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"We protect more than the land. We protect the knowledge and wisdom that is carried in the minds of the people who live on it. This sickness…" Nanaki’s eye was drawn, once again, to a pair of scruffy-looking humans huddling in an alley down across the street – and to the stains in their bandages. "It is a threat to the ones I protect, just as it is one to you."

"Uh huh. And it just so happens that you have to travel halfway 'round the Planet to figure it out."

He lowered his head, ears drooping. "I cannot defeat it from the Canyon."

"Hey, it's cool. Nothing wrong with wanting to see the world. Best part of the job, if you ask me."

Nanaki whipped his head around and glowered at the man.

"My duty is nothing like your job!"

"That so?" Reno raised his cup and took a sip. "Funny. Here I thought you were just telling me all about how you're working your ass off for something you're duty-bound to protect."

Chapter 8 now available at AO3 and ffnet!

Fandom: Final Fantasy VII

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Characters: Red XIII | Nanaki, Reno, Original Characters, a bunch of familiar faces in minor roles

Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Detective investigation, descriptions of dead bodies, Occasional Action, reluctant allies, buddy cop, Some angst, Reno/OC in the background, Reno/Tess FitzEvan to be precise, awkward conversations about relationships, Nanaki struggles with the human world

Summary
The Geostigma rages unchecked. People are growing desperate. Nanaki has travelled Gaia for months, searching for a cure. A promising lead sends him sniffing after a rare materia rumored to have unparalleled curative power. When the trail turns out to be littered with dead bodies, Nanaki winds up working with the unlikeliest of allies: the Turks.

Toward the Storm (AO3 | ffnet)

Reno's clothing drew Nanaki's eye. His pants were made of a stiff, dark blue fabric, worn thin in places, where the color faded to a hue paler than his breakfast bowl. His short-sleeved shirt was red, almost the same red as his mane, which spilled down his back unfettered, for once.

"You are not wearing your Turk clothes," Nanaki remarked.

"Uh huh. I wanna chat to some people who don't much appreciate being seen with a Turk. Bad for business, or so I'm told."

Nanaki swished his tail in a restless arc. The man's body was easier to read without the loose fabric of his suit concealing the posture of limbs and the tension of muscles, but it was strange to see him in something other than black and white. The suit marked him as a threat, a danger to watch at all times. Without it, he looked like just another human.

Chapter 7 now available at AO3 and ffnet!

Fandom: Final Fantasy VII

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Characters: Red XIII | Nanaki, Reno, Original Characters, a bunch of familiar faces in minor roles

Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Detective investigation, descriptions of dead bodies, Occasional Action, reluctant allies, buddy cop, Some angst, Reno/OC in the background, Reno/Tess FitzEvan to be precise, awkward conversations about relationships, Nanaki struggles with the human world

Summary
The Geostigma rages unchecked. People are growing desperate. Nanaki has travelled Gaia for months, searching for a cure. A promising lead sends him sniffing after a rare materia rumored to have unparalleled curative power. When the trail turns out to be littered with dead bodies, Nanaki winds up working with the unlikeliest of allies: the Turks.

Rude shifts, drawing a creak from the flimsy chair beneath him. The suit is at home, waiting in the closet for his return, but he can still feel its gentle weight on his shoulders.

“Lighten up, man.” Reno clinks his glass against Rude’s. “It’s vacay time, yo.”

He is all grins and flirty winks aimed at passers-by, but Rude sees the tension in his eyes every time the bar door opens, the way he sizes up every new guest. Reno isn’t immune to it, either. None of them are. That’s why they drink.

Rude raises his beer. “To vacation.”

(Originally posted on Tumblr for Turk Week 2018, day 7: Vacation)

No regrets. This is what Elena tells herself as she gets ready for her first day at the Department of Administrative Research. Is this where she expected to end up? Is this why she poured hours of sweat and tears into her training? Not at all, but the offer was too tempting. She has heard the whispers, of course, but if her sister could do it, then so can she. No regrets.

Many years and countless bodies later, it has become a way of life. Regrets have no place in this line of work. They only get in her way.

(Originally posted on Tumblr for Turk Week 2018, day 1: Initiation / Day 1 / Starting Out)

Toward the Storm (AO3 | ffnet)

Reno peeled the sheet halfway down the body, laying bare the same dead human they had found earlier that day. Nanaki could have directed him to the right corpse straight away, had the Turk bothered to ask. Even in this place of death, its reek was unmistakable.

The doctor came up beside the gurney and stared at the corpse.

"Well, he's dead."

Reno snorted. "I was hoping for a lil' more detail than that."

Chapter 6 now available at AO3 and ffnet!

Fandom: Final Fantasy VII

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Characters: Red XIII | Nanaki, Reno, Original Characters, a bunch of familiar faces in minor roles

Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Detective investigation, descriptions of dead bodies, Occasional Action, reluctant allies, buddy cop, Some angst, Reno/OC in the background, Reno/Tess FitzEvan to be precise, awkward conversations about relationships, Nanaki struggles with the human world

Summary
The Geostigma rages unchecked. People are growing desperate. Nanaki has travelled Gaia for months, searching for a cure. A promising lead sends him sniffing after a rare materia rumored to have unparalleled curative power. When the trail turns out to be littered with dead bodies, Nanaki winds up working with the unlikeliest of allies: the Turks.

Toward the Storm (AO3 | ffnet)

When Nanaki glanced back, a leather case had appeared in Reno's gloved hand. It looked like a flat wallet, but it contained a row of pointed metal tools. Nanaki had seen a similar set before; the ninja girl carried lockpicks too. He recalled a conversation long ago, between her and the flower girl from Midgar. They had compared Yuffie's lockpicks to the hairpins Aerith used, traded practical tips and giggled as they tried them out on an old padlock they'd found.

The memory came with a pang of shame. The Turks had stolen Aerith away from her home and brought her to Shinra, too. What would she think of him now, cavorting with a Turk out of his free will?

The girls' budding friendship had fractured after the trouble Yuffie had put them all through in Wutai. Nanaki had eventually noticed a few wary attempts to reconcile, but he wasn't sure how far they had mended things before Aerith had left and–

The door swung inward with a soft creak. It took him a few beats to realize that the smell of death was not just bleeding in from his memories.

"Something is wrong."

Chapter 5 now available at AO3 and ffnet!

Fandom: Final Fantasy VII

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Characters: Red XIII | Nanaki, Reno, Original Characters, a bunch of familiar faces in minor roles

Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Detective investigation, descriptions of dead bodies, Occasional Action, reluctant allies, buddy cop, Some angst, Reno/OC in the background, Reno/Tess FitzEvan to be precise, awkward conversations about relationships, Nanaki struggles with the human world

Summary
The Geostigma rages unchecked. People are growing desperate. Nanaki has travelled Gaia for months, searching for a cure. A promising lead sends him sniffing after a rare materia rumored to have unparalleled curative power. When the trail turns out to be littered with dead bodies, Nanaki winds up working with the unlikeliest of allies: the Turks.

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