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...Awkward...

He was known as Cloud Strife for eighteen years, named as Cloud Strife for eighteen years, but at this moment he was only known as Skye Strife, an innocent looking girl who was in fact a boy in disguise. His disguise was perfectly flawless, no one could recognized him as Cloud Strife, no one except one man... and the man he was speaking of was standing right before him.

This is one HELL of a reunion that I DO NOT want right NOW! Cloud thought, screeching in his mind like a banshee.

He watched as his childhood friend, Zack Fair, was waving at them, smiling like an idiot as always. Sometimes, he wondered how someone who could be such a thick head all the time could see through his disguise with just a side glance. Still he was kind of glad to that the spiky dark-haired teen hadn't changed much through the years, but right now, he really wished he wasn't here. Zack and him could sit down and ordered some drinks another time.

While he was lost in his thoughts, he didn't notice that Zack had closed the distance between them. He was pulled back down to the Planet when he heard Zack spoke.

'Hey there-' Zack was interrupted by a series of loud curses. Thank Gaia he didn't say my name...

Cloud looked over the taller teen's shoulder to see what caused all those noises to find his eyes narrowing into thin slit. What the hell is Seph doing here?

Sephiroth was not pleased at all. First, he was close to murder the redhead. Second, that stupid puppy boy who his brother befriended at preschool was here, of all the time in the world, the pup had to pick the worst of the worst time to make an appearance.

Seeing that he had no choice but to grab the boy before he said that Cloud was a boy and not a girl, he quickly ran forward ready to knock the pup out cold if he had to. He wouldn't let anyone give anymore nasty remarks on his little brother. Though he didn't expect to slam into someone in his run and that ended up with him and whoever he had knocked into to shout dozen of curses at the same time before they fell onto the floor.

This day couldn't get any worse. Sephiroth thought angrily as he sat up, never once in his life he had an accident like this before and it was extremely embarrassing! He was a very coordinated person, so it shouldn't be possible for him to get tripped like this!

'Sorry miss, I didn't mean to-' Sephiroth didn't let the guy finished his sentence as he grabbed the guy's shirt, glaring at him with an intense gaze that could rival the stony gaze of a basilisk.

'You listen here. I'm a man, not a woman. Next time you better think twice and look twice at the person you slam into before you call them,' Sephiroth snarled at the stranger. He had been insulted by different bosses, but none of them had ever even dared said that he looked like a woman!

The silver hair man expected the stranger to cowering in fear, but instead of that, the man glared back at him and said in a dark tone, 'I apologize for mistaking you as a woman, but it was you who slammed into me first Mister.'

Sephiroth was about to retort, but he was interrupted by an icy voice that seemed to deepest hell calling him, 'SE-PHI-RO-TH.'

Green cat-like eyes turned to the side to see Cloud who seemed to have reached a new form of evolved anger state, since he had never seen his brother became this whenever he was angry. Cloud's blond wig seemed to be floating, his blue eyes resembled to a poisonous viper with blue flames burning in them and he was smiling. A rather darkish aura was slowly forming around him. For once, Cloud looked nothing of innocent and cute, but pure evil. In fact, he felt a little intimated by his little brother, but there was no way in hell he would admit that statement.

'YOU and I have something to discuss, RIGHT NOW.' If looks could kill, Sephiroth was pretty sure his remains were somewhere in the core of planet by now.

Sephiroth threw one last look of pure hatred to the guy who dared called him a lady before he let go of him to deal with Cloud. It shouldn't be too difficult to deal with this demonic Cloud than the usual one.

Zack Fair was not sure what to make of the situation as he pulled Angeal up. When he first came to the mall, instead of waiting at the train station like he was suppose to be, he was pretty sure that the blond hair girl he saw with Genesis was Cloud. Now with Sephiroth's rather dashing entrance with his cousin, he was one hundred percent sure that the blonde is his cute little chocobo friend.

Boy, talked about one hell of a reunion. Though judging from his current situation, he was pretty sure that he should have stayed at the train station instead of coming to the mall. The way Genesis was glaring at him and Angeal told him that the redhead was ready to roast them.

'What are you two doing here?' Genesis demanded in a hiss, looking like a volcano that would explode at any given moments. Heck, he wouldn't even be surprised if the redhead really started throwing fireballs at them, because he pretty much looked capable of accomplishing that feat.

Zack knew that every word he said was useless against Genesis, because the senior had developed a deep hatred against him since the day Angeal introduced them to each other. Turning his attention to his older cousin, he was shocked to see Angeal looking embarrassed and whenever Angeal was embarrassed about something in a situation like this that would be a warning sign that pretty much screamed 'RUN'.

'Never mind, I don't care whatever reasons you two are here for, which I have one or two ideas of what it is about, but right now, I want you two to leave while I escort the lady back to her estate,' Genesis said coolly, though his eyes were throwing thousands and thousands of daggers at them.

'I doubt you need to escort her,' Zack mumbled silently when he glanced at the Strife brothers. Unless you want to lose that beloved head of yours Gen. Zack added in his mind.

Zack had already faced Sephiroth's wrath before and it was not a pleasant experience at all. He could still remember very clearly the moment when he entered the Strife house with Cloud in his Alice in Wonderland outfit during Halloween. The second he went through the front door, Sephiroth had started assaulting him with dozen questions and was readied to chop him into pieces if he answered untruthfully or gave the wrong answer, though the silver haired teen still wanted to have his hide even though he had answered everything correctly. It was thanked to Cloud that he was still in piece, if the blond didn't started to argue with his brother, which gave him the chance to slip out unnoticed, he still couldn't imagine what would happened to him.

Though he was surprised to see Sephiroth (oh, how should he put it?) being irritated so openly, because Sephiroth usually handled things coolly when he was in public. To see the man whose expression could be as stoic as a marble statue showing his anger instead of hiding it, that would get anyone who even had a pea-sized brain to run for it.

Is it just me or is Seph being more cattish? Zack mused as he watched the Strife brothers hissing words at each other, almost like how two cats are arguing over a fishbone, not that he really knew if that's how a cat would react, but he was pretty sure that if those two had cat ears, tail and fur, they certainly looked like angry cats with their fur fluffed up and would hiss at anyone who dared approached them before they finished up their conversation.

Between Genesis' Hell Fury and Sephiroth's Ice Blade, he wasn't sure which one he wanted to face if he had to pick. Though he might take Sephiroth, because Cloud was the best human shield against his brother's wrath and he could get away easier with him than with Angeal, who could always find some reason to lecture him after he got him out of trouble and his cousin had a higher level of resistance to his kicked-puppy gaze or should he said a powerful immunity to it.

Then again, Genesis seemed to be infatuated with Cloud's female side and was keeping his temper at bay so far, so if he took this into consideration, Cloud should be more effective when dealing with the fiery redhead. Also, he had two or three blackmail materials on Genesis in his sleeves, so it should be amusing to push the redhead's limit a little further, at least a toe over the line. After all, Genesis was a pain in the neck for him every time he came to visit Angeal, so it was definitely pay back time.

'Hey! C-' Before he could finish uttering the name of his friend, Sephiroth already had his hand over his mouth and he was looking at him murderously.

Ok, I'm dead! Zack thought in panic.

Genesis wasn't sure how to handle his current situation. As much as he wanted to throttle that godforsaken puppy for interrupting his date with Skye, that silver haired guy had beaten him to it. Who in Hell's name was he anyway? He would have to have a discussion with this man later with Angeal.

'Um Genesis?' a timid voice said. Genesis turned his attention away from the silver haired man and focused more on Skye who was looking at him sadly, almost afraid of something.

Genesis tried to smile reassuringly to the young girl beside him before he asked, 'What is it, Skye?'

'I am really, really sorry about my brother's interruption. He can be overprotective for me sometimes,' Skye said in one breath, looking ashamed.

'Your bro-brother?' Genesis stuttered, shocked. This man with long silver hair, green cat-like eyes and had a beautiful almost-feminine look was Skye's brother? And he was actually planning to beat Skye's brother verbally, and perhaps even physically, about seconds ago?

'Yeah, most people are often surprised whenever I told them that Seph is my brother,' Skye said a little sheepishly as she rubbed her cheek a bit with her finger. 'The thing is I inherited our father's looks, while Seph took our mother's. Weird huh?'

Though Genesis wanted to reply yes, it was most definitely weird, but seeing the sad and embarrassed look on Skye's face. He wondered briefly if Skye was always compared with his brother's beauty by others most of the time, which was what caused her to be more ashamed of herself. Then he decided to say she was prettier than his brother to give her a hint that she was the most beautiful one in his eyes.

Skye's cheeks coloured briefly before she smiled at him gratefully. It somehow warmed his heart to just see this shy girl smiling at him, only at him, just for a simple compliment. Then again, Skye had probably never received any compliment, with his brother's unnatural beauty beside her, his brother's look probably outshined hers whenever they went out with each other. This was a feeling he understood all too well. His family's fame and glory was the first thing people paid attention to instead of the person who he actually was.

Funny, how the two of them were so similar in many way and yet so different at the same time. Perhaps that's the reason why I am attracted to her, she understands me as much as I understand her. We are like two pieces of a same puzzle.

'I think it's better if I leave with my brother now, before he decides to murder Zack,' Skye said reluctantly as she glanced towards her older brother who was now arguing with Angeal (probably about manhandling the puppy).

'How about a drink next time, my treat,' Skye whispered to him softly.

Genesis smirked as he replied with a courtesy bow, 'I will be looking for to our next meeting.' He took Skye's hand and pressed a gentle kiss on her knuckles. 'My beloved lady.'

Skye blushed slightly before she bid him farewell and went to her brother's side. Genesis felt his anger and jealousy flared as he watched Skye's brother dragged her away from him. He turned his attention back to Angeal and his annoying cousin, they would be perfect victims for him to vent out some of frustrations.

Here's another chapter done I hope everyone love it. And Happy New Year everyone!