AN: Here I proudly present chapter five, enjoy!

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"Speech"

'Thoughts'

Chapter 5

Enter Rufus Shinra...well, just a glimpse

When the bell rang indicating that it was finally the end of the period and the start of break time. The students from a certain biology class exploded out of the classroom and a few seconds later, a menacing crackle could be heard.

Panting, Yuffie leaned against the wall to catch her breath. Meanwhile, her two biology class buddies slowly caught up with her with an amused expression on their face.

"You could have warned me!" she growled at them.

"What? That people are as eager as you in getting out of that class as soon as possible?" Zack grinned.

"Shut up Hedghog! I could have died!"

"Nah! Just trampled on." Zack corrected lightly and started to head back to the direction they came from.

"Jerk!" Yuffie muttered and Cloud grinned slightly while shaking his head at them. "Hey! Where are you going Hedghog?! We just came from there!"

"I need a text book from Gast, I catch up with you later." he waved at them in a dismissing manner.

"Pft! Whatever!" grabbing Cloud's wrist, Yuffie dragged him with her. After, heading down the stairs, she suddenly stopped.

"What is it?" Cloud questioned.

"Er...I don't where we're going." Yuffie scratched her head.

"What do you mean- er...right." Cloud eyed the nearest wall to smack his head on.

'This is his first day, of course he doesn't know!'

"Uh, Spikes?" she eyed nervously at him as he stared longingly at the wall.

'I'll come back later.' Cloud sighed.

"This way." he began to head for his destination with Yuffie still clutching on to his wrist.

They soon arrived to a busy cafeteria and headed towards a table which was already occupied by five people.

"Kei, Tifa!" Yuffie beamed as she spotted them as two of the occupants.

"Hey, Yuffs." Keiji gave her a small wave.

Yuffie then tilted her head a little and looked questioningly at the rest of the occupants who was staring silently at her and Spikes with their mouth hanging open. She looked at Kei who gave her a shrug, then turned her head to look at Cloud who had a confused frown to the silence they were receiving.

"Wow! I didn't know you two swung that way!" Zack appeared suddenly behind them and clasped his hand on each of their shoulder. "I'm very happy for you."

"Zack-" Cloud started.

"-what the hell are you talking about!" Yuffie finished, hissing menacingly at him who smirked wider in return and stared down.

Yuffie, Cloud and Keiji followed his gaze to her hand which was still holding onto Cloud's.

"Aaah!" Yuffie quickly let go and clutched her hand with another, blushing deep red while Cloud awkwardly shuffed his hand into his pocket. Both of them jerked Zack's hands off their shoulder who was grinning madly. Meanwhile, Keiji had been laughing the whole time.

"Sooo, who's gay?" Zack asked mimicking her innocent expression from earlier. Kei laughed even harder.

"Shut up, Hedgehog!" Yuffie growled. She tip-toed and whacked Zack behind the head. "You too, Kei!"

"SHIT! That hurts!" Zack complained.

Soon they settled into the empty seats and the rest had snapped out from shock and Yuffie was introduced to the rest other people- Aeris, Cid and Barret.

After the introduction, they lapsed into another fit of awkward silence despite Aeris and Tifa's attempt at trying to make small conversations. Yuffie was getting fed up, especially with Barret and Cid's constant shifting, Kei's ill-concealed chuckles and most of all, Zack's arrogant smile.

"I'M. NOT. GAY. DAMN IT!" she pronounced each syllable sharply, her Wutaian accent coming through. "I am straight thank you very much!"

"Hm. Sure little Yufs." Zack grinned at her.

'Little! This means war, Hedgehog!' Yuffie fumed.

In a quick movement, she shot her hand out, fisted his shirt and jerked him violently to her.

"You're going to die, Hegdehog!" she narrowed her eyes into slits at him.

"Bring it shorty!" he cheered her on.

Pushing him back and letting go, Zack fell back onto his seat with an 'oof'. Yuffie stood up and glared at him a bit before adverting her glare to Kei who was barely suppressing his chuckles.

"You're going to join him Kei." she scowled at him and stalked furstratedly out of the cafeteria.

Straightening his uniform, Zack leaned back on his chair comfortably and grinned at Cloud.

"Hey, if I swung that way, I would have picked him too! You've got good taste." Cloud ignored him and sipped his coke.

"Come on Cloud! He's like a girl, his size, pretty face, et cetera. Hell he even smells like one- it's lavender I think." Keiji choked on his drink. Aeris patted him on the back while Tifa scowled at Zack.

"Cut it out Zack!"

"Aw, it's true Tif!" Zack defended.

"Wait a damn minute, shithead! You sniffed him?!" Cid spat out his tea and stared at him incredulously.

"Well-"

"Come on fool! You gonna give Kei a heart attack, you're talking about his brother 'ere." Barret said, mistaking Keiji's panic for disgust.

"Ah sorry Kei! But-" Cloud suddenly whacked him like Yuffie did after finishing his coke, which successfully shut him up. Then he explained to the others to clear up the misunderstanding. Meanwhile, Keiji breathed out a sigh in relieve.

'Geez, that was very close. Yuffie will need to be more careful around that guy.'

Somewhere in the school Yuffie was trying to cool off and in five minutes she have P.E.

'Damn it, this is all his fault!' she stalked angrily round the school corriders.

'If he didn't provoke me then this won't have happened!'

'Stupid Hedgehog!'

'I can't believe I'm lost.' Yuffie pouted.

In the corner of her eye she saw a flash of blonde hair and blue eyes.

'Cloud!' Yuffie beamed happily and went to catch up to him.

Cloud had cleared up the awkwardness. Zack sulked as Aeris shook her head and scolded him.

"Hey, what 'bout the kid that stormed off?" everyone froze at Barret enquiry.

"Great, just great. I don't even know what he has next." Keiji groaned.

'So much for protecting her.' he added inwardly

"P.E." Tifa answered.

"Huh?" Keiji looked up at her.

"He have P.E next. He's my class next period."

"Shouldn't one of us go find the brat or something?" at this Cloud silently slipped off to search for Yuffie while the others were occupied in discussion.

"Brat?" Barret raised a brow at Cid.

"That's the first damn thing came to my mind when I saw him." he shrugged and a grin slowly spread across Barret's face. Meanwhile Tifa and Aeris shook their head disapprovingly at them.

'That's worse than calling her anything else. She's going to blow up on them or rather, blow them up.' Kei thought dryly.

"Well, at least we'll be off the hook soon Zack." Kei smiled reassuring at him.

"What makes you so sure?" Zack looked at him suspicously. Keiji's smile soon turned into a grim line at a memory.

"Because when I called him that, he strangled me on the spot."

As Yuffie rushed to catch up with Cloud, she turned a corner and bumped into him and fell flat on her bottom.

"Owie! Sheez Cloud, why di-" she stopped in mid-sentence as she realized her mistake. It wasn't Cloud she was talking to or she had followed.

'Duh Yuffie! It's not like Cloud's the only one in the world who has blonde hair and blue eyes!' she silently berated herself.

"Does he look that much like me?" he scoffed and flicked his hair.

'Hmm. Not really, this guy's eye's looks really blue, the piercing type of blue, quite cold and intimating actually. Cloud's eyes are more light-hearted and had a glimpse of green. Though I got to admit, this guy is pretty good looking but far too arrogant so-'

"-nah! He looks much better." Yuffie's eyes widened and quickly clasped her hands over her mouth as she realize she had said that out loud. The guy's eyes narrowed.

"Really." he commented arrogantly.

'Weeeell, okay, I lied. I guess both of you are really good looking- maybe you a little bit more but I'm going to be biased 'cause I like Spikes better and since he's nicer.'

"Do you know who I am?" he stared piercingly at her. Yuffie stomach was doing a flip-flop.

"Em...no?" she smiled weakly at him. Her body frozen under his gaze, despite that, she didn't break eye contact with him.

'Wait a minute! The Great Ninja Yuffie isn't scared of anyone and definitely not this cocky son of a bi-'

"Yuffie!" her thoughts were interrupted as she heard her name being called and broke their eye contact.

"Cloud!" her face lit up into a bright smile as she turned round and tackled him or tried to. Cloud winced slightly at the impact.

"Were you lost?" he asked.

"Uh, I guess, but I was just talking to this guy behind me."

"What guy? There's no one there."

"Huh? Wha- I swear he was just there a moment ago!"

"It doesn't matter we better get to our next class. Tifa would be worried if we don't show up." as if on cue, the bell rang. Once again they rushed to their next class to avoid being late.

"Em Spikes? About earlier-"

"It's fine. A misunderstanding which have been cleared up after you left."

"Really? Thanks!" beamed at him.

'Yup, Cloud's definitely much better than that guy!'

Meanwhile, 'that guy' came back out to the corridor from the empty classroom.

"'Yuffie' huh?" he tested the name and smirked.

"Hey Rufus!" a red head panted as he found him, "Man! You're sure hard to find. What were you doing here anyway?"

"Nothing, Reno. Nothing."

"We have P.E now." another student commented.

"Huh? When did you get here Rude?" Reno blinked at him.

"..."

"Anyway, let's ditch it. It's just P.E!" Reno suggested.

Without a word Rufus started to walk away with Rude following him.

"Oh man! I guess we're off to the crappy subject then!" Reno sighed in disappointment.

When Yuffie and Cloud reached the P.E department, Yuffie found herself to be doomed.

"What's wrong Yuffie?" Cloud's voice laced with concern.

"E-eh? N-nothing." she smiled weakly at him as they headed for the changing room.

'Oh shit! Levianthan help me!'

As they headed into the changing room, Yuffie kept her head down.

"Hey Yufs!" her snapped up at Zack's voice.

"H-hey." she dumped her bag beside Zack's and leaned her head onto the wall to hide her face, especially from Zack's half naked form.

'Oh Levianthan! Don't blush Yuffie! Don't Blush!!!'

On the other side of her, Cloud placed his bag beside her's and started to undress.

'Double shit!'

"Uh Yuffie? Are you okay?" Cloud place a hand on her shoulder and peered at her face.

"Huh? You don't feel well Yufs?"

"I'm fine. Em...is Kei here? Does he have P.E?"

"I don't think so, he's in the same class as Aeris and Barret, so he have chemistry right now." at this, Yuffie groaned inwardly.

Plucking up her courage, she removed her face from the wall.

'Please tell me I'm not blushing!'

"Yuffie, you look a little red." Cloud inspected her face.

'Damn!'

"Eh? Cloud's right." Zack placed his hand over her forehead and his other hand over his. "And a little warm too."

"I'm fine! Really!" Yuffie shrugged his hand away. "I guess I got a bit tired from running to here." she lied.

"You don't have any water with you, do you?" Yuffie shook her head at Cloud, "Here." Cloud handed her his bottle of water.

"T-thanks." Yuffie drank from it handed it back.

'Hey, doesn't that mean I just indirectly kissed him? Ah, who cares about that crap anyway!'

"Hey, what are you still not changed for? Everybody's out already!" Cid ruffled her hair snapping her out of her thoughts. He was right, only they were left in the changing room, and both Cloud and Zack had already changed.

"I don't have a change of clothes with me." Yuffie growled and slapped his hand away.

"Huh? What the hell are you talking about? The damn school supplies it."

"Oh, that reminds me. Here's your P.E clothes." Zack handed it to her. "For some reason, the teacher thought you were a girl and gave it to Tifa."

"R-really? They probably thought my name sounded feminine and decided I was a girl." she smiled at them, pushing down her nervousness that was about to spill.

"Well? What the hell are you waiting for?" Cid tapped his foot impatiently.

"I-I can't." she choked.

'Oh dear Levianthan!'

"Oooh so you're really are a girl then." Zack teased.

"No! I j-just uh..."

'Think Yuffie! THINK!!!'

"Idon'tfeelsowellsoi'mgoingtoheadtotheinfirmaryokay?" Yuffie made a quick dash towards the door leaving her new friends staring at her trail.

"What the fuck was that?" both Cloud and Zack shrugged as Cid voiced out their thoughts.

Out of view, Yuffie slid down against a wall and sat down.

"Man, that was so close." sighing in relief, she waited quietly for Cid, Cloud and Zack to leave the changing room.

As if on cue, they exited the changing room and headed to the P.E hall.

When they entered the hall she counted up to ten before making her way back to the changing room.

Yuffie prayed fervently that there were no late comers or anything.

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AN: There you go, a glimpse of Rufus! XD Poor Yuffie, all in one day...actually, it's not even a day. Oh dear, it also look like a Clouffie fic doesn't it? I really suck at sticking to a plan. Anyway hope you liked it! Please review!

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