-|DESIRE|-

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WARNING!

This contains YAOI.

If you don't like...Don't read.

Chapter Sneak Peek:

Zack finds himself a little jealous.
And poor Cloud almost has a heart attack!

CHAPTER SEVEN

Confusion

Zack Fair was current feeling very jealous.

His mouth dry – fists clenched – blood boiling – heart sinking.

Why?

Because the man who was supposed to be lusting after him was having fun with someone else.

-Looks like a little too fun to me.-

It was always difficult to get Cloud to smile. The guy was moody, distant and very self loathing. Zack had always reeled in the fact that he alone could make the kid so happy. Nobody else.

Not anymore, though.

-Who is this guy, anyway? Looks like an idiot to me.-

It wasn't just the fact that they were laughing either, oh no. That wasn't the reason that Zack had his right hand stroking his buster sword; ready to pick it up and slice it through the stranger's stomach - violent and unfamiliar thoughts swarming in his head. They were doing something else too.

Something which made him want to scream.

Touching.

-Get off him. Please get off him.-

The man was clearly, in Zack's eyes, invading the blonde's personal space.

Hugging him – holding him – playfully nudging him.

The guy was clearly flirting with the blonde; it was painfully obvious.

-Where did he come from anyway?-

But that's not what hurt though... That's now what upset the poor Soldier...

It was the fact that Cloud was just letting him do it.

Letting the jerk hold him...

-He's supposed to want me, isn't he?-

Cloud wasn't the kind of person to just let people touch him like that. There were many times that he had tensed up or winced slightly after being poked or pinched by Zack. Hugging tended to be out of the question in most cases...

So why was this tool aloud to feel him up like that?

-Sure got over me quick.-

He wasn't jealous though... was he?

No – he couldn't be – he just didn't like the thought of being replaced so easily.

That was it, wasn't it?

-Of course.-

"Ggh."

He wished that he'd never walked in on Cloud...

He wished that he wouldn't keep picturing the scene in his head again and again...

But he couldn't turn back time and he couldn't make this better.

There was something he could do, though.

-And it's not at all for jealousy reasons!-

Something that would hopefully take this horrible feeling away.

Cloud Strife would never look at another man again.

He was going to show him...

-That no man can ever replace Soldier 1st Class Zack Fair, EVER!-

He would successfully accomplish this and all of these mixed up feelings would go away.

-Hopefully.-

But first he had to leave this area; before he ended up doing something he'd serious regret.

Although it would have felt good to punish the guy...

-Really good.-

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Cloud sighed loudly to himself.

"That was the most stressful day of my whole life!"

The poor guy had been forced to spend the entire day with a total idiot.

Forced to get along with a total idiot...

-Unfortunately.-

The man was really high up in Shinra, though; forever taking part in Soldier activities and helping decide who should join and who shouldn't. It was important that you treat him with respect; otherwise he might never recommend you for 1st Class. Everyone pretended to enjoy his awful company - for their own benefit.

Cloud was sick of being just a simple Infantry Man...

-Ughh.-

The man had been a total pain in the ass, though.

Cloud hated to be touched and all the man had done was grope him and comment on his feminine appearance. He'd felt utterly disgusted with himself. There was only one person who Cloud wanted to be touched by and it certainly wasn't him.

He'd been forced to laugh most of the day too; something which didn't always come too naturally to him. The man's sense of humour had been as exciting as that of a Chocobo. Even Sephiroth seemed to have a better sense of humour - and the man never made jokes! The blonde's cheeks were aching from all that feigned smiling...

But now he could relax... At last.

-Shower time.-

Rewarding himself with a warm shower did sound good.

Smiling to himself as he did so; Cloud reached out for the nozzle before him and turned it sideways. The water immediately shot out of the nozzle and sprayed the man in boiling hot water. It felt good... Really good...

Cloud loved rewarding himself with a shower after a long day of work.

-Can usually reward myself in other ways too.-

But he wasn't going to do that.

He wasn't going to risk being caught all over again.

-Ggh.-

That was the only bad point about it - you had to share showers with the other men. Only 1st Class Soldier's and other high up members of staff were aloud separate showers. The others were forced to share with each other; humiliated by their slightly too thin or too pale bodies.

Touching yourself in the shower was a risky thing... But everyone did it.

Cloud had even heard others doing it.

-Ggh.-

You got used it though – Cloud had anyway.

-Here we go!-

Someone else had entered the shower room; he could hear their footsteps.

Sure, he got used to the sharing and exposing after months and months of being forced to do it. He couldn't go without washing, could he? But... It still made him tense up every time he heard another person step into the room. The teasing about his feminine body and strangely pale skin tone had never died down...

-Bah.-

Groaning as he did so; Cloud wiped the shampoo from around his eyes and stared up at the figure.

-Oh good, it's a tanned guy.-

This would surely result in extra teasing...

"Is that you, Cloud?" the man asked him.

-Oh Gaia, who could it be.-

"Yes," he answered coldly, turning round to swill his face.

The other man chuckled nervously. "What a coincidence..."

-What's he talking about?-

"It's not that surprising really, don't you -!"

Wait.

... No.

It couldn't be.

-This has to be the worst coincidence.-

"Z-Zack?" he choked, leaning himself on the shower side. "Is... that you?"

There was no point even asking, though.

Those perfectly tanned muscles could only belong to one man.

"My showers broke," Zack shrugged. "Had to come and use these ones."

-His showers broke?-

That seemed pretty strange... Couldn't he just use the General's shower or someone else's?

Why would he choose to shower down here of all places? Where he might bump into Cloud?

-Hold on a minute.-

That's when Cloud's head finally screamed back to life.

...

...

HE'S COMPLETELY NAKED!

Keehee – Zack is getting slightly jealous bless him.

Wanting Cloud to only like him!

Why is he going into those showers, though? Is his shower really broke?

How will Cloud cope with the naked Zack?

Awkward showering scene with two naked and confused men?

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