Beyond the Reflection

Disclaimer: I do not own FFVII.

Summary: When Reno takes on the investigation of a case in Wutai, he gets more than he bargained for. Mainly: one obnoxious, spoiled, sarcastic, and infuriating brat. (Among other things of course.)

Scream and Hide

By:ClassicLit

Hey you guys. I just had a concert in Carnegie Hall this Saturday. So sorry that I couldn't update. I will start spending more time on this story from now on. I only have homework and piano lessons for a while now. The only thing is that you aren't reviewing and I'm honestly not sure whether you like this story or not. I hope it is of no inconvenience to you to perhaps tell me if you like this story. Because if no one is reading, there is not much of a reason for me to keep writing. Thanks!

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&Somewhere in a forest

This was bloody perfect. His vision was fading slowly, he could hardly breathe, his side hurt, and he felt dizzy. Bloody perfect now isn't it? Remember when Reno got his side torn by the spikes on the Leviathan summon? Well, the injury finally started begging for attention. Yuffie has gone ahead a while back, but by this point, Reno couldn't care less.

"I'll just go see if I could find a way out up ahead, since your being so slow!" Reno mimicked Yuffie in a very obnoxiously high-pitched voice. "Damn brat didn't even notice that I'm bleeding…" he murmured maliciously under his breath. He looked to his side and in fact the more he moved, the more his side bled. He was deathly pale by that point and was seriously contemplating the color of his coffin. He stopped to take a breath and noticed that in the past perhaps five minutes he moved approximately seven feet in a diagonal. He did not have much time to contemplate on his pathetic situation however because a shrill scream pierced through his ears. He grabbed his already throbbing head and fell slowly to his knees. Somewhere in the back of his mind it registered that the scream sounded like Yuffie, but he blacked out soon after the thought appeared.

In a few moments Yuffie came jumping over some bushes and diving straight for the Turk who was lying on the ground face down. She grabbed his left sleeve and started dragging him while mumbling almost incoherently.

"Listen Turkey this is no time to rest. There is a god damn…" by this point she already grabbed him around the torso to try and lift him up, but stopped abruptly as she felt that his shirt was soaked through. She slowly lifted her hand up to her eyes and inhaled sharply as she saw her hand covered in blood…his blood.

"You damn Turk!" she started whispering frantically into his ear as she set on her knees right next to his head. "When did this happen?" she asked sternly without getting an answer that she wasn't expecting to get in the first place. She slung his arm over her shoulder and started slowly and shakily getting to her feet. When she finally was upright she heard something moving not too far off. "Oh shit!" she mumbled and started frantically looking to all sides in the hopes of finding a place to hide. Fortunately for her and Reno, she spotted a small cave entrance not ten feet to her left.

She half carried and half dragged Reno to the cave. The sound that was almost inaudible before was becoming increasingly loud. She slowly lowered Reno to the ground while propping his upper body by the wall of the cave. She herself sat next to him and sighed in relief at having hid from the perpetrator. Her calm was short lived however as she heard that the noise was moving in their direction. She instinctively moved closer to Reno holding on to a sleeve of his jacket.

Reno at that point woke up with a start. He almost jumped when he felt her hand cover his mouth. Her eyes went to the entrance of the cave and Reno understood to remain quite. ' Bloody prick' Yuffie thought bitterly to herself 'here I am trying not to breathe and he comes up with a flourish.'

Yuffie warily let her hand drop to the side.

"Stay quite and maybe he won't spot us." she whispered giving him a death glare for good measure.

"Well, princess" Reno whispered back scathingly "perhaps if you didn't scream so damn loud he wouldn't have noticed you and we wouldn't be in this predicament right now." he added a sarcastic smile while giving her a sidelong glance.

"Well Reno" she accentuated his name "perhaps if you were in any shape to move your slow ass, we wouldn't have to hide." She gave a triumphant smile but that was quickly wiped off her face.

"Well Yuff, not all of us were lucky to escape with a few scratches and a mouth to mouth from a rather attractive young man." it was his turn to grin from ear to ear.

Whatever she was going to say was cut short because Reno's hand flew up to cover her mouth after hearing the sound in the distance morph into recognizable footsteps that were in fact moving in their direction. Yuffie's eyes widened considerably and as the footsteps kept coming closer the more she moved toward Reno.

Reno more felt than saw her growing fear. She didn't squeak though, which he gave her credit for. How much was it the fact that she didn't show fear as opposed to the fact that his hand was still covering her mouth, he wasn't sure. He couldn't say that he was completely relaxed himself though. There was something particularly off he just couldn't put his finger on it. The whole case start going off when he almost recognized the figure, or at least found it familiar. Another thing that bothered him was the fact that whoever was following them didn't get to Yuffie before. With how loud she screamed it was pretty easy to get her in a heartbeat. Before he could linger on the thought for too much longer though, a spasm of pain traveled through his body and he could feel himself loosing consciousness. His last thought was that him surviving this time around would be one hell of a miracle.

Yuffie felt his grip on her mouth relax until his hand fell lifeless to his side. She understood for sure what was happening when his whole body began to slump forward. She reached out and wrapped her arms around his torso pulling him back towards her. The footsteps seized right in front of their cave. Yuffie thanked Leviathan that the cave was dark or it would have been very easy for the guy to see the two people leaning against the back wall.

"Hey stop fooling around." Yuffie heard someone shout from the left of the person. "We have more important thing to take care of right now." Yuffie breathed out a sigh of relief and slumped back into the wall.

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