DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN FFVII OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES. COPYRIGHTS GO TO SQUARE ENIX AND ALL RELATED OWNERS.
The alarm rang and Cloud lazily pressed the damned clock off. He didn't want to be late in the first day of the new year... And land himself a detention seat after getting dragged there by the Turks, again. He hated those guys, lap dogs of the school, acting high and mighty as members of the school's Investigation Sector of the General Affairs Department.
A new year, a new day, and a new chance to get a detention seat.
Reluctantly, he took a shower, dressed,ate breakfast, and left his very comfortable condominium.
As he was walking down the road, he was thinking of how the prospects of the new year looked very grim, how he loved his own condo unit and especially his own bed. He hated thinking of his fan girls-
She Wolves, they called themselves- who chase him around like dogs attracted to the smell of steak-like wolves that stalk injured prey using the smell of blood.
If only he was actually a wolf.
He loved their fierceness, bravery, and intimidation. He loved the smell of their fur and the feeling of their bodies beside his(he owned one in his country house) and loved(and envied) how they can be quite social but maintained their lives of solitude. He especially loved the legendary wolf Fenrir, who was sighted a long time ago, to aid the Cetra in defeating the Calamity From The Skies. He even named his own customized bike after it.
Speaking of wolves being social...
He remembered his group of friends: Zack Fair, his spiky-haired, loud best friend, fellow wolf enthusiast(although he liked Fenrir's wolf buddy Garmr better), and kendo club sparring partner. Aerith Gainsborough, his crush/secret love, the authority of girliness including flowers, dresses, and make-up. Yuffie Kisaragi, a similar girl in terms of girliness to Aerith, but more tomboyish and obsessed with ninjas, tennis balls, and crystal balls. Cissnei (Cloud never bothered to ask her surname) was the most reserved out of all the girls, but still having a certain fondness for shuriken and spy movies, and is,in Cloud's opinion, the most sensible member of the Turks. Lastly, there was Vincent Valentine, the stoic, silent former Turk that only spoke in important matters, but is obsessed with guns and vampire fiction(though not Twilight).
He was lost in the train of thought, lost in the desire to see his friends again...
"WHAT!"
He bumped into the girl outside the school gate, and he did not believe who he saw.
It was Tifa, his childhood friend/crush, and he was staring at her like she was a sardine can that dropped from a Junon AirLimo.
She was nerdy, but she was HOT.
She wore the female uniform of his school, consisting of a white polo, a mini-skirt (it had to be mini, Cloud thought), and had a pair of square glasses on.
But what struck him so much was her very-oh-so-noticeable bust that made him feel oh-so-guilty.
He had to admit to himself that this was the best thing he's ever seen in his entire teenage life.
But as fate would have it, all his friends had to see him gaping at a girl.
Everyone was there just a few meters away, yet Cloud could see the uniforms they wore and their smiles plastered on their faces. He pointed to each one of them in turn(introducing his friends unconsciously to Tifa): Zack, with his spiky black hair and right arm secretly groping for Aerith's mousy brown one dangling on her pretty face,Yuffie, her trademark bangs, cocky expression, annoyingly loud voice, and short stature contrasting with Vincent's long locks, calm look, deep voice, and tall height, and Cissnei, her reddish-brown hair gently flowing to her shoulders.
"Woohoo! Ol' Spikey's now all grown up," Zack teased the incoherent guy incessantly.
"I didn't know that you actually had hormones" Vincent stated plainly.
Cloud snapped out of his trance and glared at his normally silent friend. Everyone noticed this too and suddenly directed the mockery to Vincent instead.
"Didn't know you could actually speak, bro" Zack jeered as all the girls, even Tifa, were laughing the living daylights out of him.
"I didn't know that YOU actually had hormones" Cloud rebutted.
"Hn. So annoying today, are you?" Vincent replied.
Just then, the bell rang, signaling the start of the homeroom period. The seven students rushed to their classroom and found their teacher, Mr. Barrett Wallace giving his daily morning "greeting"-that is to say, a daily serving of nonsensical trash talk and complaints of how rude the kids were rude-no questions asked there. He didn't notice the group entering, until Cloud's fan girls screamed so loudly, Professor Wallace's robotic hand started going haywire and threw random objects to the students.
"DAMN YOU STUDENTS! Scram now and get to your f*ckin classes!" The teacher bellowed as the bell rang. "Strife! See me after class!" He shouted to the retreating friends.
Cloud groaned. "Just great. Another first day, another first detention!"
"It's already five years, and the streak's still going strong, eh?" Zack inquired.
"Oh yeah, what classes do you have?" Cissnei interrupted, preventing a possible scuffle.
"Let's see... Science under Hojo, HE under Mrs. G(Aerith smiled), English under Sir Gast, Social Studies with Dio, Chinese with Yuffie's old man, and Math with Sir Reeve. We all have the same classes!" Zack finished happily.
"I'm so worried... Are the teachers ok?" Tifa asked anxiously.
"Let's see... Hojo is a maniac, my mom's very nice, Reeve is just suave, Sir Gast is what you'd call a modern day Shakespeare, Dio's a bit of a nutter, and Yuffie's old man is so... Chinese" Aerith enumerated.
"Hah, your mom's the best, 'Rith! I see where you got the amazing talent of baking heavenly cookies" Zack announced proudly, making Aerith blush.
"They're pretty sweet around each other if you ask me" Yuffie whispered to Tifa about Zack and Aerith's blossoming romance.
"Stay with me in case something happens, Tifa" Cloud offered to everyone's shock, but it was quickly silenced with a menacing, protective glare.
"Sure Cloud" Tifa accepted, having forgiven Cloud for the staring incident a while ago, as they walked to the science lab for their first Hojo lesson.
And so begins the first day at Shinra High.