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Snow Day	By : Zerachiel Category: Final Fantasy VII > Yaoi - Male/Male > Cloud/Sephiroth Views: 7487 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 3
Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy 7 in any way shape or form and there is no way in hell i am making any money off this it's purely for fun and my own enjoyment

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Snow day: 11

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"What do you mean he was sent out on a mission?"

It was currently 0800 and a certain black haired, black eyed Wutai man was absent. Still half asleep and only in a pair of boxers Sephiroth was pacing back and forth across their joint living room. His PHS held up to his ear the knuckles white around the plastic causing it to crack under the strain.

"Since when do you send him out on missions? He's the bloody director now.. yes I understand."

Clicking the PHS shut Sephiroth resisted the urge to huck the damn thing across the room. Their one saving grace against this damn plan the vice president had in his head had been sent out on an emergency mission to god only knows where.

Pinching the bridge of his nose in a very Tseng type gesture Sephiroth went back to pacing across the living room completely ignoring the others.

"What are we going to do?"

"Hide in our rooms and pretend we're not home?" Zack was leaning over the back to the couch, mako blue eyes watching Sephiroth pacing back and forth. Honestly watching the man pacing was starting to make even his hyper active self a little dizzy.. and he was the king of bouncing across the room.

Hearing a snort next to him Zack turned to where Genesis was sitting in his normal red flannel pants and white T-shirt. Hiding a yawn behind his hand he reached back and flipped a section of hair back behind his ear.

"You know damn well that without Tseng here, that little fan girl is going to have free run of our apartment."

"Was it just Tseng that was sent out Seph?" Angeal asked from his spot in his overstuffed recliner, he was naturally an early bird so was the only one of the group that happened to be half way awake at the moment.

"No, Reno and Rude and Cissnei all went. From what the Turk on duty told me it was a pretty big mission and a good portion of them are gone. There is just enough of them left here to do the normal guarding of the president and vice president."

Sighing Sephiroth moved over to his chair and allowed himself to fall into it, not caring that he was slouching. He had a headache starting and this was going to be one that wasn't going to go away very easily. Laying his head back slightly he chuckled darkly, "Is it sad that I'm now wanting to go down and work on those reports?"

"yes!" he chuckled even more hearing all four of the other firsts yelling that at the same time. Yes this whole ordeal with the damn camera crew was so bad he was willing to go down to his office and start working on the mountains of paper work he knew for a fact would be waiting for him.

Why didn't anyone tell him that becoming the general of the whole damn Shinra army meant that he stopped going out and killing shit and became a desk jockey? If they had told him that he would have turned the position down in a heartbeat. Call it sever ADD but he could not concentrate on that shit for the life of him and would find something to distract him and put it off till the very last minute.

Yeah that little bit had gotten him in trouble on more than a few occasions.

"Screw it I'm going down to the gym." Pushing himself up Sephiroth headed for his room to get his workout clothes.

"Sephiroth, you do realize that the cadets are going to be down there today." Freezing mid step he resisted the great urge to stomp his foot angrily. That's right, they had gotten a mail last night saying that something had happened to the Cadet's gym over the weekend and they were going to be using the SOLDIER gym until it could be repaired.

A bunch of hero worshiping smelly cadets with loud mouthed 3rd class drill instructors.. or a TV crew with a girl that was obviously in their fan clubs.

Picking the less of the two evils he shrugged. "I'll deal with the cadets.."

Snickering Zack pushed himself up off the couch, "I'll join ya Seph, let me grab my Frisbee and we can go tear up the gym."

"For once Fair has a good idea." Genesis pushed himself off the couch ignoring the tongue being stuck out in his direction.

"You mean his free weight Frisbee wasn't a good idea?" Cloud snickered watching the shiver run down Genesis body. That had been a hell of a day; it was a Frisbee that you did not want to miss.

They had ended up destroying Zack's current Frisbee, but being who they were didn't want to stop since they were having fun so had improvised. A seventy five pound free weight made for a pretty damn deadly Frisbee. You want to talk about adding a whole new level to ultimate Frisbee, start hucking that around.

Oh they got into massive trouble for that one.

*flashback*

"Zack go long!"

Turning Zack raced down the open expanse in front of the Shinra building they were currently using as their playground since the gyms were all filled. Thankfully it was a weekend and so most the normal executives were gone, giving them free run of the front of the building without worrying about nailing anyone.

Pulling his arm around his body Sephiroth launched the 75lbs free weight towards the running 1st.

Turning as he heard the heavy metal whizzing towards his head Zack leapt up into the air ready to catch the flying metal disc of death.

"Fuck!" his fingers just scrapped the bottom of the disc. He had misjudged his jump and missed the weight.

Landing on the ground he flinched as he heard the sickening crunch of the free weight against metal and glass. Looking over he saw the horrified looks on the other SOLDIERs faces and slowly turned around.

"Oh fuck me…"

The free weight was currently deeply embedded into the back wall of the driver's seat of the presidents' limo. It had smashed through the windshield and embedded it's self in the bullet proof dividing wall behind the driver's seat.

The president stood on the steps of Shinra with a dumbfounded look on his large face as he saw exactly where the weight had come from. His look wasn't what had the five 1st classes currently backing away towards the side entrance to the Shinra building. No the presidents look was too damn funny to cause that kind of reaction.

It was the dark brown nearly black eyes that were looking up at them from the ground. If looks could kill all five of them would have been incinerated instantly.

Pushing himself up from where he had flung himself out of the driver's seat and onto the pavement, Tseng brushed off the dirt that now coated one whole side of his high end tailored suit. His black eyes never once leaving the five in front of him.

*end*

Oh Tseng had rung them out to dry that day after he got back from taking the president back to his mansion. He couldn't blame the man though, if it wasn't for his ninja like reflexes he wouldn't have had a head left.

Oh well, thankfully Shinra had allowed Tseng to handle them and the worst they got other than a massive tongue lashing was docked pay to pay for a new Limo.

Moving into this room Cloud went about collecting his clothes. If he knew Sephiroth and he did.. they were in for a hell of a workout today.

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There wasn't a bunch of perks to being lowly Cadets for the SOLDIER program; meals were barely considered food, days were long and drawn out between exhaustion and boredom, crowded rooms full of smelly men, and enough fights to fill a UFC stadium for a year.

The only upside was just like today, a rouge materia class had blown out a good portion of the cadet gym and they were allowed to use the SOLDIER gym for their training for the week, or however long Shinra decided to take to repair their gym.

"Alright places your bags down on the benches and remember where you put them. Do NOT touch anything in this locker room do you understand." The 3rd class instructor said as he held open the door to the only locker room in the SOLDIER gym.

A series of "yes sir!" reached his ears; he truly hoped this kids were smart enough not to fuck around in the locker room. Last thing he needed was to hear from one of the higher ups that something was stolen since many of the lockers were never locked.

There was an unspoken rule among SOLDIER, you stole something you got your ass beat.

Moving into the locker room the group of 50 cadets stared with wide eyes as they got to see the perks of being SOLDIER. The locker room was massive, tall full sized lockers made of a light wood lined the walls and a small center section of the room. Low wooden benches sat bolted to the ground a short distance away from the lockers allowing places to sit while getting dressed.

Along the far wall a low wall separated the showers from the rest of the locker room. It would seem SOLDIER wasn't exactly worried about privacy when it came to showers. Sinks and a massive mirror stood against one of the walls and they could see bathroom stalls around a corner.

"Alright enough gawking hurry up!" bolting into action the cadets raced over to the benches to deposit their bags. A few towards the end of the room looked up and stared with wide eyes at the group of lockers they were in front of.

"Sephiroth"

"Genesis R."

"Angeal H."

"Zackary F."

"Cloud S."

The group of recruits all stared as they spied what was on the lockers. Attached to the front of each other there was a small white board with pens clipped to the top of them. On Sephiroth's there were doodles, very well done doodles but doodles none the less.

Around the doodles which included a decapitated Hojo were different handwritten messages, almost as if people were talking to each other over them.

"You're bored aren't you Seph…"

"What was your first fucking clue?"

"*snicker* you guys are writing this out when you're 5 inches from each other…"

"Shut up Zack…."

Over on Angeal's board they saw what had to be Sephiroth's neat scrawl under a list of 'Things to pick up"

"Monster (red / Blue), Candy bars.."

"Sephiroth.. you don't need to write that down.. after 3 years it's a give in."

There was a chibi Sephiroth drawn under that with his tongue sticking out and one eye lid pulled down flipping them off.

The Cadets all looked at each other. Were they seriously reading this on the 1st class wall lockers? Turning away from the strange sight the group of boys quickly got dressed in their gym clothes not needing to get yelled at by the 3rd class.

"Alright when we get to the gym head to the second floor and stay along the wall." The 3rd class was already changed into his PT uniform. The gym should be clear for them, but he knew there was a chance that SOLDIERs would be up there getting in some work out before it was over run.

Having finished getting dressed several Cadets raced up the flight of stairs to what could only be the second floor of the Gym. The first thing they were hit with was pounding dance music blasting from speakers high up in the rafters of the gym.

Pushing the door open the group of Cadets all stared as they entered a heavily padded gym. Mats of dark blue lined the floor and walls, mats of the same color and thicker red mats were placed around the room alongside balance beams and trampolines.

"SEPH! GO LONG!"

Stopping dead the group of cadets all looked over with wide eyes to a giant clear area against the far side of the gym. They hadn't noticed anyone else was in the gym with them.

Their eyes widened even more as they caught sight of a figure rushing towards them. Silver hair pulled back into a mid height pony tail and bangs clipped to the side of their head was none other than the silver General.

He was currently only in a pair of black and purple basket ball shorts, his chest and feet bare as he raced across the mat. A bright red Frisbee was flying towards him, bending his knees Sephiroth leapt into the air his hand out stretched for the flying disc.

"Don't think so!"

Decked out in nothing but a pair of light blue and white basketball shorts Zack leapt up throwing himself in the line of fire and grabbed the Frisbee before Sephiroth could. Slamming into the man they both fell to the ground in a graceless heap.

"WHOO!" leaping up to his feet Zack danced around holding the Frisbee up. "Intercepted oh yeah!"

Panting hard Sephiroth groaned and continued to lie down on the mat trying to catch his breath. Zack's elbow had nailed him right in the gut knocking the wind out of him for a second.

"You okay Seph?" Zack moved over and held a hand out for him. Seeing the hand he grabbed hold allowing the younger man to pull him up. "Yeah, you just landed the right way on me."

Feeling eyes on him Sephiroth turned seeing that the Cadet class was here.

"Hey what are you all doing standing around I said along the.. General!" the 3rd class instructor instantly snapped to attention and saluted.

Sephiroth waved him off still trying to catch his breath. "Fair.. your elbows are fucking hard!" pushing himself upright once more Sephiroth wiped the sweat from his face, they had been down there about a half hour but they were pushing themselves pretty hard.

"I'm guessing this is our cue we have to leave." Genesis said wandering over, just like the rest he had abandoned his shirt and stood in nothing but crimson and white basketball shorts, he had a black bandana on pulling his hair away from his face.

"I'm sorry sir but we require the Gym for training."

"Hey no sweat, let's go hit the field for a bit, been a while you know. Hey Kunsel grab a football from the locker will ya!" Zack turned back and headed to where Angeal, Cloud and Kunsel were still standing on the mats.

They had caught the young 2nd as he was leaving the gym and convinced him to join in their game since they needed one more man.

Kunsel pushed sweat drenched dark brown hair from his face and nodded. "Should I grab a couple incase Genesis or Sephiroth throws one over the wall again?"

Sephiroth huffed crossing his arms over his chest turning his nose into the air. "I said go long.." Zack laughed and moved up setting a hand on his shoulder. "Seph, there is a difference between going long and jumping over a 15 foot wall."

"Technicalities." He waved Zack off and grabbed hold of the Frisbee and hucked it at Genesis back. Without even turning around Genesis grabbed the Frisbee before it collided with his back.

"Will be a cold day in hell you attack me from the rear…shut….up." Genesis growled the last part as Cloud and Zack started to laugh.

"Genesis, you need to start thinking about what you're going to say before you do so…" Sephiroth smirked to his lover watching that pretty pale flush crossing his face. Huffing Genesis stuck his nose in the air as he pulled his last shoe on and sauntered out of the gym.

Laughing Zack stuck his nose in the air and copied Genesis only a few steps behind him.

"Zack is going to get his ass kicked in a minute." Cloud shook his head knowing Genesis would see Zack making fun of him and kick his ass from here to the Northern Crater.

"Good, someone needs to kick that puppy's ass." Setting himself down he ignored the shouts of the instructors as the Cadets were sent scrambling across their gym.

"Speaking of Cadets, when do we have to make an appearance to scout for possible SOLDIER?"

"Next month." Angeal supplied, he had just finished with his shoes and was waiting for the rest of them to hurry up. Sighing Sephiroth pulled his last shoe on and pulled himself to his feet, "Great.. remind me to bring a book." Those things were always boring as hell, and frankly he didn't know why they were required to go. A person could be the best damn sword fighter in the world and a master materia user, but that would mean shit if they couldn't pass the mako test.

Hearing noise behind him Sephiroth turned slightly, the Cadets were all lined up for some hand to hand. Seeing Cloud was staring intently in one direction with a dark look in his eyes he followed his line of sight.

A young boy with mousy brown hair was currently cowered down away from three bigger boys; he was sporting a very nasty black eye that looked to be a day or so old with some still healing cuts.

Sephiroth frowned darkly, instantly knowing what was going on; it was the same thing he had witnessed for years since he became SOLDIER. The bigger always picked on the weak, and it was disgusting.

They always kept track of those that tended to have the tendency for bulling; those were never admitted to the SOLDIER program. SOLDIER needed to work together and those with the tendency for bulling would continue that into the program.

One of the larger boys, most likely the leader reached out and grabbed the little boy by his hair and pulled on it hard. Growling Sephiroth took a step forward to stop this bull shit, only to be beaten to the punch.. Quiet literally by Cloud.

Smiling the leader drew his fist back ready to clobber the little brat for getting blood on his uniform. "This will teach you to come anywhere near us.."

He was just about the let loose on this little brat when he felt an almost crushing grip wrap around his wrist.

"You have three seconds to release him before I put you through that nearest window." The voice was low and dark, the grip on his wrist squeezed painfully to accentuate the point. Releasing the kids' hair the boy turned and was met with dark anger filled mako blue/green eyes.

He swallowed loudly seeing the blond spiked hair that framed the face, knowing instantly he had just been caught by one of the 1st class SOLDIER.

"Cloud.. Loosen your grip; you're going to break his wrist." Angeal moved up and set a hand gently on the hand that was so tight it was cutting off circulation. Reluctantly Cloud released the wrist; he honestly wanted to snap the wrist of the bully. He reminded him so much of his days as a cadet and all the torture and torment he went through until Genesis took him under his wing.

Moving over Sephiroth looked down darkly at the bullies before moving over to the quivering cadet. Without saying a word he moved to stand next to the cadet and placed a hand gently between his shoulder blades and put enough pressure on his back for him to move.

"Angeal, inform the instructor we're taking the four, Kunsel retrieve Genesis.. We will need his expertise." Nodding at the order Angeal headed off to where the instructor was standing, Kunsel saluted before disappearing out the door where Genesis and Zack had taken off.

"You three.. go to the locker room." Sephiroth's voice was dark as he regarded the three boys. Feeling the shaking through his hand he regarded the small boy. The boy was absolutely trembling where he stood, large hazel eyes were looking up at him in fright.

"Sephiroth, I'll take him and get him cleaned up if you want to deal with the three." Seeing Cloud had calmed down he nodded. Cloud always did better when it came to people, that whole stigma that he was the General tended to affect how people acted around him.

Moving up to stand beside the boy Cloud smiled gently his hand coming to rest lightly on his shoulder. "Come on, let's get you cleaned up. Don't worry about the general, he won't bite." The little cadet nodded slightly and started to walk with Cloud.

"What's your name?"

The Cadet looked up at Cloud slightly, "Tristan sir.. Tristan Jacobson"

Nodding slightly Cloud led him into the locker room and over to where their lockers were. He sighed softly seeing a bunch of recruits bags were in the way and pushed them to the side. "Have a seat."

Tristan instantly sat down, his head lowered and still shaking. "Hey you're not in trouble unless you started all this." pulling one of his towels out he moved over to the sink and got a part of it wet. Moving back to the young Cadet Cloud sat down across from him and gently set a hand under his chin.

"How long has this been going on?" Tristan lowered his eyes but remained tight lipped.

Sighing softly Cloud went about cleaning up the dried blood as gently as he could, they might have been 1st but they weren't heartless.

"I was bullied when I was a Cadet."

Tristan lifted his eyes some and looked at the 1st in front of him. "You were sir?" nodding Cloud started to dry the cleaned spots off. "Every day from the minute I got to Shinra, I was the smallest of the class.. horrible with a sword and I couldn't run to save my life." Setting the towel aside he assessed the damage to the young cadet. Most of it was superficial wounds and would heal with time, the worst he had was a black eye, would seem their zero tolerance for bully rule kept him from getting really beat.

"What stopped it?" he could hear the hope in the young cadets' voice. "Commander Rhapsodos, he took an interest me and became my mentor. He is the only reason I managed to pass the SOLDIER exam."

"Oh…" the young boy seemed to deflate at this; he knew it was rare for anyone to take interest in a cadet.

"But, after that General Sephiroth put in the zero tolerance rule for bulling." He gave the cadet a look, at orientation they were all told about the new rule and that if anything happened to let their DI know. After Cloud Sephiroth had sat down and really assessed the Cadet program and how it was run. Both Kunsel and Cloud had been low men on the totem pole in cadet school, ones that without a little one on one would have never made it into SOLDIER and were beaten down by their fellow Cadets. How many Cloud's and Kunsel's had they lost before? How many good SOLDIER were lost due to being shoved aside because they were weak before the mako injections?

The whole program had changed after that, but it was obvious not much had changed if the threat of being kicked from Shinra wasn't keeping idiots at bay. And it wasn't just oh you're out of the program till next cycle.. if you were found to be a bully that would physically hurt someone you were done with Shinra completely.

Tseng had your name and if you ever tried to get a job at Shinra you would be found out instantly.

Hearing running footsteps Cloud looked up just in time to see a light blue and black blur fly past him and into his open locker. The door to the locker shut just as fast as if nothing had happened.

Blinking Cloud looked down at the Cadet seeing he looked just as confused as he did. "Sir?" shifting slightly Cloud pulled his locker open only to have it slam back shut.

"What the.."

"ZACKARY FAIR!"

"oh Gaia…" Cloud stood up and quickly grabbed the cadet before hurricane Genesis blew them off the bench. Whatever Zack had done Genesis was on the war path.

Genesis came stomping into the locker room covered head to toe in mud. Clamping a hand over his mouth Cloud turned around trying desperately not to burst out laughing.

"I know you're in here Fair!" turning Genesis moved towards the bathroom thinking Zack had run in there. Laughing silently Cloud rushed back over to his locker and knocked on the door. "PHS now!" he whispered knowing exactly why Zack was hiding in his locker.

The locker opened and a PHS was stuck out before quickly shutting again. Moving over to the shocked Cadet he sat down on the bench and flipped open his PHS and started recording. "Sit and watch cadet.. this is a once in a life time opportunity. You'll be able to tell your grand kids this."

Sitting down next to Cloud the young cadet watched as Genesis came stomping back out, his blue eyes scanning the locker room. They instantly landed on Cloud and the PHS.

"Are you recording this?"

Snickering Cloud nodded not the least big afraid of Genesis. "He's in my locker."

Instantly blue eyes flicked over to the wall lockers hearing a "Cloud you traitor!" from inside. "Oh sneaky Fair.." There was an eep and the locker flew open and Zack was out like a shot leaping up on top of the lockers in the center.

"You really think that is going to save you?" Genesis was grinning evilly as he moved up to the lockers. His eyes shining with murder in them, one thing about the vain man.. You did NOT get him dirty.

Hearing the door open once more Zack leapt off the lockers and dove behind Angeal. "Save me!"

Sighing Angeal glared at his puppy before looking to his childhood friend. "Genesis.. go take a shower, Sephiroth called you in here for a reason."

Growling at Zack Genesis turned and stalked off towards the showers. They had been out tossing the foot ball around when it has started to just pour like it did last night and Zack had decided it would be fun to tackle Genesis into the only puddle on the damn field.

"Are they always like this sir?" clicking his PHS off Cloud looked down and nodded. "Normally they pull the General in with it."

Moving out from behind Angeal Zack nodded, mud covered hair sticking to his face. "It's fun to pull Seph in.. he actually plays along unlike SOMEONE!"

"Fuck you Fair!"

"Zack.. did you jump into my locker covered in mud?"

Zack froze and looked down at himself, a 'oh shit I'm dead' grin crossing his face.

"HA HA!" Cloud rolled his eyes hearing Genesis over the shower. "You've been watching Simpsons way to much Genesis."

"I put a call into the Turks; we need to bring the four of them up to the main building." Angeal moved over and opened his locker pulling and grabbing one of his towels to at least dry off so he wouldn't be completely sweaty when they met up with whoever was going to take the boys.

When it came to these problems anyone involved was handed over to the Turks who were masters at weeding the truth out of people. Normally it would have been SOLDIER that would handle it but they had a case go very bad one year. The bullies had threatened the cadet so bad the cadet lied to the SOLDIER questioning them ended up beaten to within an inch of his life afterwards.

Hearing the shower shut off they looked over and saw Genesis walking over towel wrapped around his waist, once more auburn hair plastered to his head.

"So what did Sephiroth need me for and what's with the Cadet…" he stopped spying the black eye on the cadet. Sighing softly he moved over to his locker and pulled out the small bag of materia he kept in there. Pulling out the slightly glowing green orb that was his low level cure spell, he only kept low level ones here in case some new SOLDIER decided to get bold and steal from him.

"Come here cadet." Shifting nervously the cadet moved over to sit in front of the very naked commander. Granted he had a towel around his waist but still it could barely be considered a cover.

Reaching out he laid gentle fingers along the boys' black eye, the materia flaring to life in his hand. He watched as the angry bruises flesh started to go down and soft peach color came back.

"There." Standing up Genesis moved back to his locker to put the materia away. "It wasn't very bad, looks like they just caught you at the right angle"

Hearing the locker room door open the group couldn't help but smile seeing the spiky red hair that flounced into the room.

"Reno, what in the great goddess name happened to you?" the Turk looked no better than Genesis had when he came in from the field. The normally unkempt black suit was almost brown it was caked so heavy in dirt.

Slinging his EMS over his shoulder Reno smiled, but it looked forced. "Got to go play out in the slums for a bit, then the wastelands where it was raining and muddy. You don't look much better Zack."

Chuckling Zack looked down at the drying mud that covered his body. "Should have seen Genesis a few minutes ago he was worse."

"oh?" Laughing Cloud held out his PHS for the Turk. Leaning down slightly Reno burst out laughing, his blue eyes dancing as he watched a mud covered Genesis looking for Zack.

"Brown's a good color for you yo."

Growling Genesis grabbed his clothes and stalked off to get dressed away from the cadet. "I know where you live Reno!"

Laughing Reno contracted his EMS and shoved it into his belt. "Yeah, one floor up and 4 doors down from Tseng.." Turning back to the group he looked at the confused cadet. "This one of the four I was told to pick up?"

"Yes, we witnessed three boy who are currently with Sephiroth trying to attack this cadet here." Angeal had started to get dressed; he had a very strange feeling something was going to happen today.

"Got it yo, speaking of all silent and brooding.. where is the big guy?"

"He's over on the other side of the locker room with the three cadets."

Reno nodded and a solemn look passed over his face, he looked around the room before motioning them over. What felt like a ball of led dropped down into all of their stomachs as they moved over to the dirty Turk, when Reno lost his smile it was never for a good reason.

"I know you lot have the day off yo, but.. if you can go up into Shinra and cause some sort of chaos. I can't tell you what because it's a classified mission, but something went wrong yo..and Tseng's hitting himself hard for it..locked himself in his office."

"shit…" Genesis had finished dressing and caught the last half of the conversation.

"Ohh I got it!" Zack grinned widely already starting to bounce on the spot. "Tell Tseng in about forty five minutes to come up to the SOLDIER floor for an 'unauthorized entrance onto the floor.'"

Zack grinned evilly a plan already forming in that brain of his. Cloud swallowed nervously looking over Zack to Angeal; it would seem he was the only one that had a bad feeling about this.

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"Zack we're gonna get shot doing this!"

Pulling the black neck warmer down from around his mouth Cloud glared at the figure beside him. Zack and himself were currently laying flat on their stomachs up in the one of the larger ventilations shafts above the SOLDIER floor. Both dressed in black military style cargo pants and black shirts, black bandana's covered up their hair and they had black neck warmers on to cover the lower half of their faces.

"Shut up Seph was all for this." scooting forward slightly Zack pulled the ceiling tile back just enough that he could look out into the room. it was a slow period and a bunch of 3rd and 2nd class SOLDIER were milling about the recreation part of the SOLDIER floor. Many were sitting on one of the many couches watching something or another.

"Oh.. look who it is." He whispered and shifted over so Cloud could see. Crawling forward as quietly as he could so as not to alert the bunch of super enhanced SOLDIER bellow he looked through the crack in the tile and smiled.

The annoying Vanessa and her camera man were down there trying to get the men to do something other than sit around and bulls shit.

"Should we?" Zack grinned broadly and nodded pulling the new paintball gun forward. They had bought them just for this, though it was more an excuse for them to finally break down and buy them.

Reaching up Zack clicked on the ear pieces they had kept after the snow trip. "Koneko you see what I see?"

"Of course Koinu."

Smirking Zack watched as the girl seemed to be getting increasingly frustrated with the lack of activity among the SOLDIER. What did she honestly expect? They weren't exactly the most exciting bunch of people on the planet when they were just sitting around waiting for a mission. Their training was classified so she couldn't go spy on those in the VR room, though he was sure she had tried.

"we making her target number 1?" Genesis whispered. He and Sephiroth were up in another ventilation shaft on the other side of the room. Both Kunsel and Angeal were going to be the first to arrive, knowing that once the four of them started the attack the lower SOLDIER were going to be calling out for the higher ranks.

"ready guys? On my count.. 1…2…3"

Instantly a volley of different colored paintballs rained down across the room all nailing random SOLDIER and the woman with her camera man.

SOLDIERs yelped and cried out as they were nailed with different colored paintballs. Many leapt up and drew their swords looking around wildly for their attackers.

Snickering hard Zack had pulled the ceiling tile back over just after the first barrage. They couldn't afford to be seen until Tseng got up here.

"Kasai, go down the next shaft.. draw their attention away." They heard Sephiroth whisper over the radio. Nodding Genesis slowly shifted away and started to crawl down to the 3rd ventilation shaft.

The Shinra building's ventilation shaft system was a thief's wet dream. Because of the extensively polluted air thanks to the massive reactors to keep the air inside the building clear for its employee's , the ventilation systems were massive and numerous. They were large enough that Cloud and Zack were laying down side by side in them with enough room for Angeal.

Laying himself flat Genesis slowly peeled one of the one of the ceiling tiles back just enough that he could see out and aim out of.

They really had to train their men better. He watched silently as the SOLDIER bellow were all staring around in confusion, so far it looked like none of them had made a move to contact one of the higher 1st.

Those that had been hit were looking at their uniforms seeing the different red, blue, green and yellow colored paint now decorating them.

The only one that seemed to be showing any type of reaction other then confusion was Vanessa. She was hiding behind her camera man shaking as he was decorated with red and green paint splatters. He knew for her those probably had to hurt, but they didn't care. Maybe that would teach her not to go prying into their lives like she had last night.

Shifting the gun slightly Genesis closed one eye trying to aim, he knew he sucked at this. they were really going to have to get Tseng or Vincent to teach them how to use real guns if they were to have any chance in Gaia at the VR room in two months.

Pulling the trigger back several times he quickly withdrew the gun and slid the panel back into place enough that he wouldn't be seen.

He laughed silently as several 3rd class squealed loudly and leapt away from each other.

"Someone get the 1st! I don't know what the hell is going on but we're under some form of attack."

"what a bunch of babies…" Sephiroth muttered but was laughing all the same. Shifting slightly he aimed for the 2nd that had given the order. Smiling darkly he shot off five rounds watching with satisfaction as three of the five found their mark.

For never holding a gun in his life Seph was doing pretty damn good, seems he had inherited some of his father's natural ability.

The 2nd class jerked and stared down at the bright green that now decorated his uniform, looking up he started to look around the ceiling. There was no way four different men could be hiding in the room, it was far to open the would have been spotted.

"Never said Johnson was stupid." Genesis muttered seeing the 2nd was searching the ceiling.

"They're in the ceiling!"

"Never mind I retract my previous statement."

"What is going on here?"

Angeal strolled into the room, Kunsel and Tseng right behind him followed closely by Reno and Rude. Tseng had his gun drawn and was looking around the room, his black eyes taking in everything.

He had gotten word from Angeal that there were unauthorized personnel that had managed to infiltrate up to the SOLDIER floor.

Seeing different colored paints dotting the uniforms of the SOLDIER and the camera crew he resisted the urge to raise a brow. What the hell was going on here?

"Sir, we're being attacked by someone.. They are up in the ceiling." Johnson said pointing up to the roof tiles. The entire group had pulled their tiles shut enough that you couldn't tell they had been moved at all, they could still see out how ever.

"Kasai, you grab Angeal.. Ran'un your with me on Tseng.. Koinu take Kunsel." Smirking darkly they waited.

Tseng had raised his gun and was looking around the ceiling tiles, he couldn't hear or see anything, but there was something in the pit of his stomach telling him there was someone up there.

Seeing Tseng turn away continuing his search of the roof the group as one pulled back their tiles enough to aim out of and fired all at once.

Hearing the sound of compressed air Tseng had barely started to turn around when he felt something hit his ass and his shoulder. He bit back a hiss of pain, whatever had hit him stung like hell.

Whirling around he sat Angeal looking over his shoulder where bright red paint was currently decorating his shoulder. Kunsel was currently hopping around holding his thigh as dark blue painted the purple uniform.

'paintballs?' lowering his gun slightly Tseng looked back at his own shoulder seeing brilliant green covering the back of his jacket. Turning back he pulled his pants forward slightly and saw the brilliant yellow decorating his backside.

'The fuck is going on?'

He looked up at the ceiling once more, he couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.

"Who is up there?" he raised his gun once more, he knew from the angle that they were all towards the center area of the room.

"Damn that hurt." Kunsel muttered rubbing his thigh, "Zack's running hot." He looked down at the torn fabric and the blood that was seeping from the small cut. That only happened when the balls were running hot.

Hearing the sliding door open everyone whirled around only to see the door way was empty. It was just starting to slide close when a dark purple paintball gun stuck through the door and fired blindly into the room.

The gun was pulled out just as the door was shut but you could make out a figure in pure black racing away from them.

"Reno Rude.." still clutching onto his handgun Tseng raced out of the room. the figure was running up ahead of him, putting on a burst of speed Tseng raced after them. The person was fast.. too fast.

The black figure raced around the corner and disappeared out of sight. Hitting the wall at the corner gun at the ready Tseng slowly looked around the corner. He saw just the legs disappearing up into the ceiling once more.

Looking up he heard the person moving away very quickly down the hallway. 'fuck they are in the ventilation system' he had just started to go after the obvious one when he heard another body moving across the ceiling heading back for the SOLDIER room.

'how many are there?' knowing he wasn't going to be able to catch the one moving away he started to follow the one he could still hear.

Back in the SOLDIER room one the ceiling tiles moved aside completely and a tall figure in pure black dropped down from the ceiling.

The SOLDIERs all leapt back many moving for their swords. "Are you recording this?" Vanessa hissed at her camera man. He nodded from his spot behind one of the couches, he was following the new figure carefully with the camera.

Laughing hard Reno moved up and held out a hand for the black figure. "Genesis that was fucking brilliant." Brilliant blue mako eyes sparkled with smugness, he still kept the neck warmer up around his mouth. He allowed the crimson paintball gun to hang loosely at his side and smirked under the neck warmer.

"It was all Zackary's idea, though I think it was more an excuse for us to finally go out and buy these. He's been begging us for the past several months." He held up the paintball gun before lowering it once more.

"Commander?" Turning back slightly he smiled seeing the other SOLDIER's were starting to realize what was going on. Smiles were working their way onto their faces as they looked at each other.

"Tseng is coming back." Rude said keeping watch on the door.

Rushing over to the glass center section of the room Genesis knelt down behind the solid wall, his body positioned so he could look out around the corner.

"Seph you ready?" he looked up to the ceiling panel he knew Sephiroth was sitting. They had planned this out pretty well surprisingly on the way down to the plate where they picked up the guns.

"Of course."

Hearing the whoosh of the door opening Tseng moved in his eyes tracking as they could hear the loud noises of the person crawling across the vents.

Raising the gun slightly Genesis let off a volley of shots right for Tseng. Hearing the sound he easily recognized as the compressed air of a paintball gun Tseng leapt to the side easily avoiding the projectiles.

Looking over he noticed the figure in black with a crimson gun behind the wall, he looked over to where Rude and Reno were just standing there. He didn't get a chance to ask why the hell they were just standing there as strong hands grabbed onto wrists pulling them back behind his back in an iron grip. A black cloth bag was pulled over his head instantly blacking out everything.

His brain instantly went into overdrive, what the hell was going on!

He felt the cold metal of handcuffs going around his wrist locking them in place. Feeling someone grabbing his ankles and pulling him up he managed to pull one of his feet away and kicked out. He felt and heard the sickening crack of bone under his well polished shoes. Smirking under the hood he started to thrash about his body twisting and contorting to try and break the grip the one person still hand on his arms and wrist. Stronger hands grabbed his ankles and locked them in place, another set of arms grabbed his other arm and he was being lifted and carted away.

Closing his eyes he willed his breathing to be calm, and his head level. This wouldn't be the first time during his time as a Turk that he had been captured and held hostage, he had gotten out of all of those he would get out of this. that and he was still in Shinra, the camera's would see him and his other Turks would be there soon.

He didn't know how long he had been carried, but he was starting to get worried. It should not have taken his Turks this long to get to him, had they disabled the security cameras? he registered they had been in an elevator before heading into a room.

He was set down almost carefully on what felt to be a leather couch, wait leather couch? He shifted slightly as his other senses started to pick up the faint smell of cinnamon and spice. Before he could analyze it any father he hood was pulled off his head. Blinking at the sudden intrusion of light he looked up into the grinning faces of three of the five 1st class.

Every one of them was wearing identical black T-shirts, black cargo pants, black bandanas, and black neck warmers that were pulled down around their necks.

"You're a quick little fucker Tseng." Genesis smirked, his crimson paintball gun held loosely at this side.

"That was you guys?" Tseng didn't know whether to laugh or wring all their necks. Moving over to the couch Sephiroth sat down and reached behind Tseng releasing the handcuffs.

Bringing his aching wrists back in front of him he absently rubbed them. "That was fun, we need to do it again." Zack was bouncing around his dark purple gun lying on the table. Angeal moved into the room and held out a strong alcoholic drink for him.

His hand still shaking slightly from the adrenaline pumping through his veins he greatly took it and downed the burning liquid.

"What in Gaia's name were you idiots thinking?" he finally asked looking at the three grinning boys.

"Reno said you locked yourself in your office and wouldn't come out cause of something going wrong on the mission.. so what better way to get you out then cause a ruckus." Zack smirked and moved to sit in his chair throwing his socked feet up onto the coffee table.

"Blame Reno, he's the one that told us to cause a problem." Genesis sat down on the coffee table an arrogant smirk on his face.

"So you pretended to be intruders and attacked the SOLDIER to draw me out?"

"Worked didn't it." Sephiroth chuckled and leaned up against his big brother. "Got your mind off what ever happened didn't it."

Rubbing his face Tseng lowered his head into his hands feeling a adrenaline induced headache coming on. They were right though, he had completely forgotten what happened during the mission when he had been chasing them.

"Wait.. who did I kick?" he could remember feeling the bones breaking under his foot.

"Gen, you might want to go make sure he's alright." Standing up Genesis headed over to Cloud's apartment and moved in. "Cloud you still alive?"

"uk ooh en." Game the nasally voice from inside the room. Cloud moved out of his apartment a very bloody towel clutched to his nose, his left eye was already swollen shut and bruising nicely and his lip was swollen and split.

Moving over to the other side of Tseng, Cloud flumped down and glared up at him playfully from his one good eye. "ohh urt, oh ow at," oh now he felt terrible.. he knew he hit hard but he thought he had been attacking a possible terrorist.. not Cloud.

"Cloud I'm sorry, I didn't.." he was waived off with the blond curling up against him. "oh..e.. VR oom..ake up eh." Tseng blinked trying to discern exactly what Cloud has said. "He said you and him VR room, make up then." Zack was quiet fluent in broken nose since his had been broken on many occasion over his career as SOLDIER.

"You're pretty calm Tseng, are you alright?" Angeal moved to sit in his normal seat but was looking at the Turk worryingly. Closing his eyes Tseng smiled slightly, "I have trained my whole life to never allow things to affect me.. calm and serenity were my friends as a child." He opened his eyes and looked at them all. "I'll be fine."

"If you say so.. who wants takeout?" Zack bounded up and over for the phone before anyone could even answer.

"Zackary, it's barely even lunch time."

"So?" he was already dialing the number for one of their favorite take out places. "We got away from the camera crew.. and we got the day off. MOVIE DAY!" he skirted off into the kitchen where the menu was already knowing pretty much what everyone wanted.

Shaking his head Sephiroth looked over seeing Cloud was leaning up against Tseng's shoulder breathing through his mouth.

"You got a hell of a kick on you," he looked up to his big brother, he was taken aback though by the dark look in those eyes.. he knew that look. Tseng was not alright…

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It was well after dark when Sephiroth moved out onto the small 'balcony' attached to the joint living room. It wasn't really an outdoor balcony but a area walled in next to the few windows that were allowed to open slightly giving off the feel of being outside.

Everyone was still inside watching a one of the many movies they owned munching down on the newest take out order; everyone, except one person.

Moving out onto the patio Sephiroth shut the door behind him and sat down in one of the many lawn chairs facing the rooms only other occupant. His mako green eyes regarded him sadly as he watched the figure take a long drag from the lit cigarette in his hands.

"When did you start smoking again?" Tseng looked up from where he was staring out the windows at the Midgar skyline. He was lounging back in one of the chairs, not really caring who's it was. Sighing softly he flicked off the growing ash out the small open window by his hand. "This morning.."

"Tseng, what happened on the mission? You haven't smoked in years.. what was so bad that drove you back to it?"

Tseng gave off a bitter laugh taking another long drag from his cigarette. "My job.." he said bitterly blowing the smoke out towards the open window, he knew Sephiroth hated the smell of these.

"Tseng.."

The Wutai man looked away, his eyes glassing over as he regarded the city bellow. Sephiroth saw his jaw and throat work several times before seeming to give up.

He knew Tseng had to come out on his own, he wasn't about to force what ever happened from his big brother.

It was a few minutes later that Tseng's soft voice broke the silent. "I kill a child…."

Sephiroth's head shot up, his eyes widening slightly. Tseng was still staring off into the city, though his black eyes were turned inwards and filled with self loathing.

"Bastard I was sent to kill knew we were there.. he pulled his own child up as a human shield just as I fired the gun." Tseng closed his eyes tightly his fist clenching tightly around what was left of the cigarette in his hand.

Sephiroth growled softly, people disgusted him at times. "Tseng.. That wasn't your fault. You can't stop a bullet."

"Isn't it?" his voice was bitter as he looked at Sephiroth. "I was sloppy.. I got caught, the target never should have known I was there." He turned away his fist clenched so tight blood was starting to seep out from his palm.

Feeling the cushion next to him sink he looked up as he was pulled into strong arms. "Tseng, your human.. We're not perfect. Though don't tell Gen that will be a blow to his ego."

Snorting slightly Tseng wrapped his arms around Sephiroth clutching to him tightly. He wished for the first time in years that he remembered how to cry, it might alleviate this pressure building behind his eyes.

Sephiroth didn't say anything more simply offering up his silent comfort.

He didn't know how long they sat out there, but it only felt like a few minutes when he heard the sliding glass door open.

"Hey, Zack went and picked up some more movies..one he says Tseng likes. Tseng are you aright?" Cloud was standing in the door way, Genesis had healed him about 4 hours ago since the swelling had stopped. He had a slight crick in his nose now but a potion would take that away tomorrow.

Looking up from his spot against Sephiroth Tseng nodded, "I'm alright now… what exactly did Zackary get that I will 'like'" he forced a smile onto his face looking up at the young blond.

"No idea, he just got back."

Sighing softly he knew either this was going to be okay or really painful, Zack had a weird sense for movies. Pulling himself up he headed in towards the room, "Seph I'm borrowing some of your clothes." Frankly he hated he smell of cigarettes to, but they did wonders for his nerves at times.

"That's fine, just throw your clothes in my hamper and I'll make sure they get back to you." Watching Tseng head off to Sephiroth's room Cloud tuned back to his lover silently asking what happened. "Not now.." nodding knowing Sephiroth would tell him he headed back towards the love seat he had taken claim of.

Sephiroth moved over to the couch where Genesis was sprawled across reading one of his books in the low light, his hand every now and then reaching out for the perfectly placed popcorn bowl on the coffee table. Shaking his head Sephiroth moved over and gently lifted the red head and sat down allowing Genesis to lay across his lap. Never once did Genesis break eye contact with his book still popping pieces of pop corn into his mouth as he read silently though there was that ever present smug smirk on his face.

"Zack what did you manage to find?"

Smirking he held up the video cover. "South Kalm..bigger, longer and uncut."

Genesis snorted into his book. "OH MY GOD! They killed Kenny!"

"You bastards!" Cloud finished off, instantly the whole group dissolved into laughter. "Did I seriously just hear you rented South Kalm?" Tseng walked into the room in a pair of Sephiroth's sleeping pants and a shirt that was at least 2 sizes to big on the man.

Moving over to the love seat Tseng sat down next to Cloud with a small sigh, his body was aching and he wanted nothing more than to sink into a hot bath..

"Uh huh!" Zack moved over and popped in the video before moving back to his seat.

Shaking his head Tseng leaned back into the plush couch his eyes focused on the large screen TV against the wall. Feeling a weight at his side he smiled and wrapped his arm around the young blond curled up against him. Cloud was a cuddle bug when he wasn't feeling good, and he couldn't really deny him since he was the cause of his broken nose.

Looking down he caught sight of that soft pink tongue sweeping out to pick up one of many kernels of popcorn in the small hand. Instantly he felt heat rise in his cheeks as the kiss from the ski resort replayed in his mind.

Shaking himself violently mentally he turned back to the video focusing all his attention on it and the jokes instead of the blond currently snuggled up against his side.

God he needed to get laid..

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