Now revised thanks to Wintersheart1766 and Hikari ni Michita Sora. Orginal Story by CrimsonRose18.

"Hey, Cloud?"

The young blonde boy who had been deep in his chores turned to find his older friend behind him. Tifa was panting hard, breathing quick uneven breaths and in her eyes he saw mixed emotions. Anger, sorrow…and relief?

"Tifa?" cloud dropped his axe, the one he had been using to cut firewood with and walked toward the girl

"What's wrong Tifa?" he asked, trying to touch her, to comfort her.

"I'm being sold Cloud." She told said softly and few rouge tears escaped her eyes.

Cloud took the girl into his arms.

"My dad was offered a lot of money if I become the servant to some rich guy's daughter…"

Cloud looked at his long time friend,

"Tifa I can hide you, we could run away we…"

He was stopped as Tifa shook her head and smiled weakly.

"Tifa are you okay with this?" Cloud asked confused

" Yes, She told him. "It will help my family and I can still come back to see them."

Cloud shook his head "I don't understand."

"The girl who I will be serving's name is Aries I heard she's really nice, so it won't be so bad."

Cloud was unable to think up the words, he wanted to scream and hide Tifa away, to save her from this but he knew if she was determined than it was a hopeless cause.

"I'm happy for you and your family." Cloud said, even though it wasn't true, he looked away from Tifa's eyes.

"You're lying Cloud." Tifa said softly. "But that's ok. I just wanted to let you know." She stood up and started to walk away,

"I'm going to help my mom, bye Cloud."

That was the last thing she said to Cloud and at the end of that week, Tifa went with a man who answered to the name Lord Vincent, his niece was the one who he had bought Tifa to serve. Cloud watched as Tifa waved good-bye to everyone who had come to see her off; her eyes met his and she smiled but said nothing at all. How could she? Cloud sighed, since he was little all his friends disappeared the same way; each one being sold into slavery by their own families. Money was a bitch. As Cloud went back to his house, he saw a white horse tied outside and broke into a run.

And that was how everything started. I f only cloud had none the meaning of that white horse if only.