Hitomi:Ok OK I'm ready for a thoural lashing from all of you. Allot of things have went on, and Writing wasn't a priority among all the things happening. I decided to pick it up again, and also I decided to begin art again. I'm going to try and make a short doujin to this, though I'm not a terribly good artist. I'll be posting them on my Deviant art account. Thanks for reading!!!! Please R+R it really does help me continue. Also, this chapter is kinda short just so I can get something out there. So here it goes!!!

Chapter two

You got a dream, you got to protect it

The day had passed by most uneventful. The sky was blue once again, clear, and the sun was shining on the slowly dying grass. The trees were changing color, and Cloud felt like he too were changing.

Cloud had once again found himself pacing to his bedroom window. Everything had been "cleared up" and now Cloud was busy preparing himself for when he departed for Soldier, meaning, he was anticipating the departure every second that passed, and was becoming restless and fidgety. Looking out again, he spotted the figure of Zack at the path outside their house, he turned pacing again, before quickly doing a double take and looking on dumbfounded when the raven haired warrior grinned up at him mischievously and waved. The man looked like he was about to start walking to his house when Cloud opened the window.

"Don't you dare knock," He hissed. Zack blinked and looked taken by surprise. Cloud felt regret immediately. He hadn't meant to sound so cruel; the words just came out that way. Sighing he rubbed the back of his neck and explained, "I'm grounded."

Zack nodded, understanding it seemed. Yet right when he was sure the soldier would leave, he heard a scraping sound and before he knew it there stood Zack Fair, Solider first class grinning like an idiot. Cloud just stood stark still, like a deer under a hunters gaze, and the smile wiped itself off Zack's face to be replaced by something else. They stood there for a while, studying each other, before Cloud finally broke the silence.

"Uhh, what do you think you're doing? This is my room," Clouds voice didn't hold the malice he hoped it too, and he inwardly grimed at the mousy, scared sound.

Zack grinned, once again, and through an arm around his shoulder, frowning when Cloud jumped and shied away.

"Were going to be reeeeeally good friends. Just you wait and see Spikey," here Cloud sputtered at the nick name," and this is just where it starts."

It was the beginning to a beautiful relationship.

The building called to him. It towered near the edge of town, something about it pulling him. It wanted him. It would answer all his questions, this he knew. He stared at it for a long while, eyes glinting.

"General!" He was snapped out of his trance when he heard the older man address him.

"We have gathered all the applications of the new recruits. Here they are sir," the man handed him a few folders with stacks of paper in them. He nodded, took the papers, and turned returning to his hotel room. He needed to think. To clear his head.

As he left he still felt the tug in his chest, the whispers in his head, as he left the building behind.

Not for long, Sephiroth promised, not for long.

Cloud gave a light smile to Zack as the man talked about anything that came to mind. The sun was going down, and all they had done for the past four hours was talk. Well Zack did most of that, Cloud was not used to it. But soon in Zack he found something he thought he never would have, and he clung to it desperately. He found a friend. Despite what Cloud always thought, or acted, he desperately needed someone, and Zack was offering. Cloud wasn't about to let it down.

Looking out the window he thought dreamily. One more day, and I leave this hell. One more.

Hitomi: Ok ok ok, I KNOW short. But I just wanted to get something out there. Maybe I'll write something tonight and post it tomorrow. Well R+R if you wish. Don't worry, I know the story is kind of stiff right now, itll get a move on shortly.

Seeyeah~

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