[29 weeks]

Leon and Cloud had been fucking for the past three weeks now. Ever since the bridge incident Leon had taken it upon himself to make regular visits to Cloud's apartment and bedroom. The first visit was somewhat a surprise for Cloud. He'd open his door one afternoon to find Leon outside. Leon had asked if the blonde was busy at the moment. Cloud had merely answered 'no' and before he could make sense of the impromptu house call he was balls deep within a rather horny Leon drilling him for everything he was worth.

Perhaps it was his fault for letting the fucking rendezvouses happen, after all it was his dick Leon was exploiting for the other's sake. He'd thought about it many times, telling Leon 'no', but one look at those bustling storm clouds roaring in his eyes, that defiant pout, and soon the throes of pleas and moans quickly replaced his passing thoughts.

It was a strictly sexual relationship. The only thing offered from one another was a hole and a dick to fill said hole. There was no sweet talking, gentle caress or kissing Cloud simply fulfilled his side of the relationship by filling Leon up to the brim watching as the brunet remove it redress and depart after thanking him.

Cloud was not complaining however, sex was sex and he was in no position to question his baby mama for wanting it from him. Reno however was not as open to his friend's sudden involvement with his ex.

"You said you wouldn't fuck with him anymore. Manwhore." He grumbled watching the pregnant man board the bus outside after another 'rendezvous' with Cloud. Cloud shuffled into the kitchen in only a bed sheet to see Leon off. Removing a beer from the fridge he looked to his friend with some humor. "Hey I can't help he wants the D."

"Need I remind you he's jail bait? Last I remember you didn't fuck kids."

Cloud stopped drinking his beer to give Reno a haunting look. "What is this really about Reno? Since when have you been so invested in my sex life, huh?"

The red head removed himself from the window looking Cloud in the face. Reno was and always has been a man of laughs but there was nothing good natured about the piercing green look he shot Cloud. "Leon is a liar and a fraud. As a friend I thought you'd might like to be reminded."

"No, there's something else, something you're not telling me!"

"Christ! Take a hint Cloud! Leon's a fucking bitch! I've never like that cunt!"

Cloud always had a feeling his friend was never fond of Leon but to be fair Leon was never fond of Reno. He thought the two would work it out or at least be cordial. To hear the truth hurt Cloud but it really did not matter at this point.

"It doesn't matter. We're not dating anymore anyway." With a flick of his sheet Cloud walked away toward his bedroom but not without Reno's fair warning about his involvement of Leon's fucking ritual. "I know how you are bro, just leave that bitch alone before you get in too deep, yo."

"What the hell are you doing here?"

It was another day at the Parlor, there was a moderate flow of customers coming and going throughout the day. Leon was not particularly busy nor overwhelmed with the traffic but the visitor was one he would never guess visit him.

"I see you've gotten much rounder the last we spoke." Kadaj purred leaning against the front desk. He looked just as he had at Cloud's party. The same short platinum crop dull and lifeless. Puckered pink lips cradling a sarcastic grin.

"Was that suppose to be a compliment? I'm busy please leave."

"Is that right?" Kadaj turned his head left and right viewing Volt reading the paper and Kou talking on the phone. The shop was empty. "Seems like your time is readily available at the moment. I was hoping to speak with you. "

Leon frowned, his guard was on max. Whenever Kadaj spoke to him before it always had to do with Cloud. He always knew Kadaj fancied Cloud, after all, the two had had a previous relationship. "What do you want? I'm not dating Cloud anymore, I would have thought you would have made your move by now."

The young teen gave a airy laugh taking a seat upon the desk. Crushing paperwork Leon protested but it seemed Kadaj had dubbed it his own, at least until his story was over.

"My ploy was never to have Cloud to myself. I lost him long ago. I hurt him bad. He may be a bad ass but his heart is not as large as his spirit."

Leon rested his arms about his stomach leaning back in interest to what Kadaj had to say. It always occurred to him that Kadaj was a jealous boyfriend hell bent on ruining any relationship Cloud was engaged in. Kadaj brushed his bangs from his gaze, "It was selfish of me to openly engae with Cloud whenever I knew you were around, nor was it alright for me to but such ill thoughts about him into your head. I knew I could never have Cloud to myself again, those days have long since past. I truly only wanted to break you because he loved you. Really loved you."

"I've seen Cloud fancy other people. Pursue them, date them, quickly engaging in sexual play. But to stay committed was an endeavor Cloud was not capable of doing. It is rare to see him fall for someone and take things so slow. Trust when I say Cloud's main objective was to fuck you and leave. Whenever he grew bored of his supposed mate he'd dump them and crawl back into my bed." Kadaj grinned at the the uncomfortable shift in the corner of his eyes. But the grin fell as he continued on.

"The way he looked at you, he had never looked at me like that before, maybe once but as I changed to accommodate his love the look never appeared again. I guess I was a tad jealous...maybe."

Jealous? Oh how the mighty had fallen. Leon bowed his head to cover his obvious smile from the teen before him. Leon had always know the addict still had a thing for the blonde dealer, to hear the words finally announced put Leon in a cauldron of glee. But that phrase, 'accommodate his love'...Kadaj had mentioned that many times in his encounters.

"What do you mean 'accommodate his love'? You keep saying that, what does it mean?"

Kadaj chuckled leaping from his perch back down onto solid ground. He looked to Volt's office and motioned for he to follow. Leon frowned, not wanting to move and not wanting to trespass on his employer's personal quarters. Kadaj sighed turning to the blonde hulk, "Volt I'm using your office."

Blue eyes looked up a moment to see Kadaj wave looking down again muttering a whatever. Groaning Leon hefted his heavy stomach up out of his seat and waddled into the office behind Kadaj. The boy seemed to have this unspoken power over older man he noticed. The causality Volt granted permission to the boy was questionable but Leon had seen others treat him the same. Cloud being the biggest pushover.

Kadaj kicked his heels up on Volt's desk arms folding behind his head. He was the image of a true shit in Leon's mind. Once Leon was seated again Kadaj began his story once more. He warned it be long and drawn out but figured he'd had nothing better to do anyhow.

"I met Cloud when I was in middle school, 7th grade. Cloud was already in high school by that time..."

At that time Yazoo had been Reno's bottom girl for quite sometime and as such was around the red head every minute of the day. Because Yazoo was my unofficial guardian I was dragged about the island where Yazoo had to go. I never liked being around Reno, even then he was schemey, the intoxicated aroma of nicotine seemed to be his natural scent. I was hardly ever in school, which was a pity because I loved to learn so much. I was the boy in the corner of the room with my nose in a book. I loved literature and I would read it whenever I had to suffer through Yazoo's call sessions.

That's how I met Cloud.

I didn't even know Reno had a roommate. Every time we'd go to their apartment there seemed to be no other occupant. There was an empty room across from Reno's I'd sit and read in while they fucked. It was naïve for me to think Reno would rent a two room apartment for the sake of extra space, but I need the solitude to escape from the filth my brother was engrossed in.

It was a cold day in October where I met the owner of the room.

"What are you doing in here?"

Kadaj jumped at the low voice at the door. He was frozen in his spot on the bed, as the tall blonde slunk toward him. Blue eyes sat watching the boy waiting for a response, an explanation for his trespassing. Kadaj cowered under the older boy's presence drawing his book and body inward.

"Well?" His word was sharp but not threatening. Curiosity clung to the question more than spite.

But Kadaj still could not answer. Words had left his body. He could not find the courage to speak before the Adonis. The blonde straightened at an airy groan next door. He nodded understanding, "So you're Yazoo's brother."

Another throaty moan resonated in the quiet quarters. The blonde noticed how the boy cringed a soft red blush splaying over his pale skin. He grinned, "No kid should be exposed to that smut. Do what you want."

He was hesitant but Kadaj continued his reading. The older boy he'd later learned was Cloud did not seemed to mind his presence in the bedroom. He was too busy with his own life to really care. Making phone calls, taking inventory, drinking and smoking Kadaj would watch him do it all from the corner of his eye.

Over time Cloud ask what it was Kadaj was reading. The boy shyly revealed the novel to the high schooler body rocking with uncontrollable quakes when the teen took a seat rather close beside him. Hips touchings, arm slung causally to the opposite side of him Cloud was practically cuddling the boy. Kadaj blush the smell of island air and orchids crashing over his senses.

"Read it to me."

From that day on, Kadaj and Cloud read together in the tight space on his bed every afternoon. By the end of the month Cloud and Kadaj had their first kiss, innocent and sweet; By the end of the second week, Kadaj tried his first cigarette. By the end of of the third, he experienced his first drug trip; And the next day Cloud had taken Kadaj's virginity.

"I had changed everything about myself to ensure Cloud was really mine. I smoke, drank and partied like he and Reno did. I stopped reading whenever Yazoo took me to the apartment and let him do to me whatever he wished. I loved Cloud and I was so afraid he'd stop loving me. I was younger than him after all something he's always been very particular about."

"Unfortunately the more I changed I failed to see Cloud had changed his outlook on me. My alteration had ironically disinterested him and he no longer so any appeal to me. Me, being the proud basterd I am today, could not handle his wandering eyes and redirected interest. I slept with other men during our relationship in hopes of getting him jealous. Of course it did, but it was a lustful jealously. He wanted to own me and me alone. Cloud would fuck me raw whenever he found out about my adultery but he stil refused to severe our bond."

"It was not until I trended on territory I should have never step on to that Cloud wanted nothing to do with me."

It was 6 months into Cloud and Kadaj's relationship, by then, Kadaj was more than a causual drug user like Cloud and Reno. In 5 short months the teen had become a junkie and rampant addict who could hardly stand to go more than a few hours without another hit. Kadaj had himself go, hair no longer brilliant and healthy, nails reduced to nubs from nervous biting.

Cloud could hardly stomach the ragged doll that attached himself to him, he refused him anymore of his personal stash knowing the boy would clean him out too quickly. They got into an argument earlier that day, something the couple seemed to engage in on a regular basis with a aftermath of makeup sex shortly after.

Kadaj was in the phases of withdrawal, skin on fire, eyes dry and itchy, an interminable chill shaking his body. He sat curled in an old tattered Lazy Boy in Cloud's apartment. He'd skipped school not seeing a need to go while he was going through another episode. He'd wait for Cloud and show him the mess he'd caused because of his neglect. His nails drug deep into his skin drawing blood, that would show him.

"Well, well I seem to have found a stray kitten lost in my chair."

Kadaj looked up to the sudden voice of Reno behind him. He dawned only a maroon bathrobe that collected the drops of water from his damp hair. Kadaj could smell the soap that laced his body. He drew inwardly the smell of clean sending his stomach into another round of nausea.

"What's wrong, yo? Cloud won't let you back in his stash?"

Kadaj did not respond green eyes shaking underneath his bangs watching the teen draw closer to him. Reno reached out stroking the under class man's face removing a small black vile from his pocket. Kadaj's eyes grew wide hands suddenly reaching out to snatch the nectar but it was pulled out of his reach. "No, no, my little kitten. I'm afraid you're going to have to give me something to get something, yo."

I knew I knew better, but I just couldn't help myself. I was dying and Reno was the only one willing to give me what I wanted. If you hadn't noticed Cloud and Reno are blood brothers; you don't mess around with either of them and you don't talk badly about either of them. They were the true originators of the term "bros before hoes". When Cloud caught me ass deep with his best friend's cock high out of my mind, you could imagine how hurt he was. I'd never seen a man so crushed and I never wanted to again.

"We of course split after that. He took care to keep me as far out of his life as possible. However, old habits are hard to die." Kadaj sighed after his story. Leon was not sure how to react to the information spewed at him. It was so personal.

"Why are you telling me all this? What, is this an apology to being such a dick these past moths? Or are you just trying to salvage some sympathy from me?"

Kadaj swung his legs from off Volt's desk standing to his full height. Leon watched the addict slink to the door eyes peeking over his shoulder to give Leon a final comment. "I just feel like you deserve to know. Clear the air you know. Best luck to you Leon, truly."

And he was out the door.

"So why exactly did you break up with me?" Leon asked coming down from the after math of another session with Cloud. The blonde raised a brow at the unexpected question, "That's random."

"I want to know."

Cloud paused getting dress turning to see the naked teen behind him stare back with fire in his eyes. He gave a sigh, "I already told you. I don't date underage kids."

"I'm five years younger than you Cloud! That's hardly underage." Leon retorted rolling onto his side to get a better look at his ex. He watched Cloud fidget shuffling in his seat uncomfortable with the situation before finally facing the other. "You wanna know why I don't do underage kids?"

"What you consider underage at least."

"My father raped my best friend and first crush when we were 10."

Leon heart dropped at the sudden severity of the situation. He reach an hand out signaling Cloud did not have to continue if it was too hard but Cloud shook his head. "No, you need to know why. I've kept to myself for years I've only shared this with Reno and Kadaj. I've always known my dad to be a prev. I've seen him flirt with many woman while with my mother. He was known around town as an unfaithful basterd snatching any pretty thing that caught his eye. He was a borderline sexual assailant if it weren't for the cash he'd throw in the victims direction to blow past the entire situation. But what he did to her, to Tifa, was unforgivable!"

"Tifa?" The woman at the bar? Leon did recall the girl speaking of her and Cloud's days together growing up. She was so happy though, the thought of her going through anything so heinous was too unreal.

Cloud nodded hands taking a noticeable clench of the sheets, "You could probably tell by her appearance she was an early bloomer. Her breast came in much fuller and quicker than the other girls around the town. It was no surprise my father would take interest in her. I blame myself really. I brought around a lot, probably much more than I should but it was during those years that I actually thought of her more than just an annoying little sister."

Leon watched Cloud paused reaching over to remove a cigarette from his jacket pocket. Just as he was about to light it he turned reminded of Leon's presences behind him. Clicking the zippo close he content himself with sucking on the stick instead leaning back against the headboard.

"I remember when she first 'blossomed' she'd come over in a baggy jacket to try and hide them from me. Of course it didn't take long for me to catch on and she showed me." Cloud chuckled at the memory, "She let me touch them. When I squeezed too hard she'd whine, 'ouch! You jerk!' and bopped me on my head. Then my father came home." The warm smile left Cloud, eyes darkening to a turblent storm blue. "He'd never given Tifa much notice but on this occasion of course he finally saw her. He teased her you know nothing serious stupid shit like 'all the boys will be lining up for such a beautiful girl'. We probably should have known something with off the way he told her to call her Papa Galen."

I will never forget those horrible days that followed from that visit...

I can remember every detail of the sight before me. I can't help but blame myself for it, all of it. After all I was the one who agreed to run an out of the way errand for my father. I didn't have to but I did because he promised me a new sled. Ha, I was so dumb.

He only wanted to make sure I was away, far away from the house when Tifa invited herself over like she always did on Saturday afternoons. It didn't even occur to me to at least go and tell her I would not be home.

I didn't come back till late, after foolishly hunting for an address that did not exist. He knew I'd be scared to come back without delivering the goods and I'd wander aimlessly until I found it. remember, walking down our hall it was quite, I wasn't even sure anyone was home at first but after turning the corner toward my father's office I heard her.

Screaming.

Tifa was screaming.

I could feel my heart in my throat—terrified of what could have happened. Without thinking I burst through the door horrified, disgusted at what I saw...

Tifa bent over my father's desk; shirt raised revealing her breast that were littered with red bit marks and bruises, my father behind her just—fucking her, hard like she was a grown woman. Every thrust the desk shook and she'd let out another scream, more tears.

I just stood there watching, she reached out to me and I did nothing. I was too scared. When my father finished he just pulled out and zipped his pants back up, he leaned down and whispered something to Tifa, I don't know what it was but whatever it was she buried her face and cried again.

He didn't say anything to me, he just pat me on the head and left leaving us two alone, to recover the pieces. Tifa didn't say anything to me either, she pulled her shirt and skirt down and left wiping away the tears left behind.

I noticed on her way out the long red streaks rolling down her legs. It was alot-it was deep; I threw up right there in the doorway.

As if that weren't bad enough, Tifa went home and told her parents what had happened. Of course they alerted the authorities after giving my father an earful, demanding they do something. But they wouldn't. My father was a fearsome drug lord, powerful, they knew better than to cross him. And they didn't.

Mr. Lockhart was so upset though, he didn't want to let it go. He kept on it, demanding something happen the evidence was so incriminating there was no way for my father to be able to run free without so much as a passing thought. My father knew that and hated it.

He was so irritated hearing Tifa's father's outrage around town he took matters into own hands stopping the 'noise'.

A week after raping Mr. Lockhart's daughter, Tifa Lockhart, my father sent out a team to murder him. He was found the following morning naked hanging upside down in a tree with his throat slit and body badly burned.

My father is not merciful, I've never known him to be, but to see how far he would go the extent of his vicious tenacity was frightening.

I didn't see Tifa again after that. Her mother moved her away from Nibibelm unable to stay in a town they no longer felt safe in.

"I was not reunited with Tifa again until me and Reno came to the Islands. I apologized for what happened but she claimed she'd long forgotten." Cloud flicked the cigarette he'd gnawed on to the floor. Leon stroked his stomach thoughtfully nodding his head after the revelation he'd just heard. It made sense, to have a phobia of older people taking advantage of the innocent.

Leon reached out an arm, the contact take startled Cloud but he relaxed under his soothing pets, "I'm sorry Cloud."

"You know what's worse? I actually got a taste for myself."

"Huh?"

"After Tifa was out the picture my father began whoring me out to associates. They fucked me, beat me, whatever the hell they wanted as long as they paid my father. Men and women. That's how I got into drugs, it was a way to null the constant pain." Cloud's eyes shift over to the distraught brunet beside him. The pools whirling with a dark lurking presence, haunting memories of abuse and rape.

Leon leaned over collecting the blonde into his body.

What he and Cloud were engaged in was strictly sexual. It was not love-making: it was a form of release. One-sided for Leon's sake, to extinguish the constants stress and anxiety that plagues his everyday life. Sex was a way to comfort the expecting father to calm his turbulent mind and Cloud had obliged no questions asked. But now it was time for him to show understanding to his 'provider'.

"I understand how that would bother anyone Cloud, but it's okay if you love someone a few years older or younger. It's okay if they exist together." Leon softly whispered into the thick blonde tundra.

Cloud removed himself from Leon's hold, eyes no longer looking lost and forlorn, "What, are you saying...you want to get back together?"

"Well, I don't know about that...right now. I do know, " Leon smiled settling his head on Cloud's welcoming chest, the twins rolling about in expectancy, "that I want you by my side when I deliver these two."

"And then what?"

"We let fate decide."

CHAPTER 25: SYMPATHY:: END

AS: Firstly, I must apologize for backing down on my promise to have PART II completed by New Years. If you didn't read on my Profile Page, I became overwhelmed and incredibly stressed trying to balance this story, Christmas, New Years, and the upcoming semester. I tried to do complete the chapters but they seemed rushed and sloppy and I was just exhausted. But I'm glad I'm back on track! The chapters will be posted in a timely matter (no promised due dates at the moment). Thank you all for sticking by me and the all the your concern and kind words of encouragement! I really appreciate the love guys ^3^~3

I hope you enjoy this chapter and the chapters to come! I will be working on a little in depth Kadaj back story as a thank you for hanging in there with me! Thank you all!