Disclaimer: Final Fantasy, characters and everything associated with the Final Fantasy world belong to Square Enix.

A/N: Sorry for the late post! Again, running into a slight writer's block, so updates may be sporadic. I am so glad to meet so many wonderful people from the CloTi discord server. They give me so much advice and encouragement to continue this. Story mostly inspired by kabrewski's wonderful headcanon. Dedicated to kabrewski, crazyEevee and kei for giving me great ideas.

Summary: In which Tifa and Cloud dance the night away.

Warnings: Please note that some of the stories will contain spoilers or reference to the original game, Advent Children, Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core and Remake.

Sorry if it's a little OOC and not up to expectations of the headcanon. I tried my best.

~Are you challenging me?~

As graceful as Tifa looked when she executed her quick Starshower punches or devastating Divekicks, truth be told, she was a horrible dancer and extremely uncoordinated.

She was even worse when she was drunk, especially after one too many shots of Green Midgar tequila.

Tifa could not do the simple Electric de Chocobo Slide without slipping into a full on split. When attempting to do the Moogle Shuffle, she would unwittingly bump into Cloud or stomp on his feet.

Several times.

Cloud didn't mind all the missteps though, simply because Tifa was having the time of her life. She was actually enjoying the thrum of techno beat music and the laser lights flashing all around.

It was a wild side Cloud had never seen from Tifa before, opposite of her typically shy attitude.

He liked how carefree she was as she spun in circles in her short blue skirt and waved her arms maniacally, trying to keep in sync to the music, dancing the night away.

Tifa tried to drag him into dancing with her, but he didn't show much interest aside from the occasional head bobbing and bending of his knees.

When she stumbled into him for the seventh time that night, Cloud immediately pulled her up close to his body to steady her, resting his right palm on her bare back while the other wrapped tightly around her right arm.

She gazed up at him with those lovely ruby orbs.

Cloud wanted to tilt his head in and capture those perfect pink lips.

This would have been a perfect opportunity, had Tifa not ruined the mood by cracking a silly grin and pulled away to focus back to what she was doing.

Several red "Miss" and "Too bad!" text popped up, one after the other. The sounds of a booing crowd echoed in the background of the song.

Cloud chuckled at her failed attempts and finally confessed to Tifa about her god awful dancing, "Look Teef, I can't lie to you. You are so bad at this. Maybe this dance game isn't right for you."

The words 'Gold Saucer Para-Dance Revolution' flashed on and off on the big screen in front of them, before switching to 'Insert 12 GP to continue...'

Tifa scrunched her nose at his comment and lightly poked him in the chest, "Well then why don't give this a try? I haven't seen you bust a groove yet."

Cloud rested his hands on her shoulders, "That's because I have to make sure you don't hurt yourself. You can barely stand."

Tifa casually booped Cloud on the nose, "I am perfectly fine, thank you very much."

The reddish glow on her face told him otherwise.

"Let's go try a different game we can both enjoy or maybe even go for a relaxing ride on the Ferris Wheel if you want." Cloud suggested.

He attempted to take a hold of Tifa's hand and drag her back to Gold Saucer's Wonder Square, but she pulled back to keep him from leaving.

"Oh come on Cloud. I'd love to see you dance!" Tifa paused for a moment and then smirked, "Are you scared that you can't beat my score?"

Cloud stared up at the relatively low score she ranked on the VR dance simulator screen. Surprisingly enough, she actually made it in the very bottom place.

He contemplated if he was up for the challenge or too buzzed to play.

"So Cloud, what will it be?"

Cloud glanced back and forth between Tifa and the game.

With the way Tifa practically begged him with those puckered lips, her index finger resting innocently underneath her chin, he couldn't back down now.

She cocked her head to the side, "Dance off?"

With an overconfident smile, Cloud inserted 12 GP into the slot machine that stood in the middle of the stage.

The entire room lit up around them, as colorful swirls of lights flew from all different directions. Eventually a triangle, circle, x and square came into view, with bright glowing rings contracting into the shapes to indicate when to initiate the dance move.

"Fine. Maybe I can teach you a thing or two."

Tifa beamed and clapped her hands together happily, "Ok, coach. Show me your best moves."

Cloud started off slow, trying to get into the groove of this new VR dance simulator.

When he finally got the gist of it, it was as easy as swinging his Buster Sword.

This dance simulator was barely even a week old since it made its debut at Gold Sauced and already, Cloud had racked the highest score on the leaderboard.

Tifa cheered Cloud on, fascinated by the number of colorful 'Perfect' and 'Great' he managed to accumulate. Her eyes watched his every move, so in sync to the beats, as if he had done this before.

The way he elegantly swayed his hips, moved his foot in sequence, arms outstretched and hair flipping gorgeously like he was in a boy band made Tifa slightly swoon.

He reeled her onto the stage somewhere in the middle of the second song, and guided her from behind, sliding his hand around her waist so that he could grind his hips along to her body movements.

She was finally getting the knack of it.

Cloud took a whiff of her perfume, placing a soft kiss on the curve of her neck, while he continued to grind her from behind. The song he picked this time was a club mix, very suited to the dance moves he was trying to teach Tifa.

Tifa leaned onto him, turning her head so that it allowed her to see the lewd expression on Cloud's face.

He took her by surprise by spinning her around and forced her into a salsa dip. Without hesitation Cloud tasted her Tifa's, smearing the pink lipstick she wore and taking her breath away.

Luckily, they were in a private VR room, where it was just the two of them on stage. They didn't have to worry about anyone throwing disgusted looks at their rather public display of affection.

When the song finally finished a minute later, they pulled apart.

Tifa was in a daze, trying to take in everything that just happened, "Wow, where did you learn to be so good at this?"

An eerily familiar show tune song began playing from the game's random selection of songs.

Memories of Wall Market and the ludicrous dance performance with Andrea at the Honey Bee Inn flashed through Cloud's mind.

A smile dangled at the corner of Cloud's lips, "It's a secret."

Tifa did not press him any further and slowly traced circles on his chest with her fingernails, "Care to show me more of those dance moves, coach?"

"Gladly."

Another 12 GP was inserted into the slot machine.

~owari