Blood and Steel

By: Lazeralk

Standard disclaimers apply

FF7/Saiyuki crossover

Warnings: This will have implied Shonen-Ai. I suck as yaoi, even though I love it dearly.

Part 3

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Sephiroth glanced between the two of them, watching the black haired man's face for his reaction to the exotic looking demon.

"Wow." Was the first thing the new man said. He stared at Kougaiji, even as he set the packages down on the back of the couch.

"You are…ridiculously bishonen."

Kougaiji looked to Sephiroth for help, his face expressing the confusion he felt.

"He means that you're good looking." Explained the General.

"Oh." Answered Kougaiji dumbly; eyeing the man who'd so brazenly complimented him with some suspicion.

"Oh jeez! Sorry man, I'm Brigadier General Zack Knight. I'm a SOLDIER Second Class from First Battalion. Nice to meet you uh…"

Again the demon prince looked to Sephiroth for guidance, but the other just raised an eyebrow and offered nothing else. Frowning at him, the redhead turned back to Zack and gave a short bow.

"I'm Kougaiji. Pleased to meet you also Mr. Knight."

The SOLDIER laughed, one hand coming up to rest on the demon's shoulder. He didn't notice Kougaiji's strange look or the barely perceptible flinch at the unexpected contact.

"Call me Zack man; you're bunking with my best friend, so I think we can be on first name basis ya know?"

"Uh…right." Said Kougaiji. He glanced over at Sephiroth and scowled when he saw that the General was biting his lips to keep from smiling.

"Go on and change." Sephiroth ordered when he'd finished containing himself.

Kougaiji glared but took the stack of packages and made his way into the bedroom without another word.

Zack waited until he was sure the door was closed before he skipped over to the General and threw an arm around the taller man's shoulders.

"Where did you find him? He's so hot the floor should be melting."

Sephiroth glared at him for a moment before sighing heavily.

"He appeared out of thin air and then collapsed unconscious on my office floor last night. He doesn't remember how he got here. And before you go and do something stupid, he's Demonic royalty; so don't get any ideas Zack. I mean it, don't mess with him." The pale General explained, shifting to accommodate his friend's half embrace.

"He just landed in your lap? Jeez, must be fate. So when's the wedding?"

Sephiroth punched the brunette lightly in the ribs and scowled.

"Ow!" cried Zack in mock hurt at he staggered dramatically to the couch.

"Try to be serious about this, will you?"

Zack opened his mouth to answer but the bedroom door opened and Kougaiji walked out, glaring at his feet. The uniform fit him snugly at the top but the pants were almost half a foot too short.

The demon made sure that his host had seen before going back into the room, never once saying a thing.

"Hm…we may have to get his pants tailored. Maybe it's just the pants, but I think his legs might be disproportionately long." Commented Zack in sort of offhanded manner.

"Or it could just be that he's a demon and they have different proportions that include longer legs than us humans." Countered Sephiroth.

"Point." Said Zack.

"Hey, maybe you could lend him a pair of your boots? They go up to your knees right, so they would cover the shortness of the pants. Then we can take him down to the tailor and have some customs made up for him. Whatda'ya say?" asked Zack, a smirk on his ruggedly handsome face.

"That could work, but what to do about his ears?" answered the General.

Kougaiji emerged a moment later with his own pants and jacket on. Zack licked his lips at all the bare skin the open jacket revealed, his mind nose-diving into the gutter.

"I can fix that." Said the demon, apparently having heard the conversation from the other room.

"How?" asked Sephiroth, his curiosity getting the better of him.

"I have my limiters with me. All demons have a set, and can pass for human. I learned to control my power early enough in life that I don't really need them to keep myself from going insane and slaughtering everything in reach. I still carry them though, just in case." Said the demon as he pulled a set of tiny metal cuffs from his pants pocket. He hooked the cuffs over the shells of his ears and his whole body shimmered for a moment. When the glow faded, Kougaiji looked entirely human. His ears looked normal, not counting the two sets of earrings, and the red mark had vanished from his cheek, leaving his face clean and heartbreakingly beautiful.

"Well shit. You can color me impressed." Said Zack as he made a show of examining the redhead. Kougaiji bore it stoically, but a faint blush touched his cheeks. He ran his blunt nailed fingers through his hair in nervous gesture, shifting uncomfortably.

"Kougaiji, go change back into the uniform and put the knee high boots in the closet on over the pants. Then-"

"I know. We go to the tailor. I can hear through the walls." Finished Kougaiji, offering a slight smile in apology before turning around and going back into the bedroom.

"Sorry Seph." Said Zack, not looking at the General.

"You didn't know." Answered Sephiroth, and the whole issue was forgiven and dropped, just like that.

The two SOLDIERS waited in silence this time, only disentangling themselves when Kougaiji returned to the living room in the full, blue and silver, SOLDIER Second Class uniform and Sephiroth's boots.

"Can I come?" asked Zack, giving his best friend pleading eyes.

"Sure." Agreed Sephiroth, as he headed into his room, leaving Zack and Kougaiji alone together.

"So…" said Zack as he moved closer to the demon.

"What?" asked Kougaiji, suspicion all over his face.

"What do you think of Sephiroth?"

"What?"

"Oh come on, you have to have some sort of opinion on him. So tell me. What do you think?" coaxed Zack

"Well, he's…he's been very kind to me considering the circumstances." Admitted the demon, not looking at the SOLDIER.

"And…?" Zack prompted.

"And what?" snapped Kougaiji.

"Do you think he's hot?"

"Hot? Like illegal?"

"No, like attractive." Deadpanned the brunette.

"Well, yes." Whispered Kougaiji, almost bashfully.

"Ah ha." Said Zack, and left it at that.

Sephiroth emerged from his bedroom in his normal combat leathers and scowled deeply at Zack, his expression saying, without words, that they would be having a 'talk' later.

Zack smirked smugly at his commanding officer and didn't look the least bit intimidated.

"Let's go." Said the General and the three of them walked out of Sephiroth's quarters and into the SOLDIER section of the base. Insatiably curious about his new world, Kougaiji took his time looking around at everything, and returning the looks of the people that had stopped to stare at him.

Sephiroth also noticed the stares and sighed mentally. The rumor mill would be in full swing by dinner and everyone would know about the exotically beautiful redhead that had been seen with the General.

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End part 3

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