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Note: This is M rated and will have future Yaoi so be WARNED and don't say I didn't warn you. I'll put this warning on every chapter just to be sure it gets through all those thick skulls out there. Thank you for reading.
CHAPTER 8.
Kadaj's head felt like it was filled with lead. He could barely move it, let alone lift it up to see where he was. Deciding to wait a few minute, he tried to remember what had happened. He remembered the club, and dancing. Than talking with that man, but it grew fuzzy after that with only brief images of Reno and a few other people coming into clarity for a second before they disappeared.
Sighing, he pushed himself up into a sitting position and opened his eyes a crack to see if the light would hurt his head. He remembered his first hangover and this felt close to that. But the light didn't hurt anymore if he had awoken normally. Rubbing sleep from his eyes, he glanced around, he found he was in Reno's room. Why was he in Reno's room?
"Good morning sleepy head." He heard Reno's voice float from somewhere in the room. Looking around, he saw him sitting on the floor across the large room, facing his window wall. He could see himself reflected in it's surface, but Reno's was hidden in the sun's glare.
"What happened last night?" He asked, rubbing his head, trying to get his slow mind working. It was hard work and seemed like it was taking forever.
"You danced for a while than I made a stupid mistake." Kadaj was trying to see his face, but it was hard with his back to him.
"What do you mean?" Why was he being so confusing.
Reno sighed, but turned around and explained what Kadaj had missed. He thought it would have shocked him more, but it was the look in Reno's eyes that startled him the most. The were screaming murder, a thirst for that mans blood.
"I'm fine Reno. A little dizzy, but okay." He tried to sooth him, him a remnant trying to sooth a Turk's murderous rage. That was ironic being as he was usually the one with the murderous temper.
"It's not fine. You may be okay now, but what if I had come too late? Huh! You wouldn't be thinking that everything was okay then. I wasn't going to let you go through that." He muttered the last part, but Kadaj's enhanced hearing still heard it. What was Reno implying? Had something like that happened to him, too? It seemed impossible, but than again, someone drugging and almost raping a remnant of Sephiroth, someone with enhanced physical abilities seemed impossible, too. And yet it had almost happened.
"Oh." He didn't know what to say. Dragging himself out of bed, he looked at the Turk. "I think I'll go take a shower now, Turkie. Don't kill anyone while I'm in there." He tried to smile, but was too exhausted so just let the joke stand as he walked out of the room.
He heard Reno snort and a muttered 'wanabe Sephiroth,' but he ignored it. At least he wasn't going to kill anyone at the moment.
When he heard the shower start, he let out a sigh. He'd thought that Kadaj would have been murderously mad, but it appeared that he had been the one who had reacted badly. He ran a hand through his hair, realizing that he had forgot to put it in his customary pony tail. Shrugging, he walked over to the phone that had started to ring.
"Reno." He stated, knowing who it was before they answered.
"Hey Reno." Rude's deep voice had him relaxing slightly. He would have been more tense if it had been Tseng, or worse, Rufus.
"Hey. Any news?" He asked turning from the wall to look out his window towards the Shin-Ra building.
"Nothing yet, but thanks for the heads up. Tseng is on his trail now, some where in sector three and should have him soon. You want me to call when we get him?" Rude asked, though Reno could detect the nearly nonexistent note of worry in Rude's voice. Was he worried about what he might do to the man if caught him, or was it for the things he might do at the mention of a mission he was banned from?
"Naa, I'll just keep the kid out of your hair in case he does decide to kill him." He heard a small sigh on the other line. He smiled grimly, he knew he had reacted badly to a forced vacation, but now that his temper had cooled, he knew it was for the best. "I'll talk to you later when you get the time. See you, yo." He hung up on him before Rude could say anything.
"Who was that?" He heard Kadaj come up behind him.
He looked up and blinked. Kadaj was wearing only a towel around his waist and a towel over his shoulders. He hadn't realized how pale he was, until he saw his nearly white alabaster skin. "No one, just a wrong number." Setting the phone down, he walked into the kitchen and grabbed some pans from under the counter. "How do you like your eggs?" He knew already, but it had become routine, something that seemed to make his life run a little smoother now that he was so shaken by his dreams and lack of sleep.
Just the thought of them made him cringe, but he kept his back to Kadaj as he went and grabbed some eggs. "Cheesy and scrambled." He mouthed it along with him and smiled. He sometimes forgot how much of a kid Kadaj actually was.
As they finished up the eggs, toast, and bacon, he noticed that Kadaj seemed to be quieter than usual. He knew what was most likely on his mind, but he still wanted to ask. "What's up, yo?" He looked at him and waited to see if he would answer.
"Hmm, oh nothing. Just thinking. I realized something though." Reno waited for him to continue. " You're the first person to actually 'save' me. It was the first time someone besides Cloud was able to best me and it was odd…it was like I was under water and couldn't move." He saw him struggling for words and just nodded.
"I know. Drugs do that to people sometimes." He could sympathize with him. Kadaj was not the first victim of that particular drug, and wouldn't be the last either. He could speak for that personally.
"Why do you seem so certain? I doubt this ever happened to you." When Reno's face remained blank, even his eyes guarded, he knew it was untrue. "I couldn't have…could it?" It was hard to believe.
"The right amount of any kind of drug like that could even bring down the Great Sephiroth, if someone so chose to. And it happened before I became a Turk, before I had connections to Shin-Ra or any sort of weapons to defend myself with. So yes it did happen, but…" And he gave an almost feral smile at that 'but', "I made sure to give him back in return what he took. I believe, if my memory is right, he is still rotting in the sewers of the lower plate."
"I'm sorry." Kadaj couldn't think of anything else to say. This was Reno's personal life history, and something only to be shared with whom he trusted to understand it. That thought alone made a funny warm feeling run through his chest, but he pushed it away. He'd never asked Reno to trust him, or save him for that matter.
"Nothing to be sorry about. It's all in the past. Now…what are we going to do today, since I don't really feel like staying indoors today." Reno's grin, albeit slightly stiff, seemed to be his old self. It looked like today was going to be fun, if Kadaj was any judge.
Another update, whoooo!! We're a little past the half way point in this fic, so that means it will be coming to a close soon Probably 5 or 6 more chapters left, if I judge it right, but that depends on how much I write per chapter and if I add any extras. So, until than enjoy this chapter and future chapters to come.
Kadaj had a warm fuzzy feeling, wonder what it could be, probably thought it was indigestion or something, him being kind of naïve. We shall see though. The next chapter will be kind of darker and it will be a week later from where this ends. Reno has started more than just the breakfast routine to help him coop with the dreams. Wonder what it will be. [evil knowing grin] You will just have to wait and see.
Until Next Time
~Reiya
