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'It was snowing the day my father went away…'

A pair of soft cerulean eyes gazed up to the sky, it was a color of crystalline sky blue. It would have been quite a beautiful sight, if not for one thing. 'The snow', soonblonde eyelashes began to flutter. The eyes of the blonde headed youth closed slowly as he let the snow flakes cool his aching face. Not for long though, his body gave a small shudder, telling him he needed to move. He began to walk down the desolate street, shoving his hands into the pockets of his jeans.

The snow was starting to stick to the ground. 'I could have sworn that I heard the news earlier say it was going to be sunny, with not a cloud in the sky… Yet here I am walking home wearing nothing but a sweater freezing my ass off.' The blonde sighed. He had brought a jacket with him to school and was wearing it but he lost it some feet back. The youth was being chased by some of the kids from his school. And at the time the jacket didn't seem so important. He regretted that now.

A cold gust of wind brushed past the fair-haired youth, it stung his face and he automatically reached his hand up to it and touched his jaw. He winced at the pain that was emitting from it. His lip was in no better shape nor was his eye. To which both were now starting to show the beginnings of a bruise forming. He was looking down at his feet, as he walked, not worried about bumping into anyone, it was the back roads of the small city and no one usually took them.

'Today…'

He started to fight back today. This was the day he decided he should stick up for himself. To not be the butt end of all their jokes and the punching bag for all their anger. That's what got him in trouble, trying to be "tough" like one of the boys said. Cloud snorted. 'More like I was trying to protect myself from getting the shit beaten out of me' he thought. A grungy taste came in his mouth, one of the boys had punched him in the nose and it had been bleeding but was soon stopped by the cold whether. The blonde spat the deep red contents out of his mouth as he wiped the blood from his lip with his sleeve. He was at the end of the back roads and getting ready to go back into the city, but as he did a familiar voice echoed throughout the streets.

"Where'd that little blond bitch go?" A male voice yelled out, it came from the direction he was running from.

The blonde's head snapped up in surprise, he looked from the left to right, scanning the area for either one of them. All his worries came back to him, it was like having ice shoved down your shirt or falling into freezing cold water. All the air in his lungs escaped him and his breathing became erratic as he thought of which way to go. On impulse he ran up the street and that's when realized how much his ribs hurt. Being kicked while you're down can do that to you. The blonde decided to slow his running; he jogged all the way up to the end of the street. It was one of the main intersections, at the light across the street he saw two of the boys, he panicked, and he turned around and jogged back to where he started. Still hearing the other boy calling for the others. He placed his hands on his sides and took deep steadying breathes.

"Where the hell did he fuckin go?"

The blue eyed youth looked over to his right. It lead to ninety-fifth street, which is where the train tracks ran. He knew from experience not to go that way, so he looked to his only left option…the left…. towards a deep dark alley. He inwardly winced at the thought as he ran into it. Though he didn't go all the way to the back, he stopped halfway in and crouched down behind a pile of garbage cans.

'Please don't find me, please don't find me, please don't find me' he wrapped his arms around himself while clutching tightly. He closed his eyes shut and wished, hoped they would just walk by.

Not to long after his yelling a red head youth with bright emerald eyes stood in front of the alley, it only made sense to stop here, it was the intermediate way of both parties. He shoved his hands into his coat pockets and leaned against the brick wall. He sighed deeply as he looked to the side, waiting for the others to arrive. He be damned if he ran around looking for the blonde when the other four were quite capable. He smirked, it was a great plan! "Damn I'm a genius" he thought smugly.

A couple of seconds later two other boys came walking over, both tall with an intimating look to them. "Yo" he greeted as he gave a small smirk to the two. "I figure ya didn't catch blondie did ya?" The taller boy with the sweater cap on shook his head no, the other just looked off in the distance.

"You guys didn't find him either" a blonde female asked, walking over to them quickly, she came from behind the red head. The emerald eyed boy smirked at her too as he turned his head towards her.

"Naw, I think your ugly face scared him off" he started, looking the female up and down, his face cringed as he did, "And quite possibly the fact that a titless chick was chasing after him. That probably scared him away too, it sure as hell scares me." He laughed as the female blushed.

"Fuck you Reno." She hissed back vehemently, the red head gave a face of disgust towards the blonde female, putting his hands on his hips.

"Pssh, I wouldn't fuck you for a billion gil, Elena" She was about to retort but the presence of a certain blonde male stopped her. He walked over to the four leisurely, clad in a white coat, he had a very business like look to him and he walked over silently. "So nice of you to join us Ruffy" the blonde glared in Reno's direction.

"Rufus" he corrected to which Reno rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, yeah, but what are we gonna do? Neither one of us could find blondie" They all looked to Rufus, awaiting his answer.

"…" But Rufus was silent.

The red head waited. He looked to Elena.

"…" She blew into her hands and put them in her pockets, looking at the blonde male with a dreamy look of admiration on her face. Reno lurched silently, 'stupid bitch'´ he then looked to the other two men, wanting to see if they'd do something about this silly idea.

"…"

"…"

Nothing, much to his dismay, 'Even stupider tall guys' Reno took a deep breathe as he felt his anger raise. The silence was deafening and he just couldn't take it anymore.

"Aww! Come on Rufus lets go already it's cold!" he yelled, his arms failing into the air as he did. All heads, excluding Rufus's, turned to his direction.

"Shut up Reno!" Elena yelled back in Rufus's defense. "Can't you see Rufus is thinking, ever heard of it Reno? You should try and do it sometimes, then again I don't want you to hurt yourself that badly" She smirked.

Reno looked at her and rolled his eyes, "Fuck you Elena" he said back turning away from her as he walked over to the tall male with long black hair. "Tseng can we go now? Make Rufus leave blondie alone." Reno asked the tall raven haired boy. Tseng sighed, and stay silent like Rufus. Reno sighed with him and walked close to Tseng, he then interlaced their arms together and looked up at him. 'I guess I have to use my feminine wiles' he thought sadly as he look up to the man with big, sparkling, soft green eyes, "please?" he asked. The raven haired man looked down at where Reno touched him, he wrinkled his nose and took his arm back. Which made Reno lose his balance and while this happened Tseng decided to shoved Reno. The red head lost his footing and fell in the snow face first.

"No" was Tseng answer and it was all he said as Reno laid in the snow. Elena burst out laughing, at the sight. Reno got up on all fours and glared back at her, he gathered some snow in his hand and Elena laughing was still heard…until Reno threw a snow ball in her face. She paused in a moment of shock, soon wiping all the snow from her face.

"Grrr..Reno you inconsiderate, unintelligent asshole!" She yelled, Reno was now laughing his ass off.

The tall man with the sweater cap on his head held Elena back from attacking Reno, his arms interlocked under her arms.

"Let me go Rude!" she exclaimed, pulling and pushing against her restraints.

"No. I don't want him to be injured" he said simply.

Reno was laughing but at that he stopped, "Injure me..? Bull shit! She'd be the one who would get hurt Rude!" he yelled back, "Plus, she's only sticking up for Rufus because she wants to fuck him." He blurted out with no disregard. Elena again blushed, turning her head away from the group of boys.

"Shut up Reno" she whispered harshly.

Rufus who hadn't been paying any attention what so ever to his friends was looking at the ground contemplatively. 'This is fresh snow and just started to stick to the ground, no one comes this way except us or homeless people…plus these shoe prints look rather recent' he smiled to himself as he pieced together the puzzle.

"Rufus!!" They all called at once, His head jerked back up to attention as his name was shouted. He looked up from the ground to his friends, a deep scowl to his face and a angry glare in his eyes.

"What?" He asked through clenched teeth.

"Can we go now?" Elena now asked, with a flushed face. Rufus looked at her carefully.

"Why is your face so red, do you feel sick or something" he asked with a raised eye brow. Elena blushed more, Reno started to snicker and Tseng and Rude just shook their heads.

"No, no.." she said waving her hands in front of her face, shaking her head back and froth rapidly as she did so, "Its just that the uh…the cold…YEAH! The colds getting to me is all" she said quickly, nodding her head as she said the sentence. Rufus keep his gaze on her for a moment longer before nodding back to her.

"Rude, Tseng, take Elena home." He said shortly, looking to the other taller boys, they both nodded, allowing Elena to walk in front of them.

They walk off with no protest as they followed her lead. Reno, however, stood their looking at him furiously, he crossed his arms over his chest and tapped his foot. "And what about me?" he asked. Rufus looked over at him and grinned.

"Let's finish what we started" he answered back slowly as he walked his way into the direction of the alley.

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….There is nothing that you can compare this chapter with unless you read this story the first time, and if you did you can see how much BETTER this is. It was written rather well if I do say so myself. And to those who are like HEY!! It's short well DUH!! Its an introduction to a very long epic story. So don't leave just yet, read the next chapter and see if you'd like to stay for the ride. And sorry but no, Reno's feminine wiles won't show up again…well maybe.

Next time on Let it Snow

Rufus and Reno go after the elusive blonde, what will conspire when they meet?

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