Fallen Angels, Nostalgia of Heaven

By: Tokyo Kitty

Disclaimer: I don't own it! hides nor am I a pedophile! Don't sue me for thinking Cloud and Zack go well together!

A/N: Hello again! thanks to my TWO reviews I will continue to write this fic. I'd write it anyway but I find the statistic 1 review out of 132 times it's been read rather staggering. But, enough about that. This chapter will mostly be a flashback so kick up a chair as I give my theories of the past. Cloud is 16, I think that Zack would be 19 and that would put Sephiroth at 21. Live with the ages, because I'm not changing them. Just know that is my idea and I'm going with it.

FLASHBACK: SHINRA 8 YEARS AGO ( if you were listening you would know the two years were added from the first chapter)

"Oh come on, Cloud, he's not gonna bite!" Zack said nudging his small lover in the shoulder, slightly knocking him off the couch. He laughed as Cloud started visibly shaking, stuttering over his words.

"But, but..." Cloud looked up at Zack righting himself on the couch again. "What if he doesn't like me..." Their topic was as always the General. Sure Cloud looked up to him, hell everyone did, but there was more...Even now, with Zack as his boyfriend, he still felt attracted to Sephiroth. When Zack had found out about Cloud and his "little" obsession, he had been absolutely relentless with his teasing.

"Just talk with him. He's a nice guy when you get to know him." Zack said with a cheesy smile. Cloud was silent. Zack leaned down throwing an arm over Cloud's shoulder pulling him close. He leaned down, "Are you worried about kissing him or something? You could always practice on me...I'm willing." He whispered in Cloud's ear.

Cloud turned bright crimson, his eyes wide at Zack's suggestion. "You know I don't bite...hard..." Zack smirked pushing him down on the couch straddling his waist.

"Za-Zack..." Cloud groaned, Zack licked the lobe of Clouds ear, switching between kissing and biting lightly. "I have classes in an hour..."

"Consider yourself excused from those classes...you have other 'practice' to do..." Zack said stealing Cloud's lips in a hungry kiss.

END FLASHBACK

"Huh?" Cloud sat straight up in bed the last pieces of the memory slipping away from him. 'Why did I remember that?' Cloud questioned himself. 'Eight years ago...Why now do I remember such distant things?'

'It is why you came back here after all...' his mind argued with him. It was a fact though. He had come to Gongaga after everything to get away from everyone in a place he figured no one would expect him to go...and...Zack...

His hometown, the broken town of Gongaga. Its existence had been nearly wiped out by the Shinra reactor that had blown up. That had been at least a decade ago. Now the townsfolk had gathered, sort of, and rebuilt some of it.

'I bet it didn't even look like this when Zack lived here...' Cloud reflected solemnly. Zack had told him when they were together that he had joined Shinra to get money for his parents back in Gongaga trying to rebuild it.

'I'll take you there someday...so you can see where I grew up...it'll be just the two of us.' Zack's words floated back to him as if they too were part of that illusive dream. Cloud looked out his window at the oncoming morning.

He got up throwing on his usual clothes then walked out into the dawn. The town had a small population to begin with, but in the morning this early there was no one in the dirt streets. He walked down the path, the light, cool morning wind nipping at his bare arms. Every morning was the same...he'd walk down to the reactor, sit there until around noon, then go back home and eat lunch then do whatever chores he had still to do for the rest of the day. Always the same schedule. Like he'd said, 'nothing ever changes'.

'The reactor...' He thought staring up at the looming pieces of broken and twisted metal. His mind drifted...like a log upon a fast stream...drifting into the sorrow of the past...

FLASHBACK: 8 YEARS AGO, NIBELHEIM

"Sephiroth!" Cloud yelled squinting through the flames of his beloved home town. Off in the distance was Sephiroth standing in the flames, staring out at Cloud. He turned holding his hand to his eyes to see through the flying ashes.. "Sephiroth!" he called again evading a falling rafter of wood. He ran after the man and was stopped by the huge wall of fire. 'What have you done Sephiroth?' He covered himself running through the flames to find himself once again alone.

'Mt. Nibel...The reactor...' A voice called to him. Almost as if it was inside his head...But that couldn't be...could it?

Cloud nodded to himself starting up the path to the reactor on Mt. Nibel.

He ran into the reactor heading up the steps, coming to a dead stop at Tifa's still body lying on the bottom step to the Jenova chamber.

"Tifa!" Cloud cried picking up the young woman.

"...You came. ...You kept your promise. So you really did come when I was in trouble!" Tifa whispered, her eyes open only a tiny bit, her body motionless in his arms.

"Sorry... I didn't get there... fast enough..." Cloud whispered back to the brunette. His tears lightly falling on his childhood friend's shirt.

"It's all right... Cloud." She rasped, smiling at him. Her eyes closed, her body laying in Cloud's arms like a doll.

Cloud let out one final tear before setting her down to the side of the stairs. He turned around glaring at the open door at the top of the stairs. 'Sephiroth...what have you done...'

"Sephiroth!" Cloud screamed in a blind rage as he came running through the door. Zack lay on the ground, his buster blade sword laying on the opposite side of the chamber. He grabbed Zack's sword, running up the stairs with it, facing Sephiroth preparing for a fight.

"You...What are you doing here?" Sephiroth said his voice monotone. He turned away from the controls to stare directly into Cloud's bright blue eyes with his own equally bright green eyes.

"You aren't like yourself, Sephiroth! What has happened to you? My Mom... Tifa... my town... give it back... I had so much respect for you... I admired you... I..." Cloud trailed off holding back the tears of anger and distress.

"Just like you," Sephiroth said smirking. "And why should you care?"

"Cloud... kill Sephiroth..." Zack called out in a raspy voice from across the chamber.

Everything was so surreal. Sephiroth's cold, mocking attitude, Zack laying hurt on the floor, Tifa probably dead and Cloud...now rushing towards Sephiroth in unbridled anger.

"SEPHIROTH!" Cloud yelled charging at him. He felt the force of Sephiroth's blade penetrate his arm. Cloud stumbled back.

Sephiroth smirked. "Don't... push... your luck... kid." He turned back around to mess with the controls to the huge door.

"Seph...i...roth..." Cloud mumbled out, his vision starting to blur. He pulled the blade out of his arm. "NYAHH!" He threw it at the man who turned around just in time to get the blade straight through his chest.

"It...It can't be!" He cried out falling back off the ledge he was standing on into the pit of pure Mako. Cloud stood there, panting for a minute before falling backwards down the stairs.

'So this...is death...' he thought falling into the deep oblivion of unconsciousness

END FLASHBACK

'Sephiroth...' Cloud thought a tear falling to the dirt then disappearing. That had been the first time he had killed him. Every time he had been forced to kill Sephiroth he'd always come back...somehow.

Cloud had awoken after everything that happened in the reactor a few days later on the back of a truck crossing the desert with Zack. He had lived. For just like Sephiroth and all others touched by Mako and Jenova cells, he couldn't die easily. No one could, even if it was their will to die.

Cloud was convinced that everything that had happened back then, and Meteor Crisis, hadn't really been Sephiroth. 'No...it was all Jenova's doing...Hojo and his experiments...Sephiroth was overthrown by the power of what had been infused into him since birth.

'But had it been that way?' Cloud thought. He'd never asked the General where he got the strange scars all over his body. Or why no one knew exactly how old or how long Sephiroth had been in SOLDIER. It had always seemed strange to Cloud. 'But who would know that kind of information anymore?' Cloud thought.

"Vincent..." It cane to him in a flash. Of course! The man had seen Sephiroth as a child. He'd known Sephiroth's mother. "I must speak with him...there's only one place he'd go.." Cloud knew where Vincent would hide. The Shinra mansion...The only place he had known for decades. Yes, that's where Vincent would go.

Cloud hurried home packing a small sack of clothes and food. It'd only take about a day to get to Nibelheim if he left right now and rode until nightfall. He grabbed Zack's old Buster Blade that sat by the wall swinging it around once. It had been a while since he'd fought. But he trusted the years he'd spent fighting. No matter how long ago they were.

He headed out to the shed in the back of his house, strapping his bag on the back of his gold Chocobo, sitting down and grabbing the reigns.

"Arashi, go." He whispered to the Chocobo, who shot out of the stable like a bat out of hell. They ran out of the town, the townspeople turning their heads to look as they ran by. It was still morning, probably nine or ten by now. With luck, they'd be there by about ten at night. With the sun to guide them Cloud rode out of the forest into the main land riding northwest toward the tall mountains in the far off distance.

A/N: That's all for this chapter. I got the plot moving! Yay! Oh and the title of this fic is the name of a play...I'm not stealing it! That should've been in my disclaimer. For those on reading this, I can write sex scenes, just read Battles Lost, I just don't want to right now. Don't worry there'll be lots of flashbacks. Because I think it's fun making Cloud really nostalgic. Don't know what nostalgic means? look it up! Arashi is what I named my gold Chocobo. It means tempest. Don't know what that means? It means a strong storm. There I was nice and gave you a definition. Until next time, farewell...where ever you are...