Disclaimer:
– I do not own Final Fantasy VII or its characters. 'Cause if I did… teheee… XD
Warnings:
– Although I like pervy things this is just a little friendship story with a weird Female OC thanks to Akia.
– Also it's the first time I'm writing something in English (Akia don't understand Portuguese and I know nothing in her idiom as well) and I have no English BETA, so I hope you can forgive me for all the mistakes I'll probably make. And if any of you could help me pointing them please do. Thank you! =D
Pairings:
– No pairings…maybe on another fanfic my friends! =)
Sumary:
– A weird Turk and a serious Soldier 1º Class were sent to collect samples inside a mysterious and dangerous place. But as long as he follows her instructions they'll be alright.
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Traveling back to Shinra's building wasn't a silent task only because of the helices' powerful noise. And it could have been a normal one if it wasn't for the palpable bad mood the female Turk displayed the whole way back since she found out Tseng was one of their pilots. It simply meant one thing:
Tseng - Assignments + Pilot = No way to avoid the demanding Turk.
Minami was counting with the possibility her Tutor would be doing something else outside Shinra's building so she could take some days off to visit her childhood friends assigned to another city. They haven't seen each other for 6 months already just because she's been receiving too many group investigation assignments. And depending on what they had to try and find out a single mission could take months to be finished.
For Tseng to be still inside Midgar it also meant they would, with more fellow Turks, be sent on another job very soon. Things around the world seemed to be getting quite worked up again. Although it wasn't explicitly shown.
Right after a perfect landing the raven haired Turk immediately led both, Sephiroth and Minami, to Director Lazard's office where the blond man were already waiting for her reports and their debriefing. It didn't take too long since the younger Turk came up with a quite reduced speech and told her superior that the important details were carefully included into both handed reports.
Sephiroth was asked what his impressions about the place were. The reply was quick and simple as well, giving the Director a hint about how dangerously unusual it really was and if that Valley would ever to be explored the girl's recommendations and maps should indeed be cautiously followed.
No need to say the blond man was rather surprised to know that such a location, previously described by his always eccentric little Turk, could definitely exist in their world. It looked more like a fantasy tale when the girl tried to convince President Shinra that whoever was to be sent should really know how to proceed and be aware of what they could possible find there. Perhaps, if they had not thought for a second she was delirious, the earlier assigned expeditions could have returned safe and sound.
Wondering that that would be exactly what her superior was thinking Minami couldn't take that damn grin off of her face to save her life. Not even in front of the raven haired Turk. That small victory kind of felt really good.
It also did not take too long for their dismissal. Director Lazard was a real busy man and his agenda demanded him to be always punctual at work. So the three of them exited at the same time and took the same elevator in total silence.
The first stop was at the Turks' floor and as always Tseng was the first one to get out of the glass cabin followed by a forever lazily annoyed younger Turk and leaving the young Soldier alone to choose his own destiny downwards. But before he could hit any of those many numbers he saw the girl suddenly stop on her tracks and turn around to face him.
"By the way, Soldier" She spoke trying to sound the most serious possible, attracting the silver haired guy's attention and also, the older Turk's one. "Don't go running into abysses when I'm not around."
After 2 seconds Minami could not resist grinning a little even though she was trying hard to suppress it in front of her superior. But even though there was another witness in front of him Sephiroth could not help returning the little smirk he also found rather difficult to hide.
"Likewise, Turk." He answered not waiting too long to hit the Soldier's floor number.
As the glass doors closed and little after there was no more sign of anyone next to the remaining Shinra workers at that corridor, the raven haired man hold the suspicious image of his underling with narrowed dark eyes. If he didn't know her for so many years he would have let that pass without a word.
"Running into abysses…" He muttered. Eyes still fixed at her doubtful blue ones.
"Just an old saying we heard in Oldstone." The girl lied quite convincingly. After all, she was trained for one of the bests at that floor. "And since we had no television I can tell you lots more…"
"I'll pass." He said not really believing it but they did not have too much time to spare that day. "We have another meeting."
"Fine." The girl was quite sure what it really meant. And at her job, keeping a cool mind was always the healthier way to deal with everything. "Which place have we been assigned to this time?"
The older Turk lightly frowned at her. "How do you know about a new assignment?"
Minami simply sighed. Looks like her guardian didn't know how well she knew him either. In some aspects they were fairly similar.
"Knowing what happens inside this building is part of my job, too." As well as being aware of what could possibly mean that slightly hint of worry on his features.
That was promising to be a hell of a new long day.
The days appeared to be passing slower than they usually did. Even when there was tons of work to do his head wouldn't stop wondering one single minute. It seemed like he was always waiting for something to happen. And every time he had the opportunity to leave the office, or any other spot he was meant to be into, the sudden walking desire would take him to places inside Shinra's building he hadn't even been to before.
The Soldier had been to the Weapons Development Department on more occasions than he used to observing new creations and the way they were tested. When called to the Laboratory's floor he was always alert expecting to see someone else. But most part of his free hours the young man would spend on the highest place he could find inside Midgar. Shinra's roof.
No matter how much he tried Sephiroth's anxiousness appeared not wanting to go away. He was curious to know what happened to the young Turk he was assigned to work with almost three months ago. Well, not only curious. Actually the silver haired realized he would like to talk to Minami again. She confided him some of her secrets and he felt a little bothered for not telling too much about himself. The young Soldier also had a few things he could have spoke of like tests he's been through in the Labs, the severe combat training from years ago, weird things he had seen in the war…
6 months later he had been assigned to a new mission where, strangely enough, Tseng was the Turk appointed to guide him through the procedures. Yet even though he knew the raven haired man was quite the discreet one it took the Soldier almost three days till he asked how the girl was doing.
He was waiting for the older man to show any confused or even a suspicious expression. But all the other did was to tell him his underling was doing fine on a long terms mission outside the country. Tseng knew Minami had an easy way to deal with people no matter who they were. Another favor point for an investigation's specialized Turk. So he wasn't that surprised to hear even about Shinra's number one soldier's interest.
Although he knew that person wasn't probably an easy one to kill for her unusual abilities, to hear she was doing fine somehow eased his concerned state a little. And that was the only information he ever got about the female Turk.
As time passed by, he thought that something was certainly telling him to forget any idea of being friends with her…
"You're indeed quite fond of high places, aren't you?" Someone muttered, almost whispered, behind his back. But it was audible enough for his perfectly enhanced ears.
"Not really…" He answered still looking into Midgar's night. That silver haired Soldier did not have to turn around to know who was there.
"Then why do I have to find you almost every time I come up here to read?" The smooth tone continued. A little hint of sarcasm present on the question although most part of the intonation seemed to be from pure annoyance.
"Who knows…" The little smirk could not be helped as he turned around to look at those suspiciously clear blue eyes.
How much time had passed since he saw a similar color present on another person's face? Two years would be the right answer.
"Aren't you already tired of that book, Genesis?" Sephiroth questioned while closing the space between him and the place the other 1º Class Soldier was serenely sitting.
"I'll be tired eventually…" Came the calm but rather ironic retort. "You can count three to four hundred years at least till that day finally knock on your door."
"As if a human being could live that long." The other thought sitting somewhere else on those huge metal blocks. "How does it feel being close to be presented for the whole society as a Soldier first class?"
A heavy sigh was all he got from his redhead comrade which was trying to decorate many of those loveless phases. Genesis lack of interest on anything aside from that old book and getting stronger was quite a strange sight. Anyone in his shoes would be dying for that day to come. Well, anyone but the long time Soldier First Class beside him.
"I don't really care about Shinra's long Parades and pompous parties." The man in red answered not taking his eyes from the pages. "But Angeal seems to be on 7th heaven already…" That simply made Sephiroth's grin go wider imagining what his other buddy's behavior would be like next week. "Wonder which century he'll get down from there though." This time Genesis finally showed a hint of appreciation by giggling a little.
From Shinra's most powerful trio, no doubt, the dark haired Soldier was the life of the party. Totally contrasting with the always composed and quiet Sephiroth, or the annoyed and sarcastic Genesis. And although the three of them were obviously rivals, for pursuing the post of the strongest, they were surely friends that had too many things in common. Even thought the redhead one sometimes displayed a light jealousy for the hero title acquired by the silvery haired in the Wutai War.
It had been already some months since both, Hewley and Rhapsodos, got their promotion to 1º Class. Something that did not happened earlier, because right after being a 2º class Shinra's superiors thought it was too early for a new ascending. They thought better to wait and see how much power those Soldiers really had by testing the new men on difficult missions for their posts. No need to mention all jobs assigned were simply piece of cake to those guys.
That proved it was already time to put the two of them to walk side by side with the 1º classes into the costumed Shinra's Parades and among the reserved honorable places on the company's large parties. And to Sephiroth it meant those obligatory time losses wouldn't be as boring as before.
Life seemed to be entering in its most perfect and amusing times.
"I was informed you opened your eyes again today." A deep voice tone muttered into that quiet and isolated Laboratory's room. "But the time I got here they were already closed…"
The palm of the raven haired man's hand was lightly resting on the cool glass in front of him as if he could reach out inside the tank to grab another one's pulse at any sign of real life. Looking up, into those thick Mako fluids, and all those cables connected to monitoring machines he started to wonder. And even though he had been trained to, the Turk could not put aside that huge feeling of guilt consuming his conscience.
These past two years all he could think, when he wasn't working, is that everything was his fault. He had trusted those abilities too much. He had failed someone he sworn to take care of at any costs. In the end he was the one protected and saved, just like the rest of the group at that clandestine Laboratory's location where all their information had led to.
"I wish I could apologize to you… or even thank you this time…"
The abandoned place was filled with old empty Mako tanks, unfinished experiences, too many papers with confusing notes all around them, innumerous bottles of weird looking chemicals and forgotten combustible refills for transportation.
But something wasn't right… little noises, in such a low frequency waves, one that normal ears would never perceive, made the younger of their comrades want to check it out.
"I should have known it was a trap." The man bitterly said.
It was hard to remember his subordinate's sudden movements. The frightened wide eyes. It seemed there was no more time left… 'Get Down!' was the last thing he heard coming from those lips before a fast running sound reached his ears.
The explosion impact may have broken the windows' glasses but its fire did not reach all those inflammable substances.
Tseng leaned and rested his head on the Mako tank translucent wall separating him from the unmovable body inside it. The floating hair had already grown too long. The skin had no more hint of being injured so severely. The face was totally back to the delicate one he was accustomed to see every morning.
However, life hasn't come back. And the Turk had his doubts about it ever returning one day. Yet he couldn't bring himself to stop hoping. Not after testifying that that person could sleep for long weeks nonstop after suffering a great injury. But either way… two years…
"Will you ever come back to us, Minami?"
All she gave him was her silence.
But as the Turk opened his eyes again something appeared to be quite close to his hand. He startled when perceived it was another one quite smaller than his own. Indian-like skin seemed to be trying to reach his pale one through the glass tank.
When Tseng finally looked up, rather worried to be seeing things, he found those large blue orbs fixed on his dark ones. Her head then slowly tilted a little as her eyes appeared to simply say:
'Won't you get me out of here so I could finally answer?'
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Fin.
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Oh, Akia, my dear!
Our daughter survived! XD
Well… I may continue this…
But just when I find some more time… =)
See ya! ^^
Oh, yeah!
Review please… XD
Although I think nobody would like this kind of ending… but there was no other way… T_T'