I know its been a while but here's the chap. you've been waiting on for so long. I give you permission to bug me if it takes this long again.

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They finished their tour the rest of the way silently. Sasuke sulking all the way until the end, Aielita behind him thinking of ways to get them back. Naruto merrily racing around the van letting the wind flow through his hair, his blue eyes animated. Cloud sat on his motorcycle watching the joyous blonde run around yelling incoherent things. Cloud glanced over at Aielita, who looked back. Cloud gave her a sullen look and went on watching his favorite blonde. Aielita grimaced at him at walked over towards Sasuke who was sitting on the ground close to the van thinking. Aielita decided to take a seat next to him, " So Einstein figured somethin' out that I haven't yet? ", Sasuke ignored her and continued thinking.

" Well okay if that's how your gonna be then fine ", Aielita side-glanced at the pale boy, " But nothing will be accomplished if you don't talk to me ". " Hn ", he replied. " Unfortunately I don't understand your ' Hn ' language ", she turned toward him, " How about some words Sasuke ". He visibly flinched when she said his name, she never used his name. Her usual vocabulary was ' Bastard or Uchiha, and sometimes Dimwit '. She would use any other word but his first name. She breathed in once he looked at her, " So ready to work this thing out now ", she said. " There's nothing we can work out until our chakra comes back ", Aielita sighed. " Sasuke you say it like you were just presenting the problem to me I know this already, but we have to know what to do when the time comes so its better to plan ahead ", she stared at Sasuke, " Right? ". Sasuke stared back exasperated, " Right, whatever ". " And once our chakra is back to its full potential ", " In about three months ", Sasuke interrupted. Aielita rolled her eyes, " We'll probably have a plan to get back ", Aielita looked up at the sky reaching out as if she could get back if she just reached far enough, but her hand came down empty. She breathed out a sigh. ' Maybe we can't get back '.

" Chakra what is chakra " the two genins looked over to see Cloud walking towards them arms folded over his chest. He eyed them as if he'd caught them with their hand in a cookie jar, " I'd really like to know ". Aielita cursed to herself as to how she could be so stupid to let him hear, Sasuke looked at him with tired eyes. Aielita was the first to speak, " Its nothing of your concern Cloud ", her blue eyes connected with his mako ones. " Its sounds like you need this chakra to get back somewhere ", he gave them both hard looks. " You said you needed it back to its full potential ", he almost smirked as he saw them go pale. " Yea so is somethin' genetically wrong with you guys or what ", Reno said coming from the other way. Aielita's eye twitched, " No Redhead nothing is wrong with us! ", Sasuke said his Sharingun again turned on. " Alright, alright red eyes no reason to get angry ", Reno said walking over to Cloud's side. " Well we know something is definitely wrong with him ", Reno whispered in Cloud's ear.

Naruto ran over to them wondering what was going on, " What wrong with you guys ", they all looked over at him. " Naruto would you care to explain what Chakra is ", Cloud's eyes were a dark hue, Naruto paled also. Aielita mouthed the words ' No ' to him, which he saw, " I-its nothing its just ", Aielita and Sasuke looked at him pleadingly. " Why do you need it to get back ", Cloud shot at him, " Where are you going ", " What's the real reason you were in the church ". " I-I its no reason nothing, its nothing ", Cloud could feel a headache coming on from Naruto's lies. " It didn't sound like anything ", Cloud walked closer to Naruto and looked down at him, " All you have to do is tell me the truth ". Naruto's blue eyes looked up at Cloud. The sun had long disappeared and Grey covered the sky, the wind blew making it chilly. " Cloud ", Naruto's voice began cracking, " I- I can't its nothing I swear ", even though the sun was no longer out Cloud slipped on his sunglasses covering his blue eyes, " Your lying to me,…why? ". Naruto bowed his head and buried it into Cloud's abdomen, he roughly took him by the shoulders and pushed him back, " Why ", he repeated coldly. Naruto's eyes welled up, " I'm sorry Cloud ", he rubbed at his eyes, " I'm sorry ". Reno came up behind Cloud smiling evilly ,' Hmp this is payback you little brat ', Reno thought. " I've already got the other two tied up you want me to tie him too? ".

Cloud took another glance at Naruto as he walked toward his bike, " No he's staying with me ", Reno took out a pack of smokes as he closed the door on the two helpless genins in the back of the van. " Alright Cloudy whatever you say ", Naruto stood looking at the both trying to figure out if he should make a run for it or stay and wait everything out. Reno stuck a cigarette between his teeth as he jumped in the van, " I'm goin' to work I'll come by later with them where will you be? ". " 7th Heaven ", was the reply. Naruto just watched as Reno drove off with both of his tied up friends in the back. Cloud walked toward him with a not so happy look on his face. Naruto breathed in once, ' Here-here I we are again in the same situation we were in only a few hours ago ', he breathed in again as Cloud grabbed his arm, he yanked it out of his grasp. " What is it you want to know ", Naruto said staring at the oh so interesting bare ground. " What is going on? ", Naruto looked up at him. " I told you… nothing ", "Well what is chakra then? ".

" Just another word we use for transportation, a friend of ours said he would leave it in that church ", Cloud didn't look satisfied, " My name, how did you know my name, Reno's, Tifa's ", Naruto looked up at him again. " I know everything about you Cloud ", unnoticed by Naruto behind those sunglasses his eyes widened. " I'm sorry but your not real, you're just a made up character ", he grabbed Cloud's hand, " This ", tears fell down Naruto's face, " This isn't real ", he paused and swallowed, " You were a member of Soldier, then you decided to become Mercenary, that's how you met Avalanche. Then you met Aeris Gainsborough after crashing through the roof of her church. Sephiroth a top ranking Soldier officer manipulated you and then tried to destroy the planet with a meteor to absorb the LifeStream so he would become a God. But you ended up beating and hopefully killing him, but them he came back and he said he would never be a memory this is where you fought him ", Naruto finished. Cloud removed his sunglasses not believing what he had just heard. " H-how ", Naruto stepped back a little. " Cloud searched his eyes for answers he could feel another headache coming on, " I-I I'm sorry I shouldn't have done that ", tears again fell from Naruto's eyes. Rain started to fall from the Grey clouds onto the couple beneath them.

Cloud this time took his arm gently and pulled the sobbing boy close and wrapped his arms around him. ' What is going on ', he thought to himself as the boy in his arms cried more. The rain began to come down harder. A single tear dropped down from Cloud's eye and he looked straight up to the clouds and sighed.