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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: Mentorship

Acid silver eyes slowly blinked at both the strange version of his title the red head cadet had given him and the strange words from the blond cadet.
"What are two cadets doing climbing around the ventilation system?" Angeal had stood with a stern look on his face looking down at the two cadets.
"Test yo!" Reno smiled up at them actually leaning back on his elbows looking comfortable; even with the feared demon of Wutai standing above him. "Rude man wanted to test us for the Turks yo, says me and chocobo here got some..OW!" Reno grabbed his shoulder where Cloud had nailed it, "I told you, you keep calling me that I'm gonna hurt you."
"No you said you would string me up by my jock strap yo.." Reno growled but it was only half assed and playful. "I can still do that if you want me to."
"Yeah fuck you yo!" shaking his head Reno turned back to look at the two above him. "So yeah, Turk testing yo. I think we failed, were supposed to be.. where are we anyway?" Cloud smothered a smile that was threatening his lips, they both knew exactly where they were, they just couldn't let these two know.
"You're in Commander Genesis Rhapsodos apartment." Sephiroth said watching them critically; the young blond had yet to remove his sun glasses. "Really?" Reno smirked and turned back towards where he could hear Genesis moving around. "yo! Lightning rod! Nice pad!"
"Shut up slum rat!" came from inside the room seconds before the door was flung open. Genesis stood there is nothing but his normal red flannel sleep pants, those light blue eyes of his wide as he looked at the two smaller cadets sitting on his floor.
"Reno? Cloud?" Turning both boys smiled, "sup lightning rod, shocked yourself yet today?" Genesis seemed to sag as if a great weight had been lifted off his shoulders; Reno was the only one that called him lightening rod and that had started in the village.
"Fuck you Slum rat.."
"Genesis you know both of them?" Sephiroth looked absolutely confused at this point, as did Zack and Angeal, though Zack was hanging back not wanting to get into it just yet; though he was curious. Genesis moved out into the room his eyes moving in a recognizable pattern; just like all the village Genesis had learned to speak like a Turk. Quickly Reno relayed what he knew at least to confirm to the crimson commander that they were in fact in the past and he wasn't insane.
"Yes, two weeks ago I met them down on the training field when I went to find a Turk." Genesis looked up as he came to stand behind the two; he was able to look down just perfectly he could see the mako reflecting on the inside of Cloud's glasses. So he was fully enhanced just like he still had the scar on his shoulder and the wing scar. "This one." He kicked Reno in the ass causing the red head to squeak and shoot a nasty glare up at him. "Was being scouted by the Turks, is that why my vent is open and you two are on the floor?"
Genesis looked up at the vent and then back down a single amber brow raised in obvious amusement. "Yeah yo, we're doin a test for Rude man and General Hotness here just up and pulls us out."
"You will address me as General cadet." Sephiroth growled not really liking being called that by a cadet. "Oh hush General Hotness." Genesis teased and looked over to Angeal smirking before looking back to the boys. Sephiroth blinked just staring at his lover; Genesis was almost never playful in front of other people.
"This one.." he gently nudged Cloud with his foot, "I was actually going to surprise you all on.. I've been watching him for a while and I think he could benefit from one on one training. He's got amazing raw talent but he's over shadowed by the bigger cadets."
"Genesis.. are you saying what I think your saying?" Angeal asked his eyes widening as he looked at his childhood friend. "Genesis, are you seriously thinking of joining the mentor program?" Sephiroth was now really giving this blond on the ground a critical eye and it was making Cloud nervous. The man might not be insane at the moment but that didn't mean Cloud was 100% comfortable with the man; specially when he was giving him that look.
"I am." Genesis said simply his foot still nudged up against Cloud acting as a small support system. He was as close to the blond as he was the two men standing in front of him. Honestly though he understood from Reno they were in the past it was taking his mind a very long time to wrap around it. He did know though that he needed to pretend like nothing had changed, that he wasn't over a hundred years in the past.. The freak out would come later.
"Genesis, you hate cadets, you hate teaching why.. Genesis what happened earlier?" Angeal was suddenly watching his friend warily; Genesis hated anything to do with cadets…hell he spent more time chasing them around hucking fireballs at them than he did anything else.
"I don't know what happened earlier Angeal, we've been over this a billion times since you brought me back to the apartment. I just..Didn't want to say anything until I was able to speak to Lazard." Angeal still looked doubtful as he regarded his friend, though his eyes shifted down to the two still sitting on the ground.
"Cloud correct?" Angeal asked the small blond his eyes taking in the muscular frame under the cadet uniform. "Yes sir."
"Well at least this one had manners." Sephiroth grumbled sending a glare at his lover and Reno. Angeal ignored him instead kneeling down some so he was level with the cadet. "Is that alright with you? Genesis is not exactly known for his patience when it comes to teaching, I'm sure if you are as skilled as he says there are others that can work with you."
Cloud couldn't help but smile though at Angeal's concerned words, he knew Zack was in the room and was trying hard not to look at the man in case he start to cry. "Don't worry Sir, Genesis won't be a problem."
"Hey what's that supposed to mean?" Genesis kicked him in the ass glaring down at the blond. Cloud sighed softly and faster than almost even Sephiroth could see Cloud's hand shot back wrapped around Genesis calf and pulled out, sending the auburn haired 1st onto his ass behind him.
Cloud merely turned back and smiled at Angeal, "I think I can handle him."
Groaning Genesis kicked him in the back playfully; this was one of their games. "smart ass.."
Watching this all Sephiroth's frown deepened; Genesis never mentioned a cadet before and the two were acting awful close. On top of that there was a strange feeling he was getting from the blond; something that was stirring deep inside him. he glanced over to Angeal seeing he had the same strange look in his eyes.
Something about all of this wasn't sitting right with him. Watching Genesis closely he instantly noticed something he never had before; the cadet Reno he believed his name was and Genesis were talking with their eyes. Not like lovey dovey bull shit all those girls prattled on about; no this was Turk talk, something he knew for a fact Genesis should not know.
He watched the two closely; growing up around the Turks had taught him a few things.
If your gonna mentor him, you better do it fast yo
Oh god the red head even threw in the yo when he Turk talked…
I know Reno, Sephiroth isn't going to keep quiet for long..he's too damn smart.
Who cares what General Hotness thinks, it's Hojo you gotta keep Cloud away from, everyone else can go to hell! If we have to hide him in the Turks we will.
He's SOLDIER through and through Reno.. He won't be able to take Turk work..you know that.
What choice do we have if you can't mentor him? He needs the protection from Dr. Psycho.
I know Reno.. Trust me I know what the stakes are…oh shit he's watching us..
Genesis quickly looked away unable to meet Sephiroth's gaze, how could he forget the man could read Turk chat. A mental snort ran through his head; Turk chat.. Sounded like some crazy Turk dating website. Scratching his head Reno pushed himself up motioning for Cloud to do the same. "Well sorry we all crashed your little shindig here..even though it was General Hotness that pulled us out, we should get back to Rude man."
"Nice meeting you all finally..Genesis..let me know what Lazard says." Cloud turned but stopped feeling a hand grasp onto his bicep. Instincts kicking in Cloud whipped around fast as lightening grabbed onto the arm and threw the person over his shoulder and onto their back in front of him.
Seeing the long flow of silver hair as it rested on the ground he blinked in horror seeing he had just thrown Shinra's star General onto his back.
"Holy Shiva's frozen tits.." Zack muttered standing up, violet blue eyes wide. No one had ever been able to throw Sephiroth in a spar.. never. Not even Commander Tseng of the Turks could get the slip on him like that. Yet here this tiny little blond cadet had just judo threw his ass..
Sephiroth was staring up in confusion, almost like he didn't know how he went from his feet to his back. "Uh.. Spike..we should uh..go." Glancing back at Genesis Cloud turned and leapt over Sephiroth and bolted out the door with Reno in toe.
Pushing himself up Sephiroth turned dark eyes on his lover, "Angeal..Zack.. out."
Swallowing hard Genesis looked to his lover seeing those dark eyes now directed at him. "Sephiroth, I don't think it's."
"I said out Angeal.. that's an order." Knowing it was detrimental to one's health to disobey a direct order Angeal and Zack both rushed from the room. Crossing his arms over his chest Genesis cocked his head at his normal defiant angle; Sephiroth wasn't going to get much out of him.

The minute the two hit the halls they leapt up into one of the air ducts and crawled as if their very life depended on it. They didn't stop till they were a good four floors down and half way across the building.
Collapsing against the side of the duct above an abandoned section of hallway Cloud was panting hard, adrenaline and mako pumping through his system causing the glow to show through the glasses. "What the hell did you do that for yo?" Reno was panting just as hard, his own eyes glowing slightly brighter.
"I didn't do it on purpose, I spent the past hundred years running for my life; it's kind of an ingrained response." Cloud let his head fall back against the duct cussing quite colorfully; that little move probably just ruined whatever chance he had of being mentored by Genesis. God how could he be so stupid? This was his one chance to start over; to actually become SOLDIER to live that childhood dream, even if he already knew about the deep corruption inside Shinra.
"Hey don't worry Spike, if lightning rod doesn't pull through Tseng will gladly welcome you into the Turks. Hojo can't touch us.. ever.. not after Veld lost Vincent to him."
Cloud shook his head pulling the glasses off. Reno could see that shattered emo chocobo look coming back into those bright blue eyes. "Genesis is right, I'm not Turk material..I can't blindly follow orders given out by a mad man. There is no way I could drop the plate.."
Reno recoiled as if he had been slapped, he knew that wasn't a jab at him, but that was an incident that would haunt him till his grave. "Reno, I didn't mean it like.." Reno held up a hand forestalling the touchy feely shit, "don't yo.. I know I feel the same but I'm a Turk through and through.. you're SOLDIER boy. Let's give the walking lightning rod a chance to talk to Lazard; if we're lucky he can keep Sephiroth off your tail till you're in. Fuck man if you're lucky he might even hide you from Dr. Freak himself."
A blond brow rose in silent sarcastic really? Rolling his eyes Reno gently kicked the blond in front of him. "Come on yo, Sephiroth hates Freak-instein as much as anyone. Only reason he doesn't kill the SOB is because he doesn't want to be publicly hanged for murder yo."
"I don't think it's a good idea for him to find out, I can feel the connection."
Reno sat up a little more his aquamarine eyes watching him critically. "What do you mean?" wow Reno was going complete Turk on him if he was dropping the yo. Sighing Cloud slumped down in the vent, eyes going distant as he thought of how to word this. "I can feel him, I know where he is.. just like during the chase."
"Wait I thought you said that with the Geostigma rain Jenova cells were gone." Shaking his head Cloud absently rubbed his back, he could feel the wing was still there pressed in against his spine. "It removed the tainted cells from the lifestream after Meteor. It didn't remove the Jenova cells already in my body that had mutated over the four years of my imprisonment. Notice why I have the lovely black wing accessory package." Reno flinched back slightly, a grimace pulling the corner of his lips back, "yeah sorry I forgot about that.. do you still have it?"
Cloud nodded slightly still rubbing his back, "I can feel it pressing in against my spine like it normally does."
"That can't be the most comfortable thing out there." He honestly couldn't image having to feel that all the time, he thought his bad knee was bad enough. "Trust me It's not."
"Come on.. let's go see if we can sneak in and see boss man. Make sure he is alright and isn't shooting every poor nurse thinking he's been captured."

Oh thank the goddess! Bolting out of his room Genesis could almost kiss his PHS. Normally he hated when Lazard called him down to his office but this time it had been a god send. Sephiroth after reading their privet Turk talk and then being flipped onto his back by some unknown little cadet was on the war path.
'Saved by the ring tone' he would be changing that ring tone as soon as he could; he couldn't believe how obsessed with LOVELESS he was back then. Yeah it was a good play but after a hundred years even had had grown tired of it, especially after losing his best friends.
He knew this little diversion wasn't going to last long, Sephiroth would be waiting for him in his room when he returned and the man had the patience of a saint.
'I am so fucked.. What the hell am I supposed to tell him? Hi seph! Guess what I'm from the future we're here to save you from going insane and destroying the world!' Yeah that would get him a reservation with a nice padded room with a view. Telling Sephiroth he was about to go insane thinking he was a living god might be the wrong thing to tell a man that wasn't 100% mentally stable to begin with.
Traveling down to Lazard's office from his apartment several floors above Genesis tried to get his head around everything that was going on. He knew he was back in the past, Florin wouldn't have known the things Angeal did; Shinra had been destroyed well before Florin came into power and started to rip apart the ruins. They would not have known about the small secret cubby he had built into the floor of his bedroom where he kept his most prized possessions.
Sephiroth's descent into madness had started when he had been forced to hunt for him. it had been during that hunt he had discovered the files on Genesis and Angeal and the degradation. Sephiroth as was his habit had delved head first into discovering all that he could about his wayward lover and best friend; Genesis would make sure that didn't happen this time.
The change in the time line was already set into motion; he had been healed of the degradation, he wouldn't desert Shinra during the Wutai mission. What he needed to do was find a cure for Angeal..
Genesis froze mid step just feet from Lazard's office. He was healed..maybe..maybe his cells could heal Angeal of the taint! But who could he talk to too find out? Hollander was a hell no; Hojo he wouldn't touch with Masamune, that didn't leave many options when it came to who they could turn to.
He would need to talk to Tseng and Cloud about this, they were both the most level headed of their group, Tseng more so that any of them.
Taking in a deep breath Genesis steeled himself, Sephiroth and Angeal he could bull shit his way through about his change in personality; Lazard.. that was a whole different story. Oh yes he knew his personality was different, he had known for many years. Pushing the door open he stepped into the large office; goddess he never dreamed he would ever step in here again.
"Ah, Commander Rhapsodos, please come in." Lazard stood from behind his desk, same blue pinstripe jacket, purple ascot and thin rimmed glasses. Never in his life did Genesis ever believe he would be happy to see this Shinra again.
"How are you fairing? I heard you took quite a tumble today." Moving over to the desk Genesis sat down with his normal flare; it felt weird being in his long heavy duster once more, he almost never wore it back at the village.
"I'm fine Director, blood sugar must have been low." He didn't like to admit any sort of weakness but he couldn't exactly hide this one, too many people had seen him go down. "It must be an epidemic than, four others went down as well the exact same time you did; Commander Tseng also went down about the same time."
Genesis didn't need to ask who the SOLDIER were that went down he knew already who they would be. With that knowledge he knew now that the entire village had been brought back, which would also mean Vincent was back as well. 'Good.. If Vincent is around Sephiroth will have a chance to know his real father and not believe those foul words Hojo spews.'
"Director, I know this is short notice but I would like to join the mentor program." Lazard froze mid shuffling papers. He turned slowly, gloved fingers absently pushing the glasses back up his nose in what he recognized as a nervous habit.
"Join the Mentor program?" setting the papers down Lazard folded his hands in front of him on the desk; those blue eyes scrutinizing him from across the desk. "I take it you have someone in mind then?"
"Cadet Cloud Strife, I saw him a few weeks back and have been watching him since. He's a small cadet and so is easily over shadowed by the larger boys, but he has raw talent."
Turning to his computer Lazard quickly pulled up the cadets file; it shouldn't be hard to locate the boy, not with a name like that. Sure enough it pulled up quickly; a very young very pretty little blond looked back at him with some of the brightest blue eyes he had ever seen. Turning his attention to the actual scores a frown crossed his lips. These were not the scores of someone that had raw talent, these were the scores of a kid that was on the road to being kicked from the program.
"Genesis have you looked at the boys scores?" he knew from Cloud that he had done pretty damn poor the first go around. "Director, you know as well as I do the DI's tend to play favorites, if I were going off his file only I never would have looked at him." Genesis started to absently fidget in his chair; it was a habit he had picked up at the village when he was anxious. Realizing he was doing it he instantly stilled once more trying to pull up his old arrogance. God it was a lot harder than he thought to try to become his old self.
Seeing Lazard still giving him an uncertain look he figured it was time to bring out the big guns. If there was one thing he knew about Lazard is that he hated loosing possible SOLDIER cadets to the Turks. "He's also being scouted by the Turks."
A single blond brow rose at that before blue eyes turned back to the computer. "Which Turk is scouting him?" it wasn't uncommon for the lower Turks to be scouting possible members, it normally never came to fruition. "Tseng was scouting him along side another cadet in the same class." If Tseng was scouting it was almost a sure thing that the cadet would be plucked up to the Turks. Tseng was known for his silver tongue, and healways got what he wanted.
Genesis bit back the smirk he felt creeping onto his face as he saw that calculating look crossing Lazard's face. He wasn't even lying about all this; if they didn't snatch the blond up for SOLDIER Tseng would surely take his lover under his wing. If you knew nothing else about the Turk leader he was possessive, he kept those he cared about close to him. Cloud was about as close as you could get to him, the entire time in the village he had never allowed another into his bed.
"I will allow this, keep in mind commander that from this point on you are one hundred percent responsible for this cadet. His academic, and physical training for the SOLDIER test; everything he does from this point out will reflect on you including his failure to enter the SOLDIER program." There was no more leeway for mako intolerance as they had moved to the start of the program. Shinra was getting tired of training children to be SOLDIER just to get to the end and find out they couldn't handle mako. All children entering the program were tested for that first thing, if they failed that they were not permitted into the SOLDIER program.
"I understand Director." Genesis was jumping for joy inside; he could now completely protect Cloud from Hojo. He wasn't worried about Cloud not making SOLDIER; hell he just threw Sephiroth for crying out loud. No Hojo getting a hold of his once experiment was their biggest concern; the SOLDIER mako shot they could forge very easily, being friends with a Turk had its advantages.
"Alright, well go down to the cadet training hall and retrieve your cadet.. Angeal can work you through the rest." Standing up Genesis nodded slightly before taking off at almost a dead sprint resisting the urge to kick up his heels.
Turning the corner he slammed on the breaks nearly colliding with a very solid body. Seeing the familiar black leather and silver hair he swallowed hard. Yep..Seph wasn't going to wait very long at all. Before he could react long pianist fingers wrapped around his weapons harness and all but dragged him off to one of the side rooms.
Locking the door behind them Sephiroth pinned his lover with a glare, still with his fingers locked around the weapons harness he fished his lovers PHS from his pocket. Not pulling his eyes from his lover he shut the phone off and towed it in one of the inner pockets of his own leather duster. He didn't say anything knowing the silence unnerved his lover and would cause him to talk.
Shit he forgot about this. Sephiroth could stare a king behemoth down and no matter what life time they were in it always unnerved the hell out of Genesis. Sighing he looked to his lover, this was the first time seeing him in the flesh in hundreds of years, last thing he wanted to do was fight.
"Please Sephiroth, I don't want to fight.."
Sephiroth slowly released Genesis weapons harness his mind reeling; Genesis never acted like this, it was like the man matured over night. "Genesis, what is going on?" he didn't like being left in the dark especially when it came to the one man he allowed this close to him. "I don't know how much I can tell you Seph.. but please just trust me on this alright. What I can tell you is that little blond cadet is someone we need to keep from Hojo at all cost."
A small frown pulled at Sephiroth's lips, those acid green eyes darkening slightly at the mention of Hojo. "Why?" what was so important about this blond that they had to protect him; granted he was curious as hell since he had been taken completely by surprise by the blond.
"I can't say why.. that is his decision if he wishes to reveal it. Please Seph, you know as well as I do what Hojo does to people that catch his attention." A small shudder ran through Sephiroth, oh yes he was quite familiar with what Hojo did to his specimens.
Sighing Sephiroth shook his head, he had to be going insane. Looking back up to Genesis acid green met ice blue "you're serious aren't you." Genesis nodded slightly, the whole time pleading silently with Sephiroth to accept what he said. "Alright..but I want answers…eventually."
"I'll make sure Cloud knows, thank you." Moving forward Genesis wrapped his arms around his lover and simply laid his head on his shoulder feeling the strong corded muscles wrapping around him in return. God how his missed this man..

"I guess they released boss man early." Reno and Cloud were moving down the halls of Shinra. They had just been to the hospital section to see if Tseng was awake; well he was awake.. and gone. "And without your Turk keycard we can't get into the system to find out where he has gone." All Shinra employees were given keycards that were tracked so they could monitor the movement of their employee's even the Turks.
"Reno you have really lost your touch if you have to rely on keycards." Both boys completely froze at the soft tenor from behind them. Whirling around Cloud all but launched into the arms of his lover "your okay!" blinking he looked up flushing brightly, did he seriously just sound like a girl there?
Tseng who looked a little worse for wear simply smiled down to the now much younger looking savior. He honestly felt the same way at the moment, he was freaked the fuck out but was managing to keep his cool at the moment. Seeing Veld when he woke up in a hospital bed had nearly given him a heart attack.
"So do either of you care to elaborate on exactly why I'm running around in my Turk uniform again and I'm seeing dead ex bosses?"
"Long story short boss man, planet was still dying.. Sent our happy asses back with as much previous powers as it could and we're supposed to keep Sephiroth from taking a swan drive into a mako reactor." Pinching the bridge of his nose Tseng let out a long string of very colorful Wutainese cusswords. Oh his head felt like it was about to explode and he got run over by a bunch of rampaging chocobo's; this was so not his day..
Running a hand over his face he reached down and pulled Cloud's sunglasses away slightly seeing those beautiful mako infused eyes staring back at him. "Well this just complicates things.."
"Lightning rod said he was gonna try and mentor him yo."
"Is that what the phone call I got from Lazard was?" about ten minutes ago he had gotten a call from Lazard all but bragging he had stolen another cadet from him. He forgot how childish this stupid rivalry was between Turk and SOLDIER.
"Probably yo, Sephiroth caught us as we were trying to sneak into Gen's apartment.. Rude told us to say it was Turk testing. Probably believed that yo."
"Let's hope." Tseng gently ran his finger along Cloud's back feeling exactly how much smaller the boy was in this body. "Come, let's see if we can find Genesis and find out for sure." If not you can bet Cloud's hot ass he would be coming to the dark side.. Veld wouldn't be able to stop him.
Tonight though he was finding the nearest bar and getting shit faced…then he would freak out about being in the past.

AN: there you go peeps next chapter of life long forgotten. Sephiroth is a smart cookie.. I'm sorry but to me Cloud would not be able to hide for long specially with the connection they share. Sephiroth would know almost instantly something wasn't right.
Next chapter Cloud get's to show his stuff and reveal a little itty bit about himself..
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