Pairing: Zack x Cloud

Setting: After Advent Children

Rating: M

Status: Incomplete

ATTENTION: THIS IS A MULTI-CHAPTER STORY!

WARNING: THIS STORY IS RATED MATURE FOR A REASON AND MAY NOT BE FOR EVERYONE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

All related Final Fantasy names and characters are copyrighted © by the almighty Square Enix. This story and the OCs are all me, however. Enjoy.

Chapter I

Zack was walking threw Midgar, blood had dried on his back and scars creating a upside down V had taken the place where his wing's use to be. It had been a few years since he had seen Cloud and missed him so much.
'I wonder if he still lives where he use to'
Every once in a while Zack would step on a stone with his bare feet, he didn't understand why he couldn't have shoes and a shirt on this winter night.
"Shoes would have been nice Aer!" He shouted into the dark empty air above him, a clap of thunder smacked above him giving him all the answer he needed.
" Yeah, Yeah" he said as he continued to walk stopping at the church to rest for the night.

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In the morning Zack woke to feel the coldness of the snow threw the blanket that he had found, this wasn't the only thing that woke the raven from his sleep the sound of heavy shoes on the creaky floor stirred him as well. He stayed quiet waiting for whatever or whoever for that matter was in the church to leave; he looked around only to realize that he was defenseless.

'Great if this person attacks I will be toast. This wasn't gone over before I came back.'

He thought as a familiar person came into view. The man has blonde hair that was spiked, he wore black and carried a couple of swords, one Zack remembered well, it was his Buster Sword that his mentor Angeal had given to him right before he died.

'Chocobo? My love? You have changed so much, and I have not changed at all.'

Zack was pulled from his thoughts when Cloud started to speak
"Zack, I wish I could see you. I have missed you so much, Tifa hates that I am stuck on getting over you and accepting the fact that you are gone. You and Aerith both…" Cloud stopped choking on the tears that he has been holding back
"I love you Zack, and I think that I always will. I am sorry that I couldn't keep the rust off your sword, I know that it meant a lot to you but I didn't really have a place to put it till now"
Cloud stood mumbling something to himself as he walked around the hole in the floor that contained Aerith's flowers. Zack watched his chocobo, taking in all the changes that the boy, now a man, has gone threw.

'I really shouldn't have left, I have missed out on so much, I don't like it.'

Cloud stuck the Buster Sword into the dirt on the far edge of the flower bed making sure that none of the flowers damaged in any way.
"I will see you soon right Zack?" There was no answer but a breeze that blew threw the Church. "Goodbye, my raven"

Cloud soon left never knowing that the man he loved was in the same room he was in.

... To be Continued