All for Love

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Part 1: Chapter 10: Hide

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Nobody Knows it.

But you've got a secret smile.

And you use it only for me

Nobody Knows it.

But you've got a secret smile.

And you use it only for me

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"I can't find her." Reno panted as he leaned against the wall of the Executive floor, a anxious looking Scarlet stood in front of him.

"What do you mean you can't find her!?"

"She found out that I knew about what happened. She ran off and I don't know where the fuck she is!" Reno put his hands on his knees and bent over, still trying to regain his breath. He had been running around for the last two hours trying to find her, before he decided to involve Scarlet.

"Well find her!" Scarlet shrieked.

"It's not as easy as that Scarlet, and you know it." Reno spoke in a dead level tone.

"What's not easy?" The Vice President asked from his doorway.

"Nothing to worry your pretty little head about Vice Pres." Reno muttered. He stood up straight, then resumed leaning against the wall again.

"You'd better find her, or I'll rip you're head off, stick it on a spear and put it on display!" Scarlet snarled. She stomped off into her office, slamming the door.

"This isn't just my fault you know!" Reno yelled back as the closed door. He sighed and slid down the wall, hugging his knees when he hit the floor. "It's not just my fault." He mumbled to himself. He felt himself be picked up by his collar, staring Rufus back in the face.

"Come on, I'll help you find her." The blonde let go and started to walk off down the hall, leaving behind a bemused Reno.

"You do know she's in the slums."

"I've been in the slums before Reno." The comment made Reno even more perplexed.

"Seriously?" Rufus grinned.

"Seriously. Maybe I don't know my way around as well as you do, but I know enough." Rufus carried on walking again.

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Reno spun around as he stood in the middle of Sector three. He couldn't find Adrienne anywhere. Reno was starting to worry about her. So, she could take care of herself, but she didn't know head from tail in the slums. And as Reno knew from experience, people didn't hang around on their own, they hung out in gangs. He saw Rufus walk towards him and sat himself down on the floor.

"See anything?" The red head asked. Rufus shook his head. Reno swore softly to himself then kicked a bottle nearby. It launched into the air, shattering when it hit the floor.

"It's like looking for a needle in a haystack." Rufus muttered, crunching the shattered glass under his feet. "I forgot how much the slums give me the creeps."

"You have no idea how many people are after my hide." Reno broke the silence after a while. Rufus grinned at him, sitting down next to the red head.

"I have an idea." Reno shook his head.

"No you don't. You have no idea how many different people I've stolen stuff from, kicked the shit out of them, killed one of their friends." Reno shook his head yet again. "You have no idea." The red head started to tap his nightstick on the tarmac.

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Adrienne walked down around the junk piles that were known as the infamous part of sector five. She was clenching her whip so tight, her knuckles were pure white. Her long nails were digging into her palms, but she didn't care. Addy kept thinking over the stuff that had happened lately.

Finding out her mother had been raped by another Executive.

Finding out her own fiancé knew about it and didn't tell her.

She tightened her grip on the whip, her fingernails prodding more into her hands, fetching tiny amounts of blood. She couldn't believe he lied to her. All of a sudden she felt cold. Wrapping her arms around herself, she kept walking. Maybe if she kept walking everything would go back to normal.

She wished all this wouldn't have happened.

She was knocked out of her thoughts when she heard Reno's name mentioned in front of her. Thinking it was him, she dove behind one of the scrap piles. She then realised. Staying to see what the conversation was about, she made she she had hidden herself well.

"Mikey says he saw the bastard in sector three earlier on."

"You sure?"

"Positive. Mikey is never wrong and you know it, Scar." The man named Scar was certainly called that for a reason. One of his eyes was closed shut, a long mark ran over it from eyebrow to jaw line. A tattoo marred the other side of his face, a picture, drawn only in black, of a phoenix, surround by flames. He was quiet tall, while the man he was talking to was about a foot shorter than him.

"Yeah whatever. All I know is that Reno is gonna get to see another day once we find him." Scar answered back.

"Something else you should know boss. He was a in a Turk suit and talking to the Vice Pres."

"You're kidding me? A runt like that a fucking Turk?" He was in thought for a few seconds, then an evil glint appeared in his eye. "Grab the lads and meet me in Sector three." The smaller man did a two fingered salute and ran off. The taller man headed off towards where Addy assumed sector three was. She decided to follow him.

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"Reno." Rufus interrupted Reno's train of thoughts.

"Hmm."

"I'll go and look in sector two ok? You stay round here. I'll be back in about an hour." Rufus said as he rose up from the ground. Reno nodded and resumed tapping his stick. Rufus shook his head and walked off. Reno's eyes followed the older man retreating form, until he disappeared. He sighed cheerlessly. Maybe she'd turn him soft. He couldn't stand the thought of her being mad at him. He tapped his nightstick a bit harder. He winced as he heard the plastic crack a little.

"Stupid piece of shit." He muttered to himself. He still carried on tapping. It was as if the tapping was therapeutic, in a way. "Make note to self; Buy a metal nightstick." He looked around the area he was in. It was a quiet part of the slums. No shops or bars stood there. Reno stood up, flicking his weapon on. He charge it up for a while. Releasing a little lever, a ball of white electricity the size of a tennis ball shot from the end, harmless hitting a brick wall near by. Reno did it again, this time holding the switch for longer. This time the ball of energy was the size of a football. Again it harmlessly hit the wall. He smirked to himself.

"Reno!"

Before Reno had a chance to turn round, someone grabbed him from behind. Pain exploded in his stomach. It took him a moment to realise the man behind him had buried a knife in his gut.

"Reno!"

Reno cursed himself for not being more alert. The man behind him jerked the blade out of Reno's stomach. The red head slid to the floor. He was kicked onto his front. He caught a glimpse of his attack.

"So the little shit is a Turk then?" The man bent down to Reno's ear. "You're still a useless piece of shit Reno." The man known as Scar stood back up. A whip flew around the man's wrist. Reno heard the sound of a shotgun, then everything went black.

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Scar looked at the whip that was latched around his wrist. He followed the cord until it reached the owner. A young girl in a Turk suit. Adrienne scowled at the older man. With a flick of her wrist the whip came back to her, uncoiling from the man's arm. Scar unconsciously started to rub his wrist. his eyes trailed to the way the shot gun sound came from. He saw an angry Vice President with a smoking shot gun in his hand.

"What do I owe the pleasure?" Scar asked in a sleezy voice. Rufus' shot gun went off again. The bullet scraping past Scar's arm. He fell to the floor. "What the.."

"Why don't you piss off. If you don't I know something I can ram up your arse and then I can shove you in a cell for a mighty long time." The older man gulped. Gathering all his wit, he jumped up and ran off. When the man got a littler further away, Rufus raised his shotgun again, aiming directly at the man's head.

The gun went off.

The man fell to the floor and didn't rise. Rufus heard the scuttle of all of his gang members moving away before the same fate happened to them.

Addy didn't bother to look, she dashed to Reno's side and started to shake him.

"Reno! C'mon Reno, wake up." A tear made it's way down the blonde's face. She watched as Rufus came and stood at the other side of the red head. Adrienne caught the glint of the green orb from the blonde's gun. He chanted for a while. The wound on Reno's stomach closed a little, enough to stop the blood flow.

"What the hell happened?" It was only then Adrienne realised Tseng was stood behind her.

"Personal grudge me thinks." Rufus muttered, putting his gun his it's holster. Tseng bent down, picking the red head up.

"Gesh for a lad his size he sure is light." The black haired man grumbled. Adrienne felt a hand on her shoulder. Turning her head she saw Rufus.

"C'mon. He'll be ok." Adrienne smiled sadfully and rose from the floor. She started to walk back to Shinra, void of any emotion.

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So use it.

And prove it.

Remove this.

World Inner Sadness.

I'm losing.

I'm bruising.

But you can.

Save me from Madness.

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