Foreword

This is my first ever fanfic and was previously titled 'Playing deep inside my Dreams'. However I decided to change the name after returning many months later and realising that… well it's just rather sucky title to be honest.

Anyway, I started writing this because I just came over all creative(ish) one day and decided I wanted to try writing a fanfic of some kind. Unfortunately though I only got as far as deciding that it would include Reno & Yuffie and that they would end up in FFX/X2's Spira since I've not seen that yet... so yea ... um... I'll basically be making this up as I go. XP

- YDE a.k.a Rini

P.S Many apologies if I don't get the character's personalities right.

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Summary: Strange disappearances have been reported, and after being partnered by Cloud and sent to investigate, Yuffie and Reno find themselves trapped in a whole new world. One called Spira.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Final Fantasy. I'm just some random fanfic writer who seriously wishes she did.

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The Thunder in my Heart

Chapter 1: A New Mission

"Hoi...get up!"

Lilac eyes opening slightly, before blinking shut almost instantly as rays of light entered her sleepy orbs, Yuffie groaned, mumbling something inaudible as she attempted to bury her head under the covers in order to black out the annoying sun and to drown out the voice of whoever was trying to wake her from her peaceful slumber. It had been so long since she'd slept in a bed, and now someone was trying to force her out of it, it was to unfair! ... Or at least she thought it was a bed, the surface was softer than the ground that was for sure and she could definitely feel something around her shoulders, however, another part of her brain, the one that was slowly piercing her tired, jumbled memory together, was disagreeing and telling her she'd just fallen from somewhere. And that somewhere had been high up.

"...G' way"

Sighing loudly and ignoring the pain at the back of his head as well as the thoughts that begged him to lay back and rest his eyes if only for a moment, Reno pushed himself up, causing the young shinobi that was laying on top of him to roll onto the floor, where she immediately began to sit up one hand clutching his torn jacket whilst the other rubbed her eyes softly, muttering silent protests at being awoken so rudely.

"Geez, what am I a mattress..." Getting to his feet Reno leant against the wall for a second as a wave of dizziness hit him before finding his balance once more and looking around him for the first time. Then pulling a face, he looked down at Yuffie. "...Great work! You really did it this time Kiddo..."

Hand hovering centimeters in front of her face, Yuffie looked up at him in confusion as he continued speaking before looking around, her eyes suddenly opening slowly as realization dawned upon her. A mission, a cliff, a flying monster, falling... something gripping her arm?

"...and I know i said don't do nothing fancy, cus I was right there when i said it!"

"What? This is my fault...!" Getting to her feet Yuffie stood in front of him and looked up into his face, her voice rising as she poked a finger into his chest. "...Your the one who suggested we go the hard way to avoid detection!"

"Well I did'nt say anything about committing suicide!" Slapping her hand away roughly, Reno stared back at her with equally cold eyes.

"Well what did you expect me to do? Let the stupid thing peck my head off!"

"No, but i did'nt expect you to jump on it and try to ride it either...Stupid thing to do, when you think of how much of an idiot are in the first place?"

"What did you say turkey!..." She replied angrily her hand hovering dangerously over one of the shruikens in her belt as she stood on tip toes, her face centimeters from his.

"- Guys! -"

"What?" Yelling in unison they both stood still for a moment in embarrassed silence staring at each other before both making a hasty move for the PMS that lay on the ground a few feet away, and after a brief struggle as Reno got his hands around it first, he pushed the young ninja away and lifted it to his ear.

"Yo...Reno here"

"- Your signals disappeared, where are you? Is Yuffie okay? What happened? -"

"Don't worry i'm fine... She just dragged me down a million mile high cliff with her when she decided to try attack a harmless bird..."

"LIAR! The stupid thing tried to eat my head off!..." Waving a hand to signal Yuffie to shut up, Reno turned his back on her as he listened to the instructions Cloud gave him but that he did'nt plan to follow.

Frowning, Yuffie got to her feet for a second time and rubbed her damp behind. What had she ever done to that stupid spiky headed Blondie to deserve this! Why couldn't he have partnered her with Tifa or Barret... Hell even Vincent's cryptic talk would have been better than this. But oh no. He just had to put her with Reno of all people! Reno: The friggin definition of Stupid!

"Roger..." Turning around Reno threw the PMS towards her, and caught off guard it rebounded off the side of her hand, which she'd just managed to raise in time to prevent it from hitting her face, and landed with a clatter on the ground.

"What the hell did you do that for? It nearly hit me!"

"Well you should have caught it then you stupid brat"

"If you want me to kick your ass your going the right way about it"

Smiling in slight amusement Reno barged past her, and without thinking twice headed towards a sunlit gap in the wall. "Let's just go... the sooner we finish the better..."

"Finally we agree on something..." Retrieving the PMS, Yuffie tapped it a couple of times to check it hadn't broken before standing up and running to catch up with the crimson haired turk.

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"Where?"

"The Northern Caves..."

Looking at a worried Tifa then at Barret, Cloud glanced at the remaining ex-members of Avalanche one by one before focusing his attention back to Rufus, the president of Shinra himself.

"How do we know Shinra isn't behind all this in the first place?"

"If that were so then i would not have asked for your help"

"Unless it was a trap"

"We have been through this, if it were not for them being on another mission in the first place, I would have already assigned the Turks to look into it already"

"Then what the hell's he doing here?"

As Barret voiced everyone's thoughts he nodded in Reno's direction that was standing a short distance behind Rufus, and turning his head to one side in a bored fashion the red head sighed in annoyance as he mumbled something about 'babysitting'.

"Reno will be working with you and keeping me up to date on what is going on throughout the investigation..." Moving his gaze away from the man in question Rufus looked at Cloud. "I realize you may not like this arrangement however he will ..."

"It's fine... As long as he doesn't get in the way..."

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It was only after they'd both passed through the small gap in the wall and out into the light that they realized there was no way the suns rays should have been able reach into a cave over 200 feet below ground level and staring around them in horror Yuffie blinked a couple of times as her eyes adjusted to the sudden brightness.

"Okay... Where The HELL are we!"

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Authors Notes:
The first chapter is complete! Zoot! Hopefully it's not too bad. Please Review.