by Prodigious Techie/StarStrider Kazemon
This story is loosely based on Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X/X-2. It's also based on a roleplay that my friend and I had done for the past couple of weeks or so. We just took some characters and dropped them into our storyline, heh. All right all right it's a story about love and sacrifice, and possibly some deception thrown in there somewhat. Anyway, this is ONE VERSION of the story, the FFVII version, as my friend Ashley (Ashira-Mitsune/AshiraMitsune) wrote the FFX/X-2 version. This is because I love Sephiroth, and she loves Tidus. Read and Review, don't flame, it's been forever since I wrote!
2nd life: Memories of Darkness
It was late at night, and I was walking home alone. Of course there's the possibility of something happening to me but I never really worried. In fact, right now I can't remember why I was walking home so late at night. Nobody was around though, sure enough. I then suddenly slipped on the street and fell, my long skirt sprawled along the pavement. Moments later I heard a boy with blonde hair, and a man with silver hair started talking from over the rooftop of a nearby building. Naturally I didn't know what it was about, but before I knew it the two started fighting with their swords, a Masamune and a Buster Sword (Gives you the idea of who's fighting now huh?). They weren't that far up towards the sky so much as I couldn't see them, though I very well could. I flinched as the swords clashed with each other, hoping that nobody would really get hurt. I would have run home but couldn't, due to my ankle being sprained during the fall, yes it was sprained, and stayed to see, or hear, the battle that intrigued myself so much. After the battle, the silver-haired man said, "Better luck next time, Cloud," while the blonde haired boy (I assume his name is Cloud now?) replied, "Next time you won't be so lucky." Neither of the two said the silver-haired man's name but it looked like they pretty much knew each other well enough to forget about it. Oh I'm just confusing myself and you now, aren't I? I apologize. Anyway the silver-haired man jumped down from the rooftop, which was pretty shocking as Cloud and the silver-haired man were up on a 5-story building.
Cloud was gone from the rooftop, but the silver-haired man landed in front of me, crouched down, and so was his head. He looked up then, at me, and I gasped. My ankle, still sprained, allowed me not to move as I flinched while trying to get up. The silver-haired man glared at me, then looked at my ankle. "So what happened?" he asked me. I paused, trying to think of what to say, but I just got out "I--I sprained my ankle." "Looks bad," he said, and he asked me where I lived. "An estate, towards the north of the town, with plenty of flowers?" I replied, shaking because of the cold, and especially of my nervousness.. He picked me up and carried me in his arms, which were somewhat cold as well. "Hold on tight." he instructed me. I nodded my head and held on close. For me to trust someone I don't know was pretty much unlike myself, but I did however feel a sense of trustworthiness in this unknown-to-me person.
I looked up and gazed into his aquamarine-like eye color that was indescribable. He looked down at my face with a bit of a grin as a deep red blood color rushed into my cheeks. I tried to look away but I was in a trance. I must have only noticed him and only looked at him the whole time because the next thing I knew, the man told me, "Well, we're here" and he refused to let me down until he had gotten me safely into bed. I raised one of my eyebrows high until he had gotten to the point that he had said something a little different than he meant...well, only a little. He carried me inside and lay me on the bed as I begged him to stay a bit longer. He pretended to give in to my pleading...and he stayed while I had that sprained ankle. Of course I still didn't know his name, and he never told me, but we both must've thought the same thing because next thing ya know...
"My name's Sephiroth."
"Oh. I'm Clarene...but you can call me Claire."
He sat himself in a black chair next to my fluffy pink satin-covered bed. "Clarene. A beautiful name. Nobody from where I live has a name as lively such as yours." I blushed a bright pink tone and smiled. "Thank you," I said. The lights were pretty dim in my room, I wasn't much for those high-watt lamps, and Sephiroth seemed to like it. On my other side the answering machine on a table was blinking. I pressed it and it announced I had two messages. I tried to listen but I drifted off to sleep.
voice Hey Claire it's Ashley. Tidus and I won't be home tonight cuz we're with Rachel and Squall. I guess you're not home yet since you're not answering, but take care of yourself all right? We don't really like leaving you home while we're out having fun. I just don't see why you wouldn't come with us to the restaurant. I'm sure Tidus and Squall wouldn't have minded. click
The answering machine beeped and began to play the next message. I still heard them, but really didn't care, and after all, I didn't want to be a fifth wheel, so to speak.
another voice Clarene it's Rachel. It's like, 9:00 and you're still not picking up? Where ARE you? You're not usually out this late. Well if you're listening to this you probably got Ashley's message too. Well okay, call my cell phone if you need us, you know my number right? If I do however manage to get home early, I'm always living on the next street over, if you need to talk, or whatever. You know? Seeya later, Claire! click
Damn right I did. But I was tired, my ankle is sprained, I met a guy who brought me home (strange enough I have no idea why I let him), what did you want me to tell you?
Of course Sephiroth heard it all. My eyes were closed and he assumed that I was tired enough and fell asleep. Sephiroth noticed this, and realized that my ankle would probably swell up. Well he searched all over my room and somehow found a linen cloth to wrap around my ankle. What this does, I have no idea, but he took one of my pillows I wasn't using and propped my ankle up on it, then covered me with a blanket. "So you don't live by yourself here? Heh, I can only imagine. But don't you ever feel lonely? I was alone for most of my life and here I am now, with someone I just met an hour ago and you're asleep. With a house this big, you probably really don't need to live by yourself." Sephiroth said to nobody as of course, I was still sleeping. Yeah, I did have a big house, living with Ashley and Tidus. I was alone. I knew how it really felt, this pain inside that I needed someone for me, so I wouldn't be by myself anymore. But Sephiroth? I just met him...so I don't know.
Sephiroth walked over towards the side of my bed. "How you live with it I'll probably never know." he whispered in a low voice. He lowered his head to mine, and kissed me. I wish I knew about it...
He pulled back abruptly, wondering why he did that. But he knew he couldn't leave me, and after all, my friends didn't know what was going on with me. So Sephiroth, someone I just met, picked a somewhat unwise decision and stayed the night in my room.
End of Chapter 2
Well, okay, so I DO need to fix my writing. Just sometime, this is gonna go past kissing, as this is a Rated-R fic...I just need to know what to write for the juicy part. And as for my sprained ankle, what am I to do? Thanks to my best friend Rachel Diane for giving me ideas for this chapter (she IS the Rachel from the second answering machine message ) and I may be 1/4 blonde but I'm not stupid. No I'm not writing that Sephiroth is gonna screw me on the first night we're alone.
Exactly.
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