Radiant Gardens

Chapter one: A New beginning

Its two days after the last battle with Cloud and Sephiroth, and after Sora and the others left.

--- I hope you guys like this, it started out as drabble but then I got hooked, I still a beginning writer so I hope it works

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The morning sun filled the room with light, but what amazed Cloud was his own heart was filled with light. Finally Sephiroth was dead, and he no longer hunts Cloud. The town was no longer under attack. It's like feeling the sun on his skin for the first time again. Slowly he swings his feet over of the bed so he is sitting up the clock reads 7:15. It's early considering last night they talked for half the night. Slowly he gets off his bed it's easier today, a weight has been lifted; he can finally live his life how he wants too. Getting up he pulls on a shirt and slips on his pants. Then he opens his bedroom door only to be blasted with the smell on eggs and bacon. He fights the temptation to follow his nose and go down to who made breakfast and to see if he can steal it, instead he heads to the bath room to finish getting ready.

Downstairs Tifa sit on the bar stool, facing the stove, her back turned to the stairs. Her head is bent low as she scans the paper, Yuffie comes skipping down the stairs, in a long Pajama shirt.

"yumm, smells good" she takes a deep breath, "got any left?"

"On the stove, wrapped in the foil" Tifa answers not looking up from the paper. "Oh, and Cid's coffee should be done now can you take it off for me, he'll be down shortly."

"Sure thing." She smiles as she takes the coffee pot of the coffee machine. And then moves to get the food.

"Hey hold on." Tifa tells her.

Yuffie looks up, "find anything?"

Tifa shakes her head, "no, I don't think I will either; but Aerith was down earlier and made chocolate chip pancakes. They're in the microwave to stay worm."

"Yum my favorite" Yuffie says as she helps her self to the food.

Heavy foot steps were heard from up stairs.

"Cid's up" Yuffie informs Tifa.

Tifa only nods, still scanning though the paper.

"Good morning, Cid" Yuffie smiles at Cid who was half way down the stairs, "made you coffee."

"Morning" he grunts as he pores himself a mug, "smells good"

Cid joins Yuffie at the table eating eggs and bacon.

"Aerith made the coffee this morning." Yuffie smiles.

Cid how ever looks questionably at his cup, "should I be afraid?"

"dunno, you're the only one who dinks it." Yuffie answers while helping herself to seconds.

"Guess there's only one way to find out" he shrugs and takes a big gulp.

Tifa looks up from the paper, and at cid, there a slight hint of hope that this time Aerith made the coffee correctly. "Is it good?" she asks thankful he didn't spit it out this time.

"Yeah, tastes just like when you makes it" he smiles at Tifa, " she did a good job, her next goal is to work on her eggs. Where is she by the way?"

Tifa laughs, "yeah her eggs are horrible, she out in town, said she wanted to get her shopping done early." she laughs at Cid face.

"I hate shopping…" he mutters. While taking a bite of Aerith's eggs. "Part of them aren't fully cooked, while the other part is burnt. What did you make Tifa?"

"the pancakes, bacon, and waffles." Tifa informs him.

Cid gets up and fills his plate with the food Tifa made.

Tifa looked back down at her paper, "Aerith made the bacon" she mutters. "But it was so bad; when she left I made a new batch."

"ha, we shouldn't tell her that." he said as he picks the other half of the paper.

Yuffie tried to stop her self from laughing, but ended up choking on her food. The other two didn't even look up.

"Nice to know you care" she says sarcastically.

"I care." Leon said from the bottom of the stairs.

"Honest, Squall?" Yuffie asked sweetly. She never did take to calling him Leon.

"Don't lie, Leon. Or it'll be the devil to pay" Tifa chides in.

Leon look at Tifa, who still scanning the paper, then back to Yuffie, "she's right, I don't." he smiles.

Yuffie acts hurts, "you suck" but ends up smiling anyways.

"Find anything?" Leon asks as he helps himself with food.

"No" both Cid and Tifa answer.

Just then Cloud come down the stairs.

"Good morning, Cloud!" Yuffie says in a sing song voice.

"Good morning" he says back, looking at every one in the kitchen.

Tifa was on a bar stool, reading the paper, Leon was next to her both of them had their backs to him. Yuffie was sitting at the table facing him, while cid was turned side ways at the table, reading the paper. "Do you get up this early in morning, all the time?" he asked yawning.

Leon shrugged, "yeah, breakfast is on the stove. I'd stay away from the eggs, Aerith made them."

Tifa's look at Leon, trying not to laugh.

"I think I'll take my chances" he glanced at Tifa who was now staring into his eyes, their eyes locked. The first thing Tifa noticed was Clouds eyes no longer seem empty, they had feeling in them, and they looked almost like he had desire in them. Quickly she looked down, in fear of blushing; she stared into the paper, but not really reading anything. Tifa felt his eyes still on her, slowly she looked up, and he was still staring in her eyes. She smiled despite herself, and he was smiling back. Tifa then felt a new set of eyes on her, turning her head she saw every one busy with their own thing, after all it only been a minute, but then she saw Yuffie, looking at both of them smiling with a glint of mischief.

Slowly she focused back on Cloud, but he already turned around getting food. Then he sat next to Yuffie. Tifa looked down at her paper again, to scan the last page of the paper.

"Nothing, I couldn't find anything" Tifa said, "it's truly is back to normal."

Yuffie smiled, "its back to Radiant Gardens?"

"Seems like it." Cloud laughed, "We haven't called it that in years"

"Well I'm glad we're going to start."

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I know it short and I probably wont update in a while because schools going to start, but I wanted to put this out there, to see how people like it, please tell me in a review, and who knows if I get a lot then a maybe I'll update sooner.