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A life long forgotten	By : Zerachiel Category: Final Fantasy VII > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1297 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 3
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Life long forgotten – Return to the past

Midgar – 1999
Sighing softly a figure resisted the urge to start rocking in the large plush chair he was currently sitting in he hated board meetings; they were named correctly as they were boring as hell. Even though he had been raised by Shinra and had been their General for two years now he was still only eighteen years old, and he was bored as hell!
He really wanted to start rocking in the executives chair as Palmers annoying voice was grating over his sensitive ears but he couldn't, Hojo was sitting right next to him and he really didn't want another trip down to the lab to figure out why he couldn't sit still for more than 3 minutes.
Rolling acid green eyes upwards Sephiroth lolled his head to the side allowing his eyes to roam around the room. it was one of the bi annual budget meetings so every head of department was here; many of them he only knew by face since they had almost no dealings with SOLDIER or the more secretive branches of Shinra.
Lazard Deusericus the newly appointed Director of SOLIDER sat on his left while Hojo was sat on his right, across from him was Vedrot the Director of the Turks. Those were the only people of real importance, well.. he allowed his eyes to move towards the front of the room where the president and his very young teenage son were. Standing behind them as diligent as ever was the young Wutai Commander of the Turks.
Sephiroth sat up a little a frown pulling on his young features. Tseng was normally very poised always standing straight backed and constantly watching everything around the room; now though he was slightly hunched, his ivory face was dotted with sweat, those dark amber eyes were showing pure pain. Quickly Sephiroth picked his pen up and threw it at Veld; hoping it was enough to get the snoozing Turks attention. (yes he knew Veld was asleep even though his eyes were open)
Veld jerked slightly and his eyes blinked for the first time in thirty minutes. He looked around trying to figure out who exactly had thrown something at him and caught Sephiroth's eyes. He saw them flicker quickly to where he knew his second in command was; turning slightly he caught sight of his SIC. Seeing the look of pain flashing through his eyes Veld quickly stood "Tseng?" everyone stopped talking and directed their gaze to the SIC Turk, many of their eyes widening.
Tseng couldn't hear any of them the blood was pounding so strongly in his ears that was all he could hear. His body felt like it was on fire and his very being was being twisted and pulled in all different directions; visions of things and people he had never seen before were flashing through his mind a million miles an hour, he couldn't grasp onto any single one.
Veld had just reached out for his SIC seeing he wasn't getting any response when Tseng's whole body flung forward as if shoved from behind. He watched in horror as those amber eyes rolled up into his head and the man start to crumple to the ground. Quickly he grabbed hold of his SIC and lowered him to the ground; he could feel every muscle in the man's body twitching as if he were being electrocuted. Laying him on his side he was grateful to see the head of the medical division kneeling down and not professor psycho; Hojo was never allowed to touch his men not after he lost Vincent.
Sephiroth was hovering near by worry etched into his young features; the two were friends so he was naturally very worried about him. Cradling Tseng's head Veld moved his hand to help the doctor but stopped feeling something silky wrapped around it. Blinking he lifted his hand seeing thick black strands wrapped around his arm. 'Wait a second.. Tseng's hair wasn't this long 5 minutes ago…'
What just happened?

Thump thump thump thumpthump thumpthumpthumpthump
Sighing Angeal greatly resisted the urge to start rubbing his temples, why is it now that the puppy decided to come racing down the hallway? '3…2…1..que puppy'
The door to his office flung open with enough force to send the door crashing into the adjacent wall; thankfully after the first four times of having to have the wall replastered Angeal had gotten a very thick door stopper attached to that wall.
"Zack what have I told you about.." he stopped seeing the huge horror struck blue eyes staring back at him from his 3rd class apprentice. "Angeal! Commander Rhapsodos just collapsed."
"What!" Angeal stood quickly his feet already propelling him out of his office door; what on earth could have happened to Genesis? a bid for attention? Nah he would just start throwing fireballs around the room if people weren't paying enough attention to him. Did he and Sephiroth have a fight again? No that would be another fireball incident; honestly nothing came to mind other than injury or illness that would cause his overly dramatic friend to collapse where people could see him.
Racing out to where he knew Genesis was supposed to be he felt his heart stop seeing a couple SOLDIER rolling him onto his back. Genesis was out cold, his face covered in beads of sweat and his body would convulse and twitch. "Genesis!" kneeling down Angeal set a hand on his friend's cheek, he was burning up.
"Has anyone called up a medic yet?"
"We've tried sir, the line is busy we can't get through." Cursing softly Angeal pulled his friend up into his arms; he could feel the corded muscles twitching under the skin. "Keep trying." He ordered the SOLDIER around him and looked down at his friend.
A frown suddenly pulled at his lips as he ran his fingers through Genesis hair; hair that only forty minutes ago when Genesis had stomped into his office had been only to his ear in length.. now it reached to his shoulders.
"What happened here?" he really wanted to force his puppy to sit down as he was pacing behind him but he needed to figure out what was going on with Genesis.
"We don't know sir, it happened suddenly; he was yelling at a secretary that had nearly run into him then he went completely silent and he started sweating and grabbed his head.. it all happened so fast before any of us could even ask him he just went down."
Hearing Genesis moaning Angeal turned his attention away from the SOLDIER around him and down seeing pale blue eyes blinking open. "Genesis, are you alright?" crimson brows drew down before confused pale blue eyes looked up at him.
Genesis signed closing his eyes and went dramatically limp in his arms. "So the life stream is Shinra..wish Seph would have warned me about this beforehand." Genesis snorted shaking his head.
Angeal blinked still holding his friend in his arms, this was so unlike Genesis. "Genesis what are you talking about? Lifestream?"
He watched as Genesis brows drew down even more a frown pulling at his lips, those blue eyes slowly moving around the room. the confusion only seemed to grow as they swept over the faces around them; they grew to the size of dinner plates though as they landed on Zack.
'What the hell is Zack doing in a 3rd class uniform? He always shows up in the black 1st class when he comes with Angeal.. wait..' he really looked the boy over. Zack was wearing the hairstyle he had before Angeal's death and he looked a lot younger and not nearly as bulked up.
'What the hell…' realization dawned on him causing Genesis to shoved Angeal away leaping to his feet and summoning Rapier to his hand. Florin must have found them and had VR technology and found a Shinra data bank.
"Stay the hell away from me." Genesis growled rounding on anyone that dared to come near him.
Angeal quickly pushed himself to his feet; his hands held up in front of him hoping that whatever was happening to his best friend he would realize Angeal meant him no harm. "Genesis..you're at Shinra, no one here is going to hurt you."
Instantly Genesis rounded on him his sword raised nearly to Angeal's throat, those pale blue eyes holding a fury he had never seen before. "Shut up, I will not be so easily taken."
"Taken? Genesis, it's me.. Angeal."
Genesis scoffed stepping forward causing Angeal to step back; while Genesis was known to throw fireballs when he was angry he never raised his sword against a fellow SOLDIER. "Nice try.. if you are the real Angeal.. tell me something only Angeal would know."
Shit.. Well let's just hope that Genesis wouldn't skewer him for this when he snapped out of whatever he was in. "when you were little you suffered from lucid nightmare, only your parents, my mother and me knew about them. We lied to Shinra so that you could join the cadet program.."
Genesis blade clattered to the floor, pale blue eyes wide as they really looked at Angeal. He was right, that was something that had been kept secret through his entire life, no one in Shinra knew about it not even Hollander. Hell he hadn't even told Tseng! And he told that man nearly everything over the past seventy years.
Slowly he raised his hands up to his face taking deep breaths so he didn't freak out. He was at Shinra..With an alive Angeal and Zack standing right in front of him.
His knees at that moment decided to give out on him and he found himself crashing to the floor. Moving over Angeal knelt down and wrapped his arms around his childhood friend holding the man close; he could feel the muscles trembling once more but in a different manner.
He once more hand his fingers through the much longer hair.
What the hell was going on?

"The planet is dying.."
"What does this have to do with me?"
"Jenova is destroying the planet from within, Gaia is no longer powerful enough to keep her at bay.. the only way to stop this is for her to never enter the life stream."
"What am I supposed to do?"
"Keep Sephiroth from entering the life stream with her head.."
"But that would mean…"
"Yes.."
"Don't worry spike.. you won't be alone, or powerless.. that's why we're sending you back now, any later we wouldn't be able to send you back with your enhancements."
"The planet couldn't have waited a few more weeks so I got more than two rounds…"
"HAHAH! Don't worry spike..you won't be going solo again this go around."

Slowly brilliant mako blue eyes blinked open, the darkness that surrounding him dissipated showing him shelves of cleaning supplies and mops all around him. 'Why… why am I in a janitorial closet?'
Thanks to Aerith he knew generally where he was and why he was here, but that didn't answer what the hell he was doing splayed out across boxes in a janitorial closet!
"Haha.. very funny Zack.." groaning Cloud pushed himself up, his muscles screaming with protest at the movement. The one thing they did not warn him about was exactly how much it would hurt to have his past body merging with his present body. "Next time put up a warning.. Caution: merging past with present self may including the following side effects; dizziness, extreme pain, sweating, and ending up in janitorial closets with no idea how the fuck you got in here…" he was feeling really sarcastic for some reason today, don't ask him why.. oh might be because he was in the processes of getting laid again when this happened. 'Thank Gaia I didn't get blue balls from that'
Pushing himself up fully Cloud moved over to the door and stuck his head out. Steel colored walls greeted him on all sides and dim mako lighting filled the hallway, he must have been on a floor that frequented SOLDIER or those with enhancements. Stepping out Cloud trained his ears for the noises around him; down the hall he could hear excited chatter of many young boys, he must be near the chow hall if the horrendous smell of food was any indication.
Glancing down he ran his hands over the uniform that covered his body. This was the cadet uniform for SOLDIER; it was similar in design to the uniform SOLDIER wore the only difference instead of a ribbed cowl neck sweater they wore a sleeveless under armor cowl neck shirt. The uniform was a dark hunter green and they were not allowed to wear the SOLDIER belt or shoulder guards except during actual sword training.
Moving over to the double doors that he could smell the foul food and hear the voices Cloud took a deep breath. 'Wait!' moving away from the chow hall he found a section of wall that was still highly polished and felt his blood run cold. Brilliant mako blue eyes looked back at him, the green ring showing Jenova cells were obvious to anyone that would look at him.
'Fuck!' There was no way a cadet would have mako eyes, especially not the eyes of a 1st class Jenova project. Zack hadn't been lying when he said he was being shoved back with all his enhancements…
"You won't be alone this time.." Those words echoed in his head as he pulled his gaze away from the metal in front of him. He would not be alone this time.. That could only mean that others had come back with him but who else had been brought back? He honestly had no idea where anyone was at this point; Tseng would most likely be with the Turks, same with Rude and Cissnei. Genesis he knew would be SOLDIER but not what his rank was at this point; he didn't have enough of his memories or really knowing where he was during his own training to know if Genesis was a 2nd or a 1st at this point.
"Cloud?" jumping slightly he whirled around, "Reno?" a young boy with very familiar bright red spiked hair, aquamarine eyes and red slash tattoos came running towards him from the chow hall. Reno looked like he was about Cloud's age and was also wearing the dark green SOLDIER cadet uniform.
Before he could processes that Reno had been in his class and he never knew it he had arms full of redhead Turk. "Please tell me I'm not going insane yo.." it took a lot to rattle Reno and he sounded like he was completely freaked out.
Honestly he would be too if Aerith and Zack hadn't told him prior to shipping his happy ass back. "We've been sent back..you're not going insane Reno."
Reno pulled away his aquamarine eyes staring down at him (he hated being so short) "Sent back.. like.. in time yo?" Cloud nodded and moved them both down the hall away from where there was the chance of being over heard.
"You weren't told anything?" Cloud asked as they ducked around a corner, Reno shook his head his normal calm starting to come back now that he had found Cloud and he seemed to know what the hell was going on. He honestly about had a mini meltdown when he woke up and found himself surrounded by cadets in the chow hall of Shinra.
Sighing Cloud was really going to kick Zack's ass for not telling anyone else or even telling him all who was back. "Aerith and Zack confronted me before I woke up in a janitorial closet..yeah.. nice one Zack." He grumbled that last part, "they said the planet was still dying..Gaia was too weak to fight off Jenova anymore."
"That might explain why General Hotness hasn't been around lately."
Cloud blinked and looked to Reno, how had he missed that? Sephiroth suddenly disappearing and being able to only show up for very short period of times; that should have been his first clue that something was happening to the life stream.
"I think we all missed that sign yo but Genesis did only tell us yesterday and we didn't exactly have a lay about day either." Cloud snorted at that and shook his head, "No..was kind of an adventure filled day.."
As if the thought hit them both they both started to laugh. "No more Florin! No more having to run for our lives.."
"Well except you yo.. What are we gonna do about your obvious mako?" that sobered Cloud instantly once more.
What were they going to do….
Their answer came as dark sun glasses were pressed onto his face from behind. Gasping Cloud whipped around but smiled seeing a now glasses less Rude standing behind them, "keep those for right now."
"Rude! How did you know we were here?" a single black brow rose and he pointed up to a camera in the corner of the hallway. "Oh..duh.."
"They are black and white and no mic so no one knows what you two were talking about, or will see your eyes Cloud.."
"Rude, do you know who else is back?" the large Turk sighed and shook his head, "I only know what I have heard over the radio since I picked myself up off the training room floor. Tseng is in the hospital unconscious still; he collapsed during a board meeting. Genesis collapsed as well though he awoke quickly and he's been escorted back to his room. other than those two I have not heard any other word; though I am sure if there are others from the village we shall be hearing soon." He had actually freaked out when he first woke up; granted he was a master of hiding his emotions so you couldn't tell but he was a little freaked out till he saw Reno and Cloud on the video feed. He knew that Reno and Cloud had no prior dealings during their time as cadets, Reno had admitted it to him shortly after they discovered Cloud before dropping the sector seven plate.
Cloud started to worry his bottom lip, he wanted desperately to go make sure that Tseng was alright. However it would look weird having a cadet showing up in the hospital to visit a Turk; Cadets were warned away from Turks almost from day one.
"Maybe Genesis can help you out yo." Blinking Cloud turned back to Reno seeing him smiling; Reno smiling was never a good thing. "Think about it, your fully enhanced so you'll stick out like a sore thumb.. I don't know if the rules apply to cadets but if a SOLDIER higher takes you as a mentoree you'll be trained strictly by him, that's what happened with Zack when he became SOLDIER."
"It will be a chance for you to finally fulfill your dream of becoming SOLDIER." Rude said a very small smile playing on his lips. "Yeah but, we already know all the dirt on Shinra."
"Exactly, we can play that to our advantage.. start changing shit from the inside yo. Come on you get up to SOLDIER 1st which we already know you will you can start pulling some massive strings."
"Reno we should concentrate on simply making sure Cloud is protected and does not end up back in Hojo's lab."
Cloud instantly went pale, that's right.. Hojo was alive once more..wait. "Vincent! Do you think he was brought back?"
"Ahh shit he aint gonna be a happy vampire yo.." if Vincent was brought back that would mean that he was back in his locked coffin.
"I'll head up for Nibelheim, see if Cissnei was also brought back and we'll rescue him even if he is not back, Reno.. take Cloud up to Genesis apartment. You remember how don't you?"
Reno nodded that 'I'm about to do something naughty' grin on his face.
"Good, if you are caught have them refer to me." Rude at his moment in time was the 3rd in command of the Turks; he could easily bull shit a story saying he was testing the two boys to see if they would make good Turks. No one would question him as it was quiet common to see a Turk crawling around the ventilation shafts.

"Tseng collapsed as well?"
Angeal was currently sitting on the large old faded leather couch of Zack's that he had managed to infiltrate into his and Genesis apartment when Zack moved in.
Currently Zack, himself and Sephiroth were all seated around the large living room that separated Genesis half from his own. Genesis had left to take a shower claiming he needed a bit to try and calm down. He had been in there for a while but that wasn't uncommon for Genesis to take extremely long showers if something upset him.
"Yes, it was strange he looked to be in so much pain and just passed out. Even when he had that 105 degree fever last year he didn't look this bad."
"Genesis, well I can't really say about Genesis but he was showing similar signs that you said Tseng had. When he woke up he said something about the life stream looking like Shinra."
Sephiroth blinked at that sitting up a little straighter, "the life stream? He thought he was dead?" Angeal nodded looking towards the bedroom where he could hear the water had been shut off and his childhood friend moving softly through the room.
"When he realized he was back in Shinra he thought we weren't real..on top of that he's changed..i know for a fact his hair was not as long as it is an hour ago."
"Tseng was the same way, I noticed that when the medics put him on the gurney; when we got into the meeting his hair was still in that short ponytail of his.. but when they put him on the gurney his hair was nearly to the middle of his back."
"Why would they suddenly change like that?" Zack asked, he was still fairly new himself and didn't really know Genesis, Tseng he had only met a few times for missions.
"I don't know, Hojo I know is itching to get his hands on Tseng to find out but Veld isn't leaving his side until he wakes up." Hojo was absolutely chomping at the bit to get his hands on Tseng, had been since he first saw the Wutai man. No one knew why but it always creeped Sephiroth out.
Hearing something Sephiroth looked up his brow furrowing. "Seph what?" Angeal watch the man stand up and move towards one of the vent he motioned for Angeal to talk normally.
Sighing Angeal continued talking it was probably just a couple new Turks crawling around the vents and got lost, they were like rats he swore to Gaia with all this crawling around through the vents. They had even managed to get Zack in on it as well, though that had been more for distraction as Zack was anything but stealthy.
Faster than anyone could see even Angeal Sephiroth had the grate pulled off and was pulling a body through and onto the ground.
Standing up as a second body was thrown onto the ground he blinked seeing two cadets, one with spiky red hair and glowing aquamarine eyes and a blond with hair that reminded him greatly of a chocobo and dark sunglasses.
The redhead groaned shaking his head and looked up his eyes going wide slightly. "Hi General Hotness!" the blond next to him jerked his head up a small sheepish smile starting to spread across his face. "I think we made a wrong turn at Albuquerque…."

AN: uh oh.. our boys have been caught… whatever shall they do!
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