Authors note- That's me: ) Chapter one was present day. Chapter two a flash back sorry if it's confusing not that anyone is reading this…not that that matters I'm doing this for myself more than anyone else: )

Five years after the Meteor

(Flashback)

Something was wrong.

Leaning against the tiles of the shower cubical, Tifa stared into space as she watched the warm water roll over her. He was keeping things from her again he wouldn't let her in; he wouldn't let her help him.

'Tifa, I like need the shower!' The sound of Yuffie's familiar voice floated from the other side of the bathroom door.

'Urrgh.' Was Tifa's only reply, as she landed back into reality with a bump. Reaching out she twisted the mental handle of the shower up into the off position the water stopped as it did Tifa was suddenly hit by a chill that ran the length of her body, shivering she wrapped herself quickly in her towel.

'TIFA!' Yuffie complained again, rolling her eyes it was times like these when Tifa wondered when the young Ninja was planning exactly to go back to Wutai.

'Yuffie, will you just give me a second!' Wrapping a clean white towel around her body she leaned over tilting her head forward as she ran another towel through her wet hair. Drying her hair her eyes wonder around the small bathroom glancing down she noticed the box, which was sitting in the waste paper bin which sat under the sink.

'What?' Tifa frowned murmuring to herself as she reached inside the bin pulling out the package her eye widening a little as she glanced at it.

'Tifa!' Yuffie complained her voice dying suddenly in her throat as the bathroom door in front of her suddenly thrust open.

'What is this?' Tifa questioned appearing in a towel in front of the young Ninja, holding a long thin box between her fingers.

'It's a box, Tif.' Yuffie grinned nervously as she felt the noose suddenly tighten around her neck, from the expression on her friend's face she knew that no mere amount of lying was going to get her out of this.

'Don't act cute with me.' The younger woman's head fell, seeing the pained expression that was written across her features Tifa was suddenly filled with a pang of sympathy.

'Oh Yuffie I'm not mad I'm just up-set that you didn't tell me.' A Motherly tone came easily to Tifa.

'You're really not mad.' She shook her head running her hand across Yuffie's shoulder.

'So have you taken it yet?' Tifa questioned getting down to the important part of the conversation before she was distracted or Yuffie had the chance to wriggle out of it. Saying nothing Yuffie nodded her cheeks glowing bright red at the memory.

'And I'm guessing I know who's partly responsible for this.'

'It's not like it's going to be anyone else!' The younger woman complained defensively she still had something of a reputation to maintain.

'Mama!' Before Tifa had chance to question her friend any further she heard the voices of the twins calling her.

'I'm gonna check on Zack and Aeris, but when I'm done I think you me and Cloud should have a talk about what exactly is going to happen now?'

'Cloud, you're going to tell Cloud about this!'Yuffie cried her eyes widening indignantly, if Tifa told Cloud it would only be a while until everyone else knew what was going on.

'Well yeah I thought you'd want me too I mean if you're still planning on living with us when…' Tifa paused she couldn't quite find the words to describe the situation, to her Yuffie was still an annoying sixteen year old now she had to come face to face with the fact that she was a gown up twenty year old woman.

'…well we'll have to make a lot of changes.'

'Mama!' Aeris screamed at the top of her lungs, her cries floating out from the open door of the nursery.

'I need too…but we'll talk about this later okay.' Grudgingly the younger woman nodded there really was no way that she was going to wriggle out of this, at the same time she really needed someone to talk to and Tifa had always been the closest thing she had ever had to a best friend.

'Oh Tifa,' Yuffie called down the hallway, remembering the message she'd promised to pass on but gotten a little side track before she'd managed to do it.

'Yeah.'

'It's Cloud he's gone I saw him over breakfast this morning he told me to tell you that Barret had called him and he'd had to go out or something like that.' The Ninja passed on the parts of the message she could remember what she couldn't she simply made up guessing that it would be like something Cloud would say.

'When was this, why didn't he tell me?' Tifa questioned her slender face contorting into a deep frown.

'He didn't want to wake you I guess, anyway some s gone down at Cid's or something like that they're all over their sorting it out now.'

With nothing else left to say Yuffie walked into the bathroom finally getting to enjoy her long awaited shower.

'Why, didn't he say something?'