Due to popular demand, the search of Mother continues. Probably one more, maybe two depending on response so if you want more, you know what to do.

I love screwing around with Square-Enix's characters.

Riku and Sora sat on the grassy knoll, sipping on fruit smoothies. Sephiroth stood slightly behind them with an iced coffee. The brothers' eyes were hidden by sunglasses but the matching frowns totally gave away their irritation. Sora simply looked confused.

He glanced to Riku. "Exactly what are they doing?"

"Tracking."

"Tracking what?"

"I've convinced them Mother was taken through here." Sephiroth explained. "Since they believe everything I tell them, they're searching."

"Oh," Sora nodded. Then he looked up. "Uh, they're not going to actually find anything, are they?"

Riku whapped him in the back of the head. "Of course not, you goof. Mother's gone forever."

"Yeah, but he said…"

Riku pulled his shades down just enough to peer over them at his older brother. "You weren't serious about the Cloud thing, where you?"

"Absolutely." Seph watched calmly as Kadaj suddenly shoved Loz out of his way and began running toward a small cluster of bushes. Shoved triplet imedietly started crying and looked to the group on the hill. Sephiroth sighed, muttering. "Remind me to never try reproducing again."

Riku snickered. "Looks like you're going gay."

"With my luck, I'd find the one man in the worlds who can get knocked up. Loz, get your sissy ass up and go after him. You're bigger than Kadaj of Gaia's sake!"

Sora looked over the surrounding area. "Hey, uh, where's Yazoo?"

The other two glanced about then frowned to each other. The long haired, quietest of the trinity was no where to be seen. Riku slowly got to his feet. "Sora and I will go find him."

Sora followed him up. As they walked toward the other side of the knoll, they could hear Loz whine. "She's not here."

"She's somewhere." Kadaj's voice faded. "We should…"

"I hope you realize how much I love you to put up with them, Riku." Sora placed his hands behind his head.

"Yeah, and I promise someday I'll make it up to you."

The pair wandered around the park, not really trying too hard to search. It was rather difficult to miss any of the Jenova boys with their silver hair and height. They all tended to stand out in a crowd.

"There he is." Riku pointed toward the petting zoo. Indeed there was Yazoo, knealing before a baby chocobo smoothly running a hand along its neck. Approxamitely five children and their mothers and/or teenage sisters surrounded him.

"Great." Sora mumbled. "Once again, find the gaggle of girls and you'll find Yazoo."

"It's a good thing he's not horribly bright." Riku commented as they headed toward the little group. "He turns on that charm and he could have his own army of fangirls at his beckon call."

"Yazoo." Riku called for him. "What's up?"

The young man didn't bother looking at him. "Mother isn't here and the other two won't listen to me."

"You're looking for your mom?" One of the children asked. "Is she missing?"

"Yes. She's been gone a long time." Yazoo answered.

"We'll help you look!" A boy volunteered.

"Yeah," Two teenaged girls agreed. While one kept her attention on Yazoo, the other was now giving Riku an appraising eye.

Riku despised being treated like a piece of meat. There was only one truly effective way to stop it. He stepped closer to Sora and threw an arm around the brunette's slim shoulders. Already knowing the routine, Sora lifted a hand to Riku's chest.

Giving the girls an easy smile, he said. "I think we've got enough help but thank you for the offer."

Several of the girls looked crest fallen and a few mothers slowly steered their children away. Apparently, tall, handsome strangers in black leather were okay but gays were dangerous.

"Come on, Yazoo. I think we're about ready to leave the park."

"Are we going to see Brother now?" Yazoo stood.

"Possibly." Riku answered neutrally.

"Good because I know that's were Mother is."

"How do you know that?" Sora had separated from Riku and the three were leaving the petting zoo.

"I heard Big Brother say so."

The Keybladers exchanged quick looks. So did Yazoo also know this was a total farce? And if he did, why was he going along with it? Shrugging to one another, they followed him back to the others.