●●● Affections Across Time ●●●
This is a fan fiction based in an alternate universe that is completely off the subject from the normal Final Fantasy VII world. It is between Zack Fair and Cloud Strife.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: BDSM, Yaoi, Intense Play, M-Preg (later on), ext.
Note: This is in Cloud's point of view. Also, there will be flashbacks every so often. You will know when, as I have put it in there so you can see when he has a flashback.
●●● Affections Across Time ●●●
●●● Day of Arrival ●●●
I awoke in a dark place. I was laying down on something hard, something I took as cement at the time. My mind was so jumbled, so confused. I didn't know where I was, yet again, and I couldn't figure it out with a raging headache going on. I lifted a hand slowly to the back of my head and winced, feeling as if there was a bruise there. All I remembered was the guy hitting me upside the head.
I sat up slowly, carefully, so that I wouldn't hurt myself further. My eyes shifted around slowly, taking in my surroundings. There was a wall behind me, sheer stone, and the rest of the area was bars upon bars. I looked toward them, a little shocked at what I noticed. I wasn't anywhere I knew, but I recognized the slight layout of the area. It looked to me as if it was a cage you would keep an animal in if they were in the zoo. But I wasn't in a zoo, just something that looked like one.
There was nothing else in the cage except for a small bowl in one corner. My eyes drifted toward it slowly before I looked around me once more. Not but two or so feet away were another cage, and another beside that. The walls were lined with them. And in some of them were other men or women that seemed to be in the same shape I was now.
Cold, alone, and scared.
I stood up, my knees buckling and forcing me back to the floor. I glared, not wanting to seem weak in front of other people that could possibly become my ally or my enemy. I wouldn't appear weak to anyone, if I could help it. I forced myself back up and felt my knees shake, but ignored it keeping myself up.
Someone across from me looked over and stared for a moment. She was a woman, possibly a bit older than me if not the same age. Her eyes were dark and there were bags under them that appeared as if she had gotten no sleep. She was thin, with a curvy hour glass figure that only proved her thinness. The only thing she wore was a tattered, short white dress that had a slit up one side that reached about to her hip, and showed her thigh somewhat.
She stared back toward me, and I stared toward her. We locked eyes for just a few moments before looking away and staring toward the cement ground. It was then that I noticed that there were stains from probably long ago on the ground. Some red, some black. Some new, some old. I glared toward them, now knowing that this was what seemed to be a zoo. They were keeping us in cages like animals, and they probably had us fight for entertainment to pick out the strongest.
I figured as much would happen. These people were barbarians. I grunted under my breath, my spiky blond hair falling quickly into my eyes. I slowly walked toward what I called 'Wall One' and set a hand over the bars. I examined them closely, seeing what they are. They appeared to be steel, if not something a bit weaker. I looked back toward the woman and she had moved toward the bars closest to my cage and was holding them as a monkey would at the zoo when it peers out at humans walking by.
"You're new here," She stated, as if I hadn't known that.
My eyes narrowed just a bit before I nodded, "Yes, I am aware of that."
She smiled toward me and reached her hand out. It almost reached the middle between both of our cages, "My name is Satsuna. I was brought here a year or so ago."
I stared toward her. Satsuna. That was her name. I walked over to the bars and reached my hand through. I took hers in my hand, and shook it slowly before pulling my hand back and looking away. I could feel her brown eyes staring toward me in curiosity. Obviously she expected me to tell her my name, and possibly ask abut how she was brought here. Personally, I wasn't very interested, but I wouldn't leave her there with nothing but a blank stare…or she would never get over it.
"I am called Cloud," I answered simply.
She nodded and smiled toward me before sitting back down in the cage. I stared for a moment longer before looking away. There were many other people around, and I was starting to get confused as to what everyone was doing here. I looked up quickly, hearing a door open. I looked over toward where I heard the noise and saw a man in black with dark hair walking through the rows of cages.
I watched him silently, staring toward his form. He didn't seem attractive in the least. He seemed to be chubby, and he looked as if he had just eaten from a buffet or something. He seemed to be greasy, and his hair was slicked back against his head. There were bald spots atop his head, probably from him combing his hair back or perhaps being idiotic and tugging his hair out from irritation. I turned away from him, walking toward the back of the cage and sitting down against the wall. My hair, once again, fell into my eyes to hide them. It wasn't custom for a Japanese person to have such bright eyes, but I allowed them to hide, perhaps for my own benefit.
I watched as he walked past my cell. He only spared a small glance toward me but continued on walking. I smirked toward him and looked away. I was sure he would keep walking, but he stopped in front of Satsuna's cage and looked at her. There was greed and lust in his eyes, and I couldn't help but glare from behind the veil of hair that hid my eyes. She looked up to me and then back toward the man before looking away once more. For some reason, I felt a pang of anger shoot through my mind from the man looking at her as he did.
Satsuna sat there for a few split moments before slowly getting up and standing there. The man looked her over before shaking his head and muttering something to the man beside him. They both laughed before they continued to walk off. Satsuna sighed softly and sat back down, her chest heaving a bit in the adrenalin that was surging through her body. I couldn't see it as anything other than that.
I looked over toward the woman and blinked, staring for a few moments before pressing my hand to my hair and pushing said hair away from my eyes. There was something odd about this place…something…different. I stared over toward Satsuna, my eyes ever so slightly narrowing. She looked over to me in a state of confusion before letting a small smile grace her face.
"What is this place…that man just walks and judges you, and you allow it as if you know what would happen if he was pleased…what is going on?" I asked, irritated with the lack of knowledge I had here.
Satsuna looked to me for a couple moments before slowly taking a deep breath, "This place is called USC…but you don't know what that means. Um…it stands for Underground Slave Corporation. The men here, mainly thugs, go out and find people that probably won't be missed, and looked to be somewhat…bottom like. They bring us here, and we're given a shower a day as well as two meals…that's about it. When a guy or girl shows interest in one of us, we must comply by standing up and presenting ourselves…if we don't do that, we're in for a sure beating. If someone does take interest in us, we will be taken away by them to be their slaves. It's not a very good system…but…we have no choice…we were captured and now we're being sold off…"
I stared toward her for a few moments, utter shock on my face. I was in an underground slave market…and I was one of the slaves. There was no way in hell I was going to listen to some uptight prick who just wanted me to suck them off or do their laundry. No way in all of hell. I grunted under my breath, slowly standing from my place on the ground and pacing in the room. I didn't know what was going on, but I wouldn't be sold as some slave to a nasty man that wanted nothing more than to make me his.
Not if I had a say in it, that is.
Satsuna smiled sheepishly at me before she lifted her head. I followed her gaze and spotted a clock a bit away. It was nearly seven in the afternoon. I watched for just a few moments before hearing a loud bell. Instantly, something triggered in me and I stood up. Me fists clenched as I looked around, fully alert. There was a noise in the distance and then all the lights went out. I growled low in my throat and looked around blindly in the darkness.
"Don't worry," I heard Satsuna say from my left, "it's just night time. They make us go to sleep around now…take it while it lasts. Once four A.M. comes around, we have to get up again to be shown off."
I glanced toward the wall slowly and stared. I couldn't see very well yet, as my eyes were still adjusting. She said we were waking at four…I was practically used to is, seeing as I usually woke up before the sun rose every morning. I slowly turned and walked back toward the wall. I put my hand in front of me, using it as a guide to see where I was going. Once I found the wall, I lowered myself and laid down on my side, facing the wall to where my back were to the bars.
"Good night, Cloud. Don't worry…I'm sure you'll get out of here soon, with your looks," Satsuna whispered in the darkness.
I lifted my head a fraction of an inch and let a slight smile move over my face, "Good night, Satsuna…"
My eyes closed, and I let sleep take over my body just as quickly as I had lain down.
●●● Affections Across Time ●●●
●●● Day of Arrival ●●●