Kidnapped

Disclaimer: well I think after a while this starts to get old and I can continue to make up new ones so you know the same applies as the last chapter

New Midgar was alive and buzzing, although most were not residents. The main forces were the WRO and the Turks, although there as always was hostility to the Turks but not so much. In the center of the town stood the WRO building, the building so defiantly the largest in size. However as Reeve had promised the building did not use mako, he thought they had finally learned their lesson. It was in this building on the twenty-first floor that Reeve sat in his office, with red eyes staring vaguely at a computer screen. Reeve was beginning to believe Tifa when she claimed he was a workaholic. The surrounding offices were empty with those that had gone home to their families. However Reeve seemed to trying to restore a new city, one for those that had lost everything. However Reeve know if it was going so well, people had become wary of Midgar after Deepground. Even some of the workers had their families outside of city. Reeve could slowly feel the warmth leaving his back as the sun began to set. Reeve wouldn't give up on Midgar though and he doubted the Turks would have allowed him. Reeve was mildly surprised when the Turks had asked if they could help the WRO. Reeve believed they just felt they had been useless for too long. He remembered back to the conversation he had that morning earlier, when he suggested that perhaps he should give up.

'We can't' Reno had told him looking out onto the new city. He was flipping his weapon lightly, wanting for Elena to bite. 'Sure we may not have a lot of people living in buildings. But there are hundreds on the street that used to live in Old Midgar. At least here they feel slightly safer"

'The world isn't a nice place.' Elena said watching Reno's nightstick flying up and down. 'We have more people living on the streets than in homes. 'Those that get off the street do it in ways that aren't always considered legal'

'We still have laws' Reno asked with a smirk which meant Elena would probably get angry. 'Hey hey we can help people but I've travelled all over the world and Midgar is the only one that I know has the best beer, and I know that if I get drunk I have the possibility of waking up the next morning in bed with a woman whose name I can't remember.' He grinned happily, Elena's face burned red with anger. Elena attempted to calm herself down, she turned to look at him with a deadpan look.

'Yes let's bring back Midgar's sex, drugs and alcohol, for how else will we ever live' she spoke while rolling her eyes. Reno glared at her lightly seeing as he didn't want to admit it but they were aspects of his life.

'...I agree...' Rude said, Reno's jaw dropped and he had to stop himself from pointing and crying out traitor.

'You're siding with Laney on this one' Reno managed to say, he crossed his arms and lent back on the window. 'Who is she Rude?' Thinking only a woman in his life would make him like this.

'We just need to make sure the same thing doesn't happen in this Midgar' Elena told Reeve. Reeve sat there watching them explain he somehow could interrupt them as they explained why they were holding on.

'...' Rude said

'Rude is right, as long as we're here it can work. As long as we don't have to act like those goody goodies AVALANCHE' Reno said. 'No offence Reeve.' Reeve sighed, as he realised that there was no way he could ever change their minds. He shook his head lightly; at least Elena and Reno weren't fighting for once. "And while we're on the topic on of the 'new Turks', we should make it compulsory that all female staff must wear mini-skirts. I, of course, would be happy to help design their new uniform," Reno smiled at Reeve. Elena's face went bright red with anger, and Reeve could swear he heard Rude groan. Somehow he doubted this time Laney would remember her place or her calm.

"Your siding with Laney on this one" Reno cried, Rude nodded. Reno crossed his arms and lent back on the wall behind him brooding, Elena rolled her eyes.

"I'm not saying that we shouldn't try and help Midgar, just maybe that we shouldn't bring back everything that was before" Elena said, she tried giving Reeve the look to force him to change his mind.

'I will not wear one of those!' Elena yelled at Reno. Reno turned around and looked at Elena in mock shock.

'Laney, I hate to break it to you, no one in Turks considers you a female so don't worry' Reno smirked at Elena as she burned red to almost purple. Although Reno was right that she was not considered a female more of one of the guys. This was not necessary a bad thing but Reno was just making it one. 'I mean we don't want to make people feel sick.'

Reeve smirked as he remembered Elena's attempts to kill the annoying red haired, he chuckled lightly. He suddenly froze, his time with AVALANCHE and with the WRO had made his senses more alert. He swore he heard a noise coming from the outside the empty office areas. Normally he would think nothing of it believing it to be Elena tripping coming to inform him of some new information. However he knew Elena was in Old Midgar from a phone call fifteen minutes ago. He pretend as much as he could that he hadn't noticed it, if there was something there he didn't want to alert to them he was aware for their presences. He suddenly heard the noise again and on the other side from the noise a large pile of paper suddenly fell to the floor. He didn't like this, the hair's on the back of his neck stood up. He slowly turned to reach for his phone he'd just call someone up, or at least alert someone. He suddenly paused but not willingly, as he felt a barrel of a gun place on the back of his head

"Ring them," a deep male voice told him, pushing his head with the gun. Ignoring the feeling to turn around and refuse, he did as he said. As the phone rang several times he began to worry Reno had turned it off. He only did so when he was 'entertaining' one of the females in the office. He almost forgot his situation to curse, he guessed though which one it was. Reno was on the ground floor most likely flirting with his new secretary, he wished he'd fired her. Reno finally answered and Reeve could hear the secretary's unnatural high pitch laughter fill the speaker of his phone.

"Hey Reeve," Reno said quite calmly. Reeve could already see Reno leaning over the counter slightly and winking at his secretary and by her laugh he guessed he did.

"Reno I have a problem" Reeve told him. Reno suddenly seemed to sense the tension in Reeve's voice. His secretary seemed to attempting to regain Reno's attention.

"Is this a problem that you should really be talking to me about? I mean maybe you'd be more comfortable if you rang Rude" Reno asked. Reeve started wishing that he had rung Rude; he sighed again and tried to explain more.

"No Reno, I have a problem, but not that sort of problem" Reeve growled at him.

"Yes but what would you define as a problem" Reno asked innocently. Reeve was starting to regret that he hadn't let Elena kill Reno. Elena had warned him that around "women" Reno had the tenancy to be a real…

"Does a gun being pointed at the back of my head sit as a problem?" Reeve asked quite sarcastically. Downstairs in the reception area Reno blinked several times; he heard a gunshot in the phone and ran. He pressed the button on the elevator it was too slow, he rang to the staircase. Swearing the whole way why the elevator was still broken. He ran into Reeve's office the room was a mess, and understanding Reeve would not have gone without some form of fight. He looked at the around the side of the desk, Reeve's PHS was laying on the floor still attempting to call a number. By the side next to the overturn chair were several droplets, thankfully not enough to cause death. He turned to look at Reeve's computer screen that had been smashed in or shot in.

Reno sighed, Reeve could be dead and it was because he had been busy flirting. Elena had warned him eventually it would be the end of him; she never said it would be the end of anyone else. He needed to send out an alert in case they were still by, however he doubt they were with how quick they disappeared. He opened his PHS to make some calls. Rude had gone down the building and out in Midgar looking to find a trace of the person responsible. Elena was looking up for likely suspects, poor optimistic Elena, she would find nothing. What they all really needed was some one who always found information through pure luck, some one who was strong, someone who was friends with Reeve and would help without the help of a check. Reno looked across at Reeve's PHS, he knew it would connect soon. He really didn't like what he was thinking, he really didn't want to do it. He sighed the worst thing was he knew he didn't really have a choice.

"I hate my life………" Reno muttered. He picked up Reeve's phone and placed it on his ear, waiting. Man he wasn't going to hear the end of this.

Somewhere in Nibelbeim Cloud's PHS rang…………

Yuffie's blood froze, the one person she had been thinking about that morning, the one person whom she really didn't want of have met was standing in front of her. Looking the same as he always had, although with dustier hair and his cape with more holes than normal. Her eyes narrowed dangerously at her old comrade, she was wary of others presence since being on her own for so long.

"What are you doing here Vincent?" Yuffie spat trying to tell him in the nicest way that he was not welcome in anyway shape or form. Yuffie seemed surprised by her own voice it had changed in the last few years, and she had not used it for so long. Vincent seemed slightly shocked with the Ninja's harsh words, she'd never been one for a abusive voice. Even when she was angry the only time she'd talked with a sweet voice and a smiling face. Her eyes had however always been burning with the hell fury fire, the only exception was when he was missing for four weeks. Now he looked at her eyes, there was no fire in them. They were empty, cold, she'd changed so much in the time they had been away.

'She doesn't look very happy with you' Chaos told Vincent slightly concerned for his hosts health and ultimately his own.

'Thank you Chaos for that obvious piece of information' Vincent replied dryly. He didn't need information from his demons he wasn't that completely obvious. Vincent may of struggled to express emotions, but he was an expert observer of people.

'You may want to duck' Chaos said.

'Excuse-' Vincent started to ask.

SLAM!

A piece of wood that Yuffie had found on the forest floor connected with Vincent's head.

"I told you to GO AWAY!" Yuffie yelled at him, she walked past him attempting to get her knife out of the tree. "I can take care of myself" she couldn't budge the knife, she'd thrown it with so much force. "I don't need anyone –whoa" Yuffie lost her grip on the knife and fell back into the mud, covering her hands and butt. Vincent looked at the knife wedged into the tree, he pulled it out with ease and handed it to Yuffie. "Hmph I could of done that!" she cried. Standing up and attempting to brush herself off but just covering herself in more mud. She wrenched the knife out of his hands, and Vincent thought he could hear her muttering about loosening the knife. It was at this stage that Vincent finally began to see the physical changes Yuffie and demeanour. She'd grown her hair out to below her shoulders in beautiful waves of brown hair. She'd left her clothing from two years ago behind, no longer did Yuffie look like the innocent child she once had. She was wearing what looked like black cargo pants and black combat boots even though the heat of the forest would be over heating her. She was also wearing a black non sleeve shirt that stuck to her body from the heat, and her running. Her curves proving more so that Yuffie was defiantly not the same little teenager girl she had been. However Vincent noticed that her weapons wear also different. She no longer carried her shuriken, she had a belt around her waist that held several different knives of different lengths. The longest was almost the length of her forearm. She also had a gun on her outside thigh, which surprised him as he she had always fearful of his guns.

'See something you like Valentine, and I don't mean the gun?' Death Gigas asked. Vincent growled at his demons and himself for losing control at that moment.

"I don't know myself why I am here, I did not intentionally follow you" Vincent told her, she scoffed at him. But ignored the fact that he had just growled at her.

"You know Vincent your such-" both of their PHS went off leaving a message and interrupting what Yuffie was going to say. Both of the messages were identical, they read

Seeing as we haven't heard from you for over a year I doubt you will response. But there has been a kidnapping of our comrade Reeve; the team will be meeting at Cosmo Canyon for further information. Hope you will come but we will not wait long to see if you will.

Cloud

Yuffie rolled her eyes, how like Cloud, so vague. She looked at Vincent, she wanted to help Reeve but didn't want to face the group after taking off. Reeve and her had always been rather close together, especially during the Deepground assault. She and him had both betrayed the team during Sephiroth attack, yet were allowed to stay. They had been the rejects of the group, yet not as much as Vincent. Vincent was also alone, perhaps that was why she had been so-… she shook her head ignoring Vincent's confused look, she couldn't think like that again.

"Are you going," Vincent asked breaking the silence between them. "Or are you going to run away again?" Yuffie shook with anger, she go, just to show them all she wasn't the same defenceless innocent Yuffie from before. But when she really thought about it when was she ever innocent.

Author notes:

Although I'm following parts of the movie and dirge as well, Tseng is not alive in my story he died in the game. So he's staying dead. Thanks for all my readers and for all your reviews

R&R