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Most of the daylight had disappeared when Yuffie came back to the main ranch house. De-horning and castration of the cattle was hard, messy and troublesome. She knew she was pushing herself to her limits and knew that she was going to continue doing so. She wanted the men to see her from every point of view, in every possible job. To change the operational leader, even under the best circumstances was rough. And these circumstances weren't exactly the best.

This was the reason she had been there when a hoard of wild foulanders had broken down a few fences and caused almost chaos. And she had personally led the team to scare them away and repair the fence.

Now she was done for the day and as her men went to their own barracks to play cards and eat, she wanted nothing less than a warm bath and a large meal.

Yuffie was just about to walk up the stairs to do just that when it knocked on the door. She huffed and stomped over to the door and slammed it open to reveal no other than Reno with his fist up to knock the door again. Yuffie growled.

"What do YOU want?"

"What no hello Reno, Nice to see you? And a drink would be nice"

She turned around fuming and went over to the bar while Reno went to sit on the couch. He bounced down heavily and stared at Yuffie who opened the bar refrigerator and took out a beer which she tossed to the red-haired man at the couch.

"Drink it quickly Reno I'm hungry and I haven't gotten anything to eat for dinner yet."

"Neither have I" he caught the bottle and opened it with a practiced move. "But I wouldn't think I'd get an invitation to stay" She went over and sat on the other side of the couch and took a sip out of her own drink.

"I'm not in the mood for company right now"

"It seems you're never in the mood for my company Yuff" Reno scooted closer to her and Yuffie resisted moving away since it would appear childish. She was actually kind of proud of herself for that.

"So Yuff, I haven't seen you since we were up at the mountain, I thought I would let you know I tried to track the killer but the tracks died out into nothing, whoever it was who killed the chocobo, knew how to not leave traces after them." Reno leaned back into the couch and took a swing at his beer.

"Barret thinks its teenagers, drunk and full of drugs." Yuffie shrugged.

"And you?"

"Then I didn't believe it, but now it seems like the most truth worthy explanation."

"Maybe, It's not much of an idea to get up there again, we have gotten all the cattle back down, but now Yuff, where are your sisters?"

"None of your business Reno" Yuffie growled.

"It is my business from now on Yuff, or can't you remember?" He teased her and put an arm around her shoulder, which she just shrugged off. He liked to remind her about that, just as much as he liked to look at her where she sat with the hair pointing out from the small braid she had her hair in, and her boots on the table next to his.

"Lockhart isn't back yet." She managed to growl out. She remembers perfectly, she just didn't like to think about it.

"Are you going to introduce me?" Just for the fun of it Reno started to play with her hair. "Maybe I'll like her and keep her busy, so that's she's out of your way for a while" She pushed his hand away but he just brought it back.

"Do women always fall at you feet Reno?"

"Everyone except you darling. And that's because I haven't come up with a way to get you off balance yet." He traced her jaw line with his finger and saw her eyes narrow, "But I'm working on it. So how's the other one?"

"The other what?"

"The other sister" Yuffie shrugged, uninterested, finally giving in to the urge and inched away from the redhead.

"She's here, somewhere." Reno smirked lazily.

"I'm making you nervous, now isn't this interesting?"

"I see your ego needs to be fixed again" She replied dryly and tried to stand up. He stopped her with a hand on her shoulder.

"Why oh my" He murmured when he felt how she vibrated under his hand. "It seems I haven't been giving you enough attention. Come here" She concentrated on keeping her breathing steady and calm, while changing the grip on the bottle in her hand.

'Oh he's so full of himself. So cocky. So convinced that I'm going to melt, if only he pushes the right buttons.' She thought.

"So you want me to come closer" She purred and saw him widen his eyes a little at the warm voice. "And what would happen if I do?" He grabbed her shirt tightly and dragged her towards him. He would've called himself an idiot – if there had been any blood left up in his head that is. But in that moment he couldn't handle anything other than the growing feeling of lust that the slightly obscured voice caused.

"Well, it's about time we find out" He drew his lips closer to hers and if he hadn't kept his intense blue eyes on her lips he would've seen what was coming. Instead he found himself just inches away from those lips, and soaking wet of the beer she had just poured over his head.

"You're such an idiot Reno" She put the now empty bottle on the table, very much pleased with herself. "You didn't think I had seen that coming Reno? Puh-lease I've lived on a ranch full with horny men whole my life for heavens sake" he slowly pulled his hand through his wet hair.

"Maybe not, but..." He acted quickly, when Yuffie found herself under him she thought that even most snakes rattled before they struck. Now she could only feel distaste before herself because she was lying there, pressed down in the couch by this wiry man with blood in his gaze.

"Didn't expect that now did you?" She glared at him and tried to buck him off. He gripped her wrists and forced them over her head. Her face was red, but he didn't think it was all anger. Anger didn't make her tremble like that. "Are you scared of letting me kiss you Yuff? Scared that you might like it?" Her heart was beating quickly; it felt like they were almost bursting out of her ribcage. And her lips were tingling, as if preparing for action.

"If I want you to nibble on me, I'll tell you" he smiled down at her as he leaned forward, closer to her face.

"Then tell me you don't want this then. Go on, tell me" His voice thickened and he bit her jaw lightly. "Tell me you don't want me to taste you. Just once." She couldn't tell him. It would've been a lie. Not that lying to him bothered her, but she couldn't get a single word out of her mouth. So she chose the other option and brought up her knee, hard and fast. His face turned ashen as he grunted in pain and fell down on top of her. Yuffie's lost her breath as the heavy male fell.

"Ugh, Reno you fat idiot, get off me, you're crushing my lungs" gasping for air, she started twisting and wriggling under him, trying to get away as he groaned. She managed to take a breath and grabbed a fistful of crimson hair and yanked at it. They rolled off the sofa and down onto the floor in a heap. She saw stars when her elbow hit the edge of the table. Reno growled as he flipped her over and the game was on.

A vase fell to the floor in a loud crash as they rolled around the floor, grunting, growling and cursing. He tried to defend himself, but she was apparently after his blood as she sunk her teeth into his upper arm. Convinced she was out to take a chunk out of him he managed to get a grip on her jaw and put pressure on it until she let go of him.

They rolled around with clinking boots that took hold here and there, where they drove their elbows into each other and gripped with their hands.

Yuffie didn't realize she was laughing until Reno had her caught like a vice. He stared down at her as she continued to laugh. She didn't stop until she was breathless.

"You think that's funny?" he had to look at her and blew a few strands of red hair out of his eyes. He was most grateful she hadn't managed to rip it all off in chunks. "You bit me"

"I know, I think I have a piece of your shirt in my mouth" She drew her tongue over her teeth. "Let go of me Reno"

"So what? So you can bite me again, or maybe kick my balls up my throat? I don't think so" They were both in pain, a lot of pain, so he just glared down at her lightly. "You fight like a girl" he smirked. She tried to shrug.

"So what? It works" his mood once again changed. He could feel the soft, hot transition from anger to lust, from indignation to interest. As they had stopped her breast were pressed against his chest in a comfortable way, and her legs were spread out with his pressed in between them.

"Yeah it does. Your femininity seems to fit the situation." She saw how the expression in his eyes changed and switched between longing and panic.

"Stop" His mouth were only centimetres from hers and she had once again lost her breath.

"Why? It doesn't hurt anyone"

"I don't want your mouth on me" He arched an eyebrow and smiled.

"Liar." And she shivered.

"Y-yeah" His mouth was only a whisper away from hers when she heard the first piercing screams.

Reno rolled off her and came to his feet. This time, when she ran behind him, Yuffie could admire the speed at which he moved at.

"Damn" he muttered as he stepped over the bloody mass on the porch and caught Aeris in his arms. "It's alright love, it's alright" Automatically he changed his position so that he blocked her view, and as he stroked her back to calm her down he watched over her head into Yuffie's eyes.

The chock was there, but not the shivering, stiffly staring terror as in the woman he held. This was a fragile person, he thought, while Yuffie would always be the robust one.

"You're going to help her inside" he told the younger sister. But Yuffie just shook her head and stared down at the bloody, badly beaten mass at her feet.

"It has to be one of the stable cats." Or at least, it had been, she thought bitterly, before someone chopped its head off and cut up the belly so the intestines welled out and left it as this appalling present on the stairs.

"Help her inside Yuff" Reno repeated.

The screams had made the others come running. Cloud was the first to come up to the porch. The first thing he saw was Aeris standing in Reno's arms crying. The quick stick in his stomach was caused as much of that as of the thing lying on the porch.

Instinctively he stepped forward, put a hand on her arm and said calmingly as she twitched.

"It's okay Aeris."

"Cloud, I saw…" The nausea made her stomach turn.

"I know. Now you're going to go inside. Look at me" he murmured and carefully coaxed her out of Reno's arms and brought her towards the front door.

"Yuffie's going to take you inside"

"Hey! I have to.."

"Take care of your sister Yuff" Cloud interrupted, took her hand and put it on her older sister's with a gentle press of his hand.

Yuffie knew she had lost when Aeris hand shivered under her own. She muttered a curse under her breath and pulled Aeris' hand.

"Come on. You have to sit down."

"I saw.."

"Yeah I know what you saw. Forget it" Yuffie closed the door with a determined bang and let the men stand outside and contemplate the headless cat on the porch.

"Jay-sus Cloud, is that a cat?" Zack pulled his hand across his mouth. "Someone, worked hard on it"

Cloud threw a glance backwards and studied them in order, Zack, was pale and with his Adams apple bobbing; Tseng with his lips pressed together thinly; Barret with his shotgun tossed over his shoulder. There was Cait Sith, barely eighteen years old, staring with eyes wide a saucers, his pet moogle perched on his shoulder, and Reeve who was stroking his smooth black goatee.

Reeve spoke first with his voice calm. "Where's the head? I can't see it there." He stepped closer. Reeve was responsible for the fields and his wife Nell cooked for the ranch workers. He always smelled like perppermint caramels. Cloud knew him as a stable person, as immovable as the Da-Chao Mountains.

"Whoever did this maybe likes trophies" Cloud's words made a quick end to the mumbling of the others. It was just Cait Sith who continued babbling.

"Wh-oah! Have you ever seen anything like this? He's spread out all the intestines all over the porch. But who would do something like this to a old cat? What do you thin…"

"Shut up, Cait, for heavens sake" The tired order came from Tseng. He sighed once and took out his package of cigarettes. "Go back and eat now everybody. There's nothing else to do here, now stop staring like a group of old women on a fashion show"

"I lost my appetite" Zack mumbled, but he and the others started to walk back to their barrack.

"What a mess" Tseng commented. "I assume some kid could've done this. Reeve's kids are a bit wild, but they're not mean. And like I see it you have to be possibly evil to do something like this. But I'll talk to them"

"Tseng, can I ask you if you know what the men have been doing during the last hour?" Tseng regarded Reno calmly.

"They've been here and there, washing up for dinner and such. I'm not watching over them around the clock if that's what you're wondering. The men that work here doesn't walk around cutting cats open for fun" Reno just nodded. They both knew he wasn't permitted to ask any more. "It must've happened during this last hour, I've been for a while and it wasn't there when I came" Tseng just nodded and then turned away from the two younger men and started to walk towards the barracks.

"I suggest removing the cat before the little miss comes out again."

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And there you have it, part four (very late indeed). Hope you like it.

Sephiroth: yeah yeah, shut your trap Vin and start writing the next chapter instead of standing around like you're doing right now.

Vinter: hey! I'll have you know I actually have to go to work five days a week you maniac. So I'm doing the best I can.

Reno. Well, actually, you're not since this chapter's been ready since November.

Vinter: Shut. Up! (looks at readers) heh… oops? Um, Review?

Marik: I still think you're wasting your time… (get's hit by the cast of FF7)