A/N: This is a very short chapter because it's the remainder of what I have written so far. So updates probably won't come as frequently, but I'll definately get to writing more!

And thank you so much for the review! It seems like this story's not doing too bad, and as long as people are enjoying it, I'm happy. :D

So here's the fourth chapter - hope you like it!

They led the chocobos to the west of Midgar, to a wide grassy area close to the ocean. It didn't take too long for Reno to get the hang of riding the sapphire-feathered bird.

"I didn't realize this could be so much fun. I thought it'd be boring to ride a chocobo after piloting helicopters and stuff." Reno laughed as he pranced around Sienna and Furi with Rowan. The blue bird warked to emphasize his sentiment.

"You should try flying with one of them sometime, then. I'm sure it's probably a better experience than flying in one of those huge machines." She patted Furi ahead into a trot.

Reno urged Rowan to trot beside Furi as he gave the girl a questioning look. "Have you ever been in a helicopter?"

Sienna paled slightly at the thought. "…No… I'm not really a huge fan of them…"

"I should take you for a ride in the company chopper sometime." He winked and flashed his teeth in a grin. "I assure you I'm a good pilot."

She gave a weak smile, turning to look down at Furi's glossy red feathers. "I'm sure you are. I just… prefer chocobos over machinery…" She gently stroked the soft short feathers on Furi's neck. He turned his head to look at her with one giant blue eye and gave her a mellow wark.

Reno caught the quick interaction between rider and chocobo and felt his curiosity rise. He knew Sienna didn't fully trust him, and with good reason - he was a Turk after all. And, being a Turk, Reno was quite adept at reading underneath the underneath, or so Tseng had a habit of calling it. This girl - quiet, introverted, innocent yet cunning - was intriguing. There was a story behind her that was just begging to be told, and Reno was quite interested in learning that story.

Sienna stopped when she realized Reno had slowed down. Turning around on the grassy field, she brought Furi up beside Rowan and peered into Reno's face. She giggled as his pretty blue eyes stared unfocused towards the ocean, over which the sun was beginning to descend.

Her giggle brought Reno out of his thoughts, and he almost fell off his chocobo when he saw Sienna's face peering into his own. She laughed and nudged his shoulder with her hand, effectively shaking him. "You awake? I thought I lost you there…" She turned back to face the ocean. The golden rays reflected like a golden jewel off of the glassy waters. It wouldn't be long until the sun set. "Thinking of something deep? Or just admiring the view?"

True to his personality, Reno grinned and took control of the situation. Throwing a hand loosely on Sienna's head, which was surprisingly tough without stretching too much because of Furi's towering height, he gestured broadly with his other hand. His voice dripped with good humor, "I'd say…a little of both."

She laughed, pushing his hand away and brushing back her golden-brown locks. "Must've been something good, you were out there for a little bit. I don't think you would've even noticed if Rowan dropped you in the water." She shrugged her black clad shoulders and walked in a circle with Furi on the golden sand. "You didn't even notice that you're on the water." Her voice rose to a mildly teasing note when Reno snapped his head around to look below him.

Sure enough, the large blue bird was floating comfortably in the calm waters. Reno's black boots sat mere inches from the gentle waves. "Wha-! Hey! When did… Wait-" He looked up suspiciously at Sienna, "You planned this, didn't you? He's not gonna drop me… is he?"

Sienna laughed a little guiltily, giving a shy smile. "Why? You can swim, can't you?"

Shock slowly registered on Reno's face. "Sienna! If I fall in, I'm getting out and dragging you in with me!"

Sienna almost fell off of Furi from laughing so hard, and Reno could swear that the red bird himself was laughing at his predicament. Putting a hand to her mouth, Sienna was barely able to suppress the laughter between her words. "I'm kidding! C'mon Rowan, we probably should get back before the sun sets, anyway."

The azure chocobo abruptly stood, almost knocking the Turk off with the force, and gave a loud, piercing wark. Reno could swear that his ride was laughing as well as he trotted gracefully over the waves to the shore.

Playfully poking Sienna, Reno smirked, "This means payback, you know that, right?"

She batted her eyes innocently. "Hmm? Payback? For what? I never actually did anything."

Reno gave a listless shrug. "Doesn't matter." He tilted his head in thought for a moment, then gracefully leapt down from his high seat on the deep blue creature. A small wind caught his hair as he leaned a little cautiously towards Sienna and Furi.

Sienna gave him a quizzical look, but followed suit as Furi bent low to give her easier access to the sandy ground. Reno idly kicked a small rock near his foot and smiled when he came eye to eye with her. "Hey… do you think… I could try to ride Furi? I really want to get him to like me."

Two graceful brown eyebrows rose in surprise. She looked from Reno to Furi, who hadn't moved from his crouched position, and back to Reno again. "Are you sure? I mean, I don't mind, but…" It was her turn to kick a stone and she looked shyly down to the ground. "I don't want you to get hurt. He can be kind of rough."

Reno gave her his best grin, as if it could wipe away all doubt. "Of course! I'll be able to ride him like a pro - you just wait!"

Sienna was touched by his enthusiasm. It would be an understatement to say that his interest surprised her. This was just a job of his, after all. There was no need for him to actually learn to ride the chocobos, not to mention Furi. True to what she had begun to learn of him: he never failed to surprise her with all that he said and did. Most of all she wondered why, but decided to leave the question for a later time. She had only just met him very recently and he hadn't given her any reason to question his motives in anything.

So with a small nod, she agreed.

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That night Reno went home with more than a few bruises, especially in his rear area.

"I think that damn bird gets a kick out of beating me up. I'll show him…" He sat roughly down on his couch, just to jump up almost as quickly from the sudden jolt of pain. "Damn bird…"

"What are you mumbling about this time? Every time I see you you're either complaining or trying to annoy the heck out of me."

Reno was so tired that he hadn't even noticed Elena standing next to his door. He gave her a brief wave of greeting, before returning to his previous thoughts. "Oh, it's nothing. I was trying to ride this monster of a chocobo that Sienna has, but for some reason he seems to enjoy tossing me to the ground." He looked up at her, "What're you doing here, anyway? Miss me?"

She snorted and kicked a bit of the mess on the floor out of her way. "Not in the slightest." A humored smile crossed her face. "Although… it'd be funny to see you trying to ride a chocobo - especially one that won't let you ride it. I thought I'd never see the day you'd try and ride one of those things. I thought you hated them."

Reno waved dismissively, "Nah, never hated 'em. Just never cared too much about them either way."

The blonde Turk pushed back a lock of her hair. "Why are you trying so hard now, then?"

"Because that damn bird ticks me off, that's why!" He stretched out on the black leather couch, tossing the navy Turk jacket into the nearby matching chair. He cocked his eyebrow at her and grinned a typical Reno grin. "Why the sudden interest in my life? A few days ago the only thing you'd say to me was 'shut up'."

Elena snorted, rolling her brown eyes. "It's not you or your life that I'm interested in. You just do… strange things. You kind of remind me of my brother." She stopped and pulled something out of her pocket. "Besides, I'm really only here to tell you that Tseng wanted to speak with you about something, and he instructed me to give you this." She said, handing him the small slip of paper that had Tseng's neat penmanship scrawled on it. "We tried calling you, but for some reason you weren't picking up your phone. Rude was gonna come, but then he was sent to speak with Reeve because AVALANCHE is getting close to the Golden Saucer - so I got stuck with the job of waiting for you."

Reno grinned. "Lucky you." He snatched the paper from her hand, which read 'Investigate WasP - meet me tomorrow 9 am', and scowled at the note. "WasP? What is it, another 'terrorist' group? And why didn't Tseng just come himself? That's what he normally does."

She shrugged, gazing around at Reno's rather messy apartment with a scowl. "He was busy investigating for the President and didn't have the time. I haven't even seen him today. I received a note on WasP a littler earlier - it stands for 'Wardens for Anti-Shinra Prosperity'… or something like that. They haven't really done much yet except for threatening a few of the higher-ups in the Shinra company. They're more of a cause of annoyance than anything else, I suppose. But Rufus wants to be rid of them. So I guess we're going to be sent to do the dirty work again." She sighed and pushed her hair back again, but almost messed it up when she suddenly remembered something and whipped her hand up in vivid expression. "Oh! And since it's been a while since your injury, you're going to be put back on the AVALANCHE search as well - Tseng has some plan for you and Rude, depending on what Reeve tells us in his reports from that stupid toy of his." Her grin was almost what you could consider smug. "Just thought I'd let you know."

Reno groaned and dropped back down on the couch, letting the small leaflet of paper drop down on the table nearby. First he had practically nothing to do, and now all this at once? Ah, the joys of being a Turk. "Okay, I got it. I probably should get ready for bed - it seems I'm gonna have a long week ahead of me…" He got up and waved his coworker unceremoniously out the door. She snorted and left as commanded, rolling her eyes at his dramatics. Yup, he was a lot like her brother - annoying and uncouth. She was beginning to feel bad for that Sienna girl, and she hadn't even met her yet.

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Reno sighed as he once again rode the elevator up to the top floor of the Shinra office building. The seventieth floor - being the floor that housed the President's main office as well as other minor offices – was both extravagant and dull. The huge center room contained the grand desk of the former President himself, furnished with only the best. Rufus had mainly decided to stick to his office off to the side; it, however, was by no means meagerly furnished either. Although the new President liked to keep more to himself, he took some of the many items his father had placed around his grand table and brought them into his own office, leaving the main room otherwise almost exactly as it had been before his father's murder.

On the other side of the wide room were the Turks' offices. The small metal plate beside the main door read Public Maintenance and Order - Shinra Company Special Task Force - Turks in pale gold over black. Reno always found it amusing that the Turks were considered to be under the department of Public Maintenance and Order yet they never took orders from Heidegger, who was the head of said department, but rather mostly from the President himself. And Reno found the logical connection between public peace and the Turks' work to be a stretch at the least. Getting rid of the company's dirty little secrets was barely what Reno found to be favorable to the public. It was strange how this company worked, indeed. But it was a military company, after all.

Pulling out his company ID, which served as a key card for just about all of the rooms and floors in the building, Reno swiped it through the small card slot. It beeped in confirmation and the pale door slid open.

Tseng was already seated in one of the dark plush chairs. Reno gave him a pleasant nod as he settled comfortably on the pale couch. "Morning Tseng."

"Reno." Tseng simply nodded his greeting while reaching down to pick up a small folder.

The easygoing redhead look dismayed. "More paperwork! What are you trying to do to me, Tseng?"

"Save it, Reno." The dark haired man leaned back in his chair with a blank expression on his face. "These are the latest reports on WasP's activity. I trust Elena informed you of WasP?" He said, pointing a critical eye upon his subordinate.

Reno waved off Tseng's wary look as he glanced down at the first page, which held some of the more recent occurrences. "Yeah, yeah. WasP - terrorist group, stands for 'We Are Stupid People' - another anti-Shinra group." He read a little further down the page, where he spotted something familiar. "Ahh… Mr. and Mrs. Mannen… aren't those… Sienna's adopted parents?"

Tseng thought for a second. "Yes, I believe you're right. They both work under the Trade Department for Shinra. WasP sent a few threats to their home in the past month, telling them to stop working for Shinra Inc. 'or else'. So far I don't think that anything else has happened to them - the threats appear empty." He shuffled through a set of his own papers. "Many other people on the Upper Plate who work for the company have gotten similar notices. Only a few have resulted in anything beside empty threats."

"So what happened with those?"

"Robbery and some destruction of property - not much else. It seems that WasP members search for and steal important documents from the homes of those Shinra employees. We aren't quite sure why, yet. Or if they're after anything specific." He looked 0ver at the younger Turk, who was listening intently as was his habit only when it was important information regarding their work. "Your job is just to keep an eye and ear out for any sign of them around the city."

Leaning back on the sofa, Reno gave a sigh. "Is that all?" He looked either relieved or disappointed, Tseng couldn't quite tell which.

Tseng settled with a measuring gaze at the young man. "Yes. You already have an assignment, as I'm sure you haven't forgotten." To this Reno gave a lazy nod. "And I've got something else for you to do."