Exposure Desire
by Chocobo Knights

Hey~ thank you for those who already review this story^^ It's really warm my heart knowing that people appreciate my work^^ And sorry that it took me quite a long time to update, as usual, school stuff.

Anyway, enjoy reading!

To HannahDJA, thank you so much for beta-ing my story^^ *bear hugs*

Chapter Eight: The Best Gift

The sun was shining in through the window of their cell. Zack could feel it without having to open his eyes and confirm it was so. It was another beautiful summer day that he would be spending locked in prison. Sure he could always go out and enjoy the weather in their so-called garden, but that would mean opening his eyes and most importantly letting go of the warm and soft body that was Cloud's…and most of the time also his.

Zack wiped a wide, perverted smile off of his face as he turned around in the bed to find that body. Maybe Cloud had gone to the bathroom, but it was quiet in the cell. No sound or movement anywhere. Slowly Zack gave up and cracked one eye open. The cell was empty.

Sitting up quickly Zack scanned through the room. No Cloud… No Cloud… Cloud was gone! The first thought that hit him was that A: Cloud had been kidnapped. Zack was in the middle of sprinting out of his, well actually Cloud's, bed to rush over to the east wing and beat up Kadaj's gang, when another thought hit him and he stumbled back into the bed, tangling himself in the sheets.

B: Cloud may have escaped. Maybe Cloud had received another guilt trip about being Zack's property and had run away.

Or possibly C: Cloud went to have breakfast with the other member of The Four Leaves and had left him behind…though he highly doubted the chance of that last one being true.

Unwinding himself from the sheets, Zack's attention turned to something he had stuck in his hair. His heart pounding in his chest, Zack freed the note from dark locks and read it aloud:

"The most profound mystery is the Gift of the Goddess and in pursuit of this gift we set on a journey and take flight. Hopeless as it may seem we stand and carry onward with the ripples of water that surface on our hearts..."

…

What the fuck?

…

Genesis! That slimy moron had taken Cloud from him! He should have known better than anybody that Genesis would have done something like this after he'd freely expressed interest in Cloud. Who knew what that jerk was doing to Zack's fragile blond right now.

In record time Zack got dressed and ran to the cell next to his, and there was the man he was looking for, laying on top of the bed with his back against the wall, reading "Loveless" for who knows how many times.

"Oh, well hello the—" was all that Genesis had time to speak before he was yanked to the ground by an absolutely furious looking Zack straddling him and holding him by the collar of his shirt.

"WHERE IS HE?" Zack nearly roared but Genesis didn't reply and that made the raven even more pissed off. He was just about to let actions speak louder than words when a piece of paper entered his line of sight, actually more like blocking it from any other sight.

Zack snatched the note from Genesis, who dropped back onto the ground when he was released and Zack mumbled what was written on the piece of paper to himself: "He's the wise, big, muscular, hairy man~ He'll look good with his hair tied, too bad he'll slice anyone who dares to try it."

Zack looked to Genesis, who was standing and dusting himself off casually.

"What the hell is this all about? Where is my Cloud?" he demanded and the other boy just gave him a lazy look.

"Resisting, eh? I know a way or two to make tongue tied guys talk," Zack barked out, folding up his sleeves when Genesis exclaimed, nearly startling him. "The time has come!"

Zack raised an eyebrow, "Huh?"

Genesis crossed his arms in front of his chest, "The warrior in shining armor came to fulfill his task to save the kidnapped princess."

Zack stared at Genesis, blinking long and hard.

Genesis stared back before deciding to inquire, "Do you understand what I am trying to say to you?"

"No."

"Well, not my fault if you're a brainless muscle."

"Hey!"

"Listen, if you want to find Cloud, go to the next person with that," Genesis pointed at the paper in Zack's hand.

"Just what the hell is all of this about? And who the hell is this big, muscular, hairy man that hates his hair being tied despite that he looks good with it? I have no freaking idea!" Zack said, frustrated. Genesis just laugh at him.

"Oh, don't worry. You know him well." Genesis then pushed Zack out of his cell, "Now go, don't ever come back, I want to read Loveless in peace."

Zack sighed and walking towards the hall on the second floor, he toyed with the note in his fingers.

What the hell was this all about anyway? He's the wise, big, muscular, hairy man~ He'll look good with his hair tied, too bad he'll slice anyone who dares to try it...

Genesis had told him that he knew this person well. But Zack couldn't think of anyone that he knew well, especially anyone hairy. He decided that he should just ask his allies to search for Cloud while he went to find the one man he knew he could count on in a spur of the moment problem—

Zack stopped walking. Angeal? Was the message referring to Angeal?

Zack wasn't sure, because he thought that Angeal look ridiculous with his hair tied. But it wouldn't hurt giving it a try, right? So, taking a guess at where the man was, he hurried down to the dining hall.

He storm out to the garden, and as he expected, Angeal was sitting under a tree, holding a single white flower between his fingers. Angeal had always been fond of plants, especially flowers.

"Angeal!" Zack called out as he hurried to approach the other man.

"Zack." Angeal turned to look at him. "What is it?"

"It's Cloud! He's gone!" Zack replied immediately, "I got this weird note from Genesis and I thought it may be a riddle or something, so I brought it to you…" Zack said, handing Angeal the note, who frowned in disgust as he read it. He began to look for something in his pocket with a small whisper that Zack thought sounded like, 'I'm going to kill him', or 'Genesis is so in trouble'.

"Here it is." Angeal finally said and handing the younger man another note. Great. This wasn't speeding anything up in the way that Zack had hoped it would have.

"He's the leader of the people who keep the peace inside the joint."

Zack frowned. Just who the hell was that? What joint? This one? This prison?

"Can you give me a clue?" Zack smiled hopefully at the other man.

"No."

"But Angeal~" Zack whined.

"You have to figure this out by yourself Zack."

"But~ But~ What if something bad happens to Cloud?"

Angeal sighed, looking up at Zack then. "Fine, I'll help you. Now first, you must know the people who keep the peace inside this prison, right? If you do, then you'll know their leader."

Angeal watched in amusement how realization dawned upon Zack and the boy took off with a quick 'thanks'. He was slowly but surely starting to get a hang of this game.

"Hey! Tseng! Dude! Are you here?" Zack shouted as he raced through the east corridor. He actually wasn't quite sure where the guy was since Turks always made circulating patrols around the entire prison. But the leader of the Turks was usually always on patrol here.

"And what sort of business do you have with me, Zack Fair?" a voice spoke from behind him and Zack gave a surprised yell before he turned to and see the man he was looking for.

"Damn Tseng, you surprised me..." Zack gave a small chuckle before asking, "Hey, did you happen to have a note for me?"

Tseng pulled out a piece of parchment and gave it to Zack who read it immediately.

They're troublemakers and silver freaks.

CLOUD WAS WITH KADAJ AND THE GANG? Zack gave the other a quick wave before quickly running for Kadaj's cell.

"Where is he?" He should've known they were behind it all. Kadaj had taken Cloud. This was all Kadaj's scheme!

"Oh, have you lost him again?" Kadaj said in amused, "My, my, too bad he didn't stumble into my wing this time…"

"Alright." Zack huffed. "Let's settle this one more time. You and me. You remember the outcome from last time, right?"

"I recall you being beaten up by my gang." Kadaj laughed, folding up his sleeves when Zack walked towards him.

"Shut up! I'm talking about before that! The last time we got down man to man!" Zack snarled, closing the space between them a bit and throwing a punch Kadaj wouldn't normally have been able to dodge.

"This is starting to sound so gay…" Loz mumbled to Yazoo, who nodded and watched the two leaders bitch one another into close proximity fighting.

"Well, both of them are mostly bisexual…" Yazoo mumbled back and Loz smiled.

"What? What is it that you want?" Kadaj then asked, a smirk splitting his face as he succeeded in avoiding another one of Zack's punches. "This?" the man continued, holding up a note.

"Give me that!" Zack shouted, trying to snatch the paper from Kadaj, but the silver-head quickly dodged it.

"Not before you can catch me~" Kadaj grinned before he ran out of his cell, followed by an angry Zack who screamed at him to give him the note. Yazoo and Loz simply shook their heads in amusement.

"You bitch! Give that to me!" Zack growled, continuing his chase after Kadaj.

Kadaj looked over his shoulder and smirked, "Never!"

That irritated Zack even further and with frustration and fury completely over taking him, he ran as fast as he could, quickly catching up to Kadaj. He tackled them both to the floor, Zack pinning him.

"Give it to me!" he shouted, trying to turn Kadaj around in order to snatch the note.

"Never!"

"Give it to me now!"

Zack whined, able to retrieve the paper from Kadaj after minutes of struggling. The man shook with laughter, clearly amused at Zack's desperate attempts to learn about his lovers whereabouts as well as the look of utter annoyance on the ravens face.

Zack ignored Kadaj and fixed his gaze on the piece of paper in his hands.

The silver man's green eyes glow in the dark of the alley-

Zack didn't even have to read that one till the end. Sephiroth!

Cloud had been in the west wing all along! He had played Zack and made him run all over the place when Cloud had been in the west wing all this time.

Zack was standing almost instantly and was running from the east wing.

"Hey, don't go yet, darling~" Kadaj shouted after him. "Just when we were having so much fun!"

Zack spurted out through the east side and into the west once again. He was beginning to feel really stupid, running around like an idiot and not getting anywhere. He wondered if there was an alternative, and more violent and simple, way to end this game so he could just get Cloud back already?

Now, where the fuck is Sephiroth? Was he even in the west wing?

Spotting Sephiroth in the hallway of the west wing, Zack rushed and called out for him. "Sephiroth!"

Hearing his name being called out, Sephiroth turned around and saw Zack approaching, and before Zack could say a single words, Sephiroth shoved a note to Zack's face.

Zack grumble and took the note from his face.

His crimes are unknown…-

Zack shut his eyes tight and squished the note in his hands.

No! It couldn't be! Zack did notwant to go to that part of the prison! This was getting too dangerous. This game must be stopped immediately.

Shooting Sephiroth with a pleading look that didn't have any effect on the charming man, Zack changed it to a death glare instead and then slowly gave up and turned around to drag his feet all the way to the north wing.

Zack shivered as he peeked into the cell. The man everyone feared sat there with his red coat and long black hair, staring out the window. Vincent Valentine had always been one to wear his own clothes in prison too and no one here had dared to tell him otherwise. Not even Rufus. Vincent simply couldn't be tamed.

"Good day." Zack said in his most polite voice - a real effort coming from him. "How is the weather today? I see you're admiring it…" he then added.

Vincent turned to look at him through blue eyes and Zack froze. Man, that guy's looks like a vampire.

"Say, you wouldn't have happened to see my cellmate? Cloud Strife?" Zack then asked. "Slender little thing, pale skin - not as pale as yours, though, ha-ha… Er, blond hair and he's not much taller than my shoulder. I wouldn't ask, but he is missing and…and Sephiroth totally hinted that he could have come here!"

"How is Sephiroth nowadays?" Vincent asked. His voice was calm and Zack couldn't quite figure out from it how the conversation was going. He was only sure of one thing, he needed to act quickly before Vincent decided to kill him or do some black magic on him or anything else of the rumours he had heard about the man in front of him.

"He is fine, just great. Thanks for asking." Zack said with a wide smile, rubbing the back of his head. "Hey, you wouldn't happen to have a note for me?"

Vincent held up a piece of paper in between two fingers. Zack swallowed as he carefully walked into the cell, each step hesitant and he was on his guard, ready to flee, if Vincent as much as moved an inch from where he was sitting. Stretching out his arm, Zack carefully wiggled the note to himself.

"WellThanksaBunch! HaveaNiceDay! TheWeatherIsBeautifulToday! Bye!" the cell was left quiet in a matter of split seconds as Zack dashed out of it in a speed that could beat a cannon ball any day.

When he was sure enough he wasn't being followed, Zack crashed down onto the floor with a heavy sigh. That had been scary. Too scary. Sephiroth was crazy to have spent a whole day alone in that cell with that man.

Zack opened the note and read it.

He who is a cocky bastard and a part of our ally

Zack pouted. Who the hell is this person anyway?

He who is a cocky bastard and a part of our ally... a cocky bastard and a part of our ally...

Zack stopped walking and ruffled his hair in annoyed. Was it someone who's not a prisoner but a part of his alliance? ...and a cocky bastard one that is.

A smile spread on Zack's face. Of course! Now where was Reno? Zack scampered off, looking high and low for the man, but without any luck. It wasn't enough that Cloud was already playing hide and seek, but now Reno too?

Zack marched over to the south wing first then and bean when he spotted Reno patrolling on the hallway.

"I FOUND YOU!" Zack jumped into the Turk's back, nearly scared the shit of Reno's life.

"What the hell—Zack!" The red-head Turk glare at Zack, "Do really have to jump on me like that?"

"Don't tell me you've got another note for me!" Zack whined.

"No, you've been running around practically the entire day already. You have come to the end of the chase and you'll get your prize."

Zack's face lit up hearing that, but then it fell just as fast as he was handed a pair of keys.

"Happy birthday, Zack." the Turk grin. "We didn't know what else to give you."

"Than a…pair of keys?" Zack asked. "I didn't even get handcuffs?"

Reno laughs, "Idiot! Not that!" he smacked the prisoner's shoulder playfully. "Okay, come on."

Zack looked at the Turk in confuse, "Where to? Where is my Cloud?"

Reno felt a bit of something twirl inside him upon hearing the word 'my Cloud' before he shot Zack a weird look, "To your prize, obviously."

"You mean... Cloud?"

"Duh."

Zack smiled widely before he followed Reno.

With Reno's help, the Turk was able to lead him out of their part of the prison and into the long corridor with a new set bars he had to open every other 10 feet or so. Somewhere in the middle of that long corridor that would end in the lobby with more guards and the exit out of prison, Zack found another cell door on his right.

"This is it." Reno spoke. "You'll found him inside."

"Oh... thanks." Zack gave the Turk an appreciate nod.

Reno smiled a bit, "You know, you're really lucky."

Zack turned at the other in surprised hearing that, "Huh?"

The Turk stare at him for a second before chuckling, "Nothing." He said. "Anyway, see you. Go and have fun~" with that Reno left the prisoner alone, with a jealousy feeling at the thought of Zack and Cloud.

He wasn't really sure why, but he won't admit it to anyone about this foolish jealousy.

Zack stare at Reno who walking away before turn to look at the door. This door was different from theirs. It wasn't a normal cell door with bars; it was almost completely made out of steel and you couldn't see what was on the other side of it.

One of Reno's keys fit into the lock on that door as well and Zack stepped into another long hallway.

He stuck to the right side of the corridor all the time as he walked on. On his left there were cells with unbreakable glass walls, so you could see directly into them and the prisoners there. Unlike in their cells, these prisoners did not have a cellmate but were always alone.

These were special cells, excluded from the rest of the prison and its prisoners. The cells were kept locked at all times. Breakfast, lunch and dinner were brought directly to the prisoners.

So Vincent had been in one of those cells when he had been caught. Zack wasn't too surprised, though, considering Vincent's background and all. Only prisoners with very serious crimes were put in here..

Reaching the end of the corridor he came to another door made out of steel. It matched perfectly with the walls around it so one wouldn't even notice it was there if one didn't know where to look for it. Zack snatched the note that was hanging from it.

Congratulations, you did it! Now just open the door.

Finally!

Zack tried all the different keys he had gotten from Reno, but none of them worked. Of course not. This was a room that wasn't even supposed to exist, so of course no one else but Rufus would have the keys for it. Zack guessed Genesis had been the one to pick the door open. The toughest lock seemed unlocked and only the easier one remained closed.

Zack set to pick the last lock open, using a part from Reno's key chain as his tool. It was kind of Genesis to have picked the first one, otherwise Zack would be struggling there the whole night. He wasn't exactly handy when it came to things like this, although he liked to think he was pretty good with his hands in other situations…

If people found out about this chamber Rufus would have to pull some serious strings to get himself out of that mess. It was a room that prisoners and guards just quietly spoke of, none of them actually ever knowing if it truly existed.

Zack didn't know how much time had passed until he finally heard the wonderful sound of the door clicking open. He pressed back the urge to shout in joy, pushing the heavy door open and the dim light from the hallway behind him shone into the room. Stepping inside Zack saw that someone had placed a line of candles on the floor all the way from the door to the middle of the room where he found his prize hanging from chains attached to the ceiling.

Zack sighed in relief, leaving the door almost completely shut so that only a bit of light shone into the room. He slowly walked down the path the candles created, taking in his environment. All those times he had heard rumours about this particular room and now he finally got to see it with his own eyes, and as he had imagined there were torture tools everywhere he looked. Well, it was an old torture chamber, after all.

Zack stopped in front of his prize.

The poor boy was barely able to touch the floor with his toes and was he trembling visually, as Cloud wasn't wearing anything but a thick red ribbon tied around his waist and thighs, successfully hiding his nakedness.

Letting his eyes roam back up his little cellmate, Zack fixed them on a note tucked in between Cloud's lips and the boy let out a small gasp as Zack freed him from it and allowed him to breathe through his mouth again. Zack gave him a worried look before he read quietly for himself what was written on the piece of paper that was supposed to resemble a card.

Happy birthday, stupid dear friendCloud's boy toy Zackary Fair. We couldn't think of something you would've wanted more and prison gives one limited options for presents. Hope you'll like him~3 again!

your friends and Cloudy-boy

Zack had to smile while reading that and Cloud got kind of curious to what was written on the note. Cloud had watched the Four Leaves argue really long about what to write, always snatching the card from each other to fill something in, and the smaller boy couldn't help but wonder what they had succeeded in finishing together.

Zack returned his eyes back to a blushing Cloud.

"Ha-Happy birthday." Cloud said with a shy smile and Zack couldn't help but smiled softly at the blonde. He came a bit closer to Cloud, noticing that the smaller boy was indeed cold, he then closed his arms around the boy's forms.

"Thank you." Zack said, eyeing him one more time up and down. "Seriously, what have they done to you?" he chuckled then, fingering slightly on the silky red bow tied in the front of his cellmate's lower body, and Cloud blushed even harder under his stare.

Zack pulled out the keys from his pocket then, reaching over the younger boy to test if any of them was working. Fortunately, one of the keys fit and Zack catch the boy once Cloud finally freed from the chains. Though the boy's hand was still handcuffed.

Cloud was almost completely limp in his arms, probably going numb after being hanged on the ceiling for quite a long time and Zack couldn't help but feeling a bit guilty, "You okay?"

The boy looked up at him and Zack swore that his heart beat faster from its usual pace when Cloud looked at him with those bright blue eyes and smile adorn his beautiful face. "I'm fine."

Zack smiled widely at the boy and couldn't resist to kiss the boy's temple. "You know, you look really tempting right now..." he whispered into the by's ear, making Cloud blush.

Zack trail his kisses lower to Cloud's neck, his hands travelled over the still slightly cold skin, brushing down the curves of Zack's waist and pushing his fingers in under the ribbon as far as he could reach which wasn't near far enough in Zack's opinion. Something definitely had to be done about that. Slipping his hands in between their bodies instead, he gripped a hold on Cloud's ribbon in a way that made the smaller boy bite back a gasp and almost teasingly slow Zack untied the bow, leading the silky ribbon carefully off Cloud's thighs and waist, letting it drop to the floor.

As he had suspected, Cloud wasn't wearing anything under the ribbon and at the moment Zack wasn't even thinking about feeling jealous as hell over the fact that the guys had been the ones to decide to 'dress' Cloud up like this. His hands roamed down Cloud's back and pressed in between the buttocks, spreading them further open and pushing the smaller boy closer to him.

"Zack…" he heard Cloud moan into his ear where he was concentrating his lips on Cloud's neck again, creating quite an angry looking mark which he then proceeded to worsen as his name rolled over those swollen lips again.

…Swollen lips he suddenly had a craving to taste. Cloud would definitely be the end of him one day.

Cloud moaned again as Zack crushed his lips onto his. Zack's mouth was so warm and Cloud could feel his own heart skipping numerous beats inside his chest. Zack's lips were on him again, finally! Kissing him deeply, caressing his skin like Cloud had wanted them to… Maybe Zack was too carried away with the moment that he didn't really think about what he did anymore, but to Cloud it meant much more than that and he intended to cherish every second of it.

Absently the smaller boy realized they had left the centre of the room and he was forced to give out a whimper inside their kiss as he felt his bare back suddenly make contact with the cold wall. But then Zack's arms wrapped around his upper body, bringing him into a hug, and he could no longer feel the wall behind him.

"Mmnh..." A loud moan forced its way through his parted lips again. He fisted his fingers into the shirt Zack was still half wearing and tried to take a moment to gather himself. His action seemed to have reminded Zack of the fact that one of them was still wearing too much and the boy practically ripped the shirt off of himself, hands falling to his hips next and releasing both of his pants as well as the shirt hanging from his hips.

"Wrap your legs around my waist." Zack said then, and Cloud hesitantly obeyed, blushing furiously at the position they were now.

A finger slipped inside him and Cloud gasp sharply, a bit surprised by the sudden infiltration. He tried to calm himself, it's... hurt. No matter how many times he had done this with Zack. The first thrust would always hurt, and he couldn't help but bit his lower lip, trying not to let out any sound of pain so Zack wouldn't notice, but of course his effort was futile as Zack was able to see his pained expression on his face.

"Does it hurt?" Zack asked, always managing to surprise himself at how he could that care for someone during sex. He was always be the gentleman every time he had sex with someone, but never, really never that he was worried of making someone else in pain during sex because Zack knew that it's very common.

Through half lidded eyes, blue eyes met with rich blue eyes, heavy breath slipped out those parted pink lips that Zack always had craved.

...Cloud is gorgeous. Really gorgeous.

"It's... fine." Cloud said breathlessly.

Reassured by that, Zack then slipped his middle finger inside Cloud, pushing in and out his two fingers to stretched the boy. A wicked grin form over his lips when saw Cloud's eyes widen a bit and gasp loudly. Obviously, he had found that spot.

The taller boy continuing on fucking Cloud with his fingers, moving them against Cloud where it would made the boy moaning and panting heavily. The soft voices slipped from those parted lips made Zack couldn't resist them. Lifting his head Zack pressed his lips against Cloud's. A surprised yelp made its way into his mouth as he kissed the boy hard, nibbling and sucking in a pace Cloud was barely able to keep up with. He was too lost in the kisses that he didn't even noticed that Zack had put on a condom expertly with one hand.

Cloud whimpered when Zack pulled out his fingers, but then when Zack pushed inside of him, it felt like he almost lost his breath and he shut his eyes tightly, letting a small whimper of pain that caught Zack's attention. The raven-hair press his lips against the younger one's cheek, hoping that it would somehow made the boy relax and distracted him from the pain.

"Sorry... but bear it for a while, it'll feel good soon." By this moment, Zack was almost breathless as Cloud, panting restlessly as their chest heaving slightly against each other. For a sec, he thought for sure that he had lost his conscious at the intense feeling of Cloud gripping his shaft, so tightly and hot.

"Ohh..." Cloud moaned, he had never felt Zack buried so deep inside him before and he heard how Zack groaned into his neck. With quite effort, since both of his hands was still handcuffed, Cloud throw his arms around Zack's neck, clinging to the older boy's neck.

"You're the best birthday gift ever, Cloud…" Zack mumbled into the crook of his neck, leaning them both a bit more against the wall to be able to start moving slightly in and out of him.

Cloud tightened his arms around Zack's neck, trying to meet Zack's thrusts the best he could in that position. Somewhere deep down inside of him he wished that no other boy toy had ever been Zack's present before. He wished no one else had ever fallen in love with Zack the way he had. He doubted that last one, though.

But even in the middle of all that pleasure Zack had still remembered his name right, meaning Zack always knew who it was he was sharing bodies with. He knew it was Cloud. He didn't imagine someone else or think of some boy toy he had had before. Cloud smiled as Zack stole another long kiss from him.

"Ahhh! Zack!" Cloud moaned as Zack moved faster, hitting the place that send him to heaven with every thrust, and Cloud let his head fall back and the persistent mouth attack his neck.

"Oh god, Zack..." The blond arched his back pushing Zack even deeper. Zack buried his face into Cloud's neck and rocked his hips faster. A louder moan slipped from Cloud's mouth when Zack started to stroke his harden cock. Little by little he increased the length of the strokes and each time their moans got louder, their movements more desperate, faster and erratic.

Zack groaned, moving his hips frantically, moving faster and harder inside Cloud as he felt his orgasm started to build up. "Ggh...gah, damn it Cloud, you... ugh... you fell... incredible."

"Mmm... Ah-Ahhhh... Zack..Za-Zaaaacckk!"

The sound that Cloud really drive him crazy and Zack groaned, gripping Cloud's form tightly and thrust his hips up deep he rubbed into Cloud's sweet spot then he felt it, he finally reached over the edge, soon followed by Cloud that shooting his orgasm to their stomach.

Zack kissed Cloud on the lips first before he pulled out of the younger boy who whimpered at the sudden lost of warm, but then he couldn't help but smile contently when Zack kiss his cheek.

God, Cloud felt like he was being loved...

"You okay?" Zack asked, kissing the boy's forehead.

This time Cloud let out a tired yet content soft sigh as he leaned his own limp form against Zack, burying his face to the raven-hair's chest. "...Yeah." he murmured tiredly.

Zack couldn't help but chuckle at the tired sound Cloud make, poor boy for being hanging on the ceiling. "You must be tired, guess I should carry you, well, not that I mind of course."

Cloud just chuckle in reply before Zack get dressed, handing him the shirt that the boy always wore around his hips. It was big and long enough to cover his private parts, so Cloud was okay with it.

Zack insist on carrying him since he was too tired, and Cloud didn't argue more, knowing that Zack would be very persistent and knowing that he didn't had a chance against Zack.

By the time they returned to their part of prison, Cloud just realize that he hadn't had the faintest idea of how long he had been in that room until Zack had found him. Maybe it had just felt longer than what it had actually been. But honestly, Zack was insatiable. And where did the boy hide all that protection? Did he carry it with him everywhere he went? Cloud had thought it had been odd that one time in the shower stalls when Zack had just attacked him…

"I am hungry~ I missed breakfast and lunch! I bet it was freaking Genesis, Angeal, and Sephiroth's idea from the start. Those bastards…" Zack sighed as he carried Cloud back to their cell.

"Yo, Zack, Cloud! Do you guys want some?" Genesis greeted them where the three were seated in a circle on the floor in their cell, with lots of snacks in front of them.

Zack immediately carried Cloud with him there.

"I love you guys!" he exclaimed, attacking the goodies.

"So did you have a great birthday?" his friends just asked as Zack devoured chocolate bars and chips.

"Oh, it was great!" the boy replied in the middle of chewing. "Don't do anything like that again, bastards! You gave me a freaking heart attack!"

"We gave Cloud one too when we snatched him this morning from your cell and dressed him up like that." Angeal said.

"So where are his clothes?" Zack asked and Cloud attempted to cover himself a bit better with Zack's shirt the leader always wore around his hips. The ribbon was also back around his waist, hiding everything beneath it.

"They're in your cell in your bed." Sephiroth answered. "We put them into yours because we knew you'd find them from his bed, since you spend more time there than in your own."

"Ha-ha." Zack replied, trying to feed Cloud some chips. "You haven't had poor Cloud hanging there the whole day, have you?"

"No, we followed up on how you were doing and hung him up about when you had left Kadaj and the gang. Kadaj came and told us you had paid them a little visit."

"You didn't let Kadaj hang Cloud up, did you?" Zack then asked, suspiciously, and the rest of the gang just shook their heads innocently. "Why on earth did you include him into this, anyway?" Zack then muttered.

"Well, they volunteered themselves and promise to behave." Genesis said.

Zack shot Genesis a glare. "And bringing in Tseng and Vincent into this mess was of course a brilliant move! Honestly, where the hell did you get this whacked up idea from anyway?"

"Well since you are practically married already, we thought it would only be a nice tradition to have a kidnap-the-bride-game." Genesis shrugged and Zack just rolled his eyes.

"By the way, it was Reno who brought us these snacks for your birthday." Angeal interrupted, changing the subject.

"…They're from the vending machine in the guards' kitchen, aren't they?" Zack concluded.

"No, I think that he got these from a super market this time." Sephiroth replied and Zack popped in some more chips into his mouth.

"Really? Don't know that he can be so generous" Zack snickered.

"He's not doing it for you, he's doing it for Cloud." Genesis said, and Cloud shot him a surprised look. "He said that he felt sorry for Cloud because he was being chained naked, and he knew that Cloud will miss lunch so he bought the snack."

"Really... how thoughtful of him..." Zack said sarcastically, and Sephiroth eyed Cloud's handcuffed wrists.

"What the hell is that?"

"This?" Zack asked, holding up Cloud's handcuffed hands. "I took them as a souvenir. You know, I didn't even get handcuffs, I really thought Reno would've gotten me some since he's got access to them anyway."

"You got handcuffs from him on your last birthday, idiot." Angeal commented. "And on the one before that, and on the one before-"

"I get it. And don't call me idiot on my birthday!" Zack whined.

"You took those from Shinra's torture chamber?" Sephiroth repeated and Zack just nodded, proudly.

"I had some problems getting them and Cloud down from the ceiling, though…" Zack admitted and Sephiroth looked like he was going to either face-palm or slap the leader. Since it was Zack's birthday Sephiroth went with the first option of the two.

"Do you know how much trouble we could get in if – No, when Rufus finds out that something from thatroom has gone missing?" Genesis took over in Sephiroth's place. Zack just shrugged, popping in some more chips and Genesis sighed heavily, getting up from his position on the floor and settling down in front of Cloud.

Cloud watched curiously as Genesis released a bracelet that was decorated with small crosses from his wrist, and opened the lock on it. He then used his bracelet as a tool as he worked.

"So Cloud, when is your birthday?" Genesis suddenly asked and Cloud looked up to see all the four members gazing at him expectantly.

"I-in November. The 8th." Cloud answered quickly.

"November?" Angeal repeated. "What a shame. We missed your birthday this year."

"Why didn't you say something when it was your birthday?" Zack asked.

"I…didn't think of it. I guess the days here all blend in together, so I hardly remembered it myself." Cloud said as an excuse, playing nervously with the ring on his finger. How should he have known they would be interested in knowing when the boy toy's birthday was?

"Well, next year we'll celebrate, right?" Zack smiled and Cloud slowly gave a nod that looked more like a bow. A click later and Genesis led the chain off of his wrist and handed it to Zack who immediately shone up, getting his little present back. Genesis had been way faster than Zack in picking the locks, Cloud thought silently.

"Speaking of celebrating, we're off." Zack then announced, pulling Cloud up with him and Cloud stumbled to find a good foothold.

"I thought you just celebrated…" Sephiroth commented as Zack snatched a bag of chips and a bottle of Pepsi with him.

"It's still my birthday." Zack said with a smile, flipping a shrieking Cloud over his shoulder and adding, "Besides, we have to celebrate a belated-one for Cloud, too."

"Don't use the chains again or I won't pick them the next morning." Genesis added and Zack stopped by the cell door to look back at them.

"No, but I got some interesting ideas from the ribbon instead. See you~" Zack replied and trailed out of the cell with a slightly scared looking Cloud hanging over his shoulder. Cloud once more wondered where the heck the older boy got his strength from and how Zack could be that insatiable.

The rest of them just shook their heads, looking after them.

"I feel sorry for Cloud." Angeal broke the silence first as the cell door to Zack's cell slammed shut.

"Will he have to live through Zack's birthday next year?" Genesis asked, if not a bit concerned.

"No, he won't since Zack's birthday is on December the 4th and we leave in the end of November." Sephiroth replied.

"We should return the favor to Cloud on his birthday…" Genesis then suggested and they eyed each other, starting to scheme.

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