For all the Sephiroth addicts

Anani’s Demise, Chapter 5


She woke up, just after dawn, as the rising sun poured in through the partially opened blinds, the rays of light forming a very elaborate fan in the still air.

She looked at the peaceful form of Sephiroth beside her in the bed. He hadn’t moved though out the whole night, as she had woken up several times, due to the fact that she was in a strange bed and surrounded my unfamiliar sounds and smells. She carefully leant in and kissed his forehead. She was happy to feel his skin had cooled down, and his breathing was deep and easy.

He slowly opened his eyes and looked at her. She noticed the dark walls under his eyes had disappeared, and his eyes now had a naughty sheen to them. He pulled her close again, and pressed his head against her chest, turning so his ear rested just above her cleavage. She wrapped her arms around his wide bony shoulders and buried her nose against his hair.

“I .. better get back to my dorm.. Yuki will be worried sick.” She whispered, feeling immensely disappointed that she had to leave him again. “It is still early, everyone is sleeping still, I will get back unnoticed.”

He agreed. “I will accompany you to the dome, if you like. Make sure you get out of here safely.” He said softly. She nodded as she slid out of his bed, and started to pull her clothes back on. He got up too, making sure he didn’t get up too fast, as he would still suffer dizzy spells for a couple of more days, but at least his energy levels where back to normal. He quickly threw on his sweater and pants, tying his boots on in fast efficient motions.

Once outside the door of the room, he motioned for Anani to follow him, quietly and quickly to the stairwells and to the corridors that led to the Dome, which was no ones land as far as social contacting was concerned. Before she crossed the wide open space, he took her arm, and kissed her again, slow and long. When he softly broke away, she pressed her forehead against his, and smiled warmly at him.
“I’ll see you soon..” She said, already immensely looking forward to the next time they would run into each other. He watched her walk all the way to the other side, where she briefly turned and gave a small subtle wave, which he returned.
Then she was gone again.

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He stood on the edge of the landing pad, over looking the security area where visitors parked their cars. One civilian vehicle entered through the security gate. The large rust spotted pick-up truck drove slowly, reverently toward where Tseng and the assistant of President Shinra himself stood to receive them. Even from this enormous distance, his eye sight told him exactly what was going on down there.

Two people dressed in black got out, one tall and broad, his dark brown hair streaked with grey along the temples, the second figure smaller and by the soft round shapes and similar hair colour to.. her…had to be her mother, then four young men climbed out of the vehicle, also dressed in black, looking solemn and stern. The four brothers had come along to claim their sister.

Tseng gestured toward the building, inviting them to come further. But the father slowly, but determinedly shook his head. Then Tseng turned, and nodded. Four lower ranking Turks, all dressed up in their suits, carried the coffin to the waiting Pick-up, but where replaced by the brothers, who took the shiny black chest, and carefully placed in the open back, after which they covered it up with a intricately patterned blanket. Then the four took up a spot on each of the four corners in the back.

Tseng moved up to the parents and the brothers, shaking their hands. Then Yuki moved forward, and he was startled to see her wear the same kind of suit the other Turks wore.

He heard Zach take in a sharp breath beside him, as he had also noted this. He never realized she had been in training for the Turks, this explained a lot as to the amount of care and mindfulness this event had taken place and why she seemed to have access to certain information others didn’t. Tseng was a sophisticated and thought-full man, he had come to realize over the last week, but he realized now that a lot of the exchange down below had to have been orchestrated by Yuki, as Anani and her had been best friends for years. She carried a large suitcase, and a box, which obviously contained her friends personal belongings, and placed something small into the mothers hands, who she briefly embraced.

The small woman pulled a white handkerchief from her sleeve and pressed it to her face, as her shoulders shook. The father wrapped his arm around the tiny woman, and placed a hand on Yuki’s shoulder. Then they all entered the pick-up again, that turned and slowly drove through the security gates.

Zach turned to his friend, who’s face betrayed no emotion, but a slight spasming of his chest spoke volumes. Zach slowly slid one arm around his head, and another around his shoulders, pulling him tight. Sephiroth surrendered briefly, letting his head drop on Zach shoulder, and relaxed into his friend’s comforting embrace. For just a moment, all the rage and anger he had used to push his the pain of his loss away, made room for grief, allowing him to mourn.

Zach felt warm tears fall on the small exposed piece of skin at his neck.
It was the only time, that the what would become the best SOLDIER Shinra would ever produce, and the greatest swordsman the world would know, cried for another too see, and that only person ever would be Zach.

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Anani carefully crept into her room, trying to be as quiet as she could.

As she pulled her clothes off, and slid between the sheets of her own bed, Yuki sat up.
“So where by Shiva have you been all night, little miss?” she said, rubbing her eyes.

“In Seph’s room.” She answered quietly, then pulling the blankets over her face as Yuki got out of her bed, and moved to hers.

“Did you two get it on together?” she gasped, as she pulled the blanket away from her roommates face.
Anani shook her head. “We kissed, though.” She said, hiding her face behind the blanket again, like a harem girl.

“He didn’t to anything else?” Yuki asked, her voice sounding distrustful. ”Man! He either is a real gentleman, or he IS gay.”

Anani slowly shook her head. “No, he wasn’t feeling too good, he was all feverish and had bags under his eyes. He smelled kind of strange too.” She said. Now she also noticed a slight burning sensation on her lips and on the tip of her tongue, like she had been eating something really spicy.

“Really?” Yuki asked, as she turned from her friend, avoiding her gaze as she thought this over. It sounded like something that had been told her in her Intelligence classes, where she was told things that other personnel trainees never heard off. Ever since Mr Tseng had expressed interest in her, and had it set up for her to in secret follow certain classes, things had come to light about this place that on one side found very fascinating, but scary at the same time. What Anani just described sounded just like Mako Infusion Delirium. All SOLDIERs suffered it from time to time, but the extra attention she had been given by Mr Tseng also meant she couldn’t tell anyone, not even Anani.

“You are still wearing your clothes, silly.” She said, as Anani had sat up again. “I am going back to sleep, it is still way too early for Saturday morning.” Anani agreed. She got out of bed, and pulled her clothes off. Then she noticed she was still wearing his t-shirt.
“That is really attractive, sweetie. Present from your almost-but-not-quite lover?” Yuki asked.

Anani smiled, and now realized that she hadn’t gotten all that much rest sleeping next to him, probably due to a healthy overdose of nerves, and climbed back into her own bed to just rest a bit more…..

“Yuki.. have you ever seen guys have sex with each other?” Anani asked, as the comment she had make earlier, about the fact that he hadn’t done anything with her last night stirred up a bitter memory.

“Well, I have watched a movie once, but for real you mean?” She asked, Anani nodded. “In that case, no. You?” The look Anani gave her made her jump out of bed, and she crawled under the covers with her friend. “Who.. when? Spill all the gory details, Anani, right now!” Yuki persisted.

Anani started to tell how she had been up in the attic, looking for a note book from her previous school year….

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Once up in the small room, she turned the lights on, and looked at the bookshelves that had stacks upon stacks of old notebooks and exercise books carelessly thrown upon them. She sighed. This could take a while. As it was in the middle of summer, the gathered heat in the space was almost stifling, and she had to open the attic window to let in some fresh air.

As she started to finger through the stuff her and her brothers had collected there, she heard voices. They sounded so close, she leapt up, and almost knocked one crooked stacks of notebooks to the floor. She looked to the direction the voices had come from, and now she could also hear another voice, laughing and talking. Judging by the tone, it was her oldest brother, David, and his friend Jake. It was almost like they where in the same room. Then she moved closer to the wall, and as she was nine years old, and still quite small, she could easily worm her way amongst the boxes stacked there.

She saw an opening, covered with a reed mesh panel. The holes in the mesh where big enough for her to look through, and she realized she could see into her big brothers bedroom.

She now noticed how big David had become, as she didn’t see him all that much anymore these days. He had left to study at a school far away, and only came home during the holidays, but then he would get a call from his friends and he would be off again before long. The last time she had seen him naked, he had been thin, like their youngest brother, Jason, who was twelve now.

David was nineteen, and he had filled out nicely, his arms and chest all rounded and masculine. So had Jake, for that matter. He had come to stay for a week or so, before they would both return to school, after the summer holiday’s had ended.

The whole family had been spending lots of time at the lake, swimming and playing in the sun, and every one had gotten nicely tanned.

Jeremy, her fifteen year old brother, had pointed out how David and Jake seemed to separate themselves quite a bit this year, as if they where sharing something between them. And as Jeremy had now pointed it out, Anani had started to take notice, and had seen what Jeremy had meant. They kept.. looking at each other, almost staring in each other’s eyes.

Now when they thought no one was watching, in the privacy of his room, David sat on the chair he used when working at his desk, swivelling it from side to side, while Jake sat on the bed, looking at him again. Suddenly, as if on cue, they both stood up, meeting halfway in the middle of the room, and kissed each other.
Anani clamped her hand over her mouth to not giggle out loud. She had never seen people kiss that intimately before, leave alone two guys, especially when one of them was her brother! As their heads moved around, she could clearly see their tongues touching.

EEEEEUUWW!! That was the grossest thing she had ever seen! She had kind of liked one of the boys in her class, but to do that with him? No way!
Jake and David where running their hands all over each other now, and Jake moved his hand up David’s wide falling shorts and squeezed his butt. To Anani’s surprise, David seemed to enjoy it, and slid his hand down the waistband of Jake’s shorts, doing the same thing to him.

They both started panting, as if they had been running a long distance. Anani felt herself get flushed, as now Jake dropped to his knees and David’s shorts got pulled down to form a soft puddle around his ankles. Anani’s stomach started to get a nasty feeling in it as she hoped that she had seen it wrong, when Jake took David’s.. dick.. into his mouth., and it changed shape.. it became bigger, and stood up. David’s head tipped forward, his eyes closed, as his hands dug though Jakes hair.

Then David pulled Jake to his feet, and started to rub his dick too, and they just stood there, rubbing David and kissing, until he started to make noises like he was in pain, and by the look on his face, he was. Something happened between their bodies that Anani couldn’t see properly, but as they moved away from each other a bit, she could see David’s chest was covered in small wet drops, that stood out pale white against his tanned skin, and so was Jakes hand.

Anani had a strange pain sting its way along the insides of her legs and into her lower belly.

She didn’t really understand what just had happened, and she was very, very upset. Knowing that they would hear her if she moved, she waited until left, but they didn’t, instead they moved to the bed, and Jake laid down on his back, and spread his legs for David.
He gave tube of some kind to David, who squeezed some shiny stuff onto his hands, and smeared it all over Jakes dick and hole.

And she saw what they did to each other then.. how David had moved his fingers inside Jakes bum. And then he had put his.. no that was just too horrible, too dirty!
As her eyes had blurred with tears, and she had turned away, listening to their muffled moans and breathing. All the while thinking.. stop it.. please stop doing that with my brother..

When evening had come, they seemed to have fallen asleep, and she finally dared to move out of her hiding place. She had crawled into her bed and wept uncontrollably. She felt incredibly guilty for having spied on her brother, and the pain and confusion she felt now was her punishment for her trespassing. She just couldn’t comprehend how someone she had known all her life, had suddenly changed into someone that would allow to have such gross things done to him. He must be sick or something…

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“So what happened then?” Yuki asked, as she now noticed how it had upset Anani, having had virtually no sex education, and then watching her brother butt fuck his friend would be a very upsetting thing to see. She also concluded that her earlier comments about the white haired guy, must have upset her friend very badly. She would have to apologise about it later, but first she would do a little investigating.

“David left a couple of days later. He tried to give me a hug and a kiss, but I freaked and ran away, screaming my lungs out. I just couldn’t let him near me again.”

“Good Gaia, Anani. What did your family do?” Yuki asked.

“My brother Josh came after me.” She remembered running upstairs and hiding in her bed, When Josh had entered after softly knocking on the door….

… “Ani, what is going on? Why are you suddenly allergic to David?”

“I don’t know.” She said stubbornly, her cheeks red with shame.

“Ani, David is leaving in an hour, please don’t make me stay in here until you tell me why you freaked out.”

She looked at Josh, at his large brown eyes. “I saw them.. do things.. last night.” Anani whispered. Josh questioningly spread his hands. “David and Jake.” She supplied.

“What kind of things, Ani?” Josh asked patiently.

“They where.. touching and kissing and stuff..” she said, hiding her mouth behind her hands, and frowned as she saw the confused look on Josh’s face. She pulled his head closer and held his head in her hands.

“They where touching their.. private parts..”

“I see.” Josh said, and smiled softly. “You saw them have sex together.” At the look of total horror on her face, he went to explain that that is what adults do when they really like each other, and are in love.

“I hope I never fall in love, Josh. It is so.. gross!” She said.

“You think that now. Just you wait until you are older, and your body is ready. It is gross to you now because you are still too young.”

“You do that with guys too?” she shot at him suddenly, while she backed away from him.

“No, Ani. I like girls. David just likes guys better right now. Sometimes girls like girls better too. It is different for everyone.”

Anani sighed deeply. “I guess I am behaving like a silly cow.”

Josh shook his head. “No, honey, how you feel is totally normal. When the time comes, you wont be able to imagine how it made you feel all icky inside when you saw what you saw yesterday. Just don’t worry anymore, okay?”

“Don’t tell David. He’ll be mad.” Anani said quietly into his ear. She smiled and hugged Josh, who picked her up and carried her back down stairs where everyone was getting ready to David and Jake off.

She did allow David to hug her good-by, but tensed up subconsciously anyway.
They hadn’t actually ever spoken about it, as when he had completed his education, she had already been accepted at the Shinra academy, and they never ended up at the same place at the same time.

“Pfff. That is incredible. Any of your other brothers gay?” Juki asked.

“Not that I know of. Josh, Jeremy, and Jason all have girlfriends. David is actually a father now.” She said.

“He is? How? Surrogate mother?” Yuki asked. Anani nodded.

“As it turned out, David does like girls too, so does Jake. They all live in one big house together, and they have three kids and two very large dogs.”

“All is well that ends well, it seems.” Yuki said, and yawned. Now I am going to find some coffee. After that story, there is no way I can get to sleep again.”

Yuki shot on some clothes, and walked to the canteen, where more early risers where having breakfast. To her surprise, she spotted old silver-hairs roommate sitting by himself, he seemed to be fiddling with his digital camera.

“Good morning.” She said. “Mind if I join you?”

He shook his head, and gave her a warm smile. As she drank her coffee, he kept pressing buttons, and bit his lower lip.

“Having trouble?” She asked, fluttering her eyelashes at him when their gazes crossed.

“I can’t seem to access the pictures I took yesterday.” He said.

“Give me a look. I’m kind of good with small appliances.” She said as she held out her arms.

“Ehh.. these are kind of sensitive.”

“You didn’t photograph Anani and Sephiroth together, did you?” She asked, her eyes sly.

His head shot up and looked at her. “How do you know that?”

She took the dark haired teen in, sizing him up. “I’m Yuki, her roommate.” She said, and held out her hand. Zach took it, and manoeuvred her around, so they sat side by side. “So, how gooey are they together?” She asked.

“Well. To be honest. Seph never talks much about feelings and stuff. I have known him now for about two years, and I still manage to misread him, but I can tell he is pretty smitten with her.”

The black haired girl tilted her head, as if she weighted the answer, then satisfied, turned to Zach again. ‘So what are the photo’s of, then?” she asked.

“Well, last night a couple of shit headed cadets thought it might be a good idea to have some fun. Unfortunately, the one person they picked for that turned out to be Anani. Seph must have heard her cry for help, and beat the living snot out of them.”

“You mean she got assaulted?” Yuki almost yelled. That little minx never said anything about that. She quickly pressed a combination of buttons, and retrieved the folder that was created last night. She quickly zapped through the contents, and as pleasantly surprised to find one shot, that was in fact of Anani safely tucked in with the silver-head.

“Aaww, they are adorable together aren’t they?” Zach said. “I just couldn’t resist.”

“If he doesn’t bonk her soon, I am going to break something” Yuki said, and to her surprise, saw her sentiments reflected back at her in Zach’s amused gaze.

Zach told Yuki how she was afraid to press charges, as she had no business in the SOLDIER dorms. Then he said he and Seph had sealed the offending cadets into a room, and after placing a sleeping spell on hem, Zach took some photos in some very embarrassing situations. It was very childish he admitted, but he just couldn’t pass the opportunity up.
“So you are in fact resorting to blackmail in order to punish them? That isn’t exactly condoned either, Zach” Yuki said. “I have a better idea. I will make sure these will end up on the desk of a certain.. acquaintance of mine, along with the facts concerning the assault, and he will know better what to do. If they so much as twitch funny, their asses are out of here.
In fact, they should be out of here already, as far as I am concerned.”

“Just to who’s desk are these going. Yuki?” Zach asked.

“Never you mind, Zach, never you mind. You are just going to have to trust me.”

Zach rolled his eyes impatiently. He hated secrets. Besides.. Anani’s room mate was cute.. very cute. She noticed the way he held her gaze, and felt a hand on her lower back. His energy was working in on her. “Are doing anything later tonight?”

Yuki thought it over. She was very aware of the Cadet’s reputation, but he was very persuasive. She was very aware what she was in for, when she agreed to go to the movies with him that evening.

Music for this chapter: Tori Amos: Sort of fairytale/ Riot poof.