Thank you ALL! I LOVED the reviews! I LOVED THEM! WEEEEEEEEEEEE! (dance dance.)0 YAY!ཀNow, because you were ALL so nice to me, I present to you NOW, Chapter 2.ཀཀ

This is NOT a Squaffie or a Cloud x Yuffie. NO NO NO NO NO NO WAY IN HELL. The pairings are as follows.

Cloud x Leon

Yuffie x Aerith (maybe)

Riku x Sora

Sephiroth x Cloud (minor)

Ansem x Sephiroth (SUPER MAYBE. But trust me, It'll be FUNNY)


Chapter 2: Surprises In the Closet


Cloud groaned as his alarm clock beeped 5:30 am. Just 10 more minutes...all he needed was just 10 more minutes and...and...

But if he was late to work, they might dock his pay. And he needed to get payed. There was no way he could deny it. Plus, he really didn't think that his new boss what tolerate tardiness anyway.

'Not with the look he gave me yesterday. UGH, damn bastard thinks that he can scare me...' He bitterly thought as he stepped into the shower. Groggily, he leaned his head against the hard marble wall. 'Sephiroth...he said that he'd be seeing me soon. I wonder what he meant...? I didn't even tell Tifa about my new job!' he inwardly groaned, hoping that Sephiroth wasn't planning on stalking him.


"Cloud...CLOUD...CLOUD! WAKE UP!"

"Five...more...minutes..."

"CLOUD! Leon will dock your pay if he catches you SLEEPING! WAKE UP OR ELSE-"

"..."

Cloud reluctantly opened one eye, peering over his arms at Yuffie. "Sorry, Yuffie. I had a rough night..."

Yuffie smiled sweetly. "It's alright. But if Leon catches you, he'll take 20 bucks right off your paycheck! He's VEEERRRRRY strict on SLEEPING!" she screamed, heading for the elevator.

'Could you be any louder?'

"DON'T WORRY!" she cried. "IF YOU FALL ASLEEP AGAIN, I'LL BE SURE TO WAKE YOU UP!"

"Thanks..." he groaned, closing his eyes.

He was awakened by a stack of papers smacked into his face. "Wha-Wha!"

As expected, Leon was glaring down at him. "If I catch you sleeping again, I'll take out 40 dollars instead of the usual 20." he growled, slamming his hands on the desk. "And I want all these papers read, filed, and signed."

Cloud's eyes went wide. "B-But I can't finish all these papers by closing time!" he protested, staring at the near 2 feet pile of papers.

Leon shrugged. "Then I guess you'll have to keep on working."

"Past closing time!"

"Look," Leon hissed. "You feel asleep on the job, and now you have to pay for it. I don't care if it takes you 6 hours to get this done, but you will get all of this done, understood?"

"Yessir!" Cloud squeaked, sinking back into his chair.

"Good."

'Ugh, that bastard is doing this on purpose?' he angrily thought as he scanned a sheet of paper. 'Who the hell does he think he is? Does he want me to fear him? Does he THINK that I'm afraid of him?' The flames of hell rose around him as he angrily stamped another sheet.


Yuffie bounced through the elevator and up to Cloud's desk, grinning. It was near closing time, and she wanted to walk home with Cloud; to talk him into buying her something to eat on the way.

"Cloud?" she sang, knocking on the door. She was answered by screams.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE HIM?" he cried. "WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH HIM! WHO THE HELL DOES HE THINK HE IS!"

Yuffie backed away from the door in surprise. Still in shock, she tentatively knocked on the door again, only to hear more screams.

Cloud bashed his stamp directly onto the next sheet, causing the entire desk to shake. "AND TO THINK THAT I THOUGHT YOU WERE NICE! NICE! BUT NOOOOOO! YOU WENT AND YELLED AT ME FOR TAKING A LITTLE NAP! WELL SCREW YOU!"

"Cloud...?"

"SOME PEOPLE HAVE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO! HOW CAN YOU MAKE A NEWBIE WORK PAST OFFICE HOURS?"

Immediately, Yuffie entered the room, just in time to see Cloud destroy his desk and chair. She stared at him in surprise, then turned her gaze to the mess in his office.

"CLOUD! LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" she cried, pointing at the pile of wood that used to be his desk.

Cloud froze in his ramblings to stare down at his desk. His eyes went wide at the realization of what he had done. "Oh, shit..."

"Leon is going to murder you when he sees this" Yuffie sighed, shaking her head.

As if on cue, Leon burst from in his office, looking none to happy. "What happened! I heard a noise that sounded like something breaking."

Yuffie and Cloud immediately huddled up at the door, preventing Leon from seeing the demolished room. "You-You were p-probably hearing things!" Yuffie stammered, giving Leon a fake smile. Leon raised an eyebrow suspiciously, trying to gaze over Cloud's shoulder.

"Oh really? Because I could have sworn that I heard-"

"You didn't hear anything!" Cloud screamed. "That is, anything that would cause alarm, or something. Heh-heh...heh..."

"Hmmm...I didn't believe Yuffie, and I don't believe you. What are you two hiding?" He asked, pushing Yuffie over to gaze fully over her shoulder. Immediately, Yuffie jumped in front of him, holding her hands out in front of her. "NO, REALLY! NOTHING HAPPENED SO YOU CAN JUST LEAVE!"

Leon narrowed his eyes

"MOVE."

They both shook their heads.

Without so much as a warning, Leon roughly picked Cloud up, ignoring the protests and struggles of the shocked blond man. He marched into the room with Yuffie hot on his heels and with Cloud still struggling (and blushing). No sooner had he entered the room, had he dropped Cloud on his ass in his own shock.

Before him was the remnants of what used to be a desk, wood and papers lying ripped and scattered all over the room. With steam practically blowing out of his ears, he turned towards Cloud and Yuffie, who were huddling next to each other in fear.

"Strife," he hissed, storming over to the blond in fury. (with dramatic back-lighting and all!) "Care to explain what happened here?"

"I-It was an accident! My, um, hand...s-slipped..."

"And you ended up destroying the entire desk?"

"Um...s-sorry."

Leon opened his mouth to bark out an insult, but was interrupted by Yuffie. "He didn't mean it, Leon! REALLY! It was just an accident, he was just trying to-"

"You've fallen asleep on the job, arrived late to work, AND you've just destroyed a 200 dollar desk. ALL ON YOUR FIRST DAY. Tell me, Strife. How in seven hells did someone as clumsy as you get a job like this?"

Cloud glared at him, his face turning red in anger. "In case you have forgotten, YOU hired ME!" Cloud cried, jumping to his feet.

"And THAT ALONE must be the DUMBEST thing I've EVER done!"

"Listen, Leon! IT was a MISTAKE! MISTAKE! I DIDN'T BREAK IT ON PURPOSE!"

"Yeah, RIGHT! Who the HELL destroys an entire DESK by 'accident'! That's 200 dollars off of your paycheck!"

Cloud froze at this, his face flushing as he stared at Leon in horror. "What?"

"You heard me. Someone needs to pay for all of this. And who better than the one who caused all of it?"

"Bu-But I can't! YOU CAN'T! I need that money too...too..."

"Yea? Well I don't give a damn if you starve or get kicked out of your house. YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS DESK!" Leon growled, stomping out of the office. "And you are not leaving until you finish ALL of those papers. I want to see them FIRST thing tomorrow morning. Am I clear?"

Cloud nodded, dumbfounded as he tried to think on how he was going to eat for the next couple of days.


"So, basically, you're broke?"

"Not EXACTLY 'broke' but I don't exactly have MONEY either..."

"Oh..."

'Goddamn that bastard, Leon! Wonder how I'm supposed to pay my bills now...' Cloud thought bitterly, sniffing back his emotions.

Yuffie giggled, totally ignoring the fact that Cloud was in a predicament on his first real day of work. "You know, I think Squall likes you."

Cloud turned towards her, his eye twitching as he asked "How ya figure?"

"Oh, come on! You've heard of love at first sight, right? Besides, there's a whole lot of sexual tension between you two!"

Cloud sighed. "Yuffie, I just met the guy, and I already know how much of an asshole he is. How the hell could you think that I'm in love with that...that..."

Yuffie shrugged. "Well, it's the way he yells at you. Its different from the way he yells at everyone else. There's more...you know, tension."

"Yuffie, you aren't making any sense at all. They way you yell is the way you yell. There's nothing different about it."

Yuffie turned around, giving Cloud the thumbs up sign before she left. "You'll see it my way sooner or later! (hopefully sooner...)"

Cloud rolled his eyes and opened his apartment door. But before he got more than 4 feet inside, strong arms wrapped around his waist and pulled him backwards.

"I've been waiting for this moment, Cloud."

"What?"


Leon sighed as he threw himself onto his bed. What a hard day it had been! Gosh, was he glad to be home. But tomorrow means another hard day at work.

With that idiot Cloud Strife.

Who the HELL destroys an entire desk on his own? And by 'accident'?

'I'm beginning to regret picking such a bimbo to work here. Although...'

But...when he had picked up the blonde, he couldn't help but notice how soft he was. For someone his age, he was surprisingly light. Not to mention how adorable he looked when he blushed.

Wait, why was he thinking all of this? That idiot was a major slacker, not to mention his little habit of ticking Leon off. But he was just so adorable...

'I wonder if he gets enough to eat...he looks so frail for someone in their twenty's'

Great, and now he was worried about his health. Talk about adding insult to injury. Pretty soon he would be wondering if he slept alone at night, or if he had enough body heat to carry on through the day. Or...

'What a house wife you'll make, Squall. Before you know it, you'll be making his breakfast and kissing him off to work' he bitterly thought to himself.

But judging on how cute and lonely Cloud looked, House wife didn't seem so bad...


THERE! FINISHED! Sorry that I couldn't update fast enough! I've had stuff to do for a while. Anyway, Sephiroth, Sora, Riku, and Aerith (and maybe even Kairi) are all in the next chapter, okay? DON'T FORGET TO R&R!