Reneo and Yuffiet 3

Yay, sorry for the wait. I just have so many WIP's some things get forgotten. That and the fact I didn't know what to make Reno go as. But, now I'm at a fun part in the fic, I think I'm going to put this at the forefront of importance. Hope you like!



Rude's feet ached, so did his arms, and legs, and practically everything else. He was sure his hair would ache – if he had any. There was no doubt, shopping was definitely a harder workout than anything Tseng could have devised. Especially when Elena had been granted free access to the Turk budget. It wasn't going toward new weapons or uniforms though, it was for something else…

"Ruuuude! Get your ass over here!" That was Reno, he didn't mind shopping with Elena as much, although he wasn't the one tricked into carrying bags. How had both of them been dragged into this anyway? Rude shifted the 12 heavy bags where he could get a better grip whilst retaining circulation in his hands. He slowly walked toward the back of the store where his fellow Turks were grinning maniacally. Reno was bouncing on his heels. A sure sign he was up to something.

"…What?" Rude asked in his low growl. Elena grinned and Rude noticed she had her hands behind her back. Now he was getting highly suspicious.

"You know that party we are going to?" She began in a mock imitation of innocence. Rude blinked slowly, he wasn't sure where this was headed.

"Yeah." Never one to talk much where a single word would suffice. Reno was getting impatient to the side of him, Rude was as well. What were they planning?

"Well, there was a slight catch when they gave me the tickets." Now Rude could see where this was going, he was the catch, but that didn't explain the hiding things behind her back in a clothes shop. A female clothes shop.

Suddenly a little notion popped into his head, Rude prayed it wasn't true.

"You gotta be the entertainment!" Reno piped up, unable to keep quiet any longer. Rude kept his gaze on Elena as she shot Reno a dark look, and uncovered the thing behind her back.

"No." One glimpse gave Rude all the time to make up his mind. Reno and Elena both groaned.

"But- please!" they both whined at the same time. Rude shook his head. Reno lowered his aquamarine eyes and Elena – quite the opposite brightened up. Ignoring Rude for the moment she turned to the red head.

"Re, why don't you go and get your costume. There is a joke shop further down the street, you should find something there." Reno brightened again.

"Why didn't you tell me there was a joke shop earlier! Catch ya later!" He turned and sped out of the woman's shop.

"Why get rid of Reno?" Rude asked quietly. Elena turned to him again, face set in a serious manner.

"He's the reason we're going to the party. Yesterday he was so sullen and unlike himself you wouldn't believe. Though he has been like this for a while. Don't tell me you haven't noticed!"

"I have." Rude confirmed. "I figured he would get over it."

"He wont!" Elena snapped. "Unless we help. This "it" he has to get over is Aeris. That girl from AVALANCHE. He's head over heels for her." Rude held up his hand.

"A girl? Reno has a new girl every week. You shouldn't worry." Elena scowled.

"Nevertheless. It hurts me to see him sad. This party will help him find someone else. It will be fun for us all. Please Rude." She pulled the puppy dog eyes look on him and Rude was torn whether to agree.

"…Fine" He submitted. The blonde whooped and hugged him, well, tried to on account of the bags blocking the way.

"Thank you! Now, lets go buy this and find Reno a costume." Elena set off for the checkout, Rude readjusted the bags and walked slowly after her.

They found Reno outside the joke shop. Two bags in hand and ready to go home. He grinned at the sparkly strap hanging out of the new bag Rude held.

"Great work 'Lena!" He said whilst starting to walk back. Elena stopped him.

"Aren't you going to tell us what you bought?" She asked. Reno looked to ponder it whilst replying with a simple.

"Naw" and walked off. Bag laden Rude in tow.

Elena tapped her feet and glanced at her watch again. It didn't take this long to get ready did it? For Rude and Reno it did. She faintly heard Rufus yelling in the Jaguar outside. He was dressed as a king with a splendid velvet purple cloak and a real gold crown atop his blonde hair. No-one really expected him to go dressed as anything else really, considering how mighty he thought of himself. Tseng was dressed as mad scientist as he could not be bothered going out and spending money on a costume. He had simply asked Hojo for a lab coat and a stethoscope. Elena herself was dressed as a french maid. A scandalously high black dress with a frilly white apron, complete with feather duster. She really wanted to impress Tseng, by leaving nothing to his imagination…

She had no idea what Reno was going as, Rufus knew, he came out of Reno's room laughing his head off. Rude and Tseng were smirking when they found out as well. Yet Elena still had no idea. Which is why she sat impatiently outside the Turk rooms waiting to see Reno's mysterious costume, and to see how Rude looked in his dress.

She guessed Reno would be dressed as a jester or something matching his character, or perhaps he was going for scary. His sadistic tendencies sometimes made him do that, like Elena's birthday the year before. He had gone as the Headless horseman, he had hid in Elena's room and when she had gone to sleep he had stood over her bed moaning for a new head.

Elena shook her head, she still hadn't lived down that she screamed and attacked him. Rufus snickered at her for it every other day. She still couldn't imagine what Reno was going as.

Eventually Reno's door opened, Elena jumped up of her seat to see what he was dressed as. Her eyes trailed up the pressed white pants, to the crisp blazer and finally to his unruly blonde hair. BLONDE! It was true, Reno had dyed his crimson bangs to a shade like Rufus, in fact – his entire outfit looked like Rufus.

"You're going as?"

"The vice Pres himself, heh, I was gonna be able to order his scrawny ass around tonight... I shouldn't have told him, he was going to go as a cat or something, then he just had to one up me! " Reno chuckled then paused to stare at Elena. "Holy, Lena. Going to extremes to get him to notice you?" Elena looked down for a moment. "I surely aint complainin anywho." With that Reno gave a low whistle. Elena brought up her hand and smacked his head. "whoa!" He cried, "Mind the hair!" Elena smiled.

"I see you didn't cut it, Rufus has never had his hair that long." Reno grinned,

"Yeah, well. I ain't going to cut my hair for noone!" He announced in a presidential voice.

"Even, if I…" Elena took a seductive pose, allowing her outfit to finish the sentence.

"Especially If. You're Tsengs! Even if he doesn't know it yet. C'mon, I wanna see Rude's dance." The blonde grabbed Elena by the hand and together they ran out to the car.

The AVALANCHE house was packed! Loud dance music blared from the speakers in the front rooms and the loud noise of party-goers chattering filled everybody's eardrums almost to bursting level. Inside the Jaguar Rufus and Elena were jittery with impatience, whilst Rude sulked quietly in the back. Reno, in his excitement, had climbed out of the window and sat on the roof of the car. He struck kingly poses and waved to everyone happily.

"Wish I had thought of doing that." Rufus groaned, face pressed to the window whilst Tseng slowly manouvered the car to a parking space.

"Well, We're here now. Lets go party!" Elena cheered, unlocking the door and jumping out. Reno hopped off the roof.

"That's my line! As craziest amongst us I always get to say the cheesy lines." He sulked. Rufus jumped out of the car and watched as Rude in a very mini dress climbed out after him, stumbling on his stillettos.

"I think you may have to give up your title to Rudena here Re." Rufus remarked cheekily, dodging Rude's swipe. The three laughed as the big man over balanced and toppled onto his ass.

"All right. I thought we were here to party, not laugh at Rude." Tseng called, shutting his door and locking it. Reno skipped a little in the direction of the door.

"Yeah, but we can't resist taking jabs at Rude. It's not often we get to do that without getting a fist in the face," he shouted back. Rude climbed onto his unsteady feet.

"…I am going to kick his ass for this later." He muttered, walking after the group.

Cait Sith was stood at the door atop his big moogle, waiting to accept invitations. He grinned at the 5 as they handed their invitations.

"Boss said you guys were coming. Have fun kay!" He called cheerily to them, Reno waved the cat away and strolled past, aquamarine eyes taking in the sights around him.

Banners and streamers were covering the great hall that was AVALANCHE's entrance, costumed people milled around talking amicably and Reno had to dodge several Cloud Strife lookalikes to get to the buffet table. He grabbed a paper cup which had "Happy Birthday Yuffie" printed on the side and poured himself an (alcoholic) drink. His eyes roamed across the crowd, hoping desperately to see the once flower girl Aeris.

There! He spotted her dancing next to a man dressed as a knight, Cloud Strife. She was wearing a white dress with paper wings on the back. An angel. Reno thought it suited her perfectly. He placed his drink on the table and sauntered over towards her. When he reached the pair he tapped Aeris on the shoulder and asked her if she would like to dance. Cloud stared at him, unsure who he invited that would be dressed as his enemy. Aeris whirled around.

"Ok, hey, aren't you? Reno?" That set Cloud off.

"Reno! Why the hell are you here! You're lucky I haven't got my sword or I'd kill you." Reno ignored him and stared at Aeris. She huffed and grabbed Cloud's arm, dragging him away and leaving a rejected Reno watching after them.

He felt an hand on his shoulder.

"Maybe it's better this way Re." Tseng told him quietly. Reno shrugged his arm off.

"Oh piss off Tseng. I don't care." Then he stormed off, pushing angrily past people.

Yuffie whooped with glee. This party was awesome! She took a swig of her drink and continued dancing next to Cid. He was dressed as an astronaut but noone expected him to go as anything else.

"Whoa, slow down half pint, the party has only just started and you're gulping them drinks down like there's no tomorrow." He shouted to her over the music. Yuffie grinned and took another swig.

Suddenly someone barged into Cid, the pilot oomphed and fell over, over balanced in his bulky costume. He fell into Yuffie and knocked her hand which had the drink in and it spilt all over her dress. She squealed and jumped back, but the damage was done. Her dress was ruined. Cid was cursing on the floor but Yuffie ignored him. She took off running upstairs to try and clean her dress up.

Yuffie didn't want anyone to notice her ruined dress so she ran fast, unbidden tears sprung to her eyes. She had wanted her birthday party to be perfect. The bathroom was in sight when she suddenly barged into someone, knocking them both over.

"Oww…watch were you're running." The person grumbled, getting slowly to his feet. He bent down and gave Yuffie a hand helping her up. Her breath caught as she looked into the man she ran into.

He had long spiky blonde hair which was tied back into a ponytail, strands hung over his pale face and eyes. Yuffie found herself staring at his eyes, they were beautiful. Two bright jewels of emotion that glittered greeny blue sitting over twin scars on high cheekbones. Currently they were narrowed as the owner of them glared at Yuffie.

"Hey brat. Gotta problem?" Yuffie snapped out of her staring.

"Yeh you! Standing like a troll and getting in my way!" She retorted, folding her arms over her dress. The man laughed coldly.

"Well, if you weren't running as if the great Sephiroth was pissed off at you, then you would have clearly seen me standing here." He laughed coldly, but stopped when he saw the tell tale signs of tears glimmering in her eyes. Mistaking it for pain from the fall he asked. "Brat, you ok?" Yuffie pushed past him.

"Just peachy. Now if you'd be so kind as to piss off. I would like to go to the bathroom." She didn't mean to be so cold to him, not when he looked as dejected as he had before. He grabbed her arm.

"Wait." Yuffie stopped and looked at him, feigning impatience as he struggled for something to say. "Do you, er, want to talk?"

Reno mentally punched himself in the head. How lame was that! He really wanted to get to know this beautiful woman, her innocent violet eyes which were trying to seem angry but in reality showed curiosity. Her creamy skin he longed to touch and her raven hair he could imagine running his hands through. His glum mood at Aeris' rejection was forgotten.

The woman smiled a little, unable to seem angry at him.

"Ok." She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and together they walked over to a balcony overlooking the stairs. Reno leant on the marble, watching the people below him dancing, he could make out Elena trying to dance closer to Tseng, and Rufus giggling loudly with a bottle of firewhisky in each hand. Rude was nowhere to be found.

"So." He began unsure, "having fun?" It brought Yuffie's gloomy mood back, reminding her of her dress.

"I was. Until someone ran into the person I was dancing with and spilt my drink all over my dress. Now it's ruined!" She whined. Reno looked at her dress,

"It's not ruined, the water must have dried." He comforted her. Yuffie sniffed,

"It wasn't water, it was beer, now it smells." Reno laughed, Yuffie looked at him strangely.

"There is nothing wrong with smelling like beer! By the end of the night everyone will!" A man passed behind the two, heading for the bathroom, a cup in his hand. Reno jumped back and plucked the cup out of his hand. "I'll look after it for ya." He told the man, who shrugged and continued walking.

"What do you want that for. There's plenty downstairs." Yuffie told him. Reno grinned cheekily.

"Just strengthening my earlier comment." And with that he aimed and tipped the drink over Barret who was dancing with Marlene. Barret yelled and cursed, whilst the little girl giggled. Reno and Yuffie laughed and jumped back to avoid being seen.

"Holy that was funny! Lets do it again!" Yuffie gasped between laughs. Reno was doubled over, hands clutched to his stomach.

"Ok. Let's get that drunk over there." He chuckled, pointing to kingly Rufus. Yuffie nodded and they both sprinted down the stairs, towards the drinks table for ammunition. Both earlier bad feelings completely gone in the fun.

Rude grumbled as he uneagerly anticipated his show. A woman dressed as a tonberry next to him shrieked as a lot of firewhisky tumbled from above on top of her. He looked up and saw Reno as the culprit, along with a young woman. Reno had tears of mirth in his eyes as the pair ran away. The sight brought a smile to Rude's face, maybe this party was worth it after all.

He grimaced as Elena jogged up to him, smelling of alcohol and with wet hair, another victim of Reno's.

"Rude. It's time for your show! Make it one to remember!" She told him gleefully, "oh, and, stay away from the sides, some punk keeps throwing glasses of alcohol at me and other people. They must have got Tseng at least 12 times!" She warned, before running off to the CD player and putting the song Rude had to dance to on. Rude shifted the silver wig on his head and went to the top of the stairs, he was going to give the audience a show they'd never forget, one that he was never going to live down.

"Please! Let's get the scientist again, or maybe the french maid!" Reno pleaded. Yuffie grinned and grabbed his hand.

"Only if we can get Cloud again! It was so funny seeing his look of confusion!" She told him. Reno smirked.

"Deal!" The two had grown considerably close to each other as the night went on. Standing close together with Reno's arm around Yuffie's shoulders as they leaned over to pour another bottle over Cloud and Aeris. Yuffie looked over to where they kept their ammunition.

"Oh no, we're out. I'll get some more." She told him then took off for another trip to the table. Reno gave a true smile as he watched her manouver around the crowd. A french maid came bustling up the stairs and tapped him on the shoulder.

"Oh, hey 'Lena, having a fun time?" He asked her, grinning at her soaked hair." Elena smiled at how happy he seemed.

"Yeh, well, It's Rude's time to dance, you don't want to miss that do you?" Reno's eyes went wide with excitement. He took off running towards the drinks table, shouting over his shoulder.

"Not for the world. What happened to your hair 'Lena?" Elena was about to give him an explanation when she noticed all the empty bottles and cups strewn across the landing. Shaking her head with a wide grin Elena muttered,

"That's why Tseng got wet so much. Only Reno." Before she too ran to get a good view of Rude's performance.

Yuffie had an armful of beer when Reno caught up to her.

"Here, give me a hand." She told him, passing a few bottles over. Reno put them down and grabbed Yuffie's hand.

"C'mon we gotta watch this." He said, dragging her off to stand next to a pillar,

"What?" She asked, but he just shushed her.

The music changed to a loud blaring song, and Rude on the stairs threw his arms up, miming to the song. He swung his hips from side to side as everyone cheered.

"Why the Shiva is he wearing sunglasses?" She shouted to Reno over the song, Reno shrugged.

"He's Rude, he likes his glasses. Man can he boogie!" They watched Rude bend over and wiggle his bottom at the crowd and Reno gave a loud catcall.

"Let's Dance!" Yuffie shouted, pulling Reno to the dance floor and moving wildy to the music with him. Reno cheered and began dancing as well.

Eventually the song ended, (to everyones displeasure apart from Rude) and a slow one came on. Reno put his arms on Yuffie's waist and she put hers on around his neck. They swayed slowly together on the dance floor, then, as one they both put their heads together and their lips met.

Shera was having a great time with Cid, they had danced together all night and she had been waiting for this slow song for ages. She put her arms around his neck, but Cid turned bright red and pushed them off and went in search of more beer. Shera suddenly felt claustophobic with all the couples around her, she pushed her way to the front doors, wanting to catch some air. Outside there was an old oriental man staring at the door, as if wondering whether he dared go inside. He spotted Shera and moved towards her.

"Excuse me. Is this the AVALANCHE residence?" He asked in a Wutain accent, Shera nodded, breathing in the clean air. The man closed his eyes a moment.

"Would you please find Yuffie Kisagari, I'm her father." Shera took in a big intake of breath. She was talking to royalty, well Yuffie was royalty but she never acted like it, this man in front of her was a king.

"Of c-course your Highness, I'll find her right away." The mousy woman turned and ran back into the mass.

Her eyes scouted here and there, looking desperately for the Wutain princess. When she found her, kissing a man. A man who, although he had dyed his hair blonde and was not dressed in his custom blue suit she recognised. Reno of the Turks. Shera gasped.

Elena finished applauding Rude on a spectacular perfomance whilst he took his wig off and walked away, muttering something about "waiting in the car." Tseng checked his watch,

"It's getting late, maybe we should all go, you find Reno whilst I collect our drunken king over there." He said pointing to Rufus who was imitation Rude's moves on the dance floor. Elena nodded and set off through the throng.

When she found Reno he was kissing a woman. A woman who, although she wasn't wearing her usual clothes, and looked much more elegant Elena immediately recognised. Yuffie Kisagari. Elena gasped.

Reno took his lips off Yuffie's and gazed into her chocolate eyes, she in return gazed into his. Reno gave her a true smile, one that he rarely gave to anyone. Yuffie smiled back and lay her head on his shoulder, still swaying to the music.

A hand gripped her shoulder, pulling her away from Reno. She stared as another hand gripped Reno's shoulder, pulling him away from her. She turned to the hand's owner, Shera.

"Shera, w-what are you doing?" She demanded, Shera didn't answer, just dragged her away from Reno. When they were far away Yuffie asked again. This time Shera sighed.

"That man. His name is Reno." Yuffie breathed out sharply. She gaped at Reno being dragged away from the French nurse they poured alcohol on so many times.

"He's a Turk"

"'Lena! What the Hell are you doing!" Reno spluttered, attempting to pull Elena's hand off him.

"What the hell are you doing more like! Do you know who she is? That woman was Yuffie Kisagari! I can't believe you Reno." But Reno hadn't heard anything past the words Yuffie Kisagari. One thought rushed through his mind, as he stared at the shocked expression on Yuffie's face, knowing an identical one was on his.

"She's AVALANCHE"


AHAH! FINISHED THIS CHAPTER! I'm sorry if anyone was too OOC in this chapter, Rude and Rufus spring instantly to mind. But I was having too much fun writing I just let my fingers carry me away.

Please Review, I spent all morning writing this (not that I mind, it was fun) but your thoughts on this are great to know.