A/N: Consider this your Valentine's present. I wasn't planning on writing this story for a while but I have just returned from Katsucon where I was cosplaying as Sephiroth and I met lots of other FF7 cosplayer's and now I'm pumped full of FF7 goodness. (A Cloud cosplayer and I had a mock fight, I got to stab an Aerith and I now have a t-shirt that says "I *picture of Meteor* Midgar" Oh and there was the cutest Reno that I have ever seen there!)
There is very little known about Rude of the Turks. And he likes to keep it that way. What we do know is he's Rufus's favorite because of his ability to take orders without question and follow them to the letter. Tseng's likes him because he's always at work on time and is a studious employee compared to another certain red-headed Turk who always seems to fail to meet all and every expectation laid out before him. We even know that he has a strange little fetish for wearing shades even when he's inside. But what else is there to this quiet reserved Turk?
Let me let you in on a little secret. Are you ready for it?
Rude used to have hair.
Surprised yet? Yes, Rude of the Turks, used to have hair and I don't just mean the hair of his goatee. No, no, no, he used to have a nice head of dark, mahogany hair, cut short but not like that military-style kind of short. It had some length to it and he kept it nice and clean. He was very handsome with it if I do say so myself.
What happened to it you ask? Well I dare you to take a guess.
Reno happened.
That really shouldn't have been a surprise. Yes, Reno, a newly recruited Turk at the time, had been partnered up with Rude since day one. And that's not all too surprising either. It makes perfect sense that they'd put a hard working, responsible Turk with the newbie who had a nasty habit of letting his responsibilities slid from time to time. And you can guess that Reno wasn't to please with that. He was sick of hearing about what a good Turk Rude was and how he, Reno should act more like him. I guess it must have built up a little too high for the poor guy and he snapped.
After one badly failed mission, in which Rude was sent to the infirmary to be treated for possible Mako poisoning, Reno snuck in that night with a razor. And Rude's hair was gone by morning.
And he kept it that way. Made him look much more threatening if you ask me.
But that was the beginning of the battle between hair and scissors, better known as The Epic Shin-ra Hair War.
A/N: Sorry this is so short, but I needed a way to start this off and I thought it was kind of funny to think of Rude with hair. Let me know what you think of the narration. Should I keep it this way or should I go back to my regular style of third-person? Review and tell me what you think please! Chapter Two should be up soon.
