Andariel: Yuffentine is my ultimate favourite! I love it!

BlueEyedDemon10: Aye, Fanfiction.net needs more fluff! Chainsaws too, but that's not the point.

Shadow, Eva, Pixie and Felichel: Thanks you guys! * Goblins *: (Eats candy) We'll give you some cookies if you make Shadow write more ^_^

Yuffie Kisaragi: I think someone's been on the happy piiiills... Ah well, what ever makes people like my stuff can't be all bad! Thank you!

Kitty: Hey now, how can I refuse an offer like that ^_~

Manganese: Hey, no probs! I shall put extra effort into this one, especially for you.

Hope you guys like this! I decided that Vincent needs more alchohol!

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"Say Vinnie?"

"Yes Yuffie?"

"Can we go Chocobo racing?"

"We didn't bring the Chocobos with us."

"Yeah, but you can rent them; c'mon Vinnie, whaddya say?"

"All right. But you know, you never were the best rider."

"Hey, that's not fair!"

Vincent opened his mouth to say something along the lines of 'true though', but at taking a look at Yuffie's scrunched up little face, decided to keep his thoughts to himself.

"Hah!"

"What?"

"You don't have a witty answer for everything after all!"

"Whoever gave you the notion that I do?"

"Don't know really."

"Hn."

The pair were sat in the Ghost Hotel with a drink in their hands. Vincent swirled his alchohol around absently, glancing suspiciously at the candy eyeballs that were floating conspicuously in the blood red substance. As he took a sip his face screwed up in distaste, and said to Yuffie, who had a questioning look on her face,

"The red food colouring is extremely sickly."

"Ooh! Lemme have a taste! I like sweet things!"

"Yuffie, do you remember the last time Reeve let you have a sip of his drink?"

Yuffie looked awkwardly innocent, as Vincent went on,

"You need reminding?" Vincent's eyes danced mischievously, a look which Yuffie had never seen the gunslinger use before, "Within five minutes you were hanging onto the ceiling fan singing 'Like a Prayer', completely off key, using Cait as a microphone."

"Hey, it was a VERY strong drink!"

"You drunk half of the decanter."

"Ooooh! Shush you!"

Yuffie drunk her coke, stole Vincent's half-finished drink and took a big gulp. Vincent's eyes widened in horror, sighing heavily in relief when she spat it out, the stream of liquid breaking through the luminescent ghost sitting close to them. It turned it's head, and got up to yell at them. Yuffie began to laugh, and Vincent took her hand and pulled her from the lobby of the hotel, leaving the old ghost to shake his fist, mumbling something about, 'those rotten youngsters!'. Yuffie was still laughing when she was shot from the tube into the Chocobo Square, rolling around the floor in hysterics while Vincent tried, failing terribly, to insist that he had no clue as to who the mysterious crazy girl was. When she eventually recovered, she found Vincent sat on the steps, his long legs stretched out before him, propping himself up with his arms, looking pointedly at the little ninja. She coughed, brushed herself down, and passed him, walking to the giant Chocobo stadium with as much dignity as she could muster.

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Yuffie dropped the gil onto the counter, and chirped happily to the man behind it,

"Can I rent two Chocobos please?"

Vincent took back half of the money, and shook his head. Yuffie protested, and so he said to her,

"Don't worry Yuffie, I'll be watching you."

"Will you collect my prize for me when I win?"

Vincent smiled behind his collar, knowing that though Yuffie could not see him, she always seemed to be able to sense people's happiness. She practically fed on their emotions of glee.

"Of course."

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Yuffie walked through the stables, stroking lots of curious Chocobo's beaks as they peered over the wooden gates of their pens, and as the young girl examined each one they preened themselves and wiggled their beautiful fans of tail feathers impressively. Yuffie squealed suddenly, causing the overgrown chickens to hide beneath their wings. The girl ran up to one of the gates, jumped easily over it, and began pointing at the ill-fated bird.

It was midnight black, darker than the night sky surrounding the planet, shining with a blue sheen in the dimly lit stable. It was a large bird, far bigger than Yuffie, a bird for someone Vincent's height, and it peered down at her majestically as she ran her hands over it's silky wings. It's bottle green eyes were full of wariness, and it shifted uncomfortably as she mounted it. In truth, Yuffie seemed a bit ridiculous atop the gigantic bird, her legs appearing far too short, and her head craning to see above the Chocobo's. Suddenly it kicked off, out of it's pen, and into the Chocobo line up. As the count down started, Yuffie began to giggle, and the Chocobo 'warked' disapprovingly. She patted its head and it snapped at her fingers; the little ninja looked worried, and tried to get off the Chocobo, which, with her skirt getting caught in the saddle, was proving a great problem. She gasped as the Chocobo began running, and as it slammed through, into the foliage surrounding the course.

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Vincent sat in the viewing booth, smiling wickedly when he saw Yuffie riding a Chocobo that was twice her size.

* Stubborn, as usual. *

~*~ Maybe that's why you like her? ~*~

* Shut up, Demon. *

~*~ Pay close attention to that Chocobo, master. ~*~

* What? *

Chaos seemed to have gotten bored of teasing his host, and so Vincent settled back into his seat and watched the countdown on the screen above him. He frowned suddenly, and stood up, when he noticed that the jet Chocobo was behaving rather strangely. He ran over to the viewing booth, and as the bird ran, caterwauling, into the undergrowth. He felt a surge of energy rush through him, and a cry escaped his lips as black, leathery wings erupted from his back...

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Sorry this one took so long, I've had so much homework, you wouldn't believe!

Yeah, anyway, hope you liked it. 'M no good at suspenseful... suspense things.