Pandora's Box
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Prince of a Flower Crown by yxonomei
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Riku/Sora
Warnings: one-shot, possibly-AU
Summary: “This is a place just for the two of them: the place where he can keep Sora as his—if only for a small span of time.”
>>: This is a curious bit where Sora and Riku spend the day together, either pre-KH or AU. Check out the writer's other stories, most of which are interesting, darkish, and, well, smutty.
A Long, Hard Road by Twig
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Sephiroth/Cloud, Cloud/OC, Zack/Tifa, Rude/Reno/Elena, Yuffie/Vincent, others
Warnings: m/m, m/f
Summary: Five years after the game it seems that Cloud's struggle to defeat Sephiroth was just the beginning of his trials. General Cloud leads an army in a doomed war against Professor Hojo's twisted creations and Jenova's taint. Just when it looks like things can't get any worse, ShinRa decides to resurrect the former General Sephiroth in hopes of gaining an edge. Can the man who once nearly destroyed them all help turn the tide in the war against Hojo, or will history repeat itself?
>>: This novel length epic has often been referred to as the best in the fandom. Cloud is a beautifully tormented protagonist; everything about this story is dead on. If you haven't read this yet, do so.
Change My Stripes by Sephiroth's Stalker
Rating: R
Pairing: Riku/Sora, Squall/Sora, others
Warnings: incomplete, m/m, au
Summary: Riku has always been very open (read: aggressive) about his feelings for his childhood friend, but Sora just doesn't swing that way. When he meets his new teacher, however, Sora starts having second thoughts. As time goes on he finds himself connecting with the older man on a far more personal level than is appropriate. Meanwhile, now that his orientation is no longer an issue he's finding it harder and harder to resist Riku's advances...
>>: This story hasn't been updated for a couple years, but it's fun and rather tastey. ^-^ Love triangles ftw.
Buttons by Aphelion
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Cloud/Sephiroth
Warnings: one-shot
Summary: Everyone has buttons to push. Sephiroth just discovers a little too late that his buttons are special.
>>: KH-verse. XD
Dark of the Moon by tir-synni
Rating: R
Pairing: Zack/Cloud
Warnings: ficlet
Summary: All living creatures instinctively fight back when something constricts their throat. Cloud Strife, however, does not.
>>: Heartbreaking but lovely. Takes place while Zack and Cloud are on the run.
Dear Cloud by usagivindaloo
Rating: PG
Pairing: Sephiroth/Cloud, Tifa/Cloud
Warnings: one-shot
Summary: Post-game; Tifa writes a letter to her best friend/crush after finding the last piece of the puzzle.
>>: Angsty and nicely done.
Dinner Date by Lena ban Obsidian
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: gen
Warnings: one-shot
Summary: The thing about Cloud that caught people's attention was his eyes. There was this absolutely terrifying quality of…blindness to them that should have tipped everyone off a hundred times over that everything wasn't wired just right inside his head.
>>: A very interesting interlude set during Cloud and Barret's date at the Gold Saucer. (For the actual, oh-holy-god-NC-17-rated Barret/Cloud check out another of Obsidian's stories, Top Dog. ^_~)
Eglanteria by ChibiRisu-chan
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Cloud/Sephiroth
Warnings: one-shot
Summary: 'A resurrection technique that really shouldn't have worked.'
>>: Nice and sweet. Post-AC.
Falling by Lena ban Obsidian
Rating: R
Pairing: Sephiroth/Cloud
Warnings: one-shot, m/m, noncon, chanslash
Summary: Something about it, the danger. Heat and sweat. Being beaten; oh, the possibility of falling from grace.
>>: Everything by Obsidian is gold, but this is one of her prettiest.
Godhead by Hades' Phoenix
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Sephiroth/Cloud
Warnings: one-shot, au, ncs, chanslash, slight necrophilia
>>: A delightfully blasphemous retelling of Christ's Passion; well constructed and nicely disturbing. I wish it had been a little longer, though; this feels somehow incomplete.
Just a Memory by Kiiro Kasai
Rating: PG
Pairing: Sephiroth/Cloud
Warnings: one-shot
Summary: Sephiroth will never become a memory. Not like Cloud.
>>: An extremely pretty retelling of the fight scene at the end of Advent Children, from Sephiroth's POV.
Lions and Tigers by Lena ban Obsidian
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: implied Squall/Cloud and Sephiroth/Cloud
Warnings: one-shot
Summary: A lion and a tiger fight over territory.
>>: KH-verse. The prose is a bit sketchy but this is very nice. (Just like everyone else Obsidian does.)
Midgar: The Soap by jaded_grin
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Reno/Kadaj, Tseng/Kadaj, others
Warnings: wip, m/m, au
Summary: Everyone thinks that Rufus and Yazoo Shinra are the perfect couple. He's rich, handsome, and sole heir to the ShinRa Empire; she's the sweetest, most beautiful and refined woman in Midgar. But life at the top is never as glamorous as people like to believe. Despite 'her' appearance and the political advantages that came with the marriage, Rufus deeply resents being married to a man. Yazoo is lonely, unable to make close friends for fear of his secret being found out but even less capable of making a real connection with his shallow husband. Then there's Reno. He's Rufus' best friend, and rules Midgar's underworld with a fast mouth and a charismatic grin...
>>: As the title says, this a soup opera following several different characters. It's kind of hard to describe. Try a couple chapters; it's not really my thing but the writing's pretty solid.
Mirage of the Past by Jade Tatsu
Rating: PG
Pairing: Sephiroth/Cloud
Warnings: one-shot
Summary: Five hundred years ago Meteor fell uncontested, heralding the beginning of Sephiroth's iron rule over the Planet. Despite the total defeat that has met every rebellion in history, humanity has learned from its mistakes and a powerful rebel group has been born dedicated to taking down their oppressor. Eight people to mirror the eight Wings who carry out Sephiroth's will. Together they may be strong enough to defeat the One Winged Angel himself, but could the gaps in history be concealing an even greater threat?
>>: This could really use a beta, but it's a wonderfully unique and interesting one-shot exploring the aftermath of a different sort of ending to the game.
Mistletoe by Aphelion
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Sephiroth/Cloud
Warnings: one-shot
Summary: Zack gets bored and decides to liven things up with a little seasonal chaos. This time, however, the results surprise even him...
>>: Super cute~
Permission to Touch by Miko no da
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Zack/Cloud, others
Warnings: m/m, one-shot
Summary: Aeris is sick and Zack's stuck trying to find a new date for the company dinner at the last minute. Luckily, his very pretty friend Cloud has been dying for a chance to meet his childhood hero...
>>: Heh. This is a fun one.
Soundproofed Walls by Lena ban Obsidian
Rating: R
Pairing: Cloud/Sephiroth; slight Cloud/Zack, Sephiroth/Zack and Aeris/Zack (that boy really gets around.)
Warnings: m/m, one-shot, chanslash
Summary: They sat in silence for long moments, Sephiroth unsure what to do, holding the boy's body against himself and trying to think of a resolution that didn't result in ravishing a very much underage Cloud.
>>: I don't think that anyone else could have done this premise so seriously. Cloud wants to be pretty~ And there is crossdressing. And there is Sephiroth, feeling simultaneously aroused and disturbed by the whole mess. And, yum. Be sure to check out the rest of Obsidian's stuff; she's one of the best writers in the fandom.
Temptation by Hades' Phoenix
Rating: R
Pairing: Zack/Cloud/Sephiroth
Warnings: one-shot, m/m/m, chanslash, au
Summary: 'In the beginning was the Word, and perhaps it was somewhat ironic that the human's mouth was now doing things that innocence shouldn't know about.'
>>: Genesis, the way you wish it'd gone. XD
The Price of Silence by Phoenix Dayze
Rating: R
Pairing: Sephiroth/Cloud, slight Zack/Cloud
Warnings: m/m, ncs, chanslash, one-shot
Summary: 'Something is wrong with Cloud and Sephiroth is determined to find out what, even if the knowledge costs him something he isn't willing to give.'
>>: Nicely done but horribly dark. Followed by The Cost of Redemption.
The Silence of the Chocobos by Amarissa
Rating: R
Pairing: Sephiroth/Cloud, Zack/Cloud, Rude/Reno, others
Warnings: m/m, slight noncon
Summary: Advent Children as you've never seen it. Kadaj is a crossdresser, Sephiroth has a degree in psychology, and everyone wants Cloud's ass.
>>: Terribly amusing. XD Take a look at Amarissa's other stories as well. None of them are anywhere near this funny, but some of them are quite good.
Kingdom by Sleeps With Coyotes
Rating: PG
Pairing: Zack/Aeris, slight Cloud/Sephiroth
Warnings: one-shot
Summary: 'Tam Lin had it easy.'
>>: A lovely fairy tale~ Be sure to check out Coyotes' other stuff; he/she's written an astonishing number of FF stories in all genres and pairings, including the ever-popular OT4.
Voyeur by Thorne Scratch
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Sephiroth/Cloud, slight Zack/Cloud and Sephiroth/Zack
Warnings: m/m, one-shot, voyeurism
Summary: Zack sees something he'd rather he hadn't.
>>: Well written, pretty and almost dreamlike.
Blue Eyes by Fantasia
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Axel/Cloud, Cloud/Reno and Axel/Roxas
Warnings: one-shot, m/m
Summary: 'They both saw someone else in each other. And while they may have loved each other, they loved the person they saw in the other more.'
>>: Angsty. There are a lot of stories about people using each other to make up for the ones they can't have, but they aren't usually done this well.
Heart in a Box by sundial
Rating: PG
Pairing: Zexion/Demyx
Warnings: one-shot, au
Summary: The people of Neverwas all had perfect hearts, and perfect boxes to keep them in. Zexion's was the most perfect of all.
>>: Kingdom Hearts. I love fairy tales like this~ Lovely and sweet.
You Compute Me by dual_avi
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Zexion/Demyx
Warnings: one-shot, m/m...?
Summary: When Zexion and Demyx are sent to kidnap the Brave Little Toaster they find themselves in forms with some ... unusual attributes.
>>: KH-verse. Two words: APPLIANCE SEX. XDXD