Sephiroth's eyelids fluttered slightly and he looked down at his side to see the slumbering samurai; Yuffie Kisaragi. Yuffie's arm was across his stomach rather tightly as though she was not willing to let go of him; even in her sleep. Sephiroth looked out of the window and saw it was snowing and his heart dropped. The door opened and Lucrecia walked in with more hot chocolate for her son. Lucrecia smiled when she saw that he was awake; his eyes glittered in the candlelight. Sephiroth tried speaking but made an odd croaking sound.
"You won't be able to talk for a while" Lucrecia told her son as she bent down and kissed him on the cheek. Lucrecia removed many of the items keeping Sephiroth warm as it would only make him uncomfortable. Yuffie stirred and she opened her eyes faintly.
"You're awake" she smiled before drifting off back to sleep. Lucrecia sat down on a chair facing Sephiroth.
"We have had to stop the search, it got too dangerous" Lucrecia informed Sephiroth who nodded slightly. Sephiroth shot her with a questioning look
"Ah…you fell from the sky according to your father, you hit the mountain side with such force you were sent crashing back until you hit the earth" Lucrecia answered an unspoken question. Sephiroth nodded
"Cloud is next door, he's in bad shape too" Lucrecia told him, Lucrecia got to her feet and tucked Sephiroth in tighter
"Now sleep my lonely angel" she whispered kissing him on his forehead. Sephiroth slipped back into the dream world as Tifa crossed the void into the netherworld.
A man crunched through the snow until he tripped over something which brought him crashing face-first into the snow. The white haired male turned around and lifted Tifa from the snow and into his arms.
"Now what happened to you?" he asked her. The man covered her body in a robe and began to carry her away into the snowstorm.
The next day Sephiroth awoke to find Yuffie awake in his bed and staring at the side of his head.
"Morning" he choked.
"Good morning" she whispered back "I am glad to see that you're back" Sephiroth could see that she had been crying not long before. He would have reached up to touch her hand his arms not been immobile. He did not even have enough strength to move the quilt which was pinning him down.
"Can you tell me why?" Yuffie asked Sephiroth.
"Tell you what?" Sephiroth enquired
"You and Tifa" Yuffie told him "You knew Tifa was Cloud's, or at least you should have guessed" Sephiroth shook his head
"I don't know Yuffie, I honestly don't know" Sephiroth muttered.
Tifa opened her eyes slowly and was aware of someone with white hair standing some feet away with his back to her. The sound of a crackling fire filled the space but she was familiar with the sound of a howling storm outside.
"Sephiroth?" Tifa muttered.
"That insane man who tried destroying the planet?" the stranger quipped as he came over to tend to Tifa "Hardly, my name is Kadaj miss"
Authors Note: Ladies and Gents I would like to introduce you to my interpretation of the real Kadaj. Seeing as Sephiroth is alive Kadaj does not need to turn into him and so has no destiny. Also, because Sephiroth is alive and his cells did not go into the planet, Kadaj has no great power because Geostigma does not exist, just thought I would clear that up before I continued
"How long have I been out?" Tifa asked the young man who was treating one of her frostbite wounds.
"I am unsure, miss" Kadaj told her. Green magic congregated at his fingertips as he used the basic cure magic to heal her wounds.
"Is the storm still going?" Tifa managed to asked before she passed out. Kadaj wiped some hair out of her mouth as he gave her a drink from a water bottle.
"Yes, miss" he whispered to her as she fell asleep again.