Puff the Fishxx: Three down. 14 to go? I forget how many chapters.

Disclaimer: Usual stuff. I don't own Final Fantasy.

'Hey,

It's Cloud6 again. I'm not sure what I'm doing on the computer at four in the morning, but I suppose…it doesn't matter too much.'

Tifa had logged onto Cloud's computer account once again (she had closed up the shop, and put the two children to bed before rushing up to the computer.) It was driving her crazy to not know what he thought about certain things about her, or any of their other friends. Such things as: Did she really yell too much? Was she mean? Was she intimidating? Was he ever jealous? Did he get mad at her? Did he worry about her sometimes? These things and more rattled through her brain as she scanned through this second entry frantically to see if it would answer anything.

'I think I was worried this morning.'

"Okay, so he was worried. About what?" Tifa thought to herself.

'Tifa was a bit more ticked off at me than normal.'

"I was having a bad day…" Tifa thinks, looking down at her hands. She remembered that day; she had taken her anger out on Cloud and it made her feel a bit guilty knowing that he had noticed and that it had worried him.

'Yuffie said it was nothing, and even though I don't trust Yuffie's instincts so much I'll leave it at that. There's a bigger problem. Vincent says that there has been some strange movement by Rufus and Reno. He says they've been acting funny, and I've noticed it too. They keep asking me questions, personal questions. Then they ask Vincent questions about me, and no doubt they've been asking Cid, Yuffie, and Tifa.

It's been stuff like: "What do you do in your spare time?" or "How much money you make a year?" or "What's your favorite color?" It's weird. I told them to bug off but they're persistant.'

Tifa's eyes widened, and she bit her lip. "I told Reno to see if he could help me get Cloud a girlfriend…I didn't know he'd butt into Cloud's personal life…" she mutters, blushing. "I was just joking when I asked anyway…"

'I'll probably ask Tifa if they've been asking her odd questions. I don't want them bothering her, she seems like she's stressed enough already without them bugging her about me. She does that on her own time anyway; bugging me about stuff. Gets a little annoying, but everyone gets annoying sometimes anyway, even I get annoying which isn't very surprising if you know me.'

"I'm annoying?!" Tifa thinks to herself, her mouth dropping. "How am I annoying?!" she asks herself, her cheeks glowing red with anger.

The last sentence of the entry was: 'Oh well. Least when Reno asks her out she can bug him instead.'

"WHAT?!" Tifa screams, standing up. Her fists clench tightly. "What does he mean 'Reno asks her out'?!" she says loudly. "Since when did Reno take an interest in ME?!"

"Tifa?" A small voice calls down the hall.

"Marlene." Tifa whispers, nearly tripping over herself to log off the computer and shut it down.

The computer's screen had just gone black as little Marlene shuffled around the corner. "Tifa? Why are you yelling, Tifa?" She says softly, yawning quietly.

"It's nothing, Marlene, I was…it was just nothing." She smiles down at the young child.

Marlene cocks her head and looks at Tifa to see if she were lying or not. Yawning she finally decides that Tifa was fine and that she could go back to bed. So, she shuffled off in her little white night gown, back to her bed, leaving Tifa standing there alone.

"Phew…" Tifa sighs, as her adrenaline rush dies down. "That was close…" She walks quietly and swiftly out the door to her room, to her relief.

It was only eleven thirty, and so Tifa decided that she had enough time to write in her diary. She pulls it out from beneath the books and looks at it. She opens it with a soft sigh and sits on her bed with her back towards the door, picking up her pen.

"Dear diary…" she says out loud, before going silent and writing down several thoughts about Marlene, Denzel, a rude customer, Reno, and Cloud. "…Reno likes me, I'm pretty sure he does, but I don't think he's a good family guy. See, when I date I like to look at the guy as maybe a future husband, not a few month thing. Reno's just a little bit too immature for that…" Tifa mutters, as she writes in her diary. She had a habit of saying aloud what she was writing.

"Really?" someone says at the doorway.

Tifa yelps, and jerks around to see who had intruded on her sacred privacy, and gulps to see Cloud standing there. She blushes hard, but otherwise seemed unphased. "Uh…hi." She says as determindly as she could manage. How long had he been standing there? Probably long enough to hear the beginning of her journal entry.

"So, you found out about Reno." Cloud says, walking in slowly. He stands there in front of her, leaning his back against the wall. "How'd you find out?"

"It was…obvious?" Tifa lies, looking up at him and smiling nervously.

"Not really." Cloud says, looking out the window.

"You knew, obviously." Tifa accuses, trying to change the subject.

"True, but I kept a good secret." Cloud says, looking back at her. "How'd you find out?"

"Yuffie." Tifa says, nodding her head quickly.

"Figures." Cloud rolls his eyes ever so slightly.

"Don't tell anyone, I don't want Yuffie in trouble." Tifa says quickly, trying to make sure she didn't get Yuffie in trouble with her lie.

"Okay." Cloud says, before walking out the door. "I'm going home." He calls back.

"If you call a broken down church a home!" Tifa calls after him, before sighing and laying back down on the bed. "I hope Yuffie doesn't get in trouble. Please, Cloud, don't hunt her down…" she mutters, as she hears the door downstairs open and close before hearing the motorbike rev up and drive off.

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