Chapter 2

Love and Life

All Characters belong to Sony. Please don't sue me!

Hi! This is my little notice section! I will answer any reviews here! Keep reviewing:)

finalfantasyswordsman77: Thanks for your review! I hope you like this next chapter!

Words in the story like this are flashbacks or dreams

'Words in the story like this are thoughts'

Hope you enjoy!

Clambering onto his feathered friend, Sephiroth set off towards the Corral Valley Cave.

Cloud sat at his table, in his home in Kalm. It had been five long years since Sephiroth fell and Cloud was living peacefully with his wife Tifa in a small house, above a bar in Kalm. The house was warm and cosy and Cloud felt more content there than he had anywhere else in his life. Cloud worked as a mercenary now, killing monsters for people and doing jobs for good money.

Cloud and Tifa had thought of living in Nibelheim, but had both agreed that the place held far too many bad memories.

They had also thought about living in Neo Midgar, the new Midgar, but it was far too busy. It had taken the best part of four years to shift the ton of rock, metal and mass of mangled dead bodiesout of the city, but it had been managed. The city had been slowly but surely rebuilt, and the slums below were sealed off, seeing as most of it was crumbling apart anyway.The city was once more a network of light and sound. Though there had been parks and gardens added, with fountains and tennis courts. Reeve had taken over Shrina and was changing it dramatically. He wanted enviromentally friendly energy sources, and a clean city to run. The reactors werepulleddown(to loud cheers) and the Lifestream was healing itself fast.

Coal was now the main fossil fuel of the Planet, and North Corel was flourishing with work. Barret was the new Mayor of Corel and was living there with Marlene and Elmyra. Elmyra and Barret had grown attached to each other since Meteor was destroyed. They had both so much in common, both had adoptive daughters, (though of course Aeris had 'returned to the planet'), they had both suffered grievous losses and they both wanted a bit of peace and quiet now.

Nanaki had found a female of his species imprisoned in the basement of Shrina Mansion, and after much time together, she became his lifelong companion, which, in their species, meant wife. When he had found her, she had had no name, as she had been born under Hojo's capture. So she named herself Felixi – meaning Lucky, because she said she was lucky to have met Nanaki. They had two cubs named Ardor (The boy) and Femelle (The girl).

Cait Sith was currently with Reeve in Midgar. He was quite an old machine, getting rusty, so Reeve was trying to fix him, without screwing up his brain. This was quite hard, seeing as most of the Shinra's technology was destroyed, both in the Weapon attack, and when Meteor nearly wiped out the city.

Yuffie was living in Wutai, her old man finally having died. She was ruler of Wutai and giving it more materia and making it more popular. She told Cloud when she came to visit once that everyone loved Wutia and she had more materia than ever, though Cloud still made a note to hide his materia, wnenever she came.

Cid had been living with Shera, and had proposed to her only three months ago. Everyone had been at the wedding and Cid was very happy now (though still cussing fluently).

As for Vincent, everyone suspected after the wedding he went back to his coffin. He seemed to spent alot of time there, though he would never say what he was doing there.

A smallchild appeared at the doorway of the kitchen. She had long, silky brown hair and sparkling blue eyes and was wearing a cherry dressing gown.

"Hello Lily." Cloud greeted the infant, and the youngster ran over to her father.

"Hallo Daddy. I came to say night-night." the little girl chirruped, as she clambered onto Cloud's knee.

"Night-night sweetie." Cloud ruffled his daughter's hair. At once his daughter reached up with her small hand and ruffled his hair. Cloud tickled her and she squealed.

He gave her a piggy-back ride up the spiralling stairs to the landing, past photos and paintings, into her room where her twin, Auron, was clambering into a soft, pastel-blue bed as his mother was hanging up his dressing-gown.

"Here, Lily, hand me your 'gown, its time for bed. You've got nursery tomorrow." Tifa told her young child.

"'Kay."Lily handed the cherry dressing gown to her mother, then scrambled into her pinkbed as Cloud went over to his son, who had spiky blond hair and deep brown eyes like his mother, which were drooping slightly.

"Goodnight Daddy." mumbled Auron sleepily.

"Night-night Auron." whispered Cloud, kissing him goodnight. He kissed his daughter, then left the room while Tifa said goodnight to her children, and turned on a purple nightlight in the shape of a smiley face. Tifa shut the door gently behind her, and joined her husband. They kissed and walked to their bedroom, shutting the door firmly behind them, so that the photographs and pictures on the walls, were turned to shadows.

They had no idea that, far away on the North Continent, in an icily windy cave, full of stones, stalagmites and stalactites, Sephiroth was huddled against a rough stone wall, feeling utterly miserable. He was cold, hungry, wet, aching and annoyed.

Sephiroth had found that now he was back on the planet, he no longer had the horrible greedy thirst for power as he had had in his previous life. He just wanted to live a quiet life. Though considering who he was, that idea was laughable.

His chocobo was resting nearby, warking gently in its sleep. Sephiroth pulled his black trench coat tight around him, and stood up, looking out of the cave mouth. It was truly majestic land, pure, hallowed white, with tall mountains rising up like ancient emperors of the land in the distance.

Sephiroth sniffed, and then sneezed spectacularly. It seemed to echo around the landscape. Sephiroth grunted, and turned back into the cave, shivering uncontrollably.

He huddled back up against the wall of the cave, and wondered where he was going to go on the planet, and what he was going to do when he got there.

'Well, I know what I'm going to do.' Sephiroth thought. 'Beg for forgiveness.'

He knew now, it was what he must do, and he deserved any anger show towards him when he asked to be forgiven.

With that he rested his head on the hard rock, and slipped into a fitful sleep, full of strange and dark dreams.

I hope you like it, Sephiroth's in for a rough time in future chapters. I'm not very good at knowing what Ratings or Genres to give stories so please tell me if you think my ratings or genres don't fit, and I need to change them.

Thanks!

Review!