Much Needed Vacation
Summery: In their search for Cloud and Jenova, Kadaj, Yazoo and Loz wind up in Costa del Sol for what Loz considers to be a well-earned vacation.
Genre: Humor
Pairings: none…yet.
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy 7, nor Advent Children. If I did, stuff like this would happen more often.
Note: Italics represent thoughts and dreams, while bolds represent very loud shouting.
Volleyball and More Icecream
Let's see. If I were a guy who resembled the rear end of a chocobo, where would I be?
Yazoo looked over the white sands of the beach, in some vein chance of spotting Cloud amongst the people the crowded the beach. No such luck. Yazoo couldn't tell anyone apart. They all looked the same in his opinion. The heat of the sun and that fact he found it difficult to walk on sand didn't help. His feet seemed to sink beneath the hot sand. Once or twice Yazoo had been forced to hop around to prevent his feet from burning off. Now he was just plain tired. He had taken to notice that a large number of people were lying on their towels, either underneath a beach umbrella or exposed to the sun. Even though Yazoo found it odd that they chose such a strange place to sleep (he had no idea what sunbaking was due to living in Midgar his whole life), he couldn't help notice how comfortable they looked. Giving in to his exhaustion, Yazoo decided to have a lay down and rest his feet. Dumping his bag on the ground, Yazoo spred out his towel and flopped down onto the sand. He slowly reached into his bag and pulled out a book. It was the same romance novel he took from the ship, "Worlds Apart". Despite what he told Kadaj and Loz, Yazoo was quite interested in the book and was eager to get back into it. He flipped to where he last left off and continued reading. While he read, he noticed how nice the weather was. It was boiling for him yesterday, but now he was out of that black leather and now it felt warm and cozy. It wasn't long for the sun's warmth to lull Yazoo into another sleep.
It was the same dream as before. He was the army captain from the story and he was being reunited with the love of his life, Esmerelda. As they held eachother in their arms, some of the other characters were there too. Some were crying out of happiness while others cheered for them.
"I've waited so long Dante," Esmerelda sobbed as she cried into his chest. Yazoo looked into her tearful, joy-filled eyes.
"This is a time of happiness," he spoke as he wiped the tears from her eyes, "Not for tears." Esmerelda's smile broadened as she leaned closer to kiss him. Yazoo did the same. But, before their lips could touch…
"Look out!"
Yazoo's eyes shot open to see white before his face exploded with pain. Yazoo cried out as he shot upright, clutching his face. His eyes darted towards the offending object with a venomous glare. It was a white ball.
"Hey!" called a voice coming from his right. He saw a group of six people standing around what looked like a net held up by two metal poles. One of them, a young woman was waving at him.
"Sorry!" she called, wearing a sheepish grin on her face, "Could we have our ball back?" Yazoo looked over at the ball as a theory about what happened formed in his mind. These people were playing some sort of game, the ball went flying off in some direction and landed on him. He looked back at the group, who were waiting patiently before picking the ball up and slowly walking over to them.
"Here," he said as he handed the ball to the girl. She took the ball with one hand and rubbed the back of her head with the other, chuckling nervously.
"Sorry," she said as she chuckled. Yazoo took this time to study the girl carefully. She was about a head shorter then Yazoo and she seemed to be Wutainese. She had short black hair with a white bandana tied underneath her hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a dark green bikini.
"What are you doing?" he asked, looking up at the net. The girl looked up at Yazoo.
"We're playing volleyball of course," she said, "What's it look like?" Yazoo gave the girl a confused look.
"Volleyball?" he asked.
"Yeah, volleyball. You know, the game you play with this ball," she held up the ball, "and that net." She gestured to the net behind her. Yazoo was still confused. He had never really heard of the game, in fact he hadn't heard of a number of games. This was mainly because he and his brothers spent most of their time hunting down Cloud and trying to take back what was left of Jenova. The girl obviously noticed Yazoo's confusion.
"Haven't you played volleyball before?"
"Well, no," Yazoo replied, looking away. The girl chuckled.
"Don't look so embarrassed. Listen, how about I teach you?" Yazoo stared at the girl before him.
"No, uh, that's alright. I've got other things to…"
"Oh come on!" the girl interupted, taking hold of Yazoo's arm, "You didn't seem to be doing anything. It'll be fun. Come on." Yazoo figured he didn't have much of a choice, this girl didn't look like she was going to take no for an answer and she wasn't going to let go of his arm any time soon. He figured he might as well get this over with.
"Ok," he sighed. The girl smiled and released Yazoo.
"By the way," she asked, "What's your name?" Yazoo was silent for a moment, remembering that it would be dangerous to give his name incase word got out.
"Johann," he replied, using the alais that Kadaj gave him.
"I'm Yuffie," the girl replied, before walking back towards the others.
"Guys," she said, "This is Johann," she gestured to Yazoo, "Is it ok if he could play?" The others all nodded in approval. Yuffie turned back to Yazoo.
"You can be on my team ok?"
"Uh, ok." Yuffie tucked the ball under her arm.
"Ok, the main idea of the game is to make sure the ball doesn't land on your side of the net." Yazoo nodded in response, even though he didn't have much idea what she was talking about.
"You must keep the ball in the air and hit it over the net by using you fists. If the ball lands on your side of the court, the other team gets a point and vice versa," Yuffie instructed, acting almost like a gym teacher (A/N: I wont go into any further detail about the rules of volleyball, just to save me time). Yazoo just nodded dumbly, his mind trying to make heads or tails of the informatin that he was getting.
"Ok then," Yuffie finished, not noticing the blank look on Yazoo's face, "We'll serve ok?" Yazoo just nodded. He watched as Yuffie walked down to the right hand corner of the court (which he now noticed was marked off with bags, towels and other stuff). She tossed the ball into the air before punching it with her fist, sending it over the net. One of the teens on the other side punched the ball higher into the air before another smacked it back over, towards Yazoo.
"Johann!" Yuffie called, "This one's yours!" Not being really sure what that meant, Yazoo struck the ball with his fist, sending it back over the net.
"Nice shot!" Yuffie congradulated. Yazoo looked back and couldn't stop a smile from appearing on his flawless features.
"Thank you."
"Watch out!" cried one of the guys on Yazoo's team. Before Yazoo could turn around, the ball smacked Yazoo in the face, hard. The unfortunate clone fell to the ground, sending sand flying everywhere.
"Sorry dude!" apologized one of the teens on the opposite team. While Yazoo was destracted, he had spiked the ball, stricking the poor twenty year old in the face. Yazoo snarled as he gto to his feet, picking up the ball and throwing it to the other team.
Game on!
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Dammit Cloud, where are you?
Kadaj was starting to get annoyed. He had been searching for the buster-wielding blonde and so far, no luck. He was tempted to grab the nearest human to him, hold the Souba to their throat and demand any info on the blonde. Unfortunately, there were plenty of people and drawing a load of attention to himself was the last thing he wanted, especially since this seemed to be one of those place where news travelled fast. The Souba was safely hidden in his bag. It would have been hard not to notice a young Sephiroth look alike carrying around a double bladed sword on a beach. He was almost tempted to give up and go find Yazoo and Loz when something caught his eye. His eyes widened as his frustration was replaced by an overwhelming joy and hunger.
Just a few metres from him was an ice cream shop.
The sight of it instantly reminded Kadaj that he hadn't eaten in ages and the fact that it was his most favourite food in the whole world didn't help either. Kadaj knew he had promised himself to lay off the ice cream until he found Cloud, but his hunger eventually won and Kadaj ran over. He sat at one of the stools at the counter and called the woman behind the counter over.
"what will you like today sir?" she asked politely. Kadaj thought for a few seconds, looking at the board with all the flavours hanging on the wall behind her.
"I'll have a large sundae with hot chocolate fudge, sprinkles and crushed nuts," he answered, pulling some gill from his pocket and trowing it onto the counter. In a matter of time, Kadaj was digging into his icy treat.
"Well hello there." Kadaj briefly looked away from his dessert to see a strange man sit down next to him. He was wearing a bright yellow and pink hawaiian shirt, a pair of flourescent short and brown sandles. His long, lavender hair was tied into a ponytail and his bright green eyes were behind a pair of shades.
"Hey," Kadaj grunted as he continued his sundae.
"I'm Ryodo," the man continued, "What's your name?"
"Gabriel."
"Hmm, nice name." Both were silent for a few moments. Even though Kadaj hadn't turned away from his sundae, he couldn't help but notice the lavender haired man was looking over him.
"Nice hair," he finally spoke, running a couple of fingers through Kadaj's silver hair. Kadaj tried to hold back a shudder.
"You know what? You look an aweful like the general Sephiroth."
Well duh! I am his clone
Ryodo leaned closer to Kadaj.
"But I think you're much cuter." Kadaj's eyes widened slightly. There was something very wrong with this guy. His eyes widened further when Ryodo drapped an arm over his shoulder. At this point, Kadaj was considering running away screaming. But the problem was that he hadn't finished his icecream. The choice was either, run away from this guy, or endure him until he can finish his cold dessert.
"That looks simply delicious," Ryodo said, pointing to the sundae, "may I have a little taste?" Kadaj resisted the urge to growl as he shifted his treat away from Ryodo. He made a personaly vow to never let anyone touch his icecream. Ryodo caught the hint.
"Ok then," he sighed with a hint of dissapointment. Kadaj grinned mentally, hopefully this weirdo will finally leave him alone. His hope quickly vanish as Ryodo leaned closer.
"I'll just have a taste of you then," he whispered, giving Kadaj's ear a playful lick.
That was it! Icecream or not, Kadaj had to get out of there! He jumped from his stool, grabbed his bag and took off down the street like the Weapons were after him, trying not to scream like a little girl while doing it. Ryodo watched as the silver haired teen disappeared from view. His lips curled into a playful smile.
"You can run gorgeous, but you cant hide!"
Hope you liked that guys. Now for the review responses!
-Kadaj: thanks
-Erufue: nice to know that
-Raven Cactuar: oh, uh, sorry about that. Yeah, Yuffie does seem like a Kadaj chick to, but I've got another idea for Kadaj.
-Liebchen-chan: lol, thanks for the review! If you do see Kadaj, Yazoo and Loz, could you get their autographs for me?
-Daenis TooShy: You'll find out next chapter!
-Rotharell Jenova: hmm, Utada Hikaru. That gives me a great idea! Thanks Rotharell! On your next review, could you include a description (or at least where I could find a picture of her)?
-D-chi: hey, I'm a big Vinnie fan too. BTW, have you seen the new trailer for Dirge of Cerberus? You must see it.
-KeeperofthePineNeedles: Maybe, maybe not. sly grin
-Slashy Weapon: thanks for the look-out dude. I'm sorry to say I'll be seeing it much later then you guys since it comes out much later in Australia (Damm you!).
-ArikaMorance: um, it's spelt Yazoo.