Oh I just chuckled merrily. Even though I saw that you wrote no smut, I knew that it was going to be for the best if I saved this for later. And the merry laughings at Cloud's statement... oh yeah. Reading in public woulda been a bad idea.
He was not obsessed, though, he told himself. He was just ambitious – very focused.
Me, immediately: "Sure Cloud."
He had spent all his childhood collecting Shinra recruitment posters and pictures of General Sephiroth, looking at them again and again until late at night.
"Suuuure Cloud."
Oh and I laughed merrily at that too.
(I also loved your description of the Shinra uniforms, particularly in the sense of trying to make them non-threatening. I loved that angle and never thought of it myself before.)