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

Reno was still a bit uncomfortable with the whole situation with Tseng and Rufus. The three of them were currently sharing a room and the two at least had the decency to allow him to have his own bed, while the other two shared.

Currently the three of them were on the beach, sunbathing while a bunch of female humans were gawking at the three of them. One had already tried to pick up Tseng and they were discussing wither or not they should try Rufus or him, since Tseng had rejected the other girl.

"Reno." The weasel turned his attention to Tseng at the call of his name.

"Yeah?"

"You're thinking too much, stop frowning and just enjoy the sun."

"It's kind of hard when I never learnt how to relax before." Reno pointed out.

"He's probably stressed because he left that little bird alone with the big bad generals in Midgar." Rufus pointed out.

Surprisingly, Reno hadn't even thought of Cloud for the whole time that he had been there, but now that Rufus had mentioned it, he was wondering what the Halfling was getting up to while he wasn't around.

"Are you talking about the one that Reno used to get into my office?" Tseng questioned.

"I didn't use him to get into your office." Reno defended.

"Give it up already. You're far too big to fit in the air ducts and you don't have enough control with materia to be able to melt bars like the way he did." Tseng pointed out. "You don't think that he would want to join the Turks would you? His small build and materia control would be a nice asset to use in the Turks."

"Didn't he summon Shiva in the building once?" Rufus questioned.

"It was apparently under Lieutenant Fair's orders, and I doubt he'd want to join the Turks. He seemed pretty set on joining SOLDIER and getting to first class when I asked him what he wanted to do in Shinra." Reno replied.

"Pity." Tseng sighed. "He doesn't have the build for SOLDIER and all that magic power is going to go to waste unless he gets put in General Rhapsodo's care."

Rufus turned to face Tseng. "You're not going to try to hit on another cadet are you?"

"I was merely making an observation Rufus. Besides, we already have our hands full." At those words, they both turned to look at Reno and the weasel blinked back at them both with a somewhat confused expression on his face.

"Are you trying to say that I'm a handful?"

They both just grinned.

"You guys are just lucky that I can't summon anything."

"Speaking of summons, I heard that your friend fainted from magical exhaustion when he summoned Shiva, twice in the building." Tseng pointed out. "How is he?"

"From what I saw when I last saw him, he looked fine. No nasty side effects and his only problem was that he had been confined to his bed for a couple of days."

"I'm surprised. For someone that could summon both Bahamut and Phoenix at the same time, I can't believe he would faint from just summoning Shiva twice."

Both Reno and Tseng turned to look at Rufus with surprised looks on their faces. "How did you even know that Cloud could do that? I didn't even know that he could do that." Reno pointed out and Rufus shrugged his shoulders.

"Skipped out on a morning because I saw him slipping into one of the training rooms a long time ago. He packs quite a lot of MP for such a tiny little body."

"I only knew that he had some mad control skills."

"That's odd." Both Reno and Rufus turned to look at Tseng questioningly. "On a normal basis, someone that can summon both Bahamut and Phoenix without an ether or elixir would not faint from something like summoning Shiva twice."

"Doesn't your MP skyrocket when you have summons attached to you? Helps you forget about magical exhaustion or something like that?" Reno questioned. "Maybe he just had a crap load of materia equipped when he went to the training rooms."

"I would have thought he would have collapsed from the weight of it." Rufus added. "From what I remember he doesn't look like he has much physical strength."

"Hey, Cloudy's stronger than he looks, despite how crappy he is when it comes to hand to hand."

"That's only because you kept throwing him off with techniques that you learnt off the street." Rufus pointed out.

"Hey, it might come in handy one day, and besides, how did you even know that I was doing that? Don't tell me you had your little puppy spy on me as well."

"More like I had a small background check and Zack's friends are also my friends, so Luxiere told me a lot about your lessons when I prodded him about them a little."

Reno scoffed. "Bet you didn't find out much with that background check."

The grin on Rufus' face made the weasel somewhat uncomfortable. "You'd be surprised at how much honeybee girls will tell you when you send the right people to go and talk to them."

"How do any of them even know my name? I've never even been there."

"People talk about you a lot Reno and apparently Zack has friends that the girls are fond of."

"Trust him to have friends in weird places." Reno pouted a little and Rufus couldn't help but think that the weasel looked cute like that. "So, who was it?" Reno finally questioned.

"Petite little girl from the slums. Tends to wear a lot of pink."

"He sent the flower girl?"

"What is that some kind of code name?" Rufus questioned.

"The honey bee girls love her for some odd reason. I guess it's because she purposely stocks on flowers that they like and she attracts people like a moth to a flame. She brings in more money and gets the men to buy them shit that they like and she earns money from the men wanting to buy something for the girl that they like. I don't see why she doesn't just work there. She'd probably earn a lot more than she wold if she just sold flowers."

"If she did that, then Shinra would step in." Both Rufus and Reno turned to Tseng at his comment.

"Why? I get that she's pretty and all, but I wouldn't have thought that her looks would attract anyone in Shinra's attention." Reno questioned.

"Classified. Aerith's information is only given out on a need to know basis." Tseng stated simply.

"You're on a first name basis with her?" Rufus couldn't stop the suspicious tone that came along with his question.

"My relationship with Aerith is strictly work related. It's one of those things that I can't even tell you due to the delicate nature of the situation."

Before Rufus could make another retort, the human girls from before seemed to have picked this time to approach them.

"Excuse us for interrupting, but we were wondering if you were from around these parts?" A tall thin brunette with brown eyes and a skimpy bikini questioned.

"We're from Midgar." Rufus replied uninterestedly, somewhat annoyed that they had chosen that exact moment to interrupt them.

"Well, if you're interested, we know Costa Del Sol quote well, so we can show you some nice sightseeing places."

Reno, who was just ignoring the girls, got a major shock when Rufus suddenly reached over and grabbed him. The next thing he knew was that the spider's lips had met his and the girls were all staring in horror.