OMG...I am a lazy butt, but today I had the sudden urge to start writing. SO here it goes


Cloud awoke with a start, and slowly laid back down due to the throbbing pain on the back of his head. He groaned and winced when he felt something cold and wet fall on his face. There was a low light so he could see where he was. He looked up and saw droplets of water falling. He also noticed his soundings, he looked to be in a large circular tube that seemed to have no end. The walls were old and rusted with a bit of mold on them. One thing that he couldn't stand though was the stench that seemed to emanate from next to him, actually it smelled like it was everywhere. He looked down and saw he was next to a stream with stuff that he couldn't explain were in there. Thats when he realized, "I'm in a sewer!"

'how did I get here?', he thought. 'lets see, what happened before...I went out of the compound, I remember seeing Aerith...then...oh the park, there we go. And then...I think I saw someone there...a black wing...brown hair...OH YEAH, that creepy man, he must have brought me here!'

Cloud looked around but saw no one in sight, he sighed in relief at that. Now the only problem was how he was going to get out of there. "Theres two places I can go, left or right".

He put his hands in his pockets to think. Cloud felt a lump there, 'My phone!', he brought it out and flipped it open. It still worked and saw that he had at least 3 smalls bars of signal, and only one left for battery charge. He decided to call Timothy, maybe he could find some help for him. He waited three rings, until Timothy finally picked up.

"Hey Cloud whats up?", he heard his cheerful voice ask.

"Oh thank gaia, Timothy!", Cloud let out a breath he was holding, "I don't have much time you need to help me!"

"Cloud where are you, you missed drills tod-"

"I just said there isn't time, look, I don't know where the fuck I am. I was kidnapped by, you wont believe this, by Genesis, the guy who defected from Shinra, he was saying a whole bunch of shit that didn't make sense. He knocked me out and took me to some sewer, i'm not sure where it is, but hopefully i'm still in Midgar, you nee-", Cloud gasped as he heard some footsteps coming his way,"Timothy please hurry, you need to find some help, look for Zack Fair, maybe he can help, I need to go, someones coming", he whispered and closed the phone ending the call.

He looked to the left, hearing the footsteps coming from there. Cloud quickly stuffed his phone in his pocket. He took deep low breaths, he was scared. Hoping to gaia it would be someone else, but widened his eyes realizing how bad his luck was. The figure came out of the darkness and saw none other than Genesis.

The creepy man smiled eerily. Cloud back away a bit, 'What do I do?' he thought to himself.

"Looks like your awake, don't worry, I wont harm you", the man said in quite a convincing voice.

"I always knew I would see you again, but never did I think it would be here in Midgar", Cloud gulped and felt a bit relieved he was still in the city.

"You really don't remember me do you?", he asked Cloud sadly, "thats alright, it had been a long time, I am just glad were together again".

Genesis moved towards Cloud and grabbed his wrist before he moved back again, and embraced the boy. Cloud gasped, and tried pushing away but proved once again to be futile since the man just held him tighter. He decided to take a much gentler approach.

"Please Genesis," Cloud said in a gentle voice, "let me go, i'm not sure that I like people holding me like this"

Genesis hesitated a bit, "I promise I wont try to run", after a few seconds he let Cloud go.

"I'm sorry if I don't remember you, but I am sure if you tell me I just might recall something", Cloud smiled sweetly at him.

Genesis looked down,"Very well", he said, "It was a about 7 years ago, Sephiroth, Angeal, and myself had gone to Nibelheim to take care of a few creatures that had appeared quite close to the village. Except these creatures weren't like the others, they were mutated".

Flashback

"We should split up" said a young Sephiroth, "we could cover three times as much ground if we go different ways."

"Whatever you say 'Lord Sephiroth'", a young Genesis said sarcastically.

"Alright Genesis, lets take this seriously," an equally aged Angeal chuckled.

Sephiroth just ignored Genesis, and went along the a path. Angeal went on to the left, and Genesis was left to go right.

"That Sephiroth, always thinking he is the leader in every mission", Genesis frowned, "and that Angeal always following his lead...well one day that is gonna change".

Genesis followed his path, throwing very sharp daggers at Sephiroth in his mind. He was about to imaginatively cut off the so called leaders nice long hair off when he heard a loud roar, and a scream. Genesis sprinted at the direction the sound came from and stopped when he saw a little boy running for his life from a large behemoth of a monster. Genesis reached for the sword and while the monster was chasing the boy, Genesis chased the monster.

"Hold on kid", Genesis mumbled under his breath, and when he got close enough to the creature, he jumped high and landed just in front of it. The monster lifted his claw up to slice Genesis, which he ducked down easily and dodged it, went right back up again, and pierced his sword right through the monsters neck. The creature let out a sharp cry and dropped down to the floor with the sword still through his throat. Genesis smiled triumphantly at his kill.

"Still had to get my hands dirty though", he said as he pulled his sword right out with a large pool of green blood following afterward.

He looked around to see if the boy got away. He saw the child on the ground holding his ankle with a look of pain on his face. It seems that the young boy had tripped while running. Genesis was sure that if he hadn't gotten there sooner, the boy wouldn't have made it. He walked up to him and knealed down to check on him.

"Are you alright?", Genesis asked softly.

The boy looked up from his ankle at the stranger before him, and answered,"Yes... I twisted it is all, I need to get home", the boy said in his small country like accent. But as the boy got up, he cried out in pain and fell right on his butt again. Genesis smiled at the cuteness of it.

"It doesn't seem like your alright", Genesis stood, and helped the boy up, he was about one and a-half head shorter than Genesis. He put an arm around his back and the other around his knees lifted the boy up bridle style. The younger started to protest.

"You obviously cannot walk, so I have to carry you back down", Genesis said, "you live in the village right?"

The boy only nodded and stared up at Genesis, whose breath hitched at the sight of those eyes. They were the purest of all light blues. They were large and fit well with that oval face and blond hair that framed it. He really didn't take a good look at the kid until now. He stood there with the boy in his arms for about a minute just staring, until the boy spoke up.

"Are we goin' ye', or are ya' jus' gonna stand there all day lookin' at me?" Genesis snapped out of his trance. Thats right, what was he thinking, he needed to get this kid home and safe so he could heal him properly, he couldn't be having those thoughts, the kid was no older than nine.

"Right", he started walking back down when he spotted Sephiroth and Angeal coming his way. 'Gaia, not them'.

"Genesis", Angeal waved at him with his open mouth smile that irritated him to no end. And there was Sephiroth right next to him looking all smug, which irritated him even more.

"What have you got there Genesis?", Angeal asked smiling down at the young boy who looked at the two new strangers in front of him shyly.

"What does it look like Angeal, it is a young boy in distress. I saved him from a behemoth, but he twisted his ankle, I am going to bring him back to the village and heal him", Genesis said annoyingly.

"Ah I see, well what is your name little boy?", Angeal asked.

"I ain't little, and I sure ain't tellin' you!", he said back.

Genesis laughed at the look on Angeal's face, Sephioth's eyes had widened a bit too. "Well then, seeing how that was cleared up, i'm gonna be heading back down now", Genesis said, quite amused.

"Heh heh, okay well nice meeting you, and see ya then Genesis, Sephiroth and I are gonna look around a bit more, kay", Angeal laughed nervously. Sephiroth only stared at the boy a bit longer before turning away, and started walking along the path again.

"Wait!", the boy cried out,"I get it now, Sephiroth, Angeal, and Genesis...you guys are from Shinra..."

"Thats right, the electric company" Angeal put his hands on his hips and proudly smiled.

"Well don' act so high and mighty, its all you guy's fault that those monsters are here. Ever since that reactor was built, theres been nothin' but trouble here!", the boy exclaimed.

Genesis just stayed quiet, Angeal coughed and looked away, and Sephiroth who stopped walking a long time ago had his back turned. They knew what trouble reactors brought, though it wasn't them who made the rules.

Sephiroth turned to the boy and spoke,"Were sorry, but we are not the ones to blame, though we are here to fix the problem, please do not worry, things will get much better when we are done here."

"Whatever," the not so shy boy replied with a pout.

Sephiroth sighed and turned back around, "Let us go Angeal."

"Right behind you Sephiroth", Angeal said heading toward him.

Genesis began walking down the mountain again, still not saying a word until they reached the village. "So, which house is yours?", Angeal asked finally.

The boy pointed to the smallest one which was still quite big. Genesis ignored the stares the people in the village gave him when they walked to the steps of the front porch. Genesis was about to knock when the door immediately opened revealing a woman in her thirty's, who almost looked like a replica of the boy in his arms except she was a woman and a lot older.

"OH MY BABY!", she cried ripping Cloud out of Genesis's arms and crushing the life out of him as she clutched him to her chest. "Oh Cloud I was so worried..."

"Ma' i'm okay..." he grumbled,"let go now, I cant breath."

"I might as well kill ya' for worrying me like tha'", she said smacking Cloud across the face, not too harshly though.

"Ow ma' tha' hurt!", Cloud yelled, "I told ya' I was fine, dis' man ere' save me from the monsters."

"What do you mean monsters, don't tell me you were in the mountains!", Clouds mother cried, Cloud put a hand over his mouth at his mistake," what were ya' thinkin'?"

"U-u-ummm", Cloud started.

"It was them kids, weren't it?", she asked, "I told ya' to stay away from em, didn't I, but ya' jus' don' listen".

"Mama I said I was fine, this man protected me, and brought me back ere'", he pointed at Genesis.

Clouds mother looked at Genesis with a look, "Ya' one of them soldiers ain't ya? Well thank you for helping my Cloud, but I ain't got nothin' for ya' alright", she told him straight out.

Genesis was about to say something before he heard Cloud cry out in pain. His mother looked too and knealed down to Cloud who was crouched himself.

"Oh my goodness, what happened?", she sobbed out, "Ya said you were fine!"

"Mama please don' cry, I just sprained it", Cloud told her.

"Maybe I can help, I am an expert healer," Clouds mother just stared at Genesis.

"...Alright...but no funny business, I know how ya Shinra people are...", She picked Cloud up and brought him to a room with one small bed enough to fit the young boy in. This was most probably Clouds room. She set Cloud on the bed and stretched his leg out. Genesis asked her to move aside and carefully removed Clouds small boot revealing a swollen ankle. Clouds mother hissed and turned away.

"This will only be a second," Genesis said, lifting his hand over the swollen ankle. A small glow of green came through his hand, and in a few seconds the swelling and redness went down. Cloud gasped and smiled at the same time.

"That felt so...so...nice. It was so warm and all tingly inside", Cloud put a hand on his heart while saying this. Clouds mother turned and sighed in relief.

"Thank goodness your father wasn't here...he would have freaked out even more", she laughed.

"Do ya' think daddy knows how to heal too mama?", Cloud asked.

"Maybe, well ask him this weekend and find out", she smiled.

"Ya' know, my daddy is in Soldier too, but he ain't' a bad soldier like some of the ones who come ere' and cause trouble", Cloud told Genesis.

"I can assure you I am not a bad Soldier", Genesis said.

"I know, thats why I like you!", Cloud threw himself at Genesis and hugged him. Genesis was in shock at the sudden hug, and hesitated before patting the boy on his back, and blushed a little. What was wrong with him, blushing was he, well that was unheard of.

"I-I must go, my comrades are waiting for me", he pulled Cloud gently from him.

"Please don't go," Cloud pleaded, "Stay here a little longer".

"Now hun, this young man here has things to do, maybe he will visit you at a later time alright", Clouds mother told him.

"Okay", Cloud pouted. He followed Genesis to the door.

" You will come back won' ya'?", Cloud grabbed hold of Genesis's hand, he didn't know what to say. He looked at Clouds mother who was a few feet behind them, she nodded at him suggesting that he say yes even though she knew the truth, unknowingly to Cloud. Genesis nodded as well at the young boy.

"Promise me, pinky swear...", he held out his smallest digit. Genesis sighed but did so as well when he saw Clouds mother nod at that too.

"Pinky swear", Genesis said. Cloud brought his other hand up and passed it over Genesis's face just as his mother would do sometimes when meeting new people. At that moment genesis felt a connection. He would come back one day for this boy, and nothing would stop him. He knew what this feeling was now. He embraced Cloud and bid him farewell.

End Flashback

"I remember now," Cloud said seated on the sewer floor, "I waited and waited, but you never did come...my mom said it was probably because you were called off the from the mission and had to go. And through time, I slowly just started forgetting, I grew older and had my own reason to join Soldier. So you are the Genesis I remember".

"Thats right, now were together again, I can take you away from this horrid place and bring you to a place much nicer, much better than here", Genesis told Cloud parting with the wall he had leaned on to stand up straight.

Cloud sighed, " Genesis, I know you must care for me and I care for you to, but things have changed. I just cant go with you, I like it here, I like Soldier and the training, the new friends I have made. Its tough sometimes but I can handle it. Please understand me", Cloud tried to convince him.

But Genesis would have nothing of it, "Cloud I cant just let you go now, I need you," Cloud shook his head and got up.

"Genesis they are gonna come looking for me, I called Shinra Company and they know about you," Cloud told him.

Genesis growled, "Why would you do that...well all the more reason to start leaving now!", he went up to Cloud and attempted to pick him up. Cloud struggled now, and tried to get Genesis off him.

"Let me go, let me go!", Cloud yelled. He looked around for some type of weapon, and spotted a pipe on the floor. He roughly pushed Genesis to the ground, which surprise Cloud himself at the strength he had just now. He wasted no time picking up the pipe and swinging it down at Genesis leg earning a scream from the man. Cloud ran to the direction Genesis had come from, there must have been a way out from there.

"CLOUD!", Genesis cried out. Darn himself, if it weren't for the degradation in his body, this would not have been a problem. He sighed and let himself hit the ground. He would come back for the boy later. He needed to regain his strength and get out of this place before anyone from Shinra found him down here.

Cloud must have been running for about ten minutes using his phone to light the way. He cried out in relief when he saw a shimmer of light up ahead, and a ladder leading up to it. He climbed up, and saw the city lights, and cars passing by. He lifted the sewer top and got out before a car could run him over. He got on the side walk. Panting his life out, he made it inside a close alleyway not wanting to make a scene. He groaned as the pain on his head started up again. Clouds vision blurred.

'Oh no, not again'. He collapsed for the second time and this time instead of hearing laughter he heard the clacking of shoes, or was it heels, heading towards him. He saw a figure standing over him before he blacked out once more.


Yay chapter 12 done, finally, and damn was that a long flashback, oh well I liked how it came out. Hope you like it. REVIEW