Tseng cleared this throat as he entered the truck driving seat. Loz sat in the passenger side while Yazoo sat in the back, much to Tseng's relief, being near the gunslinger made him all the more nervous. Vincent handed Tseng the keys. "Take them to the Kalm inn over the Midgar border. I'm sure they'll be able to look after themselves." He took the keys and started up the engine.

Yazoo started to fiddle with various objects in the back. He was a little agitated leaving Midgar, he wanted to go back to the Forgotten City, but knew he couldn't. He applied some more cream Vincent had given him for his bruised eye. Loz, on the other hand, was very excited. He loved going to new places, and was always in a cheery mood.

Tseng drove the truck out of Edge, and then out of Midgar fully. He tried to avoid any routes Cloud would take during his deliveries, even if that included going to the other side of the world, part of him wanted Cloud to find him so he could finish them off, but he dared not to say anything to the silver haired brothers.

"Where'd you get that?" Tseng asked Loz, who was listening to an MP3 player. "In the house." he grinned as he bobbed his head to some random song Tseng probably never heard of. "It might've been one of the kids'." he added. Loz didn't care, he was always too busy trying to find entertainment of his own.

They're little road trip was cut short when the truck started to slow down, then eventually coming to a complete stop. "What now?" Tseng asked himself as he stepped out of the vehicle to observe what happened. "Yazoo...what happened?"

"You hit a Kalm Fang." he said nonchantly. Tseng reached behind the truck and pulled out a SB16 Rifle, if he hit a Kalm Fang, the rest of the pack won't be far behind. "What happened!?" shouted an impatient Loz who also came out and looked beyond the road. "Hey, look! A doggie!" Tseng and Yazoo both looked over the road, indeed, several Fangs were there. Yazoo quickly sensed more of them behind them. There were 3 more in front of the truck.

Tseng almost immediately opened fire on the beasts, while Yazoo shot the ones on the other side with Loz's gun, which was Yazoo's now. Loz was fighting physically, sending them in all directions, the Fangs were no match for him. However, one bit his arm and wrestled him to the ground, it was much bigger than the rest, and was indeed much stronger.

Yazoo immediately was aware of Loz's situation. "Here." he said as he threw his gun to Tseng, who was still peletting the fiends. Yazoo delivered a butterfly kick to the creatures jaw, letting loose it's grip on Loz, as it snarled at the younger brother with saliva and blood dripping from it's serrated teeth.

Tseng had finished off the stragglers and aided the clones. He was about to shoot the beast in the skull, but Loz struck first, grabbing the large Fangs neck and splitting it in a 360 arc, nearly ripping it's head off, surely...they were dead. Tseng gave Yazoo back his gun and Loz got back in the passenger seat. "Are you alright?" Tseng asked Loz, who was still grabbing his arm in pain. "I'm fine." he said, his eyes began to water as Yazoo tapped the window, mouthing something to Loz. "I'm not crying!" Loz shouted in protest. Tseng started the engine and drove to Kalm.

"He's still not answering." Rude said as he put down his phone again. "Maybe something happened to him." Elena asked, a little worried. Reno stepped back from the window and then walked up and down the room before deciding to say something. "He said he was going to see Cid."

"But we don't know where he is." Rude replied, who was also now a little worried. Rufus wasn't, he knew Tseng longer than any of them, he knew he was alright. "I'm going to Cloud's. Rude, escort me." Rufus said as he began to walk for the door.

"Hey, what about me!?" Reno shouted, a little angry of being not in any of the action. "You and Elena have to look after this place. We'll be back soon." Rufus assured him, then they left out the door and into the car. Reno slouched on the sofa. "He should've sent me and Rude to go." Elena turned to him, who was also a little disappointed. Reno got up and sat in a normal position beside her.

"Elena...do you think I'm annoying?" Reno asked, Elena blinked. He was, at times...but sometimes he was very reliable and funny, but sometimes he tried a little too hard. She had to say something or it would make him upset. "I think you're funny, but you do get on my nerves sometimes." she said as she lightly punched him in the arm. "But..." he started, she turned to him.

"...I have to tell you something..." He was beginning to scare her, she felt he had a prank played or something, that he'd make her say something and he'd have her on film and show it to everyone, but she decided to keep her wits about her. "What is it?"

Instead of recieving a reply, Reno had jumped on her and started kissing her. Elena, a bit shocked and scared, threw the redhead off of her and to the other side of the sofa. Reno blushed for a while until he came to his senses. "Ha, sorry, I should've said something..." Elena look wide eyed at him. "Reno! You just..."

"I really like you, 'lena..." he admitted with a hint of a child in his voice. He still looked down at his feet, taking pity, she made her way over to him. "Reno, listen...I like you, but not in that way, to me...your like a goofish older brother!" she laughed and punched him in the arm, he rubbed it lightly. "Well, I'm sorry..."

Elena looked at him then remembered something. "Hey Reno...Rude's mom and sister are coming to visit him." she chirped happily. Reno shuddered the thought of Rude's family all bald with sunglasses and goatees, what a disturbing image indeed. "What are their names? Ruda and Rudee?" Reno said with a snigger.

"No, his Mother is called Lea, and his sister is called Ikara." Reno raised an eyebrow. "Ikara? What is she from Wutai?" Elena straightened her hair and yanked at the sofa before looking at him. "His mother is Wutainese, his father is originally from Midgar." Reno nodded, pretending to understand but he was lost in his own thought.

"When do they get here?" he asked as he got up and tried to straighten his hair, only for it to bend awkwardly out of shape, Elena shrugged. "Don't know...about a few days." Reno slouched off to his room and closed the door leaving a very confused Elena behind, when he got in his room he fell onto his bed and thought about earlier before muttering a very loud "FUCK!"

Tifa finished bringing in the grocery bags, which Marlene and Denzel very politely agreed to help, she wished Cid, Barret and Cloud would help, but they were too busy engaged in their game of cards, Barret was wearing a poker cap to make himself look more like a card shark. "Two Odins, three Ifrits and a chocobo...beat that!" Barret shouted at both of them.

Cid cursed before sparking up another cigarette. "What the fuck is this!? 'Rules on how to play Poker?!" Cid threw the 'strange' card aside and went off to boil the kettle before observing a fork, Barret was still waiting for Cloud's response, who layed his cards on the table with confidence.

"Knights of The Round." he said calmly as Barret slammed his fist into the table. "AGAIN!? Why can't I win a single fucking game!?" He started punching the wall at a 5 game losing streak with Cloud always ending up winning. Cloud laughed softly to himself before walking out the door.

Tifa made her way upstairs, she sensed a strange aura about...as if someone was there. She heard someone in the bathroom, she knew everyone else was downstairs so she waited outside the door. The sounds coming from the bathroom were sounds of leather changing positions, but she couldn't put her finger on it. The door opened, and Vincent came out.

"Tifa, is something wrong?" he asked in his cold, usual voice. Relief washed over her, she assumed he was out, he never could stay here long. "I'm fine..." Vincent eyed her before shrugging and making his way downstairs to calm Barret down, who's voice filled the whole house. She went in the bathroom, there were a few long hairs in the shower, they definately weren't hers. She picked one up and held it in the light.

Silver. There was no denying that, but the sink held an even bigger shock. It was a sticky note, the writing was hastily scribbled, but it was readable. She read it into herself; Dear Vincent, thank you for letting me and Yazoo stay. It was very kind, and good thing Cloud won't find out! Our little secret! You're new best friend, Loz!

She dropped the note, she knew Loz was that lumbering hulk of a man who she fought in the church, so she assumed Yazoo was the long haired clone. She bit her fingernails nervously. Sephiroth clones? Alive? In her bar!? And Vincent let them!? Her eyes widened at the thought and she stormed down the stairs in a death march. She bumped into Cid.

"Whoa, missy. Hold up." he laughed, but he saw anger in her eyes. He knew Tifa was a force to be reckoned with when angry so he let it slip. "Where's Vincent?" she asked, trying to calm the aggression in her voice.

"Uh, he just went out to look for Yuf-hey!" she cut him off by striding past him, nearly knocking him over. She ignored everyone else and opened the door. Rufus was just about to knock, and Rude was with him. "Excuse me, is Cloud home?" She didn't answer, she knocked the young ex-president over by accident, and she stormed off into the distance.

"I pity the person she's after." Rufus said accordingly. "True." Rude replied as they both went inside the 7th Heaven. Whilst inside, they searched for Cid. Rufus easily heard him before seeing him. He was screaming at Barret to calm down, as if he wasn't making any more noise.

"Mr. Highwind..." Rufus said calmly as Cid turned around, a big grin plastered on his face. "Well well, lookey here! Lemme guess? You've finally decided to confirm the space program?" Rude looked at him, then back to Rufus who chuckled. "No, we are looking for you. Did Tseng come here looking for you?" he asked him.

Cid scratched his head. "Nah, didn't see 'em. Never actually talked to him before." Rude looked a bit confused and shocked to the fact that Tseng might've lied to them, save for Rufus. "Well, if he happens to drop by, let me know." Rufus said as they both left the bar. Cid spat on the corner, then started to panic. Then he remembered...Tifa was out. He could do whatever the hell he wanted. "Be right back guys, I'M going to put the seat down!"

It had been 10 minutes since Tseng left. He dropped the brothers off at Kalm and let them continue on from there, even gave them a few hundred gil. Both were a little confused as they never actually were living for themselves now that Kadaj was gone. Loz breathed in deeply then let loose. Yazoo turned to him then backed off. "Could've warned me..." he said, wiping a strand of hair from his eyes.

"Heh, sorry. I ate too much." Loz replied cheerily. Yazoo started to walk off toward the plains around Kalm when Loz stopped him. "Where you going!?" he yelled before grabbing his arm. "I'm going for a walk, I'll be back soon...don't be a big baby."

"But..."

"Don't be scared silly..."
"I'm not scared..."
"Are you crying?"

"Shut up! I am NOT crying!" Yazoo laughed to himself before putting a hand on his brothers shoulders. "Go buy us something to eat. I think we should camp tonight." Loz looked at his brother for a minute. "Why can't we go to the inn?"

"Loz, you, of all people, have no common sense. Look at us, do you think there isn't one person who never knew what we did?" Yazoo asked him rather sternly, with a sting in his tone.

Loz just nodded and went to Kalm to do what he was told. Yazoo walked out into the open fields, ignoring everything around him except the way ahead. He was rather worried that Cloud would know where they are, and he'd come for them. He knew Cloud was ignorant and wouldn't care, so he tried to push the thought out and think of his future with Loz.

He came to a small shrubbery. A smell came to his nose, a very familiar one. Flowers. But there weren't any flowers around here, this confused him, so he waited until the unbearable stench got worse, then his idea was confirmed, someone jumped from the bushes. It was the ninja girl; the one he saw in Edge. And she had a small lotus flower in her hair.

"AH HA! I knew Vinnie was keeping one of you creeps!" she yelled frantically, her large shruiken in a ready position. Yazoo wrinkled his nose and tilted his head at her. "Do you mean Vincent. Who are you?" he asked without any sign of fear in it. Her eyes widened at the comment. "WHAT!? How can you not know me!? I'm the Great Ninja Yuffie from Wutai!"

"...Whatever." Yazoo said as he began going in another direction, but the spunky teenager leapt in his way. "You're not going anywhere!" she shouted with her arms outstretched.

"Out of my way, brat..." Yazoo said as he bypassed Yuffie who sat with a shocked face, she turned to the clone and crossed her arms. "What did you just call me!? How old are you!?" she shouted in his ear. He cringed slightly, desperately wanting to end her life with a bullet to the head...no, breaking her neck would be more satisfying...yet he decided to co-operate. This was one of Cloud's friends, after all.

"If you must know, I'm 19." he replied not looking at her, instead focusing attention on a spider on a leaf spinning a web. "How can you call me a brat if you're a year older than me!?" He turned to her with an angry and annoyed look on his face.

"You exist to act like a child." he said coldly. His fingers twitched, wanting to grab for his gun. She glared at him before waving a finger at him. "Exist!? You have some nerve saying that you buttface! YOU don't even exist, you're just a jigsaw piece...a wor-" Yazoo couldn't take any more, he lunged at the girl.

She let out a sigh of confidence, but that was cut short to a squeal of shock when Yazoo was on her faster than lightning, using his cat-like reflexes and getting in a right position to wrap his slender fingers around her fragile neck in a death grip. He threw her to the floor with effortless ease, pointing the gun rather harshly at the side of her nose. She had almost no power over her captor, he was just too strong...part of her didn't mind this either...

"Let...me.." she tried to say, but he tightened his grip on her throat. She could almost feel the eyes almost pop out of her head, Yazoo then began to speak. "Your next words will be your last..." he said, but a gunshot put that theory to a halt.

Vincent stood glaring at the Sephiroth clone and then to Yuffie, laying on her knees gasping for air. "What did you do to her?" Vincent asked. "She annoyed me." Yazoo replied, sheathing his gun and making his way to Kalm. Vincent grabbed his arm sharply. Yazoo winced in pain at his touch and turned to him. Cold, crimson eyes met feline-green eyes.

"We gave you a chance to be someone, don't throw it away..." he said, tightening his grip causing the younger to groan in pain again. "What of her?" he said, tilting his head downward and looking up at Vincent with murder in his eyes. "Yuffie is too immature for her own safety."

"Hey!"

Vincent released his grip and turned to Yuffie and grinned slightly. "Dinner is ready." Yuffie's eyes widened as she rushed past him, screaming various food names and complaining about Tifa putting ketchup on her waffles. Vincent turned to Yazoo. "Where's Loz?"

"He's getting us something to eat..." Vincent nodded before leaving the confused Yazoo behind.

Upon his way back to Kalm, he heard various people yelling about a motorbike being stolen, he made out the words 'Fight', 'Cry' and 'Silver'. He could only assume it was Loz, but he found Loz lying with his wound opened very wide, and two holes in his abdomen. "Loz!? What happened!?" Yazoo cried, desperately worried for his brother's safety.

Loz looked at him, a small cheeky grin appearing. "Don't cry...Yazoo..." Loz coughed slightly. Yazoo observed the wound, then it hit him...it was a sword, the depth was the same, so it was an instant stab wound, there was only one sword that could do such a thing...Yazoo looked over the Kalm Border. "Kadaj..."

END OF CHAP. 2

Authors Note:

So, is Kadaj alive? Rude's sister Ikara arrives, and Reno has taken quite the fancy. Tseng is under Rufus' wrath, and Tifa wants to know the truth about the clones' whereabouts. Will Loz survive? Will Reno find true love at last? Will Tseng get the spanking of his life from Rufus? What would happen if Tifa ran into this 'Kadaj' who injured Loz? Find out next time!

-YaZoO