"Playing with Fire"
Alternate Universe Final Fantasy VII
by: Joy

Usual Disclaimers Apply

AN: This is my first FF VII fanfic, I'm a bit of a Reno/Yuffie fan, as well as a Vincent/Yuffie fan, this however, would be a Reffie. This is a draft, characters OOC?
I'll tweak it up a bit; I just wanted to send this out... Comments and such are appreciated, but please be nice!

"Playing With Fire"
Chapter 1


Yuffie took a deep breath as she looked at wooden door. She raised her hand to knock, but shook he head and started to walk away, only to stop to walk back. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath and hesitated

"Do me a favor and just come in."

Yuffie jumped in surprise, yet somehow she expected that he would've noticed her presence already. She opened the door and peeked inside and gave a nervous smile. "Hello,"

Reno looked up from his paperwork and placed both hands behind his head. "Well, well. Look what we have here..."

Yuffie scowled as she walked in the office and walked straight towards Reno. "I need your help."

"Really?" Reno smirked. "Now, why would I want to help a member of AVALANCHE?"

"Come of it Reno, the war's over. Didn't we call a truce?"

"A temporary truce." Reno corrected.

"Whatever. Listen, you're the only one I can turn to. You're my last resort."

"Oh?"

"Would I be here if I had any other choice?" Yuffie snapped at Reno, her temper slowly reaching it's boiling point.

"Just what exactly is it that you want us to do?"

Yuffie blinked for a while. "Well actually, it was just you that I was after."

"Why Yuffie, I never knew..."

"Shut up!" Yuffie turned slightly red. "That's not what I meant."

"What exactly are you here for?"

"I need you to be my fiancé."

Reno laughed. "What?"

Yuffie turned even redder. "You heard what I said! And don't get any ideas either! Like I said, you were the last resort!"

"Your fiancé?"

Reno continued to laugh, and Yuffie clenched her fists in anger as she continued to turn even redder. "Fine! I'll... I'll just ask some guy of the street!"

Yuffie turned around and walked away, and Reno chuckled as he stood up and caught up with his former enemy.

"Oh come on, ninja-chick..."

Reno never got a chance to finish what he was saying when Yuffie threw a punch at him, which he easily avoided. "No wonder you can't get a guy the normal way..."

Yuffie's eyes narrowed. "I can't believe I even considered you! YOU!" She screamed as she walked away from a still laughing Reno. /If only Vinnie was around, I wouldn't have to put up with this.!/

She punched the elevator button and waited for the door to open when she sensed Reno standing behind her. "What?"

"You're the one who came to me, sugar."

"Shut up. I changed my mind." The elevator opened and Yuffie stepped inside, but before she could make a move to close the doors, Reno stepped in, and held the doors open.

"Come on, you come to our office, asking me to become your fiancé, and now you're just going to walk away?"

Yuffie glared at him. "Yes." She pressed the 'close' button, but Reno just pushed the doors back open again. "Reno, get off!"

"What's the hurry? You gonna go look for a boy?"

"Yes, now go away!"

"Why?" He asked amused.

"So I can leave you stupid jerk, gawd!"

Reno chuckled again, and Yuffie blushed as she saw the slight sparkle of amusement in Reno's eyes, until she realized that he was laughing at her. "What the hell is so funny?"

"Maybe I can help you, for a price of course."

Yuffie looked at him and debated the pros and cons of using Reno. Still, she has less than a day to get a fiancé. She doubted that she could get a guy off the street to pose as go along with her story. Not to mention someone... confident, and cocky enough to get rid of an over persistent spoilt would-be suitor.

"Come on, princess. Time is ticking, you're the one who came to me, remember?"

"Fine!"

Reno gave a mock bow. "So?" He asked stepping aside to let Yuffie passed. She sighed as she walked out of the elevator and back to the Turk's office followed by Reno.
When they were inside, Reno closed the door and looked down at her. "So, what's this all about?"

"I told you, I need you to act like my fiancé." She replied as she tried to cover her blush. "Cloud's a no go zone, Cid and Barrett are out of the question, so is Red. I'd ask Vincent but I can't reach him. So..."

"So I'm the final straw?"

Yuffie nodded. "I'll pay you, so don't worry. I just need you to come to Wutai with me for a week or two…"

Reno calculated an amount in his head. /This should be fun! / "You haven't told me why you need a fiancé."

Yuffie rolled her eyes. "Godo has this thing about setting me up with this guy from some big company. This guy gives me the creeps. I told him I wasn't interested but he won't give up, I mean gawd! He's just freaky!"

"More than Valentine?"

Yuffie glared at Reno. "Vinnie's not freaky!"

Reno raised one eyebrow. "Vinnie?"

This time Yuffie blushed. "This isn't about Vincent..."

"Now it's Vincent..."

"Reno!" Yuffie snapped. "Are you going to listen or not?"

"Okay... go on..."

"So, this guy has it on his head that I'm going to marry him, something about uniting Wutai with their company... so basically when he proposed... I mean, he just went like... 'When you marry me blah, blah, blah..."

"That doesn't sound like a proposal..."

"I know! So when I told him 'no' he wanted a reason, I told him I wasn't interested, and he kept on asking question after question, so to sort of get rid of him, I said I had a fiancé... I told him it was a secret and all, but he ratted to Godo! Now, I have to show up with my fiancé or I get engaged to the spoilt jerk."

"This is going to cost you, brat!"

"How much?"

Reno pretended to think for a moment. "A hundred thousand gil. Fifty now, fifty later."

Yuffie's jaw dropped. "I don't have that kind of money! I only have sixty!"

"Nice talking to you..."

"Oh come on, Reno!"

He sighed. /I do need a vacation...Wutai.../ "Okay, what about this, you give me forty now, and forty later. Take it or leave it."

Yuffie covered her face in her hands. "Okay! Okay, but you can't call me brat, or pest, or ninja chick..."

"I can live with that."

"Good. Let's go, the sooner we get this done, the sooner I can get rid of that guy."

"Hold on a sec, Where's my money?"

Yuffie rolled here eyes as she handed him a bag. Reno opened it and counted the money inside, and looked at Yuffie. "You carried this much around you?"

She shrugged. "I figured that if I can't find a guy in time, I'll use that money to go into hiding. Anything's better than getting married..."

Reno snorted. "You got that right,"

He handed the extra twenty to the girl. "Let's go, we'll sort out the details in the Highwind..."

"The Highwind?"

Yuffie nodded. "I kinda borrowed it from Cid." The smile she had told him another story.

"Borrowed?"

Her smile grew wider. "I asked Shera, she said Cid won't mind, and I'm sure he won't if he learned that she loaned me the plane."

Reno shook his head as he dialled a number. "Hey, it's me. I'm taking time-out. Be in touch." He switched the phone off and looked at Yuffie. "What?"

"You don't have a girl, do you? Because if you do, this whole thing..."

He nudged the girl towards the door. "No, haven't got a girl. I just left a message to Rude.
Besides, what do I need a girl for?" He asked as he moved his face near Yuffie, and gave a smile. "I've got you..."

Yuffie blushed as she turned away. "Whatever, hurry up."

"Gotta stop by my place and get my shit together."

The two of them walked towards the elevator. "How far is it from here?"

"Few blocks, don't worry sweetie, I won't keep you waiting!" He snickered as they walked inside the elevator. Yuffie fidgeted, standing to a man who was once their enemy.
But as she said before, the war was over. Things change, people change. Everything changes. Reeve was now the new president of Shinra Inc, and has turned the company around, much too much displeasure of a few people. Once it played a part in the fallof Wutai, now it was playing a part in it's rise.

The elevator door opened and Yuffie followed Reno to the main door. Yuffie rolled her eyes as Reno winked to a few ladies around the lobby, and grinned at Yuffie's expression.

"Oh come on honey, I was just looking."

Yuffie snorted. "Save it for Wutai."

They walked in silence until Reno reached an impressive building. The doorman greeted Reno with a smile. "Hey Walters, meet my lovely fiancée, Yuffie. Honey, meet Walters."

Walters the doorman clapped his hands in glee. "She looks lovely Mr. Mikagi. It was nice meeting you, Miss Yuffie."

Yuffie could only smile as she thought about a hundred and one ways to make Reno suffer. "Say anything more and I'm going to kick your ass." She muttered under her breath.

Reno just laughed. "Just getting into the mood, babe."

/I made a mistake. I knew I made a mistake. I should've just ran off.../ Yuffie thought silently as Reno started whistling, She stared at their reflection on the metal door. It was more than a year since the defeat of Sepiroth, and many people were still rebuilding their lives from scratch. To her dismay, her height barely changed. Her physical assets, if she had any remained the same. All that looked different to her was her hair which was long enough to tie, but other than that...

She glanced briefly at her so-called fiancé, and would've admitted that he was good looking if he wasn't such an asshole. He was clearly taller than her, her head barely reaching past his shoulders. His long red hair looked, well... it wasn't that bad actually,
And his eyes, those eyes... She shook her head. /Wake up!/

The elevator finally stopped, and Reno still hasn't stopped whistling as he took a card from his pocket. She followed him to the end of the hallway and Reno swiped the card on the slot, and opened the door. "Wait here." With that, he closed the door.

"Jackass!" Yuffie muttered. She placed her hands on her hips and waited for Reno to come out, fortunately Reno came out a few minutes later.

"What? You didn't think I'll let an AVALANCHE member in my home, do you?"

Yuffie glared at Reno. "I'm inviting you to my home in Wutai! What the hell is your problem?"

Reno shrugged as they walked back inside the elevator. "I don't trust you."

She didn't know why, but his words hurt. "Then why did you agree to come?"

"Hey, It's not like I'm doing you a favor. This is business, remember?"

Yuffie didn't reply, and the trip to the Highwind was short, and silent.

TBC