Kissing Death - Chapter Four

-Pairing: – Zack x Cloud
-Notes: This fanfiction contains yaoi/shounen ai which means that it contains boy-boy love, between Zack and Cloud from Final Fantasy. If you do not agree with Yaoi/Shounen Ai then please click that wonderful thing I like to call and back button and leave the page.
-Usual Thing: I don't own any of the characters, nor the games of which they come from, just the plot of my fanfiction.
-Please comment this; otherwise I will just assume it sucks.

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Gaia! Cloud took in a deep breath regretting the decision to run to the church rather than take his Fenrir; he placed his hands on his knees as the backs of his legs ached slightly from running nonstop since he fled from Tifa's bar.

"Zack," Cloud rubbed his hand a little under his nose as he started walking again, noting that just walking fast was a better choice than starting to run again and he placed his hand on his heart which was racing for three different reasons.

The first was the fact he'd been running, the second was the fact that he may be meeting up with the love of his life that he'd been aching inside to see for years and the last reason was panic and fear that what Tifa said about this all being a trick may be true.

Placing his hand upon the large brown doors to the church, Cloud held his breath before slowly stepping into the broken building and pulling at his gloves nervously as his eyes searched around for the only person he wanted to see.

"Hello?" Cloud called out as he stepped forwards looking around with a slight heartbreak as Zack wasn't standing there waiting for him, Zack wasn't there holding his arms out to embrace him.

Tifa was right…this…it was all a prank Cloud whimpered and bit his bottom lip as his legs gave way and he sat down heavily on the wooden bench, he felt a little numb as he tried to figure out why somebody would be so cruel as to tell him that his dead lover was actually alive for all this time.

"I'm such a moron," Cloud wanted to hit himself in the face for believing such an unbelievable note and he leaned forwards covering his face with his hands trying to prevent himself from crying again as his eyes were still sore.

"I always thought that you were rather smart actually,"

Cloud's heart skipped several beats and the heat spread across his body like wildfire before he slowly looked up to see the one person he'd been wanting for two years leaning against the church wall in front of him with a slightly frightened look in his amethyst eyes.

He looked exactly the same apart from he seemed to have lost a little weight and his hair had gotten longer by a few inches. He was dressed in similar clothes to what he'd been wearing when Cloud had thought he'd seen him in the street on his delivery.

"Zack!" Cloud stood up quickly from his seat shaking once more as tears automatically started flowing down his cheeks as he tried to figure out whether or not he was just hallucinating again.

"Cloud," Zack's voice was just pure sweetness running through Cloud's ears and he stepped a little closer to the raven, his breath deep and fast.

"A-are you real?" Cloud cried out as Zack started walking towards him as his hallucination had done several times, the next step the hallucination would do was take Cloud's face in his untouchable hands and place a kiss upon Cloud's lips, which he'd never feel.

"Are you?" Zack asked back and he seemed just as disbelieving as Cloud was about this whole situation and he leaned forwards placing his hand against Cloud's cheek sending as shockwave through the smaller and younger blonde.

He could feel Zack's touch against his skin, he was real.

"You are!" Cloud suddenly yelled making Zack jump slightly, "you're real!" a teary smile appeared on his face for the first time in ages as Zack pulled him into a tight embrace, the man's muscular arms holding him as desperately as Cloud's were.

"I thought you were dead," Zack whispered as he placed several kisses upon the top of Cloud's head, his lips caressing the side of the younger's face until he finally captured Cloud's lips in what could be described as a violently passionate kiss.

This is real Cloud's hands shakily ran through Zack's thick hair as he took it all in, the man's scent, his taste, his touch, his caress. Zack was here, that's all that mattered to him right now, his mind ridding of anything else apart from the impossible thing that was happening right now.

"You taste the same," Zack chuckled gently as he pulled away from Cloud who panicked and gripped onto him in case he suddenly faded like he always did after getting this close to Zack.

"How are you alive, you died two years ago?" Cloud whispered in confusion and Zack looked away from him suddenly not wanting to speak that much.

"I…" Zack licked his lips and pressed his forehead against Cloud's, "I'll tell you in time, I just want to be with you at the moment, after two years you can't even believe how many dreams I've had of seeing you again,"

"Oh I think I can imagine what that's been like," Cloud muttered not letting on to the horror that he'd been living in.

Zack beamed slightly as his large hands came and held the tops of Cloud's arms, his eyebrows raising slightly as he took a step back to observe his gorgeous lover.

"You've gotten more muscular, the last time I saw you, you were just a skinny teenager," Cloud laughed slightly as a few more tears fell from his eyes making Zack move back to him and wipe his tears away with his thumbs, grinning slightly when Cloud blushed lightly under his touch just as he used to do.

"You've gotten taller, I didn't think that was possible," Cloud purred as he cuddled into Zack's chest, nearly bursting into tears again when he positioned his ear correctly and heard Zack's very alive heartbeat.

"Your hair is longer," Zack teased back and Cloud giggled liked a teenage girl when Zack's fingers pulled at the newly fashioned spikes on his head tenderly and Cloud reached up to tangle the ends of Zack's hair with his finger.

"Your hair is longer too," Cloud pointed out and found himself incapable of words when their eyes finally locked together in a stare that made an inferno burn in Cloud's stomach.

"I thought that maybe you would have found somebody else," Zack whispered and his face fell when he noticed the blush darken on Cloud's cheeks, "Gaia, you did didn't you, I mean of course I didn't expect you to be alone forever but…" Cloud quickly placed his hand over Zack's mouth and shook his head.

"There was never anybody else Zack…Tifa tried to make things happen between us but we're now back to just being best friends," Cloud explained quickly and wrapped his arms around Zack's neck, hugging him tightly and placing a kiss against his cheek as Zack gave a laugh of relief.

"I thought you'd be with somebody by now," Zack sighed placing numerous kisses on Cloud's neck making the blonde purr whilst he took in Cloud's scent.

"I wouldn't have kissed you back if I was," Cloud pointed out and closed his eyes as he drank in this perfect moment between them, "for two years…I've been wanting moment like this to happen,"

"Cloud," Zack laughed and looked down at the blonde how stared back up at him with the same innocent stare that made his heart melt, his hand brushing the blonde locks from Cloud's face, "this is a big a shock to me as it is to you, but let's forget the past and just…" Zack's lips pressed against Cloud's, "Focus on being together,"

Cloud wanted to ask why Zack was so insistent on ignoring the past but he didn't want anything to ruin his reuniting with the raven so he pushed it to the back of his mind before returning his head to Zack's chest, taking in his warm smell of strawberries.

"Gaia!" Cloud suddenly gasped moving away from the hold he had on Zack, startling the raven greatly.

"What's wrong?" Zack asked worriedly and his grip tightened on Cloud's hand sending butterflies to flutter around in his stomach at the sight of the blonde blushing once more.

"I-I need to prove something to Tifa…to Reno as well," Cloud tugged Zack's hand smiled angelically as they walked towards the church doors.

"Wait," Zack interrupted and pulled Cloud firmly towards him so that they were now facing one another.

"Yes?" Cloud asked shyly as Zack leaned in towards him.

"I love you Cloud Strife," Zack whispered in such a voice that it made Cloud swallow deeply as his mind began to go blank again, those three words sending him into his own personal heaven.

"I love you too, Zack Fair," Cloud replied softly before their lips connected once more in a kiss that had been waiting for happen for two years.