soft spot: noun emotional susceptibility. A collection of drabbles Trying for 100 of the couple CloudTifa.

-SxS Yaoi-HighSchool AU- Some wounds run much deeper than others. Some can never be cured. And yet, there are people who will try to heal them all the same, no matter how hopeless the situation might seem. They try, because they care. Because they love.

In the aftermath of the disastrous Nibelheim mission, Zack Fair returns to Midgar a hero. The dream has never meant so little. AU.

Sequel to "Reduced to Specimens." With an empty memory and a critically-injured Zack in tow, Cloud sets off in search of aid, and answers.

Light is at the theatre, escaping from his life as he does every performance. Fate hands him her calling card in the way of a stranger sitting across the room. Can Light maintain his life when this one man manages to slip into it like he belongs there? AU

"Lawliet," Doctor Light Yagami said firmly, "There is no Mu. There is no Death Note. You're in a hospital – a mental hospital." AU/Alternative Ending.

A bored Kaoru sits at her throne as noblemen battle it out for her hand in marriage. AU. Three-shot. KxK

They could only be programmed to do so much, and Kenshin was programmed to be the perfect assassin. Worried he might turn on them, his creators decided to design him a companion. AU. KxK

AU. A serial killer emerges in Japan, basing his murders on Norse Mythology. NPA star-detective Light Yagami and the World's Greatest Detective L are both targets, and the case may lead to the end of the world for both of them. L/Light, Matt/Mello

It's the fall that defines your path. It's how you continue after the fall that defines who you are. In one second, a bullet changed everything. If the words you confessed weren't meant to be heard, would it be enough to erase the past?

New Chapter UP!While healing a wounded stranger, Kaoru unknowingly calls upon her essence to seal the injury, creating a spirit bond. But the amber-eyed demon lord she has just revived is in no mood to be saddled with a mortal female. Battousai/Kaoru."Did you come back to rub my folly in my face?"

AU. In the eleventh year of the Meiji, 1878, Japan still practices chattel slavery. The Tokugawa shogunate still reigns from Edo castle, backed by the infamous Kanryu family and their merchant empire. And Kaoru Kamiya finds an abandoned slave hiding under the docks as she's walking home...

Based on what happened after the Nibelheim incident. Sephiroth is dead but there are two survivors. Hojo has found himself some new subjects. Centres mainly around Zack and Cloud. But not as a couple. sorry.

To protect life, one must learn to face Death and all his friends without regret.

Modern AU; Semi-Darkfic. BK. Out of all the people who frequented her bar he was the one she was interested in the most. A series of encounters brings Kaoru deeper into the world of her mysterious red-haired patron, and ultimately, closer to him.

Sequel to Asylum-Light is out of the asylum and slowly, with L's help, he's healing. But there are forces that neither of them can control out there-and those echoes from the past are beginning to haunt them both. LxLight

a one-shot collection - Cloud and Tifa *fluff warning*. Chpt. 50 - she's always wanted to understand him better. THIS however may be just a bit too much. A tandem story with Ves and the confusing consequences of fighting new monsters for the first time. Original game setting.

Everyone knows the great detective L only takes cases he's interested in, cases with multiple victims... so why is he investigating a graffiti artist in Tokyo? LxLight AU, on hiatus

It wasn't exactly a scene from a fairy tale. It wasn't original or clever or even remotely romantic. But as Cloud dropped the ring into her hand, his eyes asking the question she had always dreamed of, Tifa knew there was only one possible answer… "No."

Semi-fantasy AU, Kenshin/Kaoru. Circumstances beyond their control bring them together, but neither one expected to fall so deeply for the other. Nor did they foresee the cruel twist of fate that would ruthlessly tear them apart again. Complete.

L can't help but be intrigued by classmate Light Yagami, and Light can't help himself either-even as Light's mental health deteriorates, they are still drawn together. AU LxLight, 50 sentence prompts.

If silence is a knife, then her body should be a latticework of slices. TifaXCloud, sort of. Love is the bloodiest business of them all.

She needed…had to have just this one moment to herself. A minute, no not even that. Thirty seconds. Thirty seconds to give herself up to despair. Thirty seconds and no more. Twoshot. Cloti.

Kaoru lived a simple, ordinary life until one tragic night destroyed all she knew, tying her fate to a mysterious man with hair of flame.

The yearly masquerade ball holds an importance of which Kaoru is unaware. Extremely AU. Another time, place, world and even species. Written for Ravyn.

Edward leaves Bella and she struggles through many difficult situations that lead to a reunion with her lost family. But how long will that reunion last when old enemies come to claim vengeance? Will any of the Cullens survive?

There are just some things you don't say to friends. Yuffentine.

One Shot. Post-ACC AR. What if time in the Lifestream/afterlife flows differently than in the real world? When Cloud surfaces in that pool inside the church, things are... a little different.

Set post-AC, but pre-DC. All Tifa wants is a decent night's sleep, but the nightmares of her past won't let her rest.

AU Post-NM. Teacher!Bella, Student!Edward; a struggle of wills, an attempt at seduction, a dark secret, a dash of UST, a gallon of attitude, antagonistic motorcycling, a hell of a lot of angst and one unforgettable scene in a snow storm.

Tifa had waited years for Cloud, and was prepared to go on waiting. He was there; he was trying. She told herself it was enough. Then one night her wait comes to an end, to both of their surprise! Written before seeing ACC's post-credit ending.

“I came back,” Light whispers gently; unnecessarily. “Is that okay?”

When L captures Light, he finds himself unwilling to relinquish his kindred spirit to the police, and instead has other plans to make Kira atone for his crimes. But the saga of Shinigami, genius intellect and old memories - BB - has only just begun.

The most important thing Ryuk learned watching Light Yagami was how to follow the rules to the letter and still break them.

VINCENT VALENTINE SMELLS LIKE MOTHBALLS." "Cloud chews his hair in his sleep..." The heroes of Final Fantasy 7 write about 7 days of their daily lives. Yuffie's idea, of course. It's just everyday. How crazy can it be?

Ciel had always thought of love and sexuality as human enslavement. He'd been right. Sebastian x Ciel. M for sexual content involving a minor. Updated.

A new deathnote. A new plan for world sanctity. And an entirely misled Catholic clergy. Raito and L take their respective places on the sides of their own justice. A final battle waged in the Garden of Eden. LRaitoL. For a Brief Moment.

If you loved someone, how much would you be willing to sacrifice? Bella makes the most difficult decision of her life; now she has to live with the consequences. A Bella/Edward story.

Upon recovering his memories of Kira, Raito has a terrible choice to make. What he does choose throws him into a realm of insanity and suddenly it's the God of the New World that needs the rescuing--and L is the only one who can help. LxRaito REPOSTED

Locked away by a madman, he flies with her. Cut by that same man's knife, he bleeds for her. Drowning in the only reality he knows, he dreams of her. And there, with her, he lives.

Sometimes genius is as much a curse as a blessing. Kidnapped, tortured, and held hostage, Raito might have been alright. If it hadn't been for the never ending silence. YAOI L x Raito

An alternate universe. L and Raito meet under different circumstances.

In the blink of an eye, you can lose yourself completely. Truth is what you make it; reality is everything else. Cloti. Rewrite of the original game in an AU kind of way.

Colors can trigger that dark other side of people, but Vincent's found that it isn't just the colors that trouble Yuffie Kisaragi.

Tifa was the only person who had ever truly believed in him, but Cloud finds that after one night, he may have to prove to her just how serious he is about his feelings for her. CloudTifa, VincentYuffie.

In which Zack wakes up with an unexpected companion in his bed, Tseng explains the mechanics of a hangover, Zack tries and fails to play nurse, Reno is not the one to blame, and Tseng grudgingly offers a second chance.

NOW COMPLETE. Disoriented after her transformation into a vampire, Bella struggles with amnesia. As she learns to control her new powers and abilities, she must also come to terms with what she is ... and with the vampire she doesn’t remember marrying.

No matter how far he falls, she's always in his head. Amidst the bloodshed and addiction, there remains loyalty. Twisted CloTi... Not fluff.

Light finds himself stalked by a black-eyed incubus who happens to be very good at what he does. In a forest. LxLight AU, One-shot.

See, the thing about Vincent is, he's like emo on a stick. Yuffentine.

This was why she was there. One-shot, hint of Yuffie/Vincent

Two Shot: After DoC, Cloud is trying to do better, why isn’t it enough? One chapter from his viewpoint. One from Tifa's.

It had taken a lot of time and hardships, but they had finally found their place together...at least until the loss of her memories brought her back to the beginning. -Cloud/Tifa- complete

Set shortly before Advent Children. Cloud's last night at Seventh Heaven. cloti cloud/tifa cloudxtifa

And he resists, not because he doesn't want to fix this but because he is a coward on the inside and while he can handle being pierced by a six foot long katana, the thought of... of that... of that little... M for some language

Let's face it: Boys are clueless. Tifa and Yuffie are tired of trying to get their guys' attention, so they decide to help each other out through some 'spying'. But things don't exactly go according to plan... Complete! unless I make an epilogue

I wrote every letter with love. Dark little LxLight oneshot for Valentine's Day.

What's L to do when Light has locked him out of their room? Why, it's obvious! A humorous drabble with a twist.

Won't you come and play? BB/Light, dark. Lemon. Two-shot.

VinTi oneshot. Post-DoC. Vincent, Cid, Yuffie, Barret, and Reeve indulge in a drinking contest at Tifa's bar with an unusual prize. Beware of drunken ninjas and sneaky bartenders. Rated for Cid's mouth.

-Oneshot- Tifa's chasing winds and weddings while Cloud struggles to hide injury behind arrogance, and Denzel, well, he's just looking for the next action hero.

LxLight Reversed AU. L may be the world’s greatest thief, but Detective Light Yagami is on to him. Pity L is so good at stealing things – including Light himself. COMPLETE.

Light has some lessons to teach L. Whether he wants to learn or not. All lessons now completed.

It makes him happy that, even though no one will celebrate the day for him, at least his birthday will never be forgotten. LxLight. Oneshot. Happy birthday, L!

What’s more," L continued, wholly unfazed, "after deep consideration of all factors, I’ve concluded that there is a sixty eight percent chance that you would not only enjoy engaging in sexual intercourse with me, but that you would prefer me to Misa."

There must be something freeing about completely disregarding logic, for he has never met anyone so free and as illogical as Yuffie. Yuffentine.

For the first time in a long time, Vincent Valentine has decided to mark the occasion of his birthday. Yuffie, of course, would be delighted to celebrate with him, except for one problem... she has no idea what to get him.

Because for all this time, she'd been pretending. Yuffentine.

[AU] A stubborn rebellious enslaved war prisoner, a merciless General and a sad but devoted woman. Beyond hate, disgust and pain, can there be respect and redemption? [TifaSephAeris]

REPOSTED! Finally back after unexpected deletion. Yagami Raito had considered many possibilities arising from using the Death Note, but being handcuffed to a certain sugar reliant insomniac, and all that this entailed, was not among them... Raito/L.

L didn't pursue Kira just because it was his duty--he did it because he /needed/ to catch him. Nearly canon, L-centric. Eventual LLight. Now complete: 7 chapters plus epilogue.

Kira smiles. He looks like Light – another Light, with a bloodlike glimmer in his lovely eyes. KiraxLight. Introspective. Oneshot.

Squall & Rinoa – What would happen if the hero were to fail? What if there wasn't a happily ever after, just an 'ever after' A minute too late; a minute that would haunt him forever. Seven years she lay frozen in time and he stayed frozen in his heart.

COMPLETE. One-shot. While out of town, Bella devises a way to finally seduce the ever virtuous Edward – with a little help from an unexpected source.

Raito always had a plan, an equation to explain everything. Yet that one variable, that one elusive word, hadn't been factored in. Will he change the equation, or stand by and watch? Full Sum Inside. LxRaito Slash, Yaoi, etc

A little one shot Cloti about fame you don't want.

The ever so glamorous Wedy the Burglar is hired by L to put her skills to good use in the Kira case. However, she becomes far more interested in the handcuffs between the detective and Light Yagami, and intends to play matchmaker. WedyxEveryone, LxLight

There's a secret, and it's driving them both mad: one clinging to it in fear, and the other digging for it for the same reason. What they don't realize is that they both do it out of love. Yuffentine. Much Lemon.

To her, it was more than just a word. One-sided Yuffietine. One-shot.

Romance, in general, could be considered the anti-thesis of anything having to do with common sense. Romance, however, must never be mistaken for love. YAOI ONE-SHOT L x Raito

COMPLETE! During a trip to Kyoto with his friends, Himura Kenshin winds up in deep water... thirteen years in the past. How will Kenshin deal with the Revolution again? And how will his friends deal with Battousai, who has traded places with him? R&R!

LxLight. “Well, I’d say… that it shouldn’t end like this. It was always going to, though, wasn’t it?” Light tilted his head. “One of us dying, I mean.” For Narroch. Happy 20th birthday!

...LxLight... It should be noted that a pissed off Light and a oblivious as usual Matsuda produce a rather... frisky L.

Times are changing for Yuffie, and the only thing left standing still is Vincent. Each time they see one another, he brings her a chocolate orange. She can't bear to tell him she hates them.

He doesn't know this whole thing is just a coincidence. CloudTifa.

“I want you. But I want justice more.” In the end, it had never been love. And if it had, it didn’t matter now, anyways. LxRaitoxL Yaoi AU.

Congratulations, Tifa! You're that much closer to thirty. [CloudTifa]

When police hunt to execute magekind and Yakuza offer a deadly refuge, Kamiya Kaoru finds herself caught up in a game she barely understands. A game with few rules, too many consequences and a man darker than any she has ever met.

Everyone has a different perspective, and sometimes life would be a whole lot easier if you just knew what the other person was thinking.

She seemed human in that moment. Something so small, so insignificant sent him into a world, a world of dreams. Reality is his mind, and the present doesn't matter at all.

Alternate Ep 25: Rem won't be so easily beaten by Light Yagami, but where does that leave L? At Light's mercy, of course. Dark LightxL. Cowritten with AutumnDynasty.

I am a venerated FF7 veteran. I can play Aerith's Theme in every key on the piano, and I memorized the entire Advent Children script in three different languages. For all you wannabe veterans out there, I'll show you how to maximize your FF7 fanatacism.

[PostAC][CloudTifa] I hang on to your every word as if they are a lifeline, follow every little action as if they are my salvation, and I cannot help but wonder, even when you are right beside me, why there is still an eternity separating us.

I spat at my reflection and pulled back my fist. I punched the deceitful mirror and watched as it broke into millions of tiny pieces. Just like my family. Just like my willpower. Just like Edward.../Jasper's POV/

Songfic to Nickelback's Next Contestant. Rated T for swearing and violence. Cloud hangs out at the bar and doesn't like how Tifa is manhandled. Reviews are loved!

The requested 'sequel' to Mind Games! If you put two competitive, twisted, hopelessly paranoid and reluctantly affectionate geniuses in the same afterlife together, eternity truly doesn't stand a chance of normalcy. Slash.

[PostAC][CloudTifa]It is when Cloud finally answers her call that Tifa realizes something: the words may have been unspoken, but the feelings that she had hitherto thought nonexistent are there – pure, deep, and wholly real.

Tifa doesn't need Cloud around.

COMPLETE! AU dark fic - Kenshin is Battousai, a feared assasin in modern times. His target is Kamiya Kaoru, a girl with mysterious abilities. Is a relationship between captive & captor possible? [ind. chps PG13 & R: violence, swearing, adult situations]

Anything... as long as he didn't have to hide his love for her anymore. SanoxMizuki oneshot

A sudden turn of events leaves L as Light's prisoner. Light is determined to rip L's name from him, even if it means bringing him an inch away from death in the process. Some disturbing content, onesided Light x L.

Just as fun as it sounds. Vincent, Yuffie, lots of handcuffs, one inconveniently placed lockpick, and the looming threat of gratuitous unpleasantess in our favorite gunman's future to motivate him properly. What could go wrong?

Happiness is such a fragile thing. And when the past threatens to hold back the future, all Tifa can do is smile. Cloud/Tifa.

Never believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see...

England. 1821. She’s a painter who has lost her meaning in life. He’s a former sea captain trying to redeem himself for past sins. The collision of their lives leads the pair down an unexpected path. [KK]

Sehnsucht ist ein gefährliches Gefühl... RaitoXL, kleinere Spoiler, leider etwas OOC

A DN Christmas oneshot. Post58. Raito pays a friendly visit to an old enemy—for, after all, Christmas is the season of forgiveness, and Kira is a forgiving entity.

Yagami Soichiro always had doubts about the whole handcuff thing. And then,he overhears a rather disturbing conversation between Raito and Ryuuzaki.

Empty seats are easy to mistake for open invitations when you're waiting all alone.

The unbearable Yuffieness of being. Vincent Valentine is a sucky guy to feel some portion of mild affection for. Oneshot.

Misa looks into the mirror and sees rather more than she wanted to. RaitoL, oneshot.

While struggling to fall asleep one night, L discovers just what Raito dreams about, changing his entire perception of the odd Yagami boy... RaitoL slash.

It was a habit. Cloud would get the children to bed, get Tifa to bed, and then go to bed himself. But he still had to get it right... Cloti. Onsehot

AU. A dark world where a soul and his skill can be enslaved to an instrument and bound to the will of one who holds it. Angst, friendship, character torture ahead.

AU CHAP 11 UP! Present Day AU Leaving Kenshin and the world she had always known behind, Kaoru is faced with tough decisions even as Kenshin is looking for her. KK

OneShot. More than just the heat of a summer afternoon is washed away when Kaoru confronts Kenshin with her feelings. Rated 'M' for mature content.

Set a year after FFVII AC. Tifa and Cloud have moved on, and friends have spotted a change in the childhood friendship. Is the past still interfering? Is there really no hope for something more? A CloTi... R&R [Complete]

Kaoru is rather tired of being targeted by Kenshin's enemies. This time, however, nothing is going to go as planned... [One Shot, Gift Fic. Set before the Kyoto Arc.]

[Light x L, spoilers] Brainscrewery, followed by screwery of other things.

PostAC. In which Yuffie attempts to give something to everyone’s favorite crimsonclad gunman, and maybe even get a gift of her own. Yuffentine. Oneshot.

From New York to L.A., from vampire to hunter, and from life to death to life again. From friend to enemy, from blood to ecstasy, and from pain to love to pain again. This is his existence. [KK]

AU, set after the War of the Ring. An update two years in the making....

She was a Guardian during Tidus's, a Gullwing for Yuna's, but this time Rikku is determined to take centre stage in a tale of love, adventure and heartache. Because this is Rikku's Story ... Rikku/Gippal

In which Kenshin and Sanosuke haplessly end up on a lifeboat with no water or food somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.

L has some birthday presents for Raito, but he's a little tied up. Chained up. Whatever.

(Modern AU; One-shot) In which Kaoru has a run-in with destiny, Megumi and Sano have a clever plot, Misao shows off her polish, and Kenshin demonstrates why he's not a man to be Trifled with...

Rated for language and yaoi (not intense). Raito and L have a conversation about the physical act of love. Set during handcuff and forfeit!Raito chapters.

A red-haired, amber-eyed stranger washes up on shore in a small, seaside village.

Aka: The Minstrel of Rivendell. The story of Lindir and Erestor. WIP. Finally an update. Rating is for war-induced violence. For some reason the summary shows 2 more chapters than there actually are. Sorry.

The tale of the wife of Haldir and her love for him. How she deals with their life and rumors of his infidelity.

This man was the very epitome of sex. When Prince Legolas of Mirkwood arrives in Rivendell, he is caught up in a bet between Arwen and her betrothed. Unwittingly, he begins to fall for the man they call Estel...(LA)

Lords and Ladies! Predators and Prey! How do the elves of fair Lórien play? (Work In Progress)

Yet another (mighty) stretch from Master Tolkien's work - a challenge for both reader and writer. Elves: immortal, powerful, rich, bitter, secluded, secret. And living amongst us today.

[Oneshot] Gift fic for Reno Spiegel. One of Vincent's past sins comes to haunt him as he lies on the floor of the lab one night. Scifi and Horror, a bit of angst as well. All right, a lot of angst. I warned you.

A little look into Tifa's thoughts and perceptions during a restful interlude.

Legolas leads a double life: in one, he’s the lovable prince of Mirkwood; the other, he’s a deadly assassin up for hire. Yet when he meets a young human his worlds collide, throwing both he and the ones he loves into a deadly game of cat and mouse. AL

There is an ancient tradition at Imladris designed to choose the best warrior. It usually causes chaos, but this year, all bets are off! Slash.

[ Complete ] Typical: Girl ends up in M.E... but then again elements of this story are not so typical. In any case, please r/r. Thanks!

Yuffie Kisaragi gets into trouble, and her whole life changes when she is maimed. Sentenced to death in a matter of months, the only person she can rely on is Vincent Valentine. Finished.

[COMPLETED] Kaoru faces a decision about where her life is going, when suddenly somebody from her past arrives at the dojo...

CloTi. 16 chapters, complete, during which Cloud and Tifa grow closer to each other and find each other - originally during the Lifestream scene. What happens when the stuff dreams are made of, is more real than reality?

This is a complete work addressing the nature of perfection and the usage of mind control set in an AU. Legolas is captured and brought to Barad-Dur. Try it. Let me know what you think.

(On hiatus, NOT dead. Please see profile for details.) Zack and Cloud are trapped as specimens in Hojo's lab, and, as Cloud's condition worsens, Zack is tormented by memories as he tries to come up with a plan of escape.