Warnings: Language, sexual situations, M/M (Yaoi) If any of that turns out off, please walk away...now!
Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII, and Kingdom Hearts belong to Square Enix and Disney.
WARNING! THIS CHAPTER IS NOT WORKSAFE! Please read carefully, I don't want anyone coming upon this and freaking out and reporting it. Again, it's NOT WORKSAFE!
Cloud sat on Reno's front porch, the autumn sun shooting down, basking him in warmth. Zack sat beside him, a grin spread across his face as he followed a badminton birdie through the air.
"How long have they been rallying for?" Cloud asked, leaning up against the stair railing.
"Um...an hour and twenty...three minutes." Zack answered looking down at his digital watch. "Although this isn't the longest that they have been able to keep it in the air."
Cloud looked over at Zack and then back at the birdie. He had just spent the last hour and twenty three minutes watching Reno and Rude rally in badminton. The sheer excitement of it all was threatening to make him explode.
"Not the longest eh? What was then?"
Zack kept his eye on the birdie, a smile still on his face. "Four hours and forty nine minutes."
Cloud's eyes bugged out slightly. "You are so shitting me right now." he exclaimed.
"No, I swear to god I'm not! Even ask Aerith, she was there." Zack laughed turning his attention to Cloud. "Once you get into the groove of it, you can go for a long while. I just suck at it so the longest I have gone is twenty minutes. I think you would be pretty good at badminton."
"The groove?" Cloud stated, raising an eyebrow. "Okay then, whatever you say."
They sat in a comfortable silence for a while, the only sound was the birdie hitting the racket and whizzing through the air.
"Did you know they used to date." Zack said, cracking his back and lying down slightly on the steps, his elbows supporting him.
"Huh? Who?" Cloud asked, turning so he was facing Zack.
"Reno and Rude! They dated for almost two years." Zack replied, acting like what he had spewed forth was the most well known piece of information ever.
Cloud sat there a moment processing what Zack had just said. "So...those two...the stoic one who never talks...and the one who never shuts up and tries to hump everything he sees...they dated." he finally said.
"Yup. I know it's pretty hard to believe but they did. They broke up just before summer vacation because they both wanted to go there separate way's and date some different people. But as you can see they are still really good friends."
Cloud furrowed his eyebrows. "I never would have thought...hey wait, they dated for two years and Reno is still a virgin?"
"It all depends on your definition of a virgin now doesn't it?" Zack winked.
Cloud was just about to question further when a scream was heard.
"FUCKER!"
Cloud and Zack both shot their head's forward in time to see Reno standing there, a small badminton birdie lying at his feet.
"Maaaaan," Reno whined picking up the birdie and dropping his racket. " How long was that this time?" He yelled across the yard to Zack.
"An hour and forty minutes." He called back, standing up and heading towards Reno.
All three of them made there way towards Reno as Reno just stood there, fiddling around with the birdie, a look of defeat on his face. "Sorry..." he mumbled.
Rude just shrugged and bent down to pick up the racket Reno had dropped.
"Hey, you were going to show me something cool!" Zack exclaimed, now remembering Reno saying something about ' something so cool it could destroy the world with it's awesomeness.'
"Oh Ya! Okay guys...watch this." Reno said, positioning himself in front of Zack, an evil glint in his eye.
Without warning Reno let out a terrifying yell. There was a flash of limbs and someone went down.
Cloud looked down at his feet to see Zack crunched over. Cloud couldn't decide whether he was laughing or crying. He suspected it was a little of both.
"Shit..." Rude muttered.
"Shit? SHIT! That's all you have to say for that? It at least deserves a-"
"Totally fucking...awesome." Zack wheezed out from the ground.
"Exactly! I learnt that from the greatest martial art's teacher ever!" Reno laughed, doing a high kick in the air.
"You mean from Herman? The homeless guy who lives under the bridge?" Rude questioned, while Cloud bent down to help Zack up.
"Same thing..." Reno rolled his eyes.
Zack stood up shakily with the help of Cloud. He was still clutching his stomach a grin on his face.
"That hurt a lot, but it was so worth it to hear your screech!" He laughed. "You kind of sounded like Aerith when she finds a rare type of flower seed."
Reno's mouth dropped and his eyebrows furrowed. "I do not- I mean what? I sounded like a girl? I will have you know- OH! Let's go play Hide and Seek!"
Cloud really couldn't follow Reno's train of thought and he didn't think he would ever be able to. Zack and Rude didn't seem fazed at all by the random deceleration though.
"Come on! We haven't played Hide and Seek for so long! We should try and get as many people as we can, and go to the old Hospital! It will be fun!" Reno was now jumping from foot to foot.
"You know...that's not such a bad idea!" Zack said patting Reno on the shoulder. "We definitely have to get Sephiroth to join, he's like a ninja or something when it comes to the game. You can never find him..."
"Yes, I agree! Now all of you, go and get as many people as you can to join and meet back here in half an hour!" Reno declared, turning around and marching off.
Cloud was actually pretty excited to play Hide and Seek. He couldn't actually remember the last time he had played, but he knew he used to be really good at it. His smaller size as a kid had it's advantages.
By the time they had all made it back to Reno's, there was a large mass of people gathered outside his house, doing various things on the lawn.
Cloud jaw almost dropped at the sheer amount of people who had decided to show up. He had managed to convince Roxas to come and a few of his friends, but that was all. He hadn't imagined so many people would ever come to play Hide and Seek on a Saturday evening.
He recognized a few people, most of them being Turk members Reno had introduced to him at the Halloween party...when Cloud was still sober, as well as some kids he had seen around school, and a select few he actually talked to.
"You guys are finally back! Come on, lets get out of here!" Reno called from across the yard, waving at Zack and Cloud.
"I didn't think we would be the last ones to show up..." Zack whispered to Cloud.
"Well we wouldn't have been late if you didn't decide to chase the ducks at the park." Cloud shot back falling in step with Zack as they followed the large group of people to the Hospital.
Zack grabbed Cloud's hand and interlocked there fingers. Cloud blushed slightly, and tried not to look at anyone. He and Zack has been 'out' as a couple for a while now, but Cloud was still embarrassed when it came to public displays of affection.
They all walked on the road, and thankfully no cars came by. Cloud swore he saw a few elderly couples scuttle back inside when they saw the large mass of teenagers walk by. Cloud didn't really blame them.
By the time they all got to the hospital they had decided that Reno would be it, seeing as how he came up with the idea. Reno begrudgingly accepted the proposal.
"Fine! Have it your way!" Reno called, turning around and walking up to a metal bar. He placed his hands over his eyes while he leaned back on the bar, and slowly started to count.
Zack shifted his grip on Cloud's hand and took off towards one of the more covered areas. Cloud quickly followed trying not to trip on anything.
Zack turned a sharp corner and stopped at a large concrete tube with a tattered tarp covering the opening .
"Home sweet home!" Zack sang out, letting go of Cloud's hand and pushing away the tarp motioning for Cloud to enter.
"Isn't this a little obvious?" Cloud asked, peering into the tube.
"That's the whole point! You learn something about Reno when you play this game. He always looks in the strangest most random places ever before he will look at the completely obvious places. So I say we have a pretty good change of winning seeing as how this is one of the most obvious places in the entire construction site." Zack finished with a grin.
Cloud gave him a cynical look, but went in anyways. It was dark in the tube, but you could still see figures, and dark shapes.
Cloud went further into the tube until he got to the middle of it, where he stopped and turned around.
He came face to face with Zack, and almost ran into him. He let out a small sound of distress.
"Don't come so close! I didn't hear you come behind me!" Cloud exclaimed, punching Zack on the arm. " You scared me."
"Sorry!" Zack laughed, grabbing Cloud and hugging him. " But the more scared you are, the more likely it is the ghost will appear!" Zack joked, rocking Cloud back and forth.
Cloud tore away from the embrace and glared at Zack. "Don't joke about that stuff. Someone actually died here...we don't want to piss it off."
Cloud had always been fascinated by the paranormal, and felt that ghost actually existed, and you didn't mess with them. Disrespecting a ghost could mean trouble.
"Fine fine, I wont piss the ghost off." Zack sighed, leaning up against the wall of the tube. "So we have a while to waste...what do you wanna do?"
"How about we sit for a while, we don't always have to be doing something, do we?" Cloud asked, leaning up against the tube beside Zack.
"But I get all fidgety when I don't do anything!" Zack complained scuffing his feet on the ground. "Hey...I know what we can do..."
"What's tha-" Cloud was quickly cut off when Zack whipped around so he was facing Cloud, and quickly captured Cloud's lips with his own.
Cloud melted under the touch, and wrapped his arms around Zack's neck. He just prayed to all that was holy that no one found them.
They kissed for what seemed like ages, and Cloud let himself become consumed by it all. Only when he was pressed harder up against the wall did he come back to a semi-aware state.
It always seemed to go like this. Zack would initiate the kiss, then Cloud would always seem to find himself pressed up against the wall or his back on whatever surface they were near, with Zack taking control of it.
Sure Cloud enjoyed the contact, and he was happy with the way things were, but sometimes he wished he could be a little more dominant. He smiled to himself when he came up with something.
Before Zack realized it, Cloud has undone his belt buckle and was slowly undoing the zipper on his jeans.
" ...Cloud?" Zack breathed, breaking the kiss and looking into Cloud's eyes and then down at his pants.
Cloud simply smiled, and brought his hand down into Zack's boxers, wrapping his hand around Zack's hardening arousal.
Zack grabbed at Cloud's shoulder and squeezed slightly. He looked up at Cloud, a look of slight worry on his face, mixed with obvious pleasure.
"Are you sure you wanna do this?" Zack gasped out as Cloud slowly started stroking him.
Cloud didn't reply, instead he used his other hand to grab the back of Zack's neck, closing the distance between them.
Zack's hands went down Cloud's chest and started to try and undo Cloud's belt as well. Cloud moved out of the way slightly and broke the kiss. "Just enjoy..." he whispered.
Zack slowly started to nibble at Cloud's neck, as Cloud felt a small shiver go through Zack as his thumb flicked over the head of Zack's shaft. Cloud hadn't ever done anything so intimate before, and he didn't really know if he was doing it right, but he tried not to let that show. Judging by Zack's reaction though he thought he must be doing something right.
Zack tried to stop from jerking into the touch, but to no avail. He quickly came in Cloud' hand, with a choked yell.
"Fuck Cloud..." Zack whispered into Cloud's neck. He slouched forward and rested up against Cloud. "What was that all about?"
Cloud shrugged slightly and took his hand out of Zack's pants. "I just wanted to show you that I won't be dominated that easily." He said, smirking slightly.
Zack laughed slightly and lifted his head up from Cloud's shoulder. "Your really something else." He said looking into Cloud's smiling face.
Zack steadied himself slightly using Cloud's shoulder for support, and leaned away. He started to get things 'down there' in order, hopefully looking a little more presentable. Cloud looked down at his one hand, wondering how the hell he was going to go about cleaning it.
Suddenly the tarp covering the opening was pushed aside revealing the face of one very excited red head.
"HA!" Reno called, lifting away the tube even more to expose a large group of people behind him. Cloud thrust his hands behind himself, and tried to look composed. He glanced quickly at Zack, who actually seemed slightly embarrassed. He never seemed embarrassed.
Cloud looked back at Reno and noticed Roxas standing a little ways back, and accusing look on his face. Did everyone suspect?
"Man guys, this is the best hiding spot ever! I never would have looked here first!" Reno laughed.
Cloud could have sworn he saw Rude roll his eyes from behind his sunglasses.
Authors Note: Guh... I am so nervous about this chapter! First time I have ever written a scene like that. This fic is just filled with first times for me (and Zack and Cloud too xD ). But I hope it was okay and I hope all of you payed attention to my warning! I obviously like to give Cloud a little more dominance in the relationship, because far to often I read fic's where Zack takes complete control and I wanted to mix things up a little! Oh and in regards to the Reno/Rude thing. My friend really likes the pairing and I am good with it, so I thought I would throw 'em in! I hoped you enjoyed this chapter and stay tune for next week! Oh, and reviews are always welcome, I really appreciate all the people who have reviewed, watched, and favorited this story!