Disclaimer: I don't own copy rights to ANYTHING! But I could if I had a million dollars. I could even buy you a green dress. But not a real green dress. That's cruel.

Oh yeah. I need a life. Or at least some major changes in the one I have now. Yeah that would be nice. I just want things back to normal... I hate this. Ah! I sound...emo! Gah...I gotta go now. Hey at least I have some damn good reasons to be angsty! I should have on eye liner! But I'm lazy...

Chapter Eight

My phone goes off as I run aimlessly through the streets. Well, it's not aimless, I just don't know where I'm going. When I pick up all I can hear is panting. "The hell? Who is this?"

"Tifa? It's Yuffie!"

"Why are you breathing so hard?"

"Two reasons." She takes another deep breath. "I've been running as long as you have and I ran into Cloud."

It feels like my eye lids are peeling away from my face my eyes get so wide. "What happened? Is everything okay?"

"Oh yeah. He just kicked my ass for trying to stop him."

"He did what?"

"Well it wasn't an ass kicking in the grr roar kinda way. It was more of a please don't try to stop me I'm not scared to hurt you kind of way. And he was right. Definitely wasn't afraid."

"Well are you okay?"

"It only lasted a few seconds. I got the point to leave him be."

"Yuffie! We're trying to find him not let him waltz around the city!"

"You try fighting him! It's not fun!"

I huff. "Where's he headed?"

"The church." She pauses. "Be careful Tifa. You're both pretty fragile right now."

"Yeah..." She hangs up. I find my pocket and shove my phone in it. This is it. I take a few turns. The church isn't far thankfully. Just a few dirty streets down. There are still drunks in the alley ways. Some yell cat calls at me as I run by them. Others just just mumble something about something else. It's sad how many there are around here. The whole city's shit, really. But if it was clean, I don't think it would be as interesting. And I seriously doubt the church would stay up. And then where would Cloud go? Where would his mind go? Eesh.

His bike glints off of street lights. He's in there. You can do this. Come on Tifa. You can do this. The church is almost scary looking at it. I have no idea what time it is but it's like the church only absorbs the light around it but doesn't reflect it at all. Chunks of brick and mortar lay all around the crumbling building. It's strange how much it's falling apart in comparison to it's state a few years ago. And now there's a giant whole in the floor. Yeah she's gonna come back to haunt me. Super. As I walk up those decayed steps, my heart beats gets faster, it's drumming in my ears. My hands clench into fists and I admit it. I'm terrified. Taking a deep breath, I put my hands on the big rough doors. They pull away as I think. Back door might be better. I don't actually know if there is a back door to the church. I'm sure there is but there's also a broken window in a small room off the main hall. I hoisted my self up and slid through, trying to avoid the glass.

My boots crunch on it anyway. I cringe at the sound. Hopefully Cloud didn't hear it. It's dark in the room. I bump my way around it, searching for a door and squinting to see what might be in front of me. I feel a bed beside me and small table next to that. A few stumbling steps tells me I'm in the middle of the room and loud grind tells me I just ran into a chair. I flinched at the noise. My ears perk up at Cloud's footsteps. I scramble to where ever the door might be. I picked the wrong wall but I found the door none the less. Mostly it's because Cloud walked in carefully, a pool of dim light flooding in with him. The door stopped a hair away from my shoulder. I turned to face it, watching Cloud out of the corner of my eye. He goes to the bed, to the window. As he's looking out the window, I decide this is my chance to slip out. I can see my shadow against his body for a second. I hope he doesn't catch it. "Aerith," he whispers.

I bit my lip as I snuck into the hall. He's already heading for the door. He must have seen it. I open another door and thankfully it leads me into the actual church. I don't even stop to think about what to do now. I just stepped out of the aisle and into a black pew. And then I wait. And I wait. It sounds like my heart moved into my ears which makes it harder to listen for Cloud's boots. Things are flying through my head. Is this right? Will he realize right off the bat? Should I run now while I still have the chance? "Aerith?" Cloud calls, stepping through the door. So much for running.

"It's good to see you Cloud." I don't even remember opening my mouth.

And that's where I'm leaving it! Even though it's short! Take that you readers! Now love me and despair! Because I suck and want to get another chapter into this! Fwaha! Besides, my ankle is killing me. I ripped a tendon in it and then decided to do kendo. Ouchy ouchy ouchy ouchy...Ska chan is stupid!