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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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A.N. LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG overdue! I realize that many of you will tell me that Kadaj is horribly out of character. This is what I have to say to that: In the canon-verse, he WOULD be OOC. However, as much as it may resemble canon, it is not. After the build up, nd the changes everyone has gone through, this is how I see Kadaj to be. I hope you all enjoy it, and I hope that you feel it is as touching as I wanted it to be! R&R!
Chapter 31: Sticky Situations
Kadaj let out a sigh of relief as Harmony passed beneath him.
Any other situation, any other person... Kadaj would have laughed until h e pissed himself at the position he found himself in; using all of his strength to hold himself to a pipe on the ceiling to avoid being spotted by his lover.
They weren't even playing one of their silly games of hide'n'seek. He was simply avoiding a private conversation. He hated the terror that those thoughts inspired in h im. Fear that she would hate him, would leave him, would call him a monster and tell him to never speak to her again... He'd been doing everything in his Jenova-enhanced power to make sure that she didn't catch him alone.
Checking the halls once more to ensure that she had indeed passed far enough that she wouldn't hear him, he let himself drop, flipping gracefully around to land on his feet and stalking down the hallway in the opposite direction that his love had gone.
"You can't avoid us forever, you know." Came a voice from his left as he passed a corridor. He glanced sideways to find Cissnei leaning against the wall. "You and Yazoo have been avoiding us for days. Its getting kind of old."
"It isn't any of your business." Kadaj snapped, flinching and looking behind him to make sure that his voice had not alerted Harmony to his direction.
Cissnei smirked. "You're both acting like frightened children. You.. well I expect it from you. I did, however, think that your brother was more mature than that. Butch up and face your fears! You're both so worried that we'll hate you, but all you're doing by avoiding us is prolonging what you think to be the inevitable. You won't give us the chance to even talk to you guys about everything. I know that Harmony's not going to hate you, or leave you... but even if she was, do you think hiding from her would change it?"
"Drop it, Cissnei!" Kadaj hissed. "Its not. Your. Business. Yazoo's thing is your business. Harmony and I... its just not your business."
"Great defense. Very repetitive. You're only proving that you know I'm right."
"Shut up!" Kadaj cried, turning to walk away. His eyes went wide when he heard Hamony's voice around the corner.
"I knew you were here somewhere, Kadaj! Don't move!" She called out, her voice becoming louder as she closed in on him.
"Shit!" He growled, rushing past Cissnei and into the supply... room. He refused to call it a closet. He wasn't hiding in a closet.
"Which way did he go?" He heard Harmony's voice from the corridor.
"I didn't see. Remnant speed and all. Can we talk?" Cissnei's voice asked.
"Sure. Lets go to the mess hall. This chase has me absolutely starving."
Kadaj felt a cold chill take him. This did not bode well.
!#$%^&*()
"So all I have to do it break the shell and it'll trap him in goo?" Harmony asked.
"Pretty much. That's all there is to it." Sukai answered, happy that her gummy bomb idea wasn't forgotten, after all.
"So you'll hit Yazoo with a stop spell, and I'll herd Kadaj into the the port side corridor on the engine level. Once Yazoo is incapacitated, you'll find us and nail Kadaj with the gummy bomb." Cissnei said.
"That's the plan." Harmony nodded.
"Great. This'll be cake. Easy as pie." Sukai said with a grin. Payback is so sweet.
!#$%^&*()
Yazoo panted as he jumped over the vicious swing of the behemoth's tail. This simulation was one of his favorites, simply because no matter how good you are, taking on a behemoth all by yourself takes patience, and strategy. With a mighty war cry, he flung himself at the beast's head, having already beat it down enough to deliver the final blow, and planted the tanto he held deep within the beast's brow.
As the simulation pixellated into fading fragments, Harmony's excited voice reached him from the control area.
"That was great, Yazoo!" She said sweetly.
He smiled tiredly. "Thanks. What's up? Were you looking to spar?"
Harmony shook her head, grinning inside. "Actually, I really wanted to show you what Sukai taught me. Care to indulge me?"
Yazoo shrugged. "Sure. Have at it." It couldn't have been anything that bad, Harmony was not versed in materia use enough for Sukai to have taught her anything offensive in nature.
Harmony smirked. It was really funny that none of them thought her capable of manipulation or trickery. Raising the glowing green materia to her side, she remembered what Sukai had told her.
"You've gotten pretty good a focusing direction, but now you need to focus on the spell itself. I know that you've seen us cast without the incantations, but you'll have to say the spell for now. The spell for this one is 'Stop'. That is all you need to know for now. Don't forget to gag him, or he'll dispel it. You'll have to move quickly."
Harmony took a deep breath, focusing her will into the materia, and directing it at the Remnant before her. When she felt the power build, she released the breath, along with the one word that she needed.
"Stop!" She called.
Yazoo gasped and tried to dodge, having not been expecting something like that. Unfortunately, his underestimation of the witch's intentions proved to be his downfall and he grit his teeth as his body was forced to freeze.
"Nice." He said through forcefully gritted teeth. "But what if your opponent can-" His words were cut off with a muffled sound of shock as Harmony lunged at him, wrapping a gauze bandage around his mouth and tying it off.
"What are you doing?" He tried to say, but through the gag, it sounded more like 'mf mr moo moim?'
"Sorry Yazoo, but you and Kadaj have acted this way long enough. Cissnei will be along shortly and I'm sure that she'll dispel this. I uh... I would, but Sukai didn't teach me that." With that, she grinned innocently, turning around and all but skipping out the door. Mercifully, she hit the button to close the shutters... saving him from the humiliation of others passing and seeing him in this state.
!#$%^&*()
Cissnei was breathing hard, her legs burning with strain. Keeping up with the Remnant was a task that she knew would be difficult, but this was unreal. She knew he was right in front of her, but he was able to maintain just enough distance and she couldn't force herself to move faster... haste spell and all. Still... they were almost there, and she had made sure that all doors and alcoves that the man could hide in had been sealed off.
'Tseng, if you weren't such a jerk, I'd thank you for the years I spent as a Turk under your command!' She thought to herself. She then pulled her wrist to her mouth as she counted the second to last corner.
"Keeper," she snickered at the codename, "R-One is closing in. Prepare for confrontation."
"Got it! Thanks, Inferno. Sly's waiting at the previously discussed location." Came Harmony's voice.
Cissnei grinned, but the look soon faded. She already knew what she was going to do... and to do it, she'd have to call upon every single piece of her Turk training.
Whispering a soft 'Good luck' in Harmony's direction, she whipped around, racing back through the hallways to get to the simulation room. The sooner she could do this, the better it would be for everyone involved.
!#$%^&*()
Kadaj knew that they were up to something. Cissnei had been chasing him through the airship for twenty minutes! Normally, he wouldn't run from her, but somehow, he knew that she'd have Harmony on her side. Both of them seemed adamant about making this happen as soon as possible.
He couldn't bear it. He knew that she'd leave him. He saw the look on her face that day. She may have said that it wasn't him, that she wasn't angry, or afraid... but he could see it in her eyes. She didn't know what to think about it all...
He shook his head and slowed to a walk, turning the corner and looking over his shoulder just as he heard Cissnei's footsteps finally moving away from him.
"Hi." He heard. He whipped his head around and his eyes went wide. He opened his mouth to make an excuse to leave, when she pulled her hand from her pocket and threw a little ball at him.
He'd seen it before.
The ball hit the ground behind him and exploded, a flood of sticky, gooey, slimy muck blasting his body forward. He collided with Harmony, hearing her cry of alarm and then groan of pain when her back hit the wall, their chests pressed securely together.
Instantly, the mass of goo hardened, creating a concrete like shell around the two, their heads being the only things visible.
"Well that wasn't supposed to happen... I don't think..." Harmony muttered.
Kadaj forgot about his anxiety in her presence just enough to stare at her in slight anger. "You got something from Sukai and didn't bother to find out exactly what it does?"
A loud beep from the intercom above their heads interrupted the would-be argument. "Hey Hari. Payback is such a bitch. Don't you ever lock me in a closet again. That'll loosen up in three or so hours. Hope it all works out! I'll let everyone know that the corridor is... off limits... for a while." Came Sukai's voice.
Harmony rolled her eyes, but when she thought about it, this wasn't really a bad thing. This way, Kadaj couldn't run from her, couldn't slam her into a wall and make mad, passionate love to her to make her forget her anger, and he had to look at her when she spoke.
Kadaj was growling all sorts of malevolent threats in the Inventor's name, but was stopped when Harmony placed her lips against his. He tensed and jerked his head back as far as he could.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"Sorry, I can't move my hands to cover your mouth... I had to improvise." She could see the fear and anxiety in her Remnant's eyes, and it struck her that until this moment, she'd had no idea the depth of his feelings toward her, if the though of her leaving him could reduce such a powerful man like him... to this.
Kadaj stared back into her eyes, searching, almost pleading that she just get it over with so that he could ignore her until the gummy bomb softened enough that he could leave.
"Why are you doing this, Kadaj?" Harmony said, her voice as gentle as she could force it to be.
Kadaj thought about what he could say to her. Nothing that he could think of could even come close to what he was feeling. He just kept seeing her eyes... the look on her face when Yazoo told her how he had killed that kid. She was terrified. The look she gave him was shock, disbelief, anger, despair, and fear all thrown together. She was afraid of him. That hurt... and it terrified him, as well. In all the time they spent together in her world... even when Jenova had taken him over and he had nearly killed her... she'd never looked at him like that. Even when he pushed harder than he should have, just so that he could touch her, she never looked at him like that. When she watched him kill those GR members in his brutal, cruel rage, she didn't look t him like that.
"Like I'm a monster..." He unknowingly whispered aloud.
"What was that?" Harmony asked. She'd heard him, but she wanted him to say it straight.
"You looked at me... like you thought I was a monster. Like... like you were afraid that one day... I might turn on you." He shook his head. If she was going to leave him, he'd take it with all the ego that he could muster. "It doesn't matter. Whatever you have to say, just say it."
Harmony blinked. "Okay. I'll say it. But please-" she stressed, "don't interrupt me."
Kadaj clenched his jaw and nodded. This was it.
"I'll admit, when I first heard what you had done to the boy I was angry, and a little afraid." At his hurt expression, she rushed to clarify. "But it only lasted for a second. I'm sorry, Kadaj. I'm sorry that I made you think that I thought of you that way. It was a shock... I knew what you were capable of... but to hear that you had actually done something like that... it broke through my mind and for a split second, I was afraid of you. But then... I realized that it doesn't matter. It isn't your fault. When they took you... they took away everything that made you human. They turned you into a killing machine, a broken, used puppet. And then Jenova... she knew how shattered your soul was, and she took advantage of it. Loz... he was so naive and childish... even with his strength, she knew that he'd be useless to her... Yazoo... he was broken, too, but was old enough when they took him that he was able to maintain a shred of his humanity. It had to be you. She used your own fear, your deepest, darkest desires, and promised you that she could make them a reality.
How could you have done anything different? You were a lost soul, a child that wanted only to be reunited with the other half of his spirit... his twin. Though I can't say that I agree with what happened, I can understand why it happened. You had just escaped from Hell. Literally. After the torment that you all went through, you were free. Then there were the boy, and the other one. They had willingly given up their souls for power, for twisted life, for tainted freedom. In your broken state, how could you think that they wouldn't have betrayed you?
I know that you think that I'm going to leave you. That everything you hoped for and worked for... for seven years... will be for nothing. But Kadaj... I won't. I can't. I knew who you were. The first thing that I demanded was the story of your world. I know what you did, before Cloud was forced to kill you. I know that in that final moment, Jenova abandoned you. I know that she betrayed you, before that, by allowing Sephiroth to take over your body, and I know that you knew it would happen.
I saw something deeper in you. I saw strength, I saw power and devotion and determination... just aimed in the wrong direction. I... I wanted to help you, but I didn't know how. And then... you started showing interest. You kissed me, and it was unlike any kiss that I had ever had. It melted away my own past, you made it disappear. When you touched me, I was afraid... but not of you. Was afraid that I would remember that night, and I would disappoint you with my inability to completely give myself to you.
But you kept pushing. You refused to let me lose myself to my fears, refused to let me fear you at all. You demanded that I let go, and I could do nothing but give in to you. You put me back together, Kadaj. Let me do the same for you. Don't hide from me anymore." Harmony's speech cut off with a sob as she lay her head against his throat, her hot tears scalding his skin.
"Let me be what you lost. Let me be the other half of your soul."
Kadaj let out a shuddering breath, wishing that he could move his arms to hold her to him. She didn't hate him. She wasn't going to leave him. She had just offered her very soul to him.
Harmony jerked up to face him when she felt a hot tear drip down the back of her neck.
Kadaj... was... crying?
"I love you." He said in a tortured voice. "You already are the other half of my soul. If I lost you... there would be no reason. If I lost you, I'd be nothing. I was nothing... for seven years."
Harmony sobbed, her head falling once again to rest her wet cheek against his. "I'm sorry... I'm so sorry that I hurt you."
"I'm sorry, too. I promise, Hari. I promise that I'll do everything I can to make this work, to get our daughter back... and we can live the life that we both deserve... the life that I was promised."
The clicking of boots against metal floors caught their attention. Kadaj hurriedly burying his face in Harmony's neck to hide the redness of his eyes from whomever was intruding on their moment.
"Its Sukai." Harmony whispered as the inventor drew closer to the two.
"What do you want?" Kadaj asked, his voice muffled by Harmony's skin.
"I came to get you guys out of this. I have a solvent." She held up a small bottle of liquid, unscrewing the cap and pulling out the dripper. Very carefully, she let three drops fall onto different places on the giant hunk of solidified goo.
Immediately, the substance started to disintegrate.
"What is that?" Harmony asked.
"Hydrochloric acid." Sukai said. "Do not get that on your skin. As a matter of fact, both of you need to get straight into a shower as soon as you can get free."
With that, the Inventor turned and briskly left the area. She had heard Harmony's whole speech, and what she had said about Kadaj becoming Sephiroth.
She had a lot of questions that needed answering.
By the time Sukai's footsteps had faded to nothing, the acid had done its job. Kadaj grunted as he stumbled backwards as soon as he was free, catching Harmony in his arms as she fell forward.
"Thanks." She whispered when he pulled her up level with him. He gave her a soft smirk – her favorite of all his expressions – the corner of his mouth twitching up in an undeniably sexy crooked grin.
He pressed his lips to her forehead, slowly trailing his mouth down the side of her face to her cheek, finally turning his head to kiss her properly. Her lips trembled beneath his, a choked sob escaping her to pour down his throat.
He pulled away and wrapped his arms around her shaking shoulders. "What's wrong?" He whispered.
"I trust you, Kadaj. I trust you with all of me... please. Please tell me that you trust me. Trust me enough to know that when I say I'll never leave you... I mean I'll never... leave you."
Kadaj sighed into her hair. "I trust you."
With that, he gathered her into his arms, setting his feet and preparing for the mad dash to their room. He could already feel the tingling burn as the acid Sukai had used started to eat through his clothes. "Hold on to me." He warned.
Harmony smiled. "Of course."
All the others on the airship could feel was a rush of wind as the Remnant used his gifted speed to reach his room in record time. Once there, he said nothing, just carried Harmony into his private bathroom before setting her on her feet on the cool floor.
He smiled as he rested his hands on her shoulders, pushing oversized neckline of her smooth cotton dress down her arms, catching the straps of her bra on the way. Harmony returned the smile and helped him, shrugging the shirt off of her shoulders and reaching behind her to release the clasp of her bra. With a languid roll of her shoulders, the dress pooled at her feet, her hands lifting to catch in the hem of his shirt and pull it over his head as his own hands worked to release the button of his leather pants, the fabric then hurriedly pushed down his pale legs to join her dress on the floor.
Stepping around her, Kadaj pulled the faucet in the shower, holding his hand under the flow of water until it was warm. With an intense gaze, he stepped under the spray, grasping Harmony's hand and pulling her to join him. No words were spoken as he slowly backed her under the spray, his hands tangling in her hair to pull her head back, letting the water soak her lovely golden-brown locks as he sealed his lips to hers.
Harmony's hands drifted over Kadaj's lithe body, reaching behind her to retrieve the soap and then running her slick hands over the tense muscles of the Remnant's back.
Kadaj sighed into her mouth, sucking on her bottom lip as he worked shampoo into her hair.
The two spend long minutes silently bathing each other, their lips only parting when they had to move, and by the time Kadaj hoisted her up between himself and the tiled wall, relief was overdue.
Harmony whimpered as Kadaj slid into her, his arms holding her to him, one under her thigh, and the other wrapped around her back, under her arm. She threaded her fingers through his silver hair, tugging gently at the fine hairs on the nape of his neck as her mouth attached itself to his shoulder.
"Je t'aime, Harmony. J'ai toujours fait, je le ferai toujours. Tu es mon autre moitié." He rasped in her ear, amazed that his native tongue came to him so easily after so many years of not using it.
"Kadaj?" She sighed back, not sure what he said, but positive that his voice speaking to her in a language that sounded very much like French was one of the hottest things she'd ever heard.
"I love you." He translated. "I always have, I always will. You are my other half."
Harmony sobbed and drover her mouth to his, her fingernails digging into his shoulders as her hips bucked against his.
Kadaj smiled against her lips, kissing her back with as much passion as he could muster, his hand snaking between them to rub and pinch the bundle of nerves that would end her desperation.
"Kadaj!" She gasped, shuddering as his fingers worked magically against her, the slow heat that had build finally exploding as she trembled and quaked around him.
Kadaj joined her with a hiss, slamming against her one final time and holding her in place with his hips.
They stayed there, joined together against the tile until the water ran cold, Kadaj then lifting his sleepy lover's wet body and carrying her to his bed. It was barely noon but, he figured, they could lay here a while and just be together. They had a lot of time to make up for.
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