Oh wow.. I was thinking of abandoning this old thing. But, I've gotta say this thing has some life still in it. Not to mention I like the name of this chapter lol. Hmmm I may have it be Vincent/Elena or Reno/Elena... Undecided. Despite how much I love Reno/Elena something new may be nice.... ::ponders:: Time will tell.

The moon, a shaking heart in an unsteady mirror
The stars, gentle tears in an overflowing stream
Isn't it beautiful, to walk together in each others hands
I do so want to go, To your city, your house, into your arms.

-"Suteki Da Ne"- Final Fantasy X

Chapter 5: Twisted Paths

Location: ShinRa Headquarters

'Why now?' Elena thought as she leaned in closer to Reno. 'Reno... why?' Her mind swirled with thoughts and questions but still their lips met in a soft kiss. They both pulled away quickly. Elena turned away from Reno her heart was pounding and her face was a light red. He got up from his crouching position and smirked. She turned around and glared at him.

'Oh but you brought it upon yourself Elena dear.' He thought. If Elena could read minds Reno would be nursing a new wound on his face by now, but luckily for Reno she can't. She got up and walked off. Reno walked back to his chair and fell asleep.
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".... Yes sir." Rude saluted to the president and walked out of the office. He hated being the barer of bad news, or any news for that matter.

"Tseng is dead." Rufus's words rang in his head. "Dead..." It couldn't be possible could it? That was the hard thing about being a Turk; death haunted you constantly. Guilt sure as hell didn't, but death was always there smiling at you. Smiling, waiting for you to walk down it's path yourself. Rude slowly opened the door to the Turks office. Reno opened his eyes.

"So what's the news?"

"Tseng... He-... He's dead Reno." Rude stuttered. Reno looked at him shocked. He walked over to Rude. In rage he almost hit his friend but stopped.

"Liar!" Reno dropped to the ground. "You're a lying.." Tseng had taken Reno into the Turks when he was still about 16. Tseng had taken him away from his life on the streets of the slums. Reno would have starved if it weren't for Tseng. Tseng was like an older brother to him. Because of the leader he had lived. 'You said... you said to me once Tseng that with my attitude I'd get myself killed. You weren't supposed to die dammit!' Reno pounded the ground as he remembered their leader. 'I was supposed to go before you! I was always the one to rush into things. You told me!' "Why?!"

"Reno c'mon." Rude helped his friend off the ground. Reno looked up Elena was standing there.

"Elena-"Rude started.

"I heard..." She turned away. Reno walked towards her.

"Elena.... Just listen-"

"Why should I?" She gave him an icy look and shook his hand off of her shoulder. Tears dripped from her eyes. "You never understood. You never listened..."

He grabbed her by the shoulders and turned her towards him. "Elena!" She tried to shove him away, kick him, punch him anything to get him away. Nothing worked. "Snap out of it!"

"Why Tseng, Reno?!" She cried. "It could have been me! I would have died and he would be here!" She held on to Reno. "Everyone would have been happier!"

"Snap out of it dammit! Your hysterical." Reno pulled away from her. She calmed a little.

"Why him?"

"I.. don't know." Reno said.

"None of us do, Reno." Rude spoke up. Reno and Rude didn't cry like Elena but they were impacted all the same.

"Who killed him?" Elena asked after a long silence.

"Cloud and his friends we're th-"Rude started, but after he mentioned Cloud she didn't listen to any more. She walked past both Reno and Rude right out the door.

"Elena!" Reno called after her. He ran out of the office down the hall. "Elena, what the hell are you doing?!"

She looked back at him and whispered something to him....
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"Midgar..." Vincent looked at the large city. "I have come back to my... home."

Hard chapter to write. - It's hard to get all their feelings right after I've been writing Mad Season so much which is mostly all happy. --; I'm going to be writing longer chapters or trying to at least. Chapter 6 should be coming up after I write ch.5 for Mad Season. Maybe I dunno. Not sure which direction I should take this one in. Sooo what do you readers think? Reno/Elena or Vincent/Elena?! I'm sure most of you know by now I'm a Reno/Elena fan... But like I said before I might want to take this fic in a different direction. So you guys get to decide what you want to read. Mmyup. So see ya all later. =D