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I have gotten the next chapter up! Hooray! I hope you like it.

Chapter 7: Chase

Yuffie and Vincent finally arrived at the park. It was extremely large with quite a number of large oak trees. There was a children's play area as well and also quite a few people taking their dogs for a walk.

"You run away Vincent and you'll regret it," Yuffie said to the puppy trailing behind her.

She then bent down and unclasped the lead from the collar that was around Vincent's neck. At first Vincent was very tempted to run off, knowing that he could easily out run Yuffie, but he knew that eventually he would end up meeting back up with her and then he would be in big trouble. If only he wasn't a dog.

Yuffie found a long stick lying on the floor and an evil smile spread across her face. She picked the stick up and threw it as far as she could. She then turned to look at Vincent, who was staring at her with a death glare. Don't even think about it, he thought.

"Fetch!" Yuffie shouted at him.

Vincent continued to sit at her feet, glaring up at her.

"Go on Vincent, fetch!" Yuffie yelled again.

Vincent still refused to move.

"Look Vincent," Yuffie said, bending down and stroking Vincent's back, "Those people that are after you might be here. After all this town is nearest to their hideout. They are probably looking for you and if you don't start acting like a dog, you will stand out and then they'll find you. Now fetch!"

Vincent finally gave in and bounded after the stick. I can't believe I'm doing this. Its so demeaning, Vincent thought as he picked the stick up in his mouth and ran back to Yuffie.

"Good boy," Yuffie said taking the stick from him and ruffling Vincent's fur.

Vincent growled low in his throat and Yuffie let out a short laugh. She then threw the stick again and Vincent let out another growl as he stalked off to retrieve it. The stick had landed near a bush and as Vincent picked it up he heard voices on the other side of the bush.

"He has to be in this town somewhere," one voice said.

"Yeah, but there are like at least twenty people in this town with dogs," another voice replied.

Vincent peered through the bush to see two men and a woman, all in casual clothes, talking. One of the men was carrying a blue sports bag.

"Well he still won't be that hard to find. I mean how many black Labradors can there be in this town that have red eyes," the woman intervened.

"You got a good point. Let's keep looking," the second man said.

Vincent was startled by what he had just heard. They're here, he thought. With that he darted back to Yuffie and dropped the stick at her feet. He then proceeded in pushing the backs of her legs, with his head, to try and get her to move.

"Vincent, what has gotten into you?" Yuffie asked, turning around to look at him.

Suddenly two men and a woman appeared in front of her.

"What a cute dog," the woman exclaimed, bending down to fuss Vincent.

"Is he yours?" one of the men asked taking Yuffie's arm and turning her around so that her back was facing Vincent.

He quickly looked over his shoulder and nodded to his two comrades, then he turned back to look at Yuffie and continued to talk to her. The second man bent down next to the woman and placed the blue sports bag he had been carrying on the floor.

Vincent knew that these people wanted him, but he wasn't about to just run away and leave Yuffie. He was about to let out a bark, to get Yuffie's attention, when the woman picked him up and bundled him into the sports bag. She was about to do the zip up when Vincent bit her finger. The woman screamed and fell to the floor, clutching her hand to her chest.

Yuffie heard the scream and spun round just in time to see Vincent leap out of the bag. It didn't take long for Yuffie to realize that the three people in front of her were after Vincent. She kicked the guy, who had been talking to her, in the shin, then darted as fast as she could away from them with Vincent close behind.

They ran across the grass of the park darting in between trees. They could here the two men and the woman chasing after them.

"Split up," Yuffie quickly said to Vincent.

He gave a kick nod before running left whilst Yuffie ran right. Vincent headed for the children's play area. The two men had chosen to chase him and the woman had gone after Yuffie.

Vincent reached the play area and decided to give the men who were following him a work-out. He quickly scrambled up the steps of the slide and slid down it. Just as he had thought his would be kidnappers were pretty dumb and instead of going round the slide they followed him up it.

Vincent then ran towards an empty swing and leapt over it still followed by the two men. They climbed over the swing, but one of them got himself caught and ended up falling to the ground with a loud thud. One down, one more to go, Vincent thought.

Children squealed with delight as they watched this black puppy climbing over the equipment in the play area as if he were human, with a man chasing him. Eventually Vincent decided to change his plan and suddenly darted away from the play area and towards the park gates. He could still hear his pursuers and knew that the second man had caught back up with the first.

Upon nearing the gates, Vincent caught sight of Yuffie, who was also running towards them still being pursued by the woman. They met up with each other and together darted through the gates and headed, as quickly as possible, back to Cid's house.

They burst through the front door and raced into the lounge, where they found Tifa, Red XIII and Cloud watching TV.

"They're here!" Yuffie yelled and everyone present turned to stare at her.

AN - OK, I'm being cruel to Vincent now. I mean I made him chase a stick. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'll have the next one up soon. Please review.