Innocence
Bad Day
His hair was silver and long, his eyes were green and cat-like. The young Sephiroth lay in the lab watching the approaching man. The man was dressed in a white lab coat and his black hair was tied into a pony tail. Sephiroth knew him as Professor Hojo and Professor Hojo knew Sephiroth as an experiment.
"Wake up!" Hojo yelled
"Why?" Sephiroth whined
"Do I really need to give a six year old an answer?" Hojo growled
Sephiroth sat up and thought of what they would do today, Hojo never woke him up this early. He got dressed and stood near the door. Hojo opened the door and they walked towards the training room. President Shinra was waiting for Hojo in a room to watch Sephiroth. Sephiroth was pushed into a room and given his sword, Masamune. He looked at the monster in front of him, the behemoth.
An hour later, he was lying on the ground unconscious with scratches, cuts, and bruises all over his face and body. Hojo rushed in and dragged the young boy outside before they could be attacked. President Shinra frowned at Hojo and the boy, he then left to return to his "work."
Sephiroth woke up in the lab again and Hojo glared at him as he sat up. All of a sudden, he felt a fist smash into his nose, making him look even worse. Soon, Sephiroth had broken ribs and Hojo walked out of the room for an hour. When he came back to bandage his ribs, Sephiroth looked at him curiously.
"Do I have a mother?" He asked
"Yes." Hojo replied
"What's her name?" Sephiroth wondered
"Jenova."Hojo answered angrily
Sephiroth lay back while Hojo bandaged him up and finally left. Hojo walked out remembering the short conversation he had just had with his son. He remembered when the child was born and his real mother, Lucrecia had died. That was when Gast was still there and he had named him Sephiroth. Hojo had just wanted to call him Experiment something or other. Gast had had a more fatherly relationship with him than Hojo had. But Gast had betrayed Shinra by leaving with the Ancient, Ifalna. Sephiroth had been three years old and didn't remember a lot about Gast now. He had been injected with mako and Jenova cells. Jenova was a calamity that had fallen from the sky and her cells were used in experiments under the name of the Jenova Project. Professor Hollander was working on that with a woman from Banora. Sephiroth was Hojo's most precious specimen and never let other children near him. He was now worried that President Shinra would take some if not all of the money he was investing in Project S. Sephiroth had performed poorly and he was supposed to be the youngest ever to make SOLDIER. Sephiroth watched the ceiling stop spinning and sat up once again, one of the lab assistants came in with a glass of water. Sephiroth wasn't in the lab any longer because the door had opened and the assistant had put their keycard on a table near the door. When the assistant realized what he had done, she ran out of the door, dropping the glass. The glass landed on the floor with a loud crash and water spilled everywhere. He was running fast and swiped the keycard on the main exit of the lab. He dropped it and ran out of the door, the assistant out of breath behind him. He got into the elevator and pressed a number. When he got out, an infantryman saw him and looked at him with curiosity. His eyes said it all. Why is this kid in the Shinra Electric Company Building? Why does he have silver hair?
"Hey, little guy. What are you doing here?" the man asked
"Hojo." Sephiroth muttered
"What's your name?" he questioned
"Sephiroth." The boy answered
"Well, I guess I'll take you to training with me then." He sighed
He would have told the child to go find his parents wherever they were in Midgar but he looked like he was trying to escape from something. He would turn him in to the SOLDIER first class before they set off to monitor Midgar.
When he arrived, Sephiroth stayed by his side. The first noticed quickly and called he and the boy over.
"I was going to hand him over to you because he was wandering around the building." The infantryman explained
The SOLDIER operative took Sephiroth's hand until his duty was done. He then took him back to Hojo's lab.
"Sorry, but Hojo would kill me if I kept you any longer." He said
He went in to meet Hojo face to face to discuss the situation. Hojo snatched Sephiroth's hand and threw him into a room. The man disliked how Hojo treated the child but feared what he would do if he spoke his opinion.
"I'm sorry that I had to wait to return him to you, Professor Hojo. An infantryman found him wandering and gave him to me in the middle of training ,so, I had to wait until it was ended." He explained
"Well, return to your duties." Hojo replied
He entered Sephiroth's new room and saw him lying on the ground.
"Get up!" He yelled
"I'm sorry for misbehaving." Sephiroth apologized
"You are never going to do that again."
Hojo grabbed his upper arm and took him to face a tube. Sephiroth took his clothes off and stepped in as always. Hojo locked it and pressed a button that filled it with mako.
A/N: If you have any suggestions about what I should do for the next chapter please review
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