No I don't own FFVII or any of it's characters. You think if I did I'd be writing this smut! Okay so I would. But it still stands the only thing I own is the plot!

Chapter 1

As Sephiroth out maneuvers Cloud and throws him back, without hesitation, he pins him to the crumbling structure with his masamune. Watching eagerly as Cloud winces at the sharp pain, but something odd stirs in his chest as he sees Cloud struggle.

Ignoring the feeling, "What do you treasure most? I want the joy of taking it from you."

As Cloud goes to remove the blade from his shoulder Sephiroth twists the blade over and jerks up severing Clouds collar bone in half. He cries out in pain hunching over the blade. He manages to work it free and defend himself with a left handed attack. With Sephiroth pushed back he gets shakily to his feet. "How sad. You don't understand at all." Just as he realizes Sephiroth is behind him it's too late to put up a defense and is knocked out cold by a sharp hit to the back of his neck.

Moving over to Clouds now unconscious body, Sephiroth thrusts masamune into the ground before kneeling down to inspect the young man. Again this odd stirring in his chest assails him. Why had he not just killed his young enemy as he intended to? Sitting next to the young man he realizes he is sorry for injuring him so. That is odd. The battle thus far had been euphoric, but the moment he had inflicted real damage he no longer wished to fight. And this insistent niggling at the back of his mind, as if he should be remembering something important. Unable to grasp these memories he focuses his attention back to the bleeding body before him, he acts on instinct alone. Scooping the limp body up into his grasp he tugs Cloud into his lap so that his up raised knee supports the blonds back and his rear is sitting on his lowered thigh. With the blond cradled in his embrace he leans over the slowly rising chest, wrapping a supporting arm under his shoulder blades, and slowly laps at the still bleeding wound as his hair falls over his face and Clouds battered body.

Before Sephiroth knows what he wants to do with Cloud his annoying friends show up in their air craft, no doubt searching for Cloud. Sheathing the masamune Sephiroth scoops Cloud up, unfurls his wing and takes flight. The infernal ship takes after him. He dives into the ruins surrounding them loosing the air craft in the tight corners and narrow openings. He can hear them trying to blast their way around the last building he passed through, to no avail as he makes his get away.

But just where is he going, and what is he going to do with cloud once he awakens? Again that feeling that he is forgetting something important, but he feels closer to discovering these memories the more time passes. Perhaps if he could just get somewhere safe he could meditate on it. Realizing he only knew of one safe place he changes his course and heads out of the city.

Landing out side of the waterfall he strolls behind the water and enters the cavern behind it. He can't remember why this place feels safe, but as he enters he sees his true mothers' remains in the crystal, and all the memories he had been trying to remember come flooding back.