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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.)

Those Damn Nurses

By:ClassicLit

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&Hospital, South part

Yuffie has been following this 'fake' guy for the past five minutes and frankly getting quite tired of it. He has not answered any of her persistent lines of questioning. In fact he didn't say one word after leaving Reno. Currently, Yuffie didn't know where they were going, why he needed her in particular, and what the hell he was going to do when they got to the destination. This of course put Yuffie on edge and made her hyper sensitive to the most trivial of details.

Mainly, what she noticed was that the guy in front of her was limping very slightly. Really, the limp was almost indistinguishable and she would probably never notice it unless the situation was…what it was. He was very tall and to be honest looked a bit intimidating. Of course not to the Great Ninja Yuffie, but overall he seemed a bit on the scary side. He seemed to be very strong as well, his muscles were practically ripping through the lab coat.

For the lack of anything better Yuffie let her overactive imagination take over. She started thinking up of all the most random, insane ways this guy could have gotten the limp. She smiled to herself and shook her head; there was no way in hell anything as crazy could have happened. She finally settled on him probably jumping off something and injuring his foot in the process.

Stop! Backtrack! Jumping off something and injuring his foot in the process. To do that he either needed to have jumped off somewhere high or he's a total klutz. She though option A was more probable. Something was nagging at her but she just couldn't put her finger on it.

They turned two more times and came to quite a secluded part of the hospital. Secluded in Yuffie language meant that not a soul was within a 15-foot radius. She looked around herself as he led them further down the hallway. This looked like the storage wing or something of the sort. The doors that were open were full of boxes and others had what looked like freezers in them. Probably medicine or blood Yuffie thought with a small shake of the head.

She diverted her attention back to the figure before her. Somehow he looked familiar and farther hey went the more unsettling she felt. The fact that as an employee of this god forsaken place he hasn't answered one of the questions that she, a customer of sorts, asked was disconcerting. As they rounded one more corner at the very end of the hallway the nagging stopped to be replaced with cold fear. Tall? Intimidating? Strong? Why did all these characteristics sound so familiar? The guy, the figure, her cousin, that day in the Leviathan Temple while it rained. It all clicked. Even the slight limp made sense. The guy did jump off the fourth floor of the Pagoda. It was a feat he didn't break his legs, but there he was…limping.

"By the expression on your face" he said with a small smirk spreading across his face "you've figured out who I am."

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&Hospital, North part

Reno just bumped into another nurse who looked at him as if he lost it completely. As the others she tried to get him back into his room, but he would have none of it. It was actually harder, running, than he thought considering that the minute he put his legs in motion the pain in his side returned as if no anesthesia was ever applied. He had a sneaking suspicion that the stitches might have come off, but he laughed it off. The stitches were after all metal for now…right? He hoped so, because if they weren't, he'd in deep shit.

He was just running around like a maniac looking for Yuffie and the strange guy (who so happens to also be a murderer). He gave up on trying to ask anyone for help on finding the two because they would automatically ask whether he needed help in getting back to his room or simply (as the last nurse) scream that he shouldn't be out of bed. That was not very productive, not to mention quite annoying.

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&Hospital, Reno's room

The Nurse that was actually assigned to Reno walked into the room to find how the patient was feeling, but a completely different picture greeted her from the one she left approximately an hour ago. Instead of Reno lying on the bed and the room neat, she found a dead body on the floor and the sheets that were supposed to be covering the sleeping Reno (who was not there) were also strewn around the bed. A very loud scream echoed through the hospital and the brunette promptly fainted.

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&Hospital, South part.

Yuffie's hand automatically flew to her side where her shurikens were supposed to be. There was just a small problem…they weren't there. When she arrived at the hospital the doctor that checked over her (even though she found no reason in doing so) took away all her shurikens together with the belt. Damn it! This was just her luck that this 'fake' would pick this particular time to attack her.

"What do you want?" she growled trying to sound as confident as she could. To her surprise she succeeded.

"Tsk, tsk, don't rush to find out…you will in a few seconds." After wagging his finger at her, to which Yuffie scowled, he put his hands to his eyes. At first Yuffie didn't understand what he was doing, but then it hit her. He was taking off his lenses. His brown eyes turned blue as he removed the two spheres and tossed them aside. That's when Yuffie saw it. MAKO! His eyes were mako infused. Who the hell was he? Yuffie involuntarily took a step back. He took it as a sign of weakness and started advancing on her. Her immediate reaction to that action was…RUN!

That is exactly what she did. She ran in the opposite direction as fast as she possibly could. The guy didn't react right away. She already rounded the corner and she didn't see him move. She glanced back while running however and found something that wasn't particularly pleasing in her position. The guy looked absolutely calm and was gaining on her without any trouble. Yuffie blanched at the sight of his face. She turned around with the image of him smirking at her engraved in her mind. He looked like he was a cat torturing a mouse who has gotten itself into a trap. Now that Yuffie thought about it, that was pretty much the gist of her situation.

She didn't continue on with that line of thought for too long however because in her haste she didn't see the wall in front of her that she bumped into head on. She cursed under her breath as she closed her eyes and braced herself for the fall until a hand enclosed around her wrist and none too gently pulled her back up. When she opened her eyes, she saw Reno in a very sloppy state (not a big change from the usual) his shirt was half buttoned and the buttons that were buttoned were in the wrong places. He had a serious expression on his face and outstretched an arm over her left shoulder. She turned her head slightly to her left to see a gun in the Turk's hands before he put her behind him and stepped forward. This was probably the happiest she has ever been to see a Turk, even the she hated to admit it.

"Yuff?" he asked still keeping his gaze trained on the man who stopped across from the two. Yuffie flamed up immediately. The only reason why Reno would be nice to her would only be because he thought she suffered some trauma and Reeve would kill him if he did something to the mental state of princess. Her happiness over seeing him was immediately forgotten. How dare he? Doesn't he know that she fought Sephiroth! She was outraged. Reno noticed her expression and couldn't hold back the smirk that spread across his face. "Before you go into a rant on how you don't need me to be nice to you, or in general…" he paused and his expression changed from the casual to quite serious again. "Get out of here now." He whispered so the man across the hallway couldn't here him. Yuffie was about to retort, but was cut off by a curt "NOW" from Reno. She shot one last look at the man and then at Reno.

"I hope you know what you're doing Turk." She said quietly and turned fleeing the scene.

"So we meet again Reno." Said the man across the hallway; a strand of his jet black hair falling in his eyes. Reno had a casual expression on his face, not letting go of the gun that was still pointed at the perpetrator.

"So we do Demetri." He answered calmly. Now he knew why the figure in the Pagoda looked oh so familiar. "What brings you here?" he asked curiously.

"Don't start a conversation with me Reno." Demetri answered with a scowl on his face.

"I probably shouldn't" Reno answered smirking "I should shoot you right now." The guy didn't seem phased by this at all.

"Just like you to say that." Demetri said looking Reno in the eye. Reno felt utterly unnerved by that look. What did this guy have up his sleeve? "But if you do shoot me" he continued with a smirk "you'll never understand…" he was cut off as a nurse who walked out from a storage room shrieked upon seeing Reno's gun and dropped a tray with different surgical instruments on the floor. The poor woman ended up being within hand's reach of Demetri and without thinking the guy grabbed onto her and put a knife to her throat. "Well, Reno" he said with a twisted smile. "did you go soft, or will you let me kill her."

Reno's head was pounding now. He felt his hands grow weaker and weaker. His side hurt and he felt like the blood loss that he suffered through earlier was finally catching up to him. Fortunately for him, he didn't have to answer that question. He heard more than saw a ninja star wiz past his ear and implant itself in Demetri's shoulder. The man let out a yelp, let go of the nurse, and took off down the hallway turning into one of the rooms. It didn't take long for Reno to finally get a hold of himself and he ran after him. Unfortunately when Reno finally go there the only thing that greeted him was an open window with a light autumn breeze blowing though it.

I hope you enjoyed the story, I know I enjoyed writing this chapter. Next chapter some questions will be answered! This is sort of a lead up. Thanks. Please review and let me know what you think, so know if I suck or not .