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Oh, you can take the bit at the end any way you want. There's no intent behind it.

"Wow, you finished it." Riku commented, looking over the garden that was now being trampled by Kadaj.

Cloud said nothing, gritting his teeth. He'd put a lot of time into that garden and considering how lousy he was with growing things, he was quite proud at how well it had been doing.

Loz was off to the side, nose wrinkled in disgust. "Gross. How can you stand it?"

"Oh, they're just plants." Kadaj said in annoyance. "They're not like those one's in that church. Those were nasty."

"Those are Aerith's flowers." Cloud's right hand twitched.

"Yes and she's dead." Yazoo smirked. "Big Brother killed her for interfering with Mother's efforts to cleanse this world."

"Aerith's not dead." Sora protested before Riku could shut him up. Cloud's hand went up to hit his head.

There was a chorus of 'what's?'

"Good going, Sora." Riku muttered.

Sephiroth actually glared at Cloud. "That Centra bitch is alive?"

"I'm not about to tell you."

Sephiroth smirked and Cloud paled. Oh, he knew that look. "Well, Cloud, perhaps we shall take our leave then."

"But Mother-" Loz overheard them and teared up.

"Wait! I think, no it's just a rock." Kadaj threw the object over his head turning just enough to aim it for Sora's head. The brunette teen was able to scramble out of the way but ended up running into Sephiroth in the process.

Sephiroth picked him up by the neck and tossed him in Riku's direction. "Riku, you and your little friend here watch over. I need to have a little chat with Strife."

"We have nothing to talk about." Cloud protested sternly.

"I believe we do." He took the top of Cloud's head and turned him toward the house. Cloud squirmed away but followed, cursing quietly the whole way.

"You know, there are people out there who think they're a couple." Riku said thoughtfully.

"Yeah?" Sora tilted his head. "I don't see it."

"Neither do I." Riku refaced the garden. "Then again, people think we're dating."

"Yeah, well we don't exactly try to dissuade them either."

"True." Riku frowned. "Great, where'd Loz go?"

"He's on the side of the house." Yazoo answered.

"I'll go." Sora volunteered. He headed across the yard toward the garage. He didn't find Loz outside. Taking a chance we went around, finding the garage open and Loz inside it. "What are you looking at?"

"Who's Squall?"

"Squall?"

"There's a bunch of boxes marked Squall."

Oh, Leon must be storing stuff here. Cloud had mentioned Leon having things in the house earlier. "He's a friend of ours."

"Oh, maybe he has Mother." Loz began pulling boxes down.

"No." Sora stopped him. Leon would kill them if his things were messed with. He didn't want to see a Gunblade duel breakout between Leon and Yazoo. "Seph said she was in the backyard."

"Brother doesn't want us to find her. Maybe he and Squall re-hid her."

Damnit, why was Loz suddenly using his brain?

"I found her!" Kadaj's voice was loud enough the whole neighborhood had to have heard him. "Mother! I found Mother!"

Loz's face lit up. He dropped the box in his hands, which made a loud clinking noise and ran out of the garage. Sora winced, praying it wasn't something important that broke before chasing after him.

The three hovered around the surprisingly small black box Kadaj held. Sora came up beside Riku. "That's what they've been looking for?"

"Yep." Riku's expression was a bit tense. "Great job, guys. Why don't you give her to me and we can tell Brother we have her?"

"I wanna see her." Kadaj stated trying to open the box.

"You don't want to open that, Kadaj." Riku took a few steps toward them. "You'll hurt her."

"No, we won't." He finally got the tape off and slid the top from the box. All three peered in and after a moment frowned. "This, this isn't Mother."

"Sora, get Sephiroth now." Riku muttered.

Sora didn't wait for him to finish the sentence. He raced into the house, searching. He ran into the front room and froze in the archway. Sephiroth was bent over Cloud who was on the floor, shirt nearly ripped off.

"Uhhh…" What did he just walk into?

"What?" Sephiroth bit out.

"Kadaj opened the box."

Sephiroth sprang off of Cloud and rushed past Sora. Sora stood there blinking at Cloud. The blonde picked himself up off the floor and straightened his mangled shirt. He walked calmly toward Sora, as if nothing had happened. "We should help him."

"Uhhh… yeah."