((A/N: wow, I can't believe I stalled this chapter for so long. I'm going through school and all kinds of things but my FREAK and OBSESSION-like nature returned to me tenfold at the whole 'Crisis Core' hype... IF YOU ARE A FF7 FAN AND READIG THIS, and DON'T know what CRISIS CORE IS… OMFG. If I were a mean person I'd tell you to kill yourself, but instead I'll direct you to ((SPOILERS IF YOU HAVENT BEATEN FF7)) go to YOUTUBE and type in CRISIS CORE and and and WATCH THEM NOW BETCHES! Please and thank you. Love you, mean it! And now, here' chapter 6.

OH! another note. I still can't find the names of all the Turks in Before Crisis, so I'm still calling them by their weapon names [like Gun But this time I managed to translate it into Japanese so I'm just modifying it a bit, example being: Sandan.))

File006-R.E.N.O.

Reno grumbled slightly, the alarm clock on his bedside table blaring irritably. With a heavy sigh he slammed his hand down on it, lifting his face out of his pillow and shaking his head a bit. After a moment of regaining the sense of sight, he got up to get ready for the day.

Nibbling on a corner of toast, he trotted suavely down the hallway nodding to people in salutation until he met up with Sandan.

"What it is?" he asked casually, finishing his toast as she looked at him disapprovingly.

"Where's your tie?" she said sternly. "Your white shirt is showing, your jacket is unbuttoned-"

"What, I get hot easily," he said with an unconcerned shrug and a wink. "Anyway, weren't you gonna tell me about that Soldier boy?"

She glared at him for a minute then continued.

"He is a SOLDIER, yes, but we can't really rely on him much at all anymore."

"He was difficult to start with." Reno said, bored.

"He's just been getting worse and worse, for over a year now!" she said, trying not to snap.

He's so casual, does he care about his work at all?! This is important!

"He's incredibly emotionally unstable!" she added.

"So he's emo." Reno replied, somewhat irritably. "Let him cut himself with his shiney buster sword and-"

"He's an increadibly strong guy!" she argued, tapping her foot. "If he did not only would we lose a valued man for missions but what do you think that would do to our reputation? 'Join Shin-Ra, we make you want to kill yourself!"

"What's his deal?" Reno said, unable to disagree with her point.

"His sister." She answered. Reno let out a whistle, holding up his hands in a way as if he wasn't about to touch something nasty.

"Woah there, incest isn't my bag-"

"They were separated." She cut in. "They used to live on a Chocobo ranch. Mother fell ill, she went to Midgar for extra work, he hasn't seen her since. Not to mention the farm was completely destroyed by some random fiends and monsters, killing everyone but him."

"Wow, really screwed up life."

"He claims the only reason he joined us was to find his sister," she sighed, running a hand through her bangs. "In fact he hates Shin-ra, seeing as our use of mako apparently messes up the earth or something…"

"So what do you want me to do about it?" Reno said, wondering why the hell he'd been called for something completely unrelated to him.

"Find his sister, Reno. You must know a lot of women."

"Is that a true fact or a sarcastic remark about a true fact?" he said slowly, his green eyes widening slightly as he adjusted his goggles under his spiky bangs.

She sighed and rolled her eyes. "Everyone is told to be on the lookout. I managed to talk to him while he was in a calm, sulky mood, rather than one of his angry violent ones. He said she has brown hair and purple eyes. Kept going on about how she was the nicest thing in the world."

"We are talking about a SOLDIER, right?" he said curiously. "Not a dysfunctional cry-baby?"

"Both," she said. "Only he also has badass moments. Lord I'm tired…" and with that she stormed off, tossing her ponytailed-hair behind her. Reno shrugged and went off to perform his usual duties.

K.E.R.A.

Kera sighed gently in her room, lying on her bed propped up against a mountain of pillows, rather like a cushy throne. She was writing some paperwork and listening to some music on a small player nearby. Every now and then, she'd pet her little white chocobo that was curled up next to her, wark'ing softly. After several long minutes she stopped, closed the folder and got up.

"I'm turning in my junk, Cho-Kun," she said quietly, giving one last pat before slipping into her shoes and heading down the corridor. It wasn't a time for her to work, and she wore a nice shirt and sweatpants, planning on heading to the gym up on floor 64 after she'd turned in her work.

"Oh-! Good day, Sempai."

Reno looked up at her voice, grinning and walking over to her.

"Tsk, you'r not in full uniform little missy," he said. Odd, considering he had just been berated for the same reasons.

"Should I be?!" she said in a small panic. "I can go change! I just thought, since I wasn't working today…"

When-why-how did he get so close to me??!

He continued to grin, lifting her chin with his hand. "No it's fine, I'm just teasing you."

There was a moment in her brain where a small video played, of him suddenly pressing their lips together forcing her against the wall-

WHAT THE HELL AM I THINKING?!

Something of here confused panic must have shown on her face, for he tilted his head letting go of her. Of course, he had no way to know what she'd thought about, but whether he did or not, he would have still acted the same way.

"It's cute when I make you nervous." He clicked his tongue with a wink as he headed on, pondering to himself as to how he should try and find a girl with purple eyes and brown hair…

Kera flustered, rushing off to where she'd planned to go, glad she was dressed for the gym.

Oh man, I really gotta punch something!!

A/N: Whew. Mk that was kinda cool… I hope it wasn't boring. The aforementioned rogue, bad-attitude Soldier boy is another OC. Yeah I know XP I sure have a stock of them, don't I?

And- oh man!

Crisis Core is SO COOL. I only wish I [lived in Japan and [owned a 10th anniversary FF7 PSP and the game [CRISIS CORE coz I wannit SO BAD!! It came out in Japan just last month, y'know.\

Y'know they have ENERGY DRINKS designed to look lik FF7 POTIONS?? OH MY GOD! I don't even drink energy drinks much and I WANT THEM ALL!! Sigh.

I downloaded the entire FF7Crisis Core OST today : heh, I feel so smarymy and smug and happy!

Once again, sorry for the frikkin HUGE wait. I have been busy and… well mostly it was WRITERS BLOCK. This whole chapter you just read is actually an ENTIRE re-write! Can you BELIEVE that??

If only I was able to force my brain meats and smart juices to do this for my pre-calculus and physics homework…

So once again, I totally would LOVE to hear your crits, praise, comments, praise, idfeas, and praise! Did I mention I like praise? Oh, well I mean I'm totally humble, I don't mean to glory in narcissism in your praise at all!!

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LOVE ME!!!!!!!

XD

See ya later. MUCH later. To tell the truth I'm not sure how the next chapter will be. I don't even know who'e POV it will be, or what TIME it will be, or what! Sheesh.. is it all in my mind, or are my rants growing longer than my chapters...))