All right you fun party people here is Chapter 9. Thanks for reading and enjoy!

Chocolateriku: oh thankyou. glomps Kadaj I like that word too. GLOMP

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The wheeles of the truck hissed over the wet pavement. I sat in the back of the hunting dog truck with Kadaj. He'd fallen asleep and I was still petting the little puppy in the cage. After the poop incident with the huge blood hound above Kadaj he'd wiped it off and calmed down. I reached up and felt the bump on my forehead.

It was still tender and hurt to touch, but the swelling had gone down. Trees flashed by on the both sides. For a few seconds I thought I could see the Forgotten City, but then it dissappeared, replaced by the never ending trees. I crawled up to the cab of the truck, carful to miss any dog poop. I knocked on the window. The man jumped, making the truck swerved, then he opened the sliding window.

"Hey how much further until the cross road to Midgar?" I asked, flicking my damp hair out of my face.

"About five miles," He answered in a gruff voice.

"Thank you."

"You doin' okay back there?" He asked. I nodded.

"I'm fine," Then I smiled remembering that Kadaj was considered a rapist in this guys veiw. "I did actually hit my head sir. It hurt really bad though."

"All right," He turned and looked warily at the sleeping Kadaj. "I'll take your word for it. But you know how it is, a creepy guy like that carrying an unconscious girl, you just don't see that too often."

"He looks creepy?" I stared at Kadaj. "Well I just wanted to thank you for the ride and all, I know he's not too good at schmoozing so I thought I'd better come do it."

"Not a problem miss," I twitched. "We're almost there." I could see the cross road from my view of the back window. I shook Kadaj.

"What?" He mumbled with a yawn.

"We're at crossroads," I answered turning back to the window.

"What are you doing?" Kadaj asked, sitting up.

"Talking to our savior," I said, the guy up front smiled. Kadaj scoffed and looked down at his pant leg where the dog had pooped on him, there was a brown stain. I patted him on the head, his hair was kind of greasy. "Eww. Kadaj you need a shower."

"So do you," He said. I reached up to feel my hair. I squealed. It was so nasty, with tangles and grease.

"That's just nasty."

"I think your hair looks fine miss," the driver said, I smiled and Kadaj got a nasty look on his face.

"See Kadaj that's what you're supposed to say, no wonder you've never had a girlfriend, you don't know how to be nice," I said, wrinkling my nose at him.

"That's not true, I had a girlfriend before!" He protested.

"If you'd even consider that a girlfriend," I said in a secretive voice.

"What'd you mean by that?" He asked offensively.

"Well you lost her because you were obsessing with mother," I kept our cover smoothly.

"Wait, aren't you two a couple?" the driver asked. I looked at Kadaj and he stared at me, his face getting slightly pink.

"NO!" I freaked. The driver nodded.

"I see." Kadaj got all offended.

"What'd you mean by that!" He asked again. I laughed and pushed him back down. The driver stopped the truck.

"All right. This is your stop," The driver pulled the car over to the side of the road. I jumped out of the back. The little puppy yapped. I looked back. Kadaj rolled his eyes at me and jumped out.

"Thanks again for the ride," I said, waving him off. I looked at his name tag, "Thank you Frank!"

"Not a problem," He eyed Kadaj, "Watch yourselves." And he drove off to Midgar. Kadaj flipped his nasty silver hair out of his face and looked back at me.

"Let's go," I nodded and jogged a few steps to catch up with him. The road was silent, no cars came down it. Of course we'd had our fun in keeping people away, saying there were ghosts and other monsters hiding in the forest. It was perfectly safe, except for the few expriments of Shadow Creatures that were let loose in here so we could practice fighting. A twig snapped to my left. I summoned my double blade and waited. Kadaj hadn't noticed and kept walking.

A person jumped through the bushes and attacked me. I parried his blow and knocked his sword to the side. He stopped and stared at me. "Rena!" he said, pulling back his blade. I sent mine away. "Welcome back. You were gone longer than we thought you'd be."

"I had another mission," I said. Standing in front of me was remnant Ryan. He had shoulder length blond hair that was cut in layers. His black eyes were almost hidden beneath the blond hair.

"Trey was beginning to worry," Ryan said. He looked over my shoulder. I turned and saw Kadaj staring at us. I motioned for him to come over. "Ryan," he introduced himself and stuck out his hand.

"Kadaj," they shook hands.

"Was this your mission Rena?" Ryan asked.

"Yes," I smiled, "We need to get back. I smell bad and I'm hungry."

"Indeed," Ryan laughed. He raised his hand. A black portal rose up from the ground. "That should take you to the foyer of the mansion."

"Thanks," I said and stepped through. I came out on the other side, followed by Kadaj. He looked around. I turned to face him. "Everything is the same as before. Your room will be in the exact order you left it and in the same place. Think you can find it?"

"Yeah," He answered, staring at the foyer. I nodded.

"Well then, I'm off." I walked up the stairs and found my room. I got inside and locked the door. It felt good to be back in a house. I quickly pealed off my clothes and tossed them into the hamper. I stepped into the shower and washed away the grim of the road. When I came out I no longer smelled like wet dog.

I dried myself off and wrapped a towel around me. I opened the door to my room-

"Good evening Rena." I jumped and collided into him, my towl slipped down. He started laughing. I pulled the towel back up.

"Haven't you learned to knock!" I yelled. Trey, the leader of remnants, stood in front of me. He was tall with short spikey black hair, deep blue eyes, and he was well toned. It looked as if he had been to Midgar today. He wore a pair of loose black pants and a dark blue shirt to match his eyes. I didn't want to bow with a towel on so I just tilted my head, this made him smile.

"Rena, you have completed your mission of bringing Kadaj back, safely to us," He started and let me into my room. "He is being well taken care of, and I assure you will be fine. Tonight there will be a feast in honor of his return and you will be recognized as the one who brought him back."

"But sir—" I started to protest.

"Too late Rena, if you wanted to protest you should have done so when you returned," He said, a smile tugging on the end of his lips. "Any way, you need to speek with other remnants I've been getting complaints that you're being a… how shall we put it, hard ass. Keep the remnants close Rena, they're all you have. Tonights dinner will be formal." He dissappeared. I groaned and pullled open the door to my closet.

I put on my long, satan dress. It was silver with a slit on the left side. Underneath there was black satan. I dried my hair and brushed it straight. I pulled my hair back in a half ponytail and crimped the under hair. I put on eye liner and coverup to cover the scratches on my face. I stood in front of my mirror and examined myself. There was a knock at my door.

Ryan stood there with his normal fashionable suit and tie, like all the guys wore to the fancy dinners.

"May I escort you to dinner?" He asked, holding out a bent elbow. I laughed.

"Of course," I linked onto his arm and we walked down the hallway, catching strange glances on the way. We walked into the dinning hall. It was a huge room, with a long cherry wood table with numerous chairs around it, all with red cushions. The floor was a hard oak floor with a red carpet on both sides of the table. All the remnants stood around the table talking, a few entered the room. I examined the occupents of the room.

No wonder everyone thought I was being a hard ass. I was one of the only girls in the remnant house. There were four girls total. All the rest were guys. Every guy had on the same black suit. Their ties matched their hair color, which was odd because one guys hair was pink. Trey stood at the end of the table and motioned for me. On his left sat Kadaj. His long silver hair covered half of his face. I smiled at him and he nodded his head.

His black suit was different. Like Trey's they both had on a suit of higher quality with no tie, indicating they were the leaders. I wondered why Kadaj looked so strange. Their shirts matched their hair.

"Who would have thought that you two would match?" Trey asked quietly raising his hands for attention. "Please everyone sit." They did but he remained standing. "We have a returning remnant with us tonight, one we thought was lost. But thanks to our own remnant Rena he was returned safely and will now be serving as a leader once again, alongside me." The people clapped. The food appeared on our plates and everyone dug in.

After several bottles of wine were open and drank I left the party. My head felt lighter. When the alcohol was served I drank a few glasses talked for a while and then left. I walked up the stairs slowly, taking my time. In the back of my head I felt a twinge of panic then suddenly it was gone.

"Rena!" Kadaj called from the bottom of the stairs. I looked down at him. He paused for a minute. I felt an unknown, tingly feeling run down my spin. "I just wanted to thank you. I never really did before."

"You're welcome." I said. He nodded. I turned around to continue up.

"Oh one more thing," He ran up the stairs to catch up with me. "Trey told me to tell you that Mother will be contacting you soon." He stared at me. Nervousness welled inside me, and some of it wasn't my own. Did I have feelings for him? NO! Absolutely not. He was a leader now. That could only end in bad things. Suddenly he leaned in and kissed me.

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Author's Note: Howdy Folks…. Okay I promise never to do that again. Anywho I have been forgetting to place a disclaimer and I'm too lazy to fix that on this one so MAYBE the next one will have one. I dunno. Now I hope you all enjoy the slight seriousness, that I will try and add humor too, scenes up ahead, but afterwards you will need diapers… or at least I hope you will. (Note) This has not been a recorded message)