Title: Forgotten Memory
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Reno x Yuffie Kisaragi
Prompt: 022. Beggar
Word Count: 641
Rating: K
Summary: Their first true encounter?

Author's Notes: Not one of my faves. I kept jumping around with this theme. Hope it's acceptable for my hiatus.

It happened a long time ago. Yuffie was young and Reno had too many similar encounters to remember this one specifically.

Yuffie was practicing using some ninja shuriken she had received for her 10th birthday, which just passed a week ago. After a while, she could hear yelling coming from the room down the hall. She picked up her shuriken and tip-toed to the room to get a look at the action.

She could hear a few distinct voices, one of which she immediately recognized as her father's. There was another female voice as well as two other male voices. She reached the outside of the room, and slid the paper sliding door just enough for her to catch a glimpse of what was going on inside.

There were four figures in black suits. One was a woman with short blonde hair. One was a man with black hair tied back and a mark on his forehead. Another was bald with shades on. The last figure wore his uniform much more sloppily than the others, missing a tie, and had bright red hair.

Yuffie moved her line of vision to see her father kneeling on the ground as the figures circled him. She watched with disgust as her father took the abuse that the four were dishing out to him. They were insulting the antique décor in the room and tossing bright orbs of color back and forth to each other. The orbs mesmerized Yuffie, and she noticed that there was a whole chest full of them in front of Godo.

The old man begged for them to accept the chest of materia and leave. He explained that all the materia were excavated from the caves nearby, and it was the best of what they had found.

The blonde one scoffed saying that this batch of materia was worse than the batch they had received last month.

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While the others were busy having fun on one of their lighter missions for the month, Reno noticed a pair of eyes peering from the cracked sliding door at the back of the room. He could tell that it wasn't a threat since the eyes looked incredibly young. Besides that, ShinRa's dominance had long been established. There was no way that the old man would try to pull something tricky out of his sleeve. Reno realized that the eyes must belong to the old man's kid.

After a slight pause between insults, Reno closed the chest with his foot. He told the old man that next month's 'gift' of materia should more impressive, unless he wanted to start seeing the Turks twice a month. The others sensed that Reno was bringing the visit to a close, and headed for the exit.

Reno picked up the chest and turned to leave when he saw something shiny from the corner of his eye. He dropped the chest, spilling some of the bright colored orbs. He drew his rod, and effortlessly deflected the shuriken that came at him. Within a flash, his partners had their weapons drawn, and Tseng began yelling at Godo.

Godo himself turned around to yell at the open screen door, no one present to claim responsibility for the brash action. He yelled that he knew she was still there, and demanded that she beg for forgiveness, but to no avail. The little girl had disappeared from the room as quickly as she had appeared.

Rude asked Reno if he was ok, and Reno scoffed. He had faced scarier things than a 8 year old with shuriken. He picked up the few materia orbs that had escaped the chest, and walked out the door with the chest in hand. The rest relaxed, and as their put their weapons away and began filing out, Tseng suggested that Godo get a hold on his bratty kid.

Sorry for my neglect!! Thanks to all my reviewers and those who added this story as a favorite. I have some good drabbles written up already, but I'm trying to keep the order of the posting the same to the order of themes for 100 Situations. Also, my neglect has taken its toll on my writing abilities. It's a lot harder for me to write nowadays. I hope I can find my voice quickly and keep the Reffie coming. :)