The last chapter was terrible, so I'm making up with this one! )

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 Seventeen – Unwanted Hatred

"Hell yeah, Rufus is going to give me a raise; because I'm going to rock this mission!" Came the singing voice of a cheery suited fellow as he jumped in triumph before tossing the crunched up sheet of paper that held information on his latest job before avoiding the embarrassed glares of his bald comrade as he completed his victory dance.

His partner could only smile besides the fact pretend that he didn't know the hyper red head. He knew how much he was waiting for that certain mission, he was glad that he would be able to join him; maybe just maybe he'll be able to see the true reason Reno was hired as a Turk to start off.

But the bald comrade wondered why his partner stopped with the new dance, pushing his sunglasses down for a mere moment; he turned and stared at the direction the red head was looking to find the blonde Turk holding the same exact file Reno was given with the papers on the mission.

"Tseng and Laney are coming" he stated calmly.

He just stood there for a moment, he might have had an eye twitch as his dance had come to a halt and he just watched. Those two were great, and any other day he would have enjoyed sharing the mission with those two; but ever since that little scene he was pushed into he didn't have a word with neither and found the daily meetings to be very long, quite and awkward as neither the three him, Tseng or Elena spoke to the other.

He took a deep gulp allowing it to adjust before shaking his head, allowing a grin to hide his true feelings he let out a chuckle which made his little act of trying to sound alright with the other two coming along more fake.

"In transportation I made my priority yesterday morning to make sure you and I held the helicopter and Elena and Tseng by car" Rude stated once more.

He allowed a sigh to escape him from relief as he shook his head and allowed a real smile to reflect upon his bald partner, "Thanks, man" he mentioned happily.

"No problem….Partner" Rude spoke allowing a grin to come when he spoke the end of the sentence.

"Hey you're catching on!" Reno noticed happily when he heard his friend use one of catch phases.

"….."

"Guess that's your limit for the day" Reno chuckled away as he began dumping articles of weapons and toys into a cardboard box.

"Isn't there a suitcase for that?" Rude asked showing no signs of curiosity.

"Yeah, but these are the things I need to use without going through the trouble of having to unpack" Reno said as he dumped the box in front of Rude when he finished putting all the belongings inside.

"Should I ask how you might need a squeaky toy as an emergency item in the mission?" Rude asked helplessly as he picked the object up and squeezed it to bring out the sound as the red head heard it he fell into fits of laughs.

"Bad guys could trip upon them when they're chasing us"

"You never cease to amaze me" Rude gladly noted as he dumped the duck back in praying Reno wouldn't give a demonstration of the trip. The least he needed had to carry a broken legged red head through the whole mission.

"Yeah" Reno said with a smile tugging upon his lips as he dropped himself on a couch close by Rude, pushing his head upwards he closed his emerald eyelids and exhaled.

A few minutes past as Rude watched the change in Reno, his smile changed into a frown quite suddenly. He didn't know the specific reason, but he had a feeling it was something that just past by.

"Anything you want to ask, partner?" Reno asked opening one eyelid holding a lopsided grin.

"No" Rude noted as he was never the one to be nosey.

"Whatever pleases you" Reno said as in the corner of his eyes he watched the raven haired female as she closed the door behind her to the president's office from his.

He adjusted his hair as it only ended up staying in a mess as it stuck out in many directions giving quite quickly in the match; he was now leaning against the doorway of the transportation creature and listened to the conversation outside between his three partners.

"We will stop at Icicle Lodge to rest for the night, the two of you can keep heading to our destination if you want" That was obviously Tsengs voice, Reno thought.

"……" Weirdly if he didn't go through the scene the bubbly female caused a few days ago he wouldn't have thought she was the silent one in the conversation.

"We'll see depending on many matters" Rude noted as footsteps were soon heard, two getting away from Reno and one heading his way.

"Yikes! Rude thinks I'm starting up the helicopter!" Reno thought helplessly as he jumped carelessly on the pilot's seat and began calmly pushing away buttons and adjusting his seat. Placing the headphones on his ear he turned around to see his bald partner enter and shut the door close.

"I know you were eaves dropping" he said and sat on his seat as Reno started the object.

Thrills ran through his fingers as he heard he propeller swish away many times, slowly at first but soon quicker and quicker. He always imagined the wind being pushed harshly away to be his emoticons, when he flew he was no one.

"I may not be Yuffie Kisaragi, but please don't make this ride dodgy enough for me to turn sick" Rude mentioned in a threatening but calm tone as he watched the silent and blank expression on his partner.

"Yeah, sure" he mentioned not throwing an expecting remark or joke as they flew off the ground as Reno's hand were now tightly gripping on the handle.

Rude in the corner noticed the whitening of the knuckles.

His eyes darted around the place, mostly away from the screen before him as he heard news on the altitude and any problems the mechanical object held as his eye lids closed for a minute. A lump lay hard in his throat as he was tired. He wanted to fall asleep, but if he did he wouldn't be able to wake up anymore. Neither would the sleepless partner of his.

"We'll stop at Healin' Lodge" Rude stated firmly as he rested back on his seat.

"No it's alright"

"You can't change my decisions" Rude said before closing his mouth proving he wouldn't say no more.

"Alright partner, but I get dibs on the couch if my bedroom is next to your bathroom" Reno teased Rude.

An amused hoarse laugh was heard from the silent figure as he gave a nod, a few more miles away.

"Houston we are landing!" Reno exclaimed cheerfully, he was excited to know that he would be in a mattress soon.

"That's not the line, Reno" Rude said shaking his head with disbelief as it was the red heads turn to let out an amused laugh as the two friends spoke with the other.

It fell gently to the ground, allowing trees to push backwards from the sudden gust of winds thrown at them, finally when the helicopter touched the ground the propellers stopped and the door opened revealing a tired but excited to rest Turk.

"We've reached land!" Reno quoted another wrong line as he left Rude to shut the machine down as he raced away to the building to get his room while his backpack slung at his shoulder in a messy manner and his cardboard box was held in his hands.

Rude didn't take long, he expected it to be only half an hour before he made his way up the stairs to the presidents lodge, there he found a red head with his hands occupied by holding a cardboard box banging his head onto the door thinking he could get in that way.

"I tried to bite the knob but got my lips butting it hard instead; so don't call me an idiot!" The red head yelled as if Rude was three feet away from him when in reality he was right behind him giving him the 'eyebrow'.

He looked around the place, the couch was neat and the kitchen did not hold any sign of food splattered anywhere. It was quite calming to just see the place that hadn't been hit by Reno yet…Ah Reno.

He clasped his hand upon his temple thinking for a moment.

He was a helpless puppy just trying to find his way home; did he lose Elena? He looked helplessly at the locked wooden door that led to one of the bathrooms, the sound of the water dripping from the shower only made it worse.

Looking away from he allowed his signature shake of the head to be made before sitting nicely on the couch, he did not jump onto it or roughly sit. He softly sat down allowing his hands to rest on his knees as he thought.

The flowers were later taken by Elena; he figured she knew that it was from him from the calls from the other side of his office door he got lately. But if Elena was happier with Reno then he would let her go. He was a pathetic gentleman, too in love to see the truth.

Thinking quite hard about the topic made him not notice the blonde haired female exit the bathroom leaving wet footprints as she made her way to an occupied bedroom with her belongings. A beige towel clung neatly upon her figure as she closed the door behind her and fell to the ground biting her lips.

Nothing was said to her, was he avoiding her?

She remembered that terrible day, she was to blame. After the kiss Reno gave her the most absurd look and quickly dashed away locking his office door behind him and shutting away the curtains as he felt most protected from Elena and Tseng there. While the female of the two stayed in her spot now crouching down plucking a petal from the roses that were on the ground holding back a single tear.

Occupied with their own problems the two never seemed to notice the click of the door and the footsteps of their two comrades who one went quickly to the kitchen to fix himself a snack dumping his bag and cardboard box on the ground while the bald one went to see if he would get the spacious room this time.

Four hours past, and in those past three hours the house remained a dead silence without the pouring rain outside dripping upon the female resident's dry cleaning cloth which were once left out to dry but now trying to escape drowning in it's own waves.

The lodge held four figures; one with sharp description he had obtained upon a newspaper which he luckily saved somehow before the first drops fell. The second was weeping miserably as she watched her cloth soak into a messy puddle as she was too afraid to mess up her newly dry hair to save them. Third chose to hang like an idiot upon the railings of the inside stairs as his feet hang loosely having nothing support it as he was thinking the most. And fourth was a man trying to occupy his emoticons by starting business thus calling the boss (Rufus) to see if anything was needed to be done in Healin Lodge.

"I hope this mission starts soon, yo. This rain is depressing me" He stated bored as he finally let go of the railing and falling right in front of his bald headed comrade.

"You could have broken a leg" the man with the newspaper stated calmly as he tucked it under his arm and avoided the fact that he was a second close from having a red head ambush him to the ground.

"Would be more entertainment then this dump…Hey do you hear something?" Reno asked perking his ears up as he signaled his partner to say nothing even though he was the one needed to be reminded.

"Nothing" his partner mentioned before leaving him to figure out if his ears somehow got messed up from the graceful fall.

Upon the depart of his friend, he stuck a finger slightly in his left ear and started to shake it hoping to see if there was a problem, but then he heard the sound again.

"What the hell" he moaned slightly shutting up for a moment to listen.

"Psst!"

"Psst!"

His head tilted to his left slightly as he tried to figure out where the source of the sound was or what it was to start off with.

"Psst! Reno you deaf red head I'm over here!"

"That's an insult!" He sniffed finally finding the source; he didn't like what he saw. There finally wearing article of cloth which were to be precise her pants and dress shirt as she chose not to wear her suit. Her hair was tied back and she chose to wear flip flops. The insulting person watched Reno from behind a partly closed door peaking from its hole as she signaled him to come in.

Reno of Turks was of course a clumsy person at times, even a slow thinker but at that precise thinker he had enough common knowledge to try and not enter.

"Rude's calling me"

The female stopped for a moment and shook her head, "Reno, don't do this to me. I already apologized!" She said with a sigh.

"Don't do what?" He asked smartly trying to waste time as he kept a keen eye at the closed door Tseng was where he was talking to the president on the phone.

"Lie" she stated smartly back.

"And why would you think I was lying, Laney?" He asked with a smirk slightly calming down with her presence.

"Because Rude does not call, never has or will. He just comes up no matter how long the walk is" Elena said and once more signaled him to come in.

He let out a good laugh as he wiped away a tear and gave a nod, it wouldn't be that bad? What could she do anyways? Threaten him?

Upon entering he fell to the ground leaning against the wall, the resident of the room watched him with confusion.

"I find the floor comfy"

"Suit yourself" she told him as she proceeded upon sitting on her bed not wanting to waste another minute trying to figure out how he could be so…Different in everything.

He sat there impatiently watching the door hoping she would start soon, noticing his fidgeting she parted her lips to speak.

"I'm a terrible person, Ren-Ren"

"What kind of nickname is Ren-Ren! Can't we stick to Reno you deaf red head instead?"

"Funny"

"But the amusement isn't enough?"

"Yup"

"So keep going"

"Oh yeah, Tseng was never the blame"

"Wow you just found that out"

"What are you talking about?"

"No offence Laney, but you jumped to conclusions…."

"…And that's why I'm a terrible person Reno!"

"Yeah…"

"Yeah…! Some support you are!"

"Just telling it as I see it"

"And you wonder why we never bring you to the so called 'girls night in'"

"So there is one!"

"Don't do this to me"

Letting out a laugh he shook his head enjoying the conversation they held as he found it entertaining that he was troubling her so, to be honest he was just glad that the kiss was put to rest. But of course two heads were turned when the rusty door knob began to turn and the door was pushed open to reveal him.

Reno could only take in a deep gulp, shit he was in trouble all right. He watched Tseng as he entered the room scanning the place without moving his neck. His eyes mostly were on Elena then Reno.

"I'll be leaving" Reno mentioned getting up as he quickly raced upwards and made his way to the door. Sadly he got stopped before he could pass the first in command.

"You're not going anywhere" the voice mentioned as fingers went in a pocket and pulled something out.

If it was possible, the emerald eyes would have grew that exact moment he saw the object that was pulled out.

"Tseng are you high?"

He shook his head.

"What's going on?" Elena asked getting up from her mattress to get a better view as she still didn't understand what was going on as she stated.

"Tseng? Elena?" Came a new voice in the hallway as footsteps followed to the room.

And that was when Reno noticed Tseng's finger push against the trigger at the object still pointing at the red heads chest and all went black as he heard a series of gun shots, shouts, footsteps and a door opening quickly and loudly.

-ToBeContinued-

Authors note; Next chapter involves Lucrecia, Reeve, one trouble maker and its annoyed partner in crime.