before I randomly begin, just wanted to thank tenebreyami for the review :) that i totally forgot to mention in the last chapter. Really helps give me the confidence to continue writing it now that I know someone is actually reading lol
oh and also warning of a very short almost yaoi moment in the dream at the beginning. I didn't even really notice it was there I was just kind of typing and once I re-read everything over for spelling errors and such I noticed it and figured I should warn people :)
Cloud stares at the ceiling pondering the days events one minute I'm fighting to the death with Sephiroth and the next he's walking home with me while we talk about things we have in common. he thinks to himself I don't want to trust him but at the same time I feel like I should he thinks closing his eyes
"I'll see what happens tomorrow" he says out loud before falling asleep
Cloud runs down an alleyway not sure what's going on. he knows he is dreaming but he can't be sure if he's chasing something or being chased but somehow he hopes he never finds out. He leaps over a wall stopping to take a short rest before he continues running though back streets and alleyways until he finally hears someone running in front of him, ok so he's chasing something! He relaxes a bit knowing that he is the one chasing not the one being chased but starts to wonder what or who he's chasing and why. Finally the footsteps ahead of him stop and he catches up stopping right in front of Sephiroth.
"I guess I can't outrun you then" Sephiroth says with a smile. Cloud starts to wonder why he's chasing down Sephiroth
"no you can't" he says simply
"well now that you've won, I think you deserve your reward" Sephiroth says walking closer to Cloud until they are almost touching
"what do you mean?" Cloud asks suspiciously. Sephiroth doesn't answer him. instead, he just smiles deviously and slowly drops to his knees reaching for Cloud's pants to pull them down before he...
Cloud forces himself awake sitting up in his bed not wanting to finish the dream, he's pretty sure he knows where it was going but he really doesn't think he should let it go there
"Why in the world would I dream about that anyway?" he asks out loud "it's Sephiroth he's my enemy possibly my friend if he doesn't try to kill me today but I would never let him do THAT" he adds standing up and pacing back and forth before running into his bathroom for a shower. Once he's done he gets dressed and grabs his phone to call Yuna
"hello?" Yunna's voice answers
"Yuna it's Cloud" he says as if she didn't already know that
"hi Cloud" she says "what's up?"
"I was wondering if we could all hang out today" he says "you, me, Rikku, Paine, Yuffie, Squall" he continues "and Sephiroth" he finishes slowly
"I imagine we can all get together and do something today since I don't think anyone has anything else to do" she answers "I'll call around and get back to you about it once I have a plan" she adds
"Ok sounds good" he says hanging up and throwing his phone on the bed before walking into the living room to grab his TV remote turning the TV on as he enters his room again. He lays on his bed flipping through channels trying to find something to watch finally just leaving it on some show about animals and picking up a book. right as he's about to open the book to read it his phone rings
"hello" he says answering it putting the book down
"everyone is meeting at my house all of the others are on their way now so you should start heading here to" Yuna says not even saying hi or bye as she hangs up on him. Cloud sighs and gets up putting on his shoes and walking out the front door
"I see that Yuna got to you as well" Sephiroth's voice calls out from behind him
"well actually it was my idea" Cloud said trying to sound casual as Sephiroth catches up to him
"so you got to Yuna then" Sephiroth says with a smile and Cloud's stomach clenches
"I guess I did" he answers looking at the ground it was only a dream why can't I just look at him?
"something wrong?" Sephiroth asks
"oh" Cloud says coming back to earth "no nothing wrong just thinking" he says with a smile
"well that's better at least nothing is wrong" Sephiroth says as they get to Yuna's front door. Cloud just nods and knocks on the door
"hey look at you two still being friends" Yuna says opening the door with a big smile
"yeah no more trying to kill each other" Sephiroth says "now it's just friends hanging out" he adds putting his arm around Cloud's shoulders
"yeah no more death matches" Cloud adds trying to ignore the feeling in his stomach
"good keep it that way" Yuna says looking at Cloud "are you feeling ok Cloud you look kind of red" she says concerned
"no just a little over heated is all" Cloud says that should be a good enough excuse
"oh well come inside then" Yuna says unblocking the door. Cloud and Sehiroth walk into the house and sit down on the couch in front of a TV playing the same thing Cloud was going to watch at home.
"where is everyone else since I'm sure Cloud wanted to invite more then just us" Sephiroth says
"Rikku and Paine said they probably won't be able to make it but Yuffie and Squall said they were on their way so they should be here soon" Yuna answers sitting in a chair by the door so she can watch for the others. they all sit in silence watching the TV jumping when they hear a knock on the door
"hey you guys" Yuna says opening the door to let Squall and Yuffie in
"hey everyone" Yuffie says sitting next to Cloud on the couch moving him slightly closer to Sephiroth
"hey Yuffie" Cloud says looking over a bit when he notices Squall sit on the other side of Sephiroth making Sephiroth move close enough to almost touch him "hey Squall" he adds before looking back at the TV just calm down cloud keeps telling himself trying to breath
"so what are we all going to do today?" Yuffie asks looking at Yuna
"I don't know" she says "it was Cloud's idea to get us all together"
"well don't all look at me" Cloud says when everyone turns to stare at him "I just figured we could all hang out I didn't give much thought to what we would do" he adds shrugging
"we could all go see a movie" Squall says "we could just walk in and pick a random movie and see what it is" he adds making everyone nod
"so it's settled then" Yuna says getting up "we'll all go to the movies" she finishes already walking over to the door. Squall and Yuffie get up running after to while Sephiroth gets up slowly
"you coming?" he asks looking down at Cloud
"yeah sorry just lost in thought again" Cloud says trying to get up and falling back onto the couch "why can I never get off of this stupid couch" he says trying again without much luck
"here I'll help" Sephiroth says holding out his hand
"thank you" Cloud says grabbing his hand trying to ignore the feeling of the shock that goes up his arm as Sephiroth pulls him up off the couch. right before he can just let go of Sephiroth's hand he trips and ends up falling into his arms instead. Cloud looks up at Sephiroth trying not to stare into the green eyes that are looking down at him
"oh ummm sorry" Cloud says quickly standing himself up
it's fine I didn't mind at all" Sephiroth says hiding his face with his hair "glad I could be here to help you not fall over" he adds
"we should go catch up to the others" Cloud says as he starts for the door.
Cloud and Sephiroth run until they finally catch up to the others who hadn't even noticed they were gone. They all walked into the movie theater to buy tickets to some movie Cloud didn't know the name of because he was to busy starring at the floor at least in a movie theater there wont be any talking so I don't have to join in on conversation. he thinks as he sits down trying not to notice Sephiroth as he sits right next to him with a thing of popcorn
"I figured we could share some if you wanted to" Sephiroth says shaking the popcorn bucket a bit
"yeah we can" Cloud says back "thank you" he adds grabbing a handful and putting some in his mouth so he can avoid any more talking hopefully the movie will just start before this handful is gone he says to himself. As if reading his mind, the screen shows the first commercial and Cloud relaxes a bit knowing that he won't have to talk to anyone for at least an hour. He begins spacing out grabbing a handful of popcorn every once and a while while he stares at the movie screen to make it look like he's actually watching the movie. Just when he had fully relaxed and was certain he could avoid embarrassing himself for the entire length of the movie he reaches for a handful of popcorn and grabs a hand instead
"oh uh sorry" he says letting go of Sephirth's hand happy that the darkness is hiding the fact that he's probably bright red from the tingling feeling now running up his arm
"It's fine" Sephiroth says clearing his throat a bit "I don't mind if you want to hold my hand you can go ahead" he says and Cloud can't tell if he's being serious or if he's joking so he just clears his throat and puts a piece of popcorn in his mouth thank god he can't see my face he thinks to himself feeling his cheeks getting hot. Sephiroth just chuckles and grabs himself some popcorn.
Once the movie is over they all walk out of the theater and stand outside
"that movie was incredibly stupid" Yuna says while they stand outside "what did you guys think?" she asks
"yeah it was pretty bad" Squall says while Yuffie nods
"I've had more interesting things to watch" Sephiroth says turning his eyes to Cloud for a second and smiling
"yeah it wasn't interesting at all" Cloud agrees even though i didn't actually watch it he adds in his head. they all start walking heading to Yuna's house again
"you didn't even watch the movie and you know it" Sephiroth says walking next to Cloud
"well it was that uninteresting" Cloud says hoping his excuse works
"I found some parts very interesting" Sephiroth says with a wink
"I guess" Cloud says looking at te ground why is he effecting me so much? it's not like he' being serious about any of this he doesn't like me in that way. Cloud thinks to himself I don't like HIM that way! what am I thinking?
"Cloud?" Sephiroth asks "are you sure you're ok?" he adds
"yeah fine just a lot on my mind lately" he says as they walk into Yuna's yard to catch up with the others. "hey guys I'm sorry I think I need to just go home right now" he says looking at the ground
"you should Cloud you don't look so good" Yuna says concerned
"I feel bad for making you all come here and then just leaving" he says
"even though the movie was horrible we all still had fun hanging out" Yuffie says with a smile and everyone nods
"I'll walk with you to make sure you get home ok" Sephiroth says
"I'll be ok" Cloud says
"no I think it's a good idea" Yuna says "then he can let the rest of us know if you really got there ok or not" she adds. Cloud just nods knowing that there's no arguing with her now that her mind is made up.
"ok lets go" he says looking at Sephiroth waving goodbye to the others as they walk down the road together.