Okay, so here it finally is. This is the last chapter. Yay, I guess. Sorry it took so long, but there were midterms to be taken and family to see and I was terribly busy. So, yeah. I'm not exactly happy with the finished product, but enjoy it anyways. While I go to sleep...

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When Christmas morning finally arrived everyone was first woken up by Marlene running into the hall way screaming at the top of her lungs. She ran and banged on everyone's doors as she went, making her way to Denzel's room at the end of the hall. Of course, he was already awake. She smiled at him as he exited his room. Also yelling. Tifa was the first to come out of her room, followed closely by Yuffie, both were also yelling.

Yuffie grinned like an idiot and ran to Vincent's room, which was right next to her own. "Vinnie?" she asked as she entered.

Vincent looked up from where he was standing, in a pair of black boxers. "Yuffie?" he said raising an eyebrow at her. He repressed the urge to smirk at the blush creeping across her face.

"Erm... Sorry..." she muttered quietly. "Just wanted to make sure Marlene knocked hard enough..." she laughed nervously and shut the door.

When she shut the door behind her she leaned up against it and squealed slightly. Then she noticed Tifa standing in front of her, holding a sleepy Cloud upright. Tifa smiled at her knowingly and dragged her heart throb downstairs. Yuffie followed them, still blushing.

When everyone had gathered downstairs and was sitting with mugs of Tifa's famous hot chocolate Marlene and Denzel began pulling presents from under the tree and putting them in front of everyone in piles. Vincent was slightly surprised to find that almost everyone had gotten him a present.

Marlene went first, opening the present Denzel had given her. It was a pink teddy bear that played a lullaby when you squeezed its foot. She hugged him and giggled at it. After her and Denzel were finished everyone else began.

Cid was given the honor of going first and opened the bracelet Shera had gotten him. Everyone laughed at it, and laughed again when he opened a brand-new set of wrenches.

Yuffie and Vincent were left until last. And everyone decided that they should let Vincent go first. "You do know what alphabetical order is, dont'ya brat?" Cid asked when she complained. Vincent obligingly opened his presents, some mastered materia he knew Yuffie would steal, a set of special bullets for Cerberus, and a new cell phone—seeing as Yuffie had broken his— among other things. Then he picked up the last one, a small black box with a little red bow on top. He looked at Yuffie and she nodded with a small smile.

Vincent opened it almost hesitantly, and when he did he gasped. He looked at Yuffie with a look of extreme shock that only she could see. Then he flashed a brief smile. It was fleeting, but everyone saw it anyways. He pulled the ruby colored crystal from the box by the chain. Everyone gasped, even Shera and Tifa, who had already seen it. It caught the light from the blazing fire beautifully. And when it did everyone could see the flaw in the center. Vincent looked at it, and then looked at Yuffie again. And then he pulled his gun from the holster on his hip. He pulled off the Cerberus cross carefully and clipped on the new charm. And at that everyone turned to Yuffie.

"All right, Brat!" Cid said. "He better have gotten you something twice as good as that!"

Everyone knew he was kidding, but Yuffie still had to make her snippy, sarcastic remark. Always the last word. "Yeah, well..." and nothing came up. So she just did the childish thing and stuck her tongue out at him before grabbing presents and ripping them open. She got tons of materia, and some new weapons; a set of sebon, a few kunai. She even got a teddy bear from Cid, although he claimed he'd never seen it before.

When she got to her last present Yuffie noticed it was also in a jewelry box, black velveteen with a bright green and yellow ribbon stuck to the top. She opened in the same hesitant way Vincent had opened his. And when she opened it she squealed a bit and jumped onto Vincent, hugging him tightly. "Aaaaw, Vinnie! I love it!" she squealed again.

She had the box clutched tightly in her hand, and no one had gotten to see it yet. "Well, show us already!" Tifa yelled.

Yuffie obliged, pulling out a necklace on a simple silver chain. On the necklace was a ball of bright, calming green materia. It was really only a glass ball, but somehow the cloudiness had been captured in a way that made it seem real. Next to the little materia ball was a miniature conformer. And on the back was scrawled a message that only Tifa could read, as she was sitting the closest. Yuffie read it out loud for everyone, because she knew they would bug her about it if she didn't.

"To the thief of my heart." She read in a quiet, gentle tone that no one knew she possessed.

Everyone, and I mean everyone, turned to look at Vincent. And he blushed. Vincent Valentine, demon-carrier and gunslinger extraordinaire, blushed. It wasn't much, but everyone could see it. And just at that moment everyone realized that Yuffie was sitting in his lap, looking up at him with the gaze of adoring affection she usually held for when she thought he was asleep. Although, everyone else had seen it at least ten times.

Tifa figured now would be a good time to give their friends some privacy, so she shouted happily, "Okay, now how about I make waffles?" Everyone had run to the kitchen in an instant, Barret getting first choice of chairs. Tifa winked at Yuffie and left, leaving the younger girl blushing.

Vincent looked down at Yuffie, completely blank faced. Yuffie looked up at him and they had one of those strange, totally cliché, staring-into-each-other's-eyes moments. Yuffie opened her mouth to say something, then abandoned all conscious thought and jumped up to kiss Vincent softly on the lips. He looked at her shocked for a moment, then leaned down and kissed her back. This one lasted a little longer, and when they stopped Yuffie was blushing.

"Thank you." She muttered into his lips before they kissed deeply. Yuffie was suddenly shocked by the flash of a camera. She looked up abruptly to see Tifa running back to the kitchen. She growled and stood up part of the way. Then looked at Vincent and sat back down in his lap. She kissed him again softly and then turned in his lap so they were both facing the fire. Vincent kissed the top of her forehead and then set his chin atop it. Yuffie smiled contentedly and whispered quietly, "This is the best Christmas ever."

She felt Vincent sigh in agreement.