A/N: This was a request from YinYangWhiteTiger. I kind of went a big crazy with it, but I fell in love with this fic and that's why it's not posted with Wolf and Turk. It's fluffy, but seriouse, but has some silly bits. Inbetween each section there is time passing, but the amount of time varries. I think you can just feel if for yourself, but if there is any question, feel free to ask.

Who He Is

Part I

"…stupid, illogical!"

"Zack…"

"What the hell are they thinking?!"

"Zack."

"I mean, what the hell?!"

"Zack! Stop acting like a jealous ex-lover and listen." Mako-enriched eyes, still glowing eerily even in the life-stream, looked sternly at the ranting black-haired man.

"I am not jealous! And Cloud and I weren't lovers!" Zack paced, jaw set. His two companions watched him, sighing at the former SOLDIER's erratic behavior.

"Zack, what is this about? Cloud's happy, shouldn't that be what's important?" Aerith placed a comforting hand on the man's shoulder.

"Yah, but, with Reno?"

"I thought you and Reno where friend's Zack," Sephiroth commented, his long hair swaying in the non-existent wind. "I seem to recall the two of you being drinking buddies. Or maybe you don't remember the Chocobo incident?"

"I told you I don't know where that hair dye came from! And that's not important! Reno's a Turk!"

"I think Cloud knows that."

"I don't think he does! Sephiroth, you know ShinRa. Especially the Turks; your first loyalty is ShinRa. Always." Sephiroth gazed coolly at him. He did know. Once in ShinRa, always in ShinRa, no matter how small it now had become, or who the president was. "Sephiroth, what do you think Rufus is going to do when he hears about Reno and Cloud?"

Aerith was worried. She didn't understand the connection to the once major company the two men beside her knew all too well. But Cloud had been so lonely before Reno And if watching Reno and Cloud together over the past few months had shown the flower girl anything, then surely…

"I don't think he will." The two men looked up. Apparently her presence had been forgotten. "I don't think Reno will leave Cloud on ShinRa orders." Zack didn't look like he believed her. Sephiroth looked like he always did; cold and stoic. "I think they love each other. I really do. And Gaia knows they need each other."

"End it."

"Excuse me, sir?"

"This fling with Cloud Strife. End it." Reno was dumbfounded. How could Rufus have figured it out? He had been so careful. Unless Rude told…

"Don't look so surprised. You've never been good at covering your tracks." The President's face was hard and cold. Reno looked to Tseng, hoping the man would say something, come to his aid. The dark-haired Turk refused to meet the redhead's gaze.

"But, sir…why?"

"I don't need my employees distracted by silly romances."

"It's not like that! I mean, it's not like I lo--"

"Then why are you fighting so hard for him." Reno tried to swallow the hard lump in his throat. He knew this would happen, but never this soon.

The President lowered his voice to a harsh whisper. "Remember, you are mine. End it. Immediately."

Cloud almost dropped the phone. He wanted to throw it across the room, but he didn't. He held onto it tightly as he allowed his body to sink down onto his bed.

He couldn't believe it. It's over. It shouldn't have hurt this much. He supposed it was because…

They both laid under the stars. How they had gotten there, they didn't know, nor did it seem important. Reno suddenly flipped over, so he was on top of Cloud. He learned over the blond, their eyes melting into each other.

Reno didn't say anything, he didn't need to. His eyes told Cloud everything. Open, bright, laying everything out there for the blond to see. So unlike a Turk, leaving his true feelings and thoughts out there in the open.

Cloud saw pain. Pain for a hard childhood in the slums, for a harder life at ShinRa. Pain for the lives and homes he had taken and destroyed. And love. In Reno's eyes, bright green with a glow that only came from mako, Cloud saw love.

'Or at least I thought I did…' Cloud starred at the phone in his hand. The message had been short , no-nonsense, straight to the point.

Cloud knew he shouldn't have expected this much from their secret relationship of running around late at night, lying to friends about where they where, or where they'd been.

He knew it had been wrong, and an ending like this was inevitable. But it still hurt, much more than he ever expected it would.

The blond took a deep breath and closed his phone. He wouldn't allow himself to be upset, or mope around in his room like some love-struck teenager. He swallowed his grief and promised himself to bear with the pain. He didn't want Tifa or anybody to know what had happened.

"I told you." The dark-haired man's tone was dark and lethal. "I fucking told you."

"Oh, Cloud…." Aerith bit her lip. Cloud might think he was too big to cry, but she would, for him.

"Zack." Sephiroth's voice had a lethal tone to it as well as he addressed the man beside him.

"Yah." An unspoken agreement passes between the two. They both turned.

"Where are you going?" the flower girl asked thought her rapidly increasing tears.

The two ex-SOLDIERs said nothing as they disappeared into the white mist.

Part II coming soon. Please review.