Even Sephiroth was winded after the vigorous training he had put himself through in order to get back in shape and cursed his need to taper off his full exercising ritual during...that time. He now was pretty much back at his physical peak and worked out twice as hard as he used to, he had to do something to stave off the boredom of not having a soul to talk to, to hug to...his mind refused to go back into that gutter again. He was now celibate as he was meant to be.

He was no stranger to his own company and had certainly never needed anyone before, he was self reliant. Yet why was he so miserable?

He had been at his safe house for over a month now, he was embarrassed now to remember barely being able to fly in his groggy state and getting to the house and going directly to the bed, not even bothering to wash the musty and dank sheets. His body aching from muscle strain and his nether regions felt like someone had taken a cheese grater to them, even though his body had shifted. He had put down his suitcase, practically ripped his clothes from himself and had cried himself to sleep, that his time spent with Tifa had all been a ruse.

He got up resolved that he would come to forget her and the-her child, yet somehow that there was a child in the world born from him made him feel elated. It would have been better if she hadn't been born from his own body, but she was here and would have a great life with Tifa as a mother. As bitter as the memory was to him, he couldn't fault Tifa for being an excellent, though deceitful caretaker. For all the wrong that he had done, she was something positive.

He was living in little more than a cabin that he owned under another name and was maintained under an umbrella corporation, he had several such places scattered all over the globe due to his having a perfectly justified paranoid nature. It was perfectly isolated and much more lavish and comfortable on the inside then it appeared on the outside. It had a well stocked pantry and freezer full of food and upscale appliances. Although the cabin had a shower and bathtub, he preferred bathing in the hot spring located in the backyard and made his own outdoor onsen by locating a pagoda over top and adding boulders to lounge against. He washed up and moaned out loud as he settled into the deliciously warm water as it embraced him like a lover . He almost looked over his shoulder to ask Tifa to wash his back and then remembered.

When had he gotten to used to her company? He did appreciate the peacefulness of the setting but felt like something was missing, he found himself putting on the TV just for the background noise. Then he would get furious when he found his eyes drifting to the set to follow the soap opera that he had taken to watching with Tifa and would find himself either infuriated or elated at the plot developments. So he would firmly shut it off or else put on an infomercial channel and would actually feel the urge to order stuff displayed there, just so he could talk to someone. As if he needed a set of crystal wine glasses or a bunt pan, he neither drank or baked!

He then wondered what do with his life. The more he thought about his rank, the more a joke it seemed. He was the General of Nothing. He had only agreed to take on the role again to fit in somewhere in society and was little more than Rufus's pet, taking on public appearances the slight blonde didn't wish to do himself. Sephiroth wondered if it was worth it.

He had more than enough money to support himself in anything he chose to do. In fact, if he were to put all of his gil into one giant pile, it would cover a small town and be a nice, comfy bed for fornication. He sighed at how his mind refused to remain free of sexual thoughts. He certainly didn't dwell on them before, but now that he had finally breached the great unknown himself, he couldn't stop thinking about it. Was he sexually frustrated? Well his body had better get used to it, it only caused his heart to hurt. Romantic entanglements were not meant for him, yet he missed it all. How it felt to have a warm body nestled against his, the bodily pleasures experienced during intercourse itself and the sweet euphoria of release and utter contentment and peacefulness of afterplay. He could remember all of it and forgetting it would not work, he could never forget a thing.

Tifa

Tifa examined the infant in her arms as she bottle fed her, she was beautiful, the most attractive child Tifa had ever beheld. Even as a new born she had been beautiful, she had washed clean to reveal a pearly complexion that was almost a perfect blending of both of her parent's skin tones. The fringe of hair on her head was almost as dark as Tifa's own. However, she had Sephiroth's green slit pupiled eyes and they were large with her father's long sooty black eyelashes in her round infant face and her lips already looking like his.

Tifa couldn't believe it when she returned to the recovery room bearing Midori to introduce her to Sephiroth, wanting him to confirm that he liked the name. Rufus had said he had left. Tifa had refused to believe it, thinking the Shinra President was just playing a joke and Sephiroth would be back. She had demanded that he be produced when Rufus had tried to explain the solitary man's actions, she countered every argument with one of her own. That they had planned on joint custody until her friends got used to them as a couple. Several nights would be spent together as a family until it became permanent. That she wanted him, she loved him and he wanted their child. He wouldn't just leave, he couldn't. She had then demanded that Rufus dispatch everyone under his command to find him and drag him back if necessary. "Just let him go" Rufus said looking sadly at her. "He's not meant to have a family."

"Well he has one" she cried and broke into tears.

It took her the better part of a month to pull herself together to be a proper mother to the little girl but Yuffie helped her out a lot, to be joined by Shera and Barnet with Marlene, all of whom were willing to pitch in. She waited for her PHS to ring or to receive some other form of communication from Sephiroth, begging her to take him back, to want to at least meet his daughter, but nothing ever came.

So she got revenge in other forms, everyday she would take Midori to WRO headquarters and hurl insults at his office, she knew he wasn't there in her rational mind, but somehow the action made her feel better. She would do this daily until security gently removed her ao the office workers could go about their daily work. Most thought she was a crazy woman stalking the General and had no sympathy for her.

Only one man knew better, he was now working in reception but had formerly been General's Sephiroth personal assistant.

Daniel Wu, was half Wutaian and had a perfect blending of their almost androgynous, delicate features with cheekbones for days, large pale blue eyes and full lips. He wore his black hair in a short military style that just enhanced the beauty of his face and a body that filled out his WRO clerical office attire like a dream. He was kind and friendly and felt great sympathy for the woman shouting abuse at the General's empty office. Rufus had explained to him that the General actually had had a one night stand with her and she believed the child to be his, but it looked nothing like him. Rufus had told him to ignore her and not to get too close to the baby.

He was watching as Tifa yelled out "Midori looks like she might have gotten your lips, she had better not have! I don't want my daughter to have two flaccid pieces of veal stuck together on her face like you do. Or have a stupid little bubble butt like you. What thin guy has a prominent ass like that?"

Dan sighed as he tried to get on with his filing but Tifa's catcalling was getting to him. "Just so you know, I sold my bar and am going to get my teaching certificate for early childhood education. So I'm living with Vincent for now and am being his housekeeper to thank him. He had such a nice, big bed. Perhaps I should join him in it one day?" she yelled. Then she turned around to find the man in question just getting out of a meeting and blushing as red as his cape. "Sorry I didn't know you were here today" she apologized to him as he took her arm and hustled her off with Midori in tow, silently wishing Sephiroth were much younger so he could put his son over his knee and teach how to treat women. Vincent had taken Tifa in so that he could protect her and his grandchild until the lunkhead came to his senses.

Dan had to witness this daily, with him being in the main reception area and all. "Miss-Tifa, why do you come here when you know he's not here?" Dan asked her finally, breaking the rule about him not interacting with her.

"He's going to be back here someday and I want to be ready when the miserable coward shows his sickly pale face" she explained with a face like thunder as she held the small girl in a bunny eared parka to her breasts. Dan was grateful how silent a child she was, she normally slept through her mother's triads.

"Well he's not know, I should know" Dan said.

"Why you in particular?" she asked, eyeing the gorgeous man. "Perhaps I should check your bed for him?" she asked him with suspicion in her voice.

"I was the General's personal assistant and would probably be something akin to a friend to him, as much as he allows someone to be" Dan explained to the petite woman.

"I know what you mean by that" she said with a slight smile.

"All you would find is my bed is most likely my cat and my boyfriend, Reno as he's working the late shift tonight. The General never sought entrance into my bed, though it would have been accepted at the time I was single." Dan explained. "I understand you slept with him."

"I did, is that against the law?" she asked him.

"No, I didn't, is that against the law?' Dan countered. Tifa just smiled. "Is there somewhere I can change Midori out of her parka?" she asked him, warming to the man.

"The General's office, you can beat on his chair if you want" Dan suggested and she laughed.

"So you're dating Reno the TURK?" she asked him as she placed the baby on his desk.

"We met at the office" he explained as he looked on, curious as he had never gotten a close look at the baby from his vantage point behind the reception desk. He guessed her to be a couple of months old and she made a snuffling sound when removed from her parka and opened her eyes to give her mother an almost accusatory look and Dan froze. He knew those eyes and recognized that look!

"She's Sephiroth's daughter" he said in shock.

"I didn't get her at a bluelight special in Kmart, of course she is. What have you heard?" Tifa asked him and her eyes widened with shock at what the man repeated. "But Rufus is a friend of mine, why would he say such a thing about me?"

"I don't know, but there is something funny going on. I would like to act as your spy here if you permit me and I'm sure Reno would help us try to locate Sephiroth" he suggested.

"Thank you, I lo-Midori needs her father" Tifa said, tears welling up at his kindness.

Sephiroth

Sephiroth admired how the renovations were coming on the mako treatment center he was building and thought Tifa would have been pleased with his gesture. He quashed that thought, he tried not to think of them, imagining that his unknown daughter would be better off living the life of a regular human, blissfully unaware of her unusual heritage. As for Tifa, she would probably marry Cloud, Sephiroth decided, ignoring how it bothered him.

The idea for a mako treatment center had come to him while talking to Dr. Campbell one day, when he realized how few doctors and nurses knew how to deal with mako enhanced people and the idea was born. He had bought the property adjacent to his safe house that contained an old mansion that was still structurally sound. He spread the word around that people who specialized in that field would be interviewed for the opening of the Hewley-Rhapsodos-Fair Memorial Treatment Center.

He already had inquiries pouring in about it and realized he had found a purpose in life, he didn't need a title or rank to fit in, everyone now knew the true story of his life and knew he was a survivor. He didn't have to hide, he didn't have to live in a world that despised him. He could live here and manage the treatment center made for people like him; his own men. He felt so positive about it that he was having a smaller private home built on the same land for himself and planned to add more cabins for the more mobile long term care patients who preferred their privacy. He was even considering going to medical school to become a qualified doctor himself. He certainly had the intelligence for such a venture, who knows what he would have achieved if allowed free reign over his own life? However, he was starting over again and things were going to be different this time around.

He couldn't wait to return to WRO headquarters to resign his post, he didn't need it anymore. He was just waiting until the center opened.

Rufus

Rufus looked out the window when the motorcycle tore into the WRO parking lot and was parked by the unruly haired blonde man. He got off it and pushed his hair back, only for it to spring smugly up again in spikes, like pesky dandelions after a lawnmower has tried to take them down. He opened a compartment of his vehicle and got out a package, long legs that bellied his small stature carried him up the steps to the reception area. Rufus hurried quickly forward.

"President, there is a package here from you" Dan said unnecessary.

"Why thank you for bringing it, Cloud. Are you having a good day?" Rufus asked the courier as his heart skipped a beat.

"Yes it is a lovely day out" the amicable blonde said with a smile on his baby face. "Are you well Mr. President?" he asked him.

"Please call me Rufus" Rufus said, hoping he didn't sound like he was simpering. "Yes I am and I really must commend you on your excellent delivery service" he said.

"It's my pleasure. You are giving me so much business lately, I have had to hire more drivers" he replied.

"You will deliver all of my packages personally, won't you?" Rufus said with a small frown at this tidbit of information.

"Of course" he said.

"Oh thank you. Have a wonderful day" he said.

"You as well" Cloud said and left while Rufus looked after him. He was surprised when it was announced that he had a phone call from Sephiroth.

"General" he said as he picked it up.

"Not for much longer, I have decided to take your advice. I'm resigning my post and doing my own version of withdrawing from society" he said.

"And Tifa and Midori?" Rufus asked him sharply.

"Is that what she called her?" Sephiroth said with longing in his voice that made Rufus cringed.

"Forget about them both, you signed a contract to that effect."

"I've been keeping my distance" Sephiroth coldly said.

"She could sue you" Rufus reminded him and then hung up and he got out the velvet covered box and glanced at this yet again.

Tifa

Tifa cringed at the dinner invitation from Rufus. Ever since Midori was born, he had inserted himself into their lives, when Tifa just wanted to grieve over Sephiroth's rejection of them both and get on with her life as a new mother. Yet Rufus would always find some excuse to drop by to see how they were doing and coo over Midori.

Tifa had assumed that this would stop as soon as she moved into Vincent's mansion, but he would just use having business with Vincent as an excuse to be granted access to his place and then seek Tifa and Midori out and would play with Midori as if she were a doll and refer to himself as Uncle Rufus.

Tifa found his attention to be cloying, it was like he was trying to court her through her child and she wasn't attracted to him in the least. Yes he was attractive, but Tifa preferred her men more masculine in appearance, Rufus was almost as pretty as Tifa herself. Tifa sensed that Vincent knew she didn't appreciate Rufus's attention at how he would always remain present during his unannounced visits and try to keep him distracted.

Yuffie and Tseng agreed to watch Midori while Tifa had the limousine pick her up to take her to the mansion. She was shown into a well appointed formal dining room and given a glass of wine upon request. She studied the furniture, they were all exquisitely carved antiques and the dark hardwood table alone looked like it had been carved from a single tree in a Wutaian design. Along with the chairs, which looked they had decimated the remainder of the forest to carve side boards constructed of matching wood with animal patterns painted on them and inlaid with mother of pearl. The walls were painted white with dark wood fret overlays with matching columns and red silk screens served as the main decoration. The whole place reeked of money.

Tifa sipped her wine while she idly wondered what was keeping Rufus, when a beautiful woman joined her. Her short blonde hair was styled into a wavy hairdo and she had a beautifully made up face. her make up was applied to subtly highlight her large crystalline blue eyes. She was tall for a woman, made taller still with pumps. The ice blue suit with a black blouse underneath had been expensively cut to give her the illusion of more curves than she actually possessed. Her bosom firm and just in proportion to her statuesque body. Tifa could have sworn she had never seen her before, yet there was something familiar about her. Perhaps it was the resemblance she bore to Rufus himself? She certainly looked like a Shinra. Tifa was confused as she hadn't ever heard of Rufus having a sister. "I'm sorry have we met? I'm Tifa" she introduced herself.

"Tifa it's me" she said in a carefully practiced feminine voice.

"Rufus?" Tifa said in surprise, realizing who she actually was talking to. "I'm sorry but; what the hell?"

"This is me, I'm a cross dresser and prefer the male gender. I'm Raquel Shinra when I'm like this" she introduced herself.

"Why are you showing this to me?" Tifa asked her in confusion.

"Don't you see? As the heir to the Shinra house, I am expected to marry a woman and provide an heir and I don't really like women. But don't you see that the materia Tseng introduced us to could open a whole new world for us? I had yourself and Sephiroth spied upon" Rufus admitted.

"Why would you do that?" Tifa asked him, drawing back at his admission.

"Because you're so uniquely beautiful in either form and not adverse to being with a woman and you have something I need; you have a child and few people know the real identity of her father. Don't you see? There is magic that can change a person's appearance that could make her eyes look like regular human pupils. I could claim her as my daughter, I could give you both the world if you want it. Wouldn't you want that for Midori? She would grow up a Shinra and having the best of everything. Marry me and we can be a family and no one would ever need to know what goes on in our bedroom. What more do you need Tifa?" He asked her. Holding out the ring box.

Tifa studied the beautiful and large diamond ring inside and closed it and handed it back, "I need love" she declared.

"The love of Cloud?" She asked her with bile in the voice.

"No, I need Sephiroth" Tifa explained.

"But he's your enemy" Rufus said with a frown.

"He was at first. But do you honestly think I could be with a person for the duration of a pregnancy where they are carrying my child, need affection from me and sleep with them and not develop feelings for them? Cloud was a crush from my past. I had the man I love and won't stop looking for him. What you are offering me is tempting and I do thank you for the honour you're bestowing on me, but I have someone I love and Midori has a father already. I'm not going to alter her to make her more socially acceptable. The world is changing and history is being rewritten, people are now aware that Sephiroth was a victim. Why should Midori suffer?" Tifa said with a shrug.

"You love him as a man?" Rufus asked her dubiously.

"As a person. If you truly love someone, their gender shouldn't matter and I hope you find someone who loves you the same way" she said and went to depart.

"What if he doesn't come back" Rufus asked her departing back.

"He will, the stubborn ass knows that his place is with me and his daughter" Tifa replied.

"Do you love someone?" She asked him.

"There is a man but..." He said.

"Then you should tell him and hopefully he feels the same way. If you were to court a normal woman only for a heir, you will gain nothing but a very unhappy spouse and you both will be miserable" Tifa said turning around and then went forward and pressed a kiss to powered cheek and left.

Rufus could only contemplate this.

The next day he walked into the office and stopped at the reception desk. "Dan is Reno free tomorrow?" He asked Dan.

"If you request, I'm sure he'll be" Dan said snapping to attention.

"I need to you accompany Tifa, Midori to Sephiroth's place and ask Tseng and Yuffie to come along" Rufus said.

"Sephiroth?" Dan said in surprise.

"Yes as in General Sephiroth, long silver hair, cattish eyes? Sound familiar? The same man that all of you have been search for on behalf of Tifa" he deadpanned.

"Yes sir" Dan said with a squeak in his voice. Anything else?" Dan asked him.

"One more thing Cloud Strife is bringing over a very important delivery from Tseng, it is dangerous materia that should not be handled without gloves. Do not open the package under any circumstances. Please ask Cloud to bring it directly to my office when he gets here. Tell him to let himself in" he said walking down the hallway in the direction of the WRO clinic, wanting to consult with Dr. Campbell about getting the materia analyzed to see if the effects could be made more permanent...and remove the conceptive components of it.

His lips quirked in amusement at the new poster. He knew that most of his best men were trying to track down Sephiroth in behalf of Tifa. Most of which were augmented and had no need to go to a clinic. But if they had gone, they would have seen the advertising for Sephiroth's Hewley-Rhapsodos-Fair Memorial Treatment Center and figured it out right away. Had they called the number listed; he would have been found in a jiffy. Rufus could only laugh at how funny life was sometimes.

However, he returned to his office and changed into the low heeled pumps and expensive black dress after putting on his padded foundation undergarments, then draped a towel over his shoulders and did his makeup and styled his hair into soft waves, added a touch of hair spray and nervously waited for Cloud.

Cloud

Cloud let himself into the dimly lit office and stared in appreciation at the beautiful blonde seated behind the desk. "Hello gorgeous" he said assuming her to be a secretary.

"Hello Cloud" she said nervously.

"Why do you seem so nervous? I don't bite" he said going into flirtatious mode and crossed his arms over his compact, but well muscled chest.

The woman seemed to draw in a breath and then stood up, she was perhaps a little taller than Cloud own height of five foot seven inches but wore heels. "Cloud, it's me" she said in a nervous voice.

"I'm sorry, do I know you?" He asked her.

"I'm Rufus" she said seeming to blush as she pushed her hair back.

"Mr. President, I'm sorry. I'll let me myself out" Cloud said when he realized who he was addressing and hastily went to the door and opened it.

"I was hoping you would stay" Rufus said, poking his fingers together nervously.

"But why?" Cloud said.

"I-I like you, I know you probably find this all very strange. I prefer being a woman when having sex. Oh forget it, I'm just making a fool of myself. You can leave Cloud, I won't bother you again" Rufus said feeling humiliated.

Cloud however, took her in his arms. "I happen to think you make a beautiful man and woman and it would be my pleasure if would date me" he smoothly said.

"Do you mean it?" Rufus asked him desperately.

Cloud just pulled her into his lap and kissed her. This caused Dan to wonder why Cloud seemed to be wearing lipstick when he exited the office looking disheveled.

Tifa

"Where are we going?" she groused for the millionth time from where she was sitting in the back seat of the stretch limo along with Rufus, Tseng, Yuffie, Midori and Reno drove while Dan accompanied him.

"You'll see" Rufus said.

"You son-of-a-tulip." Tifa said with her fists clenching and unclenching in her anger.

She frowned when the limo stopped in the parking lot of what seemed to be a mansion having work done to it with the construction workers milling about with power tools. Yet her eyes were drawn to a single person of a higher stature than all of them, even wearing worn jeans and a button up shirt and hard hat could not disguise who he was.

He turned around and froze in place, his eyes going comically wide to see her. "Tifa" he breathed.

She strode up to Sephiroth and gave him the punch in the jaw, this actually caused him to fall back and she straddled him, grabbing him by his collar. "You miserable coward, you abandon me and you abandoned your daughter," She snapped.

"I didn't abandon you" Sephiroth said."I was given to understand that my presence was unwelcomed in your life" he said in surprise at how upset she was, while rubbing his jaw.

"I ordered him to stay away, I told myself it was better for the both of you but the fact is, I wanted what Sephiroth had and I had no right to separate you. I want to make things right" Rufus said, as they both stood up. Taking Midori from Yuffie when she exited the vehicle, he handed her to the taller man. "This your daughter."

Sephiroth could only stare at his daughter's face and had to blink tears away that no one noticed. "She has my eyes. You told me you she didn't look like me at all' Sephiroth said turning his own raging eyes on Rufus, feeling so betrayed and hurt by Rufus.

"Look I know I fucked up" Rufus said, not liking how the couple was looking at him as if willing him into a conveniently pre-dug hole in the ground.

"How could you?" Tifa demanded of him.

"I think we should all sit down somewhere and talk this through, killing Rufus isn't going to help the situation and I'm sworn to protect his life no matter how badly he behaves" Tseng said and Sephiroth let them into his new house.

"Come Yuffie, let's go make some coffee" Tseng said drawing the curious woman along while Sephiroth and Tifa fixed Rufus with eyes that seem to want to strike him dead.

"I should kill you" Tifa deadpanned to him.

"Let's talk" Sephiroth intervened, sensing that Rufus was about to get a tender loving punch from Tifa, handing Midori to Dan and leading her from the room. As much as he disliked Rufus right then, he was still a dangerous man to cross.

Tifa was confused when Sephiroth hurried her into his study and locked the door behind them and turned and looked a her with a strange expression on his face.

"Sephiroth I missed you..." she said and then squeaked in surprise when he caught her lips in a searing kiss."What are you doing?" She demanded as he started to undo her blouse and kissed her again.

"Still going bra free?" He teased her giving her a rather sexy grin she was shocked he was capable of and playing with a roseate nub of her nipple in a way that wanted to make her melt.

"What are you doing? People are in the other room" Tifa said nervously at his strange behaviour.

"I'm showing you how much I missed you. It seems I owe you one a surprise seduction" he said as he picked and put her on his desk.

"But we can't now" she said was his fingers slipped past the band of her panties and into her, but the movements of his fingers inside her after so being without him for so long made her surrender and she didn't resist him when he removed the obstruction of her panties and let them fall to the ground while she helped him with his own hindering clothes and soon they made loud, ardent love together.

"What are they doing?" Yuffie said as the sounds of their coupling filled the room.

"They are being...tender after their forced separation" Tseng said, turning around so he could adjust himself.

"I didn't think the General could ever sound like that" Dan said nervously.

"Quite" Rufus said, from where he was struggling not get hard.

Just as Tifa moaned, "there, right there...oh Sephiroth, oh goddess...I'm cummmming."

"So you want to explain how this famous materia works? I keep hearing so much about it" Reno suggested, shifting uncomfortably.

"Oh certainly, I have one with me" Yuffie said when she came in bearing the tray of coffees and Rufus raised his eyebrows at this and shot a smirk at Tseng that she was carrying them with her and he glared back.

"Oh Tifa, you feel so good, so good, so tight, you feel exquisite...oh fuck" Sephiroth called out.

"All you have to do is press it against bare skin, but you have to be careful not touch it unless..." she said from where she held it out to show it to Dan and Reno, carefully dropping from its protective case into her own gloved.

"Like this?" Reno asked, snatching it from her before she could protest and Tseng, Yuffie and Rufus went pale as it was it was absorbed into his skin and he actually passed out.

"Reno" Dan said, catching his lover and gently laying him on a nearby couch.

"He'll be okay, it wears off in eight hours and he will be back to normal" Yuffie assured him as the shocked looking Dan watched his tall, slender lover lose about six inches off of his height, his features soften to those of an attractive female and two medium sized breasts raised her oversized shirt and the waistband of her pants sagged on her minuscule waistline.

"Use a condom if you have sex with her" Tseng cautioned.

Sephiroth and Tifa had finished and were bringing each other up to date, "what you're doing is wonderful" she said relaxing in his arms.

"You know, we did talk about cohabitating eventually, we could start now" he suggested.

"Gee whizz. Just because I knocked you up you expect me to marry you?" she teased him.

"Isn't it supposed to be what they call "doing the right thing"?" Sephiroth asked her, "you did take my maidenhead after all" he reminded her.

"Fine, you chicks are so demanding. I guess I'm going to have to keep you barefoot and pregnant" Tifa teased him.

"Don't you even consider repeating that again! You are always to wear a condom if we decide to switch ever again" he said emphatically.

"I'll wear two" she promised.

So our strange couple finally formed a family and that was the end of it.

Or was it?

Dan and Reno

Tseng was in the washroom when he heard the distinct sound of barfing and a pale and shaky Reno came out.

"Reno, tell me when you and Dan had sex when you were a girl. You did use a condom right?" He asked him.

"The condom broke sir" Reno said. "Dan isn't into woman and had never been with one. We just thought it would be fun to try and he liked it" Reno said rinsing his mouth out with water and splashing some of his face.

"Report to the clinic and ask Dr. Campbell to give you a pregnancy test" Tseng ordered him after muttering a few choice Wutain curse word.

"But sir, surely the male pregnancy thing associated with this materia has been blown out of proportion by rumours?" Reno asked him dubiously.

"Sadly no" Tseng said in all honesty.

The Revenge of Sephiroth

Rufus wore a beautiful black peignoir set when the package arrived from Dr. Campbell during the vacation he took with Cloud to Costa Del Sol. "Cloud, Dr. Campbell has perfected the formula on the materia and removed all of the conception components of it, we can now safely make love as man and woman without protection as the goddess intended" Rufus excitedly called out to the blonde man reading on the bed.

"Come to Daddy" he said, flinging his magazine away.

The next day a note arrived:

"Sorry it was just plain materia I got from Tseng and Yuffie, that I personally sent you. Dr. Campbell is still working on the sample you provided.

Smoothies and crackers are great for when you get morning sickness.

I sure you will enjoy your pregnancy just as much as I did mine.

BTW, Tifa and I got married, sorry your invitation must have been lost in the mail.

Say hi to Cloud for me.

Yours,

Sephiroth Crescent-Valentine"

"Daddy, you just had to say Daddy" a very pale Rufus said.

Okay there is a side story chapter to finish this story but other than that, that's all for now folks! Thanks for taking this weird and magical romp with me attempting my first mpreg, which according to some reviewers, failed miserably. But it was fun to write and I shall be posting the side story this Friday. Please note that it was written in full by Sakurablossomhime.

Sid :)