This is my first FF fic so please be nice, and review. And just so you all know incase you didn't get it in the summary, this is totally AU, I mean it.
Ash swerved around the corner and into the parking garage of ShinRa and her bike came to a sudden stop just before she crashed into Rude's ride. She was going to be so late for the Turk meeting, damn Reno for changing the alarm on her PHS, when she saw him she was going to kill the boy. She just couldn't believe that ShinRa would actually allow a seventeen year old to be a Turk, well he was actually still a Turk in Training, a T.I.T but that was like being a Turk. She grabbed her weapon of choice from the side of her bike; it was a longer version of a souba sword called Kaname. Strapping it to her hip the brunette raced inside and stopped at the elevators, one had a ridiculously long queue waiting for it and the other was practically empty, if you didn't count the three SOLDIER 1st classes waiting to board. Not many people had the balls to get in an elevator with those three and to tell the truth, she wasn't sure she had the balls to do it either, but it was that, or be late for her meeting. Oh how she was going to enjoy killing Reno when she got a hold of him, the SOLDIERs were getting on and the doors would close in a few seconds. Letting out a small but very un-Turk like whimper she shot into the elevator just before the doors closed and somehow managed not to crash into the three men already in there.
The doors shut and Ash allowed herself to finally breathe, her chest was heaving, considering she had just run an entirety of two lengths of the ShinRa building. Crossing her arms over her chest with her back to the other three, she prayed that the SOLDIER floor would come up so that the three behind her could get off and leave her in her own misery. Alas that was not going to happen today.
Genesis and Sephiroth shot each other a sort of amused look when the girl practically slid into the elevator, and Angeal rolled his eyes at the two. It was clear that the girl was a Turk, and he had often seen her at the Vice President's side when he went out, and it was also clear that the girl was going to be very late for something, if her laboured breathing was anything to go by. The elevator stopped a few floors up and the girl let out a small sigh of relief, it was the SOLDIER floor, but the three 1st classes didn't move. Instead another SOLDIER was about to climb on but he stopped short when he saw the girl. "Ash?" he asked her in a rather amused tone, before joining the four in the confined space.
"Not a word Zachery." She growled at the 3rd class.
And Angeal raised an eyebrow, 'how does she know Zack?ยด he thought, it was common knowledge that SOLDIER and the Turks did not usually socialise.
"Ahh," Zack replied in a knowing tone, "Reno?" he asked, already knowing the answer.
Ash forgot her shyness and replied in a low aggravated voice, "I'm going to kill that little T.I.T."
And Zack burst out into laughter, "I'm sure he didn't mean it Ash."
"Didn't mean it my ass, that little turd is going to die a long, slow and painful death, mark my words, I'm getting that boy before the end of today."
"And how exactly would Tseng take you killing off one of his most promising Turks since you?"
"Screw what Tseng thinks, I'm now officially late for the meeting, which means that Reno is all on his own."
"Ash you know can't kill him; you'd lose all those amazing privileges that you get as a Turk." Zack replied, Angeal shot a questioning look at his student and Zack just waved it off.
"Oh fine," Ash pouted, "I'm still sending him to the hospital." Just as she said this the elevator stopped again, on a floor just a few levels below the Turk floor and there, lo and behold was Reno, trying to chat up a scientist. Ash stuck her arm out to stop the doors from closing and as they opened up she had an evil glint in her eye.
"Oh crap," Zack sighed, she was so going to hurt Reno.
"If you'll excuse me Zachery I have an idiot to take care of. Oh Reno!" she called, the red head turned and his eyes met hers, they widened almost comically and he turned and started to run, Ash of course ran after him, "Get back here, you ginger haired ass!"
Zack shook his head as the doors closed, and that's when Angeal rounded on him, because Zack had never kept anything from him before, Angeal was supposed to know everything about his student, and right now he didn't. "Since when you are friends with a Turk? Especially one that seems to be so..."
"Volatile," Genesis cut in, "It can't be good for you little Puppy, seeing as how you are very impressionable, I'm sure Angeal wouldn't want you to take on some of her finer traits."
"Genesis," Angeal scolded, "be nice, and that's not what I meant, what I meant was...uh-well I guess that was what I meant, but I would have said in a much nicer way." He looked at Zack.
"Ash and I have been friends forever, it's not my fault you never noticed, but then again, you don't really hang out in the cafeteria, or with me outside of ShinRa, so is it really that surprising I have friends?"
Angeal looked at him thoughtfully before answering, "No I guess it isn't, who's Reno? I've never seen him before."
"He's Tseng's new pet project," Sephiroth supplied, "Tseng found him in the slums, after the kid managed to pick his pocket, evidently Tseng thought that that was all that was required to be a Turk."
"That's hardly it, Tseng saw potential in him, he's a good kid, fun to hang around with too." Zack said. The Elevator dinged and the four of them stepped off of it onto the Turk's floor, "So what are we doing up here?"
A few hours later Ash sat at her desk that was covered in paperwork, "I swear Jess sometimes I think we're just glorified secretaries, you know what I mean?"
"Oh definitely, and have you noticed how it's always the girls that get the most paperwork?" Jess replied, she and Ash had been friends for almost as long Ash and Zack, the girls couldn't have been happier to know that they got into the same program at ShinRa when they went in for their training.
"You know what, come to think of it, I totally have. Hey Rude!" Ash yelled across the room, "How come you never have as much paperwork as us?"
"That's probably because he always does his on time," Tseng said walking past their desks to his own office, with an armful of files. He poked his head around his door and looked at Ash, "Actually, I'm still waiting for your report on Don Mariano, you and Elena went to see him yes?" when Ash nodded he continued, "It's been two months, I need that report on my desk by tomorrow."
"Yes sir."
"And one more thing, has anyone seen Reno?" At this point in time the four members of SOLDIER who she rode in the elevator with came walking out of the Vice-President's office and you could tell both Zack and Angeal had slowed down to hear what Ash had to say.
Stifling her laughter she glanced over at Zack and then at Jess, "Have you checked the ladies room sir? I have it on good authority that our lovely Vice-President dared him write his number on all of the bathroom stalls. You never know, maybe a girl caught him in there and decided to punish him..."
Jess couldn't help but giggle and blushed when she saw Angeal watching her, Rude rolled his eyes and Tseng sighed, "Jess, go and retrieve him, if I send Ash, he probably won't come back."
"No problem Tseng," she bit her lip and brushed past Angeal to go and get Reno.
"Ash, why was it you weren't at the meeting this morning?"
"I'm not gonna lie to you sir, I got attacked by a group of drunk Wutain warriors that really needed Kaname for some...dark...evil ritual...like they usually do...?"
Sighing again Tseng moved back into his office and Zack laughed, "Don't you think it would have been better to tell him the truth."
"Oh yeah cus that's soooo much better, tell my boss that I overslept because last night when I was dropping Reno off back at his apartment he turned off the alarm I set on my PHS, like he's gonna believe that."
"More so than your other excuse," Tseng called from his office, "get back to work!"
"Yes sir!" Ash called back grinning at Zack.
"Right I should probably leave you now, but um, how about you join us for lunch in SOLDIER's mess hall? I have some very important news to tell you."
"Who's us?"
"Me and these guys of course!" he gestured to his mentor and his friends.
"Oh um..." she looked up and caught Genesis's amused gaze, "I don't really- um I promised I'd have lunch with Jess today."
"Bring her with you, the more the merrier I say. I'll see you then okay? Great!" and without waiting for an answer, Zack left the floor. With the other 1st classes following him.
