- A Final Fantasy VII Reno Fanfiction - by Nightcrawler666 -
And once again IDK wat 2 say… O well. ENJOY! lolz. Sorry i took so long to upd8 with a tiny chaptr, but i was busy reading 'Love and Sin' by ZakuReno. It's a RenoxOC fanfic, really good. (hint hint)
Chapter 6 - A little Family issue
"Lou?" Reno woke and lurched immediately forward. His shoulder was bandaged and the white linen was bloodstained. The room was unfamiliar to him, the walls were a sterile ivory colour and the floor was tiled the same sickly cream. A royal blue chair was in the corner next to the door, and a tiny wall sconce provided the only real light for the room. There were no windows and no-one else was there, but as Reno attempted to lift himself out of bed he heard click in the lock of the door.
"Shit."
Tseng opened the door and Reno tried to scramble back into bed, falling even further out of it and onto the floor. The Wutaian Turk's face lit up with an uncharacteristic grin and ran to Reno, helping him back up onto the bed and running back to the door.
"Elena! Call Rude and tell him it's urgent!" He shouted, still with the grin.
Through the open door Reno saw Lou walk past with a tray of coffee mugs. With a quick look into the room she stopped dead and dropped the tray, gaining strange looks from Tseng and other workers simply passing through the Shinra building. Her jaw clenched and tears welled up in her eyes as she stormed past her leader and to beside Reno's bed.
The red-head looked up with terrified eyes to the woman in front of him and gave a shy smile before she practically jumped on him. He fell back on the bed as Lou gripped him in a tight bear hug, and felt a pang of guilt when he felt her tears on his bare shoulders. He returned the embrace as best he could with his constricted arms before the arrival of Rude and Elena separated them.
"Ok, Ok. I get it! You're all glad I'm back…" Reno said, after being bombarded by Shinra workers in the lunch hall. Tseng walked back over with a tray of everyone's meals.
"You have got to be kidding me, yo!" Reno complained. "I've been out for weeks and everyone but me gets coffee! That's jes' so fair, isn't it!" He finished.
"Reno, are you forgetting what happened last time you had a coffee?" Elena said.
"Yes. I try." Reno replied, and many long moments later Lou summoned up the courage to ask:
"Why isn't Reno allowed coffee?" Tseng left the table at this remark, and Rude smiled a bit while nudging Elena, hinting for her to tell the story.
"Well, it was a while back but I remember it. Listen in. So, it was like any other lunchtime here at Shinra. Reno decided he'd get himself a coffee. He went to the machine and poured it in his cup, then he came back and sat with us. We didn't know he was drinking coffee. About half-an-hour later, he started to act kinda…weird. Then he went mad and ran riot all over Shinra. He trashed the entire building." By the time Elena was finished, Reno had kicked back with his hands behind his head, looking smug. Lou just laughed.
It had been a pretty long day really. All of the running about everyone had to do for Reno. Now, Elena had left to go home and Tseng and Rude were getting into an argument about who should get the other's paperwork tomorrow morning.
"Reno." Lou said, with a slight sigh behind it.
"Yup? What'dya want now, Lou?" He answered in his usual slur.
"Have you got anyone to take care of you? I mean like family and friends and stuff?"
Reno had been polishing his spare firearm, but now stopped abruptly for a second. He frowned slightly and his brown eyebrows furrowed together in much confusion. Then he went back to his gun.
"Reno?"
"Hmm?" He hummed, looking up at his fellow golden-haired Turk. For the first time he noted the pink ribbon in her hair and was easily distracted by it.
"Reno!"
"What?"
"Where are you staying tonight?"
"Why?"
"Where?"
"My flat, I guess. So did you find a place to stay or what, yo?"
"Yes, near Tifa's place, but don't try to change the subject. Who's taking care of you tonight?" Concern was written all over her face.
"Fine. I'll go to-"
"Where is it? Friend or Family." Reno scratched the back of his neck - a nervous habit.
"Friend. I guess…" And Lou left with an anxious frown on her face.
So Reno walked lonely streets to where he was going after work. He deliberately told no-one to follow him. Reno knew that if Tseng didn't kill him for this then Lou would get pretty close to it. Not wanting to be caught or give up one of his few chances, he'd proceeded as making sure nobody knew where he was going. He hadn't had many chances recently.