Way of Living

by Bekas Strife

Drabbles about CloudxReno RenoxCloud. Cloud is emo, Reno is a mouthy redhead. They're a couple that most people think it's unlikely but is that really true? After all, they complete themselves. DISCONTINUED

22. Other Life to Kigichi

Way of Living

CloudxReno; occasional other pairings.

AN: hey, everyone was doing a collection of drabbles so I thought... why not? XDXD

xXx

"Look at this one, yo. Near the bar, so that the kids won't have to run half Edge to get to the place, three rooms, a huuuuuuuuuge kitchen, very nice living and dinner rooms."

Cloud eyed the paper, rubbing his chin. "That's too big, for what do we want three rooms?"

"For our kids?" Reno said dreamily, rubbing his tummy just to annoy the blond. "It was a joke, ya know? A. Joke." He sighed as the blond soldier rolled his eyes, obviously not amused. "But we can always ado--FINE, I'll shut up!"

Cloud nodded, finally a smile on his lip. "If you already shut your mouth, then let's continue. While you were rambling I found a better one. A third floor apartment near the exit of the city, two rooms, large kitchen, since I like to cook, the perfect living and dinner room and a balcony from where you can perfectly see the sea. And I know you love the sea." The blond smiled again, waving the paper in front of his lover's face.

Reno smiled too in appreciation, examining the photos on the paper and liking what he was seeing. "I like it, yo. Let me put the owner's number on my contact list so that I can call him or her tomorrow." He said, picking up his cell-phone.

"Just look who I found!"

The redhead froze as a known voice reached his ears, Oh no, no, no... "Oh, hi." The Turk smiled uneasily, seeing a tall man that he knew too well stand in front of him with the biggest grin he had ever seen on someone's face. "Ya know, we're pretty bus--"

"I guess we don't know each other, I'm Gilga Mesh, Reno's ex-boss." The tall man grinned, extending his hand to Cloud who grabbed it not very sure if what the man was saying was true.

"Pleased to meet you, I'm Cloud." The blond mumbled, eyeing the man. Ew, those clothes... The guy looked like a pimp, seriously.

"We're busy, yo!" Reno exclaimed, smiling nervously as he waved the paper on his hand.

"Oh! Sorry, sorry!" Mr. Mesh laughed, scratching his neck. "Well then, I think I'll go, I was leaving when I saw you. See ya sometime near Red! Pleased to meet ya Cloud!"

Cloud waved at the guy and sighed. "Do you know that guy?" He asked Reno.

The redhead quickly shook his head. "Never seen him be--!"

"Oh, I forgot to tell ya!" Gilga Mesh exclaimed reappearing beside the two men. "Someday ya should make us a visit, ya know? Everybody misses ya there and we've been receiving clients asking for our most requested whore." The guy winked as the room's temperature dropped drastically. "Who knows if you couldn't pass there and make a few jobs? Like I always said, the mansion's doors are always open for ya. Well, now I gotta go, see ya!"

Reno looked at where the guy had been seconds ago, hearing his heartbeat on his ears and feeling unable to look at the other side, sensing negative waves coming off Cloud like bullets. "Whore, huh?" The blond broke the silence and Tifa, who was the only person on the bar besides Mr. Mesh, the two lovers, Rude and the kids, saw that as a clue to grab Marlene and Denzel and hush them upstairs with her to brush their teeth and get to sleep.

There's nothing you can say

Nothing you can do

There's no other way when it comes to the truth

So keep holding on

Cause you know I'll make it through,

I'll make it through

The redhead Turk somehow found his voice and the strength to look to his lover. "It's a long story." He whispered after many attempts to say something.

"And because of that I shouldn't know? I told you my past Reno, I trusted you." Cloud roared on his seat, refusing to look to Reno. "Why didn't you trust me?"

"It wasn't a question of trust, yo. Let me exp--!"

"You had time to explain yourself before something like this happened." The blond snapped angrily, getting up.

Reno got up too, grabbing Cloud's arm but being shoved away almost at the same time. "Just fucking try and listen to me!" The redhead exclaimed, frustrated.

"We've been dating for almost a year!" Cloud yelled, spinning on his wheels. "We announced our relationship to our friends months ago and it wasn't easy to do so! Now, we were choosing a place where we could live a life together!" The blond stopped to take a breath. "Why the fuck did you let this come to this point?!"

"I'm not fucking proud of my past, yo!" Reno screamed back, his face so red that his tattoos were nowhere to be seen.

"That's not an excuse to keep me in ignorance!" The ex-SOLDIER yelled so loud that he heard some whimpers coming from upstairs, probably from the kids. "For how long would you hide this? Until we moved? Until we decided to engage? Or until we decided that what we were talking in that fucking table wasn't that much of a joke and we decided to actually adopt a kid?!" Reno closed his mouth and hung his head, looking at his shoes as sad and angry tears filled his usually bright and happy eyes. "Leave, now."

The redhead looked up hastily, nearly snapping his neck. "Wha?! No, no, wait a second, le--!"

"Leave before I lose my mind and make you!" Cloud screamed at the top of his lungs, waving a finger towards the exit.

Reno bit his lip and ran, ashamed of what he was and without looking back as Cloud sunk into a nearby chair and started mourning over his and the redhead's discussion, feeling nearly as miserable as Reno. "You shouldn't have done that."

Anger flickered inside the blond as a flame. "Mind your own problems." He snarled, looking up at Rude.

Rude got up, stopping in front of Cloud. "I am minding my problems. Reno will be my problem when I get to my apartment and find him there, crying his eyes out because his boyfriend refused to listen to him." He stated coldly, crossing his arms over his chest.

Cloud got up too, standing in front of the other man and not being scared one bit for being a few inches smaller than him. "He's the one who fucked up. Do you think that I'm okay? Do I LOOK okay to you?" The blond snarled between teeth, pushing the bald man away from him. "I just found out that my boyfriend, the guy with who I decided to live with, with who I decided to share MY life for an undetermined amount of time had hidden something this big from me! I even had the fucking ring for Fuck's sake!" The soldier actually cried, clenching his fists after taking a small box from his pocket and throwing it towards a wall. "Why didn't he trust me? Why didn't he just tell me?" He whimpered, crashing down in the same nearby chair.

Rude took his shades from his eyes, looking down at the other man with sympathy. "Would you love him if he did?" He asked.

Cloud looked up, biting his lip. "Yes, I would." He whispered, shaking his head. "I do not care about the others pasts as long as they trust me enough to tell me about them."

The bald man shook his head, putting the glasses on their usual place on his face. "I know Reno and I know his past, it was I who helped him leave that life." The Turk sighed, walking calmly towards the door. "If you don't want to live with this hanging heavy on your heart and mind, at least give him a chance to explain why he did what he did. This whole story is not like it seems to be."

The blond stared at where Rude had been moments ago before deciding to pick up his cell-phone and dial his lost lover. "Come on, pick up." He pleaded, resting his forehead on the table.

"Hey, this Renothe Sex God's voicemail so feel free to leave a message after the --- beep!"

"Hey, you know who it is." Cloud said lowly to the piece of metal. "Please, just... Listen to this message and call me to tell me where you are, we need to talk. I need to talk with you." Cloud closed his eyes, hearing the hot tears fall on the wooden table. "I still love you, you know?" He whispered after the message had ended, letting the phone fall to the ground.

Warm arms wrapped around the blonde's chest, squeezing him reassuringly. "Don't stay here, sitting and mourning about what happened." Tifa's sweet voice reached Cloud's ears, warming his cold heart. "You know where he is, go and retrieve what you lost." The woman said kindly, kissing her friend's shoulder before letting go.

Cloud raised his head as he cleaned his face with renewed strength. "Where are my keys?" He asked, looking up at Tifa who smiled proudly.

So far away

I wish you were here

Before it's too late

This could all disappear

"Stupid past, yo." Reno snarled, throwing a rock to the ground beneath them. "Stupid Mesh. Stupid me..." The redhead let his head fall back, banging it against the tree where he was sat.

"I'm sorry."

The Turk nearly fell from the branch where he was in, startled by the sudden voice. "Cloud?" He asked, seeing the blond knelt beneath him. "What are you doing, yo?" He asked, jumping to the ground.

Cloud held out a flower, looking at Reno's shoes. "I'm sorry." He whispered, feeling the tears return to his eyes. "I was such an idiot." The man sighed, feeling the flower leave his hand.

Reno knelt beside his lover, smiling at the flower. "Will you let me explain?" He asked, watching Cloud nod and look up. "I had a brother once. His name was Axel. We were twins, ya know?" The redhead smirked, remembering his beaming brother. "When we turned 12, he got sick, very sick and we lived of food we often stole from the merchants. We couldn't afford for a doctor or anything like that, we were alone and we were scum of the slums, like every other orphan out there. That's when I found Mesh. I entered the world of prostitution in order to have money to take my brother to fucking doctor, yo." Reno sighed shakily, smiling as Cloud gently cupped his hands with his own.

You're not alone

Together we stand

I'll be by your side

You know I'll take your hand

"Soon I was a tool of many men and women. They did not see me as a child; they saw me as something to relieve their frustrations. But I never gave up. I fought and every time I came home after a day of work, I would take a bath to take off the smell of sex out of my body and then I would prepare dinner for me and my brother. I would also keep saving until we had enough to go to a hospital. In the end, there was this one day when I had finally enough money to go to a doctor with Axel. I was happy but when I got home, I found my brother cold and limp. He died during the day, I had left him die alone, yo." Reno cried as his blond lover cleaned his tears with a gentle thumb. "I tried to quit but they made me stay at the mansion until I was 15. After that, Rude appeared to invite me for the Turks. That's when my hell kind of ended."

Cloud wiped his own tears, running his arms around his redhead and pulling him to his chest. "I'm so sorry; I'm such a jack-ass." He whispered. "Can you forgive me?"

Reno smiled against Cloud's shoulder and nodded. "I was just... I was afraid that you'd leave me if I told you, yo. After all, nobody wants a whore."

The blond smiled. "I won't leave you. I'm tired of living on the past; I want to worry about the future. Our future, on our little apartment from where you can see the sea. I love you, you idiot." He whispered and Reno felt something cold around his finger. "Marry me." Cloud whispered on Reno's ear.

The redhead chuckled, lifting his head to kiss his lover's lips. "Hell yeah." He grinned, glancing at his new ring. "I love ya too, ya know that?" He whispered on Cloud's ear, hugging his love close like if he was afraid he'd leave.

Keep holding on

Cause you know I'll make it through,

I'll make it through

Just stay strong

cause you'll know I'm here for you,

I'm here for you

xXx

Theme: Other life

To: Kigichi

Word count: 2124

Song by AvrilLavigne, Keep holding on XD I was listening to the music and I though it fit.

Here are the themes already done and waiting to be done (I'll be removing the ones already done!)

Valentine's Day / waterfall / treasure hunt - still waiting to be written (SWW)

Neko!Cloud - SWW

Beach - WIP

Cuddly!Reno / cuddly - SWW

Christmas - SWW

Snowboard - SWW

Cinema - SWW

Dentist - SWW

Stuffed animal - SWW

Cherry blossoms - SWW

Fight / Break Up - SWW

Reno fight over Cloud -SWW

Long business trip and reunion scene - SWW

Aerith's Birthday - SWW

Snowball fights / snow angels - SWW

A date in space - SWW

Christmas Decorations - SWW

Caffeine/Sugar - SWW

Kiss - SWW (AH, ya thought that weren't more uses for lips, mouth and tongue, HUH?!!!!!!!!! Aline, I'll kill you! D8)

First 'I Love You' / Snowfall / Christmas Eve - SWW

Porn Collection - SWW

Videogames - SWW

Disneyland - SWW

Painting Lesson - SWW

Session with a Marriage Counsellor - SWW

Popular Reno / Smart Reno - SWW

Lotion - SWW

Yazoo flirting with Reno - SWW

Mother (scene with Reno's abusive mother) - SWW

Kidnapped - SWW

Claustrophobia - SWW

Interrogation - SWW

Picnic - SWW

Bride!Reno - SWW

Disguise (Reno disguised as a woman XD) - SWW

Hurt (alternative, sad ending to Disguise) - SWW

Concert - SWW

Rain and Boom (RudexTifa, Reno gets a brother named Axel XD) - SWW

Cloud mistakes Axel for Reno, whose dead - SWW

Vacation - SWW

Reno's twin scars - SWW

Pets - SWW

Song - SWW

Dinner - SWW

Teddy - SWW

Birthday - SWW

Stalker - SWW

Spin the Bottle – SWW

Other life - done

Seduction – SWW

Proposal – SWW

Cutter – SWW

Apologize - SWW

If you're thinking about any other theme, please ask for it on a review, signed or not :D I'm aiming to the 50 or 100 drabbles! (And if I forgot about any theme you already requested, please point it out Dx)