A/n:Holy Hell! these chapters are long! But two chapters in one day! W00t!If you haven't noticed I do still have a notoriously bad mouth...FUCK FUCKIDY FUCK FUCK FUCK!

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Chapter 3

Cosmo Canyon

After several hours the sun started to set and Cloud and Tifa headed back home. Cloud went back to his house and Tifa to hers. When Tifa entered her family had already finished dinner. Her mother put her plate on the table and continued doing dishes.

"So what did you do today?" Her mother asked from the kitchen. Tifa could already sense the questions her mother wanted to ask.

"Well I…babyset the Griever boys." Tifa lied. She didn't want her mother getting any ideas. Well anymore ideas at least.

"Uh…huh" Her mother answered putting away the dried plates. Tifa banged her head on the table. Her mother already knew she was lying. She always knew that kind of stuff.

"So how is Cloud then?" Her mother said sorting the silverware.

"I wasn't with Cloud." Tifa answered still trying to prolong her lie.

"We saw you follow him." Her mother said, exposing her facade. Tifa cringed apparently she wasn't a very good ninja.

"Ok Cloud's fine" Tifa said with her voice being smothered by the dish towel on the table.

"Damn straight he is." Her mother said smiling

"MOTHER!" Tifa surprised at her mother's words. That was definitely not something you want to hear your mother say.

"What?" Her mother shrugged. Tifa sighed and finished her dinner and went to pack.

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"So Cloud how was your day off?" Cloud's mother asked quietly.

"It was alright" He answered play with his food. He already knew what was coming. His mother was relatively quiet. That made their house a very silent place at night when he was home.

"So what did you do?" His mother asked making him use his I knew she was going to press this' face.

"Went for a hike" he said plainly. He was trying to not give to much information. The last thing he needed was his mother butting into his almost none existent social life.

"Are you going out tonight?" His mother said somewhat sad that her son wouldn't open up to her. He rarely said anything. Just like his late father.

"Not tonight. I'm kind of tired and I have to get up early tomorrow." Clouds answered making his mother make a face.

"That's different." She asked worriedly. Cloud put his plate in the sink and plopped down on his soft bed.

"…I packed your bag for your trip." His mother said, throwing it at the bottom of his bed. Cloud kicked the bag off of his bed with his foot and closed his eyes.

"Thank you" Cloud said tiredly soon after he fell asleep. The next morning Cloud woke up early took a shower then grabbed his bag. He met Tifa and her father outside their house loading things in the truck. Cloud threw his bag on and hoped in the back of the truck since the front had tons of tools there, and they were both to tired to move them. Tifa hoped in too. Mr. Lockhart said goodbye to his wife and hugged her tightly.

"We should be at Cosmo Canyon before nightfall, so sit tight you two." He said to them as thr truck started up with a growl.

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Tifa sat quietly for about 20 minutes watching the town grow smaller.

"You know I've never been to Cosmo Canyon before." Cloud said suddenly.

"It's great there it's very nice at sunset." Tifa said smiling at him for being the first to say something. That was the last thing she had really expected him to do. Actually she thought he had more of a chance of jumping out of the moving truck before starting conversation.

"If I didn't know better you were trying to start a conversation. Though your not very good at it." Tifa smirked at Cloud who blushed slightly, but tried to hide it.

"Well I'm trying and that's all that counts." Cloud said sounding almost confident about his answer.

"Yeah, I guess" Tifa laughed.

"You know what, I think I want to join SOLDIER" Cloud said randomly. Tifa's eyes shifted back to Cloud's face. Why would he want to join ShinRa?

"Then join. I think you're strong enough" Tifa said shrugging her shoulders trying not to press the matter.

"Yeah maybe I will" Cloud said staring off into the distance "I'm going to be as strong as Sephiroth someday you know." Cloud said confidently.

"Oh confident are we?" Tifa said a bit sarcastically.

"Hey I will you just watch." Cloud said, cheesily pounding his fist to his chest. Cloud and Tifa remained quiet for awhile until the grass started to turn into dust.

"We're close" Tifa said as she watched the sun disappear behind the cliffs of Cosmo Canyon. About an hour later the truck stopped at the base of the canyon. Cloud who was stretched out in the truck and starting to doze off was shaken awake.

"Well we're here. So come on young apprentices let's go find some metal." Mr. Lockhart said as he grabbed his bag from the front seat. The two tired teens got out of the truck and followed him up the stairs. Inside they saw native people walking around and some were following a floating old man who was chasing what looked like a very large cat with a magenta mane.

"Nanaki get back here what did I tell you about playing with my machine." The old man yelled floating after him.

"OI BURGENHAGEN, come here" Mr. Lockhart yelled at the old man. The old man abandoned his chase, but the other men didn't.

"Ah Andrew it's good to see you again. I suppose you didn't come to visit did you." Burgenhagen said weakly, shaking Mr. Lockhart's hand.

"Oh I always come to visit, but while I'm here my apprentices and I need some obsidian." Mr. Lockhart said happily.

"Ahh man that stuff is in demand lately. Let me guess ShinRa. Leave it to ShinRa to want the rarest metals. Any ways talk to Ziggurat, I think he'll give you what you need." Burgenhagen said pointing to a strong looking man who was dressed like a tribal man.

"Say now would your apprentices like to help us catch my grandson?" Burgenhagen said to Cloud and Tifa as Mr. Lockhart went to talk to Ziggurat.

"You mean the cat thing?" Cloud asked scratching the back of his poky head. Burgenhagen nodded his head. Cloud walked over to some barrels and reached in when he pulled his hand out he had Nanaki by the mane.

"Ho ho hooooo very good. Little devil has been playing with stuff all day. I ought to chain you to the couch!" Burgenhagen said happily and he picked up Nanaki and threatened him. Mr. Lockhart beckoned them over and shoved several heavy bars of metal in their hands. They walked back to the truck and threw them in.

"Damn that's a lot like work." Mr. Lockhart said throwing the last of his bars down inside of the truck.

"Let's go get a hotel room." He said as he walked up the stairs. Inside the hotel they got one room with three beds.

"You kids go do what you want I'm going to bed." Mr. Lockhart said as he got under the covers. Cloud stood there for a moment before being dragged out of the room.

"Now it's my turn to show you something." Tifa smirked and dragged him along past the crowded Cosmo candle and up the stair past the shops. Soon Tifa led him to a ladder leading up. To the very top cliff in Cosmo Canyon is where it took them. Tifa led him to a ledge facing the sunset. The sun was merely a slit in the sky and the stars were starting to come out.

"My spots better" Cloud joked. He was partial to hist spot mainly because it was his, but this was nice too.

"Yeah it probably is, but mine would be better if this tower wasn't here." Tifa said smartly pointing at the large building behind them.

"What is that tower for anyway?" Cloud asked, perhaps they weren't supposed to be up here.

"Hmm let's find out." She said running over to it.

"Hey wait I don't think that's a…good idea." Cloud said as he chased her into the tower. Inside was just a kitchen a door and a ladder. By the couch was little Nanaki chained to the table.

"Hey will you let me go?" the large cat asked calmly in his surprisingly deep voice.

"You talked?" Tifa said

"I'm Burgenhagen's grandson" he retorted. Tifa continued to look around when she opened the observatory door.

"Say what's this Nanaki?" Tifa asked looking around and picking up some things.

"Ho ho hoo young apprentices, admiring my work?" Burgenhagen asked as he walked in.

"I see you did chain him?" Cloud said smiling slightly. Burgenhagen rubbed his point head and laughed.

"I would if I knew what it was." Tifa said as she looked through some telescopes.

"Oh well then come in and I'll show you my latest invention." Burgenhagen said pulling Cloud in and closing the door. The old man pulled some levers and Cloud and Tifa were lifted up.

"It's a rough sketch of the universe." Burgenhagen said proudly.

"This is cool" Cloud said in awe of how detailed it was for a rough sketch. Tifa ran around admiring the planets.

"Now it's very rough I'm still missing some things, but it's still pretty cool. Nanaki was fiddling with it this morning and he lost some information." Burgenhagen sighed. The machine started to shut down.

"Well it needs time to recharge. Maybe the next time you come it will be better. You should go there's a nice party around the Cosmo candle…. that is unless you want to be alone." Burgenhagen said slyly hinting that they might be 'together'.

"No! No, were going" Cloud said pulling Tifa out of the room.

"Man that was cool" Tifa said once they got outside.

"Sure was…" Cloud said looking at the sky quietly. Tifa noticed that he was blushing again. Did what the old man say bother him that much?

"Your spot it pretty nice." Cloud added staring up at the brightly star dotted sky..

"Thank you…" Tifa bowed in honor..