The watere rippled slow enough he could count each one. This was his last year alive...
Maybe he could be buried with her. Her who rested under the water he watched so carefully.
Cloud sighed. He had agreed to wait for Vincent to return but he couldn't wait forever. He coughed a little and frowned as he felt the small trickles of something warm down his chin.
Blood...
Cloud sighed again, causing more coughs. Finally he fell over onto his back and rolled over. Each cough got a spray of blood. After four or five minutes later he stopped dazed from blood loss. He stared in front of himself and saw....
Shoes.... like....
"Ae....rith...." He reached out as everything around him faded into black.
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He swung his legs back and forth like every child his tender age of 13. However his young features fooled all who gazed on his face. Some how... he hated it all. He hated what he was doing, he hated being stuck fighting for half the time he didn't even know why...
Kadaj sighed. He was bored. Only thing keeping him awake was this nagging feeling that something was going to happen to him.
He shrugged it was probably the sense of Cloud coming for his precious boy.
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"Hey Yazuu..... I have a question..."
"What?"
"Have you noticed a change in Kadaj?" Loz watched their younger flop back in the tree he was sitting in.
"Maybe he's hitting puberty or something. Loz be alert for Cloudy." Yazuu said 'not caring' dripping from his voice.
"He seems a little more violent..... I mean yesterday he wouldn't have slice Cloudy's shirt into tiny pieces... He would have killed him. Now he's just toying with him.... It's like he's slowly becoming not Kadaj...."
"You think to much Loz."
"It was his idea to do this in the first place. Didn't he promise NOT to dirty his hands with blood?" Loz sat down with a plop.
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Kadaj flailed his arms in frustration. Maybe he should just call the whole thing off go home and enjoy the rest of his life....
Nah that's boring too. Kadaj flopped over onto his stomach making sure not to fall off the branch he laid on. He counted the rocks on the ground below.
"What do you want?" He asked annoyed.
"Ah so you noticed me." A man with a low velevty voice spoke.
"It was your cape." Kadaj sat up and turned to face the man. Vincent simple held a smile. Kadaj glared at him.
"Ah a trait you get from your brother."
"You're lucky I don't have my sw-" Kadaj's words were cut off when a gun was pressed to his forehead. "I'll scream and then Yazuu-"
"Yazuu won't be able to pull the trigger fast enough." Vincent cut off the boy's speech.
"Are you here to tell me to lay off your poor defenseless sky cottenball?"
"What you do with Cloud is none of my concern at the moment. Kill him for all I care."
"Oh joy 'Daddy' gave me permission now I can do it." Kadaj smirked. Vincent glared at him and pressed the gun harder into his skull.
"Then listen to 'Daddy' and stop this foolish search for Jenova. If Cloud won't kill you, she will."
"I'll never stop searching for my mother...." Kadaj snapped. Here he was at the mercy of one of the people he didn't want to see at the moment. "Even if it kills me."