Stained Souls
Chapter 4: Ridiculous Job Ever
Cloud slumped in the steel made chair, which only brought more pain to how suicidal he felt being in the same room with Reno. On the other side Reno didn't feel any different then Cloud but his mind wasn't on how long it would take before he'd kill himself. Reno studied Cloud. He could have just blamed it on another Turk habit, knowing every detail of your enemy, but Cloud's newly found depression lured his eyes longer on him.
Cloud was oblivious to Reno's stare while he leaned his head on his arm that rested on the chair; drifting off to a resting state between sleep and awake. Cloud's SOLIDER uniform has been replaced by pitch black folds that were worn probably for the past deaths two months back that made him run. His electric blue eyes were at most times threatening but now they seemed sadden with a burden. Not only did Cloud change from the outside but in as well and Reno can smell it through his cigarette's fog.
"Wow," Reno flicked a bit of ash from his drag. "So you're still alive. Word has been spreading around town that you killed yourself—or was that the other guy?" Reno shrugged the matter as if it were no important than the weather.
"Pity that you're still around here Reno." Cloud began. "I was hoping the city had scrubbed itself off from the past's waste like you." Reno laughed at Cloud's cruelty. Nothing could bend his emotions downward; his spine was unbreakable to anyone's will.
"Just trying to get my feet on the ground. But I think I'm the one ahead of that race between me and you. How long has it been Cloud? Two months?! What, now that you've saved the world; I thought it would be your chance to do things you wouldn't normally do?"
"What if I did?" Cloud snarled.
"If riding around on your bike is something you enjoy then seriously you are a failed experiment!" Reno leaned against the wall facing Cloud, watching him. Now Cloud could feel Reno's eyes and stared back hoping it would wield them away. But they stood their ground without faltering to the floor.
It made Cloud uncomfortable by just staring at Reno in silence such as this.
"So when are you going to give me the information?" Just as he said that the fax on the desk began printing out paper.
"Ah! Perfect timing." Reno pushed himself up from the wall and seized the paper. He began reading the printed information.
"Don't do that!!" Cloud snatched the paper away. "You can't read it. No one can except Vincent!!"
"Still doing what ever you're being told." Reno mused. Cloud wanted to say more but he knew it would only end with Reno getting the last word again, so he walked out. Yet the ex-solider didn't leave without mumbling as he walked off.
"This has got to be the most ridiculous job ever."
"Can't wait to see you next time Cloud!" Even still, Reno had the last word.
Cloud stopped short from the door. Damn it! He thought before he left what he would be returning to again.