Final Fantasy Tranquil Beauty (Sephiroth X Reader)

Tranquil Beauty Chapter 20

"Sephiroth! Sephiroth!! SEPHIROTH!!!" Aerith calls reaching out her hands as she jogs after him.

Finally after walking past a few of the Shinra's campuses Sephiroth stops and stands his eyes to the sky. Aerith takes hold of his arm as she set her other hand on her hip trying to catch her breath.

"Sephiroth...what...happened?" Aerith questions as she takes deep breaths in between her words.

"Aerith. What the hell is going on? She's afraid of me. Her eyes, her touch. It's not the same." He says almost in a whisper.

"She...Y/N... she doesn't remember anything... you can't rush her..." Aerith finishes with a big huff, her hands still steady on Sephiroth's arm.

"She looks at me like I'm... a monster." He says shakily. His eyes now staring into his hands.

A million and one thoughts run through his mind. As he looks at his bare hands, hands that wield the deadly Masamune, hands that have hurt and killed, hands that touched and caressed Y/N beautiful hair.

He thought to himself; Do I even deserve her?

"When I had her in my arms earlier all I brought her was pain. The moment Genesis holds her she is comforted."

"Sephiroth. Genesis wouldn't do that to you. He wouldn't take Y/N away from you." Aerith does her best to comfort the Elite General, but her words are starting to sound desperate.

"Who says she's mine to have?" Sephiroth returns his words as desperate as hers. His eyes steady on hers hoping that she can confirm that Y/N was truly his.

"I... I ... don't know..." Aerith stutters, slowly but surely she too was doubting what she was saying.

Aerith could only look to the ground as the mighty general looks on to the sky. His thoughts, again, racing. He was angry, furious that he couldn't keep Y/N safe. He wanted to hurt someone, so much so that he remembered how easy it was for him before. To lash out and not care about the consequences. But now ... there is... Y/N. If he did do such things again she will truly look at him as a monster. He will then truly lose her. He lets out another deep sigh, Oh how the mighty have fallen, he thought.

As the two stand in silence Ifalna emerges behind them. Her footsteps were gentle, quiet, but fast. They both knew that she was looking for them because her eyes beamed when she finally found them. She charges towards Sephiroth, her resolve strong.

"I remember. I remember everything now." She says to him her hands holding strong on his, her eyes incandescent against the sun.
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Genesis set me down gently on the bed, he pulls the covers over my legs, and then sets himself down next to me. Taking my hands into his, he takes a big breathe in and then out, all the while not breaking his gaze. He looks so familiar, feels so familiar. There was a comfort towards him that I couldn't figure out, couldn't understand. But it was there.

"What happened with you two?" Genesis asks, threading lightly.

"I... don't know..."  I stutter, tears starting to well up from inside me as I remember how Sephiroths eyes looked before he walked away.

"You don't remember anything. But you feel so strongly about him?" Genesis asks, his head tilting slightly to the side, his eyes serious.

"There's... this ringing. This very sharp and painful ringing that happens every time I'm near him, when I see him, and... touch him." I answer.