Tifa stumbled onwards, unable to get hear bearings. The storm had started as she was leaving the forest. At the first flash of lightning and the boom of thunder the chocobo had reared, throwing her off. It had quickly become dark as the storm clouds passed over and now she was stumbling onwards unsure of where exactly she was. The rain was pouring down harder than ever and the wind was freezing in the open grasslands. Tifa was seeking shelter from the storm but she could see no lights in any direction and so she was forced to stumble onwards into perpetual darkness.
Cloud looked up as a shape appeared in the town square. He waited a few seconds to see if he could identify it; he could, it was Sephiroth. Sephiroth, followed closely by Vincent who was covering Lucrecia with his cloak, walked up to the manor doors. Sephiroth slammed the front doors open before welcoming Lucrecia inside. Vincent removed his cloak from around his love and closed the doors to the manor.
"It has not changed much" Lucrecia observed
"It's cleaner" Sephiroth pointed out. Lucrecia smiled and nodded
"It is just that" she said. Sephiroth looked up at the upper floor, it did not seem like Cloud was here, but does it really matter? he thought.
"Are my old clothes still here?" she asked Vincent who nodded
"They are in a chest in the basement" Vincent informed her. Vincent and Lucrecia proceeded up the stairs to the secret entrance. Sephiroth went around igniting the chandeliers in the building and lighting candles. He proceeded up to his room and set the Masamune in the corner before getting undressed and putting on some warmer clothes. He wondered how Tifa and Cloud were getting along, she would have been back hours ago and seeing as Cloud was not in the manor he would probably be over at Tifa's discussing what had happened earlier.
Sephiroth went back down to the kitchen; he was surprisingly hungry and so decided to cook for the three of them. Sephiroth then remembered that Vincent did not eat but he thought he should wait and then asked, and so Sephiroth sat in the kitchen waiting for his parents, my actual-parents he thought, to come back down.
Cloud watched as the three of them entered. Barrett came into the room
"We can stop worrying about Tifa" Cloud informed Barrett "She just got back with Sephiroth and Vincent, apparently Vincent has been keeping the rain off her with his cloak"
"Sounds like she gets along with him" Barrett commented before going back downstairs. Yuffie came into Tifa's bedroom after overhearing what Cloud had said.
"What is it?" Cloud asked her as he turned to face her
"Tifa is staying with Sephiroth then" Yuffie assumed "So is she ever coming back?"
"I don't know" Cloud told her.
After their meal, Vincent was still not hungry; Sephiroth took up his new bed, the couch. Vincent took Sephiroth's bed whilst Lucrecia took Cloud's bed. Silently Sephiroth fell asleep with a smile on his face; he had his parents back.