Kadaj woke up in a cold sweat, gasping for air. The young silver-haired teen started shaking from his nightmare. Normally though, nightmares wouldn't scare him, but this one was different. It was always a reoccuring dream, that he's had, ever since he had been resurrected, a few months ago. Kadaj hadn't been able to sleep peacefully, even one night, without having that dream.

The dream was pretty much all about the stuff the young remnant had did that day. The day he had absorbed his Mother's cells into his body. He had turned into Sephiroth after feeling agonizing pain throughout his whole body. And when Sephiroth had lost against Cloud, he felt himself returning to his own body, pain still lacing throughout it. He didn't hear Mother's soothing voice in his head at all, infact he didn't sense her at all. She had abandoned him.

Kadaj had realized, after returning to the lifestream, that Mother didn't care about him. She had only used him, as a vessal to bring back Sephiroth, her favorite child. She only used him, because he was a Remnant, nothing more then a copy, a clone, and a puppet, just based off the original. Just to be used, and then discarded. He realized now, that he had no sole purpose for living now.

In his previous life, Kadaj's reason for living, was to please his Mother, and carry out a reunion for her, and trying to attain his spot as Mother's favorite child, instead of Sephiroth. Mother had told him that she loved him, and promised him supreme happiness, once he carried out Mother's wills. But in the end, the Remnant found out that all that had just been lies. Mother had abandoned the young warrior, and left him to die. Mother had never loved him, and he just didn't know what to do anymore.

Kadaj sighed, positive that he wouldn't be able to get anymore sleep that night, and got out of bed. He redressed into his usual black leather attire, and strapped Souba, his beloved double-bladed katana, to his back. Looking around a last time through his room, which consisted of a small bed, a nightstand with a lamp on it, and a small circular rug in the middle of the room, he made sure that he had what he needed, and then stode out gracefully. Kadaj's hair was also quite the mess, from his tossing and turning in his sleep, but frankly, the youth didn't care.

He strolled through their odd-shaped house, that was in the shape of a seashell, and towards the exit, he stopped in suprised from a familiar voice calling out to him.

"Where are you going, Kadaj?" A tired Loz called out to him, walking towards the silver-haired youth with a slice of cheese in his hand. Kadaj turned around and looked at him.

"What are you doing up eating?" Kadaj questioned the older boy in reply.

"'Daj, you can't blame me... I was hungry..." Loz said, while taking a bite of his cheese.

"Well maybe you should've ate more at dinner, or something." Kadaj scolded him, but then softened up a bit, not wanting his oldest brother to start crying. "Well anyways, I'm going out for a walk."

"At 3 in the morning?" Loz gave a look to his youngest brother.

"And you're eating at 3 in the morning?" Kadaj questioned back. "...I had the nightmare again." Loz immediately understood. Kadaj had always told them when he had the nightmare, which happened to be everynight.

"Oooh..." Loz didn't say anything more then that. And Kadaj didn't speak again either. The older silver-haired boy turned, and headed back to bed, munching on his cheese on the way there. The younger remnant watched the older one walk away until he was out of sight, before turning around, and leaving their home.

The silver-haired teen looked at the scenery before him. The familiar scenery of the Forgotten City, that had brought back so much memories from his previous life. Kadaj walked towards the big pond of water in front of him, and stopped at the water's edge. He had a sudden urge to walk into the water, like he had once did, tainting the water and tricking the Geostigma-infested kids into drinking the water, making them believe that it would cure their Geostigma when infact it just put them under the youth's control.

Kadaj stopped himself from walking into the water, and backed away, looking around once again. It caused him to think about why they were in the Forgotten City. They we're there, to hide. To hide from Rufus Shinra, who was on the hunt, looking for the three remnants. They had almost gotten caught by the Turks once, when they were back in Edge, hiding out at the Seventh Heaven. It had taken alot of explaining and pleading for them to finally be able to stay there. Kadaj growled at the memory.

Kadaj and his brothers were walking around the town of Edge, looking for a place to stay for at least a night, to prevent being caught from the Turks for a second time. The three remnants got lucky to get away from them, and into safety for now. With Yazoo's skills with his gun, Velvet Nightmare, he shot each of the Turks down, allowing his brothers to escape, and Yazoo had followed suit later on, catching up with them, with no physical harm done. Kadaj had been glad Yazoo managed to slow down the Turks, at least for a little bit.

As the three silver-haired brothers were walking down the road, they had gotten quite a few stares from people who had recognized them. Kadaj was quite used to the stares, and he glared back at whoever dared stare at them, causing them to look away in fear. Loz had started to quiver a bit, not liking all the mean stares they had been getting, and Yazoo had always started to calm down the older, bigger man.

Kadaj looked up and saw a bright sign saying: 7th Heaven.

"Brothers, look!" Kadaj said, pointing up at the sign not to far from where they were standing.

"Is that where Big Brother lives?" Yazoo questioned. Loz had now calmed down, and was looking up at the sign aswell.

"Yeah. I think he does." Kadaj replied, walking towards the bar, Loz and Yazoo in tow. The trio had went up the steps, and Kadaj knocked quite loudly on the door.

To their suprise, a blond man opened the door, his blue eyes going wide at the sight before him.

"Big Brother!" Kadaj shouted, with joy, tackling him into a hug. Cloud's immediate response was to draw his sword at the young remnant, but he remembered that he had left it upstairs. He mentally kicked himself, as he tried to pry the young boy off him.

"Kadaj." Yazoo said, with a warning hidden within the name. Kadaj immediately got off of Cloud.

"What are you guys doing here? I thought you were dead!" Cloud said with disbelief. He was there, when all three of the brothers died. Kadaj had died in his arms, while Yazoo and Loz blew themselves up.

"I don't know... We were in the lifestream, and then bam, we're here in Edge." Kadaj said. "Please, Big Brother, we need a place to stay! Shinra is after us!" Cloud looked at Kadaj, then the other two, and sighed.

"You guys will try and kidnap the kids again." Cloud growled.

"No, Brother! We changed! We won't do any kidnapping, we won't do anything funny. We're not even after Mother!" Kadaj fought back. Behind Cloud, a female figure came over.

"What's going on he-" The black-haired female gasped, seeing the silver-haired remnants.

"Kadaj is back." Cloud said to Tifa, although it was already obvious. "They want inside, and claim that Shinra is after them."

"But it's true! Please, just let us in, Brother!" Kadaj said, his temper starting to rise. "Or I'll force my way in!"

"Kadaj, calm down. It won't help if you get mad at him." Yazoo said, putting a hand on the youngest's shoulder.

"No! He has to let us in!" Kadaj said, angerly shrugging off Yazoo's hand.

"Cloud, what do you think? Should we let them in?" Tifa asked.

Cloud sighed, and put a hand to his head. He didn't want to put up with Kadaj when he got angry. He's been there, and done that before. "Fine. Just don't destroy the place."

Kadaj just pushed past Cloud, and sat down at one of the seats in the bar, near the furthest corner.

"Thank you, Cloud." Yazoo said, with a nod of appreciation. Cloud just nodded back.

Before the week was over, the remnants were out of there, because the Turks had found them again, and they ran off towards the Forgotten City, and settled down there.

Kadaj walked around the pool of water in front of him, and deeper into the icy looking forest. The whole time he was walking, he kept on thinking about his past life. The only difference between then and now, was that Kadaj was not intent on finding Mother, and doing a reunion. The only similarity was that he was still the leader between the three brothers, and was still that cocky little brat he was, and that his love to kill hasn't faltered one bit.

Lost in thought, he hadn't realized how far he had walked, until he heard a gun shot fire. He was immediately brought back into reality, and with his sharp senses, he saw a bullet flying towards him, and he easily dodged it. Kadaj quickly drew Souba from it's sheath.

"Who's there?" Kadaj yelled, letting his presence known, even if he had already been noticed by someone. The teen looked around, looking for some kind of other presence. He had always hated not knowing where his enemy was hiding. The silver-haired warrior heard something or someone move, because of his keen sense of hearing, and then heard a stick snap, followed by some cursing. "Found you." Kadaj whispered, and evil grin forming on his lips. He lept towards his attacker, having his double-bladed katana ready to strike at any given moment.

And it did. Kadaj swung his sword, only to have the attack blocked by an...

EMR?