THE PERFECT GIFT

By maewolf

Authors Note: Hey all this here is my first Final Fantasy fic, Advent Children is my new obsession. By the way I don't own any of the characters, I'm just borrowing them to play with for a while, and I have no money teehee. Oh and a side note, I'm working on a main story and this delightful thought came to my mind and demanded to be written, this story will go with the one I'm currently working on which will be more focused on Cloud and Tifa…that's all for now, enjoy and please review!

Denzel quietly creped across the hall towards the Strife Delivery Service office, it was on the middle floor of the house, he paused for a moment to listen for the lone adult in the house. Sure enough he heard the tell tale sounds of Tifa working in the kitchen preparing breakfast, 'ok, just gotta get to the phone without her hearing me.' The little boy thought as he proceeded towards the room, once inside he promptly closed the door behind him and pulled out a piece of crumpled paper from his pocket.

Just a few short minutes later the auburn haired boy make his way into the kitchen, "Morning Tifa, hey Marlene!" He greeted as he faked a yawn while sliding into his seat, he looked to his left out of habit and felt a little of his old anxiety creep back with the sight of the empty seat. "Where's Cloud?"

Tifa paused in her work and flashed the little boy a smile, "He's making a delivery to Barrett this morning, but has promised to be home before supper." Both children smiled gleefully with the news, even though Cloud had remained with them for nearly three months now since the second battle with Sephiroth ended. He had promised to never leave them again, they were still adjusting, and they were all scared to truly believe he was really with them, that he wasn't going anywhere. The young woman looked to comment more but was stopped by the sound of the phone ringing, sighing she excused herself to hurry upstairs.

"Strife Delivery…OH…hey Reno…" The Burnett paused and listened to the man on the other end of the line, after a little bit she hung up with a very perplexed look on her face.

'Hmm…that's odd, Reno's never asked to spend time with the children before let alone asking to take Denzel out for awhile. I guess he's changed a little bit too.'

"Hey Denzel, that was Reno…he's asked if you two could spend some guy time together he heard Cloud had to make a run today and he's bored and thought you would enjoy some guy time. I didn't think you'd mind, is that ok?" She announced as she re entered the kitchen.

Denzel grinned at her and nodded his head vigorously, "yeah that'll be great! Thanks Tifa!"

The rest of breakfast went uneventful, as did the next couple hours before there was a knock on the door and the sound of little feet rushing down the stairs trying to get to the front of the house as quickly as possible.

Tifa laughed as Denzel nearly ran her over as he hurried to open the door, revealing the loud red headed Turk.

"Hey Kid, ya ready to hit the road?" He asked grinning, before turning towards the young woman, "Hey Tifa, how's it going?"

Tifa returned the smile, "it's going well thank you, but I think you should get going before this one wears out my floor from bouncing in one spot for so long!"

Reno kept his gaze on the road and felt the silence becoming a little uncomfortable; he wasn't use to being around children, or being silent for that matter. All though his mind was thoroughly confused and had been since the little boy beside him had called him early this morning waking him up. It wasn't necessarily what the boy had said he needed help with, but the fact that he needed Reno to call back and speak with Tifa letting on that it was his idea and that he hadn't even spoken with the boy.

It was this memory that caused the Turk to smirk while glancing at the child beside him, "So mind telling me why you needed me to take you to the mall instead of just asking Tifa?"

Denzel remained silent for a few minutes making the red head think the boy may not answer him, but thankfully Denzel spoke. "I…I don't know why I couldn't tell Tifa, it's just something I want to take care of myself, something I wanted to do, that'll be just for me and Cloud. I couldn't think of anyone else I could ask to take me, most of them are too far away right now, and wont be back for a week or so and that would be too late."

The Turk nodded his head in understanding, everything was falling into place now, he was starting to think his suspicions where correct, but he wouldn't voice them…not yet anyway.