[It's not a set of circumstances Sephiroth likes to think about for too long. To go home, exactly as he had been with no knowledge of what had come to pass here...only to then proceed and attempt to exact his own private revenge for everything against the Planet and all those who lived upon it. To literally become the Calamity of his own World.

In Crystallis he's made, for the most part, a place for himself. Within the military, where he'd risen through the ranks based on entirely his own merit with no question of somehow being 'put towards' it. With regards to Terra, as well, Sephiroth knows he'd never get a chance at that type of happiness again.

Friendship. The word makes him pause and flick his eyes back to Rukia's for a moment. He's never going to get used to that being directly referred.]

I'd call it more of a working association, but you're welcome all the same.

[There are a lot of issues that Sephiroth has wrestled with, to a certain extent. Most of which do not get aired, hardly ever.]

Considering what I know now that I didn't before, there can't be any other way to live. That said, I'm very much a forward-thinker. It's difficult.