Multifandom Imagines (Character x Reader)

About Time (Cloud Strife x Reader)

Character: Cloud Strife

Fandom: Final Fantasy VII

Categories: Reader Insert, Female!Reader, Soulmate AU

Title: About Time

I looked up at the stars and lay my head on Cloud's shoulder, watching his reaction. He visibly blushed, but he didn't push me away. After all, he was my best friend. Cloud didn't move, almost like he was scared of shooing me away if he did. His blue eyes were fixed on the night sky above us, almost with a dreamy expression.

"Look, a shooting star!" He muttered, lifting an arm to point at it.

"Oh, I didn't see it!" From our lying position on the grass, I lifted my arm up as well to jokingly push his away. "No fair!"

Carefully, Cloud's hands wrapped around my arm and brought it closer to his face so he could examine it. There, on my wrist, there was the timer. It was still stuck at zero, tattooed in black letters on my skin.

"I still don't understand why ours don't work..." Cloud whispered, observing his own timer, which looked just like mine.

"My mommy says it's because maybe I already met my soulmate" I replied in a matter-of-fact way. "Or because it activates with a kiss"

Cloud paused in a thoughtful manner. Then he gently lay my arm back over my stomach and sighed.

"They say it's not always the same for everyone" Lowering his own arm, his glance returned to the sky instead of lingering on me.

"Did you make a wish to the shooting star?" I suddenly replied, intrigued by his response.

"No, I wasn't fast enough"

"What would you wish if you could?"

"To make it into SOLDIER"

"Remember, if you do, you have to teach me how to fight!"

"Promise, Y/N"

Cloud was always saying how his dream was to become a SOLDIER, so he planned on leaving Midgar and pursuing it. To make sure he came back to me, I made him promise that he would teach me how to fight when he did, also to show me how much he had learnt. We just needed time for that to happen.

"What would you wish for?" His voice interrupted my thoughts as I imagined how that would be. I always imagined him coming back to me when I least expected it, bearing a wide grin for a change, being all tall and strong after all those years. And he would pick me up in a bear hug, lifting me off the ground and spinning me around because he had missed me as much as I had missed him.

"Huh?" I mumbled as I tried to forget about that fantasy.

"What would you wish for if you could?" He repeated, seeing as I hadn't heard.

"To know who my soulmate is"

*YEARS LATER*

I woke up in surprise, being so into the dream that it took me a while to get back to the real world. That happened so many years ago, when we were kids, but the memory brought back in dream form brought me nostalgia.

Lazily, I rolled on my side and looked at the watch on my bedside table. At the sight of it, I jumped to my feet and rushed to the door. Was it that time already?!

I ran to the front door, trying to fix my hair on the way, and quickly swung it open. There stood Cloud, leaning on the wall with a look of utter boredom. He turned around when he heard me and watched me, unfazed by my appearance.