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Also, a reminder that this fic has a lot of strong language, so reader's discretion is advised.

Chapter X: Fight! Fight! Fight!

Wednesday, February 14

"I'll see you after school Tifa!" Cloud said as he walked out the hospital room the next morning, "Get better okay?"

Tifa waved goodbye to her new boyfriend. She smiled as he walked out the room. She could not wait till school was over.

"Oh, Cloud," Tifa said to herself, "I miss you already."

HONK! HONK!

"Hurry up Cloud!" Mrs. Strife yelled out the window to her son who was sort of speed walking to the car, "you're gonna be late for school!"

Cloud jumped in the shotgun seat and threw his seat belt on and sighed.

"Don't have to yell at me like that, Mom," He said slouching in his seat.

"What were you doing in there, Cloud?" She asked driving out of the parking lot, "making out with your girlfriend?"

"Mom, we weren't making out," Cloud looked out the window.

"Oh?" Mrs. Strife smirked, "So she is your girlfriend, huh?"

Cloud blushed.

"So what were you guys doing?" She asked suspiciously, "I heard the nurses in this hospital give you guys complete privacy."

"Mom, you're crazy."

"Then you're the son of a crazy person."

"Apparently," Cloud looked out the window to see the front of the school not too far off. Finally, they were almost there.

Cloud's mom pulled into the side of the school. Cloud took off his seat belt, and opened the door.

"Hey, Honey, wait," Mrs. Strife interrupted.

"Hurry up Mom," Cloud said wanting to get out, "The bell just rang."

"I know," Mom said, "but I got you those Trojans!"

"MOM!" Cloud got out and slammed the door while Mrs. Strife lay back laughing.

"Cloud, Cloud, Cloud," She said shaking her head with a grin, "I just want you to have some fun, that's all."

Then she drove the car back into the street.

RING! RING! RING!

It was second period in Mr. Rhapsodos' class.

"Okay, please turn to the writing section in your notebook," Genesis said to the class.

Cloud opened his notebook to a new page in his writing section. Everyday, they had to do a warmup in their notebook.

"John..." Mr. Rhapsodos shook his head at one of the students, "We're in second semester, and you don't even have a notebook."

"No," the student said laying back in his seat.

The teacher shook his head, "I'm gonna have to pull you out of this class then."

"Why?" John said in monotone.

"Because, I don't accept students who don't try in my honors class," He said.

The boy shrugged. Then left the class without a care.

"John's changed ever since his girlfriend broke up with him," a girl said.

Genesis shook his head in disappointment, "but that's no excuse to not even try. Not in my class."

Cloud thought about how he would change if Tifa ever decided to break up with him. No, he thought. It's way to early to think about that.

"Okay," Genesis took a deep breath and continued on with the class, "for your warmup, I want you to write about, 'Love'."

Some signs of excitement erupted in the class.

"Whatever you think of it, write about 'Love'."

Cloud smiled and he immediately began writing.

Genesis looked at the blonde-haired boy. He had been doing very well in his class and he showed no sign of weakness. The teacher smiled, he was gonna choose Cloud to read his paper after this.

In a couple minutes, Cloud dropped his pencil and he patiently waited for the rest of the class to finish writing. He looked over at Sephiroth who sat right next to him. The silver-haired boy glanced at Cloud and showed a small smile. Cloud smiled back. He looked in front of him to see Cissnei looking at him. He jumped, how long has she been looking at him?

The red-head mouthed something that Cloud couldn't understand. He mouthed 'What?'

Cissnei sighed in annoyance, then she tried enunciating the words again.

'You're dating Tifa,' Cloud made out.

Cloud raised his eyes in surprise. It's amazing how fast things spread around this school.

'How did you know?' Cloud mouthed clearly.

Cissnei looked behind her to see if Genesis was watching, then turned back around and mouthed, 'Aerith told me.'

Cloud nodded. With Aerith knowing about him and Tifa, he did not know how far this was gonna go. Soon the whole school was going to know about this.

"Cloud," Geneis said which interrupted the silence, "Let's hear what you wrote please."

The whole class, full of amusement looked at Cloud. Cloud swallowed and cleared his throat.

Cloud was used to reading aloud, but when it comes to personal things like love, it was really hard and embarrassing.

"Love," Cloud began, "It's a strong emotion you feel in your heart when you feel a strong affection for someone."

Cloud looked back at that sentence, and shook his head thinking it was a dumb sentence. Cloud saw Cissnei giggle.

"Umm," Cloud looked back at his paper, "When you feel a sort of love for someone, you feel a slight urge to get to know that person better, and try to make him or her happy. Whether that be with buying gifts, or singing them a song, or just telling them how you feel about them."

Genesis smiled.

"Is there someone I feel love for right now?" Cloud continued, about to finish, "Maybe. I do like her a lot, and she makes me happy wherever I go, and I know that I can be in love with her."

Cloud looked up and nodded to confirm that he's finished.

The class applauded, and Cloud turned red.

"Good job, Cloud," Genesis said lightly clapping.

"Cloud's dating Tifa," Cissnei blurted out.

The whole class looked at Cloud in surprise. The blonde-haired boy's face was getting a cherry red. And he let out a deep breath.

"Damn, that's nice," Cloud heard someone say.

He heard a whistle from the front of the class.

"Dude!" He heard some guy, "I tried getting at her since last year, and you got her in what? A month?"

The guy laughed, then playfully punched Cloud's shoulder.

"Dang, boy, whatever secret you have, you gotta share it with us!"

"Oh my God! They would look so cute together!"

"I know, right?"

Cloud could almost feel himself sweating, and he could feel his face burning up like the sun.

"Okay, okay," Genesis said trying to calm the class down from all the excitement, "you can all continue this relationship talk after class or on Facebook, but please, not here."

The class laughed.

"That was really good, Cloud" Genesis acknowledged Cloud again.

Cloud nodded. He was beginning to think about Tifa again. About how she was doing in the hospital. Then he started to think of Jericho. He wanted to know more about this guy, and what he has to do with Tifa's "problem".

RING! RING! RING!

The classes before lunch seemed to fly by very fast, and Cloud was pumped to see Tifa right after school.

"Cloud!" Cloud turned to see Zack at one of the lunch tables.

He went over and sat across from Zack. Next to him was Aerith, and on the other side was Kunsel.

"Dude!" Zack said giving Cloud a handshake, "I'm proud of you man! You finally grew some balls."

Cloud chucked, "Yeah, thanks. Turns out the whole school knows about it, thanks to Aerith and Cissnei."

"Hey," Aerith said to Cloud, "Not the whole school."

"Yeah, Yeah, whatever," Cloud rolled his eyes.

"I never thought you were actually gonna get at Tifa man," Kunsel said congratulating Cloud, "Props to you my friend."

Cloud thanked him briefly.

"Hey, Zack," Aerith said getting up from the table, "I'm gonna go get some food, okay?"

"Okay," Zack said when Aerith left for the cafeteria.

"So that's cool man," Zack said bringing up Tifa again, "how did you do it?"

"Do what?" Cloud asked.

"How did you get her to like you, man?" Zack said trying to clarify things, "Like what techniques did you use?"

"Umm," Cloud said thinking, "I think the technique I used was being myself."

There was a slight pause before both Kunsel and Zack busted up laughing. Cloud sat there scratching his head in confusion. Is our generation that fake these days?

"Good one, Cloud," Kunsel said after laughing, "but seriously though."

"Yeah," Zack said on Kunsel's side.

"I told you already," Cloud said in louder volume, "I was being myself."

"Bullshit, man," Zack said chuckling, "None of that crap ever works anymore."

Cloud shrugged, "Well it worked for me."

One of Aerith's friends who Cloud has seen before came up to the table.

"Hey, Cassey," Zack said to the cute blonde girl.

"Zack, some asshole is totally putting his hands on Aerith in the cafeteria," she said with a serious look.

"What?" Zack said standing up, "Who?"

Cassey shrugged, " but Aerith's not liking it very well."

"Fucking shitheads man!" Zack cursed while running to the cafeteria.

Cloud and Kunsel followed him.

"Careful Zack," Cassey called, "He's a pretty big guy."

Zack ignored her and continued towards the cafeteria.

Cloud expected the worst. What if Zack got in a fight with this guy? Cloud couldn't get involved.

Cloud and Kunsel were a couple feet behind Zack when he entered the room. Cloud spotted Aerith who was trying to avoid a buff guy and two other guys about the same size.

The biggest guy slapped Aerith's ass, and Zack gritted his teeth.

"Hey, asshole!" Zack yelled to the trio, "get your hands off of her!"

The three guys turned to Zack and smirked.

"Zack!" Aerith called as the three guys were approaching Zack.

Cloud stared in disbelief. Shit was about to go down it was not going to look pretty.

One of the guys went up to Zack and shoved him.

"Yeah?" He said taunting him, "and what the fuck are you gonna do about it?"

Zack pushed him back, "You guys obviously don't know how to show respect to a girl."

The three guys chuckled.

"Who?" another one of them said, "That bitch over there? The one with the nice ass?"

This soon started to gather a crowd of people.

Zack clenched his fist, trying to control his anger. Cloud was just as angry, but there's no way Zack could fight them.

The biggest one of the three stepped up to Zack and stared him in the eye.

"You mad bro?" He said while the other two were laughing.

Zack then lost his control and threw a punch at the guy's face, and he fell to the ground. Cloud and Kunsel grabbed hold of Zack, who was looking to get another punch.

Soon, all the kids around them started to chant that one dreadful word.

"FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!"

"Don't do it Zack," Kunsel said trying to convince Zack not to fight.

"These guys aren't worth it," Cloud added still holding on to Zack.

The guy that was knocked down stood up and laughed at Zack.

"Skinny boy wants to go," he teased, "big mistake, because I will fuck you up!"

"Shut the fuck up!" Zack yelled breaking through both Cloud and Kunsel's grasp.

Zack ran up to him and tackled him to the ground.

"Zack!" Cloud and Kunsel yelled, but it was too late to stop him now.

Zack started throwing punches to the big guy's face with his right hand while trying to keep him down with the rest of his strength.

Soon, the guy broke free and got some distance from Zack.

"Zack! Don't charge him!" Cloud commanded.

Cloud knew that if he ran up like that again, the big guy will grab hold of him, and do who knows what to Zack.

But Zack ignored Cloud and ran up to him.

Cloud's prediction turned out to be correct, as the guy ran back with his body low and flipped Zack behind him into the ground. Before Zack could get up, the towering man got on top of him and started smashing Zack's face with punches that don't look like they're held back one bit.

"Yeah, get em Jeff!" One of the smaller guys from the trio said.

"Shut your damn mouth!" Kunsel retorted and lunged himself at him.

"Kunsel, you idiot!" Cloud said.

"You and your fucking friends!" The last one said to Cloud, and started to run up to him.

Cloud did not believe it, but he was getting involved in a fight.

"Dammit!" Cloud screamed as the boy tackled him to the ground.

Cloud easily got him off of him, but it was too late. The supervisor and two cops have finally arrived, and they caught Cloud at the worst possible time.

One of the officers grabbed hold of Cloud.

"So you like to settle things with violence huh?" The cop said.

"It's not what you think," Cloud tried convincing him, "Please, you have to understand you got me at the wrong time."

"Take it up with Principal Lazard, Kid," He said tightening his grip on Cloud.

What's going to happen to him? Will he have to pay a fine? Get suspended? Cloud was not enjoying this one bit. He knew that if his mother found out, he would be dead.

Whew! I just had to write this one, because this scenario was taking over me! Hope you enjoyed it! :)