The Turk Called Cloudia

AN: /blah/ = thoughts/inner monologue

*blah* = PHS conversation

Five – Age 16 - 17

Cloudia Strife groaned as she walked back to her room on the Turks' floor. She ached everywhere after training with Tseng Yue.

Tseng taught martial arts to the Turk recruits. He was only her first of her teachers. She was going to be taught how to handle a massive range of weapons by each of the Turks before she officially became a Turk.

It turned out that only Cloudia and Reno Sinclair had made it into the ranks of the Turks. They were the only two who had even made it out of the slums, let alone how far up the tower they had gotten.

Cloudia sighed as she saw Zack Fair waiting for her outside her room. "Hello Zack, what do you want?"

Reno Sinclair smirked as he watched Cloudia get dragged off by Zack. /It's the same every day, yo. You'd think he woulda learned by now./

He sighed as he stepped into the room he had been given months earlier. In that time he had only ever seen his stoic blonde friend in passing as they had had very different schedules. He had needed more help than Cloudia had with weapons whereas the blonde mainly needed martial arts and street fighting lessons.

Tseng frowned as he looked over the progress reports the Turks had given him on Strife and Sinclair. The reports weren't adding up with the evaluations they had received from the SOLDIER evaluators.

For instance, Strife was highly skilled with her sword and gun but when she had been evaluated she had been scored as incompetent.

Whereas Sinclair was the opposite, the SOLDIER evaluation had him being highly skilled with weapons.

With a groan Tseng picked up the PHS to try and discover what had happened.

Angeal Hewley smirked as he watched Zack flutter around organizing a surprise party for Cloudia. The blonde had finally gotten clearance to go on missions with the rest of the Turks. Reno still had to complete training.

Sephiroth was leaning on the wall watching as well. He smirked as he thought about the reception Genesis was going to receive. He had learnt months earlier not to bother Zack's friend when he was tired.

The blonde tended to hit first then ask questions, but as a Turk that was a good policy to have... maybe it was good for dealing with Zack as well.

Genesis Rhapsodos glared at the door separating him from the blonde who had stolen Zack from them for most of the last year. He wasn't even from SOLDIER yet he was still hanging around.

Genesis frowned as he waited for the door to open. After almost ten minutes he simply kicked the door down and just walked in...

Only to stare up in wonder at the sight that met his eyes...

Cloudia groaned as she sat watching Genesis smirk from across the table. He had only promised to keep her secret if she went on a date with him.

She had already "suffered" through a Loveless play and now she was at a high class restaurant as Genesis continued to smirk at her.

~*Flashback*~

Cloudia groaned as she stood under the shower washing away the aches and pains from her day of training with Tseng Yue. She looked up as she heard someone knocking on her door. /Damn it... They will just have to wait until I am finished in here./

She had just stepped out of the tiny bathroom when the door was kicked in and Genesis walked in only to stare at her from the floor, where she had sent him.

"What the hell? Genesis what did you do that for?" Cloudia snarled as she glared at him with her hand son her hips, unaware that she was emphasizing her figure with that pose. "Could you not have just waited for me to answer the door."

Genesis meanwhile was stunned, the blonde standing before him was gorgeous and FEMALE! A smirk snapped into place and he said softly, "Does anyone here know you are a girl?" When she shook her head his smirk increased. "OK if you want me to keep your secret you need to go out with me."

~*End Flashback*~

Needless to say Cloudia had been pissed at Genesis when the evening had started but she was slowly beginning to enjoy it.

They finished dinner and ended up at Genesis's apartment for the night...

Only Cloudia was alone when she woke up, feeling really embarrassed and disgusted with herself for giving him a chance.

Cissnei Soliel sighed as she looked over at the blonde she had been partnered with for this mission. He had been quiet since they were called in to see Veld Leonhart that morning.

"So I wonder why you were sent on this mission with me, instead of someone with more experience?"

"I am not sure. Tseng just said I had the necessary skills that were required for this mission." The blonde replied as Cissnei jumped. "I am Cloud Strife."

"I'm Cissnei Soliel, pleased to meet you."

Tseng Yue snarled as he stormed in Veld's office. "Am I allowed to kill the incompetent instructors and evaluators over in the SOLDIER section, sir?"

Veld looked up in confusion, as did the three Turks whom he had been meeting with. "Who do you want to kill, Tseng, and why?"

"The so-called unbiased evaluators. Because of some bizarre bias they scored Strife low on all the practical evaluations."

Angeal groaned as he sat at his desk. Sephiroth and Zack looked over at him in confusion.

"What's with the sighs of defeat Angeal?" Zack asked as he watched his friend and once mentor. "Is it that girl you were telling me about?"

Angeal nodded slowly. "I have looked everywhere, but it's like she has simply vanished of the face of the Planet."

"What girl?" Sephiroth asked in confusion. "Where did you meet this girl?"

"I met her almost seven years ago. She and her mother housed me for the winter when I got stranded in the Nibel Mountains." Angeal said softly. "They were not very well off but still refused to let me pay. So I offered to teach the daughter how to defend herself and her mother."

"That's where your Buster Sword went isn't it. You gave it to the girl."

Cissnei stared at her partner in shock as they changed for a bath. "So you're a girl? Do the bosses know?"

Cloudia shrugged. "I am not sure... I would assume so." She slid into the shared bath. "So where do you think they are sending us?"

Cissnei grinned at that. "I stole the orders. We are headed for some place called Nibelheim to check on its reactor...but I don't know where Nibelheim is..."

Cloudia sighed as she looked at the roof. "I know Nibelheim, I was born there." She shut her eyes as she felt sick... again. "I wonder if there is a healer here? I think there is something wrong with me."

Cissnei watched as Cloudia rushed to the toilet to vomit yet again for the day. /I wonder what's wrong with her. She wasn't like this when we left Midgar./

They both looked up as someone knocked on the door. Cissnei finished bathing and wrapped a towel around her so she could answer the door.

"What do you want? We were busy." Cissnei snapped as she opened the door.

The poor soldier blushed as he saw what Cissnei was wearing. "Um... the helicopter's here and we are leaving in ten minutes. Sorry to disturb you, ma'am."

"Fine we'll be down in time so piss off." Cissnei sighed, shutting the door. "Sorry Cloud but we can't see a healer here, we have ten minutes until we leave for Nibelheim. Maybe there we can find a healer... hey do you wanna borrow my spare uniform skirt? We could confuse the hell out of the pilot and the soldier pipsqueak."

Cloudia just sighed as she washed her face. "I will borrow the uniform, only because my own is dirty."

Cissnei grinned at her partner's odd way of speaking. /I wonder why she speaks like that... but it is cute./

Genesis sighed as he crouched behind some bushes outside a small fortress in Wutai. He was already sick of the mission he had been sent on. Not only was he tired and bored, he was already missing Cloudia.

That was the one thing he truly regretted, leaving with saying goodbye or even leaving a note. Genesis shook his head as he signaled for his troops to attack the target, as he drew his blood red sword and leapt into battle.

Meanwhile in a dark room in a dilapidated mansion a pair of eye suddenly snapped open.

"She's returned..."

AN: Sorry that its taken so long for me to update the story. My old laptop fried another motherboard and then I got hooked on playing FFVII:Crisis Core on my new PSP.

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