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Unstable	By : albedosreqium Category: Final Fantasy VII > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1047 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: Don't own anything in the FF7 universe, just using for my own amusement and hopefully yours as well. I do not make any profit from publishing this story... enjoy

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12- Unstable

Summary: Genesis gets congratulated by Sephiroth in the most unexpected way. Genesis and Sephiroth start their turbulent relationship and you should all pity poor Angeal! A Collab between Soyna and BMIK
Rating: If you have read any of BMIK's or my stuff, you know this is rated Mature in nature. That means that there will be men love (yaoi), bad language and a lot of bad attitude as well.
Cloud: Soyna
Zack: BMIK

Zack walked down the corridor to the training halls, humming a happy little tune. He would be training today, all by himself because Angeal was busy, but this way it was even better because then he could surprise and impress his mentor with his new skills!
He grabbed a pair of simulation glasses and a training sword, ready to deal with anything, but he didn't even get so far as downloading a simulation because he was greeted with the miserable sight of a hunched figure sitting in one corner, legs drawn to his chin.
"...Cloud?"
Cloud blinked and looked up to see Zack. He didn't even hear him approach and he really didn't want to see anyone right now ... not after everything that had happened. He pressed his face into his knees and tried to make the whole world disappear.
"I don't want to talk to anyone right now," Cloud mumbled.
"Okay," Zack said, standing there for a moment longer, glasses dangling from his hand. Then he slid down the wall as he crouched, sitting right next to Cloud in pretty much the same manner. Though he managed to keep quiet his curious, inquiring gaze bore into Cloud's face. Zack stared and stared and shifted and stared and scratched his elbow and stared and cleared his throat.
And stared.
Insistently.
Finally he cleared his throat again, unable to not ask. "Soooo... What's up?"
"Nothin'," Cloud muttered into his knees but knew Zack wouldn't let it go at that. He had come here so that he could be away from everyone else. At first he had been determined to come and train but as soon as he entered the room... all desire to do so left him.
After all, he had been forgotten. A little training wasn't going to make any more difference in how others looked at him.
"Okay." Apparently Cloud wasn't in a good mood, and Zack who was naturally a happy go lucky kind of guy thought that he would distract his friend from his moping by making him think of happy stuff. Thus he beamed enthusiastically, "So, how did the training with Genesis and General Sephiroth go?"
Zack obviously had not heard.
He was the only one that hadn't heard. Cloud was torn between yelling and crying anew. Zack was smiling so brightly, always expecting to hear the best and brightest of news. He shouldn't have let Zack infect him with that type of hope. It always left him with a huge hole of disappointment in his chest.
"What training?" he snorted and held his legs tighter and looked away from the smiling face. He thought he had a chance to get ahead and be able to be as strong as everyone else. He had hardly slept the night when he got to the barracks and had made the mistake of telling everyone that he was going to get a chance to train with the great General Sephiroth and Genesis at the same time.
When neither of them showed ... it was devastating and it made him look like a fool.
Zack was a bit startled by the grumpy reply and flinched at the morose, depressed look Cloud shot him. "The... training...?" he repeated a bit dumbfounded, but then it dawned on him and he looked a bit crestfallen. "You mean there was no training?"
Cloud nodded. "Neither of them showed up." Cloud couldn't look at Zack as he spoke. "I waited for three hours and nothing."
He waited for three hours until some jerks from the barracks had arrived and asked how his training went and had accused him of lying. He had defended himself but it came down to everyone calling him a pompous liar.
"Did I mishear them, Zack?"
"No, of course not, I heard it too!" Zack shook his head vehemently. No wonder Cloud was so down, he had been so elated yesterday and now his dreams had been crushed. "But I am sure there is an explanation for it," he added, trying to be cheerful and supportive. "Maybe they got an emergency or so, I am sure they haven't forgotten about you. I could ask Angeal if you like? Maybe he knows something."
"It doesn't matter. They didn't show up," Cloud said and rubbed his eyes. He wasn't going to cry in front of Zack like some sort of baby. He was tougher than that. "I should have kept it to myself, but I had to open my big mouth."
He should have known from past experiences that bragging about something that had not happened yet was not a good thing. He had done it at home and was picked on because of it. He had done it here and now he was a laughing stock.
A bit helplessly, Zack let his callused hand fall onto Cloud's hunched back, rubbing it lightly. "Ah, come on, don't be like that! You can just make a new appointment! Or we can train together if you like? I learned a lot from 'Geal, he is awesome and I could ask him to train you too!"
Cloud sighed. "You are so lucky, Zack." Cloud looked over to the happy man. "Angeal is such a great guy. How did you even land him as your mentor?" He didn't want to admit it, but he was a little jealous of the fact, because secretly he wanted a similar situation and he thought he had one.
Maybe he just had to do more to get the attention of Genesis or Sephiroth so that they would show up to train him.
"Haha, ah well, that's kind of an embarrassing story," Zack laughed, sheepishly scratching his head. His cheeks were glowing; he loved people saying nice stuff about Angeal because, well, Angeal was really, really nice!
"On my first day here I kinda got lost and Angeal found me in the closet..." He rather not say that he had been crying and desperate, doubting that he could ever make it in SOLDIER after that experience. But Angeal had been like a gift sent from the Goddess as he opened the door and found Zack hunched between brooms and suds...
"And after that he became my mentor," the young man grinned, proud and happy.
Cloud couldn't help but giggle at that. "A closet?" Cloud looked at Zack's flushed cheeks. He was glad that he wasn't the only one that did embarrassing things. "You got lost and went to hide in a closet? That's pretty funny. You were so lucky to be found by him."
"Yes, I was super lucky," Zack enthusiastically nodded. "He's the best and most awesome and he is so honorable. He will be a hero, the greatest of all, and I want to become like him. Not sure if I will ever be able to." Again he laughed, scratching his head because Zack knew that he was a bit hyperactive, and heroes usually weren't hyperactive.
"When we are training he is so cool, and he shows me all kinds of awesome stuff and secret moves and all." Zack babbled on, but somehow his speech slowed from excited to thoughtful and then to somewhat hesitant, until eventually he grew quiet all together. He slouched down next to Cloud, resting his chin on his knees and pensively stared at the wall with a slightly melancholic touch.
Cloud frowned as he looked at the morose look on his face. He didn't think his gloomy attitude was contagious. Seeing Zack, the normally hyper and happy man with a frown was something that he had not expected from him.
Especially when he was talking about Angeal. Cloud thought it must be something to do with the fact that he wasn't here training with him or something that Angeal was not doing in training.
"Is there something that Angeal is not showing you?"
Zack turned beet-red, as he got a very vivid image of what he wanted Angeal to show him, but just gave a restrained cough to get it out of his mind. Count on Cloud to ask such questions!
"Nah, it's okay, I'm glad he's teaching me and all, it's just..." he paused, thinking, slowly scratching his elbow, until he finally sighed, defeated. "I really like him, but I'm not sure he likes me... like that, you know?"
Cloud's eyebrows shot up. Zack suddenly looking all shy at the admission that he liked liked his Mentor that way? Cloud had to admit that the man was quite handsome in a rugged sort of way but he also didn't think Zack was gay as he was always flirting with girls... and now that he thought about it, Zack flirted with everyone.
He also knew that Zack may be a flirt but he wasn't seeing anyone.
"Have you told him?" Cloud asked. Angeal always seemed like an upfront type of guy.
"Are you crazy? Of course not!" Zack looked positively scandalized and shocked at the suggestion, then ducked as if he was afraid that someone could have heard him. Actually he hadn't talked about his crush on his mentor to anyone and he had no idea how they had gotten to that topic, but at least Cloud was less depressed. Zack was happy about that and added in a whisper "I can't justtellhim."
Cloud sighed. "Then how is he going to know? Is he even gay? I have never even heard about him in being in any sort of relationship." He didn't know too much about the SOLDIERs but what he heard from the fanclubs that he was members of. Angeal was righteous and honorable, Genesis was artsy and Sephiroth... Sephiroth was nearly a god. "Have you tried any moves?"
Zack shifted, uncomfortably. "See, that's the thing. I don't know if he's straight or... And I don't wanna destroy our friendship, you know? If I come out to him and he's not into that stuff then it will be awkward and maybe he will stop being my mentor..." He sighed again in frustration this time, starting half hearted squats. That helped him a bit in dealing with his nervousness. "I don't know what to do, man... You ever been in that kind of situation?" He sounded hopeful, as if he expected for Cloud to have some advice.
Cloud shook his head. "I am not good with relationship stuff. I always screw things up and say the wrong thing," Cloud sighed heavily remembering how disastrous things were back home. "Does he pull away when you touch him?"
"Ja, uhm..." Zack frowned, thinking hard on it. "We usually only touch during training, and I didn't really notice anything out of the ordinary... Sometimes he does touch me, like when I did good, he will pad my back or shoulder or so, or ruffle my hair a bit." A light blush had crept onto Zack's features again, but he didn't want to let Cloud off the hook yet. "So, you like somebody?"
Cloud shook his head violently. He couldn't tell Zack that. Plus, he had been just rejected by the man that he desired. Sephiroth didn't show up for training so that must have meant that he was easily forgotten.
He groaned and buried his face in his knees again. "It doesn't matter."
Stopping in his ministrations, Zack elbowed the blond. "Of course it does! Come on, I told you too! I won't tell anyone if you don't tell anyone, okay?" He had a suspicion, and a slow grin spread on his face, his features turning mischievous. His voice lowered as he asked, "It's the General, right?"
Cloud shook his head but he could feel his face burning as Zack guessed. He didn't think he was that obvious about how much he was attracted to Sephiroth.
The thought of training with him raised his spirits and hope that the man would notice him for more than just a lowly cadet and the turn down... hurt. "It's a silly childhood fantasy, is all."
"Yeah, who didn't dream of that..." Zack's body sagged in a longing exhale of his breath, but then it tensed again, brimming with barely repressed enthusiasm. "But you're special, I can feel it! I mean, Sephiroth doesn't just want to supervise anyone's training, he liked you, I can tell! You should totally go and see him again! I will go with you and ask a few subtle questions about Angeal. He should know, they are kinda tight..."
Even though Angeal had emphasized that he did not appreciate Zack bothering General Sephiroth, Zack was convinced that this was an emergency. This was about their happiness and love, and nothing could ever stand in the way of love! So excited he was that he thrust his fist into the air, expression determined and almost grim.
"If I was so special, he would have showed up to the training," Cloud frowned but looked at Zack who looked like he was going to pout. Cloud hated that he was always the downer on things but he had to be a realist about the situation and he doubted that Sephiroth even looked at him that way.
But he had a little bit of hope... a tiny little bit of hope. "Do... do you think that you could talk to Sephiroth?"
"Sure!" Zack grinned from ear to ear, heartily padding his friend on the back, just the way Angeal did with him. Clearly Cloud was of the shy sort, and if he was to talk to Sephiroth now he would be stammering and sweating and Zack would die from pity.
"No worries, there's an explanation for that, I bet. But first, let's work out some of that tension and train, Cloud!" Zack pronounced. "It will make you feel better and we can plan our actions as we cross swords"
Cloud shook his head in defiance but soon found himself with a sword in his hand and sparring with Zack. And Zack was right. He did feel a little better and that spark of hope grew a little bigger.

Shorter chapter... a little transition here. Oh, what are these authors planning. *insert evil laugh and smirk here*
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