He this is just a silly one shot, about Tifa and Axel both talking on the hill top where cloud later defeats Sephiroth. I know that Tifa and Axle don't meet in the game, but oh-well, this Idea popped in my head so I wrote it. :D

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Both the Same

She sits on the cliff's edge looking out, knowing that somewhere out there he stands. She swings her feet over the edge, for the first time she feel like she needs to cry, but like all the times before this, she cant; the tears wont come. The sound of crushing tiny rocks in the sand, tells her she no longer alone. Simultaneously she pulls on her gloves and curls her hand into fits; slyly she turns around though her hands are still by her side. A spiky red-headed man dressed in a black coat faces her. She recognizes the coat from somewhere; something tells her she should be on her guard but she's lacking to will to raise her hands.

"What? No fight?" the red head asks, mocking her, "your just going to let me kill you?"

Tifa hands raise to a fighting stance, but her thought still linger on the spiky hair blond, who's in other world, thinking he's alone. The red head chuckles, "you'll never beat me with you thought else where." Tifa forces her thoughts on to the up coming battle, glaring at the red head before her, she get ready to strike.

"nah, your wasting your time. I'm not here looking for fight. I here for the same reason you are." He has no expression, yet some how she knows that he's sad, unwilling to move; just like her. Slowly he walks past Tifa, not even glancing in her direction so Tifa's now looking at his back, "and what's that? why do you think I'm here?"

"To be alone." He sits down, his legs handing off the edge. For an unknown reason Tifa follows suite, but her hand are still clenched into fits.

"You know," she hears him sigh, "you and I aren't that different." His eyes are glazed over, looking out, but not seeing anything.

"How do you figure that?" Tifa asks

"We're both looking for someone, but knowing exactly where they are, yet their still lost to us. Were both trying to find our place, find where we belong?"

Tifa thinks about, he has a point, looking back now, she cant remember the last time she heard Cloud laugh, or even the last time he was really there when she looked into his eyes. "Who are you?" she tries to change the subject.

The red head looks at her, waits a bit, like as if he's trying to see if he should tell her the truth, "the name's Axel, got it memorized?"

Tifa nods curtly, "Tifa," she looks back out over the cliff, trying to find him, knowing that she won't be able to see him, "my name is Tifa Lockhart"

Axel watches her scan the horizon. "So Tifa, who are you looking for?" he eyes are glazed over again, unemotional.

"I don't really know any more, he's been gone so long." She guesses she just wants someone to talk to; that's the only reason she can come up with of why she's telling Axel this. "There are times where I can't even remember his old self, It's like he's been swallowed, consumed by something else…" Axel doesn't say anything, so Tifa continues "I just wish things would go back to normal, the way they used to be." Her voice is soft, like she's talking more to herself than the man next to her.

"Don't we all." Axle looks behind him at the trail leading down the mountain. "I've been wishing the same thing, sense he left." Tifa waits to see if he'll talk more, but Axle just focuses back out over the cliff.

"Who are you looking for?"

She can hear him breathe in, and hold it for a moment before letting it out, "just a friend, he left awhile ago. He left me alone with them. Said he had to go to find answers." There was slight bitterness in his voice, "he the only one I like… he made me feel whole again. But he left to find his answers, not realizing how lucky he is to have answers waiting to be uncovered."

Tifa wanted to ask what he's talking about, when he says things like 'them' or 'whole again' but something tells her she already know. "you one of them, aren't you?"

Axel looks at Tifa, he almost sad to ask, "what if I am?"

She shrugs, "you are…. I'm sorry."

He cant say was expecting that, but he nods anyways, not knowing what to say, no one ever felt sorry him, he never felt sorry, he cant truly feel anything, he only lies to himself, fooling his mind; making it seem like he can feel again. Axle is spared of trying to come up with something to say, for a black hooded figure come out of a black whole.

"Axel!!, what are you doing here? This is the last time I'm dealing with your lack of respect for those higher than you, number VIII!" the hooded man wasn't yelling, but his harsh voice sent chills down Tifa's back. "Get back to your work. And I trust you'll take care of her." he adds glaring at Tifa, before disappearing into the darkness once again.

"You know," axel looks directly at Tifa, "we not all that bad," he looks away from Tifa, and back to the horizon, now talking to himself more than her, "we just want back what we lost." He too then disappeared into the darkness. Leaving Tifa sitting on the edge of the cliff looking out, knowing that some where out there he's standing; feeling lost in the same darkness, Axel trapped in.

Hope it turned out alright… read and review…if you like….