry about that Cloud jerk until Biology; we can sit where we want to at this school. I don't think I could survive another minute with him watching me. I can't stand him. He's got that attitude.that so turns me off. I have to admit though.he does have THE finest body and THE most amazing eyes and - and what am I doing thinking about that jerk' Tifa said in her mind as she took a seat beside Chris.
The six sat together in the far right corner to the front of the class and sat there.
A tall slender woman entered the room and introduced herself as Ms. Carroll. She took a seat at the teacher's desk and began dictating notes. The class - well at least most of them, frantically scribbled to keep up with the rapid pace that she had taken on. After note taking, they sat and "absorbed" what she was talking - all they knew, was that she was saying something about volcanoes.
The bell rang to everyone's relief. The teacher, who had only been there for an hour or so, had already made herself a few enemies among the students. She called out a few pages for them to read and gave them an assignment. As soon as she was done, the class stampeded out the door.
"Whew! It's like that woman wouldn't shut up or something. She's such a bitch," Yuffie muttered under her breath, "all who agree with me say 'I,'" she said, angry with the woman because she had given her a detention for no apparent reason.
"I" was the loud echo of their voices as they made their way through the school gates.
They waited there for Serena. A few minutes later, she was making her way to them. Yuffie, Ana and Chris walked alongside each other, whereas Joanne and Alex walked together, his arm draped around her waist. Serena made her way beside her brother and she pulled Tifa beside her and began to relay the day's events to them.
They were taking a shortcut through the park and had stopped to get ice cream and they sat in small groups, Alex sat with Joanne at a picnic table. Yuffie sat with Chris on a large stone bench. Tifa, Serena, and Ana sat together under a huge oak tree. They chatted about random topics.
"Hey Tif, which street do you live on?" asked Joanne who was sitting on Alex's lap and indulging in her ice cream.
"Sovereign Ave, you guys can come over to my house if you want.my folks won't mind or anything" she offered "in fact, they'll be glad I made some friends and they won't be back until after six, so we're cool" she continued while she finished up her rather large ration of cookies-and- cream ice cream.
"Sovereign Ave, that's a pretty high class area" Chris said while he unconsciously ran his fingers through his rich hair. It was a constant habit. One he had never been able to break.
"Sure, why not?" Yuffie agreed cheerfully. The others nodded in approval as they too finished the huge masses of frigid ice cream.
They left the park and were off to Tifa's house, it wasn't too far from the park. Upon reaching her house, (which was more like a mansion) they gawked.
"Your house is huge!" an awed Ana enthusiastically said. The others agreed wholeheartedly.
Tifa slid a key into the keyhole of the front door and motioned for them to come in. She indicated for them to sit in the rather large living room while she ran up the marble stairs. She dropped her bag in her room and left it.
If they were amazed with the outward appearance of the manor, the interior was incredible. Expensive paintings adorned the walls. The white walls themselves - decorated with a beautiful golden trim - the contrast, stunning. The floor was of a gorgeous hardwood, polished to the point where their faces were visible. Elegant carvings were visible in all the right places. An intricate sculpture of an eagle added simple charm to the fancy living room.
She ran down the upper hall somersaulted over the staircase, and crouched into a battle stance. Applause resounded through the Lockhart residence as Tifa sauntered casually to the kitchen and grabbed a few large bags of potato chips and other snacks. She arched one perfect eyebrow at them when they applauded; it was a silly peculiarity to her for them to approve of a simple somersault. It was something she did everyday and there was nothing special about it - not to her anyway.
"Idiosyncratic" was the almost incoherent murmur that only Yuffie caught.
"Hey! What'd you mean by that?" the short girl said in a quite indignant tone while she almost choked on her potato chips.
"I find it weird that you are applauding over something that it as simple as a somersault.it's so easy,"
"Oh." was all Yuffie could say after that explanation
~*~they passed the time, doing homework and studying - with the occasional bickers~*~
Tifa glanced at the clock, 4:45 "it's getting late people, don't you think you should be getting home?" she asked as she cleared up all the empty Lays Potato Chips® bags and the soda bottles.
"Yeah, I guess we should" Chris said while he got up and stretched. The others murmured something similar. They decided to leave and thanked Tifa; 'see you later' and 'I'll call you' and 'see you tomorrow in school' were the words heard, decreasing in volume.
Tifa waved one final time, closed the door and stalked to the shower where she relaxed under the soothing spray of warm water. Upon finishing her cleansing act, she turned on her CD boom box and played some calming classical music.
A few minutes later, Tifa Lockhart was drifting in the peaceful void of dreams in the world between sleeping and waking.
A/N: I Whoa.twelve pages.damn *sigh* Tifa is quite a vixen when she's mad ne? I have so many ideas for this fic and this chapter just flowed from my fingers. I have so many ideas for this fic, I am desperately in need of ideas for my Rurouni Kenshin fic.I need inspiration.bad. Well.I may not be updating for a while, but don't worry.I won't stop writing this fic. If you have any questions or comments, leave a review or email me at spiky_wong90@hotmail.com well.I am off to my bed, it's like after very late and I have so much to do tomorrow. I am so glad that you liked chapter 2, I hope you enjoyed this one because a lot of work went into this - also, this fic is far from finished.there are so many ideas I have for this. However, they are going to be incorporated into the plot later on. Please review and give me some feedback, I want to know what you think about it - of course your ideas are all welcome. So.I would appreciate you leaving me a review, tell me what you think. Thanks for reading! Oh and by the way, flaming is not at all a constructive way to express what you think. However, don't suggest any Aeris + Cloud pairing.I may add her in after a while, but to all you Cloud and Tifa fans like myself out there, it's going to be Cloud and Tifa all the way, so I'm sorry to all the Gainsborough fans. Aeris just irks me, like many people who don't like her, at first I thought it was the fact that she wears pink.pink sucks, but then when I played the game, I grew to like Tifa's character (not that way you perverts.) Anyway, please don't flame me about the pairing, I can change anything else in the fic but it remains Cloud and Tifa, will all that said, now I go to my bed.
*~*~*~*~Click That Button*~*~*~*
Black Chiney
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy 7; it belongs to Squaresoft, Sony and other associated groups, don't sue, and even if you did, you wouldn't get anything, I'm a flat broke student, suing me would make no sense at all. I may not own Cloud and Tifa, Yuffie and Vincent, but all original characters and ideas belong to me! I do not own Lays Potato Chips, or a park, or classical music, or a manor or anything for the fact - just my computer and some other stuff, I'm just a kid.
A/N: Ooh.lots of conflict in chapter two. My favorite FF7 couple are fighting, oh my *gasps* what have I done? Wahoo, thanks for the terrific reviews people, they mean a lot to me. Arigatou minna-san, ^- ~\\//.uhh.yeah. Anyways, here is chapter three of Strife and Lockhart- enemies or lovers? No you may not flame me.I am not perfect, nobody is. If you don't like it, just say it nicely and suggest something that would make you happy 'cause I'd be glad to put your ideas in it, however no Aeris and Cloud pairing, I just don't like Aeris. Anyway, enough of my talk, the talk you don't want to hear, here it is:
Chapter 3
~*~*~ Cloud's P.O.V. ~*~*~
Cloud couldn't say anything. He was shocked. Tifa Lockhart hated him, the one girl that he had actually shown interest to by will, hated his guts. All because of his damn pride, it was his fault because he could have brushed it off and been cordial.
Unfortunately, it wasn't his style to go and do anything to please anyone but himself, especially a girl. However, he denied himself of a chance he would more than likely never have again. His chance to be with the most beautiful girl he had ever laid eyes on.
'You're an idiot, do you know that Strife? Damn you boy, it was so easy to brush off, but you HAD to go and answer her like that, you are so goddamn stupid. She even apologized to you.she even told you the reason why and you just HAD to be the idiot you are and mess it up' he thought to himself.
His pride countered all those with axioms of 'I won't let a damn bitch like her put me to shame just because she's the sexiest chick I've ever laid eyes on' and things like, 'her heart is as ugly as sin' and ' she's nothing but bad news, look at that horrible temper and she is so rude'
Cloud's mind was all blurry; he fought not to agree with his pride. He finally contradicted it with a stinging remark, 'How the hell can you call her a bitch when you want her so bad? How can you say her heart is ugly? Her heart is beautiful, just as she is on the outside. If she were such an awful person, why in hell would she apologize to me? Answer that- I know you can't, you just had to go and mess up what would be a great relationship with her, damn you pride. You made her hate me and there's not a thing I can do about it. How can you say her temper is horrible, did you stop to listen to the words you said? Damn, when she said she hated you she really meant it and I can see why'
His pride couldn't retort to that, Cloud fell silent. He couldn't face Tifa, not for now at least. He felt broken by the last three words he had heard fall from her lips. If it were anyone else, he wouldn't have cared. He didn't even know her but he felt an undeniable connection with her and confessed to himself that he had fallen for her. It was going to be so hard for him with his malevolent temper and pride to make it up to Tifa. He pleaded to God for some type of assistance.
~*~*~ Tifa's P.O.V ~*~*~
'Tifa Lockhart, what the hell is your frigging problem? Why in God's name did you have to be such a bitch? Damn you child, all you had to say is that you weren't in the mood to talk and none of this crap would have happened. How could you? He is the hottest guy ever and.and you just HAD to start with the bitchiness. Dammit Tifa, you better start hoping that this was all a nightmare because if I recall correctly, you and a certain Mr. Strife here are going to be lab partners for a whole frigging year' she reproached herself.
Tifa paled at the memory of Mr. Lewis saying that they were not allowed to change lab partners. She cursed herself also at the memory of telling Cloud that she hated him. She messed up a chance to make a friend, messed up the chance to be his lover.
'Tifa Lockhart, you so messed this up'
She flipped her long hair over one shoulder and pretended to ignore the little buzzing voices that tormented her insecurities in a certain situation of a particular golden-haired, aqua-eyed individual who went by the name of Cloud Strife. She began to read the given pages, memorized the information and proceeded to do the questions.
Cloud saw her little gesture from the corners of his eyes and wanted to melt on the spot. Little did Tifa know; she was driving a certain golden haired boy wild with her innocent actions. She casually turned the page and concentrated on her work. Cloud watched her intently from the corners of his eyes. He was fascinated by her angelic appearance, her kind heart and even more intrigued by her fiery temper. In his eyes, she was perfect. Cloud sighed inaudibly and began to do the work as well. Every two or so minutes, his eyes strayed to the beautiful girl beside him. Cloud half- wished that his pride didn't exist; it was an annoying voice that bid him to do all the things that he didn't really want to. Yet it was so strong, and was hardly ever right. It prohibited him from doing many things. He wanted to apologize to her badly.but he couldn't. He could not possibly face her so soon.not after that.
The bell rang
They all practically bolted through the doors and ran for the cafeteria. Tifa gathered her books, walked nonchalantly to Yuffie's locker, and waited patiently for her. A few minutes later, the small and swift girl burst the corner and nearly collided with Tifa.
"Yo Yuffie, what's with the speed?" Tifa asked her single friend for the moment at the godforsaken school, as she assisted her up.
Yuffie had fallen flat on her back to avoid collision with Tifa. She took the proffered hand and stood up as if nothing happened.
"Oh, my Accounts teacher was giving out homework when the bell went, we had to practically break down the door to get out and not get caught. She's so boring, and I personally don't understand a word that comes out of her mouth. You'd think she'd learn English first before she wanted to teach English-speaking people Accounts," Yuffie explained as she threw a few books into her locker.
"Ah.I see" Tifa said as she took the information. "So, what exactly am I here for?" she questioned.
"Yeah, I told you to come here so I could show you where we sit for lunch, we don't eat in the cafeteria.we sit outside on the pathway to school after we buy our lunch, sometimes I bring lunch to school." She said in one breath and nearly choked after it.
"That's cool.but who's the 'we,'" Tifa asked, albeit a bit curious as to how Yuffie could talk so much, so fast.
"Oh, there's Alex and his girlfriend Joanne, there's Serena - she's Alex's little sister. Then there is Ana and Chris"
She said as she counted off the people on her long fingers.
"That's our lunch group. Alex and the rest of us have been in that lunch group since seventh grade.we still are. Man, next year we'll be in twelfth grade.that is some powerful friendship- a whole five years. Ah.enough of my yapping.lets go!" she continued while she began walking towards the cafeteria.
Tifa nodded and began to walk as well. "Umm.Yuffie, is it Alex Yee and Joanne Cheng?" she asked quietly.
"Yeah, do you have a class with them or something?" Yuffie asked.
"Yeah, they're in my Bio class" she answered as they approached the noisy cafeteria.
Yuffie grabbed Tifa's upper arm and dragged her towards the general food line and they stood in line.
As they waited for the long line to make its way up to the cashier, Yuffie decided to talk a little, relieving some of the pent up boredom from waiting in the slow-moving line. "Hey Tifa, how'd the Bio class go? thought I saw Strife go in there, you and him get together yet?" she asked Tifa while elbowing her and winking at her in an irritating fashion.
"Yuffie, please don't mention that.that thing's name to me again, I hate him he is so ugh" Tifa said, exasperated that Yuffie had brought up his name. Tifa sighed in annoyance. It was bad enough to sit beside him twice a week. Now when she had no need to be near him, she had to put up with Yuffie's questions that pertained to him.
"Okay, so what'd he do? It's to be something bad because right after English Lit. I personally saw you checking him out. Cloud is one of the hottest guys in the school - that is apart from Vincent. I heard he's single.something about that none of the girls here are cute or nice enough. Who knows, maybe you're the one. I mean, Strife doesn't exactly say stuff to people. What'd he do?" she asked with a speed worthy of the gods.
Tifa marveled that Yuffie wasn't hyperventilating. She took a deep breath, "I wouldn't care if he was the hottest guy in the universe."
Her heart contradicted her, 'oh but you DO care and he IS the hottest guy in the universe. Tifa, what are you talking about? You KNOW that you like him, you have this thing for him.if it was anything other than like, I would say that you lo-'
"Cloud Strife is the most insensitive, rude, disgustingly sickening, incompetent jerk I've ever met in my entire life" she broke her own thoughts and said in the same low, whisper-like growl she had spoken to him earlier with, "I was wrong to answer him the way I did, but I saw it and I apologized, I apologized to him sincerely. I really meant it but he apparently doesn't recognize the meaning of the words 'I'm sorry' because I saw where I went wrong with the conversation, and I did mean my words, if I didn't mean them I wouldn't have said them. I hate him and that's that" she finished her statement, her eyebrow twitching in anger and her fists trembling with suppressed rage.
Yuffie held her hands up in defeat, "okay, so my pal Tifa is livid with Strife, it's all good.I won't ask.but I have a pretty good idea about what happened" she said as they approached the top of the line.
Tifa snatched the last chicken sandwich and a bottle of Snapple whereas Yuffie grabbed a slice pepperoni pizza and a V-8 Splash. They made their way to the cashier, paid for the food, and left the noisy cafeteria. Yuffie led Tifa down the footpath alongside the driveway, it was a nice quiet spot and they sat on the concrete flooring and waited for the others.
A few minutes later, Alex and Joanne came down the pathway.
"Hey Yuffie, what's happening? Hey Tifa - it's Tifa right?" Joanne said in her friendly voice as she sat down beside Alex.
"Yeah, it's Tifa" she answered, while she absently crinkled the wrapper of her sandwich. She opened her Snapple and took a sip.
Yuffie took a sip of her V-8 Splash and struck up a conversation, "Yo people, I was thinking.Tifa is our newest member of the group, so I was wondering if we could like, you know, go out to commemorate it."
"I think it's a good idea Yuffie, Don't you think so Alex?" Joanne said as she took a sandwich out of her bag.
"Yeah, it's a great idea. So where do you want to go - the movies? How about the mall?" he agreed enthusiastically.
"What do say about it Tif - it's your choice" Yuffie said as she lifted her pizza to her mouth.
Tifa took the sandwich out of its bag and seemed to be deep in thought.
'Tif?' she wondered to herself, she was so new to this school and they had accepted her and spoke to her so familiarly to the point that they used the shortened form if her name.
After a pause, she spoke up, "Sure, why not? How about we go to both, it IS a tough choice to pick between the movies and chilling at the mall. So maybe on Saturday we can go, I'll have to ask my parents though.I'm pretty sure they'll agree."
"Yeah, it'll be so much fun; we can go shopping and stuff. Ooh I know, the first thing we'll look for is swimming stuff for our Biology trip. I can't wait" Joanne said happily.
Alex's eyes lit up as he thought of going to swimwear store with Joanne to try on all types of swimsuits for his eyes to feast on.
Serena, Ana and Chris sauntered lazily towards their usual spot. Greetings and introductions were exchanged and they all began to eat.
Fifteen minutes later, when everyone was finished with their lunch, Serena playfully punched Alex in his side. Much to her dismay, he didn't even flinch.
Being the childish teen she was, she pouted and crossed her arms. The rest of them laughed at her.
Tifa thought she was adorable and she somehow reminded her of herself when she was younger.
"Hey Serena, let me show you how to do a proper punch" she said as she motioned for her to come.
Serena was there in a split second with big puppy-dog eyes.
Tifa chuckled.
Tifa took her hand in hers "first, you bend your fingers like this," she bent the younger girl's fingers firmly "then you fold your fingers down like this" she brought the bent fingers down to her palm "and then you bend your thumb, to curve over your other fingers. If you make a fist any other way, you'll end up hurting yourself more than your opponent," she explained while she too made a perfect fist.
Then she punched an invisible attacker with much vigor, Serena was eager to try. Tifa held up her palms for her to punch and the eighth-grader punched. Tifa smiled and patted her on the back.
"Good punch - you have potential. If you want, I can teach you a little self defense.if you want.so you won't be dependent on your brother. It's good to know how to defend yourself; I don't want you punching up your brother though. You should ask your parents or your brother if you want me to train you" Tifa offered the bouncy girl.
"Tifa is a martial arts EXPERT, she knows practically every possible style" Yuffie explained to the group, "I wish I was as skilled as her, I only know how to use shuriken and kunai. Tifa is a master in like almost all martial arts, I think that's so cool," she rambled on.
Tifa bent her head to hide her blush, "aw.Yuffie, you didn't have to say that, I mean I still have to finish my wushu training," she protested weakly.
"Tifa, you don't have to be so modest, if you only have wushu to finish, that means you have mastered kung fu, karate, K-1 fighting, kick boxing, ninja arts, kendo, judo.and a whole ton of other styles, you have something to show off about" Ana stated with a grin. "If I were you, I would show off," she continued while smiling friendlily at her.
"Yeah, I agree with Ana. Honestly I can only do a little bit of street fighting.I only know how to disarm people and stuff like that, Alex and me have been doing street fighting for a while now" Chris said while he ran his fingers through his shoulder-length black streaked with blond hair.
Alex appeared to be pondering something with his little sister prodding him in the ribs for an answer. Apparently, he came to a decision and spoke up,
"Tifa, if you train this little brat here," he indicated to Serena, "you are going to have to know how to deal with kids, she may be thirteen - and a genius at that, but she acts like an eight-year old. Oh and you have to make her promise not to practice what you teach her on me. If you're cool with these conditions, away with the brat" he said with a grin.
Serena was in Cloud Nine when she heard that and she thanked her brother endlessly. Tifa smiled at Serena and the little girl beamed back.
They spent the rest of their lunch hour chatting and eating. Tifa had exchanged telephone numbers with them and they all got the opportunity to know her better, she now went by Tif, the shortened form of her name.
The bell signaling that the lunch hour was finished went off and the seven parted to their various destinations. Serena to the swimming pool - she had gym, Alex, Tifa and Yuffie to T.D. (A/N: Technical Drawing) Chris, Ana and Joanne to Computer Science.
On their way to the Art studio - where the T.D. classes were, Alex, who had become close to her - and showed a brother-like personality to Tifa, struck up a conversation about his little sister - Serena.
"Hey Tif, thanks for all you've done for Serena, I can see that she likes you a whole lot. You're a cool person, I'm glad that you're here because usually people reject her because she is.well, she has kidney problems and it kind of, well.it depresses her. She doesn't really want people to find out about it.and whenever they do find out, they forget about her. She looks up to you.I can see it. I think that you're a true friend," he said earnestly.
"I had no idea.I'm sorry to hear it Alex. She reminds me a little of myself when I was her age, but she is a terrific kid. You are lucky to have her for a little sister. I personally think she is the cutest thing I have ever met. I won't treat her indifferently or anything. In fact, I'll love her as my own sister. I'm an only child but I've always wanted a younger sibling.Serena will be perfect" she replied while she flashed a sympathetic look at him.
Upon reaching the Art studio, Yuffie grabbed three T-squares from a cupboard and tossed one each to Tifa and Alex. They caught the flying pieces of wood and plastic with ease. Yuffie kept one for herself and the trio made their way down to the middle aisle of the classroom to their chosen drawing boards. The others who came in did the same.
A few minutes later, Cloud and Vincent came into the room.
Time froze as the two "enemies" locked eyes.
'This bastard is in my class - thank God I have Yuffie and Alex in this class, I think I would die from trying to hold back from killing him' she thought as she grit her teeth and clenched her fists. 'Okay Tifa, breathe.calm down.you can do this' became her silent mantra as she turned away and yanked Yuffie who was sitting to her left towards her.
"Yuffie I have a favor to ask of you" she asked the energetic girl in a whisper.
Yuffie whipped her neck around so fast Tifa had to wonder how she didn't have a serious case of whiplash. "Huh? What's the favor?"
Tifa's wine-colored eyes glittered with anger as she jerked a thumb angrily to the golden-haired, aqua-eyed Cloud Strife who sat at the back of the classroom with his posse.
"Yuffie, I want you to make sure that I don't kill that boy. I can't believe it, he is in all my classes so far," she said in a harsh, exasperated whisper.
Yuffie nodded and struck up a conversation with Tifa and Alex to help try cool down a now furious Tifa. After twenty minutes, no teacher showed up.
"You know, I'm really fed up with these teachers not coming to teach their damn classes," an annoyed Alex said.
"I don't really mind, but after a while it really gets to me," Yuffie partially agreed while she was idling with another shuriken key chain, this one was one of the five dangling from her schoolbag.
"Well, I agree with Alex here, it gets to me when they don't show up" Tifa said as she snatched one of the interesting key chains off Yuffie's schoolbag. "Hey Yuffie, where'd you get these, these are pretty cool" she said as she ran a long creamy finger along the edge of one of the blades.
"I got a whole ton of them at home, you can have that if you want; everyone in our group has one. You should see my shuriken at home.I can't bring it to school or anything but its real cool. If you can come over to my house after school I'll show, I have kunai too," she offered.
"Sure, no problem.hey Alex, what type of weapon can you use" she asked Alex.
"Who me?" he asked her with an innocent look on his face.
"Well, I don't know any other Alex here" she answered with a sisterly grin and a light punch.
"Well.I play around with knives and daggers.I have a pair of twin broadswords at home - I do a little kung fu, that's it basically - that is apart from street fighting," he answered her.
"That's really cool, swords - all types, used to be my favorite weapons at a time.but then I got attached to my gloves. I love kickboxing, I just feel so focused with it. It is best to be comfortable with the style you choose. Fighting just makes me feel so focused, you guys agree?"
"Yeah, like if I had a bad day or something, I train with my shuriken and vent out my anger in a way that I'm not injuring anyone.the worst I can do is damage some property" Yuffie said with a laugh as she started sketching a portrait of Alex who had his head on the desk.
"Yeah, I agree with Yuffie there, it's much better to get rid of your anger while training other than letting it out on people" Alex said while he traced random patterns on his drawing board.
The three had nothing more to say so they sat in companionable silence and waited patiently for the remaining forty-five minutes to pass. Alex remained in his comfortable position and fell asleep. Tifa spent the time composing the notes and lyrics for a new song. Yuffie finished her sketch of Alex and was now sketching Tifa.
Finally, the bell rang. A sleepy Alex woke up and yawned. Tifa put away her manuscript book and the precious book of her song creations. Yuffie gave them the sketches of themselves and tossed her pencil case into her bag.
They all looked over their schedules and saw that they all had Geography so they had to go back to their homeroom. On the way back to the class, they met up with Joanne, Chris and Ana. The usual greeting was hard to make out due to the annoying buzz of voices so they used simple gestures to indicate acknowledgement. Alex casually carried Joanne's books, draped an arm around her shoulder, and dropped a kiss on her forehead.
'They so love each other' was everyone's thought.
"Aw come on people, not in the hallway, stuff like that is for locked classrooms - or even better yet, at home.or.or the movies and stuff. Please not here," said a rather embarrassed Yuffie said this as she saw some seventh graders catch a glimpse of the pair.
"Y'all know better than that, and we're supposed to be setting an example for the little seventh graders, we are responsible eleventh graders who are capable of controlling our hormones," she continued.
Everyone looked at Yuffie with shocked expressions, "That sounds awful strange coming from you Yuffie" said the shocked group of adolescents.
"Okay, okay it did sound weird coming from me-" she said as Chris broke her off.
"Yeah, you're right - you go on even worse than these two when you see Vincent, you go all gaga over him" he said with a chuckle.
"People, let's go, we'll be late for Geo." Ana broke in before the spat could even begin and began to walk off with Tifa. The others dropped the argument and scrambled to catch up with them.
They got to the class with no more of the friendly bickers and sat down, Tifa hadn't realized that they were all in the same homeroom, but was cheered nonetheless.
'At least I won't have to worry about that Cloud jerk until Biology; we can sit where we want to at this school. I don't think I could survive another minute with him watching me. I can't stand him. He's got that attitude.that so turns me off. I have to admit though.he does have THE finest body and THE most amazing eyes and - and what am I doing thinking about that jerk' Tifa said in her mind as she took a seat beside Chris.
The six sat together in the far right corner to the front of the class and sat there.
A tall slender woman entered the room and introduced herself as Ms. Carroll. She took a seat at the teacher's desk and began dictating notes. The class - well at least most of them, frantically scribbled to keep up with the rapid pace that she had taken on. After note taking, they sat and "absorbed" what she was talking - all they knew, was that she was saying something about volcanoes.
The bell rang to everyone's relief. The teacher, who had only been there for an hour or so, had already made herself a few enemies among the students. She called out a few pages for them to read and gave them an assignment. As soon as she was done, the class stampeded out the door.
"Whew! It's like that woman wouldn't shut up or something. She's such a bitch," Yuffie muttered under her breath, "all who agree with me say 'I,'" she said, angry with the woman because she had given her a detention for no apparent reason.
"I" was the loud echo of their voices as they made their way through the school gates.
They waited there for Serena. A few minutes later, she was making her way to them. Yuffie, Ana and Chris walked alongside each other, whereas Joanne and Alex walked together, his arm draped around her waist. Serena made her way beside her brother and she pulled Tifa beside her and began to relay the day's events to them.
They were taking a shortcut through the park and had stopped to get ice cream and they sat in small groups, Alex sat with Joanne at a picnic table. Yuffie sat with Chris on a large stone bench. Tifa, Serena, and Ana sat together under a huge oak tree. They chatted about random topics.
"Hey Tif, which street do you live on?" asked Joanne who was sitting on Alex's lap and indulging in her ice cream.
"Sovereign Ave, you guys can come over to my house if you want.my folks won't mind or anything" she offered "in fact, they'll be glad I made some friends and they won't be back until after six, so we're cool" she continued while she finished up her rather large ration of cookies-and- cream ice cream.
"Sovereign Ave, that's a pretty high class area" Chris said while he unconsciously ran his fingers through his rich hair. It was a constant habit. One he had never been able to break.
"Sure, why not?" Yuffie agreed cheerfully. The others nodded in approval as they too finished the huge masses of frigid ice cream.
They left the park and were off to Tifa's house, it wasn't too far from the park. Upon reaching her house, (which was more like a mansion) they gawked.
"Your house is huge!" an awed Ana enthusiastically said. The others agreed wholeheartedly.
Tifa slid a key into the keyhole of the front door and motioned for them to come in. She indicated for them to sit in the rather large living room while she ran up the marble stairs. She dropped her bag in her room and left it.
If they were amazed with the outward appearance of the manor, the interior was incredible. Expensive paintings adorned the walls. The white walls themselves - decorated with a beautiful golden trim - the contrast, stunning. The floor was of a gorgeous hardwood, polished to the point where their faces were visible. Elegant carvings were visible in all the right places. An intricate sculpture of an eagle added simple charm to the fancy living room.
She ran down the upper hall somersaulted over the staircase, and crouched into a battle stance. Applause resounded through the Lockhart residence as Tifa sauntered casually to the kitchen and grabbed a few large bags of potato chips and other snacks. She arched one perfect eyebrow at them when they applauded; it was a silly peculiarity to her for them to approve of a simple somersault. It was something she did everyday and there was nothing special about it - not to her anyway.
"Idiosyncratic" was the almost incoherent murmur that only Yuffie caught.
"Hey! What'd you mean by that?" the short girl said in a quite indignant tone while she almost choked on her potato chips.
"I find it weird that you are applauding over something that it as simple as a somersault.it's so easy,"
"Oh." was all Yuffie could say after that explanation
~*~they passed the time, doing homework and studying - with the occasional bickers~*~
Tifa glanced at the clock, 4:45 "it's getting late people, don't you think you should be getting home?" she asked as she cleared up all the empty Lays Potato Chips® bags and the soda bottles.
"Yeah, I guess we should" Chris said while he got up and stretched. The others murmured something similar. They decided to leave and thanked Tifa; 'see you later' and 'I'll call you' and 'see you tomorrow in school' were the words heard, decreasing in volume.
Tifa waved one final time, closed the door and stalked to the shower where she relaxed under the soothing spray of warm water. Upon finishing her cleansing act, she turned on her CD boom box and played some calming classical music.
A few minutes later, Tifa Lockhart was drifting in the peaceful void of dreams in the world between sleeping and waking.
A/N: I Whoa.twelve pages.damn *sigh* Tifa is quite a vixen when she's mad ne? I have so many ideas for this fic and this chapter just flowed from my fingers. I have so many ideas for this fic, I am desperately in need of ideas for my Rurouni Kenshin fic.I need inspiration.bad. Well.I may not be updating for a while, but don't worry.I won't stop writing this fic. If you have any questions or comments, leave a review or email me at spiky_wong90@hotmail.com well.I am off to my bed, it's like after very late and I have so much to do tomorrow. I am so glad that you liked chapter 2, I hope you enjoyed this one because a lot of work went into this - also, this fic is far from finished.there are so many ideas I have for this. However, they are going to be incorporated into the plot later on. Please review and give me some feedback, I want to know what you think about it - of course your ideas are all welcome. So.I would appreciate you leaving me a review, tell me what you think. Thanks for reading! Oh and by the way, flaming is not at all a constructive way to express what you think. However, don't suggest any Aeris + Cloud pairing.I may add her in after a while, but to all you Cloud and Tifa fans like myself out there, it's going to be Cloud and Tifa all the way, so I'm sorry to all the Gainsborough fans. Aeris just irks me, like many people who don't like her, at first I thought it was the fact that she wears pink.pink sucks, but then when I played the game, I grew to like Tifa's character (not that way you perverts.) Anyway, please don't flame me about the pairing, I can change anything else in the fic but it remains Cloud and Tifa, will all that said, now I go to my bed.
*~*~*~*~Click That Button*~*~*~*
Black Chiney