A Ring

[jaded_grin]

Title: A Ring
Rating: G (For Now, there's more to this story and I'm not quite sure where it fits into my "The Beginning of the End" Story Arc)
Description: Reno is gesturing an awful lot and Yazoo wonders why
Disclaimer: Seriously, if you don't know what Final Fantasy VII or Final Fantasy Advent Children is by now, you'd better start asking somebody!

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Reno seemed to be gesturing a lot, and Yazoo noticed that before he noticed the ring his lover was wearing.

“Reno, where did you get that ring?” he asked, catching his flailing hand to look at it.

Reno yanked his hand away and said with uncharacteristic peevishness, “It’s mine, yo—hands off!”

Shocked, Yazoo laughed at him and said, “I don’t want it, Reno, I just want to look at it.”

His fox-faced lover gave him a long, lingering, and suspicious glare before offering his clenched fist for Yazoo to see his ring.

“Oh,” Yazoo breathed, immediately impressed. “It’s beautiful”

The ring was some type of polished, silvery metal inset with minute chips of dark green jade and rich onyx. It fit Reno rather too snugly, he noticed, and he reached out to check the fit.

Reno snatched his hand back as if Yazoo were going to steal it, startling his lover into laughing at his antics, utterly taken aback.

“Honestly!” he laughed, shaking his head. “Reno, I don’t want your ring!”

“You can’t have it,” Reno argued, as if Yazoo had said the opposite instead. He protectively covered the ring with his other hand, twisting it on his finger. “I told you—it’s mine!”

“Fine, it’s yours!” Yazoo laughed, throwing his hands up in exasperation. With a sigh and a smile, he headed for the kitchen to start dinner.

“You can’t have it!” Reno called again, petulant, following him into the kitchen.

“Fine by me,” Yazoo told him, trying to remember what he’d intended to fix for dinner. “It’s beautiful, Reno, really, but I have no intentions of taking it from you.”

“Fine!” Reno said, rolling his eyes and heaving a long-suffering sigh. He twisted the ring off of his finger with some difficulty and said, “You can try it—but you can’t keep it, yo!”

Yazoo smirked at him and turned to the refrigerator, saying, “I don’t want to try on your ring, fox-face.”

“Sheesh, you’re such a nag,” Reno muttered, and grabbed Yazoo’s hand before he could react. With a soft sound of exasperation and much put-upon patience, he slipped the ring onto Yazoo’s left hand ring finger.

It fit perfectly, just snug enough to stay, not tight enough to be stuck.

Yazoo gave him a playful shove with his free hand and started to take the ring off, saying, “Reno, I’m no thief, I won’t take your ring—”

“Alright, already, you can have it!” Reno huffed, and made a great show of digging in his pocket while Yazoo just stared at him in amazed amusement. He pulled out another ring—a twin to the one on Yazoo’s finger—and slipped it onto his own left hand, holding it up with a crow of mischievous delight. “I got a spare!”

Yazoo stared at him, exasperated and amused and utterly astounded.

“The look on your face is priceless, baby!” Reno laughed, and kissed his cheek before heading off to make more mischief.

Yazoo finally got ahold of himself and looked at his beautiful, perfect new ring, warming at the meaning behind it. With a soft smile he headed in the direction of Reno’s excited, animated voice, deciding that dinner could wait until he’d properly thanked his thoughtful, amazing, and confusing—but never boring—fox-faced lover for his beautiful gift.

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Comments

[etrix.livejournal.com]

OMG! OMG! OMG!

Reno (kinda sorta) proposed! He did in his own style and in his own fashion but it was perfect.

I'm going to sit here and sigh happily for a bit... and wait (im)patientely for more of course.

[jaded-grin.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it! I figured I'd better post it up right away before the file-gobbling demon got to it! Nothing these two get up to can ever be anywhere close to normal, so I think this fits!

[garinarayne.livejournal.com]

While reading that, I got an image of Reno hissing "Preciousssssssssss" at Yazoo. Loved this, short and sweet. And the only way I can really imagine your Reno proposing.

[jaded-grin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he WAS really wired about it, but all in good fun! There may not be a dress, bells ringing, or a church involved, but it looks like it's a deal!

[lynsey-schadegg.livejournal.com]

Dude that Reno to a T. That is exactly how I would picture Reno giving an important gift to anyone, especially something like that. Sneaky little bastard.

[jaded-grin.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Yeah, I had this rattling around in my head for ages before I wrote it and immediately popped it up here before the file-muncher found it! I can't imagine Reno getting serious long enough to do anything as mundane as a proposal--he had to have his own flair, his own style!

[merytsetesh.livejournal.com]

Cute, and so very Reno. I love how you write him. You really capture his personality and add to it, making him even more dynamic and 3-dimensional as a character.

Now I gotta figure out a way to get my boyfriend to buy me a ring... *grumble* I'm not even talking marriage, I just want a little tiny white-gold ring with a tanzanite stone...

[jaded-grin.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it, and good luck with the boyfriend thing, maybe he can take a hint?

[merytsetesh.livejournal.com]

*snort* Last year I told him I wanted a promise ring for Christmas. I told him where it was and how much ($99 with free resizing). His response:

"Why? You don't even wear rings."

"I would if it was from you."

I tried appealing to his jealousy/paranoia by saying it would show everyone I was taken, but he just does not understand the point of a ring. Not sure if I do either, but I still want one.

Honestly, a ring isn't real important to me. The girly, traditional romantic part of me wants one, but it's not high on my priority list. One ring, or concert tickets, books, and art supplies? I'll take the box of stuff, thanks.

I'll pester him about a ring later, like for our next anniversary (holy crap, this will be year 4!).

*sigh*

[shi-channobaka.livejournal.com]

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Yeah, it happens, sorry. *sheepish look* Reno....Yazoo...rings....*mush* I made more cookies in honor. Very very nice. I Could almost feel the squishy mush feeling Yazoo must have had...I want that. 'Course it'll be hard pulling Reno through a TV, but it'll keep me busy for the next few years

Re: *sigh*

[jaded-grin.livejournal.com]

Cookies are fantastic! And that should definitely keep you busy for awhile until Virtual Reality becomes a hard fact--and I'm SO hoping that comes before I'm all old and icky! I couldn't picture this scene any other way, and I could picture it in such detail, I just HAD to write it :D

[xyleel.livejournal.com]

OMG! That's such a cute idea! I almost fainted when i read it XD. You really gave me something to dream about...

[jaded-grin.livejournal.com]

SWEET! I'm trying to find out where this lands in my Beginning of the End stuffs...Glad you liked it! I just couldn't get this out of my head.

[natila.livejournal.com]

OWWWW He proposed ! :D Glad to find more of your Renzoo stories on LJ !

[jaded-grin.livejournal.com]

Hey! Good to see you here! Yeah, I think I've added A Ring and Topped here that isn't on ff.net, and a Rude story called Curiosity. I'm working on getting my stuff current, but I'm a lazy bones! Glad you liked the proposal! :D

[natila.livejournal.com]

oh I loved it ;) I read Topped as well. Actually, I read it again tonight. It is quite amazing, you have a talent, you write the kinkiest renzoo stuff on FF, still you never make sound dirty somehow, just cute, warm, may I say "romantic" ? ;) and ok, dirty but in a good way ;)
I must have written it already on FF but I love your Yazoo and your Reno. They are so real that a part of me believes firmly that somewhere, in a parallel universe, they are alive and well and living just as you describe them. I even hear the musical laughter of Yazoo perfectly :D

[jaded-grin.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you like the pairing, it's one of my favorites :D And that they feel so natural for you means quite a bit to me--because it means that I've done something right! Thanks again for your kind comment, and I hope the other stories I write please you half as well!

[natila.livejournal.com]

Its my all favourite pairing ! For some strange reasons, they belong together. Oh, I read RENO IS GOD ! Didnt want to read it at first, I had read a bit and noticed Kadaj !! and my first reaction was "OMG, Reno is cheating !" LOL ! But I gave it a go anyway, and of course I LOVED IT ! You are a genius, and you are hilarious. I giggled all day yesterday, thinking about the story again, the tragi-comic Shinra dinner, the telemarketer, the Saint-Klaus.. Thank you for a good laugh :) Just my kind of humour.
I may start "MY SOAP". Are the triplets in it ?
Sorry if Im cluttering your LJ with my babbling by the way :(

[jaded-grin.livejournal.com]

The soap is actually a kind of AU, it's hard to describe. But yes, the three are in it (well, up to this point: Kadaj and Yazoo, Loz comes in later) But there is still Reno wooing Yazoo (under complicated circumstances). They're all just characters in a really drama-lama soap :D The first two chapters are first-person character intros, they may give you a good idea of who does what and is where. Give it a go if you're bored! I've got quite a few people who've told me it makes their Mondays!

KAWAIIII

[jsakurachan1.livejournal.com]

omg that was adorable, and totally in character for both of them!!!

Re: KAWAIIII

[jaded-grin.livejournal.com]

Haha! Thank you so much! It's good to see you here! Glad you liked it! Try Topped! That's another one that never made it to ff.net :D

[dragons-f-wolf.livejournal.com]

LMAO, so cute and fitting for a Reno. Mine stuck Kerri's in the top of a takeout hamburger bun and tossed the box to her. XD

[jaded-grin.livejournal.com]

Haha! Thank you! OMG, did Kerri bite into it and be like, WTF?! haha! *noms your playful Reno* Talk to you soon!

[dragons-f-wolf.livejournal.com]

LOL, no, thank god she saw the diamond when she opened the box. It's a miricle she didn't eat first and look later, since she was about six months pregnant with their son at the time.

[puerdemon.livejournal.com]

Awww how precious and cute and wonderful!!

[jaded-grin.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Thank you, honey! I thought it fit these two!