Yay! Chapter Five!
There's a little bit of Kadaj in this one. Heeheehee.
Oh and special thanks to Kez-Kez, for proof-reading! Thanks-a-million!

Do Enjoy!

Chapter Five

"What did you do to her arm…? It's red…"

Bella awoke to the sound of a familiar male voice and the feeling of someone lightly examining her arm.

She opened her eyes and saw nothing but darkness. She tried reopening them and blinking. But everything was still dark. She then looked down embarrassed, realising that a blindfold was covering her eyes.

She had regained the feeling in her body, but hadn't regained the ability to move it yet.

The gentle hand that was examining her stinging arm moved to dust off her back. She flinched as the stranger's hand made contact of her injured back. A stinging sensation ran through her body.

There was a moment of silence. She figured the hand's owner must have realised that she flinched.

"Are you…" He paused, "Is she hurt?" This time the question was directed to someone else.

"Who cares…" An unfamiliar voice spoke up.

She heard a door open and then a few footsteps run in.

"We need you all in the front of the train!" She heard the man who just entered say.

"Kadaj, you stay." The familiar voice commanded.

She heard a growl along with the sound of a few men rustling out of the room. Then there was complete silence.

Did they all leave? It's so quiet…Maybe they all left…She pondered to herself.

"Where am I?" She quietly whispered to herself.

"You are in the middle of a train robbery…The biggest in the world!" She assumed that the man by the name of Kadaj answered.

"Ha, President Shinra shouldn't have been so careless. We'll be millionaires! If we complete this…but, no…He had to get involved with you…" His voice turning sinister.

"…who?" Bella asked, slightly shifting her position to a sitting one. A light bulb flicked inside her head. I can move again! She lifted her hands to try to remove the blindfold that was tied around her eyes. She found the knot with her fingers and began to quietly try to untie it. She was nearly done, when a loud shout stopped her in her tracks.

"What do you think you're doing!" Kadaj shouted.

Then out of nowhere she felt a foot forcefully kick her near her ribs, Causing her to be flung across the room. She closed her eyes tight and embraced herself for the assumed collision with the wall. Within seconds she hit…but it wasn't a wall. It didn't feel like a wall. It almost felt as she had fell on a person—

An angry and pain stricken scream yelled out from underneath her.

"What the hell—" There was a slight pause. She could feel him moving his legs and arms underneath her. "Hey! I can move again, yo!" The man she fell on top of exclaimed.

He must've gotten shot by the paralyzing gun as well…

"Oh shut up, the both of you." Kadaj growled.

She heard footsteps then a door open and close. Then the room fell silent again.

A strong hand gently pulled her up from the legs she was laying on, into a sitting position.

"Are ya okay, yo?" The man asked.

Bella didn't say anything, the only thing she could do was quietly curse at the pain that her body was enduring. Her arm ached from when Yazoo had grasped her; Her whole body had a tingling feeling, she assumed it was the aftermath from the paralyzing gun; Her ribs were in incredible pain due to the kick from Kadaj; But worst of all, there was a horrible pain in her back that couldn't be ignored. So, yeah, she wasn't okay.
But the last thing she wanted was this man's sympathy, so she put on a brave face (not that the man would've been able to see because he was most probably also blindfolded) and she answered "Y-yeah…I'm fine."

The young man smirked at Bella's toughness. He knew that her ribs may be bruised or even broken for she didn't exactly land softly on the ground.

"Maybe we should take our blindfolds off, yo. So I can get a look at your pretty little face." The man suggested.

"Mhm." Bella squeaked. By the sound of his voice Bella knew he'd be quite the good looking, that and he was a little sleazy.

The young man undid his blindfold with ease. The knot was only loosely tied up. Bella on the other hand took a little longer.

When she finally managed to take her blind fold off the first thing she did was look around the room that she had been locked up in. It was a small dark unfurnished room. The only light source emitting the room came from a tiny light bulb hanging from the center of the ceiling. It smelt like gun smoke and sweat. And Bella was certain there was a distinct odour of blood circling around the air. She felt her stomach grow slightly nauseous as the grotesque smell of blood entered her lungs.

She clutched her stomach and focused her attention back to the man she was sitting next to.

Her eyes widened as she gazed at the smirking man in front of her. He had fiery red hair and a handsome young face. He wore a black zip tuxedo with an unbuttoned shirt underneath. He had two distinctive tattoos just under his eyes and his blue eyes were focused on her.

"Ah" He exhaled. "That's better… now I can actually see who I'm talkin' to, yo."

Bella smiled, blushing lightly.

"You're hurt pretty bad, yo." Reno said, his voice was genuinely full of concern.

He lifted up his hand and tugged at her white undershirt. "Lift this up." He instructed.

Bella's light blushed turned into a red flush as she looked at him surprised, "Uh…I'm not that kind of girl…"

Reno wondered why she looked so embarrassed, then he realised that she probably interpreted his innocent instruction as a perverted order.

He chuckled uneasily and put his hands up defensively as if to say 'I don't mean it like that'. "I meant lift up your shirt so I can take a look at your injury, yo!" He quickly reassured. "Though, I wouldn't mind it if you like the other intension better. I mean I'm up for anything, yo…" He half joked.

She laughed, turning an even brighter shade of red.

She lifted her undershirt up high enough to only reveal her ribs. They had already begun to turn a dark purple colour.

Reno winced at the discolouring. He knew it would be hurting pretty bad.

"How does it look?" Bella asked. Her eyes were tightly closed, making no attempt to look at it.

He let out an amused laugh at her. He found her 'If I don't look at it, it won't hurt as much' approach kind of cute.

"Uh…not that bad…You'll be good." He said and pulled her shirt down.

"Really?" She asked opening one eye to look at it. "Because at the moment it feels like I've been shot in the stomach…" She smiled weakly.

He let out a small laugh and smiled at her sheepishly. "It only hurts that much? You'll be right. It'll toughen ya up." He winked, "You can open your eyes now."

"No, can you check my back as well?" She asked as she turned around to face her back to him.

He nodded and lifted up her shirt to examine her back. It look exactly the same as her ribs. It was a terrible purple colour and there was a red mark along her spine.

Again he winced and carefully pulled her shirt down. "I'm amazed you can still smile. If I was in your position, I'd be crying my eyes out."

She gulped hard and turned around to face him. "That bad, eh?" She asked half-heartedly.

He watched as she repeated the question. Her eyes were staring at him, all the while griping her ribs.

"I'm guessing it feels as bad as it looks, yo…" He stated.

She looked at a dark concrete stain next to her and then back at him. "I can't feel anything…it's numb."

Reno's eyes widened. His voice serious, "Then yeah….it's pretty bad."

"Did they do this to you?" He asked angrily.

Bella nodded, she knew exactly who he was talking about. The train robbers.

Reno clenched and slammed his fist on the hard concrete ground. He wasn't exactly a model citizen, in fact far from it, but he still had morals. And one of them was that no man should hit, let alone badly injure a girl.

Bella jumped back a little surprised. "Save the angst, okay. It's kind of scary."

"Sorry…" He quickly retracted his hand. "It's just men…just shouldn't hit women, you know."

She smiled at his tough guy act. "What's your name?"

"I'm Reno and I am one of President Shinra's security guards, yo." He looked around the room embarrassed. "You probably think, I'm terrible though, considering I'm not actually protecting Shinra…at the moment."

She grinned half reassuringly and half amused. "Don't let it damage your ego; those guys are pretty tough."

He smiled wryly. "Gee, Thanks for the 'They probably caught you off guard', 'You're much stronger then them!' 'You're my hero', 'Love you!'." Reno replied sarcastically.

She chuckled and smiled broadly. Leaning in closer to Reno, she grabbed his chin lightly and pecked his cheek with a gentle kiss. "Thanks, Doc" She beamed. And painfully stood up, looking around the room for someway of escaping. "Now let's find a way to get out of here, before we start smelling."

She walked straight to the door, curiously and began to bang on it.

Reno watched her, dumbfounded, and smirked at her humour.

"I love you too," He replied sarcastically under his breath and jumped up to join her.
"What about you," He questioned, "What's your name?"

"Bella."

Thanks for reading it. XD Another Chapter done.
I love Reno, he's a spunk. You know who else is? James Dean. He's the ultimate Cool.

I don't know if I've said this before, but YKI stands for You know it.

Stay Cool, Mr. Ed.

-YKI