Hey guys, here is the next chapter in this story. The real chapter twelve since i just realized i made a mistake on the previous chapter`s title.

Enjoy

Chapter Twelve

A strange side of Sephiroth

"Alright, let me see your schedule?" Zack asked me.

Grumbling, I took out the piece of paper that holds my fate in this school. I can`t believe that I was demoted down to a junior. I mean, seriously, I passed that grade already, and it was one of my worst years ever.

I was supposed to be getting credits and getting myself ready to graduate and leave this hellhole…

I don`t care what Riona said, I thought, This is definitely the worst thing that ever happened to me.

Zack was examining my schedule, probably memorizing it.

"Wow, you`ve got three of the same classes we had last year," he said.

"Please tell me it`s not anyone bad," I asked him.

"Well, you`ve got Reeves`s World History class again," he told me giving me a glance, "and then there is Study Hall with Red XIII…"

"At least he is a cool one," I said.

Red XIII was one of the most laid back teachers I have ever met. I think he was part of a gang once when he was younger for he had that big XIII tattoo upon his arm along with a red Saber tooth there.

Study Hall with him should be bearable.

I took the schedule from Zack`s hand.

"Let me see,"

I noticed the new classes instantly and that caused me to furrow my eyes a little. There was a plant class, which I knew Yuna was part of last year, and from what she had told me, it was difficult. There is another new class which was Astronomy the study of stars which mean it will be taken place late at night.

"I never took that Astronomy class before," I told him.

"Oh," Zack said, "I heard it`s a pretty cool class. You`ve get to take field trip out of the school to visit Midgar Space Station and all that."

"Really?" I asked giving him a glance.

Zack nodded.

"Who teach that class?"

"Some guy called Estheim," Zack shrugged, "I heard he was from Cocoon. A young teacher from what I hear."

I nodded at him and took sight of my first period for the day.

"What the…I have Linguistic this early in the morning?" I said, shocked.

"You took a Language class?" Zack said, smiling at me, "But you totally suck at them."

"I know…," I told him but then registered what he just said, "Hey, I don`t suck at them."

"Sure you don`t," he told me shaking his head, "Well, you class is just around this corner."

"Thanks," I told him, taking a deep breath, "Let`s hope I don`t embarrass myself on my first day."

"Sure, and Lightning," Zack said as a student passed them.

I gave him a glance.

"Don`t go breaking hearts now you hear," he said, "It won`t be fair if you suddenly get a boyfriend…"

"Do you want me to kill you Zack?" I asked him glaring at him.

"Sheesh, I am just kidding," Zack said rubbing the top of my head, messing my hair.

I don`t like it when he does that, now that our height had changed. When I was a boy, we were about the same height and when he does that, he was always freaking teasing me or annoying me. But now, I am a girl and shorter than he was, he was suddenly taller than I am and it was pretty strange.

Then the warning bell had started to ring.

"Well, got to go," Zack told me as he started to run down the opposite way.

"I`ll see you later," I called to him.

"And Lightning," he said turning around giving me a grin, "Knock them dead with that pretty face."

I stared at him as he continued to run away.

I swear I am going to kill him, I thought.

"I hope you`re late for your class Zackary Fair," I yelled as he turn the corner.

I swear I could hear him laughing his ass off. Grumbling under my breath, I turned toward the end of the hallway arriving near where my Linguistic class is.

The room was, to my surprise, not as filled as I previously thought. They were a few boys seating in the corner talking in between themselves and laughing.

I recognize one of them as Reno. I swear I can recognize that mass of red hair anywhere in the school. For those of you who don't know, Reno here is a major playboy. Sure, in the past I never actually paid attention to him and I`ve heard rumors about him sleeping around with willing girls and he had been trying to get in the skirts of some of the popular girls in the school, such as Yuna, Aerith to name a few.

At my entrance, I saw some of them glance toward me and then most of them simply froze at my appearance. Reno himself simply raised his eyebrows as his eyes went up and down…

Damn he is already checking me out? I thought, I can`t help but feel creep out.

I glanced toward one of the empty seat by the window and quickly laid my bag there and seated down. Since the room wasn`t as loud as I expected, I can hear their whispers from the back of the room even though some of it were muffled.

"…Damn, that`s a babe…,"

"Know who she is?" I heard Reno ask.

"Nope," another guy said, "First time I am seeing her."

"I got to learn her name," Reno spoke out.

I heard footsteps getting closer and then soon enough he was standing right beside my seated form.

"Hey there," he said.

I gave him a glance. He had splattered across his face, a grin that he probably thought was charming and his eyes were twinkling.

"You need something?" I asked him.

"I am Reno," he introduced himself giving me a wink, "I simply wanted to know your name beautiful?"

I stared at him.

Do girls actually fall for this? I thought in my head.

"Back off," I told him.

Reno seemed surprised at my answer.

"C`mon now," he said, "I won`t leave till you let me know your name."

"Then have fun standing there," I snapped back.

He was starting to irritate me.

"Playing hard to get I see," he said, probably not sensing my mood, "I can tell by just looking at you, you will be worth the chase. Not like the other girls around here."

He seated on the chair beside me.

"C`mon now, just gave me your name and I will leave you alone," he said, "I will honest."

I pointedly ignored him. Then I feel a large hand touching my smaller one and I suddenly turned toward him and saw that he had put his hand upon my wrist.

WHAT. THE. HELL.

"Get your hand off of me," I snapped taking my wrist out of his paw like hands.

"Now don't be like that," he started.

Then something hit him on the back of his head sending him forward a little as he turned toward it.

"Hey watch it…?"

He stopped dead face to face with Sephiroth. The young man was dressed in his school uniform his long silver hair falling in his eyes as his green eyes stared straight into him.

I was floored seeing him there. Why is Sephiroth here in this class?

"Damn it Crescent," Reno said.

"That`s my seat, get off of it," Sephiroth told him in a get-off-the-chair-already voice.

"I know where you seat Sephiroth," Reno said, standing up, "You`re here a little later than usual."

The tall young man yawned a little.

"Ask Genesis about it," he said taking his seat as he put his bag on the floor beside him.

"You`re stepping on my game here," Reno said.

Sephiroth looked up at him.

"The lady said no Reno," he said, "So back off already."

"C`mon Sephiroth," Reno said, "All the girls in this school are throwing themselves at you leave some for us man."

"It`s not like I asked for it," Sephiroth told him, "If you want the girls, you can take them…all they are worth is a headache."

A new voice laughed and the young man beside him. It was a man with silver hair similar to Sephiroth. They looked the same, but the other young man seemed smaller than Sephiroth as if he was younger.

"As if anyone can break your fanclub eh, brother?" he said giving the other male a pat on the back.

I blinked at that piece of information. Brother?

"Kadaj, go back to your class," Sephiroth told him.

"I have been transferred to this one," The boy called Kadaj told him, "Seems I am too advanced for the 10 grade level."

"Great," Sephiroth said, not sounding thrilled about it.

"C`mon little Sephiroth," Reno told Kadaj giving him a one-harm hug, "Let me introduce you to the rest of the crew."

"Don`t you dare corrupt my brother Reno," Sephiroth warned him.

Reno simply gave him a raspberry.

"How mature," the silver haired man murmured, shaking his head side to side.

I stared at him. I have never actually had a class with Sephiroth in the past before and I had no idea how he acted, but this is not what I actually pictured in my head. I mean, I always pictured him as an arrogant jackass who thinks he is better than anyone here.

"You`re not going to jump me are you?" Sephiroth`s voice said suddenly bringing me back to reality.

"Why the hell would I do that?" I retorted at him.

The latter gave me a lazy look.

"The last girl who sat beside me had to be pry off," he said, running a hand through his hair, "It took both Genesis and Angeal to remove her from me."

"I don`t see what the girls see in you," I told him.

"That makes two of us," he answered.

Then he turned his gaze toward me and just…keeps…staring.

"What?"

He leaned forward so suddenly that I had to lean backward but my back hit the window behind me. He stared at me straight in the eyes and I swear his intrusive green eyes were seeing right through me.

"Look...you`re seriously creeping me out…,"

"I know your secret," he cut me off.

I can say I literally froze in my seat at this. I stared at him, feeling fear growing through me. He can`t…he can`t have realized that I was Cloud did he?

Play it cool Cloud, play it cool, a voice said in my head sounding like Tifa.

"W…What are you talking about?" I asked him.

But Sephiroth`s face stayed the same cool, impenetrable mask he usually wear when I actually caught glimpse of him when I was Cloud. It was actually frightening to see it up close and in my face.

"I know your secret," he told me, his voice lowering to a whisper, "Meet me at the unused room on the third floor during lunch at the end of the corridor. We will have a talk then about why you are lying to everyone, and if you don`t come, I will tell everyone in this school you are not who you appear to be."

Don`t panic, don`t panic, for the love of all that is Holy don`t fucking panic.

Even if I was repeating this mantra in my head, I couldn`t stop my hand from shaking on the table. But Sephiroth seemingly had finished from threatening me as he leaned back. He pulled out his notebook since the teacher had just stepped inside the room, as the rest of the class took their seat waiting for the lesson to start.

Shit, shit shit…He figured it out, he actually figured it out, damn you Zack and i trusted what you told me before, I thought, I am DOOOOOMED.