Sorry it's a little late, I forgot it was sunday till i looked at my calender. really busy this weekened, christamas and all that...hope everyone had a happy holdiy, looking foward to new years. YAY.

Part one

Chapter thirteen

Kisala walked back into the ShinRa building, Zack had come and relived her of watching Aerith, a very healthy distraction to her growing 'problem'. It was getting harder to fight her feelings for Sephiroth, and every time she hung out with him, alone or otherwise they grew.

She put her hand on the wall and sighed, it had been two months since the mission and Hojo. She had been worried at first Hojo would tell the board about Shelk but Sephiroth had assured her that he was done with Shelk, she had no more use to him.

She smiled when the memory of meeting Cloud suddenly popped into her head. That boy was just too cute, with his blue eyes and Chocobo's hair. He was a person one easily trusted and he accepted her being the secret elite rather well. They were planning on telling him about Genesis and Angeal next and Cosmos but they had been swamped with missions lately and none of them had any free time.

She continued her way through the building when she noticed a familiar red haired woman.

"Shelk" she called out, quickening her steps.

The girl turned to her

"Kisala, I've been looking for you" Shelk said.

"Sorry" she said slipping her arm with her friend "I was with Aerith."

Shelk nodded in understanding, she had tried to figure out why she was being followed by the Turks but she couldn't access the mission. But Kisala wasn't worried and seemed to understand so she let it drop.

"So why were you looking for me?" Kisala asked

"I've got a date with Genesis tomorrow" Shelk said, her face a pink color.

"Ohhhhh" she said poking Shelk "what you doing"

"He's taking me to see Loveless"

She nodded, even if Shelk couldn't see the play, she still always wanted to go.

"I hope you have fun, is it formal" at Shelk's nod she grinned "Goody, then I can help you get ready, I'm going to make him not be able to take his eyes off you."

Shelk ducked her head at Kisala's teasing

"Please don't overdo it Kisala" she had a feeling she was going to be waved off.

"If you say so" Kisala scoffed.

Shelk shook her head and said.

"Sephiroth is looking for you" she felt her friend freeze "you can't hide from him or your feelings forever Kisala."

The woman turned away,

"Who's hiding?"

"Kisala" Shelk said exasperated.

"Shelk" she said in a mocking tone.

Shelk shook her head; she wasn't going to let this drop.

"Just go see what he wants ok" she knew her friend was pouting "it's ok to like him Kisala, it won't kill you."

"You never know" Kisala muttered under her breath, but Shelk heard her anyway.

"Just go see if he feels the same, if not, then I'll drop it."

She looked at Shelk who was grinning.

"And if by some off one in a million chances he does?" she narrowed her eyes at the imp-shish grin.

"Then I'm going to tease you for the rest of your days" she laughed and took off running down the hall.

Kisala stood with her mouth a gap before yelling after he friend.

"Get back here you little brat" but she had trained Shelk to well and the woman was able to keep distance between her till she ran into a familiar blonde.

Shelk bumped into the someone and apologized

"Hey Shelk" Cloud said and Shelk suddenly grinned when an idea came to her.

"Hello Cloud" she slipped behind Cloud "be a good distraction, will you?" she then took off running again.

"Distraction?" Cloud asked and looked forward only to be hugged by Kisala.

"Cloud" Kisala said rubbing her head in his hair.

"Miss Kisala" he wheezed out, as her arms tightened around his neck "Air" he was ignored.

He saw Sephiroth walking in the corner beside them and called out

"Sir Sephiroth, help me" he wheezed out, he knew his skin was turning blue.

Sephiroth heard a wheezing sound call his name and turned to see Kisala and a Chocobo…a blue Chocobo? No, that was Cloud. He sighed and hurried over to the pair.

"Kisala, Cloud is turning blue, let him go" he said walked over to the two.

Kisala just stared at him and pulled the SOLDIER closer. Cloud was now an interesting shade of grey. Sephiroth spoke in urgency.

"Kisala, he's losing air, let him go now!"

Finally Cloud's head flopped backwards as he passed out and Kisala loosened her grip noticing.

"Opps" she muttered leaning the blonde against the wall.

Sephiroth rolled his eyes as he pressed a hand on Clouds chest, to test if his lungs were taking in oxygen again, they were.

"You can't do that every time Kisala" he scolded her "we need to take him to my office," sighed at her "you do know we've got a mission the day after tomorrow, we leave early in the morning."

She nodded and Sephiroth picked up the unconscious soldier and headed to his office.

Once he placed Cloud in the chair he turned to her and noticed she was looking at the floor again. If he ruins this friendship with this girl he was going to skin Shelk alive…though if he did that both Kisala and Genesis would skin him…he shook his head as his thoughts strayed.

"You know how we're going to the golden saucer?"

Kisala nodded and Sephiroth continued, glad she was finally looking up at him

"I would be honored if you accompanied me to dinner while we are there." Kisala had just started to stare at the floor again but her head snapped back up to looked at him, green meeting blue.

"Are…you asking me out?" she asked "like on a date"

Sephiroth nodded, was he not clear. Judging from her look, she understood but was in shock. He mentally thanked Shelk.

"Uh, sure, I guess that would be nice" Kisala's face had gone red again.

"You should bring something casual, or at least a little more covered up" he eyed her clothing "on the mission."

Kisala nodded part of her feeling like she wanted to sink in the floor. She smiled at the man and walked out the room. Once she was out of the room and the door was shut she quickened her pace to find Shelk, first she was going to thank the girl, and then she was going to kill her.

Sephiroth smiled a bit after Kisala left, this might not have been a bad idea after all, and she was cute when she blushed. He turned to the passed out cloud. The boy was slowly coming to, he leaned against his desk, arms crossed and waited. A smiled plastered on his face.

Hojo growled as he paced back and forth in his lab. His clone of his 'son' set off to the side, his facial features complete. His planning was quickly coming to an end and he could finally set his plan into motion.

But first, he needed cosmos. His buffoon of a mentor had three great experiments of his time. Three he was well recognized for. Project J, Project Ancient and Project Cosmos. He already had Project J under his supervision and Project Ancient was being watched and planned. But now all he needed was Cosmos.

He sighed and slumped in a chair, he didn't even know what Project Cosmos was. Gast had shared J and Ancient with him but not Cosmos, why hadn't he been included in on Cosmos. And that woman, Kisala was the key to it all.

He thought back to when he had met the little brat. Professor Gast had taken an around the world trip. Looking for inspiration he had said. Hojo thought it utter nonsense. He had lost contact with his mentor after a while, somewhere near Cosmo canyon. He had come back a few months, almost a year later with that little brat. Her red hair and feathers, and sharp blue eyes threw Lucrecia and himself for a loop. Her eyes looked as if they were much older then what she really was, had seen so much already.

Hojo paused in his musing as he thought over the few years of his life with Kisala and Gast before the man had gone back to the Northern villages and he and Lucrecia continued working on project J in Nibelheim. He had found that girl in Cosmo canyon, or had disappeared there. He had named his project Cosmos.

Hojo wanted to smack himself as he stood abruptly. The clone eyed him before going back to sitting quietly. Hojo sat back in his desk and stared at the computers.

"Cosmos, Kisala, it makes so much sense now, Kisala isn't the key to Cosmos, she is Cosmos" he muttered to himself "but you destroyed all of your files Gast"

He narrowed his eyes, when he had gone through Gast lab up in Icicle inn. He had found nothing, no files, no transfers, nothing. When he went through the computers, there was no record of mass deletion anything. There was only one record, of a printing, but that was something he over looked, it wasn't massive, just some things here and there, a normal mundane thing.

He frowned, what if he had printed each page of his project over the years and deleted each page one at a time as he did so. Then what did he do with the printed out version, burn them. No he was a man of science; he would have saved at least one copy and given it to someone he trusted…or someplace no one would think to look.

He stapled his hands together, he needed to find that place, that person that had Cosmos…he grinned; he really needed to stop having these stupid moments. He began typing on his computer, pulling of the ShinRa personal files. He typed in the name Shelk Anthis

Her filed came up and as he scrolled through he noted she was from the town in the north where Gast's lab was. He shook the head with a grin and let out a long laugh. The clone glanced at him again with a raised eyebrow.

"How smart Gast, who would think to look for files with a blind woman, she couldn't read them, she probably didn't even know she has them. But she is the closest person to Kisala, now just to get to her; they'll be on guard now"

He continued muttering to himself, laughing every so often. He walked out the room. The clones eyes following him while he thought

"Oh mother, what a fool you have chosen to help you"

He felt the comforts of his mother's minds and he smiled

Yes, but he has his uses my child, soon I will have my son by my side, the Anthis clan watching over us again and this wretched plant destroyed. All you have to do is free me. Jenova purred in his mind

He smiled at his mother's voice, yes soon, Hojo would send Sephiroth on a mission to Nibelheim and he would get rid of him. Freeing his mother and returning to ShinRa to take over.

"How are you going to get this Anthis to join our side?" he asked his mother

She purred and he could feel her smiling.

Leave that to me son, leave that to me

Genesis Rhapsodos glared at his two friends. Sephiroth was amused and Angeal was out right chuckling. He had just informed them he had a date tomorrow.

"Stop it" he commanded them

"I'm sorry" Angeal said as he smiled "it's just so…strange for someone like you"

He narrowed his eyes

"And Why is that?" he dammed but Angeal waved him off

"What are you doing, I'm assuming it's with Shelk"

He huffed at them and said

"We're going to see a play"

Sephiroth raised an eyebrow

"You do know she won't be able to see the thing right?"

He frowned at the General

"I KNOW that, I've asked her if she wanted to do something else, she said she wanted to go to the play." He turned away from them muttering under his breath "I'm not an insensitive jerk you know"

Angeal smiled at the man and Sephiroth chuckled

"I know, you're just a jerk" Genesis grinned at him mockingly

"Yeah and what about Kisala, are you going to ask her out, we all know you like her"

Sephiroth didn't even bat an eye at the man's teasing. He just raised an eyebrow, smirked and said

"I've already asked her, our date is at the golden saucer"

Angeal and Genesis stared wide eyed at him. He narrowed his eyes, what were they staring at. Was him asking a girl out so shocking.

"What?" he damned

Genesis just grinned at him

"Oh nothing, nothing at all, you two has a great time" he walked out the room trying to hold his laughter. He only made it half way out the door before he broke into bells of laughter. They could hear him still half way down the hall.

Sephiroth glared at the door, wishing it would burst into flames

"Really I hope you enjoy it" Angeal said eyeing the paper work on the desk "I'll leave you to that. I'm going to check on Zack and Cloud" he left the room, hoping not to get stuck helping with paper work.

Sephiroth glared after his two 'supposed' friends.

Kisala found Shelk in their apartment pulling a book from the shelf. She could see her friend had ear phones in her ears so she snuck up to her on her tips toes then lunged. The two girls tumbled into the couch, Kisala hugging her best friend. She pulled the ear pieces out and shouted

"Shelk, you are the best person in the whole world"

Shelk who had let out a shriek when she had been tackled; frowned before saying

"Ok, but why?"

"He asked me out, he asked me out" Kisala said hugging her friend again, laughing.

Shelk smiled as her friend cut off her oxygen.

"Good, not let go so I can breathe" Kisala didn't let go so Shelk reached up and flickered in the nose. "Up" she demanded.

Kisala got up and pulled Shelk to her feet. Dancing around in happiness she said.

"He's taking me on a date at the Golden Saucer; maybe I can convince him to take me to see the Chocobo's races there." She continued muttering to herself, no longer talking to Shelk directly.

Shelk smiled as she sensed her friend dancing in a circle around her, she was glad Sephiroth had taken her advice. Her smile slipped off her face as Kisala's hand came down on her shoulder

"Now about leaving me in the hall way, using poor Cloud as a distraction" Kisala said in a dangerous tone.

Shelk gave a nerves smile and lunged away from her friend, the two began running all over the apartment, Kisala trying to catch Shelk.

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