Chapter Three: Lied to from the Start.
The roar of an engine rung into the tiny run-down church, it signaled the approach of Cloud Strife. "Cloud's here!" Marlene squealed running to the door only to be stopped by Loz who gave her a cruel look, in turn receiving a vicious look from Yoru. "Marlene, come back and stand with Denzel, I don't want anyone hurt." Marlene nodded hurrying back to hide behind Yoru next to Denzel. As if on qui Cloud kicked the door open, his Buster Sword unsheathed and ready for a fight.
"You where with Kadaj's gang all along, weren't you Yoru!" Cloud accused stopping when Loz stood in his path. "I'm sorry Cloud, but look! Denzel and Marlene are fine, I just want Jenova." A simultaneous jolt went through Yazoo Loz and Kadaj as they heard her call their "Mother" by name. "Why do you want that thing for?" Cloud growled, his grip on the eccentrically long and thick blade tightening.
"So I can bring him back, the world is unbalanced. A world cannot survive without a greater evil just like there is a greater good." Yoru gave a sad smile to Marlene as she began to move away from Yoru, confused by the events unfolding. "Bring back Sephiroth?" Cloud asked astonished, his anger only becoming greater. "He'll kill us all Yoru, the helpless, the weak. Everyone will die!" He yelled making the birds flee from the seen. "I know Cloud, but I have to find out who killed Zack." Cloud stared at her for a moment, as if recalling a long forgotten memory. "He said he'd tell me why if," she slid her hands up her sides to embrace herself as she began to shake "if I give him a body as a host he will tell me everything that happened. Why you hate him so much, why he didn't save Zack, and why we had to leave Shinra."
Cloud stared at her, the fire in his eyes not yet dead. "I can tell you why right now." Yoru snapped her head up to look at Cloud, confusion twisting in her eyes. "But how?" she whispered, his eyes burning into her. "I was there with them; he killed Zack because he tried to stop Sephiroth from getting to Jenova. He killed him because of his obsession with that thing!"
Yoru couldn't believe it; Sephiroth killed Zack in cold blood? Yoru began to shake more, crumbling from the inside out, falling to her knees as her eyes stared wide at the rotted wood that held her up. "Sephiroth lied?" she stuttered. Yazoo flung his arms around her as if trying to keep her in one piece, Loz stood ready to fight Cloud if he said anymore, and Kadaj stood clenching and unclenching his fist.
"Don't listen to brother, big brother would never lie to us! He's going to bring on a world of absolute perfection for us!" Yazoo's words hit deaf ears as Yoru kept shaking, trying to hold her self together. Denzel and Marlene stood watching; wanting to agree with Cloud, say that Sephiroth really truly was evil, but the look on the three men's face told them it was best to remain silent.
"Everything I know is falling apart." Yoru murmured; her shaking had lessened only by a small margin. "Everything you know about what is right and wrong is a lie." Cloud added coldly. Kadaj shot cloud a deathly glare, padding silently to stand next to Yoru and Yazoo. "You shut up." He growled fiercely, his hand already wrapped around his double bladed katana.
"No you shut up!" Yoru shot back, lifting her head to glare at Kadaj, something she'd never done before. "You where in on it too, weren't you Kadaj! You where in on it with Sephiroth, Yazoo and Loz!" She screamed struggling against Yazoo who had tightened his grip. "Sister, calm your self and remember who is friend and foe!" Yazoo pleaded.
That only fanned the flames of Yoru's anger. She pushed Yazoo away from her self, standing and swinging at Kadaj, though her punch was easily caught by him. "I know who friend and foe are; maybe you should rethink what it really is you're fighting for!" Kadaj frowned, though only a fleeting look of pain passed through his eyes. "I know what we're fighting for, and what it will do. I just don't care." A sickening crack followed. Yoru's eyes grew wide as she screamed yanking her hand back to her chest to cradle her now broken wrist.
"Yoru!" Marlene and Denzel shrieked as they ran to her, not being stopped by any of the silver haired devils. The sound of metal clashing wasn't far off as Cloud swung his buster blade at Loz, pushing him back, though not injuring him. "Cloud Yoru's hurt!" Marlene whimpered to him as she placed her tiny hand on Yoru's uninjured arm. "I'll call Tiffa!" Denzel murmured quickly pulling out a slick black cell and dialing the numbers to the 7th heaven bar.
The call never made it through; Yazoo had taken the phone and crushed it under his foot. "I can't let you do that, it will ruin our plan." Yoru looked up at Yazoo; she never knew that all they had done was to resurrect the person who had been the grim reaper of her beloved. "Yoru, don't look at me like that, I can't stand to see you this way. Please forget what has happened." A cruel smile appeared on Kadaj's face, just for her.
The hum of something approaching from above became louder and louder, though it didn't stop the fighting going on below. Soon there was a large aircraft hovering above the church, a gleeful look came to Marlene and Denzel's face.
"Well now, looks like our fun's been spoiled." Kadaj murmured with slight annoyance. "Loz, Yazoo, gather sister and we'll retreat for now." Loz pushed off from Cloud's Buster Blade showing he heard the order wrapping his arm tightly around Yoru, though didn't get far. Cloud stood in his way Buster Blade still drawn. "Release Yoru and I'll let you go for now."
Loz glowered at Cloud, he was clearly opposing the very thought of even leaving Yoru in Cloud's care. "She's my sister!" he insisted setting her on her feet, though still holding her quite close. Yoru pushed against his chest weakly with her uninjured hand, she was drained from enduring the pain of her limp and broken wrist. "Loz let me go." She murmured.
Loz looked down at her; she was clearly not her self. "No sister, you need to go home and rest." She groaned sleepy and in pain from her injury. "You don't know what I need Loz." Loz's eyes widened with shock and pain at hearing this, was Yoru really saying this to him? "Let her go Loz, now." Cloud was becoming impatient.
Loz slowly let go, letting Yoru stumble back into Cloud's awaiting arm. "Sister, I'll come back and get you okay?" he whimpered cautiously moving past Cloud. Yoru, with a lulled look in her eyes, growing ever more tired, tried to pull herself up into a standing potion, failing when cloud swept the Buster Blade into the catch on his back and picked her up with much ease. "Don't come back unless you're with us." Loz looked down, his heart breaking with every cold word flung at him, though he left saying nothing more.
Yoru awoke again, in a small room looking much like it belonged to a little girl. Red-pink sheets covered her as she stared at a white ceiling with glow-in-the-dark stars plastered on the ceiling. "Where am I?" Yoru groaned sitting up, though wincing and pulling her hand to her chest to cradle it. She had forgotten that her wrist was broken because of Kadaj. Once the pain had subsided she pulled it away and pulled the baggy black sleeve of her jacket up to look at it. Cream colored medical cloth was wrapped tightly around it; under it she could feel the wood of four splints helping to heal her wrist correctly.
She couldn't believe it. After she had deceived Cloud and Tifa, and kidnapped Marlene and Denzel, they still helped her. It was absolutely baffling, she didn't even notice when the door creaked open. "Yoru you're up?" Yoru jumped slightly and looked over to the tall black haired woman; Tifa had come to see her. Instead of seeing any sign that Tiffa hated her, she saw a friend's concern. "Why are you doing this?" Yoru was still astonished that she not only helped her, but she was now coming to check up on her. "Why are you being so kind after everything I've done?" she clamped her un-bandaged hand to her face to try and shield her face from the tears threatening to break through her eyes. Tifa strolled over sitting on the bed and pulling Yoru into a light hug. "Because you've lost half your heart, because of someone we've been fighting against." Tifa released Yoru and lifted her now tear streaked face. "We want you to help us make sure Sephiroth doesn't come back, so no one can be hurt by him." Yoru gave a small hiccup and pressed her face into Tifa's shoulder nodding.