Diclaimer: I don't own anything except my OCs

"What is going on with those two?" Yazoo asked. He had finally run the shuriken into a tree and it had blown up.

"No idea." Kadaj said, as he twisted his hair around in his hands, wringing the water out of it, since he had been forced to dive into the water and save Yazoo..

"If I didn't know better I would say there was some kind of lost relationship." Loz added.

"Don't be an idiot." Yazoo scolded him.

"Kaia get away from him!" Cloud yelled. He could see his sister and his enemy clearly from where he and his friends were standing.

"Cloud, leave them alone." Vincent told him.

"What is wrong with her? You'd think she was in love with him with the way she's acting now." Yuffie said.

"Vincent. What do you know about this?" Cloud rounded on the vampire.

"Nothing I'm going to tell you." Vincent replied.

"Wait a minute. There was a rumor when I was in SOLDIER that Sephiroth and Sapphire were involved. It must have been true." Cloud said suddenly.

"Sapphire? The weapon?" Tifa asked.

"That was what we all called the Sapphire Commander. No one knew her real name. That is, no one except Sephiroth and the other firsts." Cloud reported. "Kaia for the last time, get away from him!"

"Must you always be in control?" Said a voice from behind them.

They all turned to face Kade as she emerged from the trees, her eyes glowing in the moonlight.

"Kade." Cloud whispered.

"I have an assignment to kill you. And as you know…I'm good about carrying out assignments." Kade said smoothly, her voice cold.

"Cloud look." Tifa pulled his arm and pointed to Sephiroth and Kaia.

"I can't ask for your forgiveness. And I know we can't pick up from where we left off, but I never stopped caring for you. I wanted to get to you so badly, but I couldn't." Sephiroth said softly.

"I just…. I was so hurt when we were here last. And angry with myself for throwing the ring away." Kaia looked away, but even then a chain was held up in front of her, a diamond ring with two sapphires set on either side of the diamond suspended on it.

"That's why I saved it. I'm not proposing again, we don't have to start back up. I just want you to know how much I truly care. No matter how long I've been gone." Sephiroth said quietly.

Kaia smiled and nodded, accepting the chain with the ring on it. "Thank you."

Sephiroth lifted her chin with his fingertips and kissed her.

Cloud looked as though he had just run a sword through his own chest. And after all the events that had taken place in the last hour, he was possibly considering it. First he was betrayed by the women he loved who turned out to be in league with his archenemy. And now, his twin sister was kissing said archenemy. Today sucked.

"I'm not going to fight you." Cloud said turning back to Kade.

She raised a silver eyebrow. "Excuse me?"

"I won't fight you. I still love you. No matter what, I always will." Cloud said. "Even if you did lie to me."

"I may have lied to you. But Cloud, I never break a promise." Kade said seriously. "And I am supposed to kill you. But I can't kill you unless you fight back. Or at least defend yourself."

"I'll do nothing of the sort." Cloud said stubbornly, taking his buster sword and running it into the ground.

Kade looked as though she was starting to get annoyed. "Cloud don't be an idiot. You want to fight me. There has to be some part of you that hates me. Let that part fight me so I can kill you and you won't have to live with it anymore." Kade's eyes seemed to put Cloud in a trance for a moment.

"Cloud! Don't listen to her." Tifa yelled, running to his side and shaking his shoulder. "Cloud!"

"What is she doing?" Kaia asked Sephiroth as the two stood together watching.

"Kade can hypnotize with her eyes. She's also telepathic so that only adds to it." Sephiroth replied.

"So she's hypnotizing Cloud into fighting her because she can't kill in cold blood?" Kaia was completely lost.

"That's correct." Sephiroth said.

"So she's not a cold blooded killer but she's your remnant? How does that work out?" Kaia glanced up at Sephiroth in time to see him glare at her. She smiled to herself, before looking back across and the smile faded.

"You can go back to them." Sephiroth said after a moment.

"What? How?" Kaia turned back to him.

"Lie to them. You've done it before am I right? I'll still love you all the same and you can stay in touch." Sephiroth told her.

"Are you sure?" Kaia asked.

Sephiroth nodded. "Go."

Kaia smiled softly. "I'll call you."

"You'd better." Sephiroth muttered.

Kaia started forwards when a sudden pain shot through her right arm, causing her to pause. She glanced down at it and suddenly heard the unmistakable voice of Jenova in her mind.

"You won't get away that easily."

"Shit." Kaia muttered, her eyes glazing over as she fought for control.

"Kaia?" Sephiroth questioned.

"Get the hell out of my mind." Kaia growled as she leapt across the water and landed behind Cloud pulling out her sword. "If you can't do it then I will." There was something different about her voice.

Cloud turned around and stared at his sister's glazed eyes. "Kaia what's wrong?"

Kaia's left eye suddenly cleared. "Cloud get away from me. It's-, Ahhhh!" her eyes glazed again and she lunged at him only for him to sidestep and her to fall over. She got back to her feet and grabbed her right arm, trying to push the sword down. It wasn't working.

"Jenova." Sephiroth whispered.

"What is this?" Kade looked slightly afraid but still stood her ground.

Kadaj and the other two appeared beside her, all three looking very confused.

"Stay away." Kaia cautioned them all, now beating her right arm with her left until she finally dropped the sword. Grabbing it up with her left hand she lifted it upwards and brought it down hard over her right arm.

"Kaia!" Cloud cried out.

Kaia's eyes cleared and she snapped her fingers on her left hand and her right arm, which lay at her feet, burned away within a matter of seconds. She looked up at them panting.

"There, now how the hell did I get here? And why the hell was I on that side of the lake?" Kaia was back to her old self.

"You mean you don't remember anything?" Yuffie asked.

"No." Kaia snapped looking at her right shoulder, which was bleeding, and grimacing. "Anyone care to fill me in?"

"You mean you didn't kiss Sephiroth of your own accord?" Cloud asked.

"I DID WHAT!?" Kaia yelled.

Sephiroth nodded to his remnants and the four of them turned and walked into the trees, Sephiroth himself following behind.

"You mean all that time it was Jenova controlling her?" Kade asked.

Sephiroth smirked. "No. Jenova started controlling her just as she was about to go back across the lake to her brother. She is lying to them as she has been for the past 3 years. I was allowing her to go back to them and tell them she was on their side, and obviously Mother didn't like it."

Vincent had glanced at Kaia's missing arm and cleared his throat. The others looked to it and stared. A shadowy shape of an arm was taking its place, winding down to form into a perfect replica of the real arm that was gone now. Kaia twisted her wrist and blinked repeatedly.

"Shadow arm. Cool."

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