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Snow Day	By : Zerachiel Category: Final Fantasy VII > Yaoi - Male/Male > Cloud/Sephiroth Views: 7490 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 3
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Snow Day – Akera Shrine

"That's his mother?" Genesis honestly couldn't stop staring as the group walked several feet behind Tseng and the beautiful young woman in a pink kimono. The woman was absolutely gorgeous and in no way appeared to be old enough to have given birth to Tseng; she appeared to be at most in her late twenties. She was shorter as most Wutai women were; she only came up to about Tseng's lower chest with midnight black hair that fell to the ground. Her eyes were a pale sea blue that was very rare to see in anyone of pure Wutai blood line; Tseng was pure Wutai that was for sure.
"Tseng actually looks a lot like her; that would explain why he's got more feminine features." Sephiroth had heard many a SOLDIER refer to Tseng as being more on the feminine side when he let his mask down, removing the harsh lines the mask caused. Granted no SOLDIER was stupid enough to ever say that to his face after Tseng had wiped the floor with a Second class that dared to call him a woman pretending to be a man. Actually, he didn't know if that SOLDIER ever regained full use of his man parts again... he would need to ask.
"His mother must not have wanted him to go, I know that for the more traditional families, if you betray your country you're dead to them. They don't welcome you back." Angeal whispered. Sephiroth nodded his eyes starting to take on a wary glint as he looked around the breathtaking shrine. "Tseng, when he did talk about his family, said his father was very old fashioned. He would never go into how...just that he was."
He was starting to really regret dragging Tseng up here, while yes it was great that his mother seemed overly accepting and happy to have her son back, his father was a different story. Women prior to the war were second class citizens; the man held all the power. He didn't know if it was still this way since Shinra's rule, but you never knew with these traditional families.
Cloud frowned hearing the others talking, he didn't know much about the Wutai culture; Tseng had tried explaining it to him but he stayed clear of anything about his family. As much as he wanted to be up walking beside him he hung back to give the man time to be with his mother.
Kiyomi Akera, after learning that they were her son's friends, invited them all back to the Akera home. The shrine was much larger than they had first thought; buildings were spread far apart allowing those pilgrimaging to the temple the silence and serenity away from the noise of the village bellow. Sakura trees dotted the landscape painting the roads in beautiful pink petals; with trees of brilliant reds and gold's filling up the empty space among the grass. They had passed over several small red wooden bridges that sat above crystal clear ponds and a small lake that was on the grounds.
Zack had nearly fallen into the first one as he was leaning over to look at the many beautiful Koi that were swimming through the water.
The group turned a small corner in the compacted gravel path; instantly all eyes were drawn to the massive two story traditional Wutainese house across another small red bridge.
"That's not a house... that's a mansion." Genesis was gaping as he looked at the house that was easily five times larger than his house in Banora; and his family was the wealthiest in the village.
Kiyomi lifted her arm to her lips covering it with her kimono and giggled softly. "This is the Akera Mansion; it was the first building on this hill top, the temple was built around it by Tseng's great great great grandfather who wanted to give back to Leviathan for the blessings he was given." She lowered her sleeve looking up at her son lovingly, "Tenshi used to terrorize this house when he was little; we couldn't keep him still for more than a minute."
Tseng flushed a pretty pink and ducked his head trying to hide behind his bangs. Giggling behind her hand once more Kiyomi gently patted her son's shoulder and started to move across the bridge. Rubbing his cheeks and sending a glare at the snickering group behind him he turned back to his mother. "Mama... what about otousan?"
Kiyomi stopped and turned to move back to stand in front of her son. "I believe there is a saying in Midgar, you will have to correct me if I get it wrong." She looked up at him with soft beautiful blue eyes. "You otousan can kiss my ass and rot in hell." She giggled giving him a huge smile and turned heading back to the house.
Tseng's jaw literally hit the ground; dark black eyes the size of saucers as he watched his mother walk towards the front of the house.
Reno was cackling like a damn hyena behind him. "Oh boss man, I love your mom yo!" clapping his shocked speechless boss on the shoulder Reno jogged past and up to where Kiyomi was standing in the genkan waiting for them.
"I take it your mother isn't like that normally?" Sephiroth asked moving up to his niisan. Shaking his head Tseng pulled his jaw back up from the ground, "no... I mean yeah... I mean..." He shook his head trying to straighten it, that was a shock to his system. "She is with strangers when it concerned me and my sister... But never father. She was raised as a proper lady that would not speak ill to men; when I left she was still completely submissive to my father." Now he had to figure out what had caused this startling change. Feeling fingers intertwining with his he looked over seeing Cloud next to him, "So far Tseng, your mother is amazing."
"She sort of reminds me of Emma." Angeal was smiling at the young woman seeing her giggling at something Reno had said. "She does, she's beautiful, kind, but you touch her kids she'll rip your head off." At least that was the vibe Genesis was getting from her.
"Come on niisan." Sephiroth took Tseng's other hand and the group continued on up to the house.
Walking into the genkan the boys all stared at the small wooden cubby holes lining the wall. "You put your shoes in them." Tseng said seeing the confused looks most the boys were giving the room, "It's just like at my apartment, you don't walk in the house with shoes." Reaching down he easily slipped off the slip on shoes he was wearing and instinctively put them in a small cubby hole on the bottom. That was his spot and had been his entire life.
Knowing the boys had tie on shoes and would need more space to move Tseng stepped up into the main part of the house allowing them the time to put their own shoes away. Feeling delicate fingers wrapping around his arm he glanced down seeing his mother smiling up at him. "It's good to have you home Tenshi, this house has not felt right since you left."
"Where is Miyuki?"
He watched with a sinking feeling in his gut as his mothers eyes slowly saddened and she lowered her head. "I'm sorry Tenshi your sister passed away last year."
Tseng felt like he had just been kicked in the gut by Angeal. Reaching out for the wall to keep himself up he was instead greeted with a warm chest and strong arms grabbing his hand. He didn't have to look up to know Sephiroth had been the one to grab on and he allowed himself to be pulled into his arms.
"H...how?" he would admit he was ashamed that his voice shook, he was a Turk he was used to death but god damn it hurt hearing his beloved sister was gone. Kiyomi wiped her eyes and gave a sad smile, "Child birth... to her second child... it happened so fast we couldn't get a medical unit here in time."
Tseng started to worry his bottom lip; it was taking all his Turk training not to collapse to the floor in a blubbering pile of Wutain Turk. Taking a deep breath he schooled his features; he would mourn when he was alone tonight... for now he needed to stay strong for himself and his mother.
"What happened to her children?" as if on cue there was the sound of tiny feet slapping on the wood floor and a second later a tiny little boy in a dark blue kimono peeked around the sliding door.
"Obaasan, who are they?"
Smiling gently Kiyomi motioned for the little boy to come into the entry way. "Haru, this is your ojisan." The little boy looked over Tseng and smiled a brilliant smile; quickly he waddled over (there was no other word for it) and lifted up his arms.
Without thinking about who was in the room with him Tseng bent down picking his beloved sisters son up and held him to his chest. Somewhere in the back of his mind he could hear a camera shutter clicking but he didn't care; all that mattered for that moment was the tiny three year old that was wrapping his arms around his neck.
"Come, you all must be tired from your trip from the eastern continent. Please come and sit, I will prepare some dinner for you all."
"Mama, we have a hotel room…" Tseng stopped feeling buzzing in his pants pockets. Sighing he looked to Sephiroth, "choice, grab my phone or take my nephew."
Oh that was an easy choice, smiling softly Sephiroth took the little boy from Tseng's arms. "My names Seph, what's yours?" the little boy smiled up at him and giggled. Shaking his head Tseng pulled out his phone seeing it was Vincent. Moving away from the group who was now all cooing over his nephew he flipped it open. "Tseng."
"Director, we have a problem. The hotel seems to have lost our reservations and has completely booked all the rooms. Rude has run into similar road blocks with the few other hotels here in the village because of the festival."
Sighing Tseng pinched the bridge of his nose, this wasn't good, and they couldn't gather Intel if they were forced to sleep in the forest as the Highwind would be leaving as soon as they retrieved their weapons.
"Alright, looks like we might be camping out tonight..." the phone was plucked from his hand he looked down shocked to see his mother putting it to her ear. "You are more than welcome to stay here at the house; do you know where the Leviathan Shrine is?"
"Who is this?"
Kiyomi giggled softly wandering off still with his phone. "Come to the Leviathan shrine sweet heart; ask any of the temple priests to bring you to the main house. There will be a hot meal and a warm bed waiting for you." She flipped the phone shut and walked off tucking it into her obi.
Tseng could only blink in shock. Who was this woman and what had she done with his mother?
"I really like your mom Tseng..." Genesis chuckled moving up into the main house but held his phone out knowing Tseng would need to call Vincent back. The undead Turk was likely to take that as Tseng was now held hostage and come in guns a blazing.
"Thank you... I have no idea what has gotten into her...I like it actually." His mother always had spunk but she rarely showed it around the house. Quickly dialing Vincent's number once more he held it up to his ear. "Vincent, my apologies; that was my mother...yes my family owns the Leviathan Shrine... I wish I could tell you this is new to me too... no don't worry there won't be any attack you just need someone to guide you to the house, if you don't know the shrine you'll get lost." Shaking his head he flipped the phone shut and handed it back to Genesis. "Thought you got captured huh?"
Tseng chuckled and shook his head grabbing Cloud as he walked by and pulled him into his arms. "He didn't know what to make of it..." leaning down he gently kissed Cloud's cheek. He was grateful that they were all here with him; this might have been a lot harder if he didn't have them to fall back on.
"Shall we?" Angeal asked as Sephiroth was now bouncing the squealing boy on his hip as he walked around in circles. "Mm, let's just hope I remember where everything is."

It was now an hour and a half later and the group found themselves sitting in an open room looking out onto a beautiful water garden with towering sakura trees and beautiful koi swimming through the water. The room was only closed off by beautiful shoji screens, many were painted with beautiful sakura blossoms.
Many of the group was sat around a small low table on floor cushions enjoying a second helping of a steam pot Kiyomi has prepared for them. Sephiroth was sitting out on the roka simply staring out at the beautiful garden, tiny little Haru curled up on his lap fast asleep having worn himself out.
Tseng found out that his sisters' second child has been still born and so Haru was the only child of his sisters. The little boy had all but claimed Sephiroth following him around as little children always did. Vincent who had shown up with Rude about forty five minutes ago was sitting at the table watching his son with soft eyes.
"It's amazing seeing the feared demon of Wutai so complacent around children." Tseng nearly choked on his noodles, coughing hard he along with everyone else turned to look at Kiyomi. She sat there simply smiling knowingly her eyes moving around the room. "You said his name..." she said in way of answer to their unspoken question.
"It's not a problem is it mama?" Tseng asked you could hear the caution in his voice. She shook her head giggling softly behind her kimono sleeve. "I heard you call him otouto, he must mean a great deal to you for you to bestow that title to him. I know he was a man simply following orders and seeing him here with Haru shows me that he is a beautiful young man with a large heart."
Sephiroth flushed a brilliant red and ducked his head; he would have been hiding behind his bangs if they weren't pinned to his head. "Besides, I can't very well deny your cousin entrance into our home."
Tseng was so grateful he wasn't eating at that moment, otherwise he would have choked. Sephiroth was now staring back at them with wide eyes as was the entire group. Kiyomi tilted her head to the side slightly glancing over to Vincent and then Sephiroth. "He is a Valentine isn't he? There is only one family ever in Wutai to have natural crimson eyes."
"You would be correct, Sephiroth is my son… I am Vincent Valentine." Vincent was doing some quick thinking; he wasn't too familiar with his with his mother's side, having grown up in Midgar he didn't concern himself with Wutai that much.
"Your Shiori's son, your grandmother and my grandmother were sisters..."
Sephiroth blinked at that and caught Tseng's eye, "you're saying that they are both actually blood related?" Genesis asked his eyes bouncing between Sephiroth and Tseng. "3rd cousins... once removed I believe." Kiyomi giggled and stood up grabbing the empty bowls, "Small world isn't it." Smiling at her son and the boys she left the room to clean up, "Tseng why don't you show the boys to the guest rooms. Your bedroom is still there as well if you want to sleep there."
Tseng lowered his head shaking it slightly; this was too much to fast even for him. His mother seemed to hate his father (no objection there), his sister died in childbirth and his nephew was the only one left, and now Sephiroth was actually a relative... standing up he grabbed the pack of smokes out of Reno's pocket and walked out of the room with them.
Angeal put a hand on Cloud's shoulder and shook his head as the blond had tried to rise to follow him. "Give him time..." nodding Cloud sat back down though started to pick at his nails, he really hoped that Tseng would be alright.

He was anything but alright; kneeling down in front of his sisters grave, hands on his knees, he lowered his head and allowed the tears to fall for the first time since Jillian left him all those years ago.
Why... why did Leviathan have to take his sister back to the life stream? 'I never even said good bye to her...just... walked out..' he had been so angry with his father, and so set on leaving the temple he hadn't even taken the few extra minutes to say good bye to his mother and sister.
Now she was gone, and if he had never come back to Wutai he would have never known.
Hearing thunder crash above him black eyes slowly turned heaven ward just as the skies opened up with a torrential downpour. A soft bitter laugh escaped his throat; such a fitting end to his day... it would seem the gods knew how he was feeling and the weather adjusted accordingly.
He didn't know how long he was out here but night had long since set in and the rain had yet to relent. It was only when he heard the rain hitting fabric above his head did he look up from his sisters grave.
Kiyomi knelt down next to him, not caring that her kimono was wet and covered in mud; her only concern at the moment was her only child. Setting the umbrella against her shoulder she draped a heavy winter kimono over his soaked shoulders before pulling him into her arms.
Closing his eyes fresh tears ran down his cheeks. "Gomen ne mama..." (I'm sorry momma)
Pulling the ribbon from his hair Kiyomi gently ran her fingers comfortingly through his waterlogged hair. "Shizukesa Tenshi... anata no imoto wa, kanashi koto shitakunaideshou." (Hush angel, your sister would not want you to be sad)
"Shikashi, boku wa.." (But i...)
"Imoto wa anata o aishi, anata wa kanojo no kanashi Tenshi ni narimasen itoshite shitteita." (Your sister loved you and knew you loved her, do not be sad angel.) Running fingers gently through his hair she leaned down kissing his forehead gently. "Remember her as she was in life, not in her death... that is the greatest honor you can give her memory." Kissing his head once more she gently stood pulling him up with her. "Come, it is cold and your friends are worried about you, I have hot tea waiting in your room and a warm bed for when you come from your bath."
Tseng pulled the over kimono around him tighter for the first time noticing how cold he was. Before hand he had been blessedly numb and the cold had worn off a long time ago; now he had to clench his jaw to keep his teeth from chattering.

"Interesting beds yo." Reno crawled into the 'bed' that had literally been pulled from a closet, unrolled in the middle of a room and a special comforter thrown over it.
Knowing that her son was upset Kiyomi had led them all to Tseng's old bedroom (there wasn't exactly a lot there...seems that was something he carried over to his adult life) and with the help of Angeal and Zack had pulled off some of the room dividing screens and opened it up into a huge long room. It was now big enough that all of them could sleep in one room and not kick someone in the middle of the night.
Settling down he smiled slightly seeing the beds weren't all that bad for being just a roll up mattress thrown on reed mat floors. Sitting up on his pillow he looked around the room; Genesis and Sephiroth had put their beds together a short distance away from where Kiyomi had laid out Tseng's old bed. Cloud had naturally pulled his over next to Tseng's as he had seen Seph and Gen do and was currently sitting on it waiting for Tseng to come back. Kiyomi had returned about ten minutes ago and told them that Tseng was taking a bath and she would be back with hot tea for them all.
Sighing softly Reno looked over to his partner who was only a few feet away lying in his own bed staring up at the ornate ceilings. "Think boss man will be alright?" blinking slightly Rude turned his head to regard Reno; he had taken off his glasses as the lights were very dim as they were just traditional oil lamps. "Don't know, we have never seen Tseng deal with a death of a family member...we know how he reacts if one of our own is killed...but this is his actual blood."
"I know what you mean." Reno pulled his arms under his pillow, his aquamarine eyes still regarding Rude from his pillow. "If I had known all this... I would have told him to stay in Shinra..."
"Hnn, that might have only made it worse. I would want to know if my brother died...Though she is hiding something."
"You saw that too huh." Rude nodded lowering his voice, "She was lying about how his sister died... not that she died in child birth but after that she was." Tseng had been too shocked to read the body language but the other two hadn't; they had been able to see the lie clearly in her body language.
"Why would she lie though?" Rude shrugged some looking back up at the ceiling. "It might have something to do with her sudden hatred of her husband." It had obviously shocked Tseng to the core to see his mother acting as she had, that showed a radical change in personality sometime over the past thirteen years. "It could be, but it is not our place." Rude said knowing that this would be a family matter and them getting involved would only make things worse.
Hearing the sliding door open the group looked up seeing Kiyomi move in with a tray laden down with a steaming pot of divine smelling tea and a plate filled with strange looking balls skewered on bamboo skewers. There was three balls on each one, each the exact same size and in the same order, pink, white, green.
Moving to an empty spot in the room Kiyomi set the tray down, "Enjoy, if you need anything please feel free to ask. Have a good night I shall have breakfast ready for you tomorrow." She bowed low to them smiling gently and left the room. "Thank you Mrs. Akera." Sephiroth called out before she completely disappeared.
Moving over to the tray Reno picked up one of the sticks containing the three balls. "What are these yo?" he looked to Sephiroth who was the most familiar with Wutainese cuisine. "I believe they are called hanami dango; Tseng used to bring me this all the time when I was younger he would stop off at little Wutai under the plate after one of his shifts down below. They are a traditional desert for his culture it's actually very good."
Shrugging Reno stuck the first one in his mouth pulling it from the stick and chewed thoughtfully. "Not bad." He moved back over to his bed and laid down still munching on them. He wasn't a tea person so he wasn't going to stick around for that.
Hearing the sliding door open once more Sephiroth slowly stood up seeing Tseng moving into the room dressed in his normal black sleeping pants and black T-shirt. Setting the tea cup down he had been about to fill he moved over and wrapped his arms around his big brother. Tseng honestly looked like hell right now, his eyes were blood shot and his whole body was drooping.
Tseng in turn wrapped his arms around Sephiroth burring his face into the fall of long black hair. "I'm sorry niisan." Shaking his head slightly Tseng pulled back setting his hands on the side of Sephiroth's head. he didn't say a word simply rest his forehead against Sephiroth's; standing back up Reno moved over and gently set a hand on the shoulder of the man he viewed as a second father.
"I'm okay..." Tseng said finally pulling away; he might have been the Turk director, but he was still human.
"Your mom brought some tea in and some hanami dango...right?" rubbing his eyes a small smile pulled on Tseng's lips as he saw his childhood favorite treat prepared for him. "That's right… I used to bring you some when you were young."
"Why don't you go sit down and I'll bring you some."
It took a little longer than it should have to reach the bed he knew was his own since he was glomped by a hyper active puppy and hugged by the two other 1st class. Reaching the bed he smiled slightly seeing Cloud waiting patiently for him with their beds pulled together.
Reaching up Cloud pulled his lover down so they were sitting next to each other and simply held him. He knew he wasn't alright and saying sorry wasn't going to change anything; he knew from firsthand experience after the first few sorry it got really annoying.
Closing his eyes Tseng rest his entire weight against his young lover. "Thank you." He whispered; absently he turned his hand over and was happy to feel Cloud's hand slide into his own, fingers treading together.
"Here niisan." Hearing Sephiroth Tseng opened his eyes, a very slight smile curving his lips upwards as he took the offered cup. Setting a plate down Sephiroth sat down on his other side and laid in against his side.
Laughing just slightly Tseng looked at both Cloud and Sephiroth. "I'm a SOLDIER sandwich," Cloud snorted hard and ducked his head hiding his laughter; that had been the exact same thing he said after the VR room on Sephiroth's birthday.
Looking back over Cloud blinked seeing Tseng's head was dropped, his hair hiding his face but he could feel the shaking starting in the man's shoulders. Feeling this as well Sephiroth gently took the tea cup from Tseng and set it on the floor before pulling the slightly smaller man into his arms.
Instantly Tseng latched on his whole body trembling hard; his sobs could be heard enough though his face was buried in Sephiroth's shoulder.
Fighting back his own tears Sephiroth wrapped his arms around the man tighter. To see the man he viewed as his bigger brother was pulling at something deep within him, a natural instinct to protect this man from any harm.
Cloud was gently rubbing his back, his own eyes shining with unshed tears. Genesis crawled over and moved so he was sitting behind Sephiroth gently running his fingers through the Turks hair much as Gillian had done for him when he was upset.
"I…I never even said goodbye..I just left them, I was so furious with my father.. I just wanted out. I didn't want this life.. didn't want to be married to a thirteen year old..but I never even thought of what my sister would be left with..I was just thinking about myself."
He curled up even more against Sephiroth his sobs becoming louder. Sephiroth sent a look to all those around him; he was honestly at a loss to what to do.
He blinked as a figure moved beside them and wrapped a hand around Tseng's arm forcing the man to stand. "dad?" Sephiroth asked confused, Vincent merely shook his head pulling his boss and now cousin up with a little more force.
Climbing to his feet Tseng looked over to the undead Turk confusion lighting his coal black eyes. "Come..walk with me." Still with a hand grasped firmly on the young man's bicep he pulled the slightly protesting man from the room.
"Uh.. is it a good thing for Vincent to be dealing with boss man?" Reno asked sitting up in his bed. "Vincent would be the best to handle this situation." Rude said laying back down in his own bed. "What makes you say that?" Zack asked rocking on his own bed, he was unnerved to see the normally very strong Turk reduced to tears like he was.
Angeal slowly sat up from his own bed looking to his puppy, "Vincent for 20 years believed he had lost both his lover and son.. he stayed in that coffin you found him in to repent for his sins..if anyone understands the burden of guilt..he does."
The group fell silent each lost in their own thoughts. Looking up Sephiroth turned to where his father and Tseng had disappeared out to, 'please, help him out dad..'

AN: sad chapter I know I'm sorry, next chapter should be a little happier.. momma get's to do what momma's do best.. Embarrass the hell out of their kids! And we'll lose Sephiroth for a bit (and not in a bad way)
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