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The Reckless Desire II

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Tifa's lips pulled to one corner with an unamused expression and let out a sigh of annoyance. As she looked back up at Cloud who was now tending to the fire, she became fixated on the movements of his muscles; each rippling underneath his shirt as he tossed more wood on to the fire. The fire illuminating his face. Realizing her mouth was slightly agape, she shook her head lightly to erase her thoughts and stood on her feet.

" I should get back..thank you..for saving my life today." She said while handing her cup back to him.

Cloud rose to his feet "Try and stay out of trouble.." he told her in a mocking tone.

Tifa grinned and turned to face him "Hm.." "It seems that my troubles only occur when you are around..so maybe it is you who should stay out of trouble." She flashed him a slight cocky smile, causing Cloud to blush ever so slightly.

"Can I offer you a lift?" He asked. "I could drop you off a couple of miles from the border.."

Tifa pondered on the thought for a moment, remembering that Lydia was too far of a walk and staying in Icarus would only cause her father to become worried. She reluctantly nodded and Cloud escorted her to his motorcycle. He gently lifted her up on the back and straddled the bike in front. Tifa wrapped her arms around his waist, the closeness giving her goose pimples. They began to drive off and Tifa lightly rested her head on Cloud's shoulder, shielding herself from the bitter wind. Cloud's body instantly warming at the feeling of her head on his back. The wind whipping her hair, he was able to catch the slightest hint of her scent. It was sweet like the spring and yet had small indication of sandalwood, possibly from perfume.  

Cloud stopped just a mile or so from the border of Lydia. He knew if he entered the village perimeters, he would be killed on site and with no back up, it would be nothing short of a death wish. After dismounting the motorcycle, he carefully gripped her waist and lifted her off. As soon as her feet touched the ground, she walked off without a word. Dumb stricken at first, Cloud just decided to let her go.

As Tifa entered her village, she was met with silence. It was just past midnight and the entire village was sleeping. After a few minutes of walking she approached her house and gripped the door handle, twisting it as slowly as possible so as not to disturb her most likely sleeping father. The door quietly creaked open and as soon as she shut the door behind her, she was met with her father standing right in front of her.

"Explain yourself Tifa." he said in a stern voice with his arms crossed.

Tifa's eyes widened and tried to rattle her brain for good lie. Explaining to her father that she had been attacked and then cared for by a Delian was not something that would run over smoothly.

"I..uh..I-I just went to Icarus, My car broke down so I had to walk..I'm sorry." Tifa lied, not even able to look him in the eye. She cast her eyes to the floor in shame.

"Where is your phone?" He replied, not entirely believing Tifa's excuse.

"I uh..it..it must've fallen out of my pocket." she lied again

"Okay..then explain what happened to your shoulder." he said pointing to the dressed wound.

Tifa looked down at the wound, remembering how tender Cloud was when he was nursing the wound.

"N-nothing, I just fell on broken glass is all, I went to the infirmary in Icarus, it's just a few stitches."

Tifa's father glared at her with a squinted stare. Blood began to rush to her face. This was not the man anyone would want to anger. He was Master Zangan, a legendary martial artist of Lydia. Not her biological father, he rescued her when she was only four years of age and adopted her, training her in the art of martial arts throughout her life. Although she loved Zangan as a father, Tifa was left with her own questions as the cause of her parent's death was a mystery to her.

Zangan sighed and shook his head, uncrossing his arms and went in to embrace his daughter. "You had me so worried." he said while hugging her tightly.

Tifa returned the hug. "I know, I'm sorry, I promise I'll be more careful." she said smiling.

As the hug broke, Tifa kissed her father on the cheek and ran upstairs to her room.

Zangan dropped and shook his head. "What am I going to do with this girl.." he said to himself and turned back to retreat to his room.

Tifa entered her room and stripped of all her clothing, being especially careful of her wounded shoulder. She went into her bathroom and showered. The whole time, her thoughts were fixated on the handsome blond who'd saved her life just hours earlier. She peered down to her shoulder and allowed her fingers to graze over the dressings, recalling the warmth of Cloud's touch. 'He's a Delian Tifa! Snap out of it!' she thought to herself, breaking recollections. She turned off the water and put clean pyjamas on. Walking back into her room, she tucked herself underneath the midnight blue quilt of her bed and turned to face her balcony windows and watched the aqua blue nets danced from the breeze. She buried herself into her pillow and drifted to sleep.

'Why did she leave without a word?' Cloud thought to himself. That night he closed his eyes to sleep but all he could see was Tifa's sweet smile and clips of there fight, her mighty strength and swift moves impressed him and he fell into a dream of the events of that evening only this time the fight was a little different. Tifa ducked down dodging the swing of Cloud's blade she leaped over him, grabbing his body and rushed him to the ground. Tifa landed right on top of him, she held his chest down and tried to throw a punch at his face but couldn't, his glowing blue eyes were looking directly at her and he grabbed her wrists and turned with her quick pinning her down. The tension grew stronger as he leaned down on her, there faces was so close but he couldn't grasp her everything faded and he awoke.. 'what was that?' he washed his face with luke warm water and looked at his reflection in the moonlight lake water, 'get a grip!' he ordered himself.

"Cloud Strife" a voice called out, Cloud looked back to see three of his men walking towards his tent.

"Yes.. I'm right here" Cloud called out walking back to his tent.

"Sir we have orders.. The General wants to launch an attack on Lydia tonight, we were sent to call you for backup. Only you have another mission, you must dispose of the ex-martial arts teacher, he holds some ancient scrolls containing precious information on Delos also.. what he poses is a threat to us, he may have aged but his might has not ceased, he has no weak point, only a young woman who is living with him.. The general wants you to kidnap her.."

The soldiers explained to Cloud what he must do, they made a plan to attack the martial arts teachers house, one where the villagers wont hear them and try and stop them from getting the scrolls.  

Back at Lydia Tifa was in her room when some voices disturbed her sleep, she crawled out of bed and tiptoed as quietly as she could to her door and found the voices coming from downstairs, her hair lay on her left shoulder, tucked behind her ear, she wore a figure hugging blue and gray vest and shorts. Her room was dark, slightly illuminated from the moonlight, the balcony doors were open and the aqua nets blew gently in the wind. She sat at the top of the stairs, she saw her father standing with two middle aged men talking in the front porch.

"We saw three Delian solders on the boarder line of Icarus, we overheard them talking about launching an attack on Lydia" One of the men explained.

"Their plans are to attack you Master, it seems they are after the scrolls.." He finished off.

"I see.. gather all the men, mothers and children must be taken to the east side underground hideout, we need to be prepared.."

The men continued to discuss the situation further when Tifa stood up and ran back to her room and closed the door gently, she turned around and hit into something tall and hard.. "what the.." she groaned and looked up at a tall man, enveloped in the blackness of the room, too dark to see anything and she turned back around to run but the man covered her mouth to muffle her scream. He gripped her body as she tried to shake him off but failed, he was heading to the balcony when Tifa elbowed his rib and he let out a groan through gritted teeth. Tifa ran out of his arms heading back to the door when he leaped at her and they landed on the bed.

"Get off me!" Tifa tried to push off the hench muscular man that was on top of her, he was compressing her ribs making it difficult for her to breathe, "I can't breathe" she pleased.

~I know that voice~ He thought, he picked his head up to look at Tifa but had her arms pinned down in case she tried to attack him, her head was tilted back as she was gasping for air.

"Tifa?" he said in a confused tone and her burgundy eyes met his sapphire gaze.

"Cloud, get off me!" she struggled, he lifted his chest off of hers a little so she could breathe but still kept her pinned down. She took a deep gasp of air a coughed, she looked back at Cloud struggling to get out of his grasp

"Are you out of your Goddam mind? Get the HELL-" she began to raise her voice when Cloud covered her mouth.

"Tifa stop!" he said in a low stern voice, the moon light bleeding through the net, Cloud took his hand off her mouth and moved her hair from her face, their eyes now locked, Cloud looked down on her, he could feel her heart was racing through his chest, her ivory skin glowing in the moonlight.

"Cloud.. why are you here?" Tifa asked in a shaky whisper, Cloud wanted to let go of her , but a part of him didn't want to release her. Suddenly, they heard someone coming up the stairs and calling out for Tifa.

"Don't speak" Cloud ordered "follow my lead". He took Tifa's hand and ran through the nets he looked back at her to see her body glide against the gentle net, they climbed onto the tree and began running through the forest.

"Tifa!" Zangan shouted as he barged into Tifa's room after several knocks, he scanned the room shocked that Tifa was missing and the bed was a bit of a mess, he clenched his fists with a series of fear-striken thoughts running through his mind. He ran to check the balcony but Tifa was no where to be seen. Infuriated, he headed out to the meeting point as planned.

Cloud and Tifa ran through the forest at such speed, when Tifa let out a painful scream and fell pulling Cloud down with her. Cloud scanned Tifa "what's wrong?" he asked puzzled.

"ah.." Tifa crossed her legs and looked at the sole of her right bleeding foot, "If you wanted to kidnap me, at least let me change out of my pyjamas or let me put on some shoes!" She said pulling out the sharp piece of metal. They heard voices shouting from behind.

"Come on, we have to move!" Cloud picked Tifa up, she limped on her left foot in pain, Cloud saw that she was struggling to walk so it occurred to him that running was out of the question. He quickly picked her up, she wrapped her arm around his neck and ran with her.

After some time Cloud was still focused and still running full speed, Tifa felt his heart racing against her ribs, it's like he was a machine, he just kept pushing himself harder, his speed exceeding that of an  average human, not a drop of perspiration was anywhere to be seen and his breathing remained steady, Tifa looked up at his austere expression and it calmed when he looked down at hers, she blushed and looked away.
They arrived at the lake bordering Icarus. Cloud walked past his tent, over to the edge of the lake and placed Tifa down. Tifa understood she was kidnapped but Cloud took such good care of her, she didn't understand why he was doing this.. Cloud looked at Tifa, curious of her confused expression.

"You could of made things very difficult but you came when I said, thank you" Cloud finally spoke as he held Tifa's right ankle and dipped her feet in the water, washing away the blood.

"mm.." Tifa groaned in pain and held Clouds arm..

"Sorry.." Cloud said and gently pressed on the wound getting out any dirt that may have gotten into the cut.

"Stay right here.." Cloud ordered and went to retrieve his medical box, Tifa sat and watched Cloud mend her wound, he disinfected the cut then bandaged it up.

"Thank you" she smiled.. "now tell me.. what's going on?"

Cloud sighed "I am a Delian soldier, I was ordered to kill Master Zangan. we are after some scrolls.. I didn't know you were the adopted girl living with him" he explained, his tone somewhat apologetic.

"What?!" Tifa pulled away from Cloud, "you want to kill him? WHY!!" Tifa demanded

"It was an order, I didn't know about it till today" He explained calmly, Tifa wasn't the type to shout the odds, she stayed calm and allowed Cloud time to explain himself. "The general ordered for the soldiers to attack Lydia, and while everyone is distracted I had to get into your house and get these ancient scrolls the martial artist is hiding. We knew even though he is older now that he is very skilled so we needed to find his weak point-"

"Me.." Tifa raised a brow, her eyes cast to the ground.

"Yeah.. so if he did catch me I would have threatened to kill you, after getting the scrolls I was ordered to.. kill him" he finished and couldn't look at Tifa, she gasped and looked directly at Cloud fuming with anger. "Because he is a threat to us!" Cloud tried to justify.

"Threat?!" He is the only family I have left you heartless self centred, brain dead ANIMAL!" Tifa yelled at Cloud struggling to get up.

"I didn't know you were the adopted girl, that's why I couldn't complete the mission.." Cloud said softly trying to soothe her enraged state.

"And what if I wasn't, why does it change things, how am I different to any other girl, why didn't you complete your task?" she pressed.

"Where are your men? Huh? And where is the 'General'? They're getting you to do their dirty work!" Tifa yelled with tears in her eyes, so hurt "You're just a puppet they use when they need a bit of muscle-"

"STOP! ENOUGH!" Cloud's deep roar shook Tifa and she could see she hit a nerve.. "I'm NOT a puppet!" Cloud yelled and walked into his tent leaving Tifa standing by the lake.

She sat back down, taking in what's happened thinking what will happen next and why Cloud is treating her like this, had she been any other Lydian girl Cloud would have had killed her by now.
Cloud sat on his bed and thought about what Tifa said.. ~It's true.. they give orders and I do what I'm told like a dog~ he thought, most of the jobs he's told to do don't make much sense but he never asks why, he just does it, he simply follows the task through. He felt bad for snapping at Tifa and looked out to see her still sitting by the lake hugging her knees, her head buried into them with both arms folded.
Foot steps approached Tifa when she looked back to see Cloud, she looked away.

"I'm sorry" Cloud apologized and wrapped a blanket around Tifa, she took it and sat quietly. "How is it that the strongest man in your village is your guardian? What happened with your parents? Did you run away?" Cloud asked in concern.

"They were killed when I was a child.. Zangan saved me and took me to live with him." Tifa explained "he took me In as a daughter and but never told me the exact cause of my parents' death, he trained me well to be the most efficient fighter so I could look after myself" she explained, her voice filled with grief as she spoke of her parents.

"I'm sorry of your loss.. and I'm sorry I was going to take your only family away from you.. I know how it feels, my mother was killed when I was young but like you, I don't know how. we are forbidden to talk of such events." Cloud said firmly.

Tifa knows of this rule and decided to let the subject rest, "So what happens now?" Tifa looked over at Cloud.

"I don't know.. I don't even understand why it's so important to get those scrolls, do you know where they are kept?" He asked simply.

"I don't know what your talking about, I have never seen such scrolls, if they are in the house, I would of seen them, your General isn't human.. I'm sorry if I'm harsh but he doesn't think twice before ending a innocent's life, he just wants things his way.. How do you know there are any scrolls? Father will never hide anything from me, what I'm trying to say is, you were ordered to kill him because he was a threat to your people and the scrolls are just an excuse". She said understandingly, Cloud stared at her in bewilderment, attempting to piece together what she was trying to tell him.

"I never thought about that.. ever since I was a child my father wanted me to be the best, I was always training, always pushing myself to be the top soldier and it felt good to earn his respect" Cloud smiled.

"What does your father do? Is he a soldier too?" Tifa asked in concern.
Cloud sighed looking at the lake.. "My father is the General Ajax", he didn't hear any response but a thud he looked over at Tifa, she lay on the ground, passed out from the sudden shock,

"Tifa!" Cloud crawled over to her side he found her pulse on her neck and calmly looked down on Tifa's peaceful sleeping face.

"Yeah it's a lot to take in" Cloud gently picked Tifa up and carried her into the tent placing her down in the tent bed. He lay down next to her and covered the two of them with the blanket. Cloud watched Tifa sleep, breathing softly and he pushed away a stray hair away from her porcelain skin and he slowly drifted off to sleep.
Here's chaper two!! ;P
I writ this chapter :D and Desiree :icondragging-belles: helped write it too. It's so awesome! So proud of how it's comming allong.
Hope you all are enjoying this fic and keep watching us for chapter 3 n_n

~# I do not own Final Fantasy or the charcters SquareEnix do, this is purely a fan made fan fiction. Desiree and i own the storyline though #~
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It's so beautiful! Love the action too. Really great story. :iconcloudohjoyplz: