You Are Going to Die
By: General Quistis
Author's Notes: It's a miracle!!! @o@' I'm able to update this… for now, I guess… but anyway… I can feel hell week fast-approaching … and then… never mind.
You're wondering; I rated this R… while some of you might think that there's really nothing that could be rated R in this work, well, for me it is (I mean considering the young and innocent minds of some of the readers…); I'm not really that prude…but anyway…read on. But there will be something here in the near future about Sephiroth that……. *covers mouth and looks away* In the meantime, just proceed. ;) I won't be spoiling the fun here.
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Five
Sephiroth still could not believe that he realized that he really trusted Rufus in the first place. Now he felt like the whole world should really perish.
He is around ten years older than Rufus, but he had known the ShinRa Brat ever since that brat's childhood. Rufus was never allowed to meet him or even talk to him for a reason that they could not even understand, but they somewhat had this friendship with a certain trust that no one else could understand…
And at present, Sephiroth could not believe that Rufus had to break that bond because he fell in-love with an enemy. "Damn that bitch. I'm going to get rid of her…" he muttered angrily as he swung the blade of his Masamune across a big tree, cutting it down in one swift motion. He fell on his knees and watched with wide eyes as the tree fell to the ground. A lot of birds fled from the place and he watched all of them fly away to the skies…
With that, he bowed down his head and closed his eyes for a while, feeling the cold early morning breeze blowing through his hair.
And he smiled rather evilly. "What am I doing here? I'm supposed to be after my goal…" he chuckled lightly as he slowly got up with a demented smile on his face as he looked straight towards the sun. "All must die… Aerith… Tifa… everyone… and Rufus… and finally, Cloud…" he muttered under his breath.
Rufus slowly opened his eyes and he shivered. The room was awfully cold. He had expected himself to be tied down to the bed again, but he was not. He was still free…
The events slowly began to unfold in his mind, reminding him of everything that happened in the past 24 hours…
Tifa.
His eyes widened as he immediately sat up. He was looking for her.
Tifa instantly turned to him when she heard him move. She was just standing by the window and looking outside. His blue eyes were wide in awe upon seeing her there dressed in her usual clothes, but she was not wearing her boots and elbow guard and she was hugging herself.
She blinked. "What's wrong?" she asked curiously as she approached him and sat down on the bed beside him.
He was not able to answer. He did not know how to tell her what was really going on in his mind. She noticed that he was really cold, so she got his turtleneck and helped him put it on. "You'd better get dressed now, Rufus. I couldn't put your clothes back on while you were sleeping because I might wake you up." She said sweetly with a somewhat embarrassed look on her face. He just turned away from her.
"So… what made you get up like that? Did you have a nightmare?" she asked gently.
He shook his head and raked his fingers through his hair. "N…no, Tifa… I just… thought that you left me…" he admitted rather weakly.
She felt her heart sink and her eyes slightly widened upon hearing those words from him. Shouldn't she be the one thinking about that? She just smiled rather sadly and embraced him tightly. He returned her embrace immediately as he sighed against her neck. Neither spoke a single word.
They froze when they heard the door slowly creaking open. They were not able to move from their position as their eyes widened. "Oh my God…" Tifa thought in panic, thinking that if that was Barret or Cid, she would already die…
"Tifa?"
Tifa slowly let go of Rufus as she turned to the door. They were both stunned to see Aerith standing there with a gentle smile on her face… and behind her were Cloud, Red XIII and Vincent.
That was when they all realized that tears were streaming down Tifa's face.
"Wh…what are you doing here?" Tifa asked as she wiped her tears away. She just realized that she was already crying.
Cloud stepped forward with a serious look on his face, "We're leaving." He told them.
Silence.
"Leaving?" Tifa asked rather weakly.
"Let's go before Barret and the others find out." He told her, then turned to Rufus. "That goes the same to you," he said.
Rufus blinked, staring in perplexity at Cloud.
"But… wh… why?" Tifa asked.
"Stop asking questions and let's go before Barret wakes up." Cloud instructed. "We'll meet you in the lobby." And he left with Aerith and Vincent.
Tifa rushed to the door and closed it before turning to face Rufus again with a smile of relief on her face. "Isn't it wonderful, Rufus?" she asked before she ran back to him, dived onto the bed, surprising him. She was laughing gaily as she embraced him again.
He eased up a bit before he held her closer to himself and smiled calmly at her. "Let's go,"
"We're not staying in one place. We'll be in danger if we do so, that's why we've decided to just leave. Barret did not approve of the idea because he still would not trust you… especially Cid. But don't mind him; they're really like that. Be glad that we're agreeing to help you out with Sephiroth." Cloud told Rufus the moment they got inside a ship heading for Midgar.
It was going to be a long trip, but they were prepared. They could not take the plane so they had to ride a ship… but for a change, they were in first class so that no one would suspect them. They even had to use weird accents as they spoke to the person in the ticket booth while purchasing first class tickets and then charging it all in Rufus's account.
Rufus was the only one who did not fake his identity and his accent. He just told the guards that AVALANCHE kidnapping him was just a rumor and that he was just trying to get a decent vacation without the rest of ShinRa bothering him. He even introduced his "companions" as part of his family: Cloud as his older brother, Aerith as his sister-in-law, Tifa as his wife, Red XIII as Cloud and Aerith's pet, and Vincent as Tifa's older brother.
They got away with it easily… after all, Rufus is a good actor.
The boys stayed together in one lounge while Tifa and Aerith stayed in the tearoom, catching up with each other's lives… even though Tifa really wanted to stay with Rufus.
"It's really nice to get out of that cold place. I think I'm going to catch cold already…" Tifa told Aerith as she drank her hot tea.
Aerith smiled sweetly at her. "I still couldn't thank Rufus enough for what he has done… if it wasn't for him, I'd be dead by now… and Cloud would be alone… I don't want Cloud to be sad…" she said with a worried look on her face.
"Don't worry, Aerith. We'll do our best to protect you from Sephiroth." Tifa reassured.
Aerith frowned slightly as she looked outside the window and saw some icebergs. "But why do I have this feeling that… all of us, not just me, are in real danger?" she thought silently, not really wishing to broadcast her thoughts to Tifa. Her best friend had been too worried for the past few days already and suggesting unpleasant thoughts to her would not really help to calm her down even though Rufus is with them in the trip. "Well… let's just watch out and help one another so that it will all be fair…" was all she said.
"This is so pathetic! It's like looking for a needle in a haystack!" Reno complained with a frustrated look on his face as he plopped down on the couch inside the Turks' Lounge in ShinRa HQ.
Elena sighed heavily. They all spent the whole morning roaming around Midgar just searching for the whereabouts of AVALANCHE. After giving up, they proceeded back to the ShinRa HQ to rest for a while before resuming their search after lunch. "What if they're not really in Midgar right now… I mean, the last time we saw them, they were heading to…"
"Don't tell me we're going back there?" Reno asked with an airy look.
"It's the only way, Reno." Elena pointed out.
Rude cleared his throat, making the two of his remaining Turk companions to turn and look at him, "It is so strange that President Rufus was just captured by AVALANCHE… and that phone call… He sounded the same." He pointed out.
"What the hell, I can't even understand why he didn't fight back when AVALANCHE got him!" Reno snapped.
"What if he wasn't kidnapped at all… and he just joined them?" Rude pointed out.
They all fell silent, not knowing what to say.
"I pointed that out to General Heidegger, guess what he did," Reno muttered.
No one replied.
But they knew.
They got salary deductions. The fat general was too stubborn. He thought that what the Turks thought was too ridiculous, so they just shut up and pretended to be interested in following all of his orders.
"So what are we going to do now?" Elena asked.
"Let's have our lunch first before we try to figure out what to do." Reno muttered miserably before he got up and led the way to the cafeteria.
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Rufus just stayed in his quarters, trying to think of something about Sephiroth. "What does he want anyway? Surely it's not just Cloud's life… but…" he trailed off when he felt somewhat suspicious, "What if he also wants Tifa?" he thought silently.
He turned to the sleeping young lady on his bed as he remained standing by the study desk. He turned to the clock and it read 12:00 midnight.
He does not feel tired yet.
"What's making him do all of this?" Rufus thought silently before turning to the window. He stared at it for a few moments before he slowly got up and decided to get a drink. Opening the mini bar inside the small fridge, he got a small bottle of vodka and then a shot glass. While he was opening it, he thought he heard someone knocking on the door. Frowning, he closed the fridge and placed the small bottle and the shot glass on top of the coffee table and then went straight to the door with grunt. He slowly opened it, surprised to see Vincent standing there with a frantic look in his eyes, though his facial expression was still solemn. "Vincent," Rufus began.
"May I come in?" Vincent asked.
Rufus looked back inside the room and observed the sleeping Tifa before turning back to Vincent. "Let's just talk by the deck." He said.
"No. Not the deck. I don't want anybody seeing us." Vincent said with a frown on his face. He looked too worried about something.
Rufus thought for a while before he stepped outside, shut the door, and led the way to the lounge at the end of the hallway of the first class rooms. When they got there, he immediately turned to Vincent, "What?" he asked.
"Sephiroth is here." Vincent told him.
Rufus's eyes slightly widened. "How did you know?" he asked.
Vincent shook his head rather hesitantly, "I'm not really sure… but… I felt him." He replied rather weakly.
Rufus raised an eyebrow. "You felt him?" he asked probingly.
Vincent was just quiet.
Rufus was fighting the urge to laugh mockingly at him. "Alright, how did you feel him?" he asked.
"He… did something… I'm not sure how to describe it but…" Vincent began, but Rufus cut him off, "You are just imagining things. Sephiroth cannot find us."
"You don't know him very well, do you? He can do whatever he pleases and he can show up unexpectedly in places that you did not even expect him to show up. He's just here." Vincent pointed out; but Rufus just shook his head in disbelief before he walked away. "You need some sleep, Vincent." He told him before walking away.
Vincent went after him, "Rufus," he began.
"What?" Rufus asked.
"Once we get back to Midgar, what are we going to do?" Vincent asked.
"I'll take you guys to ShinRa and you'll all stay there with me." Rufus answered stiffly.
"How can we be so sure that this is not a trap set by you and Sephiroth?" Vincent asked.
Rufus stopped walking and turned to him with a look of perplexity on his face, "I beg your pardon?" he demanded.
"You once made deals with him. What if this is still part of a deal?" Vincent asked with a serious but probing look on his face.
Rufus just stared back at him with inquiring eyes. "I wonder what got into you and made you think that ShinRa should not be trusted." He said.
"I've been through a lot, Rufus…" Vincent began.
"Yes, that's what they always say. ShinRa's to blame. But I'm trying to be different from the past, alright? Be thankful that a former enemy has taken the rebel's side already." Rufus said with a stiff look on his face before he turned and walked away.
Vincent watched as he entered his own room again. Sighing, he looked down to the ground. "That's not it, Rufus… there really is something wrong… not with you… but with Sephiroth…" he thought silently before he turned back to his own room with a worried look in his eyes. As he stepped inside, he stared into the darkness of it as he shut the door. The room felt so cold for a reason that he could not even understand. He shivered slightly, "It's all in the mind…" he thought to himself as he proceeded to his bed, but just sat down while he continued to stare into the darkness before him. His eyes widened when he felt two hands touching his back, sliding up his shoulders and then down to his chest. He shivered slightly at the touch, feeling it to be so achingly familiar. "Lucrecia?" he asked softly with a solemn look on his face, even though a part of him does not want to believe in it. Who knows, he could just be dreaming.
But the breath was so real as it hit the side of his neck. "Shh…" the voice hushed him gently.
Vincent was stunned. "Am I dreaming?" he asked out loud.
"Shhh…" the voice hushed him again. The next thing that Vincent felt was a hand touching his chin and turning his head to the side… and a tongue licked his lips which made his eyes widen in surprise. Vincent was about to move away, but the person pulled him closer and started kissing him and then wrapped its arms around him…
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Author's Note: ahahahahaha….. I think I ate too much noodles for lunch… and the noodles have MSG in it… so I'm coming up with a headache again… and so I'll just continue this some other time after the headache is gone. Feh. -.-'
