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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

Chapter List
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Chapter 5

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"I can't believe he sent us to bed with no dinner!"

Zack pulled at the cuffs again, his eyes searching for the clock in Seph's room. Midnight, they had now been locked to the bed for 3 hours!

Tseng had moved all 4 to the bed locking them to the bedpost, Seph had been taken from the room as he had started to have a mini melt down finally and so it was now just Cloud, Genesis, Angeal and himself, Vincent had been given his own room just off the Turks.

"There is no hate, only joy for you are.." three bare feet shot across the bed shoving Genesis off the side of the bed. Chuckling Angeal shook his head laying it back down on the pillow, "Should have seen that one coming Gen." when Zack and Cloud didn't have food for a while they both became pretty pissy.

Sitting up Zack regarded the two left on the bed, his hands resting on his folded legs. "What the hell is the deal with that Vincent guy? He's a walking doppelganger of Sephiroth."

"I know it's strange, the two are almost identical, you don't think?" Cloud and Zack exchanged a look, "He did claim to be working as a Turk with Sephiroth's real mom, you don't think they?"

Angeal sat up slightly regarding the two younger boys; he knew this would come up soon. "It is a possibility; we don't know anything about the time Seph was conceived."

"Is there any way we can find out for sure?"

Sighing softly Angeal knew they were going to get into really deep shit for this, but it would be well worth it if they could put some of their friend's fears to rest and give him the peace of mind he needed.

"Gen."

"On it!" Gen popped up laying his arms on the bed a smug smile plastered on this face. "Hey, how did you get out of your cuffs?"

Genesis smile only got larger at that, "you haven't seen my arrest record have you." With that he jumped up and silently padded from the room.

"Arrest record?"

Cloud started to laugh; he had completely forgotten Genesis had this bad boy streak in him. "Genesis has a nasty habit of stealing Sephiroth's bike and driving 140 down the freeway… and getting caught."

"Bloody adrenalin junkie, how in the world does he get a hold of Seph's bike?" Sephiroth was ultra anal about his precious bike, none of them were allowed to even go near it let alone take it out for a joy ride.

"Infinite in mystery is the gift from the goddess. We seek it thus." Grabbing his pillow Zack started to pummel Cloud with it. "Don't you dare start that!" Laughing a full out hand cuffed pillow fight erupted.

Padding down the hall on bare feet Genesis stopped just outside Tseng's door. Thankfully if anyone came out they wouldn't think twice about the tall auburn haired man in a white t-shirt and red flannel sleep pants running around barefoot at midnight.

Moving up to the door he pressed an ear against it, from within he could make out two breathing patterns, one easily recognized as Sephiroth's deep easy breathing showing he was out cold. The second set was equally as deep showing that Tseng was also fast asleep. Taking a quick glance around he checked for the tell tale signs of camera's, not seeing any he gently tried the door.

The knob turned soundlessly the door opening silently, /Strange../ Tseng almost always locked the door. It was probably because Sephiroth was in the room, when the boy was still half asleep he would rather just bust the door down then wake up enough to turn the lock and had done so on many occasions.

Thankfully the hallway was just as dark as the room inside so no light would seep into the room; Turks were just as highly trained as SOLDIER and would wake up at something new in the room. This meant that Genesis was going to have to pull in on all his stealth training.

Slipping into the room as silently as possible he narrowed his eyes trying to hide their glow as much as possible, if Tseng woke up he would be able to tell it was him just by seeing his eyes. Making sure to avoid bags that were littering the floor, he moved quickly through the room his eyes searching for the laptop Tseng always had on him.

Spotting it sitting innocently on the small table in the room he smiled despite himself. Checking to make sure no wires were attached to the laptop or alarms he made quick work of snatching up the laptop. Turning to where the bed was he felt jealously start growing in his chest.

Sephiroth and Tseng lay asleep on top of the covers, Tseng fast asleep on his back with Seph curled up against his side head resting on his shoulder one of his long arms draped over Tseng's waist. Tseng in turn had one of his arms wrapped around Sephiroth's back his hand resting lazily against his hip. His other arm was laying across the arm that was draped over his stomach, the fingers gently wrapped around the bare arm.

They were still fully dressed showing they had fallen asleep on accident, though Sephiroth had stripped his sweatshirt off and was in just a black wife beater.

Gripping the laptop harder Genesis fought a growl down, he knew he wasn't the most comforting person in the world but he was still his lover Sephiroth should have been coming to him. Shaking his current thoughts from his head he silently moved from the room silently shutting the door behind him.

Quickly padding off to their room he slipped in shutting the door and locking it. "You get it?" turning he held up the laptop. "of course, how did you guys get out of your cuffs?" Zack and cloud were both sitting in the middle of the bed clearly cuff free with Angeal sitting in a chair next to the bed.

"Rude came in about 3 minutes ago to unlock us, we told him you really had to shit and were in the bathroom."

"You told Rude I was in the bathroom taking a shit?" Genesis sounded absolutely appalled at that. "We couldn't tell him you broke out of your cuffs to sneak into Tseng's room to steal his laptop." Angeal chuckled standing up and set a hand on his friends shoulder. "Don't worry Genesis, it's a natural function we all do it." Genesis was a very vain man and always tried to hide when he went to the bathroom.

"Yeah trust me Genesis we all know you go." Zack waved a hand in front of his nose. Genesis turned as red as his pants, "shut up I was sick that day." Moving over to the edge of the bed Cloud reached out and pulled the blushing man down onto the bed next to him and wrapped his arms around him. "I think it's cute you try to hide it." Growling Genesis shoved Clouds head away. "Shut up."

"Alright, enough teaseing Genesis we only got a short window before Tseng wakes up and realize his laptop is gone."

Staying in Clouds arms Genesis pulled the lid up, almost instantly the screen clicked on, one thing nice is Tseng never shut his computer off. The Shinra logo flashed on the screen for a second before the little box for ID and password popped up.

"Alright, let's see if it's still the same as last time." Fingers flying across the keyboard Genesis hit enter. The screen flashed before an "Access Denied" flashed on the screen.

"Damn it, he changed it."

Reaching over Zack snatched the laptop from Genesis fingers and sat down his fingers flying across the key board at a rapid rate.

"What are you doing?"

"Hacking."

"Hacking?"

Zack nodded happily grinning as he presented a now unlocked laptop. "Everyone's got to have a hobby."

Angeal frowned at his student. "There is a difference between a hobby and an illegal hobby." "Hush Angeal, his illegal activity came in handy." Genesis waved Angeal off already pulling up the program they would need. The reason they had stolen Tseng's laptop is he had full access to the Shinra database and his laptop was the only one that was not under any form of monitoring, perk of being the boss of the Turks.

"First off let's prove Mr. Vampire's story." Pulling up the main page for Shinra employee's he brought up the search option. "What was the name of the person he claims it Seph's mother?"

"Lucrecia, think Crescent is what Vincent said." Cloud said trying to remember exactly what the strange man in the coffin had said.

"Lucrecia is not a common name, if there are any in Shinra it will pull up." "Narrow it down to the science department, if nothing shows up there we can do a sweep of the whole data base." Zack said his arms thrown over Clouds shoulders his chin resting on Cloud's right shoulder. This was a normal position for them when they were just lounging about, Genesis and Zack might butt heads a lot but the whole group was extremely close to one another.

Typing in the name Genesis did as Zack said narrowing it down to the science department. It seemed like he had barely hit the enter key when the window flashed opening up a second with an ID card.

"Wow, guess that isn't a common name."

"She's beautiful." Cloud looked over the picture, showed a beautiful young woman with long brown hair and brown eyes. She had a very gentle and caring looking face, looking her over he could see a lot of Sephiroth in her.

"He looks so much like her, they have the same nose and he got her lips."

Cloud looked over to her information, a huge red "M.I.A." was stamped across the information on her ID card.

"You don't think Hojo did something to her?" Zack shook his head looking at the screen, "that sounds exactly like something he would do."

"Genesis." Nodding Genesis shrunk that window down and brought up a second program, it took him a few minutes to get where he needed occasionally having to hold the laptop up so Zack could do his magic with passwords they needed.

Setting the laptop down on his lap Genesis laid his head back into the side of Clouds neck, he always did this when he was getting anxious. Feeling weight on his thigh he didn't even look up knowing it was Angeal. Reaching down he gently wrapped his fingers around his best friends hand, he knew this wasn't like he was looking up his birth records but Sephiroth was not only his lover but one of his best friends.

They were doing a DNA search; there was no way to narrow it down so they had to do a broad search based on one person. Because you needed a first and last name they were unable to search through Sephiroth resulting in them having to do the long search of going through Lucrecia.

It took for what felt like an eternity for the little hour glass to vanish. "Match" Flashed across the screen before switching to a new one. Up top showed Lucrecia's ID card bellow it Sephiroth's flashed onto the screen the words "DNA match: Parental"

"Vincent wasn't lying, thats really Sephiroth's real mom. Hojo has been lying to him all these years."

"That greasy son of a bitch." Zack growled, his hands fisting unconsciously into Genesis shirt. "Genesis turn the laptop this direction." Confused Genesis did as Angeal told him. Reaching into his jacket pocket Angeal pulled out his camera and turned it on. "We won't have access to this again, and we need proof." Making sure the picture wasn't going to be blurry Angeal snapped a couple pictures just to be safe.

"Got it,"

Turning the laptop back Genesis brought up a new search, with Tseng knowing that Vincent was a Turk they didn't have to look him up in the system, all former employee's were kept in the Data banks. Punching his name in they sat back once more.

This search seemed to take even longer, wondering if the computer froze Genesis wiggled his finger across the small mouse pad. The screen flashed "Match" two little icons appeared next to the word, clicking on the top one the ID card of a gruff looking man appeared above the ID card of a shorter haired Vincent.

"Grimoire Valentine, that must be his father." Reaching around Genesis Cloud clicked that screen off and went back to the original screen, his fingers starting to shake a little he clicked on the second link.

Instantly it brought up the familiar ID of the ex Turk, bellow it flashed the ever more familiar ID card of the Silver General. Beside it were the words "DNA Match: Parental"

"I don't believe it!" the four of them all stared at the small screen their minds all reeling. "Does anyone else find it strange that we just happened to discover Sephiroth's biological father here in Nibelheim?"

Zack started to bounce on the bed, reaching a hand up Genesis clapped it over Zack's mouth. "You say Jinkie's, we got a mystery on our hands I'm going to run you through with Masamune."

The boys all laughed at this as Zack deflated against clouds shoulder.

The sounds of the door knob turning ceased all laughter, Genesis quickly shut the laptop and shoved it in-between him and Cloud just as the door opened revealing Tseng, his black hair sticking up slightly showing he had just woken up.

Though his hair suggested he had just rolled out of bed, his eyes were very much so awake and were glaring at the four boys. As one they all swallowed nervously, Zack unwrapped himself from around Cloud and bounded over to the Turk. "What's up dad?"

Tseng glared down at Zack causing the first to shrink a little and move back out of the way. Moving into the room he shut the door instantly locking it. "We're in trouble.." cloud whispered his arms tightening a little around Genesis, all four of them could be kicked from SOLDIER for this.

Not saying a word Tseng came to stand between Genesis and Angeal, his black eyes looking like solid stone of onyx as he regarded Genesis. Silently he held out his hand, lowering his head Genesis reached behind him and pulled out the laptop.

He may have been SOLDIER but Tseng always managed to make him feel like a little child. Taking his laptop from Genesis he silently flipped it open and typed in his password. The screen flashed before showing what exactly the boys had been doing. Slowly Tseng's black eyes widened as they swept over what the boys had discovered.

Closing his eyes he took a deep breath and closed the laptop. He couldn't be mad at the boys; they were looking out for one of their own. Opening his eyes once more he regarded the four boys sitting on the bed.

"You will not reveal what you found to anyone, Sephiroth included is that understood?"

"How come? Wouldn't it be better for him to know?" Cloud asked disentangling himself from Genesis and moved to sit next to him.

"We will when the time is right, right now if we threw this on top of everything else it would destroy him. We need to speak with a certain Ex-Turk before hand, find out exactly how he came to be the biological father."

"Well that's obvious, come on Tseng you know that when two people love each other." A pillow nailed Zack full in the face sending him sprawling across the bed. Pulling his arm back Tseng tossed the pillow back to its proper place at the head of the bed. "Keep that up puppy and you'll be put on a leash the rest of this trip."

Grinning broadly Zack sat back up rubbing the back of his head.

Laying the laptop against his hip Tseng once more regarded the boys his eyes hard. "As I stated before, you will keep this information confidential until I deem it ready to be released. That's an order."

"Yes sir." The boys all echoed SOLDIER mode clicking in on all of them.

Nodding Tseng left the room; closing the door silently he couldn't help the smile and a small little fist pump. He honestly wanted to go run down and tell Sephiroth right now that Hojo was not his father, he would have to hold onto this information for now Sephiroth was not taking this well and would have to be watched for a while.

Sighing softly he reached up and pulled some of his long hair forward regarding it. "Not gray yet.. I will be by the end of this vacation at this rate." Releasing his hair he headed back to his room.

Slowly Red eyes revealed themselves from the dark shadows of the hallway. /Lucrecia..why didn't you ever tell me./

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"BONZAI!"

Cloud squeaked loudly as a massive weight suddenly landed on him. Sitting up he was met with glowing green eyes. "Sephiroth?"

Pushing himself up into a sitting position Sephiroth smiled taking another drink of his energy drink. Tseng had revealed this morning that he had been fucking with Sephiroth as pay back for the golden saucer and still had a ton of his drink's left. Starting to bounce much like Zack did he reached out and pulled on clouds hand. "Come on, up! We're going to hit the hills today."

Allowing himself to be pulled up into a sitting position Cloud rubbed his eyes trying to wake up. He took notice that Genesis was missing though he could hear the water running in the bathroom showing where the red head was.

"How many of those have you had already Sephiroth?"

Looking to the drink in his hand Sephiroth started to count on his fingers. "11 including this one."

Oh lord, Sephiroth was on a sugar high.

"Are you doing okay?" he was concerned for his lover that was a blow last night. Slowly Sephiroth lowered his drink his fingers absently playing with the tab.

"It's hard to wrap my mind around, but I'm doing alright. Tseng and I spoke a lot last night and I'm actually kind of glad, I know now that there are people out there willing to tell me the truth, not the lies I know Hojo has been feeding me since I was young."

Taking a swig of his drink he smiled again, "it's actually a large weight off my shoulders." He was just about to take another drink when two hands wrapped themselves along his throat the fingers gently pulling his head back.

Tilting his head back he melted as warm lips captured his with a gentleness of a fluttering butterfly. Genesis could be brutal most the time but he could have the lightest touch when it mattered. "I'm glad to hear you are doing alright." Releasing his face Genesis moved over to get dressed. "Did I hear right that we are hitting the slopes today?"

"Yep, Tseng says dress warm cause we'll be out there probably most the day."

Pushing himself out of bed Cloud headed for the shower.

"Cloud." Stopping at the door he looked back.

"You steal my shampoo again you're going to be my next training dummy."

Laughing Cloud stuck his tongue out at Sephiroth before racing into the bathroom room locking the door behind him.

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Nearly an hour later found the group clambering out of the black van onto hard packed snow and ice that was the parking lot.

Stepping from the van Sephiroth looked around, as it had been the whole week his hair was pulled up into a pony tail at the back of his head, he was already wearing his sun glasses. He looked around seeing all the cars in the parking lot, "I thought you said this was a smaller run." There were hundreds of cars out here and people milling about heading for the lodge and hills.

"I said it was smaller and more out of the way then Icicle Inn." Smiling Cloud moved back towards the second van where all their boards were. Reno and Rude were already out unloading them, pulling the first one out Reno looked over the design. Was a simple black board with a silver fenrir in the center on the bottom of the board. "Yo, who's got the creepy looking wolf?"

"It's a fenrir, and it's not creepy." Cloud grabbed his board and stalked off muttering about dead Turks insulting his board. Rude rolled his eyes under his glasses and pulled a long board out of the back; this one has a skeleton dressed in Wutai battle armor riding a horse that was turning into a skeleton. It was all done in shades of sepia giving it an ancient look.

"Boss is this yours?" he asked Tseng. Moving over to the van Tseng shook his head. "No that is Sephiroth's." looking at the board once more he leaned it up against the side of the van. "Nice board."

Reaching in Tseng pulled out his board today was a day when they were all allowed to relax and have fun and you really think he was going to miss out on the chance to show the general up? Oh hell no! it was time to show these super enhanced SOLDIER that skill could beat out their power and speed. He might have been the oldest of the bunch at 30 but he could still whip these youngins.

Pulling out the next board Reno didn't even have to ask whose it was as he caught the black and red script along the bottom of the white board. What else would Genesis have on his board but LOVELESS. Setting it next to Sephiroth's he pulled out a pair of skies. "Who's got the grandpa skies?"

"Those are mine." Angeal gently took them from Reno not even going to comment about the grandpa part.

"Seriously Angeal?" Zack grabbed his board out of the back before the Turks could. "I learned on skies, I prefer them to snowboards." Rolling his eyes under his glasses Zack scoffed heading over to where Cloud was standing. "if I didn't know your real age I would say you were a lot older than 23."

"Thank you."

"That wasn't supposed to be a compliment!"

Making sure the vans were securely locked Tseng moved over to the last of their motley crew. Vincent looked so out of place with his long red cloak and metal gloved hand. It was weird looking at the man now knowing he was Sephiroth's biological father. He could now see what the boys had seen last night; they were really close in appearance sharing the same narrow almond shaped eyes and cheek structure, even their body structure was similar both tall and thinner being speed fighters.

"What are you going to do while we are here?" Vincent turned to regard the Turk, "I will be around." He had come so that he could observe Sephiroth, what he had heard last night had shocked him to the very core. It also awoke in him a new anger for Hojo, that had been his child that had been turned into a science project.

Tseng nodded and headed over to where the group was standing waiting for them. Cissnei had somehow managed to buy a video camera off one of the villagers and was currently filming the group. Sephiroth was currently flicking the camera off with a pocky sticking out of his mouth.

"Do you all have your lift tickets and PHS?"

"Yes dad." Came five different replies, groaning loudly ignoring the laughter behind him Tseng stalked up the small hill to the lodge. He was going to really enjoy beating them into the powder.

Reaching the top of the hill by the lodge, the large group all sat down in the snow working on their bindings. Sephiroth was bent over fighting with a particularly stubborn one when he saw a couple boards appear in front of him.

"Hey beautiful, never seen you up here before, first time?"

Sephiroth's fingers froze and a faint blush crept up his cheeks, did they seriously think he was a girl? To his left he could hear the others snickering behind their hands. Slowly he lifted his head up to see who was stupid enough to actually think he was a girl.

Two teenage males stood in front of him, seemed they were board bums if the amount of lift tickets hanging off their jackets was anything to go by. Glancing at his companions from the side of his glasses he decided to have some fun with this.

Tilting his head to the side he gave them a sexy smile. "I am actually, think you can show me the ropes?" he didn't even try and hide his soft baritone voice. The guy that had originally talked to him stepped back his eyes going wide. "You're a dude? Oh god I'm sorry." He looked over seeing the guys companions were all dying on the snow they were laughing so hard, one of them an obvious girl by her pink snow jacket and long hair held a video camera getting it all.

"What, am I no longer beautiful because I was born a male?" Sephiroth managed to make his voice sound hurt.

This sent the group off again, the two borders slowly moved away from the group, the second one looked towards Cissnei. Seeing this she wiggled her finger at him, "Don't even think about it, I only date guys in black business suits and that can shoot a gil out of the air."

Reno chuckled and stood up on his board. "I'm gonna go hit the runs yo, let me know if Sephiroth kills these idiots I wanna see the video." Hopping on his board he started to take off towards one of the two chair lifts. Rude pushed himself up and quickly followed, you never saw one without the other.

"Wait, Sephiroth… General Sephiroth?" the two boys looked down to the silvered haired man who returned them with a blank look behind his glasses a single brow raised.

"How many other silver haired men are out there named Sephiroth." Genesis said sliding easily towards them and came to stop in front Seph. Reaching out he offered Sephiroth his hand up, smiling Sephiroth took his hand and pulled himself up.

"Have I ever told you you're a smart ass Genesis?"

"On occasion."

Smirking he turned back to the two guys seeing they were just standing there shell shocked. "Come on, I'll race you to the other chairs."

"You're on."

"Hey don't leave us." Zack pushed himself up on his board Cloud following a second behind him. "Think you two can keep up with us?" Genesis asked with a smug look on his face. Zack waved him off, "last I checked I was a First just like you. See you at the bottom!" hoping on his board Zack started to take off down a large hill that lead to the second chair lift. Waving Cloud blew his two lovers a kiss before disappearing over the hill. He had grown up on these hills and knew them all like the back of his hand.

"Did we just get left behind by two teenagers?"

"Oh it's on." Getting his momentum going Sephiroth shot over the hill Genesis right behind him. The two started to weave around the slower borders not really needing to slam into them, weaving around a slow moving woman Sephiroth saw a black blur shoot past him and Genesis. Blinking he saw the figure now easily recognizable as Tseng turn back slightly on his board flipping them the bird. Turning back around he hunkered down gaining even more speed shooting around people with the skill of a First and quickly over shot both Cloud and Zack.

He just got showed up by a bloody Turk!

Oh now it was really on, on like donkey kong.

Reaching the base of the hills by the chairs Cloud slid to a stop having easily beaten Zack down. Pushing himself over to where Tseng stood waiting for them he smiled brightly. "That was amazing! I didn't even see you until you were already 20 yards away."

Tseng smirked pushing his hair back behind his ear, "We got some good runs up in Wutai, I used to go up there all the time when I was younger before I moved to Midgar. After that I would come up to Icicle inn all the time."

"Holy shit Tseng, you're a flippen speed demon on that thing." Zack slid to a stop beside them, seconds later Sephiroth and Genesis slid in.

"All I saw was this black blur fly past flipping us the bird."

Tseng chuckled unhooking one of his feet from the board so he could get in line for the chairs. Looking up he smirked his eyes screaming a challenge knowing Genesis and Sephiroth would not back down from a challenge.

As expected the two grinned back, the challenge was on.

Angeal slowly slid in behind them. "Was that you I saw shoot past everyone?" he asked Tseng. "Yeah that was him." Zack shook his head, hearing giggling he looked over seeing Cissnei over by the line for the chairs. "When did you get down here?"

"You didn't see her Zack? She was only a few feet behind Tseng recording it all." Cloud said, he had seen her shoot past him camera in hand just a few short feet behind Tseng.

"What really?" she nodded giggling, "What you think we Turks just sit around the office all day? Tseng takes us out all the time when we do a good job."

"Shit I wanna be a Turk! This stingy bastard barely lets us have a day off a month OW!" Zack grabbed his head; a large bump was already forming where Angeal's pole had smacked him. "Thanks Angeal." Sephiroth said sliding past them towards the lifts. Chuckling Cloud patted his arm in sympathy before heading off after the others.

"Angeal!" Zack whined giving his mentor huge puppy eyes. Not even looking at him Angeal pushed himself off towards the rest of their group. Huffing and pouting Zack followed, he was going to show them all.

The line for the chair was long and Sephiroth did not like the looks he was getting. People were turning around and looked at them; he and Genesis in particular, even with the glasses on the two were very easily recognizable by the mass.

Genesis gently tugged on the end of his hair. "It's alright Seph." He said softly enough only those with Mako enhanced hearing would hear.

"There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, healer of worlds."

"LOVELESS, act 2." Sephiroth smiled turned to look at his lover. "You do remember."

Chuckling he turned back and pushed himself forward as the line moved forward. "How can I not when you've beaten it into my head."

"I think Cloud is the only one that actually can stand hearing it." Rolling his eyes Genesis shot his foot back shoving it into Zack's board sending him onto his ass.

"Dad! Genesis is picking on me!"

Tseng pinched the bridge of his nose under his own glasses but couldn't help but chuckle. Seeing Tseng wasn't going to do anything Zack reached forward and grabbed the front of Genesis board and pulled back hard.

Squeaking in shock Genesis face planted in the soft snow off the side of the line. Pushing himself onto his elbow he turned back glaring at Zack, his glasses still stuck in the snow where he had face planted. Sephiroth started to laugh feeling better even though they were now receiving even more looks and a few PHS had come out snapping pictures of them. "Oh you think that's funny Sephiroth." Reaching out Genesis grabbed his leg and pulled hard. Not expecting this Sephiroth fell onto his ass, he sat up blinking a couple times before lying back on the snow and burst out laughing.

Laughing Tseng moved over to them. "Now children play nice, or there will be a time out for each of you again." Reaching down he helped both Genesis and Sephiroth back onto their feet. Cloud was helping to pull the still laughing Zack up.

The people around them were all laughing as well, most of them had never seen the silver general and crimson commander other then posters and their websites.

Reaching down Genesis grabbed his glasses and stuck them in his pocket. "It's not bad out here, I can actually see pretty well."

"Really?" Cloud pulled his off and looked around his bright glowing blue eyes sweeping across the landscape. "Genesis is right; it's over cast enough it doesn't hurt." Sephiroth pulled his off, his vision was the most sensitive of the group, but they were right it was actually nice out.

"Good these hinder my vision."

"Give them to Cissnei since she isn't going to be doing any wild racing. Shinra does not have an unlimited supply of them."

"Could have fooled us with how fast Sephiroth goes through them."

Collecting the glasses from everyone Sephiroth completely unhooked from his board and walked over to where Cissnei was still standing. She was towards the front of the line but standing off to the side waiting for them. Most of the crowed parted for him most of them realizing exactly who he was, some people that weren't paying attention he had to maneuver around.

Reaching Cissnei she turned presenting the small backpack she was carrying to him. "You're not going to set that camera down for anything are you?" She shook her head giggling, "You guys give to many great filming opportunities, I want to make sure to capture it all." Shaking his head he started storing the glasses in special hard cases and placing them deep in the back pack. Feeling something cold and metal he smiled grabbing a hold of the energy drink.

"Put it back Sephiroth."

Eeping silently Sephiroth looked back into the crowed seeing Tseng was looking right at him, along with every other eye in the lineup.

Still holding the camera Cissnei reached up and plucked the can from his hand and dropped it back in the bag zipping it up easily with one hand. "You need to save those for the drives back to the Inn, besides you haven't eaten yet today, even you can't live off just sugar."

Huffing Sephiroth resisted the urge to pout and turned back heading back to his board which blissfully was closer to the front of the lineup.

Pulling a bag from his pocket Cloud held it out, it was a bag of his mother's homemade cookies. He had found them waiting for him at the counter of the inn where she had left for him that morning. Catching sight of them Sephiroth all but ran over and snagged them from Cloud's hand.

"Hey are those your moms?" Zack asked looking at the bag. "Yeah, she left them at the counter for me this morning." Reaching into his pocket he produced another bag and held it out for the others, he knew Sephiroth would steal a bag to himself so had packed two.

Sephiroth was happily munching on them at the front of the group not caring at the moment that people were snapping photographs, he had sugar and that was all that mattered.

Reaching the front of the line finally they looked at how many were getting on per seat. "it's only three per seat."

"I'll take these two youngins" Angeal said putting a hand on Cloud and Zack's shoulder. "I'll go up in front of you all." Cissnei held up the camera, "so I can get it all." She smiled brightly and moved up to get ready for her chair. Watching her get swept up easily Tseng, Geneses and Sephiroth moved into position, the chair hit the back of their legs a second later causing them all to sit down. The chair bounced slightly before starting its slow climb up. This was a run heading up for the higher hills and so would take longer.

Swallowing Tseng gripped onto the metal pole in a death grip, he always hated these things. If he was in a safety harness or a helicopter he could deal with heights easily but suspended in a rickety metal chair with nothing to hold onto but a pole. Closing his eyes he laid it against the pole not caring that it was extremely cold.

"What's up with Tseng?" Genesis asked seeing the man was pale. "He's afraid of heights." Reaching behind Genesis Sephiroth gently rubbed Tseng's back.

"You're afraid of heights but yet you're a Turk?" smiling shakily he nodded still keeping his eyes closed. "Didn't realize when I was recruited in the hospital that I would be having to deal with heights all the time. It wasn't nearly as bad till I took a flying leap off the 97th story of the Shinra building."

"A flying leap off the 97th's floor, what were you doing in our rooms?" Angeal was watching them being in the chair directly behind them with Cloud and Zack. Slowly Tseng opened his eyes and turned enough so he could look back. He actually felt a little better feeling metal surrounding his side and back, he kept his board hook on top of his foot to keep it from hitting the others.

"This was when this one was 7." He jabbed his head at Sephiroth, "Your floor was just a construction zone at the time. It was actually my first day as a Turk, we got a call saying that a 'kitten' had gone missing." Sephiroth flushed, he still couldn't believe that was the Turks call sign for him. Genesis shot him a look being the first time he had ever heard that. "kitten?" he asked quietly the Turks call sign didn't need to be heard by everyone around them, though he didn't think anyone behind Angeal could hear them. Sephiroth pointed to his eyes as if saying that was the reason.

"And?" Zack asked, he had never heard this before. Tseng really didn't tell many personal stories, especially ones where he was young.

"This one decided that after crashing a Shinra helicopter he was going to try doing what other kids do and sneak into their room through their window. What he seemed to have forgotten is that his room was currently on what, the 85th floor."

Sephiroth nodded flushing a brilliant crimson, "I get up to the helipad and find a rope running off the building and him 3 floors down hanging on for dear life."

"Did you seriously try to repel down the side of Shinra when you were 7?" Sephiroth had his head in his hands but nodded, his face was burning. That was not one of his smartest ideas and it embarrassed the hell out of him when it was retold.

"Long story short I raced down to the floor, fixed myself a make shift safety harness from a tie down from the helipad and busted through the window right next to him. He had been out there for a while already and it wasn't the nicest day so when he reached out for me he lost grip. Nerveless to say I took a flying leap out of the Shinra building."

"Obviously since he's sitting here you caught him."

Tseng smiled seeing they were getting closer to higher ground. "Yeah, I don't remember much after that." He absently rubbed his left arm, Cloud noticed this. "Is that where you got those scars?" he asked.

Tseng looked to his arm noticing he was touching it. Turning back he nodded. "Yes, when I leapt out my arm caught some shards of glass. Lost a lot of blood why I don't remember much once we got pulled back into the building by Veld and the other Turks."

Watching Cissnei sliding off the chair onto the small ramp which was the landing he shifted himself once more unhooking his foot from under the board. Feeling solid ground under him once more he stood up and allowed the chair to push him away onto the landing for the runs. These were all double black diamond runs, the perfect challenge for them.

Moving over to a run she stopped feeling a hand on his arm. Looking behind him he was met with green eyes. "I never said how thankful I was for what you did that day."

Smiling softly he waived it off moving to the top of the run. "Don't worry about it, I know you were. Now." He smirked that challenging light back in his eyes. "You ready to get your ass kicked again."

Sephiroth smirked darkly and moved to stand right next to him his feet already hooked back into the board. Genesis appeared at his elbow that same challenging light in his eyes, "let's see if you two can keep up."

"ohh hold on let me get down the run a little so I can catch this." Cissnei took off down the run taking it as easily as a seasoned pro. A group was building up behind the group all watching to see what was going on with the great Silver General.

Zack seeing this smirked and stepped out of his board moving up behind the three. "The race of a lifetime people!" he called out taking on an almost announcer type voice.

"The great silver general vs the crimson commander vs the head of the Turks! Who will win? This is a race to claim the best! Oh! We got a last minute competitor, the newest SOLDIER first class."

Cloud appeared on Tseng's other side smiling brightly. "Can't let you have all the fun."

Looking over them Zack saw Cissnei was in position. "On my mark.. Ready… set.. GO!" instantly all four shot off down the hill. Tseng shot into an early lead, his body knelt down and weight shifted to allow him to gain the max amount of speed.

Seeing Tseng shoot past him again Sephiroth copied his stance the speed under his board picking up, there was no way he was going to let Tseng beat him again! Getting ready to hit the first corner he noticed Tseng had to slow down, his board not as responsive to corners. It was a pure speed board! Seeing his advantage he shifted his weight ready to over throw him in the corners.

He had just started to shift his weight when a black and yellow blur shot past him and rocketed around the corner like a bat out of hell.

Cloud was almost lying on the ground as he shot around the corner. He straightened back up, his speed picking up once more; rocketing past Tseng he shot around a second corner and vanished into the tree line. He had grown up on these runs he knew every short cut there was to them.

Busting out of the tree's he hit the main run once more never once breaking that break neck speed, he had shaved off about half a mile with that short cut, this run was a lot of switch backs.

"Do you see Cloud anymore?" shooting around another corner Sephiroth took a quick glance around, they had caught up to Tseng who was slower in the corners. "No!" Cloud was nowhere to be seen, there was no way that little blond could have shot past the corners that fast. Genesis was only a foot off to his left and gaining on him. "Do you think he went off into the tree line?"

Shooting around a corner he caught sight of that trade mark spiky blond hair already half way down the run. "How in Gaia's name did he get down there?"

"You're loosing concentration Seph!" Genesis shot past him rocketing around a tight corner. "Oh I don't think so!" rocketing around the final corner they hit the open expanse that led to the lower runs. You could make out jumps scattered all along the hill and little side hills for tricks.

Hitting the straight stretches Tseng had once more regained his incredible lead, aiming for a jump he shot off performing a perfect Misty flip* landing easily he turned back slightly seeing the huge eyes of the two first's smirking he shot off down the hill ready to really show off.

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Reaching the bottom of the run Cloud skidded to a stop, pulling his feet from the bindings he looked back up the hill. He could make out Tseng Seph and Genesis still coming down; he had totally left them in his dust.

"Hey dude, that was some sick air you were getting." A couple borders came up to him. "We thought for sure you were going to biff on a couple of those jumps, so much air and so fast but you landed them like a pro."

The man talking to him walked up dragging his hand across his chest. Recognizing the international border hand shake mimicked grabbing his hand they pulled each other together bumping their arms into each other's chest. Stepping back he smiled picking his board up, "I grew up on these hills, nothing else to do in Nibelheim but board."

"Hey you want to come run with us; we're gonna go hit the backside of the mountain." Shaking his head Cloud stuck his board into the snow and leaned up against it. "Would love to, but I'm here with my friends and I don't wanna abandon them. I think my bosses would have a shit fit if I ditched him."

"You're here with your boss?" one of the guys asked, nodding Cloud looked over seeing Tseng reaching the last few jumps of the run. "Yeah, they may be my bosses but they are also my best friends."

"Alright dude, have fun." The group waived and headed off towards the lifts.

"Cloud?"

Blinking Cloud turned slightly hearing a female voice he didn't recognize calling out to him. A woman with long brown hair in a blue jacket ran up to him. "It really is you!" she threw her arms around him holding him tightly.

"Tifa?"

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