The perfect Gift
Cloud Strife x Teen! Reader
Sum: (y/n) struggles to find the best gift for Cloud. It’s especially difficult when the keep moving around to different towns. With a little help from some friends it turns out just fine.
(This is post remake, kind of OG game)
Cloud’s birthday was coming and it was coming fast. In fact it’s tomorrow and I still can find him a good enough gift. It’s not my fault Cloud only has like two interests. Buying him a sword seems very out of the question. He has plenty of materia and materia is such a lame gift. That leaves me no ideas. Everyone else already has things for him, all except Red.
We’re stopping in a near town to take a break from walking around so much. I feel very lucky to be traveling with everyone. But even I’ll admit it’s starting to take a toll on me. Everybody else is out right exploring, I opted to stay in our room. I need think up ideas before we leave or I won’t ever find anything.
“Hey (y/n) what are you still doing here”
Tifa’s back.
“Thinking of gift ideas for Cloud”. “what did you get him again”?
“Oh I’m just gonna treat him to breakfast”
Ughh, that doesn’t help me at all!
“Hey what do you say we walk around town and try to find something”. “Cloud and Aerith are out right now so I’m sure we will have plenty of time”.
Well this is the best chance I got.
We head out of the hotel in search of a great gift. Maybe some help finding stuff won’t be so bad. Especially Tifa’s help, their child hood friends. If anyone would know what Cloud likes it would be her. We stop into one of those really basic essentials stores.
“How about we look at cards first”?
“Yeah, ok”.
Stopping by the cards , I look for the birthday ones. Would he like one of the basic ones or a funny one. Or one of the ones that make sound. Nah probably not those. Is Cloud the type to like notes written inside or just a basic ‘happy birthday from’. I feel like I should know these things. I’ve been traveling with him for so long. He would know these things about me.
“How about this one”?
I turn towards Tifa and see her holding a card with a chocobo on it. As soon as I saw the Chocobo I already had great note for the inside.
“This ones perfect”!
“Alright let’s go find an actual gift now”.
Maybe this wasn’t as hard as I was making it out to be. I’m really glad Tifa is here, I don’t know what I would do without her. We stop into a another store, but this one is way bigger.
“Hey y’all what are you doing”?
Barret.
“Hey Barret, I’m trying to help poor (y/n) find a gift for Cloud”.
“SOILDER-boy hard to shop for”?
I can only nod my head this, that’s an under Statement.
“Well don’t worry I’ll help to, Red went back to the hotel, so I got nothing else to do”!
I’ll take all the help I can get. Walking around looking at everything they have. I try to gauge in my mind what Clouds reaction to different things would be.
“How about this”.
In Barrets hand is a charm of a tiny sword. He picks up another one of the charms this one is of Chocobo with a moggle on its back.
“He could put them on the end of his sword”!
“That’s a great gift idea, don’t you think (y/n)”?
“Yeah it is, let’s get em”!
Now I’ve got a gift and a card. It still feels like something is missing. We start to make our way back to the hotel. On our way we run into Aerith. I thought she was with Cloud.
“Hey what are you guys doing”?
“Getting Cloud birthday gifts, speaking of Cloud where is he”?
“Oh, he went back to the hotel to get some rest”.
Good I would hate for him to see the gifts early.
“What did you get”?
I show Aerith the gifts and the card. She thinks there cute. But It still doesn’t feel right though.
“You know, I found out Cloud has a big sweet tooth”, Aerith says.
“That’s it, ill meet you guys back”!
I run off to the nearby bakery. I don’t wanna get anything to big. I looking around, I start to feel hungry myself. No (y/n), remember why your here. I get him a simple cupcake with little frosting. Now all I need to do is make sure I hide these until his actual birthday. Which is thankfully tomorrow.
I reach the hotel room to find everybody sleeping. Good, I hide my bags of stuff in one of the dressers.
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Clouds pov
Waking up to sunlight slipping through the blinds. I look around to find nobody else here. Huh where did they all go. I notice (y/n) still sleeping though. Well not everybody is gone. Checking time, it’s 6:30 should I wake her up, It is still pretty early. Before I can decide Tifa walks into the room.
“Morning Cloud, come one I’m treating you to breakfast”.
“Uh, why”?
“Your birthday silly, don’t tell me you forgot”
My birthday, is it really my birthday already.
“You did forget, don’t tell (y/n) that”, she laughs a little saying that.
“Why not”, why would (y/n) care.
“She spent all day yesterday trying to find you the perfect gift”.
She did, she didn’t have to it’s not that big of deal. It’s just me slowly getting closer to my impending death.
“Well come on, we can wake her up when we get back”.
I suppose that would be better. Besides it is super early. We also don’t have to leave anywhere so what’s the harm in letting her sleep in a bit. I take one last look before heading to breakfast with Tifa.
“Do you think we should bring her something back”?
“What do you mean Cloud”?
“Well she spent all yesterday getting a gift for me the least I could do is bring her breakfast”.
“Cloud you silly, she did that cause it’s your birthday and she wanted to. But we can still bring her something back if it puts you at ease”.
Your POV
I wake up to no one in the room with me. Awesome means I can lay in bed in peace. I pull out the book I’ve been reading from bag. I need some entertainment while we travel. I have music player to but reading is more my style. Before I can get to deep in my book some body comes into the room.
“Hey your up, we brought you breakfast”, it’s Tifa and Cloud.
“Awesome thanks”!
I put my book away and sit up. I glance at Cloud, I wonder when I should give him his gifts.
“Well I gotta go meet up with Aerith so you to have fun”.
Tifa heads out leaving just me and Cloud. It’s kinda awkward, we haven’t really talked as much as of late. But that’s only cause of the circumstances. Well I guess now is the best time to give him gifts. I slip out of bed and over to the dresser. Pulling out the bags, I place them in front of him.
He gives me a questioning look before looking inside. Hopefully he likes them. He pulls out the card first and reads the note. It makes him chuckle under his breath a little. Ok it’s good so far.
“Will you relax, your so tense I can feel it in my own shoulders”.
“Ok damn, you don’t have call me out like that”.
He pulls out the charms next, he glances over them. What he does next surprises me. He walks toward his Buster Sword and place them on the handle. I take that as he likes them. He comes back over and final takes out that last gift. The cupcake.
“She told you didn’t she”?
“Yup”.
“Of course she did, she told everybody else to huh”.
“Correct”.
“Great, I’m never gonna live this down”.
I laugh, “so, you like them”?
Cloud doesn’t say anything which is a little worrying. I glance back up at him and notice a very small sliver of a smile. Yes, I’ll have thank Tifa and Barret later.
“We should probably join everybody”.
“Yeah I guess”.
Before I can get up Cloud drops something in front of me. Laying on the bed is one of the charms. A charm of a Carbuncle.
“Thanks, now we match”!
“Yup”.
I think I rewrote this like 3 times. I couldn’t decide in what time and place I wanted to set it at. Not the best thing I have ever written but I wanted to something sweet and cute for Cloud’s birthday.
