How to Remember

Disclaimer: I don't own it. I'm just bending the characters to my will!

Author Note: Okay! So here is the official chapter one! I think I did a pretty damn good job. But that isn't for me to decide, it's for you! So go read it! And look what I discovered! I can do timestamps on my notepad! So there you have it. That's the date and time I wrote it!

11:10 PM 11/8/2007


"First class, whaat?" Reno twisted his face as he stared at the paper in his hand. Zack Fair had become a 1st Class SOLDIER and not told him? What the fuck was his problem? Not important, Reno told himself. Zack Fair had accomplished something, therefore Zack Fair would celebrate. Even if it came a bit late. Even if Reno had to force him to.

Zack had been a bit of a downer as of late, Reno allowed himself to ponder on the black haired youth's mood but quickly caught himself. He knew why and also knew that talking about it wasn't an option. It was something that had to be gotten over with time, and some hard liquor. Reno swung his EMR around in circles, it was switched-off, through the air as he moseyed.

He rarely used his office, even more rarely did he write memos. But this was a special occasion. An occasion, that called for memos and professionalism. He'd invite everyone who had befriended Zack. Well... on second thought. He'd invite Zack's closer circle of friends. If he had invited everyone who had befriended Zackary Fair he'd have to find a party place the size of Wutai in order to fit them all in one place. And even then there was no guarantee of personal space. Gazing at his guest-list, Reno was proud of himself. He'd even managed to find that cute little blonde Zack had told him about.

"Woah. Wait. What? Cute little blonde?"

"You heard me. Now don't interrupt the story, yo."

Anyhow. He had sent out all the memos but now he had to prepare the party palace! Yes palace, not to be confused with place. The door slid open as though Reno had actually belonged there.

"You broke into someone else's house?"

"What the fuck? Interrupting!"

Of course it wasn't his, it was Zack's. Reno knew where the 1st Class SOLDIER housing was and had successfully hacked into the ShinRa database and found out which one was his. It was spacious to say the least. And Reno found himself grinning. This would be, the best surprise party Reno had ever planned within 4 hours. The Turk closed the door and meandered throughout. Fuck decorations. Real parties were so good, they never needed decorations. But one thing he would need, alcohol. And lots of it. First off-

"Are we really going into details about how you set up a party?"

"You suck a dick Strife."

"What?"

"You heard me, you're such a dick! Anyway, since you don't want to hear about party planning details, we'll skip ahead."

The fucking place was full. Reno hadn't expected so many people to be able to show up on such a short notice. But, what's done is done. After quieting everyone down, Reno set out in search of Zack. Not that Reno didn't know where he was, he just didn't know exactly where he was. But that statement was quickly rectified as Zack strode up the hallway.

"Hey Zacky!" Reno's grin was broad and always spelt mischief. The only problem was, finding out what exactly said mischief was. Everything Reno did exuded mischief, making it hard to pin point what he'd done this time.

"Reno. What are you doing in the hallway?" Zack raised his eyebrows at the lone Turk and side stepped him in order to reach his door.

"Aww. I'm just waiting for you. What are you so worried about?"

"When you're waiting for me there's always something to worry about." Although hesitant, Zack grinned. He and Reno had always been on friendly terms, well, perhaps a little more than friendly. But Zack also knew that his friend was often up to no good.

"Aww, come on! There's nothing to worry about!"

"Righ-" the door unlocked and Zack was cut off by the surprise that came from within his home. Reno admired his handy work as a multitude of 'congratulations' and other similar phrases came from the occupants of the room. "Nothing to worry about?" Zack looked over his shoulder at the red-head before allowing himself to be drug into the room and handed a drink.

"I thought this involved me?"

"I invited your spikey ass didn't I? It's not my fault you showed up late!"

"Well why don't you just get to the part where I'm actually involved? You know, since you were kind of telling this story because it involved me."

"Like I said, you take it in the ass."

"What?"

"Like I said, you're such an ass!"

The entire room had lined up in order to play a game of 'Sephiroth Says' when a hot little blonde came in.

"Reno..."

"Zack's words not mine, yo."

Since it was a group game, the entire room had to play and Cloud had been drug into the game, with Zack playing the role of Sephiroth. No one ever really got out of Sephiroth Says. The rules were, if 'Sephiroth', in this case Zack, gave an order you followed it. If you failed. You take a drink. If nobody failed, 'Sephiroth' took a drink. It was a good thing Reno could hold his liquor because that game had lasted quite awhile. It appeared though, that a certain blonde MP could not. Reno figured this was due to the lack of mako in the MP's body. But Reno's motto rang true once again, what's done is done. Looking around the room, Reno failed to notice Zack. Much to his dismay. And a man like Zack was hard to miss. Especially with the massive spikey hair. Pouting, Reno made his way down the dark hallway and into Zack's room.

Just as he had suspected. Zackary Fair was laying on his bed, his right arm covering his eyes. Scrunching his nose in annoyance, Reno stalked infront of Zack and stared him down. When this evoked no response, Reno crawled on all fours ontop of the SOLDIER. Reno was beginning to become frustrated, how the hell could he ignore him like this? Growling, Reno dipped his head down and kissed the thus far unresponsive SOLDIER. This elicited a small response, but not enough for Reno's liking. Growling louder, Reno bit down hard on Zack's bottom lip.

Sure enough, this gave Reno the response he wanted. Zack soon began to ravage the red-head's mouth. Despite how busy his mouth was, Reno couldn't help but smirk at least a little. Both of them enjoyed pain. Not so-intense-death-may-occur pain, but just scratching, clawing, biting, nipping. Enough to make them feel. Reno's mind registered the feel of his back hitting a mattress just before feeling Zack pressed up against his front. Even if Reno was physically preoccupied, he continued to listen to the party going on outside the room. Although soon, all other sound simply became background noise.

Reno's hands began to wander up Zack's shirt as his legs wrapped around the SOLDIER's waist, grinding their pelvic regions together. Reno smirked as it was Zack's turn to growl. Standing up, he swiftly removed his shirt before forcing Reno to join him in a smiliar state of undress. Hardly giving the other any chance to breathe, Zack was back ontop of him.

This was different, Reno could tell. Zack had been so frustrated as of late, and Reno wasn't even talking sexually frustrated. Although everyone in SOLDIER as well as the Turks acted as though nothing was different, so much had changed. Zack, unfortunately, had been affected the most by this change. Even if Reno wasn't permitted to talk about it, he sure as shit wasn't going to stand by and watch his friend be all moody without doing anything to help.

Fortunately for Reno, sex was a very good method of stress relief. Reno's hands had been roving up and down Zack's body and Zack's were doing likewise to Reno, but Reno reluctantly broke away temporarily in order to undo his pants. Zack, getting the hint moved to do the same, grabbing the bottle of lube during this process. Returning to their prior position both of their erections pressed against one another, flesh present on either side as Zack continued to kiss Reno frantically.

Being a Turk had become quite the convenience for Reno. Upon joining ShinRa he had honed his skills. This one he was particularly proud of. He had learned the art of popping the bottle of lube with one hand, managing to squeeze it out into said hand and close it without disrupting the 'moment'. Aforementioned lubed hand quickly made its way to both erections, coating them both excessively. Reno's hand quickly found its way to Zack's hand, coating the fingers with lubricant, before returning to the task at hand.

The two friends cum lovers quickly began to moan into each other's mouths. Reno moreso than Zack as he began to squirm due to the others ministrations. Zack pulled away first, quickly flipping Reno so that he was now on his hands and knees in front of Zack, who had assumed a similar position. Slowly sliding himself inside of Reno, Zack took a deep breath, forcing himself to not move until given the say so. Just when he felt Reno's muscles relaxing around him, he heard the distinct sound of clothes scraping against carpet. Looking to the left of his bed, Zack eye's bugged out at the sight of Cloud watching him from the floor.

"H-hey Cloud." Zack was frozen, not only in the surprise of being snuck up on, but also from the uncertainty of what to do from thereon. Cloud blinked a few times before awkwardly fumbling with his boots. Once those were removed the blonde MP began working at his shirt. All Zack could do was stare senselessly.

"Zack. Zack. ZACK!"

"Wah?"

"Quit zoning out and FUCKING MOVE." At the last phrase, Reno had pushed back against Zack causing him to emit a groan. Zack bit down on Reno's shoulder but refused to budge.

"But, Cloud!" Zack was at a loss for words. This was, truly, one of the most awkward situations he had ever been in.

"The kid's fucked up, it's not like he'll remember it in the morning anyway." Reno sighed. In a childish retaliation, Zack bit down on Reno again and began thrusting deeply. Moaning, Reno closed his eyes, leaning his head back. The feel of Zack thrusting and biting sent a sense of euphoria throughout his body. Reno's eyes shot open and he nearly jumped back as he felt something warm against his arms.

"Uhhh," Zack was just as surprised as Reno to see what had touched Reno's arms. There Cloud was, in all his naked glory, staring up at them innocently. The position they were in, was anything but innocent. Cloud didn't speak a word but he took the bottle of lube in his hands and began to coat Reno's member before attending to his own.

"Ohmigod. Zack. Canwecanwecanwe?" Despite how odd the situation was at that moment in time, Zack could not and would not ever deny how insanely hot the entire thing was. Before Zack could muster up the brain cells to reply though, Cloud was propped up on his elbows, positioning himself for Reno to enter. Reno, being the gentlemen he was, never refused an offer. Cloud hissed lightly, but was soon comfortable enough that he allowed his head to fall back and a soft moan escaped from his lips.

Both Zack and Reno's breathing suddenly became heavy at the sight of this. Cloud had always appeared so innocent and reserved before and to see this was absolutely mind blowing for the two of them. Zack quickly snaked his arm under Reno's torso and pumped Cloud's hardened erection as the trio quickly began to work in unison. It didn't take much longer, with help by the way of Cloud's moaning, for the three of them to finish. Reno hadn't bothered to hold himself up as he collapsed onto Cloud's sweaty and seed laden chest, Zack following suit but more careful not to squish the two of them. Rolling off of Cloud, Reno couldn't stiffle a small chuckle.

"Well that was certainly interesting." Reno sat up on his elbows only to find Cloud passed out and Zack's eyelids fluttering softly, signalling that he was on the verge of drifting off into the great beyond. "You assholes." Reno laid back down, a satisfied smile playing itself upon Reno's lips.

"Eh? Speechless Strife?" Reno looked over to Cloud who's straight face had given away his embarrassment with red tinted cheeks.

"You're lying!"

Reno stood from his seat, stretching his back before making his way over toward Cloud. "If I were lying, I don't think you'd have been so interested throughout the story." Reno quickly caught Cloud's mouth in a kiss before standing up and making his way toward the door. "You didn't honestly think you were a virgin did you?" He chuckled and exited Cloud's office cum bedroom that was stationed above the Seventh Heaven. Sticking his head back inside the room, Reno grinned, "if you're ever interested in hearing another story you know where to find me. I have plenty more, yo."

With that Reno sauntered out of the Seventh Heaven and into the crisp night air. Sighing, he watched the stars as he made the trek back to Healin.


1:25 AM 11/9/2007

Author Note: Good, bad, decent? Overdramatic, underdramatic? I can think of a million adjectives! So which is it? I really, really couldn't resist doing 'Sephiroth Says' amongst other random things in this. I would really, really like some input though! I'm actually (as hard as it may be to believe) a fairly shy person. You can see how long that took me by looking at my ingenius little time stamps! So. I repeat! If you have any ideas. Pray tell. Any tips, advice, what I did terribly on, what I did good on. I'd love to hear it! Oh and everyone got that the bold was Reno and Cloud's dialogue when interrupting the story right?