(Author's Note: Hello! Sorry it took awhile to get this chapter up but it is co-written by me and the author Rueh. Most of the chapters will be for that matter…oh well.)
Disclaimer: FF7 and Squaresoft are not mine. Dete is mine. Rueh belongs to Rueh.
Chapter 3
Dete…and her other half…?
"Aww, man. Dad, why did you have to go off and do that again?"
"Do what again?"
"You left your stinking boots in the middle of the floor again, AND…you yell on the phone!"
"Now who's the one yelling?"
"Bite your tongue!"
"I can't believe the Great Sephiroth is reduced to this…"
"Not so 'great' after all, are ya?" Rueh challenged.
Sephiroth let his aqua green eyes look over the room. It was plain with not much for decoration. It had big windows on one wall but that was really all. It had a few chairs and a coffee table at its center though. But his eyes fell on the biggest object there. "You broke the couch!"
"DID NOT!"
"Then why's it laying on its side like that? You killed it!" he accused.
Rueh crossed her arms with a smug look on her face. "Guess you'll have to find your way to your bed at night now, won't ya?"
Sephiroth stared wide eyed at his daughter. "How'd you know I sleep on the couch?
"I didn't…so that's where all that snoring was coming from!" Rueh laughed at the pouty look on her silver haired father's face.
"Go buy a new one!"
"No, you do it! I never use that stupid couch anyways. Besides, you don't ever give me any money!" Rueh nodded and her long white hair fell into her face. She picked out a lock and assessed the black ends. "Great, and now I've got split ends!"
'Still looks like you dipped those ends in black paint…' Sephiroth thought and out loud said, "I thought you had money? What, with all those kids you beat up at school. I thought you would at least take something to compensate your time and effort."
Rueh brushed her hair back over her shoulder and looked at him again. "NORMAL parents lecture their kids about NOT getting into fights OR stealing. Why are you insisting I take other peoples money?"
Sephiroth shrugged. "I don't know…so I don't have to give you MY money?"
"…before I forget, my friends coming over…don't do anything stupid…or else."
"Or else what?"
"Don't MAKE me come over there…"
"Or what?"
"…or." Rueh smiled evilly. "I'll cook YOUR dinner."
Sephiroth's face dropped. "Anything but THAT."
"Oh come on, it's not like its YOU cooking. At least when I'M done the kitchen is still standing."
"You know what? I don't have to put up with this. Go to your room!"
Rueh's aqua eyes went dull, as did her voice. "Yeah right, and what room would that be?"
Sephiroth growled in annoyance. "There's more than enough rooms in this building, pick one!"
"Fine…I want…the 70th floor!"
"But that's my room!"
"Apparently not. Seems to me you've been having a hay day on the couch! No wonder it's broke, with all that lard and all…"
"Who're you calling 'lard'?!"
"Oh, he stands about 6'1, aqua green eyes, silver hair, bucked teeth…have ya seen him?"
"I do NOT have bucked teeth!"
"Oh! So you HAVE seen him. Well, you can tell that idiot for me to stay out of my room!"
"Who are you calling an idiot?"
"You."
"Then I guess it must run in the family."
"…no, insanity does…and what was THAT suppose to mean anyways…?" Rueh asked shaking her head.
"Think anything you like," Sephiroth called as he disappeared into the elevator.
"Hey!" Rueh yelled waving her fist in the air. "Where do you think you're going!? I'm not done yet!"
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-3 hours later-
"DAD! Oh DAD! Where are you hiding this time?"
"Stop yelling, and I'm not hiding…this time. What do you want NOW?"
"One word for ya…F-O-O-D. There is not a scrap of food to be seen."
"Why didn't you ask the cook to get you something?"
"I haven't seen him for a year. Are you sure we still have one?"
"Quite, he cooks my meal every night."
"And why haven't I been invited to dinner?"
"You never asked."
"Should have I? I thought that was part of the job description of a parent. To care and FEED their kids."
"My only job here is to torment those who work for me…but I guess you don't work for me do you? No, you don't ever do anything useful." Sephiroth paused. "Don't you ever go to sleep?" Sephiroth grumbled.
"What do you care?"
"I don't, I was just saying it's like eleven thirty at night."
"And your point being…?"
"Do you ever sleep?"
"Not with you hanging around I don't."
Sephiroth looked hurt. "How could you say something like that to me?"
"It wasn't hard," Rueh said crossing her arms in front of her. Sephiroth looked down at the book he had been reading for a few minutes. Rueh cleared her throat to let him know she was still there.
"Oh fine! There's a kitchen on the 54th floor! I'm sure the cook is still up," Sephiroth said dully.
"Thank you!" Rueh said and ran to the elevator. She got in and pushed the button and her descent began. It only took a few minutes but Rueh wasn't very patient because of her hunger.
When she got there all the lights were off and no one was there. She looked around then shrugged and turned the light on. She found the refrigerator and opened it.
"Oooooo…chocolate…" she said upon seeing the slightly still frozen chunk. She picked it up and began to knaw on it as she went back to the elevator. 'No cook in sight! And dad said that he would still be up…' Rueh grumbled to herself as she went up in the elevator to the room she claimed as her own…for now.
It was a dark grey color and had a black dragon painted on all the walls. The dragon was outlined with glow in the dark paint. And its eyes, spikes, teeth, and claws were the same glow in the dark paint. Her bed was on the opposite wall of the door and covered in fluffy pillows. She brushed out her hair, finished her chocolate, and 5 hours later went to bed…finally.
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