Promise by Aridea Moons

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The long masamune shimmers and strikes quickly from the dark as the crow haired soldier dodges, swinging their swords at each other. They came face to face behind their blades as Zack sees his green mako snake eyes that started to vibrate, the young soldier was caught off guard and was pushed across the battle field followed by a path of dust he left behind. Tifa punches directly at the ground using gravity magic to send an earthquake at the silver haired, as soon as he turns around he smirks at her then balls of sparkles shoot directly at him as he dodges only to have the young ninja get close to see his face with her shuriken. Sephiroth sees her from above as he repelled her shuriken then she takes out another shuriken in her other hand as she doubled her threatening status. He was caught off guard by her second and quickly parries with his free palm sending a wave in her arm as she groans then he strikes horizontally as her shuriken made a ringing sound from the two blades touching. Aerith shields Yuffie in the air and does a dancing spin as she dodges his purple wave strikes she hits him with ray of judgement as Sephiroth was blocking it with his blade suddenly his eyes shift to feel the presence of the raging blonde coming from behind him. The silver haired strikes again horizontally sending Aeriths ray of judgement towards Tifa, her green eyes slowly follow the ray as Tifa widens her eyes. It was there at that moment, everything was moving slowly as if time was going to a pause. Aerith's lips move led to a loud terrified gasp as Tifa had stopped herself from running towards it, she tilts her head ready to dodge but her worried brown eyes say otherwise. The blonde touches blades with the villain as he let out a huge yell causing his sword to surge a power of yellow but the silver smirks as his feet were digging itself a hole underneath his feet. Cloud yells louder as his blue eyes turn in rage mode, causing his sword to electrify a raging blue with a purple shade, Sephiroth gasps as he witnesses the light of power before his eyes. It was over, the blonde was found staring down at Sephiroth then suddenly he hears Aerith yelling.
A: "TIFA!"
The blondes heart sunk to his stomach as time moves slowly again, he turns his head and widens his eyes to suddenly see black hair beautifully flowing. His sane blue eyes peel open to see her black hair falling followed with blood, and just like that it was over.
[Several hours earlier]
The brunette shoots open his eyes in a low gasp as if a whisper. She wakes up in a living room then looks around suddenly the door opens to see a smiling Cloud with a little brown haired boy, he was patting his hair.
C: "Tifa your awake"
T: "Cloud?"
D: "Hi..How are you feeling?"
Tifa sits up and shakes her head as she was feeling a little nauseous, Cloud looks worried and sees her sitting up.
C: "Don't sit up, rest"
D: "Yea..", he smiles a little, "I'll get you some water, Nana is outside in the garden-", he runs away.
T: "That boy.."
C: "I found him..I had to carry you the entire way here. I..don't be mad at me for this..I sort of forgot you were pregnant", he says rubbing the back of his neck hoping he won't need to hear a lecture. Luckily, the brunette was confused and kept her eyes wandering.
T: "I..I forgot I was too..where are we?"
C: "Sector 6"
T: "6??"
C: "I had to carry you back to Sector 6, when I did I found him wandering outside the houses here"
T: "I see..", she touches her head lightly and the blonde grabs her hand as he kneels down, "huh?"
C: "....Tifa..now that you have a child...would you...like to be..together?"
T: "hm?"
The blonde stares at her and the brunette caught on what he meant, she widens her eyes for a second letting out a small gasp.
T: "uh...well..uh-I..", she looks down blushing as she didn't expect that question.
C: "You can give me an answer later.."
T: "I-", suddenly she had flashes of earlier or what she thought she had dreamt. The little boy comes from the kitchen as he brought a glass of water.
D: "Here you go"
T: "uh..thanks", she looks down at the water in her lap and she has flashes again but then she looks up at the two, "When did you two get along?"
C: "Well-"
D: "We didn't really get along..he was just teaching me something..", he looks away embarrassed.
T: "oh..well Im glad he could be helpful", she said playfully
C: "What does that mean?", he says playing along
T: "Oh nothing..", she sips her drink realizing she was thirsty and Denzel walks out of the room to help the old lady with her garden.
C: "About Sephiroth-", he sits down next to her
Tifas eyes glimmer at the name
T: "What about him?"
C: "...We have to fight him again."
T: "....I know..I just hope it won't be...a lost cause", she sets her glass on her lap again
C: "huh?", he turns to face her, "Why do you say that?"
T: "nothing...Im tired-", she lays back down and the blonde stands up walking out the back door.
C: "You could tell me when your ready..", he commented before leaving knowing she was bothered then he leaves and suddenly he found a great view from a distance to look at Denzel smiling having a good time with the old lady digging, he smiles at the sight. He walks over to the two to offer his assistance.
C: "What are you trying to do?"
N/0: "Well..I want to grow my own flowers"
C: "I can help with that..here Denzel, use this", he says giving him a smaller shovel as he explains why he gave him a smaller one.
D: "Huh?- Im not a kid!"
N/0: "Denzel be nice!"
He looks at nana then pouts
C: "Its fine..I've gardened before", he kneels down digging
D: "huh", he looks surprised, "you did?", he looks at his side profile with his hair covering most of his face
C: "Yea"
N/0: "Were you from the country side?", the old lady asks in wonder
C: "I was...Raised and everything. My mother..and I used to have our own garden. I haven't planted in many years.."
N/0: "Oh my...what a blessed day it is isn't it Denzel? We got ourselves a gardener", she smiles and Denzel suddenly took a liking to the blonde but he still furrowed his eyebrows with a pouting face though he was blushing. He kept noticing the blonde was digging with his hands and realized he gave him the shovel so that he didn't have to use his fingers even though his nails were already dirty. He softened a bit to his kindness, and walks up to him with furrowed eyebrows.
D: "here", he says and the blonde confused looks back to see he was handing him the shovel though Denzel was embarrassed but Cloud replied with a gentle smile which made Denzels eyes glimmer.
C: "Thank you"
The image of Denzels father stayed with him and he quickly kneels down next to him as he was being taught by the blonde and the old lady watched from a short distance as she felt the cold breeze that made her smile.