Under Birth
by dentedsky
#50 –
Wood
He thought about many things and Brother was the foremost
as he pushed up from the gravel, glass and broken wood; because it
was all Brother's fault, and nothing was going to change his lust
for revenge.
#49 – Winter
Cloud knew it was going
to be one of those crappy nights because of the fact that it never
fucking snowed in Midgar and yet it did now, big droopy bits of it,
and a person down the street who looked exactly like... but it
couldn't have been, because they were dead.
#48 –
Welcome
"CLONEs are sterile and therefore we breed a
different way, by being reborn and – honestly, I'm surprised you
don't know – so I'm sort of his son and yet I know you,
so Brother, are you going to stand there in your doorway gawking at
me or are you going to let me in?"
#47 - Water
He
had to hold tight to his seat lest he fall off and hit his head and
it would explode and he would die... because Yazoo, the thin,
trigger-happy, good-looking one was using his shower and he could
hear the woosh of the water... he swallowed hard.
#46
- War
To justify their... tentative relationship, it was easy
to blame Shin-Ra and their despicable lust for creating super-human
soldiers; and so there they were, blaming it all on trench
fever.
#45 - Ugly
The next time Cloud saw Yazoo was
at 3 o'clock in the morning at a gay strip club called 'Sphere'
(he didn't go there often, really, but he'd been confused for the
last few days and needed alcohol) and Yazoo was there, half naked
with ugly faces leering at him and all Cloud wanted to do was wrap a
blanket around Yazoo's thin shoulders and take him home.
#44
- Taboo
Yazoo said he was sorry, though Cloud was still
giving him the silent treatment, until Yazoo dropped a tabby kitten
on Cloud's lap and said "his name is Taboo; like Yazoo only not
as cool."
#43 - Summer
Yazoo hates Cloud; hates
Cloud for killing his brothers and hates his silence and hates his
guilt and his eyes like crystal water and hair like the spun thread
of summer... but most of all he hates him because he loves him, which
is the bare root of Yazoo's despair.
#42 -
Strange
There was an error made when they were mixing Yazoo's
genetic cocktail; it made him strange and moody but the worst of it
was the seizures he had a couple of times a year, and Cloud had to
ride to what was left of the Sector 6 Markets to get the
antidote.
#41 - Stable
"I have... chocobo stables
east from here, and if you want to, we can go for a couple of days
and... you can ride the gold one, if you want."
#40 -
Spring
Yazoo's jealousy of Denzel springs from seemingly
nowhere; it's irrational and unnamed fear, all because Cloud looks
at Denzel and smiles.
#39 - Solid
Yazoo
accidentally walked in on Cloud when he was getting changed and Yazoo
had to clench his jaw to stifle his moan - because Cloud's chest
was hairless, solid and creamy-white.
#38 - Snow
"It
always snows when you're around," murmured Cloud, glancing away
from the snow flakes like glitter in Yazoo's hair and lashes.
#37
- Snakes
He dreams of Yazoo naked and walking towards him
in a garden full of life, and there are snakes wrapped around his
thin shoulders but he's smiling, smiling, smiling and there's
something red in his hand, lifting it forward...
#36 -
Secret
Tifa looked at Cloud in sad desperation that night,
wondering why he was keeping secrets again when they could be so
close, best friends even; but Cloud spent all his time in his small,
dark apartment these days.
#35 - Roses
Cloud wasn't
particularly good with words, especially saying sorry or I love you,
and so he did the next best thing: he bought Yazoo roses (and Yazoo
just stared at them in mild disgust but that's another story
altogether.)
#34 - Regret
...And Cloud regretted
killing Kadaj but not Sephiroth, and he regretted staring at Yazoo's
lips but not his pale wrists, and he regretted telling his friends
about Yazoo but he certainly didn't regret letting him back into
his life.
#33 - Rain
"I'm sure you know by now
Brother, that when they made me they made me mixed up – I think I
was supposed to be female because I'm addicted to... haha, I'm
addicted to sex in a way that is just twisted, and only standing in
freezing cold rain stops it for a while."
#32 - Pretty
The stage production of Loveless had re-opened and
afterwards, when they were standing under the bright lights of the
city did Cloud look at Yazoo, then kissed him softly, because Yazoo
was pretty, so pretty; then Yazoo slapped him across the face
and told him he wasn't a girl so don't call him pretty, thank you
very much.
#31 - Poison
Yazoo thought about hitting
Brother over his head with a mallet, or running him over with a
car... then he decided poison in his dinner wine was a lot more
elegant, only when Cloud went to sip it Yazoo knocked it out of his
hand.
#30 - Peace
The two of them could never lead
a peaceful life, but they could try, and perhaps it could always be
peaceful behind the bedroom door where Cloud kissed Yazoo a second
time and this time, Yazoo did not protest.
#29 - Old
When
Cloud came home Yazoo was laughing so hard he was clutching his
stomach, which was strange in itself, but then he saw his own old
things strewn around the lounge room – including the his silk
purple dress and blonde wig.
#28 - New
They stared
at the motorbike now in two parts, and Yazoo told Cloud he either had
to somehow glue the two pieces back together or buy him a new
one.
#27 - Metal
Cloud felt the cool, sharp blade
against his bare back, but by then it was too late – Yazoo already
had tears in his eyes and was whispering, "It's your fault, all
your fault..."
#26 - Lost
He felt lost in the
sheets of his own bed, because Yazoo had left in the early hours of
morning.
#25 - Light
Cloud's light had dimmed and
they did not understand why, until Cloud couldn't even drink
Yuffie's sake and Vincent said, "He's in love."
#24
- Hope
Cloud believed Yazoo would come back someday, but
waiting was never Cloud's strong suit – he left as soon as he
could to go look for him.
#23 - Honour
"I honour
you family and I respect your feelings, but even if I kiss you here,"
–kiss- "or here" –kiss- "or even here" –lick-
"nothing much is going to change because the past is behind
us."
#22 - Hollow
It was the hollow of Brother's
throat that Yazoo liked best, because Yazoo could sit over him and
pour hot honey into the dip and then lap it away.
#21 -
Head
It was The Plan of the Century to get Cloud to talk of
his strange private life; so Yuffie was only a little guilty for
making Cloud drink so much he had a headache in the morning.
#20
- Green
They were Cloud's favourite – milk chocolate with
bright green, peppermint filling, and Cait Sith danced around him
chanting if you don't tell me who it is you won't get any!
then shrieked in agony when Cloud stole the chocolates and kicked him
over the wall.
#19 - Grave
Vincent took him to
Lucrecia's waterfall of all places, and said "Remember when I
told you my deepest darkest secret?" but Cloud only looked at him
in confusion.
#18 - Foot
Tifa had put her foot
down: no more lies, she had said, no more secrets, it's time you
told me why you're keeping a Sephiroth clone in your
apartment.
#17 - Food
When Cloud thought of food
with sex he could only imagine two obese people going at it with
cream and doughnuts, but the new experiences with Yazoo taught him
that peppermint, ginger and cinnamon were more than just herbs.
#16
- Flying
Neither of them could actually fly; but they could
hover and tread air then watch each other fall.
#15 -
Flexible
Cloud knew how flexible Yazoo was when they had been
fighting, so he anticipated that the sex would be good; but he was
wrong: it was absolutely fucking fantastic.
#13 - Fall
He
and Kadaj and Loz had watched Meteor fall from the Midgar mountains,
and when the planet saved the humans he knew it was a human whom he
had to blame.
#12 - End
Brother's friends all
knew now, and it was an end to their blissful relationship; because
within the next week the Deep Soldiers came and ruined peace.
#11
- Earth
The Deep Soldiers came from deep within the planet
and Cloud and Yazoo looked at one another and knew it was their time
to fight yet again.
#10 - Duty
It was now Cloud's
duty to keep Yazoo's mental state stable now that he was going a
little insane with pure blood lust.
#09 - Drink
Cloud
pressed his lips to Yazoo's shoulder where Yazoo had been hit by a
poison dark and sucked the poison out; it was a lethal move on
Cloud's part but Yazoo's eyes were fluttering, and Cloud's eyes
were watering, and something exploded in the distance yet still
Vincent's gunshots could be heard... there was still hope, as there
had to be.
#08 - Doors
Yazoo opened one of the
doors to the reactor they were investigating, then looked over his
shoulder where Cloud was on the phone to Vincent again... he
scowled.
#07 - Despair
Weiss took one look at Yazoo
and Yazoo knew it was his maker he was seeing, knew he knew, and
Yazoo blushed in shame.
#06 - Dark
As Yazoo pulled
Brother's shoulder guard away, he saw that his blood was black in
the darkening light, but worst of all was the fact that Brother
wouldn't look him in the eye.
#05 - Coffee
To be
on the Shera away from harm, to have clean clothes not soaked with
blood and Mako, to drink a real cup of coffee... oh, but it
was nothing compared to finding Yazoo alive after two days of having
lost each other in the ruins of Kalm.
#04 - Bugs
...and
the bugs in Mideel, he could not stand the bugs, they got into his
food, tangled in his silver hair; and he knew Brother meant well when
he sent him to the Mideel Hospital but seriously, the bugs!
#03
- Beginning
"This is the beginning of the end," repeated
Rosso, staring at them and smirking, and then she frowned at their
clasped hands.
#02 - Apples
Cloud dreams again of
Yazoo naked and walking in a calm, fragrant garden; and there's
snakes slithering in his arms and around his shoulders, and he holds
out a ripe red fruit, urging Cloud to take it...
#01 -
Air
They could only hover before, but now they can
fly, and although Cloud is dying so is Yazoo, with their bodies light
as air.
End
