Let it rain I have you

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1

What has to be done

Cloud was staring out the window, when something hit the side of his face. Cloud stared at the object with disinterest. Just another note. His classmates had been throwing them at him all day. Without a glance at the contents he blew it off the table onto the floor with the rest of trash he had been receiving, before turning back to the window.

He rested his head on arms on the desk. Gazing out the window he noticed one of the drills sargents yelling at two students, that Cloud assumed, had skipped his class. Again.

He wasn't sure who the girl was, but the guy beside her was his room mate. Reno will you ever learn...He smiled. That idiot was always getting into trouble, Cloud was surprised he was still in school the way he behaved.

Cloud turned back to his notes. There on the table was a small bit of scrunched up paper. Damn not another one. He stared at it for a while. But it soon joined the rest of it's friends on the floor beside Cloud's desk.

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By the last class finally ended, Cloud breathed a heavy sigh of relief, leaving the class as fast as humanly possible.

Today was Friday, and for that Cloud was grateful. Every other day of the week he was usually cornered and had to stumble back to his room with a bloody nose or a painful injury of some sort and hope to hell no one saw him (especially a 1st or 2nd ) because in all honesty, he didn't have a clue what to tell them.

But Friday was a blessing. As classes didn't start until noon on Saturday, so every one went out into city to road test fake ids or to hang around the clubs until they closed at some ridiculously early hour in the morning. And this Cloud loved most, one they won't beat him up, and two by the next morning they were too hung over to come to training or lunch.

He walked cautiously down the empty hall. Even though he knew they weren't there, he was still insecure. Thoughts kept sprouting up in his mind like; 'what if they came back up to collect something and see me?' or 'what if they skipped out on it this week?'. But he reminded himself quickly that they wouldn't miss out on drinking and even if they forgot a wallet or something they wouldn't realise until later, after all the lot of them were laking some what in the intelligence department.

As soon as Cloud closed the door he dropped his bag swayed acrosss the room and glanced at Reno before falling face first into his bed.

"Another one of those days huh?"

Cloud just turned his face to look at Reno who walked across the room and sat down beside him. Cloud got up and moved so he was sitting shoulder to shoulder with Reno. Reno pulled Cloud closer to him in a warm embrace. He began to stoke his friend's back slowly.....

....until Cloud flinched, a pain expression spread across the blond's features and he withdrew his hand to look at Cloud who turned his face away.

"Cloud what happened?" Grasping Cloud's chin and pulling it to gain his eye contact so he could tell if the boy was being completely honest.

Cloud hesitated before answering. "...My sparing partner wasn't happy with the out come of our fight and chased me down after class and repaid me for the defeat."

Reno sighed, it wasn't the first time. "Alright then, lets see it."

Reluctantly Cloud removed his shirt revealing a still damp blood soaked t-shirt underneath. After quickly ridding Cloud of the said shirt, Reno's eyes darted from the wound to Cloud who had turned away and was currently staring at the inside of his eyelids.

He sighed getting up and yanking a spare shirt from his bed side drawer and exiting the room momentarily before returning with the now wet t-shirt.

He asked Cloud to lay on and once he had done so, placed the wet material on Cloud's back receiving a grunt of pain from the cadet.

After a few minutes Reno gave up trying to clear the blood because it wasn't working and he didn't like hurting Cloud. It was just too bad that one of the 1sts had confiscated the piece of materia he normally used to heal Cloud during a room inspection a couple of days previous.

"Cloud this isn't working, I'll have to take you down to see one higher ups..."

Cloud paled grabbing Reno, "No! Reno you can't, please-"

"If there was something else I could do I would do it but there isn't Cloud, I'm sorry..."

Reno held Cloud while he cried. Then, laying him back down the bed he left the room.

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