Chapter Six: Past Unveiled
The blood moon crept higher into the sky over the "Slum City Midgar" resting for only a moment at its peek, right above the green glow of the geysers of the Life-Stream that Shinra harvested. A large pig-faced man waddled into the dark room that glowed with the green light of the Life-Stream coursing through tubes. "Professor Hojo has the second experiment awakened yet?" the mousy yet psychotic looking man in a white lab coat looked over. "Yes, in fact she just woke up less then three minutes ago. We where successful in whipping her memory so that she wouldn't try to flea back to her father and use her new powers against Shinra."
The large man chuckled with a snort at the end, something that would come to no surprise considering his weight and appearance. "Very good Hojo, now then, girl what is your given identification number?" The skinny yet beautiful girl who sat in a white night gown just touching her knees looked up with a dazed look. "Identification number 110228, second successful child of Jenova, given name, " she hesitates looking startled all of the sudden before looking around panicked "given name." She began to shake her eyes whipping across the room, back and forth. "Your name is Yoru." Professor Hojo said placing a hand on her shoulder and she seemed to calm. "Given name Yoru." She repeated.
The man raised a furry blond eyebrow at her before looking to Professor Hojo. "A minor Default, I didn't get time to tell her what her given name was before you came in president." He nodded turning to the door. "Sephiroth, come here and great your new sister and partner." A tall well built silver haired man with piercing blue-green eyes, looking like an Adonis, stepped into the room.
He gave a critical look to the girl now known as Yoru, before giving a brief smile. "What is your name?" he asked calmly. She now raised her head to meet his eyes that reflected her in their vast blue-green seas. "Identification number, 110228, second successful child of Jenova, given name Yoru." He chuckled placing a hand on her chin gently and rubbing her cheek with his thumb. "When some one asks you your name, Yoru, you say 'My name is Yoru' understand?" She looked at him curiously, the daze seeming to fade with his presence.
"I," she began leaning into his touch gently; reaching up and holding his hand there to make sure he wouldn't pull the first source of warmth she knew away "I understand, My name is Yoru." She gave a small smile; President Shinra grunted waving his hand. "Sephiroth, take her to the empty room next to yours. Professor Hojo, Sephiroth will contact you if there are any problems." Hojo gave a hesitant look towards Sephiroth who gave a nod taking Yoru from the room as she winced at the sudden light but didn't hesitate to follow Sephiroth into the hallway.
"It seems we won't have a problem creating the Shinra First Class Soldiers with those two." President Shinra chuckled with an evil gleam in his eyes. "How true President, Sephiroth seems to have taken a liking to her." The President coughed into his hand clearing his throat. "I'll have Sephiroth begin her training tomorrow morning, are there any more 'minor defaults' I should know about Professor Hojo?" Hojo shook his head placing his palm on the examination table behind him. "She may be a child of Jenova, and might have the same outlook on other as Sephiroth. I don't know really, but what I do know, is that erasing her memory doesn't affect her personality so the type of person her heart speeds up for is out of our control."
President Shinra laughed cruelly again "So we'll make sure she comes in contact with no males other than Sephiroth. It's as simple as that." He left still laughing. Hojo sighed heavily to himself. "With a personal army filled with male Soldiers, do you really think it'll be that easy?" He lifted his hand from the examination table walking to a clipboard filled with white paper and flipped through it looking at their contents before placing it down again and leaving the room himself.
It was a short time before Yoru passed easily as an ordinary girl, and an even shorter time before Yoru became skilled in hand to hand combat. It was an understatement to say that Sephiroth was impressed by the girl's abilities in battle. "We're done for the day. Go ahead and do what you want for the rest of the day, but stay in the room, alright?" Yoru gave a small whimper but nodded, she didn't want Sephiroth to leave her all alone like he did so often now, and she wondered what the Shinra president was trying to teach her by calling for him so often leaving her alone.
Yoru took a shower, dressed in her casual clothing, a sleeveless black turtle neck black shorts, and knee high black and white skater flats. She sprawled herself out on her bed sighing and staring at the empty steel grey abyss of the ceiling. Then a thought crept to her, what was on the other side of the door? As far as Yoru knew, it was just an empty hallway, but what could be out there that the Shinra president and Sephiroth didn't want her to see?
She slowly, hesitantly touched the cold metal of the door knob. There would be consequences if she was caught outside her room, but she didn't know what they would be. They could lock her away in a dark room and never let her see Sephiroth again for all she knew. She shook her head once to clear her mind of thoughts like those, Sephiroth wouldn't let them lock her away like that, would he? She quickly grabbed the door and tore it open as if this would be the last time she would ever have the chance.
The sound of shoes lightly hitting the floor echoed as Yoru ran down the hallway, smiling brightly as the cold grey walls swept past her. She didn't even know how to get back to her room now, but she didn't care. She was having far too much fun exploring to care right now. The sound of voices came from a hallway she ran past, though hearing it she stopped, her training had kicked in and she pressed herself against the wall looking around the corner with a slight glare to see a black haired man dressed strangely with a large sword on his back walking with another man wearing an identical outfit, though he was older, and his hair less spiked with a matching sword. "Angeal when's your next mission?" The younger of the two grinned, one hand on his waste as the walked.
"That's my business Zack." He chuckled but then stopped glairing in Yoru's direction as she pulled herself back against the wall. "Come out or I'll drag you out!" the elder shouted, the younger looking at him curiously. "Who are you talking to Angeal?" He didn't speak but walked calmly to the corner peeking around it and seeing nothing though didn't let his guard down. He glared down the hallway but returned to Zack's side. "No one just thought I saw something." Zack laughed patting the older man on the back as they turned the corner. "You must be loosing your touch Angeal!"
Angeal gave a stiff chuckle in return. "That must be it." As the two walked past Yoru peeked out of a nearby janitorial closet looking around before stepping out and closing the door. "Far too close." She put her hands on her hips with a large grin at her successful hiding. "What was close?" an unfamiliar voice said from behind. Yoru jumped whipping around to see the younger of the two men who she thought had moved on.
"Who are you and why are you here?" He said in a more serious tone. She backed up looking hesitant to answer. He sighed rubbing his temples. "Listen, I'll let you leave if you promise not to come back." She shivered as she looked at him, eyes widened and tearing up. "Hey-wait don't do that!" He complained loudly holding his arms out to grab her if she tried to bolt. "I don't want to leave; I have to stay with Sephiroth!" She whimpered whipping the few tears away that had come loose.
"So, you're a friend of Sephiroth?" He murmured sitting on the bed next to her, he had taken her back to her room that was next to Sephiroth's. "I suppose you could call it that, I was actually created by Professor Hojo to be Sephiroth's sister, and mission partner." Zack stared at her for a moment, shocked by what she had said. "Wait, you where created? Like on the inside you're all metal and circuits?" She giggled smiling at him genuinely. "Silly! No, I'm a human just like you are." Zack looked confused now. "What I mean by 'created' is that I was sleeping before, and Professor Hojo told me that he brought me here to be Sephiroth's pupil, to be his sister, and to keep him company." Zack nodded smiling as she explained it to him.
The door slid open slowly as Sephiroth stepped in the room, frowning as he saw the company Yoru had, though he knew it would happen sooner or later, what he didn't realize is the immediate attachment Yoru felt for this young, first class SOLDIER.