Hey everyone, hope you enjoyed the last chapter. They are being written fairly quickly now so expect the story to be finished within the next month (easily xD) as most. Enjoy chapter eleven!

-Chapter Eleven-

Dual Fusion

The arrival of Reeve was welcome to both Red and Tifa. It had come completely out of the blue, and the two of them were both curious as to how he had managed to track them both down, or if it was pure coincidence that he had turned up here.

Reeve took them back to the hotel that his host was staying in. His host was obviously very wealthy, because he could afford the best suite in the hotel. It was luxury, with its own kitchen complete with bar, a grand piano, a queen size bed and a huge television. It also had a balcony which overlooked the entire city.

Reeve went and sat in one of the comfortable looking arm chairs and looked over at them both. "Well, this is a messy situation we have all gotten ourselves into, wouldn't you say?"

He beckoned for them to take a seat. Tifa was the first to reply. "Do you have any idea why this is happening to us Reeve?"

Reeve walked over to the bar and poured himself a glass of whisky. He did not return to sit down. "I can't say why this has happened, all I can do is my best to make sense of what we do now."

He took a sip of his drink and offered Tifa one, who refused. "So what do we do now?"

Before he could answer there was a knock at the door. Reeve set down his glass, went over and looked through the peep hole in the door, then opened it. None other than Yuffie came bounding on through.

"Yay! The whole gang is slowly getting back together, we can all be happy again!" She was beaming as she bounced into the room, doing an unnecessary backflip onto the sofa next to Tifa. "Hello again you!" She hugged her.

Reeve walked back over and resumed his seat in the armchair. "Like I was saying, the only way for us to make the best of this is with knowledge and…"

"And materia!" Boomed Yuffie, cutting him off. Reeve, Tifa and Red all rolled their eyes at the same time. "Speaking of which…" She pressed a point on her forearm and made a red orb surface on it, "…here you go, as promised." She threw it to Red who caught it in his mouth.

"Do you know what it is yet?" He asked her, putting it on himself.

"Yes!" Yuffie replied, much to Red's disbelief. "It's Alexander, knew it had to be something good, wouldn't have been rubbish the amount of effort we put into stealing it."

Red looked at her curiously, there was something in the way she explained this that he didn't like. Tentatively, he asked. "How did you find out what it was?"

Yuffie looked a little shifty at this question, and seemed to try and avert her gaze from him. "Well…you know you said that the only way we can find out what it is would be to summon it?"

"Oh god…" Red said, looking downright alarmed. "Don't tell me you…"

"I did it in a very remote location!" Yuffie stated, trying to defend herself. "Trust me, nobody saw it, nobody has a clue it exists, everything is sunshine and rainbows." She smiled her annoying cocky smile.

"So…" Began Reeve, looking at each of them in turn, "…I take it that means you three were responsible for the break-in at the Tower of London?"

They all looked at him with somewhat proud looks on their faces. "Well yes we were." Yuffie answered, giggling.

Reeve took another sip of his drink. "Well like I was saying, we need knowledge, and though I hate to admit it, Yuffie is right. We need materia as well. As I'm sure you all have noticed, it is scattered throughout this world in seemingly random locations."

"I don't think it is random." Voiced Tifa. "Well, at least not the powerful materia. It seems too convenient for materia that powerful to end up in a secure hard to reach location."

Reeve considered this. "You may be right. We should start checking similar areas, banks perhaps, high security vaults." He gazed off into the distance as if deep in thought.

"You said you had information for us Reeve?" Red questioned.

"Indeed." He replied simply, "Much information, some of it not completely relevant yet still interesting." He looked at them all, and then asked. "What are your relationships like with your hosts?"

"Very on and off…" Tifa was the first to answer, "…could be a lot better."

"Barely know him, I keep wiping his memory." Red replied, looking neutral.

"I wouldn't advise doing that if I were you." Reeve replied, "I will explain why in a minute."

"Well my host and I get on like a house on fire." Yuffie exclaimed, she seemed very happy. "But then again we do both love shiny expensive things which we don't have to pay for."

"Right…" Reeve replied looking slightly unimpressed. "Well may I suggest that you all develop a good relationship with your hosts, it will help you out a lot I can assure you."

"How?" Tifa asked, feeling slightly guilty about wiping her memory.

"To start, you will be able to change forms almost at will. You won't be able to take control if the Host really doesn't want you to." He downed the rest of his whisky, and then turned his attention directly to Red. "Erasing their memory could give them and yourself permanent brain damage, which is something I am sure you want to avoid."

Red's face turned to an expression of pain. Tifa was in no doubt that his host was currently giving him a scolding.

"Have you ever erased my memory?" Alex asked Tifa, not sure if she even wanted to know the answer.

Tifa answered her, and Alex then went oddly silent. Reeve continued. "There are many benefits all of this however. We can benefit from one another, as I have found out from my host…" He looked at them all, "…Being the head of a very respectable company, my host has learnt French, German, Spanish and Italian. Since he knows them, so do I, something which has already come in very useful."

This was news to all of them. Until now they had thought sharing a body was simply convenience, no benefits. They were now hanging on his every word.

"Make sure all your hosts are listening because they will want to hear this one…" Reeve began, making them all curious, "…If both the Host and the 'Parasite', as we are, agree, they can pass the parasite on to another person."

"What!" Tifa, Yuffie and Red all shouted at the same time.

"How do you know that?" Yuffie asked, no longer in a very cheery mood.

"I have contact with another one of us, for reasons I can't explain yet I cannot say who, but they have already done so several times." He then offered Yuffie a drink, who accepted.

Taking a swig of the drink she then inquired, "But if we don't want to leave they can't make us leave, right?"

"Not to my knowledge." Reeve replied, looking very serious, "but none of us can be sure, new surprises are emerging every day."

They all went suddenly quiet. Reeve suspected that they were all having discussions with their hosts about this latest point.

Tifa decided to break the silence. "Anything else?"

"Oh there is much more yet," He began, a smile now creeping onto his face, "and some of these I'm sure will convince your hosts to let you stay." There was again a silence which ensured they were listening. "For example, both ourselves and the hosts age three times as slow as normal people."

Tifa chuckled. "And judging on the vanity of this planet that news will be welcomed with open arms."

"Indeed." Reeve agreed. "At our current rate of ageing, we could quite comfortable reach two hundred years of age. I am hopeful that we will have found a solution to this predicament before then."

They all laughed slightly nervously. They all agreed however that this news would be a powerful persuasion point for them to use against their hosts should ever they suggest passing them on to someone else.

"Something which I am sure all of you may have experienced at some point." Reeve started again, "Is that yourselves and your hosts both have shared fighting knowledge. Meaning…"

"I know what you mean Reeve." Tifa cut him off, thinking back to the first day that she was here, "I remember, my host was in a tournament and I helped her win."

"Exactly, but it doesn't just work one way. Tifa, you're host does fencing correct?" He asked her.

"Well yes, but how did you know…"

"You are mainly trained in hand to hand combat, but as your host has extensive sword knowledge, you will too." He cut her off.

Tifa looked impressed at this, she had always wanted to take up swordplay. "I can't believe we didn't know any of this, how are you finding all of this out?"

"Like I said, I have sources which I can't discuss. They have proved very useful however."

Reeve took a moment to let them absorb all of this new information that he had given them. They were undoubtedly discussing it all with their hosts. After a few short minutes he decided to continue.

"There are of course the obvious perks, such as we can both use materia. Nobody else in the world besides ourselves and our hosts can use materia." This news did not seem like anything new for Yuffie, it did however for Tifa.

"I've never thought about it. Then again I only have this one anyway." She produced the purple orb from her forearm.

"Which one is that?" Reeve asked curiously.

"Pre-emptive. Not my first choice in materia but still it's better than nothing." She replaced the orb in her arm and looked over at Reeve, waiting for him to continue.

"Right…" He began, regaining his trail of thought, "…perhaps the most obvious point: We thought share, and I don't mean just for communication, we have access to pretty much all of each other's current and previous thoughts."

This point did not come as a shock to anybody. "It gets rather annoying after a while." Red perked up, a scowl on his face.

"It got annoying very quickly, I don't think a while was necessary." Tifa joked, looking over at him.

"For us, and us alone…" Reeve cut in, "…we possess 'The Instinct', which is our way of sensing each other. I don't know if this was the same for you three but my instinct has only been a recent thing."

Yuffie, Tifa and Red all nodded. The first time that they had experienced the instinct was when Tifa and Red had sensed Yuffie was in London.

"Perhaps we should start putting this instinct to good use?" Tifa suggested, making the others look at her quizzically. "Well, if Sephiroth is in the same situation as us which he undoubtedly is, the sooner we find him and his host the better, surely?"

For the first time that evening, Reeve looked slightly uneasy. "There has been a recent sighting of Sephiroth."

Yuffie, who was taking a sip of her drink at the time, almost choked and spat a large quantity of her drink onto Red who was sitting in front of her. "Where and when?"

"Both irrelevant, he could be anywhere by now." He looked at them. "He seems to have found a way to shield himself from the instinct. I'm not sure whether he is doing this consciously or if it is just a subconscious ability he possesses due to his power…Either way, the only way we will ever find him is if he chooses to reveal himself…currently…"

"Currently?" Red asked.

"Our abilities seem to be forever expanding, there is the possibility that with time our instinct will be so well tuned it can find him." He looked very doubtful at this.

"How come he hasn't sensed us? He would have come after us the second he knew who we were." Tifa speculated, Reeve seemed to have an answer planned for this.

"I see two possibilities." He began, going over to get another drink, "Either blocking us has meant turning off his own instinct, or he does not feel he is powerful enough to take us on."

"Or…" Red cut in, "…he has not found us yet."

"Wishful thinking much Red?" Yuffie joked. It was true that this explanation was too good to hope for.

"Believe it or not, I don't think Sephiroth is our main concern at the moment." Reeve began, this seemed to startle them all. "Well, sources tell me that the President is here too."

Yuffie looked a little confused. Tifa and Red however already knew this.

"He knows where we are already." Tifa began explaining to Reeve, who did not seem to be at all surprised by this.

"Knowing Rufus and his resourcefulness, it wouldn't shock me if he knew where every single one of us were, this is why he is currently our greatest threat." Reeve stated.

"Or we could use it to our advantage?" Red asked, "Couldn't we find out through him where the rest of our allies are?"

"He would not tell us willingly, he wants us to be divided." Tifa answered, "Even with his resourcefulness I doubt he knows a great deal more than us. Like Reeve said, things are constantly changing."

"Do we even know where Rufus is?" Yuffie asked Reeve.

"No." He replied, looking solemn, "And knowing him he isn't likely to stay in one place for too long."

There was a long silence after this. Tifa, Red and Yuffie were all very surprised and just how much knowledge Reeve seemed to have gained. Whatever his sources were they were good, it was just a shame that he would not share who or what they were.

"Anything else you can tell us Reeve?" Tifa inquired.

"That is everything I know of value at the moment." He replied, "Anything I haven't mentioned that you guys know?"

Tifa and Red both shook their heads, Yuffie however spoke up. "Well I don't really know if this is anything useful, but I have this weird ability to camouflage myself." She demonstrated by blending in almost perfectly with the sofa which she was sitting on.

Reeve looked intrigued and impressed. "How do you do that?"

"I don't know, but I have been able to do it ever since I got here." She resumed her usual colour and texture. "It's pretty nifty though right?"

He chuckled. "It is, and for some reason I doubt any of us would be able to do it no matter how hard we tried… A unique ability…interesting…"

Reeve fell silent, and Tifa was under the distinct impression that he was talking this through with his host. Perhaps he was right, having a decent relationship with your host would make things easier.

"Can your host do that too?" Reeve asked, obviously wanting to know as much as possible.

"Yep." Yuffie beamed at him, "And it has come in handy sometimes I can tell you!"

"So that is something else which we share with our hosts. Anything else that I don't know? The more knowledge we can pool together the better." He looked at her expectantly, however much to his disappointment she shook her head. "No matter. I think that is enough for us to be getting on with tonight."

They all got up to leave, Reeve stopped them however.

"What is it Reeve?" Tifa asked.

"The recent sighting of Sephiroth was in this area…" They all stood still, shocked, "I would advise you stay here at the hotel. I can pay for three rooms for you."

"Appreciated Reeve." Red replied.

"You will need to let your host take over unless you want to sleep on the floor as a dog."

AN- Much to come, there still is (woop woop yoda speak, nothing to do with ff but still...). Please review, let us know what we are doing right and wrong! Next chapter soon!

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