This chapter is probably going to suck, and people will probably hate me. Not really…I hope. Anyway 6th chapter, R&R!


Seifers POV

"Sir! There is a group of soldiers a little further north. Should we discuss our plans with them?" The lanky soldier asked.

"No Tidus. I'm doing this on my own." I snapped.

"Well Sir, their Commander is here." He said nervously. I sighed, 'What a moron.' I thought.

"Then send him into my tent.' I said, annoyed.

"Yes Sir." He said before scampering off. I walked into my tent and sat down, putting my feet up on the table in front of me.

"That's very informal." I deep, gruff voice said. I looked up, ready to kill whoever said that. I was annoyed in having to go find that dang ninja. But just as I was about to say something nasty to the person, I recognized who it was.

"Sir Auron!" I cried jumping up. "I..I didn't know you were here."

He grunted. "Last night around midnight I walked out to find two of my best soldiers dead."

"Oh, wow Sir. Do you know who did it?" I asked. This was surprising. Even though Leonheart's soldiers were excellent, I being one of them, nothing could compare to Sir Auron's. So if two oh his best soldiers were dead, who knew what could happen to us?

"No. But the warrior had blonde hair and a wing on his back, so it was a demon. I want my camp to join yours, so there will be less of a chance of more soldiers dying."

I nodded still numb, "Y-yes Sir. The girl should be around here anyway."

"Ah, yes the ninja right?" He asked me.

I nodded, "What a waste of time though, it's not like she's any different from any other soldier that's died."

"Well he's got feelings for her, as much as I hate to admit it." He said coldly.

"She's probably dead anyway." I said, disgusted. Sir Auron nodded his head in agreement before turning to bring his camp back here. "Wait you said blonde hair right?" He paused and nodded.

"Why?"

"Just wondering." I replied.

"Were you thinking….?"

"Strife." I finished.

He sighed, "And he was such an excellent soldier too."

"Mm-hm" I agreed, then said goodbye as he left.

"I'll be back soon!" He called.

When I no longer heard his heavy footsteps I sat back down.

"What a morning." I muttered, then stood up again.

I wandered around the camp, barking orders at anyone I could. I was not in a good mood. Then I heard the arrival of Sir Auron and his troops, I walked to the front of the camp to see Sir Auron's hand on a pretty red head with bluish/purple eyes.

"Seifer, I'd like you to meet my top woman fighter and the girl who will find the rebel's territory and that bratty ninja." He said. I stared at her speechless.

"Hi!" The girl said, sticking her hand out, I took it and shook it firmly. There was something about this girl, something dangerous.


Yuffies POV

I awoke in a slightly dreamy sate, the events of last night still inside my head. Then again mentally cursing myself for my own stupidity, I remembered I had just ditched Riku! Oh man, he was gonna be mad! I jumped out of bed, not caring what I looked like and ran downstairs. And what I saw pretty much scared the crap outta me. There was Little Miss Lockheart locking lips with Demon-Dude. As soon as they heard me they jumped back.

"Y…Yuffie we didn't hear you come down." Tifa said, her cheeks bright red.

"Um, that's okay…..sorry if I interrupted anything." I said apologetically, then an evil thought came to my head, "But who knows what would've happened if I did!" If possible Tifa's cheeks turned even redder and Vince's eyes flashed dangerously. "But you guys might want to get a room before doing something like that."

The next thing I new I was running around the house screaming. "AHHH! There's a crazy guy with a metal arm chasing me!" I was probably waking every living soul within the 5 mile radius, but did I care? No, I only cared about escaping the man I knew would shoot a hole in my head. I spotted Cloud walking down the hallway and immediately ran behind him for protection. Cloud turned his head at me and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Save me." I gasped out of breath, "Vincent wants to kill me."

"Uh-huh And what did you do to make him want to kill you?" He asked me, not believing my somewhat bizarre tale.

"I caught him and Tif kissin' in the kitchen." I answered feeling my breathing returning to normal.

"Ah. I see. But that's not a reason to kill you. You must've said something." He said.

"I didn't say anything!" I replied, with what I hoped was an innocent face.

"I don't believe it." He said. Guess I'm not a great actress.

"Okay so I did kind of say some….interesting things, but he doesn't have to shoot me because of it!" I cried frantically. Just then Vincent turned the corner, he spotted me and walked toward us.

"Yuffie! Get over here!" He growled at me.

"Um, heh sorry Vinnie?" I said nervously.

He narrowed his eyes seeming to be debating something, but then looked as if he changed his mind, then sighed, "Whatever." Then turned and left.

I looked after him in disbelief, "Well that was dumb. He chased me around the whole friggin' house just to shrug 'whatever'? How stupid."

Cloud sighed and scratched the back of his head, "I really need some tea." Then he also walked off.

"Hmph. Everybody just ditches me." I said grumpily.

"Yeah well you ditch other people too." Riku said, obviously hurt by me leaving him last night. I froze, I was still trying to figure out what to say to him.

"Um…sorry Riku, I was worried. See Cloud seemed really angry and I wanted to make sure he was okay. He's my best friend and we're really close, heh?" I said sheepishly. It wasn't exactly and lie, Spiky and I ARE close, well sorta. But the whole truth is…I was scared. I've never kissed a guy before, well unless you count my dreams, but I was afraid that he would laugh at me and tease me if I wasn't a good kisser. Or my breath was really bad cause I just had garlic bread, and he would be disgusted. But the most part was that it was in front a EVERYONE. Vince, Olivia, Sora, Tifa, and Spike, and I knew Olivia and Tifa would give me hell about it.

"Come on Yuff, you and I both know that isn't the full reason. How stupid do you think I am?" He asked me, his voice hard. Prodding me to tell him the real reason.

"Well, ahh, you see…I…um…have…uh," I stammered, nervously shifting and scratching the back of my head (habit I've picked up from none other than His Spikiness), "I've never…um…actually…kissed a guy before. I was kind of scared." I finally admitted.

"Oh." Was all he said.

"And also I thought I had bad breath cause of the garlic bread and I didn't want you to have to kiss me with garlicky breath."

He had the guts to laugh at me. "Hey it's not funny! It's true!" I exclaimed.

"Y…yes it is." He managed to get out while doubled over clutching his stomach.

"You're impossible! Here I go telling you I was afraid and you sit here and laugh your ass off at me, thanks a lot." I said exasperated. He just continued laughing, I threw my hands up in the air and gave a loud defeated sigh and was about to walk away until a strong hand stopped me.

"Hey, I'm sorry, but I would've had bad breath too so it wouldn't have mattered." I turned around to face him.

"Yeah…" I trailed, "So should we-." But I was silenced by his lips coming firmly upon mine. And I was completely surprised, but I quickly overcame that surprise and kissed him back. When he pulled away my heart was beating to the point I thought it would burst and my mind was reeling. I couldn't think correctly.

"Um…wow." Was all I could say. Riku smirked and took my arm dragging me down the steps. When we arrived in the kitchen everyone was already sitting at the table. Sora raised his eyebrows at us then snickered. Olivia shoved probably having read his thoughts.

"I can get Olivia to tell me what you just thought Strife," I said in a low menacing voice, "and when I do and I don't like it I swear I'll make your life a living hell."

"Olivia please don't tell her." He begged.

"Hmm, I'll think about it." She said evilly. I sat down next to Vince nervously.

"So Vince how's it goin'?" I asked awkwardly.

"….."

"I see…" I said.

"Breakfast is served!" Olivia's voice rang out and she placed pancakes on the table.

"MMM! I love your cooking!" I exclaimed hungrily taking 4 pancakes.

"I wonder where she puts it all…." Sora inquired looking down at his plate.

We had been eating for about 5 minutes when there was a knock at the door. Sora and I jumped up immediately and rushed towards the door. I shoved Sora out off to the side and opened the door, and standing on the doorstep was a girl with short red hair.

"Hi um…my name is Kairi and I need a place to stay for a few nights. Mind if I stay here?" She asked me.

"Hey Yuff who is it?" Sora questioned coming up from behind me and rubbing his shoulder.

"Uh I dunno." I replied. I turned around to see Sora's mouth hanging open and he was staring at the girl.

"Hi." He said. "Can we help you?"

"Yeah I need a place to stay." She answered.

"Oh! You can stay here, we have plenty of room." He commented quickly his eyes never leaving the girl.

"Sora," I hissed, "You don't have the authority to say that, you have to ask your brother."

"No I don't." He said stubbornly.

"Uh yeah ya do. This IS his house, you can't decide who's allowed to stay and who's not."

"Yeah I am."

"No you're not."

"Yeah I am."

"No you're not!" We were standing toe to toe noses practically touching.

"Yeah I am!"

"No you're no-!"

"Um excuse me." The girl said. We both turned to face her, our faces set in annoyance from being interrupted.

"What?" I snapped.

The girl ignored me, but looked at Sora with sweet blue/purple eyes, "Oh I don't want you to get in trouble so if this girl says you have to ask your brother I don't mind."

"Okay." Sora replied. I stared at him in disbelief, he listens to HER but not ME! Oooh he's SO gonna get it!

"Hey Cloud! Get over here I need to ask you a question!" Sora called to his blonde brother.

'Oh boy what is it now?' Cloud thought as he walked over to his commanding brother.

"Yes Sora?" He asked in a somewhat bored tone.

"This girl-." He started but realizing he didn't know her name glanced in her direction.

"Kairi." She said.

"Okay, this girl Kairi needs a place to stay, so she wants to stay here. Is that alright?"

Cloud stared at the girl, his cold Mako blue eyes taking in her form.

"It's….fine." He said after a moment.

"Oh thank you. I promise I won't be a burden, in fact I'll even help out around here if you want." She said sweetly.

"That's fine." Sora replied, "You don't have to."

"Okay…if you're sure…" She trailed off.

"I'm sure. Come on, come meet the rest of my friends. And by the way that's my brother Cloud and my friend Yuffie."

"Nice to meet you." She said, staring at me.

"You too…" I replied uncertainly, shifting uncomfortably there was something about her. Sora and Kairi walked ahead and Cloud fell back a step with me.

"Do you trust her?" I whispered.

"Not as far as I can throw her." He whispered back. I nodded and stared at the girl in front of us.

"You sure you can't throw her far?" I asked him.

"I don't think so…"

"Want to try?"

"Not really." He said as we walked into the kitchen, everyone was there and Sora was waiting for us, well actually staring at us was a more appropriate way to put it. Cloud and I both scratched the back of our heads at the same time.

Cloud looked at me and I shrugged. "I've been hanging out with you too damn long." I mumbled.

"What was that?" Cloud asked, his eyebrows raised.

"Nothing Master." I answered, dragging my one foot like Frankenstein's assistant. Cloud rolled his oh so enchanting-it-should-be-illegal-blue eyes.

"Okay everyone this is Kairi. She'll be staying with us for a few days." Sora said, "Kairi you already met Cloud and Yuffie. So the girl with long brown hair is Tifa, the guy sitting next to her is Vincent, the silvered hair dude is Riku, and the girl with the black hair is Olivia."

"Hi everyone." Kairi said nervously, giving a small wave.

"Hi Kairi. Pleasure to meet you." Tifa said warmly.

Vincent nodded briefly in her direction…figures.

"Hey." Riku said. And the normally friendly Olivia didn't say anything, but instead glared at the redhead.

Something told me there was gonna be war.


Later that night I was walking down to the village to buy some food, cause Riku was a pig and I saw Olivia talking to Cloud. I hide behind a cart and was listening to their conversation.

"Cloud…I don't trust her. There's something that worries me about her. Something-agh. I'm not sure, I bet I sound paranoid." She said sounding embarrassed.

"No. I don't trust her either, she looks familiar somehow. What did you read?" He questioned.

"I…I didn't read anything. She wouldn't let me." Olivia replied. "But I think that-."

"Shh. Hold on. Yuffie you can come out from hiding I know you're there." Cloud called.

"Shit." I said sheepishly coming out. "I forgot about the damn demon thing."

"Always remember it."

Olivia laughed. "You two sound like you're married."

"Olivia…" I snapped, shooting her a warning glance. My cheeks were red, and I knew it wasn't from anger, truth is, last night after I fell asleep, I had a dream that Cloud married me. Sooo corny, but it was true, it was kind of cheesy.

"What? You do." She said gesturing around with her hands.

Cloud stared at her with an expression I couldn't read.

"Alright, alright I'm sorry." She said. "And I'm going. Later." She gave a mock salute and scampered off.

"Strange kid." I muttered.

Cloud took a seat on a bench, mentioning for me to sit next to him, and I did. When I sat down Cloud gave a heavy sigh.

"What was that?"

"I think I'm getting old." He replied.

I snorted, "Old my ass. You're 23 years old."

"Yes, but I feel about 90."

"I know what you mean. I have a feeling there's going to be war. And I have the strange feeling Olivia's not telling us something." I said.

"I know she's not telling us something."

"Hmm."

We were silent for a few minutes, both of us lost in our own little worlds. Me? I was thinking about yours truly. Mr. Blondie himself. I found myself often thinking about his past quite a lot. Wondering where he came from and what made him decide to start a rebelling group.

"Do you like being a demon?" I asked suddenly, breaking the silence.

"Huh? Oh yeah. It's okay I guess." He said, not meeting my eyes. "Why do you ask?"

"Just wondering." That silence fell over us again, but I was determined to get some answers out of him. "What happened to you? What made you rebel against the soldiers?" I could feel his gaze on me, but I focused my attention ahead of me.

"I…I don't like to talk about it." He said quietly.

I quickly turned and faced him, my hands on his shoulders. "No Cloud, tell me. Tell me what happened to you. Tell me about you." I said sternly. He didn't answer, instead he held my eyes in an intense gaze. When he finally did answer it wasn't what I wanted to hear.

"No. I don't want to talk about it. Besides you wouldn't enjoy it." He replied, his face blank, his eyes shifting away from mine.

I craned my neck to look at him in the eyes again. "See Cloud that's where you're wrong. I want to know about you, I want to understand you. I'm tiered of feeling like I know nothing around here. Stop hiding Cloud, stop hiding." I said fiercely. Honestly I did not know I could be this demanding. This was so out of character for me, but I wanted to know him. I mean truly know him.

"I guess it's fair…" He said. "See when I was younger I wanted to do nothing but join the soldiers, they were idols to me. So everyday until the age of 14 I trained, hoping to get into the soldiers. Then the day came I was to try out, and I made it. My parents were so proud of me. So I traveled with them, killing demons of any sort. And then one day we traveled to my town. Now you must understand you are not born a demon, it is an infection by being bitten. And my parents had been bit, I couldn't kill them. And so my Commander did, and at that moment I saw for the first time in my life all the pain and suffering the soldiers were causing, and I wanted nothing to do with it. So I ran off and ran into a demon, I did not wish to kill it so instead it bit me, the transformation was immediate. It happened so fast. Then in the distance I heard screaming, I followed the sound and saw two soldiers advancing on Sora. I got so furious, I wasn't about to loose another family member. So I killed the soldiers, I killed them so quickly, and I actually felt proud to be stopping people so horrible. And after that Sora and I wandered around killing groups of soldiers then we met Vincent and Tifa and traveled with them a little before meeting Riku then we met Olivia. And each of us had a reason to hate the soldiers so we formed the Rebels."

I sat there speechless, and for once I could see all the pain Cloud hid behind his cold nature. I saw all the regret and loss, all the emotions he hid to keep himself from feeling anything.

"Oh Cloud…" Was all I could say before I wrapped my arms around him. I could feel him stiffen at my touch, but he slowly relaxed, allowing his arms to come around my waist. And we just sat there our arms around each other letting all the pain that had been revealed sink in. "I'm sorry." I whispered into his ear after awhile, "I'm so sorry." Cloud pulled back and looked me in the eye.

"Don't be." He said softly before lightly kissing me on my cheek. Then he stood up and headed back to the house, leaving me to think about everything that had just happened, and leaving my feelings confused.


Whoo! Sucky chapter! Go me! Ha ha ha. Okay I bet this was shocking, well not really. Everyone knew it would come sooner or later. So I'll leave you people to guess who she ends up with. And I added Kairi just for KairiLuv cause I felt bad for not adding her! This probably sucked as usual, but review! And thankies so much to all my reviewers! It means a lot! MUWA!