Author's notes- This happens to be my first Fanfic, and honestly I really don't know where, how, or even what to write about……

For now though, I've decided to write about Final fantasy 7. I really don't have much of an idea, on how many of the characters would react though due to their sketchy natures in the game. Yes, I could figure their morals out but how they (personally) would act in certain situations, I am not entirely sure of…..anyway, I should stop wasting your valuable time and get right to the point.

Cloud can't get his mind off the lost of Aeris, He Begins to slip up in battles, and starts to zone out even when talking to his friends. What effects will this bring to the relationships of him and his friends around him?

This takes place in the middle of the game directly after Cloud loses Aeris.

By the way, in later chapters it might get a little intense in the relationships but I will try to keep it clean.

Also to those who read beforeI updated I fixed the grammer and spelling mistakes. Sorry, it was my mistake i forgot to run spell check.

Present time- Campsite -
-Cloud's POV-

As the rain poured down a crack of lighting lit up the sky. The sky seemed as if it was crying. Crying for the lost of one of earth's habitants. Crying for the lost of my friend...Aeris. The thoughts of her dieing whirled through my head. Images of her falling onto the ground...lifeless...and him standing there smiling as if what he had done was a good thing.

Losing her hadn't been as bad as me not being able to protect her. I could have saved her...I should have saved her.

As the thunder from the lighting had finally caught up with the flash, I quickly jumped up in a hot sweat. I couldn't get much sleep these days, not since that incident. Looking around the camp I saw Tifa sleeping peacefully with her hair still tied at the bottom as usual and Yuffie, the new member in our party since we now needed an extra person. She had always seemed a bit eccentric but I could never really tell what she was thinking. As for Tifa, I've known her ever since we were little kids. Back then we didn't have a care in the world and I would have to say, I really felt that those days, I wish, could have gone on forever.

"Cloud...are you alright?" said Tifa, as she turned over to look at me.

As I looked into those crimson eyes of hers I felt as if they were diving into my very being, searching for the answers they seeked, yet never really being satisfied on what they had found. "Fine, just thought I'd go out for a walk." Half of what I said was true, I needed to get up and to think things through. Lately I hadn't been myself, nor had I been performing that well in battles recently. If I didn't start improving my carelessness was going to get another one of my friends killed. I shuddered at the thought. I looked back at Tifa and then over at Yuffie. I doubt I could have dealt with losing another one of my friends. I got up and slowly walked out into the rain. It felt good to feel the coolness of the drops fall onto my face, I felt as if the rain had cleansed me of something. That something I'm not entirely sure of, but to be gone of it made me feel better nonetheless.

"Do you want any company?" Said Tifa, with a concerned look on her face.

"No, that's ok. I'll be back soon anyway. Besides we're running a little low on firewood and someone needs to look after Yuffie too" I turned and Grinned at Tifa.

"Well...be careful"

"Aren't I always?"

With that she smiled at me. I noticed that after the passing of...Aries... she didn't smile as often. When she did though, her entire face lit up with a radiant glow of purity and compassion. I think that out of all the features that I liked about Tifa, her smile was probably one of the best.

As I walked out toward the nearby lake I was again overtaken by the horrible images of her death. Why couldn't they stop appearing to me? Why was I the only one who seemed to have these horrid visions at night? Was I that much responsible for her death that I felt the weight of her death most heavily on my shoulders?

I stared down into the lake looking into the reflection. I wanted answers. I wanted forgiveness. I wanted her back. I stared into my eyes searching for what Tifa's eyes seemed to look for even though I didn't have the slightest idea what they had wanted from me. My cerulean eyes seemed devoid of any emotion, feeling or life. Was I that out of sync with reality?

I'm usually not one for self pity, but what could I do other than that when her blood is on my hands. I had tried to get over it, yet my mind continues to return to that faithful moment when she...passed from my life onto the life stream.

Flashback- Down in the Centra Ruins -
-Cloud's POV-

"Aeris! Where are you?" She shouldn't have come here alone...me and Tifa ourselves were having enough trouble with the fiends here, I don't even want to imagine how hard it must have been for here to come this far.

"Dam, what could she have been thinking?" I spat out in disgust for her decision and my weakness from being unable to stop her.

At that said Tifa turned to look at me, "She said she didn't want any of her friends getting hurt. I can sympathize with her. If I had the power to protect my friends I would use it."

"She should have waited for me to wake up, I would have protected her." I gripped the handle of my sword tightly as me and Tifa dashed down the stairs.

We hurried down the seemingly never ending corridors of the ruins looking for any trace of Aeris. If anything we need to find her fast. The longer she was missing, the more danger she was likely to be in.

With that thought I quickly hastened my search around the ruins until I felt his presence. The air suddenly changed and the cool breeze that seemed to elope the ruins was stilled. The wildlife, that the ruins had housed which was normally rowdy and chirping with life had suddenly quieted to the disturbing presence that had arrived. My heart began to beat faster, and my eyes narrowed.

"Cloud what's wrong?"

I turned to look at Tifa, she could always read me like a book, even when we were children. I wanted to tell her the unusual occurrences that had rapidly changed the atmosphere of the ruins. Those eyes of hers, they were always searching me. I really wished they hadn't but as they looked into my soul through my eyes Tifa said what had exactly been on my mind.

"He's here...isn't he?"

As usual she was right. I slowly nodded my head in reply. "Yeah, I guess you could say I felt him arrive."

Suddenly it came to me that if he was here...

"Aeris..."

I dashed ahead, determined to beat him to whatever goal he had in mind. Everything left my mind, as I thought of only the safety of her.

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-Tifa's POV-

"Cloud! Wait up!" I cried, as he quickly moved forward. For a guy carrying a huge sword like that on his back, he was remarkably agile.

He weaved in and out of rooms quickly checking for any sign of Aeris. The monsters that got in our way were quickly dispatched by a swift swing of cloud's sword, and his accuracy and precision with the blade seemed to have been multiplied ten fold. As he slashed through the hordes of fiends the stillness in the air I felt was disturbing. Could the presence of one man be so intimidating that the world itself would stop during his passing? I pushed the thought out of my head. It wouldn't help to think such things. All that mattered at the moment was finding Aries and making sure she was safe.

I only wish that Cloud would have felt that passionately for me as he did for Aries. A sharp ping of pain suddenly stung my heart. I wish he would realize the feelings I harbored for him. I had always tried to be there for Cloud when the circumstances allowed me to be, but he seemed not to notice how I felt about him. Or maybe he knew how I did, but realized that he loved another...more than me...Aeris...

To know that I would never be the object of his affections, like Aeris, only brought another sharp ping of pain to my heart. I winced at the thought that Cloud would never call out my name. He would never yell out "Tifa! Where are you?" Or anything remotely similar for that matter. It could happen only in my dreams, and even those didn't seem believable.

"Aeris! Are you ok!" Cloud cried as we continued to fight through the fiends.

Once again he yelled out her name in a desperate search for her. What else could I do but help him look. Every time I glazed at those big blue cerulean orbs my legs felt weak and all I wanted to do was to continue to forever gaze into those eyes of his. I wanted to see if he felt anything toward me like I felt toward him. Yet, every time I looked into his eyes all I saw was concern, not love. This comforted me to the point that at least he did feel somewhat of compassion for me, but for him to love another when I was always trying to be there to help him, to love him. The pain was beginning to really starting to hurt me inside.

I couldn't blame Aeris. She was cute, fun-loving, caring, and compassionate for all living things. She had a gentle touch with plants, animals and people alike. Thinking about it that way, I suppose that's why cloud liked her. I was sought of a tomboy with a black short skirt, a white tank top shirt, boyish gloves, and worn boots. On the other hand, Aeris, wore a pink button up dress, small red jacket, kept her hair nice, and maintained its beautiful weaved look. My hair, on the other hand, I had barely ever maintained and usually just tied to bottom of it to keep it in check. Maybe Cloud just preferred girls who were more umm...girlish?

But why was I thinking about this now though? I turned back from my thoughts and threw a punch filled with frustration at a fiend heading in my direction. My punch landed right on target and the fiend I hit flew across the room into a near by pillar. I flipped across the piles of defeated fiends left in Cloud's wake, Cloud apparently ran ahead of me while I was deep in thought.

I quickly surveyed the room and then picked up the pace of my running speed to catch up with him.

"Aeris!" My call went up like the last one had. Alone, and unanswered.

I couldn't help to feel that his presence here foreshadowed a not so bright future. With that in mind I ran down the corridor following the distant sounds of the steps left by Cloud hoping that both he and Aeris would both turn up fine when I finally caught up to him.

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-Yuffie POV-

"Where is everyone...?"

"Hellooooo!"

"Shhheez."

This was like typical of Cloud and Tifa, first they call me on PMS saying that Aeris is missing asking for my help and everything, and the next minute they ditch me in the middle of this place. Why did they have to be so mean, especially when I went out of my way to help them.

"O well, doesn't really matter to me anyways, I didn't really feel like doing anything today so there."

I really couldn't stand this place. The dark corridors and the unsettling mood made me extremely uneasy as if something could jump out at me. I didn't want to appear helpless but compared to cloud, he always made me look weak...I hated that especially when he had to help me. I really hated that. In fact out of most things I probably hated that most.

"Stupid spiky haired jerk... (mumbling)...leaving...me here...to fend for myself." Slowly walking deeper into the ruins I grew tired of looking for Aries. If she wanted to be found, I thought, she would have shown up a long time ago.

"I'm going to have to remember to hit him later for leaving me out here." Though thoroughly pissed for being lost and tired, I couldn't help but notice a shift in the atmosphere

Gripping my boomerang knife around the center, the sudden quietness of the place without the activity of the wildlife made me feel very unsettled. I couldn't help but feel a little scared. It had felt as if the animals had felt the despair in the air and had run to take cover. But what could cause that...?

I couldn't stand around here and wonder about that now though could I?

"Cloud! Tifa! Where are you guys! Don't leave me here!" I yelled as loud as I could in hopes of them hearing me. Normally I wouldn't ask for anyone's help, especially not that dumb jerk's help, but neither did I want to be caught out here by myself with whatever had intimidated mother nature.

- Down in the Centra Ruins - Waters of Prayer -

As Cloud looked back among the carnage that lay behind him he was briefly pulled out of his fleeting worry for Aeris to finally notice that Tifa was gone, and for that matter so was Yuffie.

"Tifa! Yuffie!"

Cloud's voice echoed through the dark corridors bouncing from one wall to the next yet never making it to its destination.

Cloud let out a sigh, in his impatience he left two of his party members behind. He felt a tinge of guilt cross over him as he realized that in rushing to protect Aries, he left two of his other friends in danger.

Slowly shaking his head, he cast out the doubt and assured himself that they would be fine. Tifa wouldn't lose to a few fiends nor would Yuffie with her attitude. Though trying his best to assure himself that they would be safe, he slowly walked away, looking back across his shoulder to see if they might catch up to him.

"Can you hear me!" Cloud yells, as he continues to back up.

A strong gust of wind suddenly flows through the chamber's entrance quickly blowing cloud back with an enough force that he almost loses his balance and falls into the waters below.

"...So your here now..." Cloud whispers to himself as the wind dies down as quickly as it had started up.

"I have to hurry...I doubt I have much time left"

Cloud quickly turns around from the door and starts to descend even lower into the ruins, feeling that Aeris was close, but so was he...

As cloud jumps from stair to stair he sees a beautiful sanctuary in a middle of a pool. The sanctuary glistening by the pure sparkling water surrounding it. Looking toward the front of the sanctuary was stepping stones which could be used to get to reach it. After observing the breathtaking beauty of the sight before him, Cloud looked toward the middle and his eyes lit up as he saw who he had been looking for this whole time.

"Aeris!" Cloud jumped down to the stepping stones and started to hop across each one in order to reach her.

He noticed that she was kneeling as if in pray but for what he wondered. It was of no importance to Cloud, as he raced to embrace her. She was safe and that was all that mattered to him now.

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Aeris looked up at Cloud.

"What was he doing here?" She thought as she saw the relieved expression on cloud's face. Sadly though this was going to be one of the last things that Aerith Gainsborough would ever think.

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As Tifa ran down the stairs she came up from behind Cloud and saw him running to Aries.

A look a submission washed over Tifa. Cloud wanted Aeris, not her. She couldn't stand to see them together. It should be her with him, not them together. As Tifa started to look away she saw a glint of silver reflect off a shiny object above Aeris. The object slowly turns into a recognizable long blade owned by only one person.

"...Sephiroth..." Tifa could do nothing but stare in disbelief as he fell closer and closer toward Aeris, the target for his blade.

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Yuffie continued to run through the corridors of the ruins sure that she was catching up to party and more importantly Aries.

"Ewwwww!" Yuffie whined as she continued to run through the narrow pathway, "I can't believe I got Fiend all over my nice boots!"

Squinting her eyes so she could see, she notices a small light at the end of the corridor.

"Finally! I can get outta this creepy place and..."

Before she can finish her sentence she sees Tifa staring upward wide eyed in disbelief.

"Tifa what's wrong..." Yuffie begins to ask, but quickly notices the figure rapidly descending from the heavens upon Aries.

"O my god, Aeris! Move! Run! Get out of there! Hurry!" Yuffie yells in a panic. Unable to do much more. She begins to scream.

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As Cloud nears Aries he can't help but feel relief that she is ok.

"Aeris!" Cloud yells with a smile.

But as quickly as cloud had obtained the happiness he had seeked a long white haired, dark figure dressed in black looms above Aries standing tall.

Cloud can't comprehend what had just happened. How could the feeling of relief he had just felt just mere seconds ago, turn into fear, anxiety, anger, hate, confusion. All of these overwhelm him as Cloud drops to his knees with a blank stare of hopelessness washing over him.

The girl that he had fought so hard to protect against the forces around her that had wanted to harm her now had a sword that was deeply pierced inside her body. Her green eyes which had been teeming with life were now fading into listless dull marbles.

Cloud couldn't believe it, he refused to believe it.

All he could hear was a woman's ear shattering scream as Aeris's body feel slowly to the floor with him standing above it smiling.

Well there ya have it the first installment of what i hope will be a good story.

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