Two: Behind the Shades…

There was a small office on the twenty-third floor of the Shinra building. It held four desks that were mostly cluttered with papers. One even had papers overflowing onto the floor. It was fairly dark in the room, the only light coming from a dim lamp from one of the desks. The atmosphere suggested that it was late at night, and most employees were gone. The only sound in the room was the whispering of two Turks sitting across from each other over the cleanest desk.

"You have? Okay, when?" Reno inquired, not believing what she had told him. He hardly ever believed her.

"What?" Elena replied.

"When have you seen Rude with his glasses off?"

"I don't know… I just have okay! I mean you can't work with someone the way do and not have seen their eyes."

"Except you can. Seriously Elena, I have known the guy over five years and I have never seen him without his glasses on."

"You had to have!"

"I haven't."

There was a pause in which Elena wrinkled her nose distastefully. Then, "So do you think he's trying to hide something?"

"Reno smirked. Change in subject meant that round went to him. "Hiding? What in Odin's name would he be hiding?"

She shrugged, "I don't know, like a deformity or something."

Reno's face split into a large grin as he imagined their partner with a pair of tiny shriveled up eyes pulled way back in their sockets. He snickered.

They both glanced at Rude who was at the desk next to Elena's. He was fast asleep, leaned back in his chair. Their brains must have been working in sync for the same idea occurred to them at the same time.

"You think…?" she began.

"Maybe…" he smirked.

"Should we…?"

"Taking any bets?"

"Ten gil says he has a wacky eye color."

"All right, Blondie you're on."

They stood up and moved over to their companion. His mouth was hanging open and a small trail of drool made its way down his chin. Light snores issued forth every once in a while. Rude did not move nor give any sign that he might know that they were standing over him.

"Okay," Reno began, "On the count of three you grab his glasses and I'll wake him up.:

"Me!?" Elena hissed. "You grab his glasses!"

"I'm not that stupid!"

"And you think I am!?"

"Yeah, I do. Because you are."

"Whatever. … You're stupid Reno."

He burst out laughing and she clamped a hand over his mouth giving him a warning look, "This is how it's going to work Reno. On the count of three we are both going to take the shades off. And then we are both going to wake him up."

"Yeah fine. Whatever."

"Okay…"

They both leaned over the bald man hand at the ready.

"One…" Elena.

"Two…" Reno.

"Three!" Tseng, "I had to kill three idiots. I work with three idiots. And it was kind of funny because that one guy did remind me of Reno and… … What the fuck are you guys doing here?"

Tseng looked back and forth between the two argumentative Turks. They were staring at him wide-eyed as if they just got caught stealing cookies form grandma's cookie jar. Rude snorted and awoke at all the noise.

"Well lookee there. See Elena, told you Rude would wake up on his own. Well I'll see you all tomorrow. Gotta go out and get plastered, you know." Reno grinned all too cheerily at them and ran out.

Elena quickly took his lead, "Y-Yeah guess he did. Well you know, now I need some sleep. So I should be going now. Bye!" She sprinted after the red-head.

"… …" Rude.

"Did I miss something?" Tseng.

Rude shrugged then winced, "My eyes hurt."

He reached up and pulled of his sunglasses. The last thing Tseng remembered about that night was a bright light filling his vision.

A/N: This probably seems less random and maybe less humorous than my last one. That's because the first one was written on a whim. This one was more thought out. Yeah. So… …. Review kudasai.