Hey,

This is my first fanfic and I hope you will enjoy reading it.

Basically… there are some spoilers in it as I will start with the story at the end of Final Fantasy Advent Children, so if you haven't seen it yet (…) go ahead and watch it first (even though I edited the end a bit in the story to make it fit into my story. e.g. they fought Sephiroth in december). I hope I can write a fanfic with more than 10 chapters, as I have a few ideas. I am a big CloTi Fan as I love Tifa

Btw. Could be that my English sucks a bit as I am not a native speaker and writer :P

If you like my stories keep reading them..if not, then don't. I just have the feeling that I have to share.

Just to let you know what I was thinking when writing in italic:

Thoughts, from Cloud

*Thoughts*, from Tifa

~Thoughts & talking~, from Aerith

/Thoughts & talking/, from Zack

Fanfic: Searching for Love

Chapter 1: Victory

*He did it, he defeated Sephiroth again…" she thought happily watching down to the roof of the building the fight was on.

All of them, no…all "his" friends were standing in the control centre of the Shera, Cid's new airship.

"Like I said before, Spiko will do it and her' we go, he did it!" Barret was screamingly funny as if he knew Cloud would win this battle. Tifa just nodded with a small smile on her face which no one could see as she stood backwards in front of the crew.

They were proud, of course they were, he saved the world once again… and even more important – for her – he got back his self confidence he was searching for so long. *Is he coming back, is the old Cloud coming back?* she was wondering with hope.

Randomly she turned around and saw a pearl of water at the top of the room finding its way through it then she widened here eyes…*You were here all the time and watched over us, weren't you? Thank you so much for all you've did* she thought as the pearl of water dropped down to the floor of the room.

Suddenly something blew up on the roof of the building where he was fighting on and all she managed to do was screaming with a worried voice: "CLOOUUUUD!!". The rest of the crew was shocked and also didn't know what was going on, there were looking down and some of them were mumbling "Didn't he just won?"…"Hopefully nothing happened to him…"…"What is going on over there?"

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2 minutes before on the roof of the building

I did it; I saved the world from him, I saved… my friends…and…"my family". I was thinking while enjoying this moment and lifted my head direction sky with closed eyes. Thank you guys for letting me fight this fight by my own, I owe you something… I had to do this on my own as I --

Suddenly I felt a more and more growing pain in my chest, something was coming from behing. I was turning around pissed, searching for someone and saw Yazoo and Loz staring at me. Seems like Yazoo the bastard just shot me with his freakin' gun.

"Your coming with us" he said with pain in his eyes, as if he is fighting against his death…"We will all play together" Loz threw in.

I squeezed the holder of my Buster Sword which I was still holding and attacked them with the last pickings of my power I could charge as I saw them glowing. Are they… are they going to unleash the Materia? Will this… be my end? But…I promised "them" to come back… after this battle… Everything explodes and I couldn't see anything but white…

~Look who we got here…~ a familiar voice said to me but I couldn't recognize…

Mother?! That was all I could think of.

~Again, he is calling me mother again. Why is everyone calling me mother?~ she said with a kindly voice.

/Seems like he thinks you are his mother, not that bad huh?/ a second polite voice jumped into the small talk, also very familiar to me but… I can't recognize somehow. Suddenly the female started laughing ~Yes, but I think I don't have enough space for such a big boy here right now~ she said as if she has something else for me to do.

/You are lucky man, we won't keep you here –it is not your time yet- , go back… Life starts now for you buddy/ the laughing male voice said before I totally lost my consciousness.

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What is this feeling…what is happening, where am I? I was thinking while I suddenly woke up in the church I lived in the last months…resting on the geostigma healing water and being touched by children. What happened? Where was I? Am I…back?! " Whatever "back" meant, I didn't care that much…I stood up, still wondering what happened and looking around seeing an amount of people – and also my crew, my friends…Marlene, Danzel and…Tifa - around me. Didn't I die? I thought… it's over…,but somehow I am back?! Why? And..-

"Hey Cloud" I heard saying Nanaki my name what threw me out of my Thoughts, "There are still some children left who have the geostigma". I slowly nodded, still not getting what is going on and watched randomly at Danzel who obviously wasn't cured now. I shook my hand to him and signalled him with a nod to trust me so that he could jump into the water.

"Go, he won't hurt you" Tifa said to him with a smile on her face and a very polite voice. I was watching her and took him into the water, as soon as he stood in there I looked him into his eyes and said slowly "Everything is going to be ok, trust me". He just nodded and it seemed like he found a small smile which he gave me immediately. I put my hands together and grabbed some of the water so that I can dump it over him. A few seconds afterwards he was cured; then I looked to the entrance of the church …That can't be..? Is this really Aerith and Zack? Did they… I stared at them with not believing eyes, I had the feeling that I am dreaming…, yes… daydreaming. Did they helped after the explosion?

~I never blamed you for what happened in the past Cloud; you have to forgive yourself~ she was saying happy while walking direction entrance to quit the church. /Good Luck my friend, enjoy your life. You will be okay and you will have a fulfilled future/ - Zack said, as if he knew what will happen with me…Then they were gone, back to the life stream... I still stared at the entrance, but looked at my crew randomly, Tifa had a big grin in her face and seemed being very proud of me. I just nodded and smiled back - Thank you. I am not alone anymore, I never was, I had my friends…

Seconds later I got out of the water and was heading direction crew. "We should get some sleep, I think you guys are tired after the battle against Bahamut…and also… thanks for letting me fight Sephiroth alone…"

"It was Tifa's decision" Barret called in immediately snorting. "We gave you 10 minutes, then we would have joined you" he added afterwards. I stared at her with my ocean blue glowing eyes as I finally said "Thank you Tifa". She nodded and gave me a huge smile.

"Let's go" was all I said afterwards as Danzel run to me "Where are you going?" he asked angrily. "Home … with you" I said short with a smile on my face, the angry face disappeared and it seemed like he was glad at that moment.

Everyone was leaving and went back home… and I was going with Danzel, Marlene and Tifa to the Seventh Heaven....