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Sorry for the wait my grand ma died and I've just have had a hard time writing so I'd like to dedicate the rest of this story to her. Thank to my fans, eitaro00, Mrs. Maxistrife.

Cloud arrived back to his home about an hour later, when he walked in the house he found Tifa sitting at the table drinking a glass of water while flipping through out her favorite magazine, Cloud didn't know why but she looked so sophisticated sitting like that. It took Tifa a few minutes to notice that he was looking at her; she blushed and ignored him just to see how long he would stare at her, another minute or so went by before she peered at him from the corner of her eye. It made her feel a little bit awkward that he was staring so hard so she decided to say something to him.

"Um… Cloud." Tifa paused for a minute to see if he was still staring. "Are you O.K?"

"Yeah." Cloud replied

"Well I'm ready whenever you are." Tifa gave Cloud a smile

"Let's get your stuff loaded on." Cloud said as he began to walk up to Tifa's room.

Tifa threw the magazine on the table and headed up stairs right behind him. Tifa didn't have too much luggage just one medium size bag, a small carrying bag and a small book bag that she had on her back. Cloud quickly loaded the luggage on fenir, Tifa notice that cloud hadn't had any of his own luggage on fenir this puzzled Tifa.

"Hey Teef I'll be right back, I'm going to make sure everything was locked up before we leave."

Tifa leaned on fenir with her head up to the sky; the cool light breeze blew her bangs out of her face. Cloud came out of the front door and shut it he walked up silently towards Tifa she had her eyes shut she was enjoying the air. Cloud placed a small kiss on Tifa's cheek. Her eyes shot open she was very surprised

"You ready Teef?" as he got on fenir.

"As ready as I'll ever be." Tifa replied as she jumped on fenir behind Cloud.

"I would hold on if I were you."

Tifa wrapped her arms around Cloud waist and with that he took off making fenir do a wheelie and licking up dust behind him. Tifa grabbed on tighter to his shirt making him smirk as to say I told you so. To Tifa everything around her seemed to be a big blurs everything except for Cloud and her, but she couldn't really enjoy the scenery, but every once in a while cloud would slow down. The scenery that she could now see was so beautiful fields and fields of blue, yellow, purple and red tulips under a clear light blue sky.

"You don't have to slow down if you don't want to." Tifa said in Clouds ear.

"Well the truth is I always slow down and enjoy the sights, it kind of calms me down.

Tifa nodded and just laid her head on his back and held on to him tight. They rode for about an hour Cloud had looked over his shoulder to ask Tifa if she was hungry when he saw her she was asleep; her long hair was blowing back and forth from in her face. Cloud smiled at her and kept on driving. Another hour went by Tifa felt fenir slow down and come to a stop; she slowly opened her eyes to see Cloud getting off fenir.

"Cloud what's wrong?" Tifa asked concerned about the reason they had come to a stop.

"Shhhhhhh…" Cloud whispered slowly as he pointed in front of them.

Tifa looked and her eyes went wide there was a heard of chocoboo grazing. Tifa had never seen one in real life just read about them in books. Cloud grabbed something out of a compartment on fenir and made a weird sound. Soon after a young chocoboo ran to Cloud and started to eat what he had had in his hand.

"Go on touch her Teef."

"Are you sure it's O.K?"

"Its O.K. trust me."

Tifa slowly stretched her hand out and petted her on the head.

"See she won't bite."

"What's her name?"

"Her name is Aya, a while ago her mother was killed and I raised her and ever since then she come to me when I call."

"Well that's a nice story Cloud." Tifa said while still petting Aya.

A couple minutes later Aya had finished eating out of Cloud's hand, she let out a loud squawk as if to say thank you and ran back to the ran back to the rest of the heard. Cloud waved as she left.

"Well… we're almost there so let's head off."

Tifa nodded as she got on the back of fenir and then watched Cloud, she wrapped her arms around his waist again and then they were off. 15 to 20 minutes pasted before they came to a small but very busy town, the houses were well built and the streets looked like they had brand new asphalt put down, as Cloud drove by almost all of the town's people waved to him.

"You hungry Teef?" Cloud asked

"Yeah I am."

"I'll take you to one of my favorite spots." Cloud added as he gave Tifa a gentle smile.

Cloud stopped in front of a small establishment called Sweet Cherries the sign was all white and the writing was in red the rest of the building was made out of brick there were small bushes in front of a big glass window. Cloud got off of fenir and offered Tifa his hand to help her off, Tifa gladly accepted his offer any chance he would give her to touch him she would take. Cloud helped Tifa off and they then went into the restaurant. The restaurant had a warm feeling to it just like Blue Heaven did. Cloud walked up to the hostess she looked like she was about 15 yrs old with freckles across her face and short dark brown hair she blushed at the sight of Cloud, but she gave Tifa somewhat of a evil glare.

"Could you tell Mrs. Cherry I'm here?" The girl nodded and headed to the back.

"Who's Mrs. Cherry?" Tifa asked as she tried to fix her hair a little.

"Well she's my god mother, she owns the place even though she doesn't need the money I guess it's just something to do since my mother died."

"I'm sorry about your mother."

"Don' be sorry Teef" Cloud moved closer to her face "and you look beautiful so don't try to change anything." Tifa blushed and removed her hands from her hair.

"Well…if it isn't my god son." A sweet voice came from across the restaurant.

The voice came from a lady with cherry red hair that was held into a bun by pencils her eyes were a light brown color and her skin was a fair tone she looked like she was in her late 30's early 40's. She was about 5 4 in height and a medium build; she wore a white dress shirt with long black pants and black tennis shoes.

"How you been boy?" she asked Cloud as she gave him a hug.

"Fine Mrs. Cherry."

"And who might this be?" Mrs. Cherry asked as she directed her attention towards Tifa.

"That's my girlfriend." Cloud answered

WHAT! SINCE WHEN? Tifa yelled in her mind but quickly recovered.

"I'm Tifa Lockhart." Tifa bowed in front of Mrs. Cherry. "It's nice to meet you Mrs. Cherry."

"There's no need for the formalities honey and both of you stop calling me Mrs. It's just Cherry."

Both Cloud and Tifa nodded.

"Well let me get you two seated." She said as started walking when she got next to cloud she elbowed him in the stomach.

"She's a cute one."

Tifa just blushed and followed behind them. Cherry sat them at a wooden table that had two chairs sitting across from each other. Tifa sat in the chair to Cherry's left and Cloud sat on the one to Cherry's right.

"You two know what you want yet?"

"You know the regular."

"So you want a sprite large fry a cheese burger well done two pieces of bacon ketchup and a pickle on the side right?" Cloud nodded "and you Mrs. Lockhart?"

"The same please."

"Alright be back in a second with yawls drink."

And with that she was back before Tifa could say anything to Cloud.

"Here ya go." She sat the drinks down one in front of Tifa and one in front of Cloud. "Your food should be done in about ten fifteen minutes." Cherry said as she headed into the back.

Tifa looked at Cloud for about 5 seconds before Cloud noticed. If looks could kill Cloud would be a dead man.

"Teef what's wrong?" Cloud asked not really wanting to know the answer.

"Since when did I become your girlfriend?" she asked as she took a sip of her soda.

"Since the bathroom." They both turned slightly red thinking about it.

"Yeah Mr. Spider Searcher, but you still didn't properly ask me to be you girl." Tifa turned her head to show how stubborn she was going to be about this subject.

Then Cloud stood up and walked toward her. She turned in her seat so she was facing him.

"Well Mrs. Lockhart." Cloud took his hand in hers as their eyes locked. "Will you be my girl friend?"

"You already know the answer now sit down your embarrassing."

"Now that's not the answer I was looking for."

"Fine Cloud…yes I will be your girlfriend now sit."

And with no arguing he went and sat back down in his seat. When Tifa turned back around to face Cloud he was holding a silver charm bracelet each charm on the bracelet was in the shape of a wolf.

"I was going to give this to you later but since you're my officially my girl I thought now would be the better of times."

"Wow Cloud… I can't accept this though."

"Yes…you can Tifa." Cloud put the bracelet on her wrist. "I won't take no for an answer."

Tifa just gave him a smile and admired the bracelet some more

Tifa decided to change the subject "So is this your home town?"

"Yes it is I thought it would be nice if we came to visit so here we are."

"So where is your home?"

"Good question but that's part of the surprise."

Tifa rested her head on her hand and thought about living in a place like this. Minutes later Cherry brought the food to the table.

"Here ya go kids." Cherry said as she put the food in front of them. "Alright now dig in and let me know if I can get anything for you."

The new couple ate their food and shared small talk and laughs mainly about the whole bathroom thing. When Cloud was done eating he noticed that Cherry was leaving the restaurant.

"Let me say bye to Cherry O.K."

"Alright I'll be outside in a minute."

"Cloud ran outside after her "Hey Cherry wait up I wanted to say bye before you left."

"You really like her don't you."

"Yeah I do I've never met anyone like her."

"I can tell your mother would be proud Cloud."

"And are you proud?"

"Of course boy…of course it's that's you've grown up so fast."

Soon as Cherry finished Tifa tripped through the front door into Cloud's arms.

"You O.K. Teef?"

Their eyes locked on to each other's and they couldn't break away or they just didn't want to, Cloud's face moved closer to Tifa's. Her hands where on his back and his hands where around her waist. Then Cloud felt a sudden bump to the back of his head and the next thing he knew his lips where pressed against her soft pink ones and this would be the first time they kissed in public and as a new couple.

"There you go Cloudie boy." Cherry screamed and with that the kiss was over, Cloud turned around and winked at cherry she just waved and went on about her way.

"You ready to go Teef?"

Tifa still had her head down and her face was as red as Cherry's hair. "Um…yeah."

Cloud helped her on fenir then got on his self then drove about ten minutes out of town and they arrived at a 10 foot tall gate in the middle of the gate was a wolf with its mouth open and an S in the middle of the wolfs mouth Cloud dialed some numbers into a key pad and then the two large gates opened.

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