Reno carefully snuck back into his apartment later that night, making sure no one saw his teenaged self. Gratefully throwing himself down on his bed, he closed his eyes to try and sleep off his humiliation at having his past exposed and his discontent at meeting Tifa. Sure she had great breasts already, and a nice face, but she wasn't legal yet, and she was bad news. "I've seen too many breasts to count, hers aren't special." he told himself as he finally drifted off to sleep.
As Richard made his way to the dungeon Master's office, he tried to not to stare at the funnily-dressed people he saw, not recognizing any of the outfits as a D&D character he was familiar with. After the principal's warning, he had found what must have been the other dungeons he was talking about, and wanted to retain his title as Dungeon Master. Reaching the door, he knocked and waited politely until someone opened it, and suddenly he was confronted by bare skin.
"Yes?" the taller topless woman drawled, wondering who he was.
Having never seen a woman's breasts before, Richard made some gurgling noises and unconsciously licked his lips before he remembered what he had come here for. "I…um…want to see your boo…uh I mean the master, please."
"Who is it?" a man's voice asked.
"Someone to see you, Sir." she replied, moving out of the way so they could see each other.
"What do you want?" the dungeon Master asked Richard as he looked him over, a short red-haired pimply-faced lad in braces, wearing a black cloak and carrying a box.
"I'm here to challenge you." Richard announced after summoning his courage. This dungeon master didn't seem like much of a threat…he just looked like a nondescript older man. "We'll see who the real D&D master is."
The woman started to laugh after a moment of stunned silence, stopping only when her Master frowned at her, though he felt like laughing himself, and he was unable to stop himself from smiling at the poor boy. "How old are you?"
"I'm almost 16. Now can we play?" Richard blurted out as he held the game box out, trying to keep his eyes on the master, but they kept being drawn back to the topless woman, unaware he was blushing for all he was worth.
"That's an intriguing offer, but that's not how we do things around here, and you're too young. Come back when you're legal and ask me again. My slave will show you out." he replied calmly.
Richard found himself being escorted back to the entrance by the topless woman. "Nice cloak by the way." she told him in an amused patronizing tone.
"Nice bo…" he started to say, but she had turned and closed the door before he could finish, and his eyes almost bugged out again at the glimpse of her walking away from him. She had a short tight skirt that hugged her body perfectly, and the way her rear end moved, he had never seen anything like that before. "I saw boobies!" he couldn't stop himself from exclaiming in a daze.
"Reporting for duty." Reno said with a grimace as he entered Tseng's office the next morning. "I don't have to do any of the homework, do I?"
"Actually Reno, you've been reassigned." Tseng hid his smile at his second-in-command's discomfort at reverting to a high school nerd. Maybe this experience would teach Reno some manners, though he doubted it. "Elena doesn't need anything except a change in wardrobe to be accepted as a high school student, she'll infiltrate them in no time."
"Whatever." Reno was glad at his sudden reprieve, but he didn't like the implication of being unfit for any mission.
"What's wrong?" Rude asked Reno as they met for a beer after work. "You're you again, aren't you?"
"Yeah, but I don't wanna hear anything about what I looked like then, okay? That was a lifetime ago." Reno replied.
"What about how you freaked out when that cute kid Tifa introduced herself to you?" Rude smiled at his partner, who merely glowered as he gulped down his beer.
"Need some help?" Cloud asked the pretty blonde who was looking around like she couldn't find something.
"I'm new here, would you mind telling me where the biology lab is?" she asked.
"Sure, I'm on my way there." he said and gestured for her to follow him, and after a couple turns and going up some stairs, he opened a door and let her go first.
"You're late." a pretty girl in the first row said when she saw Cloud.
"I was helping…" Cloud realized he didn't know the blonde's name.
"My name's Elena." she said with a smile. "Thanks for helping me find my way here...um, I don't know your name either."
"He's Cloud, and I'm Tifa." the girl told her, and Elena detected a hint of jealousy or possessiveness in her voice.
"Nice to meet both of you, I've heard about you already." Elena admitted.
"Oh? From who?" they both wanted to know.
"My cousin. He met you both at the dance last night. And I'd like to apologize for him." Elena replied.
"Who's your cousin?" Tifa asked. "I knew everyone at the dance last night, except for that poor…oh." she stopped and her cheeks turned a little pink. "You don't have apologize for him…but he disappeared and I was worried about him."
"He does that a lot." Elena said, and having seen Tifa in person now, she felt a need to spike Reno's guns, so to speak. "If you ever see him again, there's some things you should know about him and his 'problems'."
"Problems?" Tifa asked innocently. "He already admitted that he has Tourette's."
"Oh, did he try that on you?" Elena gave a long-suffering sigh. "He tries to use that so he can get away with bad behavior. It's his way to compensate for being such a nerd."
"He's the biggest nerd I've ever seen." Cloud agreed, then caught Tifa's look of reprimand. "Well he is!"
Before Elena could make up more crap about Reno, the science teacher arrived to start the class, and she was glad she didn't have to pretend to care, since she had already finished school.