Fallen Angels, It's a Long Way Down
A Tokyo Kitty Production
Disclaimer: I don't own it...wish I did but nope...
Summary: The great cataclysm is now over and Cloud sits in the turning point of his life. Should he give up all that he once remembers and move on? Or let his memories continue to rule his life and govern his next move? All is influenced by the forces that will cross as unexpected guests arrive and his memories haunt him with the grief of the past. YAOI ZackXCloud, SephXCloud, CloudXVincent and possible SephXZackXCloud
A/N: Hello and welcome to my newest fic...if it ever reaches any actual site. This will be the first fic that I'm not faking a plot by pulling random smut scenes out of my butt and throwing it in a word document. cough battles lost cough cough anyway, I would also like to rant about the fact that took off my pride and joy Final Fantasy VII for Dummies. If you can think of a place I could put it that'd be nice since it's not dirty enough to be on and I have no clue where else to put it. If you are reading this, this is the censored version of this fic. If you would like to read it in it's original Yaoi, NC-17 form go look me up at Thank you now I shall begin this epic fic...prepare for angst to come spilling out of peoples ears...
Every day was the same. The same cold night, the same warm day. The same trees and tall grass overgrowing the paths of the old town. The same people, houses, the same view from the rooftop of his house. Nothing ever changed nowadays. That was just how he liked it.
It was now two years since Meteor Crisis and now Cloud sat by himself on the roof of his small thatched house staring off into the setting sun. You could see the decimated Mako Reactor off in the distance, the sun setting behind it. This was Gongaga, now a near ghost town from what it used to be ever since the reactor had exploded. After everything in the Crater, Cloud had retreated to the ancient town in hopes of cutting himself off from the group he had spent a whole year with in the pursuit of Sephiroth and the planned downfall of Shinra. Now Midgar lay in ruins and he had killed Sephiroth with his own hands.
'Sephiroth...' Cloud thought the sun now disappearing behind the piles of twisted metal, the clouds slowly turning purple. After Meteor, Cloud left the group in hopes of living the rest of his life in solitude, alone. It had only taken Tifa only about a month to once again find him. It was bound to have happened, the woman loved him after all.
After staying only a few weeks Tifa had sensed his uneasiness around her and had departed saying she was going back to Midgar to help rebuild and set up a new bar. She showed up from time to time now, but her visits were slowly becoming farther apart.
Whenever she came she always brought news of the others. Cid had gone back to Rocket Town and was now flying the sky in the Highwind with new cargo routes, occasionally working on a new spaceship with the profit he made. Red XIII had returned to Cosmo Canyon to take up his father's duty of protecting the town, even now after the war. Barret had gone to Corel, finally reunited with Marlene, and he was now helping to rebuild the town into what it had been when Dyne was still around. As for Yuffie, Cloud laughed, the images of the young thief filling his mind. She had gone back to her hometown in Wutai with pockets full of mastered Materia in hopes of selling them to help Wutai rebuild itself into the respectable town it had once been.
All was slowly returning to the way it should have been. Except...there was no news of Vincent. The dark man had disappeared almost as mysteriously as Cloud had right after Holy had dispersed. Cloud had thought many times of seeking out the dark haired man but figured that, like himself, Vincent had sought the solitude and silence of being alone.
Cloud looked at the black sky now speckled with tiny stars, the twilight now entirely gone. The stars twinkling high in the sky always reminded him of that night in the Crater.
FLASHBACK: NIGHT OF THE FINAL CONFRONTATION
Rocks...rocks fell everywhere into the large hole in the Planet's center. Falling...falling deep into the Lifestream churning beneath him. 'Will I fall too?' He thought gaping at the glowing green flowing toward the sky.
"Cloud!" Tifa yelled from the top of a cliff. She stretched out a hand to the dazed man standing, sword limply in hand, gazing at the pit of Mako green. "We have to leave, Cloud!" She called out again.
Cloud turned looking at the woman with bright blue eyes filled with sadness and grief. He slowly nodded grabbing Tifa's hand and helping to pull himself out of the slowly breaking Crater.
'It is over...but is that what I really want?' Cloud questioned as he sat on the loading deck of the Highwind watching Holy cure the damage caused by the destruction of Meteor. Green beams of light crawled across the earth like slow bolts of lighting. They moved toward Midgar to aid in the end of Meteor.
'Green...just like his eyes...' Cloud's eyes reflected the green lights into his own blue eyes, turning his eyes an aquamarine. Sephiroth had green eyes. At least he used to. Cloud doubted it was over. So many times had people said Sephiroth was dead only for him to come back and smite all those who had doubted him. But then, there was always the chance that he truly was...
'No...I don't want it to be...none of this should of ever happened...because, I-'
"Cloud? Are you alright?" Tifa said interrupting the blonde's thoughts. She stood beside him, her arms resting on the metal railing.
"Huh? Oh, yeah...I guess..." Cloud answered quietly. It wasn't like him to be so quiet when he spoke. He had always been a man of few words, but very rarely when he did speak did he not know what to say. He couldn't tell Tifa how he really felt...She'd never accept it.
"What're you thinking about?" She asked smiling at her childhood friend.
"Oh, just things...Our journey is finally over I guess and well...I don't know what to do now..." Cloud said trailing off at the end. It wasn't exactly what he'd been thinking. But close enough. Maybe she would leave him alone now and he could go back to being nostalgic.
"Okay..." She said, sensing he wasn't going to say anymore. "You should go to bed soon. We're going to make plans in the morning."
END FLASHBACK
That had been a long day. Cloud remembered pulling off his normal day clothes and changing into a pair of light sweatpants. Strangely, when they had gotten back to the Highwind Vincent was gone. Just gone. He'd seemed to have been with them the whole time. But, as soon as they had all piled into the control room and looked around, Vincent wasn't with them. The strange turn of events hadn't surprised Cloud but everyone else thought that he had somehow gotten separated from them by the accident.
Oh well, wherever the dark haired man had gone he'd made himself pretty scarce. No one had found him to date and they had given up a while ago thinking that perhaps...it meant that things should be left the way they were.
"I guess that's just how things have been lately." Cloud said to the wall. He spoke to the thing almost constantly whenever he lay down to go to sleep. He didn't talk much to anyone in town. Most of them didn't know him personally and the only people he felt any connection to were Zack's parents who lived in the house next door.
'Destiny and fate were never something we should've messed with in the first place' Cloud thought falling asleep.
A/N: Alright I know this chapter wasn't very long I just had to get it out of the way. Ya know, to set everything up. I'm being original and placing it in Gongaga so bear with me, I'll explain why he's there in the next chapter. Prepare for lots of flashback because you know how nostalgic Cloud can be... Next chapter...prepare for MEGA FLASHBACK and the and shounen-ai scene. You don't like guys kissing? Sorry can only censor so far before it loses the story...This is after all a love story...Deal with it. Please Review! Bye ."
