A/N: Wow, I didn't know if I was goin' to be able to finish this. I was havin' MAJOR writer's block. But with the help for KairiLuv I was able to type this! Thanks so much chica! Well here's the 12th chapter, I hope ya'll enjoy it! Review please!
I sat on the leather couch, Cloud next to me and Vincent across, we were all waiting for Olivia and Tifa to return. When Cloud and I had gotten back Vince had told us that Olivia had gone to talk with Tifa. We'd been sitting here for an hour. I was very bored, but to loyalty to the cat girl I was unable to leave. Ah, the troubles friendships put you through. Though it was kind of funny to watch Vincent sit on the other couch; his ruby eyes darting around nervously and his body tense. Kind of like when a husband awaiting his wife to give birth. Only Vincent wasn't a husband and Olivia wasn't having a baby. Or so I thought…
"So," I said, Vincent jumped. I had to restrain myself from laughing, Vincent scared? Big-bad-gothic-demon Vincent Valentine, frightened, "How do you think its going?" Cloud looked at me out of the corner of his eye and sighed. I know it was dumb, but I was mad at him for dropping me out in the snow.
"I-" Vince began, but was interrupted by a loud cry. My eyes widened, Vincent stared blankly at the stairs, and Cloud flinched.
"Not well I guess." Cloud said dully. I eyed him and bit my lip; I hated how good-looking he was. I crawled over to him and rolled my eyes.
"Thank you Captain Obvious." I said as I kicked his leg.
He winced a bit and stared at me, relief obviously in his eyes, I winked and he turned away from me a bit. I shook my head, men, they will never understand.
Feet were heard stomping down the steps as well as Olivia's voice calling Tifa's name "Tifa! Tifa please wait!" She cried. But Tifa paid no attention as she stormed down the hall, and out the front door, slamming it for extra effect.
Olivia stopped in the hallway, her shoulders hunched, "Please Tifa!" She desperately called. But Tifa ignored her and continued down the stony path, until she was out of sight. Then, Olivia turned back to face us.
"She's mad." Olivia stated.
All three of us blinked, "We wouldn't have guessed." I said after a moment. Cloud glared at me but I shrugged it off. It wasn't like I cared what he thought. Heh.
The cat-girl sighed, "I really do hate this freaking life." She said sadly. The walked back down the hall and up the steps. Vincent rose and followed after her. Cloud and I? We just sat.
There was a moment of that kind of odd silence that you know everyone's thinking, 'What the hell just happened?' But that moment was ruined when I yawned rather loudly (and rudely), stood up and stretched (and everyone could hear my back crack in like, twelve places). "Well, that was fun. Let's go spar." Out of the corner of my mind I saw Cloud nod and stand up. I grinned at him and winked, "Ready to get your ass kicked for the…second time?" He raised an eyebrow and shook his head.
" No, and, where do you want to spar?" he asked.
I blinked.
Where do I want to spar?
A grin rose slowly across my face as I had the perfect place in mind. I dragged him out of the house (is that right?) and into the woods, deeper and deeper until the trees were so dense that Cloud and his huge stupid ass could hardly squeeze between them. He gave me a questioning look that I completely ignored and snorted.
"Some place," he said with sarcasm evident in his voice.
I only grinned like a Cheshire cat and pulled him towards five trees that were clumped together so that the trunks all touched in at least one place. Climbing up a tree to the nearest patch of empty space between the trunks, I looked back down at him and grinned wider.
"It's through here Cloooooouuuuudy!" I called with malicious intent haunting my every word.
"I can't climb through that. It's too small Yuffie!" he called back to me.
"Well then you'll just have to climb over the trees then won't you?" I said matter-of-factly.
Needless to say, he looked pissed. The mere thought of climbing four-story tall trees didn't seem to be going over too well in his head. While he was in his depressive "act like a rock and think things over" mode, I jumped through the space and landed safely on the other side.
The sound I heard not a moment later would have never been something that I'd imagine coming from Cloud.
"YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!"
Did I do something wrong?
I looked back up to the tree and there Cloud was, stuck halfway through the space that I had just jumped through.
"What the hell are ya doing ya big, fat moron? You said yourself it was too small to go through!" I yelled up to him.
He had that pissy-looking brooding face on. "I wasn't about to climb OVER the trees now was I?" he growled.
I shook my head and climbed back up the tree to a branch that hung way down, nearly touching the ground.
"Give me your hand," I said.
"No," he growled in response.
"Come on," I said, "I'm not going to drag you to anymore weird places. I'm just gonna help you get unstuck."
He grimaced, but gave me his hand anyway. I yanked and pulled but hot damn, either he's a big ass fatty or I'm a weak little girl. And I am NOT a weak little girl, so he must be just one big ass fatty.
"Cloud," I ground out, "you're so fucking fat! Why don't you lose a few pounds or something?"
He growled and I pulled harder. After ten minutes of this strenuous, not to mention tedious work we were in the same place we were ten minutes before.
"That's it!" I yelled. "I give up! You're stuck for life! Sorry Cloudy-boy!"
I slid down the branch and landed neatly on the ground.
"If you leave me up here I'll gut you next time I get my hands on you," he said coldly.
"You wouldn't," I said and turned around to head to the next tree.
"Oh yes he would."
I turned around sharply and looked into the blue-green eyes of Captain Seifer Almasy. (just a note... his last name is really Almasy...)
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Tifa sat by the river, tears distorting the shapes in the water. Vincent had left her for that little girl Olivia. Well okay, so Olivia wasn't little. She was two years younger than Tifa maybe, but that didn't make her little. But Vincent was what? Nine? Ten years older than Olivia? Hell! Even she didn't know Vincent's age! He could be a crotchety sixty-something year old man for all she knew. Not that that was impossible... He was a demon after all... Hell! What was she thinking? Doubting Vincent's age like that? But...
A scream echoing through the woods seemingly reached her and caused her to turn around abruptly.
"Yuffie!"
She ran towards the scream.
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"So Riku," Olivia said trying to break the silence that had befallen them, "anything new?"
"Not since you asked that five minutes ago," he deadpanned.
"Well excuse me Mr. I'm-A-Sexy-Vampire-who-loves-to-eat-people's-faces, why don't you make up something?" she snarled.
"I don't feel like it," he said.
A knot of frustration made itself known to the world on Olivia's forehead. She was about to jump in and pound him into the ground when Vincent's metal arm wrapped around her waist.
"I know you are frustrated, but please, we'll figure out something to do," he said softly.
Olivia sighed and nodded. Vincent released her and moved to stand beside her.
"I wonder what Cloud and Yuffie are doing..." Sora mumbled.
"Probably sparring or something stupid like that," Riku said.
"I'm sorry, but what kind of guy spars with his girlfriend?" Olivia asked.
"She's not his girlfriend," Sora said.
"Oh really?"
"Yeah."
"I coulda swore she was. I mean they spend enough time together to be married," she said.
"Not to mention the fact that they have the hots for each other so bad it's about to kill them," Riku grinned, putting his two cents in.
Olivia punched him in the shoulder. "Don't talk like that Stupid."
Riku reached up to rub his sore shoulder when a blood-curdling scream reached his sensitive ears.
"Guys? Did you hear that?" he asked.
Olivia rolled her eyes. "We're not deaf Riku."
"I believe that was Yuffie," Vincent murmured. "We must see what has happened."
The four of them were out of the house and making a dash for the woods within seconds.
A/N: I can't take all the credit. It was mostly Depressed Mizuki. Please review
