Flunky

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Chapter 3 - Moving In

Reno found it extremely uncomfortable to sleep. One, he was stuck in a stuffy closet with one of the most irritable girls (in his opinion), two, man, she really hogged the room and three, she kept murmuring things in her sleep...

He thought that was kinda creepy, anyway.

Reno had found it easy to sleep in the closet for what, half an hour, until he woke up in the middle of the night, finding Tifa laying her head on his lap. He slowly placed her head off of his lap, and he fell asleep once more.

Reno rubbed his eyes and groaned groggily. He looked at his watch. He could barely make out the time, and he had been sleeping for twenty more minutes. He glared down. Tifa was casually tugging on his left pant-leg and was in a small ball in the corner. Reno rolled his eyes and carefully placed her hand on the floor and fell asleep once more.

Reno had once more awoke and looked at his watch quickly. He was quite lucky, as he had three hours of sleep since Tifa had woken him up. But now, he looked to see what Tifa had done now. Her head was leaning against his chest, well, while she was practically using Reno as a mattress. Boy, there was something wrong with this woman. Either, she couldn't get her hands off of him, or two, she was picky at her napping positions.

He looked back at his watch and sighed. It was 4:15. He was beginning to wonder if he would ever get out of there.

Reno didn't even bother taking Tifa off and putting her in the other corner of the closet. She'd probably wind up in unbelievable places by the morning. So, once he FINALLY allows Tifa to use him as a mattress, the closet opens. He was deffinitely hoping that it wasn't Rude or Elena. They'd just make everything as tough as it was.

"Oh my GAWD!" Yuffie shouted histerically.

Reno's eyes turned huge. Out of all of the people that'd have to find him and Tifa here, it'd have to be the gossiper of the whole school.

Tifa had woken up and tiredly opened her eyes. For a moment, she had looked confused, but when she had noticed she was lying on top of Reno, she quickly sat up and knew that there was a tint of red in her cheeks.

Ah! Just great, I fall asleep on Reno, wake up in the early hours, and the person who finds us just HAS to be Yuffie. Couldn't it had been Vincent? He wouldn't care a bit. Oh, that reminds me. What's Yuffie doing here? Shouldn't she be asleep with Vincent in that other closet?

Reno just gave a fake yawn and stretched his arms.

Tifa decided to ask Yuffie about last night with Vincent, to cover up the embarrassment.

"Uh, so Yuffie... what's exactly happening between Vincent and uh... you." Tifa stuttered while standing up, and pulling Reno by his pony-tail out of the closet with her.

For a moment, Yuffie gaped at them, but frowned and fakely laughed.

"Er, whadda ya mean, 'What happened'...? Me and Vinster just got locked up, and he bumped his head 'cause I think he was scared 'cause he thought I was gonna kiss him, and he was like 'N-N-N-NO YUFFIE! LIKE GAWD!' And-" Yuffie got cut off as Reno dragged Tifa towards the door. Tifa was obviously annoyed as Reno was at Yuffie's over-exaggeration gossip of what happened with her and Vincent. Tifa began wondering how Vincent and Yuffie got out, and where Vincent was now. Probably hiding in the drama class' fake coffin. Yuffie never found him there.

Reno opened the door and walked towards Tifa's car. He hadn't drove to the party, he simply walked there. It was still quite dark, and Tifa looked as though she was going to fall asleep again. Reno, being a gentleman, helped her into a passenger seat, as he took the driver's seat. He was awake enough from Tifa's shuffling during the night.

Tifa murmured a quiet 'Thanks' and was wondering why he had chosen to drive. She wasn't quite going to fall asleep again, but she wasn't exactly in her best condition to drive. There was silence for to long.

Tifa just stared out into the window and began thinking.

Wonder what Reno's place is like. If it's big enough for four people, it must be... okay.

"Hey Teef," Reno called out. Tifa had hardly noticed he was talking to her and cotinued thinking, while staring out the window. Reno immediately took notice that Tifa was in her 'dream-mode'. He loved it when she was liked this, because he could toy around with her thoughts until, like, FOREVER.

Tifa gave a quiet "Yeah?".

I hope they have an extra bedroom. But being Reno's flunky, he'd probably make me sleep on the couch.

"So, whadda ya wanna do once we get home? It's about 4:30 right now, so..." Reno began toying with her mind. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing.

To his pleasure, she gave the answer he had expected.

"Yeah, yeah, do whatever you want..." She sighed.

I wonder if they have a mini-bar there. Maybe I'd also have to cook dinner, but that would be no problem. I hope Reno doesn't act like a four year old at the dinner table.

"Well, I guess we'll have to share a bed, since our house is kinda stuffy, and all." Reno told her. Apparently he didn't exactly plan this out. That wasn't the truth, he was thinking more... on the couch.

"Uh-huh," Tifa said absent-mindly, still gazing out the window.

Hope they have seperate bathrooms. It'd be HELL sharing a bathroom with Reno. With all that hair everywhere...

"But I gotta warn you, Teef. I get kinda husky in bed." Reno continued, glancing at her before setting his eyes back on the road.

"I don't mind a bit..." She hadn't even realised what he was saying, or what she was saying. Reno never got away this long before.

Oh hell... I just realised guys probably sleep in bed naked. WHAT THE HELL! WHAT IF I HAVE TO SHARE A BED WITH RENO! ... Okay, I'm just over-reacting.

"Oh, you don't, do you?" he asked seductively. She hadn't taken note of this.

"Why, no I- WHAT?" She finally snapped out of her thoughts.

Reno grinned like a cheshire cat and chuckled.

"I'm just kiddin' around, Teef." he told her, still grinning.

Tifa sighed in frustration and rolled her eyes.

"Uh, Reno?" She was going to kill herself for asking this question.

"Yeah, babe?"

"Um, I'm just wondering... but do you uh, sleep naked?" She mentally stabbed herself in the back.

Reno rose an eyebrow and smirked.

"Are you sure you didn't know what I was saying earlier?" She glared at him a bit. "Okay, okay. Yeah, sometimes. Why?"

Tifa's whole face turned many shades of pink.

"Uh, I-I, er, nevermind!" she stuttered weakly.

Reno just snorted a bit and set his eyes back on the road.

"Well, we're here." Reno stated, while parking Tifa's car in front of a REALLY large building.

"And don't act like we live in a mansion, or a proper house. It's sorta like being roomates. Other people live here as well, we just live in seperate apartments." he told her sternly.

Tifa just nodded, but continued gaping at the humungous building. It looked like it was say, fifteen stories high. It would be to unreal to be a house...

The both of them got out of the car, while Tifa followed Reno inside.

Tifa walked in behind Reno and looked around. It was simply a HUGE hallway, with stairs leading to the next story, above.

Reno took a glance at Tifa and smirked at her reaction, while walking over to the stairs. They walked all the way up to the seventh floor, and entered the second door on the right side of the hallway.

Tifa walked in behind Reno and looked around the apartment. It looked exactly like an extremely expensive copy of her house. This was good, in each and every way. There was a dinner table with six chairs in the center of the room. Then, there was an area with the kitchen, the counters and the fridge. In the same room, there was a couch, and two recliners on each side, with a large television set infront. Tifa walked over to a door, where supposingly, the bathroom was. She opened the door and frowned when she finally remembered something.

Great, so I DO have to share a bathroom with Reno. Can't be that bad though, if Elena and Rude live here aswell.

There was one bath, two showers, one sink, and two cabinets. It was a pretty large bathroom, thankfully.

Tifa walked out and closed the door. Reno was laying on the couch watching TV. Tifa took a glance at the clock in the kitchen. It was already 7:38. Boy, does time fly by. She turned to face Reno and crossed her arms over her chest.

"How many bedrooms are there?" she blurted out.

Reno turned his head from the television and lazily looked at her.

"Hey, hey. Don't worry so much, geez. There's five bedrooms okay? Me, Elena and Rude already have taken three of them, so you get one of the leftover ones." he told her before looking back at the television.

Tifa sighed, and was about to check out the two other bedrooms, before a faint noise was heard.

DING, DONG.

"Go answer that, flunky." Reno told her. "Oh, and there's an elevator." he continued.

Tifa rolled her eyes and walked out of the apartment, and began walking over to the elevator. Once she stepped in, she pressed the button numbered '1' and waited. She hardly noticed Vincent was standing behind her, until she turned around.

"Vincent? What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be hiding from Yuffie?"

Vincent remained silent and gave her a look.

Tifa gave a nod and understood.

"Ohhh. Now I get it. So you're hiding from her here? Well, that's okay, because I'll be living here to." she told him before hearing a faint 'DING' come from the elevator. She waved to her friend and walked out of the elevator and began walking over to the door. Apparently, it had still been going 'DING, DONG' for the last couple of minutes.

She opened the door and frowned.

"Cloud? What are you doing here? I mean, after you PUSHED me in the closet with Reno for a whole night, at Yuffie's party!" she scowled at him.

Cloud looked quite nervous for some reason, but knitted his eyebrows.

"Party? Yuffie's? Closet?" Cloud looked clueless, but finally sighed. When he was about to speak, Reno had showed up, topless, behind Tifa.

Cloud stared in shock at the two, as if they had been doing something.

Tifa looked behind her and nervously laughed.

"Eh, Cloud? I'm uh, Reno's flunky, so um..." She trailed off.

Reno rose an eyebrow at Cloud.

"Oh, it's Spike," Reno stretched out Cloud's nickname, 'Spike'.

"Uh, yeah, so anyway. That wasn't me at the party. I think you mistakened my brother, Sunny." Cloud told them, not used to Reno's presence.

Reno's face turned red. Tifa knew why, and she couldn't help but giggle at Cloud's brother's name.

In five seconds, Reno beginned to go in fits of laughter. He was clutching his stomach so it wouldn't hurt, and tried to stop waking up the other roomies.

Tifa thought it was a bit funny, but not that much.

Cloud glared at him.

After a while, Reno had finally stopped laughing and snorted at the blonde.

"Wait, don't tell me, your parents are Rhaine and Skye," Reno joked.

For some reason, Cloud stared and glared at Reno in shock.

"How do you know my mother's and father's name?..." Cloud glared more, as Reno's eyes turned huge and he began laughing even more.

Tifa rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.

"What are you doing here, Cloud?" Tifa asked, trying her best to ignore Reno.

"Um, well, I just moved here, and I've been looking for a place to live." Cloud began.

Immediately, Reno stopped laughing, and glared at Cloud.

There's no WAY that ass is gonna be living here with Tifa, 'cause that means I have to put up with HIM.

"And-?" Tifa questioned, not liking where this was going.

"Well, I heard that you've been living here, so I thought maybe I could move in with you...? If that's alright with you, of course." he finished of quickly.

Tifa bit her lip and looked to the side, at Reno.

Reno had been glaring daggers at Cloud.

"Uh, Reno...?"

Reno looked at Tifa before grinning and leaning over and speaking into Tifa's ear.

"If you're thinking about letting him live with us, you'll be working for me for longer than you think." he told her, grinning to annoy Cloud.

Tifa sighed and nodded before looking at Cloud.

"Um, Cloud? Well, right now, I'm living with Reno, Elena and Rude for a month, and there aren't anymore bedrooms." Tifa started.

Reno quickly added a bit to get him to lay off. "'Lena also won't let you on the couch, she said she just finished cleaning off the pizza stains."

Reno enjoyed lying at him, Tifa didn't.

For some reason, Cloud looked oddly at the two of them.

"I wasn't gonna move in with you, probably just near you or somethin'." Cloud told them, before walking in.

Tifa sighed, while Reno scowled at Cloud.

Tifa couldn't have had it much worse, now.

So, that was a bit longer than usual, but I've been holding off this story for a while. I promise to update it much more! Read and Review!