Soul Mates - By Naz927
Legal Disclaimer: I do not own any part of FF VII or Square-Enix but if I did i'd be a much happier man!
Chapter X
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At Tifa's house everyone was winding down from the party and all that remained were Tifa, Vincent, Barret and Cid. Yuffie made her way back to Wutai while Red went back to Cosmo Canyon. Tifa was very upset that Cloud once again didn't make it.
"Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that he didn't come, right?" asked Tifa.
"Don't worry honey, I'm sure he'll come around sooner or later," said Vincent.
"I just can't believe how much he's changed these past couple of months, I mean, its almost like he has become a different person. I know all of those memories I have of him aren't even real but he doesn't even resemble the strong person who killed Sephiroth with all of us. I mean, he never even revealed how he felt about Aeris until she was gone and everything was over." Tifa said.
"How could he Tifa?" asked Barret. "When she first died, we had stuff to do, stuff that took his mind off of her, after all that went away it really hit him how much he missed her, then you and Vincent got together and he became even more misreble."
"Oh please Barret, Cloud never had feelings for me like that and the feelings I had for him died a long, long time ago." replied Tifa.
"Hey come on now," started Barret. "I didn't mean it like that its just, when he saw you and Vince together and how happy you two made each other it made him feel terrible, we all knew Aeris had a thing for him but he just never showed it when she was alive."
Vincent now cut in, "What I wanna' know is what the hell he thinks he's doin' now? I mean, does he really think that he is going to find her? I honestly hope that nothing happens to him and he doesn't go off and do something stupid like he always does."
"I just hope he finds something, or someone, I mean maybe if he found another woman who sorta looked like Aeris, then maybe he could find some clousure to the whole thing." Barret said.
An image of Aeris suddenly entered Vincent's mind. "Nobody on this earth looks like that girl did, lemme tell ya!"
"Vincent!" yelled Tifa as she gave him a scornful look. Barret was laughing.
"Why don't we call him?" asked Tifa. Tifa picked up a phone and dialed Cloud's PHS number. It was ringing...
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As Aeris went to get the door for Wallace, Cloud put his clothes on quickly and noticed that his pants were vibrating. Aeris noticed too.
"Jeees, I didn't know I had THAT much of an affect on you!" she laughed.
Cloud smiled, its Tifa. I'll call her back. Aeris opened the door and let Wallace in, Cloud was relieved when he saw how much older the man was.
"So, you must be Cloud, nice to meet you, I'm Wallace."
"Pleased to meet you as well," said Cloud.
"Well I guess I'd better explain things to you, when I...came out of the forest, Wallace was the only digger at Bone Village and he agreed to help me since I had no way of getting anywhere, if it wasn't for him, who knows what could have happened," Aeris said while smiling at Wallace.
"Thank you so much for helping Aeris, I can't even begin to repay you."
"Don't mention it, I'm just glad to see she finally found you, you're one lucky guy to have a girl like that."
"Oh, Wallace, stop!" said Aeris while blushing.
"Well, whats next?" Wallace asked.
"How would you like to come with me and Cloud to see all of are old freinds! It'll be fun!" said Aeris.
"I dunno, you kids wouldn't want an old geezer like me breathing down your necks, I might cramp everyone's style."
"You're not that OLD," said Aeris. "Besides, Barret will be there and he's probably your age."
With the mention of Barrets name, Wallace was suddenly very interested. "Barret?"
"Yea, Barret, he's-"
"Is he a big man? Black? Beard?" asked Wallace.
"Uh-huh, gun for a hand, thats him!" excalimed Aeris.
"Oh, nevermind, I must have the wrong person, you see, I used to be a miner in a town called Coral before ShinRa destroyed it and took it over. I lost everyone, my family, my freinds, there was a man there named Barret who tried to stand up to the ShinRa, but I guess he's dead just like everyone else I ever knew."
Cloud was amazed. "You used to be a miner in Coral?" he asked.
"Yea, but that was a long, long time ago, I lost everyone, my son, my wife, even my little grandaughter." Wallace suddenly broke down in tears and Aeris put her arm around him.
"Wallace, Barret is still alive, he told us what happened, he tried to stop everything but was too late, he thought his daughter Marlene was the only one who survived." said Aeris.
Wallace's tears suddenly subdued. "Mar...Marlene? It...It can't be the same...my grandaughter's name was Marlene!"
"You mean that IS your grandaughter's name, Wallace she is still alive, Barret has been taking care of her. We can go see her!" Aeris was overjoyed.
"I cannot believe what I am hearing, I thought everyone was killed. When...when can we leave?" Wallace asked.
"As soon as mister lazy over there takes a shower and gets ready! I need to go buy some new clothes too!" said Aeris. Cloud noticed her pink dress layed out across a chair and a certain hole in the middle of it.
"Sure, take all the time that you need, I think I'm gonna go have a drink, I need some time to think about all of this. I'll be at the pub when you guys are ready."
"Ok, Wallace, we won't be long." Aeris said. Wallace left and it was just Cloud and Aeris.
"We, won't be long, I already have some clothes to wear." said Cloud.
"Oh no you don't, we're going shopping together so you can tell me how I look! Maybe if you're lucky, I'll let you pick out something special that you want me to wear."
"Do I get to pay for all of this?" asked Cloud smiling.
"Of course!" Aeris said before she kissed him.
After Cloud took a shower and got ready he took Aeris to the most expensive clothing store in Costa Del Sol, Del Sol Garments, a very noteworthy place. One thing Cloud had a lot of was gil, he was pretty much a millionare and he told Aeris to pick out anything she wanted.
"Lets see...I need some new jeans, socks, bathing suits, shorts, skirts, maybe a dress or two...oh and some underwear and some bras..."
Cloud rolled his eyes, he rolled them out of bliss though, in his mind he couldn't believe what was happening, and seeing Aeris so happy and energetic made him feel warm and happy inside, it made him feel like nothing else in the world could. After about 3 hours of shopping in the two story clothing store, Aeris had tried on numerous pairs of jeans, skirts and dresses, she picked out one outfit to wear today. A short red mini-skirt that revealed her luscious long and tan legs and a cute little light blue tank top with a matching short jacket.
"I also picked out something special for you! You'll get to see it later though." she winked. "Ok, I'm gonna' go change one more time, no peeking Cloud!"
"Oh, I woudn't dream of it," he laughed.
Even after the night before and this morning Cloud still hadn't seen Aeris naked, he was picturing in her mind what she must look like and it aroused him tremendously. He couldn't help himself. When Aeris emerged from the dressing room Cloud's heart literally jumped. He couldn't believe just how breathtaking she looked in just a simple little outfit, the men who worked at the store also took notice of how beutiful she looked. Aeris put her hair up too in a way Cloud had never seen before.
"What?" asked Aeris.
"Nothing." responded Cloud. "I like your hair like that."
"Thank you."
"Aeris you look amazing. Almost everyone here is watching you!"
"Thanks again, heehee, this is a litte awkward with all these eyes on me, help me carry all this stuff."
The pile of clothes that Aeris had mustered up was utterly huge, but Cloud didn't care, he helped her carry all of it and kept a keen eye on her backside as they made there way to the checkout desk.
"Ok...lets see here, the total is...4,798 dollars and sixty-eight cents. How will you be paying for all of this miss?" asked the clerk.
Cloud jumped in, "Cash." Cloud pulled out a wad of money from his backpocket, and gave the clerk 5,000 dollars. It didn't even make a dent in the wad.
"Oh my." said Aeris.
"What?" laughed Cloud. "Its alrite, come on lets go, I think you've kept Wallace waiting long enough."
"Me?! You're the one who said, 'go ahead Aeris, buy whatever you want and how many you want, I don't care', I believe those were you're exact words!"
"Oh you're too much, come on lets go." Cloud said as he put his arm around Aeris while his other arm was carrying a seemingly endless amount of bags.
"Cloud...?" asked Aeris.
"Yea, Aeris?"
"Thank you so much, I've never had such nice things in my whole entire life, I love you so much."
"Aeris, just hearing you say those words to me makes everything I've been through these past months all worthwhile, I love you too." They made it to Cloud's house.
"It's the biggest one!" said Aeris.
"Wait until you see the inside."
He opened the door and let Aeris go in first. Broken beer bottles, glass, cigarettes, clothes everywhere, the place was a complete and utter disasture.
"Wow, so this is what you've been doing all this time..." said Aeris.
"Well you see...Barret and Cid were over a couple days ago and it sorta got kinda trashed, but its nothing I can't fix. Come on lets go!"
Aeris and Cloud were making there way to the pub to get Wallace when Cloud's PHS suddenly wrang. It said Tifa on the ID.
"I guess I'd better answer, uh...hey Tifa..." answered Cloud.
"Tifa! Does this sound like Tifa to you?!" said Barret. "What the fuck man, you said you would make it, what gives?"
Cloud was laughing.
"What the hell's so goddamned funny?!" yelled Barret.
"Barret, have I got a lot of things to tell you!"
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AUTHOR'S NOTES: Two chapters in the course of two days, I know its a rarity for me! I had a lot of fun writing this chapter, as it is now prolly my favorite one, I hope evryone else likes it too. I wanted Cloud and Aeris to come off as a cute couple in this one and I think that I accomplised that. I also revealed the true purpose of Wallace in the chapeter as well, this was an idea I had for him since the begining and I bet I surprised everyone with that. Also, don't worry, the story will continue! Definately one more chapter coming up and possibly more, when writing this chapter I really liked how Cloud and Aeirs turned out and I want to continue to see how else they interact with each other, maybe another love scene or two in the future, WHO KNOWS! I also wanted to write a long chapter since I had been lacking with the past few. Since its summer again I now have a lot more time on my hands, more than I know what to do with actually and its amazing that this short lil fic began last summer and I'm still not done! I know its nothing monumental like some of the other romance fics on here (Path of Seduction is an amazing story that I recommend yo ANYONE who reads my story!) but I like how my story is turning out and as of right now I am thinking of starting another one that has to do with a younger Aeris before she meets Cloud. All of this is up in the air and I wanna fininsh this story before I even start thinking of writing another one. Well, I hope everyone enjoyed these two new brand-spanking new chapters and anyone who likes my story I please ask you to recommend it to other people so I can get more reviews! Nothing pleases me more than to open up my email and see a new review alert. I think I explained to you all that I write this story with no spellcheck or grammar check so bear with me on the small spelling and grammatical errors, I'M NOT DUMB, I SWEAR! Well thats it for now and as always please please please Read and REVIEW! Thanks in advance -
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Naz
Legal Disclaimer: I do not own any part of FF VII or Square-Enix but if I did i'd be a much happier man!
Chapter X
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At Tifa's house everyone was winding down from the party and all that remained were Tifa, Vincent, Barret and Cid. Yuffie made her way back to Wutai while Red went back to Cosmo Canyon. Tifa was very upset that Cloud once again didn't make it.
"Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that he didn't come, right?" asked Tifa.
"Don't worry honey, I'm sure he'll come around sooner or later," said Vincent.
"I just can't believe how much he's changed these past couple of months, I mean, its almost like he has become a different person. I know all of those memories I have of him aren't even real but he doesn't even resemble the strong person who killed Sephiroth with all of us. I mean, he never even revealed how he felt about Aeris until she was gone and everything was over." Tifa said.
"How could he Tifa?" asked Barret. "When she first died, we had stuff to do, stuff that took his mind off of her, after all that went away it really hit him how much he missed her, then you and Vincent got together and he became even more misreble."
"Oh please Barret, Cloud never had feelings for me like that and the feelings I had for him died a long, long time ago." replied Tifa.
"Hey come on now," started Barret. "I didn't mean it like that its just, when he saw you and Vince together and how happy you two made each other it made him feel terrible, we all knew Aeris had a thing for him but he just never showed it when she was alive."
Vincent now cut in, "What I wanna' know is what the hell he thinks he's doin' now? I mean, does he really think that he is going to find her? I honestly hope that nothing happens to him and he doesn't go off and do something stupid like he always does."
"I just hope he finds something, or someone, I mean maybe if he found another woman who sorta looked like Aeris, then maybe he could find some clousure to the whole thing." Barret said.
An image of Aeris suddenly entered Vincent's mind. "Nobody on this earth looks like that girl did, lemme tell ya!"
"Vincent!" yelled Tifa as she gave him a scornful look. Barret was laughing.
"Why don't we call him?" asked Tifa. Tifa picked up a phone and dialed Cloud's PHS number. It was ringing...
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As Aeris went to get the door for Wallace, Cloud put his clothes on quickly and noticed that his pants were vibrating. Aeris noticed too.
"Jeees, I didn't know I had THAT much of an affect on you!" she laughed.
Cloud smiled, its Tifa. I'll call her back. Aeris opened the door and let Wallace in, Cloud was relieved when he saw how much older the man was.
"So, you must be Cloud, nice to meet you, I'm Wallace."
"Pleased to meet you as well," said Cloud.
"Well I guess I'd better explain things to you, when I...came out of the forest, Wallace was the only digger at Bone Village and he agreed to help me since I had no way of getting anywhere, if it wasn't for him, who knows what could have happened," Aeris said while smiling at Wallace.
"Thank you so much for helping Aeris, I can't even begin to repay you."
"Don't mention it, I'm just glad to see she finally found you, you're one lucky guy to have a girl like that."
"Oh, Wallace, stop!" said Aeris while blushing.
"Well, whats next?" Wallace asked.
"How would you like to come with me and Cloud to see all of are old freinds! It'll be fun!" said Aeris.
"I dunno, you kids wouldn't want an old geezer like me breathing down your necks, I might cramp everyone's style."
"You're not that OLD," said Aeris. "Besides, Barret will be there and he's probably your age."
With the mention of Barrets name, Wallace was suddenly very interested. "Barret?"
"Yea, Barret, he's-"
"Is he a big man? Black? Beard?" asked Wallace.
"Uh-huh, gun for a hand, thats him!" excalimed Aeris.
"Oh, nevermind, I must have the wrong person, you see, I used to be a miner in a town called Coral before ShinRa destroyed it and took it over. I lost everyone, my family, my freinds, there was a man there named Barret who tried to stand up to the ShinRa, but I guess he's dead just like everyone else I ever knew."
Cloud was amazed. "You used to be a miner in Coral?" he asked.
"Yea, but that was a long, long time ago, I lost everyone, my son, my wife, even my little grandaughter." Wallace suddenly broke down in tears and Aeris put her arm around him.
"Wallace, Barret is still alive, he told us what happened, he tried to stop everything but was too late, he thought his daughter Marlene was the only one who survived." said Aeris.
Wallace's tears suddenly subdued. "Mar...Marlene? It...It can't be the same...my grandaughter's name was Marlene!"
"You mean that IS your grandaughter's name, Wallace she is still alive, Barret has been taking care of her. We can go see her!" Aeris was overjoyed.
"I cannot believe what I am hearing, I thought everyone was killed. When...when can we leave?" Wallace asked.
"As soon as mister lazy over there takes a shower and gets ready! I need to go buy some new clothes too!" said Aeris. Cloud noticed her pink dress layed out across a chair and a certain hole in the middle of it.
"Sure, take all the time that you need, I think I'm gonna go have a drink, I need some time to think about all of this. I'll be at the pub when you guys are ready."
"Ok, Wallace, we won't be long." Aeris said. Wallace left and it was just Cloud and Aeris.
"We, won't be long, I already have some clothes to wear." said Cloud.
"Oh no you don't, we're going shopping together so you can tell me how I look! Maybe if you're lucky, I'll let you pick out something special that you want me to wear."
"Do I get to pay for all of this?" asked Cloud smiling.
"Of course!" Aeris said before she kissed him.
After Cloud took a shower and got ready he took Aeris to the most expensive clothing store in Costa Del Sol, Del Sol Garments, a very noteworthy place. One thing Cloud had a lot of was gil, he was pretty much a millionare and he told Aeris to pick out anything she wanted.
"Lets see...I need some new jeans, socks, bathing suits, shorts, skirts, maybe a dress or two...oh and some underwear and some bras..."
Cloud rolled his eyes, he rolled them out of bliss though, in his mind he couldn't believe what was happening, and seeing Aeris so happy and energetic made him feel warm and happy inside, it made him feel like nothing else in the world could. After about 3 hours of shopping in the two story clothing store, Aeris had tried on numerous pairs of jeans, skirts and dresses, she picked out one outfit to wear today. A short red mini-skirt that revealed her luscious long and tan legs and a cute little light blue tank top with a matching short jacket.
"I also picked out something special for you! You'll get to see it later though." she winked. "Ok, I'm gonna' go change one more time, no peeking Cloud!"
"Oh, I woudn't dream of it," he laughed.
Even after the night before and this morning Cloud still hadn't seen Aeris naked, he was picturing in her mind what she must look like and it aroused him tremendously. He couldn't help himself. When Aeris emerged from the dressing room Cloud's heart literally jumped. He couldn't believe just how breathtaking she looked in just a simple little outfit, the men who worked at the store also took notice of how beutiful she looked. Aeris put her hair up too in a way Cloud had never seen before.
"What?" asked Aeris.
"Nothing." responded Cloud. "I like your hair like that."
"Thank you."
"Aeris you look amazing. Almost everyone here is watching you!"
"Thanks again, heehee, this is a litte awkward with all these eyes on me, help me carry all this stuff."
The pile of clothes that Aeris had mustered up was utterly huge, but Cloud didn't care, he helped her carry all of it and kept a keen eye on her backside as they made there way to the checkout desk.
"Ok...lets see here, the total is...4,798 dollars and sixty-eight cents. How will you be paying for all of this miss?" asked the clerk.
Cloud jumped in, "Cash." Cloud pulled out a wad of money from his backpocket, and gave the clerk 5,000 dollars. It didn't even make a dent in the wad.
"Oh my." said Aeris.
"What?" laughed Cloud. "Its alrite, come on lets go, I think you've kept Wallace waiting long enough."
"Me?! You're the one who said, 'go ahead Aeris, buy whatever you want and how many you want, I don't care', I believe those were you're exact words!"
"Oh you're too much, come on lets go." Cloud said as he put his arm around Aeris while his other arm was carrying a seemingly endless amount of bags.
"Cloud...?" asked Aeris.
"Yea, Aeris?"
"Thank you so much, I've never had such nice things in my whole entire life, I love you so much."
"Aeris, just hearing you say those words to me makes everything I've been through these past months all worthwhile, I love you too." They made it to Cloud's house.
"It's the biggest one!" said Aeris.
"Wait until you see the inside."
He opened the door and let Aeris go in first. Broken beer bottles, glass, cigarettes, clothes everywhere, the place was a complete and utter disasture.
"Wow, so this is what you've been doing all this time..." said Aeris.
"Well you see...Barret and Cid were over a couple days ago and it sorta got kinda trashed, but its nothing I can't fix. Come on lets go!"
Aeris and Cloud were making there way to the pub to get Wallace when Cloud's PHS suddenly wrang. It said Tifa on the ID.
"I guess I'd better answer, uh...hey Tifa..." answered Cloud.
"Tifa! Does this sound like Tifa to you?!" said Barret. "What the fuck man, you said you would make it, what gives?"
Cloud was laughing.
"What the hell's so goddamned funny?!" yelled Barret.
"Barret, have I got a lot of things to tell you!"
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AUTHOR'S NOTES: Two chapters in the course of two days, I know its a rarity for me! I had a lot of fun writing this chapter, as it is now prolly my favorite one, I hope evryone else likes it too. I wanted Cloud and Aeris to come off as a cute couple in this one and I think that I accomplised that. I also revealed the true purpose of Wallace in the chapeter as well, this was an idea I had for him since the begining and I bet I surprised everyone with that. Also, don't worry, the story will continue! Definately one more chapter coming up and possibly more, when writing this chapter I really liked how Cloud and Aeirs turned out and I want to continue to see how else they interact with each other, maybe another love scene or two in the future, WHO KNOWS! I also wanted to write a long chapter since I had been lacking with the past few. Since its summer again I now have a lot more time on my hands, more than I know what to do with actually and its amazing that this short lil fic began last summer and I'm still not done! I know its nothing monumental like some of the other romance fics on here (Path of Seduction is an amazing story that I recommend yo ANYONE who reads my story!) but I like how my story is turning out and as of right now I am thinking of starting another one that has to do with a younger Aeris before she meets Cloud. All of this is up in the air and I wanna fininsh this story before I even start thinking of writing another one. Well, I hope everyone enjoyed these two new brand-spanking new chapters and anyone who likes my story I please ask you to recommend it to other people so I can get more reviews! Nothing pleases me more than to open up my email and see a new review alert. I think I explained to you all that I write this story with no spellcheck or grammar check so bear with me on the small spelling and grammatical errors, I'M NOT DUMB, I SWEAR! Well thats it for now and as always please please please Read and REVIEW! Thanks in advance -
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Naz