Ok here's chapter 8.
A/N Ok I a few reviews have shown me that I didn't take the time to explain part of the plot very well and I'm sorry. Sephiroth is actually a couple months younger the Cloud but most people think Sephiroth is actually 10 years older then he is. This is why Vincent thinks he spent 30 years in the coffin instead of the actual 20. I figure after a while in a coffin you loose all track of time. Also he didn't know who Cloud was and couldn't base his age idea off him.
Any more questions please ask. I probably will answer them in future chapters but in some cases I might have just explained it bad as this.
Thanks for all the reviews!
"Where are you going Cloud? Your not running away are you?" said Yuffie who caught the blonde packing.
"No I promised no more running, but Reeve and I have some things to work out. He stays in control of Shinra but I guess there is some legal stuff to work out." Said Cloud thinking half a lie was better then a complete one. No one else knew Rufus was alive, by Rufus's request. He was afraid that if some of the members found he was live the boy wouldn't last very long.
Cloud closed his bag and picked it up. "I'll be away for a few days. When Reeve and me get done I'm going back to Midgar. From there I don't know what. As long as you want to you will be able to find me."
"Where you going to tell us." Said Yuffie.
"I left a note, I figured if I told you guys then you would want to come with me. " said Cloud
"Well duh but I understand why you don't want us coming with you."
"You do?"
"Yah I've learned a lot from running Wutai and I still have much to learn."
"I guess your right. Thanks Yuff, Tell the others for me?"
"Yah now get out of here before the others get back."
Cloud walked out the door leaving the Wutain behind. She wasn't certain if it was a good idea to let him go with all he had went through but she also knew she didn't have a choice. She would scold Reeve later for dumping all this on Cloud soon after he regained his memories, even if it was the way Cloud wanted it.
"How much longer must I wait?" said a figure standing in shadow.
"Till he learns everything." Said another beside the first.
"He knows much already." Said the first.
"Yes but your lucky for this chance at all. He still has a bit more to learn about himself and his mother."
"I've waited this long I guess a few more days won't hurt."
Cloud sat silent on the helicopter taking him to a remote village on the northern continent. Reeve worried about his friend. The change that had came over him since he regained his memories was not good. He was always down cast and silent. It had been a week since he had reviled his memories. In that time It was determined that Tifa didn't have a clue how she survived. She did remember falling from the rector vaguely but the next memory was of lying in her bed. Nanaki's grandfather's memory process didn't reviled what had happened too her.
Also she couldn't come within 10 feet of Cloud. Heart broken she returned home to Midgar. Barret went with her so she wouldn't be alone. Vincent stayed in Cosmo Canyon but was afraid to be alone with Cloud. They hadn't really talked since he kissed him. Cloud loved Sephiroth above all else and Vincent decided not to ignore his feelings for the blonde. He cared not if the feelings weren't returned. Love was love. He did fear kissing the boy again if they were left alone.
Cid stayed as well. He had some work to do on the Highwind. He couldn't get the engines to work right since the blasted thing had crash-landed after they had been blasted from the northern cavern. Cosmo Canyon was the only place that would allow him enough personal space to work on the airship without fear of intrusion on people who wanted a piece of the famous ship.
Nanaki was enjoying the time at home, often times he would go a visit his father. The past days events remind him of how he had been lied to all those years. No one said it but deep down they all shared a reason for staying and that reason being Cloud. He didn't speak for the 2 days following his memories return. He at just enough to keep a chocobo alive . Pain was constantly evident in his eyes, leaving the group to wonder if he would ever recover.
Gazing out the window Cloud could almost feel Sephiroth tight arms securely around him. Lost in his memories he didn't even realize it when the Helicopter landed.
"Cloud!" Reeve was not screaming. Fearing to touch the person in front of him.
"Huh? Oh we're hear already?" said Cloud getting out of the Helicopter.
Looking around all Cloud could see was three buildings. If Rufus Shinra was here it was low budget. The largest building was barely the size of a roomy cottage. The second was what might have qualified as garage at one point in time but was in disrepair. The third was nothing more then a glorified outhouse.
"This is were Rufus is recovering?" said Cloud.
'Yes he's right this way." Said Reeve.
"Doesn't seem like his is all," said Cloud.
"There is a lot you have to learn." Said Reeve.
"I guess." Said Cloud as Reeve stopped in front of the Outhouse."What kind of joke is this?"
"No Joke though your face is priceless. Its an elevator. Your cousin is being kept underground." Said Reeve.
"Really that would have been nice to know." Said Cloud walking in the "outhouse" with Reeve right behind him.
They shot down what must have been at least 30 flights in Clouds mind.
"This use to be a military installation in the time of your mother. It has state of the art medical facilities even for today. Luckly only a hand full of people ever knew of it. That handful didn't include Dr. Hojo thank God. I don't dare imagine what he would have done with it if he had known. Rufus is still bed ridden but can wake and talk. He doesn't know your coming so I'll tell him first." Said Reeve.
"Why didn't you tell him I was coming?" said Cloud.
"Because I didn't want to get his hopes up. I wasn't sure if you would back out. He thinks that he's the only one left and family ment a lot to him. If I told him you were coming then you backed out it might have been enough to kill him." Said Reeve.
"HOW?!" said Cloud
"He's living on sheer will alone." Said Reeve as the elevator stopped.
"Seems we are the only family each other have left." Said Cloud.
"Yah friends are one thing Cloud but family is another. Always remember that. " said Reeve.
"Why are you so stuck on family?"
"Because when I was 4 my parents divorced and I went with my mother. She remarried to this guy who treated her great but he was horrid to me. He mad my mom so happy in every way but when it came to me. I was so scared she was going to get rid of me because I was the only flaw in their relationship and I didn't make her as happy as he did. Then one day he was gone. My mom explained to me that family was important above everything else. You can stop being someone's friend but you can never genetically stop being related to someone." Said Reeve.
"Good lesson I guess." Said Cloud as they arrived out side a door.
"Just wait here a moment I'll be right back." Said Reeve opening the door.
Cloud stood and thought. What was Rufus going to think?
"Hey Rufus how are you doing today." Said Reeve
"Good I was afraid you weren't going to come see me again." Said Rufus
"No I'll always come visit you but I did bring someone." Said Reeve.
"Who would want to come see me?" said Rufus closing his eyes.
"There is a lot to explain but I know how you like to get to the point." Said Reeve.
"Yah so who is it and why do they wan to see me?" said Rufus.
"Well point is that its Cloud Strife." Said Reeve.
"What the hell why did you bring him here?!?" said Rufus as loud as he could.
"Shhhh Ruf let me finish." Said Reeve. "He's your cousin."
"WHAT! You mean....." said Rufus.
"Yah he's your aunt's missing child." Said Reeve.
"My God. But it makes and eerie kind of sense." Said Rufus.
"Really how?" said Reeve.
"Who else could have been strong enough to defeat Sephiroth and save the world?"
That left Reeve without something to say.
"So where is he?" said Rufus
"Oh let me go out and get him." Said Reeve opening the door. "Common Cloud."
Cloud walked in and the scene in front of him wasn't pretty. Rufus had bandages over 60% of his body. One eye was covered with them an his left arm was in a sling.
"I'll leave you two alone for a while." Said Reeve leaving the room.
"My God." Said Cloud.
"I don't want your pity." Said Rufus.
"Fine but I don't want yours either." Said Cloud taking a seat.
"And just what is that suppose to mean?" Rufus retorted.
"I'll tell you later. " said Cloud.
"You do look like her now I see you close up." Said Rufus
"Who?"
"Aunt Ahiko." Said Rufus turning his head.
"You..you remember my mother?" said Cloud
"Yah I am five years older then you." Said Rufus.
"Can you tell me about her." Said Cloud.
"Love too, stories are how I keep from going completely insane here. What do you want to know?" said Rufus.
"What was she like?" said Cloud.
"Well I don't know how many would agree with me but when I saw her she was always with my uncle and always smiling happy. She played with me more then my mother did. From what I know now I don't see how she had time but she did. Mom and Dad would go off on these weird trips and leave me with her. She always smelled like spring with all the flowers. I can remember wishing she were my mom instead. I always felt safe around her. I once watched her defeat 4 monsters at once, she was so strong. When she disappeared I wouldn't leave my room for weeks. I just sat and cried on my stuffed Chocobo she had gotten me for my 4th birthday." Said Rufus with a tear rolling down his cheek.
Cloud just sat on stared. Ahiko his mother sounded like such a wonderful person. Pure loving and protective. He missed her so much.
"How is it possible to miss someone this much when you've never met them?" whispered Cloud.
"Do you have any memories of your mother at all?" said Rufus
"No." said Cloud.
"She loved you. I remember her showing me to you. I called you a chocobo with that blonde hair sticking out all over the place. She just smiled and said you were her little angel. I even got to hold you. I had to sit down and stuff but that was so cool." Said Rufus.
"Thank you Rufus." Said Cloud.
"For what?"
"For giving me a piece of my childhood, my mother."
"Hey no problem. Just one thing you can do to make it up to me." Said Rufus.
"What that." said Cloud.
"Well your all I have left. Reeve is great but he's not my family. Unless I'm not mistaken I'm the only family you have left. I'm going to be out of here in a few months come and live at the mansion with me." Said Rufus.
"I..I don't know." Said Cloud.
"Your friends? We can work it out. I'll get down on my knees and beg for forgiveness. I mean it will be a great way to get to know each other better." Said Rufus.
"No its not that. You may not want me. There is much you don't know." Said Cloud lowing his head.
"I don't care really with all I've done." Said Rufus
"Well...it kind of goes like this." Said Cloud who started in on the explanation only leaving a few finer points of his relationship with Sephiroth out.
"Holy Shit." Said Rufus when Cloud had finally finished.
"Your telling me. Still want me to move in with you." Said Cloud.
"Yah I mean that's some screwed up stuff but your still my cousin and your not that person anymore." Said Rufus.
"You sure?" said Cloud.
"Yah cause that person would probably have killed me rather then talk to me." Said Rufus.
"Thank you again." Said Cloud
"No problem but really should be thanking you. I guess we have a lot to offer each other." Said Rufus.
"Yah I guess we do." Said Cloud looking back to his newly found cousin. Rufus had so easily accepted him. He was afraid of rejection from Rufus but found his fears to be severely misplaced. Whatever made Rufus accept him he didn't want to question.
"How much longer?" said the figure again.
"Soon very soon." Said the second.
Ok that's chapter 8! I hope you like. Plz review I love you guys!
A/N Ok I a few reviews have shown me that I didn't take the time to explain part of the plot very well and I'm sorry. Sephiroth is actually a couple months younger the Cloud but most people think Sephiroth is actually 10 years older then he is. This is why Vincent thinks he spent 30 years in the coffin instead of the actual 20. I figure after a while in a coffin you loose all track of time. Also he didn't know who Cloud was and couldn't base his age idea off him.
Any more questions please ask. I probably will answer them in future chapters but in some cases I might have just explained it bad as this.
Thanks for all the reviews!
"Where are you going Cloud? Your not running away are you?" said Yuffie who caught the blonde packing.
"No I promised no more running, but Reeve and I have some things to work out. He stays in control of Shinra but I guess there is some legal stuff to work out." Said Cloud thinking half a lie was better then a complete one. No one else knew Rufus was alive, by Rufus's request. He was afraid that if some of the members found he was live the boy wouldn't last very long.
Cloud closed his bag and picked it up. "I'll be away for a few days. When Reeve and me get done I'm going back to Midgar. From there I don't know what. As long as you want to you will be able to find me."
"Where you going to tell us." Said Yuffie.
"I left a note, I figured if I told you guys then you would want to come with me. " said Cloud
"Well duh but I understand why you don't want us coming with you."
"You do?"
"Yah I've learned a lot from running Wutai and I still have much to learn."
"I guess your right. Thanks Yuff, Tell the others for me?"
"Yah now get out of here before the others get back."
Cloud walked out the door leaving the Wutain behind. She wasn't certain if it was a good idea to let him go with all he had went through but she also knew she didn't have a choice. She would scold Reeve later for dumping all this on Cloud soon after he regained his memories, even if it was the way Cloud wanted it.
"How much longer must I wait?" said a figure standing in shadow.
"Till he learns everything." Said another beside the first.
"He knows much already." Said the first.
"Yes but your lucky for this chance at all. He still has a bit more to learn about himself and his mother."
"I've waited this long I guess a few more days won't hurt."
Cloud sat silent on the helicopter taking him to a remote village on the northern continent. Reeve worried about his friend. The change that had came over him since he regained his memories was not good. He was always down cast and silent. It had been a week since he had reviled his memories. In that time It was determined that Tifa didn't have a clue how she survived. She did remember falling from the rector vaguely but the next memory was of lying in her bed. Nanaki's grandfather's memory process didn't reviled what had happened too her.
Also she couldn't come within 10 feet of Cloud. Heart broken she returned home to Midgar. Barret went with her so she wouldn't be alone. Vincent stayed in Cosmo Canyon but was afraid to be alone with Cloud. They hadn't really talked since he kissed him. Cloud loved Sephiroth above all else and Vincent decided not to ignore his feelings for the blonde. He cared not if the feelings weren't returned. Love was love. He did fear kissing the boy again if they were left alone.
Cid stayed as well. He had some work to do on the Highwind. He couldn't get the engines to work right since the blasted thing had crash-landed after they had been blasted from the northern cavern. Cosmo Canyon was the only place that would allow him enough personal space to work on the airship without fear of intrusion on people who wanted a piece of the famous ship.
Nanaki was enjoying the time at home, often times he would go a visit his father. The past days events remind him of how he had been lied to all those years. No one said it but deep down they all shared a reason for staying and that reason being Cloud. He didn't speak for the 2 days following his memories return. He at just enough to keep a chocobo alive . Pain was constantly evident in his eyes, leaving the group to wonder if he would ever recover.
Gazing out the window Cloud could almost feel Sephiroth tight arms securely around him. Lost in his memories he didn't even realize it when the Helicopter landed.
"Cloud!" Reeve was not screaming. Fearing to touch the person in front of him.
"Huh? Oh we're hear already?" said Cloud getting out of the Helicopter.
Looking around all Cloud could see was three buildings. If Rufus Shinra was here it was low budget. The largest building was barely the size of a roomy cottage. The second was what might have qualified as garage at one point in time but was in disrepair. The third was nothing more then a glorified outhouse.
"This is were Rufus is recovering?" said Cloud.
'Yes he's right this way." Said Reeve.
"Doesn't seem like his is all," said Cloud.
"There is a lot you have to learn." Said Reeve.
"I guess." Said Cloud as Reeve stopped in front of the Outhouse."What kind of joke is this?"
"No Joke though your face is priceless. Its an elevator. Your cousin is being kept underground." Said Reeve.
"Really that would have been nice to know." Said Cloud walking in the "outhouse" with Reeve right behind him.
They shot down what must have been at least 30 flights in Clouds mind.
"This use to be a military installation in the time of your mother. It has state of the art medical facilities even for today. Luckly only a hand full of people ever knew of it. That handful didn't include Dr. Hojo thank God. I don't dare imagine what he would have done with it if he had known. Rufus is still bed ridden but can wake and talk. He doesn't know your coming so I'll tell him first." Said Reeve.
"Why didn't you tell him I was coming?" said Cloud.
"Because I didn't want to get his hopes up. I wasn't sure if you would back out. He thinks that he's the only one left and family ment a lot to him. If I told him you were coming then you backed out it might have been enough to kill him." Said Reeve.
"HOW?!" said Cloud
"He's living on sheer will alone." Said Reeve as the elevator stopped.
"Seems we are the only family each other have left." Said Cloud.
"Yah friends are one thing Cloud but family is another. Always remember that. " said Reeve.
"Why are you so stuck on family?"
"Because when I was 4 my parents divorced and I went with my mother. She remarried to this guy who treated her great but he was horrid to me. He mad my mom so happy in every way but when it came to me. I was so scared she was going to get rid of me because I was the only flaw in their relationship and I didn't make her as happy as he did. Then one day he was gone. My mom explained to me that family was important above everything else. You can stop being someone's friend but you can never genetically stop being related to someone." Said Reeve.
"Good lesson I guess." Said Cloud as they arrived out side a door.
"Just wait here a moment I'll be right back." Said Reeve opening the door.
Cloud stood and thought. What was Rufus going to think?
"Hey Rufus how are you doing today." Said Reeve
"Good I was afraid you weren't going to come see me again." Said Rufus
"No I'll always come visit you but I did bring someone." Said Reeve.
"Who would want to come see me?" said Rufus closing his eyes.
"There is a lot to explain but I know how you like to get to the point." Said Reeve.
"Yah so who is it and why do they wan to see me?" said Rufus.
"Well point is that its Cloud Strife." Said Reeve.
"What the hell why did you bring him here?!?" said Rufus as loud as he could.
"Shhhh Ruf let me finish." Said Reeve. "He's your cousin."
"WHAT! You mean....." said Rufus.
"Yah he's your aunt's missing child." Said Reeve.
"My God. But it makes and eerie kind of sense." Said Rufus.
"Really how?" said Reeve.
"Who else could have been strong enough to defeat Sephiroth and save the world?"
That left Reeve without something to say.
"So where is he?" said Rufus
"Oh let me go out and get him." Said Reeve opening the door. "Common Cloud."
Cloud walked in and the scene in front of him wasn't pretty. Rufus had bandages over 60% of his body. One eye was covered with them an his left arm was in a sling.
"I'll leave you two alone for a while." Said Reeve leaving the room.
"My God." Said Cloud.
"I don't want your pity." Said Rufus.
"Fine but I don't want yours either." Said Cloud taking a seat.
"And just what is that suppose to mean?" Rufus retorted.
"I'll tell you later. " said Cloud.
"You do look like her now I see you close up." Said Rufus
"Who?"
"Aunt Ahiko." Said Rufus turning his head.
"You..you remember my mother?" said Cloud
"Yah I am five years older then you." Said Rufus.
"Can you tell me about her." Said Cloud.
"Love too, stories are how I keep from going completely insane here. What do you want to know?" said Rufus.
"What was she like?" said Cloud.
"Well I don't know how many would agree with me but when I saw her she was always with my uncle and always smiling happy. She played with me more then my mother did. From what I know now I don't see how she had time but she did. Mom and Dad would go off on these weird trips and leave me with her. She always smelled like spring with all the flowers. I can remember wishing she were my mom instead. I always felt safe around her. I once watched her defeat 4 monsters at once, she was so strong. When she disappeared I wouldn't leave my room for weeks. I just sat and cried on my stuffed Chocobo she had gotten me for my 4th birthday." Said Rufus with a tear rolling down his cheek.
Cloud just sat on stared. Ahiko his mother sounded like such a wonderful person. Pure loving and protective. He missed her so much.
"How is it possible to miss someone this much when you've never met them?" whispered Cloud.
"Do you have any memories of your mother at all?" said Rufus
"No." said Cloud.
"She loved you. I remember her showing me to you. I called you a chocobo with that blonde hair sticking out all over the place. She just smiled and said you were her little angel. I even got to hold you. I had to sit down and stuff but that was so cool." Said Rufus.
"Thank you Rufus." Said Cloud.
"For what?"
"For giving me a piece of my childhood, my mother."
"Hey no problem. Just one thing you can do to make it up to me." Said Rufus.
"What that." said Cloud.
"Well your all I have left. Reeve is great but he's not my family. Unless I'm not mistaken I'm the only family you have left. I'm going to be out of here in a few months come and live at the mansion with me." Said Rufus.
"I..I don't know." Said Cloud.
"Your friends? We can work it out. I'll get down on my knees and beg for forgiveness. I mean it will be a great way to get to know each other better." Said Rufus.
"No its not that. You may not want me. There is much you don't know." Said Cloud lowing his head.
"I don't care really with all I've done." Said Rufus
"Well...it kind of goes like this." Said Cloud who started in on the explanation only leaving a few finer points of his relationship with Sephiroth out.
"Holy Shit." Said Rufus when Cloud had finally finished.
"Your telling me. Still want me to move in with you." Said Cloud.
"Yah I mean that's some screwed up stuff but your still my cousin and your not that person anymore." Said Rufus.
"You sure?" said Cloud.
"Yah cause that person would probably have killed me rather then talk to me." Said Rufus.
"Thank you again." Said Cloud
"No problem but really should be thanking you. I guess we have a lot to offer each other." Said Rufus.
"Yah I guess we do." Said Cloud looking back to his newly found cousin. Rufus had so easily accepted him. He was afraid of rejection from Rufus but found his fears to be severely misplaced. Whatever made Rufus accept him he didn't want to question.
"How much longer?" said the figure again.
"Soon very soon." Said the second.
Ok that's chapter 8! I hope you like. Plz review I love you guys!