Disclaimer: All Square Enix/Tetsuya Nomura related characters belong to still Square Enix/Tetsuya Nomura.

AN: This chapter was kind of the odd one to write due to...I'm starting to kick myself for writing random drabbles to toss into this later and working them into the chapters and working around them to make them read and seem sensible and if you guys find this chapters is utterly confusing to read...I apologize in advance. I stupidly stayed up till 3:30 a.m. PST to watch AMV Hell 4 II and Hellsing Ultimate OVA 5 among other random vids with one of my brothers...and the fact I only 6 to 6 and a half hours sleep and a miniature nap this afternoon doesn't help and its New Year's Eve...So. I'm trying to crank out as much of this among others for you guys before the great Job Search starts Jan. 2nd or whenever. Because once I start working and start Spanish 101, over again...long story...I'll hardly have time alongside attempting to work on getting my Driver's License soon...^^; Among struggling to make ends meet to attempt to go to Anime Expo 2009 out in Los Angeles, CA...so. Yeah. It may be a while before you guys getting anymore of this others for a while, while I struggle to find work and just make life work.

See ya.

Chapter 9

Cloud scoured out over the streets of the neighborhood, figuring Roxas wouldn't get too far being that the kid didn't have a car to his name which meant he couldn't go too far, but where do you start on your search for an angsting teen with a broken heart that he was concealing very well through brooding and a mouth like a sailor with a mixed in attitude that said to all, 'Touch me or talk me and you'll find your self castrated…'? It wasn't any easy task and was getting tedious as Cloud started to find himself hopelessly lost and turned around.

"…How hard is it to find one kid?" Cloud scratched at the back of his head as he tried to find his bearings of where he was, "Heh…better call Leon…"

As he began to start the call he saw the person he was looking for sitting on the curbside near the bus stop that had used to take the boy to school during the time he was in High School, "…Or not…Roxas?"

"…Whatever it is, Cloud…you can shove it…" Roxas growled as he glared towards the man, but he could see that the man wasn't going to back down, "I don't need your pity, my Dad's or even my Mom's…I don't need anyone's pity…"

"You know…you sure have a big mouth, a big attitude and a broken heart…its understandable, but that doesn't give you any right to take it out on others around you," Cloud seemed to growl as he leered down at Roxas, "Your Mom was only trying to help you with whatever is bugging you, but all you can do is brood and snap her head off…"

"…When does the hurt ever stop hurting, Cloud…?" Roxas managed to get out among the strangled sob in his throat was forming as he tried to hide away the pain he knew he was causing to everyone, "…When does the pain just give up and go away…?"

Cloud placed his hands out on the teen's shoulders as Roxas just seemed to fall into them, sobbing, his body wracked in emotion and sobbing, "…It likes to stick around as long as it wishes to, but it will only leaves when it realizes you've managed to make it sick with the new happiness in your life. I never thought it would leave me until I met your Dad…"

"…I was in a…pretty tight relationship with someone I thought I loved and he loved me back, but, one too many bad decisions along the road of life, me trying to intervene on his behalf to get him to stop all of his bad decisions, but…" the man had to stop himself from crying as well, "…All the words, all the actions, anything and everything you can to help stop the pain in the other's heart instead of tending to the pain in your heart leaves you open for the other's abuse…"

"I found a way to escape him and the pain, but…it seemed…the pain wasn't done with me much like he wasn't done with me. I spent several months in and out of different Therapy offices to get help for the nightmares, but each and every time I did it…he would find me again…he nearly got me again just shortly before I met your Dad. Long story short…a restraining order was placed out on him, and we haven't seen hide or hair of the man, let alone a phone call until…"

Just as Cloud prepared to speak about the ill fated temper tantrum he had in the kitchen back at the house, "…Cloud. I think its best that you don't bring it up…" Leon had found the pair as he moved over to the bench, "…Roxas, your Mom is waiting back at the house; she's suggesting you stay through the weekend and…we'll try and come and visit again."

"…Alright," Roxas detached himself from Cloud as he halfheartedly hugged his Father figure as he made for home, leaving the distraught blond alone with his estranged Father, Fate…you are a fickle bitch. Stop playing the past out through those I love and care for. It's not going to bring him back.

A car started up as fingers gripped at a steering wheel, seated in the passenger seat were numerous copies of photos of the distraught blond and on the camera strewn about the photos were just as many photos as the ones on the passenger seat. The driver's chest rose and fell without stopping in between to give the chest a moment to catch up with itself as lust started hazing over the driver's line of vision; they were taking in the sight of the distraught blond caught up in the brunette's loving arms.

"…Enjoy him all you can, Leonhart…he will be mine again…I promise you that…Even by force," the lust strewn voice seemed to purr out through the cracked lips as the engine roared deeper into a full purring roar as the man pulled out onto the street, slowly passing by the bus stop seat as he gave them one final stare, "…Hello Cloud…Hello…Leonhart."

Then the car was gone and Cloud was turned into a raving mad man.

Slowly…

The storm was beginning to roll in for the Stormy Weather of all of this…

Across town, rumblings were starting to roll in as rain began to began a soft pitter patter of raindrops against the pavement; Demyx enjoyed the rain, it was an odd coincidence as to why he did but Zexion didn't particularly care for it but he was willing to endure the sight of it all, especially as he watched his childish lover playing out and dancing about in the rain. One thing he could only enjoy about it was how the rain seemed to not hold or catch hard against any part of Demyx's wild hair style, but they left soft mists against his eyelashes and faces; they were tiny little kisses from the rain which would later be replaced even softer kisses and caresses from the lilac haired man. His soft giggling laugh could be heard among the soft patter of rain droplets as Zexion watched from under the awning until he was pulled into the infectious laughter matched with an even more infectious kiss with those childish lips that seemed to act like a seasoned pro in the art of love.

"Mmnh…I love you, Zexion…"Demyx softly whispered as he washed his hands through Zexion's lilac locks as he felt the man's short statured arms wrapping themselves about his waist, "Do you love me, Zexy?"

Zexion could only chuckle as he ran his hands up along the back of Demyx's shoulders and pull him down into a hardened, chaste kiss, "I always do you dork…come on, let's get on home before we get utterly drenched…"

Softly, the mullet headed one pulled away as he gave the lilac haired man one last kiss, "Okay, okay…"

As Demyx prepared to head for the direction of the car; he couldn't help but sense that odd and cliché Bugs Bunny sensation again, but he couldn't place where it was, but the sensation could full well sense that Demyx was catch on to where the man was, "…The Target and Object of Interest are heading back for their place of residence…get ready to make the bust then…" the sensation spoke into the call as he watched two men almost scurrying for the car and pulling away down the street to the apartment, "…Don't lose them. Mr. Watterson says to secure the Target and take precaution in regards to the Object of Interest…He may act out irrationally if he fears that the Target is in danger. Take extra precaution."

"Yes sir," several voices replied over the call as the figure's face crawled into a darkened and self accomplished smirk.

"This job better pay damn well or else I'm calling it quits after this job," the man closed his phone as the typical skunk like pattern of the man's hair appeared out of the shadows, "Sorry about this kid, but…orders are orders and a man's got to make a living."

Larxene was enjoying listening to herself talk as the world seemed to be slipping by slowly, players were being moved about the board of life as a new set was being set; one man was sitting in his home, a glass of brandy in his hand as he waited for the call that would tell him his deed was done. Two men were heading for home, one of them was on the verge of a mental breakdown while his companion was attempting to calm the man as they came upon the parking lot of their Apartment, their steps would be slow and careful up the stairs as it took all the calmed companion had to coax his nearly neurotic companion up the stairway to their home. Assuring him that no monster was coming for him and that it wasn't hiding in their home; they would move away as soon as it was safe and they were financially stable to afford to move at this time. A car was moving into the alleyway as its figure slinked out of it like a demonic like snake or much like the one that had been the deceiver of old within the Garden that would've been a Paradise; it was slinking its way into the home of the one it was after for prey so as to spring its trap on them.

Other cars were surrounding and waiting in ready for when their prey would come home; it wouldn't be much longer, all the key players were in play, the minor character at this moment was sitting at home, with the Mother figure of the tale as they sat down to eat dinner together for the first time in a long while, but, the pieces were about to become scattered into the wind within a sheer number moments. The snake had moved its way into the den of the neurotic prey and...

History has told us that there was a shot heard around the world the day the Revolutionary Wary started, initiating the start of a new period in the history of the United States, tonight, there was a different shot heard that was heard throughout the small apartment. Words out of anger had rung out until the sounds of scrambling feet, shouts of fear as a shot rang out and yet another set of rounds went off as the running sets of feet scrambled to avoid getting hit by the rounds until a scream shouted out into the dark night.

"LEON! GET OUT OF HERE!"

"NO!"

"I SAID GET OUT OF HE---!"

Sounds of wood cracking with the sounds of what could only be thought of as being a rocket exploding, but it wasn't; the object that the sound had connected and collided with was now lying on the floor of the small apartment. Silence fell throughout the apartment again until a scream ripped through the night, alerting the rest of the apartment complex; if the building wasn't awake yet, it was now as phone's started ringing off the hook.

"…If you had just listened to me…this wouldn't have happened….Cloud," Sephiroth took his leave as he stepped over broken glass, and past Cloud, "Have fun with your corpse…Leon…"