DISCLAIMER: This following is a work of fiction. I do not in any way, own these characters. Please dont SUE me! Inuyasha Copyrighted by rightful owners, Final Fantasy copywrite Squaresoft, Square-Enix, and whoever else. Whatever.

AUTHORS NOTE: Alright, Second Chapter. I'm already working on Chapter 3. It's going to be pretty long. This one is pretty short but it introduces the Final Fantasy peoples. Enjoy!

CHAPTER 2

He awoke in a daze, and the first thing he saw was a woman looking down at him. His body was stiff, and his mouth was dry. He noticed he was in a house. He tried to move his right arm. Good.Left, ok. His left foot had no feeling, but he seemed to be in one piece.

"Oh, you're awake. You know, you were badly injured. You were out for three whole days!" she said as she tended to his wounds. "What you were doing out in the woods there, to get so badly injured is beyond me." she finished up her check. "You broke your ankle, but other than that you just have cuts and bruises. It's amazing how fast you heal young man."

He tried to sit up, but she stopped him. He gave her a threatening look.

"You mustn't stand till the doctor arrives, she instructed. "He should be along shortly."

The young man heaved a heavy, painful sigh. "Can I have something to drink? My tounge is as dry as a desert, Miss...?" he added, questionally.

Oh, please, call me Miss Higurashi. Souta, get our guest some water from the fridge." she yelled over her shoulder.

Souta scrambled and stumbled back a few feet. He was watching from the doorway, ever curious of the blonde man who's been sleeping in Kagome's room for the last three days. He cleared his throat, turned around, and said softer than normal - to add the effect of distance, "Yes mom!" and he opned the fridge and got out a bottle of water. "Is a bottle alright?" he asked her.

"Would bottled water be alright young man?"

The blonde-haired man looked at her suspisiously. "That would be fine Miss Higurashi," he said feeling well enough to do all but walk.

Suddenly he realised what must have knocked him out. The last thing he rememnbered is Meteor crashing to the earth in front of him. His friends. What happened to them, he wondered.

A very young boy, not yet a teenager emerged from the hall into the small bedroom, carrying a bottle of water, and casting mysterious glances in the blonde-haired man's direction.

"Water." he said softly to his mom. She motioned for him to give it to him, and he gave her a fearful look. He obviously didn't want to get near the blonde-haired man.

"It's ok," he said suddenly, sitting up in the bed. "I'm not going to hurt you, Souta." he explained to the scared little boy.

Not relieved, he handed the blonde-haired man the bottle of water and quickly steppped back, nodded to his mother and walked out of the room.

"Please excuse him...Young Man. He's a bit weary of strangers." Miss Higurashi explained.
It's quite alright, and please, call me Cloud..."

He smiled when he opened his eyes and found nothing but a crater.

The bodies must have dissipated, he thought.

He started to laugh, a sadistic, maniacal bellow. But, when he surveyed his surroundings, he realized that he was in a different place. He walked around and saw nothing but trees. He snarled and began to walk south, sheathing his masamune.

"Berret, what happened?" Tifa asked, when she woke him up. "Where's Cloud?"

"I'm not sure." he replied. "Last thing i saw was Sephiroth shooting Meteor down, and then darkness, until now. I just hope the kid is alright," Berret replied.

"Yeah, he could be in other dimension or something," Yuffie explained. "Maybe, if the spiritual force of Meteor was strong enough, it could have flung him through time and space to another dimension. I mean, since there's no crater..."

"Now, where the hell do you get that idea?" Red XIII asked. "You feeling alright? Did that Meteor knock all the sense out of you? Make you crazy?" Red looked at Yuffie skeptically.

"Well, it's possible...I suppose, think about it: Sephiroth brought Meteor down from the sky, so why wouldn't it be possible to be flung to another dimension?" she argued.

"Well, for one," Berret pitched in. "We can all altar the flow of Gravity. Logically, it would seem that he altered the flow of Gravity on Meteor to make it crash on the planet." he said matter-of-factly.

"I think Yuffie might be right. In a way. I've seen it happen many times before. People have been flung into the past, and the future. It can be done. Although, Cloud killed The Lost Number and freed me. I thought it was the only one who could do such a thing." Vincent explained, slowly, speaking for the first time. "I guess I could have been wrong. But the sheer fact that someone else holds that much spiritual power is overwhelming to say the least."

Yuffie stuck her tongue out at Berret, and turned to Vincent. "So then, how exactly do you suppose we get Cloud back to us? Sephiroth doesn't seem to be here either. Would it be probable that he got sent to...whenever too?"

"If he was close enough to the time rift, yes. If that is true though, He must not have known what he was doing, or he could have avoided it." Vincent Clarified.
"So, you're saying that the kid could be either in the past or the future?" Berret asked, turning to Vincent.

"Precisely."

"That's a load of bullshit. The logical explaination is; THEY ARE BOTH DEAD!" Berret yelled. "That or they are alive, and they ran off in their heated battle, while we were knocked out."

"Berret cool your gun. With all the crazy stuff we've encountered over our time with Cloud, what makes you so sure that this can't happen? It seems to me that Sephiroth is capable of almost anything we can think of, and many things we can't." Tifa said calmingly. "Just cool it. Let's just look around to see if we can find any trace of those two. If not we have to assume that Vincent and Yuffie are right."

"Hmph" Berret grunted. "Whatever. That's all fabricated horse-shit anyways."

"Ok then, I bet you 400 Gil that we don't find them!" Yuffie said with a childish grin.

"Fine." Berret grunted. "I'll take that bet. I'll enjoy whipping your ass---HEY!" he shouted abruptly. "Give me back my Gil!"

"Fine." she said as she handed him his Gil. The others quikly checked to make sure their's was in place. "But this 400 Gil goes to me anyway.

"Let's just go," Tifa said and started walking away with Red XIII, leaving the others behind. "I'll give you both 100 Gil if you shut up.

Yuffie gleamed at the thought. and rushed over to Tifa. Berret laughed at her immaturity, and followed Vincent to catch up with the group.

Cait Sith Lay on the ground beind them, dead...

END CHAPTER 2

DISCLAIMER:The preceding is a work of fiction. I do not in any way, own these characters. Please dont SUE me! Inuyasha Copyrighted by rightful owners, Final Fantasy copywrite Square, Square-Enix, and whoever else. Whatever.

AUTHORS NOTE: The third chapter won't be up for quite a while. I type these up on my laptop on appleworks, then email them to myself when I'm at school (On the Network). Since it's Spring Break, it's going to have to wait until school lets back in. The third one (As I stated above) will be Very, long. I'm already half way through it, and I'm already on my seventh page at Times New Roman 12pt.