(Author's Note: Hey…well…This is the sequel to Fun, Trouble, and an all out Blast in High School…enjoy the first chapter! Oh and what I say is in italics and what Rueh says in these notes is bold…and in single quote italics is someone in the story thinking…)
Disclaimer: Final Fantasy is not mine! Can't anyone get that through their thick heads! No, really!...not really…sorry.
(Sorry! Rueh took the keyboard away from me! She's taking it back…!)
(Heh! Got it! Dete of course belongs to Juzu and Rueh is mine! All mines…even in name. Now, go on and stop reading this pointless disclaimer and get on to the stinking story!)
(Sorry all! Rueh took it away again! Now on to the story…)
Stranger Events
Chapter 1
Future Planning…
(Rueh took the keyboard away!!! BE AWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Must run and hide…)
(I'm not that bad…really!!! Come back Juzu…I won't BITE!!!!! I swear!)
(For some reason I don't believe you…)
Five years passed quickly for all those involved with killing the Hojo. Many strange things happened after his death…many unexplainable-ok, not so unexplainable- things happened in the lives of a few of these individuals. Within a few months after being caught and "rescued" from/by Hojo something happened…(Unexplainably)
Rueh and Zack moved to Icicle Village…into her childhood home which they found 'strangely' deserted. *Rueh had no family to speak of and had grown up alone in a house given to her by the village*
Sephiroth and Dete moved back into the Villa in Costa Del Sol while the rest of AVALANCHE went their own ways…back to their own homes, back to their so called normal lives, and stayed out of everyone else's hair.
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Sephiroth lounged out on the porch they had added onto the back of the villa. Have living there for the past five years; the sun had left his normally lighter colored skin dark with tan. He was looking through a pamphlet that Reeve had sent him in the mail…
"What's that?" Dete asked coming outside with something for him to drink. She sat it on the glass table then looked over his shoulder.
"Reeve sent this to me…I guess…"
"Football?" Dete asked wrinkling her nose. "I remember band and us having to march for those bunch of idiots!"
Sephiroth looked back at her in surprise. "Have you been talking to Rueh again?"
"…she's my friend," Dete sniffed indignantly.
Sephiroth sighed shaking his head. "Well, Reeve wants me to join the new Shinra supported team. He's in charge of getting the new team together…and I guess he remembers the times we used to play in grade school."
"Grade School?!"
"Yes…"
"I never thought you went to grade school!" Dete laughed. "I can't believe it! I never would have thought YOU went to such a low standard school! You were always smarter than everyone else."
"So was Rueh," he answered dully.
"And I don't think she went to grade school."
"Anyways…what do you think? I use to be pretty good at the game…"
"I bet you were," Dete muttered. "SO, is that what you want to do for money now? I'm getting tired of paying all the bills, it was a relief that Zack and Rueh moved, now you're the only lazy bum here…they do will pay you right?"
"Ahhh…?" 'Dang that was a mouth full, what did she just say?'
"Sephiroth…are you listening to me? How much will they pay you if you join this team?"
"Oh, yeah…I'm listening. I'm not sure how much they'll pay me but this says tryouts are tomorrow. So…can I go?" he asked and gave her a look that she laughed at.
"You're so pathetic sometimes, you know that?" Dete laughed.
"Please?" Sephiroth begged.
"Yeah, yeah. All right already! Stop giving me that look."
Sephiroth smiled and sat the papers he was holding down on the table.
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Zack came back into the house he shared with Rueh flipping through the mail. Noticing he got something for once he sat the rest down on a table near the phone for Rueh to find.
Rueh walked into the living room after finding her lunch and noticed Zack about to open a letter from the mail. Silently, she walked up to him and snatched it from his hands.
"What's this?" She turned her back and held the envelope out so he couldn't reach it but close enough she could read who it was addressed to.
"It's mine Rueh, now give it back!" Zack whined and tried to jump forward to grab the item from her hands.
Rueh grinned. "Who's it from, your new girlfriend?" (A/N: At this point, Zack and Rueh still say they are only roommates.)
"NO!!! Give it back!"
"Hold on." Rueh easily sprinted forward, stopped, and ripped open the letter. "What the? Oooohhhhh."
"What is it?" Zack asked haling himself off the floor. "WHAT IS IT? Let me see, let me see!"
Every time he tried to look over Rueh's shoulder she turned further away so that he still couldn't see. She read silently for the next few minutes then her eyes snapped to him.
"I wanna go too!" she declared.
"Go to what?" Zack asked in exasperation.
"Football tryouts dummy! Read the papers!" Rueh slapped him in the head with them before handing them over.
Zack sniffed then read over HIS mail. "I'm going to do this," he stated looking up at Rueh.
She smiled brightly. "Good…"
Zack smiled back thinking for once she agreed with him. He started to turn to go to the phone…when…
"I'm going too."
Zack froze and slowly turned to face her. "What?"
"I said, I'm going too," she repeated.
"I don't think so," he said shaking his head.
"I don't care what you think I'm going!"
"But it was my mail! It asked me to go not you!"
"I didn't hear it talk."
Zack stared at her with a dull look on his face. "Ha ha. Funny."
"I thought it was," she shrugged.
"In any case you're not going."
"You're not my boss!"
"You know how childish that just sounded Rueh?"
"I don't care!" after a second she sniffed.
Zack picked up the phone and dialed a number. Rueh looked at him with interest. "Who are you calling now?" she asked.
Finally someone picked up in the other end. "Hello? Oh! I'm glad you answered the phone…SEPHIROTH TELL HER SHE CAN'T GO!"
On the other end of the phone Sephiroth winced and held the receiver away from his ear. "Who is this?"
Sniff. "It's me…and she won't listen to me…still…"
"Zack?"
"That's me…" Sniff.
"Rueh's listening to you…she never listens to you! What do you want me to do about it?"
"Tell her to stop…" Zack sounded really pathetic to Sephiroth.
"Now what were you talking about when you yelled at me?" he asked.
Rueh was heard in the background. "I WANNA GO TOO!"
"She wants to go too…" Zack said.
"Okay go where and I heard her before you answered me…" Sephiroth stated slowly.
"Okay…it's like this…this morning I got this thing in the mail from Reeve and she took it then opened it! She wouldn't let me read it and now she wants to go too!" Zack sobbed talking so fast that Sephiroth could barely understand him.
"Stupid Reeve," Sephiroth grumbled on the other end.
"What was that?" Zack asked.
"Oh nothing. Just Reeve should have put confidential on there. He should have known better! Rueh always reads your mail!"
"WHAT?!"
In the background. "DO NOT! Sephiroth you JERK!"
"She can hear me?" he asked. "Okay…hey Rueh! Dete's got a whole stash of chocolate hidden under her bed in a shoe!"
"BYE ZACK!" the sound of a door slamming could be heard.
"Ah…he-hey Sephiroth…I'll have to talk to you later…SHE'S GOING TO LEAVE ME HERE AGAIN!!!" the phone was slammed down.
Sephiroth shrugged and hung up as well. He turned around and came face to face with Dete.
"Umm…I think we're going to have company in a few minutes…"
"So I heard…and this by chance wouldn't have anything to do with my stash of chocolate now would it?" she asked.
"Umm…that was Zack…now why would he want your chocolate?"
Dete narrowed her eyes dangerously at him. "No…but Rueh would."
"Oh…yeah about her…you think she would be any good at football?"
Dete's face dropped. "What? You're kidding right?"
The look on Sephiroth's face said no.
Dete laughed nervously. "That's not a good idea but since she'll be here any minute we'll talk later…have you ever been hit by her? I have to go hide my chocolate in a DIFFERENT place now…"
"Oh man…"
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End of chapter 1…
*Rueh claps* bybye!