A/N: Another update! This is a request for a very good friend of mine, RyoshiMorino! :D the next few one-shots ill try to focus on some other couples but I need ideas! :)

Warning, they're may be some OCC but hey, if you didn't like it...not my problem that you decided to read it.

Disclaimer: You know the answer!

The Kid In Me.

Rated:T Just to be safe

Characters: Cloud&Tifa&Marlene&Denzel

~The Kid In Me~

"Again! Again!" Marlene clapped her little gloved hands together as Tifa pulled her up the steps to the Seventh Heaven as she lounged lazily in her little donut-tube.

"Alright Marlene, hold on tight!" The ravenette said with a giggle before giving the girl's tube a little push. She smiled warmly as she watched the young child squeal and giggle in delight.

Tifa couldn't understand how it was so much fun being pushed down a couple of stairs, but she was just glad that Marlene was enjoying herself, and she was enjoying her time outside with the children as well, even if she was freezing her butt off. She looked to her right, seeing Cloud and Denzel shoveling piles of snow to the other side of the Seventh Heaven were they could add the finishing touches to their fort.

Tifa felt the corner of her lips quirk up in a little smile as she watched how Cloud moved around in the nippy air wearing his sleeveless dark-blue sweater, gloves, his shoulder armor, pants, and that cape around his waist. No coat. No sweatshirt. No hat.

Besides the mako energy in Cloud's system, Cloud was a stubborn mule and refused to wear a jacket, or a hat. He said that they weren't his style, and Tifa was okay with it as long as he didn't encourage the children or else it'd be a nightmare the way it always was when they sided with the spiky-haired ex-SOLDIER.

"Tifa! Look! You can see my footprints on the ground, they're a lot smaller than yours!" Marlene said just as Tifa saw Cloud trip over part of their fort that collapsed shortly from the contact with his foot. Tifa covered a gloved-hand over her mouth to stifle her laughter before turning back to look down at the girl who was smiling widely up at her.

Marlene looked so adorable, all bundled up in her big heart-printed coat along with her fuzzy white ear muffs, and her rosy-red cheeks. Smiling, Tifa knelt so that she was leveled with the five-year old.

"Well Marlene, that's because I'm a lot bigger than you." Tifa replied before she took a look at the little prints of where Marlene's boots have left in the snow. "And...do you know what else will appear in the snow?" Tifa asked slowly falling onto her bottom, wincing a little as she felt the icy sensation from the snow sink through her jeans. It wasn't her brightest idea, and certainly not most mature...but when raising kids you had to have a fun and playful side, right?

Marlene watched her guardian with an amused expression on her little face, giggling when Tifa fell onto her back in the snow and howling at how cold it was, it also got Cloud and Denzel's attention a few feet away but Tifa didn't seem to notice. She spread out her arms and legs before moving them up and down, her eyes squinted and her noise crinkled as she felt the first few snowflakes kiss her face.

"What are you doing, Tifa!?" Marlene asked giggling in delight, she was so thrilled to seeing her two guardian's happy and having as much fun in the snow as her and Denzel were.

Tifa stopped her arms and legs and carefully scrambled up to her feet and out of her perfectly made snow angel.

Marlene gasped. "That's so pretty! I want to make one too!"

Tifa giggled as she watched the girl fall onto her back and move her arms and legs swiftly up and down. It wasn't long before Denzel came over, all covered in snow and red-cheeked as well to make his own snow angel. Cloud wasn't far behind from Denzel, but he stopped dead in his tracks when he stood besides Tifa, watching the two children as well.

"I'm guessing Snow Angel's aren't really your thing either, hmm?" Tifa asked looking up at Cloud with a cute, but teasing smile.

Cloud resisted the urge to roll his eyes. "It's more for...children if you ask me..." Cloud replied reaching over to scratch the back of his neck awkwardly, Tifa's mouth fell open before she brought her arms up to fold them across her chest.

"I made one." She stated, Cloud gave her one of his rare-small smiles.

Tifa could not look any cuter then she did now with her clothes all damp and covered in snowflakes, and her knee-high black boots along with her dark blue scarf and knitted hat. Hair all messy and wispy, along with a pink nose and cheeks that he was so very tempted to kiss.

"Well..." Cloud paused and had to look away and cover his mouth so that Tifa couldn't see him chuckling, but that just gave her the perfect moment to throw a snowball at his face. Cloud gasped and snapped his neck towards Tifa's direction, she had a smug look on her face.

Cloud tried to fight of a small but failed terribly at it, so he wiped the cold and wet snow off from his face to hide his expression, but Tifa could not be fooled that easy. However, what Cloud did next was something that Tifa never expected. He crouched down to his knees so his hands quickly made different shapes and sizes of snowballs.

Her eyebrows rose at his in surprise and with a bit amusement before she too got to her knees to make a few snowballs but before her hands started to shape the snow, Cloud has already towered over her throwing snowballs at her. Tifa was laughing so hard that she could only just curl up in a ball and lay in the snow while her lover simply dropped snowballs all over her.

When Cloud was out of snowballs he got down on his knees to pull a giggling Tifa in his arms, laying her in a comfy place in his lap. He smiled slightly as he nuzzled the side of her face with his nose, and she laughed harder.

"Cloud! Your nose is freezing!" Tifa wailed playfully pushing his face away.

"So are you." Cloud answered before pressing his cold lips to her throat.

Tifa squirmed and squealed. "I wonder why!"

"You started it. So I finished it." Cloud murmured against the warm skin of her neck that he started to kiss tenderly, Tifa smiled as she started to comb her gloved fingers through his blond spikes.

"I guess I still have that little girl from Niblehiem still in me." Tifa replied. "And so do you...but...VERY deep down."

"Wow, thanks." Cloud replied flatly though Tifa could hear the laughter in his voice.

"I think it's about time we went inside." Tifa said when she noticed that Marlene and Denzel were shivering, however they were still playing in the snow, chasing one other in circles.

"No problem." Cloud replied as he got up to his feet, still holding Tifa in his arms. "Time to go inside or no ride on fenrir tomorrow " Cloud called out to the two children. They didn't need to be told twice, they were in the house faster than lightning.

Tifa giggled. "That was easy. They sure love that bike as much as you do."

"Mmm, I wouldn't say as much as me." Cloud said as he walked them back into the Seventh Heaven, Tifa sighed as the warmth of their home lingered around them. Cloud put Tifa back down to her feet and gave her a chaste kiss on the cheek before walking over to Marlene to help her get of her snow gear.

Tifa went up to their room, she wanted out of her wet clothes and in her warm pj's. Shutting the door behind her she quickly kicking off her boots, and stepping out of her jeans, than unwrapped her scarf from her neck, tossing it to the floor along with her knitted hat. Then she removed her mittens and threw off her jacket and shirt.

Now only in her bra and panties, Tifa raced to the dresser to get her pj's when a pair of warm and strong arms encircled themselves around her slim waist. She smiled, knowing instantly that it was Cloud.

"What were you up too?" Cloud asked slowly running his hands down her torso and stopping at her upper thighs to rub teasing circles in them. Tifa shivered in delight, sometimes Cloud was too good with his hands.

"Just...c-changing..." Tifa replied followed by a squeak when she felt herself being lifted off the ground and over Cloud's shoulder.

"What's wrong with what you've got on now?" Cloud asked her teasingly before gently dumping her onto their bed. She giggled, her hands swiftly pulling up the covers to wrap around herself. Cloud was scooting closer to her, his eyes full of lust.

"It's not much?" Tifa answered, however it sounded more of a question.

Cloud wrapped his arms around her once more and pulled her closer to him.

"And that's bad?" He asked kissing her hairline softly.

"No...but I'll get cold." Tifa replied, smiling because she already knew what Cloud was going to say next.

"I'll keep you warm." He reassured her, his hands stroking and rubbing her soft legs.

Tifa shivered and giggled at the same time before she allowed herself to fall into his embrace, hearing his heartbeat once she rested her face in his chest, greedily sucking in his warmth. The two of them fell into a comfortable silence, just holding one another and listening to the sound of another's breathing.

Winter's in Midgar were cold, but that means more snuggle time and to them, that was completely worth it.

A/N: I hope you all enjoyed! If you have a request please tell me! :D