Disclaimer: Yeah... um... no, I don't own this. I wish.
Yuffie was minding her own business as usual. Actually, she was about to head out for a walk when she felt something tugging on the hem of her shorts.
"Yuffie?"
The brunette woman looked down at the little girl that was tugging on her shorts. "Marlene!" she said happily, scooping up the small child. "What is it?" she asked, suddenly seeing the redness around the little girl's eyes that could only come from tears.
"Tifa told me that Reeve can't come to my birthday party!" she sulked. "She said he had to work!"
"What?" Yuffie said, pretending to sound outraged. Well, she was annoyed with him. Besides Vincent, Marlene had become fondest of the workaholic. "How dare he!" she said loudly, putting the girl down. "We shall hunt him down and FORCE him to come! How does that sound?" she asked with a smile.
Marlene smiled back. "Yeah!" she replied. "He needs to learn to come to his friend's birthday parties!" Yuffie nodded in agreement, grinning.
"Let's go get him!" Yuffie said, pounding her fist into the palm of her hand.
"Okay!" Marlene said happily. "Oh, wait... I gotta ask Tifa first. Wait here, 'kay?"
"Of course!" Yuffie assured her. Marlene rushed from the room, glancing suspiciously over her shoulder to make sure that the ninja was still there. Yuffie couldn't help but smile slightly. She adored Marlene. The little girl reminded her so much of herself when she was little... only she wasn't a ninja.
Marlene walked back into the room with Tifa. Yuffie looked at the young girl's face, only to see a pout. Tifa looked annoyed. The Princess of Wutai braced herself.
"Yuffie," she said, sounding agitated. "Marlene CANNOT go with you to annoy Reeve. He has a really important job. Can't you let him work for once?"
Yuffie opened her mouth to answer "NO!", but she saw the look on Tifa's face that quite clearly said "don't you dare".
"Um... yeah, I guess you're right, Tifa," she said lightly. "We really shouldn't annoy Reeve. Sorry, Marlene."
The little girl huffed before stomping off to color some more.
"Yuffie," Tifa said, rubbing her temples, "please don't encourage bad behavior from Marlene, okay?"
"Oh, come on, Tifa! It was just a bit of harmless fun!" Yuffie replied with a grin. Tifa glared at her. "Fine, fine. I'll stop being a "bad influence"... well, I'll try to stop anyway, okay?"
"Thank you," Tifa told her before walking back to the bar.
The moment Tifa was out of sight, Yuffie bolted from the building and headed towards WRO building. Time to annoy Reeve, she thought. Tifa will never have to know.
The twenty year old pranced into the building and bolted up the stairs. When she reached Reeve's floor and started to walk down the hallway, Reeve's secretary, Teresa, looked up and smiled.
"Hello, Yuffie," she said politely. "How are you?"
"I'm great, Teresa! Thanks for asking!" Yuffie told her. She put her hand on the doorknob and started to turn it.
"Um... Miss Yuffie!" Teresa suddenly yelped. "Mr. Tuesti is busy. If you need to give him something, I can hold it for you." Yuffie took her hand off the doorknob.
"Well, that might be a little difficult," the woman replied. "You see, I want to give him a piece of my mind." With that she threw the door open, ignoring poor Teresa's pleads.
She was greeted with the sight of Reeve and an unknown woman. This wasn't so strange, since she might be a client, but the fact that he had her pressed against a wall was a little unusual. Yuffie could only stare at the pair as they played tonsil hockey quite avidly.
"Oh," she said, once she recovered her voice.
"That's why I didn't want you to open the door," Teresa whispered.
"Yuffie?" His shocked eyes met her own.
The woman in question stared back at Reeve like a deer in the headlights. "So-sorry," she stuttered. "I'll just come back later."
She quickly slammed the door shut and stared blankly ahead. "I'll stop by later, okay, Teresa?" she asked, and, without waiting for a reply, she dashed down the hall to the stairs.
Yuffie made record time back to 7th Heaven. The only problem was that all the way there she couldn't figure out why the sight of Reeve with another woman in his arms bothered her. After all, he was her best friend. It's not like she could possibly be crushing on him, could it? Yuffie laughed nervously. Of course not. Yuffie Kisaragi did NOT have a crush on Reeve Tuesti... right?
A/N: So now that I'm hooked on these, I've gotta try to write one that is at least a few chapters long! And if you're a fan of Reeve/Yuffie, check out the link on my page for Viva La Reefie! It's a way awesome forum dedicated to this couple! Please review!