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Walking Out on Destiny	By : HarliqueenNight Category: Final Fantasy VII > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 2575 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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A/N: Quick warning, this chapter contains violence. and it may be sad for most of you who love the characters as much as i do. I cried a little when I wrote it but for the good stuff to happen. This had to happen first. those who have wondered how Cloud will enter in to this...well...Zack has to come first don't ya know! So after the next to chapters or so, there should be a time skip to Zack joining SOLDIER. In the mean time, enjoy the goodness and to flay me to hard for what I'm doing. next chapter is going to be "Grounded in Paradise" do in enjoy.

Note to Sanctumfw: wanna be my Mandarin beta? XD you've been helping alot.

Walking Out on Destiny

Episode 5: You Must Really Like to Test

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"Sephiroth."

Sephiroth opened his eyes slowly and blinked at the starry skies around him. He felt weightless and content in this vast emptiness. Galaxies, asteroids, and comets passed him by. He smiled in wonder at all the heavenly bodies floating around him and he righted himself.

"Its beautiful isn't?"

Sephiroth nodded at the serene female voice. "This is space isn't it?"

"This is my empire. All the lights of the sky under my command rule. I am queen of all of the abyss, and you are my young prince."

"What?" He high-pitched whining that hurt his skull. Images of people of various shapes forms and species screamed at him making his ears ring. He saw fires, explosions, whole planets crumbling to dusts. His eyes opened watching various green spheres shoot across the universe from deteriorating planets. One lone light caught his eye because instead of green it was wrapped in white aiming for a lush planet. Suddenly he was wrapped in that light, hurtling through white clouds and feeling invincible. He smiled at the thrill of it and he lifted his head so he could see where he was headed. He saw land that was coming closer alarmingly fast, all snow and ice. He didn't feel the impact but he knew he had hit. Everything was black; he stood alone in darkness.

"Time…is simultaneous, Sephiroth. I see you living in so many different lives that it took me a while to realize which one was the real you. The real Nightmare."

Sephiroth jumped back when he saw his adult self standing menacingly in front of him. He looked down on him, his silver hair flowing gracefully behind him along with the tails of his leather trench coat. His gaze was cold and the smirk on his face held a madness that he could not understand in his young mind. A beautiful sword was held loosely in his grasp, extending far out away from his body. He lifted his swiftly, its blade turned in Sephiroth's direction and he brought it down making the boy wince and scream.

"But you are not ready. Prove to me you are the one I seek. I want to see you spill the blood of this planet's guardians but first a test. Kill the one who shares the genes of the demon."

"Why? Who are you, what do you want?"

"This emotion filled world, this love you have found in the people around you is nothing but an illusion."

"Your friends, your so-called family, your life it self is a lie told by clever tongues. If you give in to such delusions, you will be abandoned."

Suddenly, Genesis, tall and beautiful and much older, was standing there in a wine red coat a beautiful sword in his hand and a soft melancholy smile was on his face. Something was very wrong, his hair held slivers of grey and he seemed weary. A beautiful black wing protruded from his left shoulder and fluttered in an invisible wind, he reached out for Sephiroth and he tried to go to him but green tendrils swirled around the man and pulled him into darkness.

"You will be hurt."

Behind him Angeal had his back turned to him, a polished broadsword on his back, his hair straight and his muscles bulked more than they were now. He looked over his shoulder at him, his eyes pained and his smile apologetic. Sephiroth ran to him but stopped abruptly when an ivory white wing burst from the man's shoulder and he seemed to be in much pain. He fell forward, a slash blooming over his back and blood burst from his body. Sephiroth screamed his name and stumbled back, tears welling into his eyes.

"You will be betrayed…and you will be killed."

Sephiroth saw a figure running towards him. He was clad in all black clothes that was reminiscent of the SOLDIER uniforms. In his hand was a sword much like the one that had rested on Angeal's back, it made sparks as the tip dragged behind him. His skin was a beautiful sun kissed peach and his hair was golden like wheat fields. His eyes, god his eyes, burned like blue fire encased in ice. Sephiroth felt something strange in his chest about this blond man as he ran at him at full speed and slashed at him with the heavy blade in his gloved hands.

Sephiroth's eyes snapped open and he sat up clutching his stomach. He lifted his shirt finding no fatal slash there as he had thought there would be. He closed his eyes and laid back against his pillow, staring at the moon outside. The voice echoed in his mind.

"My son, prove to me you are worthy of your birthright."

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Sephiroth was awakened early in the morning by an intern. Vincent had taken Tseng home the night before and promised to be back before testing but Sephiroth didn't see him anywhere in the room. The intern began to turn off the monitors and instructed him to get off the bed and started giving him rules and instructions to prepare him for the test. The boy glared at him, making the intern back off. He'd been doing these things all of his life, he knew what the damn rules were. Intern cleared his throat.

"Today, Doctor Lucrecia asks that you prepare yourself to fight," he said, handing Sephiroth a pair of combat fatigues. He averted his gaze when the boy shamelessly undressed. He gave him a shirt and fingerless gloves next.

"What sort of creature am I going against now?"

"A specimen from Professor Hollander's mirror project: Project G."

Sephiroth paused. "Hollander? That's Genesis's dad right?"

"I suppose if you wish to call him that. You are to face one of the creations in the SOLDIER simulator and prove which of you is superior and which of you still needs work."

"Seriously? I have to prove I'm superior to a spliced monster?" he shook his head. "She must really be mad at me."

"If its not saying too much, perhaps if you show some initiative today and do exceptionally well, then you can get back in their good graces."

Sephiroth shrugged. "I don't think I care anymore."

"If you say so, Sephiroth," the intern handed him heavy combat boots in which Sephiroth declined. He put on his own heavy hiking boots that he normally wore. Intern looked at him in confusion. "These are more suited for battle."

"And these are more suited for me, got a problem?"

"No," the intern said quickly.

He walked with the intern to the facility because the man felt the need to lead him there even though he knew damn well where it was. He'd been to the ShinRa Labs so much it was a second address. He walked in and was greeted by a manic Lucrecia. She came up to him, quickly placing a thermometer in his mouth and scribbling on her clipboard.

"You're late Sephiroth," she said pulling the thermometer back out again and examining it. "102.5 as always."

"Am not," he said indignantly.

She held her watch up at him and he groaned. It was only by two minutes. "Remember if you're early you're on time if your on time your-"

"Late, yeah I know."

"They've already brought the Project G specimen in," she checked his blood pressure quickly as she could. "The plan was changed, it's going to be basic sword combat and hand to hand and I'm not so sure you're ready for that. We have yet to cover real hand to hand in our usual tests. Once you encounter the enemy you make sure you are the first to attack. I want you to take your time, do your best. There's a lot riding on today so mediocrity is not an option."

Sephiroth nodded quietly.

"Blood Pressure normal," she murmured. "You're good to go. The intern said he checked your toxicity levels and said you were fine so I expect no excuses or failure."

"Yes, ma'am."

Lucrecia sighed and looked from side to side. She leaned close and whispered to him hoping no one heard. "You want to make me proud, then prove to me you're the better SOLDIER, understand?"

He gave her a surprised look but before he could say anything Lucrecia left him with the other interns. He sighed and took a seat. He spied Vincent standing in the observation room next to Hojo. They appeared to be conversing about something until Lucrecia came in; then they looked to him. Vincent smiled at him encouragingly and mouthed "be careful" from behind the glass. that was the last thing Sephiorth saw before everything went dark in the room and he could no longer see the observation room. He saw static first then felt a rush of air. He heard seagulls and he could even smell ocean air. It was Junon. His vision cleared as he sat atop the canon feeling the soft breeze comb through his hair and he sighed. This was a perfect place t fight, somewhere he knew well. He stood up and turned , his eyes searching for his opponent. The AI controlling the simulator came through and echoing everywhere as he walked along the Junon Cannon.

"ShinRa Inc would like to welcome you to the SOLDIER 1st Class: Level 15 simulator. This test will measure comprehensive knowledge of the standardized broad sword and hand to hand combat. Your fields of strategic reasoning will be tested as well. Remember, this simulation is designed to give real life sensations through microscopic nanobots that are being filtered into the air. Loss of limb is possible while testing and sometimes decapitation occurs, but try to remember this is only a test. ShinRa Inc is not responsible for heart attacks, strokes, seizures, and mental breakdowns that my occur in the test. Please be aware that if such a thing happens, the release form signed by you or your CO will prevent all legal action on your part. Do enjoy yourself."

"What the fuck?" Sephiroth said glancing at the sky.

"Please continue to downtown Junon. Your opponent has already entered the testing zone, do not keep them waiting."

"O...kay..." Sephiroth continued onward. No matter how many times he did this, that AI freaked him the hell out.

"You are now approaching Main Street. Remember, once combat is initiated subjects must remain in combat until loss of life occurs. "

"What?"

"Simulated loss of life."

"It's alright, Sephiroth. No one is going to die here. we will pull out of the test before it gets too bad off."

Sephiroth rolled his eyes at Lucrecia's words. "Yeah right..."

He walked down the quiet streets seeing a stray cat here and a wondering old woman there. He could see some people in their homes eating or watching television. This pretty good ambience he had to admit. Suddenly, his nerves lit up and the hair on his arms raised. He didn't react immediately to the feeling but his gut was telling him that he was in the same area as his opponent. He kept his stride slow and steady not giving away that he already knew where his opponent was. He waiting, looking around at the various windows until his ears picked up on displaced air. He turned and blocked the sword strike with his own and his eyes widened when his sight was filled with ginger highlighted hair and his nose with fresh grass and open land. He blinked into smoldering purple eyes and shook his head disbelievingly.

"Genesis?"

His normally cheerful friend didn't respond. Sephiroth pushed him back and watched him land gracefully crouched like the cat he likened to. Sephiroth took a step back not knowing what to do with this situation. Genesis changed hands with his sword and pushed himself into a charge. Sephiroth blocked it and did his best to push Genesis back but realized his friend was much faster and much more skilled than he had originally thought. He actually had to fight to keep from getting hurt but was concerned that he would harm Genesis. He blocked, parried and dodged Genesis well planned blows. Something was so very wrong with the redhead. He didn't respond to any of Sephiroth's and had such a blankness in his eye that it gave Sephiroth a chill. The blade of Genesis's sword grazed his cheek and in reaction Sephiroth kicked the boy in his chest knocking him back.

"First blood - Project G."

Vincent's head whipped at Lucrecia. "What the hell is this, Lucrecia? That's his friend!"

She only looked at him and continued to monitor battle. Hojo offered an explanation. "You knew this would eventually happen. Jenova Project or Project S was not the only project in production. Project G which was first instituted by your father was also in production and we all agreed that they would have to be tested against each other since they are both after the same goal."

"That is Sephiroth's only friend, Hojo!"

"If you will not let us do our job Vincent, I will have to ask you to leave," Hojo said plainly as if there was nothing wrong about the situation. "If Sephiroth does not win this, he will have to be taken out of your care. You should be more worried about that."

Vincent growled and looked back at the screen. "Sephiroth won't hurt him. If you knew anything about him, then you would know that Sephiroth couldn't hurt anyone he even remotely cared about. He'd lose first."

Lucrecia looked up from the screen with a worried look on her face. "Are you saying that he is not trying to the best of his abilities right now?"

"Of course not!" he spat. "You've put him against the only friend he has. He's only going to keep himself alive without hurting Genesis!"

Lucrecia looked thoughtful. "Then our project would not be superior. No, that cannot happen Vincent. You may not understand what rides on today but I do. Sephiroth needs to perform at standard or we will lose him. I won't have it." She went to the control panel and typed her access code in.

"Welcome, Dr. Lucrecia Crescent."

"Initiate full use of aggression enhancement chemicals. Release 2.3 gallons into area at moderate intervals."

"Understood."

Vincent gave a confused look.

"We've created several pheromone like chemicals that enhance aggression and blood lust in both subjects," Hojo explained. "We use them when some subjects are more disinclined to test than others."

Vincent shook his head angrily. "You're going to make them kill each other."

"They won't die, Vincent," she said gently. "The simulator will stop if one of them is seriously hurt."

"But they won't!" he snapped.

Sephiroth didn't know what was happening. He smelled something strange in the air and it made him feel heady. He back handed Genesis who in turn circled and roundhouse him in the face. His lip bust at the impact and he licked it to clear it away. The sudden smell and taste of it made him angry. He looked at Genesis and saw red in his vision. His pupils dilated and could see everything moving differently. The redhead stood out like a bloody angel and when he came at him Sephiroth wanted nothing more than to ruin him. He grabbed Genesis by the back of his head, his fingers tangling into his hair. He slammed Genesis's head into one of the walls hard as his strength would allow and threw him away like a ragdoll. Genesis growled feral like and attacked, his sword barely missing Sephiroth's vitals. He didn't even pause when Sephiroth's blade began to slash his clothes and skin. He didn't stop for pain and neither did the other boy. Sephiroth actually smirked, enjoying seeing his opponent, his clothes soaked with his own blood. He didn't even realize he was the same.

He ran at the redhead sword raised. They clashed, sparks flying around them like fireworks. Genesis dropped and knocked Sephiroth off of his feet and jumped on him to stab him. Sephiroth grabbed the blade, the metal digging into his flesh as he presented himself from being stabbed. Genesis licked the blood from Sephiroth's lip, his eyes crazed and his smirk feral. Sephiroth let out a laugh without knowing what was so funny. He shoved the Genesis off him using the sword as leverage and flipped to his feet. The redhead was on him before he was completely on his feet. Thrust the sword into Sephiroth's side making him an animalistic growl fall from his lips. Genesis was unable to pull the sword from the other boy's side and was grabbed by his throat and lifted off his Conversed feet. Sephiroth held him there, forsaking his own sword and pulling the blade from his side. He twirled it in his hand drew it back. Genesis struggled to get out of his grasp, kicking Sephiroth enough to break his ribs. The silver haired boy didn't even flinch. He smirked and squeezed the boy's throat harder making it impossible for Genesis to continue his struggles. He reared the sword back and thrust it forward barely hearing Vincent's voice shout for him to stop.

"...Seph...?" Genesis choked out in shock. Blood poured from his mouth and his eyes were their beautiful calm blue. Those beautiful serene blue eyes met Sephiroth's wild green ones. Sephiroth shook his head, the high coming down as he looked at the blood running from Genesis lips. Some dark side of him thought it was beautiful, while the rest of him, began to panic. Sephiroth, not knowing what else to do, removed the sword drawing a pained scream from the redhead. He cradled the boy to him as pain from his injuries began to burst out all over him. He cringed and tears rolled down his face.

"Genesis!" he screamed. "What did i do? What happened? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

"Part one of test concluded. Project S has been victorious. Wonderful job, have a nice day."

Lucrecia sighed contently at the computer's announcement and nodded for the interns to go and help her son and the other project. "Sephiroth has performed beyond all expectation! Without proper skill in sword or hand to hand he's performed beautifully. Congratulations , Vincent. Appears I was wrong, he has been excelling in your care."

Vincent didn't even realized he'd raised his hand until Hojo caught his hand. He blinked and looked at the professor, his crimson eyes blazing and his hand trembling. He snatched his arm away from Hojo, glaring at them both as he left to go check on Sephiroth. Hojo watched him go and looked at his hand remembering the trembling in the man's hand. If he had let the gunman strike, he was sure his wife would not have been so beautiful anymore.

Vincent went inside the dome finding Sephiroth screaming to be let go. The interns were placing an unconscious Genesis on a stretcher and wheeling him away. Sephiroth threw off one of the interns and tried to kick the other. He was screaming Genesis's name wanting nothing more than to be by the boys side. Vincent went and apprehended Sephiroth from behind, using his own strength to hold the powerful boy back.

"Let me go, Vincent! Please! I killed him, i know i did! Please i have to help him!"

"Sephiroth stop it!" Vincent ordered. His voice dropped. "Please, Genesis will be alright, I know he will and you know it too. He'll be okay but he won't like it if you keep hurting yourself. You need to be checked out. You're hurt badly."

"Vincent, he's going to die...i know he is," Sephiroth cried. He went limp in Vincent's hold.

"He won't. Nothing will happen to him. Just let them help him, okay."

Sephiroth turned in Vincent's grasp and sobbed against the man's blazer. "I didn't mean it! I didn't mean it! I never wanted to hurt him!"

"I know," Vincent whispered resting his cheek on Sephiroth's head. "I know. It's not your fault. It's not your fault."

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Angeal nearly tripped over himself getting through the labs. When he'd received word from Professor Hollander that Genesis and Sephiroth had been severely injured during a lab test, he'd disobeyed his CO's orders and struck out to the lab's infirmary. When he found them, he nearly fell to his knees. Genesis had an oxygen mask over his face pumping some strange substance into his lungs. His body was a mess of scars and a large bandages were wrapped around his torso with a small amount of blood that had soaked through. Sephiroth was in the bed next to him, he looked sedated and tired even in sleep. His glorified silver hair was matted with blood and dirt and his body was also full of bruises and cuts. his side was patched up tightly and his cheek was covered in gauze. He looked between them, nearly crying. He hadn't known Sephiroth for more than a few days but damn it if it didn't hurt to see him there so lifeless.

"What...what happened?"

"They damn near killed each other," a bitter voice said.

Angeal turned to see Vincent by an open window, blowing smoke. He looked drained and very old for someone in their thirties. Angeal joined him at the window quietly and leaned against it, not wishing to look at his friends anymore.

"How...how did it happen?"

"A test," Vincent scoffed. "They didn't tell me that Genesis was Project G. I was so stupid, I should've made the obvious connection, but I thought only Hojo and Lucrecia were the only ones sick enough to use their own kid in an experiment."

Angeal was quiet. He didn't know what to do or say to the man to make this better. He was Genesis's best friend and was powerless to stop him from being hurt by his father's ambitions. He knew exactly how Vincent felt but he didn't know what to say to show the man that he didn't suffer alone. Not when everything was falling apart.

"You knew?" Vincent asked.

"Yes, sir," he said honestly. "I didn't know they would pit them against each other, but I knew because Genesis knew. He tells me everything. You'd think by now, I'd be used to seeing him like this, but," Angeal's voice broke a bit. "I..."

Vincent put out the cigarette butt. "It never gets easier. It wears you out knowing that while you've saved him from the most of it, you haven't saved him from the worst of it."

Angeal nodded and buried his head in his arms. "I get so lost on what to do when he comes to me broken, beaten, hardly knowing who he is."

"And the best you can do is make him laugh, and make him happy, make him know that there's life outside the testing."

"And make him know that there are things for him other than pain..."

Vincent rested his head on his hand, the headache pounding. "I don't know what to do with this. I don't know how to fix what's happened here. though they will probably both be healed in a few days...how do you heal the mind. How do you let them know what they've done to each other wasn't their fault."

Angeal gave a pitiful laugh. "You're asking me, sir? I'm just some kid who was lucky enough to go through the experimentation once. I was a dud, so I wasn't bothered anymore. I was hoping against hope the Genesis would be too, but where one of us fails, the other one always succeeds. We've always been like that. Mr. Valentine?"

"Just Vincent."

"Vincent then...I think, what you should do for Sephiroth is just say with him until the wounds heal. That way, the scaring won't be so bad."

Vincent looked over his shoulder at Sephiroth's unconscious form. "That's all I can do, isn't it?"

"That's all we can hope to do. You need sleep, sir. I can watch over them for tonight. You should go home for a while."

It took a lot to draw his eyes away from Sephiroth but he nodded and got his coat. "Look after them, make sure no one else comes in here that isn't supposed to. If anyone objects to you being here, tell them I said you were authorized."

Angeal stood at attention and saluted. "Yes, sir. Rest well, sir."

The older man ruffled his hair making him swat at him. "Just don't make yourself sick over them."

Vincent left the lab infirmary feeling older than he was. The fatigue was getting to him and he was dead on his feet. He didn't even trust himself to drive at this point. He wondered the halls of the lab heading toward the elevator. His vision was blurry and his head was spinning. It took nearly an hour to navigate the ShinRa tower in order to get out and wave down a cab. He leaned against the cab window, his eyes falling shut. He didn't even noticed someone getting in the cab with him.

"You're home Vincent," he heard a gentle voice say. "Don't worry, sir. I'll get him inside and thank you very much."

He groggily opened his eyes, unable to focus on anything around him. somewhere at the back of his mind, he was sure something was amiss but not enough o warn him of real danger. However, he was too tired to act on that worry and his limbs felt like there was no strength left in them. Soft, caring hands aided him in standing and he heard the jingling of his keys being pulled from his pocket. The cool air of his house met him and he gratefully sighed. He heard a giggle and he was aided in going to his bedroom. Vincent made a contented sound when his body touched his bed. He was asleep as soon as his head touched his pillow. He flinched when a sharp pain went into his arm but didn't rouse.

Tseng dried his hair as he came out of the shower a little quicker than he had planned. He'd heard the door open and knew it was Vincent but he heard a second voice. He turned the shower off as soon as he heard so that they wouldn't know he was there. he shut the lights off and peaked out the cracked bathroom door with narrowed grey eyes. He saw a woman with long chestnut hair leaving Vincent's room and pocketing a needle. He pulled Vincent's knife from beneath the towels. He'd been keeping it on him since the day he had been rescued and never went anywhere around the house without. He grasped it firmly and watched the woman shut the door with a soft smile.

"I'm sorry, Vincent, but you don't know what's good for you anymore."

Tseng, not liking her tone, stepped out of the bathroom positive that this woman had no combat experience. He looked up at her as innocently as a boy his age should be. Lucrecia blinked in surprise and smiled.

"Well, hello there," she said leaning over with both hands on her thighs."You're so cute! I thought Sephiroth was the only child he had here."

"Is Vincent all right?" Tseng asked in a sweetened tone. "He's been very tired lately."

"Oh I know! That's why i gave him something to help him sleep! You'll take care of him while he rests?" she said ruffling his hair and walking toward the door. "I left my number on the table, you'll call me if anything happens."

"Who are you ma'am?" he asked softly.

"Oh, how silly of me! I'm Lucrecia, a very good friend of Vincent's."

Tseng nodded and waved at her. "Goodbye, Mrs. Lucrecia."

Once the door shut, Tseng ran into Vincent's room and climbed onto the man's bed. He turned the unconscious man over. Vincent didn't even flinch. Tseng run his two fingers down one of Vincent's arm and then the other. He found the needle prick and leaned close to it, smelling the skin there. He knew this smell and knew that given a couple of hours, Vincent would be awake and not rested at all. He hoped off the bed and covered the man up. He grabbed a good bit of Vincent's cash and left a note on the man's night stand and took off from the house, locking it tight.

After several detours, and getting lost every now and then, he came to a small Wutain community within Midgar that sold the things he needed. He'd bought as much as the money he'd snatched would allow and took a cab back in order to accommodate all of it. The driver was nice enough to help him get everything inside and he tipped the man for his service. He went into the kitchen and got started on what he remembered would help Vincent. First thing was first, to throw away any artificial and packaged food. He had to get any and everything out of the house that was toxic to his care-takers health. The chemical that had been injected into the gunman would only react badly. He looked at the cigarettes on the counter top and pulled on from the package. He closed his eyes and inhaled the scent deeply. His eyes snapped open and he tossed the cigarette in the sink dousing them in water before throwing them in the trash. He snooped out every pack Vincent had around the house and tossed it. He replaced them with an organic Wutain blend and sat them on the night table beside the gunman and left to get to work in the kitchen.

Vincent opened his eyes slowly and realized he was well rested. He was slightly frustrated since it was now nighttime and he didn't remember how long he'd been a sleep. He meant to have only taken a nap. However, the frustration faded when he smelled the sweet and tangy smell of his mother's cooking which was odd since the woman had been dead for years now. He got out of bed and went to the kitchen, the sight made him smile gently. Tseng had his hair pinned up in a sloppy bun and was standing on a step stool in front of the stove. He tossed his concoction around in a small wok that once belonged to Vincent's mother and poured a substantial amount of sauce over it making it sizzle. Without turning around, Tseng addressed Vincent.

"I hope you're not angry. I throw way all your cigarettes and replace them with Wutain brand. Also, I wiped down everything and anything you've touched. I throw away all your food save for the unpackaged meat and bought groceries from stands in the Wutai Community. Your cigarettes, they are from ShinRa?"

"Yes, they were."

"I have a request," he tossed the wok again. "Do not smoke them anymore, please use the ones I bought."

Vincent looked at the boy in confusion for a moment. He noticed his place was spotless and lot of the air fresheners and the like he had bought on ShinRa discount were missing. They had been replaced by candles and incense. He went to the fridge and sure enough, all of his food had been replaced, including his snacks. Tseng continued without a hint that he was worried about the repercussions of this.

"I hope you do not mind, but I put a bowl of herbs on your stand and lit a candle underneath. I had to make sure you slept, but I did not intend to have you sleep so long."

"How many hours has it been?" Vincent asked groggily.

"It has been 85 hours and 50 minutes."

"What?"

"As I said, I underestimated your weariness and the herb affect."

"Veld-"

"Has been here several times to check on you. I told him you were sick and needed rest. He has set up mission in Costa de Sol for you, Sephiroth and friends. You leave tomorrow morning."

"And Sephiroth?"

"He is in his room. He came home two days ago, fully healed. He is not happy, but he is not depressed anymore. Still, I think you should see him. Genesis is at home with Angeal. He has also healed. he and Angeal have come and aided me with taking care of house and helped with Sephiroth until he start helping himself. He and Genesis are not really talking. I make them food as gratitude. Are you well, Vincent?"

Vincent had the urge to yell at the boy for taking this into his own hands, but seeing as how everything was in meticulous working order, he couldn't fuss. Tseng had single-handedly taken over the household and gave him time to rest and recover. For once, in a long while, he felt energetic and well rested. He went to Tseng who tensed a little, expecting to be struck. Vincent saw this and chose to put a hand on the boys shoulder and squeeze it in gratitude.

"Xiè xiè," he whispered.

Tseng smiled a bit, having never been thanked and watched the man leave the kitchen with the new brand of cigarettes. He wondered if he should tell him about the doctor being the one to have brought him in and the synthetic adrenaline shot that had been slipped into him, his cigarettes and most of the food he personally ate. He shook his head. He decided it was best not to give the man anything else to worry about. His guardian and gone through enough over the span of three days. A lesser man would've cracked.

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A/N: YAY, Tseng is useful. Lol, how many people thought he was totally gonna ninja-sassinate Lucrecia? XD anyway next chapter coming soon. your reviews help so much and inspire me to keep going quickly. Please continue to leave your comments and keep me on the go. Saturday or Sunday confirmed that Chanterelle will be updated and if not Crimson Sins will definitely be updated. Next, we go to Costa De Sol. PS: sorry about any mistakes. they aren't Pokémon so I can't catch em all!'
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