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Chapter 6: Hide and Seek

For the rest of the day AVALANCHE just went about doing normal, everyday things. Well as normal as AVALANCHE could be.

Tifa spent most of the day chatting with Shera about what she had been up to lately and about how Shera was coping with Cid as her husband. They sat at the kitchen table drinking mugs of tea and laughing.

Cid was out back tuning up the Tiny Bronco and talking with Barret and Cloud about daily life. Barret was bragging about how well Marlene was doing at school and Cloud was occasionally chatting about how well his weapon's store was doing.

Red XIII was out front lying on the grass outsides Cid's front door. He was sunbathing and watching the people walk past lazily.

Cait Sith had wondered into town to see if he could find anyone who was gullible enough to let him tell them their fortune. He wasn't the best at telling fortunes and he had gotten his fortunes wrong on more then one occasion.

Yuffie bounded through the rooms of Cid's house looking under beds, chairs, tables, in cupboards, anywhere that would make a good hiding place. In her right hand she carried a red lead and collar which she had just gone and bought from the local pet shop. Yuffie had never had a pet and the thought of being able to play with Vincent and treat him like her own pet excited her, even though Vincent was really a human.

Vincent however had other ideas and as soon as he had seen Yuffie with a lead and collar, he had gone off to hide. He was currently in the spare bedroom, hiding under a chest of drawers with his body pushed as far back against the wall as possible.

"Vincent, I know your in here!" Yuffie called as she entered the room.

Vincent flinched slightly, trying to remain as quiet as possible so that Yuffie wouldn't find him. Slowly Yuffie checked under the bed and in all the cupboards. Finally she strolled up to chest of drawers that Vincent was hiding under.

"Now I wonder," Yuffie said to herself as she approached the chest of drawers.

She quickly bent down and looked under it.

"Found you!" she laughed out as she made a grab for Vincent.

Unfortunately for her Vincent was a lot quicker and darted out of her reach and then dashed out of the room. Yuffie followed him down the stairs and into the kitchen. At the time, Vincent hadn't been thinking about where he was going, only about the fact that he had to get away from Yuffie. He soon found himself at a dead end facing the cooker in the kitchen with Shera and Tifa staring at him with confused looks. Damn, he thought.

Yuffie glided into the room a minute later, slowly approaching Vincent.

"I have you now," she said as she suddenly reached out and grabbed him, lifting his wriggling form up off the floor.

She strolled over to the table and sat down in a chair placing Vincent onto the table and holding him still. She then proceeded to get the collar, with the lead attached, around his neck, which proved to be a harder task than she had thought.

"Yuffie, what are you doing?" Tifa asked, as Yuffie finally got the collar around Vincent's neck.

"I'm going to take Vincent for a walk," Yuffie replied, picking Vincent up off the table and putting him back on the floor, "I think I'll take him to the park that was built where that old rocket once was."

Before Tifa or Shera could say anything else Yuffie left the kitchen with Vincent trailing along behind her.

"Poor Vincent," Tifa sighed and then proceeded with the conversation she and Shera had been having earlier.

AN - Well did you like it. I'll have the next chapter up soon, so if you want to continue reading my story you can. Please review.