Yay! Chapter 2! Whoot! Anyway, I wanted to take the time to thank my very first reviewer! Thank you for reviews Lady_Yuna! It was very well appreciated!
On to the story! Whoot!
Tifa had taken over cooking for Cloud and Genesis slowly came out of hiding from under the blankets, the kids ran down dressed and ready to go, they were curious about the stranger but Tifa had told them to keep their distance, because he was still a stranger and he was very easily scared. Cloud couldn't figure it out, Genesis was younger then he was suppose to be, he looked the same as he did back in SOLDIER. Well he couldn't say that, the poor guy lost most of his muscle, he was very slender and small now, Genesis was always short, but no one really questioned it, if they did they would have had to deal with a very annoyed Mr. Rhapsodos.
Genesis sat quietly on the couch, his azure eyes looking, noting things within the house, like the pictures, and plants that Tifa loved to keep. He took in all the detail of the house, he cross examined everyone in his silence, he noted Cloud's blonde hair and his movements, how Tifa would push back loose strands of her brunette hair, or how the children would annoy each other affectionately. Genesis closed his eyes, his head began to throb, it hurt greatly and he grasped it. Genesis had his eyes closed tight. He was beginning to remember something, or so he thought but he wasn't sure what it was, but it was painful....
"Genesis, what are you reading?" asked a slivered haired man. The man was looking over his shoulder with curiousity. Genesis looked up slowly from his book. "Oh a book I got from the library, its called Loveless. Its very good, perhaps you should read it too, Sephiroth." He teased knowing Sephiroth wasn't fond of reading, only time he did was when he was working.
"Perhaps you can give me a synopsis." he said. Genesis chuckled. "When I'm finished." he replied. Another had joined the two on the cannon.
"So is this how SOLDIERS spend they're day off?" Angeal teased. The sliver haired General and the red head nodded and smiled.
"It was either this or Star Bucks." said Genesis. Genesis was always fond of they're strawberry drinks. The three of them laughed together.
The memory was fuzzy to Genesis, he couldn't exactly tell what was going on, it made him shiver slightly. He looked down. Cloud looked over, worried he walked over.
"Are you alright?" he asked cautiously as he saw Genesis raise his hands to his face.
"Genesis?" he asked again. Genesis suddenly looked up. Cloud blinked.
"Nyu?" he meeped. Cloud then anime sweatdropped. "N-Nyu?" Cloud repeated. Genesis blinked innocently. He then smiled at Cloud.
"Nyu." he repeated. Cloud blinked again, it was strange the only thing he could say, happened to be so cute. Tifa walked in. "Did he just meow?" she asked.
"No..I think he went, Nyu." Cloud explained. Tifa giggled. "How cute!" she praised leaning in and petting Genesis on the head.
"Tifa! He's not a dog!" Cloud said, can't help but feel a bit jealous. The red haired one blinked and watched Tifa, he blushed slightly, when she leaned into him slightly, he looked away innocently, so he wouldn't be looking you know where....
"Nyu.." he said shyly, his cheeks red. Tifa giggled and looked to Cloud. "I know, but he's so cute." she admitted.
Cloud rolled his eyes. "Well is breakfast ready?" he asked. Tifa smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, bring him over to the table." she said. With that Cloud helped Genesis up and lead him to the table, Genesis sat down beside Cloud and looked at the plate of food, he blinked and slowly began to eat with the fork.
"That's a relief. At least he knows enough to use a fork." Tifa smiled. Cloud nodded. Genesis ate quietly, as the children talked, Genesis listened and once in a while would say Nyu, as if to put in his two sense about the conversation. Tifa then cleaned up.
"Well before everyone arrives today, I'm going to the store, I'm also going to pick up some new clothes for Genesis. So I'll take him with me." she said to Cloud. Cloud nodded.
"Alright, perhaps he can help you shop." He said. Tifa smiled. "Yeah, so you'll watch the kids?" she asked.
"Of course." said Cloud and went to watch the kids upstairs, playing Guitar Hero. Tifa took Genesis' hand and smiled.
"Come with me, dear." she said. Genesis blinked and followed. They got into the blue truck and headed into town, Genesis sat there quietly, he tried to remember, but every time he would it would hurt his head, and he couldn't remember. This made him quiet depressed. Tifa blinked.
"Hey now, its alright, don't force yourself to remember anything. It will come back to you, you'll see." she smiled at him. Genesis blinked and then smiled.
"Nyu!" Tifa giggled. They arrived at the big market and Tifa helped Genesis out of the truck. Genesis looked around.
"Come on, we have to go shopping." Tifa smiled. Genesis followed her quietly. She grabbed a basket and handed it to Genesis.
"You can help." she said. Genesis nodded and held the basket. Tifa went through each isle and found stuff she wanted for the picnic. Genesis looked around in the cereal isle, he twirled around and accidentally hit one of the shelves, he blinked. Due to hitting the shelf it caused all the boxes of cereal to fall and topple over onto the poor red head. Tifa turned to see Genesis buried by boxes of cereal. Tifa anime sweatdropped and smiled.
"Genesis are you alright?" she asked. She helped Genesis out of the pile of cereal.
"_ Nyu..." he groaned and rubbed his head, he looked up and smiled. He seem to be fine. Tifa giggled. "Let's go this way..." she said and dragged him along. After buying the food, Tifa took Genesis to buy some clothes. Genesis walked in and looked at all the different kinds of clothes. Tifa smiled.
"Let's see what will look best on you." she said sweetly. Genesis smiled, and Tifa had him try on many different clothes, there were a few outfits he liked. He liked darker clothes better, like dark blue jeans and black shirts, he did seem to be very fond of maroon. After clothes shopping Tifa decided to stop at Star Bucks and get some coffee.
"Hey, Gen, what do you want?" she asked smiling. He blinked and looked around the store, he noticed a small decoration, it was a blue Banora White apple. Genesis stared at it longingly, he groaned and clenched his head. Tifa blinked. "Genesis!"
"Genesis!" called a small black haired boy, around eleven years of age. "Be careful!" Angeal yelled up to Genesis in the tree.
"I almost got it Angeal!" Genesis reached up to grab the apple, but he heard a loud crack. "Huh?" he blinked.
"Genesis!" Angeal screamed.
"Genesis!" Tifa cried. "Genesis what's wrong?" she placed her hands on his shoulder trying to get him to snap out of his daze like state.
He fell. He fell from the dumb apple tree, he lied spawn across the ground. Angeal ran over. "Genesis!" he cried. He didn't stir. He didn't move. Angeal ran to get his mother and father, they returned. They panicked and lifted the boy into the father's arms.
"I-I'm sorry...." Angeal had started to cry. The mother reassured him it would be alright.
He fell onto his back, the pain in his head was so heavy and it caused him to feel sick. Tifa who panicked, picked him up and headed directly home with him, she called Cloud.
"Cloud! Genesis is acting strange! I think he's hurt!" she said hysterical. Tifa calmed after talking with Cloud.
"Get him into the hospital quickly! I think he's hurt!" his father demanded. Genesis was taken to the emergency room. After many hours the doctor came out.
"He has a concussion and a broken leg, but other than that, he'll be fine, he has revived and is waiting for you guys." The parents walked in with Angeal. Genesis looked over.
"Angeal! Check out this awesome cast!" he said pointing to his leg. It was red. His parents were relieved. Angeal let out a breath of relief.
The nurse turned to the parents. "We're going to keep him over night just to make sure he's okay." The parents agreed.
"Are you okay Genesis, does your leg hurt?" Angeal asked. "Just a little. I'll be okay." he said.
"Hey Angeal! Wanna sign my cast?" he asked. Angeal blinked. "Uh. Sure." he said and smiled, signing it with a sharpie.
"Are you sure, you'll alright?" Angeal asked. "Peh, this is nothing! We gotta toughen up for SOLDIER!" he said. Angeal smiled.
"You're pretty brave Genesis."
Genesis slowly opened his azure eyes and looked around. Tifa looked to him. "Hey, welcome back, are you alright?" she asked. Genesis blinked and sat up.
"Nyu.." he said groggily. Tifa smiled. "You just rest sweetie. Soon everyone will be over, so you need your strength to have lots of fun." she said. Genesis smiled. "Nyu!" After a while of resting, Genesis felt fine and got up, Genesis blinked to see Tifa working on an empty room with Cloud.
Genesis blinked. Cloud turned. "Oh hey Genesis!" he said. "You feeling better?" he asked. Genesis smiled cutely. "Nyu!"
Cloud smiled. "Good, well what do you think? This will be your room." he said. Genesis walked in. He smiled softly.
Tifa grinned. "I think he likes it." she said. Tifa smiled at Cloud. "I'll go start cooking." she said. Cloud nodded. "Okay.." he watched her leave. Genesis blinked and snickered.
"What?" Cloud asked. "Nyu." he replied still snickering. Cloud rolled his eyes. "Not you too." he said.
Genesis smiled. Cloud walked out. "I'm gonna go help Tifa." he said. Genesis looked around at his new room. He blinked and sat on the bed, it was soft and bouncy. He blinked and smiled bouncing on it.
"Nyu!" he grinned. He then got up and walked over to the dresser, he opened up the drawer, he saw his new clothes. He grinned and pulled them all out, he set them on the bed. He began to try all of them on again. He blinked and looked in the mirror.
Enjoying yourself? He stared in the mirror to see outline of a figure, he looked familiar but he couldn't place his finger on it, but the figure had long sliver hair, Genesis blinked.
"Nyu?"
What happened to you Genesis?
Genesis blinked and poked the mirror. "Nyu...." he looked back to the figure to see that he was gone. Genesis not knowing any better continued to try on clothes until he found one he liked, black jeans with a maroon t-shirt with the logo of some rock star on it. He put all the other clothes back and headed down stairs. He watched Cloud and Tifa, the way they moved, and laughed together. Genesis smiled.
"Everything is all set for outside!" Marlene said walking in. Denzel followed. Tifa smiled.
"Great!" she said and continued to cook. Soon the door bell rang and Marlene answered.
"Hello?"
"HI!" Yuffie bounced in with Red XIII. "Hey Cloud! It's been forever!" Yuffie pounced the blonde.
"Arg! Yuffie get off!" Cloud said. She giggled. "How you been?" she grinned.
"We've been well." he replied. Red XIII smiled.
"Its good to see you again Cloud." he said. Genesis blinked and walked over to the beast, he crouched down and poked Red.
"Can I help you?" he asked. Tifa looked over. "Oh that is Genesis, he's kind of..." Tifa didn't know how to put it.
Red looked to her. "I think I understand." Genesis stared at the beast. Soon everyone arrived, Barret, Cid and Reeve were next to arrive.
"Daddy!" Marlene ran over and hugged him.
"BABY-GURL!" Berret picked her up and hugged her. Tifa smiled. "It's nice to see you again."
Berret grinned and let out a bellow laugh. He slapped Cloud on the back. "How the hell have you been?!" he asked.
"We've been good." Said Cloud.
" Let's get this party started!" shouted Cid. Tifa set out some snacks and soda out for everyone. Genesis sat on the couch and watched everyone. He felt a looming shadow behind him. He shivered and slowly turned to see a tall man in red and black, his eyes widen.
"Who are you?" Vincent asked in a low tone. Genesis paled. He got up and ran upstairs.
"NYU!!!!" (translated: VAMPIRE!!!) Tifa blinked. "Oh hi Vincent, glad that you could make it." She smiled.
Vincent looked to her. "Am I that intimidating?" Tifa blinked. "Well...Genesis is kind of sensitive, he is frighten easily." Tifa explained.
"Genesis?" Vincent asked.
"Yeah, you see he has no memories of himself or even knows how to talk, he can only say Nyu." she farther explained.
"Hmm..." Vincent thought silently to himself. Cloud went up to get Genesis.
"Hey, its okay, Vincent won't hurt you." he said. Genesis looked to him. "Nyu...." Cloud was able to convince Genesis to come back down, everyone went into the back yard. Tifa watched the orphans play, they came over to play with Marlene and Denzel. Reeve smiled.
"They seem to be doing well." Reeve said to Cloud. Cloud nodded. "Yeah, Tifa likes to cook for them."
They played music. Yuffie was teaching them to play kickball. Genesis watched. His eyes widen.
"Watch out!" Genesis called, as the soccer ball flew through the window and hit a certain General. Genesis gasped who was second, with Angeal. Sephiroth slowly turned holding the ball.
"Are you alright?" asked Genesis. Sephiroth looked to him.
"You should be more careful Soldier." he said. Genesis bowed slightly. "I'm sorry." he said. Sephiroth smiled slightly.
"What are you playing anyway?" Genesis smiled. "Kickball." he explained the game.
"I never played before." Sephiroth admitted. Genesis blinked. "Well come on then!" Genesis dragged him off to play with the other seconds. Angeal blinked.
"Oh boy..." He knew Genesis was persistent in teaching someone something new.
Genesis by this time was hurting so bad that tears began to stream down his face, he stumbled inside, Tifa blinked and followed him.
"Are you alright?" He groaned and ran into his room. Tifa sighed softly. "Is his memories coming back?" she wondered.
After the party, Tifa cleaned up and everyone left. Cloud walked over and helped Tifa.
"Do you think Genesis will be alright?" Tifa asked. Cloud looked to her. "Genesis...from what Zack had told me, had it rough..."
Tifa sighed. She sat outside with Cloud and looked up at the stars.
"Hey Cloud...remember our promise?" she smiled. Cloud looked up. "Yeah, I remember." he said. He smiled softly and sat close beside her. Tifa blushed and smiled.
"It was when we were kids, we promised each other that if you were ever in trouble I'll come and save you." he looked to her.
Tifa smiled. Cloud looked to Tifa, his cheeks flushed. "You know there isn't anything I wouldn't do for you..." Tifa looked to him.
"You really mean that Cloud?" she asked. Cloud smiled. "Yeah...I really mean it.." Tifa smiled.
"That means so much to me Cloud!" Tifa hugged him. Cloud blushed and hugged her back. He wrapped his arms around her and held her. Tifa blushed and smiled. It began to rain lightly. Tifa looked at Cloud. Cloud stared back in her beautiful ruby eyes.
"Tifa..." he whispered and slowly began to lean in. He was about to kiss her when suddenly he heard a... "Nyu!" Genesis sat here by the door watching with big starry eyes. Cloud blushed.
"Eh, Genesis! How long have you been there?!" he asked. Tifa and Cloud turned away from each other both with very red faces.
"Nyu!" Genesis smiled innocently.
"Genesis..." Tifa then laughed softly. The three of them got up then looked to Genesis. "Its late Gen, why don't you go to bed?"
Genesis tilted his head. Cloud smiled. "Yeah, its pretty late." Genesis snickered and left to go back to his room. Tifa turned and smiled at Cloud.
"Goodnight Cloud..." she smiled shyly. She turned. Cloud softly touched her hand. "Tifa wait..please?" he asked. Tifa blushed.
"Yeah Cloud?" she asked turning to see him. Cloud blinked and blushed.
"Uhh..." he was at a lost for words. Tifa snickered and kissed his cheek. "Good night Cloud." she said and went to her room.
Cloud blinked and blushed. "Night..." he smiled brightly when she was gone and headed off to bed.
Whew! Chapter 2 finished!