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Sentient Love	By : Hnoss Category: Final Fantasy VII > Yaoi - Male/Male > Cloud/Zack Views: 941 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Sentient Love

Flora_Winters

Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy VII and I'm making no money here either. All of this is purely for entertainment purposes only.

Summary: Dreams lead Cloud back to The Forgotten City where he comes into contact with a spirit made flesh. A blast from the past wants this young avatar for their own devious designs and it is up to the ex-SOLDIER to protect him at all costs. Language, MM, OC, Violence

Chapter Seven

Reno had been signaling to Rude to begin the chase the very moment the explosion occurred right in front of them. It had caught them both completely off their usual guard. Not either of them had been expecting such a thing to transpire on their watch. The both of them had been running after the boss when this beam of dark light lanced down from the sky more vibrant than a bolt of lightning, striking the lighthouse right down its center. The entire harbor shook from the explosion and stone and glass flew all over the place. The force had been so strong, the both of them had been thrown backwards off their feet, where they hit the ground rolling for several yards as stone and melted shards of glass rained down on them.

"Goddamn it!" Reno groaned, sitting up and looking over at Rude. "What the fuck just happened? Was that part of the plan? I don't think that was part of the plan."

"Of course it wasn't part of the plan," Rude moaned, sitting up as well and looked around. "Where's the boss?"

The resulting blast had sent Rufus through a stone wall, where he fell several feet into some bushes on his back, getting himself knocked completely unconscious. People who saw him crash through the wall took off running in a screaming panic, leaving the blond where he'd fallen.

"I don't see him," Reno said, rising to his feet and began brushing himself off as black flames burned within the remaining structure of the lighthouse. "Do you see him? Where is he?"

Rude tried to rise to his feet, but hissed under his breath and fell back to the ground. Reno knelt down beside him and quickly discovered that his right ankle was laying at a very odd angle. "Oh shit," he said, checking it much to his partner's discomfort. "That's totally broken."

"Perfect," Rude cursed. "Just lovely."

"You're going to have to wait here for a few minutes," Reno told him, doing his best to make his partner as comfortable as possible under the circumstances. It was a good thing people had vacated the harbor earlier. The last thing he needed was a bunch of screaming tourists. "I am going to go look for him."

"DUCK!" Rude shouted, throwing himself at Reno and they both went down on the ground again. A fireball the size of a giant beach ball went roaring just a few inches over their heads, hitting the ground a few feet from the two of them. It exploded upon impact and the heat from it scorched the very air near them. Reno lifted his head up and saw a very angry looking Cloud Strife standing on top of the harbor wall, looking down at them with glowing blue eyes.

"Well, well, well," Cloud said. The both of his hands were burning with invisible flames. "What do we have here? Terrorists?"

Rude groaned in pain and Reno positioned himself in front of his injured partner. He knew better than to say anything because of his recognizable accent. The last thing he wanted to do was cause the blonde to attack them and really mean it.

Shit. Now how the hell am I gonna find the boss with him here already? Damn. Damn! Damn!

"Did the two of you do that?" Cloud asked, pointing towards the lighthouse with a fiery hot index finger.

Reno shook his head, hoping that was a clear enough answer for him. Sweat was rolling down his backside.

"Hmm," the blond said, tapping his chin with the same index finger. "For some odd reason…I think I may actually believe you…and I don't know why either…"

Reno breathed a moment's sigh of blessed relief, but knew better than to take his eyes off the capricious fighter. Cloud was unstable and was capable of almost anything. Rude had pretty much proven that terrifying fact by almost losing his life.

Cloud jumped down off the wall, landing on bare feet. Reno pursed his lips behind his black mask. The blond was wearing yellow swimming trunks. For someone batshit insane, Cloud looked really, really good.

"Why are the two of you dressed like that?" Cloud asked them, folding his muscular arms across his naked chest.

Well, shit! What do I do now? I can't talk. He'll know it's me. And if he doesn't kill me, the boss sure as hell will.

"Lord have mercy!" Rude shrieked with a high pitched voice, sounding extremely feminine and stereotypical. "I do declare! Why I believe I've done gone and busted my ankle. I surely does."

The spiky headed blond quickly looked taken aback. The look on his face was like he didn't know whether to be immediately concerned or to laugh out loud while helping. The poor guy looked horribly confused.

Reno turned away from Cloud and glared hard at Rude through his mask and whispered. "What are you doing?"

"I am trying to get us out of this mess," Rude hissed right back at him, squealing some more.

Reno wanted to just fall over and lay there. They were always getting themselves into a fucking mess. It never failed. Something always went wrong. Their plans were always so well thought out, brilliant even, but then…it was like the universe just enjoyed fucking them over. It always happened. Every time!

"Do you know what happened?" Cloud asked, walking over to where they were.

Reno quickly shook his head again.

"Does it look like I know what transpired here, young man?" Rude griped, continuing to talk as if he were a woman in distress. "We came here to escape our religious order, get nearly blown up, and then you had to go and fire a…fireball at our heads…I'm so mortified! And people wonder why we keep ourselves completely covered."

"Why do you keep yourselves completely covered?" Cloud asked him.

"So rude little boys such as yourself can't see how mortified we always look!" Rude shrieked at him. "My leg is broken!"

Cloud knelt down and scratched the back of his head. "I thought it was your ankle…"

"Ankle! Leg! Same difference!" Rude snapped, sounding even more ridiculous. "I'm not a doctor!"

Reno needed to find the boss, but he didn't want to leave Rude in Cloud's hands. What if Cloud suddenly recognized him?

"Do you not talk?" Cloud asked, looking right at Reno with narrowed eyes.

"Vow of silence," Rude quickly said, saving the redhead from having to think of an answer and having to voice it. "Ever since he discovered himself to be one of them homosensuals…he's taken a vow of silence in order to…in order to preserve the sanctity of…the sanctity of his virginity."

Reno just glared at him.

"Nasty business lust and all that," Rude added just to be spiteful. "Especially a sinful looking place like this. Ass and dick hanging out all over the place."

The blond actually rolled his eyes and began to carefully check Rude's ankle. It was definitely broken. Reno sighed when the diagnosis was given. Rude was always getting himself broken anymore.

"Cloud!" A loud voice shouted from above and Reno looked to see Vincent Valentine and Cid Highwind descending from the airship. The pilot had his arms wrapped around Vincent's waist as they soared down from a couple hundred feet.

Oh, great…

"Cloud!" Another voice followed, and Reno looked to see Tifa and Yuffie come running out across the harbor to where they all were. The both of them were dressed for war.

Perfect. Now there are five of them and still no sign of the boss. Thank you, Universe. This is just wonderful.

He rolled his eyes, wondering if the boss was watching all this from somewhere.

"You're going to need a doctor," Cloud told Rude.

"No, no," Rude quickly said, shaking his head. "That won't be possible. Doctors are against our

Religion."

"I thought you said the two of you came here to escape your religion?" Cloud asked.

"Boy! You need to mind your own business now!" Rude snapped at him. "How dare you be so narrow minded." He grabbed Reno by the shoulder and had the redhead lift him up. "We will just be on our way. I do believe we've had enough of this place. I know I sure have. It is worse than our training camps." When Reno got him standing up, Rude hissed into his ear. "Get me the fuck outta here now."

"What about the boss?" Reno whispered back. "He could be hurt…"

"I can't do anything like this," Rude told him. "Get me back to the yacht and then go look for him."

Reno nodded.

"We'll just be on our way now," Rude grinned from behind his mask and him and Reno turned away. "Can you believe this place? You hear such nice things and then you damn near get your face blown off by some stupid ass teenager during a crisis. It is absolute bullshit I tell you. I want my fucking money back. There should be a law against shit like this happening to decent folk."

Reno couldn't help but snicker. Rude was being as rude as he could to Cloud. His own little payback for Cloud nearly killing him he bet. He then looked to the right to see that there was a hole in the stone wall that separated the city from the harbor.

"Was that there before?" He asked Rude.

Rude shrugged. "Let's check it out."

"HEY!" A loud voice shouted from behind, making them both nearly jump right out of their costumes. Reno turned his head and looked to see Yuffie throwing herself around Cloud's neck.

"You can come back and check," Rude said. "We can't risk being found out. The boss will understand."

Reno didn't like it anymore than Rude did, but he complied. He told Rude to hang on tight.

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The five of them watched the two strangers vanish from sight and Cloud scratched the back of his head. He then turned and looked at the burning remains of the lighthouse. It had been completely demolished. It looked just like a skeleton of its former self.

"Okay," Yuffie said, cocking her head to the side. "What the hell just happened?"

She still looked really green.

Cloud dropped his hand to his side and shook his head. He shrugged his naked shoulder and sighed. "I honestly don't know."

Tifa was giggling.

"Well, well, well," she said, slyly slipping right up beside Vincent. "I see the two of you have kissed and made up."

The dark headed gunman glared down at her with those spooky amber-red eyes of his and didn't answer. Cloud noticed that Cid looked really pleased with himself, but quickly changed expression when Vincent turned his head to look right at the pilot.

"Well," Cid said, beginning to walk towards the lighthouse. "I reckon we should put this fire out." He lifted his left hand as he walked and it began to glow a pale blue. He was going to use ICE.

Yuffie followed after him. "I'll help."

"And what about you?" Tifa asked, sliding up next to Cloud, playfully bumping him with her shoulder. "Are you okay? You ran away from us."

"I'm fine now," he lied, but felt really embarrassed about his earlier outburst. "I just needed some air. That's all."

The look on her face told him she didn't believe a word he was saying, but he was totally fine with that. He didn't have to talk about it if he didn't want to and she knew that plain as day.

"Do you think this was just an accident?" She asked, following along beside him.

Cloud let her take his hand. "I don't know…some Shinra warehouses outside Edge have been blown up as well…this could be related…"

"I'll go see if there are any witnesses," Vincent said, floating off in the opposite direction.

Tifa watched him go. "They'll take one look at him and run screaming through the nearest wall."

That made Cloud laugh.

"Hey guys!" Yuffie yelled. They both looked to see her at the wall with half her body sticking out. "Someone's been hurt pretty bad over here!"

Cloud and Tifa ran over.

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There was only one doctor in Costa del Sol and she wasn't even in town. She wouldn't be returning until sometime next week; something to do with a rare outbreak of Chocopox, and the rest of the information was classified due to health risks and all that messy legal stuff. So, Cloud had no choice but to bring the homeless looking guy into his home and treat him the best he could there. He was leaning over the guy, using his RESTORE materia in order to heal the nasty looking gash he had across his forehead. The more Cloud looked at him, the more he thought he knew him, but even darker thoughts passed across the top surface of his mind.

Maybe…if I'd had materia like this…Zack might have…maybe I could have bought him more time…maybe…

He shook his head and continued at his work. Vincent was talking with the others that were behind him. He was telling them how a few people had actually seen a black beam of light come down from out of the sky and strike the lighthouse dead center. It had literally raised the whole thing to the ground. It also turned out that an eye witness had seen the same thing happen to the Shinra Warehouse District just outside of Edge. Multiple beams of black light had come down from the sky and blew up everything.

"Luckily," Vincent said, taking a seat beside Cid on the sofa and allowing the pilot to put an arm around him. "There were no casualties to be reported."

"Well, that's some good news," Tifa said, stepping up beside Cloud. "How is he doing?"

"For someone who looks this filthy," Cloud said, moving his glowing green hand back and forth across the blond guy's healing forehead. "He doesn't smell at all. Is that odd?"

"Hmm, now that I actually look at him," she said, making a strange face. "He does look somewhat familiar to me…"

"I was just now thinking the exact same thing," Cloud told her, placing his hand on top of the healing gash and closed his eyes. He needed to focus and make sure the guy's brain wasn't swelling anymore. He'd already taken care of the minor internal bleeding.

Tifa finally just shrugged and went to take a seat beside Yuffie. "Still wanna get smashed tonight?" She asked the girl.

"After what just happened here?" Yuffie asked, giving the older girl an incredulous look and then snorted rather loudly. "Oh, hell yeah!"

Cloud glanced over and saw that Vincent was resting his dark head against Cid's chest and Cid had his arms wrapped around him in a snuggly kind of way. He felt a sharp pang prick his heart and he removed his hand from the bum's forehead. He suddenly felt more lonely than ever.

"Hey," Cloud spoke softly, gently patting the guy on the cheek, which was surprisingly soft and smooth. "You're alive. Can you wake up for me?"

The blond made a small noise and tried to slap Cloud's hand away. Steel blue eyes slowly began to open and they blinked several times. Cloud gazed down into them and then he stood up straight, taking a small step back as the guy carefully tried to sit up on his own without being offered any help.

A molten hot anger swelled in up in Cloud's chest.

"You!" He hissed, narrowing his eyes to snakelike slits. "I knew I recognized you."

Everyone was on their feet.

"Rufus."

The blond looked up at Cloud with a vacant stare, then slowly looked over everyone else in the room, and then glanced blankly back at Cloud again. The blond blinked his blue eyes several times, looking as if he were having a hard time focusing them. Finally, he did say something, but it wasn't what Cloud or the rest of the party expected.

"Who?"

To be continued…

Hello, Everyone! YAY! Another chapter completed. Me so happy. I hope everyone who reads this is well and happy. If you enjoy this new chapter, please feel free to let me know. I'll greatly appreciate your reviews. I think I really love Rude. He's great.

Also, many thanks to everyone who has reviewed so far. You are all the reason why I keep updating.

~Flora
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