Way of Living
CloudxReno; occasional other pairings.
AN: hey, everyone was doing a collection of drabbles so I thought... why not? XDXD
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In a dark room, where only the moonlight would let anybody see what they were doing, Reno Sinclair snapped his eyes open with a raspy gasp, looking around in alert as he tried to understand why the hell he had woken up in the middle of the night. The redhead shifted a little, looking to his right side where his boyfriend was fast asleep, one hand tucked under his chin and the other placed on top of his swollen belly.
The Turk smiled tenderly, brushing a few strands of hair off Cloud's face as the man moved around during his sleep, shifting a little closer to his belly like if he was trying to cuddle against their son.
A wave of pain shot up his spine, making him arch his back lightly as he gasped again, hands flying to his tummy in alert. That's when it dawned on him. "Cloud!" He called, slapping the other man's arm and watching as he lifted his head harshly, blinking sleepily. "Cloud, move your ass damn it!"
"What iz goin' on...?" The blond asked sleepily, burying his face on his pillow again.
"Cleno!" Reno sighed loudly, slapping the man again and trying to sit, only to be hit by a new wave of pain. "The baby's coming, yo!" He said faintly, putting a hand on his head and thinking 'what the hell had I drunk when I accepted this?!'
Cloud jolted out of the bed, spinning to look down at his boyfriend. "What do ya mean?" he asked slowly, like Reno was some retard.
That pissed the older man to no end. "I'm giving birth, you dumbass! Get the overnight bag, like, NOW!" He snarled, throwing the pillow at his lover before a new wave of pain was felt. "Fuck!"
The blond made a complete turn on the same place, nervously looking around for the bag. "Where, where, where...?" He kept muttering, tripping on Abby and falling flat on his stomach to avoid stepping on Jin, their other small cat while picking up his cell phone on his way. "AH! Found it!" Cloud chirped, shooting up and starting to stuff it as he held the phone between his shoulder and ear. "Rude! Hey, err... Yeah, sorry about that, I forgot about it..." He laughed weakly, seeing that it was 3:47am. "Listen, I'm kinda in a rush so" Cloud winced at Reno's whimper of pain. He hated seeing his lover in such pain. "Could you make me a favour and call everyone to tell that Reno is giving birth? Yeah, he is and it's not pretty." The blond bit his lip as the redhead muttered a couple of murderous words. "Thanks Rude. Remember, everybody! I'm off to the hospital, bye!" And the man hung up, throwing the bag over his shoulder and helping his boyfriend getting up, managing to keep him standing as his legs gave up on him when another wave of pain hit him. "Hold on, I'm here."The blond warrior smiled tenderly, cradling his boyfriend in his arms.
Reno allowed being taken away in bridal style, wincing at the wet sheets on their bed. Fuck. His waters had really broken. "Cloud, yo?" He called as he rested his head on his lover's neck, biting his lip at the sudden contraction.
"Hm?" The blond hummed, picking up his keys and their jackets before closing the door of their apartment, walking quickly down the stairs.
"I'm scared."
Cloud slowed down, smiling tenderly as he ran his somewhat free hand down his lover's hair. "Everything's going to be okay, you'll see." He reassured, leaving the building. "I'm here and I'll be there for you, I won't leave you." The blond kissed his lover's temple as Reno whimpered in pain, clutching his shirt tightly. "Do you prefer going on the front seat or back seat?" He asked, pausing in front of their car.
"Front, yo."
The blond carefully laid his boyfriend on the front seat of their car, giving his hand a squeeze before slamming the door shut and running to his own seat, sitting down heavily and starting the car as fast as he could. "Just breathe, okay?" Cloud said, driving away from the building and showing Reno how to breathe, just receiving a glare in return.
The redhead strangled a cry, breathing deeply as the pain became more frequent. "You are so dead!" He roared suddenly, scaring the shit out of Cloud. "'Let's have a kid, shall we?' AH!" he snorted. "Yeah, let's break the damn Turk in half with the fucking pains!! ARGH!"
Cloud sweatdropped nervously as Reno started menacing him with violent stuff that he would do to him and to his Mr. Johnson once the baby was born. "I'll call the maternity to alert them that we're coming." He sighed as to change the subject, picking up his cell-phone and dialling the number of the nearest maternity. "... Hello? Hi, good evening. I was calling because my boyfriend is giving birth right now. Yeah, I made no mistake, I really said boyfriend." The blond chuckled humourlessly. "Yeah... Like I was saying, we'll need somebody waiting for us to take him to the delivery room. ... No, I am not joking." The blond sighed, looking out of the window as the trees quickly passed by them. "Listen, I do have a man prepared for a labour in my car! Do I sound like I'm fucking kidding here?! Hello? Hey!" Cloud stared at the cell-phone, gaping with fury. "How dare he?!" He spat.
"What happened, yo?" Reno asked with a whimper, wiping the sweat off his face.
Cloud sighed deeply, dialling another maternity just a little far away from there. "The nurse that picked up my call thought I was joking." He mumbled. "Good evening, hi. Err; my boyfriend is giving birth right now and--- Yes, I said boyfriend. It is a man who's pregnant. No, wait, please listen to me." The blond nearly pleaded. "Don't, please, don't hang up...!" Cloud closed his eyes tightly and closed his cell-phone. "On me..." He sighed, chewing his tongue. "Nobody will believe me!"
Reno actually cried, feeling the pains becoming greater and the baby kicking frantically the upper part of his belly. "We need to find a maternity, yo." He sobbed, pressing the palm of his hand against his eyes. "This hurts like a bitch!" He finished in a high tone, feeling a wave of pain hit him and run up his spine. "Ugh!"
The blond took Reno's hand on his right one, squeezing it and holding it as he drove, thinking of what he should do. He could go to a maternity directly and prove them than Reno was indeed pregnant and had gone into labour during the night but what if those nurses let the prejudice talk louder than their duties and refused to help his lover?
He wouldn't have time to drive to another maternity.
He also couldn't afford losing his boyfriend and his son in the same night. It would tear him apart.
"Reno, do you trust me?" The blond asked suddenly, fighting back tears as kept driving towards a maternity and Reno's curses and cries literally turned into pleads of despair. The Turk breathed like Cloud had told him to and nodded, squeezing his lover's hand harder than before. "Than I guess I found an emergency solution." Cloud said, having to free his lover's hand to pick up his mobile again. After he dialled the number he wanted, both men frowned as an annoying tune seemed coming from somewhere near.
"Yes?"
"Vincent, just where the hell are you?" Cloud asked, looking around as much as he could without crashing.
"Above you, getting a lift. What it is that you want?"
"I need you to help us bringing Cleno to this world." Cloud said swallowing hard and being met with silence. "Vincent, please. The maternities I called won't believe me when I say Reno is ready to give birth, I don't know what to do." The blond pleaded, looking to his side and noticing as Reno kept whimpering in pain but seemed so much paler and quiet than normal. "You're an ex-Turk, you helped kidnapped pregnant women giving bith."
"Cloud, I don't perform c-sections in almost 40 years."
"And you think that I don't know that?!" Cloud spat. "Reno's going into freaking shock right beside me, there's no way out for the baby!" The blond cried, taking deep breaths. "Please, Vincent."
"... You have a first-aid kit in your car?"
"Yes, I do."
"Then pull over, I'll try my best for you."
Cloud laughed with relief, pulling over and leaving the car, seeing Vincent jumping from its roof. "I don't know how I will ever going to pay you for this." He said, trying to keep calm as Vincent opened the door to Reno's seat and took a good look at the man.
"He went into shock; the baby must be suffering already." The sniper said picking up the other Turk and almost wincing at the small pool of blood on the car's floor where Reno's feet had been. "And we can't do it here." Vincent looked around; locking eyes with Cloud's pleading ones. "Lock the car and then hold onto me." He ordered.
Cloud did as he was told, grabbing Vincent's arm before his cape engulfed them and released them in a matter of seconds. "Where is this place?" He asked, looking around at the neat place.
"We're in my place." Vincent answered, walking to the only room of the apartment and laying Reno gently on the bed, checking for his pulse. "He's still strong enough to do this without too many risks." He nodded to himself, taking a big box from under his bed and opening it, showing bistouries, scissors and many other tools that could scare the crap out of any adult. "I'll go prepare myself. In the meanwhile, go to the kitchen and bring a bowl with fresh water, please." The sniper asked before Cloud left and he walked into the room's bathroom, cleaning himself and picking up a bistouries. "This may sting... I'm sorry Reno. Forgive me in advance." He apologized, taking a syringe off his cloak and giving the man a nice dosage of anaesthesia. The sniper was always with some of those around in case one of his demons decided to take over his body. That always gave him a lot of pains when he came back to consciousness. Taking off Reno's shirt, Vincent started making a bikini-cut on the redhead's belly before the man's lover could appear.
However, Cloud entered the room right on that moment, gasping in shock and closing his eyes tightly as he saw Vincent cutting his lover open. "Here's the water." He mumbled, walking around the bed and putting down the bowl with the liquid besides the other man before walking around the bed again to grab his lover's other hand that wasn't in Vincent's way.
"Are you sure you want to be here?" Vincent asked, underlying the fat layers and starting to do an incision through the remaining tissue before entering the abdominal cavity. "You can wait in the living room if you want." He said, looking up at the blond who seemed like he could pass out at any moment.
"I'm fine, I want to be here holding his hand and somewhat letting him know that I'm by his side."
The ex-Turk nodded. "Very well then..." He said, studying the insides of the man beside him before smirking to himself. "No organs are in the away, that makes things easier." Vincent said, making a cut no bigger than his hand on the unconscious man's womb. Taking a deep breath and sitting on his knees, Vincent carefully putted aside the skin and smiled as he saw the nearly bold head of an infant. "There we go. Cloud, please press the top of the uterus gently." He whispered, carefully pulling the child as the blond pressed his husband's uterus as gently as he could. The baby boy, who once felt the fresh air, uncompressed his tiny lungs and cried for dear life, sending his father into a fit of happy and nervous sobs. "Come here and pick up the scissors, you need to help me cutting the umbilical cord, please."
Cloud sobbed once more, walking around the bed and knelling besides his friend who cradled the infant on his large hands. "Grab the umbilical cord. No, just a little lower. That's it, that way. Don't be afraid and clamp it with that piece of sterilized rope. Now cut it. It won't be painful for Reno or the baby, don't worry." Vincent nodded as the blond did everything right, despite his nervous. "Now pick up that blanket over there and here you go." The sniper smiled ever so lightly, looking at Cloud and memorizing the adoration and love visible on his blue eyes as he put his son onto his arms. "Now, with gentle caresses, very light ones, start cleaning the baby as I stitch Reno back together."
Cloud nodded as tears fell down his cheeks silently, smiling down at his now quiet son who had decided to open his big, oddly coloured (from as far as Cloud could tell) eyes and looked up at him in fascination. "Hey there, big boy..." He whispered, delighted as he carefully cleaned his son's baby skin.
"Have you decided his name yet?" Vincent asked, focusing on stitching the various tissues inside Reno back together.
"Yeah... Cleno."
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"He won't answer to his phone." Tifa said, voice quivering with emotion as she ended the call to Cloud's cell-phone. "What if something happened with them?" She asked in the verge of tears.
"Maybe they went to another maternity." Barret tried.
"Reno always told me that this was the maternity where he would deliver his baby." Elena stated. "Something must have happened."
"They're here!" Denzel suddenly yelled in the wall of the maternity, pointing towards a black car that approached the building calmly.
"Cloud!" Everybody called when the vehicle pulled over and the blond opened the passengers' front seat door.
The blond emerged with a childish grin, holding a small bundle on his arms while Vincent left the driver's seat to take Reno's now half-conscious (due to a couple of elixirs) form from the back seat. "He's here." He said lowly, approaching the stunned group. "This is Cleno but please, be quiet or he'll wake up!" He begged hastily as the women opened their mouth to aw towards the sleeping baby.
"But, but who delivered him?" Elena asked, approaching her redhead friend and kissing his left hand tenderly. "Are you okay?"
Reno grinned like a fool, slipping from consciousness to unconsciousness. "My baby is born, yo. I'm super." He whispered tiredly.
"We need to take them inside." Vincent stated as they all walked towards the maternity. "Cleno was born at my place. Reno started going into shock and the nurses to who Cloud called wouldn't believe that a man was giving birth. Therefore, he called me and we had to make a homemade, urgent c-section." The sniper explained.
"Those bastards nearly killed my godson and best friend?" Elena snarled dangerously as Cloud and Vincent nodded. "They're dead. Rude, come on." She roared, taking off her gun and walking in big steps towards the building.
"I'm coming too." Rufus stated politely, picking up his gun and walking behind Tifa who had followed the other Turks in order to kick those nurses' asses.
"Cleno..." Reno grinned weakly, smiling at the small and asleep baby. "Meet your uncle Rufus. Be careful cos he'll spoil ya."
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-On the next day, by the early afternoon...-
Cloud walked into the waiting room, smiling at his friends. "You can come in now." He smiled.
Everybody followed their leader, smiling from the bottom of their hearts as they entered the room where Reno was lying, holding his baby close to his chest with a expression of pure love on his handsome face. That was the baby who had kicked him during at least 6 months... To whom that tiny footprint belonged to. There were no words to describe how he was feeling. "Aww..." Everybody said as Cloud sat beside his boyfriend and introduced the baby to Marlene and Denzel.
"How are you feeling, Reno?" Vincent asked with a nod.
Reno grinned. "Just great, yo..." He said, brushing a finger across his son's baby face. "I don't know how to thank ya, yo." The redhead said thruthfully.
"It was nothing."
"You saved mine and my baby's life! Do ya think that is nothing?" The redhead laughed. "Now c'mere so that ya can hold yar godson, yo."
Vincent gaped very unvincently. "My... Godson?"
Cloud nodded with a smile. "You're more than worth it. And Elena is going to be his godmother, as you may have noticed yesterday." He chuckled, seeing the petit blond woman pat her gun with a grin.
The sniper approached the bed and bit his lip as Reno gently placed the baby on his arms. Both human beings stared at each other before the smaller one grinned and pulled a strand of black hair, giving his godfather his best toothless smile.
Everybody kept laughing and talking happily til a nurse appeared in the room and demanded them to leave with the exception of Cloud, since the baby needed to be feed and Reno needed to rest. "Ready for your feed, big boy?" Cloud smiled, holding the baby before passing him to his mother.
Reno smiled at his boyfriend's antics, holding his son in one arm and the feeding bottle in the other. "So... Ready for countless nights without sleep, yo?" He asked, giving his son 100 per cent of his attention as the baby sucked happily on his feeding bottle.
Cloud smiled. "Oh yeah, can't wait." He sighed dramatically and stared at his little family. So much love in just one small being... The blond grinned, running an arm around his lover and brushing away some strands of blond hair from his son's forehead. "You did well, love. You did well." He said tenderly to his lover, kissing his temple.
That was the happily ever after they wanted to be written on their little book.
'And so, the two men, who had gone through horrible situations on their lives, lived happily ever after with their small baby.
The end because life couldn't be more perfect for the three of them than what already was.'
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Theme: Birth
Word count: 3019
To: Kigichi
I just have too much fun with this little story XD
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)
Beach / Hula - WIP
Snowboard - SWW
Cinema - SWW
Dentist - 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
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)
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
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
Seduction – SWW
Proposal – SWW
Cutter – SWW
Dead Pet – SWW
Role-playing on the Bedroom – SWW
Purple Nail polish – SWW
Gift – SWW
I'm Fine – SWW
New Year – SWW
Comparison – SWW
Glasses – SWW
Photo Album – SWW
Karma – SWW
Hugs – SWW
Cloud teaches Reno how to cook – SWW
Addition – SWW
Breakfast – SWW
Puzzles – SWW
Turkey – SWW
Cheerleader!Reno – SWW
Reno fooling Kadaj – SWW
Shattered Dreams – SWW
Horror movie – SWW
Reno without hair gel – SWW
Hidden Truth – SWW
Long anticipated answer – SWW
Shopping – SWW
Setting an Example – SWW
Left Alone – SWW
Boredom – SWW
Laser tag – SWW
When The Fangirls Attack – SWW
Pups – SWW
Nightmare – SWW
Cheating – SWW
Blood – SWW
Exorcism – SWW
Promised Land – SWW
Island – SWW
Birth (sequel to MPREG!Reno–done
Can't stop the rain - 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)