This fic started out as a role-play between me and AshiadakenJinketsu and we decided to make it a fan fiction so please enjoy!
Rated PG: for mild language and somewhat graphic scenes…
Disclaimer: I don't own naruto or FF7
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Goodnight until Tomorrow
Prologue: An Unexpected Encounter
Heavy breathing, heart racing, questions and thoughts soaring through my head, 'Where is he? Why, why her? Why now? Why here? Am I going to survive this fight? I have to, I have to live to avenge my…to avenge her. No he cannot live. Not any longer.' My eyes shift from one vicinity to another, still no trace, but I know he's there. My anger and anxiety grow, I'm reaching my limit…I just know it.
"I know…
I must…
I will…"
Just as quickly as my thoughts flew through my head, I spotted my adversary and jumped from the tree branch I had been hiding in. There we stood six feet away from each other, glaring, hating, and loathing. "So…you think you are a match for me?" he says, looking so calm with his sinister smirk, I could tell right away he was bluffing, as usual.
I answered him quickly, "Don't you dare think you're better then me!" I knew that I would die if I were hit. We've wandered quite far I don't even think they know where I am by now, so they possibly couldn't help me with this one. Despite the current conditions though, I attacked him. Using my oversized sword I ran straight for him, and pulled it behind me. 'Yes, yes now, I've reached my limit, this will be my only chance to defeat him if I get hit' I thought at the last second. My sword came down on him. A moment of silence, then I look, 'no…NO! It can't be …' I look to my left and see my foe standing there, smirking even more. 'He dodged it…How did he DODGE that attack!'
While I stood there, pulling my sword out of the ground, he says with a slight chuckle, "So, if you don't want me to say…that I'm better then you, then what shall I say?...that we're equal! Ha, I think not!" and with that he took one step forward and swiftly swung his katana high in the air, and even more quickly helped it drop back to the ground, delivering it straight to me.
I quickly utter softly, "You're not my equal" and adjusted myself so he would hit my shoulder guard. I know I can't avoid this attack, and it will still hurt but I can only block the attack. The sword made contact. "AGGGHHHH!" I yelled out. I began breathing more heavily and flinching at the feeling of the blade of metal almost touching the bone in my inner left shoulder. I screamed again in agony as I felt the blade rip through, up and out of my flesh it had cut.
As I kneeled there clenching my shoulder tightly in anguish, he just stood there, looking at his sword. He then grunted and said sarcastically, "Now look at what you've done, you've gone and let yourself get hurt…too bad that pathetic little flower girl is not here to save you." He continued, while examining his sword. "You know…it's too bad…you should have saved her while you could have." With that he pulled his sword behind him, and got set for another blow. He quickly crouched down and started to bring his weapon around horizontally. With all the strength I had left in me, I jumped out of the way, dodging the last blow that could end it all, and ran to the edge of the clearing.
I turned my head to look at him once more, and then took off into the forest. Then I said to myself, 'Why am I doing this? I'm not a coward, am I? Its no use, I'm going to die anyway. That blow went in and pierced something.' Then suddenly my eyes began feeling heavy and I feel light headed, so I slowed my pace. I try putting pressure on my wound but that didn't stop the blood flow. I look down, I don't know why, just that something compelled me to, and I see a delicate yellow flower growing at the base of a tree. Instantly I am reminded of my love that was murdered by that cursed Shinra SOLDIER. I began remembering everything, the battles, the hardships, the good times, the cathedral, the playground and her beautiful face. Then everything went black. I felt myself fall to the ground. "Sephiroth, h-how…could you..k-kill……her?"
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"so that means that you guys won't be having any missions for a couple of days…" I look up at my sensei listening to what he has to say as usual. I then move my line of sight over to the raven-haired shinobi, "Oooh! He's so cool, I'm so glad he was put into my team, (I always win against that Ino-pig!)." I think, just before the grey haired jounin concludes the congregation. He then pulls out his book and turns into a puff of smoke. I then look to the sky to find the time, 'well I don't have to go home right away. It's not sunset just yet. Hmm…maybe I could go for a nice walk in the woods first.' I suddenly got a great idea and made my way over towards Sasuke but before I could ask him to join me he said, "See you, Sakura" and walked off in the direction of his residence. I heave a sigh and begin walking on my own.
1 hour later
"hmm, it's getting kind of creepy now that the sun's going down" I say out loud to myself as I walk through the dense forest. I look up and spot a group of birds soaring overhead into a profound red-purple-ish tinted sky, but unexpectedly I hear a rustling in the bushes to my right. My body tenses and I put my guard up. 'That was too big for a rabbit or something…' I imagine, then it occurs to me, 'What if it's a Sound Nin!' I slowly approach the bush prepared for anything but when I pulled the foliage and brushwood back I saw a man, no…a boy, lying in a small puddle of blood. I gasped loudly at the horrid sight and instantaneously was about to flee from the scene but then I realized, "wait…he has no forehead protector…and he doesn't look…dangerous" I utter to myself as I bent down onto my knees to grip his wrist for a pulse. I felt his vacillating breath as well, "So he's still alive" I then called out to him, "Hey!..can you hear me? Hey!" I waited a minute for any sort of reply. He coughed, letting a small torrent of blood trickle down from the corner of his mouth and plummet to the soaked earth. This indicating internal bleeding, I was about to call to him once again, but he at last spoke, "Am…I..d-dead?" the voice, deep, hushed and frail. I glanced into his half lidded eyes and presumed he wasn't aware of what was going on, because of the large quantity of blood loss. "no you're not dead…yet…I'll help you" I decided to at least close up the lesion to delay his death for the time being. Currently no one in the village trusted outsiders, for they could be working with Orochimaru or Akatsuki. "Ok, this may hurt some but I'm going to treat your abrasions the best I can for now." I told the boy, not knowing whether he could take notice of me or not. I laid him on his back, attempting and fairly succeeded at lugging his armor off, "Geez!" I exclaimed when I caught sight of the huge gash in his inner shoulder, " you really did a number on yourself! You know?" I stated in alarm before I began to treat the wound with my recently learned techniques.
Cloud lay there slipping in and out of consciousness. He didn't discern who or what was doing this to him. He cringed in pain as it took off his shoulder guard. He didn't move an inch, and after some time, his unknown acquaintance had stopped. He barely opened his eyes but of what was able to be seen he saw a merge of pink, red and some green. "Is it…y-you?" he inquired himself as he saw this. He didn't recognize what was going on although to him it felt like everything would be all right.
Once she saw his eyes open to some extent, she ended the procedure and checked his pulse once more, taking notice that it was somewhat steady now, "Ok, that should be good for now." She said to the partially unconscious blonde. "I'll be right back" she finished once she sighted a structure that could be seen slightly through the trees, 'the Hokage building' she thought. She then took one last glance at the boy and hurried off as quickly as possible and a few moments later, arrived once again with 3 medical ninja. "He…lp..me" he said, wheezing. "whe…ere is…….Aeris? Wha-t ha..ppened …to ..Aeris?" he spoke softly, his voice raspy. He was slowly loosing consciousness again as they approached the hospital.
To be continued…
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A/n: I hope you liked it X3! And please don't forget to review! It will be much appreciated. Thanks
Chapter 1 soon to be posted!