She sat there, her spiky, blonde bangs rustling in the wind. The rest of her long hair was pulled back into two shining braids. She watched her big brother sulk on the water tower, but he had done that a lot lately.

"Cloudy Wolf," she called to him. He turned his gaze to her. She smiled sweetly and cuddled the giant stuffed cat in her arms.

"Sadako," He replied, and jumped down. Walking up to her and lifting her above his shoulders, the walked into town, the edges of her pink dress tickling his neck.

"Hey Cloud," Tifa said, her long brown hair wrapped around her fist.

"H-h-hey," he said right back. He blushed and turned away, hoping she hadn't seen. Their house was coming up, and their mother was sitting on the front steps, knitting as she did in those days.

"Ah, my Proud Cloud and his little sidekick Super Sadako," she cooed, pulling Her youngest child from her son's shoulders and twirling with her once. Her blondish brown hair was pulled back in a bun today.

"Hey mom," Cloud replied smiling contentedly at the two of them.

'I was thinking, what if I joined SOLDIER?"

His mother stopped laughing with her baby, "You really want to do that?" She gave him a stern gaze that gave Sadako an unsettling feeling. She didn't know what SOLDIER was, but she knew it made momma mad. What made it more unsettling was that she was mad at Cloud. " I forbid it." She put Sadako down and went back inside.

"Cloud make momma mad?" She asked turning to look at her brother, only to find he had walked away.

"I'm joining," was all he said. He slowly walked up to the Inn. Sadako knew that the people who were staying there know were bad cause momma said so. Even their leader, the man her brother called Sephiroth, scared momma. He came out, his pigtail crudely chopped from his head. He stared at his one-year-old sister and nodded. The men began to file out of the inn. She waved to him, but he didn't see.

That night was not a pleasant one. When Sadako had told her momma about what Cloud had done in the best way her one-year-old Vocabulary allowed, there had been turmoil. The info had made her mother upset. Tifa was upset too.

"Cloudy Wolf be bad?" was all she could say. Tifa knelt down to her and simply shook her head. Her eyes were full of tears., and she sniffled here and there. That night Sadako spent her first night alone, but she spent it in his room. Her mother walked by several times to find her only daughter standing at the window on an old wooden crate Cloud had used for his toys when he was little.

"Be okay Cloudy Wolf, be okay."