Song in this is by Toby Mac, I gotta go. Sorry for updating late! Longest Chapter in my opinion. This WHOLE thing is dedicated to Splodge82 (I'm still doing a seperate story for your early B-Day present, but this is early since we were talking about it!) -inside joke- READ ON~

It has been a full week since that whacked up attack from that thing. A full week to clear up everyone's mind, to figure out things to let them settle, and to be even more confused. I still couldn't find my headband, sadly, but swore on my Mum's grave that I would find it for her.

We figured that we would hold off trying to figure out why the monster was targeting me, saying that it would take too long and get in the way of other important matters- like the important matter going on right now.

Marlene 's Birthday!

Barrett was out with her to distract her from the bar so that the rest of AVALANCHE could prepare everything.

"TEEF WHERE'S THE BANNERS!?" I screamed and immediately started coughing because of all the dust in the stupid attic. Seriously, when you tell someone that there's banners in the attic, there better damn well be banners! What happens? There's no banners! "TEEF!".

"THEY'RE IN THERE, LOOK HARDER!" Teef's voice screamed out and I rubbed my nose in annoyance. Could someone like me look harder? I mean I actually moved everything around in the attic and there is still no sign of those stupid banners!

"I DID!" I screamed poking my head out of the attic door to gasp for clean air, though blood started going down to my head.

"DID YOU CHECK THE BASEMENT!?" Teef screamed her voice becoming more distant.

"DOING THAT!" I yelled back as I flipped out of the stupid dust trap, landing a bit bumpy on the ground below but quickly regained my balance and ran down the flight of stairs, turning to the hidden door on the side, yanking hard before the door budged open and dust blew out in my face.

"F***ING ASS!" I coughed, waving a hand in front of me to rid of the evil dust. I stepped through the threshold and squinted my eyes against the harsh darkness. "where are you f***ing piece of paper..". I glided through the room, searching fiercely for the banner, finding nothing but more dust pilled on top of dust.

Then the door closed on me.

"HEY! OPEN UP!" I screamed running blindly to the door but tripping over a stray chair and landed on my face, getting dust in my mouth. "OPEN THE DOOR ASSHOLE!" the door remained closed though and I thought numbly that the room might be patted down and silenced to the outer world. DAMN F***ERS! "HEY!!".

I huffed in annoyance and felt my way through the darkness for the doors handle. It took awhile but I finally found the latch and pulled.

It didn't move.

"F*** YOU! OPEN!" I screamed tugging on the handle, turning it every way but it still didn't open. "CHOCOBO ASS! BOOBS! OLD GEEZER! VALENTINE!". I tried everything to hear anything outside of the room, but it seemed silent. Are you kidding me? Are their padding's outside too?

Tears stung my eyes. Then the most brilliant thing rang through my ears.

Nothing's wrong… the hearts looked fine, they came from the child's room so she had to have liked them… No I haven't!

Of course I can hear Chaos when nothing else can be heard, but if I can hear him he can hear me.. Right?

"VINNIE!" I screamed at the top of my lunges and banged on the door with all my might, "VINNIE!".

Hear that… well I did! Your damn human is screaming… directly below you.

My head snapped up. Vinnie must be going down the stairs if he was directly below me!

"VINNIE! HURRY UP!" I screamed again, stomping my foot down.

Basement and she doesn't sound too happy

I panted for some decent air but all I got is more dust in my mouth, choking on it a bit. I banged on the door once more before sitting down in front of it, waiting for Vinnie to come.

That was another thing that hasn't been dealt with. Vinnie still hasn't wanted to talk about his feelings yet, and I sure as hell didn't want to bring them up 'cause I wasn't sure on my feelings for him. Did I love him? I don't know!

Just open the damn door!

I stared at the door, praying that they had the right door so I can get out of this dirty room. I started shifting my weight back and forth in anticipation, leaning forward when the door started making funny noises, some dust falling into my face again but I stared at it, ready to pounce out of here.

"Yuffie?" Vinnie's voice sounded through the door as it creaked open and light blared in.

"VINNIE!" I screamed in relief and glomped him hard, making him stumble back into the wall behind him, "thanks, Vinnie, thought I was going to die in the dust hell!". I sniffed a bit before looking up and grinned, "I think I swallowed an ounce of dust..".

"Are you doing well?" Vinnie asked patting my back as he twitched uncomfortably in my hold.

What? Getting to personal, or just the bodies so close together you want to take her right now?..

"NO!" I snorted as I frowned, "I can't find the stupid banner that almost killed me!".

"I'm sorry to hear" Vinnie mumbled.

"Teef's not, she made me go down in that forsaken place" I sneered in the direction of the kitchen but soon lightened up and released my death hold on Vinnie, "thanks, Vinnie, owe yeah big!". I ran to the kitchen and saw Teef cleaning glasses, very slowly I might add. "yeah, take your sweet little time while I was dying in your F***ing attic getting smoldered by dust!".

"Language, Yuffie, and I made a mistake okay? I forgot I threw away the banner last year because it ripped" Teef staked putting the mug in her hand down and waved the towel in her hand threatingly, "you might want to clean your face, it has smeared dirt all over it".

I gritted my teeth and grabbed for a empty beer bottle.

~Five minutes later~

"I swear, she doesn't give a rat's ass about me! She didn't even care that I almost died!" I complained as I sat cross legged on the toilet seat, arms crossed, face in a scowl as Vinnie was kneeled down in front of me, dabbing my face with a clean wash clothe to rid of the dust so he could treat the cut that was on my cheek, "I mean come on, why'd she have to go all martial arts on me- hey OW!".

I winced when the clothe came in contact with the cut.

"You know Tifa honestly didn't hear you, plus it was you who was swinging the bottle in the air and managed to hit yourself with it, Tifa didn't even come in a ten feet radios of you" Chocobo's head voice came in as his head popped into view by the doorway, "sorry about this one, Vincent" before either of us could ask what the hell he was talking about a camera flashed and Chocobo head disappeared.

"He doesn't even care!" I cried as Vinnie's hand resumed their work on my face.

Vinnie let out a sigh and shook his head as his other hand grabbed for the rubbing alcohol.

"NOOO! Please not that stuff, it burns!" I wailed grabbing his shiny hand before it could reach for the white container, I gripped it tighter when Vinnie sighed, "please Vinnie".

"It might be infected.." Vinnie muttered as he suddenly leaned forward enough where his face was mere inches from mine, his breath making me dizzy and loosen my grip on his hand. I could actually see his lips in an odd angle because of the closeness, so when it twitched up a fraction and I saw out of the corner of my eye that his shiny hand had snatched the alcohol.

"NO FAIR! YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE!" I whined jutting out my lip and pouted at him.

"I apologize" Vinnie mumbled leaning back into his original position and dabbed the cut a bit with the clothe before he poured some alcohol on it.

"Crap" I muttered my eyes glued to the alcoholic clothe then to the open door, escape. My fingers twitched in anticipation and I glanced at Vinnie.

Mistake.

He was staring at me, giving me the 'Don't you dare' look with his expressive wine eyes.

I jumped and made my move and it was a blur of white, black and red. I had almost made it to the door when Vinnie appeared in front of me and slammed the door shut.

"Sit" he ordered, clothe still in hand.

"No fair.." I muttered turning on my heel and sat back down on the toilet seat and positioned myself in my original position, watching in fear when Vinnie walked back to me and his clothed hand edged closer to my cheek. I clenched my eyes closed, waiting for the stinging to begin.

Vinnie sighed again and I felt his cold shiny hand gently grasp my chin, then the clothe was on my cheek.

"Owy" I groaned as the stinging came to the cheek, I turned my head a bit, as much as it could in Vinnie's grasp. The sting staid when Vinnie retreated his hands away from my face and got more, "no more!".

Vinnie stopped and let his hand fall.

"Thank you, Lavithian" I sighed slumping my shoulders forward only to have my forehead brush against Vinnie's chin. I didn't mind in particular 'cause it's normal, but I was worried that Vinnie might totally overreact and freak. "sorry, Vinnie".

"No harm was done" Vinnie mumbled.

Harm, No, hormones, Yes..

My face heated up and I hit my head against Vinnie's collar bone to rid of the thoughts going through my head.

Bad Yuffie. Nasty Chaos.

"Still sting?" Vinnie asked patting my head with his shiny hand.

"Yeah" I lied with a sigh, "but because of my awesomeness I figured out a fantastic plan!" I bubbled up immediately and jumped up, pulling Vinnie up to his normal height while I was at it, "we're gonna home make a banner for Mar'! And you're gonna help me!" without further ado, and before Vinnie could protest if he was, I dragged Vinnie by the hand and lead him to my room.

It was kinda a mess but there was enough room on my bed to make a banner.

"Stay" I ordered Vinnie once I sat him down on the bed and ran to my closet, producing a long and very big piece of paper- okay my bed wasn't long enough at all for it but we can move it around! "Here we go, and I'll go get some paint!" I laid the folded up paper in Vinnie's lap and ran into the bathroom where I hid all the paints from Marlene and Denzel.

"Ready to go wild, Vinnie?" I giggled with the container of paints in my arms, "remember, it needs to at least say happy Birthday somewhere!". I sat down next to him, arms brushing making me self-conscious, and laid the paints out on the nightstand and quickly pulled the piece of furniture so it was in front of both of us. "Ready?".

Vinnie nodded slowly as he unfolded the paper and laid it across our laps.

How sweet, 'Vinnie's' playing with her… shut it, host!

I turned on the radio as I was going for the paint brushes, and smirked at the song coming on, then passed a paint brush to Vinnie while I stuck mine into a cup of water and put it into the green, wiggling it around to get enough color before I started doodling on the paper, drawing circles and smiley faces.

"Ah, yeah haven't had a chance to listen to it yet" I sang along with the singer, even though he's a guy and I'm a girl, but I thought this song was hilarious, "Yo, could you hold on dude, my wife is beeping in"

Vinnie gave a grunt to my choice of music but none the less put his brush into the water and dipped it in the color red, of course. I rolled my eyes as I continued singing.

"Baby I know I'm supposed to be home at six but I'm just finishing this mix, they're burning me a disk, I got some dude named cupid on the other line, love you" I giggled at the next part as I finished drawling a green heart with a odd looking cat trying to eat it, "Baby?".

"Yo, T, uh it's still me, man" I giggled again and washed off the green from the brush and dipped it in purple, going back to the paper, "Oh… I gotta go I'm bout to do a show.." I decided to hum the rest, finding it lacking to try to sing and paint at the same time. I glanced at Vinnie who was swiftly jotting down 'happy birthday, Marlene ' in a beautiful script.

"That's cool, Vinnie, I should totally let you write my letters to Godo from now on" I cackled imagining the look on my father's face one he figured out he could actually read one of my letters. My handwriting sucks!

"If you wish" Vinnie mumbled cleaning his brush and dipped it in the pink paint and started drawing mini hearts.

"You're doing better than me!" I complained looking down at my Cat-trying-to-eat-heart mess.

Vinnie side glanced at my picture and his lip twitched down when he saw the cat, "… Marlene likes cats".

I giggled, "I know, but she loves her 'Uncle Vincent', puts 'Aunt Yuff' to shame sometimes when she gets board playing with me".

"She spends more time with you then Cloud and Tifa" Vinnie stated moving the paper so we both had clear painting area's on the paper.

"I know, but she always draws you first" I mumbled sadly. It was true too, Vinnie always was drawn before her!

"I apologize" Vinnie muttered.

That's something to apologize for?

"Stop saying sorry, Vinnie!" I said swatting his arm lightly before cleaning my brush and got some blue, "Mar' does it all the time, it's not all your fault". I started drawing a shirinken with ribbons around it, wasn't starting off great but it looks decent for the time being. "So, how are you doing, Vinnie?".

"Exceptional" Vinnie stated going for more of the pink.

"That's no fun, Vinnie" I whined turning to him but was careful not to crumple the paper, "I'm sure Gummy Bear Head would be more enthusiastic, even if it was about how crappy his day has gone".

She has a point there

Vinnie just blinked at me calmly and I growled , pushing away the paper so that it landed safely on the ground below so it could dry I pushed Vinnie down on the bed and straddled his chest with my legs.

Lord help you..

"Come on, Vinnie! Speak up!" I urged pushing my face into his personal bubble, "yeah gotta have something on your mind beside Gummy Bear Head!".

"I am well, shouldn't that be enough?" Vinnie asked as he tilted his head and blinked up at me, like I wasn't on top of him in the most intimate position ever. He shifted under me and brushed his hips against my legs making a fleeting warmth under my skin near my stomach… it felt… nice.

"Talk to me!" I suggested poking his cheek with my finger and let all my weight drop on his, fingers drumming against his neck, "I'm not movin' till you do so, Vinnie".

But you wouldn't mind would you, host?

"I am doing well, a bit of a head ache" Vinnie admitted his lips parting as he inhaled deeply, his chest along with me rising, then exhaled loudly, "we should hurry on the banner".

"Yeah, don't want Teef biting my head off!" I giggled as I patted his head goofily and scrambled off of him and brought the soon to be banner onto our laps once again, "so, what are you gonna do this time? Can't repeat things or Mar' will have a fit!".

"What do you suggest?" Vinnie asked dipping the now dried paint brush into the water to moisten it before dipping it into the blue.

"Write everyone's name down! Everyone would appreciate that so Mar' knows how awesome AVALNACHE is!" I boomed punching my fist in the air before getting more purple on my brush and started the outline of me, I then cleaned the brush off and got red, going back to the paper and did an outline of Vinnie, then so on and so forth with the rest of the crew- even Cait Sith!

It took another thirty minutes before we filled up all the banner, and the aftermath was sweet! Mixed with Vinnie's elegant script and my cartoonish figures it looked awesome.

"Wow, we make a awesome team, don't you think Vinnie?" I giggled as I winked over to Vinnie who was patiently sitting on the window ceil, waiting for his next orders.

"Yes" Vinnie agreed with a half nod before he went back to staring out the window. "..Yuffie?".

"Yes, Vinnie?" I asked rubbing the dry paint off my hand onto my shorts, damn thing sticks like glue!

"Why do you think you are being hunted?".

I froze a bit, not expecting a question like that at the moment. I bit my lip and laid my back against the headboard, thinking a little.

Had I done something to piss someone off again, or was it my heritage? Did someone have a grudge against the Kisaragi family, or are they targeting the youngest member of AVALANCHE to cut back our numbers, to weaken us?

"Lots of reasons probably.. Maybe I stole something from them a while back and they just wanna get payback?" I suggested with a shrug then smiled, "let's not talk about this on Mar's Birthday, how 'bout tomorrow you and me can talk all about it? Oh, maybe go out on a picnic and you can bring some of those awesome rice cakes, those are sooo good!".

Vinnie glanced at me and nodded, but his lips were tight telling me that is not the answer he wanted.

"Come on then!" I laughed jumping up and off of the bed and tugged on Vinnie's cloak, but he didn't budge like he usual did, "Vinnie?".

He raised his gloved hand slowly and I followed it with my eyes as his finger went to my forehead and lightly traced the scare that was bare for everyone to see, "Did it hurt?".

"Nope!" I laughed brushing off the fluttery feeling in my stomach, "who knows? I can't remember, now let's GO!" this time he moved and let me drag him down the hallway and down the stairs into the main room where it was decorated pink and blue, streamers everywhere with balloons tide up in random places, curtsey of Cloud I presume. "looking good, Chocobo head, Red!".

"Thank you, Yuffie, good to see you Vincent" Red commented turning his furry head to acknowledge us before he padded his way to a corner where all the presents were being stacked.

"Yuffie, Vincent" Chocobo head stated with a nod as he went back to stuffing the piñata with random chunks of candy.

"Ooh, candy! Can I have some?" I asked licking my lips and skipped my way over to him.

Chocobo head shook his head with a smile on his face, but none the less grabbed two pieces of random candy and chucked them at me, I caught them easily and said my thanks to him before turning to Vinnie.

"Want a piece?" I asked him holding out a piece of gum.

Take it

"I am not into sweets, Yuffie" Vinnie told me gently declining the candy.

"Aw, please! Sugar is good" I pleaded not willing to let this opportunity go by, I was going to get him to eat sugar, "I'm sure you can brush your teeth as many times as you want after you chew this for twenty minutes!".

Take a step, take it!

"Yuffie, you know Vincent doesn't-" Chocobo head started to tell me off but I totally ignored him as I unwrapped the gumball and shoved it into Vinnie's mouth.

"See, good" I giggled tapping his chest a couple times before I turned and stuck my tongue out at Chocobo head, "don't interfere, Vinnie needs some sugar in him, maybe that's why he's so… stoic?" I looked at Vinnie and he just sighed as his jaw started moving around the gum. "it's not so bad, good isn't it?".

"No wonder you get cavities all the time" Vinnie muttered patting my head like he would a dog, I scowled and dunked under his hand.

"Don't make fun of my awesome teeth!" I protested pointing an accusing finger at him, "now chew!".

Vinnie rolled his eyes but said no more.

"Okay, Teef need anything else done?" I asked Chocobo head with a grin, hands on hips.

"Cake" Chocobo stated pointing to the kitchen before continuing his work.

I stopped. "What?".

"She wants you to bake a cake, she bought everything needed, said you'd be more creative then her- she went out to pick up the present Reeve mailed over, he's coming late" Chocobo stated with a shrug.

"I can't bake worth a crap" I stated with a pout.

"Have Vincent help with the instructions" Chocobo said like it wasn't a big deal.

"Do you want the kitchen to be engulfed in flames?" I pressed stomping my foot down.

Chocobo head glared.

"Come, Yuffie" Vinnie sighed putting a hand on my shoulder and lead me to the kitchen while I continued to glare at Chocobo head. I turned my head as we got into the kitchen.

"Damn" I gasped seeing how Teef went overboard. Pans were scattered over the counter tops, rays of colors of icings stacked up on one another on random stools. Two dozen eggs were by the refrigerator along with flower, spices, everything!

"Let's get it started" Vinnie spoke up.

"Out" I ordered him still staring at all the supplies.

"Pardon?" Vinnie asked in confusion.

"Get out" I ground out, glaring at him.

Did you push a button?

"I don't understand" Vinnie admitted.

"OUT!" I screamed grabbing his cloak and before I chucked him out I whispered, "guard the door, m'kay?".

~Five hours later~

I didn't mean to be so pushy with Vinnie, but this great idea popped in my head for the cake and with Vinnie there it would just ruin the whole surprise! Two hours into the project I stepped out of the kitchen to find Vinnie staying true to his duty and was leaning against the counter, blocking everyone from the kitchen door. I apologized to him, patted his cheek with a goofy grin before I skipped back in the kitchen for another three hours.

I was a complete mess, dough all over me, different colors of icing splattered everywhere, a big chunk in my hair, all worth it though because of the outcome. It looked beautiful, charming if I may say so myself!

My cloudy eyes locked with sloppily smeared ones, my grin mirrored the glimmering one, though the outfit colored on there looked much cleaner then mine, and a Shirinken was in her hand, along with some floating materia.

It was me!

I rubbed my nose with the back of my finger with a grin. Mar's gonna love it!

"Hey, Brat!? Marlene 's here and she wants her cake" Barrett's voice shouted, though I'm sure Vinnie's keeping true to his word and not letting him in.

"Hang on! Gotta get the candle lit!" I shouted back grabbing a lighter and one by one lighted each of the seven candles. It took awhile, counting that I burned two of my fingers in the process, but I carefully balanced it on my hand, "GO SIT DOWN! THAT INCLUDES YOU VINNIE!".

… This should go well..

I ignored chaos with a scowl and slowly made my way into the main room where the tables were lined together with the AVALANCHE members occupying all the chairs.

I grinned.

"Happy Birthday to you, you live in a Zoo" I started singing earning some glares from Teef's and Barrett's behalf, "you look like a snuggle Chocobooooo! And you have a father that looks like one too!" I grinned at my successful rhyming, placing the cake in front of Marlene so she was the first one to see it.

She laughed out loud, making the others lean over to see my awesome cake.

"..Yuffie" Teef sighed shaking her head and was about to get up when Cloud shook his head and pushed her to sit back down.

"At least she baked a cake that Marlene liked, plus the banner, you have to give her credit along with Vincent" Cloud defended, throwing me a wink before patting Teef's shoulder and passed out the paper plates.

"Brilliantly said, Chocobo head!" I giggled grabbing a knife and ruffled Marlene 's head, "what piece do you want, Mar?".

"Hm…" Marlene thought tapping her chin thoughtfully, but after a couple of seconds her eyebrows scrunched up and she looked at Vinnie with mischievous eyes (she did not get it from me!), "which part of Yuffie would you have first, Uncle Vincent?".

The whole room went quiet and I had to bit my tongue from bursting out laughing. All eyes were on Vinnie now as he stared at Marlene to the cake to me.

"The head" Vinnie murmured with a shrug and averted his gaze elsewhere.

"The head it is!" I laughed breaking the silence and went to cut the head but my hand was smacked out of the way by Marlene , "OW! Why'd yeah do that, Mar?".

"Uncle Vincent wants your head, so he's getting it!" Marlene explained puffing out her pink cheeks and glared up at me, but naturally I glared back.

"But you asked him for advice, don't you want to take it so Vinnie doesn't feel disappointed?" I stated crossing my arms.

That got her as she hesitated but knowing the kid she was fearless, "but I'm being nice! Nice people get to go to heaven!".

I faintly heard Teef giggle and saw Chocobo's smirk.

I scowled, "but you have to respect your elders! Advice should be taken seriously- so take my head!".

She started chewing on her lip, "But I am respecting my elders, Uncle Vincent said he would have your head if he could have to the first pick, so I'm being nice and granting him the wish!".

This is starting to sound wrong…

"Well this is your Birthday cake, Uncle Vinnie can get the first pick when his Birthday rolls around!" I stated getting annoyed with the stubborn child (once again nothing to do with me!).

"Will he have the same cake?" Mar' asked her smile returning as she jumped in her seat.

"Sure, I'll bake it for him 'cause you and him are special, now can I cut off my head?" I sighed, silently thanking Lavithian.

"NO!" Marlene gasped her hands flying to her mouth as she looked at me in horror.

"What now?" I groaned cursing in my head a million times.

"I don't want you to cut off your head!" Marlene cried tears springing to her eyes.

What's the big deal anywho? Didn't we just figure this out? All I got to do is cut the freaking cake!

"Well it's gonna get cut off one way or another, so you're gonna have it first" I grounded out, and glanced up only to see amused faces of my comrades, "what are you guys starin' at?".

"Don't kill yourself, Aunt Yuffs'!" Marlene cried lunging and hugging me tightly around the waist, "I love you! I can be a better person I swear it. I'll even save up money to buy you bunches of materia, JUST DON'T KILL YOURSELF!".

Oh, she thought…

"Hey now! I ain't talkin' about my head, talking about the cake remember?" I said quickly as I patted the little girls back, "now do you want the head?".

"Yes!" Marlene giggled letting herself go of me and licked her lips at the sugary substance.

"Okay then" I grumbled shaking my head and angled the knife over my mini's head and sliced it right off, "plate please".

"Here you go, Aunt Yuffie" Marlene giggled handing me her plate which I took carefully and used the knife and my thumb to pick it up and place it on the plate.

But of course it can't go as smoothly then it was, now could it?

I gasped in pain as I accidentally press the knife into my thumb and at the same moment Red went in between my legs and I tripped over one of his hind legs making me tumble to the floor and the plate with my cakes head on it.

I saw it in slow motion and had to sniff. As the cake flew off the plate I saw my mini's head smile at me from an angle before it soared on to a better place- Cid's face. I momentarily forgot about me falling 'cause when I looked up Vinnie had caught me with his arm around my waist.

"F***ING BRAT!" Cid cursed making Teef whack him upside the head for doing it in front of the kids.

Then that evil giggle escaped Marlene 's mouth.

"MAR' NO!" I screamed but she already had a piece of the cake in her small hands and she let it soar.

My poor sugar coated Shirinken..

This isn't going to be good..

The cake hit Chocobo's face making him gasp as it got in his eye, his hand flew up and flung the cake out of it, the remaining cake flew and hit me on the chest and… slowly it seemed to fall into my shirt.

"CHOCOBO ASS!" I screamed as my face flared and I jumped out of Vinnie's arm and grabbed a chunk of cake, part of me paying enough attention to hear Marlene cheering me on, and flung it in his direction but he dunked and hit Teef on the shoulder instead.

"Yuffie" she growled pushing the cake away onto the floor.

I gulped and yelled the only thing to prevent her from coming near me at the moment, "CAKE FIGHT!".

Denzel and Marlene cheered and both lunged for the cake, my hand going for it as well, surprisingly so did Barrett's, though he did anything Marlene wanted. We randomly started throwing pieces of cake, making it a blind fight as I got hit in the face and stumbled, crashing into Vinnie making him tumble to the ground.

"BRATS!" Cid yelled grabbing a huge hunk of cake and threw it at an odd angel down at me while I was still partially blinded.

Damn Hoot..

The cake didn't hit me, it hit Vinnie.

The cake fight went on but Vinnie and me were forgotten as the others started getting into it.

".. Uh, you okay Vinnie" I giggled nervously as I saw the part of his face that wasn't covered in cake stone cold, "I hope you like the cake.." I started whipping the substance away from his face, slowly seeing the rest of his face as he glared towards Cid. It took awhile but I got most of the cake off, all except the excessive icing smeared everywhere. I whipped my arm across my face so I could see better.

"I dislike sweets" Vinnie muttered under his breath but I heard him laughed a bit breathlessly.

"Try it!" I encouraged swiping some cake from my neck and held out my finger to him, "try some!".

"No" Vinnie stated shaking his head.

Refusing a food that you can eat off of her finger?

My face heated up once more but before Vinnie had a chance to even raise he eyebrow I shoved my finger in his mouth and made sure it was all over his tongue before I shivered from the feeling and swiftly pulled my finger out of his mouth. "Good?".

Vinnie blinked and shook his head, gulping down the sweetness.

I blushed when my actions caught up to me and I crawled under the table and hugged my knees.

"Yuffie?" Vinnie asked half squatting as he pulled himself to sit in front of me under the safety of the table.

"Sorry, Vinnie" I apologized dunking my head in my knees as my face heated up even further, "didn't mean to be so pushy with it".

"You are forgiven" Vinnie said his mouth twitching up a bit as he patted my head and sat down next to him.

The same heat came into my stomach when his shoulder brushed against mine. It felt nice, but I didn't know what it was.

Until Vinnie's gloved hand fluttered across my thigh.

The heat flared to life like it never before had, and something started building up into a not and I had the urge to squirm 'cause the sensation near the middle of my hips. It was new. It was bloody nice.

I scooted more near him until we were leg to leg, he stiffened a bit but soon relaxed.

"Yuffie?" Vinnie asked above the screaming voices above them.

I gulped and fidgeted as my mind came to a conclusion.

"Vinnie, I think I'm in love with you" I blurted out staring up at him, waiting for his reaction.

Well, damn, your human beat yeah to it!

He blinked and blinked when finally his eyebrow went up, "Pardon?".

My eyebrow twitched and I bit out a growl, I moved so my face was right in his. "I'm in love with you, Vincent!".

Uh-oh, why'd it get so quiet. I think I yelled that a bit too loudly. Feet shuffle and I start seeing different pairs of shoes form in front of us, then they crouched down so I saw everyone of their faces gawking at me.

"Repeat that, Brat" Cid almost chocked, no cigarette in his mouth as his mouth was falling open but curved into a scowl.

I gulped.

"Marlene , Denzel, off to your rooms!" Teef shooed away quickly, her face never moving though.

"But I wanna see if Uncle Vincent is gonna eat Aunt Yuffie!" Marlene complained but ran when Teef's eyes shifted to her in a motherly glare.

Wait, did that brat just..?

"GO AWAY!" I screamed my face flaring with color and tears sprung in my eyes from the embarrassment, I turned away from the and hugged my knees close.

"Yuffie, just tell us if we heard right" Teef's voice urged but I shook my head fiercely, shutting my eyes closed as tears rolled down my cheeks.

Seriously, when you're spilling your guts to the person your in love with, you get really emotional when others ruin it for you.

"I always knew you had a soft spot for Valentine" Chocobo head laughed but he hissed in pain when I heard a slapping noise, probably Teef hitting him. "what? It's not my fault I actually pay attention to her!".

My shoulders started shaking and a hand was laid on my shoulder but I ignored it and put all my strength into suppressing sobs. Stupid emotions!

"Ain't he a bit old for yeah, Kid?" Barrett chuckled.

A sob escaped my mouth and I hunched over. "Leave me alone!".

"Come on, Brat, spit it out!"

"Cid let her talk!"

"You're scarring her!".

"I ain't scarring no one!".

"Look what you did!".

"What I did?"".

"Yes!".

"You are the ones who herded over here like a bunch of damn Chocobo's!".

"Did not, you fool!".

"Did too!"

"NOT!"

"TO!"

I sobbed again but I couldn't get anything out of my mouth because of how embarrassed I was, I wanted to tell them to go shove my shirinken up their asses and drown themselves!

"Highwind I would advise you to silence yourself" You tell them Vinnie!

Hello, where'd you come from nice leathery arm?

I blinked as I whipped away the tears on my face and leaned to my side into Vinnie's shoulder, thankful that he was taking charge and made everyone shut their ruin-the-moment mouths.

~TWENTY MINUTES LATER~

"They're a bunch of big assholes! That's what they are!" I cried into my pillow, clutching it tightly to my face so it could soak up all of my tears, "they waltz up and ruin it, embarrassing me! Heck, I bet you felt just as uncomfortable.. *hiccup* sorry again Vinnie".

He had been sitting at my backside quietly, rubbing soothing circles on my back. He had carried me past everyone's hesitant faces and up the stairs to my room, putting me under the covers and staying. I smiled a bit into the pillow remembering Chaos's rant of killing the group.

"You are forgiven, Yuffie" Vinnie sighed.

I sat up with a sniff and turned to engulf him in a hug, ".. but I.. really do love you".

Well?… Do it!

A finger went to my chin as a arm encircled my waist, I looked up but wasn't met with his eyes, only his soft, full, lips on mine. I blinked a bit as Vinnie tilted his head a bit to the side and pressed himself harder against my face, his tongue causing a tingly feeling as it was slung along my lower lip.

I finally closed my eyes being the dumbo that I am and well… I attacked him, tangling my hands in his long hair.

Can you blame me? I'm a teenager with raging hormones!

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