Here we go. This fanfiction has been originally written by the Italian author BaschVR, and then translated in English... Hope you enjoy! Of course, the original author will check the reviews, so leave some!

Final Fantasy VII: After Crisis

Far away, the crickets were singing a lost tune.

The starlight illuminated the young girl's face, the red hair covering her eyes, the sighs coming out of her mouth.

Cissnei was sitting on the grass, leant against a nearby rock. Tears fell heavily down her cheeks.

She turned her back to the city, so huge and lighted. But she had gone away... away from illusions.

She had escaped, crying in silence. People had stared at her, at the redhead in jacket and tie who fled away like a coward. Someone had pointed at her, someone had laghed. Or maybe nobody had seen her, nobody had laughed and nobody had been watching. Maybe all she had felt was only real in her mind.

And now, in that glade kissed by the moon's beams, she sighed openly, without the need to hide it to others or to herself.

"I've been following you all night long" said a voice behind her shoulders. An unmistakeable pitch.

Tseng had already tracked her down.

Cissnei dried the tears away from her face. She stood up and stared at him with rage in her eyes.

She looked terrible: the eyes were red and swollen, making her seem untidy and fool.

"So you're here... Go away, I want to be alone" she said.

"I can't leave without you..." said Tseng "Scarlet oredered me not to leave any trail of this affair."

Cissnei looked at him. "Scarlet? How come she gives you orders?"

"Knowing why Scarlet has received the title of Temporary head of the Turks Division is not my business, and neither yours" answered Tseng.

"Oh... Fantastic." said Cissnei without conviction. She knew something about Scarlet's reputation, and that definitely wasn't good news. She turned her back to Tseng, who went on talking.

"I'm sorry! Believe me, I'm really sorry about Zack, but himself has decided to be treated like that in Nibelheim!" Tseng grabbed her hand "I won't say he deserved it, but..."

He wasn't able to continue. Cissnei suddenly turned and slapped to him in the face. Tseng didn't say anything, and kept staring at her.

"So... so that's what you think..." replied Cissnei, poisonously. How could he not understand? Zack... was dead. He would never greet her again, or speak with her, and she wouldn't listen to his jokes, to his encouraging words... How could she live a life without him?

"Come with me." whispered Tseng, still calm.

"No... I don't want to..." said Cissnei

"Scarlet gave me precise orders" repeated Tseng "We have to destroy all traces of bad behavior, it's always like that. The ones who know this story aren't allowed to live outside ShinRa. You have to come with me, cause otherwise I will have to..." He left the sentence unfinished, but the redhead had already understood what he meant.

Of course, one couldn't leave ShinRa and diffuse its secrets everywhere. The company couldn' allow anyone to exit. It was a til death service.

Cissnei looked at her friend's eyes. He wielded the gun in his hand, and she stared at her, waiting for her decision.

"No, Tseng, I won't come back" other tears fell from her eyes "What I have known today has made me think a lot... I can't work for ShinRa anymore, not after what they did to Zack!"

"But why?" roared Tseng waving his arms "You really want to ruin years of work just because of a puppy love? I'm sorry it had to end like this, I can't believe it possible, but this is reality! I accomplished lots missions with him, and I assure you that I miss him a lot! But I'm not acting like you! Damn, I can't understand why you're doing this, Cissnei! How can you decide to renounce to everything just because a friend of yours is gone!?!"

This time, Cissnei didn't reply. She continued to sigh with her head down, unable to look at Tseng.

"We have to go now" said Tseng, when he managed to calm down "I have to look after the Ancient, Aerith. And I can't be late"

He began walkin towards the city, but noticed that the girl wasn't following.

"To me... He was more than just a friend..." she whispered to herself.

"What?" said Tseng, who didn't understand because of the distance between the two of them.

"Tseng..."said Cissnei unsheating her red Shuriken "I'm really, really sorry."

Then, she tossed the lethal weapon against the friend.

She saw the surprise in his eyes, right before he was hit by the shuriken in his face. Immediately, he fell on the ground.

Cissnei approached and checked his wrist. The beats were normal; he had only fainted.

But now... now she refused ShinRa and her previous job. What could she do now? She didn't want to escape forever... In a few days the whole Turks army would have been after her...

"I will think about it tomorrow" she thought, and, fast as a lightning, she vanished behind the hills near Midgar.

Ok, Chapter One is finished... Actually I don't know how many errors I may have made in this translation, but I hope you'll understand, because I'm Italian too...