This 100 Song Theme challenge belongs to the awesome Bond Of Flame08, 100 little drabbles, each prompt is also a song title from the myriad of music in the Kingdom Hearts soundtracks. I own nothing, all Kingdom Hearts characters belong to Tetsuya Nomura and Square Enix, the music was primarily composed by Yoko Shimomura.
Author's Note: Oh Cloud, he's such a complex character, both his Final Fantasy VII compilation incarnation, as well as his Kingdom Hearts persona. I like to think before Radiant Garden's fall, he was friends with other Final Fantasy characters.
7. Another Side
To most who knew of him, Cloud was the stoic, dark garbed, stony-faced swordsman, anti social, brooding and as moody as a thunderstorm. He barely spoke, and his eyes, so cold and distant were enough to send most inquiring persons in the other direction, and his swaddled sword warded off the rest.
But to few, he showed another side, the personality unaffected by the destruction of Radiant Garden, and his fateful entanglement with Sephiroth.
To Aerith, he was calm and kind, the one who had helped her to plant the blossoms in her garden, and talked with her, so often after Zack had disappeared.
To Leon, he was the sparring partner, the friend who had stuck with him in their days as students in Radiant Garden, his equal as a swordsman.
But to Tifa, the one who pursued Cloud across worlds, trying to get him to come home, to stop chasing Sephiroth he was the shy teen who had made her that fateful promise, to be her hero, when she needed him.
And no matter how distant he made himself, Tifa wouldn't change her mind; she would always be there to help him.