Hitler

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Zack sat grudgingly in his last hour of class he had that day. The only light that portrayed from this class, besides it being the last one he had to attend, was that Cloud was present in the room, better yet he was sitting right beside Zack, and even better then that, was the fact they were in the very back row of the room. Giving them the farthest distance possible from their professor, who was droning on about World War II, the massive Genocide, and Adolph Hitler.

"Cloud" Zack whispered to the blond beside him. He received a small grunt of half-hearted acknowledgment. "Clooouud" He insisted further, wanting more attention then that from his spiky-haired blond.

"What, Zack?" Cloud whispered back, glancing at Zack out of the corner of his eye, which were framed in silver rimmed glasses, being necessary because they were so far back. He, unlike Zack, took the notes they were instructed to in class.

"I'm booored…" Zack whined quietly, pouting a bit.

"Then take the notes you're supposed to be taking" Cloud grunted back, glaring momentarily at Zack, then went back to taking said notes.

"No way, man. Not when I'll just copy yours back at the dorm"

"Then don't bother me or I won't let you copy them!" Cloud hissed, continued to look ahead at the board.

"Aw, don't be like tha-"

"Fair. Kindly answer the question. As it seems you must already know the answer since you are not taking the required notes and are talking to Strife" The Professor all but barked to be sure Zack had heard him.

Zack paled, not having heard the question resorted to glancing at Cloud who wasn't looking at him. Unlike most of the other class, who had turned to look at the dark-haired male. "Er…"

"The question, a very simple one at that, was 'What was the title, or name, of the group of people that Adolph Hitler considered the 'Perfect Race'? What would they have needed to fit into said group?' " The professor recited

Zack blinked, blue eyes filled with slight confusion at the elder male's wording as he tried to decipher the questions.

"Er…-"

" 'Er' is not an answer"

"I know! What I meant was…" Zack said quickly, blue eyes once more glancing over at Cloud for help. He was in luck; the blond was looking at him, but only received a small smirk. Cloud wasn't going to help him out of this one. 'That damned Chocobo bastard! I'm not touching him for the rest of the day! Maybe even the whole week. Gaia damn-'

"Your answer, Fair? Or would you like to write an essay on this subject?" The professor's voice threatened, bringing Zack back from his thoughts.

"No, no! They, er, they were called Aryans!" Zack said quickly, having spotted a glint in the professor's eye at his use of 'er' again.

"Quite right, now the rest of your answer?"

"They, Aryans, were classified as such because of their physical appearance. Blond hair and blue eyes. Jewish people weren't allowed in either, nor were Gypsies or the crippled or mentally challenged or those deemed mentally insane" Zack answered quickly, hoping his answer would suffice.

"That's right. Seems you do pay attention. Aryans were Hitler's version of the perfect person. Race. We even have examples in the room. Rikku, yes you girl, would have passed. Deeming you're not of Jewish dependences? No? Alright then. Why, Fair, even your little friend Strife would have passed. Especially seeing how he's a man. Much more desirable. Mmm… Fair, you've got the eyes, but not the hair. You might've survived… Used for hard labor… Anyway! Hitler killed himself in the year…" The professor said, using Cloud and Rikku for examples, seeing how they both had blond hair and blue eyes.

When class let out at last, Zack was the first one out the door, closely followed by Cloud.

"He hates me! I know he does! Did you hear him? 'You might've survived. Used for hard labor.'!" Zack ranted to the quiet blond, his temper having been flared a bit.

"Maybe if you'd take notes-" Cloud had started patiently but was cut off by Zack

"I do the work! I've never missed an assignment!"

"Never said you didn't. Now calm down, hot-head" Cloud said, slipping an arm around Zack's waist, waiting for the dark haired male's arm to wind around his shoulders like it usually did. When it didn't he looked up at Zack's face, eyes catching the scar on his jaw momentarily before going higher to his nearly identical blue eyes, which weren't looking at him. "Oh, you can't be mad at me! He would have given both of us essays if I had helped you!" Cloud said, knowing what Zack was mad at him for.

Said man huffed a bit then glanced down at Cloud, frowning "You've got a point there…"

"See? Don't take your anger at the professor out on me" The smaller of the two said, faking a pout.

Zack's arm wound around Cloud at last with a groaned "Aw, don't be like thaaat"

Cloud smiled in victory and momentarily tightened his arm around Zack, which got returned with a squeeze and a kiss to his hair.

"I couldn't yell at you or be mad at you anyway, Chokie" Zack muttered, using his pet name for Cloud

"Not that nickname! I've told you, Zack! I'm not a Chocobo!" Cloud playfully snapped, secretly finding the pet name rather adorable and cute.

"Ah, you love it" Zack replied smoothly, knowing that Cloud was trying to hid the fact he liked it.

"Keep calling me that and it's good bye to copying my notes! In all our shared classes!" Cloud threatened with a smirk, wiggling out of Zack's grip and dashed towards the dorms. Zack stood there with a blank expression before a panicked one over came his face and he groaned and hurried after Cloud to their shared dorm.

"Aw! Cloud! Babe! C'mon, I didn't mean it!!" Zack called "CLOUD!? C'MON! I WAS ONLY KIDDING!!!"

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a/n: I know I don't add these on here, but I am sorry to anyone who's alerted this fic. I've had problems uploading it DX sorry for the spam!