Absolute Chaos by: DarkKnightSephiroth
A/N: Okay firstly I'mma point out that I've changed quite a few things in the Final Fantasy universe like 1:Sephiroth and Aeris are now related as Half brother and sister it'll be explained later 2: Sephiroth has now realized Jenova is using him and has turned against her 3: It's after the end of FF7 Yes that is possible because as most people know the final fantasy advent children Movie coming out Is going to take place 2 years after it and Sephiroth was still in there so no if you beat the game He STILL isn't dead yet ( Oh yea and 3rd the Crossover part doesn't happen for awhile Cuz I made it happen a certain way.ah you'll see just read!
CH:1-Rebirth & Romance
Sephiroth fell back his wing disintegrated as he fell and the only thought that went through his head was "why?" "why didn't I win?" as he fell the he realized it "I'm on the wrong side.that's why" He focused on this thought as he hit the ground Cloud and the others were already on their way out of the base seeing as it was falling apart the made their escape to the airship the "High wind" and flew away thinking they had won everybody went separate ways for awhile but they all met up again on the anniversary of that day in the city of the ancients where the quest had really begun at least where it really began for Cloud anyway He stood staring at the place where Aeris had stood and remembered how Sephiroth had run her through with his sword to prevent her from finishing the spell that would have prevented everything and how he had been powerless to stop it.
"Aeris..it's over. I've avenged you." He said looking down into the water where her body had been laid to rest. "Not quite." Came a voice from behind and Cloud knew he recognized it but he had no idea where from until he turned and saw Sephiroth "YOU! How are you alive?!" Cloud drew his sword and prepared to attack him but Sephiroth just laughed and walked right past him "You know there's no way you can beat me by yourself so put your sword down I'm not here to fight anyway.." Sephiroth headed toward the large pool of water "Then why..?" Clouds' voice trailed off as he saw Sephiroth enter the pool of water "I .I think I understand now Why you're here.. but why do you care?" Sephiroth looked back at Cloud "Why do I care?.because she is my sister" and with that he
disappeared as a look of pure surprise hit Cloud "Sister?!" Sephiroth reappeared with Aeris body in his arms "she hasn't decayed at all.must be the water here.good it makes it easier to revive her." He began to glow a bit and the ground near him broke and some mako came out and went straight into Aeris' body and in a flash of bright light Aeris was revived she opened her eyes slowly she looked up at Sephiroth "thank you big brother."and she hugged him tightly "..a..a.Aeris..." Cloud said her name so softly it was barely even a whisper but it was enough for Aeris to turn to see him standing there "Cloud!" She ran to him and embraced him warmly "Aeris.I thought there was." "Shh."she silenced him with a kiss and looked around to see if anyone else was around and spotted Barret in the doorway and waved to him "hey Barret" He just walked in causally at first before stopping and yelling "WHAT THE HELL IS GOIN ON HERE?!" He said looking toward Aeris "You! Aren't you dead?! And WHY THE HELL IS SEPHIROTH WITH YA'LL?!" He turned and aimed his gun arm at Sephiroth
"Barret wait."Cloud stepped in between the two "he brought back Aeris.I owe him now" "you don't owe him nothin' this bastards put us through some serious shit and it don't make no sense to go and save his ass now sure he brought back Aeris and all but he was the one who killed her to begin with!" Aeris now stood next to Cloud "Well what are you going to do then Barret? Will you fight the three of us? Because if you attack my brother I will defend him and Cloud will defend me there is no reason to fight Sephiroth now he has finally realized the truth and what he should have been doing so let him be."
Barret stood there for a moment stunned by the fact that they were defending Sephiroth of all people the person that he killed and her boyfriend were defending him "..fine..and what's this crap about him bein your brother? That's some brother there killin his sister and tryin to destroy the world with an evil being" "He IS my brother we have the same mother but they did something to him.they added things to him so he's really more of a half brother but I still think of him as a brother just the same" Sephiroth was stunned he didn't expect to be welcomed so warmly by her and he definitely didn't expect Cloud stepping in when he did why were they just forgetting the past and moving on?.was it really that easy for them?. "Umm.If I may interrupt We still have to find Jenova before she finds mother." Sephiroth said calmly. "Oh that's right we have to find mother" Aeris said turning to him. "Your mother but I thought your mother was dead! And I thought Jenova was your mother Sephiroth! The hell is goin on round here?!"
"Jenova.Is not my mother. I thought she was but in fact she isn't Its all lies. My mother is lucretia also known as ifalna. I figured this out when I double checked professor ghasts records and hojos' records I found both names with the exact same picture." Was Sephiroths' reply "ooooh I get it name change huh?" "Yea" "So where do we go from here?" Cloud asked "I don't know But I do know we have to find Jenova I know she's still alive" With that Sephiroth started heading toward the High wind "Oh Wait!" Aeris said walking after him "The others still don't know about you yet if they see you and I'm not around they might attack you." "don't worry bout me I can handle myself with them besides there 2 that I want to pay visits to anyway." He said with a smirk and phasing through the hull "two that he wants to pay visits to?" "Whats that supposed to mean?!" She yelled after him knowing he couldn't hear her anymore. "I think 1 of those 2 is probably Tifa" Cloud said.
On the observation deck Of the High Wind
Sephiroth had just phased in and he saw Tifa standing at the railing looking out at the scenery "Hey there" he said walking towards her slowly as she turned to see who the voice was not recognizing it off hand she froze the instant she saw him by which time he was standing only inches from her. "y.y.you! How are..why are.how did you."her voice trailed off and suddenly she realized she was all alone with him and suddenly she was very afraid the last time they'd been this close was in Nibelham the day he'd burned it down and that time he'd slashed her diagonally from her shoulder down to her gut she still had a scar on her chest Who knows what he'd do to her this time. He saw the fear evident in her eyes and said softly. "Don't worry I'm not here to hurt you." And for some reason she relaxed slightly something in his voice made her want believe him though she still kept her guard.
"Well then why are you here?" She said looking at him questioningly while trying to think of a way to get the others she may not Be in immediate danger there was no telling what he would do he could carry her off and hold her hostage for all she knew. Sephiroth walked past her and leaned on the railing. "Ya know it's a nice view.You can relax I'm not gonna run off with you or something if that's what your thinking kidnapping isn't my style. Come on over here." Tifa stood there in shock was he serious? Not wanting to offend him or chance sparking any anger by not going She walked over timidly and leaned on the rail next to him. He looked over at her "Hey Tifa.back in Nibelham when Zack and I were with Cloud and the soldiers and were there to investigate the reactor..you had a crush on me then didn't you?..well until I burned it down at least. Right?"
She was surprised again by him and wasn't sure what to say where was
all this
coming from? And what was he getting at? back then she had had a crush
on
him that was pretty obvious from how she was giddy as a school girl
around
him.but that was before he burned down her town and killed her family
and
almost killed her as well. But standing here now with him and him
being The way
he was then she had to admit she was starting to feel it again like a
schoolgirl
standing right in front of her secret crush and talking to him for the
first time. "Yes
I did."She said softly "and how about now?" he asked.
At that she almost freaked out as the ramifications of that question
went through
ran through her mind she couldn't tell him she liked him not now
especially not after all that's happened and not after her finally
telling Cloud she
loved him. "I.No I can't.I couldn't not after all you've done."
"I see."he said "well I'm off I just wanted to know how exactly some
of you felt.
Oh by the way I'll be hanging around from now on so you'll be seeing a
lot of
me." "Huh?" she said looking puzzled as he headed inside. He Turned
the corner
and ran right into Yuffie. "Hey watch it!" she yelled "sorry bout
that." He said and
continued walking "Hey wait aren't you.." "hm?" he said turning to
face her. "It
IS you What're you doing here?!" she said getting into a battle pose.
"Noting
really.Matter of fact I'm your new roommate." "huh?! Say what?!" She
said "Just
kidding." He said chuckling "But I wouldn't mind if it did turn out
that way bunking
with a cute girl like you.." as he said that she blushed then realized
what she was
doing "HEY! You cut that out bein all nice and stuff what's your
angle?" "There
isn't one. But I really will be around go talk to Cloud or Aeris if
you want some
answers." He said walking of down the hall "Hey wait! I'm coming with
you I think
hanging around you will be a bit more beneficial to me anyway" "I
don't have my
sword on me so there's no materia for you to steal." "Oh..well
that's fine I'll
still walk with you." "heh so you were looking for materia." "Always"
she answered
smirking.
After that they walked in silence until Vincent Came down the opposite
end of the
hall and Sephiroth stopped "you.I know you don't I?" Vince just
looked at him
for a moment ".Yes you do. I am one of the ones responsible for your
existence. I foolishly stood by and let it happen." "I see so your
purpose became
to end that existence then?" "No it became to repent for my sins and
for all the evils YOU committed. I sentenced myself to an eternal slumber in a coffin in the very mansion where your terror began but Cloud and the others found me and I heard you were still alive so of course I came with them to try and actively repent
instead of sleeping while you tore the world asunder."
"..Well that's all changed
now Jenova's the enemy now and I've joined up with you guys so you'll
just have
to put up with me from now on. Oh and do you know where mother is?"
having
been a turk and also dealing with hojo on a regular basis in the past
had taught
Vincent to ignore the smart remarks so he just answered sephiroths'
question
"Mother? You mean Lucretia? She used to be near a water fall.. but
she moved
again and I haven't seen her since. Why? " "She's in danger Jenova is
after her
to merge with her and become complete again."
"WHAT?!..Oh no.she's figured it out.We have to find Lucretia! Or the whole universe will suffer." "The whole universe?" Yuffie asked "How can anything be powerful enough to threaten the universe?!" "If Jenova finds Lucretia before we do You'll find out." Vincent answered "And how do we know you aren't just acting as if you were a good guy for now to use us to find Lucretia for you so Jenova can get to her?" A voice said from the shadows before slowly stepping forward to reveal it was RedXIII also known as Nanaki. "I suppose you don't" Sephiroth said "but you'll just have to trust me for now you don't really have a choice after all you have to go looking for Lucretia either way."
Back in the city of Ancients Cloud and Aeris are sitting next to each other in front of the pool of water into which she had come out of. Barret has gone back to the high wind to give them some time alone and to keep an eye on Sephiroth
"Why do you think Sephiroth wanted to pay a visit to Tifa Cloud?" Aeris said looking at him curiously. " "I don't know "He said shrugging "maybe he has a thing for her or something." At that they both laughed "but hey speaking of having a thing for someone.What about Tifa and you?" "huh? What about me and her?" he said trying to think of a way to avoid having to answer he didn't want to talk about her right now all her cared about was Aeris now she was alive again having her die made him realize how he felt and he knew now that she was alive again him and Tifa would never be." You know exactly what I mean I want to know if you and her have gotten together yet After all I have been dead for a year I'd like to be brought up to speed." She said laying her head on his shoulder
."Aeris." He put his arm around her "Nothing happened between me and Tifa. though I don't know how she'll take the news of you being alive again or the news that I've decided.I want to be with you." "Cloud.I've wanted to hear you say that for so long.even when I was dead and my spirit was with the earth I still thought of you..I was watching when fought Sephiroth and I saved you from falling as well.." "I know.I saw you only briefly but I did." She smiled and then kissed him. "come on lets go back to the highwind before Sephiroth starts some a fight or something.."She said a moment later cloud was hesitant to move at first he wanted their time alone to last a bit longer but what could he do? She was right After all Sephiroths somewhat cold attitude almost never changed.
Sometimes Cloud wondered if he even had emotions and that attitude linked with the fact he was supposed to be everyone on that ships mortal enemy pretty much ensured a fight unless some things were explained and did They ever need to explain a lot to everyone especially those that weren't there from the beginning like cid, cait sith, and Yuffie. Vincent hadn't been there but he knew enough to understand he was linked in the same story they were just he was in longer hell he knew more about sephiroth and his mother than cloud did." Alright.lets go." he said getting up and waiting for her before heading toward the highwind When they got there Sephiroth and Yuffie were having some fun with Cid "oh lets stop them Cloud" Aeris said seeing the argument "No lets wait a bit and see what happens I'll stop it if it gets to serious but Yuffie looks like she's playing around. and oddly so does Sephiroth."
"What the hell is this?!" Cid said looking at Yuffie and sephiroth standing side by side "The Hell?! Have you lost your mind Yuffie?! THAT'S SEPHIROTH!!!" "I know" she said calmly holding back a laugh. Sephiroth knew what she was doing but he didn't care really after all why not have some fun with it? He thought to himself as he decided to go along with it.
"YOU KNOW?! THE HELL IS THAT S'POSE TO MEAN?! WHAT DID YOU OPEN THE FREAKIN DOOR FOR HIM OR SOMETHING?!" "mmmaybe" She said still trying to hold back laughter. "OH SO YOU'RE A TRAITOR NOW HUH?! I BET YOU WERE GONNA JUST LET HIM IN AND HAVE HIM KILL US ALL IN OUR SLEEP! "
"Oh how did you guess ?" Sephiroth said "We thought it'd be best if you went in the night you know no suffering and whatnot." Yuffie looked at him slightly surprised he was actually going with it and not ruining her joke. "OH THAT'S IT NOW! I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU TWO WHAT ARE YOU LOVERS NOW?! HOW WOULD YOU EVEN KNOW EACHOTHER?!?"
"Actually we are you know you'd make a real good psychic." Sephiroth said coolly. Yuffie clung to him and seconded it "Yep you would." She said on the verge of bursting out laughing. "THE FUCK?! YOU MOTHERFFUCKING BASTARD WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?! THAT'S NOT THE YUFFIE I KNOW " "Oh but I am he didn't do anything to me I just kinda followed him one day.. " Now Sephiroth was the one about to laugh because he knew that one day she was talking about was today.
"OH I AM SOOOOOOOO GONNA KICK BOTH YOUR ASSES!!" cid said now done talking since he didn't want to know anymore of whatever it was he thought he knew and he took out his spear and charged Yuffie only to have Sephiroth grab the spear and toss him back. "Okay That's enough!" Cloud said finally stepping into the room with Aeris right behind him. "Awww."Yuffie said looking and seeing Cloud and Aeris "YES! You two! Hah! Your in trouble now Yuffie! You two Sephiroth!..Hey wait.Aren't you dead?" Cloud explained everything to cid while Yuffie burst out laughing watching his reactions even Sephiroth chuckled at some of them. After words Cid felt really.really.stupid then he was pissed again at them for tricking him "YOU TWO! Trickin me!
The hell is wrong with you ?! I coulda killed you! Or You coulda killed me! and What about the others if one of them had shown up You'd a been in some deep shit. And YOU Mister Cold and Careless Since when do YOU go with Jokes like that?! "
"since the end results are as funny as the ones we're getting right now" Sephiroth said chuckling and cloud and Aeris laughed too in fact the only one not laughing was Cid he was pissed. "you know what? TO HELL with ALL of you!" He said storming off to find Barret. Barret wouldn't laugh at him Barret would prolly get mad and help him get revenge.
A few hours later now about 7:30P.M.
"Whaddaya mean you won't help me?!" Cid yelled "Just like I said I ain't getting involved man it just ain't smart I Didn't like chasing round Sephiroth before And you want me to mess with him now that He'll be sleeping on the same damn airship?! You must think I'm crazy." Barrett said trying not to get too loud. Cid sighed "I guess your right its no use even if I did get him back if I pissed him off enough he'd just run me through in my sleep." He sighed again "Damn it all.But what about Yuffie? You'll help me get her right?" Cid said looking hopeful "Nope" Barret replied "Aww come on man why not?" "Her temper is worse than Sephiroths she may not kill us but it'd be a world of pain I'd rather not explore." "Chicken-wuss.I'm outta here then." Cid said leaving a PO'ed Barret behind "THE HELL HE THINK HE IS CALLUN ME A CHICKEN WUSS?!" Barret yelled shooting pretty much everything in the room fortuneately nobody else was around.
Else where on the High wind. Tifa Cloud And Aeris are standing on the Deck Cloud is in the middle Tifa to his right and Aeris on his left. All Looking at the scenery in silence Before Finally One of them speaks up.
"Umm.Cloud?" Tifa said tired of the silence and knowing the reason for it was probably because there was something he had to say that he either didn't want to or didn't know how. "Yes?" "Is there something you need to talk to me about? I mean." She was cut off "Actually there is something he needs to say But I won't force hi to say it" Aeris cut in and then it got quiet again and Cloud knew everybody was waiting on him to say something.
"All right Fine I'll talk." "Finally" Tifa and Aeris said at the same time. "Tifa.Since this whole journey started I've kinda been stuck in between you two kinda like I'm standing inbetween you two right now But When Aeris died." She suddenly had a feeling she knew what he was going to say and understood why it'd taken him so long to think of a way to say it. "When she died it tip the scales.and now with her back alive again they tipped even further.What I'm trying to say is I've decided I'm going to be with Aeris."
Those words hit Tifa like a Mac truck but she was determined not to show it especially not now it'd ruin the rest of the night for everybody and if she let it out now she knew she wouldn't be able to stop it and there was no way she was going to let herself cry like that in front of both of them.then she realized cloud was still talking and hadn't noticed her facial expression because he didn't turn to look at her "....if things had been different who knows." And then Cloud stopped and turned to look at her. "You forgot didn't you?..what I told you you forgot..." "Huh? Forgot what?" Cloud wasn't quite sure what she was talking about "Before we came here I said something to you and you didn't know how to react.and the you said it back to me..but that doesn't matter now because you chose her."Tifa said turning from them so they couldn't see her tears starting to fall and as she walked away Cloud thought hard and remembered what she was talking about "oh...shit...I.." Cloud was mumbling to himself making sure Aeris didn't hear him of course he forgot she was an ancient and could sense their feelings." Cloud how could you forget something like that?!"
"huh? Uh.I.." He stammered "Go talk to her " she said. Cloud shook his head "nuh uh she won't want to even hear my name right now.Its best for me to just leave her alone for awhile and stay out of her way." He said "so that's it huh? Your just going to let her become bitter and hate you for the rest of her life?" Aeris countered "Wha? Tifa wouldn't." he started "I can feel her emotions Cloud.Its not hard the way she's feeling I'd be able to sense them if she was a mile away for me to miss them would be like standing near the edge of a volcano and not knowing if it erupted or not." She said "Wow.that bad huh?" Aeris Nodded looking in the direction Tifa went with a bit of worry.." I hope she doesn't do anything." "Why don't YOU go talk to her then? You're the one who can feel what she's feeling you'd be better off trying to console her besides she isn't mad at you right now just me." Aeris thought about it for a moment."All right.I'll go talk to her" She said walking off to catch up with Tifa.
Tifa was walking fast trying to stop the tears she didn't want everyone on the ship to know what had just happened and as she walked her sadness and anger kept growing "How could he just have forgotten like that?!" She thought "Its like no matter what I'll never mean anything to him.It always been all about her But wait.that one time.yes then he said it and he said it to ME first.He said "I love you" and it was to ME not her But then she comes back to life and suddenly I'm nothing again.Forgotten." and her sadness deepened Inside it felt like everything was being sucked into a black hole and she was going to go out of her mind thinking about it over and over again.she needed something.someone anything anybody just as long as she would feel better she thought turning a corner and then she bumped into Vincent and Sephiroth. Who were talking about Jenova before she bumped into them "Sorry" she said " I wasn't paying attention.." "Don't worry about it.." Sephiroth started to say and then he saw her face "Tifa what's wrong?" Vincent said having noticed it as well.
"Nothing.Just that IDIOT back there." She said " Which one?" Sephiroth said jokingly trying to lighten the mood and it almost worked she almost laughed but then just said "The spikey headed one" "Ooooh that one no wonder he's the dumbest one of all." Sephiroth said still trying to cheer her up This time she chuckled "your right he is." Vincent just let Sephiroth keep talking he didn't really know how to console a girl who'd been hurt emotionally he'd only ever had to do it once.and even then he failed to do a good job she went back.he thought. Vincent shook his head to get the thoughts out of his head "Something wrong?" Sephiroth asked "no its nothing just thinking" he said
Sephiroth looked back to Tifa but she had gone on "Where did she get to?" he said then shrugged figuring he did his part and left it up to everybody else to deal with her especially cloud she was Clouds problem not his and he wasn't going to get anymore involved unless he had to. "Hey Sephiroth how'd you know what to do just now?" "What make fun of cloud? I've always done it just in different ways." "No not that I mean when you tried to make her feel better and matter of fact why did you even bother? I never saw you as exactly caring." "Well all I did what agree with her and say what she wanted to hear its that simple. And I bothered to try because as bothered by whatever cloud did as she was it compromises her fighting ability And if She's still bothered by it when it comes time to fight or if we had to fight in the near future like say Jenova were to attack right now She'd be pretty much useless. And I don't want useless people on my side. " Sephiroth said now back in his emotionless tone
"That's pretty cold She's gonna think you really care you know that could be a bigger problem in the future for you. Or are you just a master actor and really do care at least for her anyway." "Guess you'll never really know now will you?" Sephiroth said walking off down the hall. "hm...guess not" Vincent said turning to look out the window in the hall while he thought.
Tifa Headed to her room now in a bit better mood and was actually glad that someone had noticed and tried to make her feel better she just didn't expect Vincent or Sephiroth to be the ones to notice they were probably last of her list of people Barret Should've noticed but when she went past him just before getting to her room he didn't say anything then something occurred to her.What if Sephiroth actually cared for her? It would explain why he asked her what he did on the deck earlier and also why he was one of the first and only to notice her feelings and the only one to make her feel any better "Nah That's just crazy." She thought "But what if he does" she said to herself beginning to wonder about the possibility of a relationship between her and him and she drifted off into a dream world for a while.
A knock on her door snapped her out of it. "Who is it?" She asked "It's me." Aeris answered from behind the door "oh" She thought for a moment on whether or not to let her in".You can come in as long as That spikey headed Jerk isn't with you." She said and Aeris came in "Tifa I'm really sorry about what happened I didn't know about." "Forget it" Tifa said cutting her off "I'm done with him anyway.not that it matters really he's done with me too so that's that" "uh but."Aeris started and then noticed that Tifas feeling had changed they weren't the raging intensity of Hate and sadness that they were before. She was calmed "No need to bring that back by telling her that cloud told her nothing happened between them" She thought "One would think saying I love you to each other counts as Something happening " She continued thinking "But oh no not to cloud he forgets and doesn't mention it." She sighed "I'm glad your feeling a lot better than before Tifa." She said "Yea I bumped into Sephiroth in the hall." "Hm?" Aeris was curious now she was wondering what could've calmed her so much but hearing Sephiroth was involved perked some interest "What did he give you something else to be mad at?" Tifa laughed "no no nothing like that actually he helped.he's the reason I'm feeling better now he was pretty understanding even though I didn't tell him what had happened.
"I see he probably sensed it too.and just told her exactly what she wanted to hear...but why? Since when does he care that much?" Aeris thought. Tifa could see the surprise on Aeris face and said "I know I didn't expect him to help me out either.I still dunno why he did but I have an idea." "I see don't read too much into hun you'll get hurt by him worse than with cloud if you do." "Don't worry bout me Aeris I can take care of myself and besides I'm not stupid I don't think too much of that its what he said earlier plus that that makes me think what I do." "Earlier?" "yea he asked me something about the past.and my feelings"
Suddenly Aeris didn't like the sound of where she was going "Uh Tifa Please I'm saying this to you as A Friend...Don't Get Involved with him..You won't like how it ends" Aeris said looking quite concerned "oh and how's that?" Tifa asked "With either Him saying "We're done now" and walking off "I don't need you anymore" And walking off or killing you or a combination of those.We're still not even sure if he's going to really do good this time He could just be trying to get to you to use you against the rest of us.So please.Don't I don't want to end up in that kind of situation..At the very least if your going to or feel you must wait awhile until after we start fighting Jenova at least by then we should be certain of his intentions"
"How can you say that about him? He's supposed to be your brother and your supposed to care for him like one regardless of what he's done or so you said and besides he brought you back to life! You should be grateful" Tifa said then realized she was actually defending him and would have smacked herself if Aeris hadn't been standing there. "Yes but still it doesn't erase the fact he killed me to begin with or the fact he almost destroyed the world and tried to kill the rest of you And he burned down your home town And tried to kill you in the SAME DAY How can you sit there and defend him!? Or even think about being with him?!" That was a good question.one Tifa didn't have an answer for. "i..i.I don't know Its just when I talk to him.I mean really truly actually talk to him he seems..different I can't explain it."
"You mean like he is with Yuffie?" Aeris countered "Wha?" Tifa said. "Oh you didn't know did you? Him and Yuffie have been real friendly since he got here even played a trick on Cid together they made Cid think Yuffie was a traitor and her and Sephiroth were lovers and he was gonna kill everyone it was pretty funny he even laughed afterwards when Cloud and I broke it up and told Cid what was really going on." "So.. that doesn't.that doesn't mean anything it just means they became good friends really quickly.." Tifa said trying more to convince herself than Aeris and then she thought about what she'd told Sephiroth Earlier that day. "oh no! what if when I said that he decided to go out with Yuffie instead?!" She thought "and I'm sitting here thinking and wondering about what ifs and maybe even making myself love him and He's already got someone else.I'd die if that happened" She thought and made up her mind she wasn't going to even think about him after this day he was going to remain her hated enemy even if he had cheered her up. And even if he really was an ally now. "I see I've made my point" Aeris said judging from Tifas' silence and the mixed feelings she was sensing."I'll be going now.." She said turning and going out the door leaving Tifa alone to think.
"DAMN HIM! " She thought "HIM AND CLOUD GETTING ME ALL MIXED UP! I'm starting to think there's a conspiracy against me to drive me insane or make me kill myself whichever comes first.." She thought letting herself fall face down on the bed she looked at the clock "wow almost 9 I must have talking for awhile."Or thinking for awhile" she thought she wondered if she should go see if anyone was still up then decided against it and should just try to got to sleep..but 30 minutes later she was still tossing and turning unable to get comfortable at all and she'd tried sleeping while uncomfortable 5 times now her body just simply wouldn't let her go to sleep So she decided to head to the upper deck watch the stars and clouds."Cloud" she thought then shook her head "no. no deck Don't want to be reminded of HIM by now he probably screwing Aeris out of her mind. So I prolly shouldn't go by that way either" she thought. An got up and headed to the bridge Cid was still up and was chuckling while telling himself how much of a genius he was. "Genius for what?" she asked suddenly. "AH!" Cid yelled jumping and turning around." Don't do that!! Shit you scared the hell out of me." "sorry.I was up because I couldn't sleep and well.I just kind of wandered here."
"oh.that's fine.clou.." "Don't you dare say that name around me right now" She interrupted "Ah..ok.So what did the spikey headed guy do this time?" Cid asked. "He Picked Aeris over me after he told me he loved me only the day before." "ouch" was all Cid could say He knew cloud had done something bad but damn that was horrible. Nothing Sephiroth had ever done was as bad as that in Cids' mind "At least Sephiroth would kill people quick Cloud is just emotionally scarring her and leaving her to deal with it on her own."
The more Cid thought about it the more it pissed him off. "Don't go shooting off your mouth at Him" She said seeing he reaction " I've dealt with it and I'm over it I've figured out what I'm going to do from here and that's that I'm just going to move on and forget about him. Though its nice of you to care." She said obviously not her usual self she was talking more like Sephiroth should than her . "Geez did it just get cold in here or is it me? Cuz I just got a icy blast over here." Cid said somewhat offended "Sorry" she said "But I just don't care as much about everyone now.I'm more concerned with myself now and if everyone has a problem with it then that's too bad Deal with it." She said coldly
"Tifa." A voice from the doorway said and she turned to see who it was and there was Cloud "Oh its you..Shouldn't you be in bed with Your precious Aeris right now?" She said even more coldly than when she had just spoken to Cid "Uh I think I'll be going now." Cid said sneaking off. Cloud Looked a bit hurt by what Tifa had said and also was kinda hoping Cid would have stayed around to back him up."Look Tifa I'm sorry.I" he started "Sorry?" She interrupted " Sorry doesn't cut it YOU FORGOT YOU EVEN SAID YOU LOVED ME! AND THAT I'D SAID IT TO YOU! AND YOU EXPECT "I'M SORRY" TO COVER THAT?!" Her anger from before was returning to her now. And cloud could see that talking to her now was a mistake but it was too late to go back now they were talking and they had to finish. "what do you want me to say? I just.When Aeris came back and I saw her and." he started "And Nothing else mattered right?" she finished for him "it wasn't until she asked me about you that I remembered.but by then her and I had hugged we'd kissed and we were sitting by the water.it just felt .It felt." he tried to continue and couldn't quite find the right words at the end
"Good?.Perfect? Like it was supposed to be? Like its how it should have always been? " She interrupted again. "Like How I Felt With you?! Like how you led me on just to Drop me like a rock off a cliff?! " as she said that last part she was starting to cry again. "Tifa.I." he started "Don't say anything to me Cloud Not a word Not ONE DAMN WORD!" She said still crying..she was on the verge of being overcome and just collapsing and crying. When Cloud saw this all he could think to do was to hug her so he did. "Wha.What are you doing?" She said sniffling. "hugging you" "why?" Because you look like you need one" After that she just collapsed onto him and let everything out when she was done the her tears had soaked half of clouds shirt and thy just sat there like that for a long time before she spoke. "Cloud." "Yes?" "moments like these..this is why I love you and I will always love you.even If you don't love me.I know you have Aeris now but I can't just change how I feel."
"I know..Its okay don't worry about it so much we'll figure something out." "okay.." She said and after awhile fell asleep in his arms. Cloud picked her up and carried her back to her room and laid her down Then went to go talk to Aeris. When he got back to her Aeris was waiting for him expectedly "So did you talk to her?" "Yea I talked to her.." "well? What happened?" "She ended up crying a lot and then I hugged her and she just let it all out.then she told me she'd still love me and always would even if I didn't love her back and a little after that she fell asleep in my arms." He said "oh you remembered she actually said it this time" "Hey come on.that was YOUR fault I forgot" "My fault? Whatever Cloud.You just didn't WANT to remember when I came back that's all.You want to have both." "So what do we do now?" he asked "don't ask me its up to you me or her its all or nothing because I'm not sharing." She said and laid down to go to sleep."But what if I can't choose?" He asked "Then I guess you'll get neither one now I'm going to sleep you think about what you want to do okay?" she answered and closed her eyes. Cloud Sighed. "How the hell am I going to pick between the two most important girls in my life?" he thought they were both beautiful they were both generally kind both loved him dearly.he sighed again "this is not going to be easy." he thought to himself as he laid down beside Aeris.
Suddenly in the middle of the night The Ship was rocked with an explosion. Everyone Rushed to the scene and there was...
END CHAPTER 1
HAHAHAHA! I'm Evil Aren't I? I even have most of chapter 2 typed already I easily could've added it in on this one buuuuut I decided I should know whether or not people are going to hang on to this one Cuz its gonna be Looooooooong And hey if I get enough reviews Maybe you'll never have to suffer through one of these Evil cliff hangers again.
A/N: Okay firstly I'mma point out that I've changed quite a few things in the Final Fantasy universe like 1:Sephiroth and Aeris are now related as Half brother and sister it'll be explained later 2: Sephiroth has now realized Jenova is using him and has turned against her 3: It's after the end of FF7 Yes that is possible because as most people know the final fantasy advent children Movie coming out Is going to take place 2 years after it and Sephiroth was still in there so no if you beat the game He STILL isn't dead yet ( Oh yea and 3rd the Crossover part doesn't happen for awhile Cuz I made it happen a certain way.ah you'll see just read!
CH:1-Rebirth & Romance
Sephiroth fell back his wing disintegrated as he fell and the only thought that went through his head was "why?" "why didn't I win?" as he fell the he realized it "I'm on the wrong side.that's why" He focused on this thought as he hit the ground Cloud and the others were already on their way out of the base seeing as it was falling apart the made their escape to the airship the "High wind" and flew away thinking they had won everybody went separate ways for awhile but they all met up again on the anniversary of that day in the city of the ancients where the quest had really begun at least where it really began for Cloud anyway He stood staring at the place where Aeris had stood and remembered how Sephiroth had run her through with his sword to prevent her from finishing the spell that would have prevented everything and how he had been powerless to stop it.
"Aeris..it's over. I've avenged you." He said looking down into the water where her body had been laid to rest. "Not quite." Came a voice from behind and Cloud knew he recognized it but he had no idea where from until he turned and saw Sephiroth "YOU! How are you alive?!" Cloud drew his sword and prepared to attack him but Sephiroth just laughed and walked right past him "You know there's no way you can beat me by yourself so put your sword down I'm not here to fight anyway.." Sephiroth headed toward the large pool of water "Then why..?" Clouds' voice trailed off as he saw Sephiroth enter the pool of water "I .I think I understand now Why you're here.. but why do you care?" Sephiroth looked back at Cloud "Why do I care?.because she is my sister" and with that he
disappeared as a look of pure surprise hit Cloud "Sister?!" Sephiroth reappeared with Aeris body in his arms "she hasn't decayed at all.must be the water here.good it makes it easier to revive her." He began to glow a bit and the ground near him broke and some mako came out and went straight into Aeris' body and in a flash of bright light Aeris was revived she opened her eyes slowly she looked up at Sephiroth "thank you big brother."and she hugged him tightly "..a..a.Aeris..." Cloud said her name so softly it was barely even a whisper but it was enough for Aeris to turn to see him standing there "Cloud!" She ran to him and embraced him warmly "Aeris.I thought there was." "Shh."she silenced him with a kiss and looked around to see if anyone else was around and spotted Barret in the doorway and waved to him "hey Barret" He just walked in causally at first before stopping and yelling "WHAT THE HELL IS GOIN ON HERE?!" He said looking toward Aeris "You! Aren't you dead?! And WHY THE HELL IS SEPHIROTH WITH YA'LL?!" He turned and aimed his gun arm at Sephiroth
"Barret wait."Cloud stepped in between the two "he brought back Aeris.I owe him now" "you don't owe him nothin' this bastards put us through some serious shit and it don't make no sense to go and save his ass now sure he brought back Aeris and all but he was the one who killed her to begin with!" Aeris now stood next to Cloud "Well what are you going to do then Barret? Will you fight the three of us? Because if you attack my brother I will defend him and Cloud will defend me there is no reason to fight Sephiroth now he has finally realized the truth and what he should have been doing so let him be."
Barret stood there for a moment stunned by the fact that they were defending Sephiroth of all people the person that he killed and her boyfriend were defending him "..fine..and what's this crap about him bein your brother? That's some brother there killin his sister and tryin to destroy the world with an evil being" "He IS my brother we have the same mother but they did something to him.they added things to him so he's really more of a half brother but I still think of him as a brother just the same" Sephiroth was stunned he didn't expect to be welcomed so warmly by her and he definitely didn't expect Cloud stepping in when he did why were they just forgetting the past and moving on?.was it really that easy for them?. "Umm.If I may interrupt We still have to find Jenova before she finds mother." Sephiroth said calmly. "Oh that's right we have to find mother" Aeris said turning to him. "Your mother but I thought your mother was dead! And I thought Jenova was your mother Sephiroth! The hell is goin on round here?!"
"Jenova.Is not my mother. I thought she was but in fact she isn't Its all lies. My mother is lucretia also known as ifalna. I figured this out when I double checked professor ghasts records and hojos' records I found both names with the exact same picture." Was Sephiroths' reply "ooooh I get it name change huh?" "Yea" "So where do we go from here?" Cloud asked "I don't know But I do know we have to find Jenova I know she's still alive" With that Sephiroth started heading toward the High wind "Oh Wait!" Aeris said walking after him "The others still don't know about you yet if they see you and I'm not around they might attack you." "don't worry bout me I can handle myself with them besides there 2 that I want to pay visits to anyway." He said with a smirk and phasing through the hull "two that he wants to pay visits to?" "Whats that supposed to mean?!" She yelled after him knowing he couldn't hear her anymore. "I think 1 of those 2 is probably Tifa" Cloud said.
On the observation deck Of the High Wind
Sephiroth had just phased in and he saw Tifa standing at the railing looking out at the scenery "Hey there" he said walking towards her slowly as she turned to see who the voice was not recognizing it off hand she froze the instant she saw him by which time he was standing only inches from her. "y.y.you! How are..why are.how did you."her voice trailed off and suddenly she realized she was all alone with him and suddenly she was very afraid the last time they'd been this close was in Nibelham the day he'd burned it down and that time he'd slashed her diagonally from her shoulder down to her gut she still had a scar on her chest Who knows what he'd do to her this time. He saw the fear evident in her eyes and said softly. "Don't worry I'm not here to hurt you." And for some reason she relaxed slightly something in his voice made her want believe him though she still kept her guard.
"Well then why are you here?" She said looking at him questioningly while trying to think of a way to get the others she may not Be in immediate danger there was no telling what he would do he could carry her off and hold her hostage for all she knew. Sephiroth walked past her and leaned on the railing. "Ya know it's a nice view.You can relax I'm not gonna run off with you or something if that's what your thinking kidnapping isn't my style. Come on over here." Tifa stood there in shock was he serious? Not wanting to offend him or chance sparking any anger by not going She walked over timidly and leaned on the rail next to him. He looked over at her "Hey Tifa.back in Nibelham when Zack and I were with Cloud and the soldiers and were there to investigate the reactor..you had a crush on me then didn't you?..well until I burned it down at least. Right?"
She was surprised again by him and wasn't sure what to say where was
all this
coming from? And what was he getting at? back then she had had a crush
on
him that was pretty obvious from how she was giddy as a school girl
around
him.but that was before he burned down her town and killed her family
and
almost killed her as well. But standing here now with him and him
being The way
he was then she had to admit she was starting to feel it again like a
schoolgirl
standing right in front of her secret crush and talking to him for the
first time. "Yes
I did."She said softly "and how about now?" he asked.
At that she almost freaked out as the ramifications of that question
went through
ran through her mind she couldn't tell him she liked him not now
especially not after all that's happened and not after her finally
telling Cloud she
loved him. "I.No I can't.I couldn't not after all you've done."
"I see."he said "well I'm off I just wanted to know how exactly some
of you felt.
Oh by the way I'll be hanging around from now on so you'll be seeing a
lot of
me." "Huh?" she said looking puzzled as he headed inside. He Turned
the corner
and ran right into Yuffie. "Hey watch it!" she yelled "sorry bout
that." He said and
continued walking "Hey wait aren't you.." "hm?" he said turning to
face her. "It
IS you What're you doing here?!" she said getting into a battle pose.
"Noting
really.Matter of fact I'm your new roommate." "huh?! Say what?!" She
said "Just
kidding." He said chuckling "But I wouldn't mind if it did turn out
that way bunking
with a cute girl like you.." as he said that she blushed then realized
what she was
doing "HEY! You cut that out bein all nice and stuff what's your
angle?" "There
isn't one. But I really will be around go talk to Cloud or Aeris if
you want some
answers." He said walking of down the hall "Hey wait! I'm coming with
you I think
hanging around you will be a bit more beneficial to me anyway" "I
don't have my
sword on me so there's no materia for you to steal." "Oh..well
that's fine I'll
still walk with you." "heh so you were looking for materia." "Always"
she answered
smirking.
After that they walked in silence until Vincent Came down the opposite
end of the
hall and Sephiroth stopped "you.I know you don't I?" Vince just
looked at him
for a moment ".Yes you do. I am one of the ones responsible for your
existence. I foolishly stood by and let it happen." "I see so your
purpose became
to end that existence then?" "No it became to repent for my sins and
for all the evils YOU committed. I sentenced myself to an eternal slumber in a coffin in the very mansion where your terror began but Cloud and the others found me and I heard you were still alive so of course I came with them to try and actively repent
instead of sleeping while you tore the world asunder."
"..Well that's all changed
now Jenova's the enemy now and I've joined up with you guys so you'll
just have
to put up with me from now on. Oh and do you know where mother is?"
having
been a turk and also dealing with hojo on a regular basis in the past
had taught
Vincent to ignore the smart remarks so he just answered sephiroths'
question
"Mother? You mean Lucretia? She used to be near a water fall.. but
she moved
again and I haven't seen her since. Why? " "She's in danger Jenova is
after her
to merge with her and become complete again."
"WHAT?!..Oh no.she's figured it out.We have to find Lucretia! Or the whole universe will suffer." "The whole universe?" Yuffie asked "How can anything be powerful enough to threaten the universe?!" "If Jenova finds Lucretia before we do You'll find out." Vincent answered "And how do we know you aren't just acting as if you were a good guy for now to use us to find Lucretia for you so Jenova can get to her?" A voice said from the shadows before slowly stepping forward to reveal it was RedXIII also known as Nanaki. "I suppose you don't" Sephiroth said "but you'll just have to trust me for now you don't really have a choice after all you have to go looking for Lucretia either way."
Back in the city of Ancients Cloud and Aeris are sitting next to each other in front of the pool of water into which she had come out of. Barret has gone back to the high wind to give them some time alone and to keep an eye on Sephiroth
"Why do you think Sephiroth wanted to pay a visit to Tifa Cloud?" Aeris said looking at him curiously. " "I don't know "He said shrugging "maybe he has a thing for her or something." At that they both laughed "but hey speaking of having a thing for someone.What about Tifa and you?" "huh? What about me and her?" he said trying to think of a way to avoid having to answer he didn't want to talk about her right now all her cared about was Aeris now she was alive again having her die made him realize how he felt and he knew now that she was alive again him and Tifa would never be." You know exactly what I mean I want to know if you and her have gotten together yet After all I have been dead for a year I'd like to be brought up to speed." She said laying her head on his shoulder
."Aeris." He put his arm around her "Nothing happened between me and Tifa. though I don't know how she'll take the news of you being alive again or the news that I've decided.I want to be with you." "Cloud.I've wanted to hear you say that for so long.even when I was dead and my spirit was with the earth I still thought of you..I was watching when fought Sephiroth and I saved you from falling as well.." "I know.I saw you only briefly but I did." She smiled and then kissed him. "come on lets go back to the highwind before Sephiroth starts some a fight or something.."She said a moment later cloud was hesitant to move at first he wanted their time alone to last a bit longer but what could he do? She was right After all Sephiroths somewhat cold attitude almost never changed.
Sometimes Cloud wondered if he even had emotions and that attitude linked with the fact he was supposed to be everyone on that ships mortal enemy pretty much ensured a fight unless some things were explained and did They ever need to explain a lot to everyone especially those that weren't there from the beginning like cid, cait sith, and Yuffie. Vincent hadn't been there but he knew enough to understand he was linked in the same story they were just he was in longer hell he knew more about sephiroth and his mother than cloud did." Alright.lets go." he said getting up and waiting for her before heading toward the highwind When they got there Sephiroth and Yuffie were having some fun with Cid "oh lets stop them Cloud" Aeris said seeing the argument "No lets wait a bit and see what happens I'll stop it if it gets to serious but Yuffie looks like she's playing around. and oddly so does Sephiroth."
"What the hell is this?!" Cid said looking at Yuffie and sephiroth standing side by side "The Hell?! Have you lost your mind Yuffie?! THAT'S SEPHIROTH!!!" "I know" she said calmly holding back a laugh. Sephiroth knew what she was doing but he didn't care really after all why not have some fun with it? He thought to himself as he decided to go along with it.
"YOU KNOW?! THE HELL IS THAT S'POSE TO MEAN?! WHAT DID YOU OPEN THE FREAKIN DOOR FOR HIM OR SOMETHING?!" "mmmaybe" She said still trying to hold back laughter. "OH SO YOU'RE A TRAITOR NOW HUH?! I BET YOU WERE GONNA JUST LET HIM IN AND HAVE HIM KILL US ALL IN OUR SLEEP! "
"Oh how did you guess ?" Sephiroth said "We thought it'd be best if you went in the night you know no suffering and whatnot." Yuffie looked at him slightly surprised he was actually going with it and not ruining her joke. "OH THAT'S IT NOW! I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU TWO WHAT ARE YOU LOVERS NOW?! HOW WOULD YOU EVEN KNOW EACHOTHER?!?"
"Actually we are you know you'd make a real good psychic." Sephiroth said coolly. Yuffie clung to him and seconded it "Yep you would." She said on the verge of bursting out laughing. "THE FUCK?! YOU MOTHERFFUCKING BASTARD WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?! THAT'S NOT THE YUFFIE I KNOW " "Oh but I am he didn't do anything to me I just kinda followed him one day.. " Now Sephiroth was the one about to laugh because he knew that one day she was talking about was today.
"OH I AM SOOOOOOOO GONNA KICK BOTH YOUR ASSES!!" cid said now done talking since he didn't want to know anymore of whatever it was he thought he knew and he took out his spear and charged Yuffie only to have Sephiroth grab the spear and toss him back. "Okay That's enough!" Cloud said finally stepping into the room with Aeris right behind him. "Awww."Yuffie said looking and seeing Cloud and Aeris "YES! You two! Hah! Your in trouble now Yuffie! You two Sephiroth!..Hey wait.Aren't you dead?" Cloud explained everything to cid while Yuffie burst out laughing watching his reactions even Sephiroth chuckled at some of them. After words Cid felt really.really.stupid then he was pissed again at them for tricking him "YOU TWO! Trickin me!
The hell is wrong with you ?! I coulda killed you! Or You coulda killed me! and What about the others if one of them had shown up You'd a been in some deep shit. And YOU Mister Cold and Careless Since when do YOU go with Jokes like that?! "
"since the end results are as funny as the ones we're getting right now" Sephiroth said chuckling and cloud and Aeris laughed too in fact the only one not laughing was Cid he was pissed. "you know what? TO HELL with ALL of you!" He said storming off to find Barret. Barret wouldn't laugh at him Barret would prolly get mad and help him get revenge.
A few hours later now about 7:30P.M.
"Whaddaya mean you won't help me?!" Cid yelled "Just like I said I ain't getting involved man it just ain't smart I Didn't like chasing round Sephiroth before And you want me to mess with him now that He'll be sleeping on the same damn airship?! You must think I'm crazy." Barrett said trying not to get too loud. Cid sighed "I guess your right its no use even if I did get him back if I pissed him off enough he'd just run me through in my sleep." He sighed again "Damn it all.But what about Yuffie? You'll help me get her right?" Cid said looking hopeful "Nope" Barret replied "Aww come on man why not?" "Her temper is worse than Sephiroths she may not kill us but it'd be a world of pain I'd rather not explore." "Chicken-wuss.I'm outta here then." Cid said leaving a PO'ed Barret behind "THE HELL HE THINK HE IS CALLUN ME A CHICKEN WUSS?!" Barret yelled shooting pretty much everything in the room fortuneately nobody else was around.
Else where on the High wind. Tifa Cloud And Aeris are standing on the Deck Cloud is in the middle Tifa to his right and Aeris on his left. All Looking at the scenery in silence Before Finally One of them speaks up.
"Umm.Cloud?" Tifa said tired of the silence and knowing the reason for it was probably because there was something he had to say that he either didn't want to or didn't know how. "Yes?" "Is there something you need to talk to me about? I mean." She was cut off "Actually there is something he needs to say But I won't force hi to say it" Aeris cut in and then it got quiet again and Cloud knew everybody was waiting on him to say something.
"All right Fine I'll talk." "Finally" Tifa and Aeris said at the same time. "Tifa.Since this whole journey started I've kinda been stuck in between you two kinda like I'm standing inbetween you two right now But When Aeris died." She suddenly had a feeling she knew what he was going to say and understood why it'd taken him so long to think of a way to say it. "When she died it tip the scales.and now with her back alive again they tipped even further.What I'm trying to say is I've decided I'm going to be with Aeris."
Those words hit Tifa like a Mac truck but she was determined not to show it especially not now it'd ruin the rest of the night for everybody and if she let it out now she knew she wouldn't be able to stop it and there was no way she was going to let herself cry like that in front of both of them.then she realized cloud was still talking and hadn't noticed her facial expression because he didn't turn to look at her "....if things had been different who knows." And then Cloud stopped and turned to look at her. "You forgot didn't you?..what I told you you forgot..." "Huh? Forgot what?" Cloud wasn't quite sure what she was talking about "Before we came here I said something to you and you didn't know how to react.and the you said it back to me..but that doesn't matter now because you chose her."Tifa said turning from them so they couldn't see her tears starting to fall and as she walked away Cloud thought hard and remembered what she was talking about "oh...shit...I.." Cloud was mumbling to himself making sure Aeris didn't hear him of course he forgot she was an ancient and could sense their feelings." Cloud how could you forget something like that?!"
"huh? Uh.I.." He stammered "Go talk to her " she said. Cloud shook his head "nuh uh she won't want to even hear my name right now.Its best for me to just leave her alone for awhile and stay out of her way." He said "so that's it huh? Your just going to let her become bitter and hate you for the rest of her life?" Aeris countered "Wha? Tifa wouldn't." he started "I can feel her emotions Cloud.Its not hard the way she's feeling I'd be able to sense them if she was a mile away for me to miss them would be like standing near the edge of a volcano and not knowing if it erupted or not." She said "Wow.that bad huh?" Aeris Nodded looking in the direction Tifa went with a bit of worry.." I hope she doesn't do anything." "Why don't YOU go talk to her then? You're the one who can feel what she's feeling you'd be better off trying to console her besides she isn't mad at you right now just me." Aeris thought about it for a moment."All right.I'll go talk to her" She said walking off to catch up with Tifa.
Tifa was walking fast trying to stop the tears she didn't want everyone on the ship to know what had just happened and as she walked her sadness and anger kept growing "How could he just have forgotten like that?!" She thought "Its like no matter what I'll never mean anything to him.It always been all about her But wait.that one time.yes then he said it and he said it to ME first.He said "I love you" and it was to ME not her But then she comes back to life and suddenly I'm nothing again.Forgotten." and her sadness deepened Inside it felt like everything was being sucked into a black hole and she was going to go out of her mind thinking about it over and over again.she needed something.someone anything anybody just as long as she would feel better she thought turning a corner and then she bumped into Vincent and Sephiroth. Who were talking about Jenova before she bumped into them "Sorry" she said " I wasn't paying attention.." "Don't worry about it.." Sephiroth started to say and then he saw her face "Tifa what's wrong?" Vincent said having noticed it as well.
"Nothing.Just that IDIOT back there." She said " Which one?" Sephiroth said jokingly trying to lighten the mood and it almost worked she almost laughed but then just said "The spikey headed one" "Ooooh that one no wonder he's the dumbest one of all." Sephiroth said still trying to cheer her up This time she chuckled "your right he is." Vincent just let Sephiroth keep talking he didn't really know how to console a girl who'd been hurt emotionally he'd only ever had to do it once.and even then he failed to do a good job she went back.he thought. Vincent shook his head to get the thoughts out of his head "Something wrong?" Sephiroth asked "no its nothing just thinking" he said
Sephiroth looked back to Tifa but she had gone on "Where did she get to?" he said then shrugged figuring he did his part and left it up to everybody else to deal with her especially cloud she was Clouds problem not his and he wasn't going to get anymore involved unless he had to. "Hey Sephiroth how'd you know what to do just now?" "What make fun of cloud? I've always done it just in different ways." "No not that I mean when you tried to make her feel better and matter of fact why did you even bother? I never saw you as exactly caring." "Well all I did what agree with her and say what she wanted to hear its that simple. And I bothered to try because as bothered by whatever cloud did as she was it compromises her fighting ability And if She's still bothered by it when it comes time to fight or if we had to fight in the near future like say Jenova were to attack right now She'd be pretty much useless. And I don't want useless people on my side. " Sephiroth said now back in his emotionless tone
"That's pretty cold She's gonna think you really care you know that could be a bigger problem in the future for you. Or are you just a master actor and really do care at least for her anyway." "Guess you'll never really know now will you?" Sephiroth said walking off down the hall. "hm...guess not" Vincent said turning to look out the window in the hall while he thought.
Tifa Headed to her room now in a bit better mood and was actually glad that someone had noticed and tried to make her feel better she just didn't expect Vincent or Sephiroth to be the ones to notice they were probably last of her list of people Barret Should've noticed but when she went past him just before getting to her room he didn't say anything then something occurred to her.What if Sephiroth actually cared for her? It would explain why he asked her what he did on the deck earlier and also why he was one of the first and only to notice her feelings and the only one to make her feel any better "Nah That's just crazy." She thought "But what if he does" she said to herself beginning to wonder about the possibility of a relationship between her and him and she drifted off into a dream world for a while.
A knock on her door snapped her out of it. "Who is it?" She asked "It's me." Aeris answered from behind the door "oh" She thought for a moment on whether or not to let her in".You can come in as long as That spikey headed Jerk isn't with you." She said and Aeris came in "Tifa I'm really sorry about what happened I didn't know about." "Forget it" Tifa said cutting her off "I'm done with him anyway.not that it matters really he's done with me too so that's that" "uh but."Aeris started and then noticed that Tifas feeling had changed they weren't the raging intensity of Hate and sadness that they were before. She was calmed "No need to bring that back by telling her that cloud told her nothing happened between them" She thought "One would think saying I love you to each other counts as Something happening " She continued thinking "But oh no not to cloud he forgets and doesn't mention it." She sighed "I'm glad your feeling a lot better than before Tifa." She said "Yea I bumped into Sephiroth in the hall." "Hm?" Aeris was curious now she was wondering what could've calmed her so much but hearing Sephiroth was involved perked some interest "What did he give you something else to be mad at?" Tifa laughed "no no nothing like that actually he helped.he's the reason I'm feeling better now he was pretty understanding even though I didn't tell him what had happened.
"I see he probably sensed it too.and just told her exactly what she wanted to hear...but why? Since when does he care that much?" Aeris thought. Tifa could see the surprise on Aeris face and said "I know I didn't expect him to help me out either.I still dunno why he did but I have an idea." "I see don't read too much into hun you'll get hurt by him worse than with cloud if you do." "Don't worry bout me Aeris I can take care of myself and besides I'm not stupid I don't think too much of that its what he said earlier plus that that makes me think what I do." "Earlier?" "yea he asked me something about the past.and my feelings"
Suddenly Aeris didn't like the sound of where she was going "Uh Tifa Please I'm saying this to you as A Friend...Don't Get Involved with him..You won't like how it ends" Aeris said looking quite concerned "oh and how's that?" Tifa asked "With either Him saying "We're done now" and walking off "I don't need you anymore" And walking off or killing you or a combination of those.We're still not even sure if he's going to really do good this time He could just be trying to get to you to use you against the rest of us.So please.Don't I don't want to end up in that kind of situation..At the very least if your going to or feel you must wait awhile until after we start fighting Jenova at least by then we should be certain of his intentions"
"How can you say that about him? He's supposed to be your brother and your supposed to care for him like one regardless of what he's done or so you said and besides he brought you back to life! You should be grateful" Tifa said then realized she was actually defending him and would have smacked herself if Aeris hadn't been standing there. "Yes but still it doesn't erase the fact he killed me to begin with or the fact he almost destroyed the world and tried to kill the rest of you And he burned down your home town And tried to kill you in the SAME DAY How can you sit there and defend him!? Or even think about being with him?!" That was a good question.one Tifa didn't have an answer for. "i..i.I don't know Its just when I talk to him.I mean really truly actually talk to him he seems..different I can't explain it."
"You mean like he is with Yuffie?" Aeris countered "Wha?" Tifa said. "Oh you didn't know did you? Him and Yuffie have been real friendly since he got here even played a trick on Cid together they made Cid think Yuffie was a traitor and her and Sephiroth were lovers and he was gonna kill everyone it was pretty funny he even laughed afterwards when Cloud and I broke it up and told Cid what was really going on." "So.. that doesn't.that doesn't mean anything it just means they became good friends really quickly.." Tifa said trying more to convince herself than Aeris and then she thought about what she'd told Sephiroth Earlier that day. "oh no! what if when I said that he decided to go out with Yuffie instead?!" She thought "and I'm sitting here thinking and wondering about what ifs and maybe even making myself love him and He's already got someone else.I'd die if that happened" She thought and made up her mind she wasn't going to even think about him after this day he was going to remain her hated enemy even if he had cheered her up. And even if he really was an ally now. "I see I've made my point" Aeris said judging from Tifas' silence and the mixed feelings she was sensing."I'll be going now.." She said turning and going out the door leaving Tifa alone to think.
"DAMN HIM! " She thought "HIM AND CLOUD GETTING ME ALL MIXED UP! I'm starting to think there's a conspiracy against me to drive me insane or make me kill myself whichever comes first.." She thought letting herself fall face down on the bed she looked at the clock "wow almost 9 I must have talking for awhile."Or thinking for awhile" she thought she wondered if she should go see if anyone was still up then decided against it and should just try to got to sleep..but 30 minutes later she was still tossing and turning unable to get comfortable at all and she'd tried sleeping while uncomfortable 5 times now her body just simply wouldn't let her go to sleep So she decided to head to the upper deck watch the stars and clouds."Cloud" she thought then shook her head "no. no deck Don't want to be reminded of HIM by now he probably screwing Aeris out of her mind. So I prolly shouldn't go by that way either" she thought. An got up and headed to the bridge Cid was still up and was chuckling while telling himself how much of a genius he was. "Genius for what?" she asked suddenly. "AH!" Cid yelled jumping and turning around." Don't do that!! Shit you scared the hell out of me." "sorry.I was up because I couldn't sleep and well.I just kind of wandered here."
"oh.that's fine.clou.." "Don't you dare say that name around me right now" She interrupted "Ah..ok.So what did the spikey headed guy do this time?" Cid asked. "He Picked Aeris over me after he told me he loved me only the day before." "ouch" was all Cid could say He knew cloud had done something bad but damn that was horrible. Nothing Sephiroth had ever done was as bad as that in Cids' mind "At least Sephiroth would kill people quick Cloud is just emotionally scarring her and leaving her to deal with it on her own."
The more Cid thought about it the more it pissed him off. "Don't go shooting off your mouth at Him" She said seeing he reaction " I've dealt with it and I'm over it I've figured out what I'm going to do from here and that's that I'm just going to move on and forget about him. Though its nice of you to care." She said obviously not her usual self she was talking more like Sephiroth should than her . "Geez did it just get cold in here or is it me? Cuz I just got a icy blast over here." Cid said somewhat offended "Sorry" she said "But I just don't care as much about everyone now.I'm more concerned with myself now and if everyone has a problem with it then that's too bad Deal with it." She said coldly
"Tifa." A voice from the doorway said and she turned to see who it was and there was Cloud "Oh its you..Shouldn't you be in bed with Your precious Aeris right now?" She said even more coldly than when she had just spoken to Cid "Uh I think I'll be going now." Cid said sneaking off. Cloud Looked a bit hurt by what Tifa had said and also was kinda hoping Cid would have stayed around to back him up."Look Tifa I'm sorry.I" he started "Sorry?" She interrupted " Sorry doesn't cut it YOU FORGOT YOU EVEN SAID YOU LOVED ME! AND THAT I'D SAID IT TO YOU! AND YOU EXPECT "I'M SORRY" TO COVER THAT?!" Her anger from before was returning to her now. And cloud could see that talking to her now was a mistake but it was too late to go back now they were talking and they had to finish. "what do you want me to say? I just.When Aeris came back and I saw her and." he started "And Nothing else mattered right?" she finished for him "it wasn't until she asked me about you that I remembered.but by then her and I had hugged we'd kissed and we were sitting by the water.it just felt .It felt." he tried to continue and couldn't quite find the right words at the end
"Good?.Perfect? Like it was supposed to be? Like its how it should have always been? " She interrupted again. "Like How I Felt With you?! Like how you led me on just to Drop me like a rock off a cliff?! " as she said that last part she was starting to cry again. "Tifa.I." he started "Don't say anything to me Cloud Not a word Not ONE DAMN WORD!" She said still crying..she was on the verge of being overcome and just collapsing and crying. When Cloud saw this all he could think to do was to hug her so he did. "Wha.What are you doing?" She said sniffling. "hugging you" "why?" Because you look like you need one" After that she just collapsed onto him and let everything out when she was done the her tears had soaked half of clouds shirt and thy just sat there like that for a long time before she spoke. "Cloud." "Yes?" "moments like these..this is why I love you and I will always love you.even If you don't love me.I know you have Aeris now but I can't just change how I feel."
"I know..Its okay don't worry about it so much we'll figure something out." "okay.." She said and after awhile fell asleep in his arms. Cloud picked her up and carried her back to her room and laid her down Then went to go talk to Aeris. When he got back to her Aeris was waiting for him expectedly "So did you talk to her?" "Yea I talked to her.." "well? What happened?" "She ended up crying a lot and then I hugged her and she just let it all out.then she told me she'd still love me and always would even if I didn't love her back and a little after that she fell asleep in my arms." He said "oh you remembered she actually said it this time" "Hey come on.that was YOUR fault I forgot" "My fault? Whatever Cloud.You just didn't WANT to remember when I came back that's all.You want to have both." "So what do we do now?" he asked "don't ask me its up to you me or her its all or nothing because I'm not sharing." She said and laid down to go to sleep."But what if I can't choose?" He asked "Then I guess you'll get neither one now I'm going to sleep you think about what you want to do okay?" she answered and closed her eyes. Cloud Sighed. "How the hell am I going to pick between the two most important girls in my life?" he thought they were both beautiful they were both generally kind both loved him dearly.he sighed again "this is not going to be easy." he thought to himself as he laid down beside Aeris.
Suddenly in the middle of the night The Ship was rocked with an explosion. Everyone Rushed to the scene and there was...
END CHAPTER 1
HAHAHAHA! I'm Evil Aren't I? I even have most of chapter 2 typed already I easily could've added it in on this one buuuuut I decided I should know whether or not people are going to hang on to this one Cuz its gonna be Looooooooong And hey if I get enough reviews Maybe you'll never have to suffer through one of these Evil cliff hangers again.
