Walking through Aerith's home of the Sector 5 slums

'This might be the worst day of my life,' Cloud thought to himself.

'This might be the best day of my life!' Aerith thought to herself.

The brown-haired Cetra girl confidently walked through the makeshift streets of her hometown, the slums of Sector 5, with her head held high, her staff in her right hand, and smiling from ear to ear.

In contrast to that, the blonde spiky-haired SOLDIER boy very lightly, and uncomfortably, shifted his bare feet across the very same roads, following behind his clothed friend, head lowered to try and keep his identity a secret, flat end of his trademark Buster Sword pressed against his crotch, desperately attempting to drown out the laughter of the strangers around him.

Oh, yes, our hero was still very much naked from head to toe, after his final piece of covering had been "accidentally" burned away by a fire spell from his very much completely clothed female counterpart. Unfortunately for him (and fortunately for those around him), the sword covering up his genitalia meant that that left his bare ass completely out in the open, lightly jiggling with every step he took.

And the denizens of Sector 5 did not pass up on the opportunity to witness the bare-assed boy in all his glory. Dozens upon dozens of people from within the slums gathered around to take part in his walk of shame, hooting and hollering at the magnificent sight before them.

"Whoo-hoo!" one young lady belted out.

"Didn't you forget something, sweetie?" a middle-aged woman shouted as she cackled at the jiggling of his bare behind.

"Whatever happened, I'm sure he was asking for it," muttered one young man who appeared to be in his 30s, unimpressed with the spectacle before him.

Unable to take much more, Cloud picked up his pace so that he was walking right next to Aerith (inadvertently causing his ass cheeks to jiggle even more, causing more of a ruckus) and slowed down as he caught up. "Aerith, please..." he begged his female cohort. "This is so humiliating. Are we almost there?"

Aerith took another good look at her nude guardian, giggled at the sight again, and nodded. "Yep!" she chirped. "It's right over this hill right here!" She suddenly stopped and turned to stare directly at him. "And honestly, if you didn't want to be seen by this many people, you could've just gone the long way."

With that exchange, she reached around behind Cloud and very deliberately slapped his ass. Not super hard, but just hard enough to make that distinct smack be heard by those around the pair. Cloud yelped at the sensation, while the passers by cheered, laughed, and clapped at it.

Cheeks growing even redder, the mercenary for hire continued following the seemingly innocent, but secretly devious young lady to her home.