1 I Promise

Chapter 16- Rude and Elena….

Chapter 16

Cid sighed, he was tired he also was confused about Vincent and Yuffie. He noticed them hanging around eachother a lot. " What the &*%& is going on between them, Aruun?" Cid talked to his chocobo on the Highwind. They would arrive at rosenberry Inn in five minutes or less. The bird chirped loudly, making Cid leave his thoughts to tend to the black chocobo. " Hungry eh? How about Sylkiss greens?" The bird chirped once more before waiting patiently for Cid to hand her the greens. He sighed and held out his hand to the bird. It gently consumed the greens from his hand and purred in contement. Usually when Yuffie saw him and the bird she would be like, " Yeah, treat the bird better than lil O' me, I feel so unwanted." " Shuddup brat, can't you see I am trying to feed Aruun without any disturbances. She used to come over in the room around Aruun's feeding time and annoy him. But ever since they got in the fight, she didn't come or annoy him much. Cid felt bad, he hadn't apologized to her about what he told her. He believed she could do great things, it was just he got angry when she put ice down his back. He sighed once more before patting his chocobo on the head who purred in contentment. He trudged slowly towards the control room knowing they would be called in 3……2…….1………

" All Avalanche members report to Control room I repeat All Avalanche members report to control room!"

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Elena gasped at first when Rude kissed her, wasn't this her dream? Wasn't this what she had been waiting for? She sighed deeply and they continued to kiss. But like all good things it had to end. Rude sighed and Pulled Elena close to him, " I have been meaning to tell you Lena…that I…Love….y-you." Rude was nervous drops of sweat rolled down his forehead as he told her. He was shaking all inside, and his throat felt dry too. " Well you know what Rude, I loved you ever since I first saw you." Elena smiled and hugged him. He sighed, a sigh of relief, he also knew this moment might be their last.

For the men who kidnapped Jet might be after them too. They sighed in eachothers arms. Rude let go of Elena sat down in a chair motioning her to come sit. She did and they held each other in their arms. Soon they heard footsteps, many footsteps along with talking. Avalache was here! They both quickly jumped off of the couch before anyone could notice and walked out into the other room. " Elena!!" Reno shouted, he ran over to her and picked her up nearly crushing her to death. " Okay, Reno I am pleased to see you and all but could you go a little easy?" Elena squeaked.

Reno just laughed and set her back down. He noticed Rude at the doorway standing there being quiet. " Hey Rude!" Rude nodded his head, just then Cloud stepped forward. " It is nice to have everyone back in the gang and all but now we need to start searching for Reeve." Everyone nodded their heads and sighed. They quickly went to their new places to search. Rude never took his eyes off of Elena. Reno noticed, " Hey Rude, why so…..watchful?" " You never know what is out here, Elena is still not too strong." " I don't think that is the reason." Rude was about to say something when Elena shouted, " Hey you guys come here!" Rude walked while Reno ran. " What did you find?" Elena pointed to something it was a blue. Reno picked it up and stared, it had the number 24 on it. " Reeve…." Reno mumbled. They sighed once more knowing they were on the right track. Reno sighed once more and dialed.

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Cloud, Tifa and Red had found nothing so far. Cloud sighed before he heard a ringing sound, " Hello?" " Hey Cloud, this is Reno." " What do you need?" " We found something, a neck tie." " Reeve's right?" " Yeah, so what do you want us to do?" " Don't touch it, get some gloves on and put it in a plastic bag we can try and find some fingerprints or something." " Aright…." " Where are you guys I forgot." " We are Sector 6 slums." " Thanks we will be there in a few." They both hung up.

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Cloud sighed he knew this was going to be a long day. They had to find Reeve, and soon too.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ " Hey Rude!" Rude turned to look at Reno " …" " I am gonna go ahead okay? You and Elena stay behind." Rude nodded his head and turned back around to keep an eye on Elena. /Perfect..Yeah right go ahead and check stuff out, Rude I know something happened between you and Elena and I have a good guess what it is./ Rude sighed and closed his eyes. He opened them and was starled, one moment Elena was 20 feet away the next moment sheis right in front of him.

" You okay Lena?" She nodded her head and hugged him. " I don't know why, but when I think of Reeve I have a feeling that I need to spend as much time with you as possible because then when we find him and his kidnappers…it might.." Rude put his fingers to her lips. " Shh…that won't happen." Elena looked at him, Rude took off his glasses and when Elena saw his eyes she thought they were the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen. They were a sparkling sea green. He bent down and kissed her, just then Reno popped out, " Caught you in the ACT!" Rude and Elena ignored him completely, lost in their own thoughts. And the kiss. Soon it ended, " So what Reno.." Lena looked at him lamely. " What do you mean "so what"?" " What is the big deal, we love eachother…" " Yeah, I figured, but here is the fun part- Hey Cloud!" Just then Cloud appeared, " So you have the evidence?"

They nodded their heads and gave him the bag. Avalanche and the Turks continued looking aorund for more clues to Reeve's where abouts. " Ya know Cloud, funny I didn't notice this before…" Cloud looked over to where Reno was and was a trail, obviously made from someone dragging someone, one of those someone's could be Reeve. " They lead to the wall and stop."

Elena coughed slightly, " Let's go back to the Highwind…." " Why?" " Because I wanna rest and there I can study some maps with Rude's help." Reno raised an eyebrow and smiled wickedly, " Yeah, I am sure you guys will be working really hard…I mean you could just collapse from exhaustion." Elena glared, Rude just shook his head and Reno laughed like he was high. Rude and Elena had just finished looking at maps when she saw something. " RENO!!!!"