Perhaps Zack had won on the name but his own tease was biting him in the ass right now. Cloud was so incredibly flustered by the option of the date that it was even effecting him. Yeah he meant it as a joke but now he might hurt Cloud's feelings depending on his answer.

He let go of him for a moment, his own blush spreading on his face which he quickly hid by turning away. He had to keep his cool and laid back persona with cloud, he couldn't ruin that. Thinking about it he wouldn't mind an actual date with cloud, it was just still a little weird that this wasn't exactly his Cloud.

"I..ugh.." not knowing what to say,he looked at his pokemon for help. Grim didn't do much but glare a bit more at cloud and brodoof ran to the blonde and tugged on his pants hoping to be picked up, clearly not minding the smaller male.

Zack sighed and patted his face to calm himself down before turning to face cloud. He still had a pale pink to his cheeks. "If you're okay with it, than yeah it can be a date. It'll be my treat."

If he was honest, he had wanted to ask this of his Cloud back in Gaia. The plan was to become mercenaries together, live in some town ShinRa would never find them and than when Cloud was okay and safe he'd ask him on a date, hopefully many dates. This was a second chance of that, a safer place where he could feasibly try. Zack just hoped this Cloud would be up for it.