Disclaimer: Same as always kiddies, I still don't own a thing!
A/N: Hello hello all! Sorry about the long hiatus, but I was busy moving in to my new apartment for the school year. That's been the reason for the lack of updates so far. In addition to that, my beloved computer DIED on me, so I was without computer for a week. Emoness. Anyway, the point is that I have my baby back, and this story is on it's way back on track! Yay, rhymes. Anyway, thanks for sticking with it, and thank you for all the kind reviews! Enjoy the latest installment!
"What the Hell are you doin' out here at this time brat?"
A bit of residual bitterness at the day's events tinted the color of his voice as the first thing that came to mind seemed to just fly out of his lips.
"You jackass! Where d'you get off callin' me a brat! You're one of the most despicable people I've ever had the displeasure of having to go on one of these stupid blind dates with!"
With a loud shriek she let the shuriken fly and charged at the Turk with amazing speed and ferocity. Wanting to dodge the greater of two dangers, Reno was able to dodge the large metal object flying at him, but not the high roundhouse kick that the young ninja placed neatly on his jaw line. Letting his temper get the best of him he cast a quick fire spell and aimed it at an unsuspecting Yuffie, who was currently charging him once more. Little licks of fire came shooting out at her and caught neatly on her clothes.
"Shit!" Yuffie cursed as she quickly tossed the shuriken at Reno once more and cast a quick curative spell on herself to heal the burns that had formed from the low-level fire attack.
The shuriken grazed Reno's shoulder, opening up a quite large and painful, but not serious, gash. Switching his shock-rod to the other hand, thanking his ambidexterousity, he charged at her with reckless abandon, catching her clear in the face with the handle of his weapon. She let out an enraged shriek and hitting her limit, took up her shuriken and sent a blast of searing energy in a wave at her adversary.
Unfortunately for the tired girl, the nimble Turk managed to dodge the attack and turned up the shock capabilities on his EMR to full power. He came at her once more, and she used her shuriken as a shield - forgetting that metal is just a conductor for electricity.
Yuffie screamed as the current of electricity raced through the shuriken and into her body. She was stunned to the point where she could not let go of her weapon to break the current. Reno, who had beforehand, been in an anger-fueled rage, was snapped out of his vicious attack by the gut-wrenching screams of the girl in front of him. He quickly threw his shock-rod to the ground, breaking the electricity from Yuffie's shuriken, and watched in horror as she fell silently to the ground.
He hadn't meant for it to go this far.
Gingerly picking the metal object off of the young girl's fallen form, he braced himself for the aftershock which was sure to come as he propped her up in his arms. An unpleasant, but not unbearable, tingle rushed through him as he cradled her upper body in one arm.
"Hey...hey, girl. Wake up."
She didn't even stir, her heartbeat slow and irregular, her breath almost undetectable. His voice raised a pitch in panic as he started to lightly pat her cheeks in an attempt to wake her.
"Hey! Come one! This ain't funny kid! You know I didn't mean to...mean to...do...this..."
Reno was near hysteria as he realized that he didn't even have a cure materia on him. Frantically looking for some way to revive her, he noticed the necessary bright green orb winking up at him from the discarded shuriken. He reached in to it and winced as a lot of remaining shock flooded through his hand and up his arm. Placing the orb above Yuffie and concentrating hard, he cast the strongest curative spell he could, and waited with baited breath as the green light engulfed the girl lying in his arms.
As soon as a pair of dark brown eyes fluttered drowsily open he tossed the orb aside, smoothing short black locks away from a startled, and obviously unwell face. Her gaze flickered up to him, but didn't show a hint of recognition or recollection that he had been the one that put her in this state. Her eyes snapped shut once more, but this time her breath and heartbeat were stronger.
"Oh God, I'm so sorry. Please...open your eyes."
It was a few more seconds before her eyes popped open once more, and in a swift move she had shoved herself away from Reno and slapped him right across the face.
"I can't believe you would do that to a girl! You pig!"
Reno's eyes nearly popped out of his head as he gave her the most startled look she had ever seen in her entire life.
He wanted to throw himself at her and hold her and tell her that he was sorry and that he hadn't meant to hurt her so. He hadn't meant to be so vicious - but her presence was driving him crazy. He could barely control the things he said and did, and it scared him senseless because he had barely met her.
"Look kid, I'm real sorry I did that to ya. I didn't mean for it...I didn't mean for it to go that far. I never meant to do that. I really mean it. I didn't mean to."
Not one to hold grudges, she looked at him admonishingly, and with a hint of a grin started to try and scare him.
"Ya know, my dad's the king of Wutai. I could have your ass for this kind of thing..."
Reno swallowed hard.
"But, why doncha take me to go get a drink and we'll call it even. Dad'll never have to know about any of this. Gotta deal?"
He grinned back stiffly at the kid in front of him and got up. Offering a hand to help her up, she accepted, and he pulled her into a headlock, stealthily taking in the scent of her shampoo and sweat as he whispered softly, "Deal."
A/N P.II: Sorry! Short update just to let you guys know I'm still around! Plus, the break off makes the story better this way! Gomen ne! See you in the next chappie!