Ok I thought I'd be nice and post this just before I left tomorrow. If any of you have looked at my profile I'm challenging myself to write 50,000 words before the end of November and I've actually written another 4 more chapters already but I won't be posting them till I come back from my holiday. I'll probably have a lot more than just 4 more chapters when I get back, though I won't post them all at once.

By the way you probably noticed I stopped using yo at the end of Reno's sentences. It's hard figuring out where to put it, (I used to just add at the end of sentences where he could say de zotto in Japanese) not to mention it looks inappropriate when Reno's angry, so I just stopped doing it.

Disclaimer: I don't own FFVII nor its characters. I also don't own the ideas taken from Love Monster.

When Rufus saw Zack the next day, the wolf was in his office and looked like he had been run over by a truck and backed up on. He was pretty much half asleep on his desk next to a large pile of signed papers, with his hair in more of a disarray than usual and an odd smell was coming from his general direction. "I take it that you were busy this morning, which is why you weren't at the training rooms? By the looks of it, you had quite a night last night." Zack lifted up his head and glared at him, which sent Rufus into a fit of chuckles as he sat down on the chair opposite him.

"For your information Angeal somehow found out about me sneaking into Sephiroth's office and spent the whole time lecturing me when I got home. Genesis thought it was necessary to spent the WHOLE night comforting me, which was amazing if it weren't for the fact that Sephiroth saw it fit to wake me up after an hour of sleep and told me that I had to go do a whole lot of paper work before I left for Luxiere's lesson. We're just lucky that they didn't ask questions. I didn't even get the time to have a shower."

"Which explains the smell. I'm not even a canine or a feline and I can smell you from here." Zack's glare hardened and Rufus let off another round of chuckles. "You still have an hour to shower and grab a coffee so that you can look presentable to the little cadet and do some more snooping for me."

"I have half a mind to let you go off and do your own snooping. It's not like it would be that hard for you to just sit in one of the observatory boxes and just watch the weasel."

"I have better, more important things to do, not to mention you don't have any missions or boring meetings to go to. Besides, you are the one that volunteered in the first place. No backing out now. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go sit in yet another boring meeting and deal with Scarlet's annoying advances." Zack smiled at the thought as Rufus stood up.

"When are you ever going to tell her that you're taken and black widow spiders aren't your thing." Rufus paused just as he pushed the door open, with a small frown on his face at the thought of the woman.

"Female spiders are not my thing… I'd rather keep my head attached while in bed. In fact, unless it's Tseng's ass anything curvy just isn't my thing. Females in general are just too much work and I have enough of that as it is."

"Ah paper work." Zack's head met his desk with a loud thump. "The bane of my existence. I have no idea how Seph does this all day."

"Practise and patience. Anyways, are you going to go see your little chocobo today? Or do I have to wait till tomorrow for some more info on the little weasel?" Zack sighed.

"Well I'm up now." He pushed back on his chair and stood up. "Shower, then go find Luxiere."

"Good, I'll expect a call at the end of the day." With a nod Rufus walked out of the room, letting the door slam shut behind him. Zack sighed again before he grabbed his buster sword from where it was sitting against the wall and headed in the general direction of his apartment. He didn't even notice the two figures trailing behind him.

"You know, I think the puppy needs to be retrained. We've been watching him and trailing behind him all day and he still hasn't noticed us here. We could be terrorists out for his head for all he knows."

"We did keep him up all night so his senses are down, not to mention, who in their right mind would attempt to break into the Shinra complex at this time of year? Most of the employee's are on holiday, not to mention all SOLDIER personnel are within the complex. Any suspicious people would immediately be detained by the Turks as soon as they set foot on the building. It would be more reasonable for them to attempt an infiltration in the more busier parts of the year, like when we bring in new recruits."

"Sephiroth stop being logical, I hate it when you do that."

"All the better to prove you wrong Genesis." Both SOLDIER's were trailing behind Zack, making it look like they were discussing important business in hushed voices so that no one else could hear what they were talking about.

"As you love to do Sephiroth. So what do you think Rufus went to see Zack for?"

"I would have thought that it would have been just another one of their chats to waste time, but I'm pretty sure I heard Rufus say something about getting some information on a weasel."

"A weasel? I don't think I remember seeing one among the cadets, but I do remember seeing a halfling in that bunch."

"The one with the small grey tipped wings? The one that Zack was asking about a few weeks ago?" Genesis nodded his head.

"No idea why he was so interested in him."

"I think it was more Luxiere's treatment of him. The puppy was picked up by Angeal before he could get a real experience of the cadet programme. He dropped it after Luxiere explained what he was doing according to Angeal." They both stopped as Zack rounded the corner to his apartment and they ducked into a different corridor so that Zack wouldn't be able to see them when he came back out. "So I'm guessing our main concern is this weasel that he's chasing after for Rufus." Genesis lent against a wall, bringing Loveless out as they waited for Zack.

"Maybe there's something special about him? We could ask Tseng. He's bound to know why the two are so interested in him." Sephiroth shook his head.

"Too easy." Genesis looked up from his book and stared at Sephiroth in surprise.

"You can't be serious? We have other things to do than following Zack around in an attempt to figure out what he's planning. It'd be easier to just…"

"If it's the puppy it's probably not something dangerous. We might as well let him have his fun and this would help us pass the time." Genesis shook his head.

"I never knew that you had a sense of fun. The only fun we've ever had was when we're in the bedroom under the sheets." Sephiroth glared.

"I'm perfectly capable of having fun while outside of the bedroom. Just my idea of fun isn't going out to watch a show that I've seen hundreds of times before; that I know every word of every line."

"I'll have you know Loveless is the most amazing piece of literature ever written, you just can't understand the extent of how ground shaking it is."

"You're enamoured by it enough to make up for our lack of interest in it." They both quietened down at the sound of a door clicking open and Zack was bounding out of his room as if he hadn't just been in a bad mood a few minutes ago. Genesis made a face as if he was disgusted with Zack's sudden change in attitude.

"I don't know how he does that. One minute he's tired and looking about to collapse and then the next he's happy and rushing around like he's on a sugar high."

"It can't be helped, it's part of his personality, you have to admit, his ability to bounce back is useful in some circumstances." Genesis couldn't help but grin and hum in agreement. "Now put that book away and move before we lose him." With that Genesis quickly tucked his book back into his pocket and they both once again began trailing the puppy. Once Zack had entered the training hall they both hurried up to the observation box to see exactly what he was doing.

"That red headed thing with the flat ears and the short tail doesn't look too happy to see Zack there." Was the first thing that came out of Genesis' mouth and Sephiroth nodded his head in agreement.

"You seem to have possibly spotted the weasel that Rufus was talking about." They continued to watch as Luxiere ordered them to pair up and the weasel seemed to search through the crowd of cadets before he pulled a small blonde to the side and practically dragged the boy to the side of the gym that was as far away from Zack as possible. "And he seems to have already noticed that Zack's observing him."

"Who's that little blonde thing that he took with him?" Genesis moved to get a closer look and the first thing he noticed were the boys wings. "Oh look at that he's friends with the halfling." Sephiroth looked somewhat surprised as the two began sparring. He didn't know what to expect, he thought that at least the smaller cadet would at least be decent at hand to hand, but no, he seemed to be getting knocked to the ground over and over again. The weasel seemed to be grinning, while a scowl was forming on the half crane's face.

From the corner of his vision, Sephiroth could see Zack weaving through the crowd of cadets skilfully. He stopped and talked to a few on the way but seemed to be heading in the direction of the weasel and the halfling. "The puppy has no tact. He's being painfully obvious." Genesis commented.

"Well the weasel seems to have already noticed so what's the point in keeping it a secret that he's interested in him?" Genesis shrugged and they continued to watch as Zack slowly made his way over to the two. The weasel seemed to notice just as Zack was approaching them and he grabbed the blonde and pushed him behind him, growling at the other monster. Zack seemed to hold his hands up in a non threatening way while the blond peeked over the red head's shoulder. "Seph you didn't happen to be trained in reading lips did you?" Genesis questioned, turning his head in Sephiroth's direction.

"I'm a crow Genesis, not a cat."

"It was worth a try…"

"Hey down kitty, I mean no harm." Reno let out a small hiss at Zack's words.

"Calm down Reno, what's wrong with you?" Cloud questioned as he tried to move past the weasel, but Reno held him back.

"What do you want Lieutenant Fair, because if you don't mind, I'd rather you not interrupt the two of us while we're training."

"I just wanted to see how the two of you were doing. I mean you seem to be beating up on the little cadet over here an awful lot. With the amount of times you seem to be knocking him on his ass, you'd would think that you were picking on him or something."

"It's alright lieutenant. It's not like he's actually hurting me. He does give me advice every time he kicks me down, he just likes to choose different ways to knock me on my ass every round." Cloud defended and Reno smirked at Zack, while the wolf just sighed.

"That's a terrible way to teach him. You should just stick to one way till he's learnt how to defend himself then move onto another technique, otherwise he'll never learn."

"Hey it's how I learnt in the Slums and I'm doing just fine…" Cloud placed a hand gently on Reno's shoulder and the weasel stopped.

"Lieutenant Fair, we have our own way of doing things if you don't mind." Zack seemed to stare at him for a moment before he finally nodded his head and started making his way over to Luxiere. Reno was way too observant for his own good.

"Reno what the hell was that?"

"Cloud did you even see the way he was looking at you?"

"No, even if he was looking at me funny Reno, you have no right to act that way around him. I have no idea what's gotten into you lately." Zack paused and took a quick glance back at the two. Some of the cadets around them had even stopped to watch Cloud scold the red head who had his ears flattened against his head and his tail down almost between his legs. With a small smile, he went back to making his way over to Luxiere with a small bounce to his step.

"What's that all about, are you disrupting my class Fair?" Zack's ears fell back and he stared back at Luxiere with the most innocent face that he could do.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Do whatever you did again Zack and I'm kicking your ass, First Class or not, that weasels the only one that kid has you know." Zack shrugged his shoulders.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." With that he headed out of the hall, only to be met with Sephiroth and Genesis. "What are you two doing here?"

"Oh you know, we thought it would be fun to see what you were up to in Luxiere's class. Quite a show you put on there puppy. What did you do to make that weasel hate you so much?" Genesis questioned, and Zack just shrugged.

"He's suspicious of me. Thinks I'm out for his chocobo or something I guess? Seph that paper work you gave me this morning was hell by the way."

"Well then hopefully next time you'll think twice about stealing paper work out of my office then. I figured you needed more since you were stealing some from my desk." Zack poked his tongue out at him while Sephiroth just smirked at his response.

"Anyway." Genesis cut in. "We were just seeing how you were doing. Now, Seph and I have some other work to do, you go do what you do best puppy and go terrorise some other people." Zack then turned his tongue on the other crow.

"Puppy how many times do I have to tell you, don't stick that out unless you're going to use it." Zack purposely stuck his tongue out further at Sephiroth's comment. The crow smirked and nipped at the end and Zack almost immediately pulled it back into his mouth.

"The hell Seph? That wasn't what I was expecting."

"I never said what the consequences were going to be." Genesis rolled his eyes at the two before staring at Sephiroth pointedly. "We'll be going then, play nice puppy." With that the two started making their way towards the elevators.

"Oh by the way." Sephiroth paused as he spoke. "You know weasel's are usually quite solitary creatures. They only group together when they've just left their parents. When they think that they can live on their own they leave the group." This seemed to spark something in Zack's brain and he rushed through to the other elevator, quickly hitting the button for the 69th Floor. Genesis turned to Sephiroth questioningly.

"What was that about?"

"I told you, I'm having fun."