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The Breakout

A/N: If you wanna flame me, THEN FLAME ME!! I don't care, I like it and that's all that counts...... (and the opinions of those who praise me) ENJOY!!!

Cloud delivered the final blow, finishing his Omnislash combo. Sephiroth fell back, blood dripped from his forehead......His cold eyes stared at Cloud as though to say it was a mistake.But nevertheless beams of light shot out of Sephiroth destroying him for good.. Cloud had those kind of dreams ever since that day. What was going on? Why was he having those dreams? Those are the answers that Cloud's trying to find out....

"Why am I thinking of you? thought Cloud in his sleep



"I dunno, but stop..." said a familiar cold distant voice

"But I can't, I can't help it."

"Well try, because I'm dead remember?"

"It doesn't feel like you're gone..."

"That's because you're surrounded by the ones you love."

"But am I truly? I mean, my still feels that something or someone is missing..."

"I can't help there, I am just your imagination.. And I still dno't get why I am here..."

"I can't stop thinking about you...."

"Can't stop thinking about who?" said a girl's voice

Cloud woke from his dreams, startled by the brunette who hovered over him..

"You were talking in your sleep, I got concerned... Is everything okay?" asked Tifa

".....Yeah...." lied Cloud

"Are you sure? Because I'm here for you Cloud, I'll help you with any problem that you have.....I love you."

A sharp pain hit Cloud's heart. Why was this there? He DID love Tifa, didn't he? He did have feelings for her, didn't he? Then why does he feel so guilty? Cloud couldn't force himself to say those words back to her.... So he turned away...

"Um, Cloud there IS something wrong isn't there?" asked Tifa hurt

Cloud glanced up from his bed and looked at her with his blue eyes

"No, no!! There's nothing wrong Tifa, I love you to!!" he said forcing it out

There it was again!! That sharp pain in his heart. He hated to lie to her, or any of his friends but he didn't want to hurt her. But everytime he tried to tell her his feelings it have been covered up with another lie.... As he slowly got dressed he cursed himself for hurting Tifa more by lying to her.

"Hey Cloud!!" said Yuffie brightly as she walked into the room "How's it going?"

"No to well...."

"Aww.....why?"

"I can't say.."

"Did you LOSE YOUR MATERIA? I WILL KILL YOU IF I HAVE TO LEAVE THIS GROUP!!"

"No Yuffie, I didn't lose the materia.. Geeze is that all you think about?"

"Actually....I think about alot of other things, materia just happens to be top on my list..."

"What do you think about Yuffie, if it's besides materia?"

"I think about my family, especially my....my mother....I think about what she would think about me now..."

Yuffie looks down so Cloud couldn't see her tears that formed in her eyes. She quickly wiped them away...

"Sorry, I didn't know..."

"That's okay..." said Yuffie drying her eyes

"You know what?" said Cloud smiling

"What?"

"Let's go to the dinning room and see the others!!"

"Yeah!!"

They walked into the dinning room to see the others starring at them...

"Hi Cloud!!" said RedXIII



"Hi!!" said Cloud smiling

Usually every morning Cloud sat by Tifa but today was different, he felt that he should sit somewhere else seeing as he didn't know if he still loved her...

"Why are you still thinking about me? You killed me, you have your life..."

"I don't have everything Sephiroth, you should know that..."

"But you have Tifa, the one you LOVE don't you?"

Again Cloud's heart started to hurt.. He knew Sephiroth was being sarcastic. Sephiroth wanted his life to be a failur, he wanted his life to be destroyed... He hated Cloud as much as Darkness hates the Light. Cloud hated him as well. But why couldn't he stop thinking about him?

"Cloud did you hear me?" said a rough voice

"CLOUD!!" screamed the voice irritated

Cloud broke from his trans and looked up. It was Vincent's voice.. Vincent stared at Cloud.

"I'm sorry, I was off in my own world. What did you say Vincent?"

"I was saying that don't you think that the Shinra Mansion should be destroyed."

"Why would we do that?"

"Are you incredibly STUPID, because if you hadn't noticed all those files of what happened are down there.. Those files that Sephiroth read...."

Suddenly Cloud felt different from before with Tifa. He felt sick and if he had've been any other person he would've thrown up!!

"NO!!"

"Why not Cloud?"

"Because, the world needs to know what happened down there, it's part of their history. We can't have them be naive about what went on!!"

"That's true."

"Plus, since Sephy's gone we don't have to worry about anyone going crazy!!"

"Did I just call Sephiroth, SEPHY?!" thought Cloud

"Did YOU just call him Sephy?" said Vincent

But before Cloud could think of an excuse Yuffie butted in.

"ARE WE GONNA EAT OR ARE WE GONNA TALK?! BECAUSE I'M HUNGRY!!!!!!!"

Everyeone sighed at Yuffie's outburst and then began to pass the food around. All the while Vincent stared at Cloud... Cloud felt uneasy in the room after that that and tried to ignore Vincent's glare but he couldn't.

"Are you going to burn a hole in Cloud's forheaed Vincent? Geeze everyone says things that they don't mean!!!" said Tifa

Vincent looked at Tifa and then back at Cloud. He knew that something was wrong. Something was wrong with Cloud though he couldn't put his finger on it. Not wanting to alarm the others he sat quietly and waited for Cloud to be alone. Soon, the others left and it was just the to of them....

"Cloud can I ask you something?"

Vincent had a serious look on his face when he said that. Cloud knew that something was commingup, a question that Cloud couldn't answer..... Well not until he found out himself....

"What is it Vincent?"

"I wanted to ask you, why were you acting so strange today... It's not like you to not want to destroy anything that had to do with Shinra and Sephiroth..."

"I know, but II'm not sure why I'm not myself either....."

"Is there something wrong that I can help you with?"

"No, there's nothing..."

"I'm your friend, just to let you know, you don't have to have so much pride.."

"I DON'T HAVE PRIDE!!! Geeze!!! Why does everyone say that?"

"I'll just leave you alone, okay Cloud?"

:"Fine!!"

"I can see you need your space and I don't want to bother youl...

"See, you're making people believe that you are crazy..."

After Vincent left, Cloud responded to the voice..

"I'm not crazy YOU ARE!!!"

"Am I the one talking to myself?"

"..................."

Cloud left the room and decided to take a nap...

(In the Lifestream)

Sephiroth was sitting there, trapped inside the Lifestream for all eternity. His every move was monitered. He had been kept alive in the lifestream for one purpse only. To watch his biggest nemisis save the world and live in it.But even though Sephiroth hated Cloud there was something about him that made it impossible to loathe him as much as he should. Sephiroth began to realize that he was glad that he had died instead of Cloud.

"Why?" said Sephiroth

"Why what? Why can't you stop thinking about me?"

"You tell me, I've probably been watching you to long.."

"I doubt it's that Sephiroth, you're upset to see that I'm still alive aren't you? That I have someone tolove and you....you have nothing nor no one.."

"That's not true!!" said Sephiroth

"Then who loves you?"

"My mother Jenova loves me..."

"Are you the kind, only a mother could love? Or is there someone special out there that fits your category for love?"

"I am alone.." replied Sephiroth hastilly

Sephiroth knew that some part of him did love someone but he didn't know who. Why should he, the person who killed so many deserve to love at all? He wandered that day after day of his eternal wait. It pained him to see Cloud kiss Tifa, and it pained him to see Cloud sad. He didn't know what was going on..

"Is the reason why I feel these emotions part of the Cetra's curse?"

"No, I'm sorry this has nothing to do with the Cetra... How you feel is of your own free will.. You have emotions Sephiroth, just because you've never felt them doesn't mean that they aren't there...

"I never said that, 'Cloud' now did I?"

"You didn't have to, I know how you feel.. It's really obvious......"

"No it's not, stop saying that!! If I could I'd end your life like I should've when I had the chance!!"

"Then what's stopping you Sephiroth? I mean, you say you can do it but obviously you can't or won't. Is there something about me that you just have to know about?"

Sephiroth sighed in defeat.. He knew that this conversation was going nowehere... He also knew that what 'Cloud' had said was true... But there was nothing left for him to do...... Or was there?!

"I've got it!! I know, I'll break out of here!! That way, I can kill Cloud!!"

Sephiroth planned out what he would do for the next couple of hours. To Sephiroth, this was his chance to show not only the world his superior power, but to show Cloud Strife...as well...

TO BE CONTINUED

So how did you like it? When it was italic at the top (on Cloud's part) it was supposed to be Sephiroth talking, if you hadn't figured it out.. And the bottom was supposed to be Cloud's voice.... Strange huh? Well please R&R!!!