Normally Cloud's not one to be all that touchy feely with people. There are exceptions, like Tifa and the kids, but he honestly tends to just avoid it as much as he can.

This is different though. He doesn't mind this and it more than happy to just wrap the other up in a warm embrace and let him relax. Let him come down from the feelings that he'd been caught up in and let the memories fade away. Had he thought about it, he might have been wary because of the lingering smell of mako he knew to be all over him at all times but his younger self doesn't seem bothered by it so...

So he's just going to bring a hand up, fingers threading through the other's hair as he rests his chin on top of the younger blonde's head.

"You're safe here. I promise."