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A/N: I know I should be doing my other stories, but this also has priority, so kick off bugga!

Reno didn't know what to think when he looked up at the hospital ceiling. But maybe that was because he was in MAJOR pain and he felt inept at breathing. Thank the gods they had those face masks at those good hospitals. And those beeping machines. He liked them more. They told him that he was alive and still had a beating heart.

He looked over to the side and saw his boss and the President talking in hushed voices in one corner. Cid and Yuffie were in the hallway out of the room, talking to someone out of sight, and good old Vinnie V. was looking at a sleeping Cloud in a chair on the other side of the room.

…Why was Cloud there?

He looked at everyone until Vincent and Tseng looked over at him. They saw him and Tseng went to the doctor, probably to inform him that he was awake.

"Ah, Mister Kiribani. How are you?" Dumb question, dude.

"Like shit…call me Reno, okay?" The old man nodded and started a series of tests on the red-head, making sure the air mask was off before letting the red-head speak, asking if anything hurt a lot or not. Reno answered the questions truthfully and when it was all said and done…he got no answer. That was also when Vincent woke Cloud up by kicking the blond's foot.

The doctor talked to Rufus and Tseng, but not to Reno, the victim of whatever the hell it was that attacked him. And said victim felt stupid for leaving his weapon behind and not sensing that thing there in the first place. But that was in the past, now he was going to pay for it now. Too bad this also helped ruin his vacation.

"Um…this gonna take a while? Cuz there is a vacation that is screaming my name and the same goes for the rest of us bastards." The doctor didn't look at Reno happily, so the red-head guessed he may get stuck there for awhile now. Damn you, ya thingamabob!

"Well, I would like for you to stay here for another two days so that I can run more tests. I'm afraid your vacation is going to be on hold at the moment." Reno shot his boss a helpless look, only for the guy to shrug and Rufus to sigh.

So much for helping your buds out…

Reno pouted and settled back onto the bed. This was going so well too. But what attacked him? Something red…something…Moomba?

"Well, since I'm not going to go anywhere, can anyone tell me what attacked me and why you are all giving me that weird look? I don't think it attacked me THAT badly." Now that Reno thought about it, he was feeling better and better every minute. What the hell?

"Well, Mr. Kiribani, I'm afraid you've been attacked by something we call…a Were-Moomba. I know it sounds ridiculous, but you are healing at a tremendous rate. I need to keep you for those two days to make sure you don't have any other infectious diseases or viruses. The Moomba population is alittle low as is. With the death of the one that attacked you, I feel that they will get desperate. They are an intelligent species and they've been known to resort to drastic measures. Attacking Mr. Kiribani is one attempt that they will use to rebound their population."

The people were silent as the doctor waved for a nurse to draw some blood from Reno. The information was very weird, insane, and logically ironic. Reno didn't feel like laughing though. A WERE-MOOMBA?! That chapter in that book he read wasn't interesting anymore.

"Okay, so I might be a Were-Moomba. Do I go nuts on a full moon and desire to run naked in the streets?" The red head clearly heard Cid say, "He don't need help with the last part.." and that prompted the red-head to hit him with a pillow to the face.

"I heard that!" Cid, after catching the pillow, was wide eyed as Vincent took the pillow from the pilot and returned it to Reno.

"It seems your abilities are already being heightened." The doctor nodded and sighed.

"You will become a full Were-Moomba in three days. It doesn't have anything to do with the moon and you will not be getting urges to run about like an animal. You will be in full control the entire time, except for the change." Reno nodded and sighed, plopping his head on the pillow that Vincent put back. This was going to mess up everything.

"This better not be painful. My vacation's ruined as it is." The others chuckled and Rude shook his head. Rufus didn't know what to think of his younger Turk being a were-SOMETHING. This may prove interesting.

If he only knew.

Tseng was curious how this was going to affect the young man's latent gifts for murder. Being a practitioner for the Shadow Arts, he was deadly enough as is, but what would a Were-Moomba's innate traits do to the abilities, if not make them more dangerous.

Elena knew that the Moomba itself was adorable, but Reno as a WERE-MOOMBA? Oh, that was making her inner fan girl go SQUEEE! Reno now had to fear her and her overabundance of 'cutesy things'.

Rude, knowing what Elena was planning, was thinking of various ways of hiding Reno. And Reno WILL be needing his help on that.

The rather large group was talking until the doctor and nurse shooed them out, telling them that he needs to rest and they can visit him later. And Reno spent the rest of his day cursing the Moomba.

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Cloud was wondering why Vincent was eyeing that book in his hands. They were in Reno's room , and it looked like the red-head was reading it before it happened. Cloud thought it ironic that the bookmarked part was about Moombas.

"Vincent, what are you reading?" The gunner didn't answer. The blond was getting curious, so he got up and tried to look over Vincent's shoulder. Cloud will remind people now of the height difference between him and Vincent. The gunner is a good half a foot taller than Cloud, so it was pointless to read over the broody guy's shoulder.

"This book is rather informative about these Moombas. And it is simply difficult to see that lout be anything remotely…cute." Cloud knew his hearing was failing him now. Did Vincent just say that the Moombas in general were…cute?

"Who are you and what have you done with Vincent? I want him back now." The gunner looked at Cloud like he grew a second head.

"Cloud, why are you asking that? Is it that shocking that I know what the word 'cute' means?" The blond nodded and the raven haired man sighed.

"Cloud, as much as it is strange of me, I DO have a personality. I just refuse to exhibit it most of the time." That was when the blond sighed and went back to trying to read over Vincent's shoulder, only to fail. Vincent, seeing that Cloud was trying to read what the book said, sighed, closed it, and used the book to hit the blond on the head.

"You can have it after I am done. Now go away or I'll get Cerberus on you." Cloud…a victim of Vincent's unusual personality. He should have known.

"Okay, okay. I'll wait. But if you aren't done with it when I get out of the shower, you owe me thirty gil for drinks." Vincent nodded and shooed the blond off to the showers. The gunner opened the book to continue what he was reading and decided that he needed glasses to read the horribly fine print.

"How in the holy hell did he read this?" asked the raven haired man as he took his glasses out of his cape. And the evening goes on…

After Reno got out of the hospital, he was given a clean bill of health and a pamphlet on what to look out for since he was a full blown Were-Moomba. Though for some reason he hasn't changed yet. He didn't know that chocolate was an extremely potent aphrodisiac for Moombas. And he was a well known chocolate fiend.

"Oh great…there goes my raids on Rufus's stash…" moaned the red-head as he walked to the hotel. He waved at the inn keeper and walked to his room, still reading the booklet and walking into his room, ignoring Barret's malignant glares as he entered through the door and shut it with a foot. As he finished the last sentence, Rude walked in and smiled at his partner.

"I've been looking for you. Cloud has invited us to a poker game." Seeing that as a challenge that had yet to go away, Reno smiled and dropped the booklet on his bed.

"Then let the games begin."

Reno was sitting at one of the big tables, playing poker with Reeve, Cid, Vincent, Rude, Elena, Rufus, and Cloud, drink in hand, and a nice big pile of chips in front of him. Or that had been the picture a moment ago.

"I'm gonna go all in. Who's up?" Reno, the cockiest bastard this side of the ocean.

"I will" said Vincent as he pushed all of his chips to the middle. Reeve was starting to sweat a bit. Cloud put in half, citing that he was being on the safe side. Rude, Rufus, Cid, and reluctantly Reeve put in a good portion of their chips in the middle.

Elena was too drunk to stay in her chair anymore, so Tseng took her to her room.

They were in their chairs, air tense, eyes darting from one face to another, faces giving barely a flinch, (Except Vincent's. He is GOOD).

Reeve was the first and only to fold. Cloud, however, was different. He put down a pair of fives. And was beaten by Rufus with all four fours. Who, in turn, was beaten by Cid with a three of a kind, and he was beaten by Rude, holding a straight hand. Rude was defeated though, by Reno, who had a flush, and was about to take all the chips when Vincent put down a royal flush, crushing the red-headed Turk and taking all the chips with him.

"And there is something to be said about 'vampires being rich'. I do expect you to uphold to your end of the deal." Reno hit the floor when Vincent reminded him of an agreement prior to the game.

"Fine. Fine…I'll buy the next round of drinks. I can't believe this…" He waved the waitress over to get a second round of drinks. The others laughed and joked as Reno reshuffled the cards. It was about the same time that Reno got punched the first time by Tifa a couple of days ago, when Barret stormed in and went over to attack Reno.

That was a mistake.

Reno didn't even flinch when he jumped up out of his seat, spun around to face the guy, dunked under the meaty arm, and delivered a nasty kick to the large man's head. Tseng, noticing this, was both stunned and amazed that Reno was able to do that in a very short span of time.

Cloud, though, was worried that Reno might be slowly becoming a Moomba, since his green eyes blazed with life and the pupils turned a violent red as he attacked Barret. In self-defense, of course.

And the one kick knocked the big guy out.

"Um…who's gunna carry that big ass's ass outta here? I would break my back if I did…" muttered Cid as they got up to look at Barret.

No one volunteered until Reno, getting fed up, simply picked him up and stopped.

"Um…is he supposed to feel light?" That stunned the others more so. Were-Moombas are strong? Well, it would explain why Cloud had one hell of a time to get that thing off of Reno.

Cloud decided that he would 'help' Reno get Barret back to his room and play referee if Tifa came out. Tifa will now be mainly unable to hit the Turk now, simply with how fast he had gotten.

They dragged the large guy back to his room and found it strangely empty. Thinking nothing of it then, they left Barret on the sofa and left the room.

"Okay, you moved really fast. I wonder if Moombas move that fast in real life…" muttered Cloud, only for Reno to pop him upside the head.

"Dude, if I had a second, I wouldn't have been in the hospital for three days. They are fast little bastards." Cloud nodded and the two started talking about things as they made their way back to the bar. That wasn't to be, however, since Yuffie came out of nowhere and pounced Cloud.

And that was also when Reno heard the longest paragraph known to man-kind spoken in one breath and in three seconds.

"Did you understand that?" Cloud shook his head and the ninja sighed.

"I said that Rufus called the poker game off because someone is having a HUGE bonfire party! And he wants all of us to join!" Reno knew Yuffie better than that. The Wutai girl conned the President to going so that she would get in and get booze.

"Well, since the poker game is officially over, wanna party like an insane idiot around an oversized campfire that will see more than three toes?" asked Cloud as Yuffie led the two out the hotel lobby. Reno nodded and both went onto the sandy beach, looking at the massive fire blazing with life and gasoline.

"Yeah, this oughta be fun. I'm game." And both went to the fire, intending to have some fun before their time was up.

At that time, Vincent was trying to will himself to actually talk to someone besides the hyperly insane Yuffie. At that moment, a drunk CID would be a great person to talk to. But he's too busy singing with a drunk Rude. And both were horrible.

Rufus was watching Cloud wrestle with Reno over a chair, only to lose it to a martini-induced stupor stumbling Elena. And the others were either too busy talking and getting drunk, or trying to drown in the ocean. Except Tseng. He was watching his boss with an exasperated look on his normally emotionless face. How is that possible?

And now that he thought about it, why IS Rufus watching Cloud like a protective older brother? This bore investigating. And Vincent will do just that.

But that will be after Rufus notices Tseng's look and mutters something to the Wutian. Vincent really was starting to get curious now, and Galian was also wondering what connection does those two have.

But, for now, he will deal with a slowly darkening night and an increasingly chatty Yuffie.

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After the two wrestling fiends realized that Elena took the chair and had passed out, they resorted to sitting on the sand and bet on who would burn their toes. So far, Reno won twice and Cloud one three times. Mainly because Cid was that drunk and Cloud knew it.

"Okay, My turn. Yuffie, and it would be what little hair she doesn't shave off." Reno was confident in this. But Cloud would prove the victor again.

"Nah, I say Reeve and it will be part of his foot." Cloud was betting on Reeve mainly because some really drunk girls got the really, REALLY drunk Reeve to try and hula with them. And like Cloud had predicted, Reeve's foot slipped and he got sober really quick.

With Rude being a 'friend', (The guy was the only one not drunk and still had his car keys with him) he took Reeve to the hospital and Rufus finally shouted that they should stop getting drunk near the fire. Cid was going to protest, but he fell onto the sand and passed out.

"There goes the strongest drunk on the planet. May he rest until morning, when the sun shine's wrath wreck havoc on his head." Cloud, Reno and a few others gathered around Cid and pretended to attend his 'Funeral' before letting the ex-Turk take him to his room.

"Well, it's close to midnight and maybe we aught to turn in before the coast guard gets us for being morons while drunk," said Cloud as he stood up, swaying abit and giggling as Reno got up and helped the blond stay standing.

"Yeah, and we can't forget the morning ritual to the Porcelain God." Cloud nodded as both walked, or in the blond's case, stagger and sway, to the hotel and up the elevator. Reno didn't like being in the damn vertical coffin, but for Cloud, he'll deal.

As the door to the hall opened, both walked out and went to Reno's room. Cloud didn't know the difference, but hey, Reno didn't want him to pass out on the floor and Vincent step on him. Besides, Reno forgot where Cloud's room was and wasn't sober enough to care. And when Vincent comes looking, he's going to have a laughing fit. Assuming that the guy can laugh.

In the morning, they find out that he COULD laugh.

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Reno was in the kitchen, having heaved his guts into the toilet, feeling only in the mood for just black coffee, and waiting for Cloud's stomach to do the same. Guy must have ingested a lot. But the guy was actually drunk, so he must have had enough to kill three behemoths.

"You would think he would have heaved it all up by now…" muttered Vincent as he made himself some weird smelling coffee.

"Guy was actually drunk. He's got a lot in there. So, what on Ifrit's hellfire throne gave you the power to laugh? And loudly?" Vincent smirked. He really liked scaring the crap out of people, mainly Cloud since the boy seemed to have gotten soft.

"My mother and partly my father, when he wasn't on some dig. Why is Cloud in your bed and you on the sofa? I thought his room was across from yours." Reno went red in the face as he tried to find the reason his brain had last night.

"Uh…I was drunk so I didn't remember?" Cloud walked in with a death glare at the beer bottle on the table, then got himself a black coffee.

"Cloud, if I may ask, what are you going to do today?" The blond shrugged and sipped his coffee, needing to evolve from Bear-mon to Cloud-Human.

"Well, there is only three days before the vacation is over and I am officially a Turk again. What do you have planned?" asked Reno to Vincent.

'Try and win Tseng's affections if I only knew how.' was Vincent's thought, but he said, "See what trouble the others are causing since vacations tend to make even Cid act like high schoolers going to Cancun." Reno looked at Vincent as the gunner put his empty cup in the sink and walked out of the hotel room.

"Well, good luck with that. And tell Yuffie that she owes me fifty gil for what she stole from my pocket from last night BEFORE I got drunk." The Gunner nodded and left. Cloud finished evolving in the kitchen after he finished his cup and decided to pay Barret a visit to see what damage has been done from last night.

"Laters" said Cloud as he walked out of the room and down a few doors. Reno had merely nodded, content that the blond wasn't upset that he spent the night in the red-head's bed.

As the morning got brighter, it was little wonder that hearing Cid curse anything that shined wasn't really unexpected. And Reno just knew that this day would bring about a change…whether it be his physical one or not remains to be seen.

And the day went on.

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As I have said before, this has priority too, and besides, This fic is getting reviewed a lot. Strange since the last time I posted something that wasn't even remotely related, I got like three reviews for this fic. How does THAT work? But anyway, THANK YOU FOR THE REVIEWS! And please keep them comin'! I needz themz!