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"Where is Cloud?" Barret asked.

"He's asleep, do you want me to go wake him," Cait sith said waving his megaphone around.

"No leave him," Red spoke up.

Everyone started bombarding Yuffie with questions, "what happened," "who did it," "what did they do?"

" I don't want to talk, not now," she whispered eventually.

"It might help, get it off your chest you know," Vincent added

"I know, I know, later right now I want to have a bath, I feel all dirty," she replied.

"Okay, I'll get Cid to run you one," he said pulling away and standing up, Yuffie looked up at him, she looked scared without him.

Vincent and Cid were talking over in the corner, Cid's jaw dropped and shook his head, Vincent said something else. Cid nodded his head and then walked into the bathroom.

Yuffie held her arms up at Vincent again, he nodded and walked back over to her, she quickly returned her arm around him, he made her feel safe, Tifa and Red were also "keeping her safe" but it wasn't the same as Vincent.

"Cid's running your bath, It will be ready soon," he whispered gently.

Cloud was a million miles away in his dreams, he was with Aeris. They were both lying on the floor watching a firework show. Cloud could see the fireworks go off in her eyes.

"This is so cool, I've only ever seen the fireworks at the Gold saucer and their nothing like these," She exclaimed.

"I knew you'd like it, I arranged it specially," He said, he was happy to make her happy.

"Oh Cloud their magnificent, thank you," She giggled

"I promise that when we are together we'll see a real firework show, and I'll take you on the gondola's, and to Midgar, it's so beautiful now, like a jungle." Cloud promised "Oh I can't wait, I'm so glad you decided that you wanted me back," Aeris said she wept slightly.

"I love you and I can't live without you, there was no decision needed," Cloud said sitting up,

"I..I love you too, I just never thought you would feel the same, I mean Tifa." Aeris looked down

Cloud smiled, not something he did on a daily basis, he pulled Aeris closer and tilted her chin up. She lent forward, gravity did the rest, their lips met, Cloud wanted so much to taste and feel her there, but no just air, He opened his eyes and sat up.

"Oh Aeris, there is no decision needed," he whispered whilst he starred out of the Window,

"Bang," a firework flashed across the sky, Cloud smiled again.

Yuffie stepped into the bathroom and shut the door, she pulled the lock across. She looked at herself in the mirror, her cuts had gone after Cid had cured her, there were still bruises on her shoulders, back and arms, and a sprain in her ankle.

She walked over to the bath, she pulled her blood-smothered dress off and through it at the floor in anger, it was expensive and now it was ruined. She removed what was left of her ripped underwear and climbed in. The water was so hot; it felt like her skin was burning, "the hotter the better," she thought to herself. She picked up the shower crème and poured the whole lot down herself, even in her hair. She then picked up the bubble bath and poured the whole bottle in, bubbles were everywhere. She picked up a sponge and scrubbed herself from head to toe.

Yuffie opened the cabinet and took out three bottles of shampoo and some conditioner, they were probably Vincent's and he would understand, She thought to herself as she emptied all the bottles over her head, quite a lot went into her eye's, she didn't even flinch.

She rinsed herself off using the shower and then repeated the process another 6 times, until the bottles were completely empty. She climbed out and took one of the complementary towelling dressing gowns and put it on. She went over to the sink and brushed her hair. Yuffie tried to wash the stains out of her dress in the bath, it was a complete failure as the dress shrunk and the stains just turned a nasty brown colour. She stood up and punched the wall

Yuffie opened the door and walked out, the others had gone.

"You should go and get some sleep," Cid said from the other side of the room.

Yuffie nodded, "Can one of you take me back to my room?" she asked

"Yes, I will take you, is your ankle okay to walk on?" Vincent said coming out of one of the bedrooms.

Yuffie nodded again.

Vincent opened the door and Yuffie walked through.

They walked down the corridor in silence.

"I..I think this is my room," Yuffie said after a while.

"Okay, do you want me to make you a drink or something first?" Vincent said, he could see Yuffie didn't want to go in there alone.

"Yes, please," she said opening the door.

Yuffie walked into the bedroom and laid down on the bed, Vincent bought her a drink.

"Thank you, for everything," she said not looking at him.

"It's alright," Vincent sighed he could see her face in the reflection of the mirror. She looked so ashamed. "Good night, Yuffie?" she had fallen asleep.

Vincent turned round and walked out.

Yuffie heard the door shut, she opened her eyes, she pulled her knee's up under her chin. "I'm alone," she thought.

She got out of bed and picked up the Conformer, she put it on the bed and kept one hand on it.

"Cloud, Cloud wake up," Tifa knocked on his door. No reply.

"I'm coming, just stop banging will you!" he shouted back "What do you want?" he said as he came out.

"Where were you last night?" She asked, she was quite sure Cloud was angry at her for something.

"In bed, why?" He said putting some bread in the toaster.

"Reno attacked Yuffie!" She exclaimed

"Oh my, poor Yuff, is she okay, she is alive isn't she?" Cloud said sounding panicky

"Yes, she really shaken up though," Tifa explained.

"I shouldn't have let her go on her own!" Cloud thought back to the last time he'd seen her.

"What, did you see her leave?" Tifa asked.

"Yes, she was upset about something and said she needed to lye down," He said turning round, he had burnt his toast.

A lump formed in Tifa's throat, it was her fault. She was the one that made Yuffie run off.

Yuffie woke up; she had had a lot of frightening dreams and was still quite tired. She found herself some clean clothes; they were the same as her normal outfit, with the exception of her thin, jumper- like tank top. Instead of Green this one was burgundy.

She picked up her Conformer and other personal property.

Yuffie didn't like being alone at the moment. She walked as fast as she could down to the dinning room, where they had arranged to meet.

Everyone was sitting at the table, she was happy to see them, but her face would not smile.

"How are you this morning?" Tifa asked.

"I..I don't know," Yuffie answered

Cloud apologised for not being there last night, In all honesty Yuffie hadn't noticed.

They ate silently, Cloud decided to tell them about his plan to resurrect Aeris.

"Last night I made a decision, Today I am going to resurrect Aeris, with or without your blessing," he looked around the table to check their reactions.

A/N: I can't believe I acted so obnoxiosly before, I think I have removed all the stupid stuff I said about Reffie's, If I have missed one of these comments please tell me so I can delete them.

Thanks, Twilight Steff, previously Vantia-Vantresque