(Author's Note: Hello! Oh boy…I think I'm very evil now…oh yes indeed…just read this and you'll understand…enjoy chapter 8!)

Disclaimer: FF7 and Squaresoft are not mine. Rueh belongs to Rueh…Dete is mine.

Chapter 8

Discovered…but trapped…

Aeris, Cloud, and Tifa decided to spread out and each search a section of the town. After not finding anything Cloud went up the mountain path thinking that they might be up there. Before he left they went back to the house to have a quick lunch since it was late in the afternoon now.

"Everything will be fine Aeris," Tifa said once Cloud was gone.

"I know but…I'm just going to look around some more," Aeris said.

"All right. Here. Take my PHS. You can use it to call here if you need help. Cloud has his. I need to stay here in case he calls for help. If he does then I can call you," Tifa said handing the PHS to her.

"All right. What time will you be starting dinner? Call me and I'll come back and help," Aeris said.

"Oh don't worry about that," Tifa said.

Aeris shrugged and left the house. She just stood in the front yard looking around the town. She was trying to think of a place that they hadn't looked when the old building caught her eye. The Shinra mansion. She looked around again then started towards it.

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Sephiroth growled in frustration and pushed his hair over his shoulder. Even after a thorough search of the Shinra tower Rueh still hadn't turned up. He remembered the note but she should have already been back. He plopped down in his favorite chair. After a few minutes the phone rang. After the 3rd ring he finally gave up and answered it.

"What?"

"Sephiroth…it's me…"

"What do you want Aeris?" he snapped.

"I found Rueh and Dete…"

"Well good for you. I'll just let you get them back," he said not really caring.

"I was calling because I'll need help…Sephiroth," she said.

"…why should I help?"

"Knock it off! I really need your help! They need your help!"

"I might help them but then again I might not because they didn't ask," he said.

"I'm in the basement of the Shinra mansion in Nibelheim…I can't get them out of here alone," she said.

"Why don't you ask what's his face…chocobo head and his wife Tifa for help?"

"Seph…" he held the phone away from his ear when there was a bunch of noise from the other end. Something went thud and the phone hit something.

"Aeris?" he asked. Someone picked up the phone but didn't say anything. "Aeris what happened? I don't really care though…"

Soft laughter answered him.

"Who is this?" he demanded.

"It's been awhile Sephiroth…" the line suddenly went dead.

Sephiroth hung up and shook his head. Let Aeris deal with her own problems. It wasn't any concern of his. Not after what she did…he shook his head.

So she had found Rueh and Dete at the Shinra mansion. Big deal. And there was another man there as well…wait. Sephiroth froze as the voice suddenly clicked with a face that floated through his memories…

He stood up and left the room. His pace fast enough that his hair and trench coat fluttered in the breeze left behind.

'Now what did Rueh do to my sword and materia…oh boy…I haven't seen them since Dete last came over. This could take awhile since I didn't look for them during my search for Rueh…'

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"Aeris hasn't come back yet?" Cloud asked.

Tifa shook her head. "She left just a few minutes after you did," she said.

"I don't like this. She should have been back…wait…you don't think she could have found them…"

"And been caught herself…?"

The front door suddenly opened. Cloud and Tifa stood and went to see who had come in.

"You!" Cloud hissed.

"Shut up. Where's Aeris?" Sephiroth asked.

"We don't know," Tifa said putting her hand on Cloud's arm.

"And why should you care after what you did to her!" Cloud said.

"ME? I didn't do anything to HER! She broke her promise to ME!" Sephiroth snapped.

"Maybe it's a good thing she did!"

"Why YOU…!"

"What are you going to do to me?"

"…I could do a lot of things to you. Most of which will be very very painful at this moment," Sephiroth said in a low voice.

"Stop it! Both of you! We need to find Aeris!" Tifa said.

"Neither of you are going to help me in any way!" Sephiroth hissed and left the house slamming the door behind him.

"Why would we want to help him anyways…" Cloud trailed off muttering under his breath.

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Sephiroth didn't try to be silent as he stormed down the stairs and into the basement of the Shinra mansion. He threw the door to the lab open.  Hojo turned to face him calmly.

A small gasp turned his attention to Aeris who was tied up in a cell with a glass wall in the front.

A green glow turned his attention to 2 metal cylinders. They were filled with mako. Rueh and Dete were floating inside of them. Their eyes were closed.

Sephiroth turned back to Hojo as his hand went to the hilt of Masamune…

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(A/N: Yes yes…very evil…hehehehe…)