A/n: Whilst in the middle of revising my stories, I found myself thinking...Cloud...He's kind of...well Homosexual. And If there is one thing I like more than a Cloti pairing, it's a Cloud Sephiroth pairing. Yeah, this is AU. You'll enjoy it. For the sake of not wanting to be banned again there will be no lemon.

Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy...Sunsoft, Squaresoft, and SquareEnix does...And I'm sure Cloud and Sephi aren't really gay, but I like Gay men. And to make Cloud lust.

Enjoy.

Chapter One: The Wedding Dirge

Cloud stood almost limply next to the calm looking minister. His peaceful smile and quick glances made him squirm at the alter. The wedding chapel was hot and the air inside was sticky. Sweat beaded off of Cloud's head and ran all the way down his neck finally stopping it's journey on the collar of his suit. The forgiving religious symbol above him glared down at him. His crystal blue eyes were pale with disgust and fear. The start of the somber wedding march started and Cloud's stomach tied itself in knots. This was not where he wanted to be, This was not what he wanted to do. He wanted to be...With him...

Tifa, his beautiful bride started to make her way down the isle. She, too, was not in her natural place. Never would she want to hurt her best friend like this, but the choice wasn't hers to make. The painful high heals on her feet made her cringe at every step, as if they were piercing her heals. The tight corset constricted her breathing making her feel like she wanted to faint. Perhaps she should, perhaps this would stop this atrocity. Then again, Her father would make it happen. Conscious or not. Tifa was the supposed personification of everything peaceful and innocent. If she was that, than way was she causing so much pain?

Tifa approached his side after being given away by her father. She reached down and grabbed Cloud's hand carefully and squeezed it. She wanted to tell him that everything was going to be ok. When things got hard for him that's what she would say. "Everything's going to be ok Cloud..." Today She wasn't sure if everything would. Cloud offered her a pained smile. She saw his lip quiver and his pain and sadness welled up in his eyes. This wasn't right. She couldn't hurt Cloud like this. She loved him, He loved her, But his heart was promised to someone else. Someone that he truely loved, and someone that had hurt him many times before he confessed his love. If Cloud could be hurt by him so many time and keep going back, Then that was who he was meant to be with.

"Stop!" Tifa cried out suddenly. The priest stopped and stared at her in awe. The crowd was filled with gasps and curious chatter. Tifa met her father's eyes, they were furious. If Cloud had had parents there she imagined they would be furious as well. Or if they really knew him they would be relieved.

"Cloud come on!" Tifa tightened her hold on her best friends' hand and dragged him down the alter. The crowd in the church had gone into an uproar as the left.

"Tifa?" Cloud gasped in surprise as she pushed him into the car and picked up her annoyingly long dress and shoved herself in the drivers' seat.

"I got to help those who can't help themselves..." Tifa muttered as she was frantically reachign down to her feet and yanking off the shoes. "Cloud never wear high heels!" Tifa scolded her friend and shook the shoe in his face before throwing it out the open window. They both laughed and Tifa pressed her foot down on the gas.

As they drove on Cloud stuck his head out the window into the hot air. The warm wind and the occasional fleck of dust glided along his smooth boyish face and blew his blonde spiky hair back. Was he really free? Was Tifa free?

No, Tifa's father would never allow her to be free, or happy for that matter. He just wanted money and power. She loved another as well, but he was also bound. It seemed like the friendship in this town was one big binding. If Cloud had a chance to be free then he wanted to give Tifa that same chance too. He wondered what the other half of their love square was doing.

It was on a hot day like this...

A/n: I could not be more estatic about the way that turned out! I guess I decided to add some Tifa Zak love in here too! SWEEEET!