A/N: Ok, so wow, it's almost been half a decade since I've posted anything in the ff7 fandom, not that I ever really stopped writing in it, just not as often as I did years ago. I'm trying to get back in the habit and make the words flow again, but my writing style has changed too much to keep in line with my other ficlet series, so here we are. Brand spanking new fic, ancient fandom, tons of fun. Enjoy~.

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Prompt: Heart-Shaped Sunglasses.

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"Everything all right Boss?" Reno asked, poking his head into the door of Tseng's office, a maniacal grin firmly in place as he waited for the dark haired male to look up and see what he was wearing in the place of his goggles. Predictably, as it was late in the day and there were always at least fifty things Tseng needed to do if he wanted to finish before it started getting dark, he made a sound that could pass as a positive response, waving a hand dismissively at Reno as he continued to focus on the screen of his computer.

Not to be deterred by Tseng's lack of response, Reno sidled further into the office, still grinning like a child who was about to dump something over their sibling's head and run off laughing. "Are you suurrrreee?" He drawled, settling himself down in the chair across from his favorite target and swinging his feet up so they were perched on the very edge of the desk, hands going to cradle the back of his neck as he leaned back as far as he could without falling. It was a surefire way to get Tseng to yell at him.

As soon as the heel of his boot touched wood, Tseng's gaze snapped to him like a snake striking its prey, lips curling back to yell something at him and then he froze mid-motion when he saw what Reno had on his head. It was as if someone had hit the pause button on life. Reno could practically see the words 'Does Not Compute' floating over his head. He grinned, tilting forward so he wouldn't take a spill if Tseng decided to push his feet off the desk.

They stared at each other in complete silence for a minute, highly amused green eyes meeting confused gold ones before they flicked back up to the object innocently perched on top of his head. "Reno," Tseng said slowly as if speaking to one of the soldiers or a small child, "What is that on your head?"

"Do you like it Boss?" Reno asked, as he slowly turned his head from side to side, so Tseng could see it from all angles. Grin still firmly in place, he reached up to adjust the angle so they'd catch the light better, but he used a little more force than necessary and they ended up sliding down over his eyes. Pretending he meant to do that, he continued on: "Rude got them special down at Wall Market, we got you a pair just like them." He said, winking like he didn't have a pair of ridiculously shaped, glitter-covered pink-tinted sunglasses over his eyes.

Tseng stared at him like he had lost what little sanity he had and signed his life away to Hojo. After a moment, he sighed, one hand rising to cover his eyes as he leaned back in his chair. "Reno." He said, again slowly, but this time it was more like he couldn't comprehend instead of expecting his audience not to be able to. "Why would I ever want a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses? What would I even do with them?"

Reno shrugged in response, grinning brightly enough to power a small town. "Dunno. Rude needed to buy a new pair 'cause some asshole broke his and I saw them and thought why not, yo? So I got one, then Rude found a pair he liked and since we didn't want to leave you out we picked out something for you too." By the time he finished speaking, Tseng was looking like someone had slapped him upside the head with a fish, well not exactly because Reno had done that once –on accident, he was aiming for Zack- and that expression was subtly different, but it was in the same emotion family.

"… You don't want 'em?" He said after a beat, grin instantly falling into a pout as he tilted his head to the side. As Tseng blinked, he pulled the pair he had bought for him –it should be noted that Rude had bought him a different, normal pair and was planning on presenting them after Reno had done his bit- and waggled them in front like a dog treat. Tseng glanced through his fingers at him, expression still set on 'the air vent just started spewing glitter, my desk is on fire and my computer is possessed by demons, what do I do?' even though it had been long enough for him to start processing. "C'mon, they're really cool looking. I mean, blue glitter and you can't go wrong with hearts."

Tseng groaned and immediately hid his eyes behind his hand again. "I think you need to have a very long talk with the company therapist." He said, pausing and then adding: "Please tell me you didn't spend the company's money on this."

"Nah." Reno announced, smirking because with this, he knew he had won and that Tseng was going to go home with a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses in his pocket tonight. "We emptied that asshole's pockets after we finished our business since he broke Rude's sunglasses and all. Only fair, yo." Another groan from Tseng, this time because no matter how long and hard he lectured that the Turks were not petty thieves and if they were going to steal, they should at least aim big, Reno still insisted on taking pocket change whenever he found the opportunity.

He watched Tseng through rose tinted glasses, patiently awaiting a response as he twirled the sunglasses around on a finger. Finally Tseng lifted the hand not covering his eyes and made a 'give them here' gesture with it. Eagerly, Reno leaned forward to place them in his hand, almost falling out of his chair in the process. As soon as they were firmly in Tseng's hand, he stood up, grinning like he had just successfully pulled off a prank in Sephiroth's line of sight and didn't get caught.

"Have a nice day Boss, hope you get home before the sun rises." With that last reminder that it was the end of the month and a whole stack of paperwork needed to be done before midnight, Reno walked out of the office whistling cheerfully. As the source of a little over half of the paperwork, he should have been working right alongside him, but a miracle had happened and he had everything he needed on file and turned in early this morning. Tseng suspected he had bribed one of the secretaries, but he couldn't prove it.

Meanwhile, he had an entire folder that had disappeared off the network, Sephiroth had somehow mangled his part of the reports, and Rude's computer had burst into flames earlier because he pressed the wrong sequence in while trying to access his files. All in all, it had been a horrible month and to top it all off, he now had a pair of glittery, heart-shaped sunglasses sitting on his desk, staring at him accusingly like they were still attached to the child Reno probably took them off of.

There were only a few times in recent memory that Tseng could recall hating his life more than he did right then.

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