Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or anything belonging to FFVII. Though it doesn't hurt to wish I did. The only characters I own are Mabel and Sage, and Artemis who was introduced in chapter nine.
Summary: After the Final battle which took place in Diagon Alley, Harry agrees to start over in a new world quite different from his. This world happens to be Gaia. He grows up as Aerith's younger brother. Slow fic, sort of, with a few time skips here and there.
Warnings: Violence, language eventually, maybe some slash (more than likely), and so on.
Pairings:
For Crisis Core: Some Zack/Aerith. Maybe Genesis/Sephiroth. Cloud/Jadyn, although Jadyn would only be about 11-12 when he meets Cloud, so more than likely just have crushes on each other.
Chapter Ten:
Elmyra wasn't sure how she was convinced to make chocolate chip cookie dough in the church located in the Sector 5 slums, but Aerith had managed to do just that. She even convinced Jadyn to help Elmyra while Aerith went to go gather some other people. Elmyra smiled as she tied a light blue apron around Jadyn's waist, a white apron was around her own waist. The ingredients were lined up on the bench (pew) she was currently sitting on to her left.
Jadyn was excited. He was making cookies with his mother! Chocolate chip cookies to be precise! Yum! He hoped everyone liked them.
Reno, Sage, Mable, Elena and Rude were the first to arrive. Elena squealed as soon as she saw Jadyn and rushed over to hug him. "Lena, stop." Jadyn whined as she started messing with his red hair sending the black tips to fly all over. Elmyra handed Elena a hair tie, and Elena immediately put Jadyn's hair up in a small high tail at the back of his head. Reno eyed the ingredients, already imaging the cookies that would soon be cooking in Elmyra's kitchen. Mable and Sage sat down against a pillar, not at all bothered by the others. Rude held Reno's arm, preventing Reno from moving closer to Jadyn and the ingredients for that matter.
Tseng arrived followed by the three generals, Sephiroth, Genesis, and Angeal. They were curious as to why they were summoned. Reeve and Artemis was there to supervise as Aerith had requested, but also to protect Rufus, who had practically dragged them there, after all this was supposed to be about Ralph (Rufus refused to call Jadyn anything but that still).
Aerith finally skipped in, putting the Moomba doll, Risk, on Elmyra's right. "Now stay put." She pretended to scold the Moomba for Jadyn's benefit. Jadyn had woken up earlier to find the Moomba missing. Elmyra had snuck it away in the night to wash the doll without Jadyn waiting impatiently for his doll to be cleaned as he would have if he had been awake.
"So, flower girl, what's this about yo?" Reno asked, as he watched Jadyn and Elmyra begin to mix ingredients. Jadyn had some flour on his cheek and in his hair already. Were all little kids that messy when mixing things?
Aerith huffed. Apparently Reno would never learn. But, that wasn't the important thing right now. No! This was to settle who Jadyn was going to live with for the majority of the time, and officially make his name Jadyn amongst the others. Poor kid was going to have multiple personality disorders later when he got older, at this rate anyways. Aerith was hoping to prevent her brother from having any identity crisis as he grew up. She wanted him to be confident in himself when he reached the troubling years of adulthood.
"We are here to discuss why you people need to back off from Jadyn! He's my little brother, and everyone keeps trying to take him from me!" Aerith informed them, eyes dark with purpose.
"That's because the kid is so cute." Reno piped up, wincing as his hand was smacked for trying to steal some of the chocolate chips by said kid with a wooden spoon.
Aerith sighed. "That doesn't mean you people can take him away from his family. I understand teaching him how to read and write, or even if you just want to play for a few hours." Here she nodded her head in Reeve's and Rufus's direction. "But, that doesn't mean that you have to take him over night for days on end. I think we should make a schedule. That way Jadyn can spend time with everyone!" Aerith clapped her hands at the idea. She would have the most time along with Elmyra and Elena besides those teaching him.
Genesis scowled. "We happen to love little Azure!" Only to be whacked on the head by Angeal. "Ow…"
Angeal stretched slightly. "I thoroughly agree with the child. It's ridiculous how everyone argues over Jadyn." Aerith flashed him a happy smile, which Angeal returned. "Besides, what do we know about raising a kid? Or worse what if Hojo gets wind that we actually like a kid to the point where we personally teach him? We should probably make a semi-official schedule for his lessons as well. That way we wouldn't have to search him out. Reeve could pick him up for us or even one of the Turks."
"We're not parental material." Sephiroth walked out of the church, obviously a sign of his agreement. His words were spoken to Genesis. Secretly, Sephiroth would deny being afraid of arguing with a nine-year-old child over a five-year-old child. Somehow, the look in Aerith's eyes promised pain to those who did not back down this day. Angeal followed, knowing Genesis wouldn't stay much longer. Genesis pouted and turned to Aerith. "We still get to teach him and he can still visit, right?"
Aerith scowled, obviously wanting to say no, but she nodded her head in agreement. "I guess. Someone needs to teach him. Besides, he does like to visit you three. Just stick to the schedule we come up with, yes?"
Genesis agreed, still pouting, as he swept out of the Sector 5 church.
With the three generals gone from her gaze Aerith turned to Rufus next. "You! You can not have him! Even as a younger brother! His name is not Ralph."
Rufus shrugged, uncaring. "I'll call him what I want. Besides, it's not like my father would really care. However, I do agree it would be best to leave him with you." With that Rufus walked off followed by Artemis and Reeve.
"Don't bother yo. It's not like I would take him. Kid likes living with ya." Reno stated. This had been pointless in his mind. It wasn't like they were all going to kidnap the kid and lock him in a tower.
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-Time Skip-
It had been a year since the incident in the church. Jadyn was becoming more social and outgoing. Also, his pranking side was starting to develop. Reno, Sage, and Genesis were encouraging it. All three were quite impressed with the plans that Jadyn developed and pulled off on his own. It wasn't childish pranks like Reno's or simple pranks like Sage's or even obvious pranks like Genesis sometimes pulled on Sephiroth.
No, Jadyn's were carefully planned, well-thought out, and slowly pushed into play.
Tseng once commented that if Jadyn had been born in Wutai, the Wutai army would have snatched him up to train him in the arts of Shinobi.
For example, one of Jadyn's pranks had actually gotten Sage and Mabel into the Turks division and then using them he had hacked into the computer mainframe and rewired all passwords and the elevator systems.
Artemis had just grinned proudly while Verdot and Reeve yelled at them for allowing a child to try his hand at hacking the Shinra Electric's Company mainframe. It wasn't their fault the president had such obvious passwords or that Hojo's all important password had been "God".*
Besides, the fact that the elevators now actually worked more efficiently was a bonus despite the fact that they led to the wrong floors. And, hey, just because the sprinklers had gone off and splattered paint on all floors was quite ingenious since none of them could figure out how Jadyn had pulled that one off. Of course it was doubly funny because Hojo had been caught in the prank and was still a vivid red, the paint not coming off no matter how much he tried, so it was easier to avoid him.
Sephiroth, Aerith, and Elmyra were the only three safe from Jadyn's pranks.
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Yuffie sniffled sadly as she watched the mourners around her. Auntie was holding her hand. Her father was knelt before the shrine's altar. Yuffie understood that her mother had gotten sick and just never got better, but it wasn't fair. She could barely remember how pretty her mother had been when she used to play with Yuffie in the gardens surrounding their home. Yuffie was now four almost five.
She clutched the Leviathan doll in her arms. She was allowed to hold it today because of circumstances. Her Auntie had already informed her that after today Yuffie would begin training and she wouldn't be allowed to be seen with the doll anymore. The people would need to know that their young Princess would become strong in the place of her mother.
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-Time Skip-
-A year later-
Jadyn watched as Sephiroth and Genesis bantered with each other. Angeal was busy with the troops currently. Something about President Shinra, war and Wutai. All three Generals had been tense lately. Jadyn also understood that he wouldn't be seeing them as often as he had become accustomed to.
"Azure! Sephiroth is being cruel to me!" Genesis pouted. The two Generals always reverted back to the name they had given him when the three were alone together.
Jadyn giggled. "Why are you telling me? You can take him on."
Sephiroth smirked. "Yes, Genesis. You can handle me on your own without Azure's help, unless you want me to tell Angeal that you hid behind a child."
"Shut up!" Genesis reached over to Sephiroth, and tugging on Sephiroth's hair to get Sephiroth to lean down, Genesis planted his lips on Sephiroth's. So startled by the move Sephiroth froze, unsure. Genesis pulled back, a smug grin pulling at his lips. He then picked up a slightly confused Jadyn. "Come Azure! We'll go watch the new version of Loveless in Sector Eight while Sephiroth figures out what just happened."
Jadyn's voice reached Sephiroth's frozen mind. "What was that? Is he going to be okay?"
"That my dear child, is what you do when you like someone. But, you better not until you are older!" Genesis explained.
"But, I don't understand!" Jadyn whined.
"You will when you are older."
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-Time Skip-
-Three years later-
Zack was in awe of his surroundings. He was fifteen years old, he was in Midgar, and he was now officially a cadet in the SOLDIERs training program. Life was good.
"Watch out!" A young voice called out as a figure of a child ran down the hallway. The child was followed by a couple of Turks. Zack couldn't help but laugh at the Turks. They were all pastel colors as in they had each been painted on.
"Get back here! You little hellion!" One of the female Turks shouted.
An older Turk walked calmly behind the group and paused beside Zack. Dark violet eyes glanced upwards. "Jadyn. Get down before I decide to allow Rufus to dress you in an outfit similar to his."
The vent above them rattled, and out fell a kid. The kid easily landed on his feet. A doll resembling a lion was in his arms. "You wouldn't really do that, would you?" Jadyn asked, lower lip trembling.
Zack gulped as the Turk's eyes landed on him. "Depends. Come now. I believe it is time for your lessons." Zack sighed when the two were gone. He just knew that if he mentioned what he had just witnessed he would be dead.
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Kadaj was bored. Loz was crying again and Yazoo was reading a book. Why did they have to remain in the labs? Why couldn't they go outside and play? Where was their so called brother "Sephiroth"? Where was mother? The three were still quite young after all, and triplets.
A surprised sound broke his thoughts. There in front of him was an older child who looked shocked to see three younger children hidden away. Emerald eyes were wide in surprise. "What do they think they are doing? This must be Hojo's fault." The older boy spoke. He ran a hand through red hair with black tips. His hair had been pulled back into a messy tail, the loose strands only reaching to his shoulders.
There was something about the older child that made him feel safe and warm even thought they were separated by an invisible wall.
"Brother?" Kadaj questioned.
The older child shook his head sadly. "No, I'm not your big brother. But, I'd like to be friends." Jadyn was honest with the toddlers. The other two having come closer out of curiosity. "What are your names? Do you know? I'm Jadyn."
Kadaj hesitated. He wondered what a friend was. Yazoo spoke quietly. "Yazoo. Kadaj. The crybaby is Loz."
"I'm not a crybaby," Loz spoke, tears welling up in his eyes.
"Of course you're not." Jadyn reassured the taller of the toddlers.
Footsteps echoed down the hallway. All four of them felt their eyes widened in panic. Jadyn glanced at the younger triplets and gave them a sincere smile of reassurance. "I'll try to come back soon." He left.
The three were once again left by themselves. Each of their thoughts on the older child wishing and hoping he would keep to his promise.
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It had been five years since Cloud had accidentally awoken Vincent Valentine. Vincent had taken to teaching Cloud how to defend himself before moving on to actual fighting styles. Cloud was getting better, and he no longer longed to be a part of the kids' group. Not since the incident with Tifa after her mom's passing.
What Cloud didn't know was that Tifa now desired to get to know him. To get closer to the blue-eyed child that seemed so far out of reach like his name. Tifa wanted to be his friend, but how to get him to realize it? And, how to get her father to understand that what had happened had been her fault not Cloud's?
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Chapter Ten End.
AAL: This chapter is now complete. I am much more satisfied with it. Lol. Genesis and Sephiroth finally kissed! =^.^= I hoped you enjoy this more complete version. I must thank Dannichigo for prompting the inspiration I had for the kissing scene. Of course I'm sure that wasn't what they were expecting because I never really informed them of what I had planned when they had inspired me. Of course thanks always goes out to RivalAdmirer19 who was once RivalAdmirer18.