AN: Okay okay…everyone gets one free hit on me for having to wait so long for this chapter. *holds out wrists* Ok…just..don't hit too hard.
*Receives slaps dutifully*
Ok…now that that is done…I'm FINALLY getting chapter seven done *dances* Hahaha….I'm all the way up to Chapter 7. I haven't gotten this far in a story without loosing interest. I feel mighty proud of myself at this point.
*yawn* School sucks. It's hard. And it prevents me from writing. Updates will be slow and at three in the morning. Do not be alarmed by this.
Disclaimer: I don't own it. Are you happy now that you've crushed yet another little girl's childhood dreams?
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Yuffie and Cloud sat in a modestly furnished office staring each other down. After an innocent conversation and some not-so-nice jokes about Yuffie's previous editor, Reno, they had created a horribly simple game, *Vocabulary. The basics were that one person said a word, and the other defined it and return gave another word to define. It was basically a test of your vocabulary, as the name implied.
"Who goes first?" Yuffie asked, geared and ready to verbally pound Cloud into the ground. Cloud shrugged.
"I guess rock, paper, scissors will decide that." He contributed. Yuffie nodded.
Balling their hands into fists, they shook them up and down three times whilst chanting 'rock, paper, scissors, shoot'. On shoot, Cloud put his palm up for paper and Yuffie made a gun with her hand and pretended to shoot through the paper.
"I win," she announced as innocently as possible. Cloud had an exasperated look but let her go first anyway. She was the guest of honor, after all, right?
"Gastronomy" Yuffie started off easily enough.
"The art of good eating. Waggish." Cloud smirked. Not many people knew what waggish meant.
"To enjoy playing practical jokes on people. Testator."
"A person who has written a will. Verdigris."
" The greenish coating that forms on copper or brass. Meretricious."
"Good looking in a flashy way. Ostracize." Had this been a physical fight, they both would have been panting heavily. But, Yuffie wanted to end this early and had a trick up her sleeve.
"To exile someone or something. Moniker."
"A slang for a person's name," Cloud smirked a bit. "Juxtapose." Yuffie smirked along with Cloud. Out of all the words she knew, she made sure that juxtapose would be one of them.
"To lay side by side. The." Cloud sat there. Did she know how hard it was to define the word 'the'. That was just crazy. Still, it was better to fail trying then to never try at all.
"The word 'the' is a definite article. It is an adjective that refers to someone or something. And…I'm all out of words." Yuffie sat there with a stunned expression on her face. Wasn't she the only person in the world besides Webster himself who could define the word 'the'.
"Aww…hell. That was supposed to be my grand winning word. Shoot, I'm just as stumped as you are. I am happy, though, that you're not as brain-dead as my previous editor. He probably wouldn't even know the definition to the word buncombe or know who Aristophanes was."
And together, in Cloud's office, they laughed. Whereas, the normal person would just sit there looking dumb as to whom Aristophanes was, not to mention a good portion of their conversation. **
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It had been one month since that day at a book signing that Dr. Vincent Valentine met That Kisaragi, and they hit it off quite well. They had met a considerable amount of times. Not to mention that Vincent was now undertaking the familiar junior high teasing from his colleagues ever since Yuffie had dropped by one day during his lunch hour to get his opinion on a paragraph that seemed a bit off to her.
"So, is she the new Mrs.?"
"How long you've been going out?"
"My my my. Mr. Asexual has gotten himself a girl. And a nice one at that."
"Piss off." Of course, this was from our favorite man, Mr. Valentine himself. And his co-workers would laugh and continue on their coffee break, once and while making a comment on the new 'little lady'.
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One thing that Vincent loved…err…liked a lot about Yuffie was the fact that she could hold a conversation on pretty much any topic there was. It was as if she was given the gift of gab, but was able to use that gift to write as well as speak.
"So, Vincent. What's your opinion on the topic of legalizing marijuana?" Yuffie asked. Somehow their conversation had traveled from the their favorite team sport to whether or not certain drugs should be legalized.
"Personally, I think they should be legalized. Sure, you can get a crazy high from it, but from a doctor' point of view, they are excellent relaxants. They can help patients greatly when it comes to after-surgery pains." Vincent was always one for making sure that his patients were comfortable, so that was just one of the ways.
"Not even that," Yuffie stated, "but the fact that forbidden fruit is all the sweeter. The more we push and push to make these things completely off limits, the more people are going to strive to get them; for the right reasons or for the wrong reasons." Yuffie finished. Whenever this topic came up, she would use this same answer, and people would inadvertently come to see it from her side. It seemed to work as Vincent nodded his head and took a sip of his coffee.
They would regularly step into the 7th Heaven for a cup of coffee and pastry to talk about everything and nothing at all. Of course, Tifa would always welcome them in with open arms and once and a while make idle chitchat with them. Today, though, she could sense that they were completely engrossed in their conversation and decided to let them be for the time.
"But do you know what else should be legalized?" Vincent asked. ***"I think that it should be legalized to go trout fishing on the back of a giraffe in Idaho." Yuffie looked at him incredulously.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Yuffie asked, surprised that she had said something so…un-Vincenty.
"No. It's a real law." He confirmed, looking at her expression. "I read it in this book, and it's just been one of those things that you remember. Like the name of your favorite anime artist." Yuffie had a strange expression on her face which was a cross between 'I didn't know that' and 'What the heck?"
"Say….who is your favorite anime artist?" Yuffie asked.
Vincent answered straight away. "Rumiko Takahashi. She can draw pretty much anything and already has. Not to mention she comes up with her own story lines." Yuffie nodded in understanding.
"Me," Yuffie started, "I like Ai Yazawa. One of her more popular works is Paradise Kiss. She's another one who writes her own story lines, but her artwork is amazing. Most of her fight scenes are pretty comical but her character designs are beautiful." She hefted her messenger bag onto the table and showed him a rather large button of a cute girl with blue eyes and pink hair. Next to her was a boy with blonde hair and safety pins and piercings on his ears and face. True to her word, they were drawn beautifully.
"This is Miwako and Arashi. They are from Paradise Kiss, which is done by Ai Yazawa. And, as you can tell, I really love her art or else I wouldn't be lugging it around to create extra weight on this bag." Vincent laughed. He could tell her bag was heavy from the heavy 'thunk' it had made from when it landed on the table.
Looking at the pin, he did realize that Yazawa was an amazing artist. He would have to check into this….
"What the hell. I leave you all for a second and come back to hear you both talking about cartoons?" Tifa slammed down her tray on the table scaring Yuffie, Vincent, and some of the nearby patrons. They snapped out of their shock in a split second, though, and looked absolutely mortified.
"It's not cartoons; it's anime!" Vincent and Yuffie said in unison then remembered their ages and went back to sipping their respective dreams. Tifa smirked, shrugged, and walked back to the kitchen.
Trying to regain some of their former intelligence, Yuffie brushed off some of the imaginary lint from her shirt.
"So, have you been keeping track of the stock market lately?"
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Okay…my fingers hurt so here's the stars first:
*- I made this up in Social Studies after I finished a test. Don't blame me if it sounds crappy.
**- *raises hands* I have no bloody clue what the hell I just typed. Other than that… I learned a new word….waggish. *grins*
***- That law was taken from "Uncle John's Ahhhh Inspiring Bathroom Reader". And yes…it is a real law. And so is the law that you can't fall asleep in a cheese factory in South Dakota.
With that said I would just like to thank all my beautiful reviewers *hugs them all and gives them mini-Vincent plushies*.
Alx 91: Hey, if your birthday is eight days before school starts, then you must be older than everyone when you get there, right? Unless…you're younger? I'd rather be younger since when we run the mile, the younger you are, the longer you get to run it. Very cool. Thanks for reviewing. I'll get on chapter eight as soon as I get a break from school.
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