A/N: This chap is done at last! After series of writer's block and piles of school shits which really made it hard to write but it'll cheer me up if I read a review! Thanks for the review again Anexi! I love ya my faithful reviewer and I want more REVIEWS. C'mon it's just one or two words, just tell me if it's going good or bad but tell me the reason if it's going on the second one and I'll always try my best to improve.

Anyways, I've just realized recently that I never wrote disclaimers, so this is it.

Disclaimers: I DON'T OWN RENO or other character's and places in FF7 but I own Seira and Reno's apartment hehe. :p

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Sei inspected the rumble carefully, hoping to find any clues or leads that could gave an answer to everything, but instead she found a middle aged man who was staring up at the vast blue cloudy sky. The brunette told Reno about the suspicious man but he didn't believe at first till he sees it with his own eyes.

"Uh, yeah, there's someone there. Wait here, I'll shoo him out." He said confidently and strode to the stranger.

She rolled her eyes and slapped her forehead. Great, an officer with red messy hair, wet clothes and not to be mentioned his slangy manner of speech. Who would've believed him as a Turk instead of a punk and there he walked confidently as if everyone knew his identity. She thought loudly to herself.

Reno approached the older man and showed his Id from his pocket but suddenly both of them started to launch attacks at each other's head.

The redhead ducked and attacked with his EMR but was stopped by the other man's sword.

It looked like a normal katana if only it was a few feet shorter. Seriously! It was the longest sword that she had ever seen, but it somehow feels familiar. She forced her head to work and suddenly flashes of memories hit her head, followed by a flood of pain washing away all of her current thoughts.

Her heart throbbed painfully on her ribs, not to mention the war raiding her head, trying to take away her consciousness. She fell on her knees, eyes tightly shut, hands grasping at her head as if it could fall off any moment, panting and groaning at the slightest movement that she made. She was able to keep her body above the ground for a few moments before her whole body gave in and met the hard dusty ground.

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Reno kicked the door open with the brunette's passed out body secured firmly in his arm.

"Upstairs, the same room as yesterday." Tifa ran upstairs, panic shrouding her whole conscious. She was definitely more panic than the previous time when the same thing happened, save for the suddenly and unexpected part.

"Gramps?" The redhead asked, hopping the stairs up swiftly.

"He's on the way." The older brunette replied and quickly paced pass him so that she could open the door for both of her unexpected guess.

"Tch, he chose to be slow at a time like-woops!" Reno stopped when he felt something bumped on the brunette's side and heard a thud.

Denzel groaned as he rubbed the sore spot on his now red nose and aching bottom. He had bumped on Sei's protruding hip bone and landed on his rear end.

"How's Sei neechan?" Marlene who was beside the still sitting boy chirped as she helped Denzel up to his legs.

"I don't know…she just fainted suddenly." Reno glanced an apologetic look to Denzel before walking again to Tifa who was already waiting in front of the door. He went in and placed the lifeless brunette on the same, plain white bed as the one that she had used 3 days ago during her previous stay.

"What happened?" Tifa finally broke the piercing silence as they watched the younger brunette's heaving chest behind the covers.

"We went to Midgar…she said that she wanted to try to remember what happened before she came here." He explained, his eyes still lock at the young brunette's form. "Then I fought this unknown weird guy who appeared near sector 7 and the next thing I know, she was already on the floor and the weird guy disappeared.

"What happened?" Doctor Rayne jogged in suddenly, not waiting for a reply before doing his job.

The redhead and older brunette just watched quietly as the doctor did his job, checking on her pulse, pupil reaction, blood pressure and many other things which were beyond their comprehension. After he finished fidgeting with her body, the experienced doctor placed his apparatus back to his black leather bag and sighed.

"So, what's the problem?" Tifa asked, snapping the redhead who was too sucked in his trance of observing Sei's face.

"She's just exhausted and…there's, um… alittlecaseofMakopoisoning." He blurted out.

"Wha- I mean, pardon? She's exhausted and?" Tifa said, cutting off the redhead who was just about to open his mouth.

"Mako poisoning, not a severe one though." Doctor Rayne said again, this time more slowly and sure.

Tifa and Reno cocked an eyebrow, turned their face and looked at each other with an are-we-thinking-of-the-same-thing look before chorusing in unison. "WHAT?!"

"We went to Midgar, but we were far from the reactors and HQ!" This time Reno was the one who said first, silencing Tifa who was just about to open her mouth.

"I thought the Lifestream level in Midgar had dropped a lot since 2 years ago." Tifa added some more explanation.

"Yes, mako poisoning is a really rare case now, Mako are not produced anymore and they announced that the Lifestream level had really dropped down but I assume that she doesn't know about the Lifestream at all when she came here, right?"

"Yes, she never heard about the Lifestream until she came here." Tifa voluntarily said for Reno who was still in his stupor of thinking that mako poisoning means that she will end up like Cloud who once suffered a dire case of it.

"Then the only reason I can think of is, that she was never exposed to Mako and just a little in her system proved to be a little too hard for her body."

"Is she…going to be okay?" The older brunette asked hesitantly, afraid of the answer that she will get. She knew this disease too well, it was the disease which almost took Cloud from her…she was the one who took care of him that time, she watched as he turned into a body of mess, unable to speak on his own, eat on his own or do anything of his own free will. Hell! She wasn't even sure if he could recognize her and his friends when he was just mumbling and moaning incoherently like a new born infant who was just new and out of place in this world.

"She just needs some more rest and she'll be fine. Don't worry it's not a serious case."

Both of the agitated pair chorused again, a deep sigh of relieve this time. Reno ran a hand through his crimson locks; eyes still lock on the unconscious brunette as if she could disappear into thin air if he let down his gaze for a second. He sure was glad, he couldn't really imagine it if she really had a serious case of the mind corrupting disease.

Reno just stared at the unconscious brunette blankly, while Tifa pulled the elder doctor out of the room. They walked out silently, closed the door behind them and passed the narrow hallway to the staircase. Doctor Rayne noticed something in the corner of his eyes, stopped and took a step back towards the object.

He picked up a red leather wallet which was sitting idly on the corridor in front of the stairs. "Tifa, is this yours?" He called out to the brunette who was already descending down the stairs.

"No, that must be Sei's. She must've dropped it when Reno bumped on Denzel." An edge of a piece of paper was sticking out from the crimson wallet invitingly, as if it was telling its founder to take a peek of it.

Doctor Rayne tugged and slowly pulled the white paper out of sheer curiosity, it was the picture of Sei in the middle of a woman and a man. The man had same hair color with the girl next to her and was smiling from ear to ear. The doctor's lips parted slightly, a gasped escaped as he looked with wide eyes at the picture, a name immediately echoed through his head. "Kyle…?"

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"Ugh…" Sei groaned and stirred.

Reno just kept staring at her clean face, her spotless or actually plain face. His hand absent mindedly ran through her temple, trying to ease the frown on top of her brown eye brows and moved to her cheeks, jaws and neck before retracting his hand in embarrassment.

This isn't really happening, right? He thought to himself. Staring and touching an unconscious girl? The only time he had stared at a sleeping female figure were the mornings after his many one night stands, when he leaves immediately after he fucked them just for his pleasure.

"What the hell is happening…?" He thought out aloud to himself. He's changing just because of the frail looking girl in front of him. He changed into a mushy guy, full of what he thought as useless emotions just a week ago. What is it called again? Pity? Care? Or even maybe…love…a word which was never there or actually erased from his dictionary a long time ago. Well, the only one thing he knew now was that all this thinking made him more and more damn confused about his own feelings.

Sei shot up into a sitting position, panting. Sweat drenched her whole body and tears threatened to run out anytime.

"Sei? You okay?" The redhead asked with concern to the still dazed brunette.

She turned her head slowly so that she was facing Reno who was sitting on a chair beside her bed. Finally, hot fresh tears escaped her emerald orbs, the back of her hands immediately reached for her eyes to stop the flow which didn't show any hint of stopping soon.

"Oi, what's wrong?" Reno placed a hand on her trembling shoulder and moved to the bed, sitting right in front of her.

She didn't respond. Her dried throat was not in any condition to do anything except sob, sob and sob.

The Turk finally sighed and pulled her into an embrace. He patted her back and cooed. "Ssshh, it's okay, it's just a nightmare. Tell me, what's wrong?"

The sobbing brunette tried to calm herself by taking deep breaths but instead a whimper passed her throat.

"Sei, you said it yourself yesterday. It's better to let it out than keeping it in your own self and break down in the end."

She shook her head on his shoulder and finally managed to say. "No, it's not, Reno. It's not just a nightmare…I remember…everything."

"Remember-"

"Sei, I need to talk to you." Doctor Rayne suddenly stepped in, cutting the redhead's curiosity.

The couple immediately broke apart from their embrace and straightened up. Seira rubbed her eyes and face to remove any trail of tears and Reno stood up beside the bed.

"This man here, is it your father?" The older man said, raising a photo on his hand, his tone slightly wavering but dead serious.

She squinted to get a better look of the picture before recognizing the slightly crumpled piece of memory. "Yes, that's a picture of me, dad and mom-"

"What's your father's name?"

"Kyle Howard. Anything wrong, doc?"

"This can't be happening…" He sighed and placed a hand on his temple to ease his tensed muscles.

"Doc, what's wrong?"

"Listen, Seira. Kyle Howard, the man in this picture…or your dad, is my son who disappeared 20 years ago."

Seira just sat still, mouth slightly parted. "W-what…? WHAT?!" She finally exclaimed when the weight of realization finally hit her. "You're dad's dad, which means…you're my grandfather?"

"That's the only logic in my head."

"B-b-but that means, dad was born here and…and…how did he get to the other world?" She stuttered as she tried to piece the bits of new information one by one.

"I don't know how but I think I know a way to get you back."

Reno just stood dumbly, listening to the new found relative's conversation, when suddenly the brunette said something which forced him out of his stupor.

"Doc, can I stay with you?" She blurted out.

"Of course, we need to sort out a lot of things and I really need help to find that book to send you back to your world." They conversed lightly as if it was just a normal talk between best friends who wanted to move in together.

"W-wait! Sei, what are you talking about?" The redhead finally found the words that was stuck in his throat.

"I'm going to move in with Doctor Rayne." She averted her face towards the door, away from the redhead's gaze and not showing any emotions towards the harsh words that she was going to say. "Sorry, Reno…but I can't live with a…a killer"

The next thing that was heard was doors slamming forcefully to its frame, motorcycle engine roared to life and a few gasped from people who evaded the Turk's crazy acceleration.