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Jealousy
Chapter One
Kadaj sighed heavily and traced the pattern of the table with one gloved fingertip. Yazoo and Loz were nowhere to be found, a fact that he'd discovered upon awakening a good four hours after his alarm was supposed to have gone off. Said alarm was now nothing more than a mass of plastic fragments scattered over half of his room, but knowing that he'd have to replace the damn thing killed whatever satisfaction its violent death had held.
The front door squeaked open and slammed shut, and heavy footfalls echoed through the hallway and up the stairs.
"Where the hell have you been?" Kadaj asked, not bothering to look up from the patterns he was tracing.
"Out," Yazoo said, stomping over to the fridge and throwing the door open. "That fucking idiot Loz is out attempting to paint the town red."
"I overslept, you know." He twisted his hand and brought his fingertip up the side of the bowl of fruit on the table.
"That's not my problem, kid." Yazoo muttered, grabbing something and slamming the door shut. "You're the dumbass who still hasn't figured out how to set the damn thing properly."
"Whatever." Kadaj rolled his eyes and grabbed an apple from the bowl. He eyed it carefully, bringing it up to his mouth and, at the last minute, changing his mind and chucking it at Yazoo instead. Yazoo watched impassively as the fruit hit the counter a good foot away from him and rolled onto the floor.
"Bad aim, as always." Yazoo shook his head and picked the fruit up off of the floor, moving over to the sink to rinse it off. "Not that I'd expect anything else from—holy shit!"
"What?" Kadaj stared at Yazoo, grabbing an orange out of the bowl and hefting it experimentally.
"You're not going to believe this, kid," Yazoo muttered, gesturing for Kadaj to join him by the window. Kadaj dropped the orange back into the bowl and stood.
"What the hell are you going on about now?" Yazoo pointed towards the street, and a familiar figure who was stumbling towards their building. "Loz?"
"Looks like," Yazoo muttered. "But look at that."
Loz stumbled into the circle of light cast by a street lamp, and Kadaj felt his jaw drop. "He's with a girl?"
"Not just any girl, Kadaj. That's Tifa Lockheart he's got hanging all over him."
"That lucky bastard! I'm gonna kill him!"
Author's note: Well, I've finally caved in to peer pressure and written my first Advent Children fic, although it's pretty AU with a nice serving of OC to top it off. Questions, comments, suggestions, and flames are all welcomed and appreciated, so please don't hesitate to tell me what you think of my work. I like people who are willing to be honest with me and not bother sugarcoating everything.
