Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of this fan fiction; they are the ownership of Square Enix and Tetsuya Nomura.
AN: Okay, this is my first time attempting a MPreg story; I never use to be a supporter of the form of fan fiction writing, but I decided after a few or so different Cloud/Leon and Cloud/Zack one's to try my hand it. Sorry if I don't go into too many details or add in that many people and kind of spoil it a little with using at least ONE FFVII: Crisis Core character. ; Sorry folks, but, anyway, enjoy.
Chapter 1
Endings are a thing that we always fear, even when the ending is of times that were happy, only to end in tragedy; settings are created to create these perfected or clichéd endings. Rain is a common factor in these endings, they represent falling tears that fall with each moment, tears had many times fallen from the man's face; tears of joy, pain, anguish, embarrassment, and sorrow. Tears of joy had fallen the day he had found himself able to come to grips with everything, reality that he could truly find himself in the man at his side; they fell during times of their joy being shared when they found themselves in one another. Making every part of their beings scream and cry out, anguished screams as their bodies were racked with utter joy, Cloud would always find himself being rocked underneath as Zack's hips pushed in harder and harder. He would scream if it didn't mean he wasn't purely and blissfully happy to have the man showing him joy, blissful joy.
Things had been a rocky start at the start, neither one wanting to accept the other's feelings, brushing it off as a simple crush, but it wasn't, "Mnh…mnh…Z-Zack…" Cloud's voice was panting as he sunk his fingers in the man's back, "I-I-I-I….I'm going to come…"
The rough form of the man towering over him panted as he crushed his lips against the man's, "…I know…just hold on, babe…we're almost there…just bare with me…" his hips were rocking harder and harder against the man, feeling everything in the man as he felt his lover's fingernails cutting him with claw-like strength, "Just hold on…"
Cloud was doing all he could to hold on as he felt himself gasping for air as his back arched back as far as it would allow, it was coming, something was coming, he felt he would break, and it did as their rollercoaster ended.
Nothing was thought to come of it, Cloud had the normal aches and pains that came with their rollercoaster fun, but it was lasting longer then usual. It was growing into almost two to three months that he had been feeling odd compared to the other times before; several of the men had started poking fun at the glow that was illuminating around him.
"Hey Strife, did you fall into a Mako Reactor or something?"
"Here comes the walking Mako beam."
"I wonder if his underwear glows too!"
"Ask Zack Fair, he should now, the two of them are 'bunk buddies', isn't that right, Strife?"
It took all of his self being to not turn around and retaliate at their words, it was embarrassing to walk through the Compound and have their cat calls calling out to him, even if they were taunting. Everything in him wanted to cry but he had to hold it together because it would only give them more reason to taunt him even more. He never was one for eating breakfast, but lately, that had changed, strangely he would get sick after eating breakfast. Zack had noticed Cloud was spending more and more time in the bathroom of their small shared dorm; it made him feel as if there was nothing he could do to help his blond lover.
"GAH! GNH! …I don't remember eating…th…BLEH!" Cloud did all he could from collapsing against the porcelain throne and making friends with it as he shakily kept himself up on his feet, "…I don't feel so good."
Zack had been put out on a Mission in the time that Cloud had been kept back at the Compound, it was coming upon the annual physical and Cloud's unit was next to be checked over. As hard as it was to leave him, unnervingly aware that something was wrong with him; he had to follow orders much the same as Cloud had to, but when Cloud didn't show up for the Physical, word reached him.
"Hey Zack, have you seen Cloud Strife?" a random member of Cloud's unit called out to the SOLDIER as the man was working his way back into the Compound from an almost three month mission, "Our Commander is kind of peeved that he didn't show up for the Annual Physical."
Zack eyed the man with a look of tired dismay; he was half hearing what the man was saying, but when he heard Cloud's name mentioned; his attention seemed to perk up, "What did you say?" all of his attention was now focused, as tired as he was.
The man scratched the back of his head as he repeated himself, "Cloud Strife didn't show up for the Annual Physical," no sooner had he answered the man then he stood there in utter shock as he saw the proud 2nd Class SOLDIER turn a shade of grey, "Sir, are you alright?"
"I need to find him," Zack's half sleep state washed off him as he darted for the dorm; his feet couldn't move fast enough as he scrambled up the numerous number of stairs, now and again tripping in his still half asleep state, "Damn stairs, someone should put in for an elevator."
Cloud had managed to clean up the mess he had made of the pristine bathroom; changed out of the outfit he had been given as a member of the small Soldier core of ShinRa Electric Company, and into a baggy shirt that he had pulled out of Zack's side of the room. Smelling the man's scent against his nose seemed to comfort him, but it didn't help to calm his aching stomach; he had made a promise to not only himself, but to Zack, whenever things got hard he wouldn't cry. Not a single sight or hint of a tear would caress down his perfect, soft, pale face. Biting into the inside of his cheek was a method he had hoped would help but it only made the stomach pains jump into his throat as he fought off the need to run to his new friend made of porcelain.
"…What's happening to me? I never ate that casserole so why is my stomach hating me…mnh…I need Zack," he buried his face into the pillow as he tried to fight off the aching in his stomach as he tried to fight the tears stinging at his eyes.
Zack was in a panic as he finally managed to make it up the final flight of stairs, huffing, puffing, and panting, sweat dripping down his face, Man I'm out of shape or these damn stairs needed to be changed out for something else.
Everything in him was screaming to just get to Cloud and find out why he skipped out on the Physical; either out of protest because he couldn't go with Zack or else there was another reason, "Cloud, Cloud, please answer the door, Cloud," Zack was panting as he pounded on the door, but there was no answer…Damn it, don't you do this to me…don't ignore me and act like a little kid over something as stupid as this.
Cloud had fallen into sleep after succumbing to the feeling of crying; he had hoped that sleeping would help the pain, but it was only a dull pain as of now, not compared to the pounding coming from the bedroom door.
"CLOUD, DAMN IT, OPEN THE DOOR!" Zack was furious at this point as he tired everything in his power to get the door open, the last resort was to, "…Cloud?"
Kick the door open.
Zack brushed back the hair from his face as he slowly moved over to the bed where he found the blond silently sleeping curled up on the bed wearing one of his shirts; he couldn't bring himself to be mad at him as he sat on the edge of the bed. His fingers worked up through the blonde's soft hair as he felt the man began to shift slightly, but all that came out was a pained grunt. Zack felt at a loss for why the man would react as such or why the scent of something sick was coming from the bathroom or even the man's breath.
"…Cloud, hey, you gotta wake up or else you'll miss out on dinner," Zack brushed his hand against the man's face as he brushed his lips against the man's forehead, that seemed to make the man stir.
Food was the last thing he wanted as Cloud's face started to contort into a look of absolute ill as he woke up and headed for the bathroom again, "I guess that's a 'No' on food?"
Cloud managed to come out of the bathroom looking just as bad as before as he attempted to feign on a smile as he sat back down on the bed next to Zack, resting his head against the man's shoulder, "Sorry for worrying you…"
"You didn't worry me…" Zack tried to lie, but he knew better then anyone that lying to the blond was not his best suit as he felt Cloud lightly slug him in the arm, "Okay, so maybe I was worried when I found out you didn't go to the Physical…why didn't you?"
Cloud shifted up off the bed as he wrapped his hands around his stomach, "I didn't feel good, and I'm still sore in places after our last escapade, it shouldn't be lasting this long. I'm getting looks, cat calls and teased from the others that for some reason other then me, they can tell I'm glowing," he started to blush with embarrassment, "…Do I look like I'm glowing to you?"
"…You're always glowing to me, this way I can always find you when I want to…"Zack lightly pecked him on the cheek as he twined his fingers with Cloud's as he brought his gaze towards his, "Even now you are…"
"Don't tease," he was blushing even harder now, "There is also something else that's different; I've been feeling sick even if I didn't eat anything that could've made me sick…"
Zack was no Doctor or any real genius when it came to matters like this, "I think its best you went to the Physical and had the Doc check you out, its probably nothing and I guess I went a little rough on you more then usual," he nervously chuckled as he tried to hide the guilt etching across his face.
"But Zack…" Cloud never liked going to the Physical, it was always a chance for the pervert of a Doctor to grope him without getting busted for it, and it allowed the Nurse's to make eyes at him or even unconsciously flirt with him, "…I don't want to go in there alone."
Zack wouldn't hear for it as he pulled the man along with him down the many flights of stairs he had just flown up to reach his possibly in trouble lover as he walked him over to the Physical; Cloud seemed to tense more and more as they got closer; Zack was feeling the after effects of the man squeezing his hand as hard as if it were the hilt of a sword. The flirting eyes of the Nurse's began as Cloud attempted to bury his face into the back of Zack's shirt, but the next hand he felt on him wasn't Zack's but the Doctor as he nearly screamed.
"So, Mr. Strife, you decided to show up after all," the Doctor's face contorted into a sick and twisted look of pure enjoyment; he watched Cloud's face turn to a sick color as he wrapped his arms tighter around Zack's waist, "Let's begin shall we?"
"Doc, would be alright if I stayed with him; he's been acting a little funny since I got back," Zack glanced over his shoulder as he looked down at the shaking form of the fragile form of his lover attached to him; he could see the man was shaking more then usual and there was no explainable way that it could be related to his odd demeanor, "I think he'll be more comfortable with someone he knows in the room with him."
As much as the Doctor wished he could've had the man alone with him, so that his sick and lustful desires could be fulfilled, he knew that denying such a request with the man standing there was not in his best interests, "Fine, you may come in with him for the Exam, but for his results, I'll have to ask that you leave us alone."
"Whatever Doc," Zack knew full well what the man was capable of, he had gone through the same period with the Doctor; he nearly lost his virginity to the man and not in a way that he wished it to be lost, "…See Cloud, it's going to be alright."
Cloud seemed to loosen up as Zack's hands squeezed the man's gripping one's back as he brought him up next to him; the Physical was the typical thing that would be done for the male population, but it seemed to come to an end once the Doctor figured he had the results. The look of strange lust that had been there was now replaced with a look of confusion and inability to understand how it could be at all possible as he came back scratching the back of his head. Cloud had fallen asleep in Zack's arms and waking him up to hear what the Doctor had to say was not something he wished to do as he saw the confused man walk up.
"Well…this is rather odd…I don't know how it's possible," the Doctor mumbled the sentence as if it was a mantra for calming himself, but he knew denying the inevitable and putting it off wasn't going to work, "Well, I have the results back."
Zack shifted as he let the man rest against the bench as he walked up to the Doctor, "So, what's the verdict?"
"I would've given these to the Patient himself, but, I don't think the Patient himself is going to believe a word of this either way," the Doctor was trying his best to not sound paranoid or taken back by the discovery.
"Well as you can see, he's out like a light; he's had a rough day and I'm sure making him stay any longer isn't going to make him an even more enjoyable person later."
"Alright, well…this may sound as if it's not possible for a man to be this way, but…well, in his case…I guess that doesn't count for him."
Zack scratched his head in confusion, "Stop beating around the bush, what is wrong with him or is there something wrong with him?"
"He's pregnant."
Talk about being blunt, and it wasn't something Zack was ready for as the Doctor's words seemed to echo around him as he tried to take it in, but there was no denying it; their last rollercoaster ride had brought about something.
And in nine months, they would be parents, "What?"
Author's End Note: Well, didn't expect that did you folks? Either way, I hope you aren't to put off by this attempted so far Zack/Cloud MPreg. If you enjoy this, or have any opinions on how this could be further improved, please send me a Review to let me know what you think. Thanks!