Maybe because he's not forgotten. Because as long as Cloud lives, and as long as the children he's raising live, someone's going to remember.

Because heroes need to be remembered.

But so do friends. Especially friends.

Cloud might be a little twitchy about the Lifestream and mako green these days but it doesn't stop his somehow solid footsteps or cause them to hesitate. He'd search right to the center of the Planet to find Zack if that was what was needed. And his one word greeting holds all of it as he works his way carefully past the green, eyes never leaving his friend.

"Zack?"