The Platinum and the Wolf
Ch.1
Lone wolves hunt alone
Disclaimer: you know the drill, I don't own any thing that says squaresoft on the back of the package, that includes finalfantasy8 and all characters within. The new character, Josh, is mine.
This is my first fic, but I am open to ideas, flames are welcome, but won't be appreciated as much as criticism.
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"...............Are you there?..........Can you hear me?..............Why do you hate me?....................Don't you love me anymore?......"
"OOFF!" Josh woke up startled, as his pillow was forcibly pulled from behind his head, and glared at his roommate, who stood towering over him, "Seifer, do you have to do that every morning?" Josh tried to sound somewhat angry, but in fact, he was thankful, because Seifer had just taken him from a dream...no, from a nightmare. He was more than happy to be awake.
"Of course I do, this place operates on routines, this is your routine wake up." Seifer said, not realizing the relief in Josh's clear blue eyes, and as he grabbed a glass of water from the table and poured it on his friends head, he added "Wake up!"
"Thanks Seifer," Josh said dryly, getting up and shaking his head vigouously to sling the water out of his short sandy-brown hair. When he stood, he was slightly taller than seifer, but since he was a year younger, his muscles were somewhat less defined. "Now I don't need a shower." he said when he finished. The two of them went through a routine similar to this every day, and although it might have looked like a fight, it was their way of showing that they were still friends.
"Well, it's time to start off the morning, today is the big day."
Josh just looked puzzled for a minute, then realized what he meant, "SeeD exam?"
"AFFIRMATIVE."
"Huh?" Josh knew the voice, and looked around for the owner, and tried to remember why Fujin would be in his room. Then it hit him, Fujin had gotten into a 'situation', and had been reassigned to seifer and Josh's dorm, by her own request, ane the Commander's approval of course. A fold- down bead had been installed into one of the walls, and Fujin slept there. Seifer had warned Josh of what would happen if he tried to touch Fujin, and he knew that Seifer would keep his word. Josh thought of her as just a friend anyways....didn't he?
No one liked to talk about what had happened when Fujin had been attacked, but for emotional effects, it needed to be checked on some times, so everybody called it the 'situation'. "Well, lets see, it'll be the three of us, Raijin, Rinoa, and who else?" he thought out loud.
"PIGTAILS" Fujin said from the bathroom, where she was cleaning her shurkin.
"Right, always can count on you to remember Fuu." Seifer said warmly. It wasn't very often that he dropped his macho-man routine, in fact, he and Josh had been almost worse than he and Squall. But when he allowed himself to get loosened up, he was a fun guy to be around.
"Well," Josh said emerging from the closet he had gone into to change, "Let's go get Raijin, and start the morning off right." He was wearing blue jeans, a light-grey t-shirt, and a brown leather vest. he waled over to his bead, to put on his shoes and socks, then he leaned over and pulled his bo-sai(a long wooden stick with a wrapping, usually cloth around its center. can also be metal, but his was wood.)from the corner where it stood.
"AFFIRMATIVE" Fujin said, placing her cleaning supplies back i their respective cases, and walking out of the bathroom
"Let's go!" Seifer said, grabbing his gunblade from it's case.
"Don't forget you junctions....again." Josh said, as the three walked out of the room
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"Alright. We're here, ya' know." The group had just run from the Garden to Balamb, stopped for supplies, and then run back again Josh had gotten a package of some sort, and refused to tell any one what it was. They walked to the cafeteria, and got their breakfasts.
"Hheeeyyyy! Raijin, Fujin, Seifer, Josh you guys come over here!" Selphie was shouting, and jumping on the chair she should have been sitting in. The three members of Seifer's posse walked to the tables where Squall, Rinoa, Quistis, Zell, Irvine, and Selphie were eating. No one seemed to notice that Josh went and sat a few tables away from the rest.
Irvine looked around a minute later, "Hey, didn't four of you come out of the line?"
"AFFIRMATIVE."
Irvine looked a little confused, "Then, why are there only three more sitting here than there were before?"
The others looked around, and Fujin noticed, "JOSH. THERE." she pointed, and the others all looked in the direction, and realized that she was right.
"What's that moron doing sitting over there? Seifer thought aloud.
Raijin shouted out, "Yo! Josh, c'mon over 'ere!"
Josh just looked up, and said "No thanks, I'm fine right here."
"Squall, you're the commander, make him come, Ya' know." Raijin said.
"......Whatever."
"Wweeelll, if he won't come over here, let's go over there!" Selphie suggested with her usual flare and energy. Josh heard this, so he downed the rest of his soda, threw his trash away, and walked out. "Hmm. That didn't work out the way I had hoped."
"TALK." Fujin said, as she followed in suit of what josh had done, and hurried to catch him. she followed him to the class room, but when she walked inside, she couldn't see him.
"I thought someone was following me," she heard above her. Josh had used float on him self, and was, well, floating above the door.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back in the Cafeteria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I wonder what made him leave like that, Ya' Know!"
"No, Raijin, we don't know." Selphie replied flatly.
"Hey, now, sefie, it's not Raijin's fault. Josh might have just been uncomfortable around such beautiful women." Irvine said, trying to cool selphie off, and pick up points at the same time.
"No reason to be so rude." Selphie was trying not to be calmed down, but when her fiancee` turned on his charm like that, she couldn't help it.
"True, but he probab......." Irvine stopped short as he realized a most likely reason. "I'm such a dolt!"
"We already knew that Kineas." Seifer, said between mouthfuls of waffle.
"Not what I meant, Think about it...." Irvine gave the others a few minutes, and most of them thought, but Seifer knew where he was going with this.
"Kineas, if your talking about the SeeD exam, then you might be right, but your forgetting one thing." Seifer said with his usual dry-I- know-more-than-you-so-there charm
"And that would be?" Selphie asked somewhat angrily at Seifer's implying that her fiancé` was ignorant of anything.
"Relationships." Seifer paused for a minute, to let it sink in, and when he saw that none understood he continued, " Josh is new, but the rest of us aren't. Squall and Rinoa are dating, Irvine and Selphie are engaged, i'm dating Quistis, and every one is friends with every one else at this table."
"Don't see why that should matter, Seifer." Irvine said.
"I do." Squall said with his best attempt to sound like he wanted to help. "he feels like an outcast, so he steers clear. I felt the same way, and you all remember how hard you tried to be friends to me. The fact is, until Josh is ready to be friends with us, we can't force him to do anything. If any of us try to, he'll only end up hating us."
Seifer smiled, and gave Squall an approving look as he said, "So, they didn't give you the job of Commander just because you looked the part."
"Whatever."
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Is Squall right?
Is Irvine destined to be ignorant forever?
Will the recruits pass the SeeD exam?
Even I don't know yet. In the next chapter, i'm going to try to put in more action, and less talking, sorry 'bout that.
Please let me know what you thought of this chapter, i know it's not much, but I have plans for the future (No YAIO, YURI, YAKO, or however you want to spell it, there will be no revealing bed scenes in this fic.... sorry to all you pervs, but that's the way it's going to be so don't ask). other than that, I'm open to suggestions
Ch.1
Lone wolves hunt alone
Disclaimer: you know the drill, I don't own any thing that says squaresoft on the back of the package, that includes finalfantasy8 and all characters within. The new character, Josh, is mine.
This is my first fic, but I am open to ideas, flames are welcome, but won't be appreciated as much as criticism.
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"...............Are you there?..........Can you hear me?..............Why do you hate me?....................Don't you love me anymore?......"
"OOFF!" Josh woke up startled, as his pillow was forcibly pulled from behind his head, and glared at his roommate, who stood towering over him, "Seifer, do you have to do that every morning?" Josh tried to sound somewhat angry, but in fact, he was thankful, because Seifer had just taken him from a dream...no, from a nightmare. He was more than happy to be awake.
"Of course I do, this place operates on routines, this is your routine wake up." Seifer said, not realizing the relief in Josh's clear blue eyes, and as he grabbed a glass of water from the table and poured it on his friends head, he added "Wake up!"
"Thanks Seifer," Josh said dryly, getting up and shaking his head vigouously to sling the water out of his short sandy-brown hair. When he stood, he was slightly taller than seifer, but since he was a year younger, his muscles were somewhat less defined. "Now I don't need a shower." he said when he finished. The two of them went through a routine similar to this every day, and although it might have looked like a fight, it was their way of showing that they were still friends.
"Well, it's time to start off the morning, today is the big day."
Josh just looked puzzled for a minute, then realized what he meant, "SeeD exam?"
"AFFIRMATIVE."
"Huh?" Josh knew the voice, and looked around for the owner, and tried to remember why Fujin would be in his room. Then it hit him, Fujin had gotten into a 'situation', and had been reassigned to seifer and Josh's dorm, by her own request, ane the Commander's approval of course. A fold- down bead had been installed into one of the walls, and Fujin slept there. Seifer had warned Josh of what would happen if he tried to touch Fujin, and he knew that Seifer would keep his word. Josh thought of her as just a friend anyways....didn't he?
No one liked to talk about what had happened when Fujin had been attacked, but for emotional effects, it needed to be checked on some times, so everybody called it the 'situation'. "Well, lets see, it'll be the three of us, Raijin, Rinoa, and who else?" he thought out loud.
"PIGTAILS" Fujin said from the bathroom, where she was cleaning her shurkin.
"Right, always can count on you to remember Fuu." Seifer said warmly. It wasn't very often that he dropped his macho-man routine, in fact, he and Josh had been almost worse than he and Squall. But when he allowed himself to get loosened up, he was a fun guy to be around.
"Well," Josh said emerging from the closet he had gone into to change, "Let's go get Raijin, and start the morning off right." He was wearing blue jeans, a light-grey t-shirt, and a brown leather vest. he waled over to his bead, to put on his shoes and socks, then he leaned over and pulled his bo-sai(a long wooden stick with a wrapping, usually cloth around its center. can also be metal, but his was wood.)from the corner where it stood.
"AFFIRMATIVE" Fujin said, placing her cleaning supplies back i their respective cases, and walking out of the bathroom
"Let's go!" Seifer said, grabbing his gunblade from it's case.
"Don't forget you junctions....again." Josh said, as the three walked out of the room
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~
"Alright. We're here, ya' know." The group had just run from the Garden to Balamb, stopped for supplies, and then run back again Josh had gotten a package of some sort, and refused to tell any one what it was. They walked to the cafeteria, and got their breakfasts.
"Hheeeyyyy! Raijin, Fujin, Seifer, Josh you guys come over here!" Selphie was shouting, and jumping on the chair she should have been sitting in. The three members of Seifer's posse walked to the tables where Squall, Rinoa, Quistis, Zell, Irvine, and Selphie were eating. No one seemed to notice that Josh went and sat a few tables away from the rest.
Irvine looked around a minute later, "Hey, didn't four of you come out of the line?"
"AFFIRMATIVE."
Irvine looked a little confused, "Then, why are there only three more sitting here than there were before?"
The others looked around, and Fujin noticed, "JOSH. THERE." she pointed, and the others all looked in the direction, and realized that she was right.
"What's that moron doing sitting over there? Seifer thought aloud.
Raijin shouted out, "Yo! Josh, c'mon over 'ere!"
Josh just looked up, and said "No thanks, I'm fine right here."
"Squall, you're the commander, make him come, Ya' know." Raijin said.
"......Whatever."
"Wweeelll, if he won't come over here, let's go over there!" Selphie suggested with her usual flare and energy. Josh heard this, so he downed the rest of his soda, threw his trash away, and walked out. "Hmm. That didn't work out the way I had hoped."
"TALK." Fujin said, as she followed in suit of what josh had done, and hurried to catch him. she followed him to the class room, but when she walked inside, she couldn't see him.
"I thought someone was following me," she heard above her. Josh had used float on him self, and was, well, floating above the door.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back in the Cafeteria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I wonder what made him leave like that, Ya' Know!"
"No, Raijin, we don't know." Selphie replied flatly.
"Hey, now, sefie, it's not Raijin's fault. Josh might have just been uncomfortable around such beautiful women." Irvine said, trying to cool selphie off, and pick up points at the same time.
"No reason to be so rude." Selphie was trying not to be calmed down, but when her fiancee` turned on his charm like that, she couldn't help it.
"True, but he probab......." Irvine stopped short as he realized a most likely reason. "I'm such a dolt!"
"We already knew that Kineas." Seifer, said between mouthfuls of waffle.
"Not what I meant, Think about it...." Irvine gave the others a few minutes, and most of them thought, but Seifer knew where he was going with this.
"Kineas, if your talking about the SeeD exam, then you might be right, but your forgetting one thing." Seifer said with his usual dry-I- know-more-than-you-so-there charm
"And that would be?" Selphie asked somewhat angrily at Seifer's implying that her fiancé` was ignorant of anything.
"Relationships." Seifer paused for a minute, to let it sink in, and when he saw that none understood he continued, " Josh is new, but the rest of us aren't. Squall and Rinoa are dating, Irvine and Selphie are engaged, i'm dating Quistis, and every one is friends with every one else at this table."
"Don't see why that should matter, Seifer." Irvine said.
"I do." Squall said with his best attempt to sound like he wanted to help. "he feels like an outcast, so he steers clear. I felt the same way, and you all remember how hard you tried to be friends to me. The fact is, until Josh is ready to be friends with us, we can't force him to do anything. If any of us try to, he'll only end up hating us."
Seifer smiled, and gave Squall an approving look as he said, "So, they didn't give you the job of Commander just because you looked the part."
"Whatever."
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Is Squall right?
Is Irvine destined to be ignorant forever?
Will the recruits pass the SeeD exam?
Even I don't know yet. In the next chapter, i'm going to try to put in more action, and less talking, sorry 'bout that.
Please let me know what you thought of this chapter, i know it's not much, but I have plans for the future (No YAIO, YURI, YAKO, or however you want to spell it, there will be no revealing bed scenes in this fic.... sorry to all you pervs, but that's the way it's going to be so don't ask). other than that, I'm open to suggestions