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[ladyashikira]

Who: Kira Ashikira and Sephiroth
When: Same day as this
Where: Locksfelt Orphanage
Rating: PG-13 for the moment
Summary: At Reeve's request, Kira goes around to the orphanage where Seph is searching for clues concerning Jenova's disappearance.

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[sephiroth_san]

Hallucinations had left him now, after all this was no longer his first visit to this place. Memories that were not his own were no longer super-imposed on eyesight as they had been before. Sephiroth was fully aware that there was him, her (for that voice had been female to be sure) and nothing else except ghosts and dust inside this entire building. Even the vermin kept away which suited Sephiroth just fine, pure silence in which to look inwards and try to piece this puzzle together.

And stillness was all that met Kira as she called his name. It was almost as if the sound itself rushed forward and disturbed one or two strands of long silver hair for if he had moved it had been too slight for perception of any kind. Long moments passed before Sephiroth, upon searching his memories for a matching voice, answered the call.

"SOLDIER..." Having never been introduced really, this was perhaps the most accurate word he could find to call her. His tone is almost whispery, almost inexperienced sounded betraying of how long he'd been sat there and of how long it had been since he had needed to use his voice.

[ladyashikira]

Now how exactly did you go about confronting an omnicidal maniac who had nearly killed you not too long ago... There should have been something like this in SOLDIER training, Kira mused.

Sephiroth's voice, like her own before, did nothing to break the moment of before. His voice was faint, unused...combined with the dust all around and how still he was sitting, she wondered just how long he had been there, sitting in this dead place...

She leaned casually against the wall, weapons still ready in her hands.

"I doubt you'll remember, but my name is Kira. Kira Ashikira. Former SOLDIER First Class."

[sephiroth_san]

"Kira..." Sephiroth repeated the word and let it echo slightly around the space between them. A small twitch of shoulders could be seen as Sephiroth again gripped the precious thing in his lap. Then relaxed.

Brilliant eyes had been shut all of this time but now they opened slowly as the meditative trance wore closer to full consciousness. Former SOLDIER Sephiroth wondered if there were ever truly such a thing. One had either been a SOLDIER or not, there was no way to reverse the Mako effect. First class had been his rank, had been his life and for some reason during all of that he had been deemed a hero.

"So are you a Hero too? Come to save the Planet for ShinRa?" Sephiroth almost baited Kira with that question.

[ladyashikira]

Kira watched him moving. She stayed still herself, still holding her weapons ready but doing nothing else.

Then he spoke again, more than just her name, and she stared off into space as she thought. A hero...? Me?

"Even if I was still working for Shinra, I'm not exactly hero material," she said with a wry smile. "I'm just cannon fodder. And here on request from someone."

[sephiroth_san]

"Cannon fodder - disposable..." Sephiroth mused to himself more than to Kira. That would mean he could just be done with her and there would be simply another that would be sent in her place. She would have no significance at all. Eventually he would eat away at the manpower one by one, take over the entire population one head at a time.

It intrigued Sephiroth exactly why she would be sent 'on request' here, he only knew of one person who knew that he'd even been here. But that thought in itself caused more paranoia. Could it be possible that this building was bugged in a way he wasn't used to detecting? Some sort of complicated plan to track his movements? The end of which Sephiroth did not even wish to consider.

"The commissioner sent you." Was stated matter-of-factly but otherwise Sephiroth remained still. "What did he say?"

[ladyashikira]

Disposable...well, not that they'd be happy to hear that. Never relaxing, Kira considered the matter anyway. "Still, I've managed to survive somehow. Even cannon fodder can be pretty resilient...or lucky..."

A random thought - am I actually having a conversation with Sephiroth? - made her lips quirk slightly into a smile before the man spoke again. No need to mention Jenova; if his movements had been more erratic than normal in looking for her, mentioning her might set him off.

"Only that you'd been hanging around. You do have a tendency to scare people, you know."

[sephiroth_san]

"Change scares people. Perhaps it scares them more now; since the Change has tried to happen before and it's been thwarted, the Change must come swifter and stronger to break down the barriers in it's way..." Sephiroth grunted a single hollow chuckle over his shoulder in Kira's direction, his head inclined ever so slightly that way now.

"People will die, the Change will not be stopped and in the end the World will be better. Except only Mother and I understand..." Again Sephiroth gripped the item he held in his lap as if it were an anger-management tool for now. A tear of fabric could be heard as the head of the moogle-doll became separated from it's body. Sephiroth turned his head more definitely in Kira's direction now, hands still firmly around two halves of the doll.

"We -need- her. She went away again, she was taken away..." There was such contained frustration behind that tone now, he had searched for almost an entire week for answers and there was to this point nothing to be found to fill the void left by Jenova's disappearance. Was it traitorous to allow the void to close up? Would she want him to give up on this search, to continue on without her? So close They had been Closer than ever..

Sephiroth blinked and involuntarily his shoulders twitched, the silver pauldrons rose and fell abruptly with the movement.

"Leave me alone..."

[ladyashikira]

Kira listened to him speaking, head tilted slightly to the side. She remembered the change - the Reunion, the call of Jenova that had echoed faintly in the minds of each and every SOLDIER in the tense days before Meteorfall, and...swifter? Stronger? To break down barriers, destroying any opposition...

Briefly, she wondered where Cloud and his group were, and if they knew of him hanging around. Then the sound of tearing cloth hit her ears, and she frowned briefly, until she caught sight of the torn Moogle doll in his hands. "She went away again, she was taken away..."

Like a small child...

As he spoke again, she shifted off the wall she was leaning against, watching him warily. Getting the information back to Reeve had to be her priority, and even the usual SOLDIER bravado had vanished in the face of a potential fight with Sephiroth. She started to back away slowly, weapons still in hand. For a moment, she thought to say something, but nothing came to mind, and she left him silently. The last image she had of the room was of him, still bathed in golden sunlight, surrounded by dust.

[sephiroth_san]

Just as Kira would have looked away, Sephiroth rose to his feet. There was not that much dust which had settled on him personally after all but a fine mist of it fell like a heavy cloud as he shook his hair out. He could not let this one leave, he was not a specimen in a science lab anymore just laid out for anyone to come and see. His privacy and the answers that he sought might well be scarcer if there was someone monitoring him.

He turned towards Kira and as his gleaming green orbs recognized her from their previous fight he advanced towards her in swift strides. Masamune was no where in sight. He stopped a few feet away to take a moment to assess her possible next move, and her condition. Her near-death had clearly not been enough of a stay-away notice but perhaps if she was cannon fodder then she could serve a purpose for him also.

"Tell them to stay away..." Sephiroth warned Kira, before swiftly stepping forward to attempt to grab her and smack her back against the wall of the corridor "Got it?"

[ladyashikira]

SOLDIER ears picked up the sound of him moving, and Kira turned in time to see him advancing on her. Never turn your back on an enemy, dumbass, that's why you're cannon fodder! briefly echoed through her mind, and then her back hit the wall as he shoved her. The adrenaline rush of before, briefly gone, came back strong. She tried to calm her pounding heart, aware that he would sense it and that the sudden fright would do nothing for her battle ability.

Hands free, blades and materia ready...dammit, can't get the rocket launcher right now, but...

She ended that train of thought abruptly, nodding to him. "Understood...anything else you'd like me to pass along?"

(Short but hopefully sweet)

[sephiroth_san]

Sephiroth released her and stood back, then gestured with his head towards the door, his eyes were sharp on her weaponry should she be able to draw any of it and point it at him.

"Just don't get in my way. You might not be so lucky next time..."