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Legacy of the Lifestream	By : butabara Category: Final Fantasy VII > General Views: 2387 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 28
- 29
- 30
I think this actually may be the longest chapter yet! Most of this chapter was written by riverseithr. I simply added detail and edited. She's the mastermind behind Sukai, and in near-total control of Sukai's relationships. I really hope you like this one! (Be warned, all those who wish to skip it, there IS a lemon at the end!) R&R!
Chapter 28: Confrontation
Sukai approached the airship with a sigh. She was not looking forward to the difficulty of keeping Fayne a secret from Yazoo, and was now hitting herself and wondering why in the world they actually brought the man with them. That was never a part of the plan! The plan had been to go to Mideel, get the mako, and leave. Now they had a prisoner, and no mako. They hadn't been able to get it when they were rushing to get out of the city to avoid confrontation with another wave of ShinRa troops. Taking a deep breath, she ducked down, her wave rider floating onto the outer deck of the Shera before gently touching down.
As she righted the contraption and slung it onto her back, the door opened to reveal the face of Kadaj.
"He knows." Was all he said, but it was all he had to say for Sukai's heart to clench in fear.
"What? H-how? Who told-" She stuttered.
Kadaj held his hand up, an angry, yet nearly sympathetic expression on his face. "It doesn't matter how he found out. The fact is that he knows. The past three days he's done nothing but train, beating the hell out of every training program in the training room... and Harmony when she tried to talk to him about it."
Sukai felt as though someone had punched her in the gut as all of the air in her lungs left her at once. "Oh Leviathan! Is she okay?"
"She's fine." Kadaj thought a moment before speaking once more. "I know that you and I have never gotten along, and most of the things I say and do piss you off. But I'm going to be serious, and I want you to listen."
Sukai gave a shaky nod. Kadaj had never really spoken to her like this, so she knew that it must be important.
He continued. "I know that you were trying to protect him, and I appreciate it... but you should have told him. Yazoo never would have stopped you from going. He cares about you... and though he hates his father, he never would have jeapordized your health by trying to keep you from going. Hell, he probably would have gone with you... Because he cares about you more than he hates him. Do you get what I'm saying? He feels like you betrayed not only him, but his trust. I'm not stupid, like some of you think. I may act like a child at times but I understand emotions better than most of you could ever imagine. Now," He said, holding a hand up when Sukai's eyes flashed angrily.
"This isn't like last time. I'm not trying to be cruel, I'm not trying to piss you off. I'm trying to get you to understand that there's more to a Remnant that power. I know that you think you know us, but you all still treat us differently. Like you're afraid we'll snap at any moment. All I'm saying, is that you should have given him the chance." He finished.
"I was only trying to-" Sukai started.
"I know. Harmony and I spoke to Sephiroth, and he told us about the conversation the two of you had before you left. Like I said, I appreciate that you were trying to help him, and that you feel so strongly about him... I understand that to you, he is as much a brother as he is to me. The block that you all have put up, the ideas you have, they're all subconscious. We know that none of you think you're treating us any differently. That none of you even realize that you're doing it. This is just... we were content to let you move at your own paces. Even after seven years, we wanted you to trust us completely, without us approaching the subject... but this... Sukai. You really hurt him. He won't admit it, that its your actions that bother him, rather than the presence of his father... but I can see it. I've known him for a very long time."
Sukai stared at her feet. So her trying to protect him didn't work, after all. Ass she had done was hurt him.
"I'm sorry." She whispered.
Kadaj smiled softly, the first time that look was directed at her with no malice, or cruel intent.
"It isn't me that you should apologize to. Yazoo's in the mess hall. He might be angry at first, but I know that if you explain yourself, and apologize, he'll talk to you and you guys can work it out. But first, the real reason I'm here."
Sukai raised an eyebrow. "What is that?"
"You are to report to Shelke and Dr. Boughman in the medical lab. He has had access to Hojo's Jenova files, and the birth of Sephiroth, so he knows more about how to help you than we do... we don't really trust him, he did help Rufus, after all... but that's why Shelke is there. She'll know if something that he does is going to harm you. Plus, Harmony will be there. She was pretty pissed when she found out that Fayne had tried to have you all killed, and she's adamant that she be the one to protect you, today."
Sukai snorted. "I don't need protection."
"I know, but you know how she gets. Think of it as a way to pay her back to the ruptured organs Yazoo gave her when she stood up for you."
Sukai flinched. "She's really okay?"
"Yeah. Luckily, I had a cure materia on me. Mastered."
Sukai nodded, and brushed past him. When she reached the door, she stopped. "Um... Thanks... Chocobo-brain."
Kadaj smirked. "Yeah yeah. I may be a dick, but us misfits gotta stick together, right?"
!#$%^&*()
"Hello, Miss Hiroshima-Williams." Dr. Boughman said politely. If he was going to stay here, he might as well try to get along... them refusing to release him was really favorable. If ShinRa got hold of him now, they'd kill him for sure.
"Uh... hi." Sukai greeted, guarded.
Dr. Boughman took measure of the woman before him, deciding on a course of action that would hopefully show these people that he really meant them no harm, he only did what he did because he was ordered to, and was in the same situation. Help, or die. 'No thanks, I choose life.' He thought.
"Look, Miss... I'm really very sorry about what happened. You know that going against ShinRa's orders-"
"Shut it. I know all about what they're capable of, and their methods of punishment. But its going to take a whole lot more than a bit of help and an apology to make us really believe that you were only following orders." Sukai said, trying not to sound cruel, but to get her point across.
Dr. Boughman nodded, understanding. "I realize that. I just wanted you to know that it was nothing personal."
Sukai sighed and nodded, changing the subject as she turned to the girl watching them. "Hello, Shelke. Long time no see. Sorry about..."
Shelke smiled softly. "Thank you." The girl said. "Would you like to get started? Dr. Boughman, the files... please."
Boughman nodded. "Oh, yes. Miss Hiroshima-Will-"
"Call me Sukai."
"Uh... right. Miss Sukai, we were told that you couldn't get the Mako from Mideel. Unfortunately, what we have on hand is not enough to last for more than a few weeks... but Miss Rui and I have an idea."
Shelke took over for him. "When Harmony confiscated Sassi's anti-depressants, because you were not available, I analyzed it. It seems that Rufus has been very slowly putting Mako in the pills... in a successful attempt to cut Sassi Flint off from her power, and create a barrier... keeping her from communicating with the Lifestream."
"Okay..." Sukai said, "What does that have to do with me and the Mako I need? It isn't that I don't care, not at all... I simply can not understand what this has to do with my situation."
"Of course. I'm sorry. The reason I brought it up, is that there is enough Mako in the pills that if you were to take them as well as the injections, our liquid supply would last longer, and it would give us time to get more."
Sukai had a thought. "Shelke, why do you even have raw Mako?"
Shelke looked away. "You know that if I do not have Mako treatments daily, that my body would not last... it could start aging again, and I am not entirely sure that my organs could handle it. It may kill me. The mako I brought with me... was for me to use for the few weeks that I am expecting it will take to find more."
Sukai gasped. "I can't use it then! I would never want you to-"
"Please Sukai. I have made my choice. This is a risk that I am more than willing to take, and I think that if I have even a fraction of the daily dose, I might be able to survive it. And perhaps... perhaps it is time to say goodbye to my young body... and finally resemble the adult that I truly am."
"Well... how... how much will you age?" Sukai asked, worried.
"I will be twenty-seven this year. I will not age so much that I will resemble Captain Highwind."
Sukai choked. "Shelke... did you just... crack a joke?"
Shelke smiled. "I did. I had been working with F-... with Father on emotion and humor for a while. Did I do well?"
Sukai laughed, shaking her head. "I think that's the funniest thing I've heard all week!"
Dr. Boughman coughed to hide his chuckle, the sound drawing their attention back to him. "Well then, Miss Sukai, Miss Rui, shall we get started?"
!#$%^&*() {Three hours later}
Sukai sighed as she walked the hallways, thinking about everything that she had learned in the last three hours. She had spent most of her time either interrogating Yazoo's father, or trying to talk to Yazoo. It hurt that he was so adamantly avoiding her. The moment she would enter the same room, he would just up and leave. He didn't even try to make an excuse. She could understand though. He felt betrayed, and she told herself that when he was ready, he would talk to her. She just hoped it was soon. There were things that Fayne had told her... that Yazoo desperately needed to know. She knew, however, that if she tried to force it on him, rather than wait until he was ready for it, that it would only make things worse.
She had just come back from her check up with Doctor Boughman and Shelke. Both had just informed her that the cells of the fetus, while they were perfectly mutated to meld with the Jenova part of her father, Sukai's body was rejecting it, causing her case of Geostigma. She was now being treated as a high risk patient, seeing as how her body was rejecting the cells. It was now a daily check-up, along with Shelke using her knowledge of Jenova cells to work with Doctor Boughman to help both Sukai and child. Since Sukai quickly and adamantly expressed her wish to keep the child, even if she could lose it or it could kill her. Wandering down the halls, Sukai knew she needed someone to talk to, but the one person she wanted to talk to was locked away in a small room. A small idea popped into her head. Without telling anyone, she snuck off to the Interrogation rooms and attempted to talk some sense into the man.
While she didn't personally know him, she knew his son, and if Yazoo was anything like his father, talking did far better than violence. Ten minutes rolled by after she entered the room, and Sukai still stared at Fayne, wondering what was going on in his mind. She fully understood the effects of Mako on the body system but they had been denying him his fix until they told him where to get the Mako. They even set it up with Doctor Crochet to make it appear that Fayne had suffered a mild overdose and had to spend a few days in the hospital. Fayne stared back at her with gray eyes, making her wonder what Yazoo's were like before he was experimented on.
"Tell him." She said, trying to convince Fayne to confess to his son. "He needs to know."
"What, that here is a man who lost his only son? What will that accomplish?" Fayne answered back.
"That you aren't the idiot that you want them to believe you are. Fayne, I found your file. He doesn't know. I believe it would be better if you told him yourself. Rather than some paper in black and white telling him history." Sukai reasoned. "Look, he says he doesn't care, but with everything that is going on, we can't afford to harbor ill will. Please, for the sake of your son and perhaps any future grandchildren, please...don't do this."
"Don't tell me how to act around my son!" Fayne snapped.
"You!" Sukai gasped. "You still love him. Don't you? Then why in the hell are you being so stubborn? Don't you realize that you are hurting him? Why would you do-"
Sukai was cut off by Fayne lashing out and knocking her to the floor and gripping her throat. Sukai grabbed Fayne's hands and began to try and break out of his grip.
!#$%^&*()
Meanwhile, Sephiroth was in the simulation room avoiding the Remnants. As he killed a simulation of a Malborro, he felt a wave of fear strike him. Teleporting outside the room, Sephiroth made his way to Aerith. He found her in the Dining Hall being chased around playfully by Zack, who was soaked. Both of them stopped when Sephiroth entered the room, ready to kill the person causing Aerith distress.
"What is wrong?" Aerith asked.
"I felt your fear." Sephiroth said. "I still do. It is weak, but it is there."
"I am perfectly fine." Aerith said, calming him. "Perhaps it could be something else."
Sephiroth tapped his chin in thought, trying to think of what it could possibly be. "There was only one time that this happened. It was when- Sukai!" Sephiroth cut him self off with a gasp, turning and frantically dashing away.
"We will find her." Aerith said as Zack looked at her and followed Sephiroth to search the ship.
When Yazoo got the word that Sukai was missing, he was on his way down to see him. The man who abandoned him to Shinra. Yazoo received the Comm when he opened the door to find his father assaulting his best friend. Sukai kicked Fayne off her and tried to scramble away but was captured by Fayne who now had a hidden blade pressed against her throat.
"Move and I will slice her open." Fayne said coolly.
"You should know better than to threaten a Remnant. I could kill you before you could blink." Yazoo snarled. Inside, he was a mess. Emotions rampaged through him as he took in his father's features. Happiness, though tainted, rage that he was threatening someone he cared about, fear for Sukai, anxiety about confronting this man... and the solid knowledge that if he had to, he would take his father's life with his own hands. He shuddered when he realized how little that thought bothered him.
Sukai sat there for a moment before all of it clicked into place. She tried to speak but realized that Fayne wasn't trying to kill her, he damaged her vocal cords. It would be a while before she could speak again, unless she had a potion or could heal herself. It just so happened she carried one around with her along with other status ailment potions, in case of emergency. Reaching slowly into her pocket she gripped the bottle. However, Fayne felt her subtle movements and increased the pressure on her throat with the blade, breaking the skin slightly.
"Look, all I want is to retire, have a house somewhere in the mountains, and live my life. Any boy who claims he is my son is a charleton. My son is dead." Fayne hissed.
"Let her go." Yazoo ordered. "Or I swear by Odin what they did to me would feel like a day at the spa compared to what Iwill do to you."
Sukai reared her head back and slammed into Fayne's nose. He let go of her and she twirled into the movement of his bladed arm, lessening the blow. She quickly downed the potion but before her injury could fully heal, Yazoo had already taken the hidden blade and lunged at his father.
All was still for what seemed like an eternity, the silence overwhelming, suffocating. Yazoo finally moved away from the form of his father in the floor, revealing the kunai that impaled the older man.
"I stabbed you in the lungs. You are going to choke slowly on your own blood before you die." Yazoo spat.
"No!" Sukai screamed. "Yazoo, you- He wantedyou to kill him! Don't you get it. I wasn't ever in danger!"
"What?" Yazoo snapped at her then looked down at his father with wide eyes.
"It is true." Fayne choked out. When he saw the confusing and utter devastation on his son's face, pain that he knew his son was trying to ignore, to deny, to hide, he knew that he had to say it. If his son was to survive the battle he knew was coming, he would need to know everything that he could possibly tell him... and why he had done what he had. "When...when they said you were dead..." The words left him in a pained, rattled hiss, "I went to Midgar and they captured me. They got me addicted to Mako... when I found out what happened. You control the drug... you control the person... and I let them... I... I had nothing left.."
"They lied!" Yazoo yelled. "You believed them? So you did abandon me for a lie and drugs."
"Yazoo!" Sukai snapped. "Listen to him! This is the only chance that you have."
"We can revive him." Yazoo reminded her."Besides GR is trying to kill us, how do I know he isn't lying?"
"A Phoenix Down will work only if he has the will to live! Yazoo... he doesn't!" Sukai said kneeling down to prop Fayne's head on her lap to prevent the blood from leaking into his vocal cords.
"I had nothing... you were my most precious treasure. They stole it... I shouldn't have believed them. I joined GR in hopes that I could meet you again... and pay for my past regrets. Your friend is right... Yazoo. Knowing that you are strong, healthy, and have friends who love you... it is more than a father could hope for... for their sons. I want you to know something... the basement. It is in my basement. Yazoo, Je n'ai jamais cesse de t'amier, et je n'ai jamais cesse de chercher..." Fayne said before he closed his eyes and smiled.
Sukai let a tear fall for a man who really did everything. Saying a silent prayer, she closed Fayne's eyes and looked up at Yazoo. As angry as she was, she felt more guilt than anything else. It was her fault that Fayne died, why Yazoo was hurt. It shouldn't have ended like that.
"He's dead." Yazoo said before turning on his heel.
"There was one file... I... kept.." Her heart clenched. She had to be brave, strong. "It... Yaz... I am so sorry!"
"What?" He asked.
"Th... I... I didn't want you to know... I found it right before... we got tipped off." She couldn't stop the tears.
"Why did you keep this from me?" He demanded.
Sukai couldn't mask her guilt. "He- I knew you... you would be hurt. I thought... I could fix it. I promised not to keep things from you Yaz... I b-broke my p-romise. Forgive me."
"You didn't fix anything!" Yazoo snapped. "You happened to find the one person on the face of the entire Planet that I never wanted to see again, whom just so happened to be a Mako addict and you bring him aboard? You are beyondstupid and insane with this idea. What makes you think I could see my father and magically forgive and forget all that happened? Do you realize I was in my late teens when they took me? Kadaj snapped when they took him and Loz was so young, that is the only thing he knows!"
Sukai smiled before she collapsed in a fit of coughing. Yazoo couldn't be angry with her. As a friend she proved more than capable, wise, kind, and forgiving. Tears were now beginning to sting his eyes. He hatedthe man, so why would his passing bother him, or was it Sukai that did so... or was it his father's final words? Yazoo stormed out, leaving Sukai there with the corpse. As Sukai watched him leave, she was crushed. Now everyone who she had trusted now hurt her. Furious, she made her way to her quarters, carefully avoiding everyone. She showered, changed clothes, grabbed her weapons, and headed down to the Simulation Rooms for target practice. On her way there, she dropped off the infernal files on Fayne to Cissnei and stormed off, muttering curses in every language she knew.
!#$%^&*()
Sephiroth was on his way to check on Sukai. Cissnei had found him and told him that Sukai handed her Fayne's files and stormed off, heading toward the Simulation Rooms. It worried him, it was unlike her to keep things from people, especially those she trusted. The only news she left was that she was going to blow off some steam, and with her Wave Rider hidden for the time being, she went to the simulator. The message she sent everyone was not a pleasant one, to say the least.
"I will be in the simulator for meditation, do not bother me or I will take your head off, for starters."
Knowing her, she was not just using it as scenescapes. She was probably doing some ridiculous task and was going to injure herself over it. When he arrived, he carefully opened the door and slipped inside. He watched with interest at Sukai engaging three soldiers on her own, and not only defeating them, but taking no damage herself. He went over to the computer and brought up the program that she chose, Wu Sheng Training. He sighed as he saw that one of the ending battles was to face off randomly against First Class SOLDIERs or a TURK.
He watched as the pixels fell from her last opponents before the boss of the program was being selected. He entered in the main key passphrase and killed the program a few seconds after it chose himself as the Boss. The computer program would kill her, he would not. After setting everything up he exited the computer room and jumped down onto the floor to face her.
"You didn't have to do that." Sukai huffed. "Sephiroth, go away. I am fine."
"You can barely stand up. You are going to stop this nonsense before you hurt yourself." He said watching her harden her eyes at him.
Sukai gave him no warning and attacked him. Sukai jumped high in the air and twisted her body to strike out at Sephiroth's head. As he ducked she quickly snapped the kodachi together and drew her gun, already having a full magazine of blanks, seeing as how Vincent or Yazoo stole her 'live' ammunition. She aimed at the middle of his forehead and pulled the trigger.
Sephiroth dodged and landed a few feet away. "I do not want to hurt you."
As she watched him escape her wrath again, she lost it. All of a sudden she was screaming at him. Everything that had been bothering her was rolled into one rant.
"Stop treating me like a doll and don't give me that crap about you are not holding back. Do it! You can't break me. I can take it all and more and still survive. I am so sick of everyone being so timid around me. Like I will cry with anything you guys say about me being sick and pregnant. I am pregnant not crippled, dead, or worthless! I am still me. So stop being so self-righteous and give it to me straight, or do you still need Jenova to dictate your actions? Come on! I am waiting for you to do hit me! To tell me I am dying or that my kid is somethingand not someone...that there is no cure for me. Because I want to know.
"Hell even you, Sephiroth, are as you said, a man. Well good for you on showing me that I can't trust you with anything because you keep everything a secret! Just like Reno did and look where that landed my ass. I mean honestly how do I know that you even care about me in any sense of the word! I know you can manipulate those who have Jenova Cells, I talked to Cloud once about it. Hell, how do I know you aren't doing that to me? Manipulating me into caring about you.
"And don't give me shit about Tseng! He made his lapdog bed and he can rot on Ifrit's horns for all I care. Then there is Yazoo. What the fuck? I lied to him and all he can do is be understanding and calm about it? Out of all the low blowing, messed up, psycho trips...for once can't he be upset? Gaia I am sick of it all!"
Sephiroth was a man of patience, however her mentioning Jenova holding sway over him annoyed him,. It also didn't help that she compared him to a certain redheaded TURK who needed more than an attitude adjustment. The thing that really annoyed him was that he was accused of manipulating her, and he wouldn't dare do that. He cared too much about her to do that. He summoned his Masamune and with one blow, disarmed her from her gunblade. He watched it land across the room and watched Sukai make a facial expression that was feral and a growl.
"Bad move. Weapons only slow me down." She hissed as both of her hands lit up with the Lifestream.
Sephiroth found that was able to Dualcast, much like all of the First Class SOLDIERs could. However she used them with an uncanny efficiency and combined them rather than cast the same spell twice. Combining Haste with Gravity to double the effectiveness of the spells, increasing her speed to match Genesis. She studied his tactics as well and was able to cast spells ahead of him, making him maneuver more than he would normally. Sephiroth was impressed by her ability, but was far more annoyed with her. She had a deathwish, all the time she was casting she kept droning on about how he was taking it easy. Sephiroth could only fight very few people without killing them and she was not on that list.
Once he had enough, finally he summoned his weapon, the Masamune and hit her with his Octaslash, aiming to only disable her movements. Sukai took the force of the attack and kept coming. Sephiroth was thankful to see the various cuts along her legs and arms begin stitching themselves together. He knew that if it went on any longer, she would get seriously hurt. He then used Masamune and leveled it at her throat, hoping to stop her.
"Stop." He said calmly, trying to look her in the eye.
"He is going to kill me! I knew it." Sukai thought to herself as her inner voice came back.
"You started this mess. I don't think he wants to hurt you. "
Sukai ignored her inner voice and hit him with both spells, hoping to get him to back away from her, she needed the distance. She wanted the distance. She didn't want to admit that she liked him, maybe loved...no she couldn't love him. Just because she was having his child meant nothing, just that she was giving him a chance to do something he wouldn't normally. Giving him a normal life..and when she really thought about it; how many others would risk theirlives to give someone that? Did she really care that muchabout him?
Sephiroth did nothing to dodge was hit with the Energy first, causing him to let go and then he was hit with the Hell Thundaga. The effects of the Hell Thundaga, thankfully he had an Auto-Life Materia to nullify the Death effect of the Hell Thundaga. His legs buckled under him as the Paralysis tried to take hold, but he was resistant to all status effects, courteousy of the insane Hojo hitting him with the spells constantly for a few hours a day. He couldn't recall how many times he woke in the hospital when he was younger because he fell unconscious from Death, and Hojo would always be waiting for him with a punishment. However, the lightning coursing through his body did not help him control the urge to throw her against the wall and take her.
"Are you quite finished?" He asked, hoping to antagonize her again. He did not want to see her cry or feel sorry for herself, and anger burned out far quicker than misery did.
Sukai looked up at him and her jaw dropped. She found new strength as she reared back and kicked him, feeling something give way, hoping it wasn't her shin breaking. "Oh you sonna-bitch I am going to kill you."
Sephiroth chuckled as he felt the kick connect and he dispelled his blade before capturing her leg in his hand. He grasped her leg and tossed her away, watching as she gracefully twisted into the air and landed on the wall only to spring off. Instead of jumping to him, she cast a Gravity between her and her gunblade, causing it and her to be sucked in. She knew that Sephiroth's ability to teleport also made it hard for him to be hit with the spell, and he would avoid it. The spell allowed her to quickly retrieve her gun and augment it with spells. She fired off a couple of rounds, only to have him teleport closer and closer to her, avoiding the shots.
Before she knew it, he was on her. She slashed down with her weapon, only to have it caught in his hand. He disarmed her and Sephiroth pinned her down, Sukai fought to free herself as she kicked out at him only to have her caught with both of his arms, effectively pinning her legs to his side with one arm and pinned her hands above with his other. He leaned in close and licked a trail along her neck, feeling her shudder in his grasp.
"This isn't funny." She hissed. Not liking the fact she was now fully turned on.
"I wasn't trying to be." He answered."Now hold still or I will chain you to that wall."
Sukai's eyes flashed as her mind filled itself with certain thoughts. She bucked her hips and forced him back only long enough for her to retrieve her throwing knives, something she hardly ever used. In one fluid motion, she slid down the wall, under his legs, and behind him. She watched as he turned and when she thought she pinned him to the wall with her knives, she heard him chuckle darkly as she was tripped and forced down to the floor. The knives where then thrust into her simple tank top and elastic pants that she wore when she exercised.
Sukai fought as hard as she could pinned to the floor, but found it was no use when he retrieved her holder for the knives. He looked down at her and gave her a sadistic smile that would scare serial killers, and damn it if it didn't turn her on more.
"You have been hiding more than just your training sessions. I wonder how long you kept these hidden?"
"None of your busi- Oh!" Sukai moaned as he bit down on her neck with enough force to draw blood. He then gently licked the droplets that pooled on the surface and then pressed a kiss on her lips.
Sephiroth backed away and pressed a knife to her throat before she could move, he was teasing her to move, taking a chance on injuring herself to get to the target. Instead of pressing the blade farther into her skin, she felt the cool metal glide across her skin as a portion of her shirt was cut off. Sephiroth quickly pinned her arms down, tore the fabric in half, bound her arms, and pinned them with the knife. The second half of the fabric was used as a blind fold. After he was finished he whispered in her ear.
"We are going to play a game. I will ask you questions, for every truth..you are that much closer to forgetting everything. If you don't answer truthfully then I will make you wish you didn't lie. Understand?"
"He can't be serious.." Sukai thought to herself as she simply nodded.
"Good. Now who has hurt you the most?"
"Reno." She answered only to gasp as a hand harshly fisted its way into her hair. She could feel a few strands break free as he tightened his grip and forced her head to the side, trailing the knife along her neck above the artery there.
"Didn't I warn you?" He hissed in her ear.
"Tseng did! Are you happy, I trusted him with more than my life and he threw me away!"
"Tseng has his reasons to do what he does. You can't help that, and neither can I. Who do you hate?"
"Myself, I was petty and childish. There was no reason to keep that secret from Yazoo."
"You have no reason to hate yourself. What you did, you did out of love for a friend. I could not do more for anyone than what you did. However you showed us the truth when you felt it was right, we can't hate you for that, nor do any of us blame you. Now why are you afraid?" He asked as he let go of her hair and used the knife to free her from her pants.
"More specific." She answered getting nervous and very aroused.
"Why are you afraid of being useless?"
"I have always found a way of doing things. Now I can't figure out how to help you guys fight. Rufus wants our child for an experiment, the same one you went through. I can't allow that. My body is wasting away and I can't stop it...I don't fear death, just me being useless and caged."
Sephiroth cut open her shirt, though left her sports bra intact, for the moment. "You took a chance, and there are plenty more before our child is born. I will not allow Rufus to take either of you away. Do not expect me to let you die easily either, you are too beautiful for that. Now why do you not trust me?"
"I lo-" Sukai almost answered, "I care for you, more than I should. I don't want to end up hurt and destroyed like last time. I know you aren't him but I-"
"I care for you as well, Sukai, I would never hurt you, nor would I lie. We kept things from you to keep your stress down. Trust us when we say you do not want to know. We are figuring out how to save our child and you, and stressing you out is not way to do it. I will not chose one over the other." Sephiroth said before kissing her. Sukai could feel the cool metal tracing along her skin and could feel the fabric give way as he freed her from the confines of her clothes and kissed her skin where the Geostigma marred her body. "Nothing will take both of you from me."
"You-" Sukai tried to say before the soft kisses and caresses that were being given to her were driving her mad. "Okay next question!"
"There are no more. Now I am going to make you forget about everything. Your fears, your hate, your pain, and worries. There will be nothing left for you but me."
Sephiroth kissed every cut, bruise, and mark on her body, almost willing her pain to stop, and Godsbedamned if it didn't work. Gentle trails of his tongue left hot trails over her wounds and let his hands kneed her tense muscles before trailing gently down her body. He even watched as her body arched to meet the long tresses of his hair as they grazed her skin when he kissed her finger tips. Sukai bit her lip as he took his sweet time to trail his hands down her body, soothing her tension away, followed by kisses and the long silky strands of his hair gliding across her heated flesh. A low, throaty chuckle escaped his lips as he watched her turn into a mewling mess of soft pleas and moans. This would only be the first time that velvety, sweet voice in her ear would cause her to come undone.
"Patience." He whispered in her ear as he pulled off his shirt and discarded it. "I have yet to make you forget."
Sukai whined but it was soon turned to breathless pants when he continued his slow process of memorizing her and keeping his word. As he finished trailing her body, he backed away allowing his body to leave hers and watched as she slightly tensed up, feeling the chill of the air wrapping around her body.
"No fair! You can not leave me naked and tied up in a public training room." She said, voice cracked from her heavy breaths.
"I am not going to leave you here." He chuckled. "First I am going to show you what it means to make love then I am going to take you back to our room and spend the rest of the day taking care of you."
"MARRY ME!" Sukai's inner voice screamed. "I swear to fucking Leviathan you don't marry this man I will leave, marry him myself, and watch you wallow in misery and no sex drive."
However Sukai couldn't speak or argue with her inner voice as an emotion she hadn't felt in a long time hit her. Her lips curled into a sweet smile all on their own and it would not leave. All she could do was laugh at the thoughts of the Dread General taking care of her. Sephiroth however, was stunned to hear her laughter. It was pure happiness, something he had never heard before from her. He smiled contently and finished undressing before molding his body back to hers. She was far more willing to accept him into her, and kissed him on the nose as his face was close to hers.
Sephiroth just kissed her once more before he entered her completely in one fluid motion. He slowly dragged himself out of her only to thrust his way back in. Sukai was beyond words and possibly breath, feeling everythingthat Sephiroth was doing was maddening. With each gasp and half choked moan lost somewhere in the heavens, stuck between where time began and forever ended. She was drifting in the countless times her body betrayed her to his touch and released tension she did not know she owned, nor could tell if this was a dream or reality.
Sephiroth himself was having a hard time reigning in the threat of his passion taking over and taking her too quickly. Her walls clamped down on him every time he had to fight his own release, knowing he had to hold on a little longer for her. She had yet to come undone, completely. Something was holding her back. He could feel her writhe in pleasure but he could also feel the small wall her true self was hiding under. The place he wanted, and needed to be. He steeled himself against her body and leaned close to her ear whispering all the things he loved about her. Slowly he could feel that wall breaking down and finally the wall caved as he let go of himself and her in three simple words. She came undone and shattered completely, her shell broken, revealing the beauty underneath.
"I love you." He repeated after finally returning to reality.
Sukai looked at him and tears fell from her eyes. "I love you, Sephiroth. Thank you." She was no longer afraid of admitting it. He found her when no one else had, not a convenience, not the inventor technical genius, or the hot girl, ex-Turk..but her.
True to his word, Sephiroth gave her his shirt he was wearing, and laughed when it was far too large for her small frame, but it covered her nicely. After he finished dressing himself, he teleported them into their quarters and lay her out on the bed. She looked at him with curious eyes as he sat down beside her.
"What do you want me to do?" He asked, laughing at the shocked expression on her face.
"You were serious." Sukai said, though it sounded more like a question.
"Yes." He said before kissing her on the cheek.
"Who are you and where is my Seph!" Sukai half teased. "Alright, fine. Tomorrow we are sleeping in and today you can do what you want. This is...I have never had this before."
"Then I shall wait until you think of something." He sighed before getting dressed. A low rumbling noise and Sukai talking to her belly caused him to fall off the bed laughing.
"Not funny! I swear yourkid eats enough to feed the an entire army!" She pouted.
"It is your child as well, Sukai. Alright, dinner it is." He said. "Shall I bring it to you?"
"I like eating with everyone. They are my family." She said trying to get up. Sephiroth only picked her up and carried her the entire way to the dinning hall, after she was dressed of course. This caused Sukai to freak out in Wutaian and Common about how ridiculous it was. It also didn't help that most everyone was already there when they appeared. Sukai just looked at them and then back at Sephiroth before they both smiled. "Anyone says anythingabout this...Off with your head."
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