-1"Wha…what the hell happened?" Reno asked in a hoarse voice. Still lying down, he placed his hand on his forehead, slightly covering his eyes. Dull aches and pains pulsed throughout his entire body. Cloud stood up from the bed and started towards the door, holding all of the medical supplies in one arm.
"You tell me. I just fished your battered body out of the street." He said picking a remote control up from a nightstand and turning on the small TV in a corner. "I'll be right back. Don't you move, got that?" The Turk responded with a quiet 'meh' as Cloud walked out of the room. Reno tried tuning out the TV until, he heard the two most devastating words of his life…
"Dead Turks."
The red head shot straight up. Searing pain coursed through his body. He tried his hardest to disregard it as he flung himself off of the bed, landing onto the wooden floor in a loud and excruciating "Thud!!" Reno winced at the throbbing and ghastly stings stirring within his, now frail, form.
'N-no…no…they…they can't…' He tried his hardest to inch towards the TV. The news reporter explained about a recent mass slaughter of the Shin-Ra Company and their special forces, the Turks. Tears began to well up in his sapphire eyes.
"Reno!! What the hell!?" Cloud's voice rang. He rushed to Reno's side and scooped him up. "What where you th-" Cloud looked at the TV then the broken red head in his arms. After pressing the power on the TV, Cloud put his arms around Reno once again. "Reno, are you…" His voice was soft. Reno put his forehead to the fair-haired man's shoulder and wept.
"What happened, why…" He whimpered, pressing onto Cloud. The once strong Turk was now in the arms of his ex-enemy, defeated and crying. "They where all I had. My…my only family…dead…" Reno sobbed. "What the fuck happened!?" He screamed grabbing onto Clouds fitted shirt. There was a brutal pain in his broken fingers. Neglecting that, Reno clenched harder. Reno wouldn't let go so, Cloud just sat there with the fiery haired man in his lap. "Who did it ,Cloud, who would-" Reno was cut off.
"Reno, I…I know…this…" Cloud lifted Reno's chin gently with two fingers. Mako met sapphire. "feeling…" He spoke in a sympathetic tone. "Like…it was all your fault…but, I learned, it's not. Things happen that you can't control and there's nothing you can do about it." Cloud paused for a moment, and then continued. "I lost…two people…I really loved and, I miss them dearly. I blamed myself, hated myself for their deaths. I shut out the world and that got me nowhere but, I took 'her' advice…and just let go."
"…Cloud…" Reno stared into the deep blue of Cloud's eyes. The blonde's hand at Reno's chin shifted to brush tenderly along his jaw line. Even bruised, there was a hint of pink in the cherry-hair's pale skin. As cool as Cloud always was, his body seemed to heat up on contact with Reno's. Subconsciously, Cloud's face began to slowly drift…closer…and closer…to Reno's until, their lips brushed softly against each other. He awaited a horrific response from Reno, a shove and outraged, offended howling from the Turk. Instead the flaxen swordsman felt Reno's tongue grazing his bottom lip. Cloud willingly parted his lips to let Reno in.
"Cloud!!!!!" The voices of two children shouted happily. The bedroom door burst open and in run Denzel and Marlene.
(A/N: I hope you enjoyed it. I had trouble thinking about how I should do their first kiss. I like it and I hope you do too. :sighs: I had some troubles with it and I finally finished the chappie!! Stay alert for no. 4!!)
