Run by Petaldancer

CHAPTER 1:Silver River

Reno had a bad feeling. He had a really bad feeling. As he walked through the empty rooms of the Turk office, he wondered, just where did everyone go? The desks were empty, the papers were strewn across the floor, no one was seen. Strange, he just talked to Rude and Elena this very morning. As he thought back to what he did that morning, he gave a small snicker, despite the situation. This morning he was in the process of sneaking a rat in Tseng's coffee before Elena saw and screeched at him to throw the rat back into the street where it belonged. While Rude had just sat there and shook his head slowly before continuing back to his paperwork. Tseng had returned a little while later to fetch his coffee mug and instead of the rat, he found an even bigger rat in his coffee cup. Of course, afterwards Reno was chewed out while Rude sat back and said nothing, and Elena had a triumphant look on her face. After a little while's work he left the office and told them he would be back in a few hours to go hit some bars.

Anyways… back to what was happening here.

The red head creeped through the silent office, his mako-induced green eyes shining brightly as he pulled out his EMR and readied it for a battle. His training kicking in, he quietly used his cat like reflexes to slip around the corner. The lights were off, and for some odd reason, the switches didn't work. But that didn't really matter, he had enough mako in his system to enhance his sight anyways. As he snuck through the various hallways, he didn't meet anyone along the way, and he was starting to panic. Where were Rude, Elena, Tseng, all of the smaller staff employees? And most of all, where was Rufus?

A shuffle and a moan was heard. Suddenly on alert, his head perked up and followed the sound.

Reno quickened his pace and ended up facing a wooden door. This was Rufus's office, and the door was locked. The red head's feeling suddenly got a lot worse. What happened to the blonde? His mood suddenly desperate, he spontaneously decided that his sneaking could go to hell if his lover was in trouble. He stepped back a little and then kicked the door open, busting the lock, and giving a yell as he did it.

What he saw forever scarred his life.

Although even in Rufus's room, it was dark, moonlight bathed a lying figure on the ground. Illuminating the white suit and the silky hair, Rufus was lying in a puddle of blood with his eyes closed.

"Rufus!!" and Reno abandoned all caution as he rushed to his lover.

"Rufus…" he checked for breathing, and it was barely there. "Come on boss.. hang in there. Don't die on me yet, you asshole!"

Despite the situation, there was a small chuckle from the target of insult before coughing harshly. Spitting out blood.

"Re-…Reno..." and the Turk gave a little sigh in relief.

"I-… you shouldn't … be here."

"W-what?" The redhead exclaimed, confused.

"Run… Reno. They're dead. All of them…"

"...How?"

"they-" Rufus gave a choked cough, it shook through his body and into Reno's soul.

Then the blue iced orbs flickered open slightly and Rufus caressed his lover's face.

"Run."

"No! I won't run."

"Run"

"No I-"

"I said Run-" a shot echoed through the empty halls. And the hand that was on Reno's surprised face fell limp. Looking down, he saw another gaping wound in his boss.

"….run…" and Rufus closed his eyes a final time.

"Rufus..? Rufus! Come on! Wake up! I lo-" and another gun shot echoed through the hallways.

Reno jolted forward from the force of the bullet as it lodged itself in his stomach. He felt a sudden anger and adrenaline poured through his veins, his mako eyes glowed dangerously and he slowly turned around. A man wearing an assassin's suit with a gun in his hand was what he found. In a fit of rage he charged toward the man. So in reaction, the assassin shot his gun again hitting the redhead straight on, somehow, however, Reno continued to charge screaming. The assassin stepped back a little bit in fear as he looked into the face of the last Turk. Reno charged up his EMR to full velocity before ramming it straight into the man. Screams filled the building, and burning flesh could be smelled. The corpse dropped to the floor and the redhead turned away from it, carefully carrying Rufus's body with him, using his last strength he threw a chunk of metal at the large overseeing glass window and it broke even as the blood flowed freely from his wounds. Below them was a stream of mako that ran the hospitals and emergency shelters. Since the rest of Midgar had no more energy supply, they lived off of what they could. Reno looked down and gave a small sorrowful smile. The river of glowing blood looked strangely beautiful and welcoming. He peered down at the calm sleeping like face of his lover before stepping out of the window.

Plummeting to the silver stream below.

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He felt… warm. Strangely warm. There was no pain, only comfort as he floated on some strange cloud.

"Hm, well what do we have here," A feminine voice piped up.

"Sheesh, this idiot killed himself? What a wuss…" an annoying masculine voice commented

"Now now Zack, be nice."

"Yeah whatever Aeris."

Zack? Aeris? Isn't Zack that one SOLDIER guy? And that Aeris chick… the ancient? I… who am I anyways?

"I wonder where the other one is."

"He should be arriving soon."

"If he doesn't arrive soon, we won't be able to send him back."

What…? Send who back? Me? Where? Am… I'm dead right? Who…am I? What's my name? Why can't I… I don't remember it.

"Ah, here he comes."

"You know, you took your sweet time coming here…" Zack smirked

"I… met my mother along the way…" the other voice said hesitantly

"Ah, Serena was it? She's very nice." Said Aeris

"Yes…" a sigh came with the reply

"He's dead too?"

"Well, currently, yes…"

"Then why is he all…floating?"

"Ah well, it's not his time to go yet. He was being rash you see. After you made that dramatic exit, he decided to kill himself, jumped straight into the life stream actually. Gave us all quite a surprise."

"Sounds just like him" and the voice gave another sigh.

What's going on? Who killed himself? Are they talking about me, I wonder if they know who I am.

"So we'll have to send him back, which is why he's floating now. He's dead, but not truly, so therefore, only his mind can be here, while his body is still immobile."

"Hm. I guess that's understandable."

"Well it's time that we send him back now, would you please come here and place your hand on him?" and a hand gently cupped his face. Warmth traveled through his body at the touch and he fell into a sleepy haze.

"Wake up, Reno"

That's right… I'm Reno. Reno Kiribani. So… is this…

"Ru……fus?" he croaked out.

"…I thought you said he couldn't move here."

"His body is getting closer to death, you must hurry"

"Reno… yes, this is Rufus."

"Rufus…" he whispered

"Reno, you can't be here yet. There will be someone there that needs you soon. You'll need to help him. You'll need to learn and teach him. Here is your second chance, don't mess it up like you always do alright?" the blonde said kindly and in a joking manner.

"Rufus… I love you"

"I love you too, and I'll see you later okay? Bye Reno, good luck"

The warmth was suddenly pulled away and before he knew it. It was all gone.

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Hey peoples! My first FF7 fanfiction! Tell me what you think! give me some reviews! Some comments would be appreciated as well. If you can find any errors, please tell me! This Story will be a RenoxCloud pairing and smitten RenoxRufus pairing too. however, The main Pairing is RenoxCloud