First I'd like to say HOLY COW I mean I saw that I had people adding me to their watch list but I didn't think I'd get that many reviews in one chapter. (Also, silly reviewers asking me questions you know I won't answer.)

Secondly, before I forget I'd like to say thank you to my beta for helping me with finding insults for that last chapter.

Third of all, during the writing of this chapter I learnt that baby cousins do not let you write when they want your attention.

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

Sephiroth never really talked to Luxiere much. What little information he had on the rat was that he was one of his Seconds, who was friends with Zack and his other friend Kunsel.

His eyes scanned over the mess hall and quickly spotted the rat with Zack and Kunsel. Not like they were very hard to miss with Zack laughing the place down. He slowly made his way towards him, ignoring the fact that a lot of the other SOLDIERs were watching him. Zack was the first to notice him as the other two had their backs turned to him. Zack perked up and smiled at him while the other two looked momentarily confused before Sephiroth spoke up when he was directly behind them.

"Commander Luxiere." Both Luxiere and Kunsel practically fell out of their seats before they snapped to attention while Zack snorted in amusement. Sephiroth never figured out what was so funny about it when his SOLDIERs did that.

"General sir." Both Seconds' saluted to him while Zack stayed in his seat still looking amused.

"At ease SOLDIERs." They both almost immediately put their hands down. "Commander Luxiere, I need to speak to you about a few of your cadets." With a nod Luxiere moved to follow after him while Sephiroth nodded at his lover and Kunsel in acknowledgement before leading Luxiere towards his office. He heard Zack call out to be nice to his friend and mentally shook his head. The things Zack said to him sometimes.

Once they had gotten to Sephiroth's office, he sat in his seat and gestured towards the seat opposite him for Luxiere to sit on before he pulled three folders and a golden armlet out of his drawer and threw them onto his desk. Luxiere stared at them for a moment before slowly picking up the armlet and opening the folders.

"Belias Manx, Johnny Korat and Cloud Strife? I could easily guess what this thing with Korat and Strife is, but Manx? As far as I know he's had nothing to do with the two."

Sephiroth raised an eyebrow. "Korat and Strife have had issues before? Why has there never been a report handed to me?"

"It was outside of classes and nothing really serious happened. I expected Strife to file in a report. Even though I told him to, I guess he doesn't have that type of character."

Sephiroth seemed to think over this information for a moment. Yes that Halfling looked weak but by his display with Phoenix, he didn't look like one to go down without a fight either. Deciding to get down to the point, he handed a slip to Luxiere.

"A dismissal report from the army?" Luxiere questioned.

"First of all, Strife left that armlet in my office. I figured you being his commander, it would be better for you to hand it back to him. Secondly, Manx along with a few other of his… Friends, should I say, had Strife trapped near the training facilities. I don't care about the others but it looked like he was the instigator. Korat tried to protect Strife, but gave Strife this look that I didn't really care for. They were only lucky that Genesis and I heard them or else that would have been a very messy clean up. If this was any other case I would have requested for Strife's dismissal, seeing as how he was the reason for the fight in the first place, but these days it's hard to find anyone with that much magic power. He would be a good asset despite his lack of physical strength, but that is something that can be fixed."

Luxiere blinked. "Magic power?"

Sephiroth looked surprised. "You never noticed? I thought that cadets were at least trained in materia use."

"They are, near the end of the programme."

"We might need to review the programme then. It would explain our lack of magic users if they're dropping out because their physical strength is lacking, but back to the issue at hand. Whether you use that form or not, I will leave that decision up to you. Just a reminder though, your cadets are a reflection of your teaching skills and your teaching skills are a reflection of my judgement skills. Whether you are friends with Zack or not, it is not in your best interest if you make me regret placing you in charge of these cadets. Do I make myself clear commander?"

Luxiere paled. "Understood sir!"

When their entire class got called into the training halls and were made to sit on the floor like pre-schoolers, Reno immediately knew that something that had to do with Cloud had happened. Especially when General Sephiroth had his eyes trained on Johnny and one of the rats in their class and Commander Luxiere was staring at Cloud while said person was turning a nice pale colour.

"It has come to my attention that there are a few little skirmishes that are recently getting out of hand."

Reno turned his look on Cloud as Luxiere began his talk.

"As you know it is against our rules to attack your fellow cadets unless you're training. If you were in SOLDIER you would've been kicked out of Shinra for good for insubordination already, after all, what good is an army when not only do you have to look out for enemies, but your own side is out for your blood. Originally I was just going to get rid of the trouble makers, but seeing as how you all seem to be acting as sheep and following whoever seems to have the best ideas despite knowing they're wrong, you will be punished as a whole. Maybe then you'll get it in your heads that this is the army. We don't have the time to put up with the childish crap that you pull."

Reno took a quick glance around and noticed that Cloud seemed to be trying to sink into the floor while a few of the rats around them were glaring at the one that the General had been looking at.

"So since you are all so insistent on acting like children, we've decided to punish you like children." There were a few sounds of protest, which annoyingly got louder and louder.

"SILENCE!" The room immediately quietened down at Sephiroth's order. "Commander Luxiere has kindly offered this option instead of my previous suggestion, so unless you want to be sent back to your families with your memories wiped, you will listen and accept your punishment."

After a few moments of awkward silence, Luxiere cleared his throat and continued to speak. "Previously you were free to use the training facilities. This privilege has been revoked and unless you have a SOLDIER with you at the time or unless we are required to use them during our training time."

Well that would kill Cloud's morning training.

"Also, you are now on a strict lights out time. Lights out are at their usual nine o'clock. None of you are permitted to leave your rooms until five. If you are caught outside your rooms at these times without permission from someone of higher rank, be prepared for the worst case scenario, and we will be monitoring the halls to make sure that none of you leave."

Reno mentally cursed at that. It was going to be hard to sneak out anywhere now.

"Alright, the lot of you, dismissed."

There was a whole lot of grumbling as the rest of the cadets cleared the training room. Reno on the other hand had pinned Cloud down with a glare.

"Explain, now and don't tell me that it has nothing to do with you."

"Why do you always have to cut off all my escape lines?"

"Because we both know that they're not going to work on me."

Honestly, the things Cloud got into when Reno wasn't watching him.

"I had a little run in with this rat a couple of times. That's all… The vice president may have helped me the first time and then General Sephiroth may have helped me the second time…"

"That rat that everyone was staring at?"

"The one in the same…"

Reno sighed. "Honestly chickabo I don't know how you get yourself into these kinds of situations."

Cloud looked surprised. "You're not angry?"

Reno grinned and ruffled his hair a little. "Of course I am, but you're not hurt…" Reno narrowed his eyes at him. "Are you?" Cloud was quick to shake his head. "Good. At least something good came out of this."

Cloud blinked in confusion. "Something good?"

Reno grinned again. "Now you can't leave my sight."