"Cloud looks at Tifa for a brief moment before looking at his hands.

"Tiffa, tell me the truth do you think I can be an adventure\ hunter like Kazuma?' he asks Tifa who just looks at him for a moment

'You're already a Hunter, I mean you go to the bar and get jobs just like the other hunters don't you" she answered him

"No, I mean do you think I can be like him and one day be able to do what he does?' he asked Tifa and he notices that she somehow lost that smile she always has on.

"No" Tifa answers him.

"Nop, because there's just one Kazuma, just like there's just one Aqua" Tifa answers him before she places her hand on her hip and striking a familiar pose

"Afterall, I'm the great Tifa the apprentice of the goddess Aqua" Tyffa answers him, and for a brief moment the two look at each other before they both start to laugh

Cloud and Tifa look at each other and for a brief moment they share a moment, it wasn't all that important and they would probably forget about it soon but for as brief as this moment was, they both understood each other in a way no one else could.

Everything was changing around them at times things seemed to linger and the changes were small, when Aqua and Kazuma first arrived, they were the talk of the town because hardly anyone ever came to Nibelhime.

In other times like the ones that are happening now, things seemed to change so quickly that it felt as if the two of them were being left behind.

People came and went, soldiers- hunters and even a couple of ex Shinra employees would show up and then vanish never to be seen again.

"Come on," Tifa said to him before she graves his hand and begins to drag him somewhere, the two of them are soon standing in front of a small weapons shop.

Without hesitating, Tifa opens the door and walks inside.

The small shop was covered in all sorts of weapons, that were polished and displayed for people to look at.

There were shields- swords- guns of all kinds but what struck Cloud was the short sword Tifa held in her hands.

She walked up to him and handed it to him and as Cloud felt the cool sheath of the sword he briefly imagined himself standing at Kazumas side, fighting monsters together, behind them were Aqua and Tifa casting their spells together helping them fight.

"To bad for you that things to expensive for you to afford," the shop owner says to him and Cloud instinctively looks at the price tag hanging from the side of the hilt of the sword

Reluctantly he put the short sword down and began to look around the shop, he wasn't going to buy anything he figured that since he was here he might as well look around.

"So how did you find this place?" Cloud ask Tifa who was reaching for a pair of glubs that didn't cover her fingers.

"Mom told me to leave the house and when I was walking around I found it" she answered him

Tifa's mom had been outside of the high school when the stampede had started and from what Cloud heard the only reason she was alive was that Aqua managed to reach her in time.

Ever since then Tifa has always said the same thing, her mom would tell her to get out of the house and play as a kid her age should, but Tifa was so worried about her that at times she would just sit outside of her house and watch her mom through the windows.

It was as if something deep inside Tifa had been affected and so she had taken to picking up anything she could use to copy the hunters and following anyone that would train her.

Cloud had seen Tifa during those times that she would just look at her mom and it had been him who had suggested to her that she should ask Aqua to train her.

Unfortunately, Aqua's answer had been similar to Kazuma's the day Cloud had asked him to train him.

"No" was the only thing Aqua had said that day, before walking around Tifa and moving in a way that seemed as if she was dancing.

'Tell me can you copy how I walk?" Aqua asked Tifa and without thinking, Tifa began to copy the way Aqua moved, the two of them walked around town that way until Tifa could no longer keep up with Aqua

"See, we healers have to keep up with people stronger than us, it's because of that," Aqua said to Tifa before she slammed her fist onto the ground creating a crater.

That day Tifa had been taken under Aqua's wing and she had started to learn the art of healing through potions.

Kazuma's answer had been different, he had teleported all sorts of things to Cloud's head, without Cloud ever knowing he had done it in the first place.

"Yo need to be fast, you need to be smart, and overall you need to be lucky," Kazuma said to Cloud that day before Cloud chased after him and Kazuma evaded him.

Every time cloud was about to give up, Kazuma would taunt him and make Cloud chase after him again.

Their game continued until Cloud couldn't move again and Kazuma was forced to carry cloud home.

Cloud can still remember seeing his mom's angry expression and wondering why she hadn't yelled at him or Kazuma but she just let out a breath and told Kazua to put cloud in his room.

It's hard to believe how much things change in such a short amount of time.

Blue six barked as he stood by the entrance to the shop, normally he wasn't allowed into the stores but for whatever reason, the man behind the counter didn't say anything about the dog walking around in his store.

It was time to leave they had wasted enough time just looking around and unfortunately, both Cloud and Tifa had already done a job today so they couldn't just pick up another one today.

'Hey, tell Kazuma his order is ready" the man said to cloud as he was walking out of the store.

Cloud didn't answer the man, in all honesty, he's still getting used to everyone knowing that Kazuma is his teacher.

"Excuse me but I'm looking for this address" they heard a woman ask someone, but the man she was asking was an outsider so he didn't know the address she was showing him

"Excuse me what are you looking for?" cloud heard Tifa ask the woman before she showed Tifa the address she had written down on a sheet of paper.

'Oh, I know where that is" Tifa says to the woman before she starts leading the woman to a house not too far away from where they were standing.

Cloud didn't say anything considering he didn't see the address the blond woman had shown Tifa and because he had noticed that the woman wasn't alone, she had a brown-haired little girl with her.

"Hi," the little girl said to Cloud as she stopped walking and started to walk again once Cloud caught up to her.

'Hi" Cloud answer her

"I'm Aerith, my mom and I just got here from Midgard" she introduced herself to him

"I'm Cloud" Cloud introduced himself to her but he didn't know what else to say so he just kept on walking

'This place is different, there's an open sky here, and there's no metal covering the sun" Aerith says to him and Cloud can't seem to find the words he needs to answer her

What did she mean by a sky covered in metal he mentally asked himself.

"So what brings you here?" he asked Aerith

"I'm here to meet the woman with the blue hair" she immediately answers him before putting her hands together in a form that seemed as if she was praying.

"The planet sings whenever she's around, and last time it when she and her partner created the material in the sky the planet wept because it remembers something painful from the sky"

"I'm here because I want to learn from her, "Aerith said to Cloud but Cloud didn't answer he just repeated Aeriths words inside his head before realizing that Aerith sounded just like Aqua when she tried to tell him and anyone around about the things Kazuma and her have done in the past

'Waite are you from the promised land, are you from where Kazuma and Aqua come from?" he asked Aerith but Aerith just shook her head

"No, Aqua is special, I don't know but the planet sings every time she walks, when she heals its like she's healing the planet and when she's with her partner'"

"I can hear the planet smile, that's why so many plants are growing everywhere" Aerith answered Cloud

Clod didn't know it, but the woman Aerith was accompanying had been listening to their conversation.

"We're here" Tifa announced and Cloud was surprised because the house the woman had been looking for was Tifa's house

"Mom someone looking for you," Tifa said to her mom as she opened the door

Cloud watched as Tifa's mom walked out and greeted the woman who introduced herself as Elmyra.

Elmyra had called several days in advance to the adventurers guild and asked them to look for a place that would rent her a room that she and Aerith could live in, it just so happened that the one person that did answer her happened to be Tifa's mom.

"Come in let's help the two of you unpack," Tifas's mom said to Elmyra and the four of them disappeared inside Tifa's house.

Cloud was about to leave when Tifa opened the door graved his hand and pulled him inside, immediately after Blue Six followed Cloud in