Of all the explanations Zack had thought up, what Tifa ended up telling him was not one of them. Crashing into someone else's back while riding on a motorcycle? It didn't make the most sense to him, but that whole night had been odd for a number of reasons, and so he chose not to question it too much. There was no reason to doubt Tifa's words, either, since that really wasn't something you could make up off the top of your head.

"Yuffie helped you out with a bit, right?" he asked with a tilt of his head. "That was nice of her." Surprisingly nice. But it seemed that Tifa and Cloud were on the ninja's good list, so that would explain it. Zack wasn't sure that he would ever quite make it there, despite his best efforts to make sure the girl didn't die when she'd been younger.

He'd also attacked her home and taken one of its forts down singlehandedly, so he couldn't completely blame Yuffie.

"Yeah, that night was pretty crazy for us. I'm sad you weren't there," he said sincerely. "We got a Thunder materia out of it, but you got something too, didn't you?" They'd had to be vague over the bulletin, but now he could finally find out for sure. Yuffie had guessed at it being an Ice, but he'd rather double-check.