Title: First Encounter
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Reno x Yuffie Kisaragi
Prompt: 012. Shelter
Word Count: 515
Rating: K
Summary: How it all began

Author's Notes: This is a longer one.

Yuffie stands outside the bar, staring off into the rain, waiting to see if it will let up at all. Her bike is getting shelter under the overhang of the building. She normally would just leave and come back for it like she does when she's drunk, but it's raining too hard and she doesn't have an umbrella. Walking in her ninja attire when it's raining this hard isn't exactly Yuffie's cup of tea.

Even though she doesn't like the prospect of it too much, she might just have to spend the night there at the bar. She's not excited, because Tifa is depressed that Cloud left again, and Yuffie doesn't really feel like comforting her for the umpteenth time about a guy who wouldn't let go of a ghost. Therefore she stands outside the bar, waiting for the rain to let up.

Then, the red headed Turk shows up. Yuffie knows that they used to be enemies, but since Sephiroth's defeat, Shinra has been shaping up, doing more "kind of good" things than really bad things. His uniform is dirty, and he's got something that's probably blood on his face and knuckles.

He stands next to her and asks if she wants a cigarette.

She takes a sideways step away from him and tells him that she doesn't smoke.

He lights up and tells her that she must be that ninja princess of Wutai.

She tells him that he must be the red headed Turkey of Shinra.

He laughs and asks what she's doing outside the bar if she doesn't smoke and it's raining.

She tells him she's waiting for the rain to let up or stop, motioning towards her bike and explaining that she didn't have an umbrella.

Reno stares at her for a second, as if comprehending the fact that she owned a motorcycle was difficult. He takes another drag from his cigarette before putting it out. He moves towards the door and comes back, handing her his umbrella.

She looks back and forth from the thing and him with a confused expression on her face.

He tells her to take it.

She says she doesn't want to leave him out in the rain.

He tells her that it's fine, he lives down the street, and to tell the truth, he could use some rain to wash the grime off his face.

She lies, saying that she doesn't want to leave her bike there, and he calls her out on her bluff, saying that Tifa had told him that she usually leaves it there when she gets too drunk.

She grows quiet and thinks to herself that it must mean that he was most likely asking about her.

She takes the umbrella quietly saying thanks.

He tells her that he'll want it back so he better see her at the bar again some time soon.

She smiles at him and says sure.

She walks away, deciding that she had made the right decision. Besides, he had practically made an appointment for her to return his umbrella. She would steal his materia then.

Almost done with finals :)