I first would like to thank Mel and Nathan for helping a bit with this chapter. Also thanks for the few reviews I got so far and sorry for some how having the anonymous review thing disabled, I didn't mean to I swear!. And also this chapter is longer then the last one. Anyways on with chapter 3! enjoy. Also, I'm not sure when but I will have a yaoi chapter with Vincent and Cloud hehehe.
Warnings: Some language in this Chapter and some fluffy moments amd Cloud in boxers too :giggles:
Disclaimer: I don't own any FF7 characters other then my char Kiana
Chapter 3 - Broken Glass And Black Hair
A scream flowed through the Seventh Heaven bar, followed by the sound of glass shattering once it came into contact of the wall or a red head with a silver haired girl hiding behind him. Tifa was right pissed off at Cloud and the other two after hearing the story about Kiana, and wanted nothing to do with her thinking she would endanger the children.
"Cloud! Why did you bring her here of all places !" Tifa screamed at him.
"What was I suppose to do when an old friend had told her to look for me for safety so to speak?" Cloud ducked when the answer from Tifa was another shot glass at his head.
"I don't care what Zack said, what she is, that's the problem!" Tifa eyed Cloud dangerously now then pointed her finger at Reno "AND you! For giving the idea to Cloud to bring her here! " She let out a growl like noise as she yelled at him.
"But! But! But! Its not my fault she looks so innocent..." Reno stammered but didn't duck his head in time as yet another glass smashed against his head. "OW god damn it, yo! That shit hurts!"
"Don't swear around the kids Reno!" The red head managed this time to duck in time feeling the air from the shot glass whizzing by his head. The children she spoke of happen to be at the bottom of the stairs watching the events unfold.
"Jeez. I'm sorry, yo!" He could feel the poor Kiana clinging to his back like a monkey yet she was fairly light which seemed odd but then again she was so odd to begin with.
"I'm sorry, Miss Tifa" Kiana peered over Reno's shoulder as she spoke her voice sounding small and mouse like. But the tone of her voice didn't help as she ducked behind the red head's shoulder avoiding the beer bottle skimming the edge of Reno's shoulder were her head just was.
Tifa pointed another bottle in Reno's direction as she spoke to Kiana "First! Explain yourself; Why I should be able to trust you around here?"
Kiana slowly peered over the red head's shoulder looking at Tifa who has been standing behind the bar the whole time and wondered where she should start explaining. "Well... my brothers were never as bad as you think they were. They were once the kindest people, to me anyways; they just never really showed it to others." She watched Tifa for a moment seeing she wasn't hostile at the moment and continued on, "But I was different so to speak, I did have Jenvoa's cells in me but my body some how rid itself of them, so I'm in no danger of going insane at the cause of the cells. For my brothers... that was another story... all I want right now is to some how save their souls from Jenvoa and stop them from becoming real again in the future to once again bringing chaos." Kiana took a deep breath after speaking and looked to Tifa to see her reaction.
Tifa let out a heavy sigh as she placed the beer bottle in her hand on the bar and looked at Kiana's stunning green eyes for a moment looking to see if she was telling the truth. To her amazement Kiana was, just seeing the sadness in those eyes seemed to calm her for now. "Alright then... If any trouble arises from you staying here, I will personally kick you out without a second thought" Tifa watched the girl as she spoke.
Kiana nodded softly as she replied "Agreed" she then smiled softly and slowly unattached herself from Reno's back and glanced at the other two males which seemed to be sighing in great relief. She was about to step out from behind the red head but stopped in her tracks to hide behind Reno once again when she saw a big burly black man walk in from the back door.
Barret looked around the room seeing glass all over the place then turned to Tifa with his brow lifted as he stared at her for a moment before placing the large box he had down behind the bar. "I guess its a good idea that I ordered more glasses..." He scratched his head for a moment not bothering to ask what the hell happened; though he began to stare at the girl behind Reno. He decided it would probably be best to ask Tifa about it later.
The two children, Marlene and Denzel were a bit wary of the new comer as they watched things come to an end. Finally, after about an hour of a screaming, pissed off Tifa and after a few moments they ran back up stairs to Denzel's room to go back to coloring, which they were doing before the incident down stairs.
Kiana looked around the room a bit, it seemed pretty cozy to her and she smiled a little bit. It had been a long time since stayed in a warm building and free from the crazy people in white coats. She walked over to a window looking out at the streets of Midgar, 'wow it has changed a great deal since the last time I saw this place' she thought to herself as her thoughts began to drift back to the past remembering some good times with her siblings.
She gently placed her claw like fingers against the surface of the window feeling the coolness of the glass, she could feel that fall was slowly coming to an end soon with winter nipping at its heels. Being so deep in thought she didn't realize that a few tears had slipped from her eyes as the reminder of winter bringing back memories. 'Why did I have to be the one left alone...'
Kiana was so deep in thought that she didn't feel Reno's hand on her shoulder at first before she jumped a bit looking at Reno startled. Suddenly she felt his hand gently place itself on her cheek with his thumb softly sweeping over the skin wiping the few tears away causing her to blink a bit not having of realized the tears there and watched Reno slowly slip away after a moment, pausing to grin briefly before walking towards the stairs.
After Reno disappear up the stairs, she lifted her hand to her cheek and held it there for awhile, stunned and speechless of what just happened. She couldn't remember the last time someone had done that to her but she couldn't help but smile after awhile. Turning her head once again to look out the window as she waited a bit since everyone disappeared up stairs for the moment just leaving her and Vincent to watch her.
Vincent stood not far from the bar watching Kiana with his arms crossed over his chest in silence but was a little amused at the actions of Reno moments before hand. Maybe there was hope for the red head, or at least he was hoping so. He glanced towards the stairs waiting from someone to appear to let him know what the plan was and where Kiana was going to sleeping for the time being.
He slowly made his way over to the girl since no one else was around since they had decided to hold a small meeting upstairs figure things out. Vincent then spoke out to Kiana his voice not sounding as dark as it did the first time he spoke to her. "Do you really know who your true parents were Kiana?"
She turned looking at Vincent a bit startled a bit once again then softly nodded her answer "I do... my father was Hojo just like the rest of my siblings but each women that gave birth to us wasn't our true mother. They were just test subjects chosen to carry each of us to birth, giving their lives up for it..." she trailed off bit with a sigh having a funny feeling Vincent wasn't going to like what he was about to hear next "Lucrecia... before she was first pregnant with Sephiroth she gave up some of her eggs to Hojo, 5 in total. That's what Hojo used to inject the Jenvoa's cells then fertilized each egg with himself every couple of years and implanting them in a surrogate mother..."
Vincent looked like he was about to explode, Kiana watched him getting scared of him as she took a step back hoping like hell Vincent wasn't going to go crazy or something. But after a few moments he let out a heavy sigh and placed his hand on the girl's shoulder for the moment as she looked up at him. Looking into her innocent green eyes he could see Lucrecia within them and he smiled to himself and without thinking he pulled her close with the arm that still rested on her shoulder.
Kiana blinked a few times letting the action that just happen sink in, she didn't know why but she felt safe there for once. To her suddenly it felt like Vincent was like a father she never really had since the freak Hojo didn't count or at least she liked to think. She closed her eyes letting the moment carry on before she broke the silence first. "When you feel ready... can you tell me about my mom..?"
Hearing the girl speak so softly sounding so sincere she smiled to himself and held her a little longer feeling her relaxing a bit. He then spoke with a little bit of emotion slipping into it "maybe in due time... Kiana" After a pause he gently pulled away from her hearing the stir of the others up stairs making there way back down as he took a few steps away from her turning to take a few steps towards the stairs.
Cloud was the first to appear at the bottom of the stairs and gave Vincent a sly smile before taking a seat at the bar with the others following suit.
Tifa huffed a bit as she walked behind the bar brushing a few strands of hair from her face as she looked to Kiana who was still standing by the window looking slightly confused and speechless and wonder what had happen to the girl while most of the group was upstairs. "Anyways Kiana..." She began to speak keeping her eye on the girl "You will be staying in the same room as Reno unfortunately since we are short of rooms here so you will be getting the bed and Reno will sleep on the couch that is in there alright?"
Kiana blinked a few times tilting her head to left slightly. At first she thought Tifa was joking but the look on her face said other wise. Scratching her head softly, she sighed heavily not to sure what to think or weather she should be afraid of having to share a room with the flaming red head and the fact its a guy of all people. After a few moments of thinking to herself she finally gave a small nod as she spoke "Alright.. I guess...".
Tifa smiled somewhat hearing the answer from Kiana "Then its settled. So anything you have or if you have anything at all just haul it up to the room on the left, first door." After that she proceeded behind the bar to clean up the mess she had made earlier. She then grabbed two brooms and dustpan and handed them both off to Cloud and Reno "And you two can help me clean up as well".
The two males looked at each other for a moment before taking a broom each not wanting to argue anymore and plus, who would want another breakable projectile throw at them yet again? After a few moments they got to work right away as Kiana headed up to the room Tifa told her to go and curled up in the soft blankets of the bed falling right asleep the moment her head hit the pillow.
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One Week Later
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"NOOOOOooooooooo..."
About around 10 in the morning a figure came rolling down the stairs with a horrified look on its face as it darted for the closet opening and hid behind a table as two more figure running down the stairs stopping for a moment looking around.
"Kiana it's for the greater good" the red head piped up scanning the room.
"Like hell it is!" Kiana spoke from under one of the tables near the far corner of the room.
"We need to find a way for you to blend in and dyeing your hair is the best way to go. Especially when people are beginning to talk" Tifa continued after Kiana heading towards the corner where she heard her voice.
Kiana quickly darted from under the table once Tifa got too close to it and ran behind another table watching her and Reno from a far "I can deal with the gloves, I can handle the small strips of bandages to cover the few scales, and the baggy pants to hide my tail, I love... BUT! The hair is going to far..." She whined as she began to slowly walk behind the tables as Reno started in her direction as well.
Reno chuckled watching her as he jumped over the table she was behind with his arms out stretched just in range to grab hold of her. But she was quicker then he thought as she jumped up into the air and placed her feet on Reno's back as he sailed over the table top and pushed down to give herself some more air. It was a pretty funny sight watching Reno airborne then sliding off the end of a table and crashing to the floor with Kiana jumping on to table tops getting out of range of Tifa and him.
Tifa placed her hands on her hips getting slightly annoyed now "Alright if you will not cooperate I will go wake up Cloud and Vincent and let them take you down"
Kiana's eyes went wide hearing the threat from Tifa "You wouldn't..." Deep in her mind she was hoping like hell Tifa was kidding. The sight of the vampire like man coming after her wouldn't to pleasant, either way she was fighting this to the bitter end one way or another. She stood up straight standing her ground, well table... and looked to Tifa almost daring her to.
Tifa began to smirk; she was going to find this very amusing as she headed up towards the stairs and right to the room that held the sleeping Vincent and Cloud. She knocked on the door a few times and waited a moment before she was answered by a Cloud in nothing but chocobo boxers.
Cloud rubbed his eyes before looking to Tifa "What's up...?" He spoke in a lazy tone.
Tifa grinned to herself now "I have a favor to as of Vincent and you..." Her voice had sneaky undertone to it.
When Vincent heard his name he slowly poked his head out of the door were Cloud was standing talking with no expression on his face like normal. "And what favor would that be Tifa " He spoke seeming slightly curious about what the woman had mind especially with that grin plastered on her face.
"Well we need to dye Kiana's hair since people are beginning to talk so we need to make her blend in more normally but she is making the whole hair thing a big deal." She watched the two males exchanged looks for a moment before looking back to her.
"And why are we needed Tifa ?" The blonde said scratching his head softly, occasionally running his fingers through his untameable hair of his.
"Because we aren't fast enough to catch her" She felt slightly odd having to admit to that but what can ya do.
"We?" Vincent asked wondering who the other person that was helping Tifa with this little... um... he wasn't sure what to call it at the moment.
"Reno and I" She quickly piped up.
"And what would we be getting out of this little facade of yours...?" Cloud ask questionably.
Tifa placed a finger on her lip to think for a moment more she spoke "Well..." She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small red orb that fitted nicely in her hand. "All you have to do is catch Kiana and help us dye her hair and I will give you mastered Bahamut Zero summon materia ..."
The two males looked at each other, with Vincent having a rare sight in deed on his face; he just showed a slight bit of an emotion at the offer from Tifa and pulled Cloud into the room for a moment to speak.
After a few moments Cloud and Vincent came out fully clothed in black with a grin on Cloud's face. "Alright it's a deal"
A moment after the deal was made; an eerie silence filled the air. Tifa found it was way to quiet but all that came to a sudden halt hearing Reno's voice ringing above anything.
"I GOT YA" The red head beamed loudly.
Not a second later a disgruntled scream was heard from the silver haired female. "PERVERT!" Kiana scream as she kicked Reno across the room.
The trio from upstairs quickly came running down the stairs stopping at the bottom just in time to see Reno crashing into tables and chairs on the opposite side of the room were Kiana was. When everyone else looked to Kiana to see why she kicked Reno, her face was red, she happened to be blushing quite furiously and a death glare casted in the flaming red head's direction.
Tifa lifted a brow watching Kiana for a moment before speaking. "Ok what happened or do I dare ask"
Kiana pointed her finger at Reno growling a little bit, other arm was covering her chest a bit. "He jumped at me and he put his face in my cleavage!" The silver haired girl stammered.
The small group by the stairs tried to quietly stifle a laugh. They knew Reno was stupid enough to try and pull something like that but didn't think it would be with Sephiroth's sister of all people. Though they way Kiana was angry she looked kind of cute, more or less looked like a mad little silver green eyed kitten since her eyes were silted almost like one.
Kiana's eyes widen though the moment she saw Cloud and Vincent down stairs now and had began to head in her direction. An odd sound escaped her lips sounding more along the lines of 'eeep!' as she darted over a few more tabletops to try and keep herself ahead of them.
The next person to make a move was Cloud and shot up and over a few tables almost grabbing a hold of Kiana's wrist, but was just a tad bit quicker then Cloud was and leaped at the wall running along it before stopping clinging to the wall in a corner seeming almost like a lizard on the wall. Vincent watched with a small barely noticeable smirk on his face as it was his turn to try as the tall black clad man headed towards the little corner of the wall she was holding on to for dear life. Kiana kept her eyes on him knowing she was in deep shit with Vincent coming after her and knew she had to be quick.
"Your mine now..." Was all Kiana heard in a soft whisper as Vincent almost twice as fast as Cloud was had come at her. She panicked but quickly darted up the wall to the ceiling running along it the best she could as she could feel Vincent in grabbing distance of her.
"Noooo!" Sounded from the girl as she felt a large hand find itself to her ankle as she was pulled down from the ceiling in a matter of seconds found herself hanging up side down blinking a bit and looked up finding that Vincent got a hold of her.
"To easy..." He spoke with a hint of pride in his voice.
"Or so you say... Vinnie..." She grinned up at him as she managed to slip out of his grip since hearing the name 'Vinnie' kind of caught him off guard.
The next thing the blacked haired man knew, Kiana had slipped her way down his leg and then up and clung to his back just out of reach. "The hell...?" He tried to reach around a few times trying to grab hold of anything that was apart of her and at this point he didn't care what. And hearing the giggles from the girl was getting just slightly annoying.
Kiana spoke in a mocking voice. "Funny how easy that was" She grinned big time which seemed a little odd from how she normally seemed to act around them but then again, never judge a book by its cover so to speak.
He hated to admit that she was smart and quick like her so called big brother but there was no way he was getting upstaged by some punk silver haired brat. Suddenly she pushed up off his back rather quickly and had noticed Cloud went for a shot to grab her but missed and used this moment to turn quickly reaching out his hand to grab hold of Kiana's tail since it was the only part of her in reach and pulled...
The girl let out a rather loud scream since like most creatures, the tail was sensitive and even more so when pulled on. After a moment she found herself flat out on the floor slightly winded from the fall.
Vincent took this opportunity to start pulling her towards the stairs wanting to get this facade over and done with.
"LET GO!" The silver haired girl protested from the floor that she now had dug her claws into making the wood curl as she was pulled against her will. She winced a bit as she hit the steps one by one now still planning on fighting this to the bitter end and began to dig her toe like claws into the floor. It hurt knowing she was going to get slivers in her feet but she didn't care even if it meant maybe a way out of this even though the other three happen to be following closely in front of her.
"Not a chance..." Vincent spoke with a dark tone in his voice.
Kiana whined as Cloud grabbed her hands suspending her in the air so she couldn't use her hands to dig at the floor and had a pretty good idea Tifa wasn't to pleased with it either. But she still had her feet but that didn't last long either as Tifa and Reno grabbed hold of each leg, she tried to kick her feet but they had a fair tight grip on her and she whined more.
"This is animal cruelty I swear!" Kiana cried though the group found it a little funny about how she just placed herself. The next moment she was in a room with a smell of hair dye filling the air and found herself placed in, well forced... into a sitting position and felt a thick liquid touch her hair and she screamed...
If anyone was still sleeping when this all started... they were decently up now after hearing Kiana.
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Two Hours later...
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Kiana sat on the floor of the room she was staying in, her hair was now a midnight black along with her eyebrows so no one else would see that she dyed her hair and questioned on it.
Reno had now a few specks of black dyed into his fiery hair as well, thanks to having to hold on to Kiana so she wouldn't try anything to wash the stuff out. He sighed softly watching the pouting, angry little now blacked hair girl on the floor. She was still cute looking like a kitten... well a disgruntled and very upset little black haired green eyed one anyway. "Come Kiana its not that bad you look good this way too you know yo"
She raised a brow at him for a moment before mumbling a word under her breath almost sounding like 'pervert..' and sighed heavily not liking the color but she didn't want to admit either that coloring her hair was a good idea but wasn't going to let anyone know any time soon. Scratching her head a bit as she finally made eye contact with him still trying to get use to the feeling of her new hair.
Knelling down in front of Kiana he smiled a bit "At least your safe for now since no one will notice you if look on the bright side of things" Reno for some reason didn't like it when she looked so down but was happy to receive a small smile from her after he spoke to her.
She let out a softer sigh this time before she spoke "I guess... though..." She paused for a moment and giggled a bit "Sephiroth would freak if he knew what happened to my hair"
Reno ran his fingers in her almost dry soft hair with a smile, but blinked a bit after hearing what thought could of been a purr. But then again she was partly animal in a sense so it worked he thought for the most part.
Kiana sometimes hated the animal part of herself from time to time. She closed her eyes softly letting the red head touch her hair a bit which she was finding to really soothing, but opened an eye for a moment feeling Reno shifting a bit but only found him moving into a sitting position on the floor in front of her.
He was enjoying himself watching Kiana purring softly, finding it amusing but wasn't going to say anything for the moment. Closing his eyes for a moment he sighed, but opened his eyes to find that Kiana almost curled up on his lap like a cat and his hand still running its fingers in her soft black hair. Reno watched her for a moment as she closed her eyes and let out a small soft yawn and continued on with her gentle purring and seeming to fall a sleep there. He smiled to himself not moving at all just letting her sleep since she seemed tired from all the action earlier and so was he
Kiana smiled a bit to herself not minding the red head to much then she had when she first met him, though she was feeling a little bit of guilt for getting a bit of black dye in his hair. Too her it didn't look to bad since a few tips of his bangs were black and the front part of his hair a little speckled.
Slowly Reno raised his hand to hush the small yawn that had escaped his lips and let his eyes drift shut for now thinking about having a bit of a nap even though he knew it was sometime in the afternoon. He gently placed his hand softly in Kiana's hair feeling the soft purr still gently humming from her throat. Reno gently smiled letting himself slip off to sleep not minding Kiana at all, though he would never tell her that he had grown quite fond of her in the last week.
Tifa after a little headed upstairs to check on Kiana and walked up to the opened door of the room the girl was in and went to speak but stopped. She let her eyes settle on the sleeping red head leaning against the end of the bed on the floor with the once silver haired girl curled up in his sleep dead asleep as well. She smiled to herself and gently closed the door so they could sleep in peace and headed back down stairs to content with the others in the bar.
Yay 3rd chapter done! I know I still suck at writing but I hope I get better. I'm quite proud at how well this chapter turned out. Anyways don't forget to review, I always love to hear what people think! And I hope I got all of my mistakes in here too.