Whehey! I'm finally back after the hols! God it took me long enough to get back, and seen as i had no Internet time over the hols! I haven't updated! :( but don'yt worry! I've done this now! All rejoice lol! Enjoy and please R&R!

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Red rose- Lol I know I should have let her faint but i thought it to cliche! lol!

Koril Drolonic-I made you giggle? Wow thats cool! lol I guess i do have a sesne of humour somewhere after all LMAO!

Chapter 9-Reno faints and Vincent drinks!

Cloud looked around the room at the small group of people that were surrounding the bar, both Tifa and Reno looked deathly pale, Reno was paler than Tifa and the red head looked like he was about to faint again, Vincent was just sat there, listening intently to every word while sipping at his whiskey silently. There was complete and utter silence as Sephiroth calmly told them his part of the story, about waking up in the life stream, having Aries as his guide and his quest to help Cloud (Not that it worked XD). He did keep out the fact that Cloud had been dying to himself because, well they didn't need to know that now, Cloud was alive and well now, there was no need to get all his friends worried now that the danger was over right?

As soon as Sephiroth finished, Cloud started on a story of his own, all about feeling depressed, how he felt when he saw Sephiroth again and what happened the night before. When the two warriors had finished their stories, the almost empty bar grew silent again. Nobody spoke for what seemed like an eternity, but it was Tifa that broke the silence. "So...you two love each other right?" The two warriors nodded, Cloud more nervously than Sephiroth. Cloud knew that Tifa didn't mind him being gay and that he loved Sephiroth when he was dead...but he was worried about how would she react now, and how it would affect there long friendship, what would Tifa say? How would she react?

Well. It wasn't the reaction he expected...

Cloud was almost expecting her to cry and say she loved him and that she wanted to spend the rest of there lives together (I think he's been reading some Cloud/Seph Yaoi, where Tifa gets all clingy! XD). Well...she did cry, she just burst into tears as though she'd been wanting to since Both Sephiroth and Cloud walked in the bar. But instead of shouting at them, she just came around the bar and hugged the blonde tightly to her. "Oh Cloud! I'm so glad you're happy again!" Cloud blinked as he sat there, feeling a little awkward as Tifa clinged onto him, but then he wrapped his arms around her and hugged her back, feeling both happy and relieved.

"So...does this mean its okay for me and Seph to be together?" Cloud asked, still bewildered by Tifa's reaction. Tifa just smiled a watery smile and laughed happily, as she nodded, still clinging onto Cloud's shirt. "Of course it is!" She replied "All I wanted in the first place was for you to be happy Cloud! And I'm glad Sephiroth is putting a smile back on your face, I don't want to be the one to ruin that, so yes I'm happy for you both" Cloud blinked again, and then he smiled, not a normal smile or a fake smile, but a genuine smile full of warmth and happiness, that Tifa hadn't seen on his face since they were kids back in Niblehiem.

After a minute Tifa pulled herself together and broke away from Cloud's grasp, then she addressed Sephiroth. "You had better look after him Sephiroth" She said while pointing a menacing finger at him. "Because if you don't I'll come looking for you, and when I do find you, I'll kick your scrawny ass into the ground, before you can say 'Oh shit' understand me?" Sephiroth nodded, an amused smirk on his face, and then he wrapped his arms around Cloud, pulling the blonde closer to him. "I understand perfectly, Tifa and I promise, I'll look after Cloud"

Tifa nodded seemingly satisfied with Sephiroth's answer, she turned and went back behind the bar, and re-filled everyone's glasses. "I think this calls for a toast; To Cloud and Sephiroth, may you always find happiness" everyone just raised there glasses silently and drank it in one. "Well now" Reno said standing up shakily, it looked like the Ex-Turk was on his last legs and was fighting to stay upright; he was pale and shivering a lot. "I'd better be off now, thanks for everything Tifa...good to have you back Sephiroth..." Then with that said Reno promptly collapsed on the floor...or would have if Vincent hadn't sprung from his chair and caught him.

The red eyed EX-Turk sighed and checked Reno's pulse and his head before shaking his head in disbelief. "I think he has a fever, I'll have to take him home and get a doctor..." Tifa sighed and shook her head and Vincent gathered the young Ex-Turk in his arms, and headed to the door, just as it opened, to reveal Red IIIX.

"Did someone call for a doctor? What happened to him?" Red asked suddenly when he noticed the limp frame in Vincent's arms. Vincent quickly explained what had happened, and Red just nodded and sighed, before he sat on the floor and began thinking thoughtfully. A second later he stood back up and addressed the red eyed Turk "Vincent, please take Reno to your Hotel room, I will be there shortly, I need to talk to Cloud and Sephiroth first" Vincent rose an eyebrow at this, but didn't say anything, instead he just nodded and walked to the door, giving Red a welcoming smile as he left.

As soon as Vincent Left with Reno, Red XIII turned to Tifa, Cloud and Sephiroth "Now then, what has been happening, eh Cloud?" Cloud blinked at his feline friend as the red haired cat gave the blonde a crooked grin. "Didn't you know Cloud? News of you and Sephiroth together is all over town, and will probably be all over the world by tonight...so before I heal Reno I would like to hear your story...the quick version if you don't mind"

Cloud just blinked again, dumfounded, he turned to Sephiroth who just smiled and shrugged at this news, the blonde warrior sighed, wondering, how Sephiroth could shake off the most surprising of news. Sephiroth must have noticed the blonde look, because he chuckled and kissed the blonde, as if to reassure him that everything was going to be alright, while Tifa giggled as she spoke "Well Cloud, they were going to find out sooner or later" Tifa interjected a small grin on her face. Cloud sighed and shook his head before he looked at Red IIIX, who was sat patiently on the floor next to him.

"Alright Red, it happened like this..." Cloud gave both his and Sephiroth's stories, and once he had finished Red nodded seemingly satisfied. "So Aries still lives on...and she helped you two meet once again...Aries always did have a generous soul...I believe you two will be good for one another, I'm happy for the two of you" Cloud smiled at this and stroked the felines head happily, while red purred content with this act of affection.

"Thanks Red we appreciate it" Red nodded and gave them both a toothy grin before he stood up once again and stretched and smiled at all of them. "Your welcome, well, I must go, I need to help Reno, If you need me I'll be staying at the hotel across the road" Cloud nodded his thanks, as Sephiroth slipped the blonde's hand into his. Red nodded then, with a goodbye and a swish of his flamed tail, he was out of the door and out of sight.

"Well it was nice to see Red again wasn't it?" Tifa said smiling as picked up the discarded glasses and put them in the sink nearby, and then she picked up a cloth and began wiping the bar. Cloud nodded and smiled at Sephiroth who was smirking back. "Yeah, Tifa it was...I wonder why he's here anyway?" Both Sephiroth and Tifa shrugged at this and Cloud laughed. "I guess I'll have to ask him when he's finished healing Reno" Tifa nodded then a thought struck her.

"Hey where are you staying Sephiroth?" Sephiroth smiled at her and told her in a flat above the Dojo he was working in, Tifa smirked and pointed from Cloud to Sephiroth and back again. "You should move into Cloud's place, you might find it fun!" Cloud and Sephiroth blinked at one another in surprise, and were about to say something, when Vincent walked back in looking a lot paler than normal.

"A triple Whiskey please" Tifa blinked in surprise; she'd never seen Vincent drink so much in one time before, and now a triple whiskey? Tifa frowned as she got a glass and put in some ice before filling the glass from the 25 ml servers behind the bar, three times. "Vincent? Are you okay?" Cloud asked before Tifa had the chance to say anything, Vincent just shook his head as he downed the triple whiskey in one go. Everyone looked at Vincent in surprise; Vincent wasn't the one to drink very often, mostly only social or special occasions, so something was defiantly up when he asked Tifa for another triple Whiskey.

"Uh Vincent are you sure you want to..." Tifa trailed off when she saw the killing look on his face, he was glaring at her to say 'If you don't give me this, I'll shoot you before you can say 'dead meat''. And Tifa wasn't, for anybody or anything, going to disobey the look the Ex-Turk shot at her, so she gave Vincent another triple whiskey, while both Sephiroth and Cloud watched on in horror as the blonde warrior's friend downed this one in one go too. "Vincent! What is wrong with you?" Cloud asked in shock as Vincent asked Tifa for ANOTHER triple whiskey.

Vincent didn't answer he just downed this triple whiskey too and was about to ask for another when Cloud slapped him hard across the face. Vincent's head turned at the impact of the slap, and looked at Cloud with something close to shock, and he wasn't the only one; Tifa looked just as horrified as Vincent, while Sephiroth looked at Cloud with a sort of pride. "Tifa don't give him anymore, we are going outside" then Cloud grabbed Vincent by the arms and virtually threw him outside which surprised the red eyed Turk even more.

Before Vincent could move Cloud was dragging him down the side alley of the bar, where all the rubbish bins were being kept and leaned Vincent on one of the walls. "Right Vincent start from the beginning; what the hell happened?" Vincent didn't say anything at first; he was trying to struggle, rather fruitlessly to get out of Cloud's Vice-like grip. "Not going to tell me? Well what about you telling me it was best to talk rather than keeping it bottled up Vincent? What happened to that?" Vincent blinked and stopped struggling, when Cloud was sure he wouldn't run off again the blonde warrior let him go, but was posed to grab him again in case he decided to run again.

"I...I can't say Cloud...because it isn't right...In don't know why he did it...but he did..." Vincent broke off and the two men were silent, Vincent trying hard not to run away, and Cloud wondering what Vincent meant, eventually Cloud couldn't take the uncomfortable silence between them. "Vincent...What do you mean, who did what to you?" Vincent blinked, and didn't answer for a long time before one word passed his lips.

"Reno"

MWHAHAHAHA!!! I am so evil for leaving it there aren't I? I don't want to go onto the next bit until the next and possibly last chapter :( But...There might be a sequel! :) all depends on how many reviews I get begging me to continue, it doesn't take much, even reviews that are like; MAKE A SEQUAL NOW OR I WILL KILL YOU AND FLAME YOU IN THE PITS OF HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY!!! Is good enough for me! so review people! In I will continue in the next chapter

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