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Disclaimer: I don't own FFVII nor its characters. I also don't own the ideas taken from Love Monster.

"Rufus! Good news!" Rufus sighed as Zack practically burst into his office with his tail wagging frantically behind him and a small stack of papers in his arms.

"The weasel's died or left Shinra and the Generals finally realised what a useless student you really are and decided to disown you as well as kick you out of their bed?" Zack ignored his comment as he sat himself in Rufus' guest seat and happily dropped the stack of papers in front of the vice president. "I don't see how extra paper work is good news. I have half a mind to throw you out of the window actually."

"Look at it." Rufus raised an eyebrow before he slowly picked up the paper at the top of the stack.

"Information about the weasel?"

"Yup. Aren't my informants great? They're real fast."

"You call waiting almost a month for information real fast? If I could be bothered with getting informants I'm pretty sure that mine would have found this information in a week." Zack pouted before he poked his tongue out at the spider. Rufus just ignored the childish action. "So what does this all generally say?"

"Pretty much just talks about how Reno's apparently from the slums. Orphaned as a pup and was forced to run around fending for himself till someone suggested that he joined Shinra after some incident. I'm guessing that would have been Tseng. After that he obviously got into the cadet programme and well that's all the stuff before that."

"Which explains why Tseng can't find any information on him through his usual networks. Also explains where his last name went. Obviously didn't have one in the first place… Zack stop that it's annoying." The wolf's tail almost immediately stopped thumping against the chair that he was sitting on.

"I can't help it I'm excited."

"Well we can't exactly just throw all this on Tseng right now, he'll get suspicious. We'll wait for a few days before I hand it to him. At least he already knows that I'm annoyed at him so he won't be too suspicious that I went information hunting on my own."

"Excuse me, I did the information hunting."

"Well obviously I'm not going to tell him that or else he's going to ask me why I'm getting you of all people to get information on the weasel for me. By the way, how's your progress with that halfling going? I take it that the weasel's thwarting your every attempt to talk to him?" Zack's tail started wagging again at that.

"Actually he seems to have backed down. He doesn't look too happy about letting me chat to the chocobo, but I'm guessing the little chocobo had a little talk to him. He doesn't do much but glare at me when I'm around but he lets me talk to the chocobo at least and lets me help him out with his hand to hand." Rufus raised an eyebrow at this.

"So it's going well?"

"Well Luxiere hasn't decided to kick me out of his class. I'd almost think that he actually approves of me befriending him."

"Don't get your hopes up yet puppy." Zack pouted again. "We'll put our plan of action through next week. I'll give the information to Tseng then and I want you to help the weasel out with getting into the Turks and then we'll see about pulling the chocobo out of the cadet programme so you can mentor him." Zack nodded his head enthusiastically before he paused and his ears fell back. "What's wrong now?"

"What if he doesn't want to be mentored by me? This is the first time I've actually wanted to teach someone as well." Rufus just waved him off.

"We'll get to that if it ever comes to that. I doubt he'd let the opportunity slide though. His chances at getting into SOLDIER go up if he's taken in by a mentor. It just shows that you see potential in him even if others can't see it." Zack perked up at this, while Rufus moved the information on Reno to the side of his desk. "Now, if anything else comes up we'll talk about it later. Now get out of my office at let me do my work."

"Yes sir!" Zack grinned before he practically bound out of the office. Rufus smiled a little before he picked up the top page of the information that Zack had given to him. He had never seen the weasel before, but if Tseng was interested in him… Well he could see why. He wasn't really that bad looking.

"Puppy we need to have a little chat." Zack froze at the sound of Angeal's voice. He thought that the SOLDIER had already gone to sleep, well he would usually be asleep at this time, unless he was staying up just so that he could have a 'talk' to Zack, which usually meant that he had done something wrong. Without even knowing what it was, his ears fell back and his tail tucked itself in between his legs as he approached Angeal slowly as if the other monster was about to attack him from where he was sitting on the couch.

"What did I do wrong this time?"

"Nothing." Zack's tail shot back up at this and started wagging in a nervous gesture, which often happened when he wasn't sure what to expect from whatever the situation was that he was in at the time. "Come here and sit down." Slowly, Zack settled himself down on the seat beside Angeal. "You're starting to worry me a little bit. At first you were just going off to the training rooms early in the morning and I thought that you were just training. Sephiroth and Genesis said it was just wishful thinking, but we figured that you weren't doing anything bad so we just left it. Then just a few weeks ago you started heading down to the slums without being assigned any kind of mission." Slowly, Zack's tail started wagging at a more frantic pace and Angeal raised an eyebrow at this… What was he so happy about?

"Oh sorry." The wolf seemed to catch himself and his tail slowed to a stop. "I know you're worried. I just got a little bit happy that you were actually worried about me. Not that I'm doing anything bad, it's just that neither of you really get worried about me. It's kind of endearing."

"Yes well…" Angeal looked a little uncomfortable. "Sephiroth and Genesis were going to come and talk to you as well, but they had other things to do so it's just me. Now, you're avoiding the question. What have you been doing?"

"Do you trust me?" Angeal sighed.

"Depends on what it is puppy. I wouldn't trust you within a kilometre of the chocobo stalls, but when it comes to missions, I'd trust you with my life."

"Good." Zack's tail started wagging again. "I can't tell you what I'm doing, it's a secret, but you'll find out eventually. I promise it's nothing bad ok? It's just something that I really want to do and it'll make me really happy if it works out and just let me do this ok?" Angeal seemed to stare at him for a long time before he sighed again.

"So it's definitely something that isn't dangerous?" Zack nodded. "Are you sure that you don't want to tell me what it is?" Zack nodded his head again. "One more question." Zack's ears perked up in attention. "Does this have something to do with those papers that you stole out of Sephiroth's office a month ago?" A small smirk appeared on Zack's face and Angeal let off a exasperated sigh. "Alright then, you can go and get ready for bed now." With a large grin Zack headed for the bathroom. "One more thing before you go." Zack stopped and looked back at Angeal questioningly. "You'll tell me if something goes wrong right?" In a second, Angeal found himself with an arm full of Zack.

"I love it when you're all worried about me. Don't worry, if anything bad happens I'll tell you." With that he bounded back into the bathroom and Angeal let off a small chuckle.