"Dammit.."

A boy with long blond hair sat on a cliff, a motorcycle behind him, as he leaned on it. He had a long black jacket, open with a white t-shirt, along with black jeans and black sneakers. He wore a gold necklace that was a cross, decorated with fake diamonds, which he really didn't care about. His hair was down to the bottom of his upper back, the hair in his eyes, but he had dark blue eyes that could show through them. He had a long scar going down vertically on his right eye. A katana was beside him, leaning against the black motorcycle as well, his precious blade.

The blade was the Murasame, a gift from the boy's girlfriend. The boy's name was Hiro Aoyama, a member from AVALANCHE and a hero.

He wasn't a big hero like Cloud Strife, a good friend of his, but he was still considered one. Hiro was seventeen when the great Meteorfall event occurred, as he was apart of it. He was invited into Avalanche, which he gladly accepted. Upon entering Avalanche, he encountered his future girlfriend, Yuffie Kisaragi, the kleptomaniac ninja. They had a rocky start, but they eventually got close, and have been a solid couple for two years.

Two years

Hiro looked up at the sky, sighing again. He was thinking of the past. Remember every event. He was now nineteen, a adult. No fighting was going on. No drama. His life was a bit peaceful, besides the fact that Avalanche was slowly falling apart. Cloud has been completely distant from everyone, besides Tifa, Marlene, and Denzel. Arxen had gone away to train with Cid, still keeping in touch with the blonde warrior. Yuffie was in Wutai, teaching children the ways of the ninja. Barrett was gone to find mako reactors, while Red was in Cosmo Canyon. Tifa and Cloud were running a delivery business, watching Marlene while Barrett was away. Vincent was just gone.

Hiro was alone.

The only people he had remain in contact with was Tifa, and talked to Cloud almost every once in awhile. He talked to Arxen alot, and sadly, Yuffie, a very little. He missed speaking with the ninja, seeing her, kissing her. All of the couple stuff they use to do. A year ago they were together almost everyday, having fun, doing so much together. Sadly, her father forced her to come back to Wutai, and barely letting her have contact to all her friends out of Wutai.

Hiro sighed, stood up, and grabbed his blade. He put it on his back, strapping it around his chest, then he sat on the motorcycle, starting it. His motorcycle was custom made for him by Cid, making it more like a sports car than a motorcycle, yet, retaining some of the motorcycle's basic features.

He then kicked off the ground and was off.

Arxen sighed deeply as he sat on the roof of a random building in Rocket Town. He shouldn't of come and asked Cid to train him in airships, and just fighting. He missed hanging around Midgar with Hiro and Yuffie, but he knew that wouldn't happen anyway. Yuffie was in Wutai, and barely kept in touch with them. He could atleast hang around with Hiro. His appearance had changed as well, his blue hair a bit shorter, after a haircut Cid forced him to have. He wore a black shirt with blue jeans, and a pair of old work boots. He usually wore a red leather jacket with it, but he had to take it off to work.

Arxen then started to think about the whole Geostigma epidemic that was going on throughout the world. Maybe that was the reason that Yuffie didn't talk to them, because she had the stigma. He then doubted it, knowing that Yuffie would call Hiro right away, despite her father's wishes.

Arxen looked up at the sky, and then sighed mentally as he thought of the boredom. He didn't have anything to do. Then all of a sudden, a wrench came flying up, hitting the rail right next to him, Arxen jumped.

"HOLY SHIT!" Arxen yelled out, and he looked down to see the smoking Cid, who was glaring at him.

"Get your little blue haired ass down here and GET TO WORK!"

"Ok kids, that's it for today! I'll teach you the techniques of disappearing tomorrow, ok?" A eighteen year old girl clapped her hands together, while the children bowed to her.

"Hai, sensei!" The children then ran around the dojo, grabbing there stuff, and walking out the door.

Yuffie Kisaragi sighed after all the children left, falling down on her butt, looking up at the ceiling. She has also changed in the last two years, becoming more of a woman, while still retaining her ninja look and short hair.

She was so tired of not being able to talk to anyone. Especially Hiro. She missed everyone so much. She didn't mind teaching children here, but she wish she could have more time to talk to Hiro. Over the course of the two years they were dating, she has gotten so close to him. She missed him more than anything, more than anyone. She smiled as she remembered the days after Meteorfall. The vacations, the fun. She blushed, remembering some of the embarrassing, yet great, incidents she had with Hiro.

"Yuffie."

Yuffie looked up to see her father, his arms crossed. Yuffie then sat up quickly.

"Father, I didn't see you there.." Yuffie said quickly, knowing that she has disrespected her father. Godo, however, laughed a bit.

"It is fine, my daughter. I have noticed that you have been troubled lately." Godo said, and Yuffie blinked. She shook her head, trying to deny it. Godo, however, gave her a look, and Yuffie sighed in defeat. Godo then sat beside his daughter.

"Well..I miss everyone. I miss Avalanche, I miss Hiro." She said, and Godo blinked.

"Well, you have been talking to them, haven't you?" Godo asked, and Yuffie shot a glare at him.

"Someone has been making me teach children everyday and do chores for the village, so I have barely been talking to them at all!" Yuffie said, and Godo blinked, confused. He then pointed to himself, and Yuffie nodded, causing Godo to laugh.

"Why yes I have. But anyway..if you want to see them, you can go. I don't mind." Godo said, and Yuffie's eyes widened. She then latched onto her father, who laughed.

"Thank you father!" Yuffie said, smiling, while Godo hugged her. Yuffie then let go of her father, and ran over to her bag, taking out her yellow Razor cellphone, dialing a number. She held it up to her ear, waiting for the person she was calling to answer.

A ring was heard, and Hiro blinked as he stopped his motorcycle. He then pulled out his cellphone, not looking at the caller ID, and answered the phone. "Hello?"

"Hey Hiro!"

Hiro smiled, he recognized the voice. "Hey Yuffie, it's been awhile angel." He said.

"It has, it has. But guess what? I'm coming back! I get to see Avalanche again! I get to see you again!"

Hiro blinked. "Seriously?" All he heard was giggling on the other end, and his grin got bigger. "Awesome! I can't wait to see you again!"

While Yuffie ranted on, Hiro then noticed black shadows were appearing around him. He looked around to see he was surrounded. The strange shadows transformed into strange looking monsters, on all fours, growling at Hiro. Hiro sighed.

"Yuffie, I'm sorry, I got to go..I'll call you back."

"Wait what-"

Hiro sighed as he shut his phone, placing it back in his pocket. He then started his motorcycle again, reving the engine up as the creatures growled at him. Hiro smiled, and then removed the Murasame from it's sheath. He then drove forward, slashing the two infront of him with ease, causing them to disappear. The creatures then treded after the swordsman, who smirked as they chased him.

Hiro smiled with excitement, not having a battle for the last year. He prepared himself as two appeared beside of him. He twisted the motorcycle's handle, making it to spin and destroyed two creatures, as Hiro laughed doing so. More of them quickly chased after him, one of them jumping at him from the side. Hiro quickly slashed the creature, it disappearing in shadows. Another one was on his right side, so Hiro quickly turned around, putting his custom motorcycle in reverse while doing so.

He slashed the other, making it disappear as well, the shadows fading. Hiro then looked forward to see two more jumping at him infront. Hiro smirked as he popped a wheelie, making them run into his wheel, the creatures disappearing. Hiro looked over the wheel and saw five more of the creatures running towards him.

"Not going to give up, are ya.."

Hiro put the motorcycle back in drive, and made it go full throttle toward the five creatures. He slashed wildly, making the creatures scream as they disappeared. Hiro laughed a bit as he looked onward to see more of the shadow creatures. He smirked as he turned off his motorcycle, and as it slowed, he jumped off, kicking it, making it spin as it passed the creatures. It hit the side of the wall, making it stop, unharmed.

The blond warrior landed to the ground as the shadow creatures surrounded him. He smirked as he looked around, six of them, each circling him as a wolf pack would do their prey.

"You're all really stubborn.." Hiro pointed out, as one of them quickly jumped at him. Hiro sidestepped, and slashed the creature as it's mouth was left open, cutting it into half. It disappeared, however, being a shadow. The warrior span his sword around, and put it into the ground.

"Now, who's next?"

Two more ran towards him, while a red orb in Hiro's arm glowed. Hiro held it out.

"Fire."

The flame burnt the two creatures, giving Hiro a opening. He ran up towards them and slashed, causing screams of pain while the disappeared into shadows. Another jumped at Hiro from behind, making Hiro do a roundhouse kick, sending it into the ground. As it hit the ground, Hiro stabbed his sword into it's stomach, making it disappear.

The last two charged, wanting to tear Hiro into shreds. However, Hiro had the upper hand. He did a back flip over the two, and as he was in the air, sliced randomly. He landed on the ground, and the two creatures heads would of fell off if they weren't shadow creatures. Hiro sighed, and placed his sword back in it's sheath.

"That took to damn long.." Hiro muttered, as he turned around to leave, however, a cry stopped him.

What the hell was that?

Hiro looked around, blinking. He didn't hear that cry before when he was fighting. Of course, his motorcycle was on, and when it was off, he was to busy having fun killing those things. He then heard the small cry again, and he sighed. He started to follow the cry, and he ended up at a cliff, nothing there, but the cry was still heard. Hiro looked to see if there was anything, and then saw a small rock just sitting there.

Curiosity got the best of Hiro Aoyama, as it did two years ago.

He kicked the rock away, and then saw brown hair. Hiro jumped back, and put his his hand on his sword, but then realized that it was a child. He let go slowly, the crying continued. His heart felt horrible, knowing that cry was a little girl's cry. He then got on his knees.

"Excuse me?"

The brown hair turned away to reveal a face. It was a very young girl, her eyes were a light brown, going well with her light brown hair. However, they were very puffy, which Hiro could tell were from hours of crying. The girl looked at Hiro in fear, and he shook his head.

"I won't do anything to you, I promise." Hiro said, slowly going up to her, as she backed in her little hole in fear. Hiro held his hand out. She refused to take it. Hiro smiled sweetly. "Please come out. I can help you." Hiro convinced her, as she looked at his hand. Slowly, she took it, and Hiro guided her out. She was much smaller than Hiro. She stood a bit away from Hiro, who smiled.

"Hi, my name's Hiro, what's yours?" He said, trying to sound safe for the young girl. She sat there for a moment, and then, hesitating, spoke.

"Mimi.." She mumbled.

"Mimi? I like that name. It's a pretty name. How old are you, Miss Mimi?" Hiro asked, very curious. Though he could guess her age, he would say around four or five.

Mimi held up four fingers, and Hiro nodded. He got it.

"Well, may I ask what a girl like you are doing out here in the middle of nowhere alone?" Hiro asked, and then shockingly, the young girl understood his question, raising up her hair from her forehead to reveal a patch of black, which Hiro knew was the Geostigma.

"My mommy and daddy says that I am dangerous..so they dropped me off here..."

Poor child. What kind of heartless parents would do that to a small girl like her? Hiro thought to himself, but he decided to dwell on that later.

Hiro got up, and looked down at Mimi. "Come with me, I'll take you to a good home. Trust me, I know where you can eat, drink, and do whatever you want to do."

Mimi didn't say anything, instead, she followed the blond to his motorcycle. He picked it up, and sat down on it. He picked Mimi up, and sat her infront of him. He started the engine, and held on to the handle, while holding Mimi.

"Hold on..Edge..here we come."

Hiro sighed as he walked into the bar, nobody was in there expect for Tifa, who wasn't paying attention to him as he entered.

"The bar's closed for today, please leave." Tifa said, and Hiro just looked at her, forgetting that Mimi was right behind him.

"Hell no. Get me a damn beer woman." He said in a gruff voice. Hiro had to joke with her, but then remembered Tifa's short fuse, and her super woman strength as she threw a beer bottle right at him. Luckily, Hiro ducked.

"What the hell was THAT-" Tifa then stopped when she realized that it was Hiro, who was laughing. Tifa sighed deeply as Hiro continued to laugh. "That wasn't funny." Tifa said, but then couldn't help but start to giggle a bit herself. Hiro smiled as he sat down at the counter, the little girl sitting next to him.

"So how are you Tifa?" Hiro asked, while Tifa got him a glass of water.

"I'm doing ok. I hate this job, and that Avalanche doesn't do much together anymore." She said, but then she noticed Mimi, who was still a bit shaken up from some of the events that has happened. She pointed at Mimi, and Hiro knew she was wondering who it was.

"This is Mimi, I found her in the Wasteland, and apparently, her parents abandoned her because she has Geostigma." Hiro explained, as Tifa gasped, looking at the young girl.

"Oh, I'm so sorry sweetie.." Tifa said, feeling very emotional. Hiro noticed, and quickly changed the subject.

"Well, I was wondering if Mimi would have a place to stay here, if you don't mind?" Hiro asked, and Tifa smiled a bit.

"Why, of course I don't. Mimi you can stay here as long as you want. My name is Tifa." She held her hand out to Mimi, who didn't take it, still scared. Tifa noticed, and pulled her hand back. "That's all right, we'll be good friends sometime." Tifa said, smiling.

"So how's Denzel and Marlene?" Hiro asked, taking a drink of his water.

"They're good. Denzel is actually pretty healthy. Right now they're upstairs, I think Marlene's watching him sleep." Tifa explained as she got Mimi a juice and started making her something to eat.

"How's Cloud?"

That question made Tifa stop what she was doing. They sat there in silence, Hiro still drinking, and Hiro stopped. "Forget I asked." He said.

"No, no," He looked at Tifa, who continued what she was doing before. "It's fine. He hasn't been home for a couple of days. I'm not sure where he could be."

"Who knows..Cloud's always been mysterious." Hiro said, shrugging, as he finished drinking his water.

"Yea..."

"Anyway, I'm going. I have to get home." Hiro said, and Tifa nodded. Hiro then put his hand on Mimi's head, making her look up at him. He smiled at her. "Be good for me." Hiro said, rubbing her head. Mimi nodded, and Hiro then walked out of the bar.

Hiro sighed as he laid in his bed. He hasn't been able to sleep, probably because he had so much on his mind. His room was so dark that you could barely see anything, and he jumped out of bed. He waltzed into the bathroom in his room, and turned on the light, it shining as soon as he flicked the switch. He looked at himself in the mirror, removing the hair out of his eyes. Big black circles were around his eyes, mostly from the fact he barely got any sleep. He splashed water on his face, deciding to stay up this night.

He looked over to see a acoustic guitar and his sword. He went over and grabbed his sword, putting on his waist. Just incase anything strange happened. He grabbed his jacket, and used it as a blanket. He laid down on his bed, and closed his eyes. Maybe he could sleep? He didn't know. He really didn't care either. He's use to not sleeping. He sighed, but then sniffed the air.

It was a strange smell, but he was sure he smelt it before. He inhaled the scent again.

Smoke?

All of a sudden, he felt hotter. He removed his jacket, and he looked up to see smoke coming from the door. He jumped up, placing his jacket on, which was a stupid idea, and he opened the door. A hooded figure was standing there, looking at Hiro. Hiro noticed a red orb glowing in his arm, and he growled.

"You son of a bitch!" Hiro yelled, running and tackling the hooded figure out the window, making the spectaors outside of the house to scream. They landed in the alley below Hiro's home, and the hooded figure kicked Hiro into the street.

The people moved away, and Hiro got up, removing his sword. The hooded figure removed his blade, and stood in a strange position. Hiro smirked, and charged, swinging his blade at the figure, who blocked the attack. Hiro's smirk widened. He knew he had a excellent opponent, and began to do a series of slashes at the figure, who blocked every one, returning with his own. The sound of metal clashing was heard throughout Kalm, while the peopled watched.

The hooded figure jumped back, and the red orb in his arm glowed. Hiro quickly took out a Ice materia and put it in his arm, about to cast Ice. As soon as the figure shot Fire at him, Hiro returned with Ice, causing a explosion to send the two flying. They both recovered in mid-air, Hiro skidding towards a group of people. He stopped infront of them, and he noticed the hooded figure barely moved.

"Interesting.." Hiro muttered, charging forward.

He appeared infront of him, and he tried to slash him, but missed as the figure did a cartwheel to avoid the attack, making Hiro's sword to hit the stone ground. Hiro threw a roundhouse kick at his picked his sword up, but the figure caught his leg, and flipped him. Hiro, however, saw it coming, and kicked the hooded person in the chin, sending him up in the air.

Hiro quickly jumped at a house, then jumped off the house's wall, up into the air. He appeared infront of the person, grabbed it's leg, and threw the hooded figure into his own burning house. Hiro sighed as he jumped into the fire, and looked around. The flames were overwhelming, and he was burning up. To his surprise, the hooded man walked out of the flames, and kicked Hiro out of his house, sending him into the street again.

Hiro coughed from the smoke, and he stood up. He held his sword, waiting, but was shocked when the hooded man just walked out, his sword put away. Hiro smirked.

"Come on..is that it?" Hiro asked, and the hooded figure chuckled a bit.

"For now.."

Hiro then realized that the voice was a young man's.

"Who are you?" Hiro asked, standing straight up, his sword still out.

"Why does it matter to you at the moment? All I did was simply set your house ablaze..you would not ask that question if I was a regular person, yet you would make sure I pay..right? But since I was such a good foe to fight, you wish to know who I am..."

"Shut up and just tell me your name." Hiro commanded, and the hooded young man laughed, jumping up, landing on a roof. "Hey!" Hiro yelled out, jumping up to get him, yet, when Hiro landed on the roof.

He was gone.

Hiro looked around frantically, trying to find the hooded man. However, he could not see him. Hiro sighed as he put his sword away, then looked at his house.

"...that was a waste of so much gil...asshole." Hiro muttered.

Rewritten, re-edited, all good, I hope. Review.

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