Red... Red just reminded him of something, the same way this dark red had appeared before him once, not so long ago...
"V-Vincent...?" He whispered to himself, just to realize how mistaken he was. The man before him was nothing alike the one he knew, maybe the choose of weapon, and the red of his clothes played a bad joke to his mind, specially, being in a moment like that.
He had no time to tell him anything, not even the force to do it, he shook his head, locking his eyes with his, as if pleading him to help him stop her, that, or trying to tell him without success that he didn't know what to do.
But then he wasn't expecting Luki to do what she did, he had expected her to attack Vash instead, not to jump almost two meters in the air just to get on his back... it was all just too fast, but all came as in slow motion to him.
What good would it be just to keep evading her like that? Vash would maybe not get tired, but he would. Luki, was going to go on until someone knocked her out, an he wasn't going to do it, he knew if they went that way, once she woke up she'd just feel betrayed, hell, she maybe already felt that way; after having your so loved big brother killing your sister... if that wasn't betrayal what she felt, then--
Hurry, Cloud! Decisions, decisions, to attack her, to defend himself, or... yeah...
It was just a matter of a second, perhaps two as she landed on her tiny feet. The blond turned towards her as quickly as his body let him, maybe not completely, but at least to capture those crazy eyes of hers with his, at the same time he let go of his Tsurugi, he was not going to need it right now, and all he did was wait for her, opening his arms to receive her with a hug... she needed one.