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Nope, still do not own it...

Author's Note:

Wow, two chapters in one week...simply glorious... Well, the chapter you've all been waiting for. I won't keep you waiting. Just remember to leave a review when you're done. I want to know if I did good. Peace out...


Reno sat there and stared at me for so long I thought time had somehow mysteriously stopped. His teal eyes looked slightly glazed over but I wasn't surprised because him and Rude had been drinking. I could clearly see my reflection on the surface of his shining irises. I immediately hated the look on my face. I looked so pathetic, sitting there waiting forhis reaction to my pregnancy.

Reno looked away from me and his eyes began nervously darting around the room like they were chasing a fly. A realization hit me as I stared into the endless pools of glowing mako that zipped randomly around the room. His reaction could be one of pure shock. Before I started telling myself he was going to leave me, I needed to give him time to get over the initial shock factor.

Reno even told me that all the relationships he's held thus far have been one night stands, if that. He's never been a father before, but I'm sure there have been women that have told him they were pregnant with his child. And no doubt after they told him they immediately went and got said child aborted.

After many long minutes of just staring at him as he thought things over, I hesitantly raised my hand and laid it tentatively on his cheek. He looked at me with wide eyes like he was a deer caught in the bright stream of a car's headlights. This teal orbs held a far away look and I felt like his gaze was going right through me.

"Reno."

Just saying his name was enough to bring him back to Earth. He gently pushed my legs off of him and got up then began to pace around the room with his hands on top his head like he was out of breath. I watched him pace the room patiently. Suddenly he stopped and quickly looked at me before he turned to go down the ladder.

"Rude! Elena!" He shouted, jumping down the ladder well instead of climbing.

I sat stunned for a few seconds. I didn't think he'd jump down the ladder well, screaming his friend's names.

"Rude! Elena! Guess what!" He announced, ecstatic. "I'm gonna be a dad! Isn't that great!"

I got up and climbed down the ladder. Reno had picked Elena up and was twirling her around, much to her dismay. Rude was sitting on the couch with a smirk on his usually emotionless face. He was still sporting his favorite pair of sunglasses. After putting Elena down, Reno rushed over to Rude and pulled him up from his place on the couch. He squeezed Rude to his chest.

"Careful of the glasses," Rude stressed, fixing them as soon as Reno had relinquished his grip on him.

When Reno saw me he rushed towards me and placed his hands firmly on my hips and lifted me into the air. I gripped his shoulders to ensure I didn't fall. He twirled around once before setting me back on the floor then pulled me towards him and kissed me passionately. Elena made a snide comment as we kissed which made Reno pull away from me and flip Elena the bird. I gaped at Reno's hand before reaching up and pulling it down and placing it back at his side.

"What?" He asked incredulously, like he hadn't done anything wrong.

I only rolled my eyes and laid my head on his chest. "So, I take it you're happy?" I asked, keeping my face against his shirt.

"Of course I am," he said, running his fingers through my hair. "Nothing like this has ever happened to me before."

I lifted my head and dared myself to ask the one question that was searing a hole in my brain. "So, you won't…?"

Reno immediately caught what I was going to say and quickly raised his hand and placed it over my mouth. His voice took on a very serious tone. "Don't you ever think those thoughts again. I will never leave you, Tifa. I love you."

I nodded as tears began cloud my vision. "I love you too."

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"Gawd!" Yuffie wailed from her place on the couch. "This is hopeless!"

Vincent stood next to the couch with his hands folded neatly under his cape. He had a sort of bored stare in his red eyes. His search of Gongaga had been fruitless, except for one thing. He had talked with the chocobo handler and asked about Cloud, Aeris and Logan and was surprised to discover that they had rented chocobos. When he asked the handler where they went all he did was shrug his shoulders and say he didn't 'have a clue.'

"Then can you tell me where those chocobos ended up?" Vincent asked, losing patience with the man very fast.

Every chocobo handler around the globe had to tag their chocobos to figure out where they were. That way, if a certain town had an over abundance of chocobos from another town, they could send them back. The handler handed Vincent his latest chocobo manifest.

"What were the names of the chocobos they rented?" Vincent asked, scanning his sharp eyes down the bleach white paper.

"Uh…" The handler mumbled, rubbing his hand against his sweaty forehead. "Scorch and Lulu."

Vincent smirked when his eyes landed on the two names. Those chocobos had ended up in Wutai.

"Are you sure they came here Vincent?" Yuffie asked, sitting up and staring him in the eye.

Vincent nodded. "Those chocobos have tags from Gongaga and they weren't checked in to any other town. They went straight to Wutai. They have to be here unless they've flown the coop already."

Yuffie rolled her eyes and rose from the couch with an exasperated sigh. "Well, then where the hell are they? I've personally met every single person that's come through Wutai's gates for the past month and a half! And never once did I see that doofus Cloud, Aeris or Logan!"

Vincent kept a stoic glance on Yuffie as she finished her tirade. "And none of them seemed the slightest bit suspicious?" He asked, with a hooked eyebrow.

"No, they haven – " Yuffie stopped as one incident came to mind. "Well, actually there was acouple that had a little boy that came in a few weeks after Red told me to keep an eye out. The girl seemed to check out but her boyfriend or husband or whoever the hell he was kept fidgeting and biting his fingernails and crossing and uncrossing his legs. It was like he was nervous or something. And the little boy acted like he knew me when he first saw me." A thoughtful look fell over Yuffie's face before she gasped and smacked herself in the forehead with her open palm. "Dammit, Vinny! I'm so stupid!"

Vincent frowned. "I wouldn't doubt it but why?"

Yuffie scowled at Vincent and defiantly stuck her tongue out at him before continuing. "Do you think Aeris has the power to change their appearances?"

Vincent shrugged. "I can't say. Maybe she does."

"Then that could have been them!" Yuffie threw her hands up in the air. "Ugh! And I call myself a ninja!" Vincent snickered softly enough so that Yuffie would not hear. He frowned when the skinny ninja sprinted from the room then returned with her favorite shuriken. "Okay, Vinny," she said, going over to the window and peering out of it. "The sun is setting right now. We need to go out and search the entire town. I remember what they look like so we need to find them." She gave him a brief description of what they looked like. "Let's go."

Vincent rolled his eyes and slowly pulled his gun from the holster on his right thigh. He preferred to work alone but he had to admit that having someone else helping him look would make the night go much faster. Him and Yuffie split, each going to separate ends of the town and agreeing to meet by the pot in front of the Turtle's Paradise pub.

He searched his end of town thoroughly, looking inside the windows of every house or building he came upon. When he finally got to the tan stone pot that was placed haphazardly next to the Turtle's Paradise Yuffie was nowhere to be seen. Vincent sighed and leaned up against the wall, crossing his arms. He wasn't waiting long until he looked over to the right, where he knew he heard soft footfalls.

"Yuffie, if you're trying to be stealthy you're not very good at it," Vincent said, taking much amusement when he saw Yuffie's head emerge from around the corner with a rather befuddled look on her face.

"God, Vinny, you hear everything," she mumbled, before rounding the corner completely. "Okay, I found the house." She pulled her PHS out of her pocket and dialed a number. She slinked into the shadows next to Vincent and waited while the phone rang.

"Yuffie, do you realize what time it is?" Nanaki's agitated and very fatigued voice sounded in her ear.

She was silent for a second. "No, what time is it?"

"Almost midnight."

"Gawd, we were searching that long? It didn't seem like it."

Red's voice immediately perked up. "Did you find anything?"

Yuffie took a deep breath. "I think so. Vincent showed up a few days ago and…well…it's a long story. I think that Aeris disguised herself, Cloud and Logan so I wouldn't recognize them. What should we do?"

Red was silent. He was slowly going over the options in his head. "Do you know how to bug a house, Yuffie?"

Yuffie rolled her eyes. "Well, duh. Bugging houses is my specialty."

"Do you have the equipment to do so?"

"Yes indeedy do!"

Vincent frowned. Yes indeedy do?

"Then I suggest you to do so. See if you can do it tonight."

"Will do!"

"Call back in the morning."

"Okay," Yuffie replied before closing her PHS.

Vincent arched an eyebrow. "Well?"

"Nanaki wants me to bug the house. Come on, we need to go back to my place and get the supplies."

"Maybe you should let me do it." Vincent slid the Death Penalty into its holster as he followed Yuffie back to her house.

"Sorry, Vinny," she replied, slinging her shuriken over her shoulder. "I wouldn't want you to get caught."

Vincent scoffed. "Me get caught? Ms. Kisaragi must I remind you how easily others can find out if you are sneaking up to them or not?"

"Shut up, Valentine," she mumbled as she swung her door open.

Yuffie wasn't going to worry about getting going full out so instead she just got the hypersensitive mini microphones she just recently bought. She figured she'd put one in the kitchen, one in the living room, one in Logan's room and one in the room that Cloud and Aeris were sleeping in. Once she got everything she met Vincent back in the front room. He gave her a sideways glance as she went to walk out the door. She stopped short and looked back at him with an aggravated stare.

"Well, are you coming, Vinny?"

Vincent stayed where he was, quite content leaning up against the wall. "Should I?"

Yuffie rolled her eyes. "Yes, I need you to be the lookout."

Vincent complied and followed her back to the house Yuffie discovered earlier. When they reached the house she shoved the small plastic case of the microphones into Vincent's hand then walked around the house, making sure they were asleep. Much to Yuffie's amusement, they had left the living room window completely open. She didn't spy any sign in front of the house, clearly signifying that it had burglar alarms installed and if they did and didn't have the sign posted, they could get in big trouble. Here in Wutai, criminals weren't afraid to sue the owner of a house that didn't have a sticker or sign of some sort in front of their house. Yuffie knew, she'd heard it before.

She came back to where Vincent was waiting and grabbed the plastic case of microphones. "I'll need half an hour to get these things placed. You need to hide out somewhere dark. Think you can do that?"

Vincent smirked. "Most definitely."

Yuffie flashed him a thumbs up then slinked over to the front of the house and quietly jumped inside the window. She froze as soon as her feet hit the floor, making sure there were no alarms. If there were, they would have gone off by now. Yuffie softly placed one foot in front of the other as she made her way into the kitchen. She looked around for a good place to hide the first mic. She knew a nondescript, out of the way place was best. Her eyes fell on the fridge and an idea immediately sparked. She leaned down next to the large piece of machinery and ran her hand along the space between the wall and the fridge.

Just enough room.

She fished a mic out of the box and held it in her hand. It was nothing flashy, only as big as a marble with a small antenna on the top. She flicked a switch on the back, turning it on, and smirked as the small device seemed to disappear into thin air, although it was still in her grasp.

Thank you , Mr. Cloaking Device. Yuffie thought as she moved into the living room.

She placed the next one behind the couch before moving into what she thought was Logan's room. She peeked her head inside the door and smiled as she spied a crib. She crouched in the middle of the room, debating whether to put the mic in the crib or in a dusty corner somewhere. Finally coming to a decision, she knew that putting it in the crib would present a risk she didn't want to take so, instead, she placed it under the dresser. There was a hollow space between the bottom of the dresser and the floor thatyou could easily stick your hand under, which provided the perfect hiding place.

After strategically placing the mic, she tiptoed over to the crib and peered in. She smirked when she saw Logan's soft, sleeping face staring back at her.

I knew it.

She left Logan's room and ventured into the very back bedroom she presumed was Cloud and Aeris' room. She had heard stories from Red that whoever or whatever Aeris was, she was dangerous. So instead of going in the room and finding somewhere to put the mic, she pressed herself against the hall wall and looked for a good place. She settled with placing it, once again, under the dresser. They had either bought matching furniture for every room or the house had come equipped with everything.

She carefully flicked the switch in the back of the mic then crawled over to the dresser and quickly placed it before slowly backing out of the room. She stayed on all fours and continued to crawl backwards until she could no longer see inside the room. Once she was clear, she straightened back up and excited the house as quiet as she had come.

She found where Vincent was hiding. "Okay, mission accomplished."

He nodded and this time he led while Yuffie followed. As they walked back to her house, she smirked victoriously. The Great Ninja Yuffie strikes again!