Chapter 5: Fighting Techniques - So, ready to get your butt kicked? -
Aerith
"Ok, so you we're actually serious?"
"Yep." Aerith closed the back door and walked up to Cloud.
It was midday and the sun was in the center of the sky warming the air all around. Aerith had decided to ware a simple white t-shirt and a short pink skirt that ended at her knees thinking that her long one would be a pain for this, Cloud on the other hand wore his usual Soldier uniform but instead of the metal buster sword he usually carried he had a wooden practice version.
Cloud glanced around the quite large backyard, it was almost triple the size of the other ones he had seen yet the only thing in it was Cid's plane the Tiny Bronco and a bunch of scrap metal, everything else was grass and a large patch of flowers which he already guessed belonged to Aerith.
"So, ready to get your butt kicked?"
"Cocky for a flower girl aren't you?"
"Yep." Aerith grinned and crossed her arms. "But don't worry, I'm sure a big bad Soldier like you will have no problem handling me."
Cloud copied her grin and took out his sword, he noticed that she was unarmed. "So, you planning on unarmed combat?"
"Against you and that sword? I doubt it." She laughed and unhooked a small metal rod from her dress.
'You've got to be kidding me.' Cloud raised an eyebrow and studied it, the rod couldn't be more than half a meter long. "And that's going to help you..."
Aerith just smiled again and squeezed her hand, a faint click could be heard from within the rod and instantly the two ends shot out extending the staffs length to about two meters.
"Yes."
"Oh, em and you know how to use that thing?" Cloud straightened up and crossed his arms hoping his sudden shock didn't go noticed.
Aerith smiled once again and spun the staff in her fingers with ease, after a few lightning fast maneuvers she held it behind her back in an attack position.
Cloud's eyes had widened to their limit and his brain was kicking him for under estimating her abilities, it was obvious she could use that weapon like a pro. 'Good one Cloud.'
"Ah, well then, it looks like you have some skill."
"Cid gave this to me as a present years ago, he said if I'm going to be out on 'these' streets selling flowers I should at least have some sort of protection." She rolled her eyes. "Figures I'd forget it the other day, anyway having second thoughts?"
Cloud drew his sword and grinned. "Nope, it just means it's going to take me two minutes to beat you instead of one."
"Really?" A silence followed for a few moments then Cloud stepped forward, his sword held in both hands was aimed at Aerith who seemed very calm.
Aerith decided to take the first move and swung the staff firmly at Cloud hitting the broad side of his sword, she smiled after noticing her attack hadn't budged him at all. Cloud decided to take his turn and ran straight forward in an all out attack, Aerith couldn't help but wonder why he would attempt such a clumsy move but soon found out as he stopped a few feet in front of her and jumped spinning around to the side while swinging his sword round in the process towards her back.
She didn't have time to block it and could only close her eyes ready to take the hit. 'Hmm? Dejavu?' After a few seconds of waiting and no contact she opened one eye and slowly looked round. Cloud's sword was stopped about an inch away from her back, she breathed in sharp and then looked up at Cloud's face, a cocky smiled was spread across it.
"Maybe I was right the first time, only a minute."
"Hmph," Aerith spun round and jumped back. "Ok then, that was a warm up."
Cloud raised his sword again a nodded, he decided to take it easy on her and not fight as best as he could. "Ok then, ready when you are."
Straight after finishing his sentence Aerith's staff flew up at his face giving him only just enough time to dodge under it. Cloud kneeled down and aimed his sword at her now exposed chest but before he could jump to attack Aerith stabbed one end of the staff in to the ground and used it to hoist herself into the air, on her decent her foot came down on Cloud's back and she pushed off again landing easily a on the ground a few feet behind him.
"Ughh." Cloud lifted his face from the ground and coughed. "Warm up she says."
He jumped to his feet and spun round to face Aerith who was already prepared to attack again. Cloud grinned a little impressed by her speed and skills, he lunged forward and thrusted with his sword that Aerith quickly dodged and countered with an attack of her own. The two exchanged blows for a long time and Cloud noticed that although he had much stronger attacks Aerith was able to attack more frequently with lighter ones making it just as difficult.
Cloud jumped back from one attack to take a moment to catch his breath, he was really impressed by her talent so far but her fatigue began to show too. "You getting tired?"
"Nope, I could keep this up all day." She claimed.
Cloud spun round in a 360 with his sword forcing Aerith to jump back to avoid it, he took hold of the weapon in both hands aiming it forwards while he leaned back.
"Ok then get ready for this."
Aerith watched as Cloud began to emit a strange glow and after a moment he rushed forwards with an incredible amount of speed giving her not even a second to dodge out of the way. He shot past her barely missing and stopped still but as soon as he did he turned around repeated the move again, the force of the move leaving white streaks in the air.
Cloud shot past her again trying to knock her off of her feet.
'Geez how can he be this fast?' Aerith was only just able to keep out of Cloud's path as he repeated the move again and again, she dived out of the way and quickly jumped to her feet. She glanced around to see which direction Cloud would attack from this time but she only managed to catch a glimpse of his shadow before he attacked again sending her once again to the ground.
"Haah Haaah, ok... so.. your fast." She crawled to her knees and took this time to catch her breath.
Cloud stopped and turned around, he took a quick look to make sure he hadn't actually hurt her, this move was usually used to kill not for training. "You ok?"
Aerith stood up a little shakily, after brushing her self off she looked at him and smiled. "Yeah, and don't think I'm beaten yet."
"Oh?" Cloud raised an eyebrow and wondered what she could do to compare to his skills. Before he could open his mouth to ask, Aerith put her hands together and closed her eyes, softly she began to chant words in an ancient language.
"What are you doing?" He cautiously walked up to her and then slowly began to reach out with his arm. He pulled back as soon as Aerith began to emit a white glow, the brightness increased until he could no longer see her figure in the light.
"Aerith?"
The light seemed to reach its peak and once it did began to fade back, a flash of speed as something moved within the light cause Cloud to go even further into his alert mode. The light now fully disappeared but to his surprise Aerith was nowhere to be found.
"Hey where are you?" A small white feather floated down in front of him. "Huh?"
A shadow passed overhead and he intended to only glance up to see the cause but instead Cloud found himself staring in awe at the sight. Above him Aerith happily floating in the air, supported by two snowy white wings on either side she gracefully twirled around through the air with ease.
"Impressed?" She asked descending to the ground. Cloud continued to watch her, his voice had left him as his eyes studied her knew form.
"That's a yes then?"
"Wow." He almost dropped his sword while staring at her beauty. "I thought I found an angel, I didn't realize it was for real." 'He instantly kicked himself for saying something so corny.'
Aerith blushed and her wings closed in behind her back. "Well, There are a few things special about me too."
Cloud smiled and slowly walked up to her, he stopped when their body's just touched. He reached out with his ungloved hand and brushed his fingers down one of her wings, the soft gentle sensation on the feathers caused it to flutter.
Aerith closed her eyes, her lips smiled as Cloud stroked the full length of the wing. The muscles in her back tensed and her wings pulled round surrounding Cloud, he dropped his sword as they closed around his body pulling him closer to her. "So what do you think of my technique?" She whispered.
"Not bad, I've never lost before." He brought his hand up around Aerith's waist.
"Well there's a first for everything I guess." She put her hands on his shoulders and leaned closer until her lips met his, Cloud's grip on her waist tightened as he returned the kiss.
They stayed there for what seemed like hours in their own little world, nether one of them wanted to break their bond.
"Hey Cloud I forgot to tell ya..." Zack flung the door wide open but stopped shouting in mid sentence as he saw Aerith's back with two large wings.
"...oooookay then, I'm not even going to ask."
The wings raised into the air releasing Cloud before returning neatly behind Aerith's back. After a soft white glow the wings faded and disappeared all together.
Zack grinned and scratched the back of his head. "So... that's what you call training the huh?"
Aerith blushed sheepishly and tried to turn away to avoid the two noticing, although Cloud had just done the same.
"Aerith was just ...showing me her technique."
"I bet she was." He grinned.
"So ah, what was it you forgot to tell Cloud?"
"Oh right that, well we we're just given an announcement from Ansem himself." Zack took out the little note from his pocket. "He said that the incident yesterday was 'a test on a new security system that went wrong and there should be no more investigations into it'."
"Security system?" Cloud repeated.
Aerith wrinkled her nose. "Those little creatures were a new type of security? That doesn't seem likely, does it?"
Zack shrugged and put the note back in his pocket. "I don't know, either way us and the rest of Soldier are off the case."
"Well," Cloud turned to Aerith smiling. "I guess I have more time today to train then."
She smiled back and took out her staff. "That's fine by me."
Zack spun round and opened the door to the house. "Uh huh, well have fun 'training' you two."
A little while later the two we're still happily exchanging blow for blow, although both were beginning to show sighs on fatigue. Aerith ran forward in a straight run at Cloud and then dived at the last moment sliding between his legs. The Soldier quickly spun round only to have his legs knock out from beneath him by Aerith's staff.
"How's the weather down there?" She leaned over him grinning.
"Not bad, why don't you come down for a visit?" He spun his legs round sweeping the girl off of her feet.
Aerith yelped as she landed firmly on her rear end and quickly she shot an evil glare at Cloud but before she could react he had rolled over and pinned her to the ground.
"There's nothing you can do. Give up?"
She calmly smiled at Cloud while trying to free her arms from he grip.
"Sorry, that's not going to work." He grinned.
"Well, guess I'll try something else." Before Cloud could respond she leaned forward pressing her lips against his. She could feel Cloud's body tense up before quickly slipping out of his grip and crawling out from under his legs.
"Huh? Hey!" Cloud patted the dirt in front of him where Aerith just was. "What happened?" He heard a giggle from behind and turned round to see Aerith standing a few feet away smiling happily.
"Bet that's one trick you were never taught in Soldier school."
"Hmph." Cloud crawled to his feet only noticing then that his sword was laid down behind the flower girl. 'Ah, problem.'
Aerith seemed to know what he was thinking and spun her staff round in her hands. "Give up?"
"Not yet." He grinned and stepped back into a stance.
"Ok, try this one." Aerith swung her staff behind her and started in a straight run towards Cloud.
The Soldier stood there calmly waiting for her to reach him. Aerith picked up the pace hopefully to throw off whatever Cloud was planning but as soon as she was within a meter of her target he disappeared into thin air.
"Huh? Hey where did you whooooa!" Aerith went dizzy as suddenly the whole world turned upside down.
"Let's see," Cloud grinned as he threw the flower girl over his shoulder. "I don't think wings are going to help you, and tricking me with your lips isn't going to work this time either..."
"HEY! Put me down!"
Cloud laughed as she tried to wriggle out of his grip and began to start banging her fists along his back.
"Sorry, no good."
"Hey this isn't fair!" She said kicking her feet into his chest but in the end it was futile.
"Give up?"
"Grrr no! Never!" Aerith grabbed onto his waist and tried to pull herself free but as soon as she tried Cloud began to spin around on the spot making her feel even more dizzy than before as the blood rushed quickly to her head. "Ughhhh... ok ok I give just please ugh stop..."
Cloud stopped spinning nearly falling to the ground himself as the land stop spinning, he kneeled down gently until her feet touch the ground and then released her.
Aerith put her hands onto Cloud shoulders to hold herself steady as her legs were still not sure which way was up.
"You ok?"
"Ahhh ha." Aerith steadily pushed back from him waiting for the blood to return evenly to the rest of her body.
Cloud grinned holding onto her arms. "Hmm you know you cheeks are quite red."
"Hmph." She playfully punched him in the chest. "Gee I wonder why?"
"I couldn't guess..."
They stood laughing until Cid came barging through the door. "Ok kids beat it, I've got the day off so I can finally get some work done on the Bronco."
"Oh Cid you have such a romantic way with words." Aerith smiled once again removing the cigarette form his mouth.
"Yeah yeah I know now beat it, I already let you use up some of my space for those flowers, I don't need you young un's messing up the rest of it."
Cloud smirked looking round the scrap metal that lined the empty garden. "Yeah, you can't tamper with perfection."
Cid looked at the two menacingly until they left still laughing.
"So... now that that's out what do you want to do?"
They walked out of the house and began down the street.
"Oh yeah, I forgot you have the whole day off now." Aerith rubbed her chin thinking. "Hmmm, lets.... oh I know!"
"Hmm?"
"Just outside the city is a river that flows along all the way to the sea, but along the way is this beautiful waterfall where we could go."
"Sounds good, how long does it take to get there?"
"About an hour by Chocobo." She stopped walking and looked at him. "You want to go?"
Cloud shrugged. "Sure."
Aerith smile widened. "Meet me at the Chocobo ranch at the edge of town in ten minutes and I'll go grab some supplies."
"Will do." Cloud watched as Aerith quickly ran off excited back towards her house, what she didn't know was Clouds heart rate had just speeded up by three times. 'Just the two of us? Alone some place romantic...' He swallowed hard. 'I didn't know it was possible to totally excited and totally terrified at the same time...'
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Well that didn't take me so long, my writers block seems to have gone for this and my other story and I have already got most of the next chapter sorted out so no.6 is on its way. Thanks to everyone for the great reviews and all I can say is keep em coming...
"Ok, so you we're actually serious?"
"Yep." Aerith closed the back door and walked up to Cloud.
It was midday and the sun was in the center of the sky warming the air all around. Aerith had decided to ware a simple white t-shirt and a short pink skirt that ended at her knees thinking that her long one would be a pain for this, Cloud on the other hand wore his usual Soldier uniform but instead of the metal buster sword he usually carried he had a wooden practice version.
Cloud glanced around the quite large backyard, it was almost triple the size of the other ones he had seen yet the only thing in it was Cid's plane the Tiny Bronco and a bunch of scrap metal, everything else was grass and a large patch of flowers which he already guessed belonged to Aerith.
"So, ready to get your butt kicked?"
"Cocky for a flower girl aren't you?"
"Yep." Aerith grinned and crossed her arms. "But don't worry, I'm sure a big bad Soldier like you will have no problem handling me."
Cloud copied her grin and took out his sword, he noticed that she was unarmed. "So, you planning on unarmed combat?"
"Against you and that sword? I doubt it." She laughed and unhooked a small metal rod from her dress.
'You've got to be kidding me.' Cloud raised an eyebrow and studied it, the rod couldn't be more than half a meter long. "And that's going to help you..."
Aerith just smiled again and squeezed her hand, a faint click could be heard from within the rod and instantly the two ends shot out extending the staffs length to about two meters.
"Yes."
"Oh, em and you know how to use that thing?" Cloud straightened up and crossed his arms hoping his sudden shock didn't go noticed.
Aerith smiled once again and spun the staff in her fingers with ease, after a few lightning fast maneuvers she held it behind her back in an attack position.
Cloud's eyes had widened to their limit and his brain was kicking him for under estimating her abilities, it was obvious she could use that weapon like a pro. 'Good one Cloud.'
"Ah, well then, it looks like you have some skill."
"Cid gave this to me as a present years ago, he said if I'm going to be out on 'these' streets selling flowers I should at least have some sort of protection." She rolled her eyes. "Figures I'd forget it the other day, anyway having second thoughts?"
Cloud drew his sword and grinned. "Nope, it just means it's going to take me two minutes to beat you instead of one."
"Really?" A silence followed for a few moments then Cloud stepped forward, his sword held in both hands was aimed at Aerith who seemed very calm.
Aerith decided to take the first move and swung the staff firmly at Cloud hitting the broad side of his sword, she smiled after noticing her attack hadn't budged him at all. Cloud decided to take his turn and ran straight forward in an all out attack, Aerith couldn't help but wonder why he would attempt such a clumsy move but soon found out as he stopped a few feet in front of her and jumped spinning around to the side while swinging his sword round in the process towards her back.
She didn't have time to block it and could only close her eyes ready to take the hit. 'Hmm? Dejavu?' After a few seconds of waiting and no contact she opened one eye and slowly looked round. Cloud's sword was stopped about an inch away from her back, she breathed in sharp and then looked up at Cloud's face, a cocky smiled was spread across it.
"Maybe I was right the first time, only a minute."
"Hmph," Aerith spun round and jumped back. "Ok then, that was a warm up."
Cloud raised his sword again a nodded, he decided to take it easy on her and not fight as best as he could. "Ok then, ready when you are."
Straight after finishing his sentence Aerith's staff flew up at his face giving him only just enough time to dodge under it. Cloud kneeled down and aimed his sword at her now exposed chest but before he could jump to attack Aerith stabbed one end of the staff in to the ground and used it to hoist herself into the air, on her decent her foot came down on Cloud's back and she pushed off again landing easily a on the ground a few feet behind him.
"Ughh." Cloud lifted his face from the ground and coughed. "Warm up she says."
He jumped to his feet and spun round to face Aerith who was already prepared to attack again. Cloud grinned a little impressed by her speed and skills, he lunged forward and thrusted with his sword that Aerith quickly dodged and countered with an attack of her own. The two exchanged blows for a long time and Cloud noticed that although he had much stronger attacks Aerith was able to attack more frequently with lighter ones making it just as difficult.
Cloud jumped back from one attack to take a moment to catch his breath, he was really impressed by her talent so far but her fatigue began to show too. "You getting tired?"
"Nope, I could keep this up all day." She claimed.
Cloud spun round in a 360 with his sword forcing Aerith to jump back to avoid it, he took hold of the weapon in both hands aiming it forwards while he leaned back.
"Ok then get ready for this."
Aerith watched as Cloud began to emit a strange glow and after a moment he rushed forwards with an incredible amount of speed giving her not even a second to dodge out of the way. He shot past her barely missing and stopped still but as soon as he did he turned around repeated the move again, the force of the move leaving white streaks in the air.
Cloud shot past her again trying to knock her off of her feet.
'Geez how can he be this fast?' Aerith was only just able to keep out of Cloud's path as he repeated the move again and again, she dived out of the way and quickly jumped to her feet. She glanced around to see which direction Cloud would attack from this time but she only managed to catch a glimpse of his shadow before he attacked again sending her once again to the ground.
"Haah Haaah, ok... so.. your fast." She crawled to her knees and took this time to catch her breath.
Cloud stopped and turned around, he took a quick look to make sure he hadn't actually hurt her, this move was usually used to kill not for training. "You ok?"
Aerith stood up a little shakily, after brushing her self off she looked at him and smiled. "Yeah, and don't think I'm beaten yet."
"Oh?" Cloud raised an eyebrow and wondered what she could do to compare to his skills. Before he could open his mouth to ask, Aerith put her hands together and closed her eyes, softly she began to chant words in an ancient language.
"What are you doing?" He cautiously walked up to her and then slowly began to reach out with his arm. He pulled back as soon as Aerith began to emit a white glow, the brightness increased until he could no longer see her figure in the light.
"Aerith?"
The light seemed to reach its peak and once it did began to fade back, a flash of speed as something moved within the light cause Cloud to go even further into his alert mode. The light now fully disappeared but to his surprise Aerith was nowhere to be found.
"Hey where are you?" A small white feather floated down in front of him. "Huh?"
A shadow passed overhead and he intended to only glance up to see the cause but instead Cloud found himself staring in awe at the sight. Above him Aerith happily floating in the air, supported by two snowy white wings on either side she gracefully twirled around through the air with ease.
"Impressed?" She asked descending to the ground. Cloud continued to watch her, his voice had left him as his eyes studied her knew form.
"That's a yes then?"
"Wow." He almost dropped his sword while staring at her beauty. "I thought I found an angel, I didn't realize it was for real." 'He instantly kicked himself for saying something so corny.'
Aerith blushed and her wings closed in behind her back. "Well, There are a few things special about me too."
Cloud smiled and slowly walked up to her, he stopped when their body's just touched. He reached out with his ungloved hand and brushed his fingers down one of her wings, the soft gentle sensation on the feathers caused it to flutter.
Aerith closed her eyes, her lips smiled as Cloud stroked the full length of the wing. The muscles in her back tensed and her wings pulled round surrounding Cloud, he dropped his sword as they closed around his body pulling him closer to her. "So what do you think of my technique?" She whispered.
"Not bad, I've never lost before." He brought his hand up around Aerith's waist.
"Well there's a first for everything I guess." She put her hands on his shoulders and leaned closer until her lips met his, Cloud's grip on her waist tightened as he returned the kiss.
They stayed there for what seemed like hours in their own little world, nether one of them wanted to break their bond.
"Hey Cloud I forgot to tell ya..." Zack flung the door wide open but stopped shouting in mid sentence as he saw Aerith's back with two large wings.
"...oooookay then, I'm not even going to ask."
The wings raised into the air releasing Cloud before returning neatly behind Aerith's back. After a soft white glow the wings faded and disappeared all together.
Zack grinned and scratched the back of his head. "So... that's what you call training the huh?"
Aerith blushed sheepishly and tried to turn away to avoid the two noticing, although Cloud had just done the same.
"Aerith was just ...showing me her technique."
"I bet she was." He grinned.
"So ah, what was it you forgot to tell Cloud?"
"Oh right that, well we we're just given an announcement from Ansem himself." Zack took out the little note from his pocket. "He said that the incident yesterday was 'a test on a new security system that went wrong and there should be no more investigations into it'."
"Security system?" Cloud repeated.
Aerith wrinkled her nose. "Those little creatures were a new type of security? That doesn't seem likely, does it?"
Zack shrugged and put the note back in his pocket. "I don't know, either way us and the rest of Soldier are off the case."
"Well," Cloud turned to Aerith smiling. "I guess I have more time today to train then."
She smiled back and took out her staff. "That's fine by me."
Zack spun round and opened the door to the house. "Uh huh, well have fun 'training' you two."
A little while later the two we're still happily exchanging blow for blow, although both were beginning to show sighs on fatigue. Aerith ran forward in a straight run at Cloud and then dived at the last moment sliding between his legs. The Soldier quickly spun round only to have his legs knock out from beneath him by Aerith's staff.
"How's the weather down there?" She leaned over him grinning.
"Not bad, why don't you come down for a visit?" He spun his legs round sweeping the girl off of her feet.
Aerith yelped as she landed firmly on her rear end and quickly she shot an evil glare at Cloud but before she could react he had rolled over and pinned her to the ground.
"There's nothing you can do. Give up?"
She calmly smiled at Cloud while trying to free her arms from he grip.
"Sorry, that's not going to work." He grinned.
"Well, guess I'll try something else." Before Cloud could respond she leaned forward pressing her lips against his. She could feel Cloud's body tense up before quickly slipping out of his grip and crawling out from under his legs.
"Huh? Hey!" Cloud patted the dirt in front of him where Aerith just was. "What happened?" He heard a giggle from behind and turned round to see Aerith standing a few feet away smiling happily.
"Bet that's one trick you were never taught in Soldier school."
"Hmph." Cloud crawled to his feet only noticing then that his sword was laid down behind the flower girl. 'Ah, problem.'
Aerith seemed to know what he was thinking and spun her staff round in her hands. "Give up?"
"Not yet." He grinned and stepped back into a stance.
"Ok, try this one." Aerith swung her staff behind her and started in a straight run towards Cloud.
The Soldier stood there calmly waiting for her to reach him. Aerith picked up the pace hopefully to throw off whatever Cloud was planning but as soon as she was within a meter of her target he disappeared into thin air.
"Huh? Hey where did you whooooa!" Aerith went dizzy as suddenly the whole world turned upside down.
"Let's see," Cloud grinned as he threw the flower girl over his shoulder. "I don't think wings are going to help you, and tricking me with your lips isn't going to work this time either..."
"HEY! Put me down!"
Cloud laughed as she tried to wriggle out of his grip and began to start banging her fists along his back.
"Sorry, no good."
"Hey this isn't fair!" She said kicking her feet into his chest but in the end it was futile.
"Give up?"
"Grrr no! Never!" Aerith grabbed onto his waist and tried to pull herself free but as soon as she tried Cloud began to spin around on the spot making her feel even more dizzy than before as the blood rushed quickly to her head. "Ughhhh... ok ok I give just please ugh stop..."
Cloud stopped spinning nearly falling to the ground himself as the land stop spinning, he kneeled down gently until her feet touch the ground and then released her.
Aerith put her hands onto Cloud shoulders to hold herself steady as her legs were still not sure which way was up.
"You ok?"
"Ahhh ha." Aerith steadily pushed back from him waiting for the blood to return evenly to the rest of her body.
Cloud grinned holding onto her arms. "Hmm you know you cheeks are quite red."
"Hmph." She playfully punched him in the chest. "Gee I wonder why?"
"I couldn't guess..."
They stood laughing until Cid came barging through the door. "Ok kids beat it, I've got the day off so I can finally get some work done on the Bronco."
"Oh Cid you have such a romantic way with words." Aerith smiled once again removing the cigarette form his mouth.
"Yeah yeah I know now beat it, I already let you use up some of my space for those flowers, I don't need you young un's messing up the rest of it."
Cloud smirked looking round the scrap metal that lined the empty garden. "Yeah, you can't tamper with perfection."
Cid looked at the two menacingly until they left still laughing.
"So... now that that's out what do you want to do?"
They walked out of the house and began down the street.
"Oh yeah, I forgot you have the whole day off now." Aerith rubbed her chin thinking. "Hmmm, lets.... oh I know!"
"Hmm?"
"Just outside the city is a river that flows along all the way to the sea, but along the way is this beautiful waterfall where we could go."
"Sounds good, how long does it take to get there?"
"About an hour by Chocobo." She stopped walking and looked at him. "You want to go?"
Cloud shrugged. "Sure."
Aerith smile widened. "Meet me at the Chocobo ranch at the edge of town in ten minutes and I'll go grab some supplies."
"Will do." Cloud watched as Aerith quickly ran off excited back towards her house, what she didn't know was Clouds heart rate had just speeded up by three times. 'Just the two of us? Alone some place romantic...' He swallowed hard. 'I didn't know it was possible to totally excited and totally terrified at the same time...'
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Well that didn't take me so long, my writers block seems to have gone for this and my other story and I have already got most of the next chapter sorted out so no.6 is on its way. Thanks to everyone for the great reviews and all I can say is keep em coming...