"Oh,
Denzel, you're back!"
The martial artist beamed at him, brown
eyes cheery but tired. She'd been looking a little under the weather,
actually, for about a month. It was odd.
"Yeah, thanks for
noticing, Teef." He joked, grinning at her.
You'd
think he was a normal person, Yuffie
thought, rather vindictively, and continued to listen to Cloud's
reading.
Tifa noticed the other two just then. "Oh,
Yuffie! You're here! But... I didn't see you come into the bar..."
She frowned, puzzled.
"I, heh, used a window. I ended up in
some dorky room filled with video game stuff and messy clothes and
stuff. " Yuffie said, rather offhandedly.
Denzel bristled.
"Actually, that's my room."
"Oh. Whoops. Well,
guess I'll return this then." Yuffie grinned slyly, tossing him
a wad of cash. He gaped in disbelief.
"I had this in a safe.
This is my life savings!"
"Really? Gee, it's not much. I
get more allowance in a month."
"Yeah, well, you're a
princess." Denzel muttered, stuffing the money in his pocket
rather bitterly.
"I guess. Still though... nerdy room much?"
She taunted, grinning. This visit was gonna be more fun than she'd
thought. She now had three months to put the jerk in his
place.
"Yeah, and what's your room like? Chock-full of
materia you hoarde like some kind of mentally retarded dragon?"
Denzel shot back, raising a mocking eyebrow. She frowned, eyes
narrowing.
"Better that than a bunch of computer games. At
least I can actually
fight people with the
stuff in my room."
"Really. Well, whatever makes you
feel like you're actually useful, I guess."
"Oh, that's
rich, nerd-boy. Like clicking away on a control system is useful! I
need actual skill to pull that stuff off-"
"Which
explains why you always need other people to save your ass."
Cloud and Tifa exchanged bewildered looks, eyebrows raised.
"Guys..."
She winced.
"Jerk!"
"Ho."
"WHAT?!"
"You
heard me."
"OH YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOO DID NOT
JUST-"
"Guys."
"Oh, yeah, I did, princess.
What, too much for your single brain cell to take-"
"Guys!"
"YOU
LITTLE-"
"GUYS!" Tifa yelled, stunning everyone
into silence. "Honestly! Marlene is more mature than you two!
Denzel, go to your room. I want it clean in an hour. Yuffie... you
can read with Cloud, I guess."
"Sorry Tifa." Yuffie
mumbled, pulling on an appropriately remorseful expression.
"It's
fine, Yuffie." Tifa left, sighing heavily.
Yuffie grinned at
Denzel again, eyes teasing.
Grumbling, he gave her the finger and
left.
