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Chapter 6: Memories

"S-Sephiroth!" Kadaj exclaimed, rising to his feet. Sephiroth smiled at him, then leaped away over a nearby rainbow of cranberry sauce.

The next morning, Kadaj woke up alone in the bedroom. As he approached the bathroom, he heard Yazoo and Loz through the cracked door, so he intruded.

"Oh, Kadaj, you're up," Loz pointed out. Kadaj was shocked. Loz was in a nice tuxedo and was actually primping in the mirror.

"What's going on?" Kadaj asked.

Yazoo stood behind Loz with his arms crossed while bitting his lower lip. He looked pretty upset-- sad.

"Well, the birds are buzzing and the bees are chirping, Kadaj. I'm getting married," Loz answered, straightening his bow tie.

Yazoo made an even sadder face.

"M-married? To who?" Kadaj questioned in shock.

"Elena. She's a Turk."

"Oh, Loz, I'm so happy for you! Aren't you, Yazoo?" Kadaj cheered, hugging Loz. "Now she can live here with us and --"

"No," Loz said. Kadaj let go of him and stepped back. "I'm movin' out, stupid."

"Wha-but . . . we're brothers! We need someone to be in charge here and lead us to find Mother!"

"Yazoo's in charge now. I'm leaving right now in a minute for the chapel."

"But . . this is all so sudden . . .," Kadaj added.

"I've already decided. You can't stop me, Kadaj. I love her."

"More than us? We're your little brothers! We're a team!" Kadaj nagged on. "Help me, Yazoo!" Yazoo was so torn and upset that he stormed out of the bathroom.

"Kadaj, if you love me, you won't try to stop me!" Loz told him angrily, then left Kadaj speechless.

After Loz had left for the chapel, Kadaj and Yazoo stayed home, not wanting to watch the painful moment. They sat on the couch together sadly.

"Yazoo, what're we gonna do?" Kadaj said, holding back tears.

"I don't know! I don't wanna be in charge!" Yazoo said in the same condition.

"We need Loz!" they cried at the same time. They hugged tightly on the couch and let their painful tears spill freely.

At dinner time, Yazoo went through the living room and tripped over one of Loz's weights. Kadaj walked over and helped him up.

"He didn't take his things ...," Kadaj said.

"He told me before you woke up that he'd come get his stuff tomorrow," Yazoo informed him.

They tried to pick the weights up and move them, but they were so heavy they couldn't budge them.

"Geeze! How strong is he!" Yazoo exclaimed, straining as hard as he could, trying again to lift them. He was red in the face from straining, even though they had not left the floor even the tiniest bit. They decided to roll them into the corner instead.

Ding! "Oh, dinner's ready!" Kadaj announced. He raced into the kitchen, turned the stove off, put his oven mitts on, then took the food out of it.

"Oh, Kadaj! It smells heavenly!" Yazoo sighed dreamily. He was too upset to eat earlier, so he was extra hungry.

Kadaj made their plates and sat them on the table by their seats, since Yazoo has finally regained the ability to sit, as long as he sits on a cushion, which he did.

"The food is great tonight, Kadaj. Like always, of coarse," Yazoo complimented, slurping a very cheesy spaghetti noodle into

his mouth.

"Well, thank you, Yazoo," Kadaj said happily.

"What do you think, Moogy?" Yazoo asked the moogle doll sitting at the right end of the table. (Loz found her clogging up the toilet, so he washed her and gave her back to Yazoo)

"...," Moogy replied.

"She likes it, too," Yazoo translated. "How about you, Loz--" Just as the words came out, Yazoo burst into tears.

Kadaj left his seat and stood behind Yazoo, who was sitting directly in front of him. He patted him on the back and said, "It's okay, Yazoo. Don't cry."

"But, it's just not the same without him!" he sniffed and cried, his face hidden in his arms on the table.

"I know, but ... we can find Mother without him. Besides, I'm sure he's happy."

"But what about our feelings! Remember all those good times we used to have?"

"Yeah. Like when we were little?" Kadaj asked.

"Yeah," Yazoo answered a bit more calmly and with his head up.

"I remember that whenever I was ever sad or lonely, Loz would set me in his lap and comfort me," Kadaj said sadly in remembrance.

"Yeah, and the time I scrapped my knee bad, he was the one who doctored it," Yazoo said.

"And when we used to bathe together before I was able to on my own. It was nice, the three of us being brothers," Kadaj added.

"And that time when that bully was calling me 'girly' and 'sissy', Loz beat him up for me."

"And ... remember that fistfight we had?" Kadaj inquired.

". . . Fistfight?"

"Yeah, the one by ChocoBilly's Chocobo Farm?"

"Fistfight? Pu-lease, Kadaj! You were beaten before we even got started!"

"What? That's not how I remember it!" Kadaj commented. "I beat you so bad you cried your eyes out and Loz had to carry you

home like an infant!"

"Liar!"

"Well, let's just ask Loz when he comes over to get his stuff tomorrow!"

"Fine!"

That night, Kadaj and Yazoo pushed all three beds together to make one huge one. Kadaj slept on his side on the right and Yazoo on his in the middle.

"Scoot over, Yazoo! Sleep on Loz's side!" Kadaj grumble grouchily.

"No. I don't wanna," Yazoo mumbled back. "Moogy is sleeping there."

"Well, move that stupid doll! I can't stand you laying so close to me!"

All night, Yazoo clung to Kadaj anyway. The next morning, Kadaj was on edge with him. He pushed sleeping Yazoo off of him roughly and got out of bed.

"Get up, Sleeping Beauty!" Kadaj yelled to him.

Yazoo yawned, stretched, and sat up in bed. "Yeah, I guess I am a 'Sleeping Beauty', huh?"

"Hurry up!"

"What's wrong, Kadaj?" he asked, getting out of the bed.

"You, that's what!"

"Me?"

"Yes! You laid on top of me all night! I pushed you over a billion times, but you would just roll right back!"

"But, Kadaj! Without Loz, I feel . . . unsafe, insecure, and well . . . "

"Well, forget about your girly, babyish feeling and grow up and become a man!" Kadaj screamed to him.

Yazoo stared into his eyes in shock and hurt. He had never been talked to like that before. It really hurt. "You can't talk to me like that! Besides, I didn't lay that close!"

"You don't think you did, but those fat hips of your take up a lot of room! And what you call your buttocks and thighs are what makes me think of bad holiday Jell-O!"

Yazoo slapped Kadaj so hard across the face he nearly fell. "How dare you talk to me like that again! I hate you! I hope you die!"

Kadaj slapped him back, so Yazoo slapped him. Kadaj pushed him down onto the bed and stared evilly into his eyes. Yazoo reached up and grabbed Kadaj by the cheeks and stretched them, so Kadaj did the same to him. Then Yazoo pulled his hair and Kadaj mimicked.

"Owww!" Yazoo whined, letting go of Kadaj.

Kadaj let him up off of the bed, then asked, "You give up?"

"Never!" Yazoo pushed Kadaj into the wall.

"You fight like a frightened little girl!" Kadaj teased. "You'll have to fight better than that to beat me, sugar!"

Yazoo punched Kadaj in the stomach, so he sank to the floor gasping.

"So, you are gonna let Sugar beat you?"

Kadaj got up furiously and hit Yazoo so that he spun around backwards. Then Kadaj started kicking him as hard as he could in the butt. "I suggest you put your dress and diaper back on, Yazzy!" As he continually kicked him, he thought up another nasty comment. "Maybe that diaper will keep your butt from wiggling so much when I kick it!"

"Stop it! Stop looking at it, sicko! And stop kicking it! It hurts!" Yazoo screamed as tears poured down his face.

"Not until it's hurt so bad you have to go to the hospital!" Kadaj laughed evilly, beginning to go crazy.

"Help! Somebody!" Yazoo screamed in agony, not able to escape from Kadaj's frenzy.

"Yazoo!" Loz yelled in alarm as he slung the bedroom door open. He pushed Kadaj down onto the floor harshly and put Yazoo gently in bed. He grabbed Moogy and continued to bawl.

Loz grabbed Kadaj by the arm, slung him up onto his feet, and dragged him out of the room.

After Yazoo's crying calmed down so that he was no longer screaming, Loz sat down on the bed with him. "Yazoo, what happened?"

Yazoo told him the whole story. Loz hugged him, and then left the room.

"Kadaj! Come here!" Loz yelled in the living room. Kadaj walked over to him angrily. "You should be ashamed of yourself! I leave you two alone for 24 hours and this happens!"

"Well, he needs to grow up and take his diaper off!" Kadaj replied with a serious attitude problem while crossing his arms.

"No, you do! I left Yazoo in charge and you can't grow up enough to accept it! The Planet doesn't just revolve around you and

your immature and girly mood swings!" Loz informed furiously. Kadaj grit his teeth while he listened. "Yazoo's a lot more mature and respectful than you are!"

"I'm not listening to this!" Kadaj growled, walking away. Loz grabbed him by the arm and put him in a corner of the room.

"Listen to me, Kadaj! I am disgusted with you! You treat Yazoo like dirt! Well, I'm not gonna have it! You thought I treated

Yazoo cruely when I mentioned his figure and whipped him with my belt! Look at what you've done these past few days! You are constantly making fun of his figure, you humiliate him, and you beat him in a fight!"

"Well, hey! I can't help it if I beat him in fights! I' m just tougher than him!" Kadaj told him, one hand on his hip and his other motioning with his head, like a rebellious teenage girl.

"Hey, drop the attitude with me! You're not some teenage girl and I'm not your strict father!"

Kadaj slapped him across the face. "Stop insulting me!"

Loz punched him in the shoulder, but controlled it so that it was more like a warning than a punishment. "You are stronger than Yazoo, but you have no right to talk to him the way you do! It's not your place to do it – it's mine if anyone's – and I'm too mature to do something like that anyway! Did you forget you're the youngest here! You have no right to lecture us or talk to us like that! Do you understand!"

". . . Yes," Kadaj choked out.

"How could you say things like that to him! Have you been staring at his butt or something!" Loz asked.

"No! It's kinda hard to miss!" Kadaj blushed.

"Well, you should consider other people's feelings, shorty!" Loz insulted. Kadaj looked at him with watery eyes. "Now I'll get to watch your butt wiggle as I beat it harder than you beat Yazoo's!"

"N-no! I get the message! I'm an immature bratty baby that has a girly attitude problem, okay? I admit it!" Kadaj cried, the water in his eyes spilling down his face. He was cornered, so he slid down, crawled between Loz's legs, and ran for it.

"Come back here, Kadaj!" Loz yelled to him, chasing after him. Kadaj tripped and fell, so Loz grabbed him and leaned him over the couch arm so he would get a good, easy target.

"No! Please don't!" Kadaj screamed in horror.

Loz kicked him once, then said, "Geeze, Kadaj! What've you been eatin'? Your butt's almost as big as Yazoo's!"

Kadaj moaned, then Loz continued to kick him. Afterwards, Loz laid him on the couch. "Wahaaaa! Mother, help me! It hurts! Make it stooop!" he screamed and cried like Yazoo had.

Good? Please send reviews! Do you think Kadaj got what he deserved? Will the brothers' relationships change now that Loz is moving out and his little brothers hate each other, or will they overlook this and love each other again? Next chapter holds the answer!