Destined Path's

Back to the past

Tifa wakeup and when she look out of the place she was shocked that she was in neibelheim. And she was on her pink color childish bed she looked at the mirror seeing a 14 year girl. "What happened? Why I'm looking like this?" Then a voice filled the room as the older women enters. "Tifa dear? What happen? Are you ok I was calling you for breakfast." Tifa's mother look at her with a worried expression. Then her tears went down and hug her mother tightly and sniffing her motherly smell. "Tifa can you talk to me please your scaring me?" Tifa mom still questioning the odd behavior of her daughter then she said nothing was wrong as she headed downstairs to eat their breakfast. Her father was seated waiting for the two to go down and join him. "I heard you play again with that strife boy at the neighborhood?" Her father open up a conversation. But her mother try to look at her father indicating to stop. "I know you're close but I don't like the guts of that boy. Much better you played with the other kids not him." Her father said. "But why you hated him?" I ask. "Well he is not fit for you. His family is poor and he doesn't have a father we never seen his father come home." Tifa's Father explained. "Because he is poor and doesn't have a father is that a right reason!" Tifa said now getting angry to her father. "And that's the reason why I don't want you to be associated with him because your attitude is getting worse young lady!" Her father said in a large tone. "Stop it both of you! And please be considerate to your child and stop criticizing the strife kid that way! Tifa's mother try to calm the heated situation only to for Tifa to run away and go out of the house. Then she saw cloud getting bullied by her childhood playmates which is majority of them is boys. Cloud was curled in the corner with bruises in his face arms and legs indication that he was get hit by the group of bullies. Tifa run to his rescue spreading her arms and facing clouds bullies. "Stop it! All of you!" Tifa said in a very angry tone. "But tifa?!" One boy said  "if you don't stop you all need to face me!" She said to them. "Why protecting that sissy over there!" The boy with red hair said. "He ain't no sissy, he is cloud! And he will be a hero! So back off punks" Tifa said. And the boys was shocked on how Tifa talks she was a timid and shy girl before and never shows her angry toward them. She was their angel since they were 5. On the other hand cloud was shocked on how Tifa protected him. She never saw him get bullied by them before and before she does he hide himself so that she will never see this weak side of him. "Are you ok? Tifa said in a loving tone. As tried to help cloud to stand up and the cloud was shock to her next action which cause him to blush hardly. As Tifa touch his face in a very intimate way. "I-im fine" cloud said. As he try to hide away his blush. Cloud was a slim kid in his age unlike the other kids who have enough muscles and fats. And as for Tifa she was slim same a cloud. The reason why other boys call him sissy for his body figure and the clothes he wears is an oversize one. That can hide his slimness. Tifa was not satisfied with her answer she grabs clouds hand and go to clouds house. Cloud was shocked how Tifa changed she was never an aggressive girl like this knowing her shy nature. They reach clouds house it was indeed small a bungalow with two bedroom which is for him and his mother. Luckily his mother was not around due to work. Since he doesn't have a father. Her mother Claudia needs to work hardly to support their living. "Where's your first aid kit?" Tifa ask cloud as he was led to sit by their wooden chair. "It was in the cupboard" cloud point out the direction where's the first aid kit
Then Tifa get it and start to apply the medicine for his bruises. "Why they did that to you?" Tifa ask while putting bandage to his bruises. "They…they warn me to not get…close to you…" cloud said in sad tone. Tifa knowing that she was an adult living inside her 14 year old self could not contain it's Nd suddenly hug cloud tightly. Cloud was shocked on what Tifa's doing right now and he don't know how to react as his heart beat speed up. Tifa pull out the hug and ask him if he already had eaten he said he had eaten breakfast before his mom's goes to work then Tifa decided to prepare food since it was lunch time. Cloud watch Tifa in the kitchen preparing his meal he could help it but to imagine that they looks like a married couple and his face turned into a tomato because of the thought. Tifa finished the dish and it smells good as cloud dig in it was indeed delicious. After cloud was done eating Tifa get his plate and put it in the sink and start washing. "Umm… ti..fa…why you do that?" Cloud inquire her as he get confused by her latest actions. "Do what cloud?" She smile teasing cloud as she finished washing the dishes she lean closely to cloud and there face is mere an inch cloud was startled on Tifa's action and could not even move a muscle he look at his blue eyes it was indeed beautiful but it was not infuse with mako which is more appealing for her. She sigh and back off thinking how will she get back there in the present and why she was in her 14year old form. This shy cloud kid in front of her is the boy who sacrificed his self to become a soldier as he promised her to protect. When she think of that she can't help but to scream like a fan girl. This action made cloud more confuse he is thinking whether Tifa's head was injured that badly from the fall in mt. Nibel or it was his heart that going out from his rib cage any moment now.