Hm, I wonder how an egg and cheese and tomato and maple syrup omelet would taste? Ew. Never mind. This is another chapter with the FF characters. And really hot FF guys! Cough-squall-cough-cloud-cough cough Woops. Having a coughing fit. Hahaha. By the way, if anyone wants to join the "We Love Riku Fan Club", e-mail me at I know. I'm such a dork. Plus, don't forget to request your favorite manga or anime characters. Thanks for reading!

Chapter 9: Bloody sword

"I can't believe he's actually going to burn Traverse Town!" Cloud was pacing back and forth in front of the Small House. Yuffie was reading her "Shinobi Weekly" magazine, and Leon and Aerith were glaring at him angrily.

"He can't do that! What did I ever do to him! Okay, don't answer that. But I wasn't the one who decided he was better than everyone else and to destroy the human race!" he was now really peeved.

"Who cares?" Squall commented. "We can always go back to Hollow Bastion."

"You can!" Cloud yelled. "You and the 'We hate Cloud' club can, but I can't! I don't have any other homes!"

"What about the Coliseum?" Yuffie suggested, and turned the page.

"Hades is pissed because I broke off the deal, and he'll set my ass on fire."

"Deep Jungle?"

"The monkeys hate me."

"Neverland?"

"Nah. I think Peter Pan might be gay."

Everyone gave him a weird look.

Cloud turned toward Aerith, but she angrily looked away. Cloud felt really hurt. I guess i really made her mad this time, he thought to himself.

"Aerith," Cloud had decided it was time to apologize. He walked toward her but Leon started to stand up.

"Squall," Yuffie said threateningly and he sat back down.

"I'm really sorry," Cloud said put his hand on her shoulder. "I didn't mean for any of that to happen. Really, i forgot your fear of water."

Aerith jumped up and glared at Cloud. Then she looked at Yuffie and grinned. Yuffie smiled back, then they both started to laugh hysterically.

"Oh, Cloud!" Aerith cried and embraced him in a hug. "I could never stay mad at you."

Cloud looked over her shoulder at Yuffie, and sighed with relief.

"So, Aerith, how did you survive after getting stabbed in the back and then dropped in a lake?" Yuffie questioned.

"Eh. Who knows? But while I was down there, after I became conscious, I saw this really gross bloody sword down there. Whenever I think about it, it gives me the chills." Aerith shivered then walked over to Yuffie to help her decide which set of num-chucks to buy.

Cloud walked over to Squall who was still sitting on the wall, glaring angrily at the ground.

"So, I see you decided to grow out your hair?" Cloud asked in a desperate attempt to start a conversation.

"Yeah." He mumbled and started to walk toward the Small House. "I'm going to start dinner."

"Hah! You cook?" Cloud laughed. Leon gave him a look like he wanted to kill him and then devour his corpse.

"Shut it Cloud," Yuffie said defensively. "You don't know when to stop talking, do you?"

"Chillax," Aeris said. "You know what, I think we should go out tonight!" She started to get all excited. "I know! A new karaoke bar, called the 'Flashing Bulb' just opened up in the first district."

"Great!" Squall suddenly came bursting out of the house. "Now I don't have to cook!"

Everyone gave him a weird look.

"You are a very strange man," Cloud walked over and rested his hand on Squalls shoulder.

"Cloud, never touch me again."

"Okay."

And the very diversed group started their walk through the 2nd district, while trying to avoid the barrels being thrown at Cloud.

It was now about 10 pm, and Squall was drunk as a…well, drunken horse. The karaoke session had just started, and a really nerdy-looking guy named Hubert was signing 'Like a Virgin'. Yuffie was about to fall asleep on Leon's lap, and Aerith and Cloud had to keep pinching each other to keep them awake.

"I made it through the wilderness, I know I made throu-oo-oo-ough, I didn't know how lost I was until I …uhh, um, I don't know the rest."

Yuffie was snoring on Leon's shoulder, and he was laughing like a lunatic at nothing.

"That's it!" Cloud jumped onto the tiny stage and pushed Hubert off. He whispered something to the disc jockey, and grabbed the microphone. He took a deep breath and then started to sing.

"There's a place off Ocean Avenue, where I used to sit and talk with you. We were both sixteen and it felt so right, sleeping all day staying all ni-iight…"

Yuffie sat up abruptly. "Whoa. He rocks." She stared at the man on stage in amazement.

Aerith was just as shocked as Yuffie. Squall was still laughing his head off after chugging his 13th lager. Aerith whacked him upside his head to shut him up. "Ooow. Hahaha. Ya should goo nex, Aers," he mumbled. Then for some strange reason, her grabbed Yuffie and gave her a big, wet, long kiss right on her mouth. She went into a state of shock and Leon continued to laugh hysterically.

"If I could find you now, things would get better.We could leave this town and run forever…"

Everyone in the restaurant except for the drunken Leon and shocked Yuffie were dancing. "I love Yellowcard!" Aerith exclaimed and started to jump up and down.

When the song was over, Cloud was dragged off stage and attacked by a group of drunken teenage girls. Aerith had to threaten them with Leon's gunblade to make them go away. By this time, Squall was about to fall asleep and Yuffie was repetitively slapping him to wake him up so she could yell at him.

"I think we should go now," Aerith suggested after chasing away the mob of crazy fan girls. Everyone else agreed, except for Squall, who was being dragged by Cloud.

But no one noticed the two Silver Haired Men standing in the corner.

"I'll follow them, you wait and see if anyone in here knows who they are," the tall SHM asked the one with shorter hair.

"Sephiroth, I don't think that's a good idea…" the shorter man complained.

"Loz! Just listen for once, you little brat! It's a disgrace to know that I was cloned from the same super-human alien as you were," Sephiroth exclaimed.

"I'm not little…" Loz continued to whine.

"sigh fine! You can come with me," Sephiroth groaned.

The other SHM squealed with delight and clapped his hands together.

"Never do that again."

"Okay."

"Sora! Look at this!" Kairi motioned for the boy to come over to the kitchen table. She held out that morning's issue of "The Traverse Times" (creative name, isn't it/ )

"Ooh! Someone has puppies for sale!" Sora squealed and started to hop around.

"No! Not that!" Kairi slapped him upside the head and pointed to the ad next to it. "There's a new restaurant, with a karaoke bar. I think we should go tonight."

"NoOoOo!" Riku burst out of the bathroom in just a towel. "Have you ever heard Sora sing? He's deadly!"

"So are you, dude. Put on some clothes!" Sora shrank away and covered his eyes.

"It's going to be fun!" Kairi said. "Don't be such a party pooper."

Riku went back into the bathroom and put on a robe. Then he came out with a piece of paper and a pen. "Kairi, do you want my Star Wars action figure collection, or does Sora? No, I'll give Sora the action figures, and you my CD library…"

"What are you talking about, Riku?" Kairi stood up and grabbed the paper from his hands. "Your Will? It's not like you're going to die any time soon."

"I will when I hear Sora sing," Riku said and continued to write out his Will.

"I DON'T CARE! YOU'RE GOING, AND THAT'S FINAL!" Kairi exclaimed, as steam shot out of her ears.

The boys saluted her.

" Yes ma'am!"

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I just remembered how much I detest kairi. I bet one day she's going to become an evil dictator over her world, or Hollow Bastion or something.

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