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Baby Reno 2
0 ReviewsDue to an accident in an old Shinra lab Reno is turned into a baby. After he causes trouble in the Turks Rude seeks the help of Tifa as a babysitter.
Baby Reno
Part 2
"Come back here!" Yuffie called after the very hyper baby. "Don't crawl under there!" She fallowed him under the table then squeezed in behind the couch and continued all over the house. "Almost got him, almost..." Who knew that little red haired hurricane could crawl so fast. "Tifa, Cloud! This ninja needs help!" She was feeling tired, a feeling she hasn't had in a long time.
Tifa and Cloud both arrived nearly at the same time. "What happened?" Tifa asked. The house was a complete mess. Random items were scattered on the floor, some of them broken and there were little chocolate footprints all over.
"I don't know! Reno got all hyper and Marlene and Denzel are on his side!" Yuffie complained. As if on cue Marlene and Denzel ran by cheering for their little Turks friend.
"Stop it you two! Don't set a bad example!" Tifa called. "What got into you?" She asked the children. Usually they were so well behaved but the evidence was clear. "How much chocolate icecream did you give them?"
"Only a little" Yuffie said putting on an innocent smile.
"How much?" Tifa asked seriously.
Yuffie started her story. "Well you see Vincent came to visit while you two were away and-"
"How much Yuffie, tell me how much" Tifa insisted.
"I'm getting there!" Yuffie said.
"Vincent was here? Is he still here?" Cloud asked.
"Yeah, he just dropped by because it's been a while since he saw everyone. He wanted to see how you two were doing. I guess he's not completely anti-social. I'm glad he came back for a little visit. It may sound a little unlikely but I'm happy it happened. It's important to stay in touch and everything" Yuffie said.
Cloud nodded in agreement but Tifa didn't fallow Yuffie's directions in the conversation. "Don't change the subject, how much icecream did you give them?"
"Ok, let me finish the story" Yuffie said. "As I was saying Vincent came to visit and after I explained about baby Reno an icecream truck drove by playing the classic little icecream truck music and everything. It reminded me of when I was a little girl and-"
"Don't try to change the subject again" Tifa said.
Yuffie took a deep breath. "Anyway, I asked Vincent if he could get the kids a little icecream while he waited and he said yes. While he got the icecream I stuck into the back of the truck and stole five big icecream barrels. After the truck left we got the barrels inside and opened them."
Cloud looked surprised and Tifa obviously didn't like where the narration was going. "What happened then?" Cloud asked.
Yuffie continued. "When we opened the icecream barrels we found that three were filled with chocolate icecream and two had vanilla icecream. I wanted cherry. Did you know that Vincent likes cherry icecream too? Marlene, Denzel and Reno ate the chocolate icecream and became really hyper. They were full so they used the vanilla icecream to-"
"A snow monster!" Cloud said drawing his sword slicing a base in half due to the limited space. That was probably the only thing that the kids didn't knock over and now it was broken.
"Cloud no!" Yuffie stepped in the way. "You really need to let me finish. As I was saying, they used the vanilla icecream to turn Vincent into a snow man."
The vanilla flavored snow man cleaned off some of the icecream from his face to reveal that he was in fact Vincent Valentine. He was holding little Reno who would need another bath soon.
Tifa smacked her forehead and shook her head. "At least the Turks will be babysitting tomorrow. Cloud would you please give Reno another bath?"
"But he tried to drown me last time!" Cloud complained. "He may look innocent but he's out to get me, I just know."
"He thinks you're his father, he's not out to get you" Tifa said.
Cloud sighted hopelessly. "Alright I'll get him cleaned up." He took little Reno and prepared for another near death experience.
"Yuffie, why are you poking me with a spoon?" Vincent asked.
"I'm not poking you I'm eating." Yuffie said taking another spoonful of icecream off Vincent and eating it. Tifa decided not to ask.
That night little Reno couldn't sleep. That meant that no one in the house would sleep or at least not Tifa and Cloud. "You should get some rest Cloud" Tifa said suppressing a yawn. She had been sitting there with baby Reno in her arms trying to make him fall asleep for quite some time but the child was still awake. If she put him down he would start crying then Marlene, Denzel, Yuffie and Vincent who were staying over wouldn't get any sleep either.
"I'm ok" Cloud said sitting beside her. His eyes were close and he was resting his head on her shoulder half asleep.
"I know you're tired" Tifa said.
"I'm fine. I'm only resting my eyes. Besides it's not fair that you do all the work around here" Cloud said.
"It's nice to have you back Cloud" She rested her eyes too. Only for a little while and the next thing she knew, it was morning.
"Good morning lovers!" Yuffie happily greeted them.
Tifa and Cloud woke up instantly to find they had fallen asleep hugging while holding little Reno. "We didn't do anything" Cloud clarified.
"Yes, I know you didn't. If you needed the privacy you should have asked. I could have taken care of the baby last night" Yuffie said winking at them. Tifa and Cloud both blushed. "I'm just kidding" Yuffie said laughing.
"Where's Vincent?" Cloud asked changing the subject.
"He left early. You know how he's always taking off like that" Yuffie said. "So what's the plan for today?"
"Rude is coming to pick up Reno, Cloud and I spoke to the Turks yesterday. They said that Reno shouldn't be a baby for too long." Tifa said.
As expected Rude returned to take care of his little partner for the day and peace and quiet returned to Tifa, and Cloud. Rude would soon learn that maybe taking little Reno him to a chocobo petting zoo while dressed as a chocobo wasn't such a good idea. "Look Reno a chocobo. You and I used to bet in the chocobo races before you turned into a baby."
"Birdy!" Reno said reaching towards the chocobo.
"I wonder how soon you'll turn into a grown up. I miss my partner but when you grow up then I'll miss you." He approached the yellow chocobo enough for Reno to pet it.
"Wide birdy!" Reno said.
"Ride? You want to ride the chocobo? I guess it's ok." Rude placed the baby on the chocobo but still held him to make sure he didn't fall off. Everything was fine until the chocobo grabbed Rude's sunglasses. "Give those back!" Rude tried to recover his sunglasses but the chocobo pecked him when ever he tried. The yellow bird finally dropped the sunglasses on the grown at Rude's feet. As he picked them up he felt baby Reno slip away.
"Weeee!" Reno cheered while the chocobo ran.
"Reno!" Rude yelled in a panic. "I'm coming to save you!" Three chocobos of different colors blocked his path looking quite angry. "Out of my way, your friend kidnapped my partner!" The angry noises the chocobos made told Rude that they would not step aside. A battle soon began of Turks vs chocobos. The children and their parents soon left the area where the chocobos were kept for their safety and watched the show from afar.
After a fierce battle, pecked, scratched and bitten Rude finally emerged victorious. He made his way towards baby Reno while he muttered something about evil birds. The chocobo who kidnapped Reno was peacefully napping in a corner of a little stable assuming that her friends had devoured Rude outside by now. Baby Reno was sleeping also, hugging the chocobo like a giant plushie. "Uncle Wude!"
"Not so loud Reno!" Rude said as he picked up the red haired child. Soon he found himself face to face with an angry chocobo mother that thought Reno was her child. The yellow bird let out a war cry as it attacked Rude who held little Reno close protecting him even if he knew the attacks were not directed at him. Concluding that taking a baby to a chocobo petting zoo dressed as a chocobo is definitely a very bad idea Rude made a run for it and escaped with Reno, he didn't look back until he was in the safety of the Turks Headquarters.
Drained of all energy Rude asked Elena to take care of Reno for a little while. Of course she noticed that his suit was full of holes, his sunglasses were missing and he had scratches all over. "Um Rude, what happened to you?"
"Chocobo petting zoo" Rude said. That was enough for Elena to understand.
"Oh I see" Elena said. 'That must have been very amusing' she thought. "You definitely need a break, Tseng and I will take care of our youngest Turks for the rest day."
"Thanks" Rude said as he left. He would probably have nightmares about chocobos for months.
As Elena went to find Tseng she heard a familiar voice. "I had to know for sure if it was true."
Elena turned to face her older sister Gun, the unwanted, unannounced visitor. "What, the rumors of Reno being a baby? Yes it's true." Elena never got along with her sister.
"So the Tunks are now a babysitting service?" Gun said. She had been a Turks with outstanding accomplishments.
Elena always wondered why Gun wasn't promoted to be one of Rufus's Turks instead of her. She wondered if it was only because Reno was injured at the time and she was the first person they could find. No, Elena had promised herself to stop thinking that way. Tseng had told her before that she got there on her own and she was going to believe him. "What would you know about being a Turks?"
"A lot more than you." Gun stepped closer with a challenging glare.
Feeling the tension in the air little Reno started to complain as if he would start crying very soon. "Shh... it's ok little Reno don't start crying now. I won't let the evil witch hurt you." Elena tried to stop him from crying.
Annoyed Gun replied. "You can't even take care of a child right. I pity him for being on the same team as you. Allow me to show you how it's done." Things between them had only gotten worse over time. Before Elena could protest Gun took baby Reno. "There you see? He appears to be just fine now." The child appeared to hug her which gave Gun a victorious grin while she watched Elena's angry glare. But Reno was not hugging Gun he was in fact reaching for her hair. As soon as he had a sufficient amount of hair in his little hands Reno pulled as hard as he could and Gun's scream echoed all over the building as she tossed Reno into Elena's arms and ran out.
A few minutes later Elena found Tseng. The leader of the Turks noticed she was smiling ear to ear as little Reno giggled in amusement. He appeared to be holding a large piece of blonde hair in his little hands. Obviously if Elena was in such a good mood that couldn't be her hair Reno had pulled out. Gun was visiting and he did hear a scream not too long ago. He put two and two together and got to the correct conclusion that it was Gun's hair that baby Reno was holding.
Elena was certainly in a good mood after little Reno pulled out a good amount of her sister's hair painfully off her head. It was a beautiful day and she would like to go out. However she was on babysitting duty but that didn't mean she couldn't use the opportunity to go somewhere with Tseng, even if it was grocery shopping. "I've been thinking, don't you think Reno can eat other things besides baby food and milk by now? I mean those things are healthy so maybe we should continue giving them to him but we could also try giving him some 'real' food."
"You do have a point Elena" Tseng agreed. Besides there were other foods less messy and lethal than baby food so it would certainly be a good idea to try.
"Yes and we need groceries anyway so I thought we should also buy some healthy food for Reno." As Elena said this, Reno started making baby noises that sounded like complaints. He waved his little arms around showing her Gun's hair as if saying 'I helped you so why do you want to punish me with yucky healthy food?' "It's ok Reno we'll get you something delicious and nutritious" Elena cheerfully said. As long as it was delicious Reno wouldn't mind but he was a bit worried that it would be more nutritious than delicious.
With no time to waste Tseng and Elena went to the super market. Reno was placed on a baby seat on the super market cart. Tseng pushed the cart while Elena placed item after item in it. Reno was becoming a little bored being treated like a decoration for the grocery cart or another can of soup. The little red haired Turks wanted attention.
Hearing his quiet complaints which thankfully were not yet cries Tseng started making faces for the little guy to keep him calm, quiet and entertained. Reno appeared to be amused enough. Tseng felt Elena pulling the cart to take a turn and went along with her pushing it into a new aisle. He was too focused on his face making to notice where they were until a certain ninja let out high pitched squeal. "Elena!"
Tseng snapped out of it and stood up straight. He cleared his throat as if nothing was going on and looked serious. That's when he noticed Elena had led him to a certain aisle where only women dare to enter. "Hey Yuffie!" Elena was in such a cheerful mood that day that everyone, except Gun of course, felt like a life long friend. Seeing Gun's hair being pulled out was the most fun she had in a long time.
In fact, before heading to the super market Elena placed the hair that Reno so nicely removed from Gun in a plastic bag to put in a frame later. At the bottom of the frame there would be a little plaque that read 'Gun got pawned!' The framed hair would be put on display in the Healin Lodge living room and she knew that one would dare to remove it from there, not even Rufus.
"I see things have become more serious between the two of you. Only true, true love can make a man walk down this aisle" Yuffie said. Tseng looked around surprised to find himself in a feminine product aisle.
Elena blushed but Yuffie's comment didn't ruin her excellent mood. "We're just shopping for little Reno and I we needed to pick up a few other groceries too."
"We're helping Tifa and Cloud with the groceries so they can keep up with the deliveries. Cloud's deliveries piled up while he was babysitting Reno. I guess he came in the busiest day. We volunteered to come to the super market. Well I volunteered and dragged Vincent along" Yuffie happily said.
"Where is Vincent?" Elena asked. She didn't see him anywhere and he was a little hard to miss.
"He's over there" Yuffie pointed to other end of the aisle, just outside of it stood Vincent. "He said he wasn't coming into what was not his territory. Then he made up a bunch of excuses that didn't make sense and stayed there. Tifa told me that Cloud never comes with her to this aisle. Come on they live in the same place and if she ever had to send him to the super market he wouldn't know what to bring her. She keeps going easy on him and letting him escape. You've done well to teach Tseng to be brave."
Reno being so small didn't understand what exactly was going on. Tseng looked rather worried as if something bad was about to happen. He had the expression one would have right after landing on an active volcano that was about to blow. "I guess you do have a point there Yuffie." Weather it was the time of the month or her excessively cheerful mood that trigger her next action Elena didn't know but she grabbed a product from the aisle and showed it to Tseng. "See? This is what I use. Don't forget in case you need to buy them for me."
Tseng blinked, took a small step back and then nodded slowly. "At it boy Tseng! See Vincent? There is no ultimate doom hiding in this aisle!" Yuffie called at the top of her lungs. Vincent received several odd stares from random people passing by. To escape their strange looks he hurried into the aisle and stood near the group. "That's a brave boy!" Yuffie said happily giving Vincent a reassuring pat on the back. "I told you the big bad tampons wouldn't eat you."
Vincent gave Tseng a pitiful look as if asking 'Will they have mercy?' Tseng shook his head while little Reno sat there completely oblivious to what was going on.
Suddenly another man was dragged into the aisle of doom against his will. "But Shera I don't want to go in there." A certain pilot complained as a certain mechanic dragged him along. He looked like he was being taken to be decapitated.
"I told you, you have to know what to get for me" Shera complained. "I thought you said you wouldn't mind."
"You asked me in the wrong time when I was distracted." Cid hated it when Shera distracted him enough to get him to agree to things he normally wouldn't agree to. "Look Shera, if you have some kind of emergency and need those things right away and for whatever reasons you can't get them yourself then I will come get them. But that's just for emergencies, ok?"
"Fair enough, I'll just teach you what to do in emergencies then" Shera said.
"Fudge" Cid muttered as he noticed the familiar people there. Well if Tseng and Vincent were there he might as well venture into unknown territory also. No way was he going to come off as the chicken of the group. He stood straight and tried to look confident. He nearly fooled Vincent and Tseng who knew deep down he was just as lost as they were.
"Shera! Cid!" Yuffie was the first to notice their presence. They had not yet seen baby Reno behind them. Unfortunately Shera started a conversation with Elena and Yuffie which prolonged the men's stay in uncharted territory. It came to a point where Reno, who still had no idea what was going on, became so bored he managed to climb out of his baby sit and crawled away.
Reno exited the aisle and continued crawling. A few people noticed him and kept asking each other who the child was with. Finally someone decided to pick up the little cutie and of course it was time to run. Since he was still very small Reno wasn't very fast on two legs yet. He usually just crawled when he needed to go faster. He saw a bottle of green colored dish washing soap and grabbed it. He wasn't sure how to make the liquid come out so he simply jumped on it. The plastic bottle popped open under the pressure and the green liquid was fired out just in time for the people who were after him to slip on it causing a domino effect. Reno took the opportunity and escaped.
The baby Turks was quite destructive in the super market. Whatever was placed on the aisles low enough for him to reach, he grabbed and tore apart. The floor of the super market was soon becoming a mess of liquid soap, rice, ketchup mustard, syrup, cereal and other things. An official search brigade for the chaotic rampaging baby was called into action composed of five of the employees of the supermarket. Reno reached the cookie aisle and crawled behind some cookie boxes at the bottom. Safely hidden from the adults he started eating cookies which of course would make him more hyper than he already was. When he thought the coast was clear, Reno made his escape.
"Attention all shoppers! Attention all shoppers!" A voice was heard fall over the supermarket. "Be on the look out for a baby on a rampage. The child behaves chaotically and is considered dangerous. If you see the demon child, I mean the destructive baby please report him to an employee immediately. Do not try to capture him yourself. Please remain calm. I repeat, please remain calm do not panic." As if on cue people started to panic.
"A demon child? Where do you think it came from?" Yuffie asked.
Tseng, fearing the worse looked towards where baby Reno was supposed to be to find nothing but an empty space as the voice was heard again. "The child can be easily recognizable by his chocobo outfit and red hair."
"I'm sorry Elena" Tseng said sadly as if he had lost their child.
Elena gasped. "Reno!"
"Oh no! The poor baby! How could you let this happen?" Yuffie yelled.
"This is no place for baby Reno to be by himself. Especially with that demon child around" Vincent said.
"They think he is the demon child!" Elena yelled having a major motherly freak out.
"What the fudge is going on?" Cid asked.
"Baby Reno is missing" Elena screamed in a panic.
Cid and Shera stared wide eyes. "Reno's a father? Who's the poor unfortunate soul that had his kid?" Cid asked.
"He's not Reno's baby, he is Reno who was turned into a baby" Yuffie explained while Elena panicked and Tseng apologized to her looking very guilty. He blamed himself because he was closest to the baby and didn't notice he was gone.
"Let us not waste any more time and search for the missing child, he couldn't have gone very far" Vincent said. Everyone immediately fallowed his good advice.
Meanwhile in another area of the super market a woman's voice was heard. "Out! Get out! Security!" One of the female employees of the super market yelled.
"Fine, fine I'm leaving. The super market isn't a very good place to find brides anyway" Don Corneo, the slime ball who should have been dead said. Just as Don Corneo left he saw a baby crawling out the automatically opening doors all by himself.
An employee ran to pick him up. "I got you now!" Surely he would get a nice big bonus for catching the demon child of super market chaos and doom, as his coworkers called him. However Don Corneo picked up the boy first.
"I can carry my own child" Corneo said. His two bodyguards looked at each other in total confusion. "What? With all those brides don't you think I should have a kid by now?"
The bodyguards knew Corneo was lying but the super market employee appeared to fallow his logic. "Then he's your son? Are you going to pay for all the damage he did?"
"No!" With that said the Don ran towards his car with his very confused bodyguards fallowing after him. Reno of course let out a high pitched scream of terror and continued to scream without stop loud enough to wake the dead.
"Reno!" Elena, Tseng, Yuffie, Vincent, Cid and Shera had arrived fallowing Reno's scream of terror just on time to see Don Corneo drive away like a mad man.
"My baby! Come back here with my baby!" Elena creamed like a mother whose child had been kidnapped.
"You will pay for this with your life Don Corneo!" Tseng yelled.
"C'mon we can catch them faster on Sierra!" Cid called. He wasn't sure how he got involved but he was involved. That's when they all noticed Cid's ship on the super market parking lot. He must have arrived after they were already inside since the Sierra wasn't something easily missed among the cars.
Meanwhile taking every shortcut he knew, Don Corneo hurried to his mansion with the crying child. "Why did you decide to kidnap the baby?" One of his body guards asked.
"I didn't, it was destiny. Did I tell you about that dream I had the other night?" Corneo asked screaming over the noise of Reno's terrified cries for help. Even a baby knows when he's being kidnapped by the wrong person.
"Yes you did!" The bodyguards replied at once. They really didn't want to hear about it again.
"No, not that dream, the other one, the one where I saw a boy riding on a chocobo and there was fire all over the place. This fire haired chocobo boy was sent to me by destiny to be my heir. I shall keep him and he shall be my son!" Don Corneo declared. Reno screamed louder.
Don Corneo's expensive car came to a screeching halt eating away at the tires as he stopped in front of his mansion. He happily hopped off his car and hurried inside fallowed by the two bodyguards while Reno continued to scream. Three other guards were waiting inside to inform Corneo that while he was bride hunting in the super market they had found three possible brides for him around the city just in case he couldn't find any in the super market.
"Excellent! This day couldn't get any better. I have three beautiful brides and a son!" The Don screamed over the baby's crying. It felt as if the entire mansion was shaking from the force of Reno's cries. "We must celebrate! Bring me some drinks and then I will choose a bride."
While the three girls exchanged confused looks and covered their ears. One of the guards served some drinks. As Corneo reached to pick up his elegant glass cup while holding Reno with his other arm the baby stopped to take a deep breath then let out a high pitched cry strong enough to shatter the glass. Needless to say everyone's ears would be ringing for a long time.
"Let me hold him" one of the bride candidates said taking the baby before Corneo even replied. "It's ok, sweetie no one will hurt you." Reno appeared to calm down a little bit. At least that slime ball wasn't holding him. His face was almost as red as his hair from crying. "There, there. It's alright now, honey." The woman gently rocked the child in her arms while humming a soft lullaby. She had waist length blonde hair, light blue eyes and was wearing a sky blue dress. She had a 'good girl' look which was probably deceiving.
"Hey let me hold the kid" the second bride said. She had short spike black hair with bright red highlights. She wore heavy black makeup and black and red leather.
The blonde bride looked at the punk woman. "You must be gentle with children."
"Fudge I can be gentle!" The second bride clearly had a language like Cid's if not worse. "Give me the da" The first bride glared. "The darling kid." With that said she snatched the boy from the other woman's arm. "You're a pretty cool kid aren't you boy? If only they wouldn't dress you in such a ridiculous outfit."
"Excuse me" said the third bride shyly. "May I hold him please?" She had mid back length brown hair and was wearing a t-shirt, jeans and sneakers. She was a pretty normal looking girl over all.
The punk woman glared. "I'm not putting down the cute little bas"
"Language!" Bride number one hissed.
"I'm not putting down the cute little 'basket full of joy' yet" bride number two finished.
Bride number three looked like she was going to cry. A few tears rolled down her cheeks while the first two brides gave her weird looks. She appeared to be alright a second ago and then she suddenly started crying just because she wasn't allowed to hold the baby? Suddenly her sad expression changed to a glare more deadly than the punk woman's glare. "Give me the #$%& kid now!" she screamed at the top of her lungs" Taking the punk by surprise she took the baby. Her expression changed drastically and her voice became soft and shy again. "Who's a cute little baby? You are! Yes, you! Peek a boo! I see you!"
"Interesting brides you found today" Don Corneo commented as he watched the scene. The girl with the split personality was a bit creepy even for him. The punk looked a tad violent. Perhaps bachelorette number one should be his bride. "I have made my decision!" Corneo made a dramatic pause expecting all three women to pay full attention. However the three were distracted tickling little Reno and making funny faces for him. "I said I made my decision!" He continued being ignored. "That kid's good, he's only been my adoptive son for a little while and he already has all the attention from the ladies. I knew it was destiny I knew it!"
"Ah! He bit me!" The blonde suddenly screamed.
"Good choice my boy bride number one is exactly who I was thinking to choose" Corneo said though his comment fell on deaf ears.
"Told ya not to try to play pull my finger with em. The little 'basket of joy' hates that game" the punk said.
While Corneo continued to be ignored, which was driving him insane there was suddenly a loud crash. The noise appeared to be coming from the floor above. Loud noises of things being broken soon fallowed. There were screams gun shots and more noise as the mansion shook. It was as if it was being torn apart. "What's going on up there?" Corneo yelled.
After more loud noises the ceiling was ripped off the mansion revealing the clear blue skies. Flying above the mansion was Sierra. A pair of mechanical claws were attached to it pulling the mansion apart floor by floor as if it was a cardboard doll house. A door was opened as Sierra descended. From the door jumped several very angry looking people. Cloud was out on a delivery when he saw Sierra and called Cid who told him what happened. Cloud informed Tifa who rushed to meet the others.
Corned gulped and backed away. There was a man with a large sword, a woman with a murderous look who looked ready to tare him apart. A man with a red cape and a gun pointed at him. A woman with the biggest shuriken he's ever see and a man pointing two guns at him. The last man looked towards the door where a woman stood.
The blonde woman jumped down as Corneo coward in fear. "When I'm done with you, there won't even be dust left for the life steam" Elena said. That had to be the biggest and strangest futuristic looking bazooka he ever saw in his entire life. How was she able to hold a weapon almost as big as she was would be a mystery Corneo would wonder about for every second of his short life. The bazooka let out a powerful blast of mako energy. The glowing blue beam hit Corneo full force and in a scream of agony he vanished. It was on of the more powerful weapons that Shinra had in storage and had never had the chance to use.
Everyone else started fighting the guards who were so shocked that they hardly put up a fight. Tifa went to get baby Reno. "Give me my baby!" She threateningly said. She didn't wait for an answer and took Reno in her arms.
"Just who do you think you are busting in here like that you b" The bride candidate who dared to speak along with the other two were silenced when Tifa did a spinning kick hitting the three on and throwing them several feet back against what was left of a wall.
Leaving the mansion in ruins they returned to Sierra and headed to the 7th Heaven where Tifa, Elena, Yuffie and Shera spent the rest of the day cuddling Reno, and showering him with hugs, kisses and attention. After all, the poor child had been through a lot and they needed to show their support and make him feel loved. "Life ain't fair is it?" Cid said more than asked as they watched the four women obsessing over the baby. Cloud, Tseng and Vincent nodded.
That night they made accommodations as well as they could for everyone to stay over. It was as if they were all suffering post traumatic stress and didn't want to leave their precious baby. They decided not to tell Rude about what happened. If he found out his little partner got kidnapped by Corneo he would probably have a heart attack. Being kidnapped by chocobos was one thing but being kidnapped by that slime ball was too much.
Cid and Shera stayed on the Sierra but the house was still very full since they had to make room from everyone else. Of course the children would get beds and the adults would make due with what they had. At Tifa's half suggestion, half order Cloud offered to let one of the guests take his bed which Yuffie gladly accepted. Elena took the guest room bed which left the men fighting over who got the couch.
While Cloud and Tseng discussed the issue, Vincent made himself comfortable on the couch and fell asleep. He meant to rest until the argument was decided and then sleep on the sleep on the floor since after sleeping in a coffin for so long he wouldn't mind the hard floor. But he had fallen asleep. Cloud and Tseng decided to put some sleeping bags on the floor and not argue about it anymore. After all it was no fun to argue in whispers as to make sure they didn't wake the baby. If they dared to wake the girl's precious angel they would find themselves facing a wrath worse than a hundred Sephiroths.
It was late into the night and all was quiet all around. Elena had woken up for a glass of water and on her way she tripped over Tseng's sleeping bag since the sleeping arrangement had been made after she had already gone to bed. Her surprised yelp woke Cloud who was previously snoring on the floor in a sleeping bag near by. Even if it was dark he could still see Elena on top of Tseng blushing because she tripped. "Can't you to wait until you go back to Healin Lodge for that?" Cloud said in a humorous tone since he realized Elena had probably tripped. Tseng's sleeping bag was kind of in the way.
The leader of the Turks shot him a glare. He wasn't in the mood with all that happened that day. "I was just getting a glass of water." Elena quickly got up and headed towards the kitchen. Tseng decided to fallow her. Cloud wasn't sure what was going on, he shrugged and went back to sleep.
In the kitchen Tseng found Elena looking at her water instead of drinking it. She heard his quiet footsteps approaching and looked up from her water. "I'm sorry Elena" Tseng said.
"For what? She asked.
"For loosing Reno at the super market, I was the one closest to him so I should have made sure he was there" Tseng said. "I failed."
"It was an accident, we were all distracted. Don't blame yourself" Elena said. Her expression was sad and lost in thought.
Tseng knew there was something bothering her. "Elena? Tell me what's wrong."
"I was just thinking about how we got attached to Reno. What if he changes back? Isn't he supposed to change back eventually?" Elena asked.
"Yes, as far as I know the effect will ware off. I just don't know when." He put an arm around her shoulders as to console the sadness she would feel having to say goodbye to the little guy when the time came. Sure the Reno they knew before would return but they would miss the little Reno.
Elena wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug that Tseng returned. "I shouldn't have gotten so attached to him but I did."
"You would make a great mother and I'll never forget that scene with the mako energy bazooka" Tseng said.
Elena laughed. "Not bad for the rookie, eh?"
"I don't think you are a rookie anymore" Tseng said. His mind wondered off into his memories. Things had certainly changed between him and Elena. She had gone from calling him sir to hugging him in a dark kitchen in the last few years. Baby Reno was heard as he seemed to sometimes randomly wake up in the middle of the night and cry for attention as babies sometimes like to do. Tseng and Elena rushed to his room.
After having a nightmare involving baby Reno being kidnapped by Sephiroth who had mysteriously come back to life, Tifa woke up to the sound of Reno's crying. The crying stopped but she went to check on Reno anyway. She smiled seeing Elena holding him while Tseng watched like a proud father. She also took a peek inside Marlene and Denzel's rooms confirming that everything was ok. Then she went down stairs where she saw Cloud in a sleeping bag on the floor.
The faint moon light reached him from the window, he looked absolutely angelic. She was about to return to her room when she heard him call. "Tifa?"
Tifa tip toed into the living room glancing at the sleeping Vincent. Cloud got up and motioned for her to fallow him outside. The night sky was clear lit by the starts and the full moon. "Is there something you wanted to tell me?"
"Yeah, you've been doing really good helping take care of the baby. You also take care of Marlene and Denzel. You keep us together as a family" Cloud said.
"We are a family" Tifa said.
"I guess we are" Cloud agreed. They hugged enjoying each other's presence. Cloud sometimes didn't say things directly. Sometimes his words needed to be interpreted and Tifa knew how to do that. All of them were one big family and Tifa and Cloud were a couple, kissing in the moon light. It took him a while to realize how close they had become but he eventually figured it out.
To be Continued
Part 2
"Come back here!" Yuffie called after the very hyper baby. "Don't crawl under there!" She fallowed him under the table then squeezed in behind the couch and continued all over the house. "Almost got him, almost..." Who knew that little red haired hurricane could crawl so fast. "Tifa, Cloud! This ninja needs help!" She was feeling tired, a feeling she hasn't had in a long time.
Tifa and Cloud both arrived nearly at the same time. "What happened?" Tifa asked. The house was a complete mess. Random items were scattered on the floor, some of them broken and there were little chocolate footprints all over.
"I don't know! Reno got all hyper and Marlene and Denzel are on his side!" Yuffie complained. As if on cue Marlene and Denzel ran by cheering for their little Turks friend.
"Stop it you two! Don't set a bad example!" Tifa called. "What got into you?" She asked the children. Usually they were so well behaved but the evidence was clear. "How much chocolate icecream did you give them?"
"Only a little" Yuffie said putting on an innocent smile.
"How much?" Tifa asked seriously.
Yuffie started her story. "Well you see Vincent came to visit while you two were away and-"
"How much Yuffie, tell me how much" Tifa insisted.
"I'm getting there!" Yuffie said.
"Vincent was here? Is he still here?" Cloud asked.
"Yeah, he just dropped by because it's been a while since he saw everyone. He wanted to see how you two were doing. I guess he's not completely anti-social. I'm glad he came back for a little visit. It may sound a little unlikely but I'm happy it happened. It's important to stay in touch and everything" Yuffie said.
Cloud nodded in agreement but Tifa didn't fallow Yuffie's directions in the conversation. "Don't change the subject, how much icecream did you give them?"
"Ok, let me finish the story" Yuffie said. "As I was saying Vincent came to visit and after I explained about baby Reno an icecream truck drove by playing the classic little icecream truck music and everything. It reminded me of when I was a little girl and-"
"Don't try to change the subject again" Tifa said.
Yuffie took a deep breath. "Anyway, I asked Vincent if he could get the kids a little icecream while he waited and he said yes. While he got the icecream I stuck into the back of the truck and stole five big icecream barrels. After the truck left we got the barrels inside and opened them."
Cloud looked surprised and Tifa obviously didn't like where the narration was going. "What happened then?" Cloud asked.
Yuffie continued. "When we opened the icecream barrels we found that three were filled with chocolate icecream and two had vanilla icecream. I wanted cherry. Did you know that Vincent likes cherry icecream too? Marlene, Denzel and Reno ate the chocolate icecream and became really hyper. They were full so they used the vanilla icecream to-"
"A snow monster!" Cloud said drawing his sword slicing a base in half due to the limited space. That was probably the only thing that the kids didn't knock over and now it was broken.
"Cloud no!" Yuffie stepped in the way. "You really need to let me finish. As I was saying, they used the vanilla icecream to turn Vincent into a snow man."
The vanilla flavored snow man cleaned off some of the icecream from his face to reveal that he was in fact Vincent Valentine. He was holding little Reno who would need another bath soon.
Tifa smacked her forehead and shook her head. "At least the Turks will be babysitting tomorrow. Cloud would you please give Reno another bath?"
"But he tried to drown me last time!" Cloud complained. "He may look innocent but he's out to get me, I just know."
"He thinks you're his father, he's not out to get you" Tifa said.
Cloud sighted hopelessly. "Alright I'll get him cleaned up." He took little Reno and prepared for another near death experience.
"Yuffie, why are you poking me with a spoon?" Vincent asked.
"I'm not poking you I'm eating." Yuffie said taking another spoonful of icecream off Vincent and eating it. Tifa decided not to ask.
That night little Reno couldn't sleep. That meant that no one in the house would sleep or at least not Tifa and Cloud. "You should get some rest Cloud" Tifa said suppressing a yawn. She had been sitting there with baby Reno in her arms trying to make him fall asleep for quite some time but the child was still awake. If she put him down he would start crying then Marlene, Denzel, Yuffie and Vincent who were staying over wouldn't get any sleep either.
"I'm ok" Cloud said sitting beside her. His eyes were close and he was resting his head on her shoulder half asleep.
"I know you're tired" Tifa said.
"I'm fine. I'm only resting my eyes. Besides it's not fair that you do all the work around here" Cloud said.
"It's nice to have you back Cloud" She rested her eyes too. Only for a little while and the next thing she knew, it was morning.
"Good morning lovers!" Yuffie happily greeted them.
Tifa and Cloud woke up instantly to find they had fallen asleep hugging while holding little Reno. "We didn't do anything" Cloud clarified.
"Yes, I know you didn't. If you needed the privacy you should have asked. I could have taken care of the baby last night" Yuffie said winking at them. Tifa and Cloud both blushed. "I'm just kidding" Yuffie said laughing.
"Where's Vincent?" Cloud asked changing the subject.
"He left early. You know how he's always taking off like that" Yuffie said. "So what's the plan for today?"
"Rude is coming to pick up Reno, Cloud and I spoke to the Turks yesterday. They said that Reno shouldn't be a baby for too long." Tifa said.
As expected Rude returned to take care of his little partner for the day and peace and quiet returned to Tifa, and Cloud. Rude would soon learn that maybe taking little Reno him to a chocobo petting zoo while dressed as a chocobo wasn't such a good idea. "Look Reno a chocobo. You and I used to bet in the chocobo races before you turned into a baby."
"Birdy!" Reno said reaching towards the chocobo.
"I wonder how soon you'll turn into a grown up. I miss my partner but when you grow up then I'll miss you." He approached the yellow chocobo enough for Reno to pet it.
"Wide birdy!" Reno said.
"Ride? You want to ride the chocobo? I guess it's ok." Rude placed the baby on the chocobo but still held him to make sure he didn't fall off. Everything was fine until the chocobo grabbed Rude's sunglasses. "Give those back!" Rude tried to recover his sunglasses but the chocobo pecked him when ever he tried. The yellow bird finally dropped the sunglasses on the grown at Rude's feet. As he picked them up he felt baby Reno slip away.
"Weeee!" Reno cheered while the chocobo ran.
"Reno!" Rude yelled in a panic. "I'm coming to save you!" Three chocobos of different colors blocked his path looking quite angry. "Out of my way, your friend kidnapped my partner!" The angry noises the chocobos made told Rude that they would not step aside. A battle soon began of Turks vs chocobos. The children and their parents soon left the area where the chocobos were kept for their safety and watched the show from afar.
After a fierce battle, pecked, scratched and bitten Rude finally emerged victorious. He made his way towards baby Reno while he muttered something about evil birds. The chocobo who kidnapped Reno was peacefully napping in a corner of a little stable assuming that her friends had devoured Rude outside by now. Baby Reno was sleeping also, hugging the chocobo like a giant plushie. "Uncle Wude!"
"Not so loud Reno!" Rude said as he picked up the red haired child. Soon he found himself face to face with an angry chocobo mother that thought Reno was her child. The yellow bird let out a war cry as it attacked Rude who held little Reno close protecting him even if he knew the attacks were not directed at him. Concluding that taking a baby to a chocobo petting zoo dressed as a chocobo is definitely a very bad idea Rude made a run for it and escaped with Reno, he didn't look back until he was in the safety of the Turks Headquarters.
Drained of all energy Rude asked Elena to take care of Reno for a little while. Of course she noticed that his suit was full of holes, his sunglasses were missing and he had scratches all over. "Um Rude, what happened to you?"
"Chocobo petting zoo" Rude said. That was enough for Elena to understand.
"Oh I see" Elena said. 'That must have been very amusing' she thought. "You definitely need a break, Tseng and I will take care of our youngest Turks for the rest day."
"Thanks" Rude said as he left. He would probably have nightmares about chocobos for months.
As Elena went to find Tseng she heard a familiar voice. "I had to know for sure if it was true."
Elena turned to face her older sister Gun, the unwanted, unannounced visitor. "What, the rumors of Reno being a baby? Yes it's true." Elena never got along with her sister.
"So the Tunks are now a babysitting service?" Gun said. She had been a Turks with outstanding accomplishments.
Elena always wondered why Gun wasn't promoted to be one of Rufus's Turks instead of her. She wondered if it was only because Reno was injured at the time and she was the first person they could find. No, Elena had promised herself to stop thinking that way. Tseng had told her before that she got there on her own and she was going to believe him. "What would you know about being a Turks?"
"A lot more than you." Gun stepped closer with a challenging glare.
Feeling the tension in the air little Reno started to complain as if he would start crying very soon. "Shh... it's ok little Reno don't start crying now. I won't let the evil witch hurt you." Elena tried to stop him from crying.
Annoyed Gun replied. "You can't even take care of a child right. I pity him for being on the same team as you. Allow me to show you how it's done." Things between them had only gotten worse over time. Before Elena could protest Gun took baby Reno. "There you see? He appears to be just fine now." The child appeared to hug her which gave Gun a victorious grin while she watched Elena's angry glare. But Reno was not hugging Gun he was in fact reaching for her hair. As soon as he had a sufficient amount of hair in his little hands Reno pulled as hard as he could and Gun's scream echoed all over the building as she tossed Reno into Elena's arms and ran out.
A few minutes later Elena found Tseng. The leader of the Turks noticed she was smiling ear to ear as little Reno giggled in amusement. He appeared to be holding a large piece of blonde hair in his little hands. Obviously if Elena was in such a good mood that couldn't be her hair Reno had pulled out. Gun was visiting and he did hear a scream not too long ago. He put two and two together and got to the correct conclusion that it was Gun's hair that baby Reno was holding.
Elena was certainly in a good mood after little Reno pulled out a good amount of her sister's hair painfully off her head. It was a beautiful day and she would like to go out. However she was on babysitting duty but that didn't mean she couldn't use the opportunity to go somewhere with Tseng, even if it was grocery shopping. "I've been thinking, don't you think Reno can eat other things besides baby food and milk by now? I mean those things are healthy so maybe we should continue giving them to him but we could also try giving him some 'real' food."
"You do have a point Elena" Tseng agreed. Besides there were other foods less messy and lethal than baby food so it would certainly be a good idea to try.
"Yes and we need groceries anyway so I thought we should also buy some healthy food for Reno." As Elena said this, Reno started making baby noises that sounded like complaints. He waved his little arms around showing her Gun's hair as if saying 'I helped you so why do you want to punish me with yucky healthy food?' "It's ok Reno we'll get you something delicious and nutritious" Elena cheerfully said. As long as it was delicious Reno wouldn't mind but he was a bit worried that it would be more nutritious than delicious.
With no time to waste Tseng and Elena went to the super market. Reno was placed on a baby seat on the super market cart. Tseng pushed the cart while Elena placed item after item in it. Reno was becoming a little bored being treated like a decoration for the grocery cart or another can of soup. The little red haired Turks wanted attention.
Hearing his quiet complaints which thankfully were not yet cries Tseng started making faces for the little guy to keep him calm, quiet and entertained. Reno appeared to be amused enough. Tseng felt Elena pulling the cart to take a turn and went along with her pushing it into a new aisle. He was too focused on his face making to notice where they were until a certain ninja let out high pitched squeal. "Elena!"
Tseng snapped out of it and stood up straight. He cleared his throat as if nothing was going on and looked serious. That's when he noticed Elena had led him to a certain aisle where only women dare to enter. "Hey Yuffie!" Elena was in such a cheerful mood that day that everyone, except Gun of course, felt like a life long friend. Seeing Gun's hair being pulled out was the most fun she had in a long time.
In fact, before heading to the super market Elena placed the hair that Reno so nicely removed from Gun in a plastic bag to put in a frame later. At the bottom of the frame there would be a little plaque that read 'Gun got pawned!' The framed hair would be put on display in the Healin Lodge living room and she knew that one would dare to remove it from there, not even Rufus.
"I see things have become more serious between the two of you. Only true, true love can make a man walk down this aisle" Yuffie said. Tseng looked around surprised to find himself in a feminine product aisle.
Elena blushed but Yuffie's comment didn't ruin her excellent mood. "We're just shopping for little Reno and I we needed to pick up a few other groceries too."
"We're helping Tifa and Cloud with the groceries so they can keep up with the deliveries. Cloud's deliveries piled up while he was babysitting Reno. I guess he came in the busiest day. We volunteered to come to the super market. Well I volunteered and dragged Vincent along" Yuffie happily said.
"Where is Vincent?" Elena asked. She didn't see him anywhere and he was a little hard to miss.
"He's over there" Yuffie pointed to other end of the aisle, just outside of it stood Vincent. "He said he wasn't coming into what was not his territory. Then he made up a bunch of excuses that didn't make sense and stayed there. Tifa told me that Cloud never comes with her to this aisle. Come on they live in the same place and if she ever had to send him to the super market he wouldn't know what to bring her. She keeps going easy on him and letting him escape. You've done well to teach Tseng to be brave."
Reno being so small didn't understand what exactly was going on. Tseng looked rather worried as if something bad was about to happen. He had the expression one would have right after landing on an active volcano that was about to blow. "I guess you do have a point there Yuffie." Weather it was the time of the month or her excessively cheerful mood that trigger her next action Elena didn't know but she grabbed a product from the aisle and showed it to Tseng. "See? This is what I use. Don't forget in case you need to buy them for me."
Tseng blinked, took a small step back and then nodded slowly. "At it boy Tseng! See Vincent? There is no ultimate doom hiding in this aisle!" Yuffie called at the top of her lungs. Vincent received several odd stares from random people passing by. To escape their strange looks he hurried into the aisle and stood near the group. "That's a brave boy!" Yuffie said happily giving Vincent a reassuring pat on the back. "I told you the big bad tampons wouldn't eat you."
Vincent gave Tseng a pitiful look as if asking 'Will they have mercy?' Tseng shook his head while little Reno sat there completely oblivious to what was going on.
Suddenly another man was dragged into the aisle of doom against his will. "But Shera I don't want to go in there." A certain pilot complained as a certain mechanic dragged him along. He looked like he was being taken to be decapitated.
"I told you, you have to know what to get for me" Shera complained. "I thought you said you wouldn't mind."
"You asked me in the wrong time when I was distracted." Cid hated it when Shera distracted him enough to get him to agree to things he normally wouldn't agree to. "Look Shera, if you have some kind of emergency and need those things right away and for whatever reasons you can't get them yourself then I will come get them. But that's just for emergencies, ok?"
"Fair enough, I'll just teach you what to do in emergencies then" Shera said.
"Fudge" Cid muttered as he noticed the familiar people there. Well if Tseng and Vincent were there he might as well venture into unknown territory also. No way was he going to come off as the chicken of the group. He stood straight and tried to look confident. He nearly fooled Vincent and Tseng who knew deep down he was just as lost as they were.
"Shera! Cid!" Yuffie was the first to notice their presence. They had not yet seen baby Reno behind them. Unfortunately Shera started a conversation with Elena and Yuffie which prolonged the men's stay in uncharted territory. It came to a point where Reno, who still had no idea what was going on, became so bored he managed to climb out of his baby sit and crawled away.
Reno exited the aisle and continued crawling. A few people noticed him and kept asking each other who the child was with. Finally someone decided to pick up the little cutie and of course it was time to run. Since he was still very small Reno wasn't very fast on two legs yet. He usually just crawled when he needed to go faster. He saw a bottle of green colored dish washing soap and grabbed it. He wasn't sure how to make the liquid come out so he simply jumped on it. The plastic bottle popped open under the pressure and the green liquid was fired out just in time for the people who were after him to slip on it causing a domino effect. Reno took the opportunity and escaped.
The baby Turks was quite destructive in the super market. Whatever was placed on the aisles low enough for him to reach, he grabbed and tore apart. The floor of the super market was soon becoming a mess of liquid soap, rice, ketchup mustard, syrup, cereal and other things. An official search brigade for the chaotic rampaging baby was called into action composed of five of the employees of the supermarket. Reno reached the cookie aisle and crawled behind some cookie boxes at the bottom. Safely hidden from the adults he started eating cookies which of course would make him more hyper than he already was. When he thought the coast was clear, Reno made his escape.
"Attention all shoppers! Attention all shoppers!" A voice was heard fall over the supermarket. "Be on the look out for a baby on a rampage. The child behaves chaotically and is considered dangerous. If you see the demon child, I mean the destructive baby please report him to an employee immediately. Do not try to capture him yourself. Please remain calm. I repeat, please remain calm do not panic." As if on cue people started to panic.
"A demon child? Where do you think it came from?" Yuffie asked.
Tseng, fearing the worse looked towards where baby Reno was supposed to be to find nothing but an empty space as the voice was heard again. "The child can be easily recognizable by his chocobo outfit and red hair."
"I'm sorry Elena" Tseng said sadly as if he had lost their child.
Elena gasped. "Reno!"
"Oh no! The poor baby! How could you let this happen?" Yuffie yelled.
"This is no place for baby Reno to be by himself. Especially with that demon child around" Vincent said.
"They think he is the demon child!" Elena yelled having a major motherly freak out.
"What the fudge is going on?" Cid asked.
"Baby Reno is missing" Elena screamed in a panic.
Cid and Shera stared wide eyes. "Reno's a father? Who's the poor unfortunate soul that had his kid?" Cid asked.
"He's not Reno's baby, he is Reno who was turned into a baby" Yuffie explained while Elena panicked and Tseng apologized to her looking very guilty. He blamed himself because he was closest to the baby and didn't notice he was gone.
"Let us not waste any more time and search for the missing child, he couldn't have gone very far" Vincent said. Everyone immediately fallowed his good advice.
Meanwhile in another area of the super market a woman's voice was heard. "Out! Get out! Security!" One of the female employees of the super market yelled.
"Fine, fine I'm leaving. The super market isn't a very good place to find brides anyway" Don Corneo, the slime ball who should have been dead said. Just as Don Corneo left he saw a baby crawling out the automatically opening doors all by himself.
An employee ran to pick him up. "I got you now!" Surely he would get a nice big bonus for catching the demon child of super market chaos and doom, as his coworkers called him. However Don Corneo picked up the boy first.
"I can carry my own child" Corneo said. His two bodyguards looked at each other in total confusion. "What? With all those brides don't you think I should have a kid by now?"
The bodyguards knew Corneo was lying but the super market employee appeared to fallow his logic. "Then he's your son? Are you going to pay for all the damage he did?"
"No!" With that said the Don ran towards his car with his very confused bodyguards fallowing after him. Reno of course let out a high pitched scream of terror and continued to scream without stop loud enough to wake the dead.
"Reno!" Elena, Tseng, Yuffie, Vincent, Cid and Shera had arrived fallowing Reno's scream of terror just on time to see Don Corneo drive away like a mad man.
"My baby! Come back here with my baby!" Elena creamed like a mother whose child had been kidnapped.
"You will pay for this with your life Don Corneo!" Tseng yelled.
"C'mon we can catch them faster on Sierra!" Cid called. He wasn't sure how he got involved but he was involved. That's when they all noticed Cid's ship on the super market parking lot. He must have arrived after they were already inside since the Sierra wasn't something easily missed among the cars.
Meanwhile taking every shortcut he knew, Don Corneo hurried to his mansion with the crying child. "Why did you decide to kidnap the baby?" One of his body guards asked.
"I didn't, it was destiny. Did I tell you about that dream I had the other night?" Corneo asked screaming over the noise of Reno's terrified cries for help. Even a baby knows when he's being kidnapped by the wrong person.
"Yes you did!" The bodyguards replied at once. They really didn't want to hear about it again.
"No, not that dream, the other one, the one where I saw a boy riding on a chocobo and there was fire all over the place. This fire haired chocobo boy was sent to me by destiny to be my heir. I shall keep him and he shall be my son!" Don Corneo declared. Reno screamed louder.
Don Corneo's expensive car came to a screeching halt eating away at the tires as he stopped in front of his mansion. He happily hopped off his car and hurried inside fallowed by the two bodyguards while Reno continued to scream. Three other guards were waiting inside to inform Corneo that while he was bride hunting in the super market they had found three possible brides for him around the city just in case he couldn't find any in the super market.
"Excellent! This day couldn't get any better. I have three beautiful brides and a son!" The Don screamed over the baby's crying. It felt as if the entire mansion was shaking from the force of Reno's cries. "We must celebrate! Bring me some drinks and then I will choose a bride."
While the three girls exchanged confused looks and covered their ears. One of the guards served some drinks. As Corneo reached to pick up his elegant glass cup while holding Reno with his other arm the baby stopped to take a deep breath then let out a high pitched cry strong enough to shatter the glass. Needless to say everyone's ears would be ringing for a long time.
"Let me hold him" one of the bride candidates said taking the baby before Corneo even replied. "It's ok, sweetie no one will hurt you." Reno appeared to calm down a little bit. At least that slime ball wasn't holding him. His face was almost as red as his hair from crying. "There, there. It's alright now, honey." The woman gently rocked the child in her arms while humming a soft lullaby. She had waist length blonde hair, light blue eyes and was wearing a sky blue dress. She had a 'good girl' look which was probably deceiving.
"Hey let me hold the kid" the second bride said. She had short spike black hair with bright red highlights. She wore heavy black makeup and black and red leather.
The blonde bride looked at the punk woman. "You must be gentle with children."
"Fudge I can be gentle!" The second bride clearly had a language like Cid's if not worse. "Give me the da" The first bride glared. "The darling kid." With that said she snatched the boy from the other woman's arm. "You're a pretty cool kid aren't you boy? If only they wouldn't dress you in such a ridiculous outfit."
"Excuse me" said the third bride shyly. "May I hold him please?" She had mid back length brown hair and was wearing a t-shirt, jeans and sneakers. She was a pretty normal looking girl over all.
The punk woman glared. "I'm not putting down the cute little bas"
"Language!" Bride number one hissed.
"I'm not putting down the cute little 'basket full of joy' yet" bride number two finished.
Bride number three looked like she was going to cry. A few tears rolled down her cheeks while the first two brides gave her weird looks. She appeared to be alright a second ago and then she suddenly started crying just because she wasn't allowed to hold the baby? Suddenly her sad expression changed to a glare more deadly than the punk woman's glare. "Give me the #$%& kid now!" she screamed at the top of her lungs" Taking the punk by surprise she took the baby. Her expression changed drastically and her voice became soft and shy again. "Who's a cute little baby? You are! Yes, you! Peek a boo! I see you!"
"Interesting brides you found today" Don Corneo commented as he watched the scene. The girl with the split personality was a bit creepy even for him. The punk looked a tad violent. Perhaps bachelorette number one should be his bride. "I have made my decision!" Corneo made a dramatic pause expecting all three women to pay full attention. However the three were distracted tickling little Reno and making funny faces for him. "I said I made my decision!" He continued being ignored. "That kid's good, he's only been my adoptive son for a little while and he already has all the attention from the ladies. I knew it was destiny I knew it!"
"Ah! He bit me!" The blonde suddenly screamed.
"Good choice my boy bride number one is exactly who I was thinking to choose" Corneo said though his comment fell on deaf ears.
"Told ya not to try to play pull my finger with em. The little 'basket of joy' hates that game" the punk said.
While Corneo continued to be ignored, which was driving him insane there was suddenly a loud crash. The noise appeared to be coming from the floor above. Loud noises of things being broken soon fallowed. There were screams gun shots and more noise as the mansion shook. It was as if it was being torn apart. "What's going on up there?" Corneo yelled.
After more loud noises the ceiling was ripped off the mansion revealing the clear blue skies. Flying above the mansion was Sierra. A pair of mechanical claws were attached to it pulling the mansion apart floor by floor as if it was a cardboard doll house. A door was opened as Sierra descended. From the door jumped several very angry looking people. Cloud was out on a delivery when he saw Sierra and called Cid who told him what happened. Cloud informed Tifa who rushed to meet the others.
Corned gulped and backed away. There was a man with a large sword, a woman with a murderous look who looked ready to tare him apart. A man with a red cape and a gun pointed at him. A woman with the biggest shuriken he's ever see and a man pointing two guns at him. The last man looked towards the door where a woman stood.
The blonde woman jumped down as Corneo coward in fear. "When I'm done with you, there won't even be dust left for the life steam" Elena said. That had to be the biggest and strangest futuristic looking bazooka he ever saw in his entire life. How was she able to hold a weapon almost as big as she was would be a mystery Corneo would wonder about for every second of his short life. The bazooka let out a powerful blast of mako energy. The glowing blue beam hit Corneo full force and in a scream of agony he vanished. It was on of the more powerful weapons that Shinra had in storage and had never had the chance to use.
Everyone else started fighting the guards who were so shocked that they hardly put up a fight. Tifa went to get baby Reno. "Give me my baby!" She threateningly said. She didn't wait for an answer and took Reno in her arms.
"Just who do you think you are busting in here like that you b" The bride candidate who dared to speak along with the other two were silenced when Tifa did a spinning kick hitting the three on and throwing them several feet back against what was left of a wall.
Leaving the mansion in ruins they returned to Sierra and headed to the 7th Heaven where Tifa, Elena, Yuffie and Shera spent the rest of the day cuddling Reno, and showering him with hugs, kisses and attention. After all, the poor child had been through a lot and they needed to show their support and make him feel loved. "Life ain't fair is it?" Cid said more than asked as they watched the four women obsessing over the baby. Cloud, Tseng and Vincent nodded.
That night they made accommodations as well as they could for everyone to stay over. It was as if they were all suffering post traumatic stress and didn't want to leave their precious baby. They decided not to tell Rude about what happened. If he found out his little partner got kidnapped by Corneo he would probably have a heart attack. Being kidnapped by chocobos was one thing but being kidnapped by that slime ball was too much.
Cid and Shera stayed on the Sierra but the house was still very full since they had to make room from everyone else. Of course the children would get beds and the adults would make due with what they had. At Tifa's half suggestion, half order Cloud offered to let one of the guests take his bed which Yuffie gladly accepted. Elena took the guest room bed which left the men fighting over who got the couch.
While Cloud and Tseng discussed the issue, Vincent made himself comfortable on the couch and fell asleep. He meant to rest until the argument was decided and then sleep on the sleep on the floor since after sleeping in a coffin for so long he wouldn't mind the hard floor. But he had fallen asleep. Cloud and Tseng decided to put some sleeping bags on the floor and not argue about it anymore. After all it was no fun to argue in whispers as to make sure they didn't wake the baby. If they dared to wake the girl's precious angel they would find themselves facing a wrath worse than a hundred Sephiroths.
It was late into the night and all was quiet all around. Elena had woken up for a glass of water and on her way she tripped over Tseng's sleeping bag since the sleeping arrangement had been made after she had already gone to bed. Her surprised yelp woke Cloud who was previously snoring on the floor in a sleeping bag near by. Even if it was dark he could still see Elena on top of Tseng blushing because she tripped. "Can't you to wait until you go back to Healin Lodge for that?" Cloud said in a humorous tone since he realized Elena had probably tripped. Tseng's sleeping bag was kind of in the way.
The leader of the Turks shot him a glare. He wasn't in the mood with all that happened that day. "I was just getting a glass of water." Elena quickly got up and headed towards the kitchen. Tseng decided to fallow her. Cloud wasn't sure what was going on, he shrugged and went back to sleep.
In the kitchen Tseng found Elena looking at her water instead of drinking it. She heard his quiet footsteps approaching and looked up from her water. "I'm sorry Elena" Tseng said.
"For what? She asked.
"For loosing Reno at the super market, I was the one closest to him so I should have made sure he was there" Tseng said. "I failed."
"It was an accident, we were all distracted. Don't blame yourself" Elena said. Her expression was sad and lost in thought.
Tseng knew there was something bothering her. "Elena? Tell me what's wrong."
"I was just thinking about how we got attached to Reno. What if he changes back? Isn't he supposed to change back eventually?" Elena asked.
"Yes, as far as I know the effect will ware off. I just don't know when." He put an arm around her shoulders as to console the sadness she would feel having to say goodbye to the little guy when the time came. Sure the Reno they knew before would return but they would miss the little Reno.
Elena wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug that Tseng returned. "I shouldn't have gotten so attached to him but I did."
"You would make a great mother and I'll never forget that scene with the mako energy bazooka" Tseng said.
Elena laughed. "Not bad for the rookie, eh?"
"I don't think you are a rookie anymore" Tseng said. His mind wondered off into his memories. Things had certainly changed between him and Elena. She had gone from calling him sir to hugging him in a dark kitchen in the last few years. Baby Reno was heard as he seemed to sometimes randomly wake up in the middle of the night and cry for attention as babies sometimes like to do. Tseng and Elena rushed to his room.
After having a nightmare involving baby Reno being kidnapped by Sephiroth who had mysteriously come back to life, Tifa woke up to the sound of Reno's crying. The crying stopped but she went to check on Reno anyway. She smiled seeing Elena holding him while Tseng watched like a proud father. She also took a peek inside Marlene and Denzel's rooms confirming that everything was ok. Then she went down stairs where she saw Cloud in a sleeping bag on the floor.
The faint moon light reached him from the window, he looked absolutely angelic. She was about to return to her room when she heard him call. "Tifa?"
Tifa tip toed into the living room glancing at the sleeping Vincent. Cloud got up and motioned for her to fallow him outside. The night sky was clear lit by the starts and the full moon. "Is there something you wanted to tell me?"
"Yeah, you've been doing really good helping take care of the baby. You also take care of Marlene and Denzel. You keep us together as a family" Cloud said.
"We are a family" Tifa said.
"I guess we are" Cloud agreed. They hugged enjoying each other's presence. Cloud sometimes didn't say things directly. Sometimes his words needed to be interpreted and Tifa knew how to do that. All of them were one big family and Tifa and Cloud were a couple, kissing in the moon light. It took him a while to realize how close they had become but he eventually figured it out.
To be Continued
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