Cloud eyed Red mildly on that teasing, his hand moving instinctively to brush the area on which her elbow landed. He and Tifa may have talked once in a while during classes or in-between but they'd never really been particularly close. Like he and Red, he and Tifa shared their own polar opposites but it was a different kind of spectrum, this time.
"You sure?" he asked about Red's suggestion. "You don't have to do it. Seifer asked the favor from me." So he should be the one to do it, et cetera, et cetera. "How about the present? You could look around more just to be sure you've turned every stone."