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Thanks to all those who read chapter 4:

scarlettHuntress: Yeah, at first I thought this story was going to be just after the game but then I decided to have Denzel in the story. So yeah it is kinda after the game and yet post-AC. As for repeating myself I don't know. Plus, I know this chapter was uneventful but many good stories have one of those chapters that are more for setting up the next events. I hope this chapter is more to your liking.

MyraHellsing: Glad you liked it! Don't eat too many apple pies now!

KuroSakura-chan: Yes, Vincent will make an appearance later in the story!

amethyst sylph: Paralyze Cloud? snickers you never know, keep reading to find out.

evilgoddess1990: Hope you enjoy!

Lord of the Shadows: Oh hush and enjoy the story!

Yersi Fanel: Thanks.

Kagome: I didn't add or anything you must have been dreaming! lol

Disclaimer:I don't own FFVII or any of the characters… but I do own 2 versions of the game and 2 AC action figures! And 2 replicas of Masamune!

Warning:To all those who read this story. I do plan on conquering my fear of writing a real yaoi scene in this story! So yeah, sex will be in this story more then once but not to graphic to the point should want to kick me off. If you're under the right age or don't like two guys having 'fun' get away now! You have been warned.

May be just a little Out of Character-ness, if you don't mind…

Blood & Blades

Chapter 5

"Yes… to my misfortune… I can see you," Cloud spoke with the full realization that this man beside him wasn't a fake but the real thing.

"Misfortune?" Sephiroth said with slight amusement, "Are you saying it was misfortune to wake up safe, wounds bound and not in the hands of those vermin?"

Cloud's eyes narrowed remembering the night before. He thought it was a bad dream but then again if Sephiroth was really next to him then the rest must have been true.

"Something wrong, Cloud?" came the other's deep, smooth voice.

"There's always something wrong if you're here," even with Cloud's grogginess and headache the anger and frustration was viewable, "real or clone?"

With a calm expression on his face the silver haired ex-general leaned in from his chair. The bed shifted from the new weight. He leaned over so far that the other man's face was about 2 inches from the young blonde's. Cloud winced slightly at the closeness and shivered when he could feel the other's breath rolling off of his cheek.

"What do you think Cloud?" he gave his best smirk, "Do I look real enough for you...?"

"What do you mean he didn't come home?" Tifa said quietly.

"Just like it sounds, he isn't here nor does it look like he ever was since yesterday." Marlene said.

"…But why wouldn't he come home? Cloud promised he'd come back before midnight." The fist fighter's eyes became full of fear and shock that her friend hadn't come home.

"Tifa, just relax. It's probably nothing. Cloud probably got hammered and stayed at a nearby hotel." Barret patted her back trying to make sense of the situation before Tifa broke out with water works.

Denzel looked at Barret, "Wouldn't he have called then?"

"Not if all he cared about was getting somewhere he could lay down," Barret replied quietly.

Tifa, though, was half way to having a nervous breakdown, the gunner having saw this moved closer to her in an act of comfort, "Don't worry we'll call all the nearby hotels or all of them if you'd like. We'll find him, don't worry."

Cloud chose not to answer the other who still loomed over him. Turning his head away from the silver haired warrior while making an attempt to sit up, however, his body still refused to obey him. He couldn't even get his legs to move slightly. Mako blue eyes widened in horror as thoughts past through his mind about what the ex-general beside him could have done. Nothing looked broken or out of place so why was he only able to move his head and neck?

The elder man next to him pulled his head back watching the other discover his lack of mobility, "What's wrong, Cloud? You look as though you were a fly caught in a spider's web." He couldn't help but chuckle at the other's current situation.

The blonde's head snapped back to look at the other with a dark glare. The younger man seemed to have forgotten about his headache and faint pain in his shoulder, "What have you done?" He said while his eyes reflected up most rage over what Sephiroth had or might have done to him while he slept.

He looks like a wild animal…Sephiroth thought to himself before taking a moment to ponder how he should answer, "First of all, do try to calm down a little. If you reopen your wounds…" His blue-green eyes narrowed threateningly as his voice became colder while he continued, "… I'll make your life even more painful since you saw fit to ruin the work I put into treating you. Secondly, nothing is wrong with your body if you're wondering. I simply exercised my ability to control your body. You are still a clone of me; however a failed one, so I can still take over from time to time."

"Last time you tried that I remember you being unable to do so because I had become stronger. Why is it you can do that now?" The spiky haired blonde asked. Temper cooling as he quietly obeyed the ex-general's half threat from earlier.

Then chuckling in amusement, "It's true. By some fluke you were, in the past, able to stand up to me. However, you've obviously been relaxing without much real need to fight for your life and keep your skills sharp," leaning back in his chair he continued, "That seems to be your weakness, Cloud. Time will in the end corrode away your strength while I remain strong and can only get stronger."

The younger trapped man looked away at the nightstand next to his unwanted captor. He noticed the velvet cloth on the top with syringe and bottle resting on it. Cloud stared at the needle not liking that Sephiroth had one so close to his body. Ever since Hojo he had a phobia of anything like needles of strange devices fit for a doctor… or in this case... psycho scientist.

Aqua eyes shifted through the silence and followed the blue eyes of the other to where they were watching something of interest. He looked at his tools he had brought into the room with him and reached over to pick of the bottle filled with murky liquid. This broke the other's moment of concentration on the nightstand and those eyes darted to the ex-general wondering what was going to happen.

"I take it you're wondering why I have these resting here, well, I'll tell you. If I release my hold on your body then you would need to be tied down because I know you'd try to fight me in order to run, which in turn, makes my job difficult. So I've decided that only way for your wounds to have a proper chance to heal that I need to put you to sleep." Sephiroth said calmly with an almost matter-of-fact tone.

"Put me to sleep!" Cloud shouted with a glare that seemed almost like a death sentence.

"Oh believe me Cloud… you will wake up." The older man replied with an evil look in his eyes. "Then when you do perhaps I'll start to break you."

Cloud was about to speak but before he could the older warrior stood and made his move. He uncapped the strange bottle and took a hold of Cloud's chin to keep him still. Then the bottle was lowered, "Now open up. This is just a little potion made to provide you body with the nutrients the body needs in order to maintain itself while induced in its medicated slumber."

Cloud's mouth refused to open for the strange liquid but over a while his mouth's muscles ached and losing to the other's powerful hand. Slowly the hand pried open the unwilling jaw and equally as slowly began to pour the horrible smelling liquid down Cloud's throat.

At first the blond choked and coughed on the disgusting liquid. In respond the older man would take away the bottle and wait for Cloud to calm down, and then would try again. The liquid was thick and foul smelling, it burned it course down the younger man's esophagus. Two mouths full later his throat started to reject it but Sephiroth stopped it by removing his hand from Cloud's head to his throat and placed his thumb on the pale column of flesh that was the younger man's neck. The pad gently stroked his neck in a tender manner encouraging the body to continue its intake of the liquid.

Cloud obeyed the older man's wishes only because he wanted to his body from getting more damaged then it already was. He knew if the other got angry, which he realized now that Sephiroth didn't get angry often, that he could easy make his life more of hell then it was now. The blond could only hope that he the odds would be in his favor when the other deemed his body good enough to move around on his own free will without the need to be paralyzed mentally.

With a dull tap the bottle was put aside and now the syringe was loomed over the smaller body. The elder warrior flicked it a couple times to get the air bubbles out of the liquid which were expelled when the plunger was pushed so a few drops of medication dripped out.

The spiky haired blond starred at the glistening needle in the dim light. His mind ran to paranoid possibilities that maybe that crap he swallowed just now was really some sort of substance coroners used to preserve bodies and now the other was going to kill him by lethal injection.

"Goodnight Cloud." Said that haunting voice as a pale hand grasped his unmoving arm, turning it over the needle came closer and closer to the soft flesh of the joint at the elbow. It cut into his skin with a sharp prick. The plunger came down and liquid entered the helpless body.

At first there was nothing but then a numb feeling. Then Cloud's eyes waters a little as if he stayed up late watching television. Eyelids weighed heavily and eventually closed but now before looking at Sephiroth as he placed the syringe down. The older man looked at him and with a faint smile he said, "Sleep well. I'll be here when you wake up in a couple days." With that the figure went blurry like when he woke up at first, then, everything faded into darkness.

Sephiroth stood and watched for a few moments watching the other sleep then turned on his heel and left the room closing the door quietly behind him.

To Be Continued…

SORRY! I know it's been over a year since my last update. I lost my train of thought for a while there. School started and now I'm a senior with more crap to do then you can shake a stick at. - Just wanted you to know I'm still alive and what better way then with an update right after Christmas.

My mind was on FFVII but now… somehow it shifted to Nightwalker again thanks to a buddy of mine who has been rping with me. I've been thinking of posting our rps as stories. Would you all like that?

Oh then my mind went back to Legacy of Kain so I may put out a couple stories on that.

Just letting you know even if it takes 10 years I will finish this story!