Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy VII

Warning: Fem!Cloud; Time Travel; OOCness... maybe

Un-Beta'd

Yazoo looked away from the woman and got up. He had more important things to do than hold a staring competition with a strange woman - like looking for his mother, for example. Yazoo scanned the crowd for his mother's bright hair, but unfortunately couldn't find her.

The woman seemed to find her voice again and broke Yazoo from his search.

"Why hello there," the woman cooed. "What are you doing all by yourself? Where's your... parents?"

Yazoo didn't notice the pause, but wondered if the woman was sick. She seemed to be twitching a lot. A short moment later, and Yazoo decided it would be in his best interest to get away from the strange woman as fast as possible.

He didn't want to get infected. The sickness would contaminate his mother, after all. Oh... and his brothers too.

The woman kept trying to make Yazoo talk, but he stubbornly kept quiet. Strangely, the woman just seemed more determined to get him to talk. When he narrowed his eyes at her, he thought he successfully got her to be quiet. Unfortunately, it only muted her for a few seconds before she squealed an ear-grating squeal and promptly resumed her chatter.

Desperate to get away from her, Yazoo scanned the crowds again. Fortunately, he spotted a familiar spikey, black head carrying a heavy-looking sword. Yazoo immediately rushed to the figure as fast as his tiny legs could carry him, and called out to the man.

The man stopped walking and looked around, confusing his companion. Suddenly, the man felt something collide with his leg and looked down.

"Uncle Zack!" The child exclaimed, catching the attention of both his uncle and the man beside him.

"Yazoo?" Zack crouched down and pulled on the child's hood, as he remembered the General's fan club - he didn't want the child to get mauled, after all. And Spikey would kill him if anything happened to one of her babies. "What are you doing here?"

"I got separated from Momma," Yazoo replied. "We were going to Auntie's place."

Zack failed to notice his mentor's shock as Angeal took in the child's appearance.

"Don't worry, Squirt," Zack reassured. "We'll call your mother, but before that, let's go someplace less crowded."

And without even asking his mentor, Zack picked up the child and walked to a quiet corner; his mentor following behind in a daze.

When the trio reached a quiet spot, Zack sat Yazoo down on a bench and fished out his PHS.

Angeal broke from his daze, and stared at his pupil, wondering how the young man even knew the child.

"Spike?... Yeah, it's me... He's right here... You wanna talk to him?... Yeah... Okay." The SOLDIER Second handed the phone to the child.

"Momma?... I'm fine... Yeah? ... Can I?... I promise... Okay, I will... I will... I will... Okay... Thanks Momma!" Yazoo handed the PHS back to its owner and said, "Momma wants to talk to you."

"Spike? Yeah, gotcha!... He's out on a mission... Yeah, yeah, I promise... I swear! Don't you believe me?..."

As Zack talked on the phone, Angeal wondered how his student even knew the child's mother (Angeal didn't even know Sephiroth had a lover! Or that the man wasn't asexual, for that matter), and continued to compare the child's appearance with his silver-haired friend.

Were all toddlers this... articulate? Or was it just the genes?

"Okay," Zack said, putting his PHS away. "Your ma's given her permission." His words made Yazoo brighten up. "Wanna walk, or do you want up?"

Wordlessly, Yazoo got off the bench and held his arms up to Zack. He was tired.

Zack got the message and picked him up and Yazoo promptly laid his head down and closed his eyes.

"-zoo... Yazoo... Yazoo," a voice called.

Yazoo opened his eyes and lifted his head.

"We're here, Buddy," Zack said. "You okay to walk now?"

Yazoo nodded, rubbing his eyes of sleep. Once he was placed down, Yazoo held his uncle's hand, not wanting to get lost in the enormous building.

They walked to into an elevator and waited to reach their floor.

Meanwhile, Yazoo turned his head to observe his uncle's companion who, strangely, looked like a bit like his uncle. He even had a big sword too.

The two stared at each other, observing. Angeal was still in a daze, wondering if he was seeing things. The child (Yazoo, was it?) looked like a mini-Sephiroth. They even had the same eyes! Angeal briefly wondered if the child's appearance was just a coincidence, but disregarded it. The two looked too much alike not to be related.

The two broke from their staring contest when the elevator rung and the doors opened up to their floor. The three got out and walked to an elaborate door. Without even bothering to knock, Zack pushed it open.

Angeal was about to reprimand his student for his rudeness, but was interrupted when the Vice President and his Turks just looked up and told them to lock the door, unfazed by the child's appearance.

The Vice President got up out of his chair, and the child quickly walked to up to the ShinRa as if he was familiar with the man.

Of course, it took everything Angeal had to refrain from gaping as the ShinRa hugged the child, the hood dropping to reveal silver hair. The Turks also ruffled the boy's hair fondly as they went into conversation.

The two SOLDIERS were dismissed, but before they left, Zack told them to call the boy's mother. The red-headed Turk casually told him not to worry and that they would call "Cloudy" since they didn't want a "mad chocobo" after them. Whatever that meant, Angeal didn't know, but he figured it had something to do with the boy's mother.

As the door closed, Angeal heard the child say that his "Papa was starting to teach him about guns." And Angeal wondered why Sephiroth wasn't teaching his child about swords instead.

The two reported back to Lazard. When the man raised a brow at their tardiness, Zack just casually said that they dropped off one of "Spike's kid" with the Vice President. When Lazard asked "which one," Zack just replied with "the quiet one."

The two SOLDIERS were dismissed after their report and went their separate ways.

Lost in thought, Angeal forgot to stop Zack from leaving to ask for an explanation for the entire situation. The SOLDIER First was left wondering just exactly how many people knew of Sephiroth's child and if he was the only one out of the loop.

By the time Genesis returned from his mission, Angeal was still absorbing the information that Sephiroth, Sephiroth, of all people, had a kid.

Pursing his lips, Angeal turned to his childhood friend, wondering...

"Say, Genesis..."

Meanwhile, a large amount of Midgar's female denizens were receiving the same text message.

Attention all Silver Elite members! It has come to our attention...

No, Lazard didn't remember his past lives. He's just met Cloud before.

Yeah, Rufus? Hugging Yazoo? OOC? Yeah, probably. But remember, he's one of Yazoo's favorite uncles, so they're bound to be close. Their affinity for guns doesn't hurt, either.