Hell's Nuances

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Partners in Crime

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Time seemed to freeze as the two stood rooted to the spots that they occupied for the past minute. 'Oh this is simply wonderful.' was the only thing running through Reno's head. 'Of all people it had to be the loud-mouthed brat that I run into.' He groaned and averted his gaze to the ground with an exageratedly pained expression on his face. Yuffie rolled her eyes at the gesture.

"I am going to pretend like we did not meet." she said with a smirk on her face, leaning closer to the jaded Turk. "Because I don't want my reputation ruined by hanging out with criminals." Reno growled and stuck out his tongue childishly.

"And you think that meeting a snotty princess just makes my day?" he asked sarcastically, as Yuffie's face lit up with a smile.

"Of course it does." she answered cheerily with a feral grin. Reno regarded her coolly for a moment and then—

"You have a spider on your head." he said casually, folding his arms over his chest. Yuffie snorted.

"No better comeback, eh Turkey?" she asked teasingly with her arms automatically flying to her hips. Reno stood there for a moment longer, again regarding her silently.

"There is a spider on your head." he repeated, this time betraying his amusement with the whole situation. Yuffie huffed, now getting agitated. She ran her fingers through her hair—

"See there is nothi..." she froze as her fingers collided with something solid. Something solid that was not her hair band. She smiled nervously, almost afraid to move her hand. "I have a spider on my head don't I?" she asked Reno, who was having a hell of a time keeping his expression neutral.

"Took you long enough, brat." The smirk that was slowly forming on his face was finally noticed by Yuffie. She forgot about the spider for a second and rounded on the red-head.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Reno made a tsk sound.

"Oh but I did. You just apparently have trouble hearing...or listening..." He pulled up one of his hands to tap his chin thoughtfully. "Maybe you have ADHD; ever thought of getting that checked out?" Yuffie gasped as the spider, apparently tired of being ignored, started moving. Reno saw everything in slow motion: the sharp in-take of breath, the distressed expression, and the tragedy that was bound to happen. Before he knew it, an ear splitting scream was heard from the petite girl in front of him. He winced at the sound almost bordering on ultra-violet while covering his ears as best he could. 'FUCK! All that was missing was a busted ear drum.' He thought bitterly.

"Get it off, get it off, get it off!" Reno couldn't take it anymore. He grabbed one of her arms that was searching for the spider on her head, and pulled it down forcefully. He then proceeded to fish out the damn tarantula-look alike thing from her hair. He grabbed the damn spider and chucked it as far away from the shaking Yuffie as he possibly could.

Once he saw that the spider was a safe distance away from them he wheeled back on Yuffie.

"What do you think you are doing?" he whispered harshly. "As you have mentioned you are standing next to a fucking criminal! Do you want to alert all the cops in the surrounding area of this fun fact?" He glared daggers at her, as she huffily pulled her wrist out of his death grip. She opened her mouth to reply, but was cut off by another male voice from the duo's left.

"Is everything alright?" Two guards, dressed in blue uniforms, were standing next to the entrance of the train station. The two cops seemed to have come out for a smoke from the inside of the station, seeing as Reno and Yuffie were situated in the outside section. Reno snorted bitterly. 'Brings me back to my earlier statement. Cops don't do shit for society. The damn girl was screaming her head off not too long ago and they leisurely strode in and ask if there's a problem! Sorry ladies, if you're getting raped you're screwed...literally.' he thought sarcastically as he rolled his eyes at the two 'blue' guys.

Yuffie seemed to have been thinking along the same line because the next thing Reno knew he saw her come up to the two guards and start screeching at the top of her lungs.

"Is everything alright? IS EVERYTHING ALLRIGHT?" she mocked them. Reno shook his head with a helpless look. He shrugged his shoulders, making sure to get the massage across that he couldn't control the crazy teenager. "I could have been raped, I could have been killed, I could have molested, I could have been mugged. I was screaming at the top of my lungs for Chrissake; and you waltz to the scene and ask me if everything is alright?" She let out an exasperated growl and turned away from them with 'death' written all over her face. She walked up to Reno and started pushing him in the direction opposite of where the two cops stood with bewildered, if not flat out frightened, expressions on their faces.

"Get your Turkey ass moving." She said, while Reno was barely able to keep his balance after a rather violent push. Unfortunately for Reno and Yuffie, however, she pushed him right into the street light that illuminated the Turk from head to foot. She didn't pay attention to it, but Reno sure as hell did. Upon noticing who this red-headed companion of the ninja was, the two cups drew in jagged breaths and automatically took out their weapons, assuming a defensive stance. 'Not again.' Reno groaned inwardly at what he was sure was about to come. And certainly, the two cops took a few steps forward, approaching the receding duo.

Upon hearing footsteps, Yuffie whirled around and was about to give them another, extended, lecture; but she promptly shut her mouth. The guys in blue were standing in front of her with two dangerous-looking guns pointed at her face. Reno turned around slowly as well. As much as he'd like to bolt, he felt sorry to leave the brat in the position she was currently in. He could afford to do her the courtesy and knock out two guys.

"We would like to see your document please." One of the cops said in a fake polite tone. Yuffie sighed and went to search her backpack. Reno smirked as he knew that he didn't have his documents on him. In fact he didn't have anything on him at the moment, except for the suite.

Yuffie's motions became rather frantic over time. She went through all the possible pockets in her backpack…twice. She didn't come up with her documents. 'Shit, shit, shit, shit I know I had them.' She chanted to herself, while going through the pockets yet again in hopes of finding the accursed documentation to prove her identity…but no such luck. 'Where could they possibly be?' she pondered quietly, while searching the pockets of her jacket and pants. Suddenly, a very disturbing picture flashed through her mind and she froze. She could have shot herself at that moment. Her documentation was left neatly put together, next to the TV remote in her house.

She laughed nervously and looked up. The cops, however, being more concerned with Reno's identity than hers, didn't really bother even sparing her a glance. She breathed a sigh of relief, thinking she was off the hook. Oh how wrong she was.

The cops turned their inquisitive looks to Reno. He just stood there, casually, as if not a care in the world.

"Sir, may I please see your documents?" The same one spoke up again. Reno straightening up, clearing his throat, assumed the most innocent look possible.

"I don't think you need to see them." She said with a smirk on his face. "My name is Reno….you know, like they guy that you are meant to uh… 'hunt down'." That phrase was complete with a pompous puffing out the chest and hand quotation marks for emphasis.

"Sir, we would have to put you under arrest." The other cop said curtly and turned to Yuffie. "And you as well for assisting with the crime." Reno couldn't hold in the bout of amused laughter as Yuffie's mouth literally dropped open. She started sputtering as the cop started reading them their rights. 'This is definitely NOT the way I was anticipating my day to go.' She thought bitterly while shooting the Turk a nasty glare. The other shrugged his shoulders before preceding to drop kick the blue-clad man closest to him, knocking him out as the poor man's head hit the concrete. Yuffie for her part did not waste time delivering a rather nasty kick to the temple of the other guy and knocking him out as well.

Reno stood frozen over his respective victim for a moment. All the warning he got in that moment was a loud growl and a swoosh of air as a foot almost collided with his abdomen. It luckily missed, though, as he danced out of reach. Another round-house came flying towards him almost immediately following the earlier assault. He didn't get out of the way this time though. He stayed rooted to his spot under the roof of the station while catching the leg of the nuisance that stood just beyond the reach of the aforementioned roof. Speaking of the nuisance, Yuffie all but growled and started struggling with trying to reclaim her leg. As she though in the beginning that didn't work.

"If you are done…" she heard a drawl in front of her, form the source of her current frustration. Seeing the resigned look on her face, Reno continued "I don't think your criminal ass would want to stay here much longer brat. I say we get the heck out and go our separate ways, shall we?" Yuffie started struggling again.

"Criminal? ME? You are the criminal. The stupid cops just decided to call me one for no damn reason!" she tried to reason. Reno's amusement with the whole situation didn't seem to be fading with her exasperation. She was about to comment on the fact, but two rather unfortunate things happened at the exact same time. The first was that it started raining. It wasn't just a little drizzle, it was a full out downpour of rain, complete with thunder and lightning. The second thing was that she heard a groan coming form one of the cops. 'Shit they're starting to wake up.' She though frantically before turning to the smirking Turk.

"You aren't going to assault my poor little self anymore are you princess?" he asked looking at her with fake, innocent puppy eyes. She glowered at him again before waving that off. She was wet, and now cold…she didn't care enough to beat the crap out of him just yet. There was one problem with him letting go however. Being tired of standing on one leg, Yuffie decided to distribute her wait equally between the leg that was situated on the ground, and the one that was in his hand. After he abruptly let go, she went plummeting down to the ground and landed into a quickly forming puddle, on her ass, with a splash.

She glared up at him, through sagged hair and from her current position. No one can really blame Reno for sniggering at the sight….it was truly one of quite the comic value. He composed himself soon enough though, and extended a hand to help her up. She completely ignored the kind gesture and after jumping up onto her feet decided to take a little detour away from the Turk…to the left. Reno looked at her quizzically before deciding that she is going to kill him if he doesn't say something quick.

"Hm..hm.." He cleared his throat officially. She stopped and turned around with an already forming glare. "I though you'd like to know, princess." He drawled with smirk. "The exit is that a way." she said pointing over his shoulder in the opposite direction of where the ninja was headed.

She scowled and rushed past him towards the exit into town. He turned around and followed her slowly, taking his time. After all, they both knew as well as anything that now they were in it together. After the cops mistaking her for an ally and her knocking them out for it…there was really not much she could do to twist out of that. All that was needed now was to prove his innocence and they were both home free. Reno groaned at the thought of spending more time with the brat than he absolutely had to. This was going to be an interesting side mission. 'If I don't die, or get put in prison…it's pretty damn safe to say that she'll kill me.'

TO BE CONTINUED

Thank you so much for reading. Sorry about this chapter. To get Reno and Yuffie somehow working together, one of those sort of filler information chapters had to be done. Thank so much for your patience, because the real fun stuff will begin next chapter and you'll get to find out everything about this new organization against ShinRa. R&R

Kairi 3SoraKH2Namine 3Rox... : Thank you so much for your review. I am sorry, it completely slipped my mind to respond after the first chapter. Thank you so much for reading and I hope you enjoy the story.

Suzu Kitamura: Thank you very much for your review, and I hope you'll enjoy the rest of the story. Oh and if it goes the way I planned there will be plenty more Reno-Cop interactions