At last, another chapter, so here we go!
I know. Don't kill me. Sorry for the long wait, and I think this chapter is really bad… Hope I don't disappoint you guys ;(
Note: The phrases with numbers in parentheses are notes. Read them at the end of chapter. Thanks.
I have a beta reader now so I'll update as soon as she send me the chapters
Thanks a lot to KHGiggle for revising my fic.
If Cloud had already thought this morning was horrible, the cherry on top of his shitty day was the news he was receiving from Zack. It was enough to make him almost cry in frustration. Someone in the Lifestream had to hate his guts or this wouldn't be happening to him. He couldn't believe this was happening; infiltrating a whorehouse with Mr. Pervert right along at his side.
Both remained silent for a moment until the black-haired guy spoke, "Why are you so upset? I mean it could be worse! You could have been assigned to Sephiroth..."
"No, trust me. It's bad enough I'm assigned to you", the blonde sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose to soothe his increasing frustration.
Zack shifted his stance with a grin plastered onto his handsome face. At first he had been shocked by the news, then amused. But Hell! He was going to have fun teasing the blonde to death during the mission. "Come on buddy, I'm not that bad! I'll be looking after you! Besides, you know women fight all the time to be my girl, and in two days it'll be your turn Hotshot!"
"Zack...Seriously? That's just...SHUT UP WILL YOU?" the blond stammered.
"I'm joking Cloud. Come on Spikey, you gotta stop taking things so seriously. Everything's gonna be all right. Now don't you worry 'cause I'll take good care of ya," Zack said with a friendly smile while Cloud simply nodded. Somehow, he felt something was bound to go wrong during the mission. There was list of factors that simply drove one to that conclusion.
1.- Zack Fair was a first class WOMANIZER
2.- He favored Blondes and Brunettes
3.- A bar nearby meant Zack getting drunk, and he did not want to take care of a shitfaced Zack
The fact that Cloud would 1)dress as a WOMAN and 2) he was BLOND, just made him nervous. Zack would probably just tease the girly version of Cloud to death. Cloud turned to Zack. "I know you'll take care of me," he sighed and thought, 'Who the hell's gonna take care of you, Zack?'
-0-
Cloud hid his blue eyes under the covers as the alarm clock rang. Moving his hand through the caverns of his sheets he reached for the OFF button. He began to dress and moved to the small kitchen to make himself some coffee. Water boiled on the stove while he made his way to read the Shinra Daily Newspaper. After a few minutes, coffee was streaming down into his favorite mug. About to read an article, his phone rang. He dashed to his room and answered it.
"Hey Spikey, we're waiting for ya! You're already late!"
"Just shut up and wait a bit longer"
"Yeah, easy man, I'll just tell Sephiroth. I just know he adoresirresponsible kiddies."
"He's not there, I know you're just bluffing."
"Wanna talk to him?"
"What? NO!"
Zack was indeed not just kidding around. Cloud could hear the cold voice of the white haired soldier before he hung up abruptly.
Putting his boots on, he headed for the door, grabbing a piece of bread and a yogurt from the kitchen.
Out of breath and barely taking in another lung full of oxygen, he knocked the door to Zacks' house. The General known as Sephiroth answered and stood in the door frame.
"Good to see you,Cloud"
"G-general Sephiroth Sir," gasped the blond soldier.
"Good Morning" The man replied, moving aside to let the cadet in, closing the door moments after Cloud walked in. "You seem surprised to see me"
"With all due respect sir, I thought you had more important issues to attend to"
The Silver man chuckled, something uncommon for him; It gave the chills to Zack.
"He's right Sephy, I mean I thought Genesis was gonna bring the dress and everything"
"He was..."
"But?"
Sephiroth smirked, "He decided to take another mission where he'd go undercover as a pop rock singer by the name of Gackt." The room became silent as everyone turned to Sephiroth wide eyed. "It was a joke."
Zack nodded and mumbled 'Of course'. Cloud and Zack looked up at him in disbelief
"You just made a joke..."
"Can I not?"
"Of course not! You're Sephiroth! You're supposed to be evil and cold!"
Cloud stared at the exchange, expecting Zack to have the Masamune up his ass any moment.
Sephiroth merely raised a silver brow "The cold part is assured but the evil part..."
"Well, umm, yeah...anyways, lets get ready for this!"
"All of the things should be here in a moment. I brought a specialist to work on Cadet Strife so that he would look appropriate for the mission."
"Wonderful"
Zack walked around and looked at Cloud who, was sitting quietly on the sofa. "Hey Spikey, you okay?" he asked as he put his hand on Cloud's shoulder.
"Yeah, I guess."
"Ya look tired. Wanna sleep a wittle bit?" He said as he brought Cloud to his chest in a motherly way, stroking his blond locks.
Cloud nodded awkwardly and yawned. "That'd be nice, but I'm fine."
"Want something to nomnom on?" He said with a smile on his face
Cloud rolled his eyes. "No Zack, I'm fine. Don't worry"
"But, hey I really think you should eat something. Don't wantcha to die on the mission because you starved yourself! 'Im gonna cook your favorite! How 'bout it?"
The blond gave him a smirk and nodded with a shrug of his shoulders.
"You act like a whipped lover Zack" (1)
"And you act like a mammas' boy"(2)
-o-
Soon all the crew was in Zack's living room. People were everywhere. Some guys were putting up a mirror, and some were pushing a rack with lots of dresses. There were girls bringing in heels. In conclusion, it was a mess, but as soon as the chaos started, it was gone. Minutes later, only three individuals dressed in black were standing in Zack's living room.
"General everything's ready."
"You may start." The General looked at Cloud and made a gesture to show the cadet to sit down in front of the mirror. Cloud awkwardly did so, and soon two girls were at his side. One had a brush in her hand and immediately started brushing Cloud's hair. "Dammit, it's impossible to make his hair lay flat. It's like steel," the browned haired girl commented trying to flatten the spikes.
"I got an idea," said the other girl with raven hair. "We should just leave his hair like that."
"And what you suggest we do?"
"Let's put in some blond hair extensions…I think he'll look cute with those spikes."
Cloud watched as both girls started discussing how to prepare him, and soon he was lost in his own thoughts and didn't listen when one of the girls was calling his name.
"What?" he asked quietly.
"I said 'show me your leg',"
The blond looked at her with wide eyes and shook his head. "For what?"
"Just show it to me."
The blond lifted his let to show her in a slightly girly way. The ravenette gave a chuckle and said, "I meant your bare legs."
Cloud suddenly felt all the blood coming to this face and answered in a nervous voice, "Y-you mean you want to see my naked legs?"
"Yes, that's right!"
"My pants are so tight I can fold them to show you my legs…" he said in an attempt to save himself from showing any skin near Zack , for the raven-haired guy was just standing there watching everything they were doing with almost analytical eyes .
"Then take them off," the raven girl said smiling. "You have boxers underneath right?"
"Um…Well, umm, I…Yes?" the blond shifted nervously, grabbing the cushion under his hands and glancing at Zack, who just grinned at him.
"Fine, take them off then"
"Like…Right now in front of everyone?"
"Don't be silly Cloud. It's only me and two girls. Sephiroth is in the hall, and besides, you'll have your boxers on, so don't worry."
"But-" he replied sending pleading eyes to Zack
"No buts. We have to make this quick. The mission starts today Cloud."
Cloud gave Zack a dirty look and awkwardly stood up slowly unzipping his pants and taking them off.
"Jeez…could cadet pants be any tighter?" he said trying to remove the tube pants from his skinny legs and blushing darker as he saw Zack watching him in an almost perverted way. "Could you please stop watching me? !" the blond shouted and sent the girls a murderous glare as they started chuckling. They instantly shut up.
"We are guys Cloud. What are you so nervous about? It's nothing I haven't seen before…Unless all this time you've been lying to me and you're a girl! LIKE MULAN!"
Soon enough the girls started laughing again, and Cloud looked away with a deep blush on his face. "Maybe, I'm nervous because you are a pervert," he said, clenching his teeth and forgetting the fact that he was only in his underwear in front of Zack, who was looking at him.
"You forgot the fact that you are in your underwear and…That I'm a straight guy… Who loves to tease you," Zack said in a sing song voice, giving a wide smile.
Clouds rolled his eyes and cursed to himself. He was going nuts with Zack being a dick with all this and embarrassing him. He gave a tired sighed as he finally managed to get free from his monster pants.
"You look hot like that," Zack pointed out and Cloud grab a brush near him and threw it at him.
"YOU LOOK DUMB LIKE THAT WITH A BRUSH ON YOUR FACE!"
Zack started laughing, but soon enough stopped. "Shit, that hurt." He touched his forehead that really stung and rubbed it slowly.
"GET OUT!" Cloud screamed, pointing at Zack. "NOW!"
"Okay…I'm going, I'm going…" Zack said, raising his arms in surrender and exiting the room.
The blond gave a sigh that almost sounded like a growl and turned around facing the girls. "Can we make this quick please?"
The girls nodded. "Yes, sure honey" the raven hair said. "Could you please sit down and lift your legs for me a little?" Cloud nodded and did as he was told. He just wanted his pants back and this nightmare to end, but he didn't know it was just about to begin.
The girl got on his knees, and soon the brunette girl brought her something. It looked like a match that was boiling something, and Cloud dint like the look of it. "W-what is that?"
"It's wax, Honey" she said with a bright smile and grabbed some of that wax and put it on Cloud's legs.
"And what is that for?" The blond moved his other leg nervously. He felt the hot wax sticking on his skin and wondered how she was going to remove it, for the thing stuck to his skin like glue.
The girl remained silent and smiled at him. "Ready?" she said as she put some weird paper over the wax on his leg. Cloud just frowned at her with a terrified look on his face. He didn't know what was happening, but he sure knew it was going to hurt. "Ok, here we go, 1,2,3!" And with that said, she ripped off the paper, and Cloud thought he'd never felt such pain before.
He screamed at the top of his lungs, rubbing his leg which had now a red patch of skin and no hair at all. "What the heck is this? !"
"It is wax to depilate your legs." As soon as she said those words, Zack stormed into the room.
"What happened? ! Is everything ok? !"
"Yes, Cadet Cloud's just being a girl about pain."
"A girl?" Cloud sent her deathly look. "That hurts like hell!" He preferred getting cut by a blade to this.
"All girls do this in order to look pretty."
"All girls are crazy then…" Cloud snorted touching his leg
"Beauty hurts," she said with a smile on her face, taking Cloud's leg again and putting more wax over it.
Cloud looked at her terrified. The cadet gulped a little and grabbed the seat with all his force, taking a deep breath as he saw the girl ready to rip off the next strip, and while sitting there Cloud decided he was glad, really glad to have been born a man…
-0-
Cloud didn't know how much had passed since the torture of depilating had started, but right now he was pretty annoyed, pissed, depressed, etc..He was tired. They had depilated him almost everywhere, and he thought depilating his legs was torture. He was wrong. When they depilated other parts of his body, some of those parts hurt so much that he couldn't sit properly without hurting. Guess where he was hairless now? Not funny at ALL.
And now, here he was sitting still on a chair as the raven-haired girl, whose name was Xion, and the brunette girl, Kairi, started putting make up on his face and getting his hair done. He was desperate and anxious. He felt Kairi applying who knows what on his eyes, and every time he opened them the dust fall into his eyes making him cry. "Is it over yet?"
"Nope, I still have to put on fake eyelashes"
Cloud sighed and cross his arms. He felt someone pulling his hair "Aw…What are you doing?"
"Hair extensions!"
"Why are you pulling so hard on my hair?"
"Well I'm attaching them to your hair so they don't fall out."
"I think your hair is done. What do you think Kairi?" Xion asked.
"He looks quite pretty with his spiky hair. What about putting him in a tiara?"
"That would be perfect." Cloud heard Xion exiting the room and then Kairi started doing something that hurt a bit. "Hey! Ouch! Stop that! It hurts!"
"Your eyebrows are too messy so stay still while I depilate them, will you?"
"You are removing my eyebrows? Hell no…" He scowled and moved away from her.
"No silly. I'm just giving them form."
"For what?"
"Stop questioning. Stay still, and shut up."
Cloud groaned, but did as he was told and remained silent, whining every time he felt Kairi removing hair. His body felt sore all over, and he had been sitting in the chair for so long that his butt had fallen asleep and was sweating. The fact that they had ironed some of his spikes didn't help his sweating problems. How did girls manage to stay still for so long without complaining about it?
"Here is the tiara." Xion entered the room and quickly put the silver thing on Cloud's spiky head.
"Can you please hurry? I'm tired of sitting, and I feel all sweaty."
"Just a couple of minutes Cloud, gosh! Xion, help me doing his manicure, please?" The girl nodded and grabbed Cloud's hands. "And also a pedicure , Xion"
"Yes ma'am!"
"Wonderful." The only things Cloud could move were his hands and feet, and now he was unable to. He felt like crying out of sheer desperation to just stand up or move.
-o-
Moments later he heard both girls saying with excitement. "You are ready!"
Cloud remained on his chair, afraid to look at the mirror. Minutes ago he was complaining about remaining still, and now he didn't wanted to move.
"Come on look at yourself already!" Kairi said, turning Cloud to the mirror.
Slowly, he focused his eyes in the mirror and looked at himself with a perfect "o" on his now girly face. He touched his face. It was hard to believe he was still Cloud. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. He was a girl. A flat-chested, but still beautiful girl. "Oh god…"
He was so amazed with himself that didn't notice Sephiroth and Zack entering the room with another two men behind them.
"Oh shit! Cloud…you look so pretty." Zack looked Cloud up and down.
The blonde quickly turned around to watch his best friend look at him in disbelief. Soon enough, he saw General Sephiroth standing next to Zack, and quickly stood up in a firm position. "Sir!" he said, standing still. Zack chuckled a little at the image Cloud made. He was standing like a soldier with make up on his face and long curly blond hair. Well it was a sight for sore eyes. Cloud sent him a look that clearly said "shut the fuck up." Zack remained silent but had a smirk on his face.
Sephiroth cleared his throat and said, "Cloud these two guys are here for the last details of your costume."
One guy dressed in black stepped up and spoke. "I think since you are a man and you don't have feminine shoulders, we should use a dress with sleeves, short sleeves should do." He moved to where the rack was and brought it over to Cloud. He quickly looked at all the dresses and picked up three. Then he turned and moved to where General Sephiroth was and whispered something to him.
The silver haired man nodded and stepped over to Cloud. "Cloud, Zack please listen carefully." Zack moved next to Cloud with a serious look on his face. "I'm now going to give you the mission details."
"Yes sir," both men replied.
"Cloud, you'll have to infiltrate today. You will be doing recon throughout the entire residence in order to find where Corneo is hiding and what he stole from us."
"Yes sir."
"In order to be close to Corneo, you'll have to become one of his favorite girls, so please do your best when interacting with him."
"I'll do it, sir."
"Once you are in, you are going to send us a message via cell phone so we can send Zack into the place." Sephiroth paused and turned to face the raven-haired Soldier. "Zack."
"Yes?"
"Remember; You are doing business with Corneo. You are going to distract him just long enough for Cloud to retrieve the information and make his way out of there safely."
"Yes!"
"Doubts?"
"Yes I have one sir," said Cloud.
"Speak..."
"I was wondering sir, how am I going to infiltrate Corneo's Club?"
"About that, we have a man that is really close to Corneo. He is the one who is going to recommend you to Corneo as a valuable girl to work at his place. Also this guy is the one who recommend Corneo to make a business transaction with Zack."
Zack frowned and crossed his arms. "Wait, you said this guy was close to Corneo. Do you mean this guy is betraying Corneo for us?"
Sephiroth nodded. "Indeed."
"How do you know he's not going to betray us then."
Sephiroth gave a creepy chuckle and smirked. "I assure you Zack, he will not. I talked with him, and explained my terms clearly," Sephiroth said grabbing his sword by the handle and making a gesture which Zack clearly understood. He knew this guy had the death penalty if he had a "talk" with Sephiroth. Despite the fact the General was very educated and kind with people, he had a cold, dark side. Most people did not know about this side, which was a good thing as when he showed this side, the talks sometimes ended messily.
Zack just nodded and remained silent to Cloud's surprise. Guess the blond was wrong. He had never been on a mission with Zack before, but so far the guy was quite professional about it. Well he wasn't a First for nothing. Sephiroth continued. "Well, now that everything is clear, we should start right away.
"But sir," Kairi interrupted. "Cloud Strife isn't ready yet!"
"Oh yes, my mistake. Please finish him quickly, and Zack, call me when you are finished. I'm heading to my quarters in order to prepare everything for today's mission. And bring Cloud to my office."
And with that said Sephiroth exited the room.
-0-
The guy from before threw the dresses at Cloud and said, "You are wearing the red one today"
"Why is it so short? And why red?"
The guy sent him a dirty look. "Are you stupid? What are you supposed to be posing as?"
"Uhm...a whore?"
"And what do whores wear? Oh yeah, SHORT SEXY CLOTHES!"
"Looks like someone hasn't got laid," Zack whispered to the blond, and Cloud nodded and chuckled.
"Something the matter Zackary?" the man asked with a poisonous voice.
"No everything is fine," the SOLDIER answered, giving a small smile.
"So, Cadet Strife, will you please put this on?"
The blond nodded, taking the dress and underwear before realizing something.
"Excuse me" Cloud asked, embarrassed.
"Yes?"
"How do I put this on?" he asked, holding out a red bra.
The man sighed and called Xion's name.
"Yes sir?"
"Can you please help him with his bra?"
Xion nodded and grabbed the blond by the wrist. "Follow me."
"Hey, wait a second. Why should I wear ladies' underwear? I mean I don't even have-" Zack chuckled. He knew what Cloud wanted to say, and he also knew that Cloud found it incredibly embarrassing. "I don't have boobs." he said with a deep frown on his face.
"You will," the guy dressed in black said, showing him a big pair of fake boobs, kind of like the ones Tifa used to have…The ones that asphyxiated Cloud.
Cloud looked at the pair with a terrified expression, as he was pulled away by Xion. He looked at Zack, who had a smirk on his face and shouted at the blonde, "Your favorite pair of friends." And when he said that he started laughing his ass off.
"Ok," Xion said as she closed the door of Zack's room. It was doubling as their fitting room at the moment. "Take off your clothes, please."
Cloud stared at her in shock. "I'm not getting naked with a girl in the same room."
"I'll turn around silly…but right now, take off your shirt so I can put on your bra and the fake boobs."
Cloud blushed but nodded and said in a very low voice, "O-okay." He took his shirt off, and soon, Xion was behind him putting the bra on.
"Now for the fun part!" She was now in front of the blond, grabbing the silicon boobs and shoving them inside Cloud's flat chest. She was about to shove a hand in the bra, but Cloud grabbed her before she could.
"I'd rather adjust them myself…"
"Oh, well, okay." Xion sat on Zack's bed as the blond made his way over to the mirror where he adjusted the fake pair of breasts so that they'd look natural and, in Cloud's opinion, tremendously big and scary. He was sure that if they were real, he could pay Tifa back by shoving her face into the big pair so that the bitch could feel Cloud's pain.
He was lost in thoughs of revenge when Xion scared the shit out of him by suddenly showing up behind him. "Cloud, stop spacing out and get in the damn dress already."
"Um…yes, sorry," he said, giving a small smile and passing a hand through his spikes nonchalantly.
"Here, take these." Xion shoved a pair of red panties at him.
"Oh…No fucking way! Explain to me right now why I have to use…this?" The blond grabbed the tiny piece of cloth with his two thin fingers and examined it as if it was some kind of strange specimen.
"Put the dress on, and you'll prefer having those rather than nothing," she said, laughing and opening the room's door a bit. "I'll be outside. If you have trouble with anything, just call me," she said, closing the door behind her.
"Just perfect…" The blond sat down on the ravenette's bed and started taking his pants off. Soon his boxers were off, and now he was putting the tiny piece of cloth on. "Shit, this will not cover me well at all." he said, biting his lips in a nervous way and blushing at how exposed he felt. He then grabbed the red dress and shoved it on. "Xion!" The door opened and the female ravenette entered.
"Um…I can't zip it." The blond turned around, showing his back to the girl. She easily zipped the dress up and gave him a look over.
"You look just great."
"I think I look naked. I can feel all the air down there…" he said, looking at himself and the short dress. He understood what Xion meant. He was sure that if he bent a little, everyone will be able to see "his friend" and the panties helped to keep it in place. At least if he bent, people would only see his ass and the red sexy underwear and hopefully think he's a woman, not a man. Either way he didn't like the idea of people staring at his red covered ass….
"You'll get used to it." Xion smiled and made a gesture for Cloud to follow.
He walked in silence to Zack's living room. Said SOLDIER was sitting on his sofa with a bored expression in his face. Cloud walked awkwardly, grabbing the dress and pulling it down. He felt like every time he took a step, the dress lifted up, showing everything down there. "This extremely uncomfortable, I can believe you girls do this..."
"Well we usually don't wear such short dresses, but, well, since you are dressed as-"
"Yeah I know." The blond interrupted with an annoyed face.
Cloud stepped into the room and soon Kairi was shoving a pair of red heels into his face. " Put this on..." she said in a sing song voice.
The blond frowned in disgust and took the pair of shoes. "How the hell am I supposed to walk in these?" he nearly shouted, making Zack pay attention to Cloud.
Zack observe the blonde. His short red silk dress with a little ampon (*) from the skirt made him looked cute and made his hips look wider. The short sleeves covering his shoulders and the big pair of boobs make him look sexy. The tiara on his head was perfect, and his red lips, in Zack's opinion, looked tasty.
"Hey there Cloudy! See you're looking all sexy for me!" he said hugging Cloud from behind and making Cloud's face the color of the dress he was wearing.
"Stop being a dick."
"Only if you give me a kiss…"
"Are you gonna start acting gay again?"
"Well, you are practically a girl now, so it's not gay at all" Zack said, trying to kiss the blond's cheek.
"Z-Zack…Stop it!"
"Give me my kiss!" Zack sang.
"Fine! ! If I kissed you, will you please stop teasing me for the rest of the fucking day! ? !"
"That's a treat!" With that said, the blond turned around, facing Zack and giving him a kiss on his cheek. Then he walked away quickly to put the heels on. Zack just remained still with wide eyes. "I thought y-you were joking."
"I was not! So you better not piss me off! I've heard getting kicked in the balls with a pair of heels doesn't exactly feel nice…" Cloud spat at Zack as he finished shoving his feet into both heels.
"Aw, you wouldn't do that to me," Zack said, smiling.
Cloud just sent him a murderous glare. "Don't even think about it."
-0-
The walk to Sephiroth's office was a pain in the ass for Cloud. The heels, as the girls called them, were killing his feet. I mean why would they like to use these? ! They were torture devices. Cloud was sure of it. He had to grab Zack's strong arm to prevent himself from falling down. He had practiced a bit in Zack's house, and he was sure he looked like an idiot walking in them.
"Cloud don't bend your knees that much. If you walk with your knees almost straight, it will be easy because the heels are so high," Zack recommended. "Like this, look at me." He started walking without bending his knees and the blond gave him a surprised look.
"You look like an idiot walking like that Zack…More like a penguin."
"Well that's because I don't have heels asshole…Now come walk over to me like I told you to."
"I think I'm gonna kill myself if I do that."
"You will not. Just don't bend your knees that much. It'll be easy."
"First of all Zack, why the heck do you know how to walk with high heels?"
"My ex-girlfriend was a model. She used to talk about how to walk with heels a lot…You know, modeling tips…"
Cloud gave him a look of disbelief. He didn't believe the SOLDIER at all.
"It's true! !" Zack said, blushing with embarrassment. "Could you please walked over to me now!"
Cloud rolled his eyes but nevertheless, he started making his way to Zack, and, in fact, Zack's advice helped a lot. He could now walk and keep his balance, and he wasn't stumbling at all.
"You're doing great. You're walking just like a girl"
The blond sent him a nasty look and grabbed his arm again. He felt safer walking while holding onto something "How 'bout you teach me how to kick with high heels, Zack?"
"I'd rather not," Zack said with a big grin on his face. "Now let's hurry. Sephiroth hates waiting."
They started walking again, and Cloud didn't want to admit it, but he was really good at walking with heels. He had heard from girls that it took practice to walk with them, and he was doing just fine in a day. "This is too much for my male pride."
-O-
Soon they were in the General's office, waiting for the man (who would infiltrate with Cloud) to arrive. The blond was sitting down with crossed legs. If he didn't do so, everyone would see his friend down there. "You're already acting like a girl, sitting like that," Zack commented. "Aren't you, like, you know, crushing your balls sitting like that?"
"No …no, Zack I'm not," Cloud said, tapping the floor with his heels.
"Do you think you're fine walking in those?"
"Yes, I am. I practiced a little at your place and on way down here, remember?"
"Well yes, you did quite good wearing them. You actually managed to walk with them."
"Yeah…"
They remained silent for a moment, Cloud playing with his feet and Zack watching Cloud with interest. The blond shifted nervously on his seat. He could feel Zack's piercing gaze.
"Cloud?"
"Um?" Cloud moved his legs, balancing on them and focusing only on them.
"I'm not trying to be a dick here, but…" Zack bit his lip and gave a sigh. "But, um, if you were a girl, you'd be the prettiest girl I've ever seen."
Cloud stopped breathing when he heard those words coming from his friend's lips. He didn't get angry at all. Zack wasn't kidding; he was just saying the truth, and Cloud couldn't quite understand why that comment made him almost smile.
"Thanks, I guess…" Cloud blushed a little bit, but covered his face with his bangs and the long blond hair extensions that fell down shoulders.
"No problem…Well you are handsome as a boy too, I mean..." Zack said. He was about to add something when the sound of a door opening was heard.
Sephiroth entered with a big guy behind him. "This is Barret," said Sephiroth, introducing the man. "He's the one helping us with the mission. Cloud, please come with me." The blond stood up from his place and over to the General, not even giving Zack a goodbye. The raven haired guy gave Barret a strange look. He was quite scary with his muscular body and his bad ass face, not to mention the fact he didn't have a right hand but something similar to a machine gun instead. Zack wondered how the hell Sephiroth managed to get this guy on their side.
"Zack." Said SOLDIER stopped looking at Barret to meet Sephiroth's gaze. "Stay alert, keep your phone closed, and as soon as you receive Cloud's message, head to Corneo's place."
"Yes sir!"
"We should go then."
With that said they started exiting the room. Just when Cloud was about out of the room, Zack shouted at him. "Cloud!" The cadet turned to look at his best friend who gave him a concerned look. "Please be careful." Cloud nodded and closed the door, leaving Zack alone in the General's office.
The raven-haired SOLDIER leaned against the closest wall and sighed. If keeping his feelings to himself was already hard with a normal looking Cloud, it was going to be next to impossible to not give it away when Cloud was dressed like a girl and looked totally awesome like that. Zack Fair had never felt as frustrated as he did right now. When he received the news about Cloud being his partner, he was shocked and scared. He didn't know if he could keep his hands off his best friend any longer. Zack never in his life had had those kinds of feelings for a boy, but since the moment he first met Cloud, he felt something about the young man was different. At first, Zack just wanted to keep the blond from coming to harm. Zack thought he had those feeling because he loved Cloud like a brother, but when those feelings caused Zack to like holding the blond, or having him around all day, or the way Cloud's smile made him feel. All those small actions the blonde cadet did drove Zack crazy, and he came to the conclusion that he, Zack, Mister-straight-womanizer-guy had fallen for another guy.
"What the hell," he muttered, rubbing his temples. "I better think of a plan to control myself." Zack opened the door and made his way to his room. He wanted to rest and think about what to do.
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The way down to the car was the most embarrassing moment of Cloud's life. Everyone was sending dirty looks. At least no one had recognized him. That would be the end for him. He walked closely to General Sephiroth, who had a serious expression on his face. He didn't seem affected despite all the looks and whispers he was hearing and receiving. Cloud knew that this was going to be in the news. After all, he was dressed like a whore and next to Sephiroth. It was something to gossip about. To Cloud's relief, they were soon in Barret's car. Said person was now watching his ass.
"So pretty, what's your name?"
Didn't this guy know he was a guy? "My name is Cloud…"
"Quite a masculine voice you have," Barret said looking at his chest with interest.
Cloud quickly averted his gaze, catching general Sephiroth doing the same. "What the fuck? They are fakes, and Sephiroth…come on…" But well he couldn't blame them for looking at his chest. In fact, the pair of boobs looked quite natural, like they were attached to his skin or he was just born with them there. "I guess Shinra technology is the best…"
Turning to look at Sephiroth, Cloud caught the man looking away, and Cloud rolled his eyes. It seemed all guys were the same, a bunch of perverts. Was he the only guy in the world who wasn't a pervert? Giving a tired sigh, he entered the car next to Barret, being careful not to open his legs too much. He made space for General Sephiroth, but the silver-haired man remained outside of the car. "Here. This is your bag with all the necessary things, and have this." He gave the blond a silver necklace. "Put it on."
"What for sir?"
"It's a device. It'll help with your voice." The blond nodded and grabbed it, putting it on right away. "Good Luck Cloud"
"Thanks Sir"
Sephiroth nodded and closed the door. Soon the car started moving, taking him to his living hell.
This chapter totally failed! I mean, it was boring and bad written wasn't it?
Throw me tomatoes if you feel like it ;(
Seriously girls I got that advice from a friend of mine who was a model it helps a lot! If you use high heels don't bend your knees too much :D
English is not my first language and in my native language we have a term for boyfriends who do anything to please their girlfriends like ANYTHING and I found that whipped is like similar to that term. Hope I didn't confuse you?
If you didn't get that joke is okay, I mean is really bad, I completely failed!
But is a joke referring to Sephiroth obsession to his mommy: jenova
This story was supposed to be a 3-shot but since chapter 3 turn to be much longer Chapter 4 would be the last one :D and guess what both chapters are almost done!
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I'll update soon I promise!