Dedicated to Chibi Envy Chan, because he's awesome.

Disclaimer: I don't own, you don't sue.

Notes: I have nothing to say...

Warnings: Shonen-ai, yaoi, whatever the hell you want to call it. Zack/Kadaj. And that special brand of humor I'm famous for. Reno/Yazoo is now an official pair.

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Challenge item: Kadaj is forced to stay (hide) at Cloud's place, as Zack is being an idiot... again. from Chibi Envy Chan

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At first, Cloud thought it was kind of cute and also kind of flattering that Kadaj ran to him whenever Zack got a little too rambunctious, which was whenever he (Cloud) had a day off, but a days turned into months and months turned into years, it was slowly but surely beginning to wear on his nerves. He was willing to admit that Kadaj was absolutely adorable when he was completely terrified, his eyes wide and pleading, his teeth worrying his bottom lip as he begged sanctuary that Cloud hadn't the heart to deny him, no matter how much he wanted to just have a day to himself. After all, he was well aware of the danger that lurked outside, he being the one usually in charge of stopping it from getting too insane, something which his second-keeper (Sephiroth) encouraged out of sheer boredom, which was part of Kadaj's problem.

It wasn't really that he minded having Kadaj over, far from it in fact. Kadaj was a joy to be around, especially when one compared him to Cloud's usual company, and he actually cleaned up after himself and was a very well-behaved houseguest, unlike someone who shall remain nameless who behaved himself like a puppy that wasn't housebroken yet whenever Cloud let him in the door. It was just that Cloud was most certainly not a sociable person by any means and having someone over for seventy-two hours tended to wear on his nerves, and when that stay began pushing a week -because that same nameless someone had barricaded the door and refused to move until Kadaj came out-, Cloud got a teensy bit homicidal.

By teensy bit, I meant that he usually kicked down the door (with the full intention of blaming Zack) and proceeded to beat Zack within an inch of his life before throwing him out the window, the closed window. If Zack ran, it was worse, because usually the other inhabitants of the hallway were tired of dealing with his insanity/idiocy and were easily convinced into joining in. Zack had learned –thus proving that he actually had a brain-, that it was always easier if he didn't run when Cloud came charging at him, because the blonde would chase him, no matter what the scenario and the younger man always won, even if he did cheat seventy-five percent of the time.

Usually by the end of the week Cloud had off, Cloud was well rested, Kadaj was happy to the point where it disturbed most of the people he came into contact with and Zack was in the hospital with wounds that would've been fatal if he had not been a SOLDIER. Oh and Reno was usually pantsless, because with Kadaj in Cloud's apartments, Yazoo didn't have anyone to stop him from doing random, stupid stuff like stuffing fish into the redhead's underwear drawer, and steal said redhead pants, obviously.

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TBC

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