Summary: Reno has a secret, one that has decided to now bite him in the ass. The eyes of his Mother were more than just a family trait, they were a sign of his destiny, a destiny coming to collect / FF7HP crossover / Reno/Rufus/Cloud / AU


NOTE TO CURRENT READERS/FOLLOWERS OF PLANET'S EYES: I'm going through the chapters and doing an overhaul. This means I'm editing, sometimes adding, and sometimes deleting things. I'm doing this because some rather important information came into light. At the beginning of each chapter I will state if there were any major changes and then strongly suggest you re-read them. For the most part however not much of the overall story will change. It should just flow a bit better.

Sorry for any inconvenience!

Once more the majority of this chapter is as it always was. I edited and changed a few minor things that mostly, once more, had to do with consistency. That's all.


This chapter is dedicated toCruel RealityandRune-Ruinfor reasons stated in the AN.

Planet's Eyes
Trust

Known Lands: circa μ εyλ 1996, July 31st

"Name: Gun. ID: four-zero-six-four-eight-one-four," Gun snapped out quickly two the two Turk employee's that guarded the testing grounds for the academy. "Mission: Testing Recruit Reno, ID three-seven-nine-three-one-seven-eight."

From slightly behind her Reno arched an eyebrow; seemed they had been watching him longer than Gun implied if he was already so efficiently in the system. At Reno's name the petite blond who previously was checking the computer looked up as if to confirm what Gun had just said.

"So he really was present at the last mission?" the blond asked, surprised.

"Yes Nunchaku, now can we move?" Gun sighed.

"Sorry," Nunchaku mumbled before giving a short nod. "It checks out-Rude, let them through."

The other Turk, taller, dark skinned, with sunglasses typed something onto a keypad before nodding to Gun and Reno.


Reno could tell that the blonde woman was both surprised and confused at the various tests he was told to do. Conflicted Gun had handed him off to Rude with orders to show him to the temporary room he would be staying in. Reno had asked once about his EMR before Gun had left. She had responded with a quick, "you'll get it tomorrow," before leaving.

Truthfully Reno wasn't all that concerned. He knew they'd find out about his inability to use a computer-or anything remotely electronic it seemed; Reno vowed to try and contain his magic tighter, shorting electronics he touched just wouldn't do-anyway he'd figured they discover his lacking knowledge odd. The fact that Reno could pilot a helicopter and not have it short out on him like all the other equipment (including the PHS to his annoyance) he was bound to have piqued their curiosity.

It didn't really ever dawn on him that he knew how to fly the Helicopter with no previous experience.

Either way Reno wasn't looking forward to the questions that he would be asked come morning-even more so by the fact that he didn't know why out of all the electronic equipment in that room the helicopter had remained in the condition it was when he started. Then there was the subject of his ability to use the EMR-which was electronic in basic principal-he didn't want to broach that subject at all.

There was a reason why he wanted it back though; after all his 'modifications' might raise a few eyebrows if they looked at the EMR closely, or even tried to use it.

So Reno had little reason to feel worried or fretting; Grim had told him once 'what would come would come' on their trip here anyway. That and he claimed that if things came down to it, he'd make sure no one remembered anything about the oddities surrounding him.

And he knew Grim would keep up on that promise.


"Gun?" Tseng blinked, raising his head as Gun knocked on the door. "Where's the kid?"

"I had Rude take him to his temporary room," Gun said, moving the door shut behind her. She stepped further into the office and sat down, closing her eyes slightly.

After a few minutes of silence Tseng asked concernedly, "Is something wrong?"

"There is something odd about that kid," Gun sighed after a second.

"Odd? How?"

Blue eyes connected with black as she said, "Everything electronic he touched shorted out-everything except the helicopter." After a minute she added, "He didn't even look that surprised, just a tad annoyed."

Tseng sat down, a frown on his lips, before stating, "Verdot needs to know."

Gun nodded in agreement.


Known Lands: circa μ εyλ 1996, August

It was another two days before Reno found himself being brought to another doctor. At first he wasn't told anything of this random check up, which he took in stride already figuring what was going on. Afterward he was told it was a deeper scan; apparently the other examinations weren't as detailed as this new one, since the doctor picked up on the faint energy of magic that resonated around everything and everyone. Normally it didn't register on mundane's, but it was there; just so small that no known device could pick it up.

Reno however was surprised that the doctor could pick up the faint traces of magic. He was asked, of course, if he knew about the energy traces around his person and in response he shrugged and said, "Mako do's we'rd shit ta a pers'n; s'plenty o'i down in th' slums. Was boun' ta 'ffect m'som'ow, yo."

Still a bit wary Tseng let the subject drop; the fact that Verdot seemed to accept the explanation helped.

"Anyway to make it so he doesn't short anything?" Verdot asked the doctor. "And why did the helicopter not end up becoming fried?"

The doctor shrugged slightly and said, "I have no clue."

"I love th' sky," Reno stated, bringing the attention back to him. "A'ways wan'd ta fly in'i; an' I coul' med'tate-s'worked before, yo" the red headed added under his breath.

"So this has happened before?" Verdot asked.

Reno shrugged slightly and muttered, "No' m'ch tech i'th' slums, yo."

"But it has?"

Green eyes sharpened on Verdot and Reno said crisply, "Yes."

Verdot nodded and accepted the answer before saying, "I see nothing wrong then. If meditation helps keep this...energy field around him from interfering then there should be no problem." Reno's posture relaxed slightly before Verdot continued, "However Reno will not be on active field duty until he can successfully handle technology. In fact..." Verdot looked at Tseng, "Tseng shall be his tutor. Your...ancestry gives you better access to a situation like this, anyway, yes?"

Begrudgingly Tseng nodded.

"Huh?"

"I'm Wutaian," Tseng stated, dark eyes daring Reno to say something against his background.

"Oh..." Reno accepted the answer easily. "S'cool," Reno added after Tseng's wary look. "Kinda fig'r'd tha' one aft'r meetin' ya, yo."

With that easy statement Reno just earned Tseng's approval, although he was curious on how Reno could tell.


Known Lands: circa μ εyλ 1996

Whenever he could get away from Tseng's "slave driv'n' les'ns" as he put it the red head made his way back below the Plate and into the slums. He knew that Tseng, Gun, or one of the other Turks always followed him, but he let it be-they wouldn't find out about Grim anyway, since he visited him when the man was in dog form.

It was during one of those visits that Reno ran into Aerith who promptly slapped him across the cheek seconds later.

"Flower girl?" Reno asked hesitantly, his accent having lessened with Tseng's forceful lessons of 'proper speech' in which if he didn't attempt to speak in a 'normal, civilized way' he got hit with a Bolt3, and those hurt.

"You jerk!" Aerith snapped and Reno took a step back. "I go to see Padfoot one day and you're not there, caring for him! No one had seen you in the market, not even the gangs had spotted you! Where the hell have you been?"

"Er..." Reno faltered, shocked. Then all her words registered and he shouted, "What the 'ell where you doin' 'round th' gangs, yo?"

"Reno..." Aerith growled in a rather good impression of Padfoot, "don't change the subject."

Reno laughed nervously. "Pads?" he finally turned towards the dog, glancing between the two, practically begging for some help. 'Pads' barked in somewhat amusement, something both Reno and his current Turk shadow could tell. "T'nks, mutt," Reno muttered under his breath before looking at Aerith. "Ya know I'd tell ya if it were bad, righ', flower girl?"

"Considering you don't speak in street rat slang anymore I have reason to be concerned," Aerith stated, crossing her arms. Reno twitched.

"Well ya a'ways got'n 'bout m'lang'age, yo!" Reno scowled.

"What I want to know is who got you to speak civilized," Aerith stated. "And how."

"Um..."

The shadows appeared to shift slightly unbeknownst to Aerith who was glaring at Reno, and Reno who was nervously trying to think of an answer.

"Aerith," Tseng called out as he emerged from the shadows and Reno twisted sharply towards his superior's direction.

"Tseng," Aerith blinked, surprised.

"So it's ya this time," Reno muttered causing Tseng's eyebrow to raise slightly.

"I didn't know you two knew each other," Tseng finally said, glancing between Aerith and Reno.

"Reno helped with the flowers on occasion," Aerith mumbled, frowning, and then she rounded on Reno. "Did you get into some sort of trouble!"

"No, no!" Reno hastily shook his hands, backing up. "S'not bad! Really! Don't 'urt me yo!"

"It's not bad?" Aerith cried. "So you are in trouble!"

"Aerith," Tseng's call pulled Aerith back towards him. "Reno is not in any trouble...besides not mentioning that there was someone down here that he knew well..."

"I don' know flower girl well," Reno scowled. "We jus' ran inta each oth'r a lot, yo. 'Specially 'cause o'Pads." The dog barked and Reno rolled his eyes. "Met 'er 'cause o' ya, and ya know'i, yo!"

"Reno, stop antagonizing Padfoot; Padfoot stop pushing Reno," Aerith snapped at the two who both turned away at the same time; strange as it was seeing a dog emulate humor behavior. "Tseng, why are you here?"

"Considering Reno skives out on his lessons...let's just say we were curious as to why he kept coming down to the slums," Tseng stared at the red head.

Reno shrugged and said, "Flower girl can't take care o' Pads all th' time, yo. I usually fed 'im 'nie'way." Tseng raised an eyebrow and Reno stated with a roll of his eyes, "Sentimental value-I grew up here; I don't want to just entirely leave it behind, yo."

"Lessons?" Aerith asked Tseng, deciding to not correct Reno on his growing up here like she used to. Besides, she figured if Reno didn't tell the Turks then there was a good reason.

"Dot's th' one who...got me speakin' normally, yo," Reno muttered. "On pain of a Bolt3," he added with a twitch of his eye.

"Dot?" Aerith asked with a bit of mirth, looking at Tseng. He was standing oddly stiffer than usual.

"He's also my tech tutor, yo."

"I pity you right now, Tseng," Aerith said seriously. "Burdened with Reno...no man should have to deal with it."

"Oi!"

"It's true!" Aerith sang, a smile on her lips. Reno just scowled and Tseng almost sighed, rolling his eyes heavenward.

He coughed slightly a second later before saying, "At any rate we need to head back up, Reno. You're lessons were supposed to start an hour ago." Reno shrugged. "Oh, and I will be bringing this..." Tseng motioned towards Aerith, the dog, and the slums around him, "...to Verdot's attention."

Reno just stared at him and said, "Whatever, dot-head."

Tseng scowled, "For that I'm putting you on paperwork-and there had better be good penmanship or you'll do it all over again."

"Fuck!"

"Now move."

Aerith's laughter rang in his ears as Reno and Tseng left. Once they were gone she turned to the dog and said, "You should have told me he was a Turk now."

The dog quickly changed shape into Grim and replied lazily, "Ya wu'ld'a wor'ed 'bout 'im gettin' kil'd, yo."

"But at least I know he's in good hands," Aerith stated. "Tseng won't let him die-in fact once you get his approval you'll find it hard for him not to mother-hen you..."

With that statement Grim let out a bark of laughter and Aerith's giggles soon followed.

'His approval means he trusts you, Reno,' Aerith thought, gaze going skyward. 'And I can see that you trust him, even if you haven't known him long. You wouldn't have let him follow you to Padfoot anyways, would you, Reno?'

A small smile came to her lips as she practically heard the red headed teen singing in her mind:

O'cours' no', yo. Whaddya tak' m'for, an'diot?


end chapter.

ONWARDS TO THE AUTHORS NOTE!

Hi all! So sorry for the long wait for this chapter to be posted. Things are a tad hectic right now-as in I have exactly 2 weeks to get everything done for school if I want a decent grade. I really need to update my profile too, don't I...ahem! Tossing all this aside...

A quite note on the dedications:Cruel Realitygets the dedication for this chapter because...well, I like the idea about Zack. Most definitely shall it be here. :P I love the guy too much for it not to be.

Rune-Ruingets the dedication for this chapter because...to be honest I was deeply honored by the review, completely shocked, and feeling very dazed for several days afterwards. I never thought I could possibly have affected someone so much through my writing. Thank you; I am deeply honored, be sure of that.

Onto more trivial (okay, not trivial; basic run-through about possible unexplained plot-holes/inconsistencies with this chapter that I shall have to explain more in-depth below) things.

I know it seems like Verdot excepts Reno's strange reaction to electronic things too easily but I fricken don't care there. I also know the electornics issue might not exactly figure up with Reno being driven in a car (electronic) or being taken care of in the hospital (sorta kinda electronic) so I've decided to sorta kinda figure things in here for you if you really want me to explain the inconsistencies.

Reno, aka Harry if any of you have forgotten, has magic and while wizards can live and use electronics, testament to Harry having lived in the muggle world and every other muggle born in existence as well, Reno is more of an oddity now.

In the first chapter I do believe I touched upon, briefly and not in-depth, about Reno's oh-so-lovely powers that ended up leveling some bit of Costa Del Sol. I won't go into details about Reno's powers even now, they'll be explained later, however I will touch thatbecauseof Reno's powers it makes it a little more tough to deal with electronics. You could say that incident in Costa Del Sol was the beginning-the catalyst that helped his abilities break free.

Which was why he went through several meditation excersizes (stated not shown) during the trip and while in Midgar.

However that still raises concerns on whynowhe can't seem to touch anything (bar the helicopter) without shorting it (and yet he was able to ride in the car without screwing it up too) so for this my explanation's simple.

Larger things-like cars and helicopters-that don't rely entirely on electronics don't get shorted. Of course Reno and the others don't know this tid-bit. Furthermore Reno didn't have to have such a tight control on his powers in the slums-he had to have tight control yes, in order to not have another incident, however not as tight as he needs to now because he didn't reallyuseany electronic devices in the slums.

Now however he's surrounded by the stuff so he has to tighten his control much more.

Also, you might've noticed the mentioning of "modifications" to the EMR that would raise eyebrows, including the if tried to use it comment. In the chapter that introduced the EMR Reno was able to use it right away-unlike anything above the plate. The reason is, is that he kept a tight leash on his powers when he first used the EMR to show Grim what it could do. Unseen however Reno later made some "modifications" to the EMR so that it could work if he didn't have such a tight control at the time.

Yes other's can use the EMR too, even with its modifications, however it holds a different "feel" when a person without any magical ability tries to use it versus Reno. Furthermore Reno tinkered with how it was built which also falls under the "modifications" What he did exactly shall be kept quiet for now.

OH! Before I forget: the ID numbers for the Turks are actually the story ID numbers (here on FFN) for a few of my favorite stories. I don't remember which ones I used though.

Right, general clear-up now done...I shall address the anonymous reviewers now.

Rekki^_^yes, it shall be fun.

Now I would like to thank all of the reviewers for this chapter:SunStar Kitsune,webpixie, Cruel Reality, Rune-Ruin,lildevil425,Firehedgehog, Rekki^_^,autumn-annette-19, andRetse

Thank you all.

TK
Twin Kats