Chapter 2: Daily Routine

A/N: Hello everyone! I'm so glad that you liked this story so far. Here's chapter 2 for you.

Keep in mind that this story will take place farther into the main story, so if you don't like spoilers, then don't read this.

WARNING! This chapter is filled with spoilers, so do not read this if you do not like spoilers. And please don't flame me, I don't do good with flames, they're poison!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Final Fantasy 7; I do own Mikomi, Yuri and Usagi while Bakuto Masaki owns Bakuto, Taimat and Myou.

"Talking"

"Thinking"


Everyone has a certain way of starting their day.

Some people get up early so they can get ready for work, some get up so they can wake their children and get them ready for school, and others tend to do the random.

For Cloud, he fell into all three categories


Cloud always had a set routine for each world he stayed at.

When he was in Konoha, he would wake up, get dressed, try to wake up Naruto with bribes, fail to wake up Mikomi and have to use deadly methods, have breakfast, set up a body guard for his brother and sister in case the Akatsuki attacked, complete his missions that Tsunade gave him and come back home tired.

When he was in Edge, he would pretty much do the same except he would do deliveries instead of missions, and come back home tired to his brother and sister.

He would change his schedule from time to time, but the only thing that didn't change was the fact that he would always be tired when the day was done.

That much, he was certain of.

Today was no exception.


This week he was in Edge. And whenever he was in Edge, so were his siblings. Since he was their older brother now, he had a tendency to bring them with wherever he went. He didn't like to leave them alone and with the Akatsuki running around, he didn't like to be 5 feet away from them.

Turning his alarm clock off, he begrudgingly got out of his very warm bed.

Stretching out the kinks in his back, he went into his closet and pulled out his usual outfit for the day.

After that task was done, he went to his desk and checked over the deliveries that he had to do today. He had one package that needed to be sent to Kalm, two needed to go to Cosmos Canyon and one that needed to go to Junon.

Overall, he had a busy schedule and he needed to see if his sister would be able to handle some of them.

Speaking of his sister, he sighed as he thought about the impossible task of waking her up. She was like a bear in hibernation when it came to sleeping. She would not get up for anything at all, let alone a delivery.

Since he didn't want to deal with her just yet, he decided to wake up his brother first. He was a lot easier to wake up, just as long as you bribe him.

He stepped into his room and almost dripped when he went through the door. Junk was littered all over his floor, ranging from clothing to empty ramen bowels.

"Naruto, you better pick this room up" He said to himself.

After nearly falling into a pile of dirty clothes, he finally got to the boy's bed.

Naruto was snoring like a log and had his face into his pillow.

Cloud always wondered how he was able to breathe like that.

He touched his back and started to gently shake him.

"Naruto" he said quietly. "It's time to get up"

Naruto groaned and rolled over.

"Five more minutes, Ni-san" he mumbled.

Cloud tried to suppress a smirk.

"Sorry, buddy, but I have a lot of deliveries today and I don't want to leave alone in the bar"

Naruto put the pillow over his head.

"I'm not a little kid, Ni-san. I can stay home by myself"

"Oh, and you sneaking into the booze cabinet while I was gone last time is being old enough? Come on, it's time to get up"

"I don't wanna" the boy whined.

Cloud sighed. Time for plan B.

"If you do, I'll give you a ride on my bike"

That got him to get up.

Naruto shot up like a rocket and looked at his brother.

"Really?! You mean you'd take me for a really long ride and do all these kinds of tricks?"

If there was one thing that Naruto loved about staying in Edge, it was the fact that he would get rides from his older brother.

Cloud smirked.

"Yep, and when I'm done with my deliveries, we can go out for ramen. But you need to get up and get dressed"

Naruto jumped out of bed and pulled an outfit from his closet.

"I'll be down in five minutes! Don't leave without me!"

"I won't, and clean this room while you're at it. I don't want to trip over dirty laundry again"

"You got it Ni-san!"

He left him so he could get dressed and looked at the room across from his brother's: Mikomi's room.

Just thinking about waking his sister up sent shivers down his spine. His sister could be really sweet, but she was a real crab in the morning.

Bracing for the onslaught that was about to happen, he slowly opened the door to her room and stepped inside.

Her room was clean, unlike Naruto's. he could get to her bed without tripping over anything.

Mikomi was fast asleep with Nanaki and Cat Sith sleeping on her bed. The two of them loved to sleep with her for some reason.

Reaching to her bed, he saw that she had her face buried into her pillow.

"Seriously" he thought. "How can they breathe like that?"

He nudged her softly to wake her up.

"Mikomi, it's time to get up"

Like Naruto, she rolled over and pulled the covers over her head.

"Leave me alone, Ni-san" she grumbled.

Nanaki and Cat Sith were woken up.

"You might want to be careful" Nanaki said. "She's been really crabby lately"

"Yeah, I think Yuri said she's PMSing or something" Cat Sith added.

Cloud made a face.

"I did not need to hear that from you two"

"Hey, we're just giving you the heads up; you know how she's like when it's that time of month"

Cloud waved has hand frantically.

"Stop talking about that! I don't need to hear about how my sister's body functions every month"

Nanaki just shrugged.

"Whatever, it's your funeral"

He jumped off with Cat Sith in tow and headed down for breakfast.

Cloud sighed and held the bridge of his nose.

"This is not how I want to start my day" he said to himself.

He shook Mikomi again.

"Come on, sis. It's time to get up"

Mikomi opened a sleepy eye at him.

"Why do I have to get up? It's only 6:30. It's too early"

"I have a few deliveries that I need your help with so you need to get up"

"You're throwing all of your dirty work at me? Some brother you are"

"If you're living under this roof, you're going to help out. You don't pay the bills around here"

"True, but at least I get paid more than you do"

A tick mark appeared on his forehead.

"Why you"

Mikomi just closed her eyes.

"Good night, Ni-san. Have fun making those deliveries"

She rolled over and went back to sleep.

Cloud just glared at his sister.

"That does it"

He pulled out a blare horn that he kept under her bed for situations like this.

"Rise and shine, Mikomi"

He put it to her ear and let it blast.

She let out a high pitched shriek and bolted up.

Her eyes were frantic until they landed on her brother.

"God damn it, Ni-san!"

She glared at her brother as he had an evil smirk on his face.

"It's time to get up. You have work to do"

Mikomi crossed her arms over her chest.

"After being woken up like that, I refuse to help you out. You can do your deliveries by yourself"

He looked at her side table and saw the keys to her motorcycle.

"you do that, and I'll take your bike away"

He grabbed the keys and dangled them.

"What'll it be? Your sleep or your bike?"

Mikomi thought for a moment then sighed.

"You suck sometimes, Ni-san"

She got out of bed and went to her closet to go change.

I'll be down in five minutes"

Cloud grinned victoriously.

"That's a good girl. Now don't go back to sleep, or else I'll wake you up worse than this time"

Mikomi just grumbled as she pulled a shirt out.

Cloud walked out and headed downstairs for breakfast.

Today wasn't so bad with waking up. He just wished it was like that all the time.


Breakfast was normal for once.

Cloud only had coffee while Naruto had bacon and eggs. The boy ate his food as if he hadn't had a meal in ages.

Cloud gave his brother a look.

"Chew your food, you're not an animal"

Naruto swallowed his mouthful of food.

"Sorry, Ni-san. I just want to go riding"

"We'll go as soon and Mikomi comes down"

Said girl came down with a grumpy look on her face.

"Aww, is someone grumpy?" Naruto snickered.

Mikomi sent him a nasty look that made him cower.

"Give it u, Mikomi. You had to get up eventually" Cloud said.

She sent her older brother a nasty look as well.

"I know that, but I would have liked a few more hours of sleep, thank you very much"

She held her hand out to him.

"Just give me the list of deliveries I need to do so I can be on my way"

Cloud pulled out the list he made for her and handed it to her.

"Most of them are around town, but I there's one in Kalm. Try not to get into to trouble, will you?"

Mikomi took the paper from him and stashed into her pocket.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine"

She grabbed a piece of toast and her helmet.

"I'm off. I want to get this done so I can get some shut eye"

She kissed Naruto on the head and gave Cloud a hug.

"I'll see you later"

With that she left.

Naruto finished his breakfast and looked at his brother hopefully.

"Can we go now?"

He jumped in his seat.

Cloud finished his coffee.

"Yeah we can go"

"Yay!"

He jumped out of his seat and picked up his helmet.

"Hurry up, Ni-san! Let's go!"

Cloud sighed and picked up his keys.

Naruto was already on the bike by the time he got out.

"Hurry up, will you? Time is ticking!"

Cloud just ignored his brother and started up the engine.

"Alright, let's go"

Naruto was cheering when they went off.


"Thank you again for the delivery, Cloud"

They had just finished up their last stop in Junon.

The old woman that had her things delivered looked at Naruto.

"My, what a cute little boy. Is he a friend of yours?"

Cloud looked at Naruto as well to see him swinging his feet on the bike.

He smiled fondly.

"Yeah, he's my little brother"

The old woman looked surprised. Everyone in Gaia knew that Cloud Strife didn't have any siblings.

"Brother? I didn't know you had a brother"

"Yep and a younger sister too"

"Oh my, I didn't know you had siblings"

"I adopted them a little while back, but I consider them as my real siblings"

The old woman smiled at him.

"You're doing a good thing for those children by giving them a family"

"Thanks"

Naruto bounced on his seat.

"Ni-san!"

"I got to go then. Call me the next time you need something delivered"

"I will, you take care of those children Cloud"

He waved goodbye and jumped on his bike.

"Are we done then?"

"We have one more stop, but we'll get something to eat on the way"

"Cool!"

They rode off to their next location, leaving a trail of dust.


Naruto ate his bento box with Cloud.

They finished their stop at Cosmos Canyon and now they were taking their lunch.

The boy finished eating his rice ball when he looked at his brother.

"Hey, Ni-san"

"What?"

"When do we have to go back to Konoha?"

Cloud just shrugged.

"Don't know, why?"

"I was just wondering so I can make my plans to train with pervy sage. I need to get stronger if I want to beat those Akastuki guys"

Cloud looked at his brother.

True, the Akastuki were after his brother and sister, but he didn't think a 13 year old boy should be fighting S-rank criminals.

"Don't worry about the Akatsuki. Yuri and I will take care of everything"

Naruto made a face.

"You shouldn't be fighting them because of me. They're after me, so I'll fight them"

"I don't want you fighting them, Naruto. These are very dangerous people. You could get killed"

"That doesn't scare me! I'm a ninja! I'm always facing death! Nee-chan would say the same thing!"

Cloud just sighed.

Every time he or Mikomi brought up about the Akastuki situation, it would always end in argument. They were just too stubborn to accept help from anyone. But it could have been from the fact that they had to raise each other by themselves and no one to help them besides Yuri.

He guessed that this would take some time to get used to. For now, he would just let it go and avoid the topic whenever he could.

Finishing up their bento's they went back to the bike and headed back home for the day.


At around dinner, Naruto was telling Tifa about their day.

That was how is always was.

If he wasn't talking, then Mikomi would tell about her day.

Speaking of Mikomi, she had just came back from her deliveries.

She put her helmet down and sat at the table.

"Hey, Mikomi. How was your day?" Tifa asked.

"Long" she replied tiredly.

She rested her head on the table.

"I swear, that customer kept changing his mind on what he wanted delivered. He couldn't make up his mind"

Cloud patted her on the back.

"Now you know how I feel"

She sent him a tired glare.

"I could have stayed in bed"

"You can sleep in tomorrow if it'll make you feel better"

She yawned.

"That's perfect"

She got up and went upstairs.

"I'm going to bed. I'm tired"

She said good night and went to bed.

Naruto suppressed a yawn.

"Looks like Mikomi isn't the only one tired" Tifa said.

The boy started to doze off in his seat.

"Might as well take him to bed" Cloud said.

He picked him up and placed him on his back.

"Alright, Naruto. Time for bed"

Naruto just mumbled something as they went upstairs.

He was already asleep when they reached his bedroom.

Cloud carefully placed him on his bed and pulled the covers over him.

He ruffled his hair slightly.

"Sleep tight, Naruto"

The boy smiled in his sleep as Cloud left.

Cloud went to check on Mikomi to see how she was doing and saw her hanging off her bed and fast asleep.

He tucked her in and kissed her forehead.

"See you in the morning"

Mikomi grinned a little and fell into a deeper sleep.


When Cloud got to bed, he was already out of it. Today was very tiring despite it being a few minor deliveries. Raising a brother and sister was difficult too. But it did pay off in the end. He just hoped that in the end, he could protect them from the Akatsuki. For now though, he wouldn't worry about that and just focus on his daily routine.


A/N: Not bad for a side story so far? Let me know what you think and review.

Ja ne