Disclaimer: Own nothing. 'Cept Kaia and Kade

"Do you even know where you're going?" Tifa asked Cloud as they sped towards the Forgotten City.

"Believe it or not, yes I do." Cloud replied. "Vincent you still here?"

In response a red blur flashed across the road in front of them. Yuffie rode next to them on Kaia's motorcycle and was obviously having trouble taking the sharper turns.

They reached their destination and pulled up and parked near the edge of the trees. Vincent's ember like eyes glowing as they swept over the landscape before landing on a spot of grass and narrowing. Cloud noticed his moody friend stiffen beside him and looked at him.

"What is it?"

Instead of replying Vincent nodded in the direction he was looking and they both walked forwards. Kaia lay perfectly still on the damp grass, her skin paler than usual and her face calm and relaxed with her eyes closed. She looked quite comfortable on the grass and Cloud wondered why he felt as though he should leave her alone. She looked as though she was only sleeping.

Vincent knelt down beside her and placed his fingers to her neck. Cloud watched his sister's face, his eyes curious and yet angry. Vincent scooped Kaia easily into his arms and stood up, holding the young warrior with such care Tifa had to remind herself who it was that she was looking at.

"She's still alive."

"Take her back to the motorcycles. We'll take her when we leave." Cloud said. Even as he said it, Kaia stirred, her blue eyes fluttering open and her hand moving to her forehead.

"What the hell happened?" The blunette asked the group at large as Vincent set her back on her feet.

"We were hoping you could tell us." Cloud admitted.

"Cloud look." Tifa called. Cloud turned around to see the black hooded figure standing on the opposite shore. Anger flared in the crystalline orbs as his hands balled into fists.

"What have you done with Kade!" Cloud demanded, pulling the Buster Sword from its sheath.

"I'm glad you could make it." Kadaj mocked. "Sephiroth will be so pleased to have you here."

"Answer me Kadaj!" Cloud growled.

"Do you realize how much the two names sound alike?" Kadaj asked.

"What do you mean?" Yuffie asked.

"But Yuffie, surely you've noticed." Kadaj laughed softly just as the clouds above opened up and the group was quickly drenched.

"Noticed what?" Cloud was obviously losing his temper.

"My gods. I was right." Kaia breathed.

Kadaj lifted his hands to the hood over his face and threw it back to reveal black hair that fell just past the shoulders. The unveiled figure turned and Cloud froze.

"No." Tifa whispered.

Yuffie stared dead ahead of her, her eyes wide. Cloud shook his head slightly in disbelief. Vincent and Kaia looked a bit shaken but unsurprised.

"How could you do this?" Cloud asked when he had found his voice. "Why would you betray us, Kade."

"My name is Kadai, but for the sake of getting me confused with my brother, I prefer Kade. And I was never with you to begin with." As if on cue, Kade's hair began to turn silver until it shimmered as the raindrops fell on it. "Jenova told me to do what I had to in order to revive my brother and the remnants as well as Lord Sephiroth himself. And so I carried out her will."

"But why?" Yuffie asked.

"Why else? I was unaccustomed to the world from being in that tank at Shinra. I had only just gotten away and was not used to the fresh air here." Kade told them

"How could you betray me?" Cloud asked.

Even from across the lake, they all saw Kade's eyes soften as they became blue/green. "I'm sorry Cloud. Nothing was supposed to happen between us. I was foolish and allowed my human feelings to get to me. I'm not a cold hearted person and would have like to have caused as little pain as possible, but I couldn't help but grow attached to you. But the longer I stayed with you all, the deeper I got involved with you Cloud. And by the time I was to leave, it was too late to do it painlessly."

"We trusted you." Tifa said. "We allowed you to stay with us. Why would you do this? What do you hope to accomplish?"

Kade's eyes fell and she looked into the water before her. "It wasn't supposed to happen that way. I was only supposed to stay for a week at the most. I was to get a grip, come here and resurrect the fallen. No emotional attachments, no emotions at all. Only focus on the mission is what she told me to do."

"And we were in your way. We were pushed aside so that you could carry out a battle plan." Kaia noted bitterly.

"I don't have to listen to this." Kade muttered angrily. "I betrayed you all, allowed myself to feel emotions. You all hate me. Or at least you should." A single tear fell from her still downcast eyes and hit the surface of the lake only to be lost in the rain.

"You ready to punch her lights out?" Kaia growled, starting forwards.

Vincent grabbed her around her shoulders and made sure she didn't move.

"Now then." Kade turned back to pull something from a black bag on the ground at her feet, and appeared again with a black wooden flute in her right hand as she used her left hand to grip her cloak tightly before wrenching it to the side and pulling it free of her body and revealing the black outfit underneath.

She was dressed in a pair of tight black pants and a cropped t-shirt that clung to her figure. And at her waist hung a sword that Kaia recognized as a rare Black Revenge. A sword Kaia herself, had never been able to get her hands on.

Kade gazed malevolently at the group before her. "Hope you're ready for my reunion. Bet your dying to watch." She raised the flute to her lips and began to play.

The song was sad and mournful, reminding Cloud subconsciously of every pain he had ever experienced in his life. The others were evidentially feeling the same way for none of them looked focused at the moment, like they were all being put into a trance.

Kaia's spacing out came to an abrupt end though when a large piece of hail hit her square in the head. Swearing loudly, Kaia began yelling at the sky, knocking everyone else out of his or her trances as well.

Vincent drew up the hood of his cloak before placing a hand over Kaia's mouth and pulling her against him to shield her from future pieces of ice that would provoke her to try to kill the clouds.

Yuffie and Tifa were huddled underneath Yuffie's shuriken while Cloud held the buster sword over his head. Lightning flashed within the clouds overhead and Yuffie looked up and cried out in surprise. The others followed her gaze and Kaia bit back a scream and shrank back against Vincent as her eyes landed on the four shadowy figures hovering above them.

As they watched, the four drifted down until they were all standing on the shore behind Kade. Another flash of lightning illuminated the scene before them and they saw Kadaj, Yazoo, Loz, and Sephiroth standing upon the opposing shore.

"No." Kaia whispered breathlessly, the terror and disbelief evident in her voice. Vincent tightened his arms around her as she began to shake but to no avail, it was as though she was freezing to death from the inside out.

Kade held the final note on her flute and opened her eyes her flute disappearing in a flurry of what looked like blue fire. She turned and fell to one knee before Sephiroth who was standing directly behind her.

"Welcome back, Sephiroth." She said clearly.

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