Angeal: Yoruko, I thought you were going to wait to post these stories on this profile?

Yoruko: It's part of a bribe to get a favorite author of mine to update~

Zack: Really? Which one?

Yoruko: Whispering Kage, her writing's good to the extent where I even sometimes read stuff involving series I don't know.

Zack: *laughs* That's cool.

Sephiroth: Yoruko, that makes no sense. Wouldn't you be confused?

Genesis: Sephiroth, my friend, it's called imagination.

Yoruko: When it bugs me enough, I look up the series to see if I want to read or watch it.

Zack: What if it's a video game?

Yoruko: Then I'm out of luck if I think I'd like it.

Disclaimer: Yoruko Rhapsodos doesn't own the things found in her fanfiction that readers recognize from elsewhere.

Chapter Two

Modeioheim

Zack, at the moment, was wondering what exactly was going on. Why send him to Modeioheim of all places? Why would Angeal be there? Not to mention Genesis and that girl. Not that he was worried about that. It doesn't matter, from the spiky haired first class SOLDIER's perspective. He knows now that things will work out in the end after all. Though Zack did wonder why there were so many monsters. It was weird, and didn't make much sense, especially in a cold, abandoned-looking place like this. The area shouldn't have had enough mako for artificial ones, and even natural ones usually couldn't stand the cold. Not that it mattered. He'd do what he needed to. After all, if he didn't have conviction to hold up in times like this, he would never have made it in SOLDIER. Angeal may have called Zack a puppy, but even the younger male knew that much.

Finally, Zack made his way to the bath house. Unlike many of the other buildings, it was unlocked. Zack decided to go in to investigate. Eventually, he ran into- one of the big monsters. The ones that had Angeal's face. Zack mentally complained, as that always happened to him. He mentally cursed the timing. Why did weird or unlucky things always happen to him at the worst possible time? To his surprise, soon after defeating the monster he found...

"Tseng! Cloud! Are you both okay?" said Zack.

"I'm fine. I'll look after Cloud- you go on ahead. Angeal's waiting for you." Tseng said, waving off the obvious concern.

"Alright." Then Zack went on ahead.

A little later

Zack had finally found Angeal! But things were going wrong. Zack didn't want to fight Angeal… The man was like a second father or a big brother to him, after all. How could he, in his right mind, bring himself to willingly fight his mentor? Then Hollander came in, and started making things worse. Though, Zack was glad that apparently Angeal hadn't killed his mother. The part about her being such an active part of the experiments was a surprise, though, unlike the news that hadn't done that to her.

"Angeal! Stop this!" a somewhat voice ordered.

'It's that girl…' thought Zack.

"Kagome," Angeal said, "What are you doing here?"

'Kagome? Then she's Angeal's sister.' Zack remembered all to well what he'd heard about Kagome Hewley, Angeal's older sister. She happened to be only a couple of months older than Genesis, and was about a year older than Angeal. Also, she was Tseng's predecessor as commander, and therefore true leader, of the Turks.

Flashback

"…But I never once took fruit from that tree- because the man's son was my best friend." said Angeal.

"So why didn't you just ask him for some? If he was your friend, I bet that he would have given you some." Zack said.

"That didn't seem right to me either. Not that Kagome had to ask- he would offer to share with her of his own accord."

"Kagome?" Zack asked.

"My sister." answered Angeal.

"I didn't know that you have a sister, Angeal!" Zack exclaimed.

"You never asked." replied Angeal. Zack just sweat dropped. Angeal did have a point- and how do you reply to something like that, anyway?

"Will I get to meet her?"

"Maybe sometime."

End Flashback

Another Flashback

"The four of us were best friends- Angeal, Genesis, and myself- the three SOLDIER first class in charge of the program- and Kagome, the leader of the Turks. Kagome is a very strong willed woman- she could have been a SOLDIER first class if she wanted. She often kept Hojo and Hollander away from us and was the one who insisted that the medics be trained to give out the dosages of mako instead, wore a black shirt instead of the Turks' standard white, and refused to zip up the jacket. Us three SOLDIERS often used to hang out in the training room when the second class were away- Kagome often joined us. One day, Hojo or Hollander seemed to have attempted to approach her- she'd been in a very bad mood. Three days later, the incident where Genesis just wouldn't heal for some strange reason and Hollander refused to allow me to be the donor occurred. A few days after that, Kagome disappeared. To this day, the higher-ups claim that a monster took her unawares while she was in the slums." Sephiroth said.

"What about Genesis and Angeal?" asked Zack.

"Genesis went a mission about a week after she left and never came back." replied Sephiroth.

End Flashback

'So… this is her.' thought Zack.

Now that he took time to notice, he noticed two things- one, she's very pretty, and two- even though they didn't look that much alike, you could tell that she's Angeal's sister. She had black hair and blue eyes-like Angeal. She wasn't wearing her Turk uniform. Instead, she was wearing a blue T-shirt, black jeans, and a black denim jacket, and black boots. As far as weapons go, she appeared to have a nodachi and two guns.

As Kagome took in the situation and the sights before her, she was… annoyed. She liked that her little brother finds honor important-really, she does. But from her perspective he seemed to think that just because he had a wing and could do a couple of slightly weird things that no one else can do, he was a monster. Genesis seemed to think that too. Really, guys were so stupid sometimes! Why can't those two get it through their heads that they aren't monsters? Honestly, everyone should forget Genesis. Hollander was exceedingly lucky that she hasn't killed him yet. For that matter, so was Hojo, more so perhaps. Especially considering Sephiroth's childhood and what she found out during her time free from Shinra's grasp.

'My blacklist it getting way too long. I need to see if I can call Rufus in on the favor that he owes me.' Kagome thought."Angeal… you know that you need to rethink things. It's obvious that Zack here has really missed you." She reprimanded her brother, "Did you even once stop to think about him and how your leaving- abandoning Shinra for seemingly no reason- would affect him? Or bother to remember the fact that if he knew the truth, he might prefer to join you than stay in Shinra?"

"Kagome…" Angeal seemed as if he'd been struck by lightening, or had been hit with a sudden revelation.

This was because to tell the truth, he hadn't. Zack's reactions each and every time he'd seen him since leaving had surprised Angeal. The man had thought Zack wouldn't truly care. Or, that he would change his opinion once he knew that his mentor was a monster. He admitted as much to his highly perceptive (sometimes annoyingly so) older sister. Looking back, what she'd said made a lot of sense.

Zack was shocked. No one he knew that knew of the situation and his part in it- in or out of Shinra- had seemed to care about how he felt. Or in some cases, had been so caught up in the situation that they never once stopped to think about it. But to be honest... the ex Turk was right. Zack's first instinct when he'd learned that Angeal had left was that there must be more to the situation that meets the eye. When he'd learned that Genesis Rhapsodos, a first class who had previously abandoned Shinra, was also from Banora and had been Angeal's best friend... he'd been briefly jealous. Did he really mean that much to Angeal, that the darker haired man left Shinra and abandoned Zack? Then he'd seen the two together. Zack hadn't known what to think anymore. He just wanted to know if he really meant so little to Angeal. Why hadn't he asked Zack to come with him? He'd been so happy when Angeal seemed to be reinstating good terms with him. There had been times when Zack felt all alone without Angeal, who he'd come to look up to and care about like he was family. And… why would he see Angeal as a monster? A wing and a weird trick no one else seems to be capable of aren't reasons to be considered a monster.

Kagome sighed. "Come here, Angeal. I'll heal you. Then I'll get you out of here."

"Alright, Kagome." Angeal, as Kagome requested, went over to her and allowed her to heal him. To his surprise, he felt better than he'd felt in a long time; that could only mean… "Kagome? Did you finally manage it?"

"Uh huh. I found someone who taught me to control them." she looked toward Zack, "Well? What do you think?"

"What do I think?" Zack asked, "I think Angeal must not know me as well as I thought. Or that he never really payed any attention to me. He should have eventually asked me if I wanted to come too once I knew the story."

Hearing this, Kagome shot Angeal a look that clearly said 'I told you so.'

"Zack," said Kagome, "Can I ask you a favor?"

"Sure." he answered.

"Can you tell Sephiroth everything? I have a feeling that he'll want to join us, too. When the time comes, I'll find you. And… please give him this for me." Kagome asked. She handed him an envelope.

"Alright." Zack said.

Zack had been planning on talking to Sephiroth about the both of them joining Genesis and Angeal anyway. He didn't think he wanted to keep working for Shinra or let Sephiroth be stuck with them either for much longer. On the bright side, things were finally looking up again. Little did anyone know, that Angeal having a sibling at all, and that sibling be the sort of person Kagome was, changed everything. Because if Angeal had been an only child and Kagome nonexistent, nearly all of those who either were deeply involved or knew the entire story would have an entirely different future. Hojo, Hollander, and the president of the Shinra Corporation would soon rue the day Veld, the former director of the Turks, and Kagome's predecessor approved one Kagome Hewely's application for training as a Turk.

Owari