[Cloud blinks. Obligation?...oh. That's not too far off from what Yunlan was telling him a while back, is it? Except Yunlan was talking about keeping people safe from Sephiroth, not...this. He shakes his head.]

I don't. If I didn't want to spend time with him, I wouldn't, period. It's just...complicated.

[He pauses for a moment, thinking.]

He was already a different person from the guy who tried to kill everyone on the planet by the time I got here. Just...took me a little while to see it. Been trying to get to know him as he is now, that's all.

[And maybe making out with him a little, but there's no reason Angeal needs to know that.]