Yuffie waited until Tifa was gone. There was no-way that she was being gotten rid of as easy as that, her friend needed her Tifa was in no fit state to go charging off.

Slinging on her jacket Yuffie gulped down the wave of morning sickness, which threatened to engulf her it was worse than being on Cid's rusty old air ship. Clutching at her stomach she pulled the cordless phone off the kitchen wall, bringing it to her ear she punched in the numbers, which sprung into her memory.

'Hi is this Barbara, oh it is hi. Ummm me oh I'm Yuffie I live with Cloud and Tifa…the Strife's yeah. Well I was wondering, oh your free now I'll get her ready, oh no it's just one today Zack is, well he's with his Father.' Barbara couldn't half talk she could out talk Yuffie and that was a feat. Hurriedly she put the phone down.

Tifa found herself confused.

All around her was confusion, an explosion of noise and fear it reminded her of before of the meteor, of Shinra and of him.

People were screaming the air was thick with cries she wanted to do something but she was surrounded on all sides by agony and fear there was no-one that she could help.

Tifa had been running she'd been running as fast as she could calling his name, calling for them both as if that would bring them out and put a stop to all the madness. It seemed hard to believe that less than twenty-four hours pervious her life had been perfect she'd had nothing to worry about and she was as happy as she'd ever been. All that was gone now Tifa had lost her husband she'd lost Cloud and her son all she had left now was Aeris whatever happened she was going to protect her daughter, closing her eyes briefly Tifa realized that she should be with her daughter she had to protect her.

'Please help me, Aeris.' She whispered softly, saying a silent plea to a long dead friend.

'Open your eyes Tifa…' A voice filled her head, her voice obeying she opened her eyes her gaze suddenly falling on a familiar sight.

'Zack!' She wailed her stare fixing on her son so suddenly she felt like someone had lifted her head like she'd been placed at the best vantage point so that she could see him.

'Zack!' Tifa had never run so fast her chest felt like it was about to explode moving through the crowd of people she suddenly reached her three year old son wrapping her arms tightly around him tears streaming down her cheeks.

'Oh Zack my baby, my little boy.' She whispered softly kissing his head squeezing him so close. Her joy was replaced with reality. It wasn't safe they had to get away she had to get him away, reaching out for his hand she tugged him expecting him to follow the way he always did, but he didn't.

Zack didn't move he just stood there looking down at the road under his feet.

'Zack baby come on, Mummy wants you to come now.' Fear filled her voice he wouldn't move and with all her strength she couldn't lift him. Reaching out her hands shaking she placed her hand under his chin raising up his face, what greeted her made her gasp.

'No…no!' Tifa cried her soul breaking into as her son met her gaze she'd seen that look before but it had always filled her heart with happiness and love now all she felt was sadness and horror. It was Mako Zack had Cloud's Mako green eyes.

Yuffie bobbed and weaved through the crowd clutching her conformer tightly. Glancing around she fought to catch her breath frowning hard she was suddenly pushed to the ground falling onto her back she glanced up. Yuffie's face contorted into a look of rage as she glanced up at the terrifying creature that had knocked her to the floor, everything suddenly moved slowly she saw it lunging forward ready to attack her, her response was fast raising her hands throwing her weapon high up into the air watching it as it slashed across the creature. Rolling out of the way she got to her feet waiting for her conformer to return to her hand once it did she was off again but this time Yuffie made sure that there was nothing getting ready to jump out on her.

'Yuffie!' Her ears were suddenly filled with the shouts of someone calling her name she didn't need to turn and look to know who it was, suddenly he was next to her.

'Yufs are you okay I saw you getting up are you hurt?' Reno appeared reaching out running his hand across her back dusting the dirt off her shoulders.

'Get off me!' Yuffie complained roughly pushing him away; ignoring her he continued to fuss.

'What are you doing here it's not safe, you should be at home with your feet up or something.' Rude was speechless he folded his arms across his chest and frowned the world was about to end and all Reno was concerned with was having a domestic with his ex-girlfriend.

'You know, you know don't you did Tifa tell you did she tell you I was…'

'…having my baby, no I over heard on my way back from the bathroom this morning you've got a pretty loud voice remember.' Reno continued finishing off her sentence for her, Yuffie grimaced she hated it when he did that.

'Just leave me alone Reno I can take care of myself I don't need you!' She motioned trying to keep the needing tone out of her voice. The whole world seemed to dissolve around them.

'You may not need me but I'm not going anywhere you're having my kid I'm not about to just ignore that. Yufs I…'Before the red head Turk had the chance to finish the speech he'd been planning in his head since he'd found out that morning he was suddenly hit hard in the back of the head falling forwards Reno hit the floor.

'Reno, Reno are you okay?' Yuffie questioned as she scrabbled around him trying to pull him up.

'This is touching isn't it, Loz?' Yazoo motioned as he glanced down at the pair in front of him, Loz didn't reply he was to busy fighting Rude to notice his brother.

'Go find a plastic bag somewhere and breath deep!' Yuffie squealed as she struggled to help Reno back up onto his feet standing in front of her he clutched at his ribs.

'Get out of here there not interested in you.' The Turk motioned through clenched teeth staring at him blankly she was a Ninja, she was a member of AVALANCE, she'd saved the planet how could he not want her help.

'Reno, you need me.'

'No I don't, I need you to stay away I need you to keep from getting hurt not just for the baby but for you Yufs I can't loose you again.' Her heart skipped at beat it had been all she'd ever wanted him to say and he'd said it she loved him even more. She wasn't even angry over the fact that he'd brought up the fact of why they weren't together in the first place he'd lost her because he'd been the one who was cheating.

'Reno…'

Glancing over his shoulder ignoring Yazoo he found the strength to finally tell her, to finally tell her what he'd been keeping from her for so long.

'I love you Yuffie Kisaragi, now get the hell out of here!' It was the most romantic thing anyone had ever said to her, grinning like an idiot all she wanted to do was hold him but she pulled back.

'Reno, look out!' She cried as Yazoo appeared in her gaze he dodged out of the way of him, turning on her heels Yuffie decided that for the first time she would do something that someone had asked her without asking why or complaining.

Just as she did however her ears picked up at the familiar sound of Bahamut's roar a shiver ran though her spine as she turned her eyes glancing up wards staring at the sight, which struck fear into her very soul.

Her eyes widened at the sight of the glow the ball of energy, which crashed into the monument sending everything around it spiraling out of control as the explosion suddenly rocked through the atmosphere. She lost sight of Reno as she was lifted up from her feet and sent spinning across the deck.

Clinging to her son tightly, Tifa shielded Zack with her body as the explosion hit.

After that everything went dark…