Reneo and Yuffiet
Heeheee, so...this is my quick fic I decided to write along the side of my other fics, it came to me when riding home from tea at McDonalds. (I have the worst habit of starting new stories while others are half done) as you can tell the stars of this fic are Cloud and Tifa...nahhh just kidding. Well, ive blabbered again, lets get started.
Two groups, both alike in dignity.
In noxious Midgar where we lay our scene.
From ancient grudges break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their leaders Strife
The fearful passage of their leaders rage
Which, nought but the youthful end nought could remove
Is now the two hours traffic of our stage.
The which if you with patient eyes attend
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Midgar was a terrible place to live in. Rain did not fall often and so did not clean the air of the noxious fumes which threatened to choke every inhabitant of the city. When rain did fall it wasn't much better, down in the slums the rain consisted of mainly sludge, mud and a murky brown liquid which stuck to the floors and walls, refusing to move for several days. The city itself was overpopulated, thousands upon thousands fought for a place to call their home in this overcrowded wasteland. Fights broke out amongst the poverty stricken over food or money, fighting for survival. These fights were petty and once it was over and the victor was still standing, it was over.
It wasn't the best of places to live in, everyone was afraid of being mugged in some alley somewhere or having the loaf of bread they had worked hard all day for stolen. That wasn't the worst part of living in Midgar. No. the worst part was the company feuds. AVALANCHE and ShinRa had long fought it out over domination of Midgar. Led by Cloud Strife AVALANCHE went about their business blowing up reactors whenever possible and basically exploding whatever they wanted. ShinRa on the other hand, had the best fighters to do their work. The Turks. Led by Tseng they kidnapped and massacred anyone thought to be on AVALANCHES side.
At the moment Elena and Rufus were driving down the dirty streets of sector 4 looking for anyone to toy with for a bit.
"I'm bored," Rufus whined behind the wheel. Elena fingered the gun in her holster, eyes peeled for any AVALANCHE activity. She was supposed to be bodyguarding the Vice President and had to protect him at all costs.
"We cant get into any trouble Rufus you know that." She warned him. Rufus had dearly wanted to be in a company brawl since the infamous fight of Reno and Rude vs Cloud and Cid. He grinned at Elena.
"I don't want to fight, 'Lena, I just want to have a little fun. If they don't get in my way, I wont get in theirs." Elena sighed as he continued, "but if they do get in my way, I'll show them not to mess with ShinRa." He stopped his threats and studied the blinky light behind the wheel indicating that they were out of petrol. He slowed the car down to a stop at the side of the road near a café.
"Oh F&?!." Elena swore. She climbed out of the Black mercedes and opened the boot to get a petrol canister. She started the process of refuelling the tank while Rufus tapped out a tune on the wheel humming quietly.
His humming and tapping stopped as he spotted three people walk out of the café. Barret Wallace, Cid Highwind and Tifa Lockhart. They noticed the black car parked in front of them and immediatley Barret started shouting curses. Tifa placed her hand on his arm to calm him and he stopped yelling and just scowled. The began walking past but Rufus had a better idea. He gave Barret the finger.
Barret glared. He stopped walking and refused to move even when Tifa pushed him slightly.
"Did you stick you finger up at me?!" he demanded. Rufus panicked slightly, Barret looked pissed.
"I do stick my finger up." Barret glared even more and Cid joined him. The cigerette burning up dangling off his lips.
"Do you stick your finger up at ME sir." He said the title mockingly and Rufus frowned. He glanced at Elena who had stopped filling up the tank and was watching cautiously.
"Would it be bad if I said yeh?" he asked her quietly. Elena placed the canister on the floor, not bothering to put the lid on for the moment. She edged over to Rufus and whispered.
"Yeh, it would be bad." Barret looked as though he was about to explode, he still hadnt had an answer. Rufus swallowed.
"I do not stick my finger up at you sir but I do stick my finger up." He also used the title mockingly for it was well known that Barret resented Cloud's leadership.
The last comment was too much for Barret to bear. He exploded and cocked the gun on his arm. He aimed it at the Vice President but Elena was quicker. She began potting shots at Barret purposefully not hitting him. Rufus though, was trying his hardest to hit the man whilst dodging the bullets aimed for him Tifa had jumped into the fight and was occupying Elena's time. Elena dodged one kick after another. She jumped back to avoid another punch and accidently knocked over the canister. Petrol leaked all over the side of the road but it was forgotten in the madness. Cid looked pretty gutted that he was the only one without a weapon so he decided to pin Elena.
He leapt over the parked car and dodged behind the blonde Turk who was madly trying to avoid the rapid attacks coming her way. Elena ducked a punch and headbutted Tifa in the stomach at the exact same moment Cid lunged to pin her arms. He lost his balance and the cigeratte that was dangling precariously in his mouth lost its grip and plunged to the pertrolled floor below.
Realising what he had done Cid jumped up and grabbed Tifa's arm and pull her away before it set alight.Elena caught on what was happening and began to panick when the flames arose. it burned a steady path along the petrol over to the car. Rufus and Barret were still jumping around, firing shots at each other. Rufus was too close to the car Elena realised with a shock. She took off running in his direction and leapt the final distance. Catching the VP around the waist she pushed them to the floor as the flames reached under the car. It exploded with a blast and a flurry of flying shrapnel.
Elena had her arms covering her head and Rufus had likewise. He recovered first and shoved the blonde off his back. Looking around he saw the black gunner running at him through the flames. Elena knew he was going to get hurt so she decided she had to get him away. Wrapping her arm around his waist again she heaved the Blonde lad off the pavement and catching a bullet in her arm. Elena yelled with shock and dropped the protesting Rufus. He dived to the side and began his gun fight with Barret again.
Elena barely had time to recover again when another flurry of kicks and punches landed on her back. She turned around and kicked up at the attacker, hitting her in the midriff. Tifa sucked in breath and stepped back a tiny bit, allowing Elena to rise to her feet. She looked around anxiously for Rufus but couldn't see him anyway. By this time the occupants of the café had left the building and were trying to escape the inferno. Cars had stopped further down the road, unwilling to drive through the mini war zone thus creating a big standstill.
Tifa caught her breath again and realised fighting in the smoke was futile. She grabbed Cid by the arm and ran off. Elena frantically searched through the fire for Rufus but all she could hear was gun shots and curses. Running blindly she headed for the shotgun sounding firing hoping she wouldn't get shot again.
Reeve received a phone call in his office at around two o clock. Another fight had broken out in sector 4. Two ShinRa's and three AVALANCHE by the sounds of things. This was bad. An inferno had risen and he didn't think he had the resources to cope with it. Traffic was heavy and ever increasing, at the moment there were no casualties but that could change in a matter of seconds. He called his secretary and demanded a helicopter on the helipad stat.
Rufus leapt away from another bullet heading his way. He was rapidly running out of shotgun shells and didn't know how many Barret had. Ducking as another headed his way Rufus reloaded and ran left firing in front of him. He stopped short as he choked on his air. It wasn't air he quickly realised, it was fire fumes. He had to get out of there. Forgetting Barret for a moment he covered his mouth with the arm of his white trench coat and ran. He came to an area where he could breathe. Turning around he came face to face with the barrel of a gun.
A gun arm to be more precise. Barrets gun arm. Rufus didn't have enough time to load his shotgun. Barret leered at Rufus' emotionless face. A click of a gun being cocked stopped his joy short. Rufus looked to Barrets right and saw a pistol pressed against the side of his head the hand holding it being Elena's. None could move for fear of being shot or of someone else being shot. They stood like that for a few minutes glaring at each other. Rufus slowly hid his shotgun under his now gray trenchcoat and placed his last shell in it. Barret didn't seem to have noticed but Tifa who had just appeared from the smoke had. She grabbed a sharp piece of car metal off the floor and stuck it infront of Elena's neck. Rufus pointed the shotgun at Tifa and the predicament grew worse.
The sound of whirring blades brought the foursome out of the glaring match. A helicopter landed a short distance away and Reeve climbed out. He stormed over to the four who reluctantly lowered their weapons. Several police cars and fire engines pulled up and set to work diverting traffic, calming civillians and putting out the fire.
"Thrice have you people disturbed the quiet of our streets!" he shouted. Rufus smirked then whispered to Elena.
"He obviously hasn't lived down here if it is "Quiet"" Elena shushed him for fear of getting into more trouble. A ShinRa news crew stood to the side recording everything. Reeve turned around to the crowd outside the café. They looked afraid. He turned and stared at the four culprits then declared.
"If ever you disturb the peace again, your lives will be forfeit.Am. I. Understood?!" Rufus, Elena, Barret and Tifa nodded sullenly. They broke up and walked away. Rufus and Elena to Tsengs car who had just pulled up. Barret and Tifa to go find their friend Cid. It seemed he hadn't escaped from the smoke in time and had collapsed.
In the car Tseng looked at the youngsters sternly. They both looked guilty. How had Elena let Rufus get into that situation. If he had gotten injured he would have had hell to pay with President ShinRa. For a second he was glad Reno hadnt come into work today. If he had been involved it would have been much worse. Come to think of it he still had to reprimand Reno for not turning up.
"Have any of you seen Reno lately?" he asked. Elena looked worried.
"yeh, I saw him last night, drinking like the world would end." Tseng looked thoughtful for a second. Why had Reno become so depressed lately? He told the driver to go to Reno's apartment. They drove the rest of the way in silence.
Once there Tseng told Elena to go see Reno and find out what was up. He only ever opened up to Elena or Rude because they were the only people he ever trusted. Rufus made to get out but Tseng grabbed him by the back of the shirt and pulled him back in.
"Your not going anywhere matey, what with that fight you caused today." Rufus whined.
"How did you know I started it?" Tseng smiled and shut the door, bading the driver to head back to headquarters.
Elena watched the car pull away. She walked up the stairs leading to Reno's apartment and knocked on the door. No answer. She knocked louder then realised if he didn't answer first time he wasn't going to answer at all. Bracing her shoulder she barged into the door with her uninjured side. The door opened with a crash and she got a good look at Reno's front room.
It was more of a mess than she'd ever seen it. Bottles of empty beer lay scattered around the room, littered among the carpet of ciggerette packets. Dozens of cigerette butts sprawled out over the ashtray and wooden table. Clothes hung over everything and she really didn't want to know what that mouldy thing hanging off the light was. She pushed and fought her way through the wasteland of Reno's filth and headed over to the bedroom. It wasn't much better, though this room contained a lot more clothes everywhere than the front room. On the bed she saw a big lump concealed under the covers and makeshift cover of a large hoodie. She tip toed over and poked it. It growled and turned over. She poked harder and it woke up.
"Ugh leave me alone." He mumbled. Elena grinned.
"Come on sleeping ugly, you have to go to work." The covers were flung off him in the blink of an eye revealing a very dishevelled Reno wearing just his boxers. Elena blushed but she'd seen him like this many a time before.
"Aw, shit Rufus duty." Reno climbed over to the end of the bed and began foraging for his suit. He obviously wasn't fully awake because he hadnt noticed Elena yet, she left him to get dressed and walked over to what could be distinguished as a kitchen. It was manky. Half eaten pizzas and more beer bottles strewn over the worktop and lo and behold more clothes dangling off the ceiling fan. Why did he buy all the stuff? She rarely saw him wearing anything other than the blue suit. Elena opened the fridge door and grabbed two bottles of beer, Reno would definitely be needing one.
She went over to the front room and shoved the pile of clothes off the couch and sat down. Reno emerged from his bedroom and sat next to her.
"Mornin' 'Lena" he mumbled as she handed him the beer. Elena laughed then looked at her watch.
"Reno, Its four o clock." She told him. He jumped up into the air spilling the beer on the couch.
"Shit!! Tseng is gonna kill my ass." He stumbled around the room looking for his boots. Elena laughed.
"Relax, he isnt too bothered." Reno stopped and looked at Elena for the first time. He saw the blood stain on her arm.
"wha' happened?" he asked pointing to her arm, Elena looked then winced as it tore, the adrenaline was wearing off and she could feel the pain. Reno went into his bedroom then reapeared with a cure materia. Whispering some words a green aura enveloped Elenas arm and the bullet fell out as it healed up. He sat back down as Elena thanked him.
"So go on, what happened?" he asked. Elena looked down for a moment then looked pretty guilty.
"Umm, since you didn't turn up today Tseng asked me to guard Rufus, he decided he wanted to go to sector four for something then the stupid car ran out of petrol. Some of the AVALANCHE goons came out of a café nearby and Ruf thought it would be fun to stick his finger up at the gun guy. I swear your having a really bad influence on him. Well, stuff happened, that chain smoking guy set fire to the petrol canister and the car went up in flames." Reno looked furious, he sat up straight and began spluttering some curses. "It wasn't your car. It was Rufus'" Reno relaxed and calmed down. "so, they kicked off and I was fightin' that Tifa chick, the one Rude likes. Rufus had a gun fight with Wallace, I'm surprised hes not dead. Then pilot boy decided to help Tifa. I lost sight of Rufus and when Tifa took off I went to find him. He was stood in the open with Barrets gun pointed at his head. I quickly loaded mine and pointed it at Barrets. Then the bitch Tifa came and shoved some car scrap on my neck while Ruf pointed his shotgun at her." Reno snorted, only Elena and Rufus could get into that mess. Elena continued. "Well Reeve the stress head came and gave us all a telling off sayin if we do it again we'r gonna get deaded." Elena finished her story as Reno finished his beer off. /Jesus he drinks fast/ she thought. Then she remembered why she was here. "'Sup with you anyway?" she asked. Reno looked down.
"I dunno, just been turned down by this really fit bird. Kinda depressin." Elena laughed, That was why Reno had been drinking so much lately? Must have been some girl to get Reno like this.
"So who is it?" She asked. Reno grinned, the first time in a while,
"That would be telling though wouldn't it." He said teasingly. Elena scowled.
"Yeh, that's why I asked, so you would tell me." Reno stretched, he headed off to the kitchen to get another beer. He returned with two and dropped one onto the table before casually dropping to the couch.
"welll..... she's really cute." He started. Elena grinned.
"Ok, so shes a girl." Reno glared.
"I'm not gay!" he said voice rising a bit. Elena laughed.
"Go on, who is she. I promise I wont tell anyone that ladies man Reno got turned down by some girl." Reno looked at the floor he took a swig of his beer and looked at Elena.
"ok, ok well, she's part of AVALANCHE." Elena stopped grinning. AVALANCHE??? It was bad enough one of their own had joined with AVALANCHE but Reno liked one of them?!
"who?" She was really curious.
"That Aeris chick, the one with the plaits." Reno grinned, boy was that girl cute. Elena looked shocked but brushed it off.
"You asked her out?" she asked. Reno looked sad again.
"well kinda, but she is soo hooked up on Strife she payed no attention to me." Elena began formulating a plan. Reno was never this sullen, she needed him to find someone else. An idea struck her. Avalanche were having a Birthday party for their youngest member, that ninja in a few days. There were be loads of girls there for Reno to see. They were going to go. Now for an invitation...
Ok, sorry if any of the characters seem a little OOC and for this fic Aeris isnt dead, neither is Tseng or Rufus for that matter. I guess it's a little AU. Well review for me please and tell me what you think.