Big Brother Sephy

A/N: Sorry I took so long to update–I've just felt so lazy. In fact, you still wouldn't have an update if it weren't for Saruvi who kicked my sorry but into gear. Go thank her. XD Personally, I didn't find the last chapter up to par so I hope to amend it here. Might not be as long though, sorry.

PS: You guys never commented on my SephyxCloud pics that I drew for you to enjoy. Cloud in chocobo Pjs and Sephy shirtless, don't you want to see that? I admit, I'm not the best artist but...it's still cute so go to my gallery. I fixed all the faulty links on my profile so everything should be ok. Also, I started writing a new original story on fictionpress called Love is Blind and I want more feedback so if you guys like this and have a fictionpress account, please go review that or I won't love you any more. Just kidding, I'll always love you guys. :) You can find the link to my fictionpress and DeviantArt account on my profile.

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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Final Fantasy characters but I wish I did. If any of you love me enough to buy Final Fantasy for me, go ahead and do it. I'll dedicate the whole story to you if you do. XD

Warnings: The usual.

READ THIS: I promised a lemon if you guys reviewed last chapter and you did so I'm going to give it to you. I posted it separately on my LJ though because an explicit sexual situation is against the rules here so if you're old enough and wanna read a lemon, follow this link(without the spaces): http: / angel-gospel . livejournal . com/4980 . html

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Chapter Five: Understanding

Cloud woke up in a panic, running quickly to his bathroom so he could stare at the person who he hated the most–at the moment it was himself. Wide blue eyes stared back at him and he asked himself a very important question.

'What have I done? What have I done? What the hell have I done!?' His thoughts were in a complete frenzy and the reason was a certain green-eyed neighbor. Said neighbor had confessed to him the day before at school and–like the complete idiot Cloud knew himself to be–he had accepted. After only a day of knowing the man.

"Why did I do that? Am I that desperate for attention?" While Cloud did admit that he might have just accepted the man's feelings because his own life was in turmoil and he wanted something nice in it, he couldn't deny the somersaults his stomach did when he thought of the other man.

'You are in love, my little Cloudy, so just accept it.' His mother intoned and he nodded his head. Thinking of her only brought tears to his eyes but, she did have a point. A valid point.

"I could fall in love with this man." Cloud told his horrified reflection but then another thought occurred to him. "But I don't know if our love is true. How can it be after only a day?" The thought brought tears to his eyes and his lips quivered but he swiped at the forming tears and filled his eyes with determination.

"I am going to find out what love really is from people who know about it!" He told his reflection with determination shining in his blue eyes. "And then I'll figure out if what's between Sephiroth and I is real." He nodded his head for emphasis and sighed when the reflection did it too.

"Kami-sama, now you're talking to mirrors Cloud? GAH!" He tore at his spikey locks in irritation before taking a cursory look at the alarm clock. It read 5:30. "Guess I'll just have an early day." With that he began his morning rituals–an hour early.

After taking a shower Cloud put on his uniform and, gathering the SOLDIER cadet uniform in another carry-on bag, proceeded downstairs for breakfast. While cooking he let his thoughts wander back to his situation with Sephiroth. He had told his reflection that he would find out about love from people who knew about it so...who could he ask? Sephiroth's friend–the strange spiky haired one–Zack had told him that both he and Aeris–Sephiroth's other friend who was very pretty–would be willing to listen to anything he had to say because he was one of them now, but Cloud didn't feel very comfortable telling Sephiroth's friends that he was unsure about his feelings for someone they probably cared about a lot. And he couldn't very well ask Sephiroth now could he? Or Seifer--even though the large man had called him family–that would just be too weird. Squall and Ramza were the only people he truly felt comfortable with so he resolved to talk to them. He bit his lip and pondered as to whether he should call his cousin.

'It couldn't hurt to try, now could it?' He asked himself reassuringly as he dialed the familiar number. He only had to wait a second before someone picked up the phone and he heard a tired voice ask hello. Cloud bit his lip guiltily and wondered if he had woken his cousin up. Oh well, too late for regrets.

"Hello? Squall?" He started off shyly, wondering if his cousin was still upset about the day before. He had asked Seifer to give the brunet a hug after the two blondes had a heart-to-heart talk but...maybe he was still angry?

"Cloud?" His cousin's voice asked worriedly. "What's the matter?" What was the matter, Cloud wondered as he fiddled with the hem of his shirt.

"I just wanted to say that I'm sorry about yesterday..." He began with a truly regretful tone and he heard Squall sigh in relief. "And...I was wondering...would you come over now? You don't have to--" But he was cut off by a swift yes before his cousin snapped the phone shut. The dial tone sounded oddly comforting, reminding him that no matter how much they fought, his cousin would still care about him. The thought brought a small smile to his face and the remained throughout his whole breakfast. Thoughtfully, he saved some for his cousin, knowing the brunet would rush right over. As the thought passed through his head, he heard a knock: quiet yet efficient, just like Squall. He opened the door with a smile that was soon hidden in the mounds of Squall's leather jacket.

"What's wrong Cloud?" The worried grey eyes bore into him and made him swallow dryly. "Are you thinking about what happened with your mother? Oh Cloud, you are moving in with Seifer and I today! I can't believe I left you alone for as long as I did." Cloud rolled his eyes and tried to hide the smile that was forming on his lips.

"Squall, I've been alone for only two days–scratch that–two nights since I've seen you during the day. I don't need to move out. And you don't need to worry...it's not a problem related to that." His smile left at the reminder of his mother but he quickly brightened himself before his cousin could feel it. He still owed his cousin an apology. "And I wanted to say that I'm sorry." He bowed his head down in shame but looked back up quickly when he heard Squall laugh.

"It's ok, I forgive you. Seifer told me that you wanted to give me a hug–hence what I did when I first came in–and he added that you wanted me to have sex with him...I'm pretty sure you didn't add that...did you?" Cloud laughed and wondered if Seifer ever thought of anything other than sex. Oh well, as long as Squall loved the big oaf...speaking of love. He began to fiddle with his shirt again and avoided Squall's eyes. "What's the matter?" There was that mother-lion concern again. Cloud sighed and opted to just tell the truth.

"I need help with something..." Squall eyed him wearily when he began to blush but thankfully remained silent. "How do you know...that you love Seifer?" Squall blinked at him before a blush similar to Cloud's own filled his face.

"Why do you ask?" He asked in a voice that sounded a little squeaky and Cloud bit his lip shyly.

"I need to know if I love someone and whether I made the right decision in an important situation." Cloud sounded very mature and Squall blinked once more before nodding.

"Well, Seifer is irritating and perverted and a glutton..." Cloud blinked, he didn't think he'd asked his cousin to name Seifer's bad side. "But he's also kind and gentle and he makes me smile. He makes my heart flutter so hard against my ribs and I used to feel intimidated because he was so huge–like he could break me if he wanted to–but now I love the feeling of being wrapped up in his embrace. He's careful with me too, as if I were made of glass, which should annoy me since I am the Commander of SEED but it doesn't." Cloud stared at his cousin in awe and thought about his own feelings for Sephiroth. He did feel the same way about the green-eyed man sometimes.

"And Seifer is good in bed and irritates Loire." It seems Squall added the last part just to make Cloud smile and it worked. The blonde did feel somewhat uncomfortable when Squall mentioned Loire but after the tactless way he had broached the subject the day before, he decided against it.

"You are such a whore Squall." He teased and smiled at the way the brunet looked so flustered. He offered Squall a plate of breakfast as an apology before another question popped into his head. "Where is Seifer?" Squall flushed and fidgeted and Cloud couldn't help but wonder why.

"Well...he's been so good with putting up with me while I'm er...PMS-ing as he calls it, that I offered him a little reward. He was still asleep when I left but he should be arriving soon." Oh, so that's why he's flushing, Cloud thought with a smile and Squall looked embarrassed for a second before they both began to laugh. They were cut off by a loud knocking at the door. Both boys smiled at each other, sharing a private joke, before Squall got up to open the door. As soon as he did, he was pulled into a one-armed hug by Seifer.

"Muffin, where were you in the morning? I give you great sex and all I get is a note? You'd never believe how heart broken I was this morning when I woke up to a cold bed and an even colder note!" Squall rolled his eyes at his boyfriend's dramatics but appropriately placed a kiss on the larger man's lips as apology. Cloud watched the whole exchange nervously and wondered if he should come up with a nickname for Sephiroth...after all, Seifer seemed to have a billion nicknames for Squall. He remained nervous throughout the whole ride to school until he was dropped off and saw Ramza. The other boy's motherly smile made him think that everything would be okay.

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Cloud may have woken up that morning with a dark cloud over his head but Sephiroth woke up with a smile. Something he hadn't done since he had met the blonde which, in Cloud's defense, was only two days ago, only one night. It was still the worst night of Sephiroth's life though, so he had a right to be unhappy when thinking about it. Now, he had no reason to be unhappy. He had his family, he had his friends, and most of all...he had Cloud. Thinking of the blonde angel, and their adventure at school the day before, made him smirk. While what they had done the day before wasn't quite what happened in his dream, it was still a really good make out session.

'I wonder if we can do it again today?' His smirk had widened to Cheshire-cat potential and he could stop the happiness he felt. 'Of course we can, what am I saying, we're lovers now.' That thought made him smile even further. Maybe, sometime soon, he and Cloud could–he shook himself out of his hormonal thoughts when he heard a knock at the door. He stretched his limbs and wondered if he should pull on a shirt before opening the door but decided not to bother. Whoever was knocking was just asking for it. It was probably just Zack or Aeris or his brothers...they'd all seen him like this before so it didn't matter. He was surprised, however, when he opened the door and it turned out to be...Valentine-sensei. The man was being led into his room by Yazoo but Sephiroth didn't notice because he was too busy staring.

"Valentine-sensei, what are you doing here?" Sephiroth asked when he finally mustered up his wits. The man was staring at Yazoo with a strange sort of longing and gave Sephiroth the same look when he heard the silver-haired boy speak. Sephiroth felt very uncomfortable under that look, as if Valentine could look through him and in him.

"I'm sorry to meet you so abruptly Hojo-kun," Valentine-sensei began and Sephiroth stared at him in surprise. The uptight teacher never got to close to his students and so the title kun was almost never used. "But I was a bit worried about you." What was there to be worried about?

"Worried about me? What, you mean for yesterday? I think you should worry more about Beoulve-san...he's the one that got hurt." This whole day–and it was only morning so far–was making his head hurt. Why was Valentine-sensei coming to Sephiroth when he had been the one to fly off the handle yesterday? He should be checking on Ramza or no one at all since the young blonde was only a little bruised, no one really needed to worry. If any thing, Sephiroth was happy. He had a boyfriend now thanks to the little skirmish yesterday, what more could he ask for? "I'm actually quite satisfied with what happened yesterday." Vincent looked flustered but quickly reassembled his mask of apathy.

"I'd still like to give you a ride to school, if that isn't a problem?" Sephiroth wondered if it was possible to refuse, after all wasn't it a little strange for a teacher to offer his student a ride to school? For all Sephiroth knew–Valentine could have a thing for teenaged boys but then again, Sephiroth knew he could take care of himself so he just shrugged.

'What could it hurt? Better leave Zack with my keys though or he'll never make it to school...or maybe Valentine-sensei can take Zack too?'With these thoughts in mind Sephiroth nodded and, after pulling on a shirt, he told the teacher to wait for him in the kitchen. "I'm going to take a shower and meet you downstairs. You can go ahead and have some breakfast with Zack, Aeris, and the kids." When Sephiroth got out of the shower he found Valentine-sensei over a stove. The man looked exasperated, Zack and Aeris just looked confused.

"I can't believe you allow your brothers to eat cereal every single day!" The teacher told Sephiroth and the silver-haired boy's eye began to twitch.

"They like cereal, right Yazoo?" Said brother nodded and looked mournfully at the cupboard where he knew the boxes of cereal to be.

"Well, I am making them a proper breakfast." Valentine-sensei declared in an apathetic voice. Sephiroth couldn't help but wonder why the man sounded as if he had no emotions...kind of like Yazoo.

'Come to think of it, Sensei and Yazoo have a lot in common...strange.' But he ignored the thought in favor of watching his teacher. The man appeared to be cooking breakfast for them. That was also strange. He turned to watch his brothers' reactions and saw that Kadaj was happily digging in a bowl of fruit that the other man had apparently given him. "We have fruit in the house?" Valentine-sensei seemed shocked by the question–or as shocked as he could be which meant he blinked, once, in confusion.

"Yes, there is, along with a lot of other healthy foods that children should eat." Sephiroth ignored the emphasis he put on healthy to gauge Loz's reaction to this mothering. He already knew Yazoo was upset by the no cereal declaration. Loz was staring at Valentine-sensei with wide eyes that sparkled in fear and he appeared to be chanting something under his breath. Sephiroth moved closer to him to hear.

"Vampire...vampire...vampire...vampire..." The boy was saying, as if it were a mantra. Sephiroth shot Zack, who had been otherwise silent, a scathing glare and the other boy smiled sheepishly.

"Been talking to Loz, have you Zack?" The other boy swallowed dryly and nodded in a guilty manner. Aeris, who had heard them, gasped and smaked the spiky-haired boy upside the head.

"Zack!" She admonished maternally and Zack bowed his head in shame. Sephiroth was originally going to scold him too but now the man just smirked and sat back to watch the show.

"I'm sorry! Sorry Seph, I won't do it again." Sephiroth smiled dangerously in a way that said: you'd-better-not but the moment ended when Valentine-sensei said 'done' in his regular monotonous voice. He brought out plates of different foods for the people at the table and Sephiroth was surprised to find that the man was actually a good cook. Even Yazoo and Loz enjoyed the meal.

"Dracula-san is a good cook." Loz told the black-haired man cheerily, his earlier fear completely forgotten because of the food. Sephiroth gave him a scolding look and he withered.

"Loz, that was very impolite--" Sephiroth began but was cut off by a light chuckle from Valentine-sensei. Everyone turned to the man in surprise.

"It's perfectly fine, children have wild imaginations after all." Zack whistled innocently and Sephiroth shot him another glare that quickly silenced him. "Well, we must be going. I assume you will watch the children, pretty miss?" Aeris flushed and Zack growled slightly but Sephiroth began to drag him out.

"Zack will be coming with us if you don't mind, Sensei, because he has no car." Zack was sure he saw the teacher glare hatefully at him for a second but as soon as it was there, it was gone so he thought he must have imagined it.

"Of course." The man said calmly and slowly pulled a pair of keys. Sephiroth nodded at his answer but made no move to leave, prompting the Sensei to look questioningly at him.

"We have to wait for Sq–Commander Leonhart of GARDEN to pick Loz up. He should be here soon, he's always on time." Once Valentine-sensei nodded he called out to Loz. "Loz, come in here to wait for the Commander." Loz ran in almost immediately and Sephiroth saw his teacher flash the boy an affectionate smile from the corner of his eyes. After waiting for a few moment they heard the knock at the door that they'd been waiting for. Sephiroth opened up the door and let the young Commander through the door.

"Time to go Loz." The young man said, after greeting everyone politely. "Take care of Cloud please." Sephiroth nodded and smiled genuinely but Zack saw that Valentine-sensei's whole mouth was drawn into a frown. The brunet nodded once more and pulled Loz out to his car. When they left, Sephiroth and the others came out. Sephiroth yelled back a quick 'bye' before closing the door. In his front yard he saw a large mini-van, the type a family man would have. Surely it couldn't be Valentine-sensei's car? Zack whistled in surprise.

"And here I thought he drove the bat-mobile." Sephiroth elbowed the boy in the ribs to shut him up but privately he agreed. The vampire-like teacher either didn't hear or didn't care about what Zack said because he only unlocked the doors. Upon noticing their skeptical looks he smiled and explained.

"I always wanted a big family, you might not expect it from a guy like me, but I have." Sephiroth heard such longing in the voice that he felt the need to comfort the man.

"I'm sure you will someday." He told the man who smiled at his kindness and ushered them in happily–less so for Zack.

"Someday may be sooner than you think," The red-eyed man whispered quietly as they got into the car, so no one would hear. "My dear Sephiroth."

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Cloud smiled widely–and a little unsurely–as he walked up to the other blonde. Ramza waited patiently for Cloud to walk over before taking his hand. 'Ramza sure loves holding hands...but I can't complain because it feels nice–natural.' Cloud's thought caused him to blush and Ramza turned to him curiously.

"What is the matter Cloud?" His large brown eyes were filled with worry and that, in turn, filled Cloud with guilt. He couldn't tell Ramza that he reminded him of his mother though, so he just shook his head and smiled.

"Nothing...I just wanted to ask you a question." Now this was the embarrassing part. Ramza blinked at him cutely but nodded his head in assent. "Have you ever...have you ever been in love?" He whispered the word love but Ramza apparently heard him and the other boy froze up. The expression 'dear-in-the-headlights' passed through Cloud's mind as he looked at the younger boy. "You don't have to answer." But Ramza shook his head and curled a string of hair onto his finger.

"I should answer. It is only proper as we are friends and friends should help each other." Even though he said this, Ramza still seemed uncomfortable and his eyes were strangely blank. "I have been in love before and...love is--" He was cut off by another voice, deeper and more melodious.

"Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do willcherish it, be lost in it, andamong all,never...neverforgetit." The voice belonged to a brown haired boy with a red trench coat on. Cloud vaguely remembered thinking that he kind of resembled his cousin. Cloud also remembered thinking that he looked a little intimidating but Ramza gave the other boy a bright smile.

"Hello Rhapsodos-san, how is the play going?" Before Cloud could ask what play they were talking about, Ramza turned to him to explain. "Rhapsodos-san is the President of the Drama club." Cloud smiled wearily at the man and rose to shake his hand but his gesture was ignored.

"The play? It goes as well as it may I suppose." He was silent for a second before he answered again with the same mysterious voice he used to explain love. "Life is like a stage and we are all actors, manipulated to follow the whims of a wicked playwright. Don't let yourself fall into that trap." He said this to Cloud and the blonde blinked at his disappearing back in consternation.

"What the hell was that about?" Ramza placed a comforting hand on his arm to soothe him.

"Worry not Cloud, he means you know harm. Genesis Rhapsodos is the President of the Drama club, as I told you earlier, and he may seem to be a little strange but he is actually a good person. I like discussing fine works of Literature with him." Ah, Cloud thought, so the drama thing is to blame for his strangeness? Oh well. "But he is right about one thing Cloud. Love is an obsession and when you love someone, you give them the power to hurt you but I want you to remember, you also give them the power to lick your wounds."

'Why does everybody have to speak so cryptically with me? I'm not a genius. GAH!' Thou Cloud was internally having this conversation he only hm-ed out loud. "What does that mean?" Ramza smiled at him and pat him on the head.

"Silly Cloud, it means, if Sephiroth does something that should not hurt you but does, then you have very strong feelings for him." Cloud remembered how jealous he had felt when he had thought that Sephiroth was in love with the boy sitting before him. Then a thought occurred to him.

"Hey, I never said that I liked Sephiroth!" To his surprise, Ramza began to laugh. Cloud looked flustered for a second before smiling a little as well. "What's so funny."

"What is funny is, you two could not be any more obvious...and the whole school saw you kissing." The blonde at least had the decency to flush when he mentioned Cloud and Sephiroth's romantic escapade...good because Cloud didn't want to be the only one–his own face was as red as a cherry. Ramza blinked at his face cutely before suddenly poking Cloud's nose. Both blondes stared at each other before bursting into laughter. The laughter only stopped when they heard their peers talking loudly about something that happened.

"Look at that teacher, he's--"

"Isn't that!?"

"It couldn't be--"

"Is that man Valentine-sensei?"Ramza asked and Cloud saw the man opening a car door, apparently his own car though it didn't seem like his kind of ride, and Zack–Sephiroth's strange friend–popped out. The black haired boy looked oddly uncomfortable but Cloud could understand why. The air was buzzing with rumors.

"Do you think that it's a teacher/student relationship?"

"It's just a rumor." Cloud told Ramza with finality, about to turn around and ignore the situation all together when he heard a sharp intake of breath. He turned around and the world fell apart around him.Sephiroth was getting out of the car, and while the green-eyed man looked oblivious, the look in their teacher's eyes was both loving and longing. Even he, who was relatively clueless about being in love, knew what a look like that meant. For a second, Cloud couldn't breathe but Ramza placed a steadying arm around his waist and he leaned into the other boy gratefully.

"It is only a rumor Cloud." Even if both Ramza and he had said that earlier Cloud knew this to be anything but a rumor. He looked into the teacher's eyes one more time for confirmation and saw that they were directed towards him: heated and challenging. Cloud bit the inside of his cheek and turned away, burying his face in Ramza's shoulder.

'Someone I love can cause me immense pain,' Cloud's thoughts began bitterly. 'I guess I solved that problem but a new one has just begun.'

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When Sephiroth arrived on the school grounds he was surprised and angry. The whole student body seemed to be before him, gossiping and judging, but they were not what riled up such emotions in him. He ignored his surroundings and focused on one thing and that one thing only. Cloud had his face buried on Ramza's neck, as if he were kissing it, and Ramza had one arm around Cloud's waist, the other was tangled in Cloud's blonde spikes. Sephiroth saw red.

"Hoo-boy, here we go again." Zack sighed and thought to himself as he watched the drama unfold.

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A/N: What did you guys think of the chapter? I rather liked it and I hope the people who thought that Sephiroth and Cloud's relationship was moving to fast are appeased. Can any one say RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS? XD

HELP: I know this is stupid but I can't figure out how to do single-line-breaks. Help?

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