--The Simple Life—

"Dimitri? A customer!" I yelled into the small shop.

A few moments later I heard Reno and young customer speaking. I stood outside our little shop in Winhill, it had been 6 months since we left Junon to start our new lives. Reno and I still acted as brother and sister while others were around. We had even made a few friends here in Winhill, such a strange turn of events…one of our new friends was none other than Paige Noire's own brother Darius Noire. Darius and Reno got along great, they quickly became the best of friends, many times leaving me behind. But it didn't matter, I very much enjoyed laying out in the large grassy area behind our shop just staring at the sky. It was wonderful. Sometimes the place was so quiet it almost seemed like heaven. Reno and I didn't want to run out of money too quickly so we set up a small shop with plenty of items and built a small two bedroom apartment above it. It was lovely and peaceful, I couldn't ask for anything more. After a long haul back and forth to a Chocobo breeding farm Reno had returned just recently with three new chocobos! A green one, a golden one, and a rare black chocobo. I thought them all to be very adorable and named them each, Grassy, Goldie, and Midnight.

I saw a man coming up to the house carrying a large bag, instantly I knew who he was.

"Pedro!" I yelled out runing over to him.

Pedro Martin was a young man still in school who delivered the mail before school each morning. I always greeted him with a smile, and today was no different as he handed me the morning paper.

"Big story on the front page Miss VanBraff!" He said smiling before walking off.

I unfolded the paper and carefully read seeing a shocking picture on the front page. "DIMITRI!" I yelled running into the shop.

He turned quickly from the customer to me. "Are you ok Rini?"

The customer turned and looked a me a moment the returned looking at the Items he was asking to buy. I blinked a moment and looked around. "Well…I can wait." I said going around behind the counter and reading the article in the paper. I couldn't believe my very eyes!

A few moments later the customer left with his goods and I shoved the paper into Reno's face. "LOOK!"

Reno shook his head and took the paper. "What did X-2 break up or something?" He said laughing.

I shot him an evil look. "No…just read!"

The WinHill Window

Shin-Ra Hears Wedding Bells

President Rufus Shinra announced Friday afternoon that he and long time secret fiancee Paige Noire are expecting their first child. This news came as quite a shock to the rest of Shin-Ra corperation

No one had any idea that the two were secretly together. Rude Porter, a Turk for Shin-Ra stated that he knew something was happening he'd never seen the president tie his own tie without her help.

The two are planning their wedding for this weekend, Shin-Ra officials say they prefer a wedding before the little bundle of joy arrives

Kisaragi Enters Treaty

This morning Shin-Ra officials announced the rebuilding of the city Wutai. The small city was destroyed during battles with Sephiroth and is still to be rebuilt. Wutai representative Yuffie Kisaragi explained that her recent peace treaty involvement has lightened the situation. Last Monday Miss Kisaragi met with leaders Laguna Loire, Squall Leonheart and Rufus Shinra to add Wutai to the peace treaty."It is in hopes to bring all together as one!" Miss Kisaragi told our papers last week. Seemingly enough this peace treaty is going much better than planned.

"Hmm, looks like they are rebuilding Wutai! Lovely! That's great that Yuffie has become a diplomat for her country." Reno said slowly reading the paper.

"Oh Reno it's the other damn thing you idiot!" I said jumping up and down a little.

"Fine fine, I am reading…gosh!" He said looking up from the paper a moment.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?"

I stepped back a little knowing that Reno had just read the article about Paige and Rufus.

"What in the world? I have been gone 6 months and he's knocked up someone? What the hell? We must have…trashed his life somehow. This makes no sence." Reno said tossing the paper on the counter.

"I know! Rufus despises women, he told me that a plenty number of times!" I said looking up at Reno, there was a small hint of red starting to show through his white hair. I giggled a moment.

"This isn't funny, this is fucked up…" He said replying to my giggle.

"No..no..that isn't funny…but your red hair sure is!" I said smiling at him.

He looked to me then turned to a mirror close behind the counter. "Well, you shouldn't be laughing because you've been a blond for three days…" He said staring into the mirror.

The bad thing was that I knew that and had done nothing about it. I wanted to be a blond again, I wanted to be myself more than anything…it was just so hard looking in the mirror each day seeing another face. It hurt knowing that I'd never be able to be me again. I think Reno could sence that, so he never really said anything. I turned away from him.

"So…Paige is having a baby…by Rufus…hmmm how very awkward." I said climbing up on the counter.

Reno turned back to me. "Yeah, it's strange isn't it? Maybe we should crash the wedding?"

"NO!" I yelled out.

"Man, I was only playing, chill out Rini…gosh.." He said laughing.

I looked at him. "Well, you better have been…because I am really freaked out by this…"

Reno walked over to me placing his hand on my head. "It will be alright…I am sure…that something has changed with Rufus…and I think this will be a good thing. Really I do."