Chapter 5

I feel sick! Ever since cloud won that chocobo race to get out of Coral prison, we've been riding around in an all terrain buggy. This was a gift from Dio, the owner of the Gold Sourcer, for being wrongly accused for murder, not that we haven't killed people, just not those people.

Although I feel sick in this buggy, it does have it's advantages, with it we can cross any low running river, which is useful because we don't have to run up and down the river bank, days at a time looking for a part shallow and slow moving enough to wade or swim across. It also lets us cross the dunes that surround the Gold Sourcer, which would have taken us weeks to walk around.

Like everything made by Shinra the buggy was faulty. (A.N. not everything made by Shinra is faulty, Yuffie just has a biased view of them) It broke down just as we got to the Cosmo Canyon settlement which was lucky in a way because this is Reds home but unlucky for me because I got caught stealing a very rare matirea which I dropped while escaping. GAWD! I hate it when I lose materia!

I feel scared now. We are approaching the entrance, the guard is giving me a quizzical look, I do the quickest thing I can think of. I run up to Clouds back, wrap my arms around his waist and hide my head in his back Cloud stops walking and asks me what's wrong, I don't answer but didn't need too. The guard is laughing and slapping his knee. Cloud unwraps my arms and turns to face me, he tilts my face up so he can look me in the eyes, those big blue eyes I should hate but don't, ever since we were in the Gold Sourcer I've been wanting him to look at me, with his big blue eyes I have come to like. Cloud asks me what I stole and I tell him the truth, that I did steal some materia but dropped it by the gate as I was fleeing. He smiles at me and puts my stomach in knots and tell me that everything will be fine if I stay close by. Tifa and Aeris pick me up by my arms and carry me through the gate, the guard give me a warning glair and I quickly nod in agreement. They then drag me to the local bar and deposit me not to gently on a stool, both sit facing me and start their interrogation:

Tifa:What going on with you and cloud?

Yuffie:What?

Aeris:Are you trying to make him like you?

Yuffie:What are you on about?

Tifa:Cloud is too old for you, you'll end up getting hurt

This is so the bid sister routine, trying to keep me safe from older men but she's only saying this because she wants Cloud, I have nothing to fear from Cloud anyway, Cloud hasn't raised a finger to me since he hit me with the butt of his sword. If anything he has been protective, almost possessively but he like that to everyone he considers his friends

Aeris:Why does he let you hug him? Me and Tifa can't get close enough without him flinching and pulling away.

Yuffie:I don't know, perhaps he knows you two want a romantic relationship with him and doesn't want that, he knows I don't want that.

Aeris:So you see him as a big brother?

Yuffie:No, I see him as the pillar of strength this team relies on and unlike you two, all I want is his kindness and acceptance.

With that said, I storm off leaving Tifa and Aeris with a shocked expression on their faces. That will teach them of accusing me of liking Cloud, which my be true but I'm not going to act upon it. I'm not some cheep tart that sleeps with someone just because their brave, handsome, strong, has saved my life and is nice to me!

We have been here for I don't know how many hours, we can leave any time we like but Cloud insists on going through everything that has happened so far and I am so bored! Most of the thing he is ranting on about I already know and he made me apologise to the shop keeper that I stole from!

We are in this blasted buggy again and so I feel like crap, again! Cloud tells us that we are approaching the ruins if Nibelheim, Cloud and Tifas home town that was burned down five years ago when Sephiroth went crazy.

We pulled up to the entrance of Nibelheim and got out of the buggy, much to my relief, and stared at this town that was supposed to be in ruins. Tifa and Cloud are in shock at what they are looking at. The town appears to exactly as they described it before it was burned down. Something is not right here, I can see people and children going about their business but it fells… I don't know like their actors, playing out their roles, waiting for the director to say cut.

I come back to reality as someone in a black clock walks past me, he keeps muttering Sephiroths name. Cloud walks up to the person grabs their arm and moves the sleve up. He finds a number tatoo and Cloud remenbers the style being the same one that a Scientist Called Hojo gave red when he was experementing in him. To me this hole place has some conection to Shinra and I don't mean the reacter on Mount Nibelheim. This hole place is a stage waiting its final actors, whoever they are. I gently place my hands on clouds left arm, but I wasent doing this for my suport, I was doing this to show my surport to Cloud, that I belive that Nibelheim was burnt down. Whit this Cloud calmed down a little and it occourd to me that cloud needs as much surport as as we can give him. He tries to act strong for the group but inside he must be terribley lost and alone.

If I keep this up cloud might start to like me!

NUCK! NUCK! NUCK! NUCK! NUCK! NUCK! NUCK! NUCK! NUCK! NUCK!