Guess I'd start hinting more of the couples, eh? 3

Disclaimer: None of the characters or anything that revolves around Final Fantasy 7 has ever belonged to me but will always be credited by Square-Enix.

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Chapter Five – Reno's Secret

His cigar lighted at his command as he inhaled the toxic nicotine and soon enough exhaled it, the routine followed several times as he made his way through the morning crowd. He had chosen to linger next to the bar for a few minutes to hear the conversation of the people he left and then leave; a few things said while he was gone by the Turks and two Avalanche members brought a frown upon his face.

Dropping the stick at the ground, he tackled it with his heel and then continued walking calmly hoping to find an interesting destination to take the grief off his mind. If he went to another bar, the suited comrades of his would find him. If he went to pick a girl up, they would find him.

"Damn, they know me too well" he muttered softly under his breath with an amused smirk for the fact on how he found it quite entertaining that he once thought he couldn't open up to those three as he fidgeted with his slender and long fingers that hovered above his pockets juggling whether to take another drag or not.

Finally thinking not to, he let out an upset sigh escape him this time as he noticed two children, one boy and one girl enjoy the others company while they ran around happily. The boy held neck length brown hair while the girl had her hair tied back with a pink ponytail and chose to wear white. He noticed them quite quickly and decided not to go over afraid that he might get dragged on questions on when or where their Spiky haired friend has chosen to go to or if Tifa needed them, no he feared that the children would just keep throwing questions at him and never let him be.

So he chose to walk the other direction, be spontaneous. Pushing his fingers roughly in his pockets, he felt a sheet of paper being crammed and a cold lighter hit his knuckles. The feeling of chills shivered against his spine as he let out a violent shook of his body and continued walking.

He could remember it easily. It once started out as any other day…..

His fingers allowed to dive at the monster as he tackled it from the start and grasped his hands around it, pleading for it not to attack him; he soon looked at the alliance of the cold blooded monster and began pleading at it instead…Finally the match was over; he had lost.

The monster lay neatly onto his chest as he tried pulling it off him; of course the dark glare of the monsters 'friend' made Reno let go and understand.

"Please, Tseng give me a break!" Reno pleaded helplessly willing to go on his knees to win the argument, of course he got the infamous shake of the head from the creature's friend.

"Reno, it's a policy to wear a tie" the person spoke unemotionally as he made his way to the door.

"This monster has a name!" He cried tugging at the tie viciously but of course not daring to take it off while Tseng was around.

Making his way across the likely tornado attacked office, he carelessly jumped on his chair and began turning himself silly trying to waste time when he could have used those free precious time to complete the paper on the previous missions information to Rufus.

He could feel himself getting quite dizzy but that only made the red head turn himself faster and faster, when of course the sudden figure jumped at his face leading him to out of shock to let go of the armrest of the seat that held him tight from falling off as he landed head on the ground.

Groaning softly as he lay there for a few minutes the vacant seat finally halted to a stop, he clasped his hands against his head before looking up and allowing a soft yet playful smirk appear on his thin lips as he noticed the figure who gave him the shock quite familiar.

"Hey you" the person spoke as it chose to sit upon Reno's previous seat and keep its eyes on him calmly.

"I'm fine, thank you!" He teased as he finally got up and chose to lean against the nearest corner of the wall to the person as he tilted his head and waited for the person to speak; there was something he was going to be told…He could tell from the way the person avoided his eyes.

"I-I don't…." The person spoke not sure how to say exactly what it wanted to say to Reno when it finally looked up and raised an eyebrow, "Why am I even asking you? I could ask anyone else like Cloud, so why am I asking you?" The person asked softly as it clasped its hands on its knees as if looking guilty.

"Because you'll do anything for my attention" Reno mentioned as he finally pulled out his tie and avoided a materia that was thrown at his head.

"Reno, I'm trying to be serious; can't you do the same for me?" The person who was obviously a "she" pointed out looking annoyed. "You know what? Never mind…" She muttered and got up as she made her way towards the door feeling like Reno wouldn't give her the attention she wanted and needed.

"I'll listen" he persisted as he kept a gently grip on her wrist to stop her from leaving and nodded at the previous chair she occupied, "I'll try to keep my jokes till after we finished whatever possible problem you want me to help solve for you" he noted and rested against the table now as he watched her sit on the chair and once more wonder how to explain herself.

"I'm afraid of the future commitment that might be thrown at me…But I know he'll help me get over it" she noted shamelessly as she kept her head downwards.

Reno of course spoke nothing as he stared at her trying to show evidence to himself on who she was talking about, he took a deep gulp and nodded his head, "He won't hurt you" he muttered thinking that was what she needed to hear as he crouched down to tap her chin signaling her to look upwards at him from now on if she wanted his attention.

"How do I know that for sure, Reno?" She asked softly obeying his commands as she kept her eyes now on him as she honestly hoped she would find a reason to believe what he had just said.

"I promise you"

"I want to trust you Reno, don't make me find out you break your promise" she said as she soon stood up much to Reno's confusion.

"Where are you going?" He asked confused, wasn't she trying to point out that…?

"I'm going to go find him, thanks to your help I can finally accept his offer without having doubts" the female said happily as she left a peck on the confused red heads cheek as she left him in the office.

That was when it hit him, she wasn't asking advice in a somewhat code to see if Reno would be faithful to her…She was asking advice on someone else he least expected….

He could honestly kick himself for being such an idiot then, he should have expected it; she was obviously asking advice about someone else. So why did he lie to himself that she was talking about him and trying to bring in the subject about the two of them which would only lead Reno to remark a dirty joke and get slapped in the cheek; but at least then he would known her feelings towards him were positive.

Pulling out his hands from his pockets, he turned around to hear footsteps exiting a nearby building…There she was, looking for the man he promised would never hurt her.

He pressed his slender fingers around the spot of his cheek that she once touched; why did she make him feel this way? He never did care about the topic…No! He was already thinking about it…Does that mean that he was….?

"Damn it Reno, look at what a mess you got yourself into!" He muttered as he let a soft laugh escape him, no; he was lying to himself, she was just someone he knew…Nothing more…

So Laney was wrong, it wasn't always right to have your feelings run lose; for he might just have fallen in love that day for listening to the blonde haired Turk's wise words.

-TOBECONTINUED-

Author Notes: Rufus & Kisargi coming up next:D