I'm totally on a roll. It's probably not going to last very long but I'll try to keep going for as long as I can. The next chapter is already half finished.

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

Genesis woke up bright and early with a plan that he had carefully prepared in his head the day before. First thing was first though, he had to get out from between Sephiroth and Angeal, who were both holding him in a death grip. Carefully, he tried to worm his way out of their arms. Sephiroth woke up in the process and let him go when he realised Genesis was trying to get out of bed, but Angeal, surprisingly, stayed asleep and Sephiroth wordlessly helped him to get out of the condor's grip.

Once he was free Sephiroth just walked straight into the bathroom to get ready for the day, not even bothering to question why the other crow was up at this time, when he would usually sleep in on his days off. Genesis was quick to follow after him, he didn't want to fall behind on his plans just because he was waiting for Sephiroth to get out of the bathroom.

Once he was done and ready to put his plan into action, he started making his way out of the apartment, only stopping when Sephiroth shoved a piece of toast into his mouth, went straight down the hallway towards Zack's apartment and swiped his card through the reader.

He was surprised that the door just clicked opened. He would probably have to talk to the cadet about keeping the manual door locked so that he could at least have a warning that someone was breaking in. He would have to work on actually waking up from the noise it made though. Genesis strode over to the spare room and pretty much kicked the door open, only to find that Cloud wasn't there.

Well that put a setback on his plans. Where on earth could that white crow have gone to this early in the morning? Obviously Sephiroth and Angeal weren't training him because they had still been in bed with him when he woke up and Zack wasn't due back for a few more days.

Slightly irritated, he flipped open his PHS and pressed the speed dial for Zack's number. It rang for a good few seconds before a very tired voice answered.

"The First Class SOLDIER you have called is currently unavailable. Please hang up and try again never."

"Zack it's me."

"… Gen?" It seemed to take Zack a while to process whose voice it was, but Genesis made a sound of acknowledgement.

"I thought it was your voice I was hearing, but I wasn't sure if it was actually you or just my ring tone."

Genesis rolled his eyes. A long time ago Zack had put some song called 'Vanilla' as his ring tone and said the guy sounded just like him. Genesis wouldn't have minded so much if the song hadn't been so suggestive… Then again it was amusing to watch Angeal fumble for his phone in the middle of meetings when he randomly tested to see if the other General had remember to turn his PHS on silent. He had tested it out on Sephiroth a few times, but he always seemed to remember to turn his PHS on silent.

"I have a question for you Zachary."

The lieutenant made a humming noise to indicate that he was listening. The fact that he didn't correct Genesis on his name just showed that he was still partially asleep.

"That chocobo of yours. You wouldn't know where he would be at this ungodly hour would you? I checked your apartment, but he's not here."

"Why do you want to know?" That seemed to have caught Zack's attention and the wolfs' tone turned slightly defensive.

"I'm just curious to know where he is. I'm not going to do anything to your charge. I just want to talk to him that's all."

There was a long moment of silence as Zack thought through what Genesis could possibly want with Cloud, before he decided that Genesis was reasonable enough to not do anything too horrible to the cadet and he answered. "He's probably in training room three at this time. If not, maybe in one of the other training rooms. Otherwise I have no idea. He might have gone into town or something. Either that or else he might have gone into the Slums." There was a short pause and the sound of Zack yawning. "Anyways, I'm going back to sleep. Be nice to him when you find him Gen."

"I'll try puppy."

Zack made a small sound of annoyance and Genesis laughed a little before murmuring their goodbyes and hanging up.

After putting his phone away Genesis quickly made his way towards the training rooms. He had to admit, the little cadet had a good head on his shoulders if he really got up this early to train every day. Sure enough, as soon as he took a step in the training room a bolt spell shot straight past him and struck a dummy on the other side of the room.

There was a small cry of surprise and the sound of someone rushing towards him. In seconds Cloud was looking over him and making sure he had no injuries, but being careful not to touch the General at the same time. Genesis took note that he had his fake crane wings out and he gave them a somewhat disgusted look before he placed his hands on Cloud's shoulders so that he not only didn't have to look at them, but to stop the smaller crows' fussing over him as well.

"I'm fine cadet. I've had much worse than a bolt to the face. I vaguely remember someone thinking it would be fun to aim a level three fire spell at my face during the war."

Cloud winced. That more than likely would have hurt a lot more than a bolt if it had landed. "I apologise General. If you're wanting to use this training room, I was just finishing."

It was obvious that Cloud was still a bit wary of him and Genesis frowned at that. "Actually, I was looking for you… Cloud." He had to rack his brain to remember his name. Usually Zack called him Spikey or Chickabo or something along those lines. He got the feeling that the cadet would be quite uncomfortable if he was to call him either one of those names.

"Looking for me?" Cloud's voice cut through his thoughts.

"I wasn't just saying that I'd help you with your materia work just to throw Angeal and Sephiroth off. You've been lucky that no one's caught you with your wings out so far, but that won't always be the case." Genesis paced around Cloud. Analysing his body structure and looking for places where Cloud could possibly conceal weapons of some sort. "I won't be teaching you how to use materia though." He stopped in front of Cloud. "I'll teach you a few other skills that the others won't. Ones that aren't in the programme's curriculum, but ones that you're going to need anyway… It's more Turk stuff than anything though."

"You mean… Killing people?"

Genesis shook his head. "Not all that the Turks do is assassinations. Well… Most of it is, but there are other things that come with it. The first lesson that you need to learn is that everything is a weapon, you just need to learn how to use it. Since you're only learning now, we'll have to start with what you already know."

"You mean materia?"

Genesis smirked. The smaller crow definitely had a good head on his shoulders. Gently he led Cloud over to one of the benches and began his lesson. "Women in the slums tend to wrap materia up in their hair to make them look more like accessories. Everyone else simply equips it into their armour or have it sitting in their pockets. But it's not very helpful if it falls out of your pocket or someone just takes your armour off you right?" Cloud nodded, that was understandable. "Also you don't want to have too much on you. Only the ones that are a necessary. It might boost your magic power to have more, but it weighs down on you."

"There's no point in having that much magic power if you get knocked down in one hit."

Genesis' smile widened. "Exactly."

Training Cloud was going to be a lot easier than he expected.