a/n: The first chapter will be really short, but the rest will be longer due to all the awsomeness that needs to be in it.

Disclamer: Though not in this chapter, I do not own any of the Final Fantasy VII characters (though, if I did, the things I would do to Sephy...mmmmm).

Chapter 1

The sun beams streaming through Autunm colored leaves and a light breeze played like childhood friends within his vibrant crimson hair, giving it the apperance of a dancing fire. With his bright blue, almost glowing eyes, he surveyed the small village below from his vantage piont on the towering cliff.

"You sure he'll be down there?" he asked rather unconvinced. "Looks like too shabby a town for someone like him to stay in, if you ask me."

The reply was so quiet that if he did not possesed the hyper-sensitive he had, he would have missed it.

"I'm sure," said a weak female voice. The girl next to him was no one special, just another damsel-in-destress bimbo who felt the need to kill her gaurdian in order to aquire his vast amounts of money. Though it really was not his place, he wondered what could have tempted these maidens to hate the very people who had taken care of them their entire lives.

I do hate these family squabbles. They almost remind me of-

"Home." he mused aloud.

The insignifigant brunete gave a quizitive side glance to the assassin for hire. After a fit of light snickers, he waved her unspoken question away.

Nothing. A feble mind like yours wouldn't possibly understand what a real family goes through.

With that last thought, the would-be warrior uttered one last thing to the second-hand murderer before jumping to the houses below.

"Have the money ready when I get back."