(Author's Note: Sorry for not updating over the weekend but my friend Rueh was back from her friends house and we hadn't talked for 2 weeks so…I was busy…anyways…here's chapter 18…Arcander…don't worry about having to review every time I post a new chapter...just do it when you can…and were you being sarcastic in your review?…Just wondering…Yuffie Kisaragi…Yuffie has a part in this chapter…but that's all I'll tell for now…you'll just have to read it! Anyways…enjoy!)
Disclaimer: FF7 and Squaresoft are not mine. Rueh belongs to Rueh…Dete is mine.
Chapter 18
A Good Chance Meeting
-3 Years Later-
Hojo was still performing the same experiments on Sephiroth and Dete. One day he returned to Midgar to get something from his old lab. He was thinking and didn't pay much attention to where he was going.
"Watch where you're going!"
"Sorry," Hojo said to the person he had just run into.
"Whatever. Can you tell me how to get out of this city? I'm lost," the girl said.
"Go that way. Keep going straight," he said.
"Thank you," she said. They walked past each other a few feet…
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Hojo took off running.
"Hey! Get back here!" Rueh yelled and gave chase. Hojo rounded a corner and found a dead end. Rueh came around the corner and slipped on the big puddle. She ran into the brick wall. She fell backwards and landed on her back. After a few seconds she got up. She raised one finger as she swayed with a dazed look on her face. "That hurt," she said and fell backwards again. "Ooooo…1 blue birdie-bird…2 blue birdie-bird…3 blue birdie-birds…9 blue birdie-birds…4 blue birdie-birds…hey…that one was purple…now I have to start all over again…5 blue birdie-birds…4 blue birdie-birds…" she stopped and her eyes went wide. "Oooooo…they popped! Come back birdies! Come back!" she said.
Hojo was staring at her wide eyed. "You're mad!" he said.
"Mad? I'm not mad. I'm crazy but not mad. See? I'm happy right now," she said. He just kept staring at her. "Well. It's true. I'm happy not mad," she huffed. Hojo shook his head. "Anyway…where's Dete and Sephiroth?" she asked suddenly back to herself.
"In my lab," he said.
"But last time we were there it was empty," she said.
"I moved it somewhere else."
"Oh…where?"
"It's at…I'm not telling you!" he said.
Rueh snapped her fingers. "Darn…you almost did," she said.
"But I didn't and I won't," Hojo said.
"Oh I think you will. My friends want to talk to you," she said taking a step forward. Hojo spun around and started to run while still looking at her.
"Umm…stop?" she said.
"Not on your life!" he said.
"No. Really. Stop," she aid.
"Why should…" Hojo ran into the wall.
"I told you to stop but n-no-o-o-o…no one ever listens to me," Rueh said laughing.
"Oh look…1 yellow birdie…7 yellow birdies…oooo…they popped…" he said lying on the ground.
"Come one," Rueh growled and grabbed the back of his lab coat. She proceeded to drag him out of Midgar…
"Where have you been?! We've been waiting 3 years, 2 months, 1 week, 3 days, 4 hours, 28 minutes, and 37 seconds for you!" Yuffie said.
"Did you miss me? I was lost," Rueh said.
"Okay sure," Yuffie said sarcastically.
"Hey! Lookie what I found!" Rueh said and showed the Hojo. He was dirty from being dragged. Everyone laughed at him.
"Yuffie…if you were in such a hurry to leave why didn't you come look for me?" Rueh said.
"Yeah…well…umm…you see…that's it!...my Conformer broke…" Yuffie turned her back on Rueh. Rueh was quiet.
"…and I…had to…umm…fix it," Yuffie said and turned back to face her. She held up her weapon…that had duct tape on part of it.
"Riiight…I think you're just lazy," Rueh said as she watched a roll of duct tape roll towards Red.
"Hojo…where's Dete and Sephiroth?" Red asked.
"Why should I tell?" Hojo asked. Vincent grabbed the front of Hojo's lab coat and pointed the Death Penalty at him. "All right! All right!! They're…in the basement…of the Junon training center," Hojo said.
"Yeah right. Like we're going to believe that," Rueh said.
"We don't but it wouldn't hurt to check. Just to be sure," Red said.
"Better safe then sorry," Aeris said.
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