Authors note: Aight yall!! Here's another one. But it seems that I have a habit for writing short chapters :( do not fret I will update soon!!
Chapter 2: Caring
As Yuffie walked down the stairs of hell, she held her stomach as if it was going to jump out of her abdomen. She moaned as the burning pain overcame the aches.
"…ugh..."
Tifa looked at Yuffie with that usual mothering look. "Yuffie? What's wrong?"
"My... stomach." Yuffie moaned.
"What's wrong with it?"
"Food poisoning" interrupted Cloud
"Oh… That's it?" asked Tifa, even if it was food poisoning, she should've treated the situation with more TLC.
"NO." blurted Yuffie angry that Cloud wasn't taking her seriously. "Food poisoning is-"
Yuffie got a sick to her stomach feeling, she automatically ran to the bathroom. Tifa ran with her. As soon as the coughing and retching sounds stopped. Tifa felt her forehead.
"Maybe you shouldn't go on this mission today…"
Yuffie looked wide-eyed at Tifa. "N-no I'm fi-ine."
"Psh. You can't even talk straight."
"SHUT UP CLOUD!!"
"Well she can yell, she's fine let's go."
"I SAID SHUT IT!!"
"Stop it. Both of you. Yuffie, you're not going, I'll call and get someone to look after you."
"Fine, whatever, I'm going back to sleep" Yuffie grumbled, purposely bumping Cloud into the wall on the way out the bathroom.
"Great, that was a big waste of my time. I'm in the same position I was ten minutes ago!" Yuffie thought as she dozed to sleep.
When Yuffie woke up, she felt the pain in her stomach again. She thought she was home alone until she heard the TV on downstairs. Clutching her tummy, she went to go see who Tifa had picked.
"…Reno?"
The red head turned around "Yo. You don't look so hot."
Yuffie held her stomach as the pain worsened. "I don't feel so hot either…"
"Oh… sorry" Reno said looking at the pain on Yuffie's face. "Well you can come down here and lay down if you want."
"That'll do." Said Yuffie as she warily made her way down the rest of the steps and laid down next to Reno, laying her head on his lap.
"Thanks…"
"No problem" said Reno with red rushing to his cheeks. She looked innocent. And he felt he needed to be there for her.
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"..ugh…"
She was even making noises in her sleep, clutching her stomach once every fifty seconds. Reno thought it was just food poisoning, until he really thought about it. He has had these pains before, it was… right before…
Reno's eyes widened. He has had these pains right before his appendix burst.
He remembered the constant pain every few minutes, and then it kept getting worse and worse and the time between the pains shorter and shorter. Then randomly, there was white hot searing pain in his stomach.
For every person the suffering was different, but this was like déjà vu.
Yuffie started to stir then clutched her stomach again. Her grey eyes fluttered open, and Reno laughed to see that they were cross-eyed.
"What's so… funny?" Yuffie said dryly.
"Nothing, you ok?" Reno asked with concern in his eyes.
"…no…" Yuffie said.
"Want a tummy rub?"
"Why… would I want that?" Yuffie said, thinking this is a cheap trick to feel her up.
"Because when I was in your position, that soothed me through the pain."
"You don't say? I aughta try it then." She said, thinking he wasn't going to do it.
"Alright, lay down. And lift up your shirt." Reno said coolly, not a hint of slyness in his voice.
"…ok…" Yuffie said as she lay down pulling off her shirt uncomfortably.
"I didn't say take it off, I just said lift it up."
"…oh. Well too late. Might as well get the whole picture!" Yuffie said wiggling her body, then wincing in pain.
"You'd probably not wanna do that again…" said Reno thanking Gaia that she had on a bra.
Yuffie stuck her tongue out as she laid on his lap holding her stomach.
"Just relax okay?"
"…Okay." Yuffie said looking away preparing for the blush that was about to appear on her cheeks.
Reno rubbed the bottom right portion of her belly not hard of soft, but just right.
"how'd you know that's where it hurt?" asked Yuffie.
"I told you I was in your position before. Feel good?"
"Yeah, real good" Yuffie exhaled.
She blushed at how soft the Turk's hand was, while Reno blushed at how smooth her stomach was. When her head lolled to the side, that's when Reno knew she was asleep again. Pulling her up from under her armpits, he sat her on his lap and rested her head on his chest. Not even ten seconds after, he felt her petite hands slide across his stomach and he saw her smile, in her sleep. He smirked and gave her a kiss on top of the head and caressed her back as she snuggled closer.
Soon, they were both asleep.
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Whoo! That was a bit longer and better. As you can see these are not real symptoms of appendicitis but hey, exaggeration is key in the writing arts! RxR!!
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