A/N: WOONESS!! another chapter... this is turning into a Reno vs Elena fic XDDDD enjoy!!

Chapter 8 - Beach

Elena looked at Reno and smiled to herself. He would break, she knew it. He seemed to be close to tears as he walked past the various food stalls. Then he decided to take a new approach. He looked at Elena and smirked.

"Ya smell that 'Laney?" he breathed deeply, inhaling the smell of doughnuts. "Mmmm…"

"Reno?" Elena stopped walking and crossed her arms. "I don't like doughnuts."

"Oh…" Reno looked blankly for a minute, "You eat them when we get them at work…"

"No, I don't."

"Where'd they go then?"

"You eat most of them…"

"Do I?" Reno looked confused for a moment. Elena rolled her eyes and grabbed Reno's arm.

"Come on, we haven't got all day…"

"We have ya know…" Reno said, trying to resist Elena pulling on his arm.

"Have what?" Elena asked, letting go of him.

"..got all day…" Reno grinned. "Ya know what these idiots at materia places are like…" he put on an extremely girly accent. "Sorry, sir, we don't have that at the moment… you can come back in a few hours…"

Elena stifled a giggle. It was disturbing, but that was actually quite a good impression. Reno grinned at her and opened the door to the materia shop.

"Shinra?" The woman behind the counter asked nervously. Elena knew exactly what was coming; the woman was young, blonde and pretty.

"You got it sweetheart…" Reno said grinning and leaning on the counter. The woman blushed and checked a list on her clipboard.
"How long are you going to be in town?" She asked.

"However long this crap takes…" Reno muttered under his breath.

"What's the wait?" Elena asked loudly.

"Ummm, about two hours." She said, double-checking her clipboard. Reno rolled his eyes and Elena smacked him lightly in the head.

"We can wait. Thanks." Elena made to leave the shop, dragging Reno after her.

Both of them stepped out into the sunlight, looking at each other. Elena stared at Reno, and then suddenly started laughing.

"What?" he asked raising an eyebrow.

Elena reached up and tugged at Reno's hair. Reno gasped slightly in pain and she pulled her arm back down, showing him a single platinum blonde hair.

"How the hell did you see that?" Reno asked, shocked.

"I'm a woman… anyway; do you not know how to wash your hair properly?"

"Yeah, thank you." Reno pouted.

"So how come…" she pulled another one off his ponytail, "You've missed some then?"

"I dunno… c'mon, what we gonna do for two hours?"

"We could go down to the beach? I knew we would be waiting, so I brought some stuff… and no that does not include a bikini." Elena said, seeing the grin form on Reno's face.

"Fine." Reno pouted again and the two of them headed down towards the beach.


Elena pulled a towel out of her bag and laid it on the sand, sitting down carefully. Reno ignored the towel and plopped down on the bare sand, his legs crossed. He was carefully inspecting his ponytail for stray blonde hairs. Elena couldn't help but smile at him.

"Reno? Why must you always chose to do things the difficult way?" Elena asked, eyeing the sand that was already on Reno's suit.

"I'm not…" Reno said distantly, "It's not hard for me, 'cause I don't really care."

Elena rolled her eyes, unable to come up with a comeback. Sure, Reno didn't make sense a lot of the time, but he usually came up with comebacks that were somehow logical.

"I'm going to go find a bathroom, Reno. Wait here." Elena said, getting up.

"Well, I'm hardly gonna follow ya, am I 'Laney?" Reno said, looking up at her.

"You never know with you, Reno… I worry sometimes."

Reno merely stared at her and grinned mischievously. Elena eyed him suspiciously.

"Hmm…" She said, before heading away from the beach.


"Stupid beaches… I had to walk about 2 miles just to find a damn toilet…" Elena muttered to herself. It wasn't difficult to find her spot again; Reno was still sitting there inspecting his hair.

"Hey 'Laney!" he said, overly cheerfully. "What took ya so long?"

"Grr, just don't even ask." Elena said angrily. "C'mon, let's go back to that materia shop."

"Ok…"

Elena watched as Reno stood up and stepped forwards, then he disappeared out of her line of sight. She looked down at him, now sat in a three-foot deep hole, previously hidden underneath Elena's towel.

"Haha, Reno? You set that up for me, didn't you?" Elena said, looking at Reno's disappointed face. Suddenly, she cracked up laughing. "How can anyone be that stupid?" she giggled.

"Shut up 'Laney." Reno said, standing up and brushing the sand off him.

"Ha, maybe you should have stayed blonde for a little longer…"

"You're blonde, retard." He said moodily.

"Only by color, not by brains." Elena said, smirking.