Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy VII

Warning: Fem!Cloud; Time Travel; OOCness

Un-Beta'd

"Well," Genesis blinked. "That was unexpected."

Figures Sephiroth would aim so high.

President ShinRa finally looked down and saw two hooded children clinging to his niece's legs.

With the president's arrival, Kadaj and Loz had felt their mother's discomfort, and remained silent. They warily took in the strange man's appearance and his familiar attitude with their mother.

"Who're these?" the president questioned - because ShinRa never asked, they questioned. "Are these my grandnephews?" When he saw Cloud stiffen, he said, "Don't be so surprised. Did you really think I wouldn't keep in touch with your mother? I would never leave my sister with those Neanderthals without any means of communication."

When neither Cloud nor the boys moved, he made a "come here" motion with his hand.

Wordlessly, Cloud unwillingly pushed her equally unwilling boys in front and dropped their hoods. The man analyzed them, seemingly unsurprised by their appearance. The boys quickly replaced their hoods at his unwavering gaze, and promptly hid behind their mother once more.

"I must say," the president started, "Skye certainly wasn't lying. They definitely look like their father. How did you two meet again?"

Cloud couldn't hide a grimace and didn't answer. The president and the two Firsts waited.

"Spikey threw him in a reactor," Zack blurted out.

Angeal and Genesis whipped their heads back to Zack and stared. Zack was surprised they didn't get a whiplash, but then again, mako would have fixed it. "What?!" the Firsts asked in unison. When he didn't answer, Angeal, Genesis, and the president looked to Cloud.

"What?" Cloud asked when she noticed the stares. "He threw a tantrum," she said, drawing raised brows, "and burned down my house!"

"So you threw him in a reactor," Genesis deadpanned. Throwing him into a vat of mako would have surely caught the General's attention.

"To be fair, he did stab her," Zack defended.

"And that was only the first time, yo!," Reno chortled.

"What?" Genesis said, incredulous.

"What do you mean by 'first'?" Angeal questioned. "Did this happen more than once?"

"Well," Zack blinked, "yeah."

"Whenever they saw each other, they ended up fighting," said Reno. "Pretty sure they've thrown each other into a few mako springs durin' their spats, yo."

"Yeah," Zack reminisced. "They sure changed the landscape a lot. Phew! Those Summons and materia really pack a punch!" Zack laughed. "Scared all the monsters away with all the mayhem they were dishing out!"

Angeal didn't know what to say to that. "...and, they ended up together... how?"

"Psh! I dunno, man," Reno shrugged. "Maybe the guy gets turned on by violence, yo."

Genesis blanched and endeavored to never again drag their sparring sessions on any longer than necessary.

"I am not together with that troll," Cloud firmly corrected.

"And yet you had three kids with him," Rufus smirked.

Oh how Cloud wanted to punch him. He knew damn well she hadn't birthed the three.

"Shut. Up," she said in a low voice.

"Where's the other one?" President ShinRa suddenly questioned. "Skye said you had three."

"...He's with Vincent."

"'Vincent'?" the president furrowed his brow in thought. "Vincent who?"

"Vincent Valentine."

The man tried to remember why the name sounded rather familiar. "Valentine...Valentine...Sounds familiar..."

"He was Veld's partner, yo," Reno quipped.

"Ah, yes! I remember him," the president nodded. "Wasn't he MIA?"

"I found him locked in a coffin in the mansion's basement."

The two SOLDIER Firsts looked lost in the conversation.

"He was a Turk," Zack said helpfully.

"Not just 'a Turk'," Reno interrupted. "He was the Turk. He's legendary amongst us Turks, yo." At the two Firsts' blank expressions, he elaborated. "He was Veld's partner. If he hadn't disappeared, he would'a been the Head Turk instead'a Veld, yo!" and blah, blah, blah. Reno then went on and on about Vincent's prowess like a fanboy, despite having known the man for several lives.

"So," Genesis interrupted, having gotten tired of the endless tirade, "in other words, he's like the Sephiroth of the Turks."

"No," Reno corrected, "Sephiroth's like the Vincent of the SOLDIERs. 'Cause, I mean, he is the General's dad, yo."

Angeal stopped. "What? Could you repeat that?"

"I said, 'Sephiroth's like th-"

"Not that!" Genesis interrupted. "Who did you say he was?"

Reno smirked impishly. "I said, 'He was the Turk' and that he's lege-"

"By the Goddess!" Cloud interrupted, wanting to be done with it. "Just tell them!"

Reno pouted. "Aw, you're such a party pooper, Cloudy! Fine," he huffed, "Valentine's the General's dad."

"Is that right?" The president raised a brow. "It makes sense. He was one of the best in the field. He was assigned to be one of the scientists' bodyguard, if I remember correctly."

"Dr. Crescent," Rude said.

"She was Seph's mom," Zack said helpfully. "Oh, and Hojo's wife."

"He has a wife?" Genesis said incredulously. ("Had," Zack corrected in the background.) "Who would marry him?"

"Really, despite not knowing what this Vincent Valentine looks like," Angeal said, "I can see why she would stray."

"Wanna see a picture?" Zack offered as he took out his PHS. "I have some on my PHS."

"You have his picture?" Genesis raised a brow.

"Well, yeah," Zack blinked. "I do know the guy."

The Firsts along with the president gathered around Zack to see his PHS. Zack scrolled through his device to show them pictures of a man in red ("At least he has good taste," Genesis commented). In most of the pictures, the man's face was obscured by his coat. There were some, however, that showed his full face.

"Are these recent?" Genesis asked, to which Zack replied with a "yup."

"He hasn't aged a day," the president commented.

"I can see the resemblance," Angeal said thoughtfully.

Genesis stared at the PHS. The man looked awfully like what the boys described their father to look like. He thought back to when he had cornered the General about his rumored child. The man had seemed clueless at the time. Perhaps he hadn't been lying... Did Sephiroth truly not know?

"Why does Valentine have my other grandnephew?" President ShinRa questioned.

("He's the kid's grandpa, sheesh," Zack muttered.)

Cloud pursed her lips. "Vincent's starting him on real guns." Because of that, Cloud had to take Kadaj and Loz elsewhere. She didn't want them getting any ideas and start playing with the guns. Besides, they would start asking her for lessons too. Loz was starting to learn from Tifa, but Kadaj was still too small to handle even a practice sword. And Goddess knew how jealous the smallest could get.

The president "ahh"ed and suggested that the boy would make a fine addition to the Turks, if he was anything like his grandfather.

Cloud didn't like that at all.

Her boys would have nothing to do with ShinRa if she could help it. But alas, they were already in ShinRa's sights - if not for her connection to the company, then surely by Sephiroth's or Vincent's. All she could do was deter them from working for the company. And maybe erase Hojo from existance if the mad scientist ever got any ideas. She didn't care if Vincent had dibs on the man, he'd have the next life to deal with Hojo if the scientist decided her babies would be his next specimens.

Goddess knew how protective a mother chocobo could get.

Cloud's Sephiroth sensor was beginning to tingle. She quickly rounded up the kids, placed their hoods on, and excused herself and her children from their company, but not before President ShinRa made her agree to attend the ShinRa anniversary party with her mother, Vincent, and all three Remnants.

In her haste, Cloud quickly agreed, not hearing what the man had asked (see demanded) of her.

It was only when she and the children arrived back in Neibelheim did she recall what she had agreed to.

And boy did she regret it.

Yup, Cloud has a Sephy radar :P All those times tracking him and later on avoiding him all together has given her that sixth sense :P

In one of the previous chapters, it mentioned Vincent had started teaching Yazoo about guns. Now, Yazoo is starting with the real things. Loz is starting his martial arts with Tifa, so Kadaj is the only one who's not learning to fight yet since he's still physically too small.

In case I wasn't clear in this chapter, since Vincent was starting Yazoo with real guns, Cloud took the other two away so they don't interfere with Yazoo's training and accidentally injure themselves.

The Turks babysat Kadaj and Loz while Cloud was working on Rufus' gun. The three stayed at ShinRa but kids thought Cloud was away making deliveries for the past few days, but she was really in the same building, using the workshops to work on the gun.

Yes, I've always imagined Cloud to be a prodigy in weapon designing/inventing as a mechanic, so I figure updating a gun would be easy for her (especially with Vincent for company, I'm sure she learned a thing or two about guns). I mean, look at First Tsurugi and Fenrir! Canon!Cloud made them from scratch and designed them himself! And Fenrir can drive itself.

For those of you who didn't get it, Skye is Mrs. Strife's fanon name. In my story, she also happens to be President ShinRa's sister, making Cloud, Rufus, and Lazard cousins.

By the way, I've posted up a new story that will be a collection of Extras from this story's universe. It's a collection of drabbles/one-shots of ideas that either didn't make it to this story, or are snippets of previous lives.

There's currently only one short drabble, but I will add more later on. Check it out if you're interested.