Whoo! I watched advent children and it was such an awsome movie XD! I wanted to write a fanfic, so yeah, pairing is Cloud x Kadaj!

Chapter One: Confusion

The sky had turned into a pink and purple color, cloudy skys forming already above.

Cloud walked silently. Everything surrounding him seemed to have been forgotten and ignored quickly as his mind focused on something else---something more important. He continued walking, while his light footsteps made its own soft noise only when the heels of his black boots crushed and met with the broken glasses and dirted wood beneath him as they shattered into pieces. He was carrying someone. In his own arms.

The blonde haired ex SOILDER had a calm, yet slightly worried look on his features everytime he looked down at the person in his arms. He studied and observed him when the other's position caught the 23 year old man's brief attention at the exact moment. Cloud blinked slowly, the same expression never fading from his slightly feminine face. It was him: Kadaj, the silver haired boy in his arms.

Cloud's mako blue eyes met with the other's face first, observing carefully and slowly. Kadaj's eyes were closed, his head bent back lifelessly, accentuating the length his elegant neck and throat where Cloud's eyes met with next, then finally down to the wound where the blonde man himself had stabbed the boy in the previous battle between them. It was still bleeding badly.

Nii-san.

The word repeated over and over inside Cloud's head. It was the same word the youth called out to him before going completely unconcious. He remembered how he sounded...so weak.

"Brother..." Cloud whispered softly, reminding himself what the boy said when he lost balance and fell right into the man's strong and muscular arms from lack of strength. Cloud shook his head and snapped himself back to reality when he noticed that the wound was worsening, and attempting to remove any more thoughts disrupting him any longer, he decided to take Kadaj to somewhere where the ex SOILDER could possibly help him. His own enemy. It wasn't right, but he couldn't just leave the boy alone to die knowing he had a serious wound.

Cloud had found a resting spot since the blonde was alittle exhausted from everything happening around him. He really didn't know what to do in this type of situation, and it drove him insane, almost crazy, and his head pounded heavily. He groaned softly, almost losing his own balance, but regained his composure when the sudden thought of not accidentally wanting to injure Kadaj even more made him continue his motivation more carefully. The blye eyed young swordsman heard the silver haired boy groan softly when he lowered him.

"N-Nii-san..."

Cloud stopped, and stared down at the youth, instantly surprised by the youth's sudden awakening which he had not been expecting. Kadaj's green cat-like eyes fluttered open, but weakily, and his lips parted slowly enough to take in some oxygen into his lungs. Cloud couldn't force himself to speak so suddenly by the awkward feeling taking over him, so the continuation of starting at one another was the only option he was comfortable with at the moment. He blinked once more, mouth parted as well.

Kadaj had passed out once more before he could speak his second word to the man, and Cloud, suddenly alerted by this quick action, caught the boy's falling head once more against his gloved hand, and silver strands from Kadaj's hair tangled between Cloud's fingers.

"Ngn." A small quiet noise escaped the blonde's lips.

He needed a better treatment, and fast. Cloud looked around carefully, noticing where they were at. No one was here. As his head was turned from side to side the silver wolf earring on his left eat glinted brightly from the high sun. Cloud picked him up once more and carried him back to where Tifa and the others were at. He had no other choice...

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Meanwhile At the bar Tifa and the others had already finished helping all of the children get cured from the geostigma. Everyone looked so happy and overjoyed, and the kids played in the water for several more minutes, splashing each other playfully. Tifa turned her head to Yuffie who was standing right next to her, the young ninja girl.

"Do you know where Cloud is?" Tifa asked curiously.

"Hmm...I haven't seen him." She responded half worridly. "Where do you think he ran off to? It's been hours..." She sighed softly.

"Where could he be?" Tifa groaned out loud and shook her head, resting a hand on the back of her head. "That kid..."

She looked around once more, spotting Cid in front of her. She walked up to him.

"Have you seen Cloud?" She tried asking Cid.

"Nope." Cid answered, shrugging. "That kid better not be making any kind of trouble..." he chuckled softly.

"Oi, Cloud isn't that type at all." Tifa laughed. "We all trust him, don't we?"

"Yes!" Yuffie exclaimed.

"Looks like the kids are fine now. We should take them back inside now..." Barret said.

Tifa nodded. "C'mon everyone! Back inside!"

Both Marlene and Denzel looked at each other and smiled before running into the building together hand in hand, but Denzel suddenly stopped when he found something missing, and immediately ran back to Tifa. "Tifa...where is Cloud?" The boy asked, frowning.

"I don't know, but I'm sure he'll be back soon..." Tifa smiled softly, not wanting to show the child her slight frustration towards the man behind her voice.

"I miss him..."

"I know..." She smiled, and grabbed the boy's hand and they both walked together inside with everyone else joining along.

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Exhausted and after going through some personal problems, Cloud had finally made it to the bar when night almost came. Kadaj was still in his arms, and the boy's weight gave Cloud his own problems for carrying him any longer. Cloud stood in front of the door, sighing softly, before turning the knob handle and entering quietly in the room.

Shut.

"Who is it?" Tifa half yelled happily, walking in. She gasped loudly when she saw the blonde holding one of the dangerous men who attempted to kill her and the rest. Her eyes widened in slight fear.

"Tifa..." Cloud spoke, hiding his face as the man turned his head slightly to the side, not wanting to keep any kind of eye contact with the shocked girl.

"Cloud!" She quickly ran up to him, worried sick. "Are you okay? What happened?" She demanded harshly. She gently touched his face to see any bruises or marks, but Cloud protested by flinching back slightly.

"It's nothing..." Cloud shook his head, his long blonde bands swaying gently in front of his face. Tifa instantly turned her attention towards the smaller boy laying in Cloud's arms.

"Why are you helping this boy? He tried to kill us! Even you...Cloud..." Tifa wanted an explanation, but the blonde was too tired to argue with her. He sighed heavily, closing his eyes.

"Onegai, Tifa," Cloud opened his eyes and looked at her calmly as usual with his soft expression, blue mako eyes meeting her own. "He needs help..." he spoke.

"Cloud, what has gotten into you? First you don't show up earlier when everyone was worried and wondering where you were, and then you run off somewhere without even telling us, and now you bring HIM into OUR home. You can't expect other people to know where you're at if you don't even tell us in the first place."

"...I never said I was expecting you to." Cloud replied calmly once more, closing his now narrowed eyes as he slightly turned his head away. "I just wanted to be alone." his voice grew with a more stronger tone, almost matching Tifa's.

"You're so weird! Do whatever you want..." She stormed off quickly, leaving Cloud by himself with Kadaj. The man lowered his head, bangs covering his eyes, and spoke something almost too soft for anyone to even hear, but he heard himself very clearly.

"I don't want to kill anyone anymore...thats why..."

Cloud carried Kadaj upstairs to one of the empty rooms available that no one was using. Once entering the silent and dark room, he gently laid Kadaj onto the soft bed. The boy's head softly hit the pillow first, then the rest of his body joined with him. Cloud left him for only tempoarily to search for some bandages and aid kits. Luckily he had found some in the bathroom, and quickly returned to Kadaj's bed. The blonde man pulled a empty chair beside the bed, and sat down beside the sleeping youth.

Cloud gently wrapped bandages around the infected wound, careful not to wake the boy up. Kadaj moaned softly.

"Mother..."

Cloud blinked.. Kadaj's eyes then shot open, wide and fearful. He looked at the blonde man sitting beside him, and quickly rolled his head back to the opposite where he faced and stared back at the wall. "Mother...mother...mother..." the boy's voice grew more louder.

Cloud placed a wet cloth on top of the boy's forehead, but the youth quickly sat up from bed and screamed his lungs out. "MOTHER!" then he screamed a loud yell once more, clutching onto his head.

"Kadaj...!" Cloud grabbed the screaming youth's shoulders and shook him gently.

"Don't touch me!" The boy hissed dangerously, attempting to push the older man away from him, but failed as Cloud was stronger than his current weak body. "I need mother..."

Either Kadaj was having a bad nightmare and going insane from it, or a part of him still desparetly wanting the reunion was unknown to Cloud, but whatever it was the blonde man had to stop this for now.

"Stop it, Kadaj... Jenova is dead."

"Uresei! Don't speak of mother that way! No...she's not...she's...ngghhh..." Kadaj suddenly felt more weak, and having no energy to support himself any longer, he leaned against Cloud's chest and started crying softly. Cloud looked down, loosening his grip on the boy's shoulders.

"Doishite...Doishite..." he whined, attempting to speak properly, but his voice broke badly.

Cloud remained silent.

"WHY DID YOU SAVE ME?" He screamed again.

"Kadaj..."

"Answer me!" The silver haired boy grabbed the collar of the blonde man's shirt, demanding an answer. His green eyes were once very evil looking and Cloud could see the strong hatred burning in them, but he also saw the painful tears in them. Cloud only blinked, turning his head away.

"Because...I don't want to kill anyone anymore..." he confessed.

Kadaj gasped softly, losening the grip on Cloud's shirt.

"...N-Nii-san."

Cloud looked back at Kadaj, and realized that the boy had suddenly calmed down so quickly.

"Get some rest. You'll need it..." Cloud got up from the bed, but Kadaj quickly grabbed his arm. "Wait! Please..."

Cloud blinked, turning around.

"Please...stay..."

"I can't..." He shrugged off the hold on his arm and immediately left the room, leaving the silver haired boy alone in bed. Kadaj cursed something under his breath when something throbbed violently against his head. The youth clutched one hand onto his hair, trying to make it go away, but it got worse instead. His head hit the pillow as he forced himself down, sighing deeply. He stared at the blank cieling with half lidded eyes. His long bangs covered the right part of his face, covering half of it, but it never bothered him. He closed his eyes, and soon fell asleep once more.