All for Love

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Part 2: Chapter 6: When the Past Creeps up on you

"It worked then?"

"Of course it worked! Didn't you feel the god damn thing explode!?" the brunette man shouted. His green eyes looked as though they darkened a few shades as he carried on glaring at the other man in front of him.

"No need to get worked up over it, I was only asking if it worked. Anyone can set off a bomb."

"It worked alright?"

The other man, dark blonde hair and blue eyes, a couple of inches shorter than the brunette, sighed lightly. "Alright."

The brunette grinned. "How about getting a drink to celebrate Jay?"

"Sounds good to me."

The two men left the room they had booked in the inn and walked into the cold night streets of Gongaga. The brunette man shoved his hands in his pockets and made a bee line for the bar, the other man following close behind.

"What you rushing at?" the blonde whispered.

"It's cold," the brunette mumbled under his breath, "besides I don't want anyone to see us who could recognise us for blowing the reactor up."

"You said no one saw you right?"

The brunette huffed. "I didn't see anyone, doesn't mean there wasn't anyone." The man caught a glimpse of some people walking from the direction of the reactor. He cursed under his breath and dragged the blonde man behind a nearby building.

"Hey-" the blonde tried to yell out before the brunette covered his mouth, holding a finger up to his lips. As soon as the men walked by, the brunette let his hand drop again.

"Turks," he mumbled, "we're in deep shit here."

"Surely they can't be that hard?"

"You obviously don't see Midgar much. I swear I know one of them.........." the green eyed man trailed off. "I think we'd better put that bar trip off and get outta here."

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The three Turks wandered up to their room in the inn. Reno flopped onto the bed nearest the door, his legs dangling over the side. He lifted the sunglasses off his head and threw them onto the bed side table. Tseng walked over to the window and peered out from behind the frilly net curtain. Rude disappeared off into the bathroom.

"It almost too quiet," Tseng mumbled, still looking out the window.

Reno sat up. "Not everyone's plotting against ya, ya know."

"That's not what I meant."

"Why don't we go to that bar I saw," Reno suggested. Just as Tseng opened his mouth, Reno interrupted him. "Let me guess, 'No Reno we aren't going to a bar, we're on duty'," He tried to make his voice sound slightly Wutian.

Tseng smiled, "I was actually going to say yes but if you don't wanna go........"

"Forget what I said," Reno mumbled as he got up off the bed, perching his sunglass on the top of his head again. "Move it Rude," he shouted after his friend as he opened the door of the room.

Just as Reno stepped into the hallway, he heard some distinctively loud conversation coming from down the hall.

"C'mon man. How are they gonna know it was you that blew up the reactor?"

Reno's eyes widen slightly. Without a second through he dived back into the room, shutting the door lightly. Tseng just looked at the red head peculiarly.

"What's the-"

"Shhh," Reno cut off, holding his ear to the door.

"Aw c'mon no one's gonna hear me." The same man from before replied. Reno assumed it was to the question 'Shut the hell up'.

"Anyone could hear and dob us in you twit!" The other man growled. Reno mused that the voice sounded familiar to him though he couldn't quite place where.

"You should stop threating man."

"You're gonna be the death of me, you realise that Jay." The two voices faded as they entered the room next door. Reno pulled his ear away from the door and looked at his boss.

"The guys that blew up the reactor are rooming next door," the redhead said calmly. Tseng and now Rude, who had just come out the bathroom, looked towards their co-worker.

"You sure?" Tseng asked.

"They just fucking admitted it while walking down the hallway. How much surer do you want me to be?" Reno stated while scowling.

Rude blinked, "Well that was........ easy," he finished.

"Nothing's ever easy." Tseng walked over to the wall near the beds and placed his ear against the plaster. He listened to the occupants in the next room for a number of minutes, before nodding, satisfied. "Amateurs," the leader of the Turks muttered. He nodded for his two Turks to follow him out the room. Loading his gun has he walked the short distance to the next room, they all stopped when they reached the door. Tseng mentally counted in his head, then lifted his leg up and kicking down the door with ease.

Both the men in the room looked to the door with widened eyes. Reno's eyes came to rest on the brunette. His eyes widen a little.

"Gui?" he asked in bewilderment.

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"Reno, you idiot! Stop trying to break the couch!" A voice yelled from the other room.

"If it had four legs, it would be able to take more." He mumbled. A brunette man walked into the room, early twenties. His hair was on the short side. He had striking dark green eyes that Reno swore went even darker when he was in a bad mood.

"I heard that dumkopf."

Reno grinned. "Come on Gui, you really need to think of a better insult than that."

Gui narrowed his eyes at the red head. "Don't you have places to be, money to give to people you've been in debt to for nearly two years?" He asked him.

"Yeah yeah, I'll get to it." Reno said waving his hand. The brown haired man sighed.

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"Shit!" He heard Gui yell from the other side of the room. There was yet another shot and another bang.

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"So it was you," Gui muttered.

Jay, the other man, left no room for a chat. He brought up his gun. It was unlucky for him that Tseng brought his up quicker. The Wutian squeezed the trigger, sending a well placed bullet in between the blonde man's eyes. Jay fell to the floor with a thud. Gui looked on, his eyes widening a little more.

"I wouldn't try it if I was you," Tseng nodded to the gun in Gui's pocket that the man had his hand wrapped around. "You don't wanna end up like your friend there."

Reno walked in front of his boss, his own gun in his hands pointing the nozzle at the ground. "I'll take care of it," the red head muttered. Tseng's gun lowered slightly.

"Never thought a scrawny runt like you would be a Turk," Gui said as casually as his voice would allow.

"Never thought you'd result to blowing up reactors and killing innocent people, but I was clearly wrong," Reno said with a slight sneer.

Gui laughed bitterly, "well someone has to stop the scum of the world."

"I also thought you were dead."

"The bullet hit me in the shoulder, but I wasn't gonna say any different so I just stayed down," Gui explained. He went to take a step forward, but Reno's gun edged up slightly, so he stopped. He held his hands up in defence. "You're not gonna shoot an old friend are you?"

"Since when were you my friend?" Reno clicked the safety off the gun.

"Ouch, that hurt," Gui said mockingly. "I always thought we were friends?"

Reno relaxed a little. Gui, seeing his opening, took a quick step forward and knocked the gun flying out Reno's hand. Reno soon forgot about the gun and pulled his nightstick off his belt loop instead. Taking less time than it would for Gui to hold up his gun and shoot, Reno pulled the little lever on his weapon and sent an electrical ball towards his old acquaintance. The ball hit Gui and sent up ploughing into the wall, cracking the plaster a little. Gui let the gun fall out of his hands. It clattered to the floor, breaking the unnatural silence. The brunette coughed a little.

"Always were...... a quick bastard...... weren't ya?" Gui struggled to say.

Reno shrugged. "I have you to thank for that." With that, Reno pulled the spare pistol out of his inside pocket and aimed it at the man. "Say hi to Vice, Checker and Leigh for me won't you?" With slight hesitation, Reno pulled the trigger. Gui's head slumped against his shoulder, blood oozing out of the hole through his head. Reno lowered the gun slowly. He stared for a minute longer, then shoved the gun back in his pocket and stormed out the room. Tseng and Rude looked at each other before following, Tseng pulling out his PHS as he did so.

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*pokes* Ok just to make sure you all know, Gui is one of the men that Reno used to live with before he got dragged off to be in SOLDIER. Go and re-read chapter 4 if you can't remember, because I wrote that part nearly 6 months ago. So everyone is forgiven if you've forgotten.

Great. Please, pretty pretty please review!

Lindz